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The discovery was made at about 10:45 BST on Saturday near the Fiveways Junction in East Harling.
A post-mortem examination on Sunday found the victim appeared to have been seriously assaulted but could not establish the cause of death.
People are being asked to avoid the wooded area between East Harling and Shadwell while enquiries are ongoing.
Det Supt Katie Elliott said: "We are in the early stages of our investigation and working to establish the sequence of events which led to this man's death."
Norfolk Police would like to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time and may have further information.
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More than 1,600 fish were killed after a chemical leaked into Annsborough River, near Newcastle, on Saturday.
NI Water's head of environmental regulation, Angela Halpenny, said her company was "extremely sorry to learn of this very unfortunate incident".
Angler Ed Kilgore said local clubs had been "robbed of this season's fishing".
The Shinma Angling Club committee member said it was "horrible to see so many fish dead".
Mr Kilgore expressed fears that despite plans to restock, fishing and the health of the river could be affected "for the next three years".
Ms Halpenny said the accidental spillage may have been caused by damaged pipe work.
"When we purify waste water, we generate a very thin sludge, so before the sludge is transported off site we use a chemical called polyelectrolyte," she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
Polyelectrolyte is used to thicken the sludge before it is removed from the waste water plant.
Ms Halpenny said an "unknown quantity" of the chemical leaked into the river at the weekend.
"Our primary concern was to stop the discharge to the river and assist the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and the relevant authorities with the clean up exercise," she said.
She added that a full investigation was under way to find out why the spill happened and to prevent any repeat.
"NI Water will work with NIEA, the relevant authorities and the local angling groups to fulfill our obligations and make arrangements for the restocking of the river at the earliest opportunity."
"There is no life but family," wrote Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann in her debut collection, Little Bit Long Time, published in 2009. "When I am drunk I reverse-charge my family. When I pass away I unite my family."
Living in a caravan in a friend's back garden in Adelaide, Ms Cobby Eckermann has received one of the world's richest literary awards.
Forcibly taken from her mother when she was a young child, she has won a $162,000 (£132,000; A$215,000) Windham-Campbell prize from Yale University in the United States. It has commended her for confronting "the violent history of Australia's Stolen Generations" and her "use of nature to render the beauty of Aboriginal family bonds, as well as the pain and violence of their breaking".
The Windham-Campbell prizes are unusual because writers, who are nominated confidentially, invariably have little clue they are being considered for one.
"It seemed unbelievable," Ms Cobby Eckermann said of her unexpected achievement. "There have been so many tears of disbelief and tears of gratitude that my work is recognised. Now I just want to write and write and write! I've got a few more things to say."
Born in 1963, in Kate Cocks Memorial Babies' Home at Brighton in South Australia, she was taken as an infant from mother, Audrey Cobby, a Yankunytjatjara woman, and adopted into a German Lutheran family. She had a mostly happy childhood on a farm, but it would be years before she would be reunited with her birth mother.
"Part of the skill [of writing] comes from nearly 20 years of looking for my mum. You talk to anyone from any walk of life and I've always been a bit of a chatterbox and I like meeting people. It has definitely been an asset to writing," she explained to the BBC.
Family ties and kinship lie at her inspirational core.
"My whole family has helped me understand who I am when we reconnected," she said. "They have sat beside me in the desert and the backyard around campfires listening to my poetry and giving me feedback."
"I would hear stories and I might sit there quietly and write a poem. Then we'd read it back in the evening and we'd all celebrate that [indigenous] oral tradition was not losing its power by being transferred to the page," she said.
Her 2013 memoir Too Afraid to Cry has been described as "a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage". It retraces the author's steps as a child spirited away from her indigenous mother, and a fraught journey into adulthood.
The book, along with a later collection of poems Inside My Mother, condemned Australia's policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents to place them in orphanages, institutions or white foster families that stretched from the late 19th Century to the end of 1960s. While it has been argued there were genuine welfare reasons for taking the vulnerable to a place of safety, indigenous Australians believe it was child abduction on a mass scale.
"Her work… powerfully articulates Australian indigenous peoples' experience of colonisation and the trauma suffered by the Stolen Generations. Her work is deeply personal but also speaks to a collective experience," said Rachel Bin Salleh, from Magabala Books, which published Ms Cobby Eckermann's 2012 award-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight.
"She is one of the most significant writers in Australia and Magabala Books is very honoured to have been part of her journey," she told the BBC. "Ali has inspired and mentored many emerging indigenous writers and poets in Australia. Not only does it prove that, with time, true talent will be recognised, but also there is a place for Australian indigenous stories on the world stage."
The Windham-Campbell prizes will be awarded at Yale in September. As her achievement sinks in, Australia's newest literary star is already deciding what to do with her windfall.
"I'd like to use it to help purchase a property by the beach for my son and daughter and grandchildren to share, and for the desert mob to come down and have somewhere safe to stay. So much fun in just the thought of that," she said.
"The money also allows me to challenge my own journey as a writer. I want to attempt a novel. I've been sitting on a story for a while which I think is very important."
Despite the accolade and the international attention that comes with it, Ms Cobby Eckermann has insisted she'll remain humble.
"My influence will always be grassroots people and cultured people who still find the happiness in everyday - don't need money, we just need to know who we are and the strength of family," she said.
"That is the stuff that will always live in my heart."
The 14-time major champion was two over par when he abandoned his first round after just 11 holes.
The 39-year-old American spoke to his playing partners before walking off the course and into a waiting car.
His early departure comes after he shot a career-worst 82 in the second round at Phoenix last week.
Woods was playing in only his second tournament of the season after returning from surgery on a pinched nerve, which forced him to miss last year's Masters and US Open.
He appeared to hurt his back after hitting his tee shot at the 12th - his third hole of the day - but carried on for eight more holes.
His struggles were made more evident when playing partners Rickie Fowler and Billy Horschel both helped him pick his ball out of holes.
In a brief word with reporters, Woods said his lower back got tight during a fog delay that suspended play for more than two hours.
"My glutes keep shutting off and that causes me pain in my back," he said. "It got worse as we stood waiting on the putting green during the delay and I tried warming up my glutes, but it just wasn't working for me.
"When we went back out, it just got progressively worse."
American Nicholas Thompson hit an eight-under-par round of 64, featuring seven birdies, an eagle, and a bogey, to take a one-stroke lead over compatriot Michael Thompson after the opening round.
England's Ian Poulter leads the British charge, lying in a tie for fifth place on five under, three shots behind the overnight leader, while 2013 Open champion Phil Mickelson was one over par through 15 holes when fog halted play for the day.
It owes much of its wealth to its traditional status as a tax haven, though it has in recent years taken steps to shake off its image as a tax haven and to reposition itself as a legitimate financial centre.
The country has come through a lengthy political wrangle over the role and power of the hereditary monarchy.
After an often bitter campaign, the people voted in March 2003 in a constitutional referendum to give Prince Hans-Adam sweeping new political powers. The following year he handed over practical power to his son, Crown Prince Alois.
Head of state: Prince Hans-Adam II
Regent and crown prince: Alois
Prince Hans-Adam, a successful banker, became head of state following the death of his father, Prince Franz Josef, in 1989. In August 2004 he handed over the day-to-day running of the principality to his son, Crown Prince Alois, while remaining titular head of state.
In 2003 the royals won sweeping new powers in a constitutional referendum, which gave them the power to veto parliamentary decisions and to sack the government.
Prime minister: Adrian Hasler
Adrian Hasler of the centre-right Progressive Citizens Party (PCP) took office in March 2013, after his party came first in the February general election, winning 10 seats in the 25-seat parliament.
He has vowed to reduce the country's budget deficit by cutting back on public spending.
Liechtenstein has a very sparse media scene, with the circulation figures of its newspapers at around 10,000 or less.
Its citizens rely on foreign and satellite broadcasters for most TV and radio services.
The press
Radio
Some key dates in the history of Liechtenstein:
1719 - Liechtenstein acquires its present name and becomes an independent principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
1815 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the German Confederation until 1866.
1866 - Liechtenstein becomes fully independent.
1919 - The Hapsburg monarchy of Austria is abolished. Switzerland replaces Austria as the representative of Liechtenstein's interests abroad.
1921 - Liechtenstein adopts Swiss currency.
1923 - Liechtenstein enters customs union with Switzerland.
1938 - Prince Franz Josef II ascends to the throne.
1939 - Outbreak of World War II. Liechtenstein remains neutral.
1984 - Prince Franz Josef II hands over executive power to his son, Crown Prince Hans-Adam II. 1989 - Prince Franz Josef II dies. He is succeeded by Hans-Adam II.
1990 - Liechtenstein joins the United Nations.
2003 - People vote in referendum to give sweeping new political powers to Crown Prince Hans-Adam.
2004 - Prince Hans-Adam hands over day-to-day running of Liechtenstein to his son Prince Alois while remaining head of state.
2009 - Signs agreements on the sharing of financial information with a number of countries including the US, UK and Germany. OECD removes Liechtenstein from a blacklist of countries uncooperative on tax matters.
They say Mohamed Abrini told investigators he was at the scene of the 22 March suicide bombings.
Abrini is also wanted in connection with the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November.
He is one of six men arrested in Brussels on Friday. Four have been charged with terror offences.
The attacks at Zaventem airport and a metro station in Brussels left 32 people dead.
Officials believe those who carried out the Brussels and Paris attacks were part of the same network backed by so-called Islamic State.
Abrini, a 31-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, confessed to being the "man in the hat" after being confronted with the evidence, the federal prosecutor said.
"He said that he threw away his jacket in a rubbish bin and sold his hat after the attack," the statement added.
There is no word from the suspect himself or his lawyer.
Abrini's fingerprints and DNA were found in two "safe houses" in Brussels, as well as in a car used during the Paris attacks, investigators said earlier.
The BBC's Damian Grammaticas, in Brussels, says the apparent confirmation that Abrini is the man seen in the airport footage is a "huge" development for Belgian authorities, whose response to terrorism has come in for criticism.
The other suspects charged on Saturday were named as Osama K, Herve BN, and Bilal EM.
They are all accused of "participating in terrorist acts'' linked to the Brussels bombings. Two other people arrested on Friday have been released.
Osama K, identified in media reports as Swedish national Osama Krayem, was the man seen 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.
Osama K is believed to have entered Greece from Syria with migrants last year, using a fake Syrian passport. Prosecutors believe he was driven from Germany to Belgium by Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam in October.
Herve BM, described as a Rwandan national, and Bilal EM are both suspected of having offered assistance to Abrini and Osama K.
Abrini is thought to have been filmed at a petrol station with Abdeslam two days before the attacks in Paris in November.
Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national of Moroccan descent, was detained in Brussels in March, days before the attacks in the Belgian capital.
The latest charges follow days of arrests and raids in Brussels.
On Saturday, heavily armed police carried out a search in the Etterbeek area of Brussels. The target was a flat which police believe may have been used as a safe house by the militants.
Ireland started with purpose but went behind when Antonio Cassano headed in a near post Andrea Pirlo corner.
An equaliser would have knocked Italy out and their keeper Gianluigi Buffon smartly saved a Keith Andrews strike.
"I hope there are no dramatic changes for the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, because you have to remember what a brilliant achievement it was for us to get here in the first place.
"But my fear is what could happen to Giovanni Trapattoni.
"His team has not had the best of tournaments, and if we do not start out well on the road to the next World Cup in Brazil then I fear that people might turn on him."
I fear for Trapattoni, says Kevin Kilbane
Andrews was sent off for a second booking before Mario Balotelli volleyed in to settle Italian nerves.
Italy still had to endure a few more anxious moments as a Croatia equaliser against Spain in the other Group C game would have meant they were out of the tournament.
But Spain won and Italy will now play the winner of Group D, which includes England.
Ireland put in a more solid performance than in their two previous defeats, although it might not be enough to stop some of their old guard calling time on their international careers, and Shay Given, Robbie Keane, Damien Duff and Richard Dunne will all be left to mull over their futures.
The Irish had beaten Italy 18 years ago to the day at the 1994 World Cup but despite starting with pace and pressuring their opponents, they suffered from some poor decision making in the final third.
Italy weathered the Republic's early enthusiasm before gradually pinning their opponents back and being rewarded for their perseverance.
The opener came after some costly mistakes by Ireland, which started with Glenn Whelan giving the ball away to Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo.
Pirlo released Antonio Di Natale and he skipped over keeper Given but saw his effort from an acute angle cleared off the line by Sean St Ledger.
Ireland escaped this time but Given, so unusually uncertain at Euro 2012, quickly spilled a long range Cassano strike and the Azzurri seized on the error.
Cassano got his head to a near post Pirlo corner and although Given got a touch, the ball had already crossed the line before Duff - captain on his 100th Republic appearance - cleared.
The goal knocked the wind out of Ireland's sails and Given had to save a Di Natale shot as Italy threatened to overwhelm Giovanni Trapattoni's deflated side.
To their credit, the Republic regrouped and caused Italy some anxious moments, although only a powerful 25-yard shot from Andrews called Buffon into any serious action.
Andrews, already booked in the first half, was sent off after picking up a second yellow card.
He then furiously kicked out at the ball on his way off as he epitomised the frustrations of so many in the Ireland camp after a tournament in which they were comprehensively outplayed.
And Ireland's misery was compounded when Balotelli, side on to goal and with a defender in close attendance, volleyed in from a late corner.
Full Time The final whistle goes and the game is over.
Outswinging corner taken by Andrea Pirlo from the right by-line.
Mario Balotelli has an effort at goal. Blocked by Stephen Ward. Outswinging corner taken by Andrea Pirlo, Alessandro Diamanti takes a shot. Richard Dunne gets a block in.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Ignazio Abate on Damien Duff. Damien Duff crosses the ball in from the free kick, save made by Gianluigi Buffon.
Corner taken by Andrea Pirlo.
Alessandro Diamanti provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Mario Balotelli - Italy 2 - 0 R Ireland Mario Balotelli gets on the score sheet with a goal from inside the box to the top left corner of the goal. Italy 2-0 Rep of Ireland.
Inswinging corner taken from the right by-line by Alessandro Diamanti,
Daniele De Rossi restarts play with the free kick.
Dismissal Keith Andrews sent off.
Foul by Keith Andrews on Daniele De Rossi, free kick awarded.
Mario Balotelli takes a shot. Shay Given makes a comfortable save.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Jonathan Walters. Gianluigi Buffon takes the free kick.
Substitution Simon Cox is brought on as a substitute for Robbie Keane.
Leonardo Bonucci produces a right-footed shot from just outside the area that goes harmlessly over the target.
Direct strike on goal from the free kick comes in from Alessandro Diamanti.
Booking Sean St. Ledger is cautioned by the ref for dissent.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Keith Andrews on Mario Balotelli.
Damien Duff gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Alessandro Diamanti. Direct free kick taken by Ignazio Abate.
Robbie Keane is flagged offside by the assistant referee. Andrea Barzagli restarts play with the free kick.
Foul by Jonathan Walters on Federico Balzaretti, free kick awarded. Gianluigi Buffon takes the free kick.
The ball is crossed by Stephen Ward, Headed effort from deep inside the penalty area by Jonathan Walters misses to the right of the target. The assistant referee flags for offside against Robbie Keane. Free kick taken by Gianluigi Buffon.
Jonathan Walters fouled by Alessandro Diamanti, the ref awards a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Damien Duff. Keith Andrews has an effort at goal from 25 yards. Save by Gianluigi Buffon.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Mario Balotelli by John O'Shea. Free kick taken by Andrea Pirlo.
Unfair challenge on Stephen Ward by Alessandro Diamanti results in a free kick. Stephen Ward takes the free kick.
Substitution Kevin Doyle goes off and Jonathan Walters comes on.
Outswinging corner taken by Damien Duff from the left by-line. Damien Duff sends in a cross, Unfair challenge on Gianluigi Buffon by Richard Dunne results in a free kick. Gianluigi Buffon restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution Mario Balotelli on for Antonio Di Natale.
Booking Gianluigi Buffon goes into the book.
Richard Dunne fouled by Santos Thiago Motta, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick crossed by Damien Duff.
Free kick crossed right-footed by Glenn Whelan, Ignazio Abate makes a clearance.
Booking Booking for Daniele De Rossi for unsporting behaviour.
Daniele De Rossi concedes a free kick for a foul on Kevin Doyle.
Daniele De Rossi fouled by Shane Long, the ref awards a free kick. Gianluigi Buffon takes the direct free kick.
Ignazio Abate challenges Robbie Keane unfairly and gives away a free kick. Stephen Ward takes the direct free kick.
Daniele De Rossi produces a cross, clearance made by Richard Dunne.
A cross is delivered by Ignazio Abate, Stephen Ward gets a block in.
John O'Shea challenges Alessandro Diamanti unfairly and gives away a free kick. Andrea Pirlo shoots direct from the free kick.
Shane Long concedes a free kick for a foul on Andrea Pirlo. Andrea Pirlo restarts play with the free kick.
Richard Dunne is ruled offside. Indirect free kick taken by Gianluigi Buffon.
Corner from the right by-line taken by Damien Duff, Andrea Barzagli makes a clearance.
Alessandro Diamanti takes a shot. Shay Given makes a comfortable save.
Corner taken by Damien Duff from the left by-line.
Substitution Shane Long replaces Aiden McGeady.
Effort from 25 yards by Keith Andrews. Daniele De Rossi gets a block in.
The offside flag is raised against Antonio Di Natale. Free kick taken by Sean St. Ledger. Kevin Doyle takes a shot. Save by Gianluigi Buffon.
Alessandro Diamanti concedes a free kick for a foul on Glenn Whelan. John O'Shea takes the free kick.
Substitution Alessandro Diamanti is brought on as a substitute for Antonio Cassano.
Federico Balzaretti fouled by John O'Shea, the ref awards a free kick. Andrea Pirlo crosses the ball from the free kick right-footed from left by-line.
Keith Andrews has a volleyed shot. Comfortable save by Gianluigi Buffon. Unfair challenge on Santos Thiago Motta by Glenn Whelan results in a free kick. Santos Thiago Motta takes the direct free kick.
Kevin Doyle challenges Daniele De Rossi unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Santos Thiago Motta.
Claudio Marchisio has an effort at goal from just outside the box which goes wide of the left-hand upright.
Foul by Damien Duff on Daniele De Rossi, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Daniele De Rossi. Foul by Richard Dunne on Antonio Cassano, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Federico Balzaretti.
Substitution Leonardo Bonucci is brought on as a substitute for Giorgio Chiellini.
Shot by Antonio Di Natale. Save by Shay Given.
Aiden McGeady sends in a cross, Robbie Keane takes a shot. Blocked by Giorgio Chiellini. Outswinging corner taken by Damien Duff, Header by Richard Dunne from deep inside the penalty area misses to the right of the target.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Claudio Marchisio on Damien Duff. Stephen Ward takes the free kick.
Shot by Daniele De Rossi from outside the box goes over the net.
A cross is delivered by John O'Shea, Effort on goal by Kevin Doyle from just inside the area clears the crossbar.
Antonio Cassano takes a shot. Blocked by Richard Dunne. Effort from just outside the box by Federico Balzaretti goes over the bar.
The ball is crossed by Andrea Pirlo, clearance made by Glenn Whelan.
Corner taken right-footed by Andrea Pirlo from the left by-line to the near post, Sean St. Ledger manages to make a clearance.
Federico Balzaretti produces a cross, Antonio Di Natale has a drilled shot. Richard Dunne gets a block in.
The referee blows his whistle to start the second half.
Half Time It is the end of the first-half.
Giorgio Chiellini challenges Kevin Doyle unfairly and gives away a free kick. Keith Andrews restarts play with the free kick.
Inswinging corner taken by Andrea Pirlo.
Daniele De Rossi has an effort at goal. Blocked by Richard Dunne.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Robbie Keane. Giorgio Chiellini takes the indirect free kick.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Keith Andrews on Santos Thiago Motta. Gianluigi Buffon takes the direct free kick.
Unfair challenge on Aiden McGeady by Antonio Cassano results in a free kick. Shay Given restarts play with the free kick.
The ball is sent over by Antonio Cassano.
Andrea Pirlo restarts play with the free kick.
Booking John O'Shea is given a yellow card.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Federico Balzaretti by John O'Shea.
Andrea Pirlo shoots direct from the free kick.
Booking Keith Andrews receives a yellow card.
Keith Andrews challenges Andrea Pirlo unfairly and gives away a free kick.
The assist for the goal came from Andrea Pirlo.
Goal! - Antonio Cassano - Italy 1 - 0 R Ireland Antonio Cassano grabs a headed goal from inside the six-yard box. Italy 1-0 Rep of Ireland.
Corner taken right-footed by Andrea Pirlo,
Shot by Antonio Cassano. Save by Shay Given.
Antonio Di Natale has an effort at goal. Clearance by Sean St. Ledger.
The ball is crossed by Ignazio Abate, Antonio Di Natale takes a shot. Blocked by Sean St. Ledger.
The assistant referee flags for offside against Federico Balzaretti. Shay Given takes the free kick.
Shot by Antonio Di Natale. Sean St. Ledger gets a block in.
Kevin Doyle challenges Andrea Barzagli unfairly and gives away a free kick. Free kick taken by Andrea Barzagli.
Direct free kick taken by Shay Given.
Booking The referee books Federico Balzaretti for unsporting behaviour.
Aiden McGeady fouled by Federico Balzaretti, the ref awards a free kick.
The ball is crossed by Antonio Cassano, Shot from 12 yards by Antonio Di Natale. Blocked by Sean St. Ledger.
Claudio Marchisio concedes a free kick for a foul on Damien Duff. Damien Duff delivers the ball from the free kick left-footed from left wing, free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Giorgio Chiellini by Sean St. Ledger. Direct free kick taken by Gianluigi Buffon.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Andrea Barzagli on Robbie Keane. Sean St. Ledger takes the direct free kick.
The ball is delivered by Damien Duff, Header by Sean St. Ledger from deep inside the penalty area misses to the left of the target.
Damien Duff decides to take the corner short.
Aiden McGeady delivers the ball.
Aiden McGeady is ruled offside. Direct free kick taken by Andrea Pirlo.
Kevin Doyle fouled by Giorgio Chiellini, the ref awards a free kick. Aiden McGeady crosses the ball in from the free kick, free kick awarded for a foul by Richard Dunne on Andrea Barzagli. Gianluigi Buffon restarts play with the free kick.
Shot from just outside the box by Federico Balzaretti goes over the bar.
Corner taken short by Andrea Pirlo.
The ball is delivered by Antonio Cassano, Sean St. Ledger makes a clearance.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Aiden McGeady. Daniele De Rossi takes the free kick.
Federico Balzaretti fouled by Robbie Keane, the ref awards a free kick. Federico Balzaretti restarts play with the free kick.
Corner taken by Andrea Pirlo from the left by-line played to the near post, clearance made by Aiden McGeady.
Corner taken right-footed by Andrea Pirlo, Richard Dunne manages to make a clearance.
The ball is swung over by Antonio Cassano, clearance made by John O'Shea.
Antonio Di Natale concedes a free kick for a foul on Keith Andrews. Shay Given takes the direct free kick.
Keith Andrews challenges Andrea Pirlo unfairly and gives away a free kick. Direct free kick taken by Andrea Pirlo.
A cross is delivered by Andrea Pirlo, Keith Andrews manages to make a clearance.
Corner taken short by Andrea Pirlo.
The ball is sent over by Federico Balzaretti, Richard Dunne manages to make a clearance.
Corner taken by Andrea Pirlo.
Keith Andrews gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Andrea Pirlo. Gianluigi Buffon restarts play with the free kick.
Federico Balzaretti concedes a free kick for a foul on Damien Duff. Free kick crossed by Damien Duff.
Antonio Di Natale crosses the ball, Daniele De Rossi has an effort at goal from just outside the box which goes wide of the left-hand upright.
The match gets underway.
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Robert Fidler built the home at Honeycrock Farm, in Salfords, Surrey, in 2002 and hid it behind hay bales.
He has been fighting to keep it ever since but in April lost an appeal against a High Court order that it should be demolished by 24 June.
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council said planners would be considering the council's next course of action.
The four-bedroom property, on greenbelt land, includes a kitchen, living room, study, a gravelled forecourt and a conservatory.
Mr Fidler, who keeps a herd of Sussex cattle at the farm, submitted a new planning application in February 2014 to retain the house, in Axes Lane, on the basis of agricultural need.
Permission was refused and the case, once again, went to the High Court.
An injunction last June ordered the house to be demolished.
"As Mr Fidler has not complied with the injunction, the planning committee will be considering the council's next course of action at their meeting on 1 July," said a council spokesman.
Mr Fidler said in April he accepted he had no choice but to demolish the house but said on Friday it would be like Picasso ripping up his best oil painting.
He also said he had sold his home to an Indian businessman.
"The greenbelt law says that any new house should not be allowed unless there are very special circumstances," he said.
"The example that Parliament gives for very special circumstances is a farmer who has to be here to look after his cattle, which is exactly my situation."
The 36-year-old returns to Rugby Park for a second spell, having left the club in July 2007 to move to England.
Greer spent last season at Blackburn Rovers, making 25 appearances as the club was relegated to League One.
Killie captain Stevie Smith said: "Gordon is a really nice guy, but he obviously has really high standards."
He becomes Kilmarnock's 10th signing of the summer and Smith is pleased with the changes.
"The signings we made have brought a bit experience into the team, which was needed," said the 31-year-old full-back.
"I don't think the balance of the squad has been right for a few years.
"The manager has tried to address that by signing the likes of Kirk Broadfoot, Gordon Greer, Chris Burke and even Lee Erwin has played in the division as well."
Greer's first period at Rugby Park came in 2004 and he left for Doncaster Rovers three years later.
A loan spell, and then a permanent move, to Swindon Town followed before Greer joined Brighton & Hove Albion, where he was appointed club captain.
His season was ended by injury in February and he was released at the end of the season, but Smith has been impressed by the veteran's professionalism.
"You can tell by the way he has looked after himself," he said. "He does everything properly off the pitch.
"The new players have all played at a really good level, some of them at international level, so you don't have to worry about their standards.
"There still is a lot of young players at Kilmarnock, which is great. Everyone wants to see that.
"But having guys who have played at a really high level about the club and the standards they set personally helps everyone."
Smith thinks the arrival of Greer, fellow defender Broadfoot and winger Burke would help reduce the burden of being captain.
"It is good to have them because we had me, Kris Boyd and Jamie McDonald recently who were the experienced guys," he added.
"But this might take a bit of pressure off us because there isn't just one or two people saying, 'This is what you need to do off the field, you need to prepare right' - there are seven or eight saying it, so it is good for us to have them."
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Group turnover was £1.97bn compared with £2.03bn in 2013.
Chief executive Henry Engelhardt said: "For the first time since we went public, Admiral Group did not post a record profit, but we still made a lot of money."
About 7,000 staff will each receive £3,000 in the company's employee share scheme based on the full year results.
The firm has created 280 new jobs in Cardiff, Swansea and Newport this year.
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More than 100 pet owners dressed their dogs in flashy costumes of superheroes and princesses for a special event to celebrate animal life.
There was even a contest for best dressed dog.
Check out the clip to see some of the colourful costumes...
The courts were set up to speed up the prosecution of hundreds of thousands of genocide suspects awaiting trial.
Human rights group say the gacaca fell well short of international legal standards.
About 65% of the close to two million people tried have been found guilty, according to latest government figures.
Rwanda's legal system was left in ruins after the massacres by ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers of some 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in 100 days between April and June 1994.
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was set up in neighbouring Tanzania to try the ringleaders of the genocide - it has convicted 54 people and acquitted eight so far. It is due to be closed down at the end of the year.
But this left hundreds of thousands of people accused of involvement in the killings, leading to an enormous backlog of cases in Rwanda.
Correspondents say up to 10,000 people died in prison before they could be brought to justice.
Community courts were set up to clear the backlog - and once a week the so-called gacaca met in villages across the country, often outdoors in a marketplace or under a tree.
The BBC's Prudent Nsengiyumva in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, says one of the main aims of the gacaca was to achieve truth, justice and reconciliation among Rwandans. Gacaca means to sit down and discuss an issue.
The hearings gave communities a chance to face the accused and give evidence about what really happened and how it happened.
Our correspondent says many people in Rwanda say this process have helped to mend the wounds of the past.
But the use of traditional grassroots courts to try complex genocide cases was also controversial - previously the gacaca had only been used to settle local disputes.
More than 160,000 judges were elected from among communities - but they lacked legal qualifications.
The Rwandan government says about two million people went through the gacaca system - final official figures about how many were found guilty are yet to be released, but data from two years ago points to a conviction rate of about 65%.
Some of those found guilty have been sentenced to long jail sentences, with hard labour.
Others have been released and sent back to help rebuild communities - and this has brought its own problems, legal experts say.
"Survivors are worried about their security because they are living side by side with those who had wanted to previously exterminate them," Albert Gasake, the Legal Advocacy Project Coordinator at the Survivors' Fund Organisation told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
"Suspicion is very high," Mr Gasake said.
He also says failure to compensate survivors for the loss of their properties poses another threat to genuine reconciliation.
Our reporter says most Rwandans do not openly criticise the gacaca system.
But local and international human rights groups have expressed concern about its fairness because trials were held without defendants having access to qualified lawyers.
The courts' closure leaves many unanswered questions, our correspondent says.
Human rights groups are asking why some members of the ruling RPF party never had to face the gacaca courts.
"It's flattering being connected with international cricket again," Jarvis, 28, told BBC Radio Lancashire. "But I'm a contracted Lancashire player until 2018. I'm not looking past that."
Lancashire last week confirmed interest in Middlesex and England's Steven Finn.
"We had 28 days' notice," head coach Glen Chapple told BBC Radio Manchester.
"He's in the last year of his contract. But we have not had contact since then. It is very early days."
Jarvis has won eight Test caps for Zimbabwe, as well as playing in 24 one-day internationals, but ended his international career to join Lancashire in 2013 as a non-overseas player under the Kolpak ruling.
Should he play for Zimbabwe again, he would lose Kolpak status and could only return to Lancashire as an overseas player.
After opening the bowling with England's all-time record wicket taker Jimmy Anderson at the start of the summer, Jarvis's season was hampered by a broken thumb. But, while Anderson remains away on international duty, Jarvis has continued to do well in tandem with South African Ryan McLaren.
Jarvis has now taken six-wicket hauls in consecutive Lancashire games, including the current Championship match against Warwickshire at Old Trafford - to take his haul to 148 first-class wickets in his 39 matches for the Red Rose since his debut in September 2013.
"I knew I had this to give in my first year," he said. "Unfortunately, it didn't go that way. I learnt and I think I became a better bowler for it. These last couple of years have been brilliant.
"Unfortunately I've not played the amount of cricket I wanted this year due to a broken thumb and sitting out the T20s but that's the way it goes.
"My first and main priority is that I want to win Division One. That's what I've always set out to do here. Right now, that's my focus.
"I've won a second division trophy, I've won the T20 Blast, but this is the main one. I'd love to win a Championship with Lancashire. We've won one in the last 77 years and it would be extremely special.
"Old Trafford is renowned for having a very flat pitch, but we've managed to bowl teams out cheaply and I'm very happy. I'm loving my cricket here. It's a second home to me."
Kyle Jarvis and Glen Chapple were talking to BBC Radio Manchester's Scott Read.
As such, Groupsmore may be Malaysia's poster child.
"We have a million subscribers and even my mom uses it," says Joel Neoh, the 28-year-old head of the Malaysian internet trading firm that was recently acquired by the US-based internet giant Groupon for an undisclosed amount.
The idea behind Groupsmore - or Groupon Malaysia as it is now called - is simple: buying in bulk yields better discounts.
Mr Neoh's company asks local businesses to offer discounts, sometimes up to 90%, in return for a certain guaranteed number of customers. The deals are activated once enough people agree to buy online.
"We've made Groupon a household name in Kuala Lumpur," says Mr Neoh.
GroupsMore's staff has grown from eight to 120 in about a year, and the growth is set to continue with plans in place to expand beyond Kuala Lumpur into states across Malaysia.
"It's about building the ecosystem around people," says Mr Neoh, "not so much about building towers and good looking buildings and fast internet infrastructure.
Groupsmore's success as a home-grown start-up company is deemed inspiring by the Malaysian government, so it is eager to replicate it as part of efforts to shift towards a knowledge-based economy.
But it may not be as easy as it looks, according to Mr Neoh.
During the company's early phase, before the Groupon acquisition, it was difficult to recruit the right people, he says.
"All of the smartest people I studied with were in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia," he says.
"So the scene here is a lack of quality people."
Jawed Karim, the co-founder of YouTube, agrees that it may well be difficult to replicate Silicon Valley's success here in Malaysia.
"What makes Silicon Valley the innovation centre it is are the types of creative minds who set up there," he says.
"Without that pool of talent, it's hard to attract more.
"Even the United States has been unable to replicate a Silicon Valley outside of California."
In Malaysia's case, the problem appears to be brain drain caused by a controversial policy based on race, according to the World Bank.
Historically, Malaysians of Chinese and Indian descent have tended to be richer than the ethnic Malay-majority.
In an effort to address this, the government has prioritised Malays when allocating university scholarships and government contracts.
Opposition parties say this policy has made Chinese and Indian Malaysians feel like second class citizens, so many of them have left.
Some 300,000 highly educated ethnic minorities left Malaysia during the last decade, according to the World Bank.
Malaysia's government is now actively trying to recruit these people back by offering incentives such as tax breaks and long-term employment visas for foreign spouses.
They are also trying to retain talent by tailoring the training in universities to ensure employers get the kind of skills they need.
At the same time, the government has come up with various initiatives to fund and drive the hi-tech sector.
This might seem like a good initiative, but such reliance on the government is instead part of the problem, according to Low Huoi Seong of content provider Vision New Media.
"The government has been expected to do too much or government is expecting itself to do too much," he says.
In spite of such gloom, Asia's potential is great, according to venture capitalist Saad Khan from Silicon Valley-based CMEA Capital.
Asia is already leading in gaming and virtual goods, so the next growth market will be the delivery of goods and services in a region where millions of people are just entering the middle class, he says.
"I don't think that innovation is going to come from the US," he says.
"I think it will come from places like here [in Asia] where you're up close and personal, where you know the people, where you know how to sell low cost cell phones, and where you know how to manufacture from that perspective.
"I know the next generation of success is not going to be in the [Silicon] Valley," he says.
The 23-year-old joined the Nethermoor Park side on a three-month loan deal in September and has made 12 appearances for the National League strugglers.
The Lions are bottom of the table, four points adrift of safety.
"We've been really impressed with Jon while he's been with us so we were keen to get him under permanent contract," football secretary Adie Towers said.
Police carried out searches across the county and on the rail network after a suspicious death was reported at a property in Benenden on Thursday.
Kent Police named the woman as Caroline Andrews, 52, and said they were now treating her death as a murder.
Officers said the detained man, 54, was found in the London area and taken to hospital for treatment to injuries.
"A post-mortem examination of Mrs Andrews took place earlier today and the death is now being treated as a murder enquiry," a Kent Police spokeswoman said.
A police cordon remains in place outside the property, which is off the village's main street.
Mrs Andrews worked as a supply teacher at Benenden CE School in the village.
Head teacher Gill Knox said staff had been left shocked and saddened.
She said: "Caroline and her family live in the village and are well known to the school.
"Caroline has been a loved and well-respected supply teacher here for a number of years, who has enriched the lives of the many children she has taught.
"At the present time, we cannot comment on what has happened but our thoughts and prayers are with her family, and all who knew her and will miss her."
Neighbour Derek Catlin described Mrs Andrews and her family as "normal, very pleasant people".
He said Thursday was quiet in the village but police arrived at about 16:30 GMT with "an accumulation of police vehicles - probably three police cars".
Another Benenden resident, Karen Callaghan, said: "It's very sad for the village. Everyone knows everyone round here. The locals have been here a long time."
During the search, armed officers boarded a train in Gillingham.
Armed police held a train at Gillingham station for more than 90 minutes from about 21:00 GMT on Thursday.
Footage showed officers walking down the carriage holding guns, with one distressed passenger demanding to be let off.
Director Julian Temple's Keith Richards - The Origin Of The Species will look at the guitarist's pre-Stones life as part of BBC Two's My Generation season.
Richards said it looked at an era when it felt like "time to push limits".
The 72-year-old will also "hand-pick" two nights of films and live performances on BBC Four.
Keith Richards' Lost Weekend will run in September and feature an interview with the Rolling Stone each night, in which he will explain his selections.
Describing Richards as an "avatar of rebellion, buccaneer, soul survivor, as well as the coolest dude on the planet", the BBC said Temple's film would be broadcast in July.
Temple said the 60-minute documentary would explore how both Richards "and the '60s in England came about".
Richards said he was "heavily" into model airplanes as a child, but was not very successful at building them, adding with a laugh that he "liked the glue".
He said during the late 1950s, "there was a feeling that there was a change coming".
"[Prime Minister] Harold Macmillan actually said it - the 'winds of change' and all that - but he didn't mean it in quite the same way.
"I certainly felt that for my generation, the feeling in the air was - it's time to push limits. The world is ours now and you can rise or fall on it."
The BBC's head of music TV commissioning, Jan Younghusband, said Richards was an "outstanding talent and an inspiration to us all".
"We are thrilled to be able to bring his unique and entertaining insights to our audience.
"I know it will be a totally original experience."
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accepted Mr Davutoglu's gesture but asked him to stay in the post until a new government was formed.
Mr Erdogan is now expected to give Mr Davutoglu the difficult task of forming a new coalition government.
Sunday's result dealt a blow to the president's plans to boost his powers.
The two men met on Tuesday in the capital, Ankara, to discuss the future of the government after the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party lost its majority in parliament for the first time in 13 years.
It secured 41%, a sharp drop from 2011, and is now likely to try to form a coalition, although no party has yet indicated it is willing to join forces with the AKP.
Accepting Mr Davutoglu's resignation, Mr Erdogan expressed his thanks for the PM's services and asked him to continue to serve until a new government was established, according to a statement on the president's website (in Turkish).
The move is a political formality, and Mr Davutoglu's future remains unclear.
After the official final result is declared, the AK Party will have 45 days to form a new government.
Opposition parties are likely to demand limits on President Erdogan's role.
If no deal is reached on a coalition, a fragile minority government and early elections loom.
Mr Erdogan had been seeking a two-thirds majority to turn Turkey into a presidential republic, but his Islamist-rooted AK Party fell short.
The pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) upset his ambitions by crossing the 10% threshold, securing seats in parliament for the first time.
In a separate development on Tuesday four people were shot dead when violence erupted in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south-eastern city of Diyarbakir.
Clashes reportedly broke out after the head of a charity linked to a Kurdish Islamist party, Huda Par, was killed.
Correspondents says relations are tense between supporters of Huda Par and the HDP, which condemned the attack.
Three people were killed and scores injured in a bomb attack on a pre-election HDP rally in Diyarbakir last Friday.
It is not clear who was behind either attack.
Under the new rules, the fund will be allowed to invest up to 30% of its net assets in domestically-listed shares.
China's main pension fund holds 3.5tn yuan ($548bn; £349bn), Xinhua said.
The move is the latest attempt by the Chinese government to arrest the slide in the country's stock market.
The fund will be allowed to invest not just in shares but in a range of market instruments, including derivatives. By increasing demand for them, the government hopes prices will rise.
The Shanghai Composite Index closed down more than 4% on Friday after figures showed monthly factory activity contracting at its fastest pace in six years.
It capped a tough few days for Chinese investors, with the index down 12% on the week. Chinese shares are now down more than 30% since the middle of June.
Earlier this month, the Chinese central bank devalued the yuan in an attempt to boost exports.
These measures come against a backdrop of slowing economic growth in China. In the second quarter of this year, the country's economy grew by 7% - its slowest pace for six years.
Last year, the economy grew at its slowest pace since 1990.
Fears of a prolonged slowdown have also hit global stock markets, with US and leading European indexes posting heavy losses last week.
The India-born 37-year-old played two one-day internationals and a Twenty20 match for the Proteas in 2007.
The match-fixing charges relate to the 2015 Ram Slam T20 Challenge Series.
Five of those 20 years are suspended on condition that Bodi, a left-arm wrist-spinner, commits no further offences.
Cricket South Africa said "a lengthy ban was appropriate".
CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat added: "Our attitude to corruption will always be one of zero tolerance.
"There is no doubt that Mr Bodi's actions have threatened the integrity and image of the game that we love and he must be handed a strong punishment. He accepts the folly of his actions."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan says Bodi should have been kicked out of cricket to send a message to other corrupt players.
"If you are found guilty of corruption, the only way to stamp it out and to set the precedent of everyone in the game of cricket is to give a life ban," he told the BBC's cricket programme Test Match Special.
"That's the only thing that would send a shockwave through the game."
Vaughan says Pakistan's Mohammad Amir should have been suspended for life not given a five-year ban after being found guilt of spot-fixing.
Bentancur, 19, was in Turin on Monday to have a medical before joining the Serie A leaders.
The Uruguay Under-20 international is a product of Argentine club Boca Juniors' youth team.
Juventus negotiated a purchase option on Bentancur when striker Carlos Tevez moved back to Boca Juniors from the Turin club in June 2015.
Juve are six points clear at the top of the table with eight games remaining as they chase a sixth successive Serie A title.
Massimiliano Allegri's side are also in the quarter-finals of the Champions League where they face Barcelona over two legs on 11 and 19 April.
There was an 8% rise in the number of people attending emergency departments from 24 December to 3 January compared to the same period last year.
More than a third of patients were not seen within the four-hour target.
That means they were not triaged, treated and either admitted or discharged within four hours.
The pressure was most acute in Antrim Area Hospital, where 198 people waited for 12 hours while 128 patients had to wait the same period of time at the Ulster.
In Craigavon Hospital, 71 people faced a 12-hour wait, while in at The Royal Victoria Hospital it was 53.
According to figures released by the Health and Social Care Board (HSC), the percentage of patients seen within the target four-hour period was:
While Emergency Departments remain busy, the commitment and professionalism of staff across the health and social care system had led to an improving situation, said an HSC Board spokesperson.
"The public can also assist us by only attending an Emergency Department if their condition is urgent, so helping to ensure that the sickest patients get the care they need," said the spokesperson.
"We would urge people to consider other care options available to them such as their GP, nearest Minor Injury Unit or local pharmacy if their symptoms are not urgent.
"Patients who present at Emergency Departments will always be dealt with in order of clinical priority, so more acutely ill patients will be seen first.
"It is regrettable that some people are having to wait longer to be treated in Emergency Departments or to be admitted to hospital at this time."
Tests on mice, published in the journal Nature Medicine, showed that a high-fibre diet could reduce inflammation in the lungs.
The extra fibre changed the nutrients being absorbed from the gut, which in turn altered the immune system.
The researchers argue the shift to processed foods may explain why more people are developing asthma.
The airways are more sensitive to irritation and more likely to become inflamed in people with asthma.
It leads to a narrowing of the airways that make it harder to breathe.
However, a possible solution may lie in another organ, the gut, and the bacteria which live there.
The cells of the human body are vastly outnumbered by the trillions of microbes that live in and on it.
There is growing evidence that these bacteria have a significant impact on health.
A team at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland showed that the high and low fibre diets altered the types of bacteria living in the guts of the mice.
Bacteria which can munch on soluble fibre, the type found in fruit and vegetables, flourished on the high-fibre diet and they in turn produced more short-chain fatty acids - a type of fat, which is absorbed into the blood.
The scientists said these fatty acids acted as signals to the immune system and resulted in the lungs being more resistant to irritation.
The opposite happened in low-fibre diets and the mice became more vulnerable to asthma.
Their report argued that a dietary shift away from fibre in favour of processed foods may be involved in rising levels of asthma.
It said: "In recent decades, there has been a well-documented increase in the incidence of allergic asthma in developed countries and coincident with this increase have been changes in diet, including reduced consumption of fibre."
One of the researchers Dr Benjamin Marsland said some of the differences caused by high-fibre diets have already been observed in people by comparing diets in Europe and Burkina Faso.
He told the BBC: "There's a very high probability it works in humans, the basic principle of fibre being converted to short-chain fatty acids is known.
"But we don't know what amount of fibre would be needed and the concentrations of short-chain fatty acids required might be different.
"It is early days, but the implications could be far reaching."
The team in Lausanne are also investigating the role of diet in long-term lung inflammation such as COPD, which is set to become the world's third biggest killer.
An alternative to tweaking diets is giving the purified fatty acids themselves as a dietary supplement.
This worked in mice, but Dr Marsland warns there "certainly needs to be more work" before this is suggested in people.
Governors at six "reform prisons" in England will be given direct control.
Such freedoms for governors should be part of a modern justice system, the Prison Reform Trust said.
But the government must also address "real problems within prisons", the Prison Officers' Association warned.
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, welcomed the government's new focus.
"For far too long prisons have been our most neglected, least visible public service," she said.
"More freedom for governors, long overdue access to modern IT, sensible plans for release on temporary licence and constructive use of tagging to curtail liberty should all be part of a modern justice system."
But she stressed the most pressing priority was to restore prison safety and stem a "catastrophic rise" in suicides, violence and disorder.
"Reform will run into the sand unless government is prepared to tackle prison numbers and introduce major sentencing reform as part of its groundbreaking Prisons Bill," she said.
Under the Prisons and Courts Reform Bill:
The prisons are:
The prime minister first outlined plans to give prison governors "complete control" over their prisons in February.
The education plans follow an independent review of prison education by former head teacher Dame Sally Coates.
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw
The prison reform plans were first outlined by David Cameron in February - and the concerns remain the same now as they were then.
How can such changes have a meaningful impact on rehabilitation, education and reoffending when so many jails are struggling simply to maintain order and stability?
If successful, the greater freedom governors will have, and the incentives on offer for improved performance, may help drive down recidivism levels and, as a result, reduce the overall prison population.
But there are so many factors that affect whether a prisoner steers clear of crime after release - family support, housing, employment to name a few - that there can be no guarantee that the changes to the way prisons are managed will be successful.
The Prison Officers' Association, the sector's union, said it was "still questioning" what freedom for governors really meant.
But it said it would "engage" with any new freedoms. Prison regimes had to tackle the "unprecedented" rise in violence, self-harming and deaths, a statement said.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, welcomed more autonomy for governors but said the success of the reforms would depend on the government driving down prisoner numbers.
The Prison Governors' Association said most governors were in favour of having greater autonomy but some feared that, without increased resources in prisons, they could be "held accountable for matters outside of their control".
Labour's shadow justice secretary, Charles Falconer, said the government had failed "every time" at reforming prisons in the past.
Instead prisons have become "dangerously overcrowded with rising levels of violence, drug abuse and serious assaults on staff", he said.
Of the six prisons pinpointed, inspectors have warned that Ranby prison is at risk of being overwhelmed by the supply of legal highs. A a prisoner was murdered at Coldingley in April.
Chief inspector: 'Some prisons not fit for purpose'
Rapt, a charity which helps prisoners give up drugs and crime, welcomed the changes but said it was "critical" to improve education and tackle the issues of drugs, mental health and violence.
It said 33% of businesses in Wales have access to sell goods and services online compared to the UK average of 39%.
Business Minister Edwina Hart said the Welsh government was working with the internet company to help small businesses "access new markets".
The first event was held in Cardiff.
Ms Hart and Dan Cobley, Google UK managing director, addressed about 400 delegates at the first free conference and launch event at the Coal Exchange on Tuesday.
Mr Cobley said: "Together with the Welsh government and other partners we want Welsh businesses of all sizes to understand the importance of the internet and how easy it is to get online and contribute to the economic growth of the Welsh economy."
Google UK plans to train digital agencies across Wales to deliver training and workshops once the initial three month campaign has ended.
Its travelling "Juice Bar" will offer free one-on-one digital health checks and workshops, tutorials and hands-on advice to small business owners, including how to acquire a web presence or improve the one they already have
Ms Hart said "diverse and thriving" small to medium-sized businesses have the potential to be a "driving force for economic recovery".
"By working with Google on this exciting initiative, we will be helping and educating many of these small businesses to access the type of support and advice they need to access new markets and opportunities to reach new internet customers across the UK and beyond," she said.
The Cardiff event will be followed by others in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport, Swansea and Wrexham.
Other partners involved include the Institute of Directors in Wales and South Wales Chamber of Commerce.
Not for him interactive computer games involving gruesomely athletic dwarves - or even their 19th Century equivalent, tales of fantasy and folklore most famously gathered, as John grew up, by the Brothers Grimm.
At the age of three, JSM studied Greek. It was Latin when he was eight. By the time he was 12, he was absorbed in the study of Logic.
Young John, it should be said, did not attend his local comprehensive. Or academy. Or grammar school. Or selective independent. Or boarding school.
No, the juvenile who later became the founder of Utilitarianism as a philosophical system - and served as Rector at St Andrews - was taught by his stern, scholastic Scottish father, James. John then assumed the task of teaching his siblings.
One can imagine what John Stuart Mill and, perhaps even more so, his old man would have made of the latest figures charting Scottish education against international comparators. The Pisa study.
For this OECD exercise, conducted last year, half a million 15-year-olds in a wide range of countries sat tests in numeracy, literacy and science. The latest figures show Scotland slipping back, now no better than average in any of the disciplines scrutinised.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, at least at Holyrood, that this is an appalling performance. Scottish education has fallen back to a situation where it is, literally, mediocre.
At which point, opinion diverges.
Opposition parties, entirely understandably from their point of view, are inclined to blame the governing SNP. Indeed, they are rushing forward to do so.
It falls to John Swinney to respond. He is now education secretary and was, for many years prior to that, the man responsible for Scotland's budgetary allocation. His decisions funded schools.
Understandably, from his position, Mr Swinney says the "uncomfortable" results demonstrated the need for radical reform. Reform which, he argued, was already under way through the review of governance and other matters.
At which point, Labour accuses Mr Swinney of using the results as a bogus conduit to pursue his "centralising" agenda. At which point, the education secretary says his plans are about empowering schools. At which point….
To be clear, this debate is entirely legitimate. As is the discussion about funding, about the provision of classroom support, about curriculum control, about in-school testing, about the nature of national exams.
All important. All relevant. All thoroughly familiar. A discourse which has persisted in various guises throughout the period of steady decline in Scotland's Pisainternational ranking - while education systems in Asia continue to top the table.
To emphasise, I am not chiding the politicians for debate and argument. Indeed, such exchanges are essential. But perhaps we might begin with a few thoughts anent the essential nature of education - and the test which has provoked this fresh outbreak of controversy.
The Pisa test does not examine social or interpersonal skills. It does not look at the value of collaborative working. It tests excellence. Excellence - or otherwise - in core skills. Again, literacy, numeracy and science.
Should we not firstly ask ourselves: Do we favour excellence? Are we supportive of demonstrable academic ability?
And, if we do, let us not wriggle out of the challenge by advocating "excellence for all". That is, to a large degree, meaningless, even oxymoronic.
It is, however, possible to envisage an education system which supports excellence - genuine excellence, academic rigour and discipline - while simultaneously seeking to give every single child the fullest possible opportunity to achieve to the best of their abilities.
That latter element, as I would read it, is the underlying philosophy of No Child Left Behind.
It can be all too easy to be cynical about education. For example, the following has been said of Curriculum for Excellence. "It is not about excellence. It is not a curriculum. The only word which is true is 'for'".
However, the most significant conversation I recall with an educationalist was a chat with a head teacher from a school in one of the toughest schemes in Scotland.
She said that the biggest change she made was to chide pupils - and, even more so, teachers - to raise their expectations. She said that if we expect our children to fail then, guess what? They will fail.
If, to the contrary, we make clear that failure - that falling back - is not acceptable, even in a "struggling" school. Then guess what? Aspiration and ambition can produce relative success. I stress, relative.
But enough, if widely repeated, to help push Scotland back up that league table. If, to underline, that is what we genuinely want.
There is no need to replicate the pedagogy inflicted upon J.S. Mill. That would be unlikely to result in the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
But we might perhaps contemplate young John's early academic gifts and conclude that we are entitled to expect more from our system of education.
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The early years of John Stuart Mill, it would seem, were scarcely devoted to the pursuit of pleasure.
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Four people died in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on Friday, with two men dying the following day in Leeds and Normanton in West Yorkshire.
Recent testing on recovered drugs found traces of the strong prescription painkiller fentanyl.
Police said it was too early to connect the deaths to fentanyl, but warned drug users to be "extremely cautious".
More on this and other stories in Yorkshire
In March, a warning was issued by Cleveland Police after six recent deaths connected to a batch of low grade heroin in Stockton-upon-Tees.
An "unusually high" number of deaths connected to drug use in Hull was reported in February, but none confirmed as of yet where fentanyl has been present.
The painkiller, which hit the headlines after it was linked to the death of US singer Prince, is considered to be 50 times more potent than heroin according to America's Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Fentanyl is an extremely strong painkiller, prescribed for severe chronic pain, or breakthrough pain which does not respond to regular painkillers.
It is an opioid painkiller which means it works by mimicking the body's natural painkillers, called endorphins, which block pain messages to the brain.
The risk of harm is higher if the wrong dose or strength is used.
Typical symptoms of a fentanyl overdose include slow and difficult breathing, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and increased blood pressure.
Det Supt Nick Wallen, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "We are however urging those people who regularly use Class A drugs and particularly those who purchase their drugs via street suppliers to be extremely cautious in relation to what they are taking.
"Anyone experiencing any unusual symptoms after taking drugs should seek immediate medical attention."
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A spate of drug-related deaths has prompted a warning about contaminated heroin in Yorkshire and Teesside.
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Charles Hughes, who was 60 and from Warrington, Cheshire, lost control of his 1000cc BMW near the Les Graham memorial on Mountain Road on 31 May.
Douglas courthouse heard he suffered multiple injuries and died the same day in Noble's hospital.
Coroner John Needham recorded a verdict of accidental death.
One witness described how Mr Hughes collided with a grass bank after losing control of his bike on a left-hand bend near the Verandah.
The married welder was visited the island with his friend Andrew Webster, also from Warrington.
Mr Webster, who was following his friend at the time of the accident, said he went in a "bit hot" and that his "tyres were not gripping".
He said he saw his friend's bike "somersaulting down the road" with "debris thrown everywhere".
Mr Needham said Mr Hughes was "clearly passionate about bikes and followed his passion right to the end.
"As a former [Manx] Grand Prix racer he was very familiar with the TT course but drifted wide on the left hand corner, losing the back end of the bike.
"He would not have suffered after losing consciousness."
No other vehicles were involved in the accident, which happened the day after the opening practice session of the annual TT races.
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An experienced motorcyclist and former Manx Grand Prix racer died after crashing his bike whilst visiting the Isle of Man TT, an inquest has heard.
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South West Trains asked passengers to suggest a yuletide twist for departure boards on its network using the hashtag SWTChristmas.
Some got into the Christmas spirit with ideas like Dorchestnut and Brack-Noel.
But others were more Scrooge-like, and used the opportunity to criticise the firm for running no trains on Christmas Day or Boxing Day.
Richard Banks tweeted: "Here's one for Boxing Day: Havant-any-trains-running."
Another traveller tweeted: "Any chance you can quit the #SWTChristmas nonsense and just provide a good service?"
Debbos added: "Anyone replying to this doesn't actually regularly travel on @SW_Trains #SWTChristmas"
But many passengers welcomed the temporary sign change.
Chandlers Ford becoming "Christmas Ford", Bracknell "Brack-Noel" and Dorchester "Dorchestnut" were among the submissions.
Other suggestions include "GoodwillFord" for Guildford, "Eggnog-Ham" replacing Egham, Micheldever could change to "Mistletoe-dever" and Raynes Park could become "Raynes-deer Park".
A South West Trains spokesman said: "We want to help our customers get into the Christmas spirit and what better way than travelling to a station with a new festive name?
"We'll be picking the best ones to use on our network."
The station names will be changed temporarily on Saturday 17 December.
The rail firm has previously given passengers a romantic send-off on Valentine's Day in 2015, with romantic departure board messages.
South West Trains operates services in Hampshire, Surrey, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Devon, Somerset, and Greater London.
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A rail company's appeal for customers to rename its stations with festive monikers has met with a mixed response.
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He was taken ill on Tuesday while visiting the country to support his daughter Tracey, who is the England netball coach, during the World Cup.
England Netball confirmed the 65-year-old died in hospital in Sydney on Friday evening local time.
Mr Neville was a former commercial director of Bury Football Club.
The League One side said he was in Sydney with his wife, Jill, who is also club secretary for Bury FC.
In a statement, the club confirmed Mr Neville's death "with deep regret and extremely heavy hearts", and said it would pay tribute at a future date.
"Where would this Club be without Neville? Rest in Peace big Nev," the club said, adding players would wear black armbands during their match with Doncaster on Saturday.
Mr Neville was involved in the fans' group Save Our Shakers, which was formed when the side faced bankruptcy in 2002.
His sons, Gary and Phil, both started their lengthy football careers with Manchester United in the early 1990s. Gary won 85 England caps, while Phil won 59.
Manchester United tweeted: "We are sad to learn that Neville Neville, father of Gary and Phil, has passed away. Our condolences go out to his family."
An emotional Tracey Neville led her England side out on court on Friday just hours after it emerged her father had been taken ill.
Local media reported Gary and Phil Neville were in the Sydney crowd to watch England win their first match 60-19 against Scotland on the opening day of the World Cup.
An England Netball spokesperson said: "Our immediate thoughts are with Tracey and the Neville family and we please ask that the privacy of the family is respected at this time.
"Tracey has chosen to remain with the England team for the remainder of the World Cup and has the full support from everyone at England Netball."
26 November 2015 Last updated at 07:30 GMT
People were left homeless and lots of children were unable to go to school.
A group of junior fire cadets in Cheshire raised money to build a school for one village that was hit, They went out to Nepal themselves to help complete it.
Here's their story.
Brendan Rodgers' team were utterly dominant in the opening half, scoring through Tom Rogic and a terrific double from Leigh Griffiths.
The wheels fell off suddenly early in the second half as Lucio Maranhao and Maor Melikson netted.
But Moussa Dembele headed in a fourth and Scott Brown rattled home a fifth.
The two sides meet again in Beersheba on Tuesday but that game will have to go some to match a brilliant and madcap European night at Celtic Park.
Craig Gordon's magnificent save from a Maharan Radi header preserved Celtic's lead at 4-2 and Hapoel had a penalty claim turned down shortly before Brown's goal.
For Celtic, it had been so easy for so long.
Griffiths was so involved in the first half it was difficult to keep a check on how many versions of himself were out on the pitch. Scott Sinclair's pace troubled Beer Sheva, Rogic had a field day and Brown led the side well.
Celtic were ahead when Griffiths dinked a beautiful ball over the visiting defence to Sinclair, who was promptly taken out by goalkeeper David Goresh. It would have been a penalty had it not been for Rogic following up to drive Celtic into the lead.
Soon after, Sinclair went down in the box but a big shout for a spot-kick was waved away. It hardly seemed to matter because in Celtic's performance there was always the promise of more goals. And they came.
Kolo Toure strode out of defence and found Sinclair, who put James Forrest away down the right. His cross was nutted home brilliantly by Griffiths.
The third was even better, a sumptuous Griffiths free-kick from wide to the right of the Hapoel penalty area. The striker curled into the top corner. Total class.
Hapoel had no shots on goal and, seemingly, no hope of turning it around, but they did.
From a counter-attack, Lucio struck from close range to make it 3-1. From another advance down the left two minutes later, Melikson drove home from a central position and suddenly it was 3-2.
Celtic were in shock, but gathered themselves to score a fourth. Griffiths was involved again, swinging in a corner for Dembele to head home.
Gordon's superb save from Radi was as impressive as it was critical.
And then Brown added the dramatic flourish, his first shot fluffed, his second rifled into the Hapoel net to send Celtic Park back into a blissful state.
To call it a classic does not quite cover it.
Match ends, Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2.
Second Half ends, Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2.
Loai Taha (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Moussa Dembele (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Loai Taha (Hapoel Be'er Sheva).
Attempt saved. Maor Bar Buzaglo (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tony Nwakaeme.
Foul by James Forrest (Celtic).
Ofir Davidzada (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
James Forrest (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Nir Bitton (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Maor Bar Buzaglo (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by David Goresh.
Attempt saved. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Moussa Dembele.
Kolo Touré (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Nir Bitton (Celtic).
Maor Melikson (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Celtic 5, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2. Scott Brown (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Scott Brown (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Vladimir Brown replaces Maharan Radi.
Foul by Saidy Janko (Celtic).
Maor Melikson (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Nir Bitton (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by James Forrest.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Maor Bar Buzaglo replaces Ovidiu Hoban.
Foul by Leigh Griffiths (Celtic).
Tony Nwakaeme (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Maharan Radi (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Bitton with a cross.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Ovidiu Hoban (Hapoel Be'er Sheva) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Celtic 4, Hapoel Be'er Sheva 2. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Leigh Griffiths with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Shir Tzedek.
Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Saidy Janko.
Attempt missed. Kieran Tierney (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by James Forrest.
Substitution, Celtic. Moussa Dembele replaces Tomas Rogic.
Substitution, Hapoel Be'er Sheva. Ben Sahar replaces Lucio Maranhão.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Ofir Davidzada.
Substitution, Celtic. Saidy Janko replaces Mikael Lustig.
Substitution, Celtic. Nir Bitton replaces Callum McGregor.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Reports say the ECB will inject up to €1 trillion by buying government bonds worth up to €50bn (£38bn) per month until the end of 2016.
Creating new money to buy government debt, or quantitative easing (QE), should reduce the cost of borrowing.
The ECB also said eurozone interest rates were being held at 0.05%.
The eurozone is flagging and the ECB is seeking ways to stimulate spending.
Lowering the cost of borrowing should encourage banks to lend and eurozone businesses and consumers to spend more.
It is a strategy that appears to have worked in the US, which undertook a huge programme of QE between 2008 and 2014.
The UK and Japan have also had sizeable bond-buying programmes.
What is a government bond?
Governments borrow money by selling bonds to investors. A bond is an IOU. In return for the investor's cash, the government promises to pay a fixed rate of interest over a specific period - say 4% every year for 10 years. At the end of the period, the investor is repaid the cash they originally paid, cancelling that particular bit of government debt.
Government bonds have traditionally been seen as ultra-safe long-term investments and are held by pension funds, insurance companies and banks, as well as private investors. They are a vital way for countries to raise funds.
Up until now, the ECB has resisted, although the bank's president, Mario Draghi, reassured markets in July 2012 by saying he would be prepared to do whatever it took to maintain financial stability in the eurozone, nicknamed his "big bazooka" speech.
Since then, the case for quantitative easing has been growing.
Earlier this month, figures showed the eurozone was suffering deflation, creating the danger that growth would stall as businesses and consumers shut their wallets, as they waited for prices to fall.
The ECB's bond-buying programme is likely to begin in March, although the final decision over whether to start the measures will be taken at a meeting of the bank's 25-member policy-making board on Thursday.
There remains a possibility that the German members of the board will object to the plan. They would prefer any government bonds purchased to be held by national governments, rather than centrally by the ECB. That would reduce the risk of a default by struggling peripheral countries, such as Greece and Italy, being shouldered by the richer members of the eurozone.
On Wednesday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) urged Mr Draghi to pursue uncapped quantitative easing.
Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday: "Let Mario go as far as he can. I don't think he should cap it. Don't say 500bn [euros]. Just say, 'As far as we can, as far as we need it.'"
However, some economists and analysts have expressed reservations about the idea.
Joerg Kraemer of Commerzbank told BBC World Service's World Business Report programme that there was "no real threat" to the eurozone economy from deflation.
He added: "A mild decline in prices is no problem for real GDP growth, and especially in the eurozone. The only reason why we have a negative inflation rate is the decline in oil price, but the decline in oil price is good for the economy."
UK economist Roger Bootle of Capital Economics told the programme: "I am not the greatest fan of quantitative easing - I don't think it's going to cure the European malaise. The point is, there is not much else in the locker."
The unanimous decision to close the Wakeman School in 2013 came a fortnight after it achieved its best ever GCSE results.
Head teacher Karen Moore said the school would appeal and was also considering academy status, which would remove it from local authority control.
The council said the decision was due to "unsustainable" pupil numbers.
In July, Shropshire Council also confirmed the closure of four primary schools.
The Conservative-controlled authority praised staff at the Wakeman and said the closure was due to the school's financial sustainability, rather than its standard of education.
In March, Ofsted reported that the Wakeman was a good school, with a good capacity for sustained improvement and a strong leadership.
The town centre school has only 240 pupils on its roll from September, out of a capacity of 675.
School campaigners said the falling rolls had been due to rumours over the past five years regarding its future.
Pupils from the arts college have been actively campaigning against its closure since February.
Before the cabinet meeting pupils performed street theatre outside Shire Hall, recreating a crime scene in protest against the plans.
The council said the impact on pupils would be minimised by phasing the closure over two years.
The singer became violently ill at the end of a tour of South America last week, requiring him to return to the UK for urgent treatment.
Nine concerts that were due to be staged in Las Vegas and California over the next two weeks have been cancelled.
Sir Elton is now resting at home.
A statement by his management said infections of the kind suffered by the star were "rare and potentially deadly". It gave no details.
"Thankfully, Elton's medical team identified this quickly and treated it successfully. He is expected to make a full and complete recovery," it added.
Sir Elton is due to resume his schedule of live performances in the UK on 3 June.
"I am so fortunate to have the most incredible and loyal fans and apologise for disappointing them. I am extremely grateful to the medical team for their excellence in looking after me so well," the star said.
His Million Dollar Piano tour is due to end its run in May 2018.
The career of Sir Elton spans five decades and has been littered with accolades, hit singles and world records.
The 70-year-old singer has sold more than 200 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time.
West Midlands Ambulance Service had been bracing itself for record numbers of call-outs after experiencing one of its busiest ever days during December.
However, the number of overnight calls received on New Year's Eve was 1,436 - far fewer than last year's figure of around 1,600.
The service said the public was heeding advice not to make non-emergency calls.
A sharp rise in calls throughout 2014 had led the service to expect an extremely busy New Year's Eve and it had warned it was "stretched to the limit".
However, chief executive Anthony Marsh said "months of planning" had meant the service was able to cope.
"I cannot remember a year like 2014. Demand just kept increasing with more pressure in the system that I can recall for a very long time," he said.
"Staff on the road and in our control rooms have been working flat out during December which saw the trust break records in terms of demand.
"I am immensely proud of the way that, as a trust, we have met this challenge."
Landscrona, the Russian champions' largest fans' group, said black players are "forced down Zenit's throat".
"I'm not surprised. Everybody knows Zenit supporters are no good and racist," Samba told BBC Radio 5 live.
"They are living in another century. It's a sad day for Russian football."
He added: "In this time we have different communities and countries that constitute teams. If they can't accept that then they are never going to progress."
Zenit were the only top-flight Russian team without a black player until the summer signings of Brazil striker Hulk and Belgian midfielder Axel Witsel.
The club was fined by the Russian Football Union after one of their fans offered a banana to Anzhi Makhachkala left-back Roberto Carlos before a match between the two sides in March 2011.
Black players in the Russian league have been the target of monkey chants and Samba also had a banana thrown at him by a Lokomotiv Moscow fan shortly after his move from Blackburn Rovers.
However, the Congo-Brazzaville international insists there is no prospect of black players staging a protest by boycotting matches following Landscrona's open letter.
"Boycotting, why? Because fans make statement they don't want black players. No. Black players should fight for the good ones - not the idiots," he said.
"It's really sad. It's slowing down the process of Russian football being a better league. I hope the Russian federation do the necessary to sanction it."
I know, based on my experience with Russian football and Zenit, there are serious issues about racism
Raymond Verheijen, a former coach of Zenit, believes there are "serious issues" with racism in Russian football and says action needs to be taken by the sport's governing body.
"If the fans are asking for an all-white team, I'm actually quite shocked to be honest," he said.
"I know, based on my experience with Russian football and Zenit, there are serious issues about racism, so I was already familiar with the problem.
"But if it's true that the fans have asked for this policy then I think its time that the club and the Federation also took some action against these kind of things."
Russia is preparing to host the 2018 World Cup after being picked by governing body Fifa to stage the tournament for the first time.
Samba, 28, believes Russia's continuing problems surrounding racism are "not helping" the country's preparations.
He added: "The fact that a lot of players are going to Russia should be promoted. But if we're not welcome then it would be very difficult to change the mentality ahead of the World Cup."
The show at Leeds College of Art features a selection of work by artist Felice House.
'Re/Western' includes seven large scale portraits taken from iconic Westerns.
A spokesperson for the college said the exhibition raises questions around "gender stereotypes and the access of women to power".
Felice House is an American artist who lives and works in Texas.
The exhibition runs until 24 March at the college's Blenheim Walk Gallery.
Saddlers striker Bradshaw, 23, scored his first senior hat-trick as his injury-time penalty sealed a dramatic 4-3 triumph at the City Ground.
"We thought it was a stonewaller for extra time," Bradshaw told BBC WM 95.6.
"Even when they equalised in the 93rd minute we still had it in us for one last attack - it was first class."
Bradshaw, who extended his contract at the Banks's Stadium until 2017 in June, scored twice as Walsall led 3-1 with nine minutes to go, before Forest substitute Michail Antonio's brace levelled the tie in the last minute.
Walsall won it in the fifth minute of added-on time when Bradshaw slotted home his spot-kick to send the visitors through.
"I missed my last penalty in pre-season against West Brom but I did some practice, I knew exactly where I was going to go and just made sure I hit it cleanly," Bradshaw added.
"It was a special moment for me and my family - my dad and a couple of my uncles were in the crowd."
The former Shrewsbury forward was the Saddlers' top scorer last season, with 20 goals, and he says beating Forest will give everyone at the club a huge lift as their League One campaign gets underway.
"We're creating a lot more chances this season and that's down to our more positive attitude," he added
"If can keep scoring goals like we are we won't be far off."
Olusanya scored his first ever goal from the penalty spot after he was fouled by Ben Davies.
Wimbledon will face Accrington Stanley in the play-off semi-finals, while Newport end the season without a win in 11 games.
Warren Feeney's side, who had already secured League Two safety, finished nine points above the relegation zone.
Adebayo Akinfenwa had Wimbledon's best chance of a first half which was delayed for 10 minutes after team-mate Connor Smith suffered a head injury.
Newport's Lenell John-Lewis was denied by James Shea while Akinfenwa struck the post before substitute Olusanya's winner.
Newport County manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "It looked like and end of season game.
"It's another sloppy goal we've given away but I think it's that little bit of belief in the final third that we're lacking and have been lacking for a while.
"I don't want to be in this position next year."
It is part of wider regeneration plans to promote the town and Loch Ryan as a marine leisure destination.
An outline business case last year estimated the scheme could create about 30 new jobs - but at a cost of £6m.
Consultants are set to be appointed this month to put together the full case to take the development forward.
The study is expected to take between six and nine months to complete.
It will examine the technical and financial viability of the scheme and take the proposals to the planning approval stage.
The marina is one of a series of projects which make up the Stranraer waterfront masterplan.
Another key element is the re-development of the East Pier which was left vacant after ferry operator Stena Line relocated to Cairnryan.
Last year the council entered into a partnership with an Irish property management group to examine new retail, leisure, hotel and housing opportunities for the site.
It is claimed that could lead to an investment of up to £50m.
In a progress report, the authority said it was currently carrying out ground investigation surveys which would help shape future plans.
The transport committee blamed "major failures" at the Department for Transport (DfT) and the civil service.
But its report was not unanimous, with several committee members choosing not to blame ministers.
In October, the government scrapped its decision to award the £5bn franchise to FirstGroup.
The reversal will cost taxpayers almost £50m, it has been estimated.
"This episode revealed substantial problems of governance, assurance, policy and resources inside the Department for Transport," said Louise Ellman, chairwoman of the committee.
"Embarking on an ambitious - perhaps unachievable - reform of franchising, in haste, on the UK's most complex piece of railway, was an irresponsible decision for which ministers were ultimately responsible.
"This was compounded by major failures by civil servants, some of whom misled ministers."
A DfT spokesman responded: "Independent experts concluded the collapse of the West Coast franchise programme was caused by a number of failures including inadequate planning and weak governance structure, but not systematic failings in the department.
"The examination of emails from key officials found no evidence that this was anything other than simple human error.
"We are putting in place measures that will prevent this embarrassing episode from happening again."
Also on Thursday, the DfT announced what it would be doing about the processes of awarding three other franchises, which were put on hold after the problems emerged with the West Coast Main Line franchise.
The competition for the Great Western franchise, which connects London to Bristol and Cardiff, has been scrapped.
The department is in talks with the existing operator FirstGroup about extending its franchise for two years. It will announce what it plans to do in the longer term later this year.
The other two competitions - Essex Thameside and the combined Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise - will resume their bidding processes, with revised invitations to tender being issued to the existing short-listed bidders in the summer.
The existing operators will have their contracts to run those franchises extended for no more than two years, in order to allow those processes to be completed.
The mistakes in the West Coast process came to light after rival bidder Virgin Trains launched a legal challenge against the decision. Virgin will continue running the service until November 2014, when a new long-term franchise will begin.
In December, the National Audit Office calculated a "significant cost to the taxpayer".
It said costs for staff, advisers, lawyers and the two reviews into the fiasco added up to £8.9m, on top of the estimated £40m it will take to reimburse firms for the cost of their bids.
But three members of the transport select committee - Karen Lumley, Karl McCartney, and Iain Stewart - said that they disagreed with the report, which was passed by a majority vote.
An independent report last year by Sam Laidlaw - chief executive of Centrica, the owner of British Gas - found there was a "damning failure" by the DfT that led to ministers - who had not been told about flaws in the bidding process - awarding the contract after being given inaccurate reports.
"We believe the evidence in the Laidlaw Report shows that ministers asked the right, penetrating questions during the process but were given inaccurate responses by officials," they said.
"We do not believe that it is was 'irresponsible' to run the new franchise process first on the WCML as the department has shown itself perfectly capable of managing other complex projects in this period," they added.
Three DfT civil servants, who were suspended after the scrapping of the bid, have returned to work, and one official has launched legal action against the department on the basis that her role in the process has been "inaccurately" portrayed.
In the report, Ms Ellman said: "Many of the problems with the franchise competition, detailed in the Laidlaw report, reflect very badly on civil servants at the DfT.
"However, ministers approved a complex - perhaps unworkable - franchising policy at the same time as overseeing major cuts to the department's resources. This was a recipe for failure which the DfT must learn from urgently."
She called on the DfT to explain why ministers and senior officials were "misled" about how subordinated loan facilities were calculated, if necessary after disciplinary proceedings against staff have concluded.
Ms Ellman's constituency on Merseyside is served by the rail line.
About 31 million passengers travel on the West Coast Main Line between London and Scotland every year.
The attacks took place between April and July last year at addresses in Portadown, County Armagh, and Banbridge and Gilford in County Down.
The officers' homes and vehicles were attacked and in some cases destroyed.
Those charged were among nine people detained by police on Tuesday as part of the investigation.
Two men were charged with a number of offences on Wednesday evening.
They face charges of arson with intent to endanger life, conspiracy to cause an explosion and drugs offences.
The men will appear at Lisburn Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
Earlier on Wednesday, four men and a woman appeared at Craigavon Magistrates' Court on arson and drugs-related offences.
The woman is 21 while the others are aged 17, 20, 36 and 51.
They faced a number of charges, including conspiracy to commit arson and conspiracy to cause an explosion.
Two of the nine arrested - women aged 27 and 42 - have been charged with drugs offences and are expected to appear at the same court next month.
The arrests took place in Larne, Lisburn, Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon.
Detectives also searched properties in counties Antrim, Armagh and Down on Tuesday morning.
She claims to have "the UK's most controversial boobs" and receives continuous online abuse.
In 2013 she appeared in The Sun boasting about her boob job courtesy of the tax payer - on the NHS.
She's also sold tickets to the birth of her daughter and said she'd have an abortion if it meant she could go in Big Brother.
Her agent, Rob Cooper, claims they usually charge "no less than a four figure sum" for access to her because they have a lot of overheads - including security.
Newsbeat filmed an unpaid interview with Josie as she prepared for a photo shoot.
We were asked not to film her new boyfriend because "there's money in exclusivity" for an interview with Andy - Josie's boyfriend.
Speaking to Newsbeat, Josie says: "Everybody just thinks I'm this fame hungry bitch but actually I'm a hard-working parent.
"I think people are slowly realising there is a game there to be played. It's a whole case of don't hate the player - hate the game."
"My career is a lot of things at the moment, I've got a couple of endorsements. I'm also constantly filming and doing TV interviews, press releases, radio interviews - so it's really exciting, who knows what tomorrow may bring."
When the subject of how much money Josie makes comes up, she quickly says "No comment" but admits to being "definitely" well paid.
Josie's team explained to Newsbeat discussions had taken place for her to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house but an agreement was never made.
"I'd make for fantastic viewing," Josie explains. "I'd well entertain the public if I was in. I think it would be £150,000 well spent."
Reality TV offers regularly come in for the mother-of-three but she says she won't consider leaving her children unless a guaranteed fee was agreed that could change their life.
Her agent smirked when asked if Josie had earned hundreds of thousands of pounds over the past two years but wouldn't deny it.
Josie says: "I don't really discuss finances and things because I find it a bit tacky but it is paying well and I am providing for the kids. They're spoilt rotten but that's beside the point."
Nearly 80,000 accounts follow Josie Cunningham on Twitter - something she regularly uses to criticise other people in the public eye.
She's also on the receiving end of abuse but says it doesn't bother her because she was regularly bullied in school.
"I never expected all this backlash and the reaction I did get," Josie admits.
"I thought to take this on the chin and use it to my advantage and we're still around so we must be doing something right.
"Up until the past couple months I'd say I definitely got more of a hard time. Now, there's a couple of people online I've noticed that have started to turn their opinion around. Things are looking up."
Josie says doctors had told her she had no natural breast tissue.
She had her boob job when she was 22, increasing her breast size from a 32A to a 36DD.
Doing Page 3 for The Sun was "a dream" and being a hate figure wasn't something Josie had in mind. She was hoping for the opposite.
She tells Newsbeat: "I wanted to be a role model to younger people, to anybody that didn't have a chest and was feeling like giving up on life and couldn't go on with this - maybe have difficulties going out or suffering with anxiety because of this."
Being so public about her views isn't something Josie regrets.
"All this hatred that comes with my name I'd say is worth it because I've got my name out there so much more from being hated.
"All of a sudden everybody knew my name so thanks for that - it's been great.
"It does feel amazing to be where I'm at now. I've had two years of hard work to get to this point and I'm just really excited to see what the future holds."
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Every single Bramley apple ever eaten can be traced back to a 200-year-old tree that is still growing in Southwell in Nottinghamshire.
It grew from a pip sown by a young girl called Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809.
The apples are now so popular that 83,000 tonnes of them - approximately 400 million apples - were grown in Britain in 2014.
The Bramley Apple Festival was organised with the help of Roger Merryweather, great-grandson of Henry Merryweather, the first person to grow the trees commercially.
"Here we are 200 years since the first pip was sown and it's still a very popular cooking apple," said Mr Merryweather.
"The tree is showing a little bit of wear and tear as you can expect, but it bore fruit this year.
"How many more years it has to go, who knows?"
Mr Merryweather said the Bramley became popular because of its strong growth, the qualities of the fruit, and also because it can be stored for a long time.
He believes the National Federation of Women's Institutes has also done a lot to promote the qualities of the Bramley in cooking.
The Conservative leader told the BBC the idea of SNP influence over a Labour PM was a "frightening prospect".
But Ms Sturgeon said the SNP "want to be constructive, to get better politics coming out of the Westminster system".
Labour's Ed Balls said the Tories and SNP wanted each other to do well. "They are in bed together," he told Sky News.
The possible role of the SNP in a post-election government has been one of the key issues in the campaign so far.
Labour has rejected the idea of a coalition or deal with the SNP - who are threatening to take a swathe of seats from them in Scotland, if opinion polls turn out to be accurate.
But the Conservatives have demanded that Labour also rule out any prospect of operating as a minority government and relying on SNP support on a vote-by-vote basis.
The SNP have said that they would seek to prevent a Conservative government and would seek to ensure any Labour government was "progressive".
SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie told the BBC's Sunday Politics the party would vote against "cuts that we didn't like", highlighting the SNP's opposition to the Trident nuclear weapons system.
In the absence of a five-year deal, he said: "There would be no deal so we would be perfectly at liberty to table amendments to Budgets and legislation, vote against or table amendments to estimates, perfectly sensible."
Earlier on the Andrew Marr Show, Mr Cameron said: "The SNP is a party that doesn't want to come to Westminster to contribute to a government; it wants to come to Westminster to break up our country.
"When you have a group of Nationalists that want to be involved with the government of a country which they don't want to belong to you have to ask yourself if you're a voter in England, or Wales, or Northern Ireland would these people care at all about what happens in my life and my constituency? The answer is 'no'."
Ms Sturgeon rejected the view the SNP would attempt to cause disruption at Westminster to further its goal of independence - while also ruling out any deal with the Conservatives.
She said: "There is an opportunity to build progressive alliances for progressive policies. It is a real rather than a pretend alternative to austerity."
Ms Sturgeon added: "We want to be constructive, to get better politics coming out of the Westminster system.
"As long as Scotland remains part of the Westminster system, it matters to people that we get good decisions out of that system, and I want the SNP to play a positive part in improving politics at Westminster for people right across the UK."
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond said his party had received "thousands of applications from people in England who want to join the SNP" following Ms Sturgeon's performance in the leaders' debates. He said audiences "seemed quite enamoured by the prospect of Nicola Sturgeon's politics having an influence in the House of Commons".
"You have really got to divide the attitudes of the Westminster political establishment from the people of England. The people of England don't think like Westminster politicians," he said.
For Labour, shadow chancellor Ed Balls told Sky the focus on the SNP was a sign of Mr Cameron's "faltering campaign".
"He has nothing to say about a better Britain for working families, so he's talking up the SNP as his last best hope of clinging to power."
Mr Balls said he could say "unambiguously" there would be no coalition between Labour and the SNP.
"Our principle is very clear - the SNP exist - unlike the Lib Dems or, to be fair, UKIP - as a political party to break up the United Kingdom. That's their raison d'etre... I can say to you unambiguously that we're not going to start getting involved in coalitions or deals with a political party that wants to break up the United Kingdom."
He questioned whether Mr Cameron would say the same, adding: "He would love to do a deal with the SNP... the reality is the SNP want the Tories in and the Tories want the SNP to do well. They're in bed together."
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, meanwhile, issued a direct challenge to Mr Cameron to publicly rule out a post-election alliance with UKIP, telling him not to treat voters as if they were "stupid" by maintaining the Tories were on course to a majority.
"I have ruled out an alliance with the SNP, I have ruled out an alliance with UKIP, why won't you do the same?" he said.
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The visitors led on seven minutes through Hayley Ladd's headed own goal, but Claire Emslie's low strike levelled the scores at half-time.
Man City had second-half shots from England's Lucy Bronze and Steph Houghton blocked on the line.
But winger Parris' low finish won the game on 89 minutes.
Nick Cushing's side - which saw six changes from Thursday's Champions League quarter-final first leg in Denmark - led when Bristol City keeper Caitlin Leach attempted to punch away Bronze's cross but her clearance ricocheted in off the host's unfortunate captain Ladd.
Man City keeper Marie Hourihan then saved brilliantly from Millie Turner's downward header from a set-piece, before Toni Duggan, Parris and Georgia Stanway missed chances to extend the visitors' lead at the other end.
On the stroke of half-time, Scotland forward Claire Emslie's low finish drew Bristol City level.
City's Carli Lloyd was denied by a good Leach save after the interval and the visitors then went close through Bronze, Houghton and Parris before the England winger snatched a late, hard-fought victory.
The draw for the semi-finals will take place live on BBC Radio 5 Live at 14:45 BST on Monday, 27 March.
South Wales Police is appealing for witnesses after the man was discovered at the crossing on Cwm Road on Sunday.
Emergency services were alerted at about 16:45 BST.
The man was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
Snap Map lets people search for places such as schools and see videos and pictures posted by children inside.
It also lets people locate their "friends" on a map that is accurate enough to determine where people live.
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, stressed to the BBC that location sharing was an opt-in feature.
Snap Map was launched on Wednesday and was promoted as a "new way to explore the world".
Video clips and photos that members have posted publicly can be discovered on the map, while members who have chosen to share their location can also be seen on the map by those they have added as "friends".
However, members can add people they have never met to their friends list too.
A message to parents posted by St Peter's Academy in Staffordshire warned that the location-sharing feature lets people "locate exactly where you are, which building you are in and exact whereabouts within the building".
One parent described the update as "dangerous" while another said she could not find the setting to disable it.
People have expressed concern online that the app could be used for stalking or working out exactly where somebody lives.
"If you zoom right in on this new Snapchat map thing it literally tells you where everyone lives? Like exact addresses - bit creepy no?" wrote one user called Leanne.
"This new Snapchat update is awful. An invitation for stalkers, kidnappers, burglars and relationship trust issues," suggested Jade.
Snap told the BBC that accurate location information was necessary to allow friends to use the service to meet, for example at a restaurant or crowded festival, and said points of interest on the map, such as schools, were provided by third-party mapping service Mapbox.
Concerned parents could find out more information on its Privacy Center website, a spokesman told the BBC.
"With Snap Map, location sharing is off by default for all users and is completely optional. Snapchatters can choose exactly who they want to share their location with, if at all, and can change that setting at any time," a Snap spokesman said.
"It's also not possible to share your location with someone who isn't already your friend on Snapchat, and the majority of interactions on Snapchat take place between close friends."
The brutal regime claimed the lives of more than a million people - and some estimates say up to 2.5 million perished.
Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside.
But this dramatic attempt at social engineering had a terrible cost, and whole families died from execution, starvation, disease and overwork.
The Khmer Rouge had its origins in the 1960s, as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - the name the Communists used for Cambodia.
Based in remote jungle and mountain areas in the north-east of the country, the group initially made little headway.
But after a right-wing military coup toppled head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970, the Khmer Rouge entered into a political coalition with him and began to attract increasing support.
In a civil war that continued for nearly five years, it gradually increased its control in the countryside.
Khmer Rouge forces finally took over the capital, Phnom Penh, and therefore the nation as a whole in 1975.
During his time in the remote north-east, Pol Pot had been influenced by the surrounding hill tribes, who were self-sufficient in their communal living, had no use for money and were "untainted" by Buddhism.
When he came to power, he and his henchmen quickly set about transforming Cambodia - now re-named Kampuchea - into what they hoped would be an agrarian utopia.
Declaring that the nation would start again at "Year Zero", Pol Pot isolated his people from the rest of the world and set about emptying the cities, abolishing money, private property and religion, and setting up rural collectives.
Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed. Often people were condemned for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language.
Tens of thousands of the educated middle-classes were tortured and executed in special centres.
The most notorious of these centres was the S21 jail in Phnom Penh, where more than 17,000 men, women and children were imprisoned during the regime's four years in power.
Hundreds of thousands of others died from disease, starvation or exhaustion as members of the Khmer Rouge - often just teenagers themselves - forced people to do back-breaking work.
The Khmer Rouge government was finally overthrown in 1979 by invading Vietnamese troops, after a series of violent border confrontations.
The higher echelons of the party retreated to remote areas of the country, where they remained active for a while but gradually became less and less powerful.
In the years that followed, as Cambodia began the process of reopening to the international community, the full horrors of the regime became apparent.
Survivors told their stories to shocked audiences, and in the 1980s the Hollywood movie The Killing Fields brought the plight of the Khmer Rouge victims to worldwide attention.
Pol Pot was denounced by his former comrades in a show trial in July 1997, and sentenced to house arrest in his jungle home.
But less than a year later he was dead - denying the millions of people who were affected by this brutal regime the chance to bring him to justice.
Mr Trump told the Washington Post he would not step aside, no matter what.
The White House had said Mr Trump was "disqualified" from running after he said the US should ban Muslims from entering the country.
His comments, in the wake of a deadly terror attack in California, drew global condemnation.
The latest world leader to reject his remarks was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Israel "respects all religions", hours after Mr Trump announced he will be visiting the country this month.
Mr Trump is the current frontrunner among the Republicans running for president, six weeks before the primary contests begin for each party to pick their nominee.
He also alluded to running as an independent in a tweet linking to a USA Today poll which found 68% of his supporters would vote for him if he left the Republican party.
Concerned that Mr Trump could run as an independent, Republican leaders persuaded the New York businessman to pledge to support the eventual nominee.
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However, Mr Trump has threatened to leave the Republican party before if he was not "treated fairly".
"My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose," he told the Post.
Party officials fear a third-party Trump campaign would spilt the Republican vote, and give Democrats a winning advantage.
Although Mr Trump has consistently led in national polls for several months, a majority of voters view him unfavourably.
Republican congressman David Jolly has joined a number of commentators who have urged him to withdraw from the race.
Mr Trump's comments about Muslims came after the deadly shootings in San Bernardino, California.
He called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
A Muslim couple, believed to have been radicalised, killed 14 people at a health centre and left scores injured.
Many leading Republicans have expressed their condemnation. Former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush called Mr Trump "unhinged" while Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said his comments were contrary to American values.
A petition calling for Mr Trump to be barred from entering the UK has gathered more than 250,000 names, so MPs will have to consider debating the issue.
"They don't know what they're getting into," Mr Trump wrote on Twitter about the petition.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he regards comments made by Mr Trump as "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong".
Mr Trump also claimed that parts of London were "so radicalised the police are afraid for their lives".
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson responded by saying the "ill-informed comments are complete and utter nonsense".
Manager Louis van Gaal will not pick the Spain international, 24, until the transfer window closes amid speculation linking him with Real Madrid.
United's two-time player of the season told goalkeeping coach Frans Hoek he was "not 100% focused", the club said.
Argentina international Sergio Romero started Saturday's win over Tottenham.
De Gea has again been left out of the United squad for Friday's Premier League game at Aston Villa (19:45 BST).
"I'm not doing everything alone," said Van Gaal. "I have two assistant coaches and a goalkeeping coach, Frans Hoek.
"Frans had a meeting with David De Gea. He fully agreed with our decision."
Van Gaal said he and his staff had watched De Gea in training and the former Atletico Madrid player was "not the same as before".
The Dutchman's observation about De Gea's state of mind came during an unexpected exchange after his news conference on Thursday.
Having chided a journalist for not being aware of his previous comments about De Gea, Van Gaal sought him out once he had finished answering questions and the pair spoke for a couple of minutes.
He told The Times' Tony Barrett: "Frans Hoek, he has a meeting with David de Gea and he asks him, 'Do you want to play?'."
When the reporter asked about De Gea's reply, Van Gaal said it was: "No."
The club later moved to clarify those comments, issuing a statement which read: "The manager wants to clarify that the direct answer from David was not 'no', David was not eager to play because of the situation and because he was not 100% focussed due to all the rumours surrounding him."
United are adamant they will not sell De Gea, whose contract expires at the end of the season, unless they receive a world-record fee from Real or get defender Sergio Ramos in exchange.
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Van Gaal had earlier said Barcelona forward Pedro fits the template of a quick, penetrative player he is still looking for.
"Pedro is a player like that," he said. "So write it."
The 28-year-old Spain international, who has been heavily linked with a move to Old Trafford, is said to have told Barca he wants to leave.
"You have to ask Pedro, not me," said Van Gaal. "I don't mention anything before he has signed. When he has signed I come to you and say: 'Hey, Pedro is here.' That is not the case and we shall wait and see."
Hammersmith and Fulham Council says certain conditions must be met ahead of any planning application.
The club has held two public exhibitions to showcase its design, which it hopes to begin next season.
The report is the first stage of the planning process.
Chelsea submitted preliminary documents to the local authority asking for guidance as to which areas it would need to address ahead of a full application.
In its response, sent to the club on Monday, the council indicates Chelsea is taking the correct steps in looking to deal with any environmental issues such a large scheme could pose.
Chelsea have played at Stamford Bridge since 1905, and the ground was last redeveloped in the 1990s.
However, its current capacity of about 42,000 is significantly smaller than the stadia of Premier League rivals Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City, whose grounds hold 76,000, 60,000 and 55,000 respectively.
Blues owner Roman Abramovich had initially considered seeking a permanent new home, with the club describing the option of expanding Stamford Bridge as "not feasible or viable" in 2012.
But the club decided to redevelop its current ground because of a lack of suitable sites available in London - having had a bid to build an "iconic" new stadium in Battersea Power Station rejected.
The club is reportedly close to sealing an agreement with Wembley to host its home matches during the redevelopment of Stamford Bridge, having previously explored the possibility of using Twickenham, the England rugby union stadium.
To go from the dismal lows of the World Cup only three months ago, to beating the finalists of that tournament with exhilarating, confident cricket is quite extraordinary.
England have beaten New Zealand at their own game: they have played in an attacking, enterprising way, abandoning the caution that characterised the ill-fated Peter Moores era and giving their young players free rein to show their skills.
If you're looking for the driving force behind England's transformation, you need look no further than their opponents.
New Zealand in the World Cup really caught everybody's imagination with the way they played the game - not just with bat and ball, but with their whole spirit: no fear, no recriminations, and no sledging.
Everything about it was a benchmark - and England saw at first hand exactly what they had to do bring their one-day cricket up to speed with the modern game.
England have looked a completely different side in this series, and not only have they enjoyed being liberated as far as their style of play is concerned, they've also thrived on the spirit in which this series has been played. It's been played in the proper way, very competitive but also respectful, and that has allowed England to flourish.
That is down to the players. It's not easy to suddenly change your game, but England have managed it - the challenge now for Eoin Morgan's men is to continue to play with the same spirit of adventure.
For the first time in a long time, there are suddenly good vibes around the one-day team. Young players like Alex Hales and Adil Rashid have come into the team and given the side a real lift.
Let's not kid ourselves: New Zealand's bowling attack in this series was inexperienced, they weren't the same side that performed so well in the World Cup, but for me the result is almost beside the point. It's the transformation in England's whole approach that gives me optimism for the future.
Joe Root and Jos Buttler both batted absolutely magnificently in this series. Root has become such a consistent performer for England in all formats, while Buttler is a composed cricketer who has a knack of always making the right decisions.
For me though, two players who aren't part of England's Test side have really stood out: captain Eoin Morgan and spinner Adil Rashid.
Morgan is batting better than ever. He had a poor World Cup where he looked horribly out of form, and many people thought that might even be the end. But he's come back and played brilliantly: he's such a clever batsman and when he plays with real audacity he has the ability to score runs all around the wicket.
A lot of credit has to go to England's cricket director Andrew Strauss: he gave Morgan a vote of confidence as ODI captain and that has given him a real boost.
Rashid came into this series with a lot of question marks hanging over him, but he has done enough to show he can bowl well under pressure.
He didn't have it easy in a series dominated by aggressive batting but I liked the way he was unafraid to toss the ball up and give it some air. He's a very capable lower-order batsman too, equally adept at deft shots and power hitting.
It's a terrible shame that England didn't bowl him on spin-friendly pitches in their recent Test series against the West Indies. People will talk about Rashid possibly coming in to the Test side for the Ashes but I can't see that happening: I think there will be a reluctance to play him as the sole spinner.
England's fielding has to improve. Their ground-fielding was OK, but the catching was generally below par, they dropped far too many chances.
Like New Zealand, England suffered from some very expensive bowling in the death overs at the end of the innings. A lot of that was down to good batting but I'd like to see more determination to bowl yorkers.
Batting-wise, the positive intent is great but it's got to be done sensibly. There's a fine line between being aggressive and being reckless.
That is the big question. A lot will depend on how the key men who haven't played in this ODI series - the likes of Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Alastair Cook - return to camp.
I think they will have a feel for what's happened here, and be very energised by how England have played.
It's important that Paul Farbrace continues to have an influence. He will be replaced as head coach by Trevor Bayliss for the Ashes, but he has done a brilliant job in his interim reign.
He has worked well with Bayliss in the past when they were in charge of Sri Lanka together, and I'm sure Bayliss will want to pick Farbrace's brains about how he has overseen this remarkable transformation.
The first match in Cardiff is very important. England can't afford lose that first Test. They will have to play at the top of their game to beat Australia, but I don't think anyone would write them off.
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Honore Kahi offered to take the baby as he was crying and preventing the mother from sitting in class.
He said his students were surprised, began to laugh and then took pictures.
He told the BBC that they then realised that "this is a good father, this is a real man... [and] a role model".
Some of those sharing the photograph on social media praised him as a hero.
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Mr Kahi, who teaches communications at Ivory Coast's Bouake University, said that women should not be discouraged by people's perceptions of what they should be able to do.
Girls are less likely than boys to start primary education in sub-Saharan Africa and are under-represented at higher education, the UN says.
"What prevails here is... male chauvinism," he said and then quoted an ancient philosopher in his interview with BBC Afrique.
"'It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.' In our environment we let ourselves be discouraged by others."
He said that when he took the baby and tied him on his back he stopped crying and fell asleep.
He knew how to do it by observing how women carry their children.
"In fact, men are able to do certain things, and usually it's the way society sees men that prevents them from doing these things."
Niall McCann, 35, of Cardiff, crashed on to Pen-Y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons in a speed flying accident last year.
He was rescued by Brecon Mountain Rescue Team and the coastguard and spent 38 days in hospital with a shattered spine.
Doctors feared he might not walk again but he has now rejoined the team he started training with before the crash.
A year on from the accident, the explorer and adventurer who has worked all over the world studying endangered animals, still has some paralysis in the back of his legs.
But he follows a rigorous physiotherapy regime, is back to hiking and cycling and is now fit enough to rejoin the team.
"I feel privileged to work side-by-side with the volunteers who saved my life; it is such an important charity," he said.
"I've had a fair amount of medical training. I was the de facto medic on expeditions to many hard-to-reach places all over the world.
"You have to be calm under pressure when there's no back-up coming. Now that I've experienced the other side of a rescue I feel like I'm better able to help others."
Brecon Mountain Rescue Team is an emergency service staffed by volunteers and funded by donations.
First-choice keeper Brown is expected to be out for three to six weeks with a fractured finger on his right hand.
Burgess, 22, has played in Sussex's past two One-Day Cup matches, taking five catches and scoring 28 runs.
"He's kept well and we want to give him a chance to move his career forward," Wright told BBC Sussex.
He confirmed Brown's injury will not require surgery, but has to be given time to heal.
"Michael has come in and took a couple of catches in the previous game that helped us win and he is taking his chance after performing well in pre-season," Wright said.
"It's not like there's too many people you can go to, so we'll give him a chance."
Sussex slipped to third in the One-Day Cup South Group after a 10-run defeat by Essex on Wednesday and face Gloucestershire at Eastbourne on Sunday before travelling to Hampshire next week.
"We're still in this competition even though we haven't been playing well," Wright admitted. "We haven't played anywhere near our best cricket and there's still lots of positives to take with two games left."
Greeted by screams and cheers, she talked about her own working-class background in Chicago in a speech at Mulberry School for Girls.
The visit is part of her global initiative to promote female education.
Accompanied by her two daughters, she also met Prince Harry at Kensington Palace and had tea at Downing Street.
Mrs Obama told pupils at the school in Tower Hamlets the world needed "more girls like you to lead our parliaments, our courtrooms and universities".
In a speech, she said: "With an education from this amazing school you all have everything, everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfil every last one of your dreams.
"And it is so important that you do that, not just for yourselves but for all of us. Because you all have a unique perspective, you have a unique voice to add to the conversation."
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This was a very personal - and at moments, emotional - speech, delivered directly to the girls at Mulberry School rather than for the ranks of cameras at the back of the room.
The school is in an area of high deprivation. Most of its students are from the Bangladeshi community and, for most, English is an "additional" language.
The First Lady compared her upbringing with theirs. As a black teenager on the south side of Chicago she remembered people telling her not to set her sights too high. She broke down the barriers to success.
She urged the schoolgirls in east London to do the same and to fulfil their dreams.
The "ambitious, confident and principled" students at the Mulberry School were inspired.
The question is whether Mrs Obama's message will be heard in those parts of the world where girls don't go to school at all.
In her address, Mrs Obama spoke of her own upbringing, saying in her youth there were few black women in positions of power.
But she said her parents realised education was the "ultimate key" to success and she could be successful if she worked hard at school.
She said: "Through it all my parents fully expected us to do both: to achieve our dreams and be there for our family.
Mrs Obama also met International Development Secretary Justine Greening and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. They announced the UK would be backing Mrs Obama's Let Girls Learn initiative to improve access to education in countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Earlier the first lady, accompanied by her daughters Sasha, 14, and Malia, 16, and mother, Marian Robinson, met Prince Harry for tea at Kensington Palace.
Their meeting came two years after the prince attended a mother's day tea for military mothers with Mrs Obama in the US.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said: "They discussed their shared interest in support for veterans and their families. Prince Harry was also interested to hear from the First Lady about the Let Girls Learn initiative."
They later spent about 45 minutes with Mr Cameron and wife Samantha in Downing Street, where they arrived in a seven-vehicle convoy.
Writing in the Financial Times, Mrs Obama said figures which suggested more than 62 million girls across the world did not go to school were a "heartbreaking injustice".
Forced marriages, early pregnancies, abuse and sexism were some of the obstacles to education faced by girls around the world, she said.
"That kind of life is unthinkable for the girls in our lives, so why would we accept this fate for any girl on this planet?" she wrote.
The US party will fly on to Italy after the London trip to meet US armed services families based in Europe, and to continue to promote Mrs Obama's work to encourage healthy eating among children.
Butcher finished calmly from inside the box at the end of a first half delayed by an injury to Spireites defender Liam O'Neil at the Pirelli Stadium.
The home side had the best of the chances, with forward Stuart Beavon denied by goalkeeper Tommy Lee.
Defeat leaves Chesterfield just a point above Fleetwood and the bottom four.
The train partly left the tracks as it was pulling away from a platform at low speed at 05:40 BST, Network Rail said.
Three people were checked over by London Ambulance Service but nobody was taken to hospital.
Trains are unable to access 13 of the station's 24 platforms as 10 were already closed owing to engineering works to enlarge its capacity.
Public transport in London was further disrupted when a passenger train crashed into buffers at King's Cross station and Holborn Tube station was evacuated because of a fire alert.
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Emergency services including police, paramedics and fire crews were called to Waterloo.
Insp Sean McGachie of British Transport Police (BTP) said "very few passengers had been on board" and officers were "working with industry partners to investigate the circumstances".
The passenger train was carrying 23 passengers and two staff members when it crashed into a "barrier train" which had been in place to separate engineering works from operational trains, according to Network Rail.
Chris Denham, a spokesman for Network Rail, told the BBC the partially derailed train had blocked three of the platforms so only very limited services could run.
"If you don't have to travel to Waterloo today, please don't," he said.
South West Trains said there would be a very limited service running to and from Waterloo until Thursday and have advised travellers not to use their entire network.
Many of the trains running have been cancelled or are stopping or starting short of the station, the rail operator said.
Passengers have been warned other stations in the area will also be "very busy".
Some stations including Waterloo, Vauxhall, Clapham Junction and Wimbledon all have queuing systems in place to manage the number of people on platforms.
The ongoing £800m engineering project at Waterloo will prepare the station for longer trains and provide space for 30% extra passengers during the busiest times of the day.
The station is usually one of the busiest in the UK, with an average of 270,000 journeys made to and from it each day.
In north London, a Great Northern train hit the buffers at King's Cross station at 06:20.
Natasha Coella, who had boarded the train at Stevenage, said passengers "went flying" as the train arrived at the station.
"No-one expected it and people just went from one end of the carriage to the other," she said.
A spokesperson for the rail company said it had happened at low speed and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch had been informed.
In a separate incident, Holborn Tube station was evacuated for a short period after reports that smoke had filled carriages on a Central line train.
BTP said the problem had been caused by a defective train.
The "very loud bangs" were heard across the capital at about 08:15.
Residents speculated on social media that the explosions could be fireworks, thunder, TNT - or even "artillery fire".
The Army later confirmed on Twitter that soldiers at the Dreghorn barracks were being given demolition training.
A spokesperson tweeted: "Sincere apologies to everyone in #Edinburgh for the bangs this morning. Soldiers in #Dreghorn barracks were doing demolitions training."
After one Twitter user pointed out that "Advance warning might be nice, given recent events", the Army in Scotland account responded: "Indeed. Many apologies."
Earlier, one Edinburgh resident tweeted: "I'm directly opposite the barracks. Felt it in my chest. No idea what that was but more than fireworks...."
Sales of the caffeine-fuelled wine made at Buckfast Abbey in Devon make up most of the income to its charitable trust.
A Scottish sheriff said last week there was a "very definite association between Buckfast and violence".
The abbey said it was "saddened" by the "judge's opinion" that a "small number of people in Scotland are not enjoying Buckfast in a responsible way".
Figures from the Charity Commission showed Buckfast Abbey Trust's income was £8.8m in 2014-15, the latest year for which figures are available.
More on the 'violent wine', and other news
The caffeinated wine, sometimes known as Bucky, has been made at the Benedictine abbey since the 1920s.
The abbey trust is a shareholder in the wine's distributor and seller, J Chandler, based in Hampshire, and gets a royalty fee for every bottle sold.
The monks have invested millions of pounds in the restoration of the abbey and visitor facilities and have also earmarked £3m for updating its 33-bedroom hotel and its conference centre.
The abbey declined to give figures for income directly from wine sales, saying it was "commercially sensitive" and said the hotel and conference centre "also contributed to the increase in income".
It also said the trust "strives to work with J Chandler and Co to ensure that the tonic wine is marketed and distributed responsibly".
"The majority of people who drink the tonic wine do so responsibly," it said, adding that it supported charities such as Drinkaware.
Last week Dundee Sheriff Court heard about an attack on a boy by a teenager who had downed two-and-a-half bottles of the caffeinated tonic wine.
Sheriff Alastair Brown told the court: "Someone who drinks two-and-a-half bottles of Buckfast is drinking something which is often seen as a feature of cases involving violence.
"I'm aware that the monks of Buckfast Abbey advertise this as something to be taken in moderation.
"The fact is that some people drink far too much of it and get violent."
Between 2010 and 2012, Strathclyde Police said Buckfast was mentioned in almost 6,500 crime reports.
Alcohol Focus Scotland, the national charity on preventing alcohol-related harm, said consumption of Buckfast was "very small" compared with overall alcohol consumption in Scotland.
But there was "increasing international evidence about the specific risks associated with caffeinated alcoholic drinks", said chief executive Alison Douglas.
"We know from police figures that Buckfast is mentioned in thousands of anti-social behaviour and crime reports in certain parts of the country," she said.
Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) said it was concerned a focus on caffeinated alcoholic drinks, and specifically Buckfast, "might encourage complacency about other products".
Eric Carlin, SHAAP director, said there was a "need for changes in drinking behaviours of many people across all of our communities".
Police declined to comment further.
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The UK off-shoot of the US independent film festival will take place at the new Picturehouse Central cinema, from 2016.
Sundance London was launched by Robert Redford in 2012 as an experimental, four-day festival at the O2 and was hailed as a "qualified success".
It returned in 2013 and 2014, but this year's festival was cancelled in January with no reason given.
At the time, a spokesperson for Sundance said, in a statement to trade paper Screen Daily, that they would continue to "explore options" for Sundance London.
On Thursday, John Cooper, director of the Sundance Film Festival, said they looked forward to returning next year and reconnecting with London film enthusiasts "after three hugely enjoyable years in London".
"The Sundance Film Festival: London, like our other events in Los Angeles and Hong Kong, allows us to extend the tremendous energy and excitement of our festival. "
"We are excited to build a 2016 program for London that is fuelled by a spirit of discovery and creativity."
The new venue, Picturehouse Central, is the redeveloped former Cineworld cinema in Shaftesbury Avenue.
Actor Robert Redford, president and founder of Sundance Institute, said the institute was "committed" to developing festivals outside the US.
"We've nurtured filmmakers around the globe for many years now and these experiences have brought a rich perspective to all we do.
"Exploring international opportunities for the diverse landscape of American independent storytelling is an exciting proposition, and something to which we are equally committed."
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Picking their way over smashed glass on the pavement, a group of teenagers walk up to workman boarding up shop windows and offer them free doughnuts.
This is South Florissant Road in Ferguson, home to the Ferguson Police Department, which saw some of the worst violence in the demonstrations on Monday night.
Teams of residents of every age and race have been out since early morning, sweeping up debris and helping secure shops and restaurants for what they fear will be another difficult night.
"I'm nervous," says Gina Walsh who is part of "I Love Ferguson", a voluntary organisation set up after the August demonstrations to help residents and businesses who were affected.
"It was a heartbreaking night to watch everything," she says. Gina says there has been huge support, not just from the local community, but from countries around the world, to help provide food and necessities for those affected by the violence.
Earlier in the day, she says, a man walked into the office and donated $2000 (£1,270).
"We're thankful because it's especially hard for some of the businesses because it's the second time they've been hit," she says.
Gina says she is relieved the National Guard will be posted in Ferguson tonight.
There's palpable anger among many residents over their absence when the grand jury decision was announced on Monday.
"I'm upset, angry and hurt," says Anastasia Knowles who lives a few streets away from where the demonstrators clashed with police.
A mother of two, she watched as her place of employment, the local Walgreen's shop, was set on fire.
"It was surreal," she says. "Now I'm out of work and my kids can't go to school. It's just heartbreaking."
Anastasia cries when she talks to me. Many residents are tearful as they set about securing the main street for what they think will be another night of violence.
Just a short walk away, where shops give way to the affluent detached houses of a mainly white suburb, a resident who declines to give his name is calling around friends making sure they are safe.
"I've lived in Ferguson all my life," he says. "The media hasn't helped us and the government isn't going to help us. They are going to sit back and watch it burn, like they did last night."
The man, who is white and in his 50s, says he believes most of the trouble was caused by people from out of town.
"Personally I think the citizens of Ferguson, black, white or whatever, should find them and put some lead into their head," he says, before driving away.
But a few metres away, past manicured lawns and wind chimes hung from trees, another resident, Jen Maxedon, is more conciliatory.
The mother of three who has lived in Ferguson for 13 years says still loves her community.
"We're here for the diversity. I want my kids to experience it. I didn't want them growing up in 'greener pastures'," she says, referring to suburbs without any black residents.
Jen also believes the trouble was caused by people from outside Ferguson.
She says she can understand the pain of Michael Brown's family, and especially his mother, but the answer is not to say all white people are bad.
"I don't know what it's like to be a black person in a racially diverse community," she says.
"I have friends who are bi-racial couples and sometimes they get stopped by police and I get that," she says.
"But I also know and love many police officers who are good people."
Like last night, Jen is planning to leave home with her husband and children and stay with friends.
"It's not worth staying just to protect our TV," she says.
Anastasia says she plans to stay at home, but listen to the police scanner and evacuate by car if the protests get too close.
But another resident, Trell, a black man in his 30s, tells me he will be out with the protesters.
"Some of the white people here are not racist," he says. "But most of them are."
"Look at the old houses here," he says pointing to homes with plaques showing the date they were built. A hundred years ago, he says, these homes would have had black people working in them. "And things haven't changed much since then."
As the afternoon sun creeps towards the horizon, the group of protesters outside the Ferguson Police Department begins to grow.
The National Guard has now arrived and around twenty of them stand in a row facing the demonstrators, their riot visors pulled up from their faces.
"I hope people realise you don't get anywhere with this violence," says Gina Walsh from the "I love Ferguson" campaign headquarters across the road.
"We are decent folks who live here."
As the night draws in, the folks of Ferguson finish boarding up their businesses and move back to their homes.
They hope they wont see another night like Monday, but they fear Ferguson will be the centre of protests for many nights to come.
Kirk Watson, of Aviemore, was part of a small team working with Cairngorms-based firm Mountain and Water Safety Specialists on the fantasy adventure.
Mr Watson said the team and cast made long treks to locations in Scotland for stunts, including one on a cliff edge.
Members of the same team also worked on the films Prometheus and 47 Ronin.
These films - the first directed by Ridley Scott and part of the Alien movie franchise, and the second starring Keanu Reeves - involved scenes on Skye.
The safety specialists, led by Liam Irving and Graeme Douglas, also worked on Gerard Butler's new film The Keepers, which was made in south west Scotland.
Stunts performed in Scotland for the Guy Ritchie-directed King Arthur involved its lead, Charlie Hunnam.
Mr Watson, who is originally from Torphins in Aberdeenshire, said: "On King Arthur we started filming at The Devil's Pulpit near Glasgow.
"This involved a huge amount of rigging and rope work.
"We arrived before the crew to make the gorge safe first then the crew arrived and we rigged massive lights near the edges, set up Tyroleans (a rope system for crossing a space) to get equipment across the gorge and winch systems down into the gorge to get camera equipment and other kit down there.
"Lots of rope systems were set up round the edge of the gorge to keep grips tied on in case they slipped while concentrating on the camera cranes."
He added: "Down in the gorge those of us with experience of working in the sea and white water rapids put on dry suits to work with the stunt team and crew in the water."
Mr Watson said the filming done in the water was for scenes involving a plunge down a waterfall and a fight between Hunnam and giant beasts.
"Next to Torridon," said the climber and drone pilot, who five years ago was involved in making the first fictional feature film to be shot in Antarctica, a horror flick called South of Sanity.
"In Torridon, we had winch systems set up through very steep rocky ground to get kit up to the cave."
Mr Watson added: "The stunt team were doing some full-on rolls on a cliff top so we rigged systems to safeguard them and the small camera team on the cliff edge. They swapped in and out with Charlie.
"We also did some scenes on Beinn Bhan with Charlie hanging out right on the edge of the cliff.
"There was lots of humphing heavy kit up here to set up a big crane."
The safety team's last location was that poster isle of the film industry - Skye.
The Misty Isle has been appeared in a swathe of recent movies, including the upcoming Transformers: The Last Knight.
Mr Watson said: "We filmed on The Quiraing, one of the best-known features of the landscape of Skye.
"We had some extra Skye locals here as there was a fair distance to carry all the kit.
"We shot a bunch of scenes and our job was mainly looking after folk on the steeper ground and carrying kit up the bits that most folk needed hands to get up."
Looking back over the experience on the King Arthur movie, Mr Watson said: "The crew were a great bunch of folk.
"Guy Ritchie was on the shoot each day and Charlie was our only actor for the Scottish bit. He's a very sound and down to earth guy.
"The director of photography, John Mathieson, I have worked on a few jobs with and been on hikes in Scotland with. He is a good crack.
"John, who filmed Gladiator and Hugh Jackman's recent Wolverine film Logan, always seems keen to film in Scotland."
In return, there would be guaranteed payments to companies which produced vitally needed new antibiotics.
There are currently very few new antibiotics in development amid a global spread of resistant bacteria.
The proposals are in a report by a UK government-appointed review team headed by economist Jim O'Neill.
Mr O'Neill said: "We need to kick-start drug development to make sure the world has the drugs it needs, to treat infections and to enable modern medicine and surgery to continue as we know it."
He has previously warned that drug-resistant microbes could kill 10 million people a year worldwide by 2050 and cost $100 trillion in lost economic output.
Resistant strains of bacteria are spreading globally, threatening to make existing drugs ineffective.
A global innovation fund of $2bn over five years would be used to boost funding for "blue-sky" research into drugs and diagnostics - with much of the money going to universities and small biotech companies.
One promising area of research concerns so-called "resistance breakers". These are compounds that work to boost the effectiveness of existing antibiotics - a far less costly approach than attempting to discover entirely new drugs.
Helperby Therapeutics, a spin-out company founded by Prof Anthony Coates, St George's, University of London, has created a resistance breaker that acts against the superbug MRSA.
The compound, known as HT61, will shortly go into clinical trials in India, where it is being developed under licence by Cadila Pharmaceuticals India.
The review team said this kind of research could benefit from the innovation fund and could be the key to making existing drugs last longer.
Mr O'Neill said the big pharmaceutical companies should pay for the fund and look beyond short-term assessments of profit and loss.
Formerly chief economist with the investment bank Goldman Sachs, Mr O'Neill drew parallels between the banking crisis and the looming catastrophe of a world where antibiotics no longer worked.
He said big pharma needed to act with "enlightened self-interest" because "if it gets really bad, somebody is going to come gunning for these guys just how people came gunning for finance".
Mr O'Neill was speaking to the BBC's Panorama programme, which has spent six months following the work of the review team, filming in India, the US and UK.
Mr O'Neill was appointed last year by Prime Minister David Cameron to head the review into antimicrobial resistance - which already claims an estimated 30,000 lives a year across Europe.
Many large companies have pulled out of antibiotic research.
The report says this is partly due to the uncertain commercial returns for new antibiotics.
New drugs are often kept in reserve for years, to preserve their potency, by which time they may be nearing the end of their patent.
After this expires, cheaper generic versions are available.
In order to incentivise drug development, the review team says, there should be lump-sum payments to companies that create proven new antibiotics.
This would break the link between the profitability of a drug and its volume of sales.
The review team predicts its proposals could lead to 15 new antibiotics a decade, of which at least four should be "breakthrough products" targeting the bacterial species of greatest concern.
It estimates the cost of guaranteed payments for these drugs would be $16-37bn over a decade but says this is a small price to pay given that antibiotics are essential to so many aspects of healthcare, from common infections, to surgery and cancer treatment.
It is nearly 30 years since a new class of antibiotics - meaning a group of drugs with an entirely novel action - was introduced.
But this decades-long drought could be over as a result of a breakthrough recently announced by US scientists.
A team at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has discovered 25 potential new antibiotics, all of them derived from soil microbes.
One of them, teixobactin, is effective against both tuberculosis and MRSA.
The drug is being developed by NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals and should go into patient trials within two years.
Prof Kim Lewis, of Northeastern University, who co-founded the company, told Panorama: "We think there could be thousands more antibiotics in the soil, yet to be discovered."
There are still many uncertainties.
Teixobactin has yet to undergo patient trials, and it is at this stage that many promising drugs fail.
Nor is it effective against bacteria such as E.coli and Klebsiella, which are responsible for a huge proportion of resistant infections.
But the Boston team's discoveries are the type of innovative research many scientists believe essential to ensure we do not run out of effective antibiotics.
Patrick Vallance, GlaxoSmithKline's president of pharmaceutical R&D said that, as one of the few companies still conducting antibiotic research they welcomed the report: "We are very encouraged by the ideas it sets out to modernise the economic model to encourage investment in research and ensure reasonable returns."
Prof Dame Sally Davies, chief medical adviser to the UK government, said: "We have to respond to the challenge of antimicrobial resistance by making sure we secure the necessary antibiotics for generations to come, in order to save millions of lives and billions of pounds."
Panorama: Antibiotic Apocalypse is on Monday 18 May on BBC ONE at 20:30 BST or you can catch up oniPlayer.
The 21-year-old was found unconscious in Cowick Street, Exeter, at around 04:20 BST on Saturday.
He was taken to The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital with serious head and neck injuries.
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm in connection with the initial assault.
Muir broke the British indoor record over 5,000m in Glasgow on Wednesday night and will enter the mixed 4x1km race at Holyrood.
In 2016, the Dundee Hawkhill athlete finished seventh in the 1500m Olympic final, broke the British 1500m record twice and won the Diamond League title.
"To captain a British Athletics team is a great honour," she said.
"We've fantastic cross country runners in both senior and younger age groups."
Team leader Spencer Duval added: "Laura enjoyed a terrific 2016 in the sport, and as both an Olympic and World Championships finalist in the last two years she now holds a level of experience that will allow her to lead the team by example."
Sir Mo Farah competes for Britain in the men's 8km race and Gemma Steel and Steph Twell take part in the women's event over 6km.
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British team
Senior Men
Ben Connor (coached by Spencer Duval)
Ellis Cross (Mick Woods)
Sir Mo Farah (Alberto Salazar)
Alex George (Paul de-Camps)
Dewi Griffiths (Kevin Evans)
Callum Hawkins (Robert Hawkins)
Charlie Hulson (Steve Vernon)
Mahamed Mahamed (Peter Haynes)
*Jack Martin (David Turnbull)
*Graham Rush
Jonny Taylor (Gordon Surtees)
Andy Vernon (Nic Bideau)
*Replacements for Ross Millington (illness) and Adam Hickey (injury)
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Charlotte Arter (James Thie)
Lauren Deadman (Bill Foster)
Claire Duck (Mike Baxter)
Rachel Felton (Christopher Frapwell)
Emily Hosker-Thornhill (Mick Woods)
Jessica Judd (Mick Judd)
Rebecca Murray (Alex Stanton)
Georgina Outten (Andrew Walling)
Beth Potter (Mick Woods)
Gemma Steel (Rob Denmark)
Steph Twell (Mick Woods)
Pippa Woolven (Luke Gunn)
Junior Men
Scott Beattie (Mike Bateman)
Hugo Milner (Chris Woodhouse)
Jonathan Shields
Sam Stevens (Alan Maddocks)
Sol Sweeney (Catriona Helen Tavendale)
Alex Yee (Kenneth Pike)
Junior Women
Phoebe Barker (Richard Owen)
Cari Hughes (Andrew Walling)
Harriet Knowles-Jones (Paul Roden)
Amelia Quirk (Beverly Kitching)
Erin Wallace (Dudley Walker)
Victoria Weir (Simon Anderson)
Mixed 4x1km Relay
James Bowness (William Parker)
Laura Muir (Andy Young)
Charlene Thomas (Aaron Thomas)
James West (George Gandy)
Manga, 28, joined Cardiff in September 2014 from French club Lorient on a three-year deal and has played over 70 games.
The Gabon international has been asked to take a pay cut to remain at the club and Warnock is pessimistic.
"I can't see Bruno staying," Warnock said.
"I haven't given up hope of signing him I just think it will be very difficult with his agent.
"His agent was supposed to come last week but he didn't turn up and they're not making any overtures they want to stay.
"I think we will regret it if he leaves."
Manga, 28, played in Cardiff's 1-0 defeat at Championship play-off hopefuls Sheffield Wednesday on Good Friday.
Warnock was disappointed with the result which saw them remain 14th in the table.
"I don't know how they've come away with a win if I'm honest. It's really baffling me," Warnock said.
"In the end they were the long ball merchants and I thought we tried to play some controlled stuff in the second half.
"We couldn't get that goal and when we needed bravery at the end we didn't get it and we've ended up losing and a long trek back."
The vessel was operating off the North Korean coast for several days when it disappeared, a paper with close links to the US military says.
The accident comes at a time of heightened tension in the region as South Korea and the US continue their largest-ever military exercise.
North Korea has issued another threat of war over the drill.
It said it was prepared to launch a pre-emptive strike in response to any sign that an invasion was being prepared.
According to the US Naval Institute journal, officials said the US Navy was tracking the submarine when it suddenly disappeared.
It says the North Korean military operates a fleet of about 70 submarines ranging in sizes.
The US military had observed the North Korean navy searching for the missing submarine, CNN reports.
BBC Korea correspondent Stephen Evans says North Korea has two submarine bases on the eastern coast, facing Japan, and the submarine was thought to have been operating near these bases.
If the North Korean submarine has sunk, it is not known if its difficulties were connected to the current stand-off between North and South, our reporter says.
Security tensions have increased since the North tested a nuclear device in January.
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Earlier this week, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea a few days after threatening to launch a "pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice" against the US and South Korea.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un also claimed scientists had developed nuclear warheads small enough to fit on ballistic missiles.
Many analysts think this capability could still be several years away.
Nadal and Federer both endured five-set matches in their semi-finals.
The Spaniard, 30, has won 23 of his 34 meetings with the 35-year-old Swiss, including an unforgettable victory in the 2008 Wimbledon final.
"People from outside our world talk about this, and that's good for our sport," said Nadal.
"The combination of two styles makes the matches really special," he added.
The head-to-head history also favours Nadal by six wins to two in Grand Slam finals and three to zero at the Australian Open. But the 14-time Major winner says that Sunday's final meeting will take their rivalry into new territory.
"That was a long time ago. It is a different match, a different moment for both of us. This match is completely different than what happened before," Nadal added.
"I really don't think about what happened in the past. I think the player who plays better is going to be the winner."
Both Nadal and Federer ended their 2016 seasons early after suffering injuries.
A knee problem kept Federer out of action in the wake of his Wimbledon semi-final defeat by Milos Raonic, while Nadal was sidelined by a wrist injury that forced his withdrawal from the French Open.
Federer travelled to Nadal's home town of Manacor in Majorca for the opening of his rival's tennis academy in October.
"That was amazing. I have said hundreds of time, but I can't stop saying thanks because it was very emotional for everybody," recalled Nadal.
"In that moment, for sure, we never thought that we have the chance to be in a final again."
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On Friday the Spaniard beat Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 in almost five hours to reach a first Grand Slam final since 2014.
While Federer was also extended over five sets in his semi-final, the Swiss will have had an extra day to recover from his win over countryman Stan Wawrinka.
Nadal was in a similar situation in 2009 when he recovered from a gruelling five-hour win over Fernando Verdasco in the last four to beat Federer in the final in Melbourne.
"That is what I am going to try. I did it in 2009, but I am eight years older," Nadal said.
"It is true that if you play a match like I had today, probably you are at a disadvantage. But that's a special situation. I cannot complain about that. I think it is good.
"But now is not the time to talk about that. It is time to be happy, very happy."
Under the guidance of Andy Murray's former coach Dani Vallverdu, Dimitrov has risen to number 15 in the world from 40th in July.
Having pushed Nadal all the way, he believes his Australian Open campaign is a strong base to build his season on.
"It's never easy to lose a match like that. I'm happy, though, with a lot of things. I'm going to stay positive and keep my head up high.
"I'm competing great. Physically I'm getting there. Despite the disappointment, that's going to feed me, I think, for the upcoming events."
While refusing to predict the result, the Bulgarian said that Sunday's final would be a "freakin' amazing" match.
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Last summer she won the country's first Olympic swimming gold and became the nation's biggest female sports star.
That hype could now reach dizzying new heights after she secured the world 100m breaststroke title and a world record in Barcelona this week.
Yet the teenager has an escape from the adulation in her homeland in an unlikely place - Plymouth.
Meilutyte lives in the south west of England after moving over in 2010 to train.
"I couldn't have achieved my dream if I'd stayed in Lithuania and that is quite sad," said the teenager.
At a time when British swimmers are struggling internationally, some have speculated that Meilutyte could be tempted to switch allegiance. It appears there is no chance.
"I'm really grateful to Britain for providing me with the facilities, but it's not like I'm going to change my nationality," she said.
"I will always represent Lithuania as it's my country and I love it, but when I swim I also represent Plymouth, so credit goes to them as well."
Her resolve, which belies her tender years, can perhaps be traced back to her difficult upbringing.
Born in the country's second-largest city, Kaunas, to a far from affluent family, her mother, Ingrida, was killed on a pedestrian crossing when Meilutyte was just four.
Her father, Saulius, worked abroad during most of her childhood to provide for his family. The young Ruta was raised predominantly by her grandmother until she reached her "terrible teens".
At this point, it was decided it would be better for her and her swimming career to relocate to the United Kingdom to be with her father.
Saulius, who was doing maintenance work at the pool where the Plymouth Leander Swimming Team are based, convinced head coach Jon Rudd to let her come for a trial that summer. The rest is history.
"She was clearly a talented kid," reflected Rudd. "She was a freestyler and I thought it was nice, but it was immediately apparent that there was something pretty special about her breaststroke.
"You don't look at someone at the age of 12 and think there's an Olympic champion, but her breaststroke kick was very, very good.
"She was also athletic in her build, so we thought we had a good club swimmer on our hands who we could nurture and develop."
Such was Meilutyte's talent that a deal was struck between the Lithuanian Olympic Committee and Plymouth College, which specialises in educating and training elite athletes like diver Tom Daley.
The two parties agreed to split the £8,500-per-term fees, allowing the swimmer to immerse herself in the swimming programme.
On going back home after winning gold: "It was crazy. I got straight off the plane and they dropped me straight to the city centre and it was full of people and I freaked out and was like what?! It was insane. I was just thinking, 'how is this possible?' I never ever expected it.
"It was weird, no-one knew me before the Olympics and then one day later suddenly something happens and everyone knows you."
Since then, an has brought fame and a high-profile sponsorship deal, but Meilutyte has not used these perks exclusively for her own benefit.
She regularly sends money back to Lithuania to help support her elderly grandmother and also her brothers' education.
"She sees what she can achieve in this sport as not a responsibility but a really good way of helping her family and providing them with some of the things that they need," Rudd said.
"Ruta knows she has this God-given talent and this ability and fantastic work ethic to go with it. Therefore, she's able to cement a better future for her family with what she has achieved.
"She takes great pride in being able to do that for her family and so that shows what a fantastic character she is. For someone so young to feel that way is perhaps more admirable than winning an Olympic gold medal."
Meilutyte is nothing but modest when pressed on the subject.
"There have been hard times and there have been good times," she said.
Meilutyte: "Basketball is always going to be the number one sport in Lithuania. I love it. too, but swimming is getting a bit more recognition now.
"In the September after winning Olympic gold, all of the pools were crowded with loads of people wanting to swim and get involved which was great. Finally people are understanding the sport, that it's hard work and lots of effort goes into it.
"There's also a lot more people coming to see me at competitions now - Lithuanians who live all over the world - which for me is great."
"All of that toughens you up as a person and as an athlete.
"My dad and grandmother always wanted me to be real, appreciate things in life and show values they have taught me. I am thankful for that.
"Without my family, I would be nothing and I think they helped me to become who I am today."
Taking on such responsibility at a young age could be seen as even more pressure, but Rudd said: "She's one of the most determined and single-minded people I've ever met."
This was clear in the hours after the teenager had edged her way to victory by 0.07 seconds over her idol and multiple Olympic champion Rebecca Soni at the London Aquatics Centre last summer.
Rudd and Meilutyte had completed their post-race interviews, attended the official medal presentation, gone through anti-doping tests, a further round of interviews and meeting the Lithuanian president, before finding their way back to the athletes' village.
"You know that's just the first one don't you?" she told Rudd while tucking into a well-deserved ice cream.
Meilutyte will hope to add to her World Championship medal collection when she completes in the 50m breaststroke event over the weekend. But Rudd is cautious about further events for Rio 2016.
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"Do you try to secure one gold medal in Rio or do you go for a range and end up with two bronzes?" he said.
"She loves swimming freestyle and the 200m individual medley is something she does for a bit of fun and to release some of the expectation and pressure.
"One thing in my mind for certain is I won't allow anything to compromise success in the 100m breaststroke."
Rudd sees plenty more to come in that event, despite his protege powering to a world record time of one minutes 4.30 seconds earlier this week.
"There wasn't a perfect race in any of her three races," Rudd concluded. "There was a poor finish, a poor turn and a poor start, but that gives us something to work on.
"She wants to put that right and when she does I think she'll be the first girl under 64 seconds."
Scully joined the BBC as a freelance journalist in 1965 and hosted the BBC's Nationwide before presenting Antiques Roadshow with Arthur Negus from 1981.
He resigned from the BBC One show in 2000 to join an internet auction company launching an antiques business.
Former Nationwide presenter Sue Lawley remembered Scully as a "great talent" who was "fun-loving" and most proud of his interviews with Margaret Thatcher.
Peter Salmon, who was controller of BBC One between 1997 and 2000, said Scully's "incredible" 19 years at Antiques Roadshow had won him "a special place in the hearts of so many".
He added: "Hugh was a great servant of the BBC for more than 30 years. He was a wonderful journalist and presenter.... he will be sadly missed."
Scully left Antiques Roadshow because it was feared his new role would jeopardise the programme's reputation for not favouring the expertise of any one auction house.
At the time of his departure, he described the programme as always "a delight and one of the best jobs in broadcasting".
Scully interviewed Baroness Thatcher in 1993, following the publication of her memoirs.
Recalling his first meeting with the former prime minister ahead of the interviews, he told The Independent, he feared things had gone awry.
"She really wasn't interested in the programmes. I would have expected a lot of questions about what was involved. I went away thinking the meeting hadn't gone well."
Scully's son Oliver said his father had died on Thursday afternoon while watching television at his Cornwall home.
Sue Lawley, who worked with Scully on Nationwide and before that at the BBC in Plymouth, added: "He was a very good presenter - he did the most marvellous pieces for camera and he could write, which was terrific.
"His greatest coup, in his view, was when he persuaded Mrs Thatcher to give him the series of programmes they went on to do together on the Downing Street years.
"In the end he and Mrs Thatcher became firm friends."
Henry Sandon, who worked with Scully on Antiques Roadshow, said he had had an "immense ability to drink wine" and was "always happy, jolly and wonderful".
He added: "I shall never forget the chap, he was ever so marvellous."
Corrigan produced a superb display with a 1-11 tally in Fermanagh's comfortable 1-17 to 0-10 win in the Division two clash at Brewster Park.
The two points boost Fermanagh's prospects of avoiding relegation.
Antrim had a tougher test in Ruislip and Kevin O'Boyle's early goal proved decisive as they edged the Exiles to clinch a 1-11-0-11 victory.
The visitors were pushed hard by a determined London side, with the teams tied on three occasions, all in the second half, until Antrim pulled away with four of the final five scores to take a three-point win.
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London bagged two early points but O'Boyle's goal handed Antrim a lead they wouldn't relinquish until the ninth minute of the second half.
Antrim led 1-5 to 0-7 at the interval before London seized control on the restart, but a string of black cards threaten to derail the quality of football on show.
McBride went for Antrim, while Cormac Coyle, Moyles and Adrian Hanlon were dismissed for the hosts - all in a 15-minute spell.
The sides were tied at 0-10 to 1-7 following Hanlon's dismissal with 11 minutes remaining.
Conor Murray took control with two impressive points from play, and Antrim stayed ahead until the end, with strong pressure on their defence late on, to remain unbeaten.
Corrigan confidently rifled the ball to the roof of the Laois net after 12 minutes and scored 1-8 in the first half in a great team display by Fermanagh.
With regular free-taker Sean Quigley suspended, Corrigan stepped up and converted seven out of nine kicks.
It was Fermanagh's 11th game in a row unbeaten at home and could go closer to securing their league status with a win over Ulster rivals Cavan next Saturday.
Fermanagh held a 1-10 to 0-4 advantage at half-time but the second half was a non-event, with Laois lethargic and disinterested.
Their manager Mick Lillis was sent to the stand by referee Marty Duffy early in the second half.
The hosts led 1-17 to 0-6 with eight minutes to go and took their foot off the gas, allowing Laois a mini reprieve and they kicked the last four points.
WEEKEND ALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE RESULTS
Sunday
Division 1
Roscommon 1-12 0-06 Down
Kerry 1-13 1-08 Donegal
Monaghan 1-12 2-11 Mayo
Division 2
Fermanagh 1-17 0-10 Laois
Galway 0-15 1-12 Meath
Division 3
Tipperary 2-11 0-12 Offaly
Kildare 1-11 1-10 Limerick
Clare 1-18 0-10 Westmeath
Sligo 2-09 1-17 Longford
Division 4
London 0-11 1-11 Antrim
Leitrim 0-16 2-09 Louth
Wicklow 0-14 0-17 Carlow
Saturday
Division 1
Dublin 2-14 2-10 Cork
Division 2
Cavan 3-18 0-10 Armagh
Tyrone 2-15 0-12 Derry
Division 4
Waterford 0-11 0-12 Wexford
The author created a letter, written by Paddington to his Aunt Lucy, specially for BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
In the letter, Paddington tells of a theatre visit to watch Hamlet and a trip to a Michelin star restaurant - both of which meet sticky ends.
Hugh Bonneville, who plays Mr Brown in the Paddington movie, recorded a reading of the story for Today.
"I'm sorry to have to say it, but people aren't as polite as they used to be and sometimes they are hard to understand," Paddington writes.
"For instance, I was taken to the theatre recently and a man came on the stage in a terrible state. 'To be or not to be,' he said. 'That is the question.' Nobody called out, so I shouted 'We don't know the question either,' and everybody started booing me!"
In an interview with Today's John Humphrys, Bond said his character started life as a doodle and he had never intended to write a book.
"I had a blank sheet of paper and a typewriter," he said. "I looked around the flat and caught sight of this bear I bought and it crossed my mind I wonder what it would be like if a real bear landed on Paddington station.
"I didn't intend to write a book at all which was a plus, because I wrote it to please myself.
"I put in things like a duffle coat I was wearing at the time and an old government surplus hat - and in 10 days I had what turned out [to be] a book on my hands."
The author also revealed he was "halfway" through writing a new Paddington story.
"I love writing about Paddington because he makes me laugh sometimes because he's so optimistic," he said, adding: "I shall carry on writing the books as long as I can."
Bond's creation has now been given the big screen treatment, and has been a hit at the UK box office.
The 88-year-old said he thought producers had "done a terribly good job with the film".
"What is very nice is it's terribly true to the spirit of the books," he said.
"I was a bit nervous about it in the beginning because if you've written about a bear called Paddington as I have for years and years it's like having a child - you're a bit nervous if he goes out in to the world and what's going to happen to him.
"But I shouldn't be nervous because he's got his feet firmly on the ground."
Ibehre was dismissed for a high boot on Matty Pearson but an FA panel rescinded the sending off after a club appeal.
"It goes without saying that we think the correct outcome has been reached," boss Keith Curle told the club website.
"Ultimately we had to play over 90 minutes with only 10 men, but that's been and gone now. The positive to come out of it was how the team responded."
PC Kevin Duffy, 52, should have known Bijan Ebrahimi was in danger in July 2013 but refused to speak to or visit him, Avon and Somerset Police said.
He and PCSO Andrew Passmore, 56, were convicted of misconduct in public office last month.
Both have been dismissed this week, Avon and Somerset Police said.
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.
Bristol Crown Court heard last month Mr Ebrahimi had called the non-emergency 101 number 12 times, trying to get police to investigate the assault.
The court heard he told one operator: "My life is in danger. Right now a few of my neighbours are outside and shouting and calling me a paedophile. I need to see PC Duffy."
But the trial learned that Duffy regarded Mr Ebrahimi as a "liar and a nuisance" and never went to see him, instead requesting Passmore conduct "a bit of a foot patrol" in the vicinity.
Passmore was convicted of misconduct in a public office for falsely claiming to have spent an hour patrolling the area.
James went on to kill Mr Ebrahimi and set fire to his body. He is serving a life sentence for murder.
Duffy and Passmore have not yet been sentenced.
In separate misconduct hearings held on Friday, Avon and Somerset Police said Duffy was found guilty of gross misconduct and dismissed without notice. Passmore was dismissed at a hearing earlier this week.
They are two of 18 officers and staff facing misconduct proceedings over the case.
Greg Clark said this statement of the government's objectives had helped persuade Nissan to boost its investment in the UK, securing thousands of jobs.
Ministers have been under pressure to clarify the "support and assurances" Nissan said it received.
Labour said Nissan had been told more about the Brexit strategy than MPs had.
Opposition parties have called on the government to spell out to Parliament what it wants to achieve from its Brexit talks before they formally begin.
And speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Mr Clark was asked how he had persuaded Nissan to build the new Qashqai and the X-Trail SUV at its Sunderland base.
The Japanese company's commitment to Britain's biggest car plant had been in doubt following the referendum on EU membership.
Mr Clark said he had assured Nissan that Britain would be "a great place to do business in the future".
The business secretary was unexpectedly candid after days of calls for clarity about what guarantees the government had given the car maker.
As Mr Clark detailed the letter he wrote to Nissan's chief executive he provided further insight into the government's approach to its Brexit negotiations - at least insofar as the car making industry was concerned.
He signalled that ministers would seek tariff-free trade with other EU countries, and would provide support to ensure the industry remains "competitive" in Britain.
All this sounded a lot more like the "running commentary" on Brexit the government had been trying to avoid - a feature that may become more common as ministers come under pressure to ward off business uncertainty ahead of the negotiations.
While formal negotiations with the EU have not yet begun, he said: "I was able to convey what our demeanour would be, in those negotiations."
He said it would not be in either side's interests for tariffs to exist in the motor industry, adding: "So what I said is that our objective would be to ensure that we have continued access to the markets in Europe and vice versa without tariffs and without bureaucratic impediments and that is how we will approach those negotiations."
Pressed on the contents of the key letter he sent to Nissan, Mr Clark said that as well as seeking a "common ground" in Brexit talks, it included commitments to continue to make funds available for skills and training, to "bring home" elements of the supply chain which had migrated overseas, to support research and development, and to keep the UK car industry competitive.
He suggested the assurances would apply to the whole of the UK's car sector but added that "it's not general".
Since the announcement of Nissan's investment on Thursday, Labour has been calling for details of the promises made to the company and for similar assurances to apply to other industries.
Labour's shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said it was "extraordinary" that Mr Clark had revealed more about the government's Brexit plan than it had disclosed to Parliament.
He told ITV's Peston on Sunday: "It's not just this deal that we need to know about - it's what happens to the other businesses.
"Businesses are talking to me all of the time and they are very worried about what happens to them.
"They want to trade on the same terms and if there is a deal that's good enough for Nissan they are saying, and it's quite understandable, 'well, we want broadly the same deal for us'."
Mr Starmer said the government was refusing to reveal its Brexit plan to MPs, "but they told Nissan part of the plan and it's in a letter and the sooner we see that letter the better".
Sean Sands, 49, of Heacham in Norfolk, was pulled unconscious from the sea off Hunstanton and airlifted to hospital in King's Lynn, where he died on 7 March.
Assistant coroner David Osborne opened the inquest in Norwich on Wednesday and set the hearing for 6 July.
Mr Sands was a member of Hunstanton Sailing Club.
In a statement released at the time of his death, the club said: "Sean lost control of his kite and for reasons not known to us yet, was unable to trigger his emergency quick release.
"Hunstanton Sailing Club have lost a true brother, a friend to so many and one of life's genuinely effervescent characters."
Yet the job looks like the more prosaic business of renting out office space, which he doesn't even own.
By doing that the smart way, he's getting rather rich, through his company he founded five years ago, Rocket Space. The value is in creating a network - or what the Scottish entrepreneur likes to call "the ultimate tech eco-system".
This brings early stage technology firms into one space, where they can spark off each other.
Once there, he provides a service more than a space, intended "to remove friction - just keeping everything out of the way which isn't core to their business.
"A lot of that would be introductions to lawyers or accountants or real estate people, or capital or corporations."
Think of it as an office water-cooler, with something special in the water. That would help explain how this company has been the stable from which 16 unicorns have emerged. That's companies worth more than $1bn (£765m).
A further 33 are worth more than $100 million (£76.5m).
That has earned Rocket Space a reputation that brings the big corporates calling.
To ease their search for innovative ideas, big companies are willing to pay a lot of money to Rocket Space for access to the tenants in its San Francisco office. Half the income comes from the access fees they're charged.
From the perspective of the young technology company, Duncan Logan explains that an Initial Public Offering - or a stock market float - has become more difficult, or at least less attractive.
To scale up the company and to give it reach, 40% of new funding comes from big corporates. And being sold to a big investor is the path taken by around 90% of graduates from Rocket Space.
So while renting out office space sounds like the less lucrative or glamorous end of Silicon Valley, this company's reputation has this month secured a $336m (£257m) investment from Chinese firm HNA Group.
That still leaves the 44-year old founder with most of the equity in Rocket Space, while providing him with the capital he needs to build a similar centre in London and another in China.
"It is all about quality, and as soon as we drop that quality bar, the whole concept sort of falls away," says Logan.
"The very best entrepreneurs and the very best start-ups want to hang out with the other top quality people. So we get 25 to 30 applications a week and we will cherry pick the best companies out of those applications."
What's the secret to spotting a unicorn at birth? If he knew the answer, he says, that's what he'd be doing. But he observes that the successful ones tend to have ideas that look ridiculous at the start.
That way, others are not attracted in to that market space and they have the time and space to grow to unicorn maturity.
The downside, as Logan found with a previous tech venture that failed, is that no-one in Silicon Valley wanted to tell him that his idea was not going to work. No-one wanted to be the one who rubbished a subsequent success.
The successful companies are very focussed on culture, he adds.
"They have an incredible focus from day one on the quality of the talent that they bring in. They are probably the most ruthless at people putting applicants through interviews.
"Then, there's operational excellence. It is all very well having a fantastic product or service, but a lot of start-ups die because they can't keep up with the growth that they see in the marketplace."
The new finance and the Chinese investors will help open up opportunities for Rocket Space in China, where Logan wants to open a tech centre, and where he wants to draw on the investing eco-system to benefit his US clients.
He also plans to open a London office in 2017. And while he has no plans, yet, to extend that to his native Scotland, he is impressed by the growth of unicorns such as Skyscanner.
In any case, Edinburgh now has a privately-run business, CodeBase, which aspires to provide a similar platform for its tech business tenants.
The experience of growing a big tech success spins out people to build new companies. The key is to find people who aren't content to sit back and enjoy the enormous wealth they have created, but who want to dive back in and re-invest in new companies.
With an agriculture degree from Aberdeen University, Duncan Logan had to leave Scotland in his 20s to achieve his ambitions.
But he reckons that might not be necessary for a tech entrepreneur now. What he sees happening in Scotland now is "super-exciting".
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Over a series of qualifying heats, riders have to navigate a course full of humps, bumps and jumps while trying to outmanoeuvre - and avoid crashing into - their opponents.
The drama is heightened by a winner-takes-all, one-run final.
BMX has come along way from the skate parks and dirt roads it was first popularised on in Britain in the 1980s.
Anyone looking to replicate the competitors' adrenaline-fuelled moves can do so on the Olympic Park: the track is being reopened to the public.
The effort of riding a BMX bike at speed for an hour can burn approximately 610 calories. This not only helps aid weight loss but increases endurance, promotes agility, develops physical coordination and builds muscle strength.
Pedalling a BMX bike strengthens and tones various leg muscles, while lifting the handlebars to perform tricks can increase muscle mass in the biceps and triceps.
Whether practising to compete in races or perform tricks, BMX boosts self-discipline, motivation, self-esteem and confidence.
Training sessions are an excellent way to develop communication skills and learn to work effectively with other people. Clubs also offer a variety of social events beyond simply taking part in the sport.
There are currently more than 50 dedicated BMX tracks throughout the UK. Find your local club by using British Cycling's club finder.
It is essential to wear safety equipment such as a full-face helmet, cycling gloves and elbow and knee pads. It is recommended that trousers and a long sleeved top be worn for added protection.
For people looking to try out the sport, you can hire BMX bikes, gloves and helmets from tracks throughout the country. Good quality starter bikes can also be purchased at around £200-300.
Club membership often entitles people to receive coaching and equipment hire at reduced rates, plus entry to in-house races.
Training days and taster schemes are run for people of all ages and abilities throughout the year. Visit the British Cycling, Cycling Ireland, Scottish Cycling and Welsh Cycling websites for more information.
For regional and national events, membership of British Cycling or Cycling Ireland is required. There are a number of bands related to how regularly you wish to compete.
Small race fees are also often required to take part in meets.
For parents looking to get their children started in competitive racing, British Cycling are running a number of events for under-16s throughout the United Kingdom this year. Visit the Go-Ride Racing website for more details.
BMX racing can trace its origins back to the early 1970s when children, taking inspiration from the motorcross superstars of the time, started competing on dirt tracks on their pedal bikes in southern California.
The Oscar-nominated 1971 documentary 'On Any Sunday', featuring Steve McQueen, which opens with kids imitating motorcyclists by riding their bikes on a dirt track, is widely credited with popularising the nascent BMX across the USA.
It steadily grew in popularity and by the mid-point of that decade people were racing standard road bikes off-road, around purpose-built tracks throughout the state.
Manufacturers soon latched on to its growing status, and specifically modified BMX bikes began to be mass produced.
George Esser set up BMX's first sanctioning organisation, the National Bicycle League, in 1974. Three years later, the American Bicycle Association was formed to help with governance, with the International BMX Federation following in 1981.
BMX World Championships have been held since 1982 and the sport has featured prominently at the extreme sports event, the X Games.
BMX became the most recent cycling discipline added to the Olympic programme when it was introduced at Beijing 2008.
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The report, based on the testimony of migrants walking through from Bulgaria into Serbia, cites numerous cases of alleged police beatings and extortion.
Many migrants opt to travel through the Balkans, afraid of the sea-crossing from Turkey to the Greek islands.
The Bulgarian government has not yet responded to the allegations.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants, many from Syria, Africa and Afghanistan, have been making their way from Turkey to the Balkans in recent months, in a bid to reach Germany, Sweden and other EU states.
Collated by the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and sponsored by Oxfam, the report highlights the dangers which await migrants both near the Turkish-Bulgarian border and later as they try to cross into Serbia.
Cases of alleged extortion by Bulgarian police, physical violence against migrants, and attacks by police dogs are described in detail, reports the BBC's Nick Thorpe.
The report findings are based on interviews conducted with over 100 refugees arriving from Bulgaria in the Serbian border town of Dimitrovgrad over a three-day period in October.
Stefano Baldini, Oxfam director for South East Europe, said: "In light of the reported abuses, the European Union has to intervene and take concrete action to protect basic human rights within its borders."
"These testimonies present a consistent picture of alleged incidents in Bulgaria," he said according to the UK's Press Association.
Last month an Afghan migrant was shot dead by a Bulgarian border guard after entering the country from Turkey.
Officials said he was killed by the ricochet of a bullet fired as a warning to the migrants.
UNHCR spokesman Boris Cheshirkov said the agency was "deeply shocked" by the incident and called on the Bulgarian authorities to commission an independent investigation into the death.
Capt Lisa Jade Head, from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, died at Queen Elizabeth NHS Hospital, Birmingham, on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, had been injured on Monday.
She becomes only the second female member of the UK armed forces to die in Afghanistan in nearly a decade.
Her death takes the number of British military personnel killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 364.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said she had been taken to Camp Bastion in Helmand before being evacuated to the UK.
Lt Col Tim Purbrick, spokesman for Task Force Helmand, announced the death of Capt Head - who was born in Huddersfield and studied at the town's university before going to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst - "with much sadness".
Capt Head commissioned into the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) and initially trained as an Air Transport Liaison Officer, deploying to Iraq in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2007.
Lt Col Purbrick said: "(She) was neutralising a complex set of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) which had been sown in an alleyway between two compounds when one of the devices detonated.
"Immediate first aid was provided and a helicopter medical emergency response team recovered the casualty to the military hospital in Camp Bastion."
By Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent, BBC News
Though women are not allowed to serve on the front line as infantry troops, they are still there, in harm's way, doing a number of specialist roles.
There are female medics, intelligence officers, members of the Royal Military Police and bomb disposal experts.
High-threat explosive ordnance disposal or EOD operators have already been described as the "bravest of the brave". They're the small, elite group of highly skilled soldiers trained to tackle the single biggest killer of British troops in Afghanistan - the roadside bomb.
Much has already been written about the men who've carried out the task - including those who've died in the process like Staff Sgt Oz Schmid. The death of the first female operator is a reminder that women as well as men are putting their lives on the line. About 10% of army high-risk EOD operators are women.
They include Capt Judith Gallagher, who last year was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery. On her first day in Helmand province in 2010 she defused 14 bombs during a marathon 30-hour shift. On one occasion she tried to clear a minefield while under enemy fire. At the time she said: "It's my job and I just get on with it."
Capt Head was in that mould. It's understood that when she began dealing with the minefield a bomb was triggered, and the force of the blast knocked her off her feet. Uninjured, she returned to her task only to be severely injured by a second blast. She never recovered from those wounds, and died in hospital.
Capt Head, who was based in Didcot in Oxfordshire, deployed to Afghanistan on 27 March and was based in Patrol Base 4 in the Nahr-e-Saraj District.
Her team was called to dispose of a bomb found by B Company, 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in an alleyway used by both civilians and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops.
Having successfully made the device safe, Capt Head was fatally injured while dealing with a second.
Her family - which has appealed for their privacy to be respected by the media - issued a statement through the MoD: "We wish to say that we are extremely proud of Lisa.
"Lisa always said that she had the best job in the world and she loved every second of it. Lisa had two families - us and the Army. Lisa had a fantastic life and lived it to the full. No-one was more loved."
Capt Head's regiment is the British army's specialist unit responsible for counter-terrorist bomb disposal, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and the recovery and safe disposal of conventional munitions.
It employs about 500 specialist soldiers selected from five individual corps within the British army.
It has been hard-hit by the Afghanistan war - she becomes the sixth member of the regiment to be killed there.
Her commanding officer, Lt Col Adam McRae, described her as a "passionate, robust and forthright individual who enjoyed life to the full; be it at work, on the sporting field or at the bar.
"She was totally committed to her profession and rightly proud of being an Ammunition Technical Officer. She took particular pride in achieving the coveted 'High Threat' status which set her at the pinnacle of her trade.
"Lisa deployed to Afghanistan with the full knowledge of the threats she would face. These dangers did not faze her as she was a self-assured, highly effective operator and a well-liked leader. Methodical and professional in her work, she was always eminently pragmatic and calm under pressure.
"Her potential was considerable and she will be an enormous loss to us all.
"The Regiment, her colleagues and friends will miss her infectious smile and dry wit. She sits proudly along side our recent fallen, several of whom were her close friends which I know inspired her to deploy to Afghanistan.
"Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with her family at this tragic moment. We mourn her loss; she is gone but will never be forgotten by her Regiment who I know she was proud to be part of and whom are immensely proud of her.
"Her sacrifice will inspire others to follow her example."
The only other female member of the Armed Forces to die in Afghanistan was Cpl Sarah Bryant.
The 26-year-old was killed along with three colleagues when their Snatch Land Rover was blown up by a roadside bomb as they crossed a ditch in the Lashkar Gah area of Helmand province in June 2008.
Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team was called after a road ambulance was unable to reach the woman at Blue Lake quarry, Fairbourne, on the Mawddach estuary on Saturday at 13:40 BST.
Volunteers and paramedics evacuated the woman down to the valley floor to meet a coastguard helicopter.
She was flown to hospital for care.
Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy unveiled the Connecticut Family Preparedness Plan on Wednesday.
He has already clashed with the White House over immigration policy.
The plan is a "step by step" toolkit, in English and Spanish, for parents in case they are detained or deported.
Titled "Family Preparedness Plan: Preparing Your Family for Immigration Enforcement", it contains advice on legal rights and emergency child guardianship forms.
State officials have created the resource in response to President Trump's hard-line rhetoric on illegal immigration.
The state's website says: "We hope that you never have to use your plan, but having one may help reduce the stress of the unexpected."
Children of undocumented immigrants are legal citizens if they were born in the United States, even if their parents are not.
"We want to make sure that people have a plan in place should immigration action separate their families," Governor Malloy said.
"It is estimated that there are around 22,000 US citizen children of undocumented immigrant parents living in Connecticut."
It comes just one month after Governor Malloy traded public blows with the White House over Trump's immigration policy.
He issued a memo to Connecticut police authorities telling them they "should not take action that is solely to enforce federal immigration law" and that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] detainer requests are requests, they are not warrants or orders".
Press Secretary Sean Spicer in February said it was "troubling" and "concerning" that Mr Malloy "chooses not to follow the duly passed laws of this nation".
Politico quoted Governor Malloy as saying it felt "really good" to be targeted by the White House.
"You should probably be known by your enemies," he said.
The governor's latest document recommends that families decide in advance who will care for their children if they are detained by immigration authorities.
It also contains guidance on what legal rights undocumented immigrants have if ICE officials approach them in person or come to their door.
The 24-year-old has been overlooked while New Zealanders Rey Lee-Lo and Willis Halaholo have taken over in the Blues' midfield this season.
Blues recently signed Leicester's Welsh centre Jack Roberts for next season.
Meanwhile Allen, who has four Wales caps, has been linked with Blues' Welsh Pro12 rivals Ospreys.
In the announcement of Roberts' signing, Blues stated: "He will add depth and compete with Rey Lee-Lo, Willis Halaholo, Garyn Smith and Harri Millard for a centre spot next season."
Allen scored a first-half try hat-trick in his last Wales appearance, against Uruguay in Cardiff at the 2015 World Cup, but later pulled a hamstring after the break and went off.
He is out of contract at the end of this term and Wilson was questioned about his name being omitted from the centre options beyond that.
Wilson said: "Currently the names that were mentioned in there were the names that will be competing for that position for next season."
Meteorologists predict the busy Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor, where millions live, could get between 12-18in (30-45cm) of snow.
New York, Boston and Philadelphia have closed public schools for the day, and commuters were advised to stay indoors.
More than 3,300 flights have been cancelled, and numerous car accidents have been reported.
New Jersey's emergency management officials reported about 50 collisions in Thursday morning's commute.
"If you need to go out, please, don't use your car," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on local television.
The snowfall comes amid a relatively snow-less winter for the East Coast.
The euro fell below $1.10 at one point, from around $1.1165 on Friday, before recovering some ground.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 share index closed down 2.9% at 20,109.95
China saw another day of volatile trade, with the Shanghai Composite falling by more than 7% at one point before closing down 3.3% at 4,053.03.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index finished 2.6% lower at 25,966.98.
China's shares fell despite a surprise rate cut by the central bank on Saturday.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 2.23% at 5,422.50, while in South Korea, the benchmark Kospi ended 1.4% lower at 2,060.49 - its biggest daily percentage fall since late May.
Greece risks default and moving closer to a possible exit from the 19-member eurozone.
The country is due to make a €1.6bn payment to the IMF on Tuesday - the same day that its current bailout expires.
Last week, talks between Greece and the eurozone countries over bailout terms ended without an agreement, and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras then called for a referendum on the issue to be held on 5 July.
At the weekend, the Greek government confirmed that banks would be closed all week, after a decision by the European Central Bank not to extend emergency funding.
Economist Daniel Martin from Capital Economics told the BBC the current situation was "the closest Greece had come to exiting the eurozone" and that it was likely to be a bad week for Asian markets.
Greek banks are expected to stay shut until 7 July, two days after Greece's planned referendum on the terms it had been offered by international creditors for receiving fresh bailout money.
On Saturday, China's central bank cut its one-year lending rate by 25 basis points to 4.85%. It is the bank's fourth cut since November. It also lowered the amount of cash that some banks must hold as reserves by 50 basis points.
Analysts said the moves highlighted Beijing's concerns that money was not flowing to some of the most-needed sectors in the economy. Others said the bank had reacted to Friday's share plunge, which saw the Shanghai Composite close down more than 7%.
Chinese investment holding company, Legend Holdings, made its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising more than $1.9bn in its initial share offering. The firm has a wide range of interests including in IT, agriculture and real estate, and is the parent company of Lenovo.
In Japan, official figures showed retail sales grew by 1.7% in May from a month earlier - the fastest rate of growth since September last year.
However, other figures showed Japan's industrial production fell by 4% in May from a year earlier.
"The plunge in industrial production in May points to a contraction in GDP (gross domestic product) this quarter," said economist Marcel Thieliant from Capital Economics.
"[This] corroborates our view that the Bank of Japan will have to step up the pace of easing before too long."
The foreign secretary urged the French president not to "administer punishment beatings" on Britain for choosing to escape the EU "rather in the manner of some World War Two movie".
Not surprisingly, uproar has ensued. Former Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Johnson had shown once again that he could be "supremely clever and yet immensely stupid".
To some Britons, Mr Johnson's remarks will be seen as colourful but unexceptional language that echoes the popular World War Two film The Great Escape.
To many of Mr Johnson's generation, these films were part of their childhood and are subject to frequent cultural reference. Former Prime Minister David Cameron has seen The Guns of Navarone more than 17 times and once quoted a line from the film in a party conference speech.
I know one former Conservative cabinet minister who can quote reams from Where Eagles Dare. (Full disclosure, so can I).
Yet this hinterland of war films from the 1960s and 1970s, seen by some today as jingoistic, can create a tin ear among some Britons when it comes to recognising how sensitive many Europeans remain towards this period in their history.
The foreign secretary has form on this. During the referendum campaign last year he compared the EU to Nazi Germany, telling the Daily Telegraph both were attempting to unify Europe: "Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically."
This caused a flurry of headlines and a social media storm that passed quickly. Yet the impact on EU politicians was lasting.
One EU diplomat explained it to me like this: "You Brits don't understand us when we talk about European values. To us they are important because they are not Nazi values, they are not Vichy values, they are not fascist values, not the values of the Greek junta. They are the values of a different Europe.
"So for that clown to compare us to the Nazis, well, that hurts and will not be forgotten."
In other words, the global conflict from which the EU's forerunner emerged - and was ultimately designed to prevent recurring - lingers long in the mind on the continent.
So perhaps the foreign secretary might take the advice of Gisela Stuart, the German-born Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, who said she was sure her fellow Brexit campaigner did not mean to be offensive but added: "For the next two years… just don't mention the war."
Or maybe Mr Johnson might remember the last line of the Fawlty Towers episode when a ranting Basil is being led away by the nurses and one of the stunned German guests asks: "However did they win?"
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The big match, which kicks off at 17:30 BST, features as part of 17 hours of TV coverage on the BBC.
Will Chelsea win the Double for the second time? Will Arsenal win a record 13th FA Cup?
Find out on the BBC...
See full listings of BBC Sport's coverage this week here
* All listings subject to change at short notice.
Your cup final day starts bright and early as BBC Breakfast kicks things off from 06:00 BST. Keep your eyes peeled for appearances from BBC Sport presenters Jason Mohammad and Dan Walker, as well as former Arsenal player Ray Parlour.
The fun continues on CBBC at 07:45 BST with MOTD Kickabout, while Danny Baker's 5 live show from 09:00 BST will also be cup final flavoured.
Fighting Talk from 11:00 on 5 live comes from Wembley with Pat Nevin taking part, and the build-up continues with Football Focus from noon.
Dan Walker will be joined by cup winners Martin Keown and Ruud Gullit, who will dissect where the big game could be won and lost.
Noon is also the starting point for live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app - your home for the remainder of the day. Stay in touch with #bbcfacup across social media. Arsenal Ladies defender Alex Scott - a multiple Women's FA Cup winner - is your social media host throughout the day.
A special FA Cup edition of Pointless takes place at 13:15 BST on BBC One before Jason Mohammad presents the FA Cup show from 14:00 BST.
With build-up now in full swing, Jason looks back at the FA People's Cup, recaps the Wenger years (so far) and is joined by comedian and Chelsea fan Omid Djalili.
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The match coverage begins at 16:15 BST live on BBC One and online, as Gary Lineker is joined by Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard, Ian Wright and Ruud Gullit, who will be providing separate analysis on Facebook during the game.
Guy Mowbray is joined by Danny Murphy for television commentary, while on 5 live Mark Chapman presents from Wembley with John Murray, Ian Dennis and Jermaine Jenas on commentary duties.
You can also watch the game with 5 live commentary on the Red Button, and watch the game with Spidercam footage on the BBC Sport website and app.
At half-time you will also be able to choose your FA Cup goal of the season from the following shortlist:
Qualifying - Adam Coombes - Welling United v Swindon Supermarine
R1 - Junior Morais - St Albans v Carlisle
R2 - Adam Morgan - Curzon Ashton v AFC Wimbledon
R3 - Sean McConville - Accrington v Luton
R4 - Steven Defour - Burnley v Bristol City
R5 - Danny Graham - Blackburn v Man Utd
QF - Son Heung-min - Tottenham v Millwall (first goal)
SF - Nemanja Matic - Chelsea v Tottenham
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The programme, starring Josh Hartnett and Eva Green, was recognised in categories including costume, make-up and hair, and production design.
BBC Two drama The Honourable Woman and BBC Three documentary Life & Death Row both landed four nods.
The awards will be handed out at a ceremony on 26 April.
Other shows which were nominated in multiple categories include Strictly Come Dancing, BBC Two's Peaky Blinders and fantasy drama Da Vinci's Demons, which received three nods each.
Ripper Street, which was originally broadcast on BBC One, but revived on Amazon's Prime Instant Video, also scored two nominations - the first Bafta recognition for a programme shown on the subscription service.
The comedy writer category features a number of well-known writer-performers.
James Corden and Mathew Baynton are nominated for a second consecutive year for The Wrong Mans, while Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are up for dark comedy Inside No.9.
They go up against Arthur Matthews and Matt Berry for Toast of London and Mackenzie Crook for Detectorists.
Among the other programmes nominated across the 20 categories include Doctor Who, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, The Apprentice, Line of Duty, Downton Abbey and The X Factor.
Industry-renowned vision mixer Hilary Briegel will receive this year's Bafta Special Award, recognising her extensive work on productions including Absolutely Fabulous, Only Fools and Horses, Newsnight and the Olympic Games.
The full list of nominations are on the Bafta website.
Actor Stephen Mangan will return to host this year's ceremony, held at The Brewery in London.
South Carolina schools were shut on Monday and several motorways were closed as rain continued to fall.
One weather station in Columbia - South Carolina's capital - recorded 17 inches (43cm) in as many hours on Sunday.
The torrential rains have been made worse by a weather system connected to Hurricane Joaquin in the Caribbean.
The storm is not expected to hit the eastern US, but the moisture associated with it is contributing to heavy rainfall.
"The flooding is unprecedented and historical," said Dr Marshall Shepherd, a meteorologist and director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia.
Many of the victims have drowned after flood waters swept over their vehicles.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley urged residents to stay indoors.
"The water is not safe and a lot of areas across the state where you see this deep water, it's got bacteria in it. So, stay inside and don't get in there," she said.
President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency in South Carolina. The move means state and local authorities can receive federal help to deal with the flooding.
"We have every ambulance in the county out responding to calls. People are being moved from their homes in boats," Georgetown County spokeswoman Jackie Broach told Reuters.
About 100 people were rescued from their cars on flooded roads on Saturday night.
In the historic city centre of Charleston, many streets have been closed and sandbags have been piled up to keep floodwaters out.
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The 33-year-old is a surprise omission but Chelsea's John Terry has been named in a squad captained by Steven Gerrard.
There are call-ups for uncapped Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy.
Liverpool winger Stewart Downing and Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck have also been picked.
"It's not been an easy squad to put together," said boss Roy Hodgson. "But I'm pleased with the squad I've put together and I think it's a well-balanced squad."
Gerrard, who captained Liverpool during Hodgson's time as manager at Anfield, also led England at the 2010 World Cup.
"I know him as a player and a person and how committed he is to the England cause," explained Hodgson.
"He will help me build the team unity and environment we need to thrive in a tournament."
As expected, Wayne Rooney is selected despite being suspended for the first two games of England's Group D campaign, against France on 11 June and Sweden four days later.
"After the debacle in South Africa, everyone was clamouring for youth. I'm slightly surprised Roy Hodgson has only named four forwards considering he will be without Wayne Rooney for a couple of games."
In addition to Carroll, Welbeck and Rooney, Hodgson will take Jermain Defoe - who has not played a competitive match for England since September 2010 - as a striking option.
Birmingham goalkeeper Jack Butland is among the list of five standby players, which also comprises Adam Johnson, Daniel Sturridge, Phil Jagielka and Jordan Henderson.
Barring injury, Johnson will miss out on a major tournament for a second time, having been axed from Fabio Capello's provisional World Cup squad in 2010.
Hodgson's wide players are Ashley Young, Theo Walcott, James Milner, Downing and Oxlade-Chamberlain.
There is no place for Manchester United's Michael Carrick as Gareth Barry, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Scott Parker - who is struggling with an Achilles injury - take the central midfield berths.
Manchester City right-back Micah Richards also misses out as Hodgson names only seven orthodox defenders, including Phil Jones and Joleon Lescott, who are both capable of filling more than one position.
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Tottenham right-back Kyle Walker was ruled out with a toe injury.
Ruddy joins Joe Hart and Robert Green in the goalkeeping contingent.
"It's a real honour for me and hopefully it's an indication as to how far I have developed as a player," said Ruddy.
"Playing for my country has been a dream of mine, of course it has.
"I'm under no illusions as to the quality of Joe Hart and Rob Green and that I will be number three keeper. But I'm really looking forward to training with them and getting down to some hard work."
The Football Association's planned training camp in Spain has been cancelled.
Instead, England will meet up in Manchester on Wednesday before flying to Norway on Friday for their friendly in Oslo on 26 May.
Seven days later, they face Belgium at Wembley - although Ruddy will be missing having been given special dispensation to leave the squad for his wedding on 2 June.
Goalkeepers - Joe Hart, Robert Green, John Ruddy.
Defenders - Leighton Baines, Gary Cahill, Ashley Cole, Glen Johnson, Phil Jones, Joleon Lescott, John Terry.
Midfielders - Gareth Barry, Stewart Downing, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Scott Parker, Theo Walcott, Ashley Young.
Strikers - Andy Carroll, Jermain Defoe, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck.
Standby - Jack Butland, Phil Jagielka, Jordan Henderson, Adam Johnson, Daniel Sturridge.
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The German quit in 2016, five days after winning the title for Mercedes, and said he now follows F1 "as a fan" and has no desire to get back in a car.
"I am completely fulfilled," he said in an exclusive BBC Sport interview.
"It is a page that has turned for me. It was the perfect ending for me, the perfect career."
Rosberg, 31, won nine of last season's 21 grands prix, beating three-time champion and team-mate Lewis Hamilton by five points.
The son of Finnish 1982 world champion Keke, he made his F1 debut for Williams at the Bahrain Grand Prix in 2006, finishing seventh.
Overall, Rosberg raced in 206 grands prix, winning 23 and finishing on the podium 57 times.
"It is fun to watch the action and F1 is as good as it has ever been this year," he said. "Although it is 12 years since I last watched it on TV.
"It is really exciting to watch as an outsider. There is so much going on, you never know who is going to win and it is exciting for all the fans out there."
Rosberg was replaced at Mercedes by Valtteri Bottas, who is lying third in the championship heading into Monaco this weekend.
The Finn is 41 points behind leader Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who is six points clear of Hamilton.
Rosberg says that, while Bottas is "doing a great job", he thinks Mercedes might be missing his experience when it came to setting up the car.
"I was there from day one," he said, referring to his joining Mercedes when the company bought the Brawn team at the end of 2009.
"I knew how everybody worked and I knew how to set up the car and that is not something you can replace in a couple of days.
"They have found a very good replacement. But it is going to take him a bit longer in terms of experience to have a big impact on car set-up and development."
Rosberg said it was "too early to write off" Bottas' hopes of the title but said it would "most likely" be disputed by Vettel and Hamilton.
Vettel set an impressive pace in second practice in Monaco on Thursday, with Hamilton ending the session eighth.
"My hopes are it goes to the wire," Rosberg said. "That's what all of us fans want to see. Then, of course, I would hope my ex-racing family take it home."
Rosberg, whose wife Vivian is expecting their second child, said he was enjoying his new life and working out what he was going to do next.
He refused to go into detail, but said he was enthused by developments in road-car technology.
"I have always been a fan of road cars," he said. "In that industry there is going to be the biggest revolution in 100 years, going towards electric and autonomous cars.
"Innovation and engineering has always been a passion of mine and a lot of things are pushing me in that direction. But it is too early to speak in more detail.
"The autonomous car has the potential to save up to a million lives a year, because that is how many people are dying on the roads. It will change the world."
Partridge joined the show in 2008 while Elliott joined the following year.
Elliott said his time on the series had been "brilliant", adding he was pleased at how it had addressed "the sensitive subject matter of being a gay Muslim".
Partridge echoed those sentiments but said that "leaving at the same time as Marc felt like the only thing to do".
"I have had the time of my life at EastEnders but I have always gone with my gut," said the musical theatre performer, who appeared as a judge on the BBC's Over the Rainbow talent show.
"It is the right end to the story, and for Christian. But also, excitingly, the start of a whole new chapter for me."
"As an actor you are always looking for new challenges," continued Elliott.
"I feel that now is the right time to move on and explore different projects, perhaps returning to my roots in theatre."
It is not yet known how Elliott and Partridge's characters will come to leave Albert Square.
Spurs moved up to third place as headers from Dele Alli either side of half-time made the difference to leave Chelsea five points ahead of Liverpool in second place.
Alli rose to meet Christian Eriksen's cross in first-half stoppage time and the same pair combined to put the game out of Chelsea's reach in the 54th minute.
Eden Hazard had Chelsea's two best chances in each half but Spurs closed out the victory in comfort to put north London rivals Arsenal out of the top four and leave themselves seven points off the top after their fifth successive league win.
Read more: Spurs can challenge for title - Conte
Tottenham's season was at a tipping point after a disappointing Champions League exit at the group stage and the poor performance in defeat at Manchester United in early December - but they have responded magnificently.
Mauricio Pochettino's side are gathering impressive momentum, illustrated by the manner in which they overcame a Chelsea side that was starting to carry an air of impregnability.
The 4-1 wins at Southampton and Watford served as a warning that Spurs were approaching the sort of form that carried them close to the title last season and this performance confirmed their growing confidence and stature.
Spurs have recaptured their intensity and energy and when this is bolted on to the quality provided here by the likes of Alli and Eriksen, it makes them a formidable prospect.
Manchester City had already found Spurs too hot to handle at White Hart Lane this season - and Chelsea suffered a similar fate.
Alli endured a quiet start to the season, perhaps in the aftermath of England's debacle at Euro 2016 - but the 20-year-old is firing on cylinders now.
Alli's headed double here made it seven goals his last four games, the third time in succession he has scored twice in a game after doing the same at Southampton and Watford.
Pochettino said before the game that he regarded Alli as "the most important player to emerge in English football in recent years".
And here the £5m signing from MK Dons backed up his manager's confident words with a consummate all-round display crowned by the two towering headers which proved decisive.
Alli received a standing ovation when he was replaced in the closing minutes after showing the quality that will make him an integral part of the future of both Spurs and England.
Chelsea's perfectionist manager Antonio Conte and his players will be bitterly disappointed they could not achieve Premier League history with a 14th successive win that would have matched the mark set across the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons by Arsenal.
However they remain in prime position in the title race.
They still have a healthy five-point lead over Liverpool in second place and have come a long way since their last Premier League defeat at Arsenal on 24 September, a 3-0 loss that left them eight points adrift of then-leaders Manchester City in eighth place.
Conte has transformed the mood around the team and the club and while their superb run may be at an end, this is a team fully equipped to go the distance in the title race.
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Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: "It is a massive victory, a very important three points to reduce the gap at the top of the table. It was a very tough game, we were playing one of the best teams in Europe, so the value of the victory is massive.
"It makes us very proud and we showed character and were competitive. It is one step forward for the team and is important to keep going. Football is about belief.
"We have shown we can challenge for the big things. We are in a good position, Chelsea is in a very good position, but we are fighting to get points and to reduce the gap above us."
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Chelsea manager Antonio Conte: "I saw a game with a great balance. It is not easy to play against Tottenham. But we played with a good personality to create the chances to score a goal, but we could not take them.
"It is strange for us to concede these goals because we are defending well, and they are in a crucial moment. At the end of the first half and then in the second half after we miss the chances to score, but this can happen.
"We must work hard and be pleased with our position in the table, but know this league is tough until the end for the Champions League, for the title."
Tottenham play Aston Villa in the FA Cup third round on Sunday before resuming their league campaign at home to West Brom on Saturday 14 January.
Chelsea take on Peterborough in the FA Cup on Sunday before travelling to defending Premier League champions Leicester six days later.
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, Chelsea 0.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, Chelsea 0.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Son Heung-Min replaces Harry Kane.
Attempt missed. David Luiz (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by César Azpilicueta with a cross.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Harry Winks.
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Moussa Sissoko replaces Dele Alli because of an injury.
Substitution, Chelsea. Michy Batshuayi replaces Victor Moses.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.
Offside, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas tries a through ball, but Diego Costa is caught offside.
Substitution, Chelsea. Cesc Fàbregas replaces N'Golo Kanté.
Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Victor Moses (Chelsea).
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Chelsea. Eden Hazard tries a through ball, but Pedro is caught offside.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Winks replaces Mousa Dembélé.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Eric Dier.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Kyle Walker.
Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kyle Walker.
Substitution, Chelsea. Willian replaces Marcos Alonso because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Jan Vertonghen.
Foul by Victor Moses (Chelsea).
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Luiz (Chelsea).
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Victor Wanyama.
Attempt blocked. N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Pedro (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcos Alonso with a cross.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Chelsea 0. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross.
Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by César Azpilicueta.
Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mousa Dembélé.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Jan Vertonghen tries a through ball, but Dele Alli is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcos Alonso with a headed pass.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Danny Rose.
Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.
Second Half begins Tottenham Hotspur 1, Chelsea 0.
First Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Chelsea 0.
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But Sir Peter O'Sullevan was a hero to so many of us who completely disproved the theory.
As well as being the soundtrack to racing for millions, an incisive journalist, prolific writer, racehorse owner, punter and tireless fundraiser, we've also lost a completely charming person who went out of his way to help and support.
Sitting next to such a legend for the first time at some media event was daunting, but I recall being effortlessly put at my ease with an inquiry about how I was getting on at the BBC - he always wanted to know the gossip from the Corporation on which he held strong, not always favourable views.
And the stories were legion, not, of course, just of things about which he'd been told over the decades, but of which he'd actually been part.
A favourite way of starting the story would be: "As recently as 1947…"
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So, he wasn't just a walking, talking encyclopaedia about decades of racing, but he'd had all sorts of roles in the sport during that time, from walk-on to starring.
Nothing illustrated that better than the 1974 Triumph Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival when his own horse, Attivo, won with him behind the microphone.
In those unmistakable tones and with the trademark unflappable style, it is hard to detect even a quiver of emotion in his voice as he called the horse home in front and added "owned by Mr Peter O'Sullevan".
Everyone has a favourite commentary moment from the most imitable of broadcasters - go on, I'm sure you have tried to copy the great man's tones, with varying degrees of success, I certainly have - and there's no doubt what mine is.
I asked him about it a year or two ago over a bottle of something pretty decent - he loved what might be called the good things in life - at his large flat tucked away behind the Kings Road in central London.
"You remember, I'm sure Peter, a successful jockey of the 1970s and 80s era, Malcolm Bastard," I said.
"Of course, mi 'lad," he replied. His mind was as sharp as anything and his eyes bright right to the end.
"The story goes," I continued, "that you always called him Malcolm Bastard (as opposed to queasier colleagues who preferred Bas-tard) and one day when he was riding for the trainer Pam Sly it's said that you declared 'It's another win for the Sly-Bastard combination'.
"Is it true? It's just that I might put it in my after-dinner routine."
"Ha, ha," he said with a grin. "I like it - that's certainly one to keep going with and how flattering you thought of me." Characteristically humble as well.
And he loved a bet. Bookies feared a call from 'The Voice' on any dark horse from France, where he was particularly well-connected, or Ireland, during the period when trainer Vincent O'Brien was in his pomp.
Bookmaker Wally Pyrah once told me the six most dangerous words in the English language, as far as he was concerned, followed a tap on the shoulder or early morning telephone call: "I think we can do business."
It was said too that one of the few ways to determine if he was 'on' a good bet during a commentary was to listen out for any reference to a runner "making significant progress"; that meant he was.
But now those sumptuous tones have gone quiet forever and are mourned by dyed-in-the-wool racegoers and once-a-year punters on Grand National day alike.
A hero who never disappointed.
A former Taliban commander in Helmand province, Mullah Abdul Rauf, has declared his allegiance to IS.
An elder from the Sangin district, Sayeduddin Sanginwal, told the BBC that the new group had fought with the Taliban after replacing white Taliban flags with the black flags of IS.
He said about 20 people from both sides had been killed and injured.
The deputy commander of the Afghan army unit responsible for the area, General Mahmood, confirmed that he had received reports of the new group within the past few days.
He said they were trying to win support for the IS cause, and they were "preparing to fight".
The leader of the new movement, Mullah Abdul Rauf, was a former senior Taliban commander who spent six years in Guantanamo Bay after being captured by US forces in 2001.
There had been reports that he had fallen out with the leader of the movement Mullah Omar.
Rauf is a distant relative of the Governor of Nimruz province, Amir Mohammed, who said that the commander had lost a leg before being taken to Guantanamo.
The governor said that IS had already attempted to recruit people in Farah, another south-western province, but had been driven out by local people with the help of the police.
He said they were all the same: "Once they fought under al-Qaeda name, then as Taliban, and now IS, they are the same people with the same programmes."
In another sign that the Taliban are facing internal challenges, a former spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has appeared in a video online, saying that there were several IS commanders operating, and that the Pakistani Taliban were now allied to the movement.
There is no independent verification of this claim, but the video had images of several commanders across Afghanistan who were also said to be now backing IS.
In the video they claim to have shifted their allegiance from the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, to the IS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
This represents the first serious challenge to the coherence of the Taliban leadership for many years.
Omar has not been seen in public since 2001.
His fighters have continued their assault on Afghan military targets, even after the end of foreign combat operations at the end of 2014. And despite sustaining very heavy casualties, particularly among the police, Afghan forces have held their ground.
A major ceremonial event has been held in the headquarters of the military garrison in Helmand province to tell political leaders that the Afghan forces are now in control.
Huge areas of the base, called Camp Bastion by British forces, are now deserted as Afghan forces occupy only a small part of it.
Commanders say that the fighting season has gone on through an unseasonably dry and mild winter in Afghanistan - but if IS does succeed in infiltrating Afghanistan, the nature of the war will change.
Elders who came into the base to witness the show of military strength said that they had seen the Russians come and go, and now the British and Americans, but they hoped that Islamic State would not come.
There are also accounts that a group called Khorasan has been attempting to recruit fighters in Wardak province.
Khorasan is an old name for Afghanistan, and is a word that carried mythical overtones for some Muslims after an ancient prophecy that black flags would once again fly in Khorasan before the end of the world.
The US said that an air strike near Aleppo in Syria last September was on a base used by a previously unknown group also called Khorasan.
This group was allied to Islamic State, but it is not clear if there is any connection with the attempts to win support for Khorasan in Afghanistan.
This all appears to mean that the Afghan conflict is entering a new and unstable phase.
There have been more direct suicide attacks recently on civilians - including a volleyball game - which had not been Taliban targets in the past.
If Mullah Omar is losing his grip and Islamic State has infiltrated the country, then it will represent the biggest challenge yet to the new government of President Ashraf Ghani, who has only now announced a cabinet after more than three months in office.
Matthew Leahy, 20, was found dead at the Linden Centre, Chelmsford, in November 2012.
Chelmsford Coroner's Court heard a group of nurses created a care plan after his death and post-dated the document to before his body was found.
One of the workers was dismissed for gross misconduct, and two were given written warnings.
All three, who have not been named, have been referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the inquest heard.
During the first day of the hearing, the jury was told Mr Leahy had a history of drug-induced psychosis.
He had been living in a caravan at Bradwell Marina when he smashed up the property, made threats to kill himself and went missing, the jury heard.
He was taken to the inpatient unit at the Linden Centre, operated by the North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, on 7 November 2012.
On 15 November, Mr Leahy's body was found in his room by staff members.
Consultant pathologist Dr Ben Swift told the inquest a post mortem examination revealed the cause of Mr Leahy's death was hanging.
He had used cannabis prior to his death, but Dr Swift could not be sure when.
Det Chief Insp Stuart Hooper, from Essex Police, told the court no evidence was found of gross negligence by the Linden Centre, and Mr Leahy's death was not treated as suspicious.
Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray told the jury members they would be looking into "whether state authorities did everything they could have done to prevent his death".
The hearing, expected to last five days, continues.
The Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999 was found on Sunday in the archipelago, which is a marine reserve, carrying 300 tonnes of fish.
Most of the catch was sharks, including protected species such as hammerheads.
About 20 crew members face up to three years in prison if found guilty of trafficking protected species.
The Galapagos archipelago is an UNESCO world heritage site because of the rich bio-diversity found in the area.
Ecuador's environment minister Tarsicio Granizo said on Tuesday that a judge on the island of San Cristobal had ordered the crew to be held in custody pending court proceedings.
"Not necessarily all of the catch came from the marine reserve, but the fact that it included young sharks, even baby sharks, indicates that they could have been caught inside the reserve," the minister was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
Walter Bustos, the director of the Galapagos National Park, told Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo that the boat was the largest vessel captured inside the marine reserve.
In 2015 Ecuadorian police seized about 200,000 shark fins that were set to be exported to Asia.
Shark fin is considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisine, and is usually served as a soup at banquets. Critics say demand for fins is wiping out endangered species and fuelling illegal trafficking.
Waisake Naholo comes in on the wing and Anton Lienert-Brown at outside centre.
They replace the injured pair of Ben Smith (concussion) and Ryan Crotty (hamstring).
Ngani Laumape has also been added to the All Black's bench after the 24-year-old back impressed playing for Hurricanes in the draw with the Lions on Tuesday.
New Zealand's head coach Steve Hansen said the loss of Smith and Crotty creates an opportunity for others.
"Whilst we were happy with the win last weekend, we know that it was just a start, in what is a three-Test Series. That means the job is far from done," he added.
The Lions will be looking to bounce back after losing the first Test 30-15 in Auckland.
"We're aware the British and Irish Lions have their backs to the wall and will chuck everything at us to keep themselves alive in the series. They are a quality side who we respect immensely," added Hansen.
"In reality, last week's Test could've gone either way had they taken more of their chances."
Team: I Dagg; W Naholo, A Lienert-Brown, SB Williams, R Ioane; B Barrett, A Smith; J Moody, C Taylor, O Franks, B Retallick, S Whitelock, J Kaino, S Cane, K Read (capt).
Replacements: N Harris, W Crockett, C Faumuina, S Barrett, A Savea, TJ Perenara, A Cruden, N Laumape.
Alexander Lukashenko said those who worked fewer than 183 days per year would not be liable in 2017 - but stressed the tax would not be scrapped.
The decree - adopted in 2015 - requires those people to pay about $250 (£205) as compensation for lost tax revenues.
It triggered mass protests last month, and more rallies are planned for March.
Mr Lukashenko announced the decision to freeze the tax collection at a government meeting in the capital Minsk on Thursday.
"The decree must be adjusted during March. The decree will not be abolished," he was quoted as saying by Belarus's Belta news agency.
The president also said that those who had already paid the tax in 2016 would be fully compensated if they found a job next year.
According to the last tax inspection, 470,000 people should have paid the tax but only 50,000 had done so, Reuters news agency reports.
At the same time, the president warned that the authorities must show "tough reaction" to organisers of any future street protests against the decree.
Mr Lukashenko has run Belarus - a country where little dissent is tolerated - since 1994.
He has been described by some Western officials as "Europe's last dictator".
However, Mr Lukashenko has recently been seeking to improve ties with the West and lessen the country's dependence on Russia.
The 26-year-old, who made 37 league appearances for the Cards last season, has agreed a one-year contract with the option of a further year.
"He is more than capable of making the step back up to league football," Reds head coach Dermot Drummy said.
"In fact, he will thrive on an opportunity to establish himself again at this level."
Arthur, who has previously had spells at Northampton and AFC Wimbledon, becomes Crawley's seventh signing of the close season.
Meanwhile, 26-year-old midfielder Lewis Young has agreed a new one-year deal with the West Sussex club.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Cynthia Cheung, 21, met the men while handing out free lunch boxes she regularly makes for homeless people.
Ms Cheung, who is studying business, has used her own money to have their poems and drawings published and made available to buy as cards.
"When I met them they were such lovely people, I just wanted to help promote their talent to the world," she said.
One of the men, Jon Brown, has already had some success realising his dream of becoming an illustrator.
Through a chance meeting with an author while at his pitch outside Waterstones a year ago he secured a commission to illustrate three children's books.
Later he was asked to design a window display for Waterstones which featured a dragon he named Lucky.
"I've put the dragon into a Christmas setting for the card," said Mr Brown.
Mr Brown puts his love of illustrations down to time spent watching his grandfather at work.
"My granddad was an engraver who made embossed cards and when I was little I used to spend hours watching him work and talking to him about what he was making," he said.
"I can smell the metal now and see all the stamps and chisels he had.
"This is what I've always wanted to do."
The other artist, Brian Jones, who describes himself as "homeless not hopeless", has been a rough sleeper for more than 20 years.
His latest poem, written especially for Christmas, asks the reader to remember the poor while enjoying the best of the season with friends and family.
Ms Cheung has used her business training to source a publisher and has had 50 cards of each of two designs printed. They are being sold through her website called Fulfill Our Purpose.
"All the profits from the sale of the cards will go to the two men," she said.
The women will compete in the semi-finals after qualifying in third place from the group stage.
They will face perennial finalists the Netherlands on Wednesday.
Britain's men finished runners-up in Group B and will face Poland, who finished third in their group, in the quarter-finals on Tuesday at 17:45 BST.
The men's only defeat came against Turkey, losing 71-60 in the final match of qualifying. The Rio 2016 bronze medallists will be aiming for their fourth straight European title in Spain.
Manager Chris Hughton and chairman Tony Bloom were awarded the freedom of the city in recognition of their success at the club.
Albion will join the English game's elite next season after missing out on promotion in last season's play-offs.
The honour was previously conferred on Bloom's predecessor, Dick Knight.
Freedom of the city is an honorary title and, contrary to widespread perception, does not confer special rights on recipients.
But it is still a relatively rare honour and reinforces the warm relationship between the club and the city, which hosted a civic reception and seafront parade on Sunday, attended by an estimated 60,000 people.
Hughton, who was appointed manager in December 2014, with the club just above the relegation zone in England's second tier, kept them up in his first season before guiding them to third place last year, when they missed promotion by two goals and then lost out on a second chance of promotion via the play-offs.
This season they finished second, earning automatic promotion, which is estimated to be worth more than £160m to the club - with potentially lucrative spin-offs for the entire city.
He said it had been "a hugely emotional day".
"This is very humbling for me as someone who has only been in the city for two and a half years," he said.
Bloom has ploughed millions of pounds into the club since succeeding Knight in 2009, building a new stadium on the outskirts of the city and a top-class training complex in neighbouring Lancing.
Members of the council, which expects "huge benefits" to the city's economy from the increased profile and number of visitors, paid tribute to the pair at a special ceremony at Brighton town hall.
A club spokesman said: "It's a wonderful honour for Tony Bloom and Chris Hughton, and one both men thoroughly deserve. The joy they've bought to so many people in the city of Brighton was evident last Sunday and as a club we are extremely proud of our chairman and manager."
The 71-year-old's appointment comes after recommendations by an official report that more ex-trainers and jockeys should be used in the process.
Pitman, known for her straight talking, retired in 1998 having won two Grand Nationals and two Cheltenham Gold Cups.
She is one of 15 new members, along with former jockeys Philip Robinson and Jodie Mogford, on a 23-strong panel.
The addition of racing professionals was among changes recommended by Christopher Quinlan QC in his report last year on the BHA's integrity after the Jim Best and Matthew Lohn controversy.
Trainer Best was originally banned for four years for ordering a jockey not to win two races but his suspension was reduced to six months after the initial verdict was quashed because of "an appearance of bias".
Lohn, the solicitor who chaired the initial hearing, was carrying out other work for the BHA at the time.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
Clearly there's a whiff of poacher-turned-gamekeeper about these appointments of Jenny Pitman and co, but a QC-led review commissioned after a number of embarrassing controversies was clear that a shake-up was needed, and one of the things it identified was using more experienced ex-professionals.
Pitman became one of the best-known trainers of her generation during 20 or so years of training, which ended just under 20 years ago, a period during which she smashed through boundaries for females in an unquestionably male-dominated sport.
The reasonably smooth running of areas like discipline and licensing (of owners, trainers, jockeys etc) is vital to any sport, and there's no question that confidence in the system has been dented and does need to be rebuilt.
Jordi Gomez had put Rovers in front on his debut with 18 minutes to go with a sublime 20-yard strike.
But after Boro debutant Jordan Rhodes was introduced to face the club he left in a £9m move, Nugent levelled matters by nodding in Emilio Nsue's cross.
Hope Akpan had a clear chance to win the game for Rovers but he fired wide.
Rovers boss Paul Lambert saw his side having the better of the chances until Boro introduced new signing Rhodes, who arrived on transfer deadline day.
Blackburn's Elliott Ward had a goal ruled out for offside and Tony Watt fired wide, while Grant Leadbitter and Kike Sola went close for the hosts, who saw Daniel Ayala forced off with an ankle injury after seeing his header saved by Jason Steele.
The visitors looked the more threatening side after the restart with Darragh Lenihan going close with a couple of attempts.
And after Ben Gibson fired over, Rovers took the lead when Gomez, another deadline day signing, struck at goal from 20 yards before Nugent headed in and the former England international went close again soon after, shooting wide from distance.
Akpan should have made it 2-1 to Rovers before Rhodes tested his former team-mate Steele late on, but Blackburn held on for a deserved point.
Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka: "The first 70 minutes we didn't play with the intensity that we needed to, especially after our last two defeats.
"I thought the reaction today was going to be better, but the last 20 minutes is the only time we wanted to win or draw the game when we had a few chances.
"I know the concern, now we try to motivate them as we were two or three weeks ago. So now we try to work more and try to pick the right players."
Blackburn manager Paul Lambert: "I thought we were the better team and we should have won it, with the chances we had.
"Performance-wise I thought we were outstanding. To come here against a team trying to get out of the league is tough but we were very good.
"We coped really well, we dominated the middle of the pitch. They're a good side and they're up there on merit, but we put a lot of pressure on them."
Match ends, Middlesbrough 1, Blackburn Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Middlesbrough 1, Blackburn Rovers 1.
Attempt missed. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adam Clayton with a cross.
Attempt saved. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nsue.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Elliott Ward.
Attempt missed. Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Foul by David Nugent (Middlesbrough).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by David Nugent (Middlesbrough).
Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Spurr.
Attempt missed. Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Simeon Jackson with a headed pass.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Elliott Bennett replaces Jordi Gómez.
Attempt missed. David Nugent (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Nsue following a corner.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Corry Evans.
Goal! Middlesbrough 1, Blackburn Rovers 1. David Nugent (Middlesbrough) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nsue with a cross.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Jordan Rhodes replaces Albert Adomah.
Attempt blocked. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Albert Adomah with a cross.
Attempt missed. Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Grant Leadbitter following a set piece situation.
Jordi Gómez (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jordi Gómez (Blackburn Rovers).
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Simeon Jackson replaces Tony Watt.
Goal! Middlesbrough 0, Blackburn Rovers 1. Jordi Gómez (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Darragh Lenihan.
Attempt missed. Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Stewart Downing with a cross.
Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordi Gómez (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt missed. Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by David Nugent (Middlesbrough).
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough).
Elliott Ward (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Jordi Gómez (Blackburn Rovers).
David Nugent (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Tomas Kalas.
Attempt missed. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Danny Graham.
Attempt missed. Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Ben Marshall.
Ritchie de Laet (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, said he would table "concrete proposals" for discussion at February's summit of EU leaders in Brussels.
Should a deal be reached, it would open the possibility of a referendum on the UK's membership being held in June.
A poll must be held by the end of 2017, but the PM is thought to favour 2016.
Downing Street responded to Mr Tusk's comments by saying the process would be driven by "substance not schedule".
And a spokesman added: "But a deal in February would pave the way for getting on with this."
Mr Cameron is trying to negotiate a "better deal" for the UK in the European Union as a prelude to holding an in-out referendum on whether the UK should remain a member.
Negotiations are focused on four key areas: economic governance, sovereignty, competitiveness and curbs on EU migration to the UK.
Both sides are insisting progress is being made but that obstacles remain, particularly in relation to the UK's proposal for EU migrants to have to wait four years before being able to claim in-work benefits.
Holding a referendum in the first half of 2016 - which senior government ministers reportedly favour - effectively hinges on the other 27 EU members agreeing to the UK's proposals next month.
Mr Tusk, the former Polish prime minister who now chairs meetings of the European Council, has raised expectations of an agreement, tweeting that he would put forward detailed proposals in the run-up to the summit.
"I will work hard for deal in February, not easy but possible," he wrote. The European Council, he added, had "demonstrated willingness to look for compromises" in all four areas without "compromising fundamental values".
He told a plenary session of the European Parliament that a set of changes allowing the UK to remain in the EU was urgently needed.
"I will do everything in my power to find a satisfactory solution, also for the British side," he told MEPs. "As of today, the result of the referendum is more unpredictable than ever before. Time is of the essence here. And this is why I will work hard to strike a deal in February."
The BBC's Brussels correspondent Ben Wright said months of intensive diplomacy between London, Brussels and EU capitals will come to a head when Mr Tusk circulates draft conclusions to which he hopes every leader will agree. While a deal was expected, he said it was not inevitable.
No 10 would not be drawn on the PM's preferred referendum date after Scottish Secretary David Mundell suggested there was no obstacle to it being held in June - a stance opposed by the SNP because of its proximity to May's elections to the Scottish Parliament.
Speaking on Tuesday, UKIP leader Nigel Farage predicted a weak compromise on the issue of migrant benefits. Citing the sexual assaults on German women in Cologne on New Year's Eve, he claimed the issue of border control and the safety of British women would be central to the referendum.
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Mohsin Bhatti was stabbed several times on Botanic Avenue in January 2015.
Ahmed Noor, 33, was given an indeterminate sentence at Belfast Crown Court after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The killer had paranoid schizophrenia and was using cannabis at the time.
A judge described the killing as a "truly horrific, unprovoked and brutal" attack on a vulnerable man.
The victim was a 29-year-old asylum seeker, originally from Pakistan.
Noor, who is originally from Somalia, was armed with two knives at the time of the killing.
The court heard that Mr Bhatti died as a result of multiple stab wounds.
The seven-month-old girl was part of a group of adults and small children in pushchairs and prams when the egg was thrown at about 14:30 on Wednesday in Pittencrief Park, Dunfermline.
Police Scotland said the infant was not injured.
Sgt Kenny Bow, of Police Scotland, said: "The fact the child was unhurt during this incident is more down to luck than judgement."
He added: "While we believe that this has been done as a prank rather than out of any malice, it is extremely dangerous to drop any item from height and the consequences could have been worse for those walking below.
"We would like to remind the public, in particular, children of the risks and consequences of such reckless behaviour.
"With it being the school holidays the Glen was extremely busy and we are appealing for anyone who may have seen the culprits, or who has any information to come forward."
The rescued migrants were in 15 vessels including toy paddleboats and a jet ski and included 35 children and a baby.
The UN says more than 9,000 people have arrived in Spain so far this year - three times as many as the previous year.
More than 120 people are believed to have drowned attempting the crossing.
The increase in crossings means Spain could overtake Greece this year in terms of the number of migrants arriving by sea, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) said earlier this month.
Most are sailing across the 12km (seven-mile) Strait of Gibraltar and many are choosing cheap, child-sized paddle boats without motors that allow them to bypass people-smuggling networks and their fees.
The majority are West Africans, with Nigeria, Guinea and Ivory Coast the top countries of origin. But Bangladeshis have also been leaving North Africa in their thousands.
Unlike Syrians, Iraqis or Afghans arriving in Europe, these groups are mostly treated as economic migrants, rather than refugees.
The numbers heading for Spain are dwarfed by the boatloads that have sailed to Italy this year.
Nearly 100,000 people have crossed from Libya to Italy since the start of the year. The IOM says 2,242 people have died on that route.
In June, about 5,000 people were rescued in one day in the Mediterranean off Libya, Italian coastguards said.
But in July the number crossing to Italy dropped by 57% compared with June, according to the EU's border agency, Frontex. It was the lowest level of arrivals in July since 2014.
Frontex described three factors contributing to that fall: bad weather, clashes in areas of Libya where people-smugglers are active, and more systematic patrolling by Libyan coastguards.
Some migrants are using social media to contact the Spanish authorities and inform them of their location once they are in territorial waters, the BBC's Gavin Lee in the Spanish city of Tarifa says.
The number of migrants arriving in Spain by sea does not include those entering the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa, which are the EU's only land borders with Africa.
Both enclaves are tightly guarded, and ringed by high fences topped with razor-wire, yet migrants regularly try to storm in, usually at night.
Greece was the main Mediterranean pressure point until March 2016, when the EU reached a deal with Turkey to intercept migrant boats crossing to Greek islands near the Turkish coast.
After that, the numbers on that route dropped sharply. But tighter border controls in the Balkans also made it much harder for migrants to journey to Central Europe.
The death rate among migrants at sea is greater this year than in 2016. The Libya-Italy crossing is longer and more hazardous than the crossings to Greece or Spain.
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A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
The remains of Catherine Burns, 29, will be returned to Clonoe, near Coalisland, County Tyrone, for reburial in the summer.
A widow, she left her native shores in 1832 with her father-in-law and many others from Tyrone. All hoped for a better life in the land of free.
However, within weeks of arriving, Catherine had disappeared - murdered while working for a US railroad.
She was among 57 Irish labourers hired to build a section of railway between Philadelphia and Columbia, a worksite that would become known as Duffy's Cut.
By the end of August 1832, all the workers were dead. Some perished due to a cholera outbreak, but most were murdered.
There are a number of theories as to why they were killed, including prejudice against Irish Catholics or a fear that they would spread cholera.
Many were buried in a mass grave and forgotten for more than a century. Catherine was buried nearby but the recent discovery of further fragments of her bones has lead to a move to have her remains returned home.
Fr Benny Fee, of St Patrick's Church, Clonoe, will preside over her funeral Mass on 19 July following her repatriation.
He said her story "touches our history with people leaving Ireland for America and their hopes and desires".
"Not everyone found its streets were paved with gold."
Emigration from Ireland began as early as 1603.
However, the period of greatest emigration began about 1780 and reached its peak from 1845 to 1855, when it is thought between one and two million people left Ireland because of the potato famine.
Fr Fee said: "There's a poignancy in it of this lovely girl who went to America hoping for a new home, a new life after her husband died, but in the words of the Christy Moore song about Duffy's Cut, she went 'into hell'.
"She was one of the few females on the ship, that's how they were able to identify her.
"She was apparently bound and died from a blow with a sharp instrument."
Duffy's Cut and its story have been brought to light over the past 12 years by brothers Frank and William Watson, a Lutheran minister and a historian at Immaculata University.
They have led a team trying to uncover what happened to those 57 workers who hail from such places as Donegal, Tyrone and Derry.
Dr Frank Watson said they had used an old railroad file inherited from their grandfather to glean information.
After the mass grave was found in 2009, they sought to have the site excavated, remains identified and the cause of the emigrants' deaths determined.
"We have now recovered six bodies and reburied five in West Lauer Hill cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania in 2012, along with one in Ardara in Donegal in 2013 (John Ruddy)," he said.
"All of those recovered to this date were murdered by blunt force trauma, and one was both axed and shot in the head. None of the murdered show defensive wounds, indicating that they may have been tied up prior to being murdered.
"On July 19 my brother Bill, Earl, and I will be travelling to Clonoe, Tyrone, to bury remains of the woman that were uncovered at Duffy's Cut named Catherine Burns (born around 1803) ."
In a further tragic twist to Catherine's story, no-one has been able to trace her family because they do not know her maiden name.
Fr Fee is also unaware of any of her relatives living in the area.
He said: "It is a cause for reflection that this lady is coming back to Tyrone. It will be a privilege to conduct the funeral.
"I want to give her the dignity and value in death that she did not have in life."
The 26-year-old missed Friday's 2-1 win over Australia having sustained a calf problem during Liverpool's Europa League final loss to Sevilla.
Southampton full-back Ryan Bertrand sat out the early session as he received treatment on a knock.
Centre-back Gary Cahill recovered from a hip problem to train with the squad.
England coach Roy Hodgson initially named a 26-man squad after the final round of Premier League games, having intended to reveal his final selection on 12 May.
That was cut to 25 when Manchester City midfielder Fabian Delph was moved to the standby list after picking up an injury.
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Daw'r alwad yn sgil adolygiad i lofruddiaeth Rhys Jones a gafodd ei ladd gan ddyn oedd newydd ei ryddhau o'r carchar
Mae'r adroddiad yn cwestiynu a ddylid fod wedi ailasesu risg y llofrudd i'r cyhoedd pan gafodd ei ryddhau.
Cafodd Mr Jones, 36 oed, ei drywanu i farwolaeth gan Rhys Barnes yn Nhachwedd 2015 mewn hostel lle'r oedd y ddau yn byw yng Nghasnewydd.
Cafodd Barnes, 28, oedd a hanes o droseddu treisgar, ei garcharu am oes ym Mawrth 2016.
Ar adeg y llofruddiaeth roedd yn cael ei oruchwylio gan y Gwasanaeth Prawf Cenedlaethol ar ôl cael ei ryddhau o'r carchar. Roedd hynny ar ôl iddo gael ei asesu yn risg uchel i'w deulu ac yn risg canolog i'r cyhoedd.
Bu'n rhaid iddo ddychwelyd i'r carchar ddechrau Tachwedd am iddo dorri amodau trwydded, ond pum diwrnod ar ôl dod allan eto fe lofruddiodd Rhys Jones.
Mae adolygiad o'r digwyddiad yn holi a ddylai lefel risg Barnes i'r cyhoedd wedi cael ei ailasesu, ac a ddylid fod wedi cynnal cyfarfod o'r asiantaethau sy'n ymwneud â diogelwch y cyhoedd.
Yn ôl yr adroddiad fe ddylai staff ystyried cyfeirio carcharorion sy'n torri amodau eu trwydded at lety neu loches (sydd wedi cael sêl bendith y gwasanaeth prawf) ar ôl eu rhyddhau.
Cafodd casgliadau'r adolygiad eu rhannu gyda staff led led Cymru.
Ond bu'n rhaid i deulu Mr Jones bwyso am gael gweld yr adroddiad ar ôl clywed ar y dechrau na fyddai o fudd iddynt ei weld.
Dywedodd David Hanson, AS Delyn, ac aelod o bwyllgor dethol ar gyfiawnder yn San Steffan ei bod yn bwysig fod teuluoedd a'r cyhoedd yn gwybod beth aeth o le mewn achosion o'r fath.
"Mae hynny'n golygu fod yn rhaid i'r adroddiad gael ei gyhoeddi, hynny ar gyfer dioddefwr ond hefyd ar gyfer fel pobl fel fi sydd â diddordeb mewn sicrhau fod y drefn yn gweithio."
Un arall sy'n galw am ryddhau'r wybodaeth yw John Griffiths, AC Dwyrain Casnewydd.
"Mae angen bod yn agored er mwyn sicrhau hyder y cyhoedd, os yw pobl yn meddwl fod pethau yn cael eu cuddio mae hynny'n achosi pryder ac amheuaeth."
Daw galwad y gwleidyddion a'r undebau am gyhoeddi adolygiadau, ar ôl i'r awdurdodau ddweud bod yna oedi yn y cynlluniau i symud rheolaeth adolygiadau o'r fath i wasanaeth Arolygaeth Prawf ei Mawrhydi.
Fe wnaeth Tania Bassett, swyddog gyda Chymdeithas Genedlaethol Swyddogion Prawf, alw ar y llywodraeth i gadw at eu haddewid i symud rheolaeth adolygiadau o'r fath o'r gwasanaeth prawf i Arolygaeth Prawf ei Mawrhydi.
"Byddwn yn canmol hynny oherwydd byddai'n golygu mwy o gysondeb yn y system, a byddai'n golygu fod corff annibynnol yn edrych ar yr ymchwiliad a byddai mwy o dryloywder i'r cyhoedd. "
Dywed y Gwasanaeth Prawf Cenedlaethol: "Mae troseddau difrifol fel hyn y brin ond mae pob un yn cael eu cymryd o ddifri ac yn cael eu hymchwilio yn llawn.
"Ein blaenoriaeth yw diogelwch y cyhoedd. Cafodd adolygiad llawn ei gynnal, ac fe wnaethom weithredu ar y casgliadau."
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Fe ddylai canlyniadau ymchwiliadau i droseddau difrifol gan droseddwyr sydd newydd eu rhyddhau o'r carchar gael eu cyhoeddi er mwyn sicrhau fod gwersi yn cael eu dysgu, medd gwleidyddion ac undebau sy'n cynrychioli swyddogion y gwasanaeth prawf.
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Most polling stations are now closed but a few have stayed open for late voters in the fiercely contested presidential and parliamentary poll.
President Robert Mugabe, 89, has said he will step down after 33 years in power if he and his Zanu-PF party lose.
PM Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC says Zanu-PF doctored the electoral roll.
It said the rolls contained the names of two million dead people, and there were concerns about the number of people being turned away from polling stations. Zanu-PF denies the claims.
Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have shared an uneasy coalition government since 2009 under a deal brokered to end the deadly violence that erupted after a disputed presidential poll the previous year.
Mr Mugabe dismissed the MDC's allegations of vote-rigging as "politicking" as he voted in the capital Harare's Highfield township.
Brian Hungwe, Harare
People are queuing with enthusiasm and determination.
Most of the voters have been speaking of the hope that the outcome will make a huge difference in their lives.
The polling officers told me some voters had been turned away for various reasons, such as because their names are missing from the voters' roll in their ward.
The majority of these are newly registered voters - and party agents are having to intervene to get electoral officials to check with the electoral commission's national command centre to see if the names are on the constituency register.
If the name is verified, they can go ahead and vote, but it is a long, tedious process which voters are finding frustrating.
Thabo Kunene, Bulawayo
Hundreds braved the cold and the wind to stand in queues, which started forming as early as 04:30. A security guard said he saw some people sleeping opposite one polling station.
Women with babies strapped to their backs were being given special preference by other voters and allowed to go to the front. Women selling tea and coffee nearby made good business as those in the queues bought hot drinks to ward off the cold.
At one polling station in Makhokhoba, voting was progressing in an impressively ordered manner. People from different parties were chatting to each other and laughing but they avoided discussing who would win.
Vote around the country
"They want to find a way out," Mr Mugabe said.
"I am sure people will vote freely and fairly, there is no pressure being exerted on anyone."
Mr Tsvangirai described casting his ballot as an emotional moment "after all the conflict, the stalemate, the suspicion, the hostility".
"This is a very historic moment for us," he said.
Mr Tsvangirai won the most votes in the first round of the 2008 poll, but pulled out of the run-off with Mr Mugabe because of attacks on his supporters, which left about 200 dead.
The government barred Western observers from monitoring Wednesday's elections, but the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), as well as local organisations, have been accredited.
Polls opened at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) and had been due to close at 19:00.
However, because of the high turnout election officials said people who were still waiting in queues to vote by 19:00 would have until midnight to cast their ballots.
Results are due within five days.
Zimbabwe Election Support Network, the main domestic monitoring agency, said the vote appeared to be taking place without too many problems, Reuters news agency reports.
"There are some concerns around long queues, but generally, it's smooth," said its spokesman Thabani Nyoni.
Former Nigerian President Olesegun Obasanjo, who heads a group of African Union monitors, said the elections seemed credible.
"It's been quiet, it's been orderly. The first place I called in this morning, they opened prompt at seven o'clock and there haven't been any serious incidents that... would not reflect the will of the people." he told Reuters.
Big queues have been reported across the country, but there have been numerous complaints that voters were unable to find their names on the electoral roll.
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According to villagers, MDC polling agents and local election observers, some irregularities were recorded in parts of rural Masvingo district.
Traditional leaders and village heads are alleged to have lined up residents, forcibly marched them to the polling stations and given them voting numbers as if to cross-check who they had voted for.
There are also suggestions that in these rural areas some literate people were forced to pretend they could not read or write and were assisted to cast their vote in favour of Zanu-PF.
On Tuesday, the MDC accused Zanu-PF of doctoring the roll of registered voters, which was released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) only on the eve of the polls after weeks of delay.
The MDC claimed the roll dated back to 1985 and was full of anomalies.
A BBC correspondent has seen the document and says it features the names of thousands of dead people.
MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti said there were as many as two million such names, while some genuine voters were not finding their names on the rolls.
"The greatest worry which we have is the number of persons that are being turned away," he added.
A Zanu-PF spokesman denied the allegations and pointed out that appointees from both parties were on Zec. He also accused Mr Biti, who is Finance Minister, of not funding the commission properly. Zec has not commented.
In addition to Mr Mugabe and Mr Tsvangirai, there are three other candidates standing for the presidency - Welshman Ncube, leader of the breakaway MDC-Mutambara; Dumiso Dabengwa of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu), and Kisinoti Munodei Mukwazhe, who represents the small Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP).
To be declared a winner, a presidential candidate must win more than 50% of the vote. If no candidate reaches this mark, a run-off will be held on 11 September.
The elections will be the first to be held under the new constitution approved in a referendum in March this year.
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Northern states are the focus, with both candidates due to appear in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Mr Trump believes a recent rise in polls can help him win states formally seen as Democratic strongholds.
Mrs Clinton will continue to use A-list supporters, buoyed by two polls on Sunday giving her a 4-5 point lead.
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Sunday's campaign stops take Mrs Clinton to Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, while Mr Trump travels to Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
A new NBC/Wall St Journal opinion poll on Sunday suggested a four-point lead for Mrs Clinton.
The latest Washington Post/ABC tracking poll puts her lead at five points.
Mrs Clinton's latest A-list backer - in the wake of Beyonce, Jay Z and Katy Perry - will be basketball star LeBron James.
Mrs Clinton will appear with him in Cleveland, home town of his NBA champion Cavaliers.
She also plans to appear in Manchester, Ohio, with Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen US Muslim soldier, who delivered an emotional attack on Mr Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
Her first stop was in the mainly African American congregation of Mount Airy Church of God in Christ in Philadelphia.
African American turnout could be key in the election. Black clergy have begun a "souls to the poll" campaign to urge people to get out and vote.
More than 40 million early voters have already cast their ballots. Reports suggest many more Latino voters are turning out early in battleground states including Florida, Arizona and Nevada compared to past elections.
Mr Trump is heading into another marathon day of campaigning, hoping to further tighten the gap in states he now believes he can win.
In his first stop in Iowa, he said that if Mrs Clinton were elected there would be an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" over the allegations she faces over her handling of sensitive material during her time as secretary of state.
He cited new claims in the New York Post that Mrs Clinton had directed her maid to print out sensitive and classified emails for her to read at home.
Mrs Clinton has seen her lead slip following last week's FBI announcement that it was looking into emails that may be connected to her use of a private email server while secretary of state.
Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Mr Trump would keep up his breakneck speed right into election day on Tuesday, when he would visit Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and New Hampshire.
Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence said: "Our secret weapon is the American people who are saying 'enough is enough'."
Hillary Clinton's chief strategist, John Podesta, said on Sunday that she would focus on Nevada and Michigan, adding that if she won those two in particular, "Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president of the United States."
He said: "We're feeling very solid going into this last weekend."
Mr Podesta also accused Mr Trump of being an advocate of Russian foreign policy and rejecting the bipartisan US approach.
On Saturday evening, Mr Trump was briefly rushed off stage by Secret Service agents at a rally in Reno, Nevada, in a false alarm.
A man holding a sign saying Republicans Against Trump was tackled by security agents.
The Secret Service later confirmed that someone in front of the stage had shouted "gun", but that "upon a thorough search of the subject and the surrounding area, no weapon was found".
Austyn Crites, the man at the centre of the disturbance, said he was attacked when he brought out his sign.
"I keep repeating - I'm down, someone is trying to choke me - and I'm saying to these people; 'There is no gun, I just have a sign'," Mr Crites explained after the incident.
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Arthur Wharton came to the UK from Ghana in the 1880s and was signed by Darlington at the age of 19.
He went on to play as a goalkeeper for Preston North End, Rotherham Town, Sheffield United and Stockport County.
The 16ft (4.8 metre) bronze statue is due to be unveiled at the centre in Staffordshire in May.
Wharton moved to Darlington with the intention of training as a Methodist missionary but opted instead to become a full-time athlete.
In 1886 he became the Amateur Athletics Association's national 100-yard running champion, before turning to football.
He died in a workhouse sanatorium in 1930.
The statue, by acclaimed sculptor Vivien Mallock and commissioned by the Darlington-based Arthur Wharton Foundation, was originally intended to be erected in his home town.
But foundation founder Shaun Campbell said the opportunity to have it at the National Football Centre was a testament to Wharton's importance in the sport.
"We are hugely honoured and privileged to have received such fantastic support from the FA throughout our campaign helping raise awareness of Arthur's achievements," Mr Campbell said.
FA chairman Greg Dyke said: "We're delighted not only to give Arthur a permanent home but to tell his story. Everyone who visits our wonderful facility will learn of his significance historically, and his remarkable achievements."
The statue will be flanked by education materials, including a film and exhibition on the significance of Wharton historically and in 2014.
A second statue is due to be put up at the New York Stadium, home of Rotherham United, later in the year and a further sculpture is also planned for Darlington.
The Devon side got a bonus-point win at Welford Road on Friday, leaving Leicester fifth with five games to go.
Tigers have a record 10 league titles, but face missing out on the play-offs for the first time since 2004.
"Leicester are in an awkward situation and I do feel a little bit for their coaching staff," Baxter told BBC Devon.
"They're wanting to evolve and they're wanting to change a little bit, and that's actually pretty difficult to do when your base line is being in Premiership finals every year and finishing in the top four.
"They are going to have a few tough moments to weather, and they're just going to have to be strong and weather it."
Baxter's side were Premiership runners-up last season and have not lost in the league since October.
Aaron Mauger is interim head coach at Leicester following the sacking of Richard Cockerill in January.
"The foundations here are very strong and at the moment it's just for them to weather the storm, be tough and just keep working hard," added Baxter.
"Look at this place - it's a hell of a stadium, there's a hell of a crowd here and they will come through it."
Sharbat Gula, whose haunting green eyes made her famous as a child refugee, is accused of procuring fake ID papers.
"I think I will have to review this case because she is a woman and we should see it from a humanitarian angle," Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said.
She faces up to 14 years in jail.
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) should arrange bail as soon as possible.
However, he added: "If we withdraw charges against her, deport her, or give her a temporary visa to leave Pakistan, then we will have to take back cases against the officials who issued her fake ID card. They are the real culprits, and I do not want to let them off the hook in any manner."
Mrs Gula's bail hearing is due to take place on Tuesday.
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Pakistan recently launched a crackdown against fake IDs, and Mrs Gula was arrested after a two-year probe in Peshawar, near the Afghan border.
Mrs Gula allegedly applied for an identity card in April 2014, using the name Sharbat Bibi. If the fraud claims are true, she is one of thousands of Afghan refugees deploying desperate measures to avoid returning to their war-torn homeland.
The celebrated "Afghan girl" picture was taken by photographer Steve McCurry in 1984 in a refugee camp in north-west Pakistan, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It led to one of the most recognisable magazine covers ever printed.
After hearing of Mrs Gula's arrest, Mr McCurry posted the iconic picture on Instagram and wrote: "Two hours ago, I got word from a friend in Peshawar, Pakistan, that Sharbat Gula has been arrested. We are doing everything we can to get the facts by contacting our colleagues and friends in the area.
"I am committed to doing anything and everything possible to provide legal and financial support for her and her family."
Recent UN figures show that Pakistan hosts 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees. A further one million unregistered refugees are believed to be in the country.
An earlier headline on this story incorrectly stated that Sharbat Gula had already been bailed, but in fact her case has not yet been heard.
The opening Test will take place in Brisbane on 11 June, with the second match in Melbourne a week later and the final game in Sydney on 25 June.
England, who beat the Wallabies 26-17 at Twickenham in November last year, have not toured Australia since 2010.
The teams, who first faced each other in 1909, will meet in Pool A of the World Cup on Saturday, 3 October.
Australian Rugby Union chief executive Bill Pulver said: "It is remarkable that Australia and England have never before played a three-match series and the history of this occasion is sure to add to the anticipation for the tour."
The Olympic long jump champion, 29, has withdrawn from the Sheffield meeting after suffering a chest infection.
He was also forced to miss last Saturday's Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix with a small muscle tear.
"Sadly I won't be jumping in Sheffield this weekend," Rutherford said.
"I've had a chest infection on top of the small injury so it's a no-go, but the aim is still the World Indoors.
"It took two jumps to break the British indoor record and I'm aiming for all six jumps in Portland."
Rutherford, who is also current World, European and Commonwealth champion, jumped 8.26 metres in Albuquerque earlier this month and lies second in the world rankings.
The World Indoors take place in Portland, Oregon, from 17-20 March.
The 25-year-old joined Chesterfield in May 2016 from Grimsby, where he played under Paul Hurst, now Shrewsbury manager.
Nolan has also played for Stockport County, Lincoln and Wrexham.
He has signed a three-year deal and becomes the League One side's third summer signing, after strikers Lenell John-Lewis and Arthur Gnahoua.
Having kept hold of defender Mat Sadler, 32, and winger Shaun Whalley, 29, Hurst is still waiting on offers made to teenage keeper Shaun Rowley and 21-year-old midfielder Bryn Morris.
But midfielder Gary Deegan has left to join Cambridge United.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is contributing 1bn euros, says they are "challenging" and will require "great efforts" from its population.
They will mean a doubling of taxes on interest income to 30% and a rise in corporation tax from 10% to 12.5%.
The plan, designed to stabilise the banking system and government finances, was agreed in principle last week.
Cyprus's new finance minister Harris Georgiades, speaking on his first day in the post, said he was determined to honour the country's commitments: "The responsibility is great, and the expectations of our citizens greater. Our promise is that we will make every effort for what is best for the nation. Under your guidance I am sure we will succeed."
His appointment followed the resignation of Michalis Sarris on Tuesday.
The plans for the two largest banks, Bank of Cyprus and Laiki, are especially controversial in Cyprus, as they will involve heavy losses for depositors with large balances in their accounts.
The IMF, which is providing 10% of the bailout money, said 95% of account holders would be protected.
The majority of accounts have less than 100,000 euros in them, which will not be affected.
However, depositors with more than 100,000 euros will lose some of their savings. Although the exact amount has still not been decided, reports have said they could lose up to 60%.
Cyprus agreed last week to shut down Laiki and transfer deposits of under 100,000 euros to Bank of Cyprus.
Restrictions on the amount of money that can be withdrawn daily are still in place.
At present, there is a daily cash withdrawal limit of 300 euros and a cap of 1,000 euros on the amount that can be taken out of the country.
Mr Georgiades said the restrictions would be lifted ``gradually'.'
The IMF's managing director, Christine Lagarde, said the country would need to pull together: "This is a challenging programme that will require great efforts from the Cypriot population."
She added that its aim was to spread the pain, and "seek to distribute the burden of the adjustment fairly among the various segments of the population and to protect the most vulnerable groups".
Cyprus is in recession, with unemployment at around 15% and gross domestic product (GDP) down by 3.5% this year.
The country is already planning to introduce austerity measures equivalent to 5% of GDP between 2013-15 through tax rises and spending cuts, but Ms Lagarde said further measures were needed.
She said the corporation tax increase and raising of the tax on interest rates to 30% would help bring in another 2% of GDP.
In order to tackle its debt, additional cuts worth 4.5% of GDP would also be needed over the medium term to reach the target of a budget surplus of 4% of GDP by 2018, the IMF said.
The country's President, Nicos Anastasiades, warned there would be "difficult days ahead" that demanded a collective effort.
The IMF said the reform programme would also lead to changes in banking supervision and transparency.
Cyprus's banking system has been seen by some as a haven for firms, particularly Russian businesses, who wish to avoid close scrutiny of their affairs.
The IMF said that the international rescue effort, which also involves the European Union (EU) and the European Central Bank (ECB), would be "well paced".
BBC economics correspondent Andrew Walker says that appears to be a response to criticism that austerity policies in some countries have led to excessive economic damage.
The IMF's contribution will need to be ratified by its board in the coming weeks.
A spokesman for the European Commission, Olivier Bailly, said the bailout would also need parliamentary approval from several of Cyprus's eurozone partners.
Powys council is considering closing Gwernyfed and Brecon schools to create a single school and doing the same at Llandrindod and Builth Wells schools.
The changes could be put in place for the start of the September 2017 term but hundreds of parents and pupils have aired their concerns.
If approved, the changes could cut costs and tackle surplus places.
Opponents are concerned about the distance some will have to travel to get to the next nearest school.
The council started the consultation in April and extended it from May to June.
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The Norwegian's farewell brought goals from six players aged 24 or under, including 16-year-old Jack Aitchison.
"It's an emotional day, a fantastic day in every way," he told BBC Scotland. "We played very, very well with a very young team and scored seven goals.
"There is so much talent here and these guys can be great in the future."
Left-back Kieran Tierney, 18, celebrated his first goal for the club on his 33rd appearance of an outstanding debut season that also included a first outing for Scotland.
Patrick Roberts, 19, curled in his fourth goal in as many matches, while Ryan Christie, 21, was also on the scoresheet in only his sixth game under Deila since returning from a loan spell at former club Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
But the highlight was a goal with his first touch from Aitchison, who at 16 years and 71 days became the youngest player to represent Celtic in a competitive match.
"The academy is a very important part of this club," Deila noted. "They have done a very good job.
"It is so good to get the youngsters on the pitch and for them to perform so well."
Aitchison, who had only been on the field for barely a minute, ran onto a through ball and calmly fired home a left-footed shot in the 78th minute.
"It is brilliant. Scoring with my first touch was an amazing feeling," he said.
"I was supposed to be in for recovery work and then I got called into the squad to train yesterday - and then the match squad today.
"It is amazing. I have been dreaming of this since I was a wee boy.
"There was a great atmosphere when I scored - I didn't know what to do!
"I just need to keep working hard and hopefully I will get more opportunities like this."
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She went on to report on conflicts across the world but it was that moment that defined her career.
She was by no means the first female war reporter, but her depth of technical, tactical and strategic insight set her apart.
And, even as she approached her 11th decade, she still kept her passport by her bed in case she should be called to another assignment.
Clare Hollingworth was born in Leicester on 10 October 1911 and spent most of her childhood on a farm. What should have been idyllic years were overshadowed by World War One.
"I remember the German bombers flying over the farm we lived in to bomb Loughborough," she reminisced. "And the next day we got Polly the pony and took the trap into Loughborough to see the damage they had done. "
She had set her heart on a writing career early on, much to the exasperation of her mother.
"She didn't believe anything journalists wrote and thought they were only fit for the tradesmen's entrance."
After school she attended a domestic science college in Leicester, which instilled in her a lifelong hatred of housework.
More interesting to her by far were the battlefield tours that her father arranged to sites as diverse as Naseby, Poitiers and Agincourt.
Eschewing the prospect of life as a country squire's wife, Hollingworth became a secretary at the League of Nations Union before studying at London University's School of Slavonic Studies and the University of Zagreb.
In 1936 she married a fellow League of Nations worker, Vandeleur Robinson, but soon found herself in Warsaw, distributing aid to refugees who had fled from the Sudetenland, the Czech territory occupied by the Nazis in 1938.
She had written the occasional article for the New Statesman and, on a brief visit to London in August 1939, she was signed up by the editor of the Daily Telegraph, Arthur Wilson, who was impressed by her experience in Poland.
In this period of heightened tension, the border between Poland and Germany was sealed to all but diplomatic vehicles. After borrowing a car from the British consul in Katowice and proudly displaying the union jack, she drove through the exclusion zone and into Germany.
While driving back to Poland, having bought wine, torches and as much film as possible, she passed through a valley in which huge hessian screens had been erected.
As the wind blew one of the screens back, it revealed thousands of troops, together with tanks and artillery, all facing the Polish border.
Her report featured on the front page of the Daily Telegraph on 29 August, 1939. Less than a week after becoming a full-time journalist, she had scooped one of the biggest stories of the 20th Century.
Three days later, Hollingworth saw the German tanks rolling into Poland. But when she phoned the secretary at the British Embassy in Warsaw, he told her it could not be true as negotiations between Britain and Germany were still continuing.
"So I hung the telephone receiver out of the window," Hollingworth later recalled, "So he could listen to the Germans invading."
Working on her own, often behind enemy lines, with nothing more than a toothbrush and a typewriter, she witnessed the collapse of Poland before moving to Bucharest, where she realised that her marriage was over.
"I thought that for me - and in a different kind of way for him - my career was more important than trying to rush back home," she reflected later.
Hollingworth spent a busy war in Turkey, Greece and Cairo. When Montgomery - who could not stomach the idea of a woman reporting from the front - captured Tripoli in 1943, he ordered her to return to Cairo.
She decided to attach herself to Eisenhower's forces, then in Algiers.
Though diminutive and bespectacled, Hollingworth was as tough as nails. She learned how to fly and made a number of parachute jumps.
During the latter part of the war, she reported from Palestine, Iraq and Persia, where she interviewed the young Shah.
After the war, Hollingworth, by now working for the Observer and the Economist, married Geoffrey Hoare, the Times's Middle East correspondent.
The couple were just 300 yards from Jerusalem's King David Hotel when it was bombed in 1946, killing 91 British troops.
The attack left her with a hatred of the man behind the attack, the Irgun leader Menachem Begin, who eventually became prime minister of Israel and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
"I would not shake a hand with so much blood on it," she explained.
In 1963 Hollingworth was working for the Guardian in Beirut when Kim Philby, a correspondent for the Observer, disappeared.
She was convinced that he was the fabled "third man" in a British spy ring that already included Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.
After some detective work, she discovered that Philby had left on a Soviet ship bound for Odessa and filed copy to that effect with the Guardian.
But this second huge scoop was spiked by the paper's editor, Alastair Hetherington, who feared a libel suit.
Three months later, the Guardian ran the story, tucked away on an inside page. The following day the Daily Express splashed it on the front page, prompting the government to admit that Philby had, indeed, defected to the Soviet Union.
Hollingworth reported on the Algerian crisis and the Vietnam War. She was one of the first journalists to predict that American military muscle would not prevail and that a stalemate was inevitable.
She made a special effort to speak to Vietnamese civilians, away from the watching eyes of the US PR people, to ensure she accurately captured the views of those who were suffering the most.
Hoare died in 1966, and Hollingworth, who had become the Telegraph's first Beijing correspondent in 1973, retired to Hong Kong in 1981.
She spent her final years in the former colony and was a daily fixture at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, venerated by her colleagues.
Although she lost her sight later in life, Clare Hollingworth, a true journalist's journalist, retained an acute interest in world affairs right to the end.
She was once asked where she would want to go if the phone rang with a new assignment.
"I would look through the papers," she said, "And say, 'Where's the most dangerous place to go?', because it always makes a good story."
Rowett had led the Blues to seventh in the Championship before his exit.
The Cumbrians are currently in talks with an overseas party with regard to a financial involvement in the club.
"We need to nail down what happens, because we're quite happy with [boss] Keith Curle," Clibbens said.
He told BBC Radio Cumbria: "I don't know the details [of the Rowett departure] but these are the realities of the world.
"Having a load of cash is only part of what we need to deal with here."
Carlisle have been linked with new investment for almost two years, while recent negotiations have accelerated to a point where finer details are being discussed.
On the field, manager Curle has assembled a team which is two points behind leaders Plymouth and second in League Two after 21 games.
"The investor has outlined his overall vision of what he thinks he would do with his club," Clibbens added. "We've got to drill down and see what that means in reality.
"That, being brutal, means right down to who will manage the team."
It was thrown while police were attending a road traffic accident in Castlemara Drive at about 01:05 BST on Sunday.
Insp Mick Wood said although no injuries or damage was caused, the attack had to be condemned.
"A police officer should never come under attack while simply doing their job," he said.
"The police service belongs to the whole community and police officers are there to serve and protect the whole community."
He appealed for anyone with information to contact police.
Murray, who has worked to grow tennis across Great Britain, has been recognised for services to tennis, women in sport and charity.
Stanning, who retired in 2016, is recognised for services to rowing.
Ireland rugby union captain Rory Best and former England coach Dick Greenwood will also become OBEs.
Northern Ireland football captain Steven Davis, former Great Britain rugby league coach Brian Noble and boxer John Conteh are appointed MBEs.
Also made an MBE is hockey coach Danny Kerry, who led Great Britain's women to Olympic gold in Rio last summer.
Murray, 57, is the third member of her family to be honoured after her sons Andy and Jamie became a knight and an OBE respectively.
She was the Great Britain Fed Cup coach from 2011 to 2016 and has coached numerous players, as well as mentoring Davis Cup captain Leon Smith.
"I've seen first hand that your role models are important - that they inspire and excite - but sport is only as good as its grassroots," she told BBC Sport.
"I was so determined that there would be a legacy from what Jamie and Andy had achieved and I felt I could have much more long-term effect by sharing everything I've learnt over my coaching career with as many people as I could."
The Scot has worked to introduce more young women to tennis, setting up the Miss-Hits programme in 2014 and heading up the Lawn Tennis Association's She Rallies initiative.
She also fronts the Tennis on the Road programme, which brings the sport to deprived areas in Scotland.
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Stanning and her rowing partner Helen Glover became GB's first female rowers to win back-to-back Olympic golds when they retained the coxless pairs title in Rio after their London 2012 triumph.
She ended her career having not lost a single race alongside Glover since they teamed up at the 2011 World Championships.
Ireland hooker Best, who has made 104 international appearances, also led his country to their first ever win over New Zealand in November.
"It's not just a reflection of my rugby ability. There are better players than me, but it's also hopefully a reflection of the person you are," Best said.
"It would be humbling to think that you can be considered more than just being able to play rugby."
Team GB swimming coach Bill Furniss and England Hockey chair Philip Kimberley have also been appointed OBEs, with the head of Sport England, Jennie Price, becoming a CBE.
Great Britain's women won a first Olympic hockey gold in Rio in 2016, while Team GB's swimmers ended the pool events with their best haul of six medals.
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE):
Jennie Price, for services to sport, especially increasing women and girls' participation.
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE):
Judy Murray, for services to tennis, women in sport and charity; Heather Stanning, MBE, for services to rowing; Rory Best, for services to national and international rugby; Bill Furniss, for services to swimming; Dick Greenwood, for services to national and international rugby; Philip Kimberley, for services to hockey; Laura Smith, for services to disability sport.
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE):
John Conteh, for services to boxing; Scott Hann, for services to gymnastics; Brian Noble, for services to rugby league and charity; Steven Davis, for services to football; Michelle Adams, for services to girls' and women's football in Wales; Andy Banks, for services to diving; Terry Flanagan, for services to rugby league and charity in the north west; Natalie Gilmour, for services to women's rugby league; Daniel Kerry, for services to women's hockey; Diane Lampard, for services to equestrianism; Angela Malone, for services to wheelchair curling; Peter Nicol, for services to the Highland Games, the economy and voluntary service in the north of Scotland; Jonathan Rea, for services to motorcycle racing; Dr Alan Stanfield, for services to curling.
The Blood Swept Lands And Seas of Red exhibition, by artist Paul Cummins, involves 888,246 ceramic poppies planted in the dry moat at the Tower.
A poppy has been made for each British and Colonial death during the conflict.
The first ceramic poppy was planted last month, with the final one due to be installed on Armistice Day.
During the visit, Prince William was heard telling the artwork's creator the piece was "spectacular".
Mr Cummins said he was inspired by a line from the will of a Derbyshire serviceman who died in Flanders.
In the will the soldier describes "the blood swept lands and seas of red, where angels fear to tread".
Britain declared war on Germany at 23:00 on 4 August 1914, with thousands of soldiers engaged in the bloodiest conflict the world had known until the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918.
The Tower of London was where more than 1,600 men swore an oath to the crown after enlisting for war.
It was also used as a military depot, ceremonial setting-off point for regiments who had been stationed there and the execution location for 11 German spies.
The poppies are currently being sold for £25 each, which it is hoped will raise an estimated £15m for six armed forces charities.
General Lord Dannatt, former head of the Armed Forces and Constable of the Tower of London, said: "This is incredible and it's really moving.
"This installation, when it's complete... brings it home individually. It was a life lost, a family ruined, a community shattered. And I think it's absolutely right that in the mass, you pick out the individuals."
Lord Dannatt said he hoped the poppies would go "right across the land, right across the world" after their sale.
He said: "The money raised will be important because it can go to help the wounded, injured and sick of our current generation, so I think the previous generation will be very pleased that their sacrifice has produce this.
"It's a wonderful coming together over the 100 years."
Chief Yeoman Alan Kingshott, who is overseeing the planting of the poppies, said about 140,000 had so far been planted, although some had been broken during the process because they were so delicate.
He said: "It's so devastating when you break it because it's representing a life.
"They have to be treated with care and it's a long process to actually plant them and so it's not a thing you can do lightly."
The visit to the Tower by members of the Royal Family comes a day after they joined political leaders and relatives of the fallen to remember the sacrifices and losses exactly a century on from Britain's entry into the war.
A "lights out" event on Monday saw people across the country invited to turn off their lights for an hour until 23:00, the time war was declared in 1914.
More than 60 firefighters battled the blaze at the property run by Global Hygiene, an industrial cleaning supply firm, on Astonfields Industrial Estate.
Children evacuated from two nearby primary schools are back in class and neighbours have returned home after the fire caused explosions on Wednesday.
The cause is being investigated, Staffordshire Fire Service said.
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One man working at Global Hygiene suffered minor burns to his hands but there were no other casualties, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.
Drummond Road has now reopened at the junction with Astonfields Road.
St Patrick's Catholic Primary and Nursery School and John Wheeldon Primary School, which both closed early due to smoke and fumes, are open.
Glynn Luznyj, from West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service, said the blaze had burned for hours due to flammable substances on site.
"A ruptured gas main into the building was fuelling the fire... there was 40,000 litres of mixed oil contained in the building which was feeding the fire."
Emergency crews were able to contain the fire by Wednesday afternoon, after it was first reported by staff at about 08:45 GMT.
Only two people needed emergency accommodation from Staffordshire County Council.
Jill Hewkin, who stayed at her daughter's house in Wolverhampton, said: "I was at work... and I got a call saying there was a big explosion and I needed to get back.
"As I was driving I could see the smoke for miles and the closer I got the thicker and blacker it was.
"I started to panic because it is literally a stone's throw from my door. It was horrific."
The fire service said it had scaled back the response to two crews as the site was still smouldering.
After three lost days following heavy rain, a noon inspection was planned for Wednesday's scheduled final day.
But umpires Richard Illingworth and Ian Gould had no option but to abandon, with both teams awarded five points.
Neither side will now play any Championship cricket until 24 April.
They do not have games in the second round of fixtures, which start this Sunday.
Worcestershire have England's Moeen Ali available for the trip to play Gloucestershire at Bristol, while Kent are again on their travels - against Leicestershire at Grace Road.
It is the first time New Road has seen a complete washout in the County Championship in nine years when, in mid-summer, following the 2007 flood, Worcestershire lost successive games against Kent and Lancashire.
They then decamped 14 miles to Chester Road, Kidderminster for the remainder of that season's four-day fixtures. But that option is no longer open to them as the county made the decision that they wanted to stay within the city of Worcester.
Flagge Meadow, home of Worcester Royal Grammar School, situated across the city on the other side of the River Severn, is now their 'second home' - and has suffered the same amount of rainfall this week.
It was the second earliest ever start to a Championship season at Nee Road (the home game with Yorkshire in 2012 began on 8 April). But it is the first time in more than a century that Worcester's opening fixture has been totally abandoned, although a meeting with Bill Lawry's Australian touring team also failed to get under way in May 1968.
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Sport:
"Let's make sure we get things right here. This is nothing to do with the river. There is a water table that is incredibly high. That is what is affecting us at the moment, the saturation of the whole area.
"When we practised, this ground was looking good, ready for Sunday. Everything was all stations go. Sadly for us, we then had a lot of overnight rain.
"But I'm very disappointed. I've got a different view to the way the umpires read it. It doesn't matter what I think, but I think we could have played some cricket.
"In the older days, I'm not saying it was right, but if you got the two captains to agree, then generally we played but that rule is no more. Now it's totally down to the umpires and, if they don't agree, we don't play."
Umpire Richard Illingworth, ex-Worcestershire spinner, told BBC Sport:
"The ground needs a few more days like this to get it into a starting position.
"Both Ian Gould and myself turned up on the first day and didn't think there would be any issues.
"We unpacked and got ready for the start of play. It was only when we went out at half past nine, when we realised that the ground was not fit for purpose."
United paid Monaco £36m to sign Martial on transfer deadline day.
The 19-year-old forward could end up costing £58m with various add-ons.
Speaking at a private function for United's executive ticket holders on Wednesday, Van Gaal said Martial would be of more use to the man who takes over when the Dutchman's contract expires in 2017.
"He is for the next manager," said the 64-year-old.
Van Gaal believes that man will be his current assistant and former Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs.
Speaking to an invited audience of about 1,000 for 40 minutes at Lancashire's Old Trafford cricket ground, Van Gaal said he "feels" Giggs will be his successor.
Although Van Gaal has previously backed Giggs as a future United boss, the club's hierarchy have not confirmed that is their intention.
Giggs joined Van Gaal on stage at one point to answer pre-submitted questions.
The Dutchman praised United's supporters for sticking with him last season when results, especially in the early weeks of his tenure, were poor.
He also said Wayne Rooney, England's new top goalscorer, was one of the best captains he had ever worked with and that he now looked at Sir Bobby Charlton, whose record his captain has just taken, with greater affection having become more aware of his career achievements.
Asked about France international Martial, Van Gaal said: "The fee is ridiculous."
Martial had completed just four 90-minute appearances prior to the start of the season, and Van Gaal added: "The problem is when Manchester United try to sign a player, it costs £10m more. When we are selling one, the clubs always want to get them for less."
There were no questions on the future of goalkeeper David De Gea, whose agent Jorge Mendes was at United's training ground on Thursday.
The 24-year-old saw a move to Real Madrid collapse on transfer deadline day and is expected to be back in the squad to face Liverpool on Saturday (17.30 BST kick-off).
United are reported to be considering offering the Spaniard, twice the club's player's player of the year, a new contract with a release clause.
Meanwhile, it has been suggested that a delegation of senior players spoke to Van Gaal several weeks ago about his rigid approach and training ground methods.
The Dutchman surprised his players by making them train before they could go home upon their arrival back in Manchester from the club's pre-season tour of the United States.
And several national newspapers claim dissatisfaction among the first team squad with the Dutchman's inflexible style of play has also been raised.
United have declined to comment.
Cancer Research UK said the increase in malignant melanoma rates could reflect tanning behaviour in the 1970s era of cheap package holidays and sunbeds.
It said Wales has seen one of the biggest increases in the UK.
"It's possible that in Wales people are less aware of the dangers or have had a higher exposure," said a spokeswoman.
Cancer Research UK said its figures show there are currently about 27 cases of malignant melanoma per 100,000 people in the 50-59 age group in Wales.
This compared to around six people per 100,000 at the end of the 1970s, the charity said.
Malignant melanoma is now the fifth most common cancer among people in their 50s in Wales, while it was the 19th most common 30 years ago, the charity added.
Yinka Ebo, senior health information officer with Cancer Research UK, said the charity did not know the exact reasons behind the dramatic increase.
But she said: "We can perhaps single out one reason.
"It could have something to do with a change in tanning culture.
"In the 1970s there was an explosion of cheap package holidays and also the introduction of sunbeds.
"Malignant melanoma, like many cancers, can take years or decades to develop, so these figures could be a result of past behaviour."
Ms Ebo said that 30 years ago there had been less awareness of the need to protect the skin from the sun.
"This was when today's over-50s were in their teens or 20s, so it could be a reflection of that," she said.
"However, there has been an increase across all age groups."
Tony Fitzgerald, 67, from Swansea, was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in June 2003, when he had a mole checked at a Cancer Research UK clinic.
"It was just by chance I asked one of the nurses to take a look as I was concerned about its size and shape," he said.
"She told me to go and see my GP as the mole looked different to the rest I had.
"I am so glad I went along when I did as catching the disease in the early stages is so important.
"I know if my cancer hadn't been caught early, things could have been very different for me."
Ms Ebo said the figures showed that Wales had seen one of the highest increases across the UK.
"The figures tell us about the numbers being diagnosed with malignant melanoma. What they do not tell us is why.
"We know what the main causes of skin cancer are - exposure to UV and sunbeds."
Cancer Research UK is working with Tesco to launch a new leaflet campaign to raise awareness of the early signs of malignant melanoma.
Karen Davies, of the charity, said: "If people are diagnosed when the cancer is in the early stages, before it has had a chance to spread around the body, treatment is more likely to be successful.
"Through our campaign with Tesco, we want to highlight the signs and symptoms of skin cancer and encourage people to visit their doctor promptly if they notice any unusual changes in their skin."
The Welsh government said its Cancer Delivery Plan, published in June, had stressed the importance of individuals taking responsibility for their health where possible.
A spokesman said: "We know people can reduce their risk of cancer by changing their lifestyles: not drinking as much alcohol; stopping smoking; improving their diet; increasing levels of physical activity, and taking steps to protect themselves from sun damage.
He added: "Wales has the highest rate of improved survival in the UK in recent years, with uptake of cancer screening programmes here among the highest in Europe."
Fighting broke out in a stand behind one of the goals just before the match began in Vilnius.
Local police quickly intervened, forming a barrier between fans to prevent the violence escalating.
Some England fans appeared to have purchased tickets for sections of the ground designated for home supporters.
BBC Radio 5 live reporter Alan Green reported he had seen missiles being thrown by fans.
England won 3-0 with goals from Ross Barkley and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, either side of an own goal from Lithuania keeper Giedrius Arlauskis.
Victory means Roy Hodgson's side have won all 10 of their qualifying matches for next summer's European Championship in France.
The primary school in West Bromwich dates back to 1878 and the name reflects the links of its former site to the manufacture of gun parts.
But a recent spike in gun crime across the Birmingham led governors to consider a name change.
It will be known as Hanbury Primary from September 2017.
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Dawn Cooper, head teacher, said: Many visitors to the school from outside the area have expressed surprise at the school's name and frequently it is misspelt as 'Gunns' in correspondence due to the disbelief that a school carries the name 'Guns' within its title."
She claimed staff were hindered when using IT systems as use of the word "guns" would see them blocked by sites.
A petition against the change attracted several hundred signatures.
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Or maybe not. The scoreboard at the end might have looked familiar, and so too the championship standings: England winners 36-15, back on top of the Six Nations table, Italy with a third defeat in three, Wooden Spoon being readied once again.
Very little else was, once Italy had released their version of chaos theory upon the world.
It was a simple idea. Do not commit anyone to the breakdown after the initial tackle. No ruck is therefore formed. The offside law is thus irrelevant, and you can stand anywhere you like - between opposition scrum-half and fly-half, between 10 and 12, maybe on both sides of the scrum-half while pulling faces, if you fancy it.
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Simple, and not actually that novel. The Chiefs have done it in Super Rugby. It can happen in Sevens. Australia captain David Pocock tried something similar against Ireland last autumn, and nearly created a try from it.
England, however, were as ready for it as Don Bradman was for Bodyline, or Scott Styris in 2008 when Kevin Pietersen swapped hands on his bat handle and switch-hit him for six.
On the pitch they were first confused, then angry, and for a long period then neutered. In the stands it was more demonstrative yet. There are few sights in rugby as striking as Twickenham Man in full red-cheeked fury, and on Sunday his fury was both righteous and often misplaced.
Italy were not acting illegally. Coach Conor O'Shea had run the tactic past referee Romain Poite on Saturday, and not only been given the all-clear but a little bit of advice too: to be within the spirit of the laws as well as the wording, do not get within a metre of the nine.
Chaos is the science of surprises. England were surprised. Perhaps that was why O'Shea's opposite number Eddie Jones was still shaking afterwards.
"If you paid for a ticket you should ask for your money back," he said, eyes glinting, mouth spitting fire. "You haven't seen a game of rugby.
"If that's rugby then I'm going to retire. That's not rugby. You're looking to pass and all you can see is one of their players.
"I'm not critical of our side a bit because we didn't play rugby. We practised for a game of rugby all week and we didn't get it."
Jones compared it to cricketer Trevor Chappell's infamous underarm ball to New Zealand's Brian McKechnie in 1981 that won a one-day international match for Australia but cost them much more.
If that was inaccurate, not only because Chappell's gambit had not been discussed with the umpire but also because O'Shea's strategy ultimately ended in defeat, it was also a little sleight-of-hand of Jones' own.
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England had an awful first half, their kicking from hand inaccurate, their discipline poor, their energy levels on a par with those who had enjoyed a full Sunday roast before watching from their sofas.
Centre Owen Farrell, on the occasion of his 50th cap, had arguably his least impressive game for his country. Nine penalties were conceded in the first 40 minutes alone. Had Italy kicked their penalties, the half-time deficit for the hosts could have been much worse than 10-5.
Chaos, the science of surprises. Shouldn't England have prepared for it happening, Jones was asked in his news conference?
"Prepared not to play rugby? Yeah, you're right. I should have prepared to play ten-pin bowling.
"When the nine can't pass the ball and the 10 can't see it, you can't play rugby. They brilliantly executed that game, and they got what they wanted, which was a close loss.
"I don't want to be involved in a game like that. I'd rather pick up my stumps, put them in my kit-bag and go home."
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Others remembered his defence coach Paul Gustard being asked about Pocock's move against Ireland before England faced the Wallabies a week later. His response: "We are aware of it, we saw it, and we will have a plan in place."
England did not have a plan for the first 40 minutes. When they did find a solution - exploit that lack of defensive cover by sending your scrum-half sniping, by sending runners up that unguarded middle - they took a hold of the game.
International sport is about being tested. It is about being tested, and it is about coming up with the answers.
Italy have gone for chaos before, when Nick Mallett picked flanker Mauro Bergamasco at scrum-half for the corresponding fixture in 2009. Chaos was what ensued, although not of the sort Mallett had hoped for.
This time the idea came from defence coach Brendan Venter, the same maverick thinker who came up with the plan to drop-goal England out of their World Cup quarter-final against his native Springboks in 1999.
"We're not inventing anything," said O'Shea afterwards, visibly angry at Jones' response. "It's a tackle. If it's a tackle, there's no offside there. We just occupied space.
"If that is people's take after today, that is a very sad take. Just because we took people by surprise. What do you want, us to be normal? We can't be normal. We're Italy.
"Rugby is there to do things different, and challenge people's minds. And that's what we did today - we challenged people's minds."
Innovation to one, an insult to the other. If the contest on the pitch had been as relentlessly combative as the news conferences afterwards, no-one would have dared go to the bars to get in the mid-match pints, as plenty were doing during England's somnolent first half.
"[Jones] wanted 70. He wanted to 'take us to the cleaners,'" said O'Shea, referencing Jones' comments in advance of the game.
"Is that respect? I was delighted when they kicked to the posts. If you think we're going to lie down, you're wrong.
"I loved it. I loved it today. We had to give hope to people, that we weren't just here to make up the numbers. Today you could say, we had enough. We're going to fight."
Port Talbot's Plaza cinema, where Richard Burton and Sir Anthony Hopkins used to visit, has been earmarked to reopen as a form of arts centre.
But Neath Port Talbot council chief executive Steve Phillips said it would not be sustainable to run the Plaza and Princess Royal Theatre.
No decisions have yet been made.
"We do want to bring the Plaza cinema back into productive use," Mr Phillips said.
"Not least because it is opposite Port Talbot Parkway train station which is being refurbished, but we've got big plans for the regeneration of Station Road which it is at the end of."
The Plaza shut in 1999 and there has been a long-term intention to reopen it, while the theatre building, which is part of the town's civic centre, is in need of repair.
Mr Phillips said the council had to look at how it subsidises arts and culture facilities as it faced budget cuts.
Housing a theatre in part of the revamped cinema building has not been ruled out.
He also accepted the possibility that community groups or not-for-profit organisations could take over the theatre but pointed out that in many cases, such groups need subsidies.
Mr Phillips added: "Councillors across Wales face difficult decisions on the future of heavily subsidised arts and cultural facilities.
"Neath Port Talbot is no different and the budget proposals currently out for consultation include scrutiny of the funding of existing facilities in the county borough.
"Whilst councillors have taken no decisions, it is clear that the authority cannot sustain a new facility within a couple of hundred yards of an existing one.
"Options going forward will be put to elected members in due course."
The 35-year-old has nine seasons of NHL experience, having played for teams like the Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks and Calgary Flames.
Vandermeer will make his home debut in the Olympic Series, when the Giants face SG Cortina of Italy on 12 and 13 February at the SSE Arena.
He spent the two seasons in the Swiss A League with the Kloten Flyers.
Giants player-coach Derrick Walser knows Vandermeer well as the pair played in Canada's Spengler Cup team in 2013/14 and 2014/15.
Steve Thornton, Giants Hockey Operations Manager, said: "Our fans are going to love his style of play.
"Jim will add size to our blue line and bring a lot of NHL experience to our locker room."
Dover District Councillor Bob Frost appeared to make comments about black people during an online conversation about the recent riots.
Mr Frost, a teacher, has apologised "unreservedly" and deleted the posts.
Deputy Council Leader Sue Chandler said: "There is no place in our society for this kind of language."
She added: "We have therefore suspended Councillor Frost from the Conservative Group pending investigation."
The comment was made while Mr Frost was having a conversation on the social-networking site, alluding to the London riots while he was on holiday.
On his status he wrote: "I'm missing the vibrant and multi-cultural society which I normally celebrate here in Sicily! Not!"
It was then suggested by someone else on Facebook that he take a trip to north London.
He replied: "All the bunnies here are of the woodland variety rather than the jungle."
Sola Afuape, chair of the equality charity Afiya Trust, said: "You don't expect somebody in a position of power, in a leadership position, to make comments like this.
"They're clearly offensive - racist in fact."
In a statement, Mr Frost said: "What I said was wrong and I apologise unreservedly.
"I am mortified by the offence that I have caused and have deleted these comments.
"I am very sorry."
Votes are already being counted in parts of the country, with official results expected on Monday.
Voting is reported to have generally gone smoothly, despite some reports of fraud and incidents of violence.
President Goodluck Jonathan's main challenger is Muhammadu Buhari, an ex-military leader popular in the north.
Some violence has been reported, with a woman said to have been killed in the central city of Jos and two bomb explosions in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri.
Dozens of people were killed in the run-up to the vote.
The polls closed at 1700 (1600 GMT), but anyone already in the queue by then was still being permitted to vote.
According to the law, counting should start immediately at the polling stations after everyone has voted.
Mr Jonathan has staked his reputation on the conduct of the election, repeatedly promising it will be free and fair.
By Caroline DuffieldBBC News, Nigeria
This was Nigeria's big day, a chance to prove that Africa's giant could hold a credible election.
In the capital Abuja there was a sense of thrill and excitement as people poured out to vote. Across the country, there were occasional disturbances.
But, overwhelmingly, signs of a calm and a peaceful election are encouraging election observers who say that this day could be a historic step forward for Nigeria's democracy.
He cast his ballot in his home state of Bayelsa in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
After voting, he said the election was a "new dawn in Nigeria's political evolution".
"If the ballot paper means nothing then there is no democracy… Nigeria is now experiencing true democracy where we the politicians have to go to the people," he said.
He said he was confident of victory, but that he would leave office if he lost, adding that he hoped there would not be a run-off because elections cost a "colossal sum of money".
Other challengers for the presidency include former anti-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu and Kano state governor Ibrahim Shekarau, though both are seen as rank outsiders.
In Daura, home to Gen Buhari, crowds waited for hours despite the intense heat to cast their votes.
"There's a desperate attempt by the ruling party to rig this election in a more sophisticated way," Gen Buhari told the BBC.
"This time around - the level of awareness and commitment by the masses is what has given me some relief."
Gen Buhari added that he had more faith in the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) this time round, adding that "probably 60% of the election will be credible".
In pictures: Nigerians vote
Viewpoint: Bloody politics
Maiduguri: City of fear
Africa's largest oil producer has long been plagued by corruption and has a history of vote fraud and violence.
Reports from Jos say a woman was killed in an argument between voters and election officials.
In other unrest
Voters expressed hope that the election would be fairer than previous votes.
Williams Beacher, a voter in Kano, said he had confidence in the new election chiefs.
"In previous elections, before we finish casting our vote, the national result had already been announced," he said.
Allegations of ballot-stuffing plagued the 2007 election, which brought Mr Jonathan to power as the vice-president.
He took over as president in 2010 when the incumbent died, becoming the first leader from the oil-producing Niger Delta region.
Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party lost seats in a parliamentary election last week.
But he remains favourite in opinion polls, and his chances have been boosted after Mr Buhari and Mr Ribadu failed to agree a formal alliance to run against him.
The relatively successful conduct of the parliamentary election has increased confidence in the ability of the electoral commission, Inec, to ensure a fair presidential vote.
With 74 million registered voters, Nigeria has the biggest electorate on the continent.
Barrieu was assistant coach at Le Havre, the club Bradley left to join the Swans on 3 October.
The 44-year-old had previously worked with the USA national team, LA Galaxy and Sheffield Wednesday.
At the time of his appointment, Bradley said he wanted to add one or two coaches and hinted at bringing in someone with Premier League experience.
Three members of the backroom staff - Diego Bortoluzzi, Gabrielle Ambrosetti, Claudio Bordon - left when Guidolin was dismissed.
First team coach Alan Curtis, who has been associated with the club as a player, coach and caretaker manager since the 1970s, is expected to stay on.
"For me Alan Curtis will be very important, he's going to be my older brother - only a little older," said Bradley.
"His sense of the club, his eye, his experience will be important. I'm working on getting the right balance."
Bradley is the first American to manage in the Premier League and takes charge of his first match when Swansea play Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday, 15 October.
Dabiq was under "full control" of Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
The small northern town holds great value for IS because of a prophecy of an apocalyptic battle, and features heavily in its propaganda.
The advance on Dabiq is part of a wider offensive by Syrian rebel groups.
Ahmed Osman, the commander of the Sultan Murad rebel group, told Reuters news agency that the group had also recaptured the neighbouring village of Soran.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 1,200 IS fighters had been brought in to defend Dabiq.
In other Syria developments:
Analysis: Sebastian Usher, BBC Arab affairs editor
The battle for Dabiq has been building for weeks - with one village after another being seized from IS by rebel fighters backed by Turkish airstrikes.
In the end, it seems to have fallen swiftly after the announcement of the final assault on Saturday.
Strategically, it's not a major prize. But IS has embraced it as a symbol of its apocalyptic vision of all-out confrontation with its enemies.
The town is named in one Hadith - or saying by the Prophet Mohammed - as the site of the climactic battle between Muslims and non-Muslims before the end of the world. The group named its online magazine after it, but has downplayed its significance recently, saying this battle is not the epic that was prophesied.
A commander of one rebel group, the Hamza Brigade, told the Associated Press that resistance from IS was "minimal".
Saif Abu Bakr said IS withdrew towards the larger town of Al-Bab to the south.
He said about 2,000 rebel fighters were involved in the offensive.
They were supported by Turkish tanks and artillery, and airstrikes from international coalition warplanes.
Dabiq is just 10km (six miles) from the border with Turkey.
In August, Turkey launched an offensive to clear the border region of militants, meaning both IS and Kurdish rebels fighting IS.
In September, the Turkish prime minister said the 91km borderline was "entirely secured" and "all the terrorist organisations were pushed back".
A war that started with an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has now split Syria into many parts. It has been going on for more than five years and has claimed 300,000 lives.
Ellie Butler, six, was found with fatal injuries while her father looked after her at their home in October 2013.
Ben Butler, 36, from south west London, denies murder and child cruelty.
In the clip shown to the Old Bailey "bossy" Peppa instructs her friends to "jump up and down".
The prosecution say Mr Butler caused Ellie's head injuries in a violent rage.
After the jurors watched the video, prosecutor Ed Brown QC asked them not to be swayed by "fanciful or speculative reasoning or entertain fanciful suggestions" but to use their "collective common sense and experience of life".
In his closing speech, he urged them to look at the medical evidence presented in court and the atmosphere in the Butler household at the time of the child's death.
Mr Butler "dominated" the family with "self-centred control" and "a temper that could break at any moment", the prosecutor said.
He said the child's injuries were so "extreme" and "catastrophic" that they could not have been due to an accidental fall, and added the defence team had tried to use the six-year-old's previous injuries to their advantage.
Mr Brown said: "They do nothing to detract from the extreme and acute injuries that killed that young girl."
Mr Butler's partner Jennie Gray, also 36, has admitted perverting the course of justice in the wake of Ellie's death but denies child cruelty.
Offside, Southampton. James Ward-Prowse tries a through ball, but Jay Rodriguez is caught offside.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Jordy Clasie.
Attempt blocked. Seamus Coleman (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Nathan Redmond.
Attempt saved. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.
Foul by Leighton Baines (Everton).
Dusan Tadic (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Seamus Coleman.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Ashley Williams.
Attempt blocked. Dusan Tadic (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Leighton Baines.
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) header from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Dominic Calvert-Lewin because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) because of an injury.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by José Fonte.
Substitution, Southampton. Jack Stephens replaces Cédric Soares because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Davies (Everton).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenberg is likely to miss a third successive game because of a dead leg.
Jose Fonte will return for Southampton, taking the place of the suspended Virgil van Dijk.
Nathan Redmond is available after a ban, while Ryan Bertrand is back in the squad after being rested for the defeat by West Brom.
Mark Scott: "While both clubs occupy decent positions in the table, there's an air of dissatisfaction amongst them as we hit the halfway stage of the season.
"Ronald Koeman has made it clear that he expects to be busy in the transfer window, and Everton look in need of reinforcements, with time seeming to be catching up with their ageing squad judging by some of their lethargic displays.
"There were boos from Southampton supporters after their loss to West Brom in another showing that lacked in penetration and purpose.
"Claude Puel's team look short of ideas and belief right now - another defeat would represent their worst losing run in the league for more than two years."
Twitter: @Mark_Scott_
Everton manager Ronald Koeman on facing his former club: "Of course it's always special. I was manager at Southampton for two seasons in a row.
"But we (Everton) had a really poor game there [in the reverse fixture]. Maybe it was one of the worst of the season, the whole team performance.
"You know if you go behind in just one minute it's always difficult because they play with a lot of organisation.
"But this game will be totally different."
Southampton manager Claude Puel: "It's important to keep calm, maintain good spirit and produce a good reaction for the next game.
"We must have strong character. It's a difficult moment, but I have confidence in all my players."
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A remote system has just been rolled out in Leesburg Executive Airport in Virginia.
Sweden's Ornskoldsvik airport has had the same system - which uses cameras and sensors - since April this year.
The technology could revolutionise air traffic services, according to the UK's National Air Traffic Service (Nats).
The remote system - designed by Swedish defence firm Saab - includes 14 high-definition cameras and sensors that can spot aeroplanes in all weathers.
At Ornskoldsvik, the planes are controlled by a person sitting 90 miles (144km) away at Sunsvall airport. That airport is due to have the same system installed later this year.
A spokesman for Saab told the BBC that the technology could be a huge benefit to air traffic control, reducing costs as small airports could pool controllers.
The technology can do a better job than humans, he said.
"The cameras and sensors pick up and see aircraft in any environment - in fog, rain and the dark. It is better than the human eye."
The system would also allow for pop-up airports that the military could deploy in war zones - attaching the system of cameras to trucks rather than towers.
He said that interest in the system is increasing, with some major airports considering installing remote towers as back-ups and added that the company is in talks with UK airports.
The UK's Nats said that it was in discussions with a number of manufacturers about offering the service in the UK.
"The introduction of remote control towers is one of the most exciting technological developments in the history of our industry," said Nats general manager of operations Paul Jones.
"We're excited by what remote towers could mean for airports' business,"
24 June 2016 Last updated at 17:15 BST
These kids in Salford have mixed views. Some are sad because they feel like the UK has lost a friendship, but others think it will mean more money for public services.
More than 30 million adults voted in Thursday's EU referendum - with 52% choosing to leave the club of 28 European countries.
The Englishman, 25, moved to Rugby Park in 2015 from Partick Thistle and made 34 first-team appearances for Killie.
"As well as his solid defending, Balatoni was known for his ability to create and even score goals from the back, netting three in total," Kilmarnock said on their website.
"Everyone at the club would like to wish Conrad the best of luck in the future."
The crash happened at 07:45 about a mile north of the Black Isle side of the Kessock Bridge
The incident caused tailbacks for a time.
There are no details at this stage of whether anyone was injured in the accident.
The city's harbour commissioners and developer Titanic Quarter Ltd were in dispute over an agreement for the 185-acre site's regeneration.
On Thursday, a judge was told they have signed a memorandum of understanding to resolve their differences.
The judge agreed to stay the action, with both sides picking up their own legal bill.
The commissioners and Titanic Quarter have worked together for more than a decade to deliver projects including a financial services centre and commercial, education, residential and leisure facilities.
The area also contains the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction, film studios and the Northern Ireland Science Park.
Other schemes for which planning permission has already been granted include office blocks and a new four-star boutique hotel.
Differences emerged over the interpretation of the master agreement signed by the parties in 2004.
The commissioners, who own the site, issued proceedings aimed at clarifying the terms of the contract with tenants Titanic Quarter which runs until 2030.
At the start of a scheduled three-day hearing, it was claimed that the developer wanted to be able to take projects to its landlord as a "fait accompli".
In a counter allegation, Titanic Quarter's barrister accused the commissioners of trying to put up "roadblocks" to new developments.
However, following out-of-court discussions, it was announced on Thursday that a memorandum of understanding has been drawn up.
It acknowledges the master agreement as being a framework agreement with obligations on both parties.
They are to consider all proposals with an open mind, honestly and with a view to reaching agreement, if possible.
A barrister for the commissioners confirmed neither side has an unqualified veto on any particular project.
Instead, he pointed out, the parties have to consult and act in good faith.
The memorandum does not require justification of any refusal of a development scheme.
Welcoming the resolution, the judge said: "As far as the future is concerned the court hopes matters will proceed well between the parties, and for the benefit of Belfast and Northern Ireland."
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Bydd Coventry, Paisley, Stoke a Sunderland hefyd yn cystadlu am yr anrhydedd, gyda'r enillydd yn cael ei dewis ym mis Rhagfyr eleni.
Roedd y rhestr hir wreiddiol o 11 dinas yn cynnwys Tyddewi yn Sir Benfro.
Y ddinas diwylliant eleni yw Hull, ac mae'r llywodraeth yn dweud fod y statws wedi dod â hwb o £60m i'r ddinas hyd yn hyn yn 2017.
Yn ogystal â'r digwyddiadau a buddsoddiad fydd yn dod i enillydd Dinas Diwylliant y DU yn 2021, bydd y ddinas hefyd yn elwa o £3m o grant treftadaeth gan y loteri.
Dywedodd Ysgrifennydd Cymru, Alun Cairns: "Rydw i'n gwybod y bydd [Abertawe] yn rhoi'r achos cryfaf posib ymlaen yn y ras am yr anrhydedd a dwi'n gobeithio y bydd pobl leol yn cymryd pob cyfle i gefnogi'r cais.
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Derby City Council, which previously spent £150,000 on restoring parts of the building, said it could no longer afford to support the project.
Leader of the council Paul Bayliss blamed government cuts and the need to prioritise funding for other services.
The Hippodrome Restoration Trust said they had not been given a fair hearing.
The 99-year-old theatre in Green Lane has stood empty for more than five years. Part of it was demolished in 2008 when the owner tried to develop it and it was damaged by fire.
The trust had hoped to buy the site from the current owner and restore the building into a working theatre, at an estimated cost of more than £15m.
Chairman Joan Travis said: "This is not just doing up an old theatre. It incorporates helping vulnerable people and improving an area of Derby that is a disgrace.
"Everybody would agree that if we got the theatre going, and got the footfall into that area, then things will fall into place.
"We are definitely going to make a stink about it. We are not giving up on it and we are more fired up than ever so watch this space."
Mr Bayliss suggested the group should look at obtaining funding from other organisations or an investor.
He said: "We need to spend our money on delivering services for people in Derby and making sure when we are investing money that we are getting enough bang for our buck.
"We have had to draw the line somewhere and at this point in time we have decided to spend our money elsewhere."
World U18 champion Page beat Israel's Amir Nardeia 5-3 in Cyprus after seeing off the Republic of Ireland's Aaron Hill 4-2 in the last four.
Teenager Page finished runner up to fellow Welshman Tyler Rees at the same event in 2016.
The Ebbw Vale schoolboy went on to reach the third round of the 2017 Welsh Open, where he was beaten by then world number four Judd Trump.
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The international friendly between the European Championship finalists will be staged at the new City Arena Stadium.
The following day, Northern Ireland will travel to their base camp in France to complete their preparations.
Michael O'Neill's side will play Poland in their first group game in Nice on 12 June.
Slovakia, placed 25th in the Fifa rankings, automatically booked their place at the Euros after finishing runners-up to Spain in their qualifying group.
They will take on England, Wales and Russia in Group B at Euro 2016.
They were also in the same qualifying group as Ukraine, who Northern Ireland will face in Lyon on 16 June in their second group match, winning 1-0 in Ukraine and drawing 0-0 at home.
Slovakia also registered a famous win against Spain in qualifying, their 2-1 home victory against the reigning European champions in Zilina in October 2014 ending Spain's eight-year, 31-match unbeaten run in the competition.
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill said: "I think this will be a good game for us. Slovakia play in a similar style to Poland and Ukraine.
"I wanted one game at home and one game away before going to France. This game is eight days before our opening game in France and I feel that is ideal.
"It will also allow us to have a training camp in central Europe before we head off to France."
Northern Ireland last played Slovakia during the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, losing both games, 2-1 away and 2-0 at home.
Details of Northern Ireland's final home friendly in the run-up to the Euros - which will be staged towards the end of May - are still to be confirmed.
But, there is a difference between this exit poll and many of those during the campaign: the gap between the Conservatives and Labour is substantial.
Let's start by inserting the caveat we should always insert about polls.
They can be wrong.
But, and it's a big but, the exit poll last time around, in 2010, was pretty much bang on.
For the next few hours, whether it's right or wrong, those exit poll numbers will shape the analysis of how the parties have fared.
And at the heart of that debate will be the question, if it is right, how will a government be formed?
The Conservatives would be just under 10 seats short of a majority.
Already, Tories are using the language of victory: the Chief Whip Michael Gove told David Dimbleby on BBC One that if the exit poll was right, the Conservatives had "won".
They will make the case that if these numbers are accurate, they are the clear winners, even though they didn't quite make the finish line.
They'll be nervous that whilst they have "clearly won", as Mr Gove puts it, there could still, just, be the potential for an anti-Tory majority - everyone else.
But they will hope that by striking a deal with their former coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats - and perhaps, the Democratic Unionist Party - they can make the case that they have the numbers, and the legitimacy as the biggest party, to continue in government.
For all the parties now - the wait begins. It'll only be a few hours, but it will feel like months.
"The exit poll bears no resemblance to the other polls. We will wait and see and wait for the votes to be counted," a Lib Dem source in leader Nick Clegg's constituency in Sheffield tells the BBC.
That is undoubtedly true.
The question now is whether it is right.
Ighalo turned home the opener after Nathan Ake robbed a dallying Andy Carroll in defence and crossed low.
The Nigerian doubled Watford's lead just after the break, firing home from Ikechi Anya's cut-back for his seventh goal of the season.
Enner Valencia intercepted Craig Cathcart's poor backpass but hit the post, before James Collins saw red.
The centre-back was dismissed for a foul on Ighalo, who was then replaced by Adlene Guedioura.
Watford's win, their second at home since promotion from the Championship last term, moves them up to ninth, while West Ham drop to fifth.
Read how Watford's victory over West Ham unfolded.
Follow reaction to all of Saturday's games.
If Slaven Bilic had been wondering whether striker Carroll could cut it in defence he need wonder no longer - Watford's opener came from his mistake.
The striker sliced a clearance under no pressure at all, but still had time to clear with Ake bearing down. Instead though, he tried to turn the Watford man, who stole the ball and crossed to Igahlo.
Bilic will be wondering, too, why his team seem incapable of giving their best in matches they are expected to win.
Watford had scored and won just once at home this season, but this Hammers performance was a world away from their victories at Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea.
Former Blackburn striker Chris Sutton on Final Score: "I don't know what Andy Carroll was thinking? Just put your foot through it, get rid or put it out for a corner, anything.
"It's a dreadful mistake. I think he's tried a Cruyff turn in his own box. Never do that."
Ighalo has now been involved in Watford's last nine Premier League goals, scoring seven and setting up two.
His partnership with Troy Deeney up front looks a real strong point for Quique Flores's Hornets, who followed up on their impressive victory at Stoke last weekend with another three points today.
If there was an element of slight fortuity about Ighalo's first goal - the cross might have eluded him had Aaron Cresswell not got a touch - his second goal was all power and purpose.
Smashed home past Adrian, it sucked the life out of the Hammers right after half-time and capped a deserved win for the home side.
Watford manager Quique Flores, speaking to BBC Sport: "I'm really pleased, very happy with the result and the performance.
"I think we enjoyed the game a lot. The players played with real confidence on the ball, with high pressure, it was an amazing performance.
"It's been important to change the mentality when you come in from a lower division, to win gives you the respect of the other teams."
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic, speaking to BBC Sport: "What happens weeks before and all the statistics is interesting but it doesn't mean a thing once the referee blows his whistle.
"From the start we were basically second best. They were better in every football department and totally deserved to beat us.
"We didn't have energy. They were quicker, more hungry than us. Today it was just that."
Odion Ighalo is now the highest scorer in Watford's Premier League history, overtaking Heidar Helguson and Hameur Bouazza.
This is the first time Watford have scored more than once at home in a Premier League game since April 2007 (4-2 v Portsmouth).
West Ham have received the most red cards in the Premier League this season with four.
This was West Ham's first league defeat at Vicarage Road since April 1985, having been unbeaten in 11 games at the ground since then.
The Hammers lost their first away game since the last day of last season (2-0 vs Newcastle).
Philip North had been chosen as the next Bishop of Sheffield but said the level of opposition meant accepting the offer would be counter-productive.
He said he had withdrawn for "personal reasons" but added the "attacks" against him were "extremely hard".
The Archbishop of York urged members to "disagree Christianly".
The planned promotion of Philip North, the current Bishop of Burnley, to Bishop of Sheffield prompted some clergy in the city's diocese to send him a letter expressing "anxiety and distress" about his appointment.
But other senior church figures, including women bishops, expressed support for his appointment.
They said he should be the Bishop of Sheffield because the church's ruling General Synod agreed five "guiding principles".
The principles say traditionalists who oppose women priests should be allowed to remain in "the highest possible degree of communion" and allowed to "mutually flourish".
In a statement Mr North said some of the complaints about his appointment had been "highly individualised attacks".
He added: "The news of my nomination has elicited a strong reaction within the diocese and some areas of the wider Church.
"It is clear that the level of feeling is such that my arrival would be counter-productive in terms of the mission of the Church in South Yorkshire and that my leadership would not be acceptable to many.
"There is clearly much to be done on what it means to disagree well and to live with theological difference in the Church of England."
The Bishop of Doncaster, Peter Burrows, who assists the Bishop of Sheffield, said he was "deeply and personally saddened" at Mr North's decision not to take up the appointment.
He said the Archbishop of York would submit the name of an alternative candidate in "due course".
The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, urged members of the church to learn how to "disagree Christianly" in reaction to the bishop's announcement.
"What has happened to Bishop Philip clearly does not reflect the settlement under which, two and a half years ago, the Church of England joyfully and decisively opened up all orders of ministry to men and women," he said.
This is the second time Mr North has turned down a job as a bishop after complaints about his traditionalist position.
In 2012 he was chosen as Bishop of Whitby but did not take up the post.
South Western Ambulance Service said the child was hit "at slow speed" as a train pulled into Camborne, Cornwall, on Thursday at about 16:50 BST.
An eyewitness said the girl grabbed a carriage door handle and was dragged down "almost instantly".
Devon and Cornwall Police said the girl was airlifted to hospital with minor back and leg injuries.
Witness Jade Willoughby was waiting on the platform to meet her boyfriend when the girl fell and described hearing her scream. "It went right through me" she said.
"She completely disappeared from sight and then the scream suddenly stopped. I didn't want to look because I thought she wasn't going to make it."
Miss Willoughby, 21, said a man on the platform ran over and pulled her out.
The girl was alone so Miss Willoughby travelled with her by air ambulance to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.
She said the girl spent the night in hospital.
British Transport Police (BTP) is investigating and said it was being treated as an accident.
First Great Western, which runs the service, says it is working with the BTP "to ascertain the full circumstances".
At least 12 men will leave their posts in the significant reshuffle, including Ken Clarke who is standing down.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is leaving the cabinet and is expected to be replaced by education minister Liz Truss.
Philip Hammond has accepted the role of foreign secretary.
Labour described the reshuffle as "the massacre of the moderates".
Mr Hague is to leave Parliament at the 2015 general election after 26 years as MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Senior ministers have told the BBC that the current defence secretary, Philip Hammond, will replace Mr Hague.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "William Hague has been one of the leading lights of the Conservative Party for a generation, leading the party and serving in two cabinets.
"Not only has he been a first-class foreign secretary - he has also been a close confidant, a wise counsellor and a great friend.
"He will remain as first secretary of state and my de facto political deputy in the run up to the election - and it is great to know that he will be a core part of the team working to ensure an outright Conservative victory."
Ken Clarke told Radio 4's Today programme that he felt it was "time to step down".
He said: "If you do work beyond the normal retirement age, I think actually you should prepare to decide you're going to go before people are starting to scratch their head and think of reasons to get rid of you."
Speaking on Mr Cameron's latest changes, he said: "He doesn't have many reshuffles which is a very good thing so ministers find out what their job is and then he wants a reshuffle, which looks like the sort of government he wants in the next Parliament.
"That's what he's done and guys like me who have done a few decades in government took the opportunity to retire."
He added it was "superficial" for people to become obsessed with the gender balance of the cabinet and that Mr Cameron had made "enormous efforts" to get women in.
Chris Mason, BBC political correspondent
As reshuffles go, this is David Cameron's biggest.
And if you want to know how it looks, you needn't look any further than a tweet from Conservative MP Alistair Burt: "I'm really worried that this reshuffle will leave the PM short of middle aged white men in Govt. I'm selflessly ready Dave!"
In other words, there is something of a cull of what critics have called "the male, pale and stale" and what is expected next is the promotion of faces and voices that are seen to better represent contemporary Britain.
So popping up on a telly near you soon: more ministers who are women and more ministers with regional accents, in more prominent roles.
Mr Hague said: "I am delighted to be able to serve as Leader of the House of Commons, and to be able to campaign for Conservative candidates across the country. I want to finish in frontline politics as I began - speaking in Parliament and campaigning among the voters.
"After the general election I will return to my writing, while still giving very active support to the Conservative Party and campaigning on international causes I believe in."
The prime minister is understood to have held a series of meetings in his House of Commons office on Monday with ministers.
Profile: William Hague
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the current occupant of the Commons leader post, ex-health secretary Andrew Lansley, had left the government.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is effectively being fired, our correspondent added.
Other Conservative MPs to have lost or left their ministerial jobs include:
During his 44 years in the Commons, Mr Clarke spent more than 20 years as a minister - latterly as minister without portfolio.
He held a number of top cabinet positions under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer, and tried and failed three times to become Conservative leader.
In 1997, he lost out to Mr Hague, who went on to lead the party until 2001.
Nick Robinson said Mr Clarke has told friends that at the age of 74 he has had enough of red boxes and "enjoyed three days at last week's Test match in anticipation of today's announcement".
He became justice secretary in 2010 and has held his current role since 2012.
Former Conservative Party leader Lord Howard told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: "It is quite a moment. Ken has made the most extraordinary contribution to our public life. He was an outstanding chancellor of the exchequer."
By Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor
On Monday the losers learnt their fate.
Now we will discover who are the winners in a reshuffle made more dramatic and more wide-ranging by the decision of William Hague to quit the post he has filled for four years.
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And former Conservative deputy PM Lord Heseltine told the BBC News Channel: "Ken has been a fantastic servant of this country, and also of the Conservative Party, but there just is a time when you have to face up to it: the generation moves on.
"You won't have heard the last of Ken, believe me."
He was one of the most pro-European voices at the top of the Conservative Party.
Mr Cameron is expected to use the reshuffle to promote more women within ministerial ranks. Downing Street said replacements for the outgoing ministers would be announced on Tuesday.
Labour MP Michael Dugher, the shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, said the reshuffle "speaks volumes about David Cameron's leadership".
On the reports of Mr Hammond taking over as foreign secretary, he added: "Britain's foreign policy is now set to be led by a man who has talked about taking us out of the EU.
"The Tories are now retreating out of Europe with all the threat that poses to jobs and business in Britain."
The two police authorities have signed an agreement to form one "information management unit" that would save £600,000 a year.
The Thames Valley Police Federation said this raises questions about the possible amalgamation of whole forces.
A police spokesperson said the unit would improve customer service.
"Some services provided directly to the public will be improved by having a larger pool of staff to process their enquiries," he said.
The unit, which will share and manage police data across the two forces, will be based in existing locations across Hampshire and Thames Valley.
The spokesperson said: "The creation of the joint unit will reduce the total number of posts required to deliver information management for the two forces.
"However, existing vacancies have been held open and it is anticipated that the new unit will be created with few, if any, redundancies."
He added that the savings across the two forces would be met through "a shared management structure and streamlined processes".
Graham Smith, from the Thames Valley Police Federation, said: "On a wider issue with so much collaboration taking place around the country there comes a point where questions have to be asked about the possibility of amalgamation of forces."
More than 100 passengers were due to fly at 11:00 BST on Monday, but were told their flight was going to be late due to a "technical fault".
The flight, operated by Lithuanian airline Small Planet, was cancelled several more times and is now scheduled to leave at 00.55 on Wednesday.
Small Planet said: "We have never had such a difficult situation before."
Manchester Airport confirmed the delay was the longest passengers have had to endure at the major travel hub.
Passenger Paul Kenny booked the flight through tour operator Olympic Holidays.
He said the 11:00 flight on Monday was initially postponed until noon and it "constantly got delayed and delayed" until about 20:00 last night "we were informed we had to stay in a hotel".
He said the situation had been "awful".
Kevin Clarke, from Bott & Co Solicitors, said Small Planet had a history of not paying compensation claims and one of its planes had recently been seized as a means to force payment.
"We've invited them to settle claims, we've issued court proceedings, we've even had courts order them to make payments and unfortunately they're ignoring those court orders and they're still not making payments," he said.
He said the law firm waited until they "had an asset in the UK, which was an aircraft" and obtained a court order to seize it at the airport.
"So when the plane landed on the runway, the officer of the court was there waiting for it and took ownership of the aircraft and so they paid their debts... they had no option."
Dave, another passenger caught in the delay, said: "We're angry, we are just not being told the truth.
"We're told planes are on the way, but they never turn up. It's frustration."
A Manchester Airport spokesperson said: "Small Planet Airlines flight to Corfu is currently still showing as delayed until tomorrow morning.
"In the meantime we will work closely with our terminal teams and handling agents to ensure the passengers are cared for and looked after, until their flight to Greece can depart."
It is believed a plane is being flown over from Lithuania to take the holidaymakers to their destination.
Flight operator Small Planet issued an apology on its Facebook page.
It read: "Dear passengers, we sincerely apologise for all the inconveniences and stress that current flight delays from Manchester to Corfu (S5 0111) and Corfu to Manchester (S5 0112) have caused you.
"Please, rest assure that we do everything we can to eliminate the technical issues."
Rooney had the first touch of the game between Everton and Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia and scored after 35 minutes, lifting a clever effort over the home goalkeeper from 25 yards.
The goal was even cheered by fans of the opposing team, with one dressed in a Manchester United shirt forcing the game to be stopped after invading the pitch to give Rooney a hug. The former England captain responded by returning the favour before the fan was bundled off the pitch.
Everton ultimately won the match 2-1, with Kieran Dowell scoring a later winner after Jacques Tuyisenge levelled for the hosts.
Many fans - some of whom travelled from the neighbouring East African nations of Kenya and Uganda - chanted "Rooney, Rooney" as the players left the stadium at the end of their two-day stint in Tanzania.
Rooney was replaced at half-time and several Gor Mahia players stopped him to pose for photographs after the final whistle before he was escorted away.
Everton winger Aaron Lennon also made his first appearance since February 11 after receiving treatment for a stress-related illness.
Gor Mahia earned the right to play Everton after winning the regional SportPesa Super Cup, which pitted teams from Tanzania against those from Kenya.
Kenyan betting firm SportPesa sponsors both Kenya's and Tanzania's top-flight leagues and were confirmed as Everton's new shirt sponsor in May.
Everton have been given royal treatment since they arrived in the East African state.
The wild chants for Rooney, along with stomping performances by Maasai cultural dancers, created a spectacle to behold.
Everton's Democratic Republic of Congo winger Yannick Bolasie rivalled Rooney, England's former captain, in the popularity stakes with a band of Congolese fans welcoming him to Tanzania. They were draped in T-shirts emblazoned with his face.
However, Rooney, who has rejoined Everton after 13 years at Manchester United, was the fans' favourite.
Even Tanzania's Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan attested to this.
"Wayne Rooney made me support Manchester United and now I don't know what to do because he has gone back to Everton," she said.
Rooney replied: "Being here, it has been a new experience for me and I hope the vice-president will now be able to support Everton."
On Wednesday, Everton's Mo Besic, Tom Davies and newly-signed Michael Keane joined Albino United in a training session in the coastal city of Dar es Salaam, soon after they landed.
The visit was aimed at helping to break the stigma against people with albinism who risk being killed in Tanzania.
"From spending time with them today, I have learnt that the players go through some tough times. It's not easy for them over here," said Keane, who made his debut in the second half.
"It's good that they can enjoy football and look forward to playing together. You can see their coach is really good with them."
Wednesday's Championship campaign has been disrupted by the loss of key players in recent months.
"When we lose players who link the game at the same time, we miss something in the team," said the 51-year-old.
"You can't cook well if you don't have fish, and you eat potatoes, it's completely different."
A run of one win in seven matches, including a 1-1 draw with Barnsley on Saturday, has seen the Owls side drop out of the Championship play-off places.
"People ask me why we have changed a little the style of last season," added Carvalhal, who has been in charge at Hillsborough since the summer of 2015.
He told BBC Radio Sheffield: "When we look to the team [who lost the play-off final to Hull City in May 2016], we have been a long time without Tom Lees, Ross Wallace, Kieran Lee, Sam Hutchinson, Fernando Forestieri and Gary Hooper.
"These are players that connect things, and we need these specific points to play the football we like and the fans like.
"If we will cook something, you buy good tomatoes, good potatoes, and good rice, but if don't have the fish, you eat more potato.
"A potato cannot play the role of fish."
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"When seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea." Eric Cantona, after winning his appeal against a two-week prison sentence for kicking an abusive spectator.
"Shall I grab you by your hair? What is your reaction when I grab your hair? Only with sex masochism it is allowed, but not in other situations." Louis van Gaal, complaining about Robert Huth's treatment of Manchester United's Marouane Fellaini.
"Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine-tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings." Ian Holloway, on his veteran striker during his first spell as QPR manager.
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The officer is in a stable condition in hospital after the attack by a dissident republican group known as the 'new IRA'.
During Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, the Labour leader passed on the sympathies of "the whole House" for the "police officer who lost his life".
North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds later described Mr Corbyn's gaffe as "one of the worst displays of crass ignorance that could be imagined".
It is understood Mr Corbyn has written a letter to the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to apologise for his error.
A spokesman for the Labour leader said: "He meant to say 'nearly died'", adding that Mr Corbyn "had not intended to cause offence".
The 15-year-old disappeared in 1994 after a school disco in County Donegal.
Police sealed off an area in a field near Killen, outside Castlederg, on Wednesday after a farmer alerted them to the site.
The field is about a mile from the house where the teenager was last seen alive.
It is on the same road where she was seen in a car with Robert Howard, the main suspect in her disappearance.
Specialist search teams from England are due to arrive on Friday morning to assist in the operation.
Police have requested a number of examinations and tests, which they say may take some time.
Det Ch Supt Raymond Murray, head of Serious Crime Branch, said: "The family of Arlene Arkinson have been advised of this development purely as a precautionary measure.
"It would be premature to draw any inference from this initial report or the police response to it at this time."
Since her disappearance, a number of searches have been carried out at various locations.
Convicted child killer Howard, who died in prison in England last year, was the main suspect in the schoolgirl's disappearance.
In June 2005, Howard, then 61, was found not guilty of murdering Arlene.
The prosecution had accused him of trying to conceal his movements on the night Arlene went missing and getting others to lie for him.
The jury did not know that by then he was already serving a life sentence for raping and killing another teenager.
Hannah Williams, from South London, went missing during a shopping trip in April 2001.
Howard was found guilty in October 2003 of raping and murdering the 14-year-old before dumping her body.
An inquest into Arlene Arkinson's death formally opened in February after years of delay and dozens of preliminary hearings.
Parents gave reasons including their lifestyle, dissatisfaction or disagreements with local schools, special needs, bullying and religion.
Responses to Freedom of Information requests from 190 local authorities showed 36,609 home educated children.
The government says it will continue to "respect the rights of parents to home educate their children".
There is no legal obligation for parents to send their children to school, although they have to provide a "suitable education" at home.
The figures show an increase of at least 10,399 pupils, up to almost 37,000, in a school population of about 9.5 million pupils.
The home-educated figure may be an under-estimate. When parents withdraw a child from school they are recorded as being home educated, but children who never start school may not be reflected in the statistics.
Among 190 councils with figures for 2014-15, there were 178 with data for the past three years, showing a 26% increase.
For 133 of the local authorities, there was data from 2009-10 to 2014-15, showing that numbers had risen by almost two thirds.
Graham Stuart, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Home Education, says it is possible councils have become better at recording information, and any figures are almost certainly an under-estimate.
"Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported," said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.
Parents do not have to give a reason for withdrawing a child from school, but in 41 council areas there is information about the purpose, giving an insight into the variations among home-educating families.
Top of the list is a difference of philosophy or lifestyle at 13.4%. But this can be higher in some areas, for example in Gloucestershire this accounts for 235 of the 641 children being home educated.
This is followed by a dissatisfaction with the local school or a conflict, accounting for 9.3% of families. In Hertfordshire 240 out of a total of 724 parents gave this as their motivation.
Cultural or religious reasons are cited in 6.2% of cases, with bullying at 4.8% and special needs or medical problems at 4.3%.
With growing pressure on school places due to rising pupil numbers, 3.4% of home-educating parents say they could not get their child into a preferred school.
Dr Helen Lees, of Newman University Birmingham, has written extensively about alternative education. She believes some parents do not like the structured assessment and testing in schools.
She says parents find online accounts of the success of home education and are saying: "If they can do it why can't we do it. They're hearing from groups on Facebook or Yahoo that it's working well, the children are happy."
The recording of parents' motivations is patchy, partly because parents do not have to explain themselves, so there is no comprehensive information.
The same is true of the limited data about the families themselves.
In the very small number of local authorities where there is information on religion, about 31% of home educators belong to a faith group, although that may not be the reason they have chosen an alternative to school. Of those, half are listed as Christian and a third as Muslim.
The areas with the highest growth in home education are very different, suggesting there are many factors behind the increase.
In two counties where there are grammar schools, numbers have remained relatively high, reaching 1,429 in Kent and 1,191 in Essex.
And in Rhondda Cynon Taf where there were five home educated children recorded in 2009-10 there are now 65.
There has been concern expressed recently by Ofsted that a very small number of people may be misusing the right to home educate to place their children in unregistered, and potentially illegal schools.
That concern has been echoed by the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan who has asked the Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw to collect evidence for potential prosecutions.
The government is consulting on greater regulation of part-time education settings providing more than six to eight hours a week of tuition.
It has made clear in the consultation that it does not wish to interfere with the legal right of parents to choose how their children are educated.
"The government continues to respect the rights of parents to home educate their children, whether at home or in a combination of other settings, provided a suitable full-time education is being arranged."
The Connecting the Capital report features new crossings between Fulham in the west and Dartford in the east
TfL has launched public consultations on two of the crossings at Gallions Reach and Belvedere, both to the east.
The watchdog London TravelWatch said imposing a tolling regime would help regulate traffic and cut congestion.
If Transport for London's (TfL) plans are approved, the new crossings could be delivered by 2050.
The report is planning ahead for a city with a population of 10 million by 2030, up from 8.6 million.
Mr Johnson said: "By creating more links between the north and south of the river, we won't just improve day-to-day travelling across the capital, we'll unlock areas for development and create thousands of jobs and homes.
"From Fulham in the west to Dartford in the east, this is a vital package of crossings that will drive economic growth and get more people walking, cycling and on to public transport."
Click here to see the proposals for new river crossings between Fulham to Dartford
Most of the crossings will be in east London, which could see more than a third of the capital's total population growth.
Currently there are three road crossings and one bus route in the 14 miles (23km) between Tower Bridge and the M25.
A London TravelWatch spokesperson said: "It is important that they make effective provision for public transport and that local roads on either side of the river are accessible and safe for pedestrians and cycles.
"Any new river crossings must also have a tolling regime to ensure that they don't generate additional traffic and associated congestion."
The proposed river crossings:
Consultation is already under way on crossings at Gallions Reach, linking Thamesmead and Beckton, and Belvedere, which will connect Belvedere to Rainham.
It has not been decided whether these should be bridges or tunnels, but the aim is to boost walking and cycling links. If approved, the crossings could open by 2025.
London Assembly Green Party Member Darren Johnson said plans for mixed traffic Silvertown Tunnel, Belvedere and Gallions Reach should be reconsidered.
"London deserves better than toxic roads that will worsen air quality, jam the city up with traffic and distract the mayor from building decent links for cyclists, rail commuters and people who want to get around by foot."
Dover's Jack Parkinson was sent off for bringing down Solihull's Andy Brown, as the striker was through on goal.
The hosts took advantage of the extra man and took the lead moments before half time as Brown scored his fifth goal of the season, heading home from a corner.
Miller scored a quick-fire double to give Dover the lead, before completing his hat-trick with a quarter-of-an-hour left - his 19th goal of the season.
Solihull made it 3-2 in stoppage time as Akwasi Asante scored his eighth goal of the season but it was too late for The Moors.
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New Solihull Moors head coach Keith Bertschin told BBC WM: "You've got to find your way in the first period of the game and I thought we hung in really well.
"The game changed a little bit when they had the man sent off and we got the goal, and not getting the second goal was the thing that undone us.
"We tried to make them aware of not being loose and thinking the game was over at half-time, but we never really got going, they got their tails up and we gave a couple of poor goals away.
"When that momentum changes - we've seen it so many times at all different levels of football - it's very powerful and we could never get back into the game."
Match ends, Solihull Moors 2, Dover Athletic 3.
Second Half ends, Solihull Moors 2, Dover Athletic 3.
Goal! Solihull Moors 2, Dover Athletic 3. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
Aswad Thomas (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Joel Dielna replaces Connor Franklin.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Eddie Jones.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Chris Kinnear replaces Sammy Moore.
Sammy Moore (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Mitchell Pinnock replaces Ricky Miller.
Goal! Solihull Moors 1, Dover Athletic 3. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic).
Liam Daly (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Akwasi Asante replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Goal! Solihull Moors 1, Dover Athletic 2. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic).
Goal! Solihull Moors 1, Dover Athletic 1. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic).
Second Half begins Solihull Moors 1, Dover Athletic 0.
First Half ends, Solihull Moors 1, Dover Athletic 0.
Goal! Solihull Moors 1, Dover Athletic 0. Andy Brown (Solihull Moors).
Jack Parkinson (Dover Athletic) is shown the red card.
First Half begins.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Fire crews were called to the garage, in Ayr Road, at 12:58. They worked with police to clear the area after discovering the presence of acetylene.
Local residents have been advised to keep their windows closed because tyres are on fire and thick black smoke is affecting neighbouring properties.
No-one has been injured in the fire.
Cullen, 30, moved back to Kenya, where she spent much of her childhood, after helping GB finish third at London 2012.
Now she has been named in Britain's squad for December's World League Final in Argentina.
"I'm over the moon to make the cut," she told BBC Sport.
"Being from Kenya, and with my family out there, I was excited to go back home. After three years away I hadn't considered coming back, but then I was given an opportunity by the head coach Danny Kerry."
Cullen, who has 171 international caps, was the joint top scorer at London 2012 with four goals. She came out of retirement in July and played two practice matches against the United States in October.
When asked about what she did during her time away from the sport, Cullen said: "I've always worked outside hockey. When I returned to Kenya, I worked at a security firm and set up a 'cross fit' company. I also got my pilot's licence.
"I did voluntary work with wildlife conservancy that my dad mainly manages on the side of Tsavo East National Park in Kenya. We are suffering from elephant ivory and rhino horn poaching. I was trying to protect the small area we were looking after."
The defender's inclusion is one of three changes made by Kerry to the 18-woman squad who secured qualification for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by winning the World League Semi-Final tournament in Spain in June. Great Britain are among eight teams at the finals, to be played in Rosario, Argentina, in December.
Goalkeepers: Maddie Hinch (Holcombe), Kirsty Mackay (East Grinstead).
Defenders: Crista Cullen (unattached), Emily Maguire (Reading), Sam Quek (Holcombe), Kate Richardson-Walsh (Reading), Laura Unsworth (East Grinstead), Hollie Webb (Surbiton).
Midfielders: Ashleigh Ball (Slough), Joie Leigh (Clifton), Helen Richardson-Walsh (Reading), Susannah Townsend (Canterbury), Georgie Twigg (Surbiton).
Forwards: Sophie Bray (East Grinstead), Alex Danson (Reading), Hannah Macleod (St Albans), Lily Owsley (Birmingham University), Nicola White (Holcombe).
The unnamed heir discovered the glittering hoard in a variety of inventive locations, including under piles of linen and in the bathroom.
"There were 5,000 gold pieces, two bars of 12kg and 37 ingots of 1kg," auctioneer Nicolas Fierfort told AFP.
The treasure is worth an estimated €3.5m ($3.7m; £3m).
Mr Fierfort said he had visited the house in Evreux, Normandy, to value furniture the new owner was selling.
He said he totally overlooked the gold, which was "extremely well hidden".
The coins and gold bars only came to light when the house's new owner started moving things around.
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First, he found a tin box of coins screwed to the underside of some furniture.
Then came more, carefully concealed in a box meant for a bottle of whisky.
Finally, the man unearthed a staggering pile of gold bars and ingots.
"At that point he called his solicitor to make an inventory," Mr Fierfort said.
According to certificates found in the deceased's estate, the gold was legally purchased in the 1950s and 1960s.
It has already been sold on to buyers in France and overseas.
However, local newspaper La Depeche, which first reported the story, said the golden hello may come with a sting.
The finder will be liable for 45% inheritance tax and, if the original owner did not declare his or her assets, a further three years of back taxes.
Just three MHKs opposed the 2015/16 spending plan, described by Treasury Minister Eddie Teare ass the "most adventurous" in recent years.
Plans to abolish income tax for minimum wage workers on the Isle of Man were announced on Tuesday.
Liberal Vannin leader Kate Beecroft, who voted against, said the government is still "living beyond its means."
Following an eight-hour debate, Tynwald agreed to increase spending next year by £1.6m, or 0.3%, to £545.2m - equivalent to £11,100 per person.
Mr Teare said the government was on track to "balance its books" for the first time since the UK announced changes to its VAT Revenue Sharing Agreement in 2010.
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Since then, the Manx treasury said 640 government posts had been cut - about 8% of all staff.
Other budget plans include an 82.7% rise in the carer's allowance from £61.35 to £112.10 per week and the end to universal free TV licences for the over 75s.
The island's tax cap will be be increased by £5,000 to £125,000 for new entrants to the scheme and income thresholds for means-tested entitlement to child benefit reduced by £10,000.
Companies will also see a 10% increase in income tax paid on income from land and property.
The 32-year-old finished fourth in the World Superbike standings in 2015, but left the Red Devils Aprilia team at the end of the season.
Multiple World and British Superbike race-winner Haslam was British SB runner-up in 2006 and 2008 and second in the 2010 World SB series.
"I have unfinished business," said the Derbyshire rider, who will be riding for the JG Speedfit Kawasaki team.
"I have just missed out on the title in the past and so I feel really motivated to try to change that next year.
"I am really excited to be coming back to BSB because there is nothing like it and I want to be challenging to be number one every weekend."
Haslam moved to World Superbike racing in 2009, having won 16 races in the British Championship.
He won five races during his time in World Superbikes.
The specimens, housed at the University of Texas, Austin, were disposed of, not stolen as previously thought, the university said in a statment.
Initially they were said to include sniper Charles Whitman's brain and students were blamed for the "theft".
But the formaldehyde-filled jars were actually disposed of some time ago.
They were in poor condition and not suitable for research, officials said.
"We believe the workers disposed of between 40 and 60 jars, some of which contained multiple human brains, and worked with a biological waste contractor to do so safely," according to a university statement.
"We have no evidence at this time that any of the brain specimens came from Charles Whitman, though we will continue to investigate those reports."
Tim Schallert, psychology professor and co-curator of the collection, initially told the Austin American-Statesman "we think somebody may have taken the brains, but we don't know at all for sure".
The specimens were among a batch sent from the Austin State Hospital to the university nearly 30 years ago for safe keeping.
The university's agreement with the hospital required the removal of any data identifying the brain's original owner.
Kept in the school's basement, the brains went missing sometime in the intervening years.
Following the mix-up, the university pledged to appoint a broader investigative committee to examine the matter.
"As researchers and teachers, we understand the potential scientific value of all of our holdings and take our roles as stewards of them very seriously," the university statement concluded.
The film told the story of Teri Hooley, who founded the Good Vibrations record label in Belfast.
Based on a true story, the movie follows Londonderry band The Undertones, and their path to fame during the height of the Troubles.
Belfast writer Glenn Patterson said that Bowie provided the track, Star, from the album Ziggy Stardust, for a significantly smaller sum for the production.
"It was an act of generosity and was the perfect track for the end of the film," Mr Patterson said.
He was speaking as people across the world expressed shock at the news that singer David Bowie has died at the age of 69 from cancer.
Dublin guitarist Gerry Leonard performed and worked alongside Bowie for his later albums, Heathen (2002), Reality (2003) and The Next Day (2013).
Mr Leonard had just finished performing at the Dublin Bowie Festival on Sunday when he heard the news of the artist's death.
"It's devastating," he said. "At first I thought it was a hoax. It's unbelievable".
Mr Leonard moved to New York in 1994 where a mutual friend introduced him to Bowie.
The introduction was unconventional.
Bowie, looking for a guitarist, heckled him during a small gig with his solo project Spooky Ghost.
"My friend called me and said, 'Look I'm bringing David down,'" Mr Leonard said.
"We always had a little bit of banter in between songs and I knew that David loves comedy and he shares the sense of the surreal.
"He just joined in on the banter and heckled me during the show but it was all in good fun."
Mr Leonard said it was "an amazing experience" to work with the late artist.
"Bowie was an obvious master of his craft," he said.
"He's been really part of the fabric of people's lives," Mr Leonard said.
"He's saved people in the way that music does. He consoled people and exhilarated people."
John Bereton, organiser of the Dublin Bowie Festival, said that the singer gave fans permission to be "different".
"He was an icon," Mr Bereton said. "He made you feel like you weren't alone. People across the world felt that they could be themselves."
"I'll miss hearing his voice on the phone," Mr Leonard said.
"I'll miss his laugh and I'll miss playing music with him.
"It's been an unforgettable experience and there's nothing that can replace that."
Ajmal, 37, is omitted after struggling on his return to the game following a ban for an illegal bowling action.
The 23-year-old Amir is available after completing his ban for spot-fixing, but has not been selected.
Both players have enjoyed success against England, averaging less than 20 with the ball against them in Tests.
Ajmal was instrumental in inflicting a 3-0 whitewash on England in their last tour of the UAE, finishing as the leading wicket-taker in the series with 24.
But since his ban he has not been as effective and has been superseded by Yasir Shah and Zulfiqar Babar as Pakistan's first-choice Test spinners.
Left-arm seamer Amir, the youngest player to reach 50 Test wickets, has played only Twenty20 cricket since he was cleared to return to the sport earlier this year, following his ban in 2010.
Middle-order batsman Fawad Alam could play his first Test in five years after being recalled to the squad, while left-arm seamer Wahab Riaz is also included after recovering from a hand injury he sustained in Sri Lanka.
England begin their three-Test series with Pakistan in Abu Dhabi on 13 October.
Pakistan squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Ahmed Shehzad, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Fawad Alam, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Yasir Shah, Zulfiqar Babar, Wahab Riaz, Imran Khan, Rahat Ali, Junaid Khan.
The Austrians, in their first European Championship, won the shootout 5-3 after the game had finished goalless.
Spain, who did not score in three matches after their opening fixture, were favourites to progress but created little, despite dominating possession.
And when Sarah Puntigam scored after Silvia Meseguer's miss, their underwhelming tournament was over.
The Austrians have emerged as the surprise package of this Euros, having topped a group featuring the world's third-best side, France.
And their path to the final looks a little easier than it might have done after Germany, winners of the past six European Championships, were stunned by Denmark earlier on Sunday.
They will now meet the Danes in their semi-final on Thursday, while hosts Netherlands will face England in the other last-four match after the Lionesses beat France 1-0.
Spain, in contrast, head home having endured a miserable campaign.
After winning their opener against Portugal, defeats against England and Scotland meant they only qualified for the last eight on goal difference.
And although they had most of the ball in the quarter-final, the lack of creativity evident throughout the competition proved costly as Austria resisted with ease before forcing the shootout.
Match ends, Austria Women 0(5), Spain Women 0(3).
Penalty Shootout ends, Austria Women 0(5), Spain Women 0(3).
Goal! Austria Women 0(5), Spain Women 0(3). Sarah Puntigam (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top left corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(4), Spain Women 0(3). Marta Corredera (Spain Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(4), Spain Women 0(2). Viktoria Pinther (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Penalty saved! Silvia Meseguer (Spain Women) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(3), Spain Women 0(2). Verena Aschauer (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(2), Spain Women 0(2). Amanda Sampedro (Spain Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(2), Spain Women 0(1). Nina Burger (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(1), Spain Women 0(1). Olga García (Spain Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Austria Women 0(1), Spain Women 0. Laura Feiersinger (Austria Women) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
Attempt blocked. Jenni Hermoso (Spain Women) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mapi León.
Verena Aschauer (Austria Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Amanda Sampedro (Spain Women) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Verena Aschauer (Austria Women).
Attempt missed. Mapi León (Spain Women) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Alexia Putellas with a cross.
Corner, Spain Women. Conceded by Carina Wenninger.
Attempt saved. Virginia Torrecilla (Spain Women) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Amanda Sampedro.
Substitution, Spain Women. Virginia Torrecilla replaces Mari Paz Vilas.
Substitution, Austria Women. Viktoria Pinther replaces Sarah Zadrazil.
Marta Corredera (Spain Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nadine Prohaska (Austria Women).
Foul by Alexia Putellas (Spain Women).
Sarah Zadrazil (Austria Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Silvia Meseguer (Spain Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Second Half Extra Time begins Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
First Half Extra Time ends, Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
Corner, Austria Women. Conceded by Irene Paredes.
Offside, Spain Women. Mapi León tries a through ball, but Jenni Hermoso is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Nina Burger (Austria Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Mapi León (Spain Women) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mari Paz Vilas.
Attempt blocked. Alexia Putellas (Spain Women) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Olga García.
Attempt blocked. Laura Feiersinger (Austria Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nina Burger with a cross.
Foul by Olga García (Spain Women).
Sarah Zadrazil (Austria Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Mari Paz Vilas (Spain Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Virginia Kirchberger (Austria Women).
First Half Extra Time begins Austria Women 0, Spain Women 0.
Jake Ball (2-53) reduced Durham to 8-2 before career-best one-day scores from Graham Clark (92) and Cameron Steel (77) rebuilt the visitors' innings.
Collingwood hit a six and eight fours in his 47-ball innings to see Durham home with five balls to spare on 299-6.
Earlier, Alex Hales made 104 but Notts lost their last five wickets in 10 balls to be dismissed for 297.
Samit Patel - in his benefit game at Trent Bridge - made 28 before Hales, who passed 5,000 one-day runs, accelerated the innings and hit three sixes but holed out to Ryan Pringle off James Weighell (3-66), while Chris Read (61) and Billy Root (66) put on 101 for the sixth wicket.
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Durham came back strongly as Paul Coughlin (2-53) and Mark Wood (3-62) both took two wickets in two balls as Notts were restricted to under 300 after being 288-5.
The visitors then recovered from a shaky start thanks to Clark and Steel who put on 160 for the third wicket, but both were dismissed in the space of four balls.
Wicketkeeper Read took his 257th one-day catch to dismiss Ryan Pringle to equal Bruce French's record for Notts, but ex-England one-day skipper Collingwood kept his cool and hit Harry Gurney to the boundary to score the winning runs from the first ball of the final over.
Despite being deducted two points at the start of the season, Durham move up to second in the North Group table, while Notts are fourth with three wins from six matches.
They have poured into the streets enjoying basic rights they had been denied for two years, including shaving off their beards and smoking.
US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters fought 73 days to drive IS out of Manbij, close to the Turkish border.
About 2,000 civilians being used as human shields were also freed.
Reuters news agency spoke to a resident of Manbij who described a spot where people were beheaded. "For anything or using the excuse that he did not believe [in God], they put him and cut his head off.
"It is all injustice," he said.
"I feel joy and [it is like a] dream I am dreaming. I cannot believe it, I cannot believe it. Things I saw no one saw," a woman said screaming and fainting, according to Reuters.
Another woman thanked the fighters that had set them free: "You are our children, you are our heroes, you are the blood of our hearts, you are our eyes. Go out, Daesh [Arabic name for IS]!"
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The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia. They were backed in their campaign against IS by US-led air strikes on IS positions.
The roads through Manbij had become crucial to the group's ability to move fighters, weapons and supplies in and out of Syria.
Routes to Syria's embattled second city, Aleppo, and to the IS capital, Raqqa, pass through the town.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict from the UK, around 500 cars left Manbij carrying IS members and civilians.
They were heading north-east towards Jarablus, a town under IS control on the Turkish border.
The militias said their victory had cut off the IS militants' route to Europe.
"After the liberation of Manbij, IS members won't be able to freely travel to and from Europe anymore," said Syrian Kurdish leader Salih Muslim.
US officials have said that after Manbij, the coalition's intention is to move on Raqqa.
Raqqa, estimated to have a population of between 250,000 and 500,000, has become the de facto capital of the "caliphate" whose creation was proclaimed by IS two years ago after it took control of large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
In addition to the alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters supported by the US, IS militants are also under pressure from Russian-backed Syrian government forces. Two days ago, Russian air strikes cut off the city's water supply.
Mandy Chapple, 56, was exiting the cab near Leicester railway station on 27 July when her door hit Sam Boulton.
Leicester Magistrates' Court heard Mr Boulton, who had turned 26 that day, fell in front of a moving van.
Ms Chapple, of Speers Road, Leicester, admitted a charge of opening a vehicle door so as to injure or endanger another person.
She was also ordered to pay a £40 victim surcharge and £30 court costs.
Mr Boulton was a teacher in Coalville, Leicestershire.
Nigel Hallchurch, representing Chapple, said she "thinks about this all the time and is very sorry".
The taxi driver has pleaded not guilty to a related charge and will face a trial at Loughborough Magistrates' Court in 5 June.
Protesters from CND Cymru and other groups gathered at Parc Aberporth in Ceredigion and called for the end of military drone testing.
It was planned to coincide with a vigil at the Excel Arms Trade Fair taking place in London.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the UAVs only flew at designated testing areas at Parc Aberporth.
"We're trying to raise awareness that Wales is part of the war machine," said John Cox, chairman of CND Cymru.
"Most people are unaware that Wales is part of the development of drones.
"They don't have bombs on board but they are testing out drones here."
QinetiQ, which works on UAVs, is one of a number of defence contractors working at Parc Aberporth.
An MoD spokesperson said: "Watchkeeper, an unarmed Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS), only flies at the designated testing area at Parc Aberporth.
"Other UK RPAS aircraft, such as Reaper, only operate in Afghanistan under the legal authority of UN Security Council resolutions.
"These aircraft have played a vital role supporting military operations and have saved the lives of countless UK and allied forces by providing essential Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance."
Lessons would be in a dual-control car with an approved instructor - currently drivers can only go on motorways once they have passed their practical exam.
Other plans include a crackdown on dangerous drivers, by providing police forces with more money for enforcement.
The proposals will be put out to consultation next year.
There will be a £2m research project into how to improve motoring education for learner and novice drivers.
As part of a wide-ranging strategy document - some of which applies to the whole of Britain and some to certain nations only - the Department for Transport also proposes:
At present, fewer than half of learners pass their practical test first time - a statistic the government says it wants to improve.
"We will encourage a higher percentage of learner drivers to aim to pass their driving test the first time around, when they are truly ready for independent driving," the document states.
"In doing so, we will consider whether more should be done to support and reward a broader range of driving experiences, such as night driving and motorways, ahead of candidates obtaining their driving licence and whether restructuring the costs of the driving test would incentivise learners to undertake more pre-test practice."
Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, welcomed the announcement of motorway lessons.
He said: "Mile-for-mile, motorways are our safest roads but can be intimidating places for novice drivers.
"The important thing is the official seal of approval provided by the approved driving instructor who will accompany them down the slip-road.
"This is definitely not the time to have mum or dad in the passenger seat."
Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the Institute of Advanced Motorists, said: "Logistically, motorway driving can never be compulsory but for the many who live close to them, this offers a step change in their confidence and safety in our most important economic routes."
The strategy also sets out plans to give £750,000 to police forces in England and Wales to improve their ability to identify and prosecute drug-drivers.
AA president Edmund King said drug driving was "the hidden killer" and extra efforts to tackle it were "welcome and overdue".
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said Britain's roads were some of the safest in the world, but more could be done to improve them.
"We are delivering common-sense proposals that balance tougher penalties for dangerous drivers with practical steps to help youngsters and other more vulnerable groups stay safe on our roads."
Northern Ireland is responsible for its own road traffic legislation, including driver and vehicle testing, road safety policy and vehicle standards.
However, Payments UK, which represents the industry, said that still represented a 13% decline on the previous year.
It said the figures showed that cheques are still valued as a means of payment.
Cheques had been due to be phased out by 2018, until MPs forced a change of heart by the industry.
Banks have promised to keep processing them for as long as necessary.
Some banks, such as Barclays, have also introduced "cheque imaging", allowing consumers to take a photograph of a cheque and send it to the bank via their smartphone.
Use of cheques peaked in 1990, when there were more than 4bn transactions a year.
Last year 546m cheques were written, an average of about 10 cheques per adult per year.
The report for Payments UK said that showed that they are "still valued as a convenient and secure method of payment by those who choose to use them".
Use of cheques is higher in the 65 and over age group. They are also still popular as a way of paying tradespeople and charities, as well as for family gifts.
The research also suggested that the use of debit cards would overtake cash payments by 2021.
However, cash was still the most popular means of paying in 2015.
Figures published last week showed that monthly spending on contactless cards hit £1.5bn for the first time in March.
Consumers over the age of 60 are the fastest-growing group using the cards, according to Barclaycard.
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The EIS union is angry about a management restructuring in secondary schools.
Members voted in favour of action by 88% to 12% in a statutory ballot.
The union will decide what action to take in the new year. A spokesman said the ballot provided a mandate for strike but options such as a work-to-contract would also be considered.
The row is over a plan by the council to cut the number of heads of departments in some schools.
More departments would be grouped together as "faculties" under one head.
Principal teachers who do not secure one of the new positions would have their pay protected for three years but could lose money in the longer term if they do not find another promoted post.
EIS General Secretary Larry Flanagan said: "This is an overwhelming ballot result which gives a clear mandate for a programme of industrial action in protest at West Dunbartonshire's plans for management restructuring it its secondary schools.
"The high turnout and the fact that almost 90% of teachers voting in the ballot backed industrial action demonstrate the depth of opposition to the council's plans.
"It is time for West Dunbartonshire council to rethink its proposals and to listen to the views of the teachers in its secondary schools."
Michael Dolan, EIS local association secretary for West Dunbartonshire, added: "We believe that the council's proposed restructuring of management positions in its five secondary schools will have a serious detrimental impact on learning and teaching.
"Teachers do not want to take industrial action, but we feel our hand has been forced by these proposals which will damage the service we provide for pupils across West Dunbartonshire secondary schools."
A spokeswoman for West Dunbartonshire Council said it respected the ballot result and would work with teachers and trade union representatives to reach a resolution.
She added: "We are committed to protecting teacher numbers in West Dunbartonshire and will support our staff in every way possible with the national issue around workload.
"We know that our teachers care just as much as we do about providing a first-class education to the young people of this area.
"We remain hopeful that our on-going discussions can reassure teaching staff and find a solution that avoids industrial action and its impact on young people."
The incident happened last month at the St Paul's Out of School Club, which is held at St Paul's Church.
Speaking to the York Press, the unnamed woman said her daughter had been left traumatised by the episode.
The club said it was working with Ofsted in its investigation.
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The mother told the newspaper her daughter and another five-year-old girl had gone to the toilet in the basement of the church, just as the children were getting ready for a trip to the cinema during half-term.
The girls were locked in and the lights turned off, she said.
She said her daughter said she had made a den in a corner and cuddled together with the other girl, but she had been scared and cried for her parents while the pair were alone.
The mother reportedly took her girl to her doctor, who referred her to York's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
"When I took my daughter home I realised she wasn't coming round - she was still really withdrawn and quiet, " the mother told the York Press.
"She's scared of going to out-of-school club again, she has to sleep with the light on, and she has lost confidence at school."
In a statement, York Childcare, which runs the after-school club, said: "We take our safeguarding responsibilities very seriously indeed and continue to take the advice of Ofsted with whom we are working during its investigation.
"Given that its investigation and our own are not yet concluded we're unable to comment further."
They backed the government's European Union Bill, supported by the Labour leadership, by 498 votes to 114.
But the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats opposed the bill, while 47 Labour MPs and Tory ex-chancellor Ken Clarke rebelled.
The bill now faces further scrutiny in the Commons and the House of Lords before it can become law.
The prime minister has set a deadline of 31 March for invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, getting official talks with the EU started. The bill returns to the Commons next week.
MPs held two days of debate on the bill, which follows last June's referendum in which voters opted by 51.9% to 48.1% in favour of Brexit.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a leading Leave campaigner, called the Commons result "absolutely momentous". Speaking on Facebook, he added: "We may be leaving the EU treaties. We are not leaving Europe."
The UK would "forge a new identity" and make "an amazingly positive contribution" to Europe, he said.
By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
This time last year few in Westminster really thought that this would happen. The then prime minister's concern was persuading the rest of the EU to give him a better deal for the UK.
His close colleagues believed the chances of them losing, let alone the government dissolving over the referendum, were slim, if not quite zero.
This isn't even the last vote on this bill.
There are several more stages, the Lords are likely to kick up rough at the start.
But after tonight, for better or worse, few will believe that our journey to the exit door can be halted.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had imposed a three-line whip - the strongest sanction at his disposal - on his MPs to back the bill.
Shadow cabinet members Rachael Maskell and Dawn Butler quit the party's front bench shortly before the vote, in order to defy his orders.
Also, 13 Labour frontbenchers voted against their own party position, apparently without first resigning.
Mr Corbyn said: "Labour MPs voted more than three to one in favour of triggering Article 50. Now the battle of the week ahead is to shape Brexit negotiations to put jobs, living standards and accountability centre stage.
"Labour's amendments are the real agenda. The challenge is for MPs of all parties to ensure the best deal for Britain, and that doesn't mean giving Theresa May a free hand to turn Britain into a bargain-basement tax haven."
One MP was heard to shout "Suicide" when the result of the vote was announced.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, seven of whose nine MPs voted against the government, said: "The Tories and Labour have failed future generations today by supporting a hard Brexit.
"Labour's leadership tonight have waved the white flag. They are not an opposition; they are cheerleaders."
MPs will discuss the bill in more detail next week when it reaches its committee stage in the Commons, during which amendments to the government's plans will be discussed.
The SNP's foreign affairs spokesman at Westminster, Alex Salmond, said: "Next week there will be detailed questions and the calibre of the government will be judged by how they respond to the amendments."
Plaid Cymru's Westminster group leader, Hywel Williams, called Labour's stance "deeply disappointing", adding: "This was not a vote on whether to accept the referendum result. It was a vote on whether to endorse the Tories' extreme version of Brexit."
Ken Clarke, the only Conservative MP to defy his party by voting against the bill, said the result was "historic", but the "mood could change" when the "real action" of negotiations with the EU starts.
Earlier, the Commons voted against an SNP amendment aimed at scuppering the bill.
The bill was published last week, after the Supreme Court decided MPs and peers must have a say before Article 50 could be triggered.
It rejected the government's argument that Mrs May had sufficient powers to trigger Brexit without consulting Parliament.
Talks with the EU are expected to last up to two years, with the UK predicted to leave the 28-member organisation in 2019.
The former Dr Feelgood guitarist, 67, was treated for pancreatic cancer at Addenbrooke's Hospital after being told the condition was terminal.
Johnson, from Southend, was given the all clear in April.
"What can I say about Addenbrooke's? To me it's like a magic place. They saved my life, it was fantastic. What a wonderful place," he said.
Johnson was given 10 months to live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
But medics found he had a rare and curable form of the cancer when one of his doctor friends started to question why he was still feeling fairly well several months after the diagnosis.
The musician underwent 11 hours of radical surgery at Addenbrooke's to take out the 3kg tumour and earlier this year was given the all clear.
He credited the hospital's doctors with "curing" him.
"To me, everybody at Addenbrooke's from the consultants to the cleaners to the nurses are heroes," he said.
"Certainly when I was in there I was suffering quite a bit of discomfort, but what those people did, I mean they saved my life."
Johnson said he hoped to get back to playing in the new year.
"Man, I really want to do that.
"You know, it's been quite nice this kind of holiday, sitting around watching the telly and what not, but I've had enough of that now and I want to get back on the stage."
It is not just his musical career he is keen to get back to.
Johnson's role in television series Game of Thrones, in which he played Ilyn Payne was interrupted by his cancer diagnosis.
"The producers have said they haven't absolutely written my character out," he said.
"In America, where it's been such a success, I'm known as 'actor Wilko Johnson who also plays the guitar'."
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo group says DNA tests confirm the woman, now in her thirties, was the daughter of communist activists seized in 1977.
Her mother gave birth in prison and both her biological parents were never seen again.
The organisation says there are still more than 400 others to be found.
Human rights groups say the kidnapping of babies was part of a systematic government plan.
The plan was to place the children of people the government thought of as subversive with military families and allies to avoid raising another generation of what the military rulers considered left-wing radicals.
In this case, the woman is the child of Walter Dominguez and Gladys Castro, who lived in the northern city of Mendoza and both belonged to the Argentine Communist Marxist Leninist party.
They were arrested in their home by what the neighbours thought were police and taken away.
Gladys Castro was six months pregnant at the time. She gave birth in 1978.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo was founded in 1977 with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the military government.
The site is now back after what is believed to have been an internal fault affecting the site on Sunday.
Separately, the company said it was aware of people receiving scam emails masquerading as having been sent from Argos.
The company advises customers not to hand over personal details after receiving unsolicited emails. It said it had not suffered a cyber attack.
Argos said in a statement on Sunday: "We are extremely sorry for the temporary service issues our customers were experiencing on our website this afternoon.
"We have identified and fixed the issue and our site is now up and running.
"We apologise to any customer who has tried to contact us unsuccessfully today and we are working to respond to all enquiries as soon as we can."
Last year, Argos's website suffered problems for two days following a revamped design of the site.
It displayed an error message on some computers, but not others, saying access had been blocked because of a "high volume of visitors".
The tourists closed day two on 103-5 in reply to India's 455 in Visakhapatnam.
Four wickets fell for 29 runs from 51-1 with the collapse sparked by the run out of teenage opener Haseeb Hameed.
"It's been poor, poor batting. The low scuttler hasn't got anybody out, I haven't seen the jumping ball and yet England are in trouble at five down," Boycott said on Test Match Special.
"It's pressure, pressure, pressure. It's a little bit about technique but it's a mental game. It's not a raging turner, let's be honest. There's been some sloppy, poor batting."
Joe Root looked the most comfortable English batsman in reaching 53 but perished when he tried to hit off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin over the top and miscued a simple catch to deep mid-off.
Ben Duckett was bowled by Ashwin for five while Moeen Ali was trapped lbw by Jayant Yadav for one after a successful India review.
Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow halted the slide as both reached 12 not out by the close but with the pitch expected to deteriorate further, England are struggling to save the game and avoid going one-nil down in the five-match series.
Former England opener Boycott felt captain Alastair Cook, who was bowled by Mohammed Shami for two, fell victim to "a really good ball" but said the other four wickets were self-inflicted.
Boycott believes "this game has gone" for England who trail India by 352 runs with three days still remaining.
"I was saying before England batted, you can't afford to give India a 100-run lead. Batting last it gets worse and don't pray for rain because this is not Manchester or Yorkshire," he said.
"I can see India batting again if England hang on a bit. The pitch is going to wear and tear a bit more. There are three days left - this could be over in four days without a problem."
England pace bowler Stuart Broad, who was limping on day one, has had a scan after experiencing discomfort in his right foot. The results are expected to be revealed on Saturday morning.
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Jonathan Agnew, BBC cricket correspondent
"The groundsman expected the ball to start spinning shortly after lunch and he got it about right. Not sharply, but enough to unsettle jittery batsmen and expose poor technique.
"Some balls are keeping low, so batting is difficult but not impossible. It's hard to see any obvious escape route for England."
Football Association chairman Greg Clarke told a Commons Select Committee he feared players would suffer "significant abuse" from fans.
BBC football pundit Sutton said Clarke's comments may create "another unintended obstacle" by suggesting football "was not ready".
"Once the first gay footballer comes out, others will follow," he said.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Sutton, 43, added: "There has never been a better time for a footballer to come out and say 'I am gay'.
"Fellow footballers would certainly be supportive.
"It will be the best thing that happens to the homophobia debate."
The former Norwich, Blackburn and Celtic striker says he would think "good on you, but do I care?" should a top player be open about their homosexuality.
"I'm convinced 99.9% of people would share the same view, so are we now setting the levels based on how the 0.1% would react?" he said.
"Home fans would be supportive of a player, some away supporters wouldn't."
Sutton added that any offensive chanting is "one too many", but questioned whether it was any worse than small groups of fans taunting each other about tragedies associated with their respective clubs.
Former Nottingham Forest striker Justin Fashanu became the first player in England to come out as gay in 1990, but took his own life aged 37 in 1998. No male professional player has come out while playing in England since.
Former Germany and Aston Villa player Thomas Hitzlsperger became the first player with Premier League experience to publicly reveal his homosexuality, in January 2014, after he had finished playing in England.
Former England women's captain Casey Stoney was the first active footballer to come out in England since Fashanu, in February 2014.
From his own experience of professional football dressing rooms, Sutton believes any gay player would find "unwavering support" from their team-mates.
"Gentle teasing might be as far as it went," he added. "Anything else would be bullying and team-mates would step in and stop it. That's how it works."
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The discovery was made just hours before the painting was to be sold by Anderson and Garland in Newcastle.
It had been valued at up to £7,000, but a 15-minute bidding battle saw it go under the hammer at £13,500.
Mr Cornish's son John identified the woman as his mother Sarah.
Cornish, a former miner, was renowned for his paintings of life in the industrial North East having learned his craft at an art course run for pitmen at Spennymoor Settlement in County Durham.
He died in August, aged 94.
Anderson and Garland art specialist John Anderson, said: "We found there was another portrait of a woman painted on the back and invited everyone in the room to have a look.
"One of those in the room was Norman Cornish's son John. It was an emotional moment for him when he told the saleroom this was a very early portrait of his mother."
Bidding started at £3,000 for the portrait, which was eventually bought by a North East collector.
It was the last picture to be sold in a collection of Spennymoor Settlement paintings owned by Ivan Geffen.
Mr Geffen, who died in 2013, was a former National Union of Mineworkers solicitor who worked in the Durham Coalfield in the 1940s and 50s.
Mr Anderson said: "The Spennymoor Settlement was a publicly funded educational institution where a number of pitmen went to learn art.
"Ivan realised the talent in the club and started to buy their work."
The paintings, which included six by Cornish, were sold for just under £100,000 by Mr Geffen's widow Mary who said she wanted them returned to the North East.
Paul Treacy took possession of more than 50,000 marbles after his friend Russell Nixon was killed in an alleged attack in Chippenham in May.
Mr Treacy said: "He always said he wanted it to go to a children's charity, but he was a hoarder and didn't like letting go of things."
He is now appealing for a charity or a hospice to take on the marble hoard.
The collection includes a wheelie bin and several 5ft 6in (1.7m) tubes stuffed with thousands of multi-coloured marbles.
"He had these tubes - 25 or 30 of them - all around his bungalow and these 1ft tall, large, chunky jars all over the place filled with marbles," said Mr Treacy.
"It's very hard to estimate, but I would say there is at least 50,000."
Mr Treacy said his friend turned to marble collecting "as a way of coping" with his "troubled childhood".
"He started collecting marbles, just a few hundred at a time, and over the years he just kept on collecting and collecting until it was in the tens of thousands," he said.
"Maybe a children's charity or someone could really benefit from this - then it will all be worth it as far as I'm concerned."
Mr Nixon died following an alleged assault in London Road, Chippenham, in the early hours of 10 May.
A 22-year-old has been charged with his murder and is due to appear in court again in October.
But 87 years ago, on 18 April 1930, the BBC's news announcer had nothing to communicate. "There is no news," was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment.
The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen's Hall in Langham Place, London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed.
How different 18 April 2017 has looked.
It has been packed with news.
As people up and down the UK went back to their jobs following the Easter long weekend, speculation built around an announcement that the Prime Minister, Theresa May, would be making just after 11:00.
The press and broadcasters, unusually, had been kept in the dark about the subject - so there was plenty of speculation all over Twitter and other social networks.
When Mrs May said she sought to call a snap general election, in less than eight weeks' time, it was immediately the subject of online articles, analysis pieces, live news pages, radio bulletins and programmes, TV commentaries, and more - all accessible by smartphone.
Perhaps you're more interested in news from outside the UK, in which case we give you pictures of a new Russian military base in the Arctic; the aftermath of a failed missile launch as North Korea keeps accelerating its nuclear programme; a major candidate in the upcoming French election pledging to suspend immigration; and calls for Turkey to investigate its own election process after a "Yes" vote in a referendum that would give the president sweeping new powers.
None of those are fluff stories for sure.
These days, the BBC has more staff and more capacity than it did in 1930. But it also has a different definition of what the news is.
Then, it was very dependent on news agencies and official government announcements. Today, less so.
And in other changes; back then, announcers were anonymous, and they wore dinner jackets to work.
This was out of respect for the music and drama performers, who had to dress up to entertain in the evening.
The incident, which Traffic Scotland has described as "serious", was reported shortly after 16:00. Police have said a motorbike is involved.
The site of the crash is about one mile from Urquhart Castle. Witnesses have said paramedics and an air ambulance are in attendance.
A diversion via Spean Bridge has been put in place.
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Highly-rated prospect Gavin Whyte blasted in the opener from just a few yards out in the 28th minute.
Mark Miskimmin had a chance to equalise just before half-time but home keeper Sean O'Neill saved with his legs.
Winger Paul Heatley shot Crusaders into a 2-0 lead in the 67th minute and soon afterwards striker Jordan Owens netted a simple header for the third goal.
The Crues are two points ahead of Portadown and champions Cliftonville who are both in action on Saturday.
Defender and captain Colin Coates and striker Jordan Owens have signed contract extensions with Crusaders.
Coates, 28, has agreed a four-year deal while 25-year-old Owens has agreed terms for a further three years with the Belfast club.
"They are loyal guys who just want to play for Crusaders," said manager Stephen Baxter.
The Ports are away to Dungannon Swifts while Cliftonville are at Glenavon.
Coleraine had their chances in an entertaining encounter on the Shore Road.
Neil McCafferty's well-struck free-kick from the edge of the box was well save by O'Neill on 19 minutes.
O'Neill saved again to deny Miskimmin and from the rebound Shane McGinty's effort was deflected on to the bar by home defender Craig McClean.
Whyte pounced for the opener after Heatley's attempt from a tight angle had been blocked on the line.
It was Heatley who beat defender David Ogilby to the ball to shoot in the second goal and Owens could hardly miss with the header which made it 3-0 in the 74th minute.
Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter: "We are aiming to stay in the race and have to stay focused on the job in hand.
"We are in the right place at the moment and there are so many matches to go.
"It is nice to win your home games and we then hope to pick up some points on the road."
The American Healthcare Act, which rolls back portions of the Obamacare health-insurance reforms, is scheduled for a vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday, and at the moment it's far from certain that there are the 215 votes necessary for passage.
According to the latest media reports on vote counts, there are 29 Republicans currently in the "no" column. Assuming all the Democratic lawmakers present stick together - which seems fairly certain at this point - it would only take 23 Republican defections to sink the bill.
On Tuesday morning the president was on Capitol Hill, to make his final push to rally support for the bill. He reportedly told Republican lawmakers that a loss was "not acceptable" and went with a traditional carrot-and-stick approach.
Vote yes, and Republicans could pick up as many as 10 Senate seats in the midterm elections next year. Send the legislation down to defeat, however, and their congressional majorities were in peril.
"Many of you came in on the pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare," Mr Trump said. "I honestly think many of you will lose your seats in 2018 if you don't get this done."
If that wasn't clear enough, Mr Trump pointed to Congressman Mark Meadows, leader of the recalcitrant group of libertarian-leaning conservative congressmen known as the Freedom Caucus: "I'm going to come after you, but I know I won't have to, because I know you'll vote 'yes'."
Press Secretary Sean Spicer would later say that Mr Trump meant that as a joke, but in politics a joke is often a threat delivered with a smile.
Mr Meadows, by the way, is still a solid no.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose reputation as speaker is being put to his first big test this week, was talking up the president's prowess.
"President Trump was here to do what he does best, and that is to close the deal," he said.
The president as the "closer" has been the theme of the week. Spicer said it on Wednesday, as did Congressman Greg Walden on Monday.
"He knows how to put this together," said the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, who helped shepherd the repeal legislation onto the House floor. "He's got great negotiating skills, and we're coming together with it."
All of this underlines what is at stake for the president, Mr Ryan and the rest of the Republican Party leadership. In Washington, power begets power. Successfully wielding it makes you stronger, while failure reveals weakness and engenders future failure.
The White House and the speaker have put their reputations on the line, and a loss on Thursday night would force them to restart the entire healthcare repeal process. Not only that, it would delay work on the rest of their legislative agenda, including tax reform - a heavy political lift on its own - and an infrastructure bill.
The Republicans had set out an ambitious schedule for passage of the healthcare bill, with a Senate vote expected as early as next week. Any delay will probably push a final bill, if it can be achieved, well past the Easter congressional recess.
That's why Spicer said during his Wednesday afternoon press briefing that victory was Plan A and there was no Plan B.
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That should be of little comfort to rank-and-file Republicans in the House, who find themselves in a tricky position. Several conservative groups are putting this bill in an unwelcome spotlight, taking note of how lawmakers vote for their end-of-year legislative scorecards.
The anti-abortion Right to Life will give positive marks for a yes vote, as will the evangelical Faith and Freedom Coalition. Grassroots conservative groups Americans for Prosperity and the Heritage Action Fund, on the other hand, have said they will make no a "key vote".
In other words, House Republicans are going to hurt themselves one way or another on Thursday night. They face the unpleasant task of determining the course of least pain.
Mr Ryan has been doing what he can to sweeten the pot for disgruntled legislators - although that has often resulted in the bill being stretched in different directions, like so much legislative taffy. How far can the speaker pull it before it breaks?
Conservatives have been offered an acceleration of Obamacare tax rollbacks, the ability to add work requirements for the able-bodied poor on Medicaid and the ability for states to receive Medicaid money in block grants to do with as they please.
Moderates were given the promise of a $75bn fund to help older low-income individuals pay insurance premiums.
Then there are the handouts designed to mollify specific groups, like the provision on Medicare reimbursements crafted for New York Republicans.
Congressman Chris Collins says the deal will win the support of his state's delegation and make them "untouchable" when running for re-election next year, according to Bloomberg's Steven Dennis.
Such legislative arm-twisting is standard practice in Congress, of course. Democrats engaged in a similar manoeuvres during Obamacare's oft-tortured passage. No matter how sweet the deal, however, it may not be enough to save a legislator if things go south.
Back in 2009, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu had a particularly choice bit of financial help packaged into the healthcare legislation to win her support. This "Louisiana Purchase", as Republicans mockingly called it, won the senator's vote - but it did little good. She lost her seat in the second Obama-era midterm election bloodbath.
Despite all the drama, as far as bars for presidential success go, the House vote is a relatively low one. The speaker and his leadership team wield extraordinary power to shape the rules of debate in their favour and the amount of pressure they can bring to bear on individual members is great.
If indeed the number of probable Republican "no" votes that need to be flipped can be counted on one's fingers, Mr Trump and Mr Ryan have a reasonable shot at pushing the bill across the finish line, although there may be some tense moments on Thursday night.
There's also the possibility that if, as the hour of the vote approaches, its prospects appear to dim, uneasy House members will rush to the exits. On Wednesday afternoon, for instance, several moderate Republicans unexpectedly came out against the bill. Such is life on the knife's edge.
While failure here would be a disaster for the White House, exposing the president as a paper tiger and the speaker as being at the mercy of his rebellious caucus, a victory only clears the way for tougher challenges in the days to come.
The efforts to appease hard-line conservatives in the House will probably rankle Republican moderates in the Senate, some of whom - such as Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska - are already on the record saying the original Medicaid cuts were too steep.
A handful of hard-line conservatives have also voiced their opposition.
With only a two-vote majority in that chamber, three Republican defections will sink the bill (and that number drops to two if Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson, a reliable yes vote, can't quickly recover from back surgery).
Senate passage, which looks tenuous at best, would then probably be followed by an attempt to reconcile major differences in the House and Senate bills, and then another round of votes in both chambers to approve the resulting compromises.
After that, congressional leadership promises another piece of legislation with more substantive changes to the US healthcare system, such as paring back mandatory insurance coverage guidelines and allowing individuals to purchase from out-of-state insurance providers. Those measure will require 60 votes in the Senate to break a near-certain Democratic filibuster.
In other words, it won't get any easier from here.
As the president might say, who knew legislating could be so complicated?
The women launched their campaign following the sinking of three ships in 1968 with the loss of 58 lives.
They lobbied the government and eventually forced the introduction new safety measures, including all ships having a full-time radio operator.
The ceremony was performed by the city's Lord Mayor Mary Glew.
Councillor Glew described the four women, Lillian Bilocca, Christine Jensen MBE , Mary Denness and Yvonne Blenkinsop, as "truly inspirational".
"The women's campaign saved millions of lives across the world in the fishing industry and it is right and fitting that they are honoured," said Ms Glew.
The four, who lived in the Hull fishing community of Hessle Road, gathered a 10,000 signature petition calling for reform.
Lillian Bilocca led a delegation to Parliament and eventually met with the then prime minister Harold Wilson.
The ceremony takes place on what would have been Ms Bilocca's 86th birthday. She died in 1988.
The two surviving campaigners, Mary Denness and Yvonne Blenkinsop, were present at the unveiling.
Christine Jensen died in 2001.
He called for "understanding and a fraternal spirit" to end uncertainty.
The king also called for "national cohesion" in what correspondents say could be criticism of separatists in Catalonia.
The king has a high opinion poll rating since taking over from his father Juan Carlos in June 2014.
Next month he will hold discussions with the leaders of each party that won seats in parliament.
"Political plurality, expressed at the ballot box, without a doubt offers different sensitivities, visions and perspectives; and it involves a way of exercising politics based on dialogue, consensus and commitment," the king said in a televised holiday message.
"Now, what should matter to all, first and foremost, is Spain and the general interest of the Spanish people," the monarch said.
The king made his address while sitting in a chair in the throne room of the royal palace in Madrid.
In what some see as an appeal for Spain to remain a unitary state, he said: "I sincerely believe that we are living today in times where it is more necessary than ever to recognise everything that unites us."
His intervention comes after Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy compete to form the next government.
Mr Rajoy's Popular Party (PP) won Sunday's vote but is 53 seats short of an absolute majority in the 350-seat chamber.
For decades the Socialists and PP have alternated in government but the rise of two new parties, the left-wing Podemos (We Can) and liberal Ciudadanos (Citizens), has left Spanish politics fragmented.
When Spain's parliament reconvenes in January, King Felipe will ask a party leader to form a government and MPs will vote on his nomination.
If they fail to elect a government within two months then fresh elections will follow.
The tournament opened with everyone in the Stade de France stadium joining together to sing the French national anthem.
Then came the kick-off and France had a bit of a shaky start with Romania seeming to have the upper hand.
However, Payet's goal in the 89th minute sealed the deal for France.
France manager Didier Deschamps said: "It was a tricky match. Romania made it complicated - for the first 20-25 minutes we had a tough time of it. The opening match of a tournament is like playing in a cup final and we were a bit timid."
"But I put four attacking players on to go for the win and I am delighted for the players that they got it."
France were champions in their last two tournaments on home soil - Euro '84 and the 1998 World Cup - and they are one of the favourites to win this time too.
The 22-year-old has signed a one-year deal with the Huish Park outfit.
He made 10 league appearances during a loan spell at Newport County last season, but has not played in a senior match for the Premier League Cherries.
"Jordan has the potential to reach a very high standard," Yeovil boss Darren Way told the club website. "He's quick, clever and difficult to mark."
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The 18-year-old Australian wants to change the way people discriminate against disability through gaining attention through social media.
She wants people to know that Down's Syndrome is a blessing, something to be celebrated.
We spoke to Madeline and her mum, Roseanne Stuart, about her attitude towards her body.
Do you consider yourself a body positive sort of person?
Yes as I always treat my body with respect, work out five days a week, eat healthily and never drink or smoke.
Is there anything you do to keep yourself positive about your body?
I just believe in myself and always be kind to others. Giving is the most self-satisfying thing you can ever do.
How would you describe the last 18 months of your life?
Fast, very busy and exhilarating. I have had the best time and met the most amazing people.
Was there a specific moment or event that made you decide to make changes to your lifestyle and attitude to your health?
Yes, in March 2014 I was dancing with my friends in a hip-hop class and I could not keep up.
I was so uncomfortable and could not catch my breath. I ran out to my mum and cried that I had let myself become so unhealthy.
At that point I changed my diet and started respecting my body and not just my taste buds.
Two years later I have lost 20kg and I feel amazing and have so much energy.
Did you imagine that you'd ever be on a New York catwalk or on the pages of Vogue?
That is not something I ever thought about. I only really discovered modelling in August 2014 when I went to the Royal Queensland Show in Brisbane and watched a fashion parade.
At that moment I decided it looked like an awesome thing to do. Before then my spare time was competing at Special Olympics, dancing and acting.
How important is it to you that you're challenging the traditional beauty ideals of the fashion industry?
I think it is important for us all to grow and to become more inclusive. The world is ever evolving and it is time that we realised that not everyone is tall, skinny and blonde.
A model is supposed to represent reality and in reality people come in all shapes, sizes, nationality and colour.
When you got your first paid job as a model, describe the feeling…
I was very excited. I also felt very proud.
Do you see yourself as a trailblazer?
Yes in a way, but I always have done my own thing. I learnt that from my mum.
You've also been nominated for awards in Australia, what would it mean to win them?
I think it would be lovely, but the fact that I am creating awareness for people with disabilities is what is really important.
Within time it will become very normal to see people with disabilities in the spotlight and only when that happens will people feel comfortable and become inclusive. The unknown is always scary.
Does it surprise you that people think it's a big deal to see you making waves in the fashion and beauty community?
Yes, it does. I don't really understand as I see and treat everyone equally so I feel it is more of a reflection of them than me.
Was there ever a point that you didn't think you'd achieve your goals?
No as my only goal has always been to be happy and I am very happy with life. It is a journey and where that journey takes us is up to us.
What would your advice be to someone who'd like to follow a similar path?
Believe in yourself as only when you do will others believe also. Even if you don't obtain your first goal you still would have tried and other opportunities will arise from trying.
What's next, do you have anything else that you've identified as something you'd like to take on?
I would really like to venture into television but at the same time I want to continue to model and be a role model to help other people.
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The No Nato Newport group wants to gather on council-owned land next to Pill Millennium Centre from 27 August.
More than 100 people attended a public meeting on Tuesday to voice objections to the proposed use of the green space.
Newport council said the No Nato group had a right to protest and it was taking steps to mitigate disruption.
The peace camp is expected to run until the weekend after the conference at the Celtic Manor Resort from 3-5 September.
Newport council has agreed to source toilets, water, waste and cleaning supplies, but it is not yet clear who will pay for them.
Residents say they know little about the protesters' plans and are worried their tent pitches will put the field out of action for the rest of the year.
Sally Wallace, who lives near the park, said: "The problem is we are going to have large amounts of people down here - people are not going to be able to use the fields.
"The ground itself isn't really suitable for a large group of campers."
Debra Scarpato said people were also concerned the camp could attract demonstrations from opposition groups, which could lead to trouble.
"There's been so many things going around Pill and feelings are getting high and it might get out of control," she said.
"That's my worry, that people are going to come down here and start problems."
Council representatives have met protesters and residents to discuss what might be provided at the camp, what restrictions will be in place, and what will be expected of those using it.
But a spokeswoman insisted the authority was not giving the group permission to use the fields.
"While we recognise that people have a legitimate right to protest, we understand the concerns of residents about the playing fields which are widely used by the community so the council is working with partner agencies and taking steps to mitigate the potential impact," the spokeswoman said.
"We met with community representatives to discuss the situation but must emphasise it is being created by the protesters, not the council, so it was not a consultation.
"The council has certainly not given a "commitment" to hold a peace camp in Pill."
The public meeting at Pill Millennium Centre to discuss the camp plans heard from Tracey Holyoake, chair of the community centre's trust, who said the original booking to use the site's facilities made no mention of camping in the field.
Ms Holyoake said she would not allow the booking to go ahead.
Meanwhile Gwent Police have said they will be ready to deal with any impromptu protests that take place during the summit but were not expecting any trouble.
It happened just after 14:30 BST at a level crossing near Stretham.
A man, in his 40s, was treated by the East Anglian Air Ambulance and flown to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
The collision involved a Great Northern King's Lynn to London King's Cross train. The 4x4 was hit at the Nairn level crossing, off the A1123.
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British Transport Police said the male driver of the vehicle suffered serious injuries but they were not thought to be life-threatening.
Network Rail said the crossing was typically used by few than 10 vehicles per day and there were "clear instructions" telling people to phone a signaller to ask permission to cross.
Spokesman Ross Easton confirmed the signaller had not received a call prior to the incident and the telephone system had been working.
"Our thoughts are with the driver of the vehicle and his family and we will continue to assist with the ongoing investigation," he added.
About 115 passengers had to be transferred to another train after it was damaged in the crash.
The alloy is the hardest known metallic substance compatible with living tissues, say US physicists.
The material is four times harder than pure titanium and has applications in making longer-lasting medical implants, they say.
Conventional knee and hip implants have to be replaced after about 10 years due to wear and tear.
Details of the new metal - an alloy of gold and titanium - are revealed in the journal, Science Advances.
Prof Emilia Morosan, of Rice University, Houston, said her team had made the discovery while working on unconventional magnets made from titanium and gold.
The new materials needed to be made into powders to check their purity, but beta-Ti3Au, as it is known, was too tough to be ground in a diamond-coated mortar and pestle.
The material "showed the highest hardness of all Ti-Au [titanium-gold] alloys and compounds, but also compared to many other engineering alloys", said Prof Morosan.
She said the hardness of the substance, together with its higher biocompatibility, made it a "next generation compound for substantively extending the lifetime of dental implants and replacement joints".
It may also have applications in the drilling industry, the sporting goods industry and many other potential fields, she added.
The gold-titanium alloy is a cubic compound with a particular arrangement of atoms found when metals are combined at high temperatures.
Titanium is one of the few metals that human bone is able to grow around firmly, allowing it to be used widely in medicine and dentistry.
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Marx Melencio was buying fried rice with his wife at a roadside store in Manila when he was shot in the chest and the head in an apparently random attack.
The first bullet hit him 3mm from his heart. The second missed his brain by 2mm but singed his optic nerve, rendering him blind.
Witnesses say the man who fired the gun was under the influence of both alcohol and drugs, but he's never been convicted.
It was 2003 and Marx was 23 years old.
Fast-forward 14 years and Marx now runs a successful IT company. And he's determined to develop guided "vision" for blind people, through the use of artificial intelligence and smart glasses.
Marx has developed an app that voices up the video-recognition data provided by Microsoft.
The Microsoft platform, known as Cognitive Services, recognises what objects appear in a video and translates that information into text.
Marx has developed a computer code that can turn that text into spoken audio.
"We're standing on the shoulders of giants," he says. "They already have the database there. The only thing left to do is process that data into a usable form for blind people. And to automate the system."
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The Microsoft software is open to third-party development by members of the public.
Currently, Marx's prototype provides audio descriptions of video captured on a smartphone camera.
He's currently trying to raise money on a crowdfunding website to make the software available in smart glasses.
"We're banking on the support of others in empowering the blind. It's a new technology. It's the type of innovation I'm looking for because I myself am blind," he says.
At the time of his shooting, Marx was the bass player in a heavy metal band that he'd joined at college.
He continued to play with the group even after he lost his sight.
A competition calling for videos of local music acts led to him developing his first piece of computer software.
"First, I searched for video editing software that I could access even though I'm blind. I had a hard time finding one, obviously," he laughs.
Undeterred, Marx customised the screen-reading software he was already using to work with a video editing programme.
He entered the competition, although his band didn't win.
Soon after that, Marx discovered a computer school for blind people operating in Manila.
The school was offering a medical transcription course that taught how to transcribe the audio notes kept by doctors.
Marx didn't have enough money to pay for the course, but he asked the school if he could do something else in exchange.
The school told him they needed a web developer.
"At that time, I didn't know how to make websites but I told them I did. They gave me a week before I started. In that week, I learned how to develop websites and applications," he says.
"I just did some Googling!"
Marx eventually got a job as a content writer for a local technology company, but soon realised he could start a business of his own.
In 2005, he set up Grayscale, a company offering web design, software development and search engine optimisation for overseas companies.
He started with four workers: himself, his wife Cherry, and two friends. Today the company employs 200 people, a fifth of whom have disabilities.
In 2012, Marx decided to expand Grayscale in to the call centre business.
The Philippines is home to more call centres than anywhere else in the world, providing jobs for 1.2 million people.
"I noticed there was a gap in the market for non-English call centre support services," he says, "so we focused on Japanese, German and French."
Marx hired Filipinos who had previously worked as cruise ship performers, entertaining Japanese tourists. They already had the language skills, so Marx trained them in IT support.
"Once their contracts are up they come back here [to the Philippines] and don't have any employment opportunities, so we trained them in tech."
He also set up a call centre in Poland offering IT services for German speakers, and call centres in Bulgaria and Georgia offering IT support in French.
Three years ago, Marx heard that Tesla, the Silicon Valley tech company, was developing self-driving vehicles.
"When I heard about Tesla, I thought, if artificial intelligence can be used to detect certain objects [on the road], then it will be fairly straightforward to convert what it detects into human readable text and for that text to be converted in to spoken audio," he says.
Since then, Marx has been working to realise that aim.
"I want a piece of software that describes things that are happening around me at any moment," he says.
"First, it will bring back the independence that we've been longing for. I would like to travel and walk around. Even here, I would like to walk around the park with my pet dog. I would like to buy things on my own. I would like to go to the ATM [cash machine].
"These are basic things for everyone but we are missing out."
Marx also has plans to develop the app so that it can read text on a page and translate it in to audio.
"If the blind person looks at the page of a book, our software will be able to read it for him," he says.
Marx is hoping to raise $25,000 (£20,000) to continue developing the app, called SmartVision.
"We've made the algorithms and we've tested it and we want to improve it further. And we also want a way for the blind user to help build the database, to be able to privately name the faces of people, even pets or objects.
"That way, when the blind person uses the device, it will speak out the name of the person that he labelled."
Marx hopes a final version of his app, available on Android and Apple operating platforms, will be ready to release to the public later this year.
Broadmeadows Bridge on the A708 will be shut on 30 January until 3 February from 09:00 to 16:00 each day.
Scottish Borders Council said the timing of the closure - for resurfacing work - had been designed to minimise disruption.
The bridge is expected to fully reopen next month after the completion of the £240,000 repair programme.
The structure was damaged by a vehicle in September 2015, leading to temporary lights being used to allow traffic to continue to use it.
SBC's Gordon Edgar said: "This daytime closure of Broadmeadows Bridge for five days is unfortunately unavoidable.
"We realise it will cause some disruption but hope the Yarrow Valley community recognise that efforts have been made to minimise this, and will welcome the bridge being fully reopened in February."
Glyndwr University bought the ground and fans group Wrexham Supporters' Trust took over the club when it got into difficulties in 2011.
The trust board signed a deal to take on the lease after fans gave their backing in a vote in March.
The Racecourse ground has been the club's home for most of its 152 year history.
An open day was held on Monday, when the deal was confirmed.
Club director Spencer Harris said: "It's a tremendous day in the history of Wrexham football club with the fans taking over effective ownership of the Racecourse ground."
He said the stadium has been a loss-making facility over the years so new projects were being launched in a bid to reverse its fortunes - such as using it as a live music venue following the success of Stereophonics' gig in July.
As part of the open day, Wrexham manager Gary Mills and players held a question and answer session at the stadium's Centenary Club.
Barnaby Jack died on Thursday, the city's medical examiner's office told Reuters, but did not give more details.
He had been due to give a presentation into medical device vulnerabilities at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas taking place next week.
He had said one technique could kill a man from 30 feet (nine metres) away.
IOActive, the security firm at which Mr Jack was director of embedded devices, said it was preparing a statement.
In a tweet, the company said: "Lost but never forgotten our beloved pirate, Barnaby Jack has passed."
His sister Amberleigh Jack, who lives in New Zealand, told Reuters news agency he was 35.
Mr Jack became one of the most famous hackers on the planet after a 2010 demonstration in which he hacked a cash machine, making it give out money. The technique was dubbed "Jackpotting".
More recently, he emerged as a leading expert in the weaknesses that could be found in medical technology.
Last year, he told the BBC about how he had discovered flaws in widely-used insulin pumps which allowed him to compromise the devices.
The hack made it possible to control them and administer a fatal level of insulin, Mr Jack said.
"My purpose was not to allow anyone to be harmed by this because it is not easy to reproduce," he told the BBC during an interview in April 2012.
"But hopefully it will promote some change in these companies and get some meaningful security in these devices."
Mr Jack's expertise and vivid demonstrations of his knowledge at events like Black Hat earned him the respect of many security professionals.
Amberleigh Jack thanked those who have been posting messages of sympathy online.
"So humbled by the social media flood of people that loved @barnaby_jack," she tweeted.
"Thank you all so much for your kind words."
Chiyangwa said Caf was reviewing the manner in which the 2019, 2021 and 2023 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments were awarded to West Africa by the previous Caf administration.
Chiyangwa, who is also head of the Cosafa region (Council of Southern African FA's) spoke of his concerns in April and wants the tournaments to be more widespread.
You as Zambia, if you are ready, you may have an opportunity that arises in 2021
"I am the giver and taker of competitions," Phillip Chiyangwa said during a tour of Zambia last week.
As things currently stand, the 2019 edition will be held in Cameroon while Ivory Coast is set to stage the 2021 tournament and Guinea will be hosts in 2023.
That means the west of the continent would have staged Africa's showpiece event for five consecutive tournaments, from 2015 - when Equatorial Guinea stepped in for Morocco - to 2023.
"I am currently reviewing what happened in the past, there may be possibilities in 2021 going forward, but the reason why I want to be ready with my region is to know which country wants what.
"If an opportunity arises there is no need for me to do last minute searches," Chiyangwa said.
"Our review process is that we go to those countries that bid for those competitions."
Chiyangwa said that the change at Caf was driven by a sense of unfairness in the manner tournaments were awarded to hosts under its former president Issa Hayatou.
"Our contestation on Hayatou to continue in office was the unfair awarding of tournaments to one region," he said.
"Other regions were suffering, if you look at the background of the Issa Hayatou fall, it arises out of the fact that most of the competitions were being awarded to West Africa, not North Africa, not even Central Africa and not even Southern Africa," he added.
"So the chance you have - should in our investigations a decision be arrived at to nullify the other competitions - you as Zambia, if you are ready, you may have an opportunity that arises in 2021."
Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold finished a disappointing 15th place in Switzerland, with Dom Parsons 10th and Jack Thomas 18th in the men's race.
Donna Creighton won skeleton gold for GB in the North American Cup on Thursday.
Creighton took top spot in Lake Placid after a silver in the Intercontinental Cup competition in Calgary.
Kate Frame said, however, that more detailed guidance should be issued to officers who use CS spray in hospital environments.
It follows an incident with a 26-year-old man who was violent at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy in October 2014.
The second incident saw CS spray used to subdue a man at a petrol station in Aberdeenshire on 12 November 2014.
As officers in Portsoy tried to arrest the 44-year-old man, who was wanted for outstanding warrants, he got into his vehicle and a struggle resulted in an officer's hand being trapped in the door.
The officer managed to open the door, release his hand and discharge his CS spray at the man.
In her investigation findings, the commissioner concluded the use of CS spray was justified given the danger the officer found himself in, but noted more careful management of the situation "could have alleviated the risk to the officers in attendance".
All incidences where officers of Police Scotland use firearms, including CS spray, must be referred to the police investigations and review commissioner for independent assessment.
In her investigation report published on Monday, Ms Frame recommends Police Scotland provides detailed guidance to officers to clarify its procedure on managing exposure to CS spray in a hospital setting and liaises with health boards across Scotland to ensure a standard approach in dealing with the discharge of CS spray.
It was also recommended that Police Scotland provide detailed guidance on the issue, use and storage of CS spray to officers in the force's Fife Division.
Ms Frame, police investigations and review commissioner, said: "Although the use of CS spray in this situation was appropriate in order to alleviate the risk presented to the public, careful consideration should be given as to how exposure to CS spray is managed when it proves necessary to use it within a hospital environment.
"Police Scotland should take steps to consolidate procedure across the country and work with the NHS to ensure its staff are clear on what actions require to be taken following the discharge of CS spray."
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police Scotland acknowledges the findings and recommendations of the PIRC report.
"While officers currently receive full training around the appropriate use of CS spray in situations which require it, further learning points will now by identified and shared with officers."
Last year, Ashers Baking Company was found to have discriminated against a customer who placed the order in 2014.
The owners of the Belfast shop are seeking to overturn that judgement.
The McArthur family has said their case has implications for freedom of expression across the UK.
A barrister for the family told Belfast's Court of Appeal on Monday there was no contractual obligation to provide the cake.
"This was not a refusal to sell a cake, it was about the refusal to sell this particular cake," he said.
"They could not, in conscience, provide a product with a message that was inconsistent with their deeply held religious beliefs in circumstances where the evidence was clear that they believed that to do so would be sinful.
"If a heterosexual person had bought the cake, they would have had the same response."
He told the appeal judges the crucial question was why the order was not fulfilled.
"The issue is the extent to which those who hold such religious convictions can be required by the law to act in a manner inconsistent with their convictions," he added.
He said it would be "extremely difficult" for businesses to run bespoke services "if faced with the position that someone could... order something which is clearly objectionable".
LGBT activist Gareth Lee placed the order for the cake featuring the Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie and the logo of the QueerSpace campaign group exactly two years ago on Monday.
He paid for the cake in full but was later told the company could not fulfil his order.
He claimed this made him "feel like a lesser person".
The Northern Ireland Equality Commission, which oversees the region's equality laws, brought a case against Ashers on his behalf.
A judge said religious beliefs could not dictate the law and the company agreed to pay damages of £500.
Arriving at the appeal court on Monday, Daniel McArthur, the general manager of Ashers, said he hoped the judges would not require the company to "endorse a view that goes against our conscience".
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage remains illegal.
"Two years ago today we were asked to help promote a campaign to redefine marriage in Northern Ireland," said Mr McArthur.
"We never imagined that two years later we would find ourselves still living with the consequences of that request.
"This was never just a case about one little bakery in Belfast.
"It's always had implications for freedom of expression throughout the UK."
The hearing is set to take place across four days before Northern Ireland's lord chief justice and two other senior judges.
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But the final day of the 2016-17 Premier League season offered up much stranger goings-on on the pitch - involving snorkels, stray birds and debuts for millennials.
Stoke fan Tyrone Sidley, aka @stokemadsidders on Twitter, messaged striker Peter Crouch and offered to wear Speedos for the game at Southampton if, in return, he could have Crouch's match shirt.
The England international bartered with him, and said he had to wear the swimwear - and nothing else - for the trip to the south coast. Team-mate Charlie Adam then chimed in with a suggestion of a snorkel and flippers, too.
Challenge accepted.
Crouch scored the only goal of the match in Stoke's win over Saints and at the final whistle he found Tyrone in the crowd, complete with tiny shorts and snorkel, gave him a big kiss on the head and handed over the match-winning shirt.
Crouch tweeted later on: "Great way to end the season with a win and celebrating with the legend that is @stokemadsidders."
Watford announced earlier this week that Walter Mazzarri would take charge of his final game as manager on Sunday - after only one season at the club.
And he decided to go out with a bang, by naming three goalkeepers in his squad to face Manchester City.
Rene Gilmartin and Costel Pantilimon were named on the bench but neither was called on as first-choice Heurelho Gomes shipped five goals against Pep Guardiola's side.
There were more weird events to come at Vicarage Road.
An unruly bird made its way on to the pitch and interfered with play early in the second half.
Watford's own Dr Doolittle, M'Baye Niang, came to the rescue and picked the little fella up and handed it over to the fourth official so the game could restart.
Some very cynical fans suggested it was the Hornets' best moment of their 5-0 defeat.
You wait four weeks for one Ayew to score and then two pop up in the same minute.
Jordan Ayew turned home an equaliser for Swansea against West Brom in the 72nd minute and seconds later his brother Andre headed West Ham ahead against Burnley.
Spooky.
Jose Mourinho named Manchester United's youngest ever starting XI in the Premier League on Sunday against Crystal Palace - and two of them reached top-flight landmarks.
Josh Harrop, a 21-year-old forward, became the 100th player to score a Premier League goal for the Red Devils. He netted a superb solo effort as his side won 2-0.
Later on, Angel Gomes was brought on as a substitute and the 16-year-old became the the first player born in 2000 to play in the Premier League.
He wasn't even alive when United won their famous Treble. Now we feel old.
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Sri Lanka reached 45-0 but then lost all 10 wickets for 75 runs to slip to 120 all out, with Kyle Abbott, Aaron Phangiso and Farhaan Behardien each taking two wickets.
Hashim Amla made an unbeaten 56 in a comfortable chase that an AB de Villiers six completed with 14 deliveries to spare.
Both teams had already been eliminated.
This was a horrible display from Sri Lanka, who arrived as the defending champions but leave having beaten only Afghanistan.
Without injured captain Angelo Mathews, their middle-order fell apart after openers Tillakaratne Dilshan and Dinesh Chandimal raced to 45 in 28 balls.
Left-arm spinner Phangiso was hit for 10 runs from the first two balls he bowled but, later in the same over, bowled both Chandimal and Lahiru Thirimanne in successive deliveries.
As South Africa, in particular the excellent leg-spin of Imran Tahir, took pace off the ball, Sri Lanka perished to poor shots and sloppy running.
South Africa finish third in Group 1, behind West Indies and England, who play India and New Zealand respectively in the semi-finals.
They may feel unfortunate not to be in the last four - their two defeats both came in the last over of the match - but this was the most comfortable of victories.
Amla was never troubled, occasionally taking boundaries behind square on the off side or wristily whipping through the leg, including one six.
He lost Quinton de Kock to a direct hit from Dilshan and Faf du Plessis to an erroneous lbw, the latter allowing De Villiers to arrive and belt the winning runs off a Suranga Lakmal full toss.
South Africa captain Faf du Plessis: "Unfortunately we played our best game tonight when we were already out. We should have won the first game when we scored 230 and not to get over the line against West Indies was disappointing. I've picked up a few grey hairs in this tournament but hopefully I'll still be here in four years' time."
Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: "You can't say every time you are a rebuilding team. Someone has to put their hand up and perform well. Batting has let us down throughout the tournament. We didn't execute in the middle and that's why we lost."
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Tia, 12, disappeared after leaving her grandmother's home in Croydon, to go shopping at about midday on Friday.
Earlier, a police dog was taken into the house at the Lindens, New Addington, where she was last seen.
Police dog handlers will also conduct a search of the area and alleyway behind the house.
Det Ch Insp Nick Scola also visited the home and met members of the family.
He said: "This morning I have been in to see the family and update them with details of the investigation."
Meanwhile people gathered at Croydon Rugby Club on Tuesday to search nearby woodland.
Club secretary Sue Randall said: "People are coming from everywhere, from Swanley, even a couple from Wales because they thought they might be able to help and wanted to be involved.
"It's worrying. I've got four children and five grandchildren and I would be frantic if they went missing."
She added volunteers were being accompanied by police officers in searches to avoid "contaminating evidence".
Earlier, police began searching the local wood, Birchwood, less than a mile from Tia's grandmother Christine Sharp's home in New Addington.
Alex Benham, of the rugby club, said several social networking pages had been set up appealing for information, adding: "It has been a real community thing."
One woman has posted a message saying: "I printed 2,000 flyers at work last night."
A poster created by Karon March, a supermarket worker, has been displayed alongside official police flyers.
Her husband, Steven March, said: "We've been standing in the middle of roads handing leaflets to drivers and going door-to-door.
"The community's really pulling together."
Gavin Barwell, the Conservative MP for Croydon Central praised the community, saying the response from people had been "absolutely magnificent".
Meanwhile The Sun newspaper has offered a £25,000 reward for information that will help police find Tia.
On Tuesday Tia's stepfather said the family was "in bits" and urged people to find "my little girl".
David Niles, 29, said Tia's mother Natalie was distraught and he had not slept for four days.
Wearing a T-shirt bearing Tia's image, Mr Niles said: "I just want to find my little girl.
"We're in bits, the whole country has helped us and is supporting us.
"I haven't slept in four days. Natalie (Tia's mother) is in bits."
He said he last saw Tia on Thursday morning at the family home in Mitcham before he headed to work.
"She was good as gold," Mr Niles said.
"I know I am not her real dad, but I have been there since day dot.
"When she left the house she shouted: 'Bye' and 'see you by six'."
Tia's grandmother said she was pinning her hopes on new CCTV stills of Tia taken outside the Co-op in Featherbed Lane near her house at about 16:15 BST on the day before she went missing.
Police have scoured hours of CCTV footage but have not found any trace of Tia, who has never gone missing before.
She had been on her way to the Whitgift shopping centre, in Croydon, when she went missing.
Officers are particularly keen to hear from anyone in the Lindens area of New Addington who has information and appealed for any bus or tram drivers in the Croydon area who recognise Tia's description to contact them.
She is known to frequent the Croydon, Mitcham and Wimbledon areas.
Tia is described as white, 4ft 5in tall and slim, and was wearing FCUK glasses.
Jordan Thompson missed numerous first-half chances for the hosts, while Brian Gilmour's effort amounted to nothing.
Paddy Boyle provided Moore with the perfect cross on the stroke of half-time, though, and the Motherwell loanee tucked home his ninth of the season.
Ayr stopper Greg Fleming denied Jamie Bain a leveller.
Work and Pensions Minister Damian Hinds said "sought-after" roles in popular industries such as media and fashion were not available to everybody.
On Friday, MPs will debate plans to pay interns at least the minimum wage.
The bill's sponsor, Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke, called unpaid work a "scourge on social mobility".
The proposed National Minimum Wage (Workplace Internships) Bill would require companies to pay interns at least the minimum wage for their work.
Any adult hired as an intern would have to be paid, but the bill excludes school-age children, apprentices and full-time university and college students completing work experience as part of their studies.
Government minister Damian Hinds told ITV's Peston on Sunday programme unpaid internships were not an option for many poorer young people.
Mr Hinds said: "In the media, in fashion, in these very sought-after occupations, these unpaid internships aren't actually accessible to everybody.
"It's important for social mobility that everybody has a crack at getting into the particularly competitive industries."
Mr Hinds's comments echo concerns that unpaid work disadvantages poorer people, who may not be able to rely on family support to cover their living costs.
Mr Shelbrooke said: "Unpaid internships are a scourge on social mobility.
"I'm confident that this government is serious about building a Britain that works for everyone and not just the privileged few so I look forward to government support for my bill."
Responding to the suggestion that having to pay interns might stop employers taking them on, Mr Shelbrooke said: "There are a number of businesses such as KMPG, Ernst & Young and Pimlico Plumbers that already offer paid internships, showing that there really is no excuse for profit-making companies not to pay their workforce."
There could be long delays at the units at the Royal Gwent in Newport and Nevill Hall in Monmouthshire, Aneurin Bevan health board said.
A high number of emergency cases has followed a busy week, the board said.
Staff are prioritising "very sick patients", a spokeswoman said.
The board said people should consider calling NHS Direct Wales or out-of-hours GP service, visit a pharmacist or the minor injury unit at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Ystrad Mynach.
The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of up to two million people.
Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside.
But this dramatic attempt at social engineering had a terrible cost.
Whole families died from execution, starvation, disease and overwork.
The Khmer Rouge had its origins in the 1960s, as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - the name the Communists used for Cambodia.
Based in remote jungle and mountain areas in the north-east of the country, the group initially made little headway.
But after a right-wing military coup toppled head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970, the Khmer Rouge entered into a political coalition with him and began to attract increasing support.
In a civil war that continued for nearly five years, it gradually increased its control in the countryside.
Khmer Rouge forces finally took over the capital, Phnom Penh, and therefore the nation as a whole in 1975.
During his time in the remote north-east, Pol Pot had been influenced by the surrounding hill tribes, who were self-sufficient in their communal living, had no use for money and were "untainted" by Buddhism.
When he came to power, he and his henchmen quickly set about transforming Cambodia - now re-named Kampuchea - into what they hoped would be an agrarian utopia.
Declaring that the nation would start again at "Year Zero", Pol Pot isolated his people from the rest of the world and set about emptying the cities, abolishing money, private property and religion, and setting up rural collectives.
Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed. Often people were condemned for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language.
Hundreds of thousands of the educated middle-classes were tortured and executed in special centres.
The most notorious of these centres was the S-21 jail in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng, where as many as 17,000 men, women and children were imprisoned during the regime's four years in power.
Hundreds of thousands of others died from disease, starvation or exhaustion as members of the Khmer Rouge - often just teenagers themselves - forced people to do back-breaking work.
The Khmer Rouge government was finally overthrown in 1979 by invading Vietnamese troops, after a series of violent border confrontations.
The higher echelons of the party retreated to remote areas of the country, where they remained active for a while but gradually became less and less powerful.
In the years that followed, as Cambodia began the process of reopening to the international community, the full horrors of the regime became apparent.
Survivors told their stories to shocked audiences, and in the 1980s the Hollywood movie The Killing Fields brought the plight of the Khmer Rouge victims to worldwide attention.
Pol Pot was denounced by his former comrades in a show trial in July 1997, and sentenced to house arrest in his jungle home.
But less than a year later he was dead - denying the millions of people who were affected by this brutal regime the chance to bring him to justice.
Leach was overlooked as a replacement for the injured Zafar Ansari, with Liam Dawson chosen instead.
Information on his action became public the day after India scored 759-7 in the fourth Test in Chennai.
"When I did the test and they told me, I was as shocked as anyone," said Leach, 25.
Leach took 65 Championship wickets in 2016, more than any other English spinner. He has been part of the England Lions squad for matches against the UAE and Afghanistan and will tour Sri Lanka in the new year.
"It was only a very small thing in terms of my body position," he added. "I've made a hell of a lot of progress and I was pleased with the way it went out in the UAE."
Leach said he had "come to terms" with needing work on his action and that he would be a "better bowler in future".
Peter Such, the ECB's lead spin-bowling coach, confirmed: "He's only made slight modifications but they make a big difference, and we've seen really significant progress".
Matthew Maynard, Somerset's director of cricket, said: "Whilst he was picked up for a minor abnormality in his bowling action during routine testing at the end of the season, this was quickly addressed with remedial work, allowing him to play for England Lions over the last few weeks.
"I have every confidence that he will be playing for England in the future and that there is no major issue with his bowling action."
Leach was not chosen for the tour to Bangladesh, with routine tests at England's national performance centre then revealing that his action may breach the 15-degree limit for the straightening of the elbow.
Ex-England spinner Vic Marks said: "The timing is convenient, because England are getting stick for their selection.
"It nags at me how come this has just come out," added Marks, who played six Tests for England. "I don't like that it's come out after England have just gone for 759, with people rumbling about why he isn't here."
"I was stunned when I heard it," former Somerset captain Marks said on Test Match Special. "It just hasn't occurred to me that there was any problem at all. He looked to have a classic, orthodox action.
"However, it is hard to argue with the computer or camera."
Any problems with Leach's action would have had no bearing on the selection of the original touring party, but did prevent him from being called up as a replacement for Ansari after the third Test.
Dawson has gone on to make his debut in the fifth Test, where England conceded their highest total in Tests.
The Hampshire left-armer was the most economical of England's spinners in Chennai, taking 2-129 off 43 overs, while Moeen Ail returned figures of 1-190 off 41 overs and Adil Rashid claimed 1-153 off 29.4 overs.
Andrew McCornick, a livestock farmer from near Dumfries, replaces Allan Bowie who has served two years.
The role of president is an important one, acting as a liaison with government ministers.
Mr McCornick said the role would be essential over the next two years to fill the "vacuum" created by Brexit.
Gary Mitchell of Stoneykirk, near Stranraer, and Martin Kennedy, from Aberfeldy, were elected his vice presidents.
Mr McCornick told BBC Scotland: "I want to see us looking for a real strategy for this Brexit situation.
"I am going to make sure that we are there to deliver for farmers.
"I want us to be a profitable, sustainable industry. We need to get (Brexit) negotiators to understand this industry.
"I would like to see us moving to a properly rewarded industry."
Henriette Reker - an independent candidate supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party - was seriously injured along with an aide. Three others suffered minor injuries.
Local police said Ms Reker, 58, was "stable, but not out of the woods".
Police have arrested a 44-year-old German national and Cologne resident.
The attacker told police he stabbed Ms Reker "because of anti-foreigner motives," senior police investigator Norbert Wagner said.
The suspect appeared to have acted alone and had no police record, Mr Wagner added.
Ralf Jager, a regional interior minister, said: "The first signs speak for a politically motivated act."
The attacker will undergo a psychiatric examination to establish whether that was his primary motive or whether he had a health problem.
A spokesman for Ms Merkel said the chancellor "expressed her shock and condemned this act".
Germany's interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, called the attack "appalling and cowardly".
City officials said the election would go ahead as planned. Ms Reker has been the head of Cologne's social affairs and integration department since 2010.
Ms Merkel has come under fire from some in Germany over the large numbers of refugees and migrants being allowed into the country.
Germany has said it expects 800,000 people to seek asylum this year, but a leaked report suggested the number could be as high as 1.5 million.
Politically-motivated attacks are relatively rare in Germany. In 1990, then-Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was shot while out campaigning, an attack that left him using a wheelchair.
A few months earlier, Oskar Lafontaine, then a prominent member of Germany's main opposition party, was stabbed in the neck by a mentally disturbed woman.
26 February 2016 Last updated at 13:33 GMT
The team, led by Richard Gill, started on a beach in Northern France, where they set the drone off on its 35 kilometre flight back to the UK.
They followed it in a boat, being careful not to get in the way of big ships, until it finally reached Shakespeare Beach in Dover.
It took 72 minutes of flying, without stopping, to get back to the UK.
Gillan played space pirate Nebula in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy and will reprise the role in the sequel due to be released in cinemas next year.
James Gunn revealed she has a bigger presence in a question and answer session he held with fans on Facebook.
Guardians also stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista.
The sequel, which is being shot in Atlanta in the US, is a follow up to one of the most successful Marvel movies.
In the Q and A, Gunn said he was "excited to have Karen Gillan around more" on set.
He added: "Karen is here in Atlanta now I believe, unless she went home for a few days."
Gillan's other film and TV roles have included Amy Pond in Doctor Who and Kaylie Russell in the horror film Oculus.
Watson, the world number 53, won 6-3 6-0 and will now face Romanian fourth seed Monica Niculescu in round two.
But British number one Johanna Konta is out after a first-round defeat by Slovakia's third seed, Dominika Cibulkova.
Konta lost 7-6 (8-6) 7-5 after failing to convert five first-set points.
"It doesn't happen every day that you win a tie-break from 1-6 down against such a good serving player," said Cibulkova, 26.
There were no such problems for Watson, 23, as she served seven aces in a dominant win against the world number 46.
Former Wimbledon finalist, Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, made it through but American Madison Brengle and Czech Barbora Strycova, seeded fifth and sixth respectively, are out of the tournament, the former after retiring because of a respiratory illness when trailing 6-0 1-1.
Strycova lost 6-4 6-4 to Sweden's Johanna Larsson.
A meeting in Sydney this week could pave the way for the Lions to tour the southern hemisphere in 2019.
Wood said: "That would be for matches against Australia, New Zealand and other nations. It's a real possibility.
"It's not a foregone conclusion, but I wouldn't be having this discussion if I didn't have a degree of confidence."
The Lions last played in a series against New Zealand in 2007. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland have since played under their own banners.
Wood told BBC Radio 5 live's rugby league podcast he is travelling to Australia for the meeting he hopes will confirm the international calendar for the three years between this year's World Cup in Australia and the 2021 tournament in England.
The plans include a tour by New Zealand to Britain in 2018, the Lions tour in 2019 and the iconic Kangaroos visiting Britain in 2020.
Wood also wants to see more matches between Tier 2 nations, such as Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Pacific countries, and the big three of Australia, New Zealand and England.
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"We want to give them access to playing against England, Australia and New Zealand," said Wood, who is also chief executive of the Rugby Football League.
"We saw last year, for example, how spectacularly well Scotland did. But France have only played against Australia once in the last 10 years.
"There's a log-jam in terms of the aspirant nations that we're trying to improve and get stronger and put more quality and depth in the World Cup."
Wood said the aim was to "improve standards" and "deliver more compelling entertainment".
"The reality is that, for too long, there's only been two or three contenders," he said. "The aim is to grow nations four to eight, and then four to 12.
"People should remind themselves the Rugby Union World Cup didn't start until 1987 and they had similar number of nations, possibly a few more.
"But it's now the third biggest tournament in terms of global reach after the Olympics and the football World Cup.
"We've got to start making that progress."
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4 January 2014 Last updated at 09:51 GMT
Li Dongyi completed the puzzle in just 11.84 seconds at a World Cube Association tournament in Shenyang, according to Chinese state media.
He's been solving Rubik's Cube's for more than four years and learnt from his Dad, who's a speed solver.
Li is now in popular demand at his school, trying to teach his classmates the technique of solving the puzzle.
Two teenagers were left needing leg amputations, while several others were also seriously injured in the crash on 2 June last year.
An investigation found human error caused the crash.
Merlin has been warned to expect a "very large fine".
Opening the sentencing hearing at Stafford Crown Court, barrister Bernard Thorogood, prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said the crash equated to "a family car of 1.5 tons having collided at about 90mph".
•The £18m Smiler was the world's first 14 multi-loop rollercoaster with up to five trains running at any one time
•On 2 June four trains were operating on the ride; a fifth was stored away
•At 13:00 BST there was a problem with one of the trains; technical staff were called
•One of the engineers thought it was a good opportunity to add the fifth train because the park was busy
•An empty test train was sent but failed
•Engineers pushed the train until it engaged with the system and off it went
•Another empty train was sent out. It got stuck, too, but in a different place
•Engineers were unaware of this, thought everything was working fine and handed it back to operators
•The train with 16 passengers on was sent out and stopped
•The engineers looked but could not see the stalled car, thought the computer was wrong, and over-rode the stop. This set the 16-passenger train in motion and into the empty carriage
Mr Thorogood said a test carriage had been sent around the 14-loop ride but had failed.
Engineers re-set the ride and overrode a computer system "block-stop" which they believed had halted the ride in error, sending a full 16-seater rollercoaster car around the track and into the empty carriage.
He said the "fault here is with the employers", not individuals.
The engineers were "without guidance from above", and had not been given a system to follow to safely deal with the problem on the track, he told the court.
"The fault is with the defendant for not devising a scheme, for not guiding the work of the engineers," he said.
The court heard how there were estimated winds on the day of 45mph. But the manufacturer's manual said the ride should not be operated at speeds above 34 mph.
Mr Thorogood said the victims were left for a "significant period of time" at least 20ft (6m) above ground, waiting for medical attention because of the inaccessibility of the ride.
He said those in the front row spoke of their "disbelief and horror" as they saw "the train into which they were going to dive" approaching.
Engineers on the day had not read or seen the operating instructions for the ride, the barrister said.
During the prosecution, Mr Thorogood made repeated reference to an expert report compiled by Stephen Flanagan, who inspected rides for the HSE.
Parts of the report which were not read in court said management had set targets for downtime on rides "with bonuses linked to achieving acceptably low levels".
One of the engineers "felt pressure" to get the ride "quickly back into service" shortly before the crash, the report said.
The Recorder of Stafford, Judge Michael Chambers QC, said in passing sentence he would consider "not just the impact on those injured, but on those close to them."
In mitigation for Alton Towers, barrister Simon Antrobus said Merlin's top executives had accepted responsibility for the crash from the day it happened and apologised.
"(The company) accepts its responsibility that this should never have happened and accepted that the accident was attributable to failures that, while they were never intended, would have been avoidable with greater care," he said.
Mr Antrobus said Merlin ran more than 120 rides over 11 different sites and was "the most reputable operator in this field".
"It's a good organisation that made a serious failure, but is one that is of otherwise good character," he said.
Asked by the judge if anyone had resigned as a result of the crash, he replied: "No."
Mr Antrobus said Merlin accepted "inconsistency" in staff training was a failure, and that there had been "blind spots" in educating staff.
In April, Merlin admitted charges of breaching the Health and Safety Act.
Since the crash, a number of safety changes have been made including improved access and a policy of closing the ride when winds exceed 35mph.
The reasons why were unclear but last November he ended a tour early.
He had accused fellow rapper Jay-Z of trying to kill him and walked off stage after announcing he would vote for Donald Trump.
His wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, remains on Twitter and has 51m followers.
She has been promoting her and her husband's children's clothing line.
Shortly after West's accounts were deactivated, she tweeted that he had hand drawn a logo for the clothing line.
Fans responded by pleading with her to persuade her husband to return.
West had already adopted a quieter approach to social media earlier this year and reportedly deleted some of his previous pro-Trump tweets.
His breakdown also came after his wife was robbed of jewellery worth an estimated €10m (£8.7m; $10.5m) in Paris last October.
In the letter, sent in January, Assange described Cumberbatch's film, The Fifth Estate, as "toxic" and "distorted".
He also urged the actor: "Reconsider your involvement in this enterprise".
The Australian whistle-blower has been living at the Ecuadorean embassy in London after claiming asylum a year ago to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Released by Wikileaks, his email was written in response to the actor's request for a meeting, something Assange called "a bad idea".
"By meeting with you I would validate this wretched film," he wrote.
"I cannot permit this film any claim to authenticity or truthfulness. In its current form it has neither, and doing so would only further aid the campaign against me."
The Fifth Estate received a standing ovation at its world premiere during the Toronto Film Festival last month and is released this Friday 11 October in the UK and in the US next week.
It has received mixed reviews from critics, although they have been favourable towards Cumberbatch's performance.
Assange did praise Cumberbatch's previous work and said the two would "forever be correlated in the public imagination".
"I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film," said Assange
"It is based on a deceitful book by someone who has a vendetta against me and my organisation."
The film draws on a memoir by former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website.
It also uses material from WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.
Assange continued: "Feature films are the most powerful and insidious shapers of public perception, because they fly under the radar of conscious exclusion. This film is going to bury good people doing good work, at exactly the time that the state is coming down on their heads.
"It is going to smother the truthful version of events, at a time when the truth is most in demand.
"As justification it will claim to be fiction, but it is not fiction. It is distorted truth about living people doing battle with titanic opponents. It is a work of political opportunism, revenge and, above all, cowardice."
The email was published in full on a number of websites including Variety.
In comments accompanying the release of the letter, Assange said the DreamWorks film, directed by Bill Condon, was "a geriatric snoozefest that only the US government could love."
WikiLeaks angered the United States in 2010 by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and US diplomatic cables.
In June 2012, Assange walked into the Ecuadorean embassy in London when his appeal against extradition to Sweden, for questioning on accusations of sex crimes, was turned down.
He denies the allegations and claims they are politically motivated, but Britain refuses to grant him safe passage out of the country, leaving him stuck inside the embassy.
In January's email Assange warned Cumberbatch: "You will be used, as a hired gun, to assume the appearance of the truth in order to assassinate it. To present me as someone morally compromised and to place me in a falsified history. To create a work, not of fiction, but of debased truth."
"Not because you want to, of course you don't, but because, in the end, you are a jobbing actor who gets paid to follow the script, no matter how debauched."
Cumberbatch revealed last month that he had considered quitting the movie after receiving the email, which he called a "considered, thorough, charming and intelligent account" of why he should not take part.
The world's biggest carmaker said it will also add a new production line to an existing plant in southern China.
The company stopped investing in new facilities after a series of massive recalls.
The most recent recall was last October, when the Japanese giant called back 1.75 million cars for checks.
Toyota raised its annual profit outlook earlier this year as a weaker yen offset a fall in domestic sales.
The new Mexico operation will be built in the state Guanajuato and will employ some 2,000 workers, the firm said.
Car production at the new plant is expected to start in 2019 with a focus on new technology and Corolla vehicles.
The Japanese firm also said it would restructure its existing lines at its joint venture with Guangzhou Toyota Motor Co in China, with plans to build an addition facility by the end of 2017.
Toyota faced a huge recall last year over various issues such as faulty brakes and fuel component issues.
Since then, however, it has forecast a record operating profit of 2.7 trillion yen ($22.93bn; £15bn) for the fiscal year to March, up from 2.5tn yen.
The firm is expected to report its full year earnings in May.
Vaughan scored twice, either side of a Ben Reeves strike, before Zeli Ismail added a third to ensure the Shakers remain second in the table following their fifth victory in a row.
Bury took the lead against the run of play through a Vaughan volley in the eighth minute following a mistake at the back by Paul Downing.
MK Dons dominated the first half and only a resilient Ben Williams kept them at bay. Reeves and Downing were both denied by spectacular Williams saves, before Nicky Maynard had his curling effort pushed around the post by the keeper.
Substitute Samir Carruthers crashed a shot against the post two minutes into the second half before Downing cannoned a header back off the upright on the 57th minute.
Reeves equalised deservedly from close range on the 64th minute but four minutes later Vaughan restored Bury's lead with a clinical finish.
And the Shakers wrapped up the win when Ismail ran the ball into an empty net five minutes into added time as the Dons threw caution to the wind.
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Match ends, MK Dons 1, Bury 3.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 1, Bury 3.
Goal! MK Dons 1, Bury 3. Zeli Ismail (Bury) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jacob Mellis following a fast break.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Neil Danns.
Foul by Ben Reeves (MK Dons).
Tom Soares (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Hallam Hope.
Attempt blocked. Paul Downing (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
George Baldock (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury).
Kean Bryan (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ben Reeves (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kean Bryan (Bury).
Darren Potter (MK Dons) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury).
Darren Potter (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jacob Mellis (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darren Potter (MK Dons).
Attempt missed. Zeli Ismail (Bury) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Jacob Mellis (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacob Mellis (Bury).
Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ryan Colclough (MK Dons).
Zeli Ismail (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Antony Kay.
Zeli Ismail (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Zeli Ismail (Bury).
Attempt missed. Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Ryan Colclough (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Zeli Ismail (Bury).
Substitution, MK Dons. Kabongo Tshimanga replaces Nicky Maynard.
Attempt missed. James Vaughan (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Darren Potter (MK Dons).
Tom Soares (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! MK Dons 1, Bury 2. James Vaughan (Bury) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jacob Mellis.
Dean Lewington (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Vaughan (Bury).
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Financial uncertainty around the world following the presidential result has seen demand for gold - seen as a safe haven investment - rocket.
Rob Halliday-Stein, from wholesaler BullionByPost in Birmingham, said: "It's gone nuts, absolutely bonkers."
Gold has been trading above £1,050 an ounce, above a six-month low of £821.
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Mr Halliday-Stein, who set up his firm in the city in 2008, said: "Trump equals more uncertainty, and normally that means it's a good time to get into gold.
"This is looking like it will be our best day of trading in eight years.
"We've done a good few million already, and it's getting towards £10m."
Republican Donald Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton to the 270 electoral votes required to become the 45th US president.
The result caused gold to initially jump 5% although it has now fallen back to more modest gains.
New changes for the hosts see opener David Warner rested, stand-in skipper George Bailey suspended for a slow over-rate and Shane Watson injured.
"We haven't gone into depth about the XI they'll have," Bell told BBC Sport.
"If we can concentrate on ourselves and execute our plans we'll be difficult whatever XI Australia put out."
Australia, who also continue to rest pacemen Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood, plus all-rounder Mitchell Marsh before next month's World Cup, have brought in all-rounder Moises Henriques to cover Watson, who has a tight hamstring.
Regular captain Michael Clarke carries on with his rehabilitation from hamstring trouble.
England lost the opening match of the series against the Australians by three wickets in Sydney but revived hopes of meeting them in the final on 1 February with a nine-wicket bonus point victory against India, who have lost both of their opening matches.
After Friday's game, England play India again in Perth on 30 January, which could determine who goes through to the final at the same venue.
Bell, who was out to the first ball of the series in Sydney, made an unbeaten 88 against India and said of his partnership with Moeen Ali at the top of the innings: "It's a nice blend.
"I'm trying to be as aggressive as I possibly can be, but by playing the way that suits my game."
After Andrew Flintoff trained with the team in Brisbane recently, where he was playing in the Big Bash franchise for Brisbane Heat, another all-rounder Tim Bresnan was invited to bowl in the nets during practice in Hobart.
The 29-year-old, who last played for England in March 2014 during the World Twenty20, has been in the Tasmanian capital playing for Hobart Hurricanes.
Australia (from): Steven Smith (c), Patrick Cummins, Xavier Doherty, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Brad Haddin (wk), Moises Henriques, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Gurinder Sandhu, Mitchell Starc, Cameron White.
England (probable): Ian Bell, Moeen Ali, James Taylor, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (c), Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler (wk), Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, James Anderson.
Number 10 confirmed the comment by a government lawyer in the High Court represented the "government's view".
The vote would take place after negotiations have taken place and with Brexit already triggered using Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
Campaigners have been calling for a vote before Article 50 is triggered.
Open Britain, formerly the Remain campaign, said the government's comments were an "encouraging sign" but renewed calls for a debate and vote earlier in the process, before Article 50 begins two years of formal negotiations.
The UK is expected to leave the European Union in 2019.
Prime Minister Theresa May opposes a vote before Article 50, saying those calling for one are "trying to subvert" the outcome of June's referendum.
The issue is currently the subject of a landmark legal challenge, with the government defending what it says is its right to invoke Article 50 without Parliamentary approval.
It's the question pre-occupying many MPs as Britain prepares to leave the EU. What role will they have in shaping and approving the final withdrawal deal the UK reaches with Brussels? Theresa May plans to begin talks with the EU by the end of March and negotiations will last for two years.
The government's legal team have now clarified what they believe happens then.
James Eadie QC said it was "very likely" the UK and the EU would agree a new treaty that would have to be ratified by Parliament.
A law passed in 2010 gave MPs the power to block a treaty indefinitely. But in practice, would Parliament at that point derail the UK's withdrawal agreement with the EU?
David Pannick QC, acting for one of the claimants in the High Court case, said even if Parliament refused to approve the final Brexit deal, the UK would have to leave the EU anyway - with or without an agreement. That is why, he argued, parliament needed to vote before formal talks began.
Judges who heard the case said they would give their decision "as quickly as possible". An appeal to the Supreme Court later in the year is expected, whatever the outcome.
During the High Court hearing, government lawyer James Eadie QC moved on to what was likely to happen at the end of the negotiations, in 2019, saying: "The government view at the moment is it is very likely that any such agreement will be subject to ratification."
If this vote ends with MPs rejecting the Brexit deal, the UK would still leave the EU, Lord Pannick, who is acting for the campaigners challenging the government, told the court.
"Parliament cannot reverse the notification," he said.
The UK would either leave with no agreement or reach a new one, he said, adding: "But the new agreement cannot restore the rights that are irretrievably lost, and whether there is a new agreement is out of the hands of Parliament."
Labour's shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said: "A vote so late in the day would put MPs between a rock and a hard place. It would ask us to choose between a deal on the government's terms or leaving the European Union with no deal at all."
UK voters opted in favour of leaving the EU by 51.9% to 48.1% in a referendum in June.
A blaze ripped through the building and destroyed the roof on 14 April.
Three boys, all aged 17, and a 15-year-old girl have been released on bail and are due to appear at Halton Youth Court on 29 July.
No further action will take place against two boys and a girl, all aged 17, who were also arrested in April, Cheshire Police said.
At its height, 70 firefighters tackled the fire at the premises on Wilson Patten Street.
No-one was injured in the blaze at the former nightclub, which closed in 2010.
Mr Smiths was a regular setting for the ITV Granada show The Hit Man and Her, which was presented by Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan between 1988 and 1992.
The prime minister insists all options are on the table as he battles to recast Britain's relationship with Brussels - including leaving the EU.
But he would "guard very strongly against" wanting to emulate Norway, as some Eurosceptics have suggested.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said Norway thrives outside the EU as it saves on membership fees and red tape.
But Mr Cameron took this argument on as he travelled to Iceland for a summit of Northern European leaders - he has previously avoided arguing directly with Eurosceptics, many of whom are on his own Conservative benches.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, he said: "If we don't get what we need in our negotiations I rule nothing out, but I do think it's important that as we have this debate as a nation that we are very clear about the facts and figures of the alternatives.
"Some people arguing for Britain to leave the European Union - not all people, but some people - have particularly pointed to the position of Norway saying that is a good outcome. I would guard very strongly against that.
"Norway actually pays as much per head to the EU as we do. They actually take twice as many per head migrants as we do in this country but of course they have no seat at the table, no ability to negotiate.
"I'm not arguing that all those who want to leave the EU say they want to follow the Norwegian path but some do and I think it's very important in this debate that we are absolutely clear about the consequences of these actions."
Speaking later in Iceland, where he is attending a meeting of the Northern Future Forum, the PM said he wanted the British people to understand what the so-called "Norway option" involved, arguing that "while they pay, they don't have a say - they don't have a seat around the table".
Iceland's Prime Minister, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, has told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that a looser relationship with the EU "might be better for the UK".
Iceland, like Norway, is a trading partner with the EU and is not a full member, a status that Mr Gunnlaugsson says "British politicians could look into", saying being outside the EU has been "essential" to his country's prosperity, and for the "things that really matter", they are in full control.
Not being in the EU helped his country get out of its financial crisis, added Mr Gunnlaugsson: "Having our own currency, which was absolutely essential, having control over our own laws to the extent that we could address the specific difficulties presented by the economic crisis, for example with the emergency acts and thirdly having control over our own natural resources."
Asked if the looser relationship his country has with the EU was a model for the UK, he said: "I wouldn't like to tell British politicians what to do - concerning the EU, it maybe one of the things they want to look into when they have this debate about Britain's relationship with the EU.
"Maybe some third alternative is better for the UK, I couldn't say or at at least I wouldn't like to speculate."
UKIP's MP Douglas Carswell told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "The reason why Norway gets such a duff deal is because the political elite in Oslo wanted Norway to join the EU so they negotiated as a prelude to membership."
But when the "ministers and mandarins" asked the Norwegian people if they wanted EU membership "the people said no," he added.
"Once we've had our referendum to say no to EU membership, we can get a much better deal than Norway has," said Mr Carswell.
The Vote Leave campaign's Robert Oxley said Mr Cameron was making a "spurious argument" because surveys showed the majority of Norwegians were happy with their country's relationship with the EU.
He said his group did not support the "Norway option" but was confident Britain could reach its own post-EU trade deal that suited its needs.
He accused Downing Street of engaging in a "PR exercise" by attacking the Norwegian option, "a model that they have created" to distract attention from what he said was Mr Cameron's failure to secure a "fundamentally different" relationship with the EU.
"What's pretty clear here is that Number 10 haven't got the renegotiation right and now they are panicking," he added.
A member of the Norwegian government told the BBC that despite its looser relationship with the EU, it still had to pay financial contributions to the European Union, adhere to the principle of free movement of people across the EU and adopt directives relating to the single market.
Vidar Helgesen, minister for EU affairs, said Britain must make up its mind where its future lay but he believed it was a positive influence on the EU.
"For Norway, it is a good thing if Britain remains within the EU because the laws we take in pertaining to the single market are made in the EU and we think decisions are better with the UK at the table. When we receive legislation we want it to be as free market and as unbureaucratic as possible."
The prime minister arrives at this summit in Iceland with a new tone and a new tempo to his arguments.
One minister told me that, at the very least, you have to look as if you're trying.
The difficulty, of course, is that David Cameron's message is nuanced - let's stay in if certain conditions are met; if not, he is ready to tell you to do the opposite.
Hardly a clear slogan a spin doctor would desire but now a message that Mr Cameron will try to sell.
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It comes as EU vice president Frans Timmermans said he was open to Mr Cameron's demand to be allowed to opt out of the EU commitment to "ever closer union" between member states.
Mr Timmermans told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Nobody would tell you you're forced into integration with other European countries - fair enough if you don't want that."
He said the meaning of "ever closer union" as it is written into EU treaties needed to be clarified.
Mr Cameron is expected to have talks with the leaders of both Iceland and Norway at the Northern Future Forum, a grouping which also includes EU members Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden.
Labour's shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn said: "David Cameron is now waking up to the huge risks of stumbling out of the EU rather than posturing to try and keep his backbench MPs happy.
"Labour has consistently said that in an increasingly interconnected world Britain should be leading from inside Europe, not watching from the outside as others take decisions that affect jobs, growth, investment and our security without having a voice at the table."
Mixu Paatelainen's team gave themselves a chance when Edward Ofere side-footed John Rankin's pass into the net.
Dundee came storming back, though, with an equaliser from Kane Hemmings after Kosta Gadzhalov's header.
That alone was enough to send United down, but Dundee added a second when Craig Wighton found the far corner.
Dens Park rejoiced in their rivals' misery, lapping up the victory and all that it meant, all the pain and misery dumped on top of a beleaguered, and emotional, United support.
Some of those United fans exited in silence, some left in tears, others fired some volleys at their chairman, Stephen Thompson, before drifting into the night. What lies ahead, nobody knows. But this club is broken right now.
It was an odd evening. For fully 55 minutes, until Ofere silenced the home crowd, United never looked capable of doing what needed to be done to stave off doomsday. They just weren't at the races. They were again hesitant and nervy at the back and loose in possession, continually inviting trouble on themselves with their careless use of the ball.
Their old foes were up for it, as if there was any doubt about it. It was Paul Hartley's team that carried a goal-scoring threat, principally through the inventive Greg Stewart. The nominee for PFA Scotland's player of the year was clever all night. His fellow nominee, Hemmings, was also a regular source of concern.
The best chance of the opening half - Dundee were dominant but just not accurate enough to pepper United's goal - fell to Hemmings after Paul Dixon was robbed in possession and Dundee scampered downfield.
However, despite being so consistent for so much of this season, he ballooned his shot over.
Dundee were denied a big claim for a penalty early in the second half when Darren O'Dea went tumbling in the box, but even there wasn't a whole lot of Dundee anger about the decision. The notion that United would soon score and turn the narrative on its head seemed potty at the time. That's what happened, though.
United, in really their first piece of constructive football, broke down the left-hand side and when Rankin slid in a low cross, Ofere was there all on his lonesome to guide it past goalkeeper Scott Bain.
In those minutes after the goal, United came alive. Nick Ross had to kick a Mark Durnan header off the line, then Kyle Knoyle put Ofere through one-on-one with Bain. It was a highly dramatic and hugely significant moment. Had Ofere scored then United surely had the game won. He didn't; Bain denied him.
And how telling that save was to prove. Within a few minutes, Hemmings got himself into the middle of a goalmouth scramble after Gadzhalov connected with a Gary Harkins corner and put away an equaliser that sent Dens Park into raptures.
Even then, with tempers frayed, United could have scored again; Chris Erskine rifling a shot on goal that Bain tipped over. Down the other end, Dundee pressed hard and could have scored themselves, Eiji Kawashima saving twice.
Eventually they did, the wonderful Stewart placing a free-kick into the path of Wighton, who finished with aplomb.
The clock ticked on agonisingly for United. Then time ran out, in every sense.
Hemmings and Wighton landed the knockout blows that sent them plummeting through the trap door and into the Championship next season, but the wound that Dundee inflicted on United was nothing compared to the wound that United inflicted on themselves in the many months that went before.
From the boardroom to the pitch - not good enough. Nowhere near.
Match ends, Dundee 2, Dundee United 1.
Second Half ends, Dundee 2, Dundee United 1.
Goal! Dundee 2, Dundee United 1. Craig Wighton (Dundee) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Greg Stewart with a cross following a set piece situation.
Sean Dillon (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kane Hemmings (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Dillon (Dundee United).
Greg Stewart (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Dixon (Dundee United).
Foul by Kane Hemmings (Dundee).
Sean Dillon (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Chris Erskine (Dundee United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Eiji Kawashima.
Substitution, Dundee United. Billy McKay replaces Blair Spittal.
Darren O'Dea (Dundee) is shown the yellow card.
Paul Paton (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Craig Wighton (Dundee) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Paton (Dundee United).
Greg Stewart (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Greg Stewart (Dundee).
Paul Dixon (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Eiji Kawashima (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Gary Harkins (Dundee).
Blair Spittal (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Eiji Kawashima.
Attempt saved. Kane Hemmings (Dundee) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Scott Bain.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Scott Bain.
Scott Bain (Dundee) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Scott Bain.
Attempt saved. Chris Erskine (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Dundee 1, Dundee United 1. Kostadin Gadzhalov (Dundee) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn following a corner.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Mark Durnan.
Attempt saved. Edward Ofere (Dundee United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Dundee United. Chris Erskine replaces Simon Murray.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Kostadin Gadzhalov.
Corner, Dundee. Conceded by Mark Durnan.
Darren O'Dea (Dundee) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simon Murray (Dundee United).
Substitution, Dundee United. Ryan Dow replaces Scott Fraser.
Corner, Dundee United. Conceded by Kostadin Gadzhalov.
The 41-year-old four-time world champion from Wishaw came from 5-1 down to beat the Englishman 6-5.
Trump, 27, made three century breaks and a 99 to open a commanding lead in Glasgow before Higgins rolled off five consecutive frames to win.
Higgins will play Hong Kong's Marco Fu in Sunday's final at the Emirates Arena.
"I wasn't getting a look in with the way Judd was playing," Higgins told BBC Scotland.
"So, to come back and win, I'm still in a daze. I was shaking like a leaf at the end there and I was worried I wasn't going to do it.
"I didn't want to throw the towel in at 5-1 because my family is here, so I was determined to make Judd try and win it.
"To come back and win in front of them is an incredible feeling. They were crying at the end and I was crying too."
Fu, who has made 10 centuries and 15 more breaks over 50 on his way to the final, beat China's world number 59 Yu Delu 6-1.
The 38-year-old made breaks of 72 and 73 to move into a 3-0 lead and after Delu pulled a frame back, rattled in further breaks of 100, 130 and 87 to surge into the final.
The world number 14 will be aiming for his third ranking title - his first since the 2013 Australia Open - in his seventh ranking final. Fu beat Ronnie O'Sullivan to win the Grand Prix in Aberdeen in 2007, his first ranking title.
He has won eight of his 14 previous meetings with Higgins, who will be aiming to win a 29th ranking title to move him clear of O'Sullivan and Steve Davis (both 28) into second place overall behind Stephen Hendry (36).
There are 40 MPs in Wales - presuming the prime minister's call for an election passes Westminster, what could the parties be facing as we head into the country's fifth poll since 2015?
Yes we do.
There are elections for council seats in each of Wales' 22 authorities taking place on 4 May.
There is no sign that these elections will be delayed to take place at the same time as the general election in June.
Labour remained the largest party with 25 seats, but the Conservatives had shock wins in Vale of Clwyd and Gower, the latter a constituency Labour had held for more than 100 years.
With 11 seats, it was the Tories' best general election election result in Wales for 30 years.
The Liberal Democrats had a dire night across the UK, losing 49 seats. Two of those were in Wales - Cardiff Central was lost to Labour and Brecon and Radnorshire to the Conservatives.
Plaid Cymru held the same three seats from the 2010 general election.
The Tories will hope they can attract voters from Labour and trigger more wins like they had in Gower in 2015.
It will portray a vote for the opposition as a vote against stability while Brexit negotiations are under way.
Could other constituencies that are Labour Tory marginals, like Delyn in north Wales or Bridgend in south Wales, go the same way?
Labour tried to move the argument away from Brexit on Tuesday - with Jeremy Corbyn talking about housing, education and "the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first".
In Wales, Labour will try to make hay with its record in government in Cardiff.
But efforts by First Minister Carwyn Jones to try to distance his Welsh Labour leadership from Jeremy Corbyn may be hampered when Mr Corbyn is representing the party day in, day out, during the campaign.
The caveat in all of this is that the Conservatives failed to emulate their general election performance at the assembly poll last year - albeit in a pre-EU referendum political environment.
Both of the seats won by the Conservatives from Labour last time around are razor-thin marginals, with just 27 votes in it in Gower, and 237 in Vale of Clwyd.
The Liberal Democrats see the election as a chance to rebuild the party after its punishing 2010 election - and is brandishing its pro-EU anti-Brexit credentials in a bid to rally Remainers.
Can it retake Cardiff Central and Brecon and Radnorshire?
Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru has already attacked Labour for its division and will be hoping to similarly attract pro-EU voters.
It is likely to have its eyes on Ynys Mon and Ceredigion - and could it emulate Leanne Wood's capture of the Rhondda assembly seat in Westminster?
And what about UKIP?
With the party in disarray and the defection of South Wales East AM Mark Reckless to the Tories, it may struggle to make a mark in a first-past-the-post election despite the success at returning seven UKIP AMs elected via the Assembly regional lists.
Miss Payne, from Coventry, vanished as she crossed wasteland towards her parents' house in 1991.
On Monday, two men, Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law, Thomas O'Reilly, both 51, were found not guilty of the 18-year-old's murder.
Her family say they are more determined than ever to find out what happened.
Nicola's parents, John and Marilyn Payne, both aged 70, said they will be talking to the senior detective in the case about possible future developments and that West Midlands Police have assured them the case will not be closed.
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Police advised them they would be entitled to sue the force over mistakes made in the investigation, but they said have no intention to do so.
"We are just focussed on finding the truth," they said.
"I just want the three Cs - conviction, closure and comfort," Mrs Payne said.
The couple said they had made their eldest son, Nigel Payne, promise that if they die before the truth about Nicola is known, then she will be buried along side them.
The murder trial at Birmingham Crown Court had heard lawyers on behalf of Mr Barwell describe the handling of exhibits at a police station in the early 1990s as "shambolic".
Mark Dennis QC said the handling of a tent exhibited in the case made forensic examination of it "a worthless exercise".
After the not guilty verdicts were returned, Det Supt Mark Payne, of West Midlands Police, said he had offered his apologies to Miss Payne's parents for any mistakes that may have happened over the intervening 24-year period.
"We will continue to revisit the evidence available and explore any opportunity to bring any offenders to justice," he said.
The 32-year-old, who made his debut for the county in 2003, has played 556 games for Somerset across all formats.
"I love playing for the club and honestly can't imagine playing anywhere else," he told the club website.
Director of Cricket Matt Maynard added: "He is an outstanding professional and epitomises everything we are about."
Hildreth was a key part of the Somerset side that finished second in the County Championship last season and has scored 14,653 first-class runs in total.
A Democratic Party spokesman has called the reports "extremely disturbing".
The US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.
Russia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.
Presidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.
Describing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, said "pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line".
On Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: "While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS."
Mr Trump also attacked "illegal leaks" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.
The Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.
One of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.
During his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.
An official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.
The officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.
But the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.
"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!" Mr Trump said.
The Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. "Comey" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.
Earlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.
Mr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.
Several other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.
He accused the "failing" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
It is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a "good lead" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.
A New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.
And Mr Trump again urged Republicans to "step up to the plate" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.
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Officials said nearly 700 soldiers had been taken prisoner since the rebel offensive began.
Earlier the military said government forces had been forced to withdraw from Luhansk airport, saying they had been attacked by a column of Russian tanks.
Ukraine's defence minister said it was now fighting a "great war" with Russia in which tens of thousands could die.
Valery Heletey said on his Facebook page that the rebels had been defeated and Russia had been forced to begin a full-scale invasion of the region with regular forces.
"A great war has arrived at our doorstep - the likes of which Europe has not seen since World War Two," he said.
"Unfortunately, the losses in such a war will be measured not in the hundreds but thousands and tens of thousands."
Russia has repeatedly denied Ukrainian and Western accusations that it is providing troops and equipment to the rebels.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian and Russian officials are holding talks with separatist rebels and international monitors in Minsk.
Some 2,600 people have died in eastern Ukraine since fighting began in April.
The conflict broke out after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in March.
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The rebels have been gaining ground on Ukrainian forces in recent days, in both the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and further south around the port of Mariupol.
Ukrainian news agency UNIAN quoted a senior official as saying that as many as 680 soldiers had been captured in Donetsk region after the recent fighting.
Col-Gen Volodymyr Ruban, chairman of the Centre for Prisoner Exchange, said "about 80%" of them were captured around Ilovaysk, east of the city of Donetsk, where hundreds of Ukrainian troops have been cut off since the latest rebel advance began.
Ukraine's security council confirmed that its troops had withdrawn from Luhansk airport "in an organised manner".
Clashes are said to still be taking place near the airport of the city of Donetsk, with separatists claiming that two Ukrainian platoons have surrendered.
There were also reports of an attack on a Ukrainian patrol vessel in the Azov Sea on Sunday night.
The talks in Minsk started on Monday, involving the so-called Contact Group which includes representatives from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
After several hours they were adjourned until Friday.
Rebel representatives appear to have softened their demand for full independence, telling Russian media they were seeking a "special status" for their regions within Ukraine which would leave them in charge of security and give them amnesty from prosecution.
The status would also "take into consideration the necessity of deepening economic integration with Russia", the rebels say.
Correspondents say what they are demanding would mean the de facto division of the country, as the Ukrainian government is set on closer economic ties to the EU.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, meanwhile, said he was counting on the talks to focus on "agreeing an immediate and unconditional ceasefire".
He also insisted there would be "no military intervention" from Russia in Ukraine.
Last week's first direct talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, did not lead to any major breakthrough.
The 23-year-old spent last season on loan at Craven Cottage, scoring six times in 33 matches as Fulham lost in the Championship play-offs.
He has played for five clubs on loan, including Reading, since his last Chelsea appearance in December 2012.
"It felt like I had to come back and help the team reach what we were chasing last year," said Piazon.
"This is the first time I will spend two seasons with a club. I am excited to see the boys and get back into training."
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Miosotis Familia, 48, was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead hours after the shooting.
The suspect, Alexander Bonds, 34, fled the scene before he pulled out a revolver and was shot dead by police.
A bystander was also struck in the stomach by a bullet during the police shootout, according to police.
Police said the person is in stable condition.
"This was an unprovoked direct attack on police officers who were assigned to keep the people of this city safe," Police Commissioner James O'Neill said at a news conference.
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Ms Familia, with 12 years of experience at the department, was nearing the end of her shift in the Bronx neighbourhood early on Wednesday morning when Bonds walked up to her vehicle and fired a shot through the passenger-side window.
Her partner immediately called for help as Bonds ran from the scene. He was about a block away when police confronted him and he pulled out a revolver, according to Mr O'Neill.
The officers fatally shot Bonds and a silver revolver was found at the scene.
The ex-convict, who also went by the name of John Bonds, was sentenced to six years in prison for an armed robbery case in Syracuse and had been released on parole in 2013.
In a video posted to his Facebook account in September, Bonds ranted about poor prison conditions and unfair police treatment.
He also suggested he would not back down in his next police confrontation.
"I'm not playing, mister officer," he said into the camera. "I don't care about 100 police watching this."
Bonds was also convicted in 2004 for the criminal sale of a controlled substance near a school, according to state prison records.
In 2001, he was arrested and accused of attacking an officer with brass knuckles.
Surveillance footage early on Wednesday showed him pulling his hooded sweatshirt over his head before walking up to the vehicle "with purpose". Police said a motive is still unclear.
Ms Familia was a mother-of-three who also took care of her elderly mother and had previously worked for two years for the American Red Cross, report local media.
"She was on duty serving this city, protecting people, doing what she believed in and doing the job she loved," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters at the hospital before she died.
"And after this shocking and sudden attack, her fellow officers came to her aid immediately."
When asked whether the attack could be described as an assassination, Deputy Chief Jason Wilcox said: "Everything is pointing to that."
The shooting recalled a 2014 attack on two New York police officers sitting in their patrol car in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Wenjian Lui and Rafael L Ramos were killed by a man who travelled from Baltimore and had vowed to kill police officers.
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who had a history of mental illness, shot both officers before turning the gun on himself.
Scottish Borders Council hopes to re-establish a trust responsible for the care and upkeep of the B-listed Rhymer's Tower in Earlston.
It is believed to stand on the site of the castle originally built by Thomas Learmont, known as Thomas the Rhymer.
It is hoped that a re-established trust could access funds if future repairs are required.
Thomas The Rhymer - also known as Thomas of Erceldoune - was a poet and prophet born in Earlston around 1220 and later celebrated by Sir Walter Scott.
According to the Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature he was said to have predicted - "among other events" - the death of Alexander III, the Battle of Bannockburn and the accession of James VI to the throne.
"He was sometimes known as 'True Thomas' and said to have the same powers as Merlin," it added.
The 19th-century Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov also claimed him as an ancestor.
The tower named after him is thought to stand on the site of the castle he built as archaeological assessments found the structure now standing is of "much later date" than the 13th century.
Ownership of the building was given to a group of trustees in the 1960s and the organisation was later resurrected in 1994.
However, a council report said it was "not clear" what had happened to the trust since the late 1990s.
It is now being recommended that the Rhymer's Tower Trust be re-established in order to clarify who owns the site.
That could then allow funding from outside bodies to be sought to help maintain the building as well as help tackle access issues at the site.
Ambulance and fire crews were called to Swinfen Hall prison and young offenders' institution at 19:37 BST.
The incident involves D wing at the prison, near Lichfield, with Staffordshire Police guarding the perimeter.
The jail holds up to 624 male adults aged between 18 and 25, serving between four years and life.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "Staff are working to resolve an ongoing incident at YOI Swinfen Hall.
"Specially-trained staff and emergency services are attending the scene and the police have been informed."
The Labour leader told the Andrew Marr show that protecting defence jobs was his "first priority" and there were "options" for doing this while taking a lead in global nuclear "de-escalation".
Labour, which is split over the issue of renewing Trident, has said the idea is similar to one adopted by Japan.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Labour would weaken the UK's defences.
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In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Corbyn also said:
Mr Corbyn is at odds with many of his MPs over the future of the UK nuclear weapons system - which the government has estimated will cost £31bn to renew - and has commissioned a review led by shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry to look at its future, likely to report in the summer.
The Labour leader has been a longstanding opponent of Trident but some MPs and peers have threatened to resign if Labour reverses its decades-long support for the nuclear deterrent.
Parliament is to hold a vote later this year on whether to proceed with building successor submarines to the existing Vanguard fleet, which is due to become obsolete by the end of the next decade.
Set aside the technicalities; Labour's Trident debate will be a test of political strength.
Ordering new submarines without nuclear weapons could make for a long term compromise, between Jeremy Corbyn and the unions at least.
But - as he makes clear - his views on those weapons aren't changing. Neither are those of his critics.
And - crucially - Parliament will make the main decision on Trident long before the end of Labour's policy review and its party conference.
So the leader, chief whip and shadow cabinet will have to decide whether or not to order Labour MPs to oppose the government.
All the while, ministers are confident of winning the Trident vote, whatever the opposition does.
And some Conservatives who think opposing nuclear weapons makes the opposition look weak are keen on a vote before the May elections.
Unite leader Len McCluskey has urged Mr Corbyn to give MPs a free vote on the issue, as happened over military action in Syria.
Mr Corbyn told the BBC that Trident was a relic from a "Cold War generation" and he did not believe David Cameron would ever contemplate using it.
Asked, in that case, what was the point of having at least one submarine on constant patrol, he said: "They don't have to have warheads on them."
He added: "If anyone uses a nuclear weapon it is catastrophic for the whole globe... There are options there."
Since 1969, according to government documents, a British submarine carrying nuclear weapons has always been on patrol, gliding silently beneath the waves, somewhere in the world's oceans.
The logic is to deter a nuclear attack on the UK because, even if the nation's conventional defence capabilities were destroyed, the silent submarine would still be able to launch a catastrophic retaliatory strike on the aggressor, a concept known as mutually assured destruction.
The submarines carry up to 16 Trident missiles; each can be fitted with a number of warheads, which can be directed at up to 12 different targets.
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Union leaders have warned that scrapping Trident could devastate communities reliant on the defence industry and Mr Corbyn said he recognised the need to retain "amazing skills and technology".
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who backs the abolition of Trident, told a Unite conference in Clydebank that any decision to do so "must be matched by a programme of diversification and alternative employment".
"That is the position that the Scottish Parliament supported in November and that is the position that we [the SNP] will advocate."
Ms Thornberry said the idea of submarines equipped with conventional warheads, but with the potential to have a nuclear capability, was a posture adopted by Japan.
She told Sunday Politics that it was "certainly one option that is available to us and one thing that needs to be looked at".
But John Woodcock, the MP for Barrow in Furness - where the Vanguard fleet was built - said the idea was "implausible", adding: "Having a deterrent that has no capacity to deter is like having an army with broken rifles and no ammunition."
However, former minister and senior backbencher Keith Vaz said he had changed his mind on Trident.
"I think Jeremy Corbyn has persuaded me. He has made it very clear when he is prime minister that he is not going to be able to use these weapons, so what is the point in having them?" he told Russia Today.
Mr Corbyn, who outlined plans on Saturday to cap levels of executive pay and stop firms which don't pay a living wage from paying dividends, rejected suggestions he was talking only to people who agreed with him.
He said he wanted to "reach out to everybody", including Conservative voters.
He said he backed repealing legislation passed by the Thatcher government in the 1980s banning so-called secondary strike action, where unions walk out in sympathy with other workers already on strike.
Such action, he said, was "legal in other countries" and he asked whether he would legalise it, he replied, "Yes, of course."
The Conservatives said Mr Corbyn's pronouncements showed Labour were a threat to "the security of every working family".
"Labour would weaken Britain's defences by having a nuclear deterrent without any nuclear weapons, and would weaken our economy by changing the law to increase the number of disruptive strikes," said Mr Fallon.
The presenter told the Daily Mirror his tenure was "more than enough for me and the audience. So it is a good time to call it a day and do something else".
"It was a long-term decision. I could see this coming up, and it was always the plan."
He said he wants to spend more time beekeeping, which he said he had been "neglecting for far too long".
Earlier on Wednesday, during BBC Breakfast's paper review, Turnbull commented on the Mirror article .
"It's true, I'm going to leave the programme at the end of January because 15 years is long enough. I'll be sad to leave you.
The breakfast show tweeted a picture of the 59-year-old presenter on the sofa with his co-stars Louise Minchin, Sally Nugent and Steph McGovern, in tears around him.
Sports presenter Nugent tweeted he had earned a lie in: "But we will miss him. I know he pretends to be grumpy but he's really not ;)."
Turnbull said he will not miss his early 0300 rises.
"You get hardened to it and I have done it thousands of times and it still never gets any easier."
Breakfast weather presenter Carol Kirkwood, who is rehearsing for Strictly at the moment, tweeted she was "really really going to miss" her "lovely wonderful friend".
BBC Breakfast editor Adam Bullimore paid tribute to Turnbull saying he "is a huge part of the BBC Breakfast success story and will leave a big gap on the sofa when he leaves next year".
"He is massively popular with our viewers who love the way he is able to deliver serious news but also bring them a smile as they get up and get ready in the mornings."
The BBC said it will announce any changes to the presenter line-up "in due course".
Solihull Council said an investigation would take place after a complaint about the post by Conservative Councillor Ken Hawkins.
The tweet, replying to an image of Kensington Town Hall protesters posted by Guardian journalist Martin Belam, read: "Lets get ourselves a hangin!"
Mr Hawkins has apologised "unreservedly".
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The tweet, which was posted on Friday, has since been deleted.
It came after protests were held as residents demanded support for those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, and more information about what happened.
Council leader Bob Sleigh said he had taken "immediate action" to suspend Mr Hawkins and would take over his responsibilities as cabinet member for the environment, housing and regeneration in the interim.
"In light of the complaint related to Cllr Hawkins' comments on social media, an investigation will now take place led by the council's monitoring officer in line with the council's standards procedure," he said.
In an apology posted to Twitter on Monday, Mr Hawkins said: "I fully appreciate that my tweet on Friday which related to the protest outside and inside the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea council offices may have caused offence and I unreservedly apologise for that.
"In no way whatsoever was the short message directed at the unfortunate victims of the Grenfell Tower fire and I am distraught that some people have interpreted it in this way."
Cook, 31, holds England records for Test runs, caps and matches as captain.
Last month the opening batsman hinted he may stand down after the current tour of India, saying: "It could be two months, it could be a year."
Bayliss told BBC Test Match Special: "He's talking about the next Ashes series and being out in Australia."
The Australian added: "Sometimes there are little comments made along the way and they get blown out of all proportion.
"He's certainly up for the fight. I haven't had any discussion with him any other way and that's what we've been working towards.
"I was as surprised as anyone when I saw that in the papers."
England trail India 2-0 in the five-Test series, with the fourth match in Mumbai starting on Thursday.
Cook, who made his Test debut in India in 2006, has scored 10,934 runs at an average of 46.72 in 138 Tests, winning 24 of his 57 matches in charge.
Under Cook, England won the 2013 and 2015 Ashes on home soil, but lost 5-0 in Australia in 2013-14, only the third whitewash in Ashes history.
Michael Vaughan holds the England record of 26 Test wins as captain.
England host four Tests against South Africa and three against West Indies next summer, before the Ashes start in November.
The 90-mile, figure-of-eight course circled through the area's streets, beginning and ending in Guisborough.
Organisers described it as "a tough one", with three "significant" hills, including Saltburn Bank.
A crash in the peloton brought down a number of riders near the start.
Redcar and Cleveland Council cabinet member Carl Quartermain said the authority was "very excited to be hosting this brand new event".
East Cleveland Big Local chair Mary Lanigan said the race, which precedes the Tour de Yorkshire, was "very prestigious".
Yellow and green bunting, bicycles and knitted cycling jerseys decorated the route through the residential streets of Easington, Saltburn, Carlin How, Liverton Mines, Loftus and other East Cleveland towns and villages,
The British Cycling Spring Cup race was an opportunity for professional riders to prepare for the Tour de Yorkshire later in April.
Three times Olympic Champion Ed Clancy was one of the competitors in the event, which was won by Chris Latham from Team Wiggins.
The dramatic move comes after years of tension between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours, in particular Saudi Arabia.
The effects are already being felt - in Qatari food stores, international airspace, the global oil market and elsewhere.
Qatar has long practised an ambitious foreign policy with different priorities to its neighbours. But there are two key issues which have angered them.
One is Qatar's support for regional Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, which is designated a terrorist group by some Gulf countries.
The other is its relations with Shia-led Iran - Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia's arch-rival for influence in the region.
These issues came to a head late last month, when Qatar blamed hackers for a story on its state news agency website that quoted the emir as criticising US "hostility" towards Iran and calling the Islamic Republic a "big power in the stabilisation of the region".
The incident provided a spark for regional retaliation against Qatar, which said it was the victim of a "campaign of lies".
In a co-ordinated move, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Egypt withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar.
Yemen, the Maldives and Libya's eastern-based government all later followed suit.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain have given all Qatari nationals two weeks to leave their territory. The three countries have also banned their citizens from travelling to Qatar.
While Qatar is a member of the US-led multinational coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS), the Qatari government has repeatedly denied accusations from Iraqi Shia leaders that it provided financial support to the jihadist group.
Qatar - and Saudi Arabia for that matter - has given money and weapons to hardline Islamist rebel factions fighting Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Qatar though denies accusations of links to the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist alliance, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Another militant group, the Afghan Taliban, has an office in Doha, Qatar's capital.
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Many airlines have suspended flights to and from Doha.
The national carrier, Qatar Airways, is also facing problems because it will be unable to carry out dozens of daily flights to major Gulf cities. Its flights to other destinations will have to take detours because it has been barred from large areas of airspace.
About 40% of Qatar's food is believed to come in through its land border with Saudi Arabia - which has been closed. Already people are rushing to shops to stock up on supplies.
There are many major construction projects underway in Qatar - not least eight stadiums for football's 2022 World Cup. The Saudi border closure could affect the supply of materials, and delay projects.
Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded into Qatar in recent years to work - swelling its population to 2.7 million from 700,000 in 2003.
If Egypt were to ban its nationals from travelling to or residing in Qatar, that could have a major effect. About 180,000 Egyptians are estimated to be living there, with many working in engineering, medicine, law and construction.
There are signs that workers from other countries unconnected to the diplomatic spat could also be affected.
The Philippines - which counts upwards of 200,000 nationals in Qatar - says it will stop sending workers out of fears the crisis could worsen.
Analysts say the decision to punish Qatar is likely to have been driven by Saudi Arabia, its large and powerful neighbour to the west.
Relations have been strained for years, and deteriorated in 2013 as they backed opposing sides in Egypt after the military ousted the country's first democratically-elected President, Mohammed Morsi - a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The following year, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar in protest at its alleged interference in their affairs.
Although relations with Saudi Arabia appeared to have improved since then, the conciliatory comments towards Iran alleged to have come from Qatar's emir will have angered Riyadh.
Announcing its decision to cut off Qatar, the kingdom pointed to what it said was Qatar's collaboration with "Iranian-backed terrorist groups" in its restive eastern region of Qatif and in Bahrain, where security forces have cracked down on Shia protesters demanding greater political rights and an end to discrimination.
Analysts say Saudi Arabia may also feel emboldened to move against Qatar in the wake of a visit to Riyadh by US President Donald Trump, who called on Muslim nations to unite against terrorism.
There are claims that another reason for Gulf anger is a ransom of up to $1bn (£770m) that Qatar allegedly paid to secure the release of royal family members kidnapped while hunting in southern Iraq.
According to the Financial Times, the ransom was paid in April to an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Shia militias and Iranian security officials - anathema to the Saudis.
Two states in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have not cut ties with Qatar - Kuwait and Oman.
Kuwait has offered to mediate in the dispute.
The question is whether Doha will change its policies and positioning in response to the economic pain and disruption caused.
The diplomatic spat in 2014 ended after Qatar promised not to interfere in the internal affairs of other GCC states, and it could make more promises this time.
Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani has called for "a dialogue of openness and honesty".
Turkey and Iran have also called for diplomacy to end the latest crisis.
He died at the scene of the collision, which involved his car and a Ford van close to the White Bull pub on Preston Road between Longridge and Grimsargh at about 16:45 BST on Tuesday.
A 25-year-old man from Longridge was held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and possession of a Class A drug, Lancashire Police said.
He remained in custody on Wednesday and police have appealed for witnesses.
He was fishing with a crew of seven near south coast of Ireland when he witnessed one of the most brutal attacks on civilians during World War One.
"We saw an awful sight on Friday," he wrote in a letter home.
"We saw the sinking of the Lusitania, and we were the only boat about at the time. I never want to see the like again. The saddest sight I ever saw in all my life. "
A single torpedo struck and the Lusitania took 18 minutes to sink. It was carrying more than 2,000 passengers from New York to Liverpool.
Mr Wood and his crew set about a rescue attempt and managed to pull about 150 people to safety.
Joyce Wilson has a framed photo of his boat - the Wanderer - in her living room. Thomas Woods was was her Grandfather.
"He saw the whole thing, he was a brave man, they all were," she said.
"The crew had to wait for two hours before any help came. If the crew had not have been so brave, all the lives would have been lost."
Another crew member, Harry Costain wrote: "There were four babies about three months old, and some of the people were almost naked just as if they had come out of bed.
"Several had legs and arms broken, and we had one dead man, but we saw hundreds in the water."
Other details of what happened that afternoon are to be found in letters sent from the crew to their families.
Stanley Ball wrote: "I saw her go down. She went down bow first. We had four or five children on board and a lot of women.
"I gave a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, and an oil-coat to some of them."
Pamela Lightfoot, 72, from Peel said her Great Grandfather, Robert Watterson rarely spoke of his involvement in the rescue.
"I was told that he saw a bundle of clothes going past The Wanderer, when he picked it up it was a two month old baby.
"The family didn't speak of it much because it was so traumatic seeing all the people screaming and fighting for their lives in the water. It must have been a terrible ordeal."
The impact the Lusitania's tragic end was huge and as thousands mourned, riots broke out spurring America to join in the war, but very little was ever mentioned of the Wanderer and the heroics of the Manx fishermen.
Roy Baker, curator at the Leece Museum says The Wanderer's involvement could have been "forgotten" had it not been for the Manchester Manx Society.
"The Manchester Manx Society organised for the men to be acknowledged for their great deed."
Two of the seven medals are at the Leece Museum in Peel, Isle of Man. The town Commissioners say they are planning an event to mark the centenary of the sinking in 2015.
Carl Gregory suffered fatal injuries in a car park in Margate Road, Broadstairs, Kent, on Tuesday night.
Two men, aged 20 and 27, who are believed to have been known to him, are being held on suspicion of murder.
Mr Gregory's family stressed that "contrary to media reports, Pokemon Go cannot be attributed to his death".
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In a tribute, they described him as a "loving son, brother and grandson", who would be greatly missed by family and friends.
Mr Gregory died at the scene after emergency services were called to the car park at about 22:15 BST.
The 1,410 metre-long (4,600ft) bridge is one of nine places being listed in a celebration of Hull's heritage.
Poet Philip Larkin's home at Pearson Park; the Tidal Surge Barrier; and a set of Edwardian-style toilets are among other sites to be recognised.
Historic England said: "Hull has a proud story told through its historic buildings and places."
Work on the Humber Bridge began in 1973 and it was opened by the Queen on 17 July, 1981.
It was the the longest single-span suspension bridge for 16 years and remains in the top 10 longest spans in the world.
Historic England described it as a "formidable engineering feat", which "despite its great size and strength has a simple elegance in harmony with the landscape".
Larkin's flat at 32 Pearson Park, where he lived for 18 years when he worked as Hull University librarian, has been given Grade II listed status.
He wrote some of his best-known works sitting in the front room of his flat overlooking the park.
Some, such as Toads Revisited, specifically reference the park; while High Windows, the title of his final collection, was inspired by his flat.
The Tidal Surge Barrier, which is also being Grade II listed, is a prominent landmark in the city where the River Hull meets the Humber.
It was built between 1977 and 1980 to safeguard the low-lying city from flooding from the estuary.
The Nelson Street public conveniences were deemed unusual when they opened in 1926, combining loos for men and women at a time when most public lavatories were for men only.
Behind the Edwardian-style exterior almost all of the the original fixtures and fittings survive. The building is to be listed at Grade II.
The other structures to be added to the list are:
Hull's Old Town was named as one Historic England's 10 Heritage Action Zones in March and is set to benefit from a share of £6m over the next five years.
Heritage minister John Glen said: "The great Philip Larkin wrote of the domes, statutes and spires that make Hull unique but it is also architectural triumphs like the Humber Bridge and Tidal Surge Barrier that have helped build the city's reputation.
"What better time than during its year as UK City of Culture to recognise and celebrate the historical and cultural landmarks which tell the story of Hull's illustrious heritage."
The man was assaulted in Cumbrae Crescent at about 04:00 and was taken to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary where he is in a stable condition.
Police Scotland appealed for witness to the attack which detectives believe took place in a property.
They are keen to hear from anyone who heard a disturbance or saw someone making off from Cumbrae Crescent.
Det Sgt Fiona MacArthur said: "This was a serious assault which has left a man requiring hospital treatment for lacerations and puncture wounds after being assaulted with a knife.
"Violence will not be tolerated in our community and we are seeking the assistance of the public to identify the person responsible.
"We understand that the attack took place within a property and common close on Cumbrae Crescent. It is possible that you may have heard the disturbance or seen someone making off from Cumbrae Crescent after the assault.
"I would ask anyone with information to contact police officers at Clydebank."
The 18-year-old is a product of the Women's Super League One club's John Madejski Academy college programme.
Estcourt, who has won 15 international caps, had a three-month spell on loan at Bristol City Women last season.
"I'm very proud. Reading are a very ambitious club and so am I, so I hope to help them achieve their targets," Estcourt told Reading's club website.
Despite facing an air campaign by a US-led international coalition and offensives on the ground by a variety of opponents in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, IS has maintained its grip on the territory it captured and been able to impose its extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
Here is a look at some of the key events which have shaped the confrontation with the jihadist group over the past 12 months.
In early June 2014, the group then known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) launched an assault on Mosul, the main city in northern Iraq. An estimated 30,000 soldiers fled when confronted by as few as 800 militants. In addition to gaining control of a major political and economic centre with a population of 1.8 million, Isis acquired US-made weaponry, including armoured vehicles.
Emboldened by the army's collapse, Isis militants swept southwards towards Baghdad, seizing much of the Sunni-dominated provinces of Nineveh and Salahuddin and parts of Diyala in a matter of days.
Some half a million Iraqis, many of them members of ethnic and religious minorities, fled their homes to escape the Isis onslaught.
The group ignited fear and anger among Iraq's Shia Arab majority by announcing it had killed as many as 1,700 mostly Shia soldiers based at Camp Speicher outside Tikrit - one of the worst atrocities committed in Iraq in recent times.
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At the end of June 2014, after consolidating its hold over dozens of cities and towns in western and northern Iraq, Isis formally declared the establishment of a "caliphate" - a state governed in accordance with Sharia by God's deputy on Earth, or caliph. It named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as Caliph Ibrahim and demanded allegiance from Muslims worldwide. The group renamed itself Islamic State, dropping the mention of Iraq and the Levant.
Five days later, a video was released showing Baghdadi delivering a sermon at Mosul's Great Mosque - his first public appearance in many years.
In the formal address that experts said bore similarities to those by caliphs in first centuries of Islam, Baghdadi enjoined Muslims to emigrate to IS territory in order to carry out a war for the faith against unbelievers, or jihad.
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In August 2014, IS turned its sights on territory north and west of Mosul held by the armed forces of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, the Peshmerga.
Despite their fearsome reputation, the Peshmerga fled in the face of the offensive by better-armed militants. IS swiftly captured the important Mosul Dam, advanced on the Kurdish capital, Irbil, and sent minorities from the Nineveh plains fleeing.
Tens of thousands of Yazidis became stranded without food or water on Mount Sinjar after IS swept into nearby towns and villages, killing men and boys, and raping and enslaving women and girls.
The threat to Iraq's infrastructure and Americans in Irbil, as well as the humanitarian crisis on Mount Sinjar, prompted US President Barack Obama to authorise air strikes in northern Iraq. Mr Obama also put fresh pressure on Iraq's political parties to replace Nouri Maliki as prime minister. After Iran also withdrew its backing, Mr Maliki reluctantly agreed to step down in favour of a consensus candidate from his Shia Islamist party, Haider al-Abadi.
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Eleven days after the US launched air strikes in Iraq, IS released a video showing the beheading of the US journalist James Foley, who was abducted in Syria in 2012, stirred global outrage. In the video, entitled A Message to America, a masked British militant warned President Obama that if he did not halt the strikes another American journalist would die. A video showing his beheading of Steven Sotloff was released at the start of September 2014.
Mr Obama responded by forming an international coalition to "degrade and ultimately destroy" IS. He also authorised a major expansion of the military campaign against IS. Less than two weeks later, the US and its Arab allies began bombing IS targets across Syria.
They also came to the aid of Syrian Kurds in Kobane after IS launched a major assault to capture the northern town and surrounding Kurdish enclave, triggering the flight of more than 200,000 people across the nearby Turkish border.
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Despite its limited strategic importance Kobane was to become a key battleground, with IS, the region's Kurds and the US-led coalition all pouring significant resources into fight for the town. After three months, the jihadists were forced to withdraw, piercing their aura of invincibility.
At the same time, IS lost ground on various fronts in Iraq. With the support of coalition aircraft and US military advisers, the Peshmerga regained territory they had lost in the north, while a volunteer force dominated by Iranian-backed Shia militias, the Popular Mobilisation (al-Hashd al-Shaabi), advanced from Baghdad into Diyala and Salahuddin.
In April 2015, Iraqi government forces retook Tikrit after a month-long offensive that was seen as a key step towards eventually driving IS out of Mosul. The US claimed that IS had lost more than a quarter of its territory in Iraq, while cautioning that it was too early to say that the tide was turning.
While IS had undoubtedly lost significant numbers of fighters and much equipment in months of air strikes and fighting on the ground, the group remains resilient and capable of taking the initiative.
This was underscored when IS launched a ferocious assault on Ramadi in May, leading soldiers to withdraw and tens of thousands of civilians to flee.
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A statement highlighted concerns that results were "not aligned" with the club's ambitions.
"It was felt by both parties that a new coach should be appointed," it read.
Assistant first team coach Lauren Smith will take over as interim coach of the Vixens, who have lost their opening three matches of the new season.
She will be assisted by goalkeeping coach John Granville, who was previously the Trinidad national team manager.
Bristol chairman Simon Arnold said: "Success at Bristol Academy is judged by what happens within our whole club.
"I think it is clear to everyone we had started to lose our way and, despite Dave's efforts, we were seeing a decline in areas which need to be addressed sooner rather than later.
"It was a difficult decision for us as he is an honest, hard-working and talented coach but sometimes things just don't happen the way you want them to."
Edmondson was appointed in January 2014 after spells managing in New Zealand and Australia.
Robert "Jim" Stuart and Darren Hughes were given kidneys infected with the meningitis-causing worms in transplants carried out in Cardiff in 2013.
Prof Christopher Watson said no-one could have foreseen the outcome.
But he told Cardiff Coroner's Court he would not have used the kidneys.
Speaking about the cases, Prof Watson from the University of Cambridge's department of surgery told the inquest that he had been asked if the donor kidneys should be accepted for transplant at his hospital.
"I declined it on the night when contacted by my colleague," he said.
But the expert added that the parasitic infection was incredibly rare.
"I doubt we'll ever see this again. No-one could have foreseen that," he said.
Both men died of meningitis two weeks after receiving the transplants, the same infection that had killed the kidney donor.
The cause was only established once post-mortem examinations were carried out on Mr Hughes' and Mr Stuart's bodies.
Prof Watson, who was part of a three-person panel asked to review this case, said it was a "concern" that the donor had been in hospital for nine days with no sign of improvement before he died despite receiving treatment.
He added: "I'm quite sure Mr Asderakis did these transplants with the best intentions for the two patients to have a successful outcome with no intention to cause any sort of harm.
"I can understand how he came to his risk/benefit equation. That's not the one I would have come to."
It emerged during evidence to the inquest on Wednesday that Prof Watson's own hospital had been offered the kidneys for transplantation.
But he advised colleagues
Prof Watson said he was "extremely impressed with the care when the diagnosis was made" and the efforts made across the UK and in the US to find out the cause of the infection.
Earlier, the court heard that both patients had been told the donor had had meningitis when he died, despite claims earlier in the hearing that relatives had made stating the opposite.
Usman Khalid, a clinical research fellow from Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales who was part of the transplant team, said both men had the opportunity to refuse the operations.
Mr Stuart's widow Judith challenged Mr Khalid's evidence from the courtroom floor, asking him to "tell the truth".
"I have," was the reply.
Mr Khalid also caused unrest in the public gallery after saying Mr Hughes signed his own consent form prior to surgery.
This contradicts what Mr Hughes's father Ian said previously when he claimed to have signed the form on his son's behalf to a neurological condition which left him unable to hold a pen.
The inquest also heard no case of infection by the worm had ever been successfully diagnosed and treated.
The inquest has been adjourned for the day.
Originally designed in 1907 for a sleepy life carrying tourists along the Bristol Channel, she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1914 and went on to save thousands of lives not once, but twice.
Surviving both the Gallipoli landings and Dunkirk, she was sunk in a bombing raid off Sunderland on 5 July 1941, and lay undiscovered until 2010.
Now a group of enthusiasts have purchased her salvaged helm, wheel and brass windows, and hope to display them in time for the centenary of PS Barry's finest hour.
Keith Greenway of the Merchant Navy Association in Barry said: "She started the Great War quite quietly, housing German prisoners and carrying supplies.
"It was only with the Gallipoli Campaign that HMS Barry Field, as she'd been renamed, came into her own.
"Slow and lightly armoured, she was completely unsuited to a combat role, but the fighting on the beaches was going so badly that every ship possible was required to get the troops back to Egypt.
"Twice her paddles struck mines and she was almost lost, but against all the odds she was the last British ship to leave Suvla Bay, rescuing untold thousands of troops."
In 1920 she got a well-deserved refit, was renamed PS Waverley, and spent the interwar years plying her trade along the south coast for the Campbell's steamer line.
But when World War Two broke out she was given her fourth name - HMS Snaefell - and was once again pressed into military service.
It is unclear how many souls she saved at Gallipoli, but an exact figure can be put on the number of soldiers she rescued from Dunkirk in June 1940.
Although Mr Greenway said even this fails to tell the whole story.
"We know from the records that HMS Snaefell, as she was called then, picked up 981 people off the beaches, but she also assisted in freeing her sister ship, Glen Gower, which had run aground," he said.
"If you think that Glen Gower was probably carrying a similar amount of troops, then the real number of lives this anonymous pleasure craft from Barry actually saved is well into the thousands."
But PS Barry's luck finally ran out a year later, when she was attacked by a Luftwaffe bomber and sunk in the North Sea with the loss of three lives.
Yet even then she managed to stay afloat long enough to allow the rescue of the other nine crew.
Her exact whereabouts remained a mystery until she was tracked down by divers in 2010.
The site has now been designated an official war grave, prohibiting any further dives, so the salvaged brass fittings are all there to remember her by.
"We're absolutely delighted to have been able to bring even just these few little reminders back home to Barry," added Mr Greenway.
"This year marks a century since Gallipoli and 75 years since Dunkirk, so we couldn't really have acquired them at a better time.
"As well as celebrating Barry's connection with the wars and naval history, we hope that they'll help people to remember the heroics of seamen across the world, who made feats like that of PS Barry's possible."
The artefacts are due to go on display at the mayor's offices in time for a series of events in the town to mark the anniversary of the start of the Gallipoli campaign.
Reddick scored eight goals and provided 25 assists in 58 games last season as he led the Danish league in assists for a defenceman in 2016-17.
Reddick spent the 2015-16 season with Maglerud in Norway where he produced nine goals and 20 assists in 48 games.
"Bryce is a good skater and has a knack for scoring goals," said Devils head coach Andrew Lord.
"Bryce is a real competitor and when you watch him play, he plays with such passion and I think our fans are going to love the way he plays for us."
Before turning pro with the Las Vegas Wranglers of the East Coast Hockey League, Reddick spent four years at Michigan Tech University.
His father Eldon Reddick was a netminder with the Winnipeg Jets and went on to win a Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers in 1990.
The Devils say they still have another defenceman and at least one more forward to sign before the Elite League season starts on 9 September against Milton Keynes Lightning at Ice Arena Wales.
Mr Obama condemned the Republicans' insistence on steep budget cuts and warned of a "reckless" outcome if the debt ceiling is not raised by Congress.
Mr Boehner responded by accusing the president of seeking a "blank cheque".
The US risks default without a deal to raise the borrowing limit by 2 August.
The federal government runs a budget deficit that topped $1.5tn (£920bn) this year, and has amassed a national debt of $14.3tn.
Votes to raise the US debt limit have historically been a matter of routine in the US Congress, but this year, Republicans - buoyed by a newly elected crop of fiscal conservatives - have refused to agree to a debt increase without significant reductions in the budget deficit.
In negotiations, the chief sticking points are Republican resistance to raising taxes and the Democrats' desire to protect social programmes for the poor and elderly, and a public pension scheme.
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In a live televised address on Monday night, Mr Obama said: "Republican House members have essentially said that the only way they'll vote to prevent America's first-ever default is if the rest of us agree to their deep, spending cuts-only approach."
The president reiterated his call for a "balanced approach", based on a mixture of spending cuts and tax increases on the rich.
He said the only reason this was not "on its way to becoming law right now is because a significant number of Republicans in Congress are insisting on a cuts-only approach".
That approach, he added, "doesn't ask the wealthiest Americans or biggest corporations to contribute anything at all".
He said: "Most Americans, regardless of political party, don't understand how we can ask a senior citizen to pay more for her Medicare before we ask corporate jet owners and oil companies to give up tax breaks that other companies don't get."
Responding to the president immediately after his speech, Mr Boehner insisted the US government's "spending binge" was over.
"The president has often said we need a 'balanced' approach - which in Washington means: we spend more... you pay more. Having run a small business, I know those tax increases will destroy jobs."
Mr Boehner agreed the US "cannot default on its debt obligations", but showed no indication he or his Republican caucus were willing to compromise on tax increases.
And he called on Democrats to approve Republican proposals.
The president and Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate have been negotiating for weeks over legislation to raise the debt ceiling and cut the nation's budget deficit.
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The talks have broken down several times. In order to become law, any plan would require agreement from disparate factions within both parties and to pass both chambers of Congress.
On Tuesday, IMF chief Christine Lagarde pressed the US to resolve the stalemate, warning the country could face another jobless recovery.
"The clock is ticking and clearly the issue needs to be resolved immediately," Ms Lagarde told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
In Monday's latest round of negotiations, Senate Democrats introduced a proposal that would trim $2.7tn (£1.66tn) over a decade.
The plan would protect social programmes for the poor and elderly and a public pension programme - all popular among Democrats. It would not raise new tax revenue.
House Republicans, meanwhile, unveiled their own plan that included $1.2tn (£736tn) in cuts caps on future spending, and offered a $1tn debt ceiling increase - not enough to last through the 2012 election.
In his White House address later, Mr Obama firmly rejected the Republican plan, in part because it would require another round of debt limit talks in six months.
"We know what we have to do to reduce our deficits," he said. "There's no point in putting the economy at risk by kicking the can further down the road."
He endorsed the Senate Democrats' plan as "a much better path", though one that would fall short of his goals to reform the tax system and social programmes.
If the debt ceiling is not raised, the US Treasury could run out of money to pay all of its bills - which could lead to interest rate rises, threaten the US economy and in turn the global recovery.
Subject to consultation, some 620 jobs could be lost at sites across the UK, including up to 330 at Newcastle.
About 200 jobs will be lost at sites in its munitions business, including Radway Green near Crewe and Glascoed, near Pontypool and 97 in Washington.
Up to 10 jobs may go at the firm's head office in Farnborough, Hampshire.
The firm said the proposals, now under consultation, followed major efficiency improvements and reductions in orders required by the Ministry of Defence.
BAE said the proposal to close the old Vickers site in Newcastle at the end of 2013 followed a business review that concluded that there was no prospect of new UK armoured vehicle manufacturing work once production of the Terrier ends.
Managing director Charlie Blakemore said: "We need to adapt to very challenging market conditions and further reduce our overheads to drive better value for our customers and increase our competitiveness in the export market.
"I know that this is difficult news for employees and we will do all we can to help them through this difficult period and mitigate the proposed job losses wherever possible."
Leader of Newcastle City Council, Nick Forbes, said: "This is devastating news for the city and the region, and a tragedy for the 330 workers and their families.
"Our top priority is the future of the workers, so I have asked the council's chief executive to set up a taskforce which will help the workers find alternative employment and bring all the relevant public and private partners together to respond effectively.
"Bearing in mind that these are highly skilled engineering and manufacturing jobs, and we have until the end 2013 when the plant will close, I am confident that we will be able to help find them jobs elsewhere so their skills are not lost to the region.
"Manufacturing on the Tyne has a proud history, but also great potential for the future."
Rehana Azam, national officer of the GMB union, said: "BAE Systems have a highly experienced and skilled workforce and these job cuts are yet another blow to manufacturing.
"Representations are being made to MPs to see what can be done to retain skills within BAE Systems and in traditional industrial areas of the UK."
Kevin Rowan, regional secretary of the Northern TUC said: "The announcement from BAE Systems is a hammer blow to North East manufacturing.
"Losing so many highly skilled and well paid jobs is devastating for all individuals concerned as well as to our local economy."
The efficiency improvements stem from a £200m five-year transformation programme launched following a 15-year partnering agreement signed with the MoD in 2008.
The company has already announced the consolidation of the rest of its UK armoured vehicle support work into its Telford facility in Shropshire.
The former US soldier was released from military prison on Tuesday.
She served seven years of a 35-year sentence for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military files to Wikileaks.
Since her release she had made a few social media posts documenting her life after prison, but none had shown her face.
"Okay, so here I am everyone!!" she wrote, adding a smiley-face emoji and the hashtag #HelloWorld.
The photo was released on Instagram and cross-posted on Twitter.
The grainy black-and-white photo most often associated with Manning was released by the military in 2013 but was taken years earlier.
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On Monday Davies met supporters of Newport RFC, who said "answers to most of the important questions were not forthcoming".
The WRU, Newport RFC and Dragons boards have ratified the deal, but it requires 75% backing in the vote to proceed.
Davies said he'd "had easier evenings".
The former Swansea and Wales number eight added that he had faced a "passionate crowd" and that "all those that were vocal" at the meeting were against the plans.
Davies said: "They were not necessarily all shareholders, but those that were making their views known weren't in favour of what was being tabled."
An independent group of supporters, Friends of Newport Rugby, said three "key" questions were not answered by Davies:
The deal on offer would see the WRU taking control of the region and the Rodney Parade Ground by 1 July.
The stadium, which has staged rugby since 1877, is used by Newport RFC, Dragons and Newport County football club.
Dragons chairman Martyn Hazell has already said he believes the takeover must happen, saying: "The alternative is financial disaster and receivership" signalling the end of professional rugby at Rodney Parade.
An extraordinary general meeting of Newport rugby club shareholders will have to be held to vote on the issue, with 75% of those at the meeting or voting by proxy needed to back the takeover.
Davies expects the meeting to take place in early May.
"I think we've got more work to do in making it clear to everyone what the consequences of that will be," added Davies.
"But also furnishing everyone with more information and more assurance as to how this can play out positively.
"As difficult as this whole situation is, I think it's incumbent upon me now to make sure that I fulfil that role and make it clear to everyone what point we're at, why we've got here and what happens if the proposal isn't supported and I must have revisited that three or four times last night."
The WRU already owns 50% of the region, which was formed in 2003, while Newport RFC have played at Rodney Parade since 1877.
Dragons have been struggling on the pitch and have long-standing financial problems.
When the WRU's plans were confirmed, chief executive Martyn Phillips said: "To make this work we have to purchase the ground because it needs a lot of work.
"You couldn't make that investment if you were leasing the ground.
"There are lease and debts and the only way to clean it up was to buy the debt."
The 57-year-old is currently the Archdeacon for the Army as well as Deputy Chaplain-General of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
He succeeds the Right Reverend Robert Paterson who retired last November.
Rt Rev Eagles said he hopes to "support the people of the Isle of Man in their spiritual and historic identity and in looking confidently to the future."
The married father-of-one added: "Among many other tasks, the bishop is to be chief pastor, a focus of unity, and a leader of mission.
"I therefore hope to encourage all Christians on the island to support everyone who lives here, and to lead the Church in its work of caring for people in every community".
Sodor and Man is the smallest diocese in the Church of England, overseeing 45 churches and 27 parishes.
It is unique because the bishop is a member of the Legislative Council of Tynwald, the Manx parliament.
Rt Rev Eagles was appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Queen in 2013, and in 2015 was made an Honorary Canon of Salisbury Cathedral.
Gawker founder Nick Denton told staff on Thursday afternoon, a post on its website said.
Media firm Univision agreed to buy Gawker Media for $135m (£103m) at a bankruptcy auction.
Gawker filed for bankruptcy after losing a $140m privacy lawsuit brought by former wrestler Hulk Hogan, paid for by Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel.
Mr Thiel funded Mr Hogan's case saying he wanted to curb the company's "bullying", after the site published an article that outed Mr Thiel as gay.
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Founded 14 years ago, Gawker is known for its no-holds-bar approach to reporting, including breaking gossip stories on high-powered celebrities and business leaders.
Univision is most commonly known in the US as the country's biggest Spanish-language media company. It also owns a 40% stake in the satirical website The Onion.
In a memo to his staff, seen by the news agency AP, Mr Denton said: "Sadly, neither I nor Gawker.com, the buccaneering flagship of the group I built with my colleagues, are coming along for this next stage.
"We have not been able to find a single media company or investor willing also to take on Gawker.com. The campaign being mounted against its editorial ethos and former writers has made it too risky. I can understand the caution."
He added that he would move out of the news and gossip business but "work to make the web a forum for the open exchange of ideas and information".
A US bankruptcy court later approved Univision's purchase of Gawker Media, which owns seven websites in total.
They are: Gawker.com, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, and Jezebel.
The post on Gawker's website said plans for future coverage and its website's archives had not yet been finalised.
Gawker employees took to Twitter to express their sadness about the decision to shut down the sites.
"Our other sites, including Kotaku, live on, but losing the vibrant Gawker.com hurts," tweeted Stephen Totilo, editor-in-chief of Kotaku.
Bobby Finger, a staff writer for Jezabel, tweeted, "I'm one of countless people who owes Gawker so, so, so much."
Another staff writer, Jordan Sargent, wrote: "Gawker is dead because Peter Thiel (w the help of Charles harder) has succeeded in creating a world where owning gawker is simply not viable."
Former Gawker reporter Sam Biddle wrote simply, "I am heartbroken".
Earlier this year Gawker was sued by Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, after the website published a video of Mr Hogan having sex with the wife of a friend from 2007.
A three-week trial ended with the jury ruling in the former wrestler's favour and ordering Gawker to pay $115m in compensation and $25m in punitive damage.
Gawker asked the judge for a new trial, but that request was rejected. Many experts though expect that the original verdict will be overturned on appeal.
In 2010, nine new arrivals from a Dutch safari park used an excited, high-pitched call for apples - while the locals used a disinterested grunt.
By 2013, the Dutch chimps had switched to a similar low grunt, despite an undiminished passion for apples.
This is the first evidence of chimps re-learning such "referential calls".
The findings, reported in the journal Current Biology, suggest that when chimp grunts refer to objects, they can function in a surprisingly similar way to human words - instead of simply being governed by how the chimp feels about the object.
Indeed, our ability to learn new "words" from our peers might date back to a shared ancestor with chimpanzees, some six million years ago.
Dr Katie Slocombe, the paper's senior author, is a lecturer in psychology at the University of York.
"One really powerful way to try and understand how language evolved is to look at the communication systems of animals that are closely related to us," she told the BBC's Science in Action.
"What kind of basic communication skills were in that common ancestor? And what really is unique in humans, and has evolved since?"
In their work with captive chimpanzees, Dr Slocombe's team had already seen that different grunts could refer to specific foods - for example, apples and bread. Other chimps would respond to those calls by looking for the corresponding food.
But those grunts closely matched the emotional value of the food.
"Previously it'd always been assumed that although chimps and other monkeys have these referential calls... that the structure of those calls was basically a read-out of emotion," Dr Slocombe explained.
To challenge this idea, she and her team took advantage of the unique situation at Edinburgh Zoo, where nine chimps from the Netherlands' Beekse Bergen Safari Park were moved in with an existing group of nine adults in 2010.
Crucially, they found a "word" that differed strikingly between the two groups.
The Edinburgh chimps were not especially partial to apples and used a low-pitched grunt to refer to them; the Dutch newcomers, on the other hand, "really loved apples and gave much higher-pitched calls".
One year later in 2011, the scientists' monitoring showed disappointingly little change. Both groups used the same old calls - but looking closely at their social behaviour, it was also apparent that they weren't getting on very well.
"They weren't spending much quality time together, and there weren't many friendships," Dr Slocombe said. "So they didn't seem to have any motivation to change their calling."
By 2013 however, the groups were getting on famously. There were firm Scottish-Dutch friendships and the chimps had essentially formed one big group of 18.
Along with that social bonding, there had been a remarkable shift in one key aspect of their communication: "The Dutch chimps had actually adopted the Edinburgh call for apples."
What is more, this had happened without any shift in preferences. The Dutch animals were still much more partial to apples than their Edinburgh-raised companions.
This is the first time that scientists have seen this sort of flexibility in an established primate "referential call".
Scottish accent?
The reason for the change, Dr Slocombe concedes, is difficult to pin down precisely.
The Dutch chimps may have changed their grunt purely in order to communicate better - rather like learning a new word. Or they may have made the adjustment for social reasons: "If you tend to mimic someone's accent, they tend to get on better with you and they like you more. So it could be something similar to that, that we're seeing in the chimps."
Whether the change is in vocabulary, accent, or a little of both, it appears to be a striking example of vocal learning.
"This is the first bit of evidence which might suggest that actually, it's a much older capability, that maybe our last common ancestor might also have had," Dr Slocombe said.
Prof Klaus Zuberbühler, an expert on language evolution at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, told BBC News the findings were "really, really interesting".
He noted that other studies have shown similar "acoustic convergence" in primates, but that previous examples were all social noises - either long-distance hoots or contact calls - that do not refer to particular objects.
Prof Zuberbühler added that some alternative explanations for the change are difficult to rule out.
"Obviously, a lot of things happen over three years when these new animals are being integrated," he said. For example, the new arrivals may have been particularly anxious at feeding time, and only slowly become more relaxed in their new home.
"That's the thing with observational studies in general - there's usually a whole bunch of other stuff happening that you can never really properly rule out.
"To me, the key point is that they did these social network analyses, showing that the more the chimps interacted, the more their calls became similar."
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Former NHS 111 call handler, Irsah Tahir, said the Derby centre was "swamped" with calls and staff were under "massive" pressure.
She said staff had to give medical advice when nurses were unavailable.
Derbyshire Health United, which runs the centre, said it had investigated and refuted the claims.
Ms Tahir, 21 from Derby, told the Daily Mail: "I feel the service is completely unsafe.
"We were always short-staffed. There was never enough nurses.
"I'm not medically trained and I just don't think I was equipped to make those decisions."
In her interview Ms Tahir claimed there were not always nurses on duty to supervise staff without clinical training and staff were begged to do overtime or cancel holidays because of staff shortages.
She said she quit after four months because she could "no longer cope".
The switchboard takes calls from Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire.
A spokesman for the Derbyshire Healthcare United said Ms Tahir had worked over Easter when they had experienced a high demand for the service, and following their own investigation they had found her allegations did not correlate with their data.
In a letter to the newspaper, chief executive, Stephen Bateman, said Care Quality Commission inspectors visited in March and found the service was "safe, effective... and well-led".
He said inspectors had also found staff ratios to be "consistently maintained" and the "safety of patients remains a priority".
"We answer our calls on average within 15 seconds but there are some peak times it comes under more pressure."
He said the service provides for one nurse for every four call handlers and it is a consistent system used across England.
"It is a clinically safe triage service and a clinically safe system."
An NHS England spokesman admitted there had been issues and "regional variations" with the helpline, but it is "working closely with local CCGs to ensure these are addressed".
They were called out to the incident on the town's Queen Street at about 02:30.
A 28-year-old man was taken to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary with an injury to his arm.
Police said he had been released after treatment but investigations were ongoing to establish the circumstances of the incident.
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Both women have been told they can never have sex again after having a surgical device implanted to treat a prolapsed bladder.
The mesh implants hardened, causing injury to the women and potentially injuring their partners.
Hundreds of claims for damages are expected to be lodged.
Every year about 1,500 Scots undergo an operation to insert mesh or transvaginal tape.
The implants are commonly used to treat a prolapsed bladder and relieve incontinence, often as a result of childbirth.
'Linda', who wants her identity concealed, has been told there is nothing doctors can do for her.
She is in constant pain.
"I don't even go to the doctor, I don't bother," she said.
"I'm just in the house all the time."
"You can be sitting and you can feel the jagging pain. I can't even carry my washing. My husband has to carry it and if I put my hands up to put the washing on the line, I can feel it jagging."
"Sex is a no go," said Linda. "We've not got a sex life. It's actually taken a bit of toll on my marriage."
Hundreds of claims for damages are expected to be lodged in Scottish courts over the coming months by women who have suffered complications after having mesh implants.
Lawyers said more women may have been injured by these devices than by faulty PIP breast implants.
Shona Trainer had a mesh implant in 2011 but was back at the doctors three months later because of the pain.
"It's constant. Constant from the waist down," she said.
Mrs Trainer had surgery four times to try to remove the mesh implant but each time the pain has returned.
"You go in thinking that they're competent enough to fix you and right now I'm worse than I was in the beginning," she said.
Studies looking at the safety of mesh implants and transvaginal tape found varying failure rates, with some finding very low levels of complications but others finding a failure rate of 15% for mesh implants.
However, a review by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency concluded that the benefits still outweighed the risks, especially as many of the women were suffering severe symptoms before surgery.
Mrs Trainer and Linda said they were now in much worse health.
"I wasn't in pain before I got the implant" said Linda.
"It was just a prolapse."
"We're left in the dark, absolutely left in the dark. There's something happening inside my body.
"What's it going to be like in another five years? I mean, it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse as the years go on."
Lawyers are pursuing compensation from a manufacturer of one of the implants and doctors who prescribed the procedure without properly informing women of the risks.
Hundreds of claims are due before Scottish courts in the next year.
"We just want to know why it's not regulated. That's our biggest question," said Lindsay Bruce from Thompsons Solicitors.
"Why are we seeing this time and time again in Scotland where it's not being regulated?
"Drugs have a licensing system and it's quite a stringent process to go through but medical devices just do not seem to have that, and something we want to know is, how are these even entering the market to be used on our clients?"
An expert group set up by the Scottish government to look at the issue of transvaginal mesh implants met for the first time in February.
The group is developing a revised information leaflet for use in the NHS in Scotland, which will be given to women in advance of under going the procedure.
It is aimed at ensuring women have better information about the use of mesh in order to be in a position to give fully informed consent.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government added: "Scotland follows guidance produced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in exactly the same way as the other UK countries.
"There is absolutely no question of regulation in Scotland being any less stringent than any other parts of the UK and we liaise closely with the MHRA to ensure that is the case.
"MHRA are leading on the current review of EU legislation on medical devices. The Scottish Government is working with both MHRA and Department of Health on this review.
She added: "We have also set up the Scottish Cosmetic Interventions Expert Group, to review the recommendations contained within the Keogh Report and how they affect Scotland."
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The list has proved revealing, showing a gender pay gap and a lack of diversity among those in the top pay bracket.
Some of the BBC's biggest earners have reacted with humour to having their pay deals exposed to the public - Gary Lineker wished everyone "Happy BBC salary day" on Twitter.
But fellow TV broadcaster Andrew Marr admitted the revelations would be "uncomfortable", while Radio 4's Today presenter John Humphrys said his £600,000 salary was hard to justify.
But it raises the question, would it be better for everyone's salaries to be public knowledge? Do you really want to know if the person sitting next to you earns more?
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Talking about money is one of Britain's last taboos. Most people would admit to being curious about how much their colleagues earn, but would never dare to ask.
In fact, according to a study from 2015, Britons are more likely to discuss their sex life than reveal the size of their salary.
University College London researchers, in a survey of 15,000 men and women, discovered that British people are seven times more likely to tell a stranger how many sexual partners they've had, whether they've had an affair, and whether they've ever contracted a sexually-transmitted disease, than have a chat about their income.
Researcher Soazig Clifton said: "They'd tell us about their affairs, all of their partners, they'll tell us all kinds of different things but the one thing they won't tell us is how much they earn."
British people may not feel comfortable about talking freely about their pay, but some companies have decided to be completely transparent about staff earnings.
At GrantTree, a company which helps UK firms get government funding, everyone in the organisation knows what everyone else earns.
Andrew Ormerod, a GrantTree director, said he couldn't imagine it any other way.
He told told 5 Live's Wake Up to Money: "I actually find it strange to think about not knowing that.
"And for us it's part of a broader culture of transparency so it actually feels quite strange for me the way that a lot of businesses operate where actually there isn't that level of transparency."
Employees at another company, London-based Pimlico Plumbers, divulged what they were earning as part of a TV show for Channel 4 in 2012.
Karl Plunkett, communications director, said it caused "uproar" in the office.
Some call centre workers discovered the newest addition to their team, Ben, earned £3,000 more than them, while one staff member called Mark was shocked to find out he was on £9,000 less than his colleague.
"There were a few rows, some unhappy people - people who found out the person sitting next to them was earning more," said Karl.
But he said it proved beneficial in the long run, getting the company to create a fairer pay structure and boost the pay of people who were lagging behind.
"It wasn't without pain but it has left us in better stead. We still benefit (now) from the fact that there aren't any outrageous secrets."
The publication of BBC salaries sparked a debate about the gender pay gap - after it was revealed that just one third of 96 stars earning more than £150,000 are female.
The top seven on the list are all male.
Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equal rights for women, says the figures reveal the scale of inequality in the BBC.
"What it shows very clearly is that women are both under-represented and undervalued in those top-earning roles at the BBC, although it's useful having the information published today and we welcome it," she said.
Jane Garvey, who presents Woman's Hour on Radio 4, said women can benefit from the information being in the public domain.
"The cat will not be allowed to get back in the bag," she told Radio 4's PM Programme.
"I actually suspect that a lot of women will be energised by this and will take this opportunity to shout and to make their feelings very clear on the issue of their pay. Let's hope that is what happens."
GrantTree director Andrew Ormerod said having pay disparities out in the open has helped get rid of the gender pay gap at his company.
He said: "It cuts out the gender imbalance. We just don't have a gender pay gap.
"The thing about having transparent salaries is that you're naturally going to ask the question as to why this person is paid a different amount of money and you have got to have a reason."
Money may be an awkward topic of conversation, but that isn't the only reason for not shouting about your salary across the office.
As BBC director general Tony Hall has pointed out, comparing pay "is not straightforward".
What you earn can depend on your "role, education or experience" says Seamus Nevin, head of employment and skills policy at the Institute of Directors.
"So making direct comparisons can be difficult," he added.
Dan Walker was listed as earning between £200,000 and £249,999 a year, while his BBC Breakfast co-host Louise Minchin didn't even make the list.
But Dan took to Twitter to clarify, saying he earns the same as Louise for the programme - it is his other BBC commitments in BBC Sport that take his total salary higher.
Mr Nevin says knowing you are earning less can create problems in your workplace.
"The problem with talking about pay with colleagues is that it may or may not be reliable information and it can engender bad feelings and poor morale," he said.
"This can prove very unhealthy if it means staff are more concerned about everyone around them instead of the overall objectives of the team."
The fee is made up of a £6.5m guaranteed payment, with another £1.5m through various add-ons.
England international Ings, 23, moved from Burnley to Liverpool last summer, when his contract ended.
However, a tribunal was needed as the two clubs could not agree a compensation figure for the former Bournemouth player.
Under current rules, clubs must pay compensation for players under the age of 24 who are out of contract.
Burnley will also receive 20% of any profit on a future sale.
Bournemouth, who sold Ings to Burnley for £1m in August 2011, will receive a proportion of the fee, expected to be about £200,000.
Burnley chief executive David Baldwin said: "This is an unprecedented record payment for training compensation and not a transfer fee.
"As the initial fee decided by the committee represents almost double the previous record for a tribunal, this fully justifies our decision to press ahead with what we felt was a fair reflection of the part Burnley played in Danny's development."
The previous record compensation fee was the £3.5m Chelsea were instructed to pay Manchester City in 2009 for striker Daniel Sturridge.
That sum that rose to £8.3m following add-ons and a sell-on fee incorporated in the deal that took the England striker to Liverpool in 2013.
A statement from Liverpool said: "We are pleased for Danny Ings, in particular, that this chapter is now complete and he can look forward to a long and successful career at Liverpool."
Ings scored 21 goals as Burnley were promoted to the Premier League in 2014 and 11 in the top flight last season.
He scored three in eight appearances for Liverpool before suffering a knee injury which has kept him out of action since October.
He said Iran had agreed to the talks to "break the hostile atmosphere" with the international community.
Iran and six world powers are working to agree a deal to replace an interim accord that expires in July.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said the two sides were up to 60% in agreement after latest talks in Vienna.
A senior US official was less upbeat but said all sides were committed to keep trying.
The US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany want to see Iran scale back its enrichment of uranium, which they fear could be used to make a nuclear bomb.
Tehran says its nuclear work is purely peaceful and hopes to agree a deal in return for a permanent lifting of sanctions.
Javad Zarif and EU High Representative Catherine Ashton said in a joint statement on Wednesday that their third round of talks since November had included "substantive and detailed discussions covering all the issues which will need to be part of a Comprehensive Agreement".
They will meet again in May for a fourth round of talks to "bridge the gaps in all the key areas and work on the concrete elements of a possible" agreement, the statement said.
Ayatollah Khamenei told a gathering of nuclear scientists that Tehran agreed to the talks to show the international community that it was not seeking nuclear weapons.
"These talks need to continue but all must know that despite continuation of the talks, activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of nuclear research and development won't be halted at all."
Telling negotiators not to "accept any coercive words from the other party," he said: "None of the country's nuclear achievements can be stopped, and no-one has the right to bargain over it."
Under the interim agreement, which was agreed in January, Iran froze certain nuclear activities for six months in exchange for a partial lifting of sanctions.
The world powers now want Iran to agree to permanently reduce the scope of its enrichment programme and to give UN inspectors more oversight.
So far, the six world powers have been united in their negotiations but Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine last month has caused tension between Moscow and the West.
Russia and Iran are said to be negotiating an oil-for-goods deal thought to be worth up to $20bn (£12bn), which the US says would undermine the nuclear talks.
The analysis of nearly 20,000 Danish couples found 65% had children within three years and 71% within five years.
Doctors, presenting their data at a fertility conference, said the odds were heavily influenced by age.
But experts said the findings were very encouraging for couples struggling to have babies.
There is strong evidence that about one in three cycles of IVF is successful in women under the age of 35.
But what happens in the long run, when some couples try over and over again, others give up and some have problems that cannot be treated, has been uncertain.
Researchers at the Copenhagen University Hospital used rigorous registry records in Denmark to follow 19,884 women from the moment they started fertility treatment.
The results, presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, showed that more than half had given birth within two years, rising to 71% after five years.
For women under 35, 80% had children within five years. But the figure fell to 61% in those between 35 and 40 years old; and fell again to 26% in women over 40.
Dr Sara Malchau, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website: "There is a very good chance of having a child, even if you have difficulties conceiving on your own.
"Most causes of infertility can be overcome, but age is the most important factor to predict if treatments are going to be successful or not.
"Also women with a body mass index under 30 had better outcomes as well as women who didn't smoke."
The study also found that nearly a fifth of the women under 35 ended up conceiving as a result of sex - despite having sought fertility treatment.
However, Dr Malchau cautioned Denmark prioritised fertility treatments that made it easier for women to keep trying. Many other countries are less generous.
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Prof Nick Macklon, from the University of Southampton, said: "It really does provide some encouraging news for those who are about to embark on the journey of fertility treatment - the chance of having a baby is good.
"There will always be individual factors that affect an individual's prognosis, but overall it shows us fertility treatments are working.
"There's been a lot of debate about whether women should be having their children earlier, most of the people in my field would be of the view that if you can start earlier then your chances of completing the family you desire is going to be much higher."
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Only Men Aloud, winners of the BBC's Last Choir Standing, won with Band of Brothers, beating Alma Mater's Music From The Vatican, featuring the Pope.
Other winners included conductor Vasily Petrenko and soprano Angela Gheorghiu.
Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the ceremony hosted by Myleene Klass at London's Royal Albert Hall.
The New Zealand-born singer joins a list of past recipients which includes Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras.
The soundtrack of the year was awarded to the Oscar-nominated Revolutionary Road by American composer Thomas Newman, while Thomas Ades won composer of the year for the Tempest.
Only Men Aloud's win saw them beat 14-year-old Faryl Smith, a finalist on Britain's Got Talent in 2008.
Teenager Smith also lost out in the young British classical performer category to violinist Jack Liebeck.
The critics' choice award went to Verdi's Messa Da Requiem performed by the Roma Orchestra Dell' Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia.
Jess Sigsworth put the Belles ahead but a Leandra Little own goal, Carney's strike and goals from Ji So-Yun and Eniola Aluko saw Chelsea through.
Meanwhile, Rachel Yankey made her Notts County debut as last season's beaten finalists beat WSL 2 side Durham 3-1.
Arsenal beat Birmingham City 5-3 on penalties after the tie finished 1-1.
Jade Boho Sayo scored on her Reading bow as they overcame WSL 2 side Millwall 2-0, and Hannah George scored the only goal of the game as Aston Villa edged past Everton 1-0.
Brooke Chaplen scored both goals as Sunderland triumphed over Yeovil Town, while Samantha Conroy scored twice for Sporting Club Albion as they survived a fight back from Brighton to win 4-3 and progress as the only side from outside the WSL in the last eight.
On Saturday, Manchester City became the first side to go through to the quarter-finals after beating Liverpool 2-0.
Attention next turns to the league this week, with Chelsea again making the trip to Doncaster to begin their Women's Super League One defence on Thursday.
Officers from 3GS will work alongside the local authority on a 12-month pilot scheme targeting problem areas.
They will have the power to issue £80 fixed penalty fines.
The council said it believed it was the first time a Scottish local authority and a private firm had teamed up to tackle dog fouling. Officers should be in place by the end of May.
The one year pilot is part of SBC's new "responsible dog ownership strategy", which was approved by councillors in February.
Councillor David Paterson said: "While we are keen to educate owners about the issue of dog fouling, the considerable feedback received from the public, communities and councillors has indicated that enforcement is also crucial.
"That is why I am pleased to announce 3GS as the external contractor to work beside the council by issuing tickets for dog fouling and littering.
"This is a 12-month pilot and will be reviewed regularly to understand its impact, before a longer term solution is recommended.
"We are carrying out a number of positive educational activities including the Green Dog Walkers scheme, but for those not willing to listen, they face an £80 fine or potential court appearance."
3GS managing director Paul Buttivant said they were delighted to work with the council on the scheme in light of "significant pressure" from local residents concerned about "escalating problems".
"Residents can be reassured that our officers are highly trained and will only issue fixed penalty notice to individuals who choose not to observe the law," he said.
Mr Yatsenyuk said Kiev could solve the crisis quickly if Moscow stopped meddling in the situation.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that Kiev's policies were pushing Ukraine into "fratricidal war".
Earlier this week rebels and government forces were embroiled in some of the worst fighting of the crisis so far.
The separatists say they lost up to 100 fighters as they tried to seize Donetsk airport from pro-Kiev forces on Monday.
Ukraine's interior ministry says the military is now in full control of the airport.
On Wednesday, gunfire was reported in Donetsk city and rebels attacked a military base in the city of Luhansk causing casualties on both sides.
Speaking on a visit to Germany, Mr Yatsenyuk said the situation in the east was deteriorating and Russia's involvement was causing huge difficulties.
"A number of trucks full of live ammunition, full of Russian-trained guerrillas crossed the Russian border into Ukraine," he said.
"We ask Russia and Putin to block the border to Ukraine. If Russia is out of this game we can handle this situation in a week."
Meanwhile, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said it had re-established contact with a monitoring team it reported lost in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, but it continued to refer to the group as "detained" and their fate is unclear.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called newly elected President Petro Poroshenko to congratulate him on receiving a "strong mandate" to govern after a landslide election victory on Sunday.
Mr Poroshenko said he would hold direct talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as soon as possible to defuse the crisis.
His office also said he would seek to sign a trade deal with the EU as soon as possible - a move likely to anger Moscow.
The election had been criticised because many in the east were unable to vote as a result of the unrest.
But analysts say the wide margin of Mr Poroshenko's victory has bolstered the confidence of Ukrainian officials in their dealings with Moscow.
On Tuesday, Mr Yatsenyuk denied Moscow's long-standing claim that Ukraine owed billions of dollars in unpaid gas revenues.
The prime minister said that in fact Russia's state-owed Gazprom owed Ukraine $1bn (£600m) in compensation for natural gas seized in the annexation of Crimea.
Gazprom's chief executive Alexei Miller said on Wednesday that Ukraine had used $1.7bn worth of gas in May alone, and would owe $5.2bn by 7 June.
He demanded pre-payment for June's gas supply, and threatened to restrict exports if money was not transferred by 3 June.
The spacecraft turned its antenna away from Earth during Tuesday's flyby to gather data on its target.
It is expected to call home at 01:53 BST on Wednesday; controllers should be able to quickly tell whether the flyby sequence worked properly or not.
New Horizons should be storing high-resolution images and other data from the pass in its onboard memory.
The probe was due to start sending engineering data at 20:27 GMT (21:27 BST). But New Horizons is currently about 4.7 billion km from Earth and at this separation, a light signal takes about four hours and 25 minutes from transmission to receipt.
Earlier on Tuesday, scientists and engineers cheered as the probe hurtled past the planet at 11:50 GMT (12:50 BST). It was due to fly about 12,500km from the surface of the little world.
The first high-resolution pictures from the flyby - with about 10 times the detail of those already published - should be downlinked later on Wednesday.
New Horizons' flyby of 2,370km-wide Pluto is a key moment in the history of space exploration.
It marks the fact that all nine objects considered by many to be the Solar System's planets - from Mercury through to Pluto - have now been visited at least once by a probe.
"We have completed the initial reconnaissance of the Solar System, an endeavour started under President Kennedy more than 50 years ago and continuing to today under President Obama," said the mission's chief scientist, Alan Stern.
Prof Stephen Hawking sent a message of congratulations to the team, saying: "The revelations of New Horizons may help us to understand better how our Solar System was formed. We explore because we are human and we want to know."
Surface features evident in images returned during New Horizons' approach to the dwarf planet have already become the source of intense speculation.
The world has a bright, heart-shaped region and dark patches near its equator, which have been informally described as "the whale".
There's something refreshingly raw about covering this extraordinary and uplifting story. As we catch the scientists in the corridors or listen in to their briefings, one impression is overwhelming: that they're blissfully ignorant about what's hitting them and are rather enjoying the novelty of not being able to explain anything.
This is because the Pluto venture is discovery in its purest, least processed and most thrilling form. We're experiencing the cosmic equivalent of landing on a totally unexplored shore. I keep picturing someone like Charles Darwin startled by a strange animal and having no frame of reference to even begin to understand it. Pluto and its moons are so unknown that every hour seems to bring more surprises. And, when we ask questions, we no longer expect confident answers but have become used to hearing an amused "don't know".
Other favourite phrases include "well, that's just an idea" and "this is our first attempt on the back of an envelope". One that may become classic was the scientist who started to offer an explanation before admitting with a chuckle that he was only thinking of a theory and that "he was making it up right now". Everyone laughed with him. And this makes the mission all the more exciting. Usually us journalists are dealing with finished, polished research findings. Not here. We all feel like we're on the journey of discovery too.
Prof Stern said: "On the surface we see a history of impacts, we see a history of surface activity in terms of some features we might be able to interpret as tectonic - indicating internal activity on the planet at some point in its past, and maybe even in its present.
"This is clearly a world where geology and atmosphere - climatology - play a role. Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles. It snows on the surface. These snows sublimate - go back into the atmosphere - every 248-year orbit."
The post-flyby call home will come through a giant dish in Madrid, Spain - part of Nasa's Deep Space Network of communications antennas.
There is a very small possibility that New Horizons could be lost as it flies through the Pluto system.
Any stray icy debris would have been lethal if it had collided with the spacecraft at its 14km/s velocity (31,000mph).
"Hopefully it did [survive]," said Prof Stern, "but there is a little bit of drama."
The BBC will be screening a special Sky At Night programme called Pluto Revealed on Monday 20 July, which will recap all the big moments from the New Horizons flyby.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will leave it up to individual sports' governing bodies to decide if Russian competitors are clean and should be allowed to take part.
The decision follows a report in which Canadian law professor Richard McLaren said Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme from 2011 to 2015.
The Rio Games start on 5 August.
Competitors from Russia who want to take part in the Games will have to meet strict criteria laid down by the IOC.
Any Russian who has served a doping ban will not be eligible for next month's Olympics. Track and field athletes have already been banned.
IOC president Thomas Bach said: "We have set the bar to the limit by establishing a number of very strict criteria which every Russian athlete will have to fulfil if he or she wants to participate in the Olympic Games Rio 2016.
"I think in this way, we have balanced on the one hand, the desire and need for collective responsibility versus the right to individual justice of every individual athlete."
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"The critics will ask how can it be that a rigorous testing programme can at all be completed in just a few days? The decision by the IOC has been widely condemned. It's opened up divisions in the Olympic family. Wada, for example, wanted a total ban; athletes' representatives are at loggerheads with those who run their sports.
"Many will argue, if not now - when the entire anti-doping programme appears to have been subverted by a host nation - then when will a total ban ever be issued? The IOC has come through difficult moments in the past - the Olympic boycotts of the Cold War years, the Ben Johnson doping scandal, the Salt Lake City bidding controversy - but there have never been a few days like these.
"Sadly for the IOC, having been held up as a model of sports governance, that status is now in some jeopardy."
The decision not to impose a blanket ban came after a three-hour meeting of the IOC's executive board, and reaction came quickly.
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko described the decision as "objective" but "very tough", while the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) claimed the IOC had "refused to take decisive leadership".
UK Sports Minister Tracey Crouch said: "The scale of the evidence in the McLaren report arguably pointed to the need for stronger sanctions rather than leaving it to the international federations at this late stage."
The 28 individual federations now have just 12 days to "carry out an individual analysis of each competitor's anti-doping record, taking into account only reliable adequate international tests, and the specificities of each sport and its rules, in order to ensure a level playing field".
The International Tennis Federation quickly confirmed on Sunday that Russia's seven nominated tennis players meet the IOC requirements, having been subjected to "a rigorous anti-doping testing programme outside Russia".
Russia's full Olympic team would consist of 387 competitors.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has already ruled that Russian track and field athletes will not compete at the Games, a decision which was upheld on Thursday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
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IAAF president Lord Coe said: "The IAAF team are ready to offer advice to any International Sports Federations given our experience and what we have learned over the last eight months."
A number of current and former athletes have criticised the IOC decision, with former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies telling the BBC: "I'm just sad that they've passed the buck, as they so often do, down to the governing bodies, and I don't think the governing bodies have the time to be able to do very much about this.
"I think the only way to send an incredibly strong message to a state-run doping programme is a blanket ban."
World Anti Doping Agency (Wada) president Sir Craig Reedie said previously that his organisation, which commissioned the McLaren report, wanted the IOC to "decline entries for Rio 2016 of all athletes" submitted by the Russian Olympic and Paralympic committees.
The IOC also confirmed it will not allow whistleblower Yulia Stepanova to compete as a neutral athlete in Rio.
Stepanova has previously failed a doping test and also did not satisfy the IOC's "ethical requirements".
The IOC statement added: "The executive board would like to express its appreciation for Mrs Stepanova's contribution to the fight against doping and to the integrity of sport."
Bach said the IOC was "expressing its gratitude" to Stepanova by inviting her and her husband to Rio as guests.
Usada chief Travis Tygart described the decision to exclude Stepanova as "incomprehensible", adding it will "undoubtedly deter whistleblowers in the future from coming forward".
December 2014: A German TV documentary alleges that as many as 99% of Russian athletes are guilty of doping. Wada announces an independent commission to investigate the allegations.
9 November 2015: Russia should be banned from athletics completion and were guilty of state-sponsored, systemic doping practices, says Wada's independent commission.
13 November 2015: IAAF provisionally suspends Russia's athletics federation from international competition.
27 June 2016: 67 Russian athletes appeal against their bans from this summer's Rio Olympics to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
18 July 2016: Wada's McLaren report claims Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the "vast majority" of summer and winter Olympic sports.
21 July 2016: Cas rejects the appeal of Russian athletes who attempted to overturn their suspension from this summer's Olympics.
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Police said that it was understood to involve about 300 litres of diesel and fire crews were at the scene.
Significant traffic disruption was expected while clean-up operations were undertaken.
Given our many achievements (I don't see chimpanzees landing probes on comets in the near future) it's a tendency that's largely justified.
But most of our thoughts aren't consumed with the magnificence or otherwise of our species. If we're honest, most of our thoughts are taken up by us as individuals.
Central to this conceit is the notion of our "personality". However, while we might think that our sparkling personalities are something unique, psychological research tells us that we can assess and measure personality using just five main personality dimensions.
What's more, not only are our personalities not quite as special as we might think, recent animal research tells us that personality is not even something unique to humans.
Research into animal behaviour has usually focused on behaviour across a species, or more accurately, across a sample of that species. The approach has examined "average behaviour" and individuals only featured as data points, with variation between individuals being of far less interest than the description and explanation of the overall behaviours observed.
Recently though, there has been a shift in this view. Inter-individual variation between animals is no longer being dismissed as statistical noise but instead has been embraced and studied.
As you can hear in Frontiers on BBC Radio 4, insights from this individual-focused research have led us to a far more nuanced view of behaviour and the evolutionary processes that have shaped it.
This approach to animal behaviour has become known as animal personality research. For a field notoriously sensitive to claims of anthropomorphism it might seem strange that a word so intrinsically human, with "person" so central to its etymology, has been embraced.
But actually it's not so surprising. Human personality is all about repeatable behavioural tendencies within an individual; in other words, we tend to respond to similar situations in a broadly predictable way.
Some of us want to be the centre of attention while others shy away. Extroverted people tend to always be extrovert and indeed extroversion/introversion is one of the five dimensions of human personality.
For an example of why personality is also a suitable word to apply to animal behaviour, consider a creature that is probably not top anyone's list of personality candidates: the hermit crab.
Rather than growing their own expensive protective shell, hermit crabs use what Mark Briffa, reader in animal behaviour at the University of Plymouth, describes as a "dodge". They install their soft worm-like rear ends into an empty periwinkle or whelk shell, poking their heads, claws and legs out of the opening to move around.
When disturbed, they disappear back into the security of their shell, only venturing back out when they feel it's safe. What Mark has discovered is that some hermit crabs are bolder than others, with brave crabs resuming their out-of-the-shell activities far more rapidly than shyer individuals. The crucial thing, as Mark says, is "if this behaviour is consistent within an individual then it is a bold individual".
Mark has indeed found that some hermit crabs are always bold; in other words they display a behavioural tendency that is consistent within an individual. As he explains, "that is a bit of mouthful to say, so personality seems like a good word for it".
This consistency of behaviour within an individual, or personality, has been documented in an ever-growing list of species, from obvious candidates like chimpanzees, through to cat sharks (who have social and solitary individuals) and even sea anemones. One group of animals where personality research is particularly far advanced is birds.
Wytham Woods, just outside Oxford is one of the most important field research sites in the world for studying the links between ecology, evolution and behaviour. Here, Proessor Ben Sheldon, Dr Ella Coles and others from the University of Oxford have been studying the personalities of a common bird, the great tit.
By catching birds and exposing them to a novel environment (an aviary in which they are temporarily housed) researchers have been able to measure boldness and shyness in individuals and show that individuals are consistent in these personality traits throughout their lives.
The researchers can also follow birds over time and this long-term approach allows the team to unpick the links between personality and how successful those birds are at the fundamental business of producing offspring.
Dr Samantha Patrick of the University of Gloucestershire cut her research teeth in Wytham Woods but has subsequently moved on to rather bigger birds - albatrosses. Samantha uses an intriguing, and frankly amusing, method for determining how bold an albatross is.
Lying low in the cold grass of the Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, she pushes a toy plastic cow towards the birds with a stick. This novel stimulus allows her to measure the response of a bird, and to measure that response over time.
What she has found, just like many other researchers on a variety of different species, is that different individuals have different responses (or personality types) but that individuals are consistent in their own response.
Research on birds and on an increasing variety of species shows that generally there isn't a "best" personality to be. The reason why there is personality variation between different individuals is because there is variation in the environment.
It's a complex world out there and that complexity changes over space and time. The environment doesn't stay constant and in some environments, perhaps those with plenty of hungry predators, it pays to be a little careful, a bit shy.
In other environments, or perhaps in the same place but later in the year when food is scarce, it pays to be bold, to get out there and find those scant resources rather than cowering in a safe hidey-hole. The shifting nature of the environment means that the ultimate pay-offs to these different strategies end up being more-or-less equal and natural selection has led to a variety of personality types in animals.
Interpreting the evolution of animal behaviour in terms of their ecology is the realm of behavioural ecology and It should come as no surprise to us that evolutionary and ecological perspectives have been so useful in explaining animal personalities.
Animal personality research is now starting to move towards a deeper understanding of how different personality types evolve and how they interact in groups of animals. Research at Wytham Woods for example is looking at how personality types function in the groups of birds that form foraging flocks over winter and how that mix of personalities affects success.
Although we often like to think otherwise, our personalities are just as much the products of natural selection and evolution as our upright stance and large brains.
Animal behaviour researchers may have borrowed the concept of personality from human psychologists but as social animals living in a complex world it will be interesting to see what human psychology takes from animal research over the coming years.
Frontiers : Animal Personality is on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 10th December at 9pm
The festivals have been out of sync by one week since the fringe decided to begin a week earlier in 1998.
Venues are already reporting an increase in advance sales, with international festival sales up by 25%.
The flagship event will open with Harmonium Project, a free concert and light show, outside the Usher Hall later.
The Edinburgh International Festival has a new director this year.
Fergus Linehan, a 43-year-old Irishman, will replace Jonathan Mills, who stepped down earlier this year after eight years in charge.
Meanwhile an Edinburgh Fringe comedy by euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke, which explores ways to skirt around laws on assisted suicide, went ahead despite being threatened with closure.
The show, titled Dancing With Death, has Dr Nitschke "teaching the funny side of the right-to-die debate" to Edinburgh audiences, as well as offering demonstrations of his "Destiny" euthanasia machine.
However, during rehearsals on Tuesday, the head of voluntary euthanasia group Exit International was visited by the police and the city council, who raised last-minute safety concerns about the production.
Medical professionals said that administering nitrogen via nasal prongs could put vulnerable people at risk.
There was also concern that having a gas tap close to the audience could breach licensing conditions.
Dr Nitschke - nicknamed Dr Death - later offered to use compressed air instead of nitrogen in the machine which he uses at the opening of the show.
But, five hours before he went on stage on Thursday night, permission was refused.
The show went ahead minus the controversial performance.
A spokesman for Dr Nitschke said: "The authorities turned up in their numbers and they made it quite clear that they weren't going to allow the machine to be used or shown in any way.
"It slowed down the start of the show and it was a bit disappointing.
"But, apart from that, the show went well and the crowd seemed to really enjoy it."
Dean Hoyle said in 2010 that fans who had held season cards during his time as chairman would pay £100 for the card if the club reached the top flight.
"Over 4,000 Town fans will receive mail from the club," a club statement said.
"This week, that pledge has been rolled out."
Huddersfield reached the top flight for the first time since 1972 by beating Reading on penalties in the Championship play-off final at Wembley last month.
Fans who qualified have the option to have a partial refund on their season card - which only cost £199 if bought by 6 April, a voucher worth £110 to spend in the club's shops, or donate their £99 refund to the Town Foundation charity, with Hoyle adding an extra £26 donation to top it up.
The 66-year-old pedestrian was hit by a van near a row of shops in Croydon on Friday evening. He died at the scene.
The van did not stop after the crash, but a 34-year-old man later handed himself in, the Met said.
He has been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop at the scene of an accident and causing death by dangerous driving. He remains in custody.
Detectives have appealed for witnesses to the incident, which happened at about 17:45 GMT at the King Henry's Drive junction and Calley Down Crescent in New Addington.
If the R&A is serious about making golf more accessible and welcoming, it cannot stage the game's oldest event at clubs that exclude female members.
The Muirfield based Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, have, at best, been left to look out of touch with modern thinking. At worst, they look like a bunch of selfish bigots who have no place at the top of the game.
The perception is that women are not allowed on the privately-owned links course in East Lothian, which is one of the finest in the world. In fact, they have been playing there since 1904 and, in 2015, played in the region of 370 rounds as visitors or guests of members.
Still, there is considerable anger and disappointment at the result among members of the Muirfield board.
Sources close to the club suggest they will explore the opportunities of staging another ballot. One said they might ask for a simple majority vote next time, instead of a two-thirds requirement.
Another said overseas members might be allowed to take part in the decision-making process after being denied this time.
Whatever happens, Muirfield's decision reflects badly on a sport that is trying to shed its elitist image as it seeks to arrest a decline in participation numbers.
It has staged the Open 16 times since it was first played there in 1892 and its roll call of champions is a who's who of the game. In 2013, Phil Mickelson joined a list that includes Ernie Els, Sir Nick Faldo, Tom Watson, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus and Sir Henry Cotton.
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It is a great course, arguably the finest in the UK, and one that has always identified great champions. But that is not enough in the modern era.
The Open is golf's showcase and the clubs that host it should reflect its name.
The R&A and its new chief executive, Martin Slumbers, will be congratulated on taking such decisive action. It is a huge move, one that departs from the previous line that the quality of the venue is the paramount concern.
The R&A's decision also increases the pressure on Royal Troon, which stages this year's Open jointly with Troon Ladies, who also use the Ayrshire course.
Royal Troon is currently deciding whether to change its all-male membership policy - and it is clear it will need to if it is to remain an Open venue beyond this year.
With Royal Portrush joining the rota, the R&A can afford to lose the two remaining men-only clubs, although, in purely golfing terms, the Open will be the poorer for not using such magnificent courses.
That, though, is of secondary importance to a game that still suffers a big image problem.
Muirfield's decision did nothing to help in that regard, but the R&A's response turned what could have been a very damaging day for golf into a much more positive one.
Classical music has been pumped into the Edwardian Prince's Tunnel, linking Dartford's Central Park with Brooklands Lakes, for the past four years.
Jeremy Kite, leader of Conservative-controlled Dartford Borough Council, said initially the music was played to uplift people using the tunnel.
But he said it was soon apparent that any vandals were leaving it alone.
He said: "We weren't getting any of the anticipated graffiti and none of the damage you'd normally expect in an urban tunnel.
"The only difference between this subway and other subways in the town is the fact that we're playing classical music."
The music has been played in the tunnel since it was renovated for the benefit of the town's residents and visitors after falling into disuse.
Mr Kite said the installation of the music and the lighting system in the tunnel cost just less than £20,000, and was "money very well spent".
"The impact has been enormous," he added.
Two men, aged 20 and 24, died after an Audi travelling at high speed struck two parked cars in Wilbraham Road, Whalley Range, on Wednesday.
A 21-year-old man who was also injured in the crash has died from his injuries, police have said.
Two males, aged 17 and 19, were arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. The 19-year-old was later de-arrested.
The 17-year-old was released on bail until 11 June.
The crash happened close to Whalley Range High School and police are appealing for any witnesses to contact them.
We're hiding inside caves. We have nothing - no food and no water.
We've been under siege for four days. We eat once a day - either in the morning or at night.
We've managed to get some basic food supplies from neighbouring areas, but three children died today because of starvation. Seven women and children have died since yesterday because of dehydration.
A lot of the people here have disabilities or suffer from serious illnesses like diabetes. It's 50C here and we're being bombarded indiscriminately.
We need help. Until now, no humanitarian aid has been delivered and no help provided by aid organisations - not the Red Cross or the Red Crescent, or even the United Nations. The Iraqi government and the Iraqi president have not helped. Nothing at all.
There are clashes going on between the Islamic State [IS] and the Yazidis. But we don't have weapons so what are we supposed to do?
When IS fighters arrived in Sinjar, they said there was no place for us in the area and that we had to leave. But where can we go? When they attacked Mosul, many people fled to Sinjar.
The Peshmerga [Kurdish fighters] have not helped us at all. We haven't seen any of their soldiers. When they found out that IS was coming to shell Sinjar, they all left for Kurdistan.
On top of all the persecution and humiliation we have suffered, IS fighters now want to kill us. They want to slaughter us.
Yazidis under fire
Iraq: The minorities of Nineveh
Tests are yet to establish the strain, but the H5N1 form, deadly to humans, has been ruled out, Liz Truss said.
About 6,000 birds will be culled from Tuesday as a precaution and a 6 mile (10km) exclusion zone is in place.
Ms Truss repeated reassurances that there was no risk to food safety.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the flu strain at the farm in the village of Nafferton had been identified as the H5 virus, but not the H5N1 strain. That strain has led to hundreds of deaths worldwide, although none have been in northern Europe.
European Commission officials say the outbreak is likely to be linked to migratory birds - possibly swans - heading south for winter, and cases in the Netherlands at the weekend and Germany earlier in the month.
The EC said the UK and the Netherlands were applying its directives to control the spread of the virus.
They also include the introduction of cleaning and disinfection areas, and a ban on the sale of live poultry, eggs, poultry meat and other poultry products from the restricted zones to other countries.
In her statement to MPs, Ms Truss said: "Importantly, the chief medical officer and Public Health England have confirmed the risk to public health is very low.
"It is important to note this disease is highly pathogenic for birds but the Foods Standards Agency has advised that avian flu does not pose a food safety risk."
She added: "We have seen a really good effort, I am clear we need to keep that up, to make sure we stamp out this disease."
Amid concern further cases could be spread by wild birds, Ms Truss said compensation would paid to farmers adversely affected by the outbreak.
The sight of Defra officials, clad in protective clothing and planning the cull of 6,000 ducks is something no farmer wants to see.
But this community wants this virus stopped in its tracks here at the duck farm in Nafferton.
There are 2.5 million farmed birds in East Yorkshire alone, spread over 50 units. They include 500,000 ducks and more than one million hens. All of them are vulnerable to this highly contagious strain of Avian Flu.
The six mile exclusion zone around the infected farm was enforced from first light and could last for weeks. Within the zone the movement of all poultry is completely prohibited.
A biosecurity measure which in itself will already be having an impact on local businesses.
But perhaps what will worry farmers most is the suspected source of this outbreak. It is not believed to be the industry's supply chain but rather the droppings of wild birds, migrating in their thousands across Europe, with no regard for exclusion zones and completely beyond anyone's control.
A private vet reported a possible case of bird flu at the Nafferton farm on Friday morning and the disease was confirmed the following day.
Ms Truss said: "It is essential anyone keeping poultry practises good biosecurity, is vigilant for any signs of disease and seeks prompt advice from their vet."
The case is the first in the UK since 2008, when chickens on a farm in Banbury, Oxfordshire, tested positive for the virus.
On Sunday, an outbreak of a highly contagious strain of bird flu was discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands. The Dutch government has imposed a three-day nationwide ban on the transportation of poultry and eggs.
Officials say the strain identified in the Netherlands, H5N8, is very dangerous for bird life and could potentially spread to humans, although people can only be infected through very close contact with the affected birds.
The European Commission said the "information available indicates that the H5 virus in the UK is probably identical to the H5N8... virus found in the Netherlands and in Germany".
On Monday, specialists dressed in blue protective overalls and face masks could be seen on the Nafferton farm.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency, a Defra agency, said the culling of the livestock will begin on Tuesday morning and is expected to last all day.
In the Commons, shadow environment secretary Maria Eagle questioned whether officials should operate on a "precautionary principle" until it was clear what the source of the bird flu was.
"Would this not impact on measures ought to be taken to contain it," she said.
Ms Trust told MPs: "Whilst we are never complacent about such an important issue, we do have a strong track record of controlling and eliminating outbreaks of avian flu in the UK and we are working closely with operational partners, devolved administration colleagues and the industry to deal effectively with this outbreak."
Chris Dickinson, the National Farmers Union county adviser for Yorkshire, said farmers needed to maintain good hygiene measures and check their stock to help prevent a spread.
British Poultry Council chief executive Andrew Large reiterated the message from scientists that the risk to the general public in the UK from bird flu is negligible.
"Consumers should continue to support British poultry meat, assured that there is no risk in eating cooked poultry, and that is a message echoed by the Food Standards Agency and the World Health Organization," he said.
A panel will be appointed to choose an artist and design for the tribute, which will be unveiled in summer 2017.
The public was asked to vote on a preferred site for the memorial.
A separate consultation will be held for a memorial for the victims of the Tunisian terrorist attacks in 2015.
Mr Cameron said: "These memorials will be places where the family and friends of people killed in terrorist attacks can reflect and remember.
"By building them we are underlining our pledge to never forget the victims of these atrocities."
The panel will be led by former overseas development minister Baroness Chalker.
Manning, 40, denied claims, aired by Al Jazeera, that he took human growth hormone after neck surgery in 2011.
The NFL said he was "fully co-operative" with the investigation.
Quarterback Manning won the NFL's most valuable player award five times and retired after winning the Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos last season.
The NFL said investigations would continue into allegations made against other players.
Green Bay Packers duo Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers, their former team-mate Mike Neal, and James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers were also named in the Al Jazeera report.
All four have denied wrongdoing.
Masood Mansouri was jailed for 13 years at Chester Crown Court for the kidnap and rape of Ceri Linden, 20, last year.
She flagged down Mansouri's car in Chester thinking it was a taxi, but she was taken to his house and attacked.
North Wales Police said his conviction was thanks to her "powerful" video interview, which was played to jurors.
They added it was a "tragedy" that she had not seen the outcome of her bravery.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Ms Linden, from Colwyn Bay, stopped the car in the early hours of 10 August and thought she was going to be taken to a bar where her friends were.
After Mansouri, 33, attacked her, she hid behind bushes close to his home and called her friends for help.
The mother-of-one was found dead at her home days after the police interview. An inquest has yet to take place.
Mansouri was sentenced to six years for the offence of kidnap, 10 years for sexual assault, and 13 years for rape, all to run concurrently.
Det Insp Claire Coleman, head of Cheshire Police's rape unit, said: "So powerful was the account provided by Ceri that her video evidence was used to bring Mansouri to trial.
"The court heard the victim describe in her own words what Mansouri had put her through. This is a brave lady, who found the courage to tell her story.
"The tragedy of this case is that our victim achieved so much, but will not share the outcome. Our thoughts are with her family."
In a statement, Miss Linden's mother, Eleri, described her daughter as "intelligent, caring and kind-hearted".
She said: "Losing her has left a hole in our lives which can never be filled and a pain in our hearts which will never heal.
"Ceri's lovely little daughter, Bethan, has to grow up without her beautiful mummy."
The Colombian joined United on-loan from Monaco in September but has scored just four goals in 28 appearances.
Falcao, 29, has only started one of United's last eight Premier League matches - the 1-0 loss at Chelsea.
"Even if he's unhappy not to be in the starting XI, he has to accept the coach's decisions," Carmenza Zarate told Colombian newspaper El Espectador.
"I often remind him that after a test or a difficulty, blessings arrive. If God shows him a new path, he'll leave Manchester; if not, he'll stay. We hope for bigger and better things.
"God hasn't abandoned us and my son will become again what he has been, a goal scorer."
Before his move to Old Trafford, Falcao was one of the most prolific strikers in the world with 104 goals in 139 games for Porto, Atletico Madrid and Monaco.
He suffered an anterior cruciate ligament in January 2014 that kept him out of the World Cup before joining United in September.
However, Falcao, who earns approximately £265,000-a-week at United, has not scored since his goal against Leicester City on 31 January.
Ms Zarate added: "It's not a normal situation given what he has experienced in his career, but it happens in football.
"Not everything has been easy in Falcao's life. He has had some difficult moments in his career.
"They slowed his progress and prevented him from participating in important competitions like the World Cup, or have confined him to the bench, like in Manchester."
The official Scottish government statistics showed a total of 246,243 crimes were recorded by Police Scotland last year - a drop of 4% since 2014/15.
However, the figures showed a 7% increase in sex crimes, the highest number since 1971.
Ministers said this included a significant number of historical cases.
Senior officers said the statistics also partly reflected an increased level of confidence in reporting sex crime.
Police Scotland recorded more than 10,000 sexual crimes last year - 53% more than in 2006/07.
The police clear-up rate for all crimes stood at 51.6% - an increase of 1.2 percentage points on the previous year
The National Statistics publication for the Scottish government also found:
Cabinet Secretary for Justice Michael Matheson said the increased number of sexual crimes included a "significant number" of historical cases.
He said he was pleased with the statistics and grateful for the "excellent work" of Scotland's police officers and their colleagues in other agencies.
He added: "While higher levels of recorded sexual crime are broadly in line with UK trends, include a significant number of historical cases and may reflect greater willingness by victims to come forward, such incidents are completely unacceptable.
"This is why we have taken tough action to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.
"Since 2006-07 we have also invested more than £10.5m in a range of violence reduction programmes during which time violent crime has more than halved (down 52%) and is at its second lowest level since 1974.
"Today's report also indicates that female victims of common assault were far more likely than men to be assaulted by a partner or ex-partner - underlining why the Scottish government has committed an additional £20m over three years to tackle violence against women, alongside our plan to strengthen legislation against all forms of domestic abuse."
246,243
Total number of crimes recorded
51.6%
Police clear-up rate
53% Increase in the number of reported sex crimes over 10 years.
52% drop in violent crime since 2006/07.
58% fall in fire-raising, vandalism, etc in last decade.
Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said the overall recorded "crime picture" was largely positive.
But he added: "The increase in the report of sexual crime is in part a reflection of the increased level of confidence the public has in reporting this type of crime to the police with the knowledge that every complaint will be handled sensitively and professionally. This equally applies to reports of historical abuse.
"We recognise the increase in crimes of violence and although this remains low in a historical context, we continue to work with partners in communities to tackle violence and address the influence that alcohol plays in many of these crimes.
"The recorded crime statistics are an important barometer on the level of service that the public get from Police Scotland, but they are only part of the picture.
"On a daily basis officers and staff provide help, advice and assistance on many different subjects ranging from anti-social behaviour, missing persons and mental health issues.
"In addition, we are developing a better understanding of the demands on modern policing in relation to issues such as cybercrime and online child exploitation which will be a focus for us in the future.
"Police Scotland will continue to engage with the public to identify issues in local communities across Scotland that will direct and inform the shape of policing for the future."
Matt Forde, national head of service for NSPCC Scotland, said: "While overall recorded crime is falling in Scotland it is extremely concerning that the level of sexual crimes against children continues to rise.
"The figures will partially reflect the improved reporting by police, historical offences and the confidence in victims of coming forward but we know from our own research that the number of child sex offences reported to police continues to rise.
"It is vital that the Scottish government, Police Scotland and others tackle this very real problem with the urgency it needs."
On Tuesday night, 500 (£6) and 1,000 rupee (£12) notes were removed from public circulation as part of a crackdown on corruption and illegal cash holdings.
This has led to millions queuing up outside banks across India to exchange their old notes for new 500 and 2,000 rupee (£24) ones and machines running out of cash.
Here are some of the stories from holidaymakers caught up in the situation.
"I have been in Goa since Diwali and took out 30,000 rupees (£356) - in three sets of 10,000 rupees (£118) ATM transactions - which is the maximum allowed for foreign debit cards before the notes were declared invalid.
"I have so far not been able to exchange them because either the banks have no money or if you do find one with money and wait in the long queue, then they are only exchanging a maximum of 4,000 rupees (£48).
"Luckily some of the restaurants I go to are still accepting the old notes and so I can get fed and then rely on the small change to buy my daily incidentals like water, fruit etc.
"Sadly the waiters do not get a tip from me as those small notes are so precious, but I have promised them a big tip when I manage to finally exchange some of my money.
"Some businesses take credit cards, but in Goa where I am, there are very few places that take them unless you are staying at a top hotel, which I am not.
"The other problem is if you do manage to get your hands on the new 2,000 rupee notes (£24) the small sellers are reluctant to take them as they do not have enough small denomination notes to give you.
"The majority of the Indian population is poor and it is horrendous the impact this is having on them. Also, the country relies on tourism - November is when visitors start going to India because of the good weather. But the situation could affect the tourist industry and put people off from visiting.
The government is telling people not to panic and all will be OK but it is definitely not OK and everyone is totally occupied with this ridiculous situation. I do feel this is India's Brexit and Trump rolled into one - good luck India because you will need it."
"We are on holiday at Baga Beach in Goa. There is no liquidity at all - the banks haven't opened and there is no chance to change money anywhere.
"I've walked miles and gone into every travel agent and every cash machine. Only one ATM was working but only briefly. By the time I got halfway down the queue the cash had run out.
"A couple of days ago some restaurants took dollars, but now they are unable to give you change.
"I met an old British couple who were very worried and have gone down to their last 1,000 rupees (£12). I advised them to eat and drink at the hotel only and charge it to their room as hotels will take Visa cards. Almost nowhere else takes Visas, even supermarkets that do are slow.
"There was no cash at the airport and they advised us to take dollars, but even this is now a problem."
"This is our first time in Goa and we read the safest way was to use ATMs but they have had no cash in them since last Thursday.
"Fortunately the supermarkets take credit cards, but nearly all the restaurants and bars only deal in cash and we have none left and we have one more week here.
"One restaurant here in Benaulim, Goa has been very helpful. Because we were regulars there for the last week, they allowed us to put our meal and drinks on a tab, so we can pay them back when we have some cash. We planned to do an excursion but had to cancel as we had no money to pay for it.
"Local traders are losing so much business, as everyone is finding it difficult to acquire the new notes.
"It's an absolute shambles! I understand why the Indian government has done it, but surely they should have prepared for it better and made sure there was plenty of the new notes distributed throughout India."
"I am holiday in India and I have an Indian bank account.
"I normally use the ATM to draw cash and could draw 10,000 rupees per day (£118). Now it's just 2,000 rupees (£24) and the ATM will now not let me withdraw money on my UK Visa card.
"On Sunday I rode over 15 miles round my area in Panji, Goa and found one ATM open. I queued for one hour to get 2,000 rupees, in 100 rupee notes - the only currency right now.
"It is very serious for small businesses, working people and especially 'virgin' tourists who cannot use credit in shops and restaurants or can't find banks and so have no money."
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The fast food chain said like-for-like revenue rose by 3.5% in the three months to September.
Shares in the company rose after it beat analysts' forecasts of a 1.5% increase in revenue.
McDonald's is in the process of a major turnaround plan after a sustained period of falling sales.
Areas such as the UK, Australia, Canada and Germany performed strongly over the quarter and increased like-for-like sales by 3.3%.
McDonald's also raised sales in the US, which it said was suffering from "industry softness". China weighed on its "high-growth" markets, which include countries such as Russia, because of strong comparative sales and "protests related to events surrounding the South China Sea".
However, it made gains and like-for-like sales in its high-growth markets rose 1.5%.
Steve Easterbrook, president and chief executive of McDonald's, said: "Looking ahead, we are focused on growing global comparable sales and serving more customers while being mindful of the near-term challenges in several markets."
The company has introduced a number of initiatives to attract customers, including adding new items its all day breakfasts, including biscuits, McMuffins and McGriddles.
Neil Saunders, chief executive of Conlumino, the retail research and consultancy group, said one of the challenges McDonald's faced was widening its appeal.
He said: "While the menu changes have drawn in more customers, they have not completely reinvigorated the brand with younger consumer segments, many of whom still shun the chain in favour of what they see as more premium and satisfying offerings from players like Shake Shack."
A hacker using the name Tessa88 is asking for 10 bitcoins (£4,000) from anyone that wants to copy the list.
It is not yet clear whether the list is genuine or how it has been compiled. Some reports suggest it brings together data stolen from users by malware.
In a statement, Twitter said it was "confident" that the data did not emerge from a breach of its network.
Information about the list emerged in a blog entry on the website of a company called Leaked Source, which has built a database of login data that has been stolen or leaked.
It said the dataset shared with it by Tessa88 contained 32,888,300 records - each one of which listed an email address, username and password.
"We have very strong evidence that Twitter was not hacked, rather the consumer was," said the company in its blog.
This has been taken to mean that the list has been compiled using data stolen by a virus that returned it to whoever ran the campaign to infect people.
Analysis of information supplied with the dataset suggested it had been gathered this way, said Leaked Source.
Other information, such as a breakdown of where most victims live, provided further evidence that it had not come from Twitter, it added.
Leaked Source said it had taken steps to verify a small number of the email accounts and passwords in the list were genuine. ZDNet said two staff members found on the list verified that the password listed next to their name was accurate but one other staffer said their details were incorrect.
A breakdown of email addresses in the list revealed that Russian accounts feature prominently. Russian email addresses make up more than 7.4 million of the total number of login credentials in the list.
In a tweet sent soon after it blogged about the data going on sale, Leaked Source said it had been contacted by Twitter's security staff who would now "forcibly" protect users from the data in the list.
Separately, Twitter's security boss Michael Coates confirmed it was working with Leaked Source on using credential data in the list to help users.
He added: "We have investigated reports of Twitter usernames/passwords on the dark web, and we're confident that our systems have not been breached."
In another statement, Twitter said it had been "working to help keep accounts protected by checking our data against what's been shared from recent other password leaks".
Security expert Troy Hunt, who runs a website that lets people check if their login names and accounts are in data breaches shared online, expressed some scepticism about the leak.
"Just because we've seen some serious breaches recently doesn't mean we should assume new ones are legit," he said.
He advised people to change their Twitter password if it was weak or if people had used the same one for other online services.
The sale of the Twitter data comes soon after huge amounts of login data from MySpace and Tumblr were widely shared. Earlier in May, millions of records about LinkedIn credentials were offered for sale online.
Daniel May, 25, who was quadriplegic, blind and had cerebral palsy following an operation aged six months, passed away during Sunday's 0-0 draw.
His father Kevin, a Plymouth fan, was informed of the death while watching the game at Anfield.
A banner will be displayed at the cup replay between the sides on Wednesday.
Fans will also join a minute's applause on the 25th minute.
More on this story, plus more Devon and Cornwall news
The banner was expected to cost £150. The remaining funds from the fundraising campaign will go to the Royal Surrey County Hospital, where Daniel died.
In a message to Kevin May, 53, organiser Anthony Grice said: "This is to say we are thinking of you."
The Liverpool businessman added: "What happened to Kevin is every father's nightmare.
"I am a father myself, but even if you are not you can't help but feel sympathy for what he went through."
Mr May was told on the phone that Daniel had died as he watched the game alongside thousands of Plymouth supporters.
The distraught dad, who was taken to a quiet room away from the crowd after receiving the tragic news, later thanked a policeman and staff at Anfield for their support.
In response to the fundraising, he said: "I think it's wonderful and would be a fitting tribute to Daniel and a real comfort to his mum and family.
"When I heard a funding page had been set up for a banner for Daniel, that just made me cry. It's truly outstanding."
Mr Grice said he could not attend Wednesday's replay at Argyle's Home Park ground but the banner would be displayed by other Liverpool fans.
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It was an awkward day for some stars at the BBC after the corporation disclosed, for the first time, how much its top talent is earning.
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Liverpool have been told they must pay Burnley up to £8m for striker Danny Ings, a record for a tribunal ruling.
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed talks with world powers but warned Tehran will never give up its nuclear programme.
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Nearly three out of four couples that begin fertility treatment will eventually become parents, long-term studies suggest.
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The winners of a TV talent show have beaten the Pope to the album of the year at the Classical Brit Awards.
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The research suggests the risk of psychosis is three times higher for users of potent "skunk-like" cannabis than for non-users.
The study of 780 people was carried out by KCL's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
A Home Office spokesman said the report underlines the reasons why cannabis is illegal.
Scientists found the risk of psychosis was five times higher for those who use it every day compared with non-users.
They also concluded the use of hash, a milder form of the drug, was not associated with increased risk of psychosis.
Psychosis refers to delusions or hallucinations that can be present in certain psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
"Compared with those who had never tried cannabis, users of high potency skunk-like cannabis had a threefold increase in risk of psychosis,' said Dr Marta Di Forti, lead author on the research.
She added: "The results show that psychosis risk in cannabis users depends on both the frequency of use and cannabis potency."
Dr Di Forti told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the availability of skunk-like cannabis was becoming more widespread.
Cath from Berkshire, who asked to remain anonymous, believes smoking skunk caused her to experience mental health problems.
"I dabbled with a friends' group in my early 20s, and went from someone who had never experienced any mental health issues whatsoever, to an absolute wreck.
"I was terrified of leaving the house, and I became petrified of death, of the mysteries of the universe, and of being alone. You name it, I was terrified of it.
"It took about six years to feel normal again and now, almost 20 years later, I have absolutely no doubt that my issues were triggered by casually and naively smoking this so called 'soft' drug.
"For years I have shuddered as campaigners have sought to declassify or promote the product as I understand first-hand the hidden yet, until now, unspoken dangers of this awful drug."
"In London, it's very difficult to find anything else," Dr Di Forti said.
"There were lots of reports from police across the UK saying we have become a great producer of skunk. And not only do we use it locally but we export, so this is a Made in England product."
Someone suffering from psychosis would often be "extremely paranoid and become very suspicious" about the people around them, she added.
She has called for "a clear public message" to cannabis users, comparable to medical advice on alcohol and tobacco.
GPs should be encouraged to ask how often and what type of cannabis patients use, she added,
A Home Office spokesman said the findings backed up the government's approach: "Drugs such as cannabis are illegal because scientific and medical evidence demonstrates they are harmful.
"This report serves to emphasise how they can destroy lives and communities."
Skunk contains more THC - the main psychoactive ingredient - than other types of cannabis.
Unlike skunk, hashish - cannabis resin - contains substantial quantities of another chemical called cannabidiol or CBD and research suggests this can act as an antidote to the THC, counteracting psychotic side effects.
Sir Robin Murray, professor of psychiatric research at King's, commented: "This paper suggests that we could prevent almost one quarter of cases of psychosis if no-one smoked high potency cannabis.
"This could save young patients a lot of suffering and the NHS a lot of money."
The research was carried out over several years, comparing 410 patients aged 18-65 who reported a first episode of psychosis at a south London psychiatric hospital with 370 healthy participants within the same age range from the same area of London.
It will be published later this week in the Lancet Psychiatry.
Rosanna O'Connor, director of alcohol, drugs and tobacco at Public Health England, responded: "No drug use is without risk as this report demonstrates.
"Anyone having problems with drug use should seek help from their local specialist drug services. It is important to remember that treatment for all types of drug problems, including cannabis, are readily available and very effective".
Cannabis user Robert, from Hertfordshire experienced a "temporary psychosis" after taking home-grown cannabis in his 20s.
"It was utterly terrifying, and the worst night of my life," he told the BBC News website.
"As someone affected by this issue it is hard watching mainstream media, particularly comedy films, portraying cannabis as a harmless life-enhancing substance with limited ill-effects - it's simply not true."
Another person who contacted the BBC website felt that legalising cannabis would allow varieties to be regulated.
Phil, from Cambridgeshire, said: "Speaking as a 'toker' for past 25 years, super skunk is the term they should be using.
"The cause of all this is the illegality. If things were more open and informed, people could buy 'saner' variety seeds."
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Smoking potent cannabis was linked to 24% of new psychosis cases analysed in a study by King's College London.
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The EU's executive arm said the influx would have a "small but positive" effect on EU economic output, raising GDP by 0.2-0.3%.
The influx will raise the EU population by 0.4%, the Commission forecasts, taking account of failed asylum claims.
The flow of Syrian refugees to Europe shows no sign of abating, the UN says.
The weather in the Aegean Sea has got rougher with the onset of winter. But Peter Sutherland, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special representative on migration, said Syrians were not put off by that.
The Syrian war "is driving people to desperation in terms of leaving and it will continue in its effects", he told the BBC.
"This is now a global responsibility, but it is a particular European responsibility," he said.
Conflicts and abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Somalia are also pushing people towards Europe.
The flow of refugees and other migrants from Turkey to Greece is expected to continue at a rate of 5,000 daily this winter, the UN refugee agency UNHCR says.
Delivering the EU's autumn economic forecast, EU Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said extra public spending and the extra labour supply from recognised refugees would lead to a small GDP rise in the EU as a whole.
However, the Commission cautioned that "the uncertainty surrounding the influx thus far and its future development is substantial".
Commenting on the three million figure given by the Commission, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said "nothing illustrates the need to be out of the EU and to restore proper border controls more than this dire prediction".
The UK Independence Party says that inside the EU the UK is powerless to stop immigration from other EU countries.
The Commission said the figure of three million was an assumption rather than a prediction and included those who had already arrived in 2015.
UN refugee officials say more than 750,000 migrants have arrived in the EU by sea this year, up from 282,000 in total in 2014.
The vast majority have arrived in Greece (608,000), which has become the most common destination. Some 140,000 have arrived in Italy in 2015.
Most of the migrants head for Germany, hoping to get asylum there. German officials say their country is likely to host at least 800,000 new migrants this year, and the total could reach 1.5 million.
Sweden has the highest share of refugees per head of population in the EU. The extra cost in public spending is likely to be nearly 0.5% of GDP this year, the Commission says, adding that "the corresponding positive effects on growth would be somewhat smaller".
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.
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Borrowing money from a peer-to-peer lender or changing currency with an online firm can be cheaper.
But the lure of free bank accounts, and hidden risks associated with peer-to-peer are muddying the waters.
And, for customers without debts, old-fashioned banks may come out on top.
Meanwhile, these traditional banks also have an eye on the competition.
Alternatives to bank loans come in the guise of peer-to-peer lenders, who connect lenders with borrowers directly.
That means you can earn a better rate of interest, but there is no expensive pile of capital owned by bank share holders to bail you out if borrowers default.
BBC research suggests that while borrowing from a peer-to-peer lender may cost less, who to deposit your cash with for the best return is less simple.
A £2,000 peer-to-peer loan typically costs £7 to £27 a month compared with as much as £123 for a bank overdraft or £50 with a credit card.
Free bank accounts while you are in credit, and the protection of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which guarantees deposits of up to £75,000, means comparing bank deposits with investing in peer-to-peer is tricky.
While a 7% peer-to-peer interest rate clearly trumps the 1.5%-or-so top bank rate, you don't have deposit protection and may be constrained on when you can withdraw your money.
Warren Mead, a financial technology analyst at KPMG, said banks still have big customer bases and "despite everything, a degree of customer trust in banking".
Meanwhile, banks are setting up their own funds to invest in smaller peer-to-peer competitors.
They are also trying to develop their own financial technology, or "fintech".
But they are at a disadvantage compared to the newer entrants.
"Retail banking is relatively inefficient" because of old computer systems dating in some cases back to the 1970s, said Mr Mead.
They are spending billions of pounds to try and right this through mobile applications for phones and tablets, but still rely on elderly computer "plumbing".
The newer firms have a lot to offer, they say. Giles Andrews, founder of Zopa, a peer-to-peer lender, says his business model relies on efficiency to be cheaper.
"Customers know where their money is going" and it goes to "lots and lots of people" to spread risk, he says. His business gathers data about borrowers to price the loans, he says.
"We were inspired by what eBay had done to retail," he says. "We thought well, that was a really interesting inspiration, let's see if we can apply similar technology to the world of lending and borrowing."
But comparing them with a bank directly is hard. They don't have as much capital as traditional banks, he says. Regulators don't require it.
"Banks are regulated to take deposits and protect their depositors and hold a lot of regulatory capital to do so. Because we connect our lenders and borrowers directly" that capital isn't required by regulators, he says.
He identifies a way banks can muscle in, however. Big banks may well partner with smaller challengers similar to his, although many will stay independent, he adds.
The challengers will also struggle so long as there is free banking - current accounts with no regular, or transparent, fees.
Taavet Hinrikus, of transfer service Transferwise, says "keeping your balance is something where banks are in the best position to do", but on everything else, they are being challenged.
The BBC found changing currencies with a newer online firm was less than half the price of an average bank transaction.
And there are opportunities for firms like his to grow. Only about a third of consumers have used non-banks for financial services, he says.
But traditional banks are fighting back in more ways than one. As well as buying up the competition and offering guarantees, they are trying to win over customers by helping them with their businesses in less traditional ways.
Barclays, for instance, is using vacant space above branches to offer its customers work space and coding lessons. People can come in and get business advice.
Jon Paterson runs a 3-D printing service, which prototypes design ideas at a bank branch in Brighton. "We are cutting down on time spent sending things to China, sending to overseas," he says.
The facilities are open to everyone, with the bank offering free trials on Fridays to lure in new customers. But it is in the bank's interests to have successful businesses with a need for financing and burgeoning deposits under its roof.
It is also an attempt to put banks back at the heart of economic growth, says the lender.
And for all the plaudits applied to their great La Liga rivals Barcelona, the praise for the continuing excellence and endurance of Bayern Munich and Juventus and the continuing defiance over the odds of Atletico Madrid, they remain the continent's pre-eminent footballing force.
The great Cristiano Ronaldo, when analysing his own achievements, underlined it by saying: "The numbers don't lie."
And the same applies to Real Madrid - the 4-1 victory on Saturday sealed their third Champions League win in four years. Those numbers do not lie either.
So why are Real Madrid currently in a league of their own?
"Those who always criticise Cristiano are going to have to put their guitar back in its case."
These are the third-person words of Ronaldo after his fourth Champions League triumph, his third with Real after winning with Manchester United in Moscow in 2008.
And even after scoring his 600th career goal, adding polish to a Champions League record that now reads 105 goals in 140 games and scoring in his third final, the dwindling band that continues to criticise Ronaldo is increasingly out of tune.
The Portugal captain has now scored at least twice as many Champions League goals as any other other player in the quarter-finals (20), semi-finals (13), and finals (four).
The criticism usually revolves around Ronaldo's ego and personality but - to twist an old Sir Winston Churchill quote about his predecessor and successor as prime minister Clement Attlee - he may be immodest but he has got plenty to be immodest about.
After embracing his Old Trafford mentor Sir Alex Ferguson backstage and then receiving the man of the match award from him, this fiercely dedicated and consummate professional reflected on his feats at 32, an age when many players are feeling the tap on the shoulder from Father Time.
He said: "I will now have two or three days off, then it is World Cup qualifiers with Portugal before the Fifa Confederations Cup. It is a long season but I am motivated.
"My age is just a number. I feel like a young boy."
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Joyous news for all at Real Madrid, where occasionally he has not felt unconditional love from the inhabitants of the Bernabeu, and ominous words for those hoping to unseat them as European football's superpower.
Real Madrid have world class sprinkled throughout their team, from Sergio Ramos in defence, through Toni Kroos and Luka Modric in midfield, to Ronaldo.
It is, for all those riches, Ronaldo who currently makes Real a cut above the rest and means they will be strong candidates for a 13th Champions League next season.
Here he showed that petulant side in the first 20 minutes before emerging, yet again, as the most significant figure in a game of world-class quality.
The usual debate has already begun about who is the better between Ronaldo and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. It is simpler to just enjoy two of the all-time greats - but this season has belonged to Ronaldo and his performance in Cardiff confirmed it.
The forces of personality inside Real Madrid's dressing room can make it a combustible place - but the bad news for their rivals is that the sheer stature and knowledge of coach Zinedine Zidane provides the glue that has brought unity.
This quietly spoken character commands instant respect from his playing days when he was a World Cup winner with France in 1998, won Euro 2000 and acquired legendary status at Real Madrid when he was man of the match in the 2002 Champions League final against Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park. There he scored the winner with one of greatest goals seen in one of these showpiece games, hooking a left-foot volley over his shoulder from a Roberto Carlos cross.
Zidane's coaching career at the Bernabeu was something of a slow burner, moving from coach of Real Madrid Castilla, the club's "B" team to taking over from the sacked Rafael Benitez in January 2016.
The results have been extraordinary as Zidane moves seamlessly from greatness as a player to history-making coach.
Since taking charge he has won the Champions League in successive seasons, making Real the first club to achieve this, brought La Liga back to the Bernabeu for the first time in five years and has also secured the Super Cup and World Club Cup.
Zidane is the first coach to win Europe's elite club competition back-to-back since Italian Arrigo Sacchi with AC Milan in 1989 and 1990, and while he may not exactly be a reluctant hero, he has brought an understated sprinkling of stardust to the "Galacticos".
He is clearly proud to manage Real, saying: "I am a man of this house."
And what he brings, what he brought to Cardiff, was the authority that comes from being one of the best, a man who can speak on equal terms to modern greats such as Ronaldo. He can look them in the eye and they know he has been to the same places as them.
In that respect, the 44-year-old is the perfect man for Real's present and, when it comes to keeping them ahead of those who want to topple them, the future.
Ronaldo was full of praise for Zidane's half-time address after Real had struggled to subdue Juventus in the first 45 minutes.
"Zinedine Zidane gave us a really positive half-time team talk," he said. "He really believed in us."
Success for a Real Madrid coach usually only stretches as far as the next game, but Zidane is in an impregnable position.
And he is ready for the next challenge.
"This is a truly historic day for all Real Madrid fans, the players and myself - but we know how things are," he said.
"We know it is going to be even more difficult to win but we are now going to work very, very hard to win once again."
While the Premier League's own Champions League qualifiers Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester City, Liverpool and Manchester United brace themselves to wield the chequebook in readiness for next season, a glance at Real Madrid's squad strength may cause some sleepless nights.
Let's leave those who actually started in Cardiff to one side - the names on Real Madrid's bench are enough to be going on with.
Zidane was able to set aside concerns about Gareth Bale's ability to last 90 minutes on his return to Wales because he had a player of the quality of Isco, the world-class Wales forward being introduced as a late substitute.
Bale was joined on the bench by 24-year-old Alvaro Morata, coveted by Chelsea and Manchester United and yet unable to make Real's first-choice side for a Champions League final.
Marco Asensio, at just 21, made his contribution with a goal as a midfield substitute, while 23-year-old Croatia midfielder Mateo Kovacic did not get any game time.
And, just as significantly, were those who did not make the matchday squad. Pepe and James Rodriguez, the latter touted as potentially a marquee signing for some of the Premier League's elite clubs, did not even get to change out of their club suits.
Place this next to the class in Real's side - and here you can simply list Saturday's starting XI - and the scale of the task of overtaking the Bernabeu giants becomes clear.
Real have superstar players and a superstar coach - and it may all have come together at the perfect time for them to extend their rule of European football.
Barcelona, stung by watching Real win La Liga and the Champions League, are currently in a period of transition.
Ernesto Valverde, formerly of Athletic Bilbao, has replaced Luis Enrique as manager, and will be under orders to reverse the current trend.
Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez represent a world-class attacking trio but this is a side in need of renewal.
There is still an over-reliance on the Argentine while the great midfielder and leader Andres Iniesta is now 33 and will soon have to be replaced.
In this environment, Real can be guaranteed to be ruthless when it comes to squad strengthening.
Zidane swatted away questions about Bale's future but, as Sir Alex Ferguson once said about Manchester United, this is a bus that waits for no-one.
The likes of Morata and, far more likely, Rodriguez will go but Real are already being ominously linked with the sort of talent that will add even further lustre to this great side.
Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea is consistently linked with a return to Madrid, this time with Real, while they are already in pole position to sign the prodigy with all the gifts to be a "Galactico" of the future, Monaco's 18-year-old France forward Kylian Mbappe.
Mbappe may well cost a world-record transfer fee - but Real have never blinked in the face of that before and in the afterglow of yet another Champions League triumph they will want to strike another footballing and psychological blow to those they consider their closest rivals.
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The idea is in a consultation paper on the government's drug strategy for England, Wales and Scotland.
The proposals also suggest that addicts on benefits should not be required to seek work while receiving treatment.
Some experts have suggested that withdrawing benefits could lead addicts into crime and prostitution.
The Labour government intended to carry out pilot schemes this year to get drug users into work.
Under the plans, addicts who failed to attend a treatment awareness programme would lose welfare benefits.
However, in May the Social Security Advisory Committee - an independent statutory body - said withdrawing benefits from drug users would lead them into crime and prostitution.
The coalition government scrapped the pilot programme - but the Home Office has now revived the idea.
It asks for views on whether there should be some form of "financial benefit sanction" for claimants who do not take action to address their drug or alcohol dependency.
Martin Barnes, chief executive of charity DrugScope, said he "seriously questioned" whether linking benefit sanctions to a requirement to undergo medical treatment was fair and effective.
He told the BBC's Radio 4's Today programme there was no evidence that such an approach would for work for a "particularly vulnerable and marginalised group".
"Also, we have to bear in mind that under the principles that are enshrined in the NHS Constitution, medical intervention should be therapeutic, consensual, confidential - and I just don't see that's compatible with using the benefits system to require people to undergo a complex form of drug treatment intervention," he added.
Simon Antrobus, chief executive of Addaction, said getting more people into drug treatment was "always a good thing, but attempting to force them into that process by taking away their benefits would be a mistake".
"The people Addaction help will tell you how coming off drugs is extremely difficult, and how deciding to access treatment took them a very long time.
"Remove financial stability during that time, and you can severely damage someone's chances of beating an addiction. More likely, you could increase their chances of turning to crime to find an alternative income," he said.
One 37-year-old former alcohol addict, who did not want to be named, said cutting state benefits would not have any effect on serious addicts.
"If people are addicted to substances then they will go to any length to get hold of them. Taking some money away isn't going to make the difference - benefit isn't enough to sustain a habit anyway," he said.
"Addiction doesn't just affect the unemployed, this is a wider social issue being tackled in a typically narrow-minded manner," he added.
But former drugs and alcohol addict, Jeff Groves, 39, from Hayes, said if he had faced having his benefit money cut, it would have forced him to address his addiction earlier.
"It's good to force people into treatment, in order to show drug addicts that there is another way," he said.
A Home Office spokesperson said the government would "carefully consider" responses, but it was "determined to prevent drug use and strengthen enforcement against supply".
"That's why we are asking experts for their views on a range of issues including whether we should strengthen the link between benefits, and drug and alcohol use, so that users are strongly encouraged to address their dependency," he said.
The Home Office has also confirmed plans to give ministers the power to ban new substances for a year until they have been properly assessed in a bid to combat so-called "legal highs".
Minister for Crime Prevention James Brokenshire said: "The drugs market is changing and we need to adapt current laws to allow us to act more quickly.
"The temporary ban allows us to act straight away to stop new substances gaining a foothold in the market and help us tackle unscrupulous drug dealers trying to get round the law by peddling dangerous chemicals to young people."
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The site is home to higher and further education institutions, business premises and conference facilities.
Draft figures from the Crichton Trust, which runs the estate, show turnover of £2.6m and a net profit of £20,000 for the financial year 2015/16.
Its budget for 2016/17 predicts turnover to rise by £500,000 and profit to increase to £323,000.
The figures will be reported to Dumfries and Galloway Council's Crichton sub committee when it meets on 10 June.
It will also receive a progress report on plans to develop the estate.
It highlights a £40,000 profit forecast for a new spa, bistro, restaurant and bar which opened last year.
The report also flags up increased costs for a proposal to create a visitor centre in the crypt of the Crichton Memorial Church after preparatory works revealed the need for further works.
Talks are ongoing about plans for the number of student residences on the site.
Universities and colleges on site are said to be "reviewing their curriculum offering" which could see the need for accommodation change.
The potential for the Scottish Rural College to relocate its operations to the site could also have an impact.
Labour have claimed the gap between the the number of students from the richest and poorest areas has widened.
The government insisted the number of 18-year-olds from deprived areas going to university was at a record level.
It recently appointed Professor Peter Scott as commissioner for fair access to higher education in Scotland.
His role will be "to support disadvantaged learners and drive change across the system".
The Scottish government has said it wants to see a big rise in the number of people from deprived areas who go to university.
Labour argue that, over the past two years, the gap between the number of students from the richest and poorest areas has actually widened.
The party says that while the number of young people from the most deprived areas going to university has gone up 0.8% since 2014, the number from the least deprived areas rose more than three times as fast.
The Scottish government says the number of 18-year-olds from Scotland's most deprived areas going to university is at a record level - but wants further and faster progress.
Scottish Labour's education spokesman Iain Gray said: "Nicola Sturgeon has promised that every child, regardless of their background, would have an equal chance of going to university.
"But those chances have become less equal while she's been first minister.
"It goes to show that warm words from the SNP aren't enough, closing the attainment gap will take more investment in our schools.
"Labour will continue to make the case for a 50p top rate of tax on those earning more than £150,000 a year to invest in closing the attainment gap in schools across Scotland."
The Scottish government said Ucas figures recorded the highest university entry rate for 18-year-olds from Scotland's 20% most deprived areas.
A spokeswoman said: "In 2006, 18-year-olds from the 20% least-deprived areas were 5.8 times as likely to enter university as those from the 20% most deprived areas, and this has decreased to 3.9 times in 2016.
"It is welcome news this is heading in the right direction, but we are committed to making further and faster progress on fairer access to higher education for all, as the recommendations made by the commission on widening access are implemented."
The spokeswoman added: "Professor Scott's appointment is part of a wider range of work aimed at ensuring that, by 2030, students from the 20% most-deprived communities will represent 20% of entrants to Scottish universities."
They remain seven points clear of Clyde in second, the Bully Wee having drawn 1-1 away to Berwick Rangers.
Edinburgh City and Arbroath played out a six-goal thriller at Meadowbank, taking a point apiece.
City remain bottom, with Cowdenbeath in ninth after a 2-0 home defeat by Stirling Abion, while Annan Athletic are fifth after beating Elgin City.
Forfar boasted a perfect record of seven wins from seven league matches ahead of their derby with Montrose but were stunned as the visitors inflicted their first defeat of the league campaign.
Gary Fraser and Christopher Templeman scored either side of half-time before Gary Fraser added a 66th-minute penalty to put Montrose out of sight.
Danny Denholm headed an injury time consolation for Forfar, but the day belonged to Montrose, who move up to seventh in the table.
Clyde failed to take full advantage of Forfar's slip-up as they were held at Berwick. Sean Higgins gave Barry Ferguson's men the lead, but Steven Thomson equalised for the home side just before the break.
Elgin remain in third despite going down 2-0 at home to Annan. Darren Ramsey's opener and a David McKenna penalty were enough to seal the points for the visitors.
Game of the day was at Meadowbank as bottom side Edinburgh claimed a point after sharing six goals in a thriller with Arbroath.
The visitors twice took the lead with goals from Omar Kader and Ricky Little, only to be pegged back by strikes from Craig Beattie and Ouzy See.
See struck again as City took the lead for the first time, but Arbroath levelled through Martin Scott and, despite the visitors having Jass Sukar sent off late on, they held on to claim a point.
Stirling won at Cowdenbeath to leapfrog their opponents in the table. Isaac Layne and Darren Smith struck to ensure Stirling move up to eighth in the table.
India won the match by 75 runs on the fourth day on Tuesday.
Smith, 27, was caught looking up to his side's dressing room as he considered reviewing an lbw decision during the defeat in the second Test in Bangalore.
But the media have come down hard on Kohli for his "accusations".
A headline in The Sydney Morning Herald says, "Kohli all but accuses Australia of cheating after epic Indian Test win".
Andrew Wu writes in the paper that the result of the match was "overshadowed by Kohli's post-match bombshell where he accused Australia of consulting their dressing room over DRS while batting and in the field".
He added that "relations between the two sides are now at its lowest point since the Monkeygate scandal of 2007-08".
"Monkeygate" refers to a 2008 incident when Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh was accused of a racial slur aimed at Andrew Symonds.
He was later exonerated.
Writing in The Age, Greg Baum says the DRS has been a "nightmare" for everyone.
"Now it [DRS] has become Frankenstein, a man-made mechanical monster. If more sensible protocols cannot be developed, it should be scrapped altogether," he says.
Baum adds that India and Australia now have a week "to calm down".
"The humour of the series has deteriorated as the drama has escalated, and for once the Indians have been more culpable than the Australians. Kohli needs to get a grip, quickly. Meantime, Smith and the Australians must ignore him," he adds.
Malcolm Knox, in another article in the Age, writes: "There were two games going on in Bangalore, but only one of them was cricket.
"Kohli discovered a newfound respect for politeness when declining to use the C-word [cheating]. But he said as much when alleging that Australia used changing room support twice while he was batting: which is some accusation, given the brevity of Kohli's innings."
Other papers also criticised Kohli.
A headline in the Herald Sun described the Indian captain as "cricket's ultimate bully" while The Australian says "Cricket war of words flares again".
The report in The Australian said: "Cricket Australia chief launches an extraordinary attack on Indian skipper Virat Kohli, as strained relations explode again."
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The 26-year-old was stopped by police in March, found guilty of a third drink-driving offence, and given 100 hours of community service and a ban.
Bracewell's lawyer said this was not about a disregard for road rules but a "genuine concern" for his partner.
"The cockatoo was of some significance to his partner and she was quite distraught," he said.
Lawyer Ron Mansfield told the Hastings District Court that Bracewell had been drinking at a function when his girlfriend called him about the cockatoo incident.
Bracewell, who has taken 72 wickets in 27 Tests, had previously said in a statement that he had made a "massive mistake" by driving home. He added: "This was no-one's fault but my own. I'm deeply embarrassed to have let down so many people, be they family, friends, or cricket-lovers."
Judge Bridge Mackintosh, who disqualified the cricketer from driving for a year, said: "This offending in my submissions should be seen as an unfortunate hiccup and something that doesn't reflect the man he has become or the sportsman."
New Zealand Cricket said it would not impose any additional penalty. It added that Bracewell is unlikely to resume his competitive cricket career until early next year as he recovers from a serious leg injury.
Bracewell, whose father Brendon and uncle John both played Test cricket for the Kiwis, was previously caught drink-driving in 2008 and 2010.
Other incidents:
Here are 17 things he shared:
1. With countless disagreements about potential coalition partners, how can the public expect to see any cooperation between the parties, instead of them all refusing to work together?
We may be entering new territory - where, for example, a promise like the Lib Dems' "we will scrap tuition fees" simply becomes impossible to make. Politics will move away from what was called "sofa-style" under Blair, where a small number of people go into number 10 then emerge and tell us what they are doing. It will move towards much more open bartering between parties. Promises will just be suggestions; everything will be tradable.
2. Would you rather fight one Dermot Murnaghan sized duck, or 100 duck sized Dermot Murnaghans?
100 Dermots sounds easier. Craziest question of the night award!
3. As a presenter, you always seem able to maintain a fairly neutral point of view no matter which topic is being debated, with each speaker given enough time to put forward their opinion. Were there any debates in which you found it particularly difficult to remain neutral?
In some debates I find it very hard. I always think a presenter can have values but not views. So I can think (or say) that I hate litter and people who litter but I can't be angry about dirty hospitals, because that's political. You've asked the question I get asked more than any other (apart from one!) which is how do you stay neutral? And the answer is that it is a small price to pay for the best job in the BBC. By the way, the one I get asked even more is: Who chooses the music on your show?
4. Eggheads fan from the Netherlands here! Thank you for doing this AMA Mr Vine! As expected, I do have Eggheads questions : Is Daphne really as lovely as she looks on screen and do you miss her already? Why do I like CJ so much? He is strict, tough, hard, direct and still my favourite egghead (apologies to the other eggheads!).
Daphne is adorable. When she retired, my mum wrote her a lovely letter and Daphne wrote a long and charming letter back. CJ is likeable, if you don't mind him walking around between shows stripped to the navel and covered in butter. I was joking about the butter.
5. What is Kevin's secret to his unknowing knowledge? My theories are - eats human brains, or secretly a robot. Which is true?
I don't know. It is truly incredible. The other day he told me the years Bach and Shostakovitch were born and died. And that was just small talk.
6. Nicola Sturgeon looks more and more likely to be the kingmaker in the general election. Just how much will the rise of "regional" parties like the SNP and PC affect British politics in generations to come?
Hugely. Someone said "all politics is local", and the system we have - first-past-the-post - emphasises the local, in that the most important thing is to concentrate your vote. The SNP and Plaid (in Wales) do this almost by definition; the LibDems are past masters at it. We are watching with interest to see if UKIP get say 15% but struggle to win seats because their vote is spread rather than zoned.
7. Have there ever been any humorous incidents involving graphics going wrong?
I did trip on a virtual step into 10 Downing Street once. When there is a real object (a green doorstep) and it is overlaid by a virtual projection (a real doorstep that is not real) it can get very confusing. Sometimes I get home and wonder if my wife is actually just a graphic.
8. You've covered some pretty good topics on your Radio 2 show, but what story have you found the most comical?
We did a story today about a guy who built a boat with loft insulation and staples and had to be rescued by the RNLI. When he came on the air I asked him how he could set sail in a boat that cost nothing, and he said it didn't, it cost him £9, which was the silicone adhesive he used to glue it together. Utter madness.
9. What has been your favourite moment in the 12 years you have been on Radio 2?
Thanks for this lovely question. When I pressed the CD button on 6 January 2003, and heard Thunder Road (that opening signature on the piano) - and heard the lyric "you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't so young anymore". My predecessor was Jimmy Young.
10. What is your favourite book ? And what book inspires you in your life?
I just read Gone Girl. Then I thought "Gillian Flynn is ace" and read Dark Places. Then I thought she was actually close to a crime genius, and am reading Sharp Objects. Love you Gillian!
11. Where on the political spectrum do you place yourself?
I am keen not to - not even in my sleep - not even in conversation with my wife over a candlelit dinner and especially not here.
12. Who chooses the music on your Radio 2 show?
Michael Banbrook, and me. Michael calls it "the plot", because he's a music guy. Are you happy with it?
13. When presenting on election night, do you write your own scripts when describing the graphics?
There are no scripts. There is a brilliant young producer called Ed Brown who can write notes on a projector. If I stall completely @Benowatt will say in my ear "The SNP section is next".
14. Is the current rise of minority parties like the Greens, UKIP, Plaid, and the SNP a flash in the pan protest at the two party system or here to stay?
I can't know - but I think it's here to stay. Partly because what is happening in Scotland feels so huge. And also because society is less tribal now. When did you last see a working men's club full of cigarette smoke or a red-coated toff on horseback with a hunting trumpet? People almost never say "I've always voted X or Y because my dad or mum did" so I get the feeling politics is being broken up and broken down, and it is scaring the pants off people who thought it would give them a job for life.
15. Which newspapers do you read, if any?
I don't read them on paper. I read them on my phone, where I have the Mail, Indie, Guardian, Telegraph, Economist and New York Times apps. Sad to say, I haven't yet paid for any online newspaper content. (No - sorry - I do pay something for the Sun, because I get their Football Goals add-on). I mourn what we have lost in the newspaper industry, as I started on the Coventry Evening Telegraph.
16. How do you rate the chances of each of the parties in the election?
Very broadly: 30% Conservative, 30% Labour, 30% elsewhere. For a more exact answer, join us on the night.
17. Short and sweet: Who's going to win?
I have a view but - no, I mustn't. I really mustn't.
And there seems to be little doubt as to where the majority of Scots stand on this issue, at least if the evidence of BBC Scotland's issues poll is to be believed.
Conducted by Ipsos Mori, the poll asked people to give a series of policies that the next UK government might pursue a mark of between one and 10.
A score of one meant it "should never be put in place" while 10 meant "it is very important and should be put in place quickly".
So the higher the score, the more popular the policy, while any policy that on average secured a score of 5.5 or more can be said to have more advocates than opponents.
The poll strongly suggests that:
On the one hand, the proposition that the government should increase spending on public services, even if that meant the deficit were not to be eliminated by the end of the next parliament, is relatively popular.
On average it received a score of 6.4. In contrast the suggestion that taxes should be cut even if that means making reductions in public services was awarded a score of just 4.0.
Meanwhile, although opinion is almost evenly balanced on the idea that the amount the government borrows should be reduced by cutting spending rather than increasing taxes - that was seemingly regarded as a tough choice and the average score was 5.6 - it is clearly weighed against eliminating the deficit by 2020 if that were to be achieved by reducing spending on services.
But if the prospect of a general tax increase - as opposed to borrowing more - is not particularly popular, increasing taxes for the better off does have widespread support.
The idea of introducing a tax on homes worth more than £2m enjoys a score of 7.4, while introducing a 50p top rate if income tax is almost as popular, with an average rating of 7.3. Doubtless relatively few Scots anticipate being asked to pay either tax.
While the UK-wide debate about tax, spend and the deficit is an important part of the election campaign north of the border, inevitably the specifically Scottish question as to how Scotland should be governed is also the subject of argument and dispute between the parties.
Here too, there appears to be a clear pattern to public opinion. The more radical the proposed change, the less popular it appears to be, though that still means a majority of Scots would like much more devolution than Scotland enjoys now.
What are the top issues for each political party at the 2015 general election?
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
Of the various possibilities for constitutional change addressed by the poll, the most popular, with a score of 7.4, was that the Scottish Parliament should have the ability to increase benefits and pensions above the level being paid to recipients in the rest of the UK.
Still, the idea that the Scottish Parliament should have full control of welfare benefits north of the border was only a little less popular with an average score of 7.1. That came narrowly ahead of the idea of full devolving taxation to Scotland, which received a score of 6.9.
Scots are seemingly rather more willing to trust the Scottish Parliament to spend their money than they are for it to tax them.
In any event when the idea of "devolution max" was put to respondents - that is making the Scottish Parliament responsible for everything other than defence and foreign affairs - the average score fell to 6.6 - though that still means the idea is more popular than not.
However, the least popular option was the suggestion that there should be another independence referendum within the next five years. That only scored 5.7.
Such a score might be thought to show that Scots are not quite sure whether they want another referendum or not. Not so. In fact it proves to be the proposition that divides Scots like no other in the poll.
On the one hand, 32% gave the idea a score of 10, indicating an impatience to see a referendum happen soon, while almost as many, 30% marked it down as a one, and an apparent wish never to have to go through the referendum experience again. Scotland is more or less divided down the middle on the subject - just as it was last September.
As it happens, the outcome of the general election seems unlikely to affect the timing of any future referendum. However the debate about whether there should be one seems set to continue.
The authority had been Labour-run since August but it fell into no overall control at the elections in May.
The Conservatives retook control with support from three UKIP and two independent councillors.
Former leader Mike Bird, who was deposed in 2014, was reinstated as leader after a vote at a meeting of the council on Wednesday. Mr Bird said he was "very proud" of the result.
Mr Bird said: "You have to wait for people to make their minds up and they did it last night. I'm very proud to be back.
"I've had more comebacks than Gone With the Wind."
He said the outgoing Labour leader, Sean Coughlan, had done a "good job" in office.
"It's a difficult job - there's no doubt about that," he said.
"There is still money to be saved and I would like to think we can do that differently to the Labour group."
Mr Coughlan said: "I'm disappointed but not surprised."
Now its skies are a battleground once more - but this time between conservationists and hunters, over whether wild birds should be shot in spring.
"My shotgun is part of my life."
Reggie Calleja has been hunting birds in Malta for 58 years. For the last 43 of them, he has owned the same shotgun.
"I keep it in showroom condition," he says, cradling the gleaming wood and metal.
But the 65-year-old retiree may soon have to pack his beloved gun away more often, if Malta's referendum on Saturday bans the hunting of birds in the spring.
Some 45,000 Maltese signed a petition last year, triggering a vote on whether to close the spring hunting season, which runs from the middle to the end of April.
A second season in autumn is not included in the referendum.
Malta is the only EU country that allows recreational spring hunting.
The European Union's Birds Directive, which regulates the hunting of birds across the EU, makes two exceptions for Malta, allowing people to hunt turtle doves and quail in the spring, under strict regulations.
But conservationists say the hunting season is abused by some hunters through the illegal shooting of other, protected species.
They also want the season permanently banned because it takes place during a crucial migration period for both species of hunted birds, as they pass over Malta into Europe.
Birdlife Malta conservation group says turtle dove numbers have declined 77% since 1980.
So this is a tense issue on the island, an uncomfortable clash between conservationists and those who say a Maltese tradition is at stake.
"This is something that really gets me in my heart, because for me I'm losing... what my father taught me about hunting," Reggie says.
"Spring hunting should be allowed in Malta because it's a traditional way of living."
Reggie says that he has not shot any birds for two years, because the numbers of turtle doves in particular have severely dropped owing to a loss of habitat on the Libyan coast.
The birds are finding alternate routes into Europe, rarely crossing over Malta, he says.
Reggie has a straightforward message for those who think killing wild birds is cruel. "I'm sure they eat chicken, they eat rabbits.
"You have to kill to eat. What we hunt, we eat. We don't throw it away."
A ruling by the European Court of Justice in 2009 found that Malta had been in breach of EU law by allowing spring hunting, because it had failed to fulfil its obligations under the Birds Directive.
But since then, successive Maltese governments have developed legislation to make sure it can continue.
This matter has been taken up abroad, with Britons such as conservationists Chris Packham, Bill Oddie and even Queen guitarist Brian May calling for this hunting season to be stopped.
Conservationists from Germany have also visited Malta to protest against it.
The Maltese campaign against this hunting season is called Spring Hunting Out (SHout).
Spokeswoman Moira Delia, a TV presenter, says Malta is the first island that birds cross when travelling from Africa to northern parts of Europe, before they continue their journey to breed.
"We are saying no to the killing of breeding birds, which is common sense, really."
She raises a common argument against the hunters - that they dominate the restricted amount of open space on the island.
"We never manage to walk freely and use what's left of our countryside. We come across these vulgar and very intimidating men, armed, who shout at us and send us home.
"The hunters have taken over."
Mark Mifsud Bonnici is president of St Hubert Hunters, a union with 1,000 members.
He says hunters take out their guns for about 19 half-days in spring because while there are 32 species which can be hunted in autumn, turtle doves and quail are only seen in spring, during their migration pattern.
"The bad publicity we get is definitely not related to reality. If there's 10,000 people shooting here and they're all doing illegal things, we wouldn't see one bird flying over Malta."
He says illegal hunters should not be allowed a licence, but that incidents of protected birds being shot are now "practically nothing".
He denies that hunters intimidate people in the countryside.
"We've been living in this country - which is practically the most overcrowded place on Earth - in peace and harmony for all these years.
"What's changed suddenly? Has something gone wrong where hunters are now the scourge of the Maltese population?"
Wounded birds that are not collected by hunters often end up in the hands of Birdlife Malta.
Conservation manager Nik Barbara says the number of illegally-shot birds it deals with has "slightly improved" in recent years, but that the damage done is often catastrophic.
"A shotgun does quite a lot of damage, especially at close range - it practically blasts everything off.
"The most common injuries we get are to the wings. Unfortunately most of the cases end up having to be euthanised."
Many had been expecting the embattled leader to talk about the political unrest which had brought him tantalizingly close to losing his grip on power in the central African nation.
There were also questions about whether the presidential elections would go ahead as scheduled in June. Other than that, questions were being asked about whether the coup attempt had shaken Mr Nkurunziza's resolve to pursue his controversial third-term bid.
But instead of addressing these burning issues, Mr Nkurunziza chose to announce to the media that his country was facing a terror threat from al-Shabab.
The group itself was surprised - its spokesperson said Mr Nkurunziza's remarks were "dumb-founding".
A number of Ugandans I talked to about Mr Nkurunziza's remarks drew parallels with what happened in their own country in 2006 when parliament, on the instigation of President Yoweri Museveni, amended the constitution and lifted the two-term limit on the presidency.
And all indications are that he is now set to run for fifth term.
Until then, Mr Museveni had been credited for bringing peace and stability to his country.
In fact, the Clinton administration described him as part of a "new breed" of African leaders.
But like Mr Nkurunziza, Mr Museveni's decision to lift the two-term limit on the presidency came at a great cost to his image - both locally and internationally.
Former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said at the time that "many observers see Museveni's efforts to amend the constitution as a re-run of a common problem that afflicts many African leaders - an unwillingness to follow constitutional norms and give up power".
Several donors including the UK, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden cancelled millions of dollars of aid to Uganda, saying not enough had been done to return the country to democratic multiparty rule.
Mr Museveni surprised many by unilaterally deploying Ugandan troops to Somalia to prop up the transitional federal government, which was battling Islamist insurgents who later metamorphosed into al-Shabab.
Many analysts saw Mr Museveni's move as an attempt to win back the Western support he had lost on account of his decision to scrap presidential term limits.
The US had for a long time wanted to see Somalia pacified to prevent it from becoming a terror breeding ground for al-Qaeda.
Through his military excursion into Somalia, Mr Museveni effectively played what has variously been referred to as the "anti-terror" card to make himself indispensable to the West - especially the US and the UK.
Uganda's government maintains that the decision to go into Somalia was done in order to prevent the conflict from spilling over into neighbouring countries, as well as to show that African countries can solve African problems.
After the embarrassing 1993 "Black Hawk Down" incident, the US preferred to advance its objectives through proxies, and it is easy to see why Washington found it difficult to resist a strategic anti-terror alliance with Mr Museveni, who had already put Ugandan boots on Somalia's blood-thirsty ground.
Criticisms of Mr Museveni's "unwillingness to follow constitutional norms and give up power" not only faded into irrelevance, he was now referred to by the same US government as a "strong ally in the fight against terror".
Several African countries, including Kenya and Burundi, have since joined the "war on terror" under the African Union mission in Somalia.
Therefore, on paper, Mr Nkurunziza may have genuine concerns about a possible terror threat to his country. However, the curious timing of his remarks about a possible terror threat is suspicious - especially when one juxtaposes it against Mr Museveni's 2006 "military charm offensive" to win back Western support after he came in for severe criticism for scrapping presidential term limits.
Is Burundi's President Nkurunziza using the al-Shabab threat to deflect attention from his domestic political woes?
This is the question on the lips of many socio-political commentators and analysts - and the jury is still out.
Merrill Newman, a Korean War veteran, was taken off a plane by uniformed officers at the end of a guided tour in North Korea last month, his son said.
US officials have not specifically confirmed the case, but have called on North Korea to "resolve the issue".
Another US citizen, Kenneth Bae, has been detained since last November.
Mr Newman visited North Korea with a friend in October, his son, Jeffrey Newman said on Thursday.
The guided tour was arranged with a travel agent "approved by the North Korean government for travel of foreigners", he added.
Merrill Newman was taken off a plane on 26 October, the last day of his tour, as he was set to leave North Korea, Jeffrey Newman said.
The veteran appeared to have discussed his experience in the Korean War with North Korean officials the day before his detention, his son added.
Another veteran, also named Merrill Newman, was awarded a Silver Star medal for his efforts during the Korean War. In an interview with Reuters news agency, he said that he thought it was possible there had been "a case of mistaken identity".
When asked about Mr Newman's detention, US Secretary of State John Kerry would not comment directly on the case, but said: "They have other people, too... These are all very, very disturbing choices by the North Koreans."
US Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies, said: "We are calling on North Korea, as in the Kenneth Bae case, to resolve this issue and let our citizens go free."
He added that he could not comment specifically about Mr Newman's case "because we do not have a privacy act waiver".
The US State Department revised its travel guidance for North Korea this week, saying: "US citizens crossing into North Korea, even accidentally, have been subject to arbitrary arrest and long-term detention."
However, a small number of tourists do enter North Korea every year.
Travel to North Korea is tightly controlled, with tourists only able to visit through tour companies that are accompanied by local guides.
US troops backed South Korea in the 1950-1953 Korean War, which killed at least two million people.
It will be the first game in the series to be played outside of the competing nations, of Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa.
The game will count as a 'home' fixture for Argentina and will conclude this year's competition.
The two countries met at Twickenham last year when Australia won a World Cup semi-final by 29-15.
Ogilvie has yet to make a first-team appearance for the Premier League side, but played 24 times in a loan spell at the Lamex Stadium last campaign.
"I think everybody knows I really enjoyed my time at the club last year so I am delighted to be back," said the 20-year-old left-back.
"I'm grateful for the opportunity the manager has given me."
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The leaflet, referring to the London-raised Islamic State fighter "Jihadi John", was reported to police in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan.
Officers contacted UKIP who claimed it was a "deception" by political rivals.
Meanwhile, a public meeting by UKIP in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, was disrupted by angry exchanges with Welsh language campaigners on Monday evening.
Referring to the leaflet, UKIP MEP Nathan Gill said: "This latest attempt to damage the reputation of UKIP and paint us out to be something we are not is an utter disgrace."
The two-sided leaflet urged people to vote UKIP if they objected to welfare payments to the families of extremists, or said they should support another party if they wanted "a jihadi for a neighbour".
UKIP said no-one at the party authorised or printed the leaflet, which bore no official logo.
South Wales Police said it was looking into the matter.
In north Wales, UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall was heckled by two people, including well-known language campaigner Dr Simon Brooks, angry there was no option to ask questions in Welsh at the meeting in Porthmadog.
Mr Nuttall told them: "The fact is that we are one nation. We are the United Kingdom.
"If you come into this country it should be a prerequisite in certain jobs like being a doctor or a nurse that you should speak the language of the land and that language, believe it or not, even here for the majority of people in Wales, is English."
Dr Brooks said: "No translation facilities, no Welsh leaflets, no Welsh-speaking representatives, in this town where the majority of people speak Welsh is a disgrace."
The guitarist made the announcement on the website for his restaurant in San Rafael, California.
He said he was diagnosed earlier this month and has been treated at a clinic in Arizona, where he will have surgery to remove his tumours.
The illness means Lesh has had to postpone his 24 and 25 October Phil & Friends shows with Chris Robinson.
The gigs with the former Black Crowes frontman were scheduled to take place at Lesh's restaurant, Terrapin Crossroads.
Lesh, 75, wrote: "I am very fortunate to have the pathology reports show that the tumours are all non-aggressive, and that there is no indication that they have spread."
He added that the postponed shows would be rescheduled "as soon as we can".
Lesh, one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006 but underwent surgery and made a full recovery.
The psychedelic band, which formed in 1965, split 30 years later following the death of frontman Jerry Garcia.
Lesh was with them throughout - and also joined the group's other surviving members for a reunion tour of the US in 2003.
The Grateful Dead performed their final shows in July this year, which also coincided with the 50th anniversary of the band's formation.
The gigs took place at Chicago's Soldier Field, which was also where Garcia's final show took place in 1995.
The cyclists were struck by a pickup truck that was seen being driven erratically only minutes earlier, police in Kalamazoo said.
The driver of the truck, a 50-year-old man from Michigan, fled the scene and was arrested nearby soon afterwards.
A hospital spokesman said one of the injured cyclists was in a serious condition.
Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeffrey Getting told a news conference there had been a number of alerts about the blue Chevrolet's erratic driving, but that a police chase was not under way when it crashed.
One witness, Markus Eberhard, told Kalamazoo broadcaster WOOD the truck almost drove over his foot before heading towards the cyclists.
"I saw a bunch of bikes hit the front of his truck and a couple of them flew," he said.
The MPs fear a post-Brexit government might negotiate a limited free trade deal with the EU, which they say would damage the UK's economy.
There is a pro-Remain majority in the House of Commons of 454 MPs to 147.
A Vote Leave campaign spokesman said MPs will not be able to "defy the will of the electorate" on key issues.
The single market guarantees the free movement of goods, people, services and capital.
The BBC has learned pro-Remain MPs would use their voting power in the House of Commons to protect what they see as the economic benefits of a single market, which gives the UK access to 500 million consumers.
Staying inside the single market would mean Britain would have to keep its borders open to EU workers and continue paying into EU coffers.
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Ministers have told the BBC they expect pro-EU MPs to conduct what one called a "reverse Maastricht" process - a reference to the long parliamentary campaign fought by Tory eurosceptic MPs in the 1990s against legislation deepening EU integration.
Like then as now, the Conservative government has a small working majority of just 17.
They say it would be legitimate for MPs to push for the UK to stay in the single market because the Leave campaign has refused to spell out what trading relationship it wants the UK to have with the EU in the future.
As such, a post-Brexit government could not claim it had a popular mandate for a particular model.
One minister said: "This is not fantasy. This is a huge probability.
"The longer we move away from the referendum, the more the economic pressures will grow to keep some links with the single market."
Another said: "We would accept the mandate of the people to leave the EU.
"But everything after that is negotiable and Parliament would have its say. The terms on which we leave are entirely within my remit as a parliamentarian and that is something for me to take a view on."
Labour frontbenchers say they have also been discussing the option.
One said it would be hard for pro-Brexit MPs to resist the Commons deciding Britain's future relationship with the EU, as it would demonstrate the principle of parliamentary sovereignty eurosceptics have been demanding for years.
One SNP frontbencher said: "Parliament is not going to let Boris Johnson and Michael Gove get away with murder. I just don't think people are going to roll over, particularly on our trading relationship with the EU."
Many pro-Leave campaigners support a limited free trade relationship with the EU, based on the deal about to be signed between Canada and the EU.
It would reduce some barriers to trade in basic goods but other areas - such as services - are largely excluded.
One alternative option put forward by pro-EU MPs would be for the UK to stay part of the single market by continuing its membership of the European Economic Area.
The EEA includes all EU countries, as well as Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.
The advantages of EEA membership for non-EU countries - known by some as the "Norway model" - include access to the single market without having to agree agriculture or fishing quotas, to cooperate on justice or foreign affairs, or be a member of the eurozone or the Schengen border-free arrangement.
The disadvantages include having to make a contribution to the EU budget, accepting the free movement of people, and having little ability to influence EU rules.
Stephen Kinnock, the Labour MP for Aberavon, said: "If the British people voted to leave the EU that's one thing.
"But can we really say that they voted for the devastation and destruction of the entire exporting sector of our economy? I don't think you can necessarily say that there's a democratic mandate for that."
But he warned there could be a constitutional crisis if MPs voted to keep Britain's borders open, something people would have rejected in the referendum.
"In a sense it's a lose-lose situation. I don't see how you untie that Gordian knot because you're looking at a massive economic crisis going down the track of the Canada model and a constitutional crisis going down the track of the Norway model."
Pro-EU MPs could use their voting muscle later this year when a post-Brexit Tory government would be expected to put its negotiating plans to parliament.
The government would struggle to negotiate with the EU if it could not secure the support of the Commons.
MPs could also bring pressure to bear once the withdrawal agreement has been settled and a huge amount of legislation would have to be changed.
The European Communities Act 1972 that took Britain into the EU would have to be repealed.
New Acts of Parliament would be needed to implement the withdrawal agreement. Acts that implement EU directives would need to be repealed or amended.
Thousands of EU regulations - that were automatically transferred into UK law - would have to be reintroduced, amended or allowed to lapse. And secondary legislation dependent on the European Communities Act would also have to be given new enabling laws.
Ministers say this process could take years and would provide determined pro-EU MPs lots of opportunity to cause trouble.
Charles Grant, director of the pro-EU Centre for European Reform think tank, said: "I think it is quite possible that Parliament would vote to impose the Norway model on a post-Brexit Tory government.
"Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are free marketers down to their finger tips and might be quite happy to be beaten up by Parliament and have this model imposed on them. They might protest but secretly quite like it. The pressure for Britain to retain some linkage with the single market would be overwhelming."
One senior Tory MP said: "There is all this talk of eurosceptics engaging in guerrilla warfare after a vote for Remain. It could be the other way round.
"The overwhelming majority of Labour, SNP, odds and sods and a hard core of Conservative MPs could make life very difficult."
Another said there would be "enormous pressure" from businesses to get "much better access to the single market".
One Labour MP added: "There will be as much fun and games as possible to stop it and block it and delay it."
Another said the government may try to get Labour to support an early general election being called, by voting to suspend the Fixed Term Parliament Act.
A newly-elected Tory government - potentially with a larger majority - would then have a mandate for its renegotiation plan.
Some pro-Leave campaigners also question how pro-EU parliament really is, suggesting that many MPs are backing Remain simply out of loyalty to David Cameron.
A spokesman for the Leave campaign said: "If you vote Leave, Britain will negotiate a British option which will end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our borders and our democracy and our economy."
A spokesman for the Remain campaign said: "The Leave campaign can't tell us what would happen if we vote to leave. At every point, they have admitted they 'just don't know'. Leaving Europe would be a leap in the dark that would damage our economy, lead to price rises and job cuts. That's why we will be spending the next two and a half weeks campaigning for every vote to protect Britain's future."
They were in the country ahead of the presidential elections on 8 April.
After interviewing the foreign minister and an opposition candidate, they were detained by plain clothes security officials and questioned for eight hours before being put on a plane.
There has not yet been a response from the Djibouti government.
The reporting team, including BBC's Africa Security Correspondent Tomi Oladipo, had been granted media accreditation and advised by the government director of communications that they had the necessary authorisation to proceed with their work.
Having been held overnight, without means of communication, they were put on a plane out of the country on Saturday morning without any reason being given.
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders says Djibouti has a poor record when dealing with journalists.
The organisation ranked Djibouti near the bottom of its World Press Freedom Index, at 170 out of 180 countries.
President Ismail Omar Guelleh is running for a fourth term as president on Friday.
He won a disputed election in 2011 with almost 70% of the vote.
The East African nation has a population of only about 800,000 people, but is strategically important.
The country is home to US and French military bases.
Police have said a possible link to drugs is one line of inquiry.
The Craigavon Senior High School pupil was reported unconscious in woodland near Portadown's Corcrain housing estate on Saturday evening.
She was taken to hospital in Craigavon but died a short time later. The exact cause of death is not yet known.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out to determine what happened, and police carried out a search for evidence on Sunday afternoon as friends and classmates laid flowers near the scene.
The school has confirmed GCSE examinations would take place as scheduled later on Monday despite the death.
Jordan Russell, who works with young people in the Corcrain area, said: "After this incident happened, kids have approached me to say: 'We want a drugs and alcohol awareness course, we want to be educated, we need to know the difference between right and wrong.'
"If we had a facility where we could take these young people on a Friday night, on a Saturday night, to a facility where we could educate them... They have absolutely nothing.
"They seriously need educated - kids don't know the problems and everything that goes on.
"Nobody believes in these kids, somebody needs to start making a difference."
The death was a tragic loss to both the girl's family and the Craigavon Senior High School community, said associate principal Hilary Woods.
The school has said it would endeavour to keep the environment as normal as possible for the sake of the pupils.
A critical incident team from the Education Authority will be available to give pupils the opportunity to talk through their thoughts and feelings.
The Wales forward, 26, hit the post and had a strike disallowed before tapping in his 43rd goal in the Spanish top flight, beating Gary Lineker's tally.
Madrid led through Karim Benzema's wonderful half-volley, before Sevilla's Kevin Gameiro missed a penalty.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Jese, either side of Bale's goal, sealed the win.
However, despite producing one of their best performances in recent weeks, Zinedine Zidane's side are still 10 points adrift of arch-rivals Barcelona in the title race.
Relive a dramatic night at the Bernabeu
Bale has become a firm favourite at the Bernabeu since his world record £85m move from Tottenham in September 2013, scoring his 43 league goals at an impressive rate.
Despite suffering with several injuries since arriving, Bale's strike-rate has not suffered - netting more than once every two games in his 76 La Liga appearances so far.
There had been a slight doubt over whether he would even start Sunday's game against sixth-placed Sevilla.
Bale will miss Wales' two friendly games next week because of fitness concerns and the impending birth of his second child.
But not only did he play, he outshone Ronaldo and Benzema in a full-strength Real attack.
Bale looked sharp from the start, his pace and movement causing problems for the Sevilla defence, and teeing up Benzema's stunning opener.
After seeing Sevilla's inspired keeper Sergio Rico tip his drive onto the post and then wrongly being ruled to have strayed offside when he converted Ronaldo's header, he finally passed ex-Barcelona and England striker Lineker's tally after the break with a simple finish from six yards.
And when the Welshman was withdrawn after 70 minutes, the Bernabeu crowd responded with a standing ovation.
More to follow.
The 42-year-old Spaniard, who took charge at the Riverside in November 2013, left Boro's training ground unexpectedly on Friday after a row.
Boro, who travel to Charlton on Sunday, are second in the Championship, four points behind leaders Burnley with a game in hand.
The club confirmed Karanka did not take training on Saturday and assistant Steve Agnew takes charge at Charlton.
"We appreciate supporters will want to know further details, but at this time the club cannot make any further comment and is solely focused on Sunday's game at The Valley," the club statement added.
Middlesbrough led the table by six points on 12 January, but they have won just three of their past 10 games.
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Sue Hayman takes the environment, food and rural affairs brief, while Christina Rees becomes shadow Welsh secretary.
The new shadow chief secretary to the Treasury is Peter Dowd.
The business brief became vacant when Clive Lewis resigned on Wednesday to oppose his party in the Brexit vote.
Other shadow cabinet members remain in place.
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The four newly-promoted MPs are all part of the party's 2015 intake.
Ms Long-Bailey, MP for Salford and Eccles, was previously shadow chief secretary to the Treasury and was described by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as a "brilliant" member of the "next generation of our socialist leadership team" last week.
Ms Hayman, MP for Workington in West Cumbria, was a shadow environment minister before her promotion, while Ms Rees, MP for Neath, was a shadow justice minister. Mr Dowd is MP for Bootle.
Ms Rees and Ms Hayman both nominated Owen Smith in his unsuccessful challenge to Mr Corbyn's leadership in 2016.
There are now 14 women in Mr Corbyn's 29-member shadow cabinet.
The Labour Party said that more junior shadow ministerial roles would be filled "in due course".
What is striking about this announcement is not who has been appointed, and to which job - it is the leadership's approach to the frontbenchers among the 52 Labour rebels who defied Jeremy Corbyn in last night's vote on Brexit. Most of them tonight are still in a job, despite abandoning the collective responsibility of the party's official position and ignoring their leader. I understand it's unlikely there will be any sackings. This in itself is extraordinary, not least because among the rebels were three whips, the very people responsible for party discipline. It illustrates what you might call Jeremy Corbyn's human resources challenge. When you discount those who won't serve under him, and those who have but no longer do, his options are limited.
Mr Lewis announced his resignation from the party's front bench as MPs began voting for the final time on the Brexit bill on Wednesday.
In a letter to Mr Corbyn, he wrote that he was leaving the shadow cabinet "with a very heavy heart", but Labour had not won "the protections the people of this country need" during the Commons debates on Brexit.
Asked on the BBC about Mr Lewis's departure, Mr Corbyn said: "It's not a disaster.
"The majority of Labour MPs voted to trigger Article 50. Fifty-odd voted against it, mainly on the basis of their strong message from their own constituents."
Labour's chief whip Nick Brown will handle any disciplinary action to be taken against the 52 Labour MPs who rebelled against the party line and voted against the Brexit bill on Wednesday.
Swedish firm Minesto wants to harness power under the sea off the coast of Holyhead.
It will set up its UK offices there and hopes to become a manufacturing centre, creating more jobs there.
The so-called Deep Green technology works on the principle that underwater "kites" can reach speeds 10 times faster than the current.
This works in the same way a kite flies faster than the wind, and the firm says 10 times higher speed gives 1,000 times more power.
Off the coast, the Deep Green device will operate at least 15m below the surface and can still create enough power to make it worthwhile, even though the current is of a low velocity.
Minesto has secured £9.5m of EU funding and will create 30 jobs. The rest of the money will be privately raised.
Development rights were granted a year ago.
It will be two years before the first seven tonne device will be installed.
The Welsh government said it has been working with Minesto "over a number of years" on feasibility studies for the development.
ANALYSIS by Sarah Dickins, BBC Wales economics correspondent
It's another example of a company wanting to generate energy and money from our seas. But this is a different technology and doesn't involve building a lagoon.
There are some similarities to the planned £850m Swansea tidal lagoon project in that this is not just about generating energy but also creating jobs in manufacturing and project development, as the technologies will be made here.
It could lead to a new industry in its own right.
This project once again produces the dilemma: does it make economic sense in the long term to pay much more for our electricity as a new technology develops with the promise of jobs and investment, or is that too much of a risk?
This latest project hopes to be paid £250 per megawatt hour for its electricity initially while the new industry develops. The company says it expects to in time be cheaper than nuclear, which is less than £100 per Mwh, without the risk or waste.
The tidal lagoon project for Swansea Bay hopes to get £168 per Mwh.
Both the proposals for tidal kites on Anglesey and the tidal lagoons are about more than energy generation. Both promise to develop new design and manufacturing in Wales which could be exported.
There has been criticism in the past that Wales missed out on the development of onshore wind projects and now turbines and blades are largely imported into the UK.
This could make the proposals more valuable to the Welsh economy than purely the money generated by the power of the tides.
Minesto's plans are to set up headquarters in Holyhead this year, where design, marketing and sales will take place followed by manufacturing in 2016.
It hopes that by 2019 it will be employing 120 people in a wide range of jobs from engineering, sales, and research and development as a new industry forms around Holyhead.
Anglesey is being developed under the banner Energy Island, with plans for the Wylfa Newydd nuclear investment and a range of renewable projects at its centre.
The island's council says the programme could contribute nearly £12 billion to the wider economy of north Wales over the next 15 years and describes it as a "once in a generation" opportunity to boost the economy.
First Minister Carwyn Jones, said: "This investment will not only help create greener and more efficient sources of energy, but will also create jobs and vital opportunities for growth in north Wales."
Anders Jansson, chief executive of Minesto, said: "Establishing Minesto UK Headquarters in north Wales is a strategic decision that can make Wales a global leader within marine energy."
A public exhibition is being held on Thursday 21 May at Holyhead Town Hall from 10:00-20:00 BST.
The latest proposal comes eight months after a £70m tidal energy project off Anglesey was suspended.
But last month there was new hope of reviving the scheme off The Skerries. to the north-west of the the island.
Compared to the third quarter, growth was up 0.6%, beating market expectations of 0.4%.
Household consumption, construction and public spending were the main factors driving the better-than-expected growth.
The strong data comes despite the global commodity slump hitting the country's vital mining and oil sectors.
Australia's benchmark ASX/200 was up 1.5% on the positive news.
"Given Australia is going through the biggest mining pullback in our lifetimes, this is a pretty good outcome," said David de Garis, a senior economist at National Australia Bank.
Analysts also said the stronger-than-expected figure meant further cuts in interest rates were unlikely in the near future.
The Australian central bank has held rates steady since May last year and earlier this week decided to keep its main interest rate at 2% for a tenth consecutive month saying it saw "reasonable prospects" for growth.
However The Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens said the bank would be keeping an eye on the country's low inflation rate.
"Continued low inflation would provide scope for easier policy, should that be appropriate to lend support to demand," he said.
Australians must be feeling pretty smug these days. Despite a collapse in global commodity prices, it has managed to escape recession yet again.
So what are Australians getting right? Well - it may just come down to that "lucky country" cliché we hear about "Down Under" all the time.
There's no denying that as mines have closed, jobs have been lost and that's putting pressure on the government to find new avenues of growth - but don't forget Australia is already a highly diversified economy.
Services like tourism, finance, business, technology and education are major components of Australia's economy and they've benefited from a weaker Australian dollar. The agriculture sector is also seeing renewed interest - check out the reports I did on Australia's agricultural sector here.
Mining has also seen a boost from the lower Australian dollar, because it has meant that Australia's products are cheaper at a time when demand has dropped.
Investments in mining software have helped the industry to remain competitive even in a downturn, and maintain Australia's global share of resource exports.
Payne missed the 21-10 defeat by England at Twickenham but could return to action if coach Joe Schmidt partners him with Robbie Henshaw in midfield.
Schmidt may however opt to retain Stuart McCloskey, who impressed on his debut, despite his side's loss.
Ireland have added uncapped Munster flanker Jack O'Donoghue to their squad.
The 22-year-old will boost Schmidt's back-row options for the forthcoming fixtures against the Italians in Dublin, and against Scotland a week later, with Sean O'Brien sidelined for the rest of the tournament with hamstring trouble.
Ireland, champions for the past two years, are still seeking their first victory in this year's competition.
O'Donoghue adds depth to Ireland's loose forward stocks, with Jordi Murphy and Tommy O'Donnell also in the 35-man training squad, but Ulster's Chris Henry is omitted again.
CJ Stander, Josh van der Flier, Jamie Heaslip and Rhys Ruddock were the four back-row forwards selected for the match squad in Ireland's 21-10 defeat to England at Twickenham on 27 February.
That quartet will feature strongly across Ireland's final two fixtures, with Schmidt's men targeting two wins from their final two games following a draw with Wales and then losses to France and England.
Despite the pressing need for victories, boss Schmidt may yet decide to mix up selection with one eye on long-term development, hence O'Donoghue's addition to the squad.
Connacht prop Finlay Bealham is the only other uncapped member of Ireland's squad ahead of Saturday's clash with the Italians in Dublin.
Speaking at Monday's press conference, Andrew Trimble praised the attributes of his Ulster team-mates Payne and McCloskey.
"Obviously you have got two contrasting styles between Jared and Stu, so it's just what sort of rugby Joe wants to play," said Trimble.
Ireland: Forwards: Finlay Bealham (Connacht), Rory Best (Ulster), Sean Cronin (Leinster), Ultan Dillane (Connacht), David Foley (Munster), Cian Healy (Leinster), Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), Jack McGrath (Leinster), Jordi Murphy (Leinster), Tommy O'Donnell (Munster), Jack O'Donoghue (Munster), Mike Ross (Leinster), Rhys Ruddock (Leinster), Donnacha Ryan (Munster), CJ Stander (Munster), Richardt Strauss (Leinster), Devin Toner (Leinster), Josh van der Flier (Leinster), Nathan White (Connacht).
Backs: Keith Earls (Munster), Craig Gilroy (Ulster), Robbie Henshaw (Connacht), Paddy Jackson (Ulster), Rob Kearney (Leinster), Ian Madigan (Leinster), Kieran Marmion (Connacht), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Stuart McCloskey (Ulster), Fergus McFadden (Leinster), Conor Murray (Munster), Jared Payne (Ulster), Eoin Reddan (Leinster), Jonathan Sexton (Leinster), Andrew Trimble (Ulster), Simon Zebo (Munster).
And whether you love or loathe him, it's a fact that the Republican will set a range of records as soon as he occupies the Oval Office.
From his age to his bank balance, via his notable lack of pets - here are just some of "The Donald's" historic "firsts".
Donald Trump celebrated his 70th birthday on 14 June, which makes him the oldest man in US history to assume the presidency. The previous record-holder, Ronald Reagan, was 69 when he took office in 1981.
Perhaps keen to allay fears about his senior status, the business mogul had his doctor prepare a gushing letter pledging that he would be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency".
The average age of all 44 previous incoming presidents is a sprightly 55.
The youngest ever incumbent - Theodore Roosevelt - got the job aged 42 years and 322 days, after President William McKinley's assassination in 1901.
Mr Trump is the first billionaire president. Exact estimates of his personal wealth vary, with Forbes putting it at $3.7bn (£3bn) and the man himself claiming in a statement that it's "in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS".
Many of America's past presidents have also been extremely wealthy, of course. Recent estimates say George Washington's estate would be worth half a billion in today's dollars.
Before his 1963 assassination, JFK reportedly lived off a $10m trust fund thanks to the vast wealth of his father - investor and alleged bootlegger Joseph P Kennedy, Sr.
Mr Trump will be following in the footsteps of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger by taking just a symbolic dollar as a salary.
When Mr Trump began unveiling his cabinet picks, the number with fat wallets quickly drew the scorn of Democrats.
"Donald Trump's administration: of, by and for the millionaires and billionaires," tweeted Vermont Senator and Democrat presidential contender Bernie Sanders.
For better or worse, this will be the wealthiest administration in modern American history.
According to the Washington Post, commerce secretary nominee Wilbur Ross is worth around $2.5bn on his own - roughly 10 times what George W Bush's first cabinet were worth in 2001, when the media branded them an assembly of millionaires.
Treasury appointee Steven Mnuchin quite literally bought a bank after 17 years at Goldman Sachs, and reports put his wealth at over $40m.
It has been estimated that the cabinet could be good for an eye-watering $35bn, all told. As Quartz pointed out, this is more than the annual gross domestic product of Bolivia.
Mr Trump's triumph is also significant because, until now, no-one has been elected president in more than 60 years without experience as a state governor or in Congress.
The last president with no political experience, Dwight Eisenhower, was Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two, before he was elected to office in 1953.
Before that, Herbert Hoover, who was president from 1929 to 1933, was previously an engineer and humanitarian.
But as Mr Trump tells it, his lack of links to the Washington establishment is an asset not a flaw - and more than made up for by his experience as a deal-maker.
Mr Trump has named his son-in-law, real estate developer Jared Kushner, as a senior adviser - prompting cries of nepotism from opponents.
Some claim the appointment makes the 36-year-old the most powerful presidential son-in-law in US history.
He isn't the first to fit that profile, however.
President Woodrow Wilson's Treasury Secretary, William Gibbs McAdoo, was also married to his daughter, Eleanor.
That said, their case pre-dates America's 1967 anti-nepotism statute, and Mr McAdoo was already a cabinet secretary when he wed.
Ivanka Trump, Mr Trump's elder daughter and wife of Mr Kushner, is also being spoken of as the most influential "First Daughter" ever.
So much fuss has been made of what Donald Trump owns that you might have missed one glaring absence - a pet.
It looks likely that he'll be the first US President in over a century not to have an animal pal in the White House, after plans to have him adopt a goldendoodle dog reportedly fell through.
According to the Presidential Pet Museum, almost every commander-in-chief has had a pet, and some had a virtual menagerie.
John F Kennedy stands out for owning a veritable Noah's Ark - everything from a rabbit named Zsa Zsa to a canary called Robin - but the crown belongs to Calvin and Grace Coolidge (White House occupants from 1923-1929), who the museum says "quite literally had a zoo".
Their animal companions included at least a dozen dogs, a donkey named Ebenezer, and various creatures presented as gifts by foreign dignitaries - among them lion cubs, a wallaby, a pygmy hippo named Billy, and a black bear.
Donald Trump won the presidency on a pro-job platform, and has blamed free-trade policies for the collapse of the US manufacturing industry.
This is a rare stance for a US president, probably last seen in his fellow Republican Herbert Hoover in the 1930s.
In September 2015, Mr Trump told the Economist China is "killing us", and that millions of Americans are "tired of being ripped off".
He said that as president, he would consider a 12% import tax to make the Chinese "stop playing games".
During his election campaign, Mr Trump also threatened to rip up Nafta, the free trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico, which has been in place for 23 years.
He also vowed that the US would quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, a 12-nation agreement, on his first day in the White House.
Former model Melania Trump is as trailblazing as her husband.
She will be the first presidential spouse from Slovenia, and the first non-native English speaker.
She is only the second FLOTUS born outside the US, though - the first being Louisa Adams, wife of the sixth US President, John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), who was born in London.
As Mr Trump has been married twice before, Melania will also be the first third wife to reside in the White House. The only other US president to have divorced was Ronald Reagan, who split from his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, long before leading the nation.
Melania speaks Slovenian, English, French, German, and Serbian, and may be the most competent linguist to hold the role of FLOTUS.
She is the first president's wife to have posed nude, for GQ magazine in 2000 among others.
Mr Trump is no stranger to men's magazines either. He appeared on the cover of Playboy in March 1990 with the tag-line: "Nice magazine, want to sell it?"
The Danish Girl, in which the actor plays one of the first people to have sex reassignment surgery, is one of 21 titles up for its Golden Lion award.
It was announced on Tuesday that Tom Hooper's biopic of Lili Elbe will also screen at the Toronto Film Festival.
The Venice Film Festival runs from 2 to 12 September.
Other titles in the main competition line-up include Heart of a Dog, the directorial feature debut of US musician Laurie Anderson; Beasts of No Nation, a drama about an African civil war starring Idris Elba; and Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman's first animated feature.
The event will kick off with a screening of mountaineering drama Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley, and features an out-of competition screening of Black Mass, a crime drama starring Johnny Depp as infamous mobster Whitey Bulger.
Venice is one of the world's oldest film festivals and is often used as a launch pad for films hoping to receive accolades in the upcoming awards season.
Birdman, last year's opening night film, went on to be named best picture at this year's Academy Awards, while Gravity had its premiere at the 2013 edition.
A full list of this year's Venice line-up is available on the official festival site.
Mr Reynolds, who played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process, died on Thursday at the age of 81.
"For him, peace was the only battle worth waging," Fr Brian D'Arcy told mourners.
"He knew that peace was not achieved only by talking to your friends, you must talk to your enemies and make peace with them."
Fr D'Arcy added: "He took personal and political risks, but all he was doing was giving peace a chance."
Mr Reynolds had worked with the then British Prime Minister Sir John Major to create 1993's Downing Street Declaration, which effectively set in train the Northern Ireland peace process, including the 1994 IRA ceasefire.
Sir John's attendance at the funeral was greeted with a round of applause in the church.
Fr D'Arcy told mourners it had been particularly important for the family that he was able to attend.
He said: "His (Sir John's) words were typical: 'Where else would I be on this day?"'
The Fianna Fáil politician, who was born in Rooskey, County Roscommon, served as taoiseach (prime minister) from February 1992 to December 1994.
His funeral was held at Sacred Heart Church, Donnybrook, Dublin.
Among the mourners were Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Irish President Michael D Higgins, as well as former Irish prime ministers Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, John Bruton and Liam Cosgrave, and former president Mary McAleese.
Former SDLP leader and Nobel peace prize winner John Hume, current SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, and Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers were also in attendance.
Mr Reynolds' grandchildren carried symbolic artefacts of his life to the altar, including his personal copy of the Downing Street Declaration and a can of puppy chow from the pet food company that he founded.
Pope Francis sent a message paying tribute to Mr Reynolds' role as a peacemaker, in a telegram from the Vatican's secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin to Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin.
"The Holy Father learned with sadness of the death of the former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, and he asks you kindly to convey his condolences to Mrs Reynolds and their children and family," he said.
"Recalling with gratitude the late Taoiseach's efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Ireland, His Holiness prays for the eternal repose of his soul."
Last week, prominent political figures from across the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland and Britain paid tribute to Mr Reynolds.
The Hungarian federation is charged with crowd disturbances, the setting off of fireworks and the throwing of objects during their draw with Iceland.
The Belgian association is charged with the setting off of fireworks and the throwing of objects during their win over Republic of Ireland, while Portugal are charged with a field invasion during the draw with Austria.
The Hungarian case will be heard on 21 June while a date is yet to be set for the other two hearings.
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On Monday, Croatia will find out whether they will be punished after crowd trouble marred the closing stages of 2-2 draw with the Czech Republic in Saint-Etienne on 17 June.
Referee Mark Clattenburg had to briefly halt the game when fireworks were thrown on the pitch, one of which exploded near a steward who was trying to remove it.
Earlier in the tournament, the Russian Football Union was fined 150,000 Euros (£119,000) and given a suspended disqualification after supporters caused trouble inside the stadium during their draw with England in Marseille.
Uefa threatened to disqualify England and Russia if there is any repeat of the violence that occurred in the centre of Marseille prior to kick-off.
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The five main party leaders, Arlene Foster, Michelle O'Neill, Naomi Long, Colum Eastwood and Mike Nesbitt all took part in the debate on UTV.
They clashed over the decision by the Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt to give his number two preference vote to the SDLP.
The leaders also disagreed on Brexit.
The Alliance leader Naomi Long labelled the Ulster Unionist party "the Lothario of Northern Ireland politics as it's hopped in and out of bed with almost every other political party".
Colum Eastwood later said: "We have waited a long time for cross community voting, it doesn't make me any less of a nationalist and it doesn't make Mike Nesbitt any less of a unionist."
The DUP leader Arlene Foster was accused of using the politics of fear after she warned voters about "Gerry Adams' Sinn Fein" returning with most seats.
"This election will be very close and there is a real chance Gerry Adams' Sinn Féin could have most seats.
"Then they could push ahead with their radical agenda and imagine what that would mean for Northern Ireland," she said.
Standing beside the DUP leader, Sinn Fein's northern leader, Michelle O'Neill, accused Arlene Foster's party of showing "arrogance and contempt" for the institutions.
"Sinn Féin didn't seek this election but it is needed because of DUP arrogance, contempt and serious allegations of corruption surrounding their RHI scandal," she added.
The Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said: "This election should be a referendum on how the two parties of the executive have handled the ongoing crisis over renewable heat and their leadership over the past ten years."
"With £85,000 a day still needlessly going up in smoke I don't think voters can afford another DUP/Sinn Fein executive."
The Alliance leader Naomi Long said it was time to transform "broken politics".
"It is time to take a stand against scandal, to say enough is enough to orange and green.
"No more corruption, no more cronyism, no more incompetence, just good government," she added.
The suspect told the owner of the shop on Archway Road, north London, his wife was pregnant and needed some water.
Police said the suspect took cash from the shopkeeper's pockets. He then left the shop, pursued by the victim.
The incident was caught on CCTV and police are trying to trace a man aged 30-35 and about 5ft 6ins tall.
Det Sgt Dave Bullock said the victim was "momentarily totally unaware of what has happened to him".
He added: "The suspect's distraction tactics seemed to have put him into a trance leaving him open to be robbed."
The incident took place on 11 September just before 22:00 BST.
The suspect is slim build with short black hair, wearing dark jeans, a grey polo shirt and a black bomber jacket.
Watch the full video and appeal on Crimewatch at 21:00 GMT.
When I Grow Up, a song from the Grammy-nominated musical Matilda, features Grace Lee in the title role, alongside Filan as Miss Honey.
Grace, who has had 10 procedures to treat her congenital heart disease, said she wanted to help other children.
Hospitals in Dublin and Belfast will benefit from the proceeds.
The single, which Filan said was about "dreams and what you want to be when you grow up", was recorded in one take at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin.
Grace, who performs with 200 other children, added: "It was amazing to be asked to play Matilda and help to raise money for charities who help Manx children."
The 10-year-old Alder Hey ambassador, who also has Chronic Lung Disease, added: "I want to use my singing to say thank you to all the people who have helped me."
Grace was chosen after performing the role with the Matilda West End cast thanks to ITV's Surprise Surprise programme.
A spokesman said she "epitomises everything that the song stands for - courage, resilience and, above all else, hope".
The single will raise funds for both the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and the Children's Medical Research Foundation at Crumlin in Dublin.
A spokesman for the former said they were "delighted" by the project.
Australian musician and comic Tim Minchin, the creator of Matilda the musical, has also given his backing.
The ex-Liverpool captain has spoken of his desire to return to Anfield as manager, but still has more than a year to run on his contract in the MLS.
"The best coaching environment in the world is the USA," said Arena.
The Galaxy coach reckons the variety of top-flight professional leagues in the US can help Gerrard develop as a coach.
Watch the full interview on Football Focus, Saturday 26 September, 12:10 BST on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.
American football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey all have established leagues.
"Stepping away from the Premier League, and away from football for 24 hours a day, will broaden his skills," added the 64-year-old.
"We have top-flight professional leagues in a variety of sports and on a daily basis it's interesting to watch how teams and coaches respond to the different pressures on them on a daily basis."
Gerrard, 35, has already decided who he would like as his Liverpool assistant should he ever get the job - saying in his new book that he would appoint former team-mates Jamie Carragher and Xabi Alonso.
However, for now, his focus is on winning trophies on the pitch - and Arena says his new signing has made a big impact Stateside.
"Gerrard is very special, the impressions he has made on people are remarkable," Arena, who managed the USA between 1998 and 2006, told BBC Sport.
"That doesn't always happen but Stevie has embraced everything here at LA Galaxy - he's spoken to the fans, academy players and even those in the front office. He's bought into everything.
"He's enjoyed being able to spend time with his family in public. People here are used to seeing people who have accomplished a lot so he gets away with not being noticed.
"I hope we can fulfil all his playing ambitions and he enhances himself professionally for his post-playing career. He has many years left in football and I think he'll make many more huge contributions."
William Marotta, from Topeka, answered a classified ad in 2009 from two women who wished to have a child.
The couple later separated and the birth mother received state assistance.
The state's department for children and families, however, had sought to recoup costs and force Mr Marotta to pay ongoing child support.
County District Judge Mary Mattivi ruled that the birth mother, Jennifer Schreiner, and her former partner, Angela Bauer, should be considered the child's legal parents.
Mr Marotta was paid $50 (£40) for each donation and the insemination occurred at the women's home with a syringe. He has had very limited contact with the child and never intended to provide financial support.
Ms Bauer is unable to work and is receiving disability payments.
The department for children and families filed a petition to have Mr Marotta declared the child's legal father in 2012, seeking to reclaim expenses related to the child's birth, plus ongoing child support payments.
A Kansas law says a man who provides donated sperm to a doctor for an insemination is not the child's parent, unless there is a written agreement to the contrary.
However, the department had argued that Mr Marotta was legally obliged to pay because a doctor had not been involved during the insemination.
A department spokesperson said the law pertaining to sperm donors was "clear and was ignored in this ruling". The department has not yet said if it plans to appeal.
The Pet Shop Boys are among those headlining the event at Preston Park, which was started with a parade through the city.
Other acts appearing at the ticketed event at the end of the route include Years & Years, Louisa Johnson and David Morales.
The event is marking 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.
The first Brighton and Hove gay Pride march was staged in 1973, but did not return to the city until 1991 amid political anger over Section 20's ban of the promotion of homosexuality.
The streets of Brighton are a rainbow of colours as the city celebrates Pride.
The festival began with a show-stopping display by the Princess of Wales' Parachute Regiment, which performed a freefall parachute jump to deliver the rainbow flag to Hove Lawns.
Huge crowds gathered on the seafront in glorious sunshine to watch the parade get under way.
At least 100 floats were taking part this year with some amazing psychedelic costumes on show to celebrate the Summer of Love theme.
I spotted Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne having a great time as she walked with Sussex Police towards the front of the parade.
And one of the biggest cheers from the crowd was for Brighton's famous 'oldest gay in the village' George Montague, now 94, as he sailed past on his scooter.
Assistant Chief Constable Laurence Taylor, of Sussex Police, said: "Months of preparation have taken place in the lead up to Pride and, as in previous years, public safety is our main priority."
Dovizioso, 30, started from pole after the race in Sepang had been delayed by rain, but dropped to third early on.
He overhauled fellow Italian Valentino Rossi for the lead with five laps left after Rossi ran wide and pushed home his advantage.
It was only his second MotoGP victory in 159 races.
"It's really nice to come to this moment," said Dovizioso. "In these conditions I struggled a lot in the race and had some problems, but I really wanted it."
Rossi finished second ahead of Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo to secure runners-up spot in the championship, while Spanish world champion Marc Marquez, who had been hampered by illness over the past few days, crashed out of fourth place during the race and eventually finished 11th.
Malaysian Grand Prix result
1. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 42 minutes 27.333 seconds
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 42:30.448
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 42:39.257
4. Hector Barbera (Spa) Ducati 42:47.249
5. Loris Baz (Fra) Ducati 42:48.686
6. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 42:50.265
7. Alvaro Bautista (Spa) Aprilia 42:53.162
8. Jack Miller (Aus) Honda 43:00.079
9. Pol Espargaro (Spa) Yamaha 43:01.037
10. Danilo Petrucci (Ita) Ducati 43:01.613
Championship standings
1. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 278
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 236
3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha 208
4. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki 191
5. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 162
The 38-year-old arrived at Sixways in 2015 when he joined from Munster.
"There is no doubt that other players in the squad look up to him. I am sure he will do a superb job," said Worcester director of rugby Gary Gold.
Warriors' former captain South African GJ van Velze, and centre Ryan Mills have been named vice-captains.
Worcester begin the new season away to Newcastle on Friday, 1 September.
The substance was reported close to Agnew Park in Stranraer over the weekend.
Environmental health officers were made aware of the situation and cleaned the area.
Police urged the public to be aware of the issue if walking on the beach - especially if they have children or pets.
They said solid palm oil could look like a large white stone and advised anyone seeing it to report it to environmental health.
Palm oil is a common ingredient in food such as margarines, biscuits, bread, chocolate and ice cream, as well as shampoo, lipstick, candles and detergent.
The non-toxic waxy, white deposits can smell rotten and can make pets ill if eaten.
The TMZ website quoted his manager as saying he died on Wednesday morning in hospital in New York.
Murphy starred on comedian Dave Chappelle's show and also appeared in films including Jungle Fever, Night at the Museum and Lottery Ticket.
He also co-wrote and appeared in some of his brother's films.
In a statement to Hollywood Reporter, the Murphy family said their "hearts are heavy with the loss today of our son, brother, father, uncle and friend Charlie".
"Charlie filled our family with love and laughter and there won't be a day that goes by that his presence will not be missed. Thank you for the outpouring of condolences and prayers," the statement said.
Charlie Murphy arrived in Hollywood after working as a bodyguard for Eddie at the beginning of his career.
He has said that he was so fond of Eddie and found him so funny that he would not hesitate to confront people who did not laugh during his appearances.
Other comedians and actors have been paying tribute on social media.
Solicitors acting for Smech Properties Limited, which owns the Longcross Estate, have served papers on Runnymede Council.
Crest Nicholson was granted permission for the "village" on a site in Longcross, near Chertsey, in July.
Smech Properties is owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
Sheikh Mohammed is also vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.
Smech Properties is applying for a judicial review relating to the process the council followed in granting planning permission for the former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency site.
A council spokesman said the authority was currently drafting and submitting its summary grounds of defence.
Mario Leo, the council's corporate head of governance and assets, said: "This judicial review has been brought on a number of technical legal grounds relating to the process the council followed in making its decision to grant planning permission.
"It is the view of the council that it has fully complied with its legal obligations and it will defend this claim vigorously."
A spokeswoman from Allen & Overy solicitors, who are acting on behalf of Smech Properties, said she could not comment because the case was ongoing.
Correction 4 October: This story has been amended to correct Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum's UAE title.
The 34-year-old is their first transfer deadline day recruit.
Adam Le Fondre has joined Wigan while goalkeeper David Marshall moved to Hull City as deadline day approached.
However, with striker Federico Macheda having left the Welsh capital, Cardiff also brought in Joe Bennett from Aston Villa. on loan from Bolton Wanderers.
With Lambert joining from West Brom, manager Tony Pulis looks set to plug the gap by signing free agent Hal Robson-Kanu, the Wales striker.
Lambert has scored 214 goals in 589 league appearances since his career began as a trainee at Blackpool in 1998.
The company would assess the case, announced by Brazil's environment minister on Friday night, once it has been filed, a company spokesman said.
BHP is "committed to supporting Samarco to rebuild the community", he added.
The Brazil government said it will sue mine operator Samarco, co-owned by BHP and Brazilian iron-ore producer Vale.
The lawsuit will be filed on Monday, according to attorney general Luis Adams.
At least 13 people died and a village was destroyed when a dam burst at the mine earlier this month.
BHP and Vale announced an Emergency Fund on Friday to help with the recuperation of the Rio Doce river, but has not revealed the size of the fund.
"The total cost of damage has not been calculated yet," the BHP spokesman said.
The dam's collapse led to millions of tonnes of mud and waste entering the river and trailing 500km into the Atlantic Ocean.
The company agreed last week to pay the Brazilian government $260m (£170m) in compensation, and has already been fined $66.3m (£43.6m) by Brazilian environmental agency Ibama.
BHP has said the waste water in the dam, a by-product of iron ore extraction known as tailings, does not pose any threat to humans.
Breck Bednar was killed in 2014 after being lured to the home of Lewis Daynes, 20, who is now serving life.
His mother called police with concerns about grooming but a report found the force failed to deal with her properly.
Surrey Police said it "unreservedly apologises" and accepts "mistakes were made".
Breck, from Caterham in Surrey, was killed in 2014 after travelling to Daynes's home in Grays, Essex.
A trial heard there was sexual activity between the pair and Daynes then slashed his victim's throat.
Weeks earlier, Breck's mother Lorin LaFave reported a change in his behaviour to police.
An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) inquiry found the call handler and their supervisor lacked knowledge of dealing with grooming concerns.
It also found Ms LaFave was not provided with information about specialist agencies which help parents who suspect their child may be being groomed.
The force also failed to check the Police National Computer, on which a record existed for Daynes for a previous alleged rape of a minor in 2011 in Essex.
Surrey Police said that Ms LaFave and Breck's father Barry Bednar sought damages for "failing to protect their son," for which the parties "have reached a settlement."
The force has "agreed to implement recommended changes... to ensure that other children like Breck are protected," a spokesman said.
"Mr Bednar and Ms LaFave hope to work with Surrey Police in order to enhance awareness of the dangers that young people face online and to ensure that appropriate training is given to staff to assist in the prevention of similar crimes against children," he added.
Investigators previously served a misconduct notice on a staff member at Surrey Police contact centre. Another staff member, who took the call, resigned from the force last August.
The IPCC said that, had both of them stayed in the force, they would have had a case to answer for misconduct.
Hundreds of protesters marched from Edinburgh's North Bridge to the US Consulate on Regent Terrace to coincide with Trump being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
Earlier, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon congratulated President Trump.
She wished the Trump administration well dealing with "great global challenges".
Mr Trump, whose mother was born in Scotland, owns two Scottish golf courses - which will be controlled by his sons while he is in office - and has a history of involvement in Scottish politics.
His first foreign trip as Republican candidate for the White House was to Scotland, taking in his golf courses at Turnberry and in Aberdeenshire.
The then President-elect spoke with Ms Sturgeon on the phone to discuss the "longstanding relationship between Scotland and the United States" in December.
The first minister, who endorsed Mr Trump's rival Hillary Clinton, has repeatedly condemned comments Mr Trump made during his campaign, having earlier stripped him of his role as a business ambassador for Scotland.
Protests were held across Scotland, including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Protesters were armed with banners with wording including: "Love Trumps Hate", "No to racism, no to Trump" and "Hey Donald, I hope you step on a lego".
The demonstration in Edinburgh was organised by Stand Up To Racism. Hundreds of people chanted slogans such as "Donald Trump go to hell - take the KKK as well" and "Donald Trump, go away - sexist, racist, anti-gay".
Ahead of the march, a group called the Order of Perpetual Indulgence - which aims to end prejudice and intolerance - performed an excommunication on the new commander-in-chief.
Sister Ann Tici Pation said: "The order indicts Donald J Trump, and all his greedy, self-serving minions, for sins against decency.
"Including but not limited to the following acts of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, hate-mongering, cruelty, greed and contempt of the truth.
"We wish him wind farms around his golf course... and declare him excommunicated and we judge him condemned to an icy hell of complete irrelevance."
Speaking ahead of the event in Washington DC, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "Ms Sturgeon said: "I congratulate President Trump on taking office today. There are great global challenges to be faced, and I wish his administration well in dealing with them.
"The ties of family, friendship and business that bind our countries are very deep and longstanding. We share fundamental values of equality tolerance and and human rights and I hope to see these values upheld during the new president's term in office.
"Scotland and the United States will continue to co-operate in those areas where we share common interests and goals, and, when appropriate, we will also look to have constructive dialogue on issues where our views differ."
Mr Trump has held a lengthy and often colourful correspondence with former First Minister Alex Salmond.
Mr Salmond said after the inaugural address: "It was shorter, angrier - it was campaign rhetoric. There was much less than I expected of reaching out to all the Americans who didn't vote for him.
"There was a lot of God it, even by inauguration standards, for someone who's found religion comparatively recently.
"So maybe it's a case of may God bless America, and may God help the rest of us."
Protestors in Edinburgh draped banners over North Bridge carrying messages including "there is no planet B" and "build bridges not walls".
Speaking for the "Edinburgh Bridges Not Walls" group, Alys Mumford said the protestors were taking action to "reject the rise of a dangerous and divisive far-right politics".
She said: "The new normal that the far right is seeking will roll back decades of progress on civil rights, gender equality and the environment. It is up to all of us to take responsibility for actively rejecting this."
Tahnie Martin, a 29-year-old university worker from Stafford, was passing Starbucks coffee shop in Dudley Street, Wolverhampton when the large piece of wooden roofing hit her.
Ms Martin suffered "very serious head injuries" and died at the scene.
A number of people were also injured as winds of up to 94mph were recorded across the UK.
Updates on this and more stories from Birmingham and the Black Country
Ms Martin was with a group of colleagues from the University of Wolverhampton at the time of the tragedy, which happened at about 11:45 GMT.
Two colleagues were taken to New Cross Hospital to be treated for minor injuries but have since been discharged, the university said.
West Midlands Police said they were working with Wolverhampton City Council and the Health and Safety Executive to establish which building the roofing came from.
Ms Martin, a former pupil at Cannock Chase High School, graduated from Birmingham City University in 2013 with an honours degree in marketing, advertising and public relations.
She started work at the Wolverhampton university in August, and was due to start a role as postgraduate marketing manager next week.
One of her friends, Paris Theodorou, described Ms Martin as "Intelligent, opinionated, strong, independent and beautiful".
Writing on Facebook, he said: "One of the most on-point girls I've ever met.
"Only spoke to her a couple weeks ago and she spoke such kind words. I'm so gutted and I wish I told her more often how special she is."
One of Ms Martin's former lecturers, Nicola Gittins, described her as a "first class student in every way".
Dr Aidan Byrne, course leader, said she organised a large event for staff the night before she died.
"Everyone in the English department is shocked and saddened by the death yesterday of Tahnie Martin," he said.
"She organised our 50th anniversary dinner on Wednesday night, coping with us with humour and forbearance.
"She was irrepressibly optimistic and kind, full of ideas and always enthusiastic.
"We were so grateful to her, and we're glad that the last thing we did on Wednesday night was give her a hug and tell her how much we appreciated everything she did.
"She will be missed by everyone who knew her."
Katharine Clough, director of external relations at the university, described her as "one of our shining stars, a talented and creative marketing professional with an enthusiasm and smile which were infectious."
University of Wolverhampton vice-chancellor Professor Geoff Layer said: "We are all deeply saddened by this tragic loss.
"During Tahnie's short time at the university, she made a real impact both in a professional and personal capacity.
"She became a very popular member of the team and was highly valued."
Det Insp Paul Joyce, of West Midlands Police, said: "We are still trying to ascertain who the building belongs to and whether there is any criminal liability.
"This is a deeply tragic incident and our thoughts remain with Miss Martin's family."
The Health and Safety Executive said it was supporting police and making inquiries whether it was required to investigate.
It is believed the man, a foreign national, was crushed by a road roller while laying a new road surface on Bog Road outside Forkhill on Wednesday afternoon.
Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating.
The road is understood to be regularly used by children walking to and from a local school.
The school was informed and alternative arrangements put in place on Wednesday.
The move likely means an end to negotiations on whether the constitution could be amended so Aung San Suu Kyi could take the top job.
Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a general election landslide victory in November and will take office at the end of March.
But she is barred by the constitution from being the president.
Clause 59F, widely seen as having been included to target her, means anyone who has foreign children cannot take the post.
She has consistently said she will effectively lead the country anyway.
The original date for the nominations had been 17 March, which was seen as giving time for the NLD to negotiate with the military.
Aung San Suu Kyi may actually be stronger outside the presidency. Over several rounds of negotiation with the army it became clear that any deal would involve uncomfortable compromise.
Little was said officially, but it was suggested that the army might trade suspending Clause 59F for more power.
That was rumoured to include the positions of chief minister in sensitive states like Rakhine and Kachin and almost certainly included promises that the military's political clout and financial muscle be left untouched.
It would have been a fudge and Ms Suu Kyi would have been accused of putting personal ambition over principle.
Now she must choose someone else to be president, and her main criteria is likely to be loyalty.
With an obedient puppet in place, she knows that all the president's decision-making power will still ultimately rest with her.
These talks represented a chance for the Burmese army to show that it was moving with the times. It could have acknowledged that the people of Myanmar overwhelmingly voted in November for Ms Suu Kyi to lead.
Instead the message is "the army still knows best" with the military insisting on following the constitution it drafted to the letter.
With a huge majority in parliament and the ability to legislate as she wishes, Ms Suu Kyi may now decide she's not in the mood to compromise either.
The new president will be elected by the upper and lower house from a list of three candidates put forward by MPs.
The NLD dominates both houses after taking 80% of contested seats in the election. But the military, which ran Myanmar for decades, still has an automatic 25% of all seats.
NLD official Win Htein told the BBC the party would now focus on trying to change the constitution from within.
"Aung San Suu Kyi will still become president anyhow. It's only the matter of sooner or later," he said.
The academy will offer apprenticeships, bespoke training and new skills to those working in or considering a career in the textile industry.
Located at the firm's South Shields factory, the academy offers training from Barbour and Hartlepool College staff as well as Sora Group personnel.
Barbour has guaranteed all students an interview at the end of their studies.
The 50 students taking part in academy courses will have the opportunity to learn a diverse range of practical skills, including pattern cutting, sampling and tailoring.
Study facilities at the academy include two IT suites, a teaching area and a practical machine area. In addition to hands-on practice, students, who receive no wages or expenses for participating in the scheme, will learn communication and management skills.
Students wishing to pursue their studies at the end of their courses will have the option of moving onto the next NVQ or apprenticeship level, while the company has guaranteed everyone an interview when their course concludes.
Barbour says that jobs will only be offered to candidates if there are positions available. The company has complained in the past that a lack of relevant expertise in the region had been a factor when deciding to establish manufacturing facilities overseas.
Dame Margaret Barbour, chair of J Barbour and Sons, said that the opening of the academy underlines the company's commitment to delivering quality.
She said: "With the decline of manufacturing in the North East, we have struggled in the past to attract staff to positions at the factory.
"We hope that the Barbour Academy will help to revive and sustain these skills in the region and offer employment opportunities to people in the North East who may not previously have considered a career in manufacturing."
Andrew Steel, assistant principal at Hartlepool College of Further Education said he was "delighted" to be working with Barbour.
He said: "Barbour has a great reputation for quality and we believe the Barbour Academy has great potential to engage with people in the local area, offering new employment opportunities and reinvigorating the textiles sector in the region."
Barbour has been present in the North East since its founding in 1894, and still manufactures its famous wax jacket at its South Shields facility.
More than 150 people work at the factory, while the company employs more than 400 people in the North East in total.
While Barbour's wax jackets are still made in the UK, the firm manufactures other garments at facilities in Bulgaria, Portugal and Turkey.
Dumfries and Galloway Council turned down the five-turbine Blackwood project east of Auldgirth in May this year.
An appeal was lodged by Force 9 Energy Partners and EDF Energy Renewables against that decision.
They argued the council's approach had been "unbalanced" but the Scottish government said the appeal was out of time and could not be considered.
The developers claimed that "limited environmental issues" had been given a "disproportionate weight" in the local authority's assessment of the project.
However, the Scottish government said it had "no scope to accept or consider" their appeal.
It said it had been submitted after a three-month deadline from the original decision had passed.
Aoife Winterlich from Dublin was one of four teenagers from a Dublin-based scout group who were swept off rocks at Hook Head, County Wexford, on Sunday.
Two of the four swam to shore, but the girl and a 15-year-old boy were rescued by an Irish Coast Guard helicopter.
The rescue operation is now the subject of an air accident inquiry. Scouting Ireland is also investigating.
Irish police said they were notified on Friday afternoon that the girl had died in Crumlin hospital.
Police told ABC News that a man brandished a weapon at a security checkpoint near the building and was shot in the stomach.
The White House was briefly placed on lockdown after the shooting on Friday. President Barack Obama was playing golf in Maryland at the time.
The man was transported to hospital with critical injuries, officials said.
Vice-President Joe Biden was in the White House at the time. He was taken to a "secure area" during the incident, White House officials said.
"Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers gave numerous verbal commands for the subject to stop and drop the firearm," security agencies said in a joint statement.
"When the subject failed to comply with the verbal commands, he was shot once by a Secret Service agent and taken into custody
"At this time, based on a preliminary investigation, there is no known nexus to terrorism."
The White House has seen a number of security incidents in recent years, prompting changes at the executive complex.
In April, Secret Service caught an intruder climbing over the White House fence.
In 2014, Iraq War veteran Omar Gonzalez jumped the White House fence and ran into the building with a knife. Also that year, a toddler squeezed through the gates of the fence and was caught on the lawn.
In 2013, one man tried to crash a jeep filled with knives and bullets into a security gate.
In 2011, Oscar Ortega-Hernandez shot at the White House and was charged with attempting to assassinate Mr Obama or a member of his staff.
Mr Ortega-Hernandez believed God had given him a personal mission to attack the White House, law enforcement sources said.
One hundred and thirty four people work for Lifeline in two offices in Londonderry and Belfast.
But a contract for the 24/7 helpline, funded by the Department of Health, is due to expire at the end of this year.
The Public Health Agency (PHA) is consulting on Lifeline's future.
Fergus Cumiskey, managing director of the charity, Contact, who manage Lifeline, said all Lifeline jobs across Northern Ireland were now at risk.
He said: "From our read of the PHA outline business model for Lifeline, the changes are so radical that we believe all jobs associates with the current model are in jeopardy."
Twenty nine managers, 72 counsellors, 22 trainee counsellors and 11 administration staff work across the two offices.
Some 90,000 calls are made to Lifeline every year.
Mr Cumiskey said that job losses would have a "grave impact" for those who rely on the service.
Last year, there was a large increase in the number of people contacting the service.
The PHA confirmed it was holding a 12-week consultation on the future of the Lifeline service to ensure it best meets the needs of the people who use it.
A spokesperson said: "The consultation proposals would maintain the 24 hour, seven days a week telephone helpline provided by staff who are skilled and qualified in talking to people in crisis."
The PHA is proposing that the telephone helpline service provided by Lifeline staff be managed by the ambulance service.
The closing date for responses to the consultation is 19 November 2015 at 1pm.
The current Lifeline contract was due to end on 31 March 2015, but has been extended until 31 December 2015 with the potential of a further extension until September 2016, but the PHA said it is prevented from extending the contract further because of "procurement rules".
A spokesperson said: "No decision on the service model will be taken until after the consultation has been completed and the findings given full consideration."
New arrivals from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia reached 3,356 in January but in March the number registered from those countries was 480, Germany's Federal Office for Migration (BAMF) said.
Germany wants to declare those countries officially "safe", to make repatriation of non-refugees easier.
North African migrants were blamed for many assaults on women at New Year.
Germans were shocked by the scale of the sexual violence in Cologne, in which most suspects were men who had entered Germany illegally or sought asylum. There were similar attacks - to a lesser degree - in Duesseldorf and Hamburg.
The "safe country of origin" designation would enable officials to argue that returning migrants to those countries - jointly known as the Maghreb - would not violate their human rights.
However, human rights activists point out that there is persecution of homosexuals in the Maghreb and cases of torture in Morocco.
The German parliament has not approved the "safe country" designation, so it is not yet law.
Late last year the numbers of Maghreb migrants entering Germany surged, relative to those from other countries.
But the main countries of origin were Syria, Albania and Kosovo.
1.1m
Record number of asylum seekers registered in 2015
477,000 formal applications - 135% increase on 2014
34% of asylum-seekers come from Syria
181,405 asylum applications in Jan-Mar 2016
Those who can prove they fled war or persecution usually get refugee status and a right to asylum. Nearly all Syrians qualify - but very few Balkan migrants do.
Only 2.1% of the Maghreb migrants registered got international protection status in Germany last year, and the figure for the first quarter of this year was 0.7%, said the BAMF report, quoted by Funke media group newspapers.
The total influx of migrants to Germany has slumped in recent weeks, since Balkan states began tightening their borders and an EU deal with Turkey took effect, aimed at curbing the migrant flow to Greece.
Some 20,000 people applied for asylum in Germany in March; in December it was 120,000. More than a million migrants entered Germany last year - a record number.
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A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
The drive is aimed at almost 500,000 students starting at or returning to colleges and universities this month.
Officers are working with student associations to promote safety messages and ensure students start their university careers in the right way.
Safety tips include using privacy settings on social media and not leaving parties with strangers.
Ch Insp Scott Tees said becoming a student can be a "life-changing and life-enhancing" experience.
But he told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that he wanted to ensure students' safety.
He highlighted online, property and personal safety.
"We understand that part of student life is to go out and socialise but what we do say to students is to plan their night out," he said.
Students should consider how they are getting home, make sure they do not leave alone and to look out for their friends, the police officer added.
"We would hope that students will take a few minutes to download our Police Scotland student safety guide, which contains useful tips on how to stay safe, be that on campus, at home or socialising both online and in person."
Alastair Sim, director at Universities Scotland, said: "We want all of our students, from home and overseas, to enjoy their higher education experience to the full.
"Universities take their responsibilities for the safety of all students incredibly seriously and we encourage all students to note Police Scotland's helpful safety advice as the new academic year gets under way.
"We hope all students and staff in our university communities will continue to look out for one another on campus, at home and online."
A sketch or e-fit based on an eyewitness description, together with information about height, build, age and ethnicity can help lead police to a suspect.
But how many of these details could be obtained from blood or DNA left at a crime scene?
Predicting a person's outward traits from genetic information is a newly emerging field in forensics. Scientists have already developed ways of testing for traits such as age and eye colour and are working on others for skin colour and even facial dimensions.
This research effort could yield new tools to help identify unknown DNA profiles at crime scenes.
The current approach, known as genetic profiling, involves comparing crime scene DNA with that from a suspect or with a profile stored in a database.
But as Manfred Kayser from Erasmus University in Rotterdam points out, the person either needs to be among a pool of suspects identified by the police or have their profile in a DNA database.
"If both are not true, you can have the nicest DNA profile in the world but you cannot do anything with it," he told BBC News.
On Tuesday, Professor Kayser and colleagues published details of genes that predict the probable hair colour of an unknown individual.
In September 2010, the Dutch researchers outlined a method for estimating the age of a person from blood drops. The group has also developed a test for predicting eye colour.
Professor Kayser, who is chair of forensic molecular biology at Erasmus Medical Center, describes his team's work as "the full monty, starting from basic science up to a validated tool (test) that can applied in forensics".
Meanwhile, Mark Shriver, an anthropologist at Penn State University, US, has been working on the genetics of skin colour.
"We have mapped four of the major genes which determine skin colour between African and European populations," he told BBC News, adding that his group is working towards a forensic test based on the markers.
Dr Shriver says he is also working with a company on an instrument that could be used by forensic officers to test for phenotypic traits "on-site", or at a crime scene.
But Dr Peter Gill, a former DNA specialist at the Forensic Science Service (FSS) now based at the University of Strathclyde, comments: "All these markers are never definitive because they are multi-genic (determined by multiple genes).
"So you have to put a probabilistic estimate on what the presence of a gene means."
One of the most intriguing - and challenging - areas of research into phenotypic markers concerns the genes that determine the shape of a person's face.
"There are some candidates, but it's quite questionable how good these candidates are. The knowledge is very limited," Professor Kayser told BBC News.
One way Professor Kayser and his colleagues are searching for these candidates is by studying the genetics of disorders that affect the face. Scientists can then study the influence those same genes have on normal facial variation.
Another approach, he says, is to search the genome for small variations that occur more frequently in people with particular facial types. This type of search is known as a genome-wide association study.
Mark Shriver is also working on the genetics of facial proportions and has uncovered candidate genes. His work, which is being prepared for publication, suggests that single genes can exert a strong influence on the shape of the face.
A scenario where forensic scientists extract a facial image from crime scene DNA and then match it to a passport photo remains science fiction, says Professor Kayser.
But, he says: "If you can limit a large or infinite group of people - namely everybody - to a smaller group of people, namely those who fit the appearance descriptions you can currently get out of forensic samples, you can at least concentrate some of the leads which would otherwise be 'into the blue'."
Different traits are influenced to a different degree by the environment: "Grey hair can be affected by environment, whether you spend time in the Sun can obviously affect your features; height can be affected by nutrition," Dr Gill explains.
But according to Manfred Kayser: "If you estimate heritability from twin studies, you end up with about 80% heritability [for height]. That would argue that it is strongly genetic."
He adds: "It turns out that there are lots and lots of genetic factors. So far, we know of about 200, but I am pretty sure there will be more than 1,000 parts of the genome that contribute to final height."
"Therefore it's more difficult to find them all to develop the final tools with the more DNA markers they include. Perhaps we will never be able to predict from DNA height as accurately as we can for eye colour. But that needs to be seen."
Peter Gill says the available tests for appearance traits are hardly used at present: "These are small steps along the way. I think it's going to be quite a long time before we get something that can be used in anger."
Dr Gill, who, along with Sir Alec Jeffreys and Dr Dave Werrett, published the first scientific paper on applying DNA profiling to forensic science, adds: "There are certain cases where the police are absolutely desperate for any information whatsoever.
"But there may be serious limitations offered by the sample. If you are trying to do multiple tests, for example, you may simply not have enough of the sample."
He says that even when a comparative test yields no match in a database, police have other options such as familial searching. This involves looking for a close, rather than exact match, in a DNA database. Such matches can turn out to be family members of the unknown person.
But information about ethnic background can also refine descriptions of an unknown person. And using DNA to extract details of a suspect's geographical ancestry has already been put to use in a number of cases.
During the investigation into the 2004 Madrid train bombings, scientists used DNA from a toothbrush to identify one of the suspects as North African in origin. Conventional DNA analysis later led police to a suspect, an Algerian man who is still at large.
In the case of a Louisiana serial killer, eyewitness descriptions and psychological profiling initially directed police towards a white male suspect. But when DNA from a crime scene was analysed using a test developed by Dr Shriver, the results showed the killer was probably African-American.
While ancestry testing can be an important tool, researchers say its limitations must be recognised.
Manfred Kayser says ancestry markers can - at best - trace an individual to a broad region: "Human migration history has produced no sharp genetic borders and no sharp appearance borders," he explains.
In 2009, the UK Border Agency launched a pilot scheme under which DNA from asylum seekers would be analysed in an effort to deduce their true nationality and curb bogus asylum claims.
The project drew criticism from Sir Alec Jeffreys, who called the proposal "naïve and scientifically flawed".
At the time, the Home Office responded that DNA testing would not be used alone but would be combined with language analysis and investigative interviewing techniques.
Overall, Mark Shriver says he is encouraged about the future for phenotypic testing: "I definitely think there are a lot of cases that could be assisted by this kind of information.
"It's a shame there isn't more support for this type of work," he adds, citing profit margins as one of the major reasons.
He adds: "There's the chance to make this huge contribution, protecting people who will be killed if this person continues on their path."
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Charlotte Cobbald, 17, had been spending time on her father's farm on 4 August last year.
The inquest in Bury St Edmunds heard she had been treated for anorexia and depression before her death.
Recording a narrative verdict, assistant coroner Yvonne Blake said she believed Miss Cobbald had acted on impulse.
There was not enough evidence to record a suicide verdict, Ms Blake said.
The inquest heard Miss Cobbald was being treated in a mental health unit in Colchester prior to her death.
On the day of her death, she was spending time away from the unit with her father Stephen.
Her mother Hilde and her father have campaigned to increase awareness of anorexia and gain more government funding for its treatment.
Speaking in September, Mr Cobbald said: "We had noticed a subtle change in her temperament and then by the autumn we noticed Charlotte was not eating as much as she used to.
"Slowly and surely it [anorexia] crept up on us and Charlotte."
The blasts, on the island of Koulfoua on the Chadian side of the lake, struck a weekly market, the sources said.
No group has said it was behind the attacks, but the region is under a state of emergency after attacks by the Boko Haram militant group.
This year thousands of people fleeing the Islamist fighters sought safety on the island.
A police spokesman told Associated Press news agency that three women had carried out the attack on Koulfoua. At least 80 others were injured in the blasts.
Chad has played a key role helping Nigeria recapture areas seized by the group in northern Nigeria.
But as Boko Haram lost territory it stepped up attacks away from its Nigerian strongholds and into remote areas of Chad, as well as neighbouring Niger and Cameroon.
At least 17,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 2009, when the group launched its violent uprising to try to impose Islamist rule in northern Nigeria, according to Amnesty International.
1915 - 1917 - Between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians are massacred or deported from their homeland in Anatolia to present-day Syria. The Ottoman government had suspected them of harbouring pro-Russian sympathies.
Armenians remember the 1.5 million they say died in last years of the Ottoman Empire
Armenians remember mass killings
1916 - Armenian regions of the Ottoman Empire fall to the Russian army.
1918 - Soviet Union, as successor to Russia, cedes all of Ottoman Armenia and part of Russian Armenia to the now moribund Ottoman Empire.
1918 - Independent Armenia emerges from defeat of Ottoman Empire in World War I.
1920 - Armenia is invaded by Turkey and Bolshevik Russia. An agreement with the Bolsheviks leads to Armenia proclaiming itself a socialist republic.
1922 - Armenia is incorporated into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR.
1930s - Armenians suffer under Stalin's purges, but the country also experiences industrial development.
1988 - Encouraged by the new policy of openness ("glasnost"), Armenians begin to campaign for Nagorno-Karabakh, a region with a predominantly Armenian population in the neighbouring Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, to be united with Armenia.
1988 December - Earthquake in northern Armenia kills 25,000 and leaves hundreds of thousands homeless. The relief effort is slow and chaotic.
Metsamor nuclear plant closed after earthquake highlights safety concerns.
1989 - Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh begins. It lasts intermittently for five years. Many Azeri citizens are forced to flee their homes.
1990 - Armenian nationalists win parliamentary elections. Independence is declared, but ignored by Moscow.
1991 September - A referendum sees 94% vote for secession from the Soviet Union.
1991 October - Levon Ter-Petrosian elected president.
1991 December - Armenia joins the Commonwealth of Independent States, the successor to the Soviet Union. Armenia recognised as independent by the US.
1992 - Armenia joins the United Nations. A trade and energy embargo is imposed by Azerbaijan. The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh continues.
Yerevan, with Mount Ararat as backdrop, has a history spanning more than 2,500 years
1994 - Demonstrations in Yerevan over shortages of food and energy. A Russian-brokered ceasefire ends the Nagorno-Karabakh fighting. The region is left a self-proclaimed republic, with ethnic Armenian forces in control of Azerbaijani territory surrounding Karabakh.
1995 - The government launches privatisation and price liberalisation programme. Parliamentary elections return the ruling party. The powers of the president are widened.
1996 - Ter-Petrosian is re-elected president. Tanks are deployed on the streets of Yerevan to quell protests over alleged electoral fraud.
1998 - Ter-Petrosian resigns over opposition to his efforts to find a compromise with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Nationalist Robert Kocharian is elected president.
1999 - Gunmen open fire in the Armenian parliament. The prime minister, parliamentary speaker and six other officials are killed. The gunmen accuse the government of leading Armenia into political and economic ruin.
2000 - Prime Minister Andranik Markarian admits that - 12 years on - those affected by the 1988 earthquake are still living in a disaster zone.
2001 January - Becomes full member of Council of Europe.
France ignores Turkish objections and introduces a law stating that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenians in 1915.
2001 September - Vladimir Putin becomes first Russian president to visit Armenia since independence.
2003 March - President Robert Kocharian wins further term in second round of presidential elections. Election monitors complain of ballot-stuffing.
2003 May - European observers find parliamentary elections in which pro-presidential candidates win majority of seats fall short of international standards.
Referendum rejects constitutional amendments concerning role of parliament.
2003 August - Death penalty abolished.
2003 December - Six sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in 1999 parliament shootings in which prime minister, speaker and other officials were killed.
The war over the enclave in the early 1990s claimed thousands of lives and still causes tensions
Karabakh's smouldering conflict
2004 April - Thousands of opposition supporters march against president.
2005 November - Referendum votes in favour of proposed constitutional amendments. Opposition protests, declaring the vote to have been rigged.
2006 January - Supply of gas severely disrupted after explosions in Russia damage pipeline to Armenia via Georgia.
2006 April - Price of Russian gas more than doubles.
2007 February - Parliament adopts bill allowing dual citizenship, paving the way for naturalisation of Armenia's massive foreign diaspora estimated at around 8 million.
2007 March - Prime Minister Andranik Markarian dies suddenly of a heart attack. He is replaced by Serge Sarkisian.
2007 May - Prime Minister Sarkisian's Republican Party wins almost 33% of the vote in parliamentary polls. European observers say the elections generally meet international standards.
2007 October - Supporters of resolution in US Congress to label mass killings of Armenians after 1915 as genocide postpone vote until timing 'more favourable'.
2008 February - Presidential elections. Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian is declared winner. Thousands of opposition supporters take to the streets to protest the result.
2008 March - Three-week state of emergency declared. Police disperse Yerevan protests amid arrests and accusations of brutality. Parliament passes law restricting public gatherings.
2008 September - Turkish President Abdullah Gul visits - the first time a Turkish leader has set foot in Armenia.
2009 October - The governments of Turkey and Armenia agree to normalise relations at a meeting in Switzerland, paving the way for moves to establish diplomatic ties and reopen the mutual border. Opposition protesters accuse government of failing to raise the genocide question.
2010 March - US House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee passes resolution describing killing of Armenians by Turkish forces in World War I as genocide, prompting Ankara to recall its ambassador.
2010 April - Parliament suspends ratification of accord normalising relations with Turkey after Yerevan accuses Ankara of imposing conditions, in particular by its insistence that Armenia resolve its dispute with Azerbaijan first.
2010 October - Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on a Russian-brokered deal to exchange prisoners captured during Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
2011 October - During a visit to Armenia, French President Nicolas Sarkozy urges Turkey to accept responsibility for the genocide of more than one million Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
2012 January - The French Senate approves a bill making it a crime to deny genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I. Armenia dubs the vote "historic". Turkey warns of retaliatory measures.
2012 May - Governing Republican Party wins a majority of seats in parliamentary elections, polling 44% of the vote, with its former coalition partner the Prosperous Armenia party second on about 30%. Independent observers note minor violations.
2013 February - Serge Sarkisian wins a second term as president, with official results giving him nearly 59% of the vote. His nearest rival rejects the outcome.
2013 September - European Union asks the government to clarify its decision to join a Russian-led customs union, which derails a EU plan to conclude an association agreement with Armenia.
2014 November - Tensions rise over Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijani forces shoot down an Armenian military helicopter, killing its three-member crew.
2015 January - A Russian soldier based at the base in Gyumri goes on a killing spree, killing seven people and prompting anti-Russian protests.
2015 February - President Serge Sarkisian withdraws from parliament the landmark 2009 agreement with Turkey to restore diplomatic ties, citing citing the absence of political will on the Turkish side.
Speaking to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, officials investigating the artist's death said the pills were labelled as hydrocodone, a weaker type of opioid.
Autopsy results released in June revealed Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose.
Officials told the Associated Press the singer had no prescriptions for controlled substances at the time.
Prince was found dead at 57 in an elevator inside his Paisley Park home in April.
According to the Star Tribune report, the musician weighed just 50kg (8 stone) at the time of his death and had significantly more than a fatal dose of fentanyl in his system.
Fentanyl has been linked to a surge in overdoses in parts of the US after being incorporated into counterfeit pills.
The counterfeit pills found in Paisley Park contained a variety of drugs, according to the Associated Press, including fentanyl, lidocaine and U-4770, a synthetic drug eight times more powerful than morphine.
Tests on Prince prior to his death did not show fentanyl in his system, AP said, citing an official involved with the investigation, indicating the singer was not a long-term user of the drug.
The official said Prince had many of these pills with him a week before his death when his aeroplane made an emergency stop in Illinois after he fell ill.
He reportedly received two doses of Narcan, an antidote used to reverse suspected opioid overdoses.
A singer, songwriter, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, Prince recorded more than 30 albums. His best known hits include Let's Go Crazy and When Doves Cry.
Fentanyl is an extremely strong painkiller, prescribed for severe chronic pain, or breakthrough pain which doesn't respond to regular painkillers.
It is an opioid painkiller which means it works by mimicking the body's natural painkillers, called endorphins, which block pain messages to the brain.
It can cause dangerous side effects, including severe breathing problems.
The risk of harm is higher if the wrong dose or strength is used.
Ethical approval has been granted for the transplants - as part of a clinical trial - and will launch in spring.
Around one in 5,000 women are born without a womb, while others lose their womb to cancer.
If the trial is successful, the first UK baby born from a womb transplant could arrive in late 2017 or 2018.
More than 100 women have already been identified as potential recipients of donor wombs.
Dr Richard Smith, a consultant gynaecologist at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London who has been working on the project for 19 years, will lead the transplant team.
He said childlessness could be a "disaster" for couples, but the technique would offer hope to those whose only other option is surrogacy or adoption.
How would the procedure work?
The 55-year-old said: "I've met many of the women who want this and it's really important for them and their partners.
"There is no doubting that, for many couples, childlessness is a disaster.
"Infertility is a difficult thing to treat for these women. Surrogacy is an option but it does not answer the deep desire that women have to carry their own baby."
The women who will be selected for the trial must all meet criteria, which include being 38 or under, having a long-term partner and being a healthy weight.
More than 300 women have approached the Womb Transplant UK team, of whom 104 meet the criteria.
In October last year a woman in Sweden became the first in the world to give birth to a baby after having a womb transplant.
The 36-year-old, who was born without a uterus, gave birth by Caesarean section to a boy named Vincent after receiving a womb donated by a family friend.
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Their intervention is seen as an attempt to defuse escalating tensions between rival communities in Nigeria.
However, a pro-secessionist group says it will press ahead with its campaign.
Security forces have killed at least 150 people since August 2015 to quell pro-independence protests, Amnesty International says.
The campaign has also fuelled tension in northern Nigeria, where some youth groups have retaliated by threatening to expels Igbos who live there.
So, the statement by Igbo leaders pledging loyalty to Nigeria could help ease tension in the north, says the BBC's Naziru Mikailu in the capital, Abuja.
Following a specially convened meeting in the Igbo heartland of Enugu city to discuss the crisis, state governors, lawmakers, traditional and religious leaders issued a statement on Sunday to give their "full support" to a "united Nigeria".
However, the statement called for the vast and oil-rich West African state to be "restructured" to achieve a "a just and equitable society".
Many people in the south-east accuse successive governments of failing to develop their areas.
The pro-independence Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) said the meeting failed to reflect the views of the Igbo people.
"We want Biafra and nothing but Biafra. Nigeria must disintegrate. Her faulty foundation has broken beyond repair," Massob said in a statement.
Massob is one of the main groups leading the independence campaign.
On 30 May, many people in cities and towns across the south-east stayed at home to mark the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the breakaway state of Biafra.
The 1967 declaration led to a brutal civil war, which claimed the lives of up to a million people, before the secessionist rebellion was defeated by government forces.
Released from a ship, the vehicle criss-crossed the underside of the floes, using upward-looking sonar to measure their shape.
The researchers involved in the project tell the journal Nature Geoscience that the thickness of the pack ice was greater than they had anticipated.
But they also caution against making generalisations from limited sampling.
Antarctic sea ice at its peak extent can cover 20 million square km; the research team on the other hand looked at just six small boxes some 500m along the square.
Nonetheless, the UK/US/Australia group got its proof-of-principle Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) into previously hard-to-reach places.
The hope is that this early demonstration will lead in the future to more effective means of assessing the volume of marine ice circling the White Continent.
This topic has become one of the most interesting questions in climate science in recent years as its trend line grows in the face of a warming planet.
Deep-winter sea ice in Antarctica now stands at an all-time high, as measured in the modern satellite record - and researchers are trying to work out why it has not followed the sharp decline seen in the Arctic.
"Antarctic sea has been kind of the poor sister," says Jeremy Wilkinson from the British Antarctic Survey.
"A lot of effort has gone into measuring Arctic sea ice, and we're only now just scratching the surface of Antarctic sea ice, especially in respect to thickness," he told BBC News.
"We want to understand how it is changing and how that integrates with climate and ecosystem changes.
"It's only by bringing all the processes together that we will be able to model them and say what's going on in the Antarctic."
The AUV, known as SeaBED, was developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US.
It is about 2m in length, weighs nearly 200kg, and sports a twin-hull design that gives it enhanced stability.
SeaBed was released in the Antarctic spring seasons of 2010 and 2012 to sample ice thickness in six locations that included the Bellingshausen and Weddell seas, to the west of the continent, and off Wilkes Land, to the east.
The sub autonomously went about its business, tracking a "lawnmower pattern" under the ice for several hours before returning to the launch ship for recovery.
That in itself is quite an achievement.
"Here's the hard part: the ice floes that we want to map are all moving," explains WHOI's Hanumant Singh.
"What you do is place transponders in the ice so that the sub can move relative to those and produce a map that is consistent.
"The other big problem is that the ice will close up. In the six to eight hours that it takes to do one of these missions, the ice conditions change dramatically, and the hole you dropped the AUV in may have gone by the time the survey's finished.
"You then just have to hope that a new hole has opened up next to your ship, which has itself by then also moved."
The researchers found that, on average, the thickness of the ice beneath sea level was 1.4 to 5.5m, with the thickest sea ice measured at 16m.
They also encountered a lot of highly deformed ice, where one block had ridden over another, increasing the overall draft.
Antarctic sea ice measurements in the past have largely been limited to shipboard observations and drill holes - both of which are likely to bias to thinner ice (for example, a ship's captain prefers to drive a vessel through the thinnest packs to avoid getting stuck).
A more global assessment would use satellites but these have difficulty working in the Antarctic because of the deep snow drifts that can accumulate on top of the floes.
These will hide the true shape of the ice and if the weight of the snow is substantial may even press the floes into the water column.
But Dr Wilkinson is hopeful that this and future sub studies will enable researchers to tease apart such details, to allow satellites to better gauge what they see below them.
"What we can do is take what these subs are showing us and then develop the algorithms that can be used by satellites to get a better synoptic scale," he told BBC News.
"Another approach is to use longer-range AUVs that can give you a couple of hundred km [along the square] and go after the key areas that are changing, and to monitor those over time," said Dr Wilkinson.
WHOI continues to develop its sub technology. It plans next to deploy a torpedo-like vehicle that can move faster and cover much wider sampling areas.
"The vehicle that we have now is relatively inexpensive at half a million dollars, but we'd like to get that down to maybe $100,000-150,000, so that when we lose a vehicle - and you will at some point lose one - we won't cry too much," said Dr Singh.
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Maud Coutereels gave Belgium a first-half lead with a header from a corner at the Stadion Den Dreef, Leuven.
And it was 2-0 when Scotland lost possession in their own half and Lien Mermans punished them.
Tessa Wullaert made it three with a left-foot shot into the top corner and Jassina Blom scored twice late on to complete Scotland's misery.
Anna Signeul's Scots had gone into the game two places above Belgium in the world rankings, their hosts' recent improvement having taken them up to 23rd on their way to also qualifying for this summer's finals in Netherlands.
With nine players unable to make the trip through injury, and Chelsea teenager Erin Cuthbert released to captain the Under-19s, who qualified for their own Euros last week, there were plenty of opportunities for Scotland's fringe players.
The only new cap in the starting XI was 29-year-old English-born central defender Vaila Barsley, who had never been in a Scotland squad before this game, having previously played for England Under-17s.
On a bad night for her side, she was to prove Scotland's best player until she was substituted on the hour.
The six-foot defender partnered captain for the night Ifeoma Dieke, with Shannon Lynn again preferred in goal to Gemma Fay, who has yet to play 90 minutes this year.
The first 15 minutes were as good as it got for the Scots. They even created the first chance in the opening 60 seconds, when Lisa Evans cut in from the right and tested Nicky Evrard with a 20-yard shot.
Once Belgium settled into their stride, it was only a matter of when they would score as the Scots were giving the ball away cheaply when in possession.
Glasgow City midfielder Leanne Ross did so just inside her own half - and, although Janice Caymen hit the bar with her ambitious 35-yard lob over Lynn, the goalkeeper could only scramble the rebound for a corner.
From that, Coutereels put Belgium into the lead. The goal, just after the half-hour, was all that separated the sides, but the goals the home side deserved came in the second period.
Lynn made a string of good saves but was finally beaten by Lien Mermens after Dieke was dispossessed 20 yards out.
One of Belgian's star players, Wulleart, then scored the best goal of the game just before the hour, lashing the ball home from the edge of the box.
The pace went out of the game, but substitute Jassina Blom scored twice late on to put the seal on her side's dominant performance.
Barsley's replacement was another central defender who had never been in a Scotland squad before.
Sophie Howard was born in Germany to British parents and plays for Hoffenheim, but by the time she came on for her fellow debutant, Scotland were already a lost cause.
Scotland head coach Anna Signeul: "It's really tough to take any positives - I feel sad for the players who haven't been in the squad before that this was their first experience of playing for Scotland.
"Even players that have many caps couldn't live up to their normal capacity. It's disappointing.
"Shannon had some great saves also - it could have been even more.
"It wasn't a good start to the second half. I feel sorry for Iffy (Dieke). She did some really good things in the first half.
"One thing I will say about the players is that they worked all game. They didn't give up."
The 19-year-old was part of Jose Mourinho's squad on their pre-season tour to North America and has now completed a move to Stamford Bridge.
"I very much enjoyed my time with the squad during pre-season and I am very grateful to Fluminense for allowing me this opportunity," said Kenedy.
"I am very happy to complete my transfer to Chelsea."
"It is an exciting time for me to join the English Premier League champions and I hope I can become an important player for the club."
Kenedy joins other Brazilians Ramires, Oscar and Willian at the club, while Nathan, who is also from Brazil, has moved on loan to Vitesse Arnhem after joining Chelsea in the summer.
Emergency services were called to the semi-detached house in Anniesland's Fifth Avenue at about 03:30 on Monday.
Fire crews were met with a "well-developed" blaze in one of the bedrooms from where the man was recovered.
He was treated at the scene for severe burns and smoke inhalation and later pronounced dead in hospital. The fire is believed to have been caused by a cigarette setting bedding alight.
Specialist officers from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Investigation Unit are working to establish the full circumstances surrounding the blaze.
Asst Ch Officer Lewis Ramsay said: "In the wake of this tragedy everyone's thoughts will of course be with the man's family and friends.
"The loss of life through fire in the home will certainly be felt across the community and it will profoundly touch many people.
"We must all be asking ourselves if we know someone who could be at risk and thinking about those who are older, who have health conditions or who live alone and might be a bit isolated."
He urged anyone who knew an elderly or vulnerable person who needed help to reduce fire risk to contact the fire service.
William Mead died from septicaemia aged 12 months on 14 December.
Prof Peter Fleming said neither the NHS 111 service nor the out-of-hours GP had acted on a temperature change when his parents spoke to them on 13 December.
William's mother Melissa told the inquest in Cornwall he should not have died from something "so preventable".
William had been suffering from a persistent cough when his parents called for help.
Expert witness Prof Fleming, from Bristol Children's Hospital, expressed concern that neither the 111 service nor the out-of-hours GP, Nicholas Walker, had acted on William's temperature which had been at 40C on 12 December but had fallen to 35C the next day.
He said: "One of the difficulties that 111 faces is that they are not talking to a skilled professional - they are working from a script, not their professional knowledge.
"The script does not cover what is a very rare event."
Prof Fleming said he was disappointed the "algorithm" used by the 111 service did not appear to have assessed the situation effectively.
Cornwall Coroner Dr Emma Carlyon asked Prof Fleming at the hearing in Truro if there was anything that could have been done that could have prevented the death.
He replied: "With the benefit of hindsight, had he been seen and admitted on the Saturday [13 December], I think there is a very good chance that his illness could have been treated successfully."
Prof Fleming said William died from a streptococcal infection and pneumonia leading to septicaemia. He said the infection had probably taken hold in the week leading up to William's death leading to a "rapid deterioration" on 12 and 13 December.
Dr Carlyon recorded a verdict of death by natural causes.
Speaking after the inquest Mrs Mead said she would like to see improvements in "the practice of all GPs and the 111 and out-of-hours services".
She said her son would be "missed beyond measure" and she and her husband had been "destroyed" by their loss.
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, which provides the NHS 111 service in Cornwall, is yet to comment. Serco, which provided the out-of-hours GP service until 31 May 2015, said it would pass on any lessons learned to the new service providers.
Perth Sheriff Court was told that Crown Office staff were unable to understand the words of accused Denis Boyd because of his "Geordie" accent.
Mr Boyd, 38, who now lives in Redgorton in Perthshire, denies sexually assaulting a woman in Perth in 2016.
Sheriff Gillian Wade agreed to schedule an extra day in the case.
Mr Boyd's defence agent, solicitor Nicky Brown, told the court that her client had taken part in a recorded interview with police and that a DVD had been produced for the court. However, staff had so far been unable to determine what was being said.
She added: "There is a difficulty with the transcript of his police interview. The difficulty is that the accused has a very, very strong Geordie accent and part of his response is missing.
"It is not just part of it, but substantial parts of it. I will need to go through it with him and put in the responses which are missing."
Prosecutor John Malpass added: "That is the current position with the transcript. There are large tracts of the interview missing."
In granting an extra day's hearing, Sheriff Wade said she was not going to "rant and rave" at the delay.
She told the court: "I appreciate there has been a disclosure issue, but I am not going to rant and rave about it because that is not going to help.
"In the first instance the Crown have to make sure disclosure is made in time.
"There is clearly a problem with the DVD and both parties need to know what is said at the interview. The problem has been identified.
"I am not going to get anyone into trouble. I will continue on a joint motion for a further first diet for the missing responses from the DVD to be inserted into the transcript and for the transcript to be agreed."
The clerk of the court told Mr Boyd that an extra court day was being scheduled "for the police interview to effectively be translated".
Mr Boyd denies carrying out a sex attack on a woman in Victoria Street, Perth, on 29 August 2016. The trial is due to take place later this year.
Joel Harrison, 22, and Gary Beddoes, 29, set fire to the tent while it was pitched on grass land near College Road, Doncaster, in August 2015.
Both men pleaded guilty to arson charges at Sheffield Crown Court.
Harrison, of York Road, Dunscroft, was jailed for three years and seven months and Beddoes of Kenneth Avenue, Stainforth, was jailed for six years.
'Horrific attack'
Two men previously charged in connection with the attack, Jason Vicarage and Ricky Andrewatha, were cleared after the prosecution offered no evidence.
Speaking after the sentencing, Det Con Dello O'Horo said the two victims had been subjected to an "absolutely horrific attack".
"They were both left with extensive burns after being deliberately set on fire in what can only be described as a despicable act, which they are still coming to terms with over a year later.
"This was a complex investigation over a number of months and I am pleased that both Harrison and Beddoes are now behind bars for their crime."
The 2017 An Comhdháil World Irish Dance Championships are taking place at the Waterfront Hall.
The event, which began on Sunday, features 42 competitions over six days, with dancers aged from nine to 21.
It is the first time the event has been staged in Belfast.
Competitors from the US, Scotland, England, Europe, Japan, the UAE, Australia and all over Ireland are taking part.
Some 25,000 spectators are expected at the championships, said Matthew Donohoe, the event's chairman.
"The An Comhdháil World Irish Dance Championships is the premier event for our organisation," he said.
"The dancers that will compete here have been preparing for many months to showcase their exceptional talent."
This year's championships have a record number of entries both in solo and figure dancing, said Mr Donohoe.
"The Waterfront Hall really suits the championships we're running this year, we're running two major stages and the extension to the Waterfront allowed us to do that," he said.
Among the dancers who have already been crowned world champions is 10-year-old Eva Jane Muldoon, from the Quinn School in County Tyrone.
"It was really exciting," said Eva Jane, who has been dancing for five years.
"We had to do a dance with two other people, then we did another dance with two other people.
"If you got a recall for your championship, then you did a set dance on your own."
Coming from further afield, Florida dancer Stephanie Lovetere, who is performing in the under-18 category, said she had started as a ballet dancer.
"But I found an Irish dancing school and I've always loved watching Lord of the Dance and Riverdance," she said.
"I really just wanted to get involved, especially since I'm part Irish, so I wanted to do sort of a heritage thing and I just got reeled into the competitive world.
"Quite a lot of people in the United States are involved in Irish dance."
Four hundred teams are competing in the championships, with events running every day until Friday.
The medics were secretly filmed by the Sunday Times, which has investigated allegations of doping in the African country in collaboration with German broadcaster ARD/WRD.
Kenya's Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has also reportedly made arrests in connection with the claims.
Ukad has also sent two investigators to Nairobi to assist with the enquiries.
In a statement, UK Athletics described the Sunday Times' allegations as "vague and unsubstantiated" and encouraged the newspaper to "provide full details of all of the individuals and information in its article as a matter of urgency so that the claims can be investigated in a timely manner".
It added: "None of the allegations as presented relating to British athletes accords with our experience. Nevertheless, we take any allegations of doping seriously and will as always cooperate fully with any investigation undertaken by Ukad or other anti-doping organisations."
It is alleged that the footage shows the medics claiming they were paid by British, Kenyan and other athletes to administer blood-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO).
According to the newspaper, the doctors provided medical notes and blood test results to show they had treated a British athlete for an injury.
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A third Kenyan associated with the doctors also alleges that three other British athletes were among the 50 athletes he had given banned performance-enhancing drugs to.
The Sunday Times says that when it subsequently approached the two doctors, they refused to answer questions about the claims they had made on film. It says the associate claimed he had lied about helping athletes cheat - and had encouraged the doctors to lie as well "to make some money".
Nicole Sapstead, Ukad chief executive, said the evidence was "of grave concern and of significant interest".
She added: "We have opened an investigation and are taking the necessary steps to corroborate the evidence and investigate it further...this evidence is being treated with the utmost importance and urgency."
Kenya, a powerhouse nation in world athletics, was deemed to be in breach of global anti-doping rules in May. The World Anti-Doping Agency declared the country non-compliant with its code after a series of drugs and corruption scandals.
These allegations come weeks after Kenya passed legislation to create a new national anti-doping agency in April. The IOC has since demanded that Kenyan athletes who want to compete in Rio must undergo extra doping tests.
Last month, the chairman of Ukad admitted mistakes had been made over its handling of allegations that a London-based doctor prescribed performance-enhancing drugs to 150 athletes, including Premier League footballers.
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Ukad investigated Mark Bonar - who denies any wrongdoing - two years ago, but decided he was out of their jurisdiction and did not pass on any details to the General Medical Council. The findings of an independent review into the affair is due to be published later this month.
Sapstead said: "We recognise that many athletes train overseas for a number of reasons, such as warmer weather or the altitude, and sometimes in countries which do not have the necessary anti-doping systems in place.
"Ukad has no power to prevent a sport training in other parts of the world and we strongly encourage every sport to carry out a risk assessment when choosing where their athletes train and to report any concerns to us.
"Whilst ultimately it is an athlete's responsibility to protect themselves from doping, it is absolutely imperative that national governing bodies of sport ensure that their athletes and coaching staff are safeguarded and are training in safe and clean environments.
"They must ensure that they are in the best possible environment to compete, and win, clean."
The 44-year-old signed a three-year deal in January 2014 to lead a revamped management set-up.
Derbyshire are second from bottom of Division Two of the County Championship with two defeats and five draws from their opening seven matches.
Elite performance coach John Sadler will take charge, supported by captains Billy Godleman and Wes Durston.
Chairman Chris Grant said: "Whilst results have been disappointing, Graeme leaves with stronger foundations in place.
"We have seen a number of players develop under Graeme's guidance. We have also seen a clear increase in the levels of professionalism and work ethic."
Derbyshire finished second from bottom in the Championship in 2015 with just three wins from their 16 matches, while they failed to progress beyond the group stages of both one-day competitions.
Welch added: "I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at the club and learned so much.
"I would particularly like to thank the chairman and board for their support over the last few years and I wish them all the best for the future."
Derbyshire face Leicestershire at home in the T20 Blast on Friday.
The home side could have qualified for their first major tournament in 30 years with a win but fell behind when Richard Guzmics prodded home from goalkeeper Michael McGovern's mistake.
Chris Baird was then sent off for two rapid yellow card offences before Lafferty smashed home.
Two points from games against Greece and Finland will seal qualification.
The part-renovated Windsor Park was rocking throughout as an expectant home crowd hoped to see Northern Ireland reach a major finals for the first time since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
But, despite a dominant first-half display, a horrible lapse in judgement from Hamilton keeper McGovern looked like leaving the hosts in a nervous second place in Group F, just a point above Hungary.
McGovern failed to hold a straightforward free-kick from Balazs Dzsudzsak, allowing Guzmics to tap in.
With defeat looking inevitable, Lafferty snapped up his seventh goal of the Group F campaign to equalise when Gabor Kiraly could not hold substitute Niall McGinn's low drive to put qualification back in Northern Ireland's own hands.
Striker Lafferty, defender Conor McLaughlin and Baird will be suspended for the 8 October visit of Greece.
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Northern Ireland were already a goal down when the dismissal of Baird in the 81st minute provided a big talking point at Windsor Park.
Referee Cuneyt Cakir showed Baird two yellow cards, one after the other, before sending him off, to the confusion and anger of many home players.
Northern Ireland felt he should have only been booked once, but the referee indicated he was cautioning Baird for two fouls in the same move after playing an advantage.
Manager Michael O'Neill was left baffled by the decision of the Turkish official.
"Chris would not have made the second tackle if he knew he was being booked for the first," he said.
"I've never seen that before in a game in all my life."
In the circumstances, O'Neill will be hugely relieved to get a point from the match.
If Lafferty had not scored his dramatic stoppage-time equaliser, Northern Ireland might have been left needing to win their last two games against Greece and Finland.
Instead a single win, or two draws, will be enough to secure a top-two place in Group F thanks to a now superior head-to-head record with Hungary, who they beat 2-1 in Budapest a year ago.
Lafferty remains frozen out of the picture at club side Norwich - whom he has not played for since January.
However, only Bayern Munich duo Robert Lewandowski (10 for Poland) and Thomas Muller (eight for Germany) have more Euro 2016 qualification goals than the 27-year-old.
With no real stand-out performances, Kyle Lafferty gets the vote for his precious, point-saving goal. The striker has not been able to get a game with Norwich this season but has been a revelation for his country. the only blot was the booking which sees him pick up a one-game ban.
Northern Ireland next host Greece in Belfast on 8 October, before ending their campaign in Finland three days later.
A win in either match would book a place at the finals in France next summer.
Match ends, Northern Ireland 1, Hungary 1.
Second Half ends, Northern Ireland 1, Hungary 1.
Goal! Northern Ireland 1, Hungary 1. Kyle Lafferty (Northern Ireland) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner following a corner.
Attempt saved. Niall McGinn (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Steven Davis with a cross.
Corner, Northern Ireland. Conceded by Leandro.
Foul by Zsolt Kalmár (Hungary).
Conor McLaughlin (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tamas Priskin (Hungary).
Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hungary. Vilmos Vanczak replaces Krisztian Németh.
Krisztian Németh (Hungary) is shown the yellow card.
Tamas Priskin (Hungary) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tamas Priskin (Hungary).
Kyle Lafferty (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adam Nagy (Hungary).
Gareth McAuley (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Shane Ferguson replaces Stuart Dallas.
Second yellow card to Chris Baird (Northern Ireland) for a bad foul.
Chris Baird (Northern Ireland) is shown the yellow card.
Zsolt Kalmár (Hungary) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Baird (Northern Ireland).
Attila Fiola (Hungary) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Lafferty (Northern Ireland).
Foul by Tamas Priskin (Hungary).
Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Krisztian Németh (Hungary) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland).
Attempt missed. Kyle Lafferty (Northern Ireland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Josh Magennis with a cross.
Substitution, Northern Ireland. Josh Magennis replaces Oliver Norwood.
Goal! Northern Ireland 0, Hungary 1. Richárd Guzmics (Hungary) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.
Tamas Priskin (Hungary) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Chris Brunt (Northern Ireland).
Attempt missed. Zsolt Kalmár (Hungary) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Hungary. Conceded by Michael McGovern.
Attempt saved. Zsolt Kalmár (Hungary) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Conor McLaughlin (Northern Ireland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Zsolt Kalmár (Hungary) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Conor McLaughlin (Northern Ireland).
Attempt saved. Oliver Norwood (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Attila Fiola (Hungary).
The 45-year-old's deal ends after the Euros but he is yet to agree anything with the Football Association of Wales.
Coleman said in March that he and the FAW were "apart" during talks, while in April they improved their offer to him.
But Rush does not think it is important enough to be sorted before their first game against Slovakia on 11 June.
"I don't think it'll affect things if he doesn't sign," said Rush, who scored 28 goals in 73 caps for Wales in a 16 year period.
"Look at [Antonio] Conte now, he's going to Chelsea and if Italy don't do well they'll most probably blame that.
"I don't think that's the case with Chris and Wales. I think if anything is going to be done, I think it'll be done after the Euros."
Coleman has been linked with the vacant manager's job at Aston Villa whilst there has also been speculation hometown club Swansea City could be interested if they decide not to retain head coach Francesco Guidolin for next season.
The former Fulham and Coventry City boss indicated he wants to stay on for the World Cup campaign which starts in September, following the conclusion of Wales' first international tournament for 58 years.
"We'd all like him to [sign a deal before the tournament] and it would give everyone a boost but if he doesn't, let's get on with the Euros and see what happens after," Rush continued.
"It gives everyone an incentive. If they want Chris to stay and the team is winning there's only one thing they can do, he's got to stay."
Andrew Harvey, 42, was working at St Ann's Hospital in Poole supervising a woman who was being treated for depression and a personality disorder.
Dorset Police said he encouraged her to book into a hotel and engaged in consensual sexual activity.
He was jailed for 21 months for offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
At an earlier hearing he pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder by a care worker.
Bournemouth Crown Court heard the offences happened in 2015 when Harvey, of Chaddesley Wood Road in Poole, worked for the NHS as a mental health support worker on a bank nurse basis.
The woman had been on a supervised trip to see her children when they arrived early and Harvey encouraged her to book a hotel room.
Det Con Ben Griffin, of Bournemouth CID, said: "While the victim in this case consented to having sex with Andrew Harvey, he knew what he was doing was wrong and abused his position of trust with a vulnerable woman."
A spokesman for Dorset Healthcare University NHS Trust said: "We take any abuse of patients very seriously. It was the trust that reported this incident to the police and we acted immediately to ensure Mr Harvey had no access to patients."
Sam Winnall headed in from close range before Mark Cullen struck back for Blackpool after the break.
Winnall tapped home Lloyd Isgrove's cross as Barnsley regained the lead before Marley Watkins slotted a third.
Andy Little's late strike gave Blackpool hope but Matt Templeton fired low into the bottom corner as the Tykes moved out of League One's drop zone.
Prior to the game, Barnsley confirmed the signing of 17-year-old left-back Rhys Dolan from non-league Ilkeston Town for an undisclosed fee, on a contract to run until the summer of 2018.
The 37-year-old is top of the current Test batting rankings and fifth in the all-time list of Test run-scorers.
He will retire from one-day internationals after the forthcoming World Cup and is likely to be available for much of the 2015 county season.
"He is a five-star player and person and that is important because he will be working with our homegrown players," Surrey director Alec Stewart said.
Sangakkara, who is the fourth highest ODI run-scorer with 13,414, has previously played county cricket in England for Warwickshire and had a two-game spell with Durham last season, making 159 in his final innings.
"He is the number one Test batsman in the world but it's the special character that he has which is as important to us," Stewart added.
Sangakkara has agreed a two-year contract.
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has agreed a total business flood recovery fund of £5m.
It said grants could include cash to repair or buy new equipment, pay to restore flood-hit premises or help with relocation costs.
The fund will be managed by the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership.
The money will come from the area's regional growth fund allocation from the government for 2016/17.
The city region area covers the 10 local authority areas of Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Harrogate, Kirklees, Leeds, Selby, Wakefield and York.
It is believed around 2,000 businesses were damaged by the flooding in December.
Peter Box, chair of the combined authority, said: "I know how devastating it has been for many small and medium businesses and the knock-on effect for those companies that are suppliers or customers of those flood-hit firms."
Mr Box said he accepted the money would only "scratch the surface" and said the combined authority would continue to press for continuing support for flood prevention measures from the government.
He said the grants, which would range from £5,000 to £100,000, would be in addition to financial support already offered for flood clean-up costs by local authorities.
Austria is second only to Belgium in the number of foreign jihadists per capita who have left a European Union country to fight in Syria and Iraq.
More than half of them were of Chechen origin. But, in recent months, efforts by the government and by the community mean that fewer are setting off for the Middle East.
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On a Vienna housing estate, a martial arts class is underway.
The boys, who come from Austria's marginalised Chechen community, are learning Latar Do, a new form of martial arts.
Their parents hope that sport will keep them off the streets - and out of the hands of radical Islamists. Around 150 Austrian Chechens have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq in the last three years - and families here are nervous.
"The boys have a lot of energy, a lot of power," their trainer Adam Bisaev told me. "If we don't channel that, they could do drugs or go and fight. This is the opposite. It is good for their future."
Thirty thousand Chechens live in Austria, making it one of the largest Chechen communities in Europe.
Life is not always easy for Chechens here. Adam Bisaev, who came to Vienna as a refugee in 2003, says they often face prejudice.
He founded the club, which also provides language classes, to help people integrate. Two years ago, in response to the increasing numbers of radicalised youth, he helped set up a Chechen council to focus on the good example set by many young Chechens in work or studying.
"As a community we weren't well organised," he said.
"For parents it's not simple to bring up their children in this society. They lose control, the community loses it and then the young people receive proposals: You can go to Syria and be a hero.
"Since we've had the Chechen council, the first question has been our youth."
It is not just Chechens in Austria who have gone off to be foreign fighters.
The phenomenon has affected other minority communities here - notably those of Bosnian, Balkan and Arab origin, as well as a number of Austrian converts to Islam.
In 2014, two Viennese Bosnian teenage girls, Samra and Sabina, went to Syria, where they reportedly married fighters from so-called Islamic State.
A Muslim preacher, Mirsad Omerovic, known as Ebu Tejma, is currently on trial, accused of recruiting young Austrians to join IS.
But over the past year, the number of Austrians setting off to become foreign fighters has decreased. Karl Heinz Grundboeck, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, says that IS propaganda "is not so effective now."
"We have more information and co-operation with the communities and it is not so easy for Daesh [IS] to convince people to join this fight.
"Secondly we have had a number of successful investigations resulting in arrests."
Mr Grundboeck says Austria is focusing on a double track of prevention and law enforcement, working with teachers, youth workers and official Muslim community organisations.
A telephone hotline has been set up for people concerned about extremism.
Another NGO, Women without Borders, aims to help mothers from vulnerable communities recognise and deal with signs of radicalisation in their children, as well as build bridges with the authorities.
One of their trainers, Chechen journalist Maynat Kurbanova, said it had been a great shock for the community when young Chechen men in Austria went to fight in Syria.
"I believe that at the beginning of the war, at least, they saw the fight against [Syrian President] Assad as a fight against Putin and against Russia," she said. "They couldn't go to fight in Chechnya, but it was simpler to go to Syria. And then there were the radical preachers and the internet which encouraged more of them to go."
For Chechens in Austria it was a wake-up call. "It made them realise they needed help. The community is much more open now."
While fewer Austrians are going to Syria, 80 foreign fighters have since returned to Austria. Many are in prison, and are being closely watched by the authorities.
The University of the People, based in California, is a fast-growing, non-profit project designed to provide higher education for those with the academic ability to study, but without the ability to pay or without any practical access to a traditional university.
"There isn't a better reason for the invention of the internet," says the university's founder and president, Shai Reshef.
The university offers fully accredited four-year degrees, completely taught online, with students scattered across 180 countries.
"We open the gates to higher education. We are an alternative for those who have no other alternative - survivors of the genocide in Rwanda, refugees from Syria, the earthquake in Haiti," says Mr Reshef, speaking to the BBC in London.
In the United States, the university provides places for people without documentation, who otherwise would be stuck in a loop-tape of needing qualifications to get a better job but not having the paperwork to enrol in a conventional college.
The courses are built on 40 separate units, with each usually costing $100 (£77) to take an invigilated exam - making a full degree $4,000 (£3,100).
The fees are being waived for the Syrian refugees.
"Nobody deserves education as much as refugees. These are people who have lost everything. Many will never go back to their countries, and their children and grandchildren become refugees too.
"The only way out of the cycle is by education, the only way for them to integrate in their new countries is through education," says Mr Reshef.
What makes this low-cost model possible is a combination of academic and tech philanthropy.
It's allowed the university to expand from 500 to 5,000 students in two years, with an expectation that it will double again.
Students are taught for 20 hours per week in online classes of about 20 to 30 students, with the instruction and support and homework assignments provided by a small army of volunteer academics and retired university staff, who receive only a token payment.
Mr Reshef says there is no shortage of academics wanting to help students who otherwise would be excluded.
"These professors see the price of education, particularly in the US and the UK, and they think it doesn't make any sense."
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The aim is to make the university self-sustaining, but it's supported by some big donors, including the Gates Foundation, Hewlett Packard and Google.
And at the university's academic top table are people such as Sir Colin Lucas, former vice-chancellor of Oxford University; Nicholas Dirks, chancellor of University of California, Berkeley and John Sexton, former president of New York University.
Much of the attention in online higher education has been focused on so-called Moocs - the massive open online courses.
They have tens of millions of students, but they usually offer only short units rather than full degrees.
But the University of the People approach is fundamentally different.
It's about providing qualifications to improve employability for students who are in difficult circumstances.
As such, the university has focused on a small range of subject areas, such as computing, health and business.
It's also not an easy option.
"Online education is not for everyone. It requires extremely high motivation and self-discipline. I mean, you work full time and then you have to study for hours at home," says Mr Reshef.
"In a traditional class, you can fall asleep, get something afterwards from a friend. Here, it's much harder."
For the refugee students, there is a plan to make this less isolated, with negotiations to see if they can study online for two years and then move into a local university for the final two years.
In the US, it already has a relationship with Berkeley, so that high-achieving University of the People students can transfer after two years to the bricks and mortar institution in California.
Another project in the pipeline is to create courses that can be delivered and studied in Arabic.
The University of the People was created with a specific mission to reach those who otherwise would be excluded from getting a degree.
But Mr Reshef says such online innovations raise wider questions about the future shape of higher education as it continues its upward curve of expansion.
There has been a huge global rise in demand for university.
Figures from the OECD showed recently that China was opening the equivalent of a new university every week.
In Western countries, student numbers continue to climb, but there are thorny political questions about the rising cost of fees and inequalities of access.
Mr Reshef says the emergence of online universities will raise some hard-headed business questions about what a degree should cost.
In particular, he says a low-cost, wide-access approach could benefit students in developing countries, which at the moment are rich in talent and poor in opportunities.
All too often, he says, governments invest in prestige campus university projects, when online universities, or courses part-taught online, would provide much better value.
If universities could "open the gates" in sub-Saharan Africa, he predicts a flood of untapped creativity.
"You will find the next Einstein coming from Zimbabwe," he says.
Between March 2014 and February this year, 7,227 people needed medical attention after being "bitten or struck" by a dog - up from 4,110 in the corresponding period ten years ago.
Young children were the most commonly affected, the Heath and Social Care Information Centre statistics showed.
Charity Dogs Trust said the statistics were "deeply concerning".
Admission rates for other types of animal attacks - including injuries caused by rats, cats, horses and foxes - are also up 76% compared to ten years ago.
The increase far outstripped the rise in total hospital admissions for that period, which went up 25% from 12.6 million to 15.8 million a year, the report said.
Admissions due to dog bites between March 2014 and February 2015 were generally higher in summer months and lower in winter.
Rates were highest in urban areas (81%), and "between two and three times as high for the 10% most deprived areas", the report said.
Dog bites and strikes accounted for over two-thirds of admissions for mammal bites and strikes, with the highest rates in Merseyside, Durham, Darlington and Tees, and Thames Valley.
The most commonly affected were children under the age of nine, with 1,159 admitted to hospital.
"The most common injuries from dogs were open wounds of wrists, hands, head and forearm," the report said.
"For other mammals the main injuries were also open wounds to the wrist and hand, however there were also more diagnoses of cellulitis (infection of the deeper layers of the skin and the underlying tissue) and more leg fractures."
The statistics showed that 123 people were given a primary diagnosis of "traumatic amputation of wrist and hand" - including one child.
At least 21 people, including 13 children, have died in England and Wales in the past 10 years from dog attacks.
Four-year-old Lexi Branson died in 2013 after being attacked at home in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, by the family's Aylestone bulldog-type breed.
In October 2014, six-month-old Molly-Mae Wotherspoon died after being mauled by her family's American pit bull terrier at her mother's home in Daventry.
The coroner at her inquest said her family had "paid the ultimate price" for owning an animal banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act.
In May last year the Dangerous Dogs Act was updated to bring in new longer maximum prison sentences for dog owners, including raising the maximum from two to 14 years for a fatal attack and five for one causing injury. There is also a three-year maximum sentence for allowing your dog to attack an assistance dog.
Trevor Cooper, Dogs Trust law specialist, said: "It is especially worrying to learn that the number of hospital admissions for dog-related injuries is highest among the 0-9 age group.
"Dogs Trust remains frustrated that legislation focusing on issues around dangerous dogs and dog attacks remains ineffective at preventing these incidents happening in the first place. It is the responsibility of dog owners to ensure their dogs are properly trained and socialised, and Dogs Trust advises that young children should never be left alone with a dog."
Measuring over a metre long, this whopper of a footprint is estimated to date back around 70 million years.
Scientists from Okayama University of Science say it will give them "new clues about these huge giant creatures that roamed the earth millions of years ago."
There have been other discoveries of this size in the past but this particular one is very well preserved with three clear claw marks.
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A joint expedition made this most recent discovery in August, where it was found in a layer of rock formed between 70 million and 90 million years ago.
Experts reckon the Titanosaur species could be the largest land animal ever to be discovered.
Although no full skeleton has ever been found in the Gobi desert, in 2014 one was discovered in Argentina with a replica now on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Kingfisher has confirmed to the market that the €275m (£200m) deal, first announced last year, would not proceed.
The company already owns the Castorama chain in France and the deal depended on regulatory approval.
It emerged last week that some Mr Bricolage shareholders opposed the deal.
Shares in Kingfisher rose 3.1%, or 11.1p, to 368.9p in afternoon trading in London, making it the top riser on the FTSE 100. The company is worth more than £8.5bn.
ANPF, an organisation controlled by Mr Bricolage franchisees that holds almost 42% of the retailer's shares, last week decided to oppose the deal.
Kingfisher had set a deadline of 31 March for regulatory approval of the takeover.
"Notwithstanding Kingfisher's efforts to pursue the completion of the transaction, and in light of the positions expressed to date by the ANPF and Mr Bricolage, the anti-trust clearance will not be obtained by 31 March 2015 and therefore the July 2014 agreement will lapse on that date," the company said on Monday.
"Consequently the transaction will not proceed. Kingfisher is considering all of its options."
Some Mr Bricolage franchisees are understood to fear the store closures that would be required for Kingfisher to win regulatory approval of the takeover.
The failure of the deal is a blow to Veronique Laury, the former Castorama boss who took over from Sir Ian Cheshire as chief executive last September.
She will preside over her first set of annual results for Kingfisher on Tuesday.
Andrew Hughes, a UBS analyst, expects pre-tax profits to be 10% lower than 2013 at £670m.
Challenges facing Ms Laury include reducing the amount of floorspace occupied by B&Q stores and generating further growth in Europe following the collapse of the Mr Bricolage deal.
In December, the company said it would sell a 70% stake in B&Q China, which has 39 stores and more than 3,000 staff, for £140m.
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The figures - from the Office for National Statistics - are for the first full month after the Brexit vote.
They show that he average house price across the UK in July rose to £217,000.
The eastern region of England remains the area with the fastest growing prices. The annual rate of inflation there was 13.2% .
Prices in London grew at 12.3%, although they fell in parts of Central London, like Hammersmith and Fulham.
Earlier this month the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said that the UK housing market had settled down after the Brexit vote.
There was a sharp drop in the number of sales immediately following the referendum result.
Surveyors now expect prices to continue to rise by an average of 3.3% a year for the next five years.
However other economists have predicted a decline of up to 5% in house prices next year.
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The incident took place within the grounds of Greyfriars Kirk at about 06:30 on Wednesday 26 August.
Rachid Lamrabet, from London, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, charged with rape under section one of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
The case was continued for further examination and Mr Lamrabet is due to return to court next week.
The company narrowly missed demotion in the last quarterly reshuffles in June and September.
The Bradford-based chain had been in the list for more than 14 years but its share price has tumbled in line with falling sales.
Its share price has fallen around 17% this year.
It currently has a market capitalisation of around £3.51bn.
The final decision on Morrisons demotion was made by the London Stock Exchange by the end of trading on Wednesday based on the previous day's closing price.
The move into the FTSE 250 is likely to trigger share sales by tracker funds which only follow the UK's biggest companies.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell wrote: "Morrisons' check-out from the FTSE 100 after fourteen and a half years shows the importance of pricing power.
"German discounters have come in and undercut the established big grocery chains, while the internet and changes in shopping habits have also altered the industry landscape ...More than 14 years is a good stint in the FTSE 100 and it is worth noting that only around 30 of 1984's original constituents are still in the benchmark index, showing just how tough life can be at the top."
Other companies which have fallen out of the FTSE 100 include the security group G4S and the engineering group, Meggitt.
The new intake were also announced and include the payment processor, Worldpay, Provident Financial and Irish Services Company, DCC.
Morrisons' new chief executive, David Potts has been trying to turn the supermarket group's fortunes around in a tough trading environment.
Last month it announced a 2.6% drop in sales for the three months to November, prompting a further fall in its share price.
In March, the company reported a 52% drop in annual profits to £345m, its worst results in eight years.
Morrisons is the fourth-largest supermarket chain, trailing Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda in annual sales.
Its struggles reflect wider problems within the sector, which has seen price wars among the big four supermarket chains following the growth of discount chains such as Aldi and Lidl.
In September, Morrisons announced it was selling 140 loss-making "M" local convenience stores in a £25m deal and closing 11 stores, as it sought to concentrate on larger sites.
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The German felt race winner Hamilton was driving unnecessarily slowly, backing him up into the chasing Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel.
Rosberg said it was "frustrating" and put them under "unnecessary pressure".
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Hamilton responded to the accusation he had done it on purpose by saying: "That's absolutely not the case."
He added: "I wasn't trying to back him up into Sebastian because ultimately we do need a one-two and that is a priority to the team. If he wanted to get close to overtake he could have done. I'm not really quite sure what his problem is.
"We came here to get one-two and we did. There shouldn't be too much aggro really."
But Rosberg, who finished second ahead of Vettel, said the two would discuss it with the team after the race.
"Of course we will have a discussion and we will see how it goes," Rosberg added.
It is the latest in a series of flash points that have tested the relationship between the two drivers, especially since the team became the sport's pace-setters at the start of last year, including a crash at last August's Belgian Grand Prix.
Rosberg's concern in Shanghai was that by bringing Vettel closer than he needed to be, it made Mercedes vulnerable to an attempt by Ferrari to either pass Rosberg by stopping first and benefitting from fresh tyres - called undercutting - or by forcing Rosberg to do a longer final stint than his tyres could cope with.
Vettel did make an earlier than scheduled final stop, but Mercedes were able to handle it.
Rosberg said: "It compromised my race massively at the time because the best possible race for Lewis was to back me off into Vettel so Vettel would try to undercut me and I would have to respond.
"It was very frustrating Lewis was taking it as easy on his tyres. Interestingly, he said he was just thinking about himself and that says it all.
"What upset me is we went through exactly that before the race."
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff claimed the drivers had cleared the air in their post-race debrief.
"It was a good debrief because it was a positive debrief," said Wolff. "There wasn't any animosity.
"There wasn't any intention from Lewis to slow Nico down in order to make him finish third or worse, 100%.
"He didn't know the gaps behind Nico. What he knew was that he had to take that tyre longer than we had ever run it the whole weekend. This is why he decided to slow down in the way he did."
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The 26-year-old Real Madrid forward insists Chris Coleman's side are feeling no ill-effects following their dramatic defeat by England on Thursday.
Victory over Russia on Monday would guarantee Wales' place in the last 16, while a draw would probably be enough.
"It would mean everything to us. The first goal is to get out of the group and it's in our hands," said Bale.
"We still have the chance to do that and hopefully we can grab it with both hands."
Wales made a winning start to their first major tournament finals since the 1958 World Cup, as a Bale free-kick helped them beat Slovakia 2-1.
Against England, he scored again to give his country a half-time lead, but they lost 2-1 as Daniel Sturridge scored in injury time.
When Bale was asked how long it took for Wales to recover from the disappointment, he laughed and said: "What England game?"
He added: "Obviously after the game we were very disappointed, especially to lose in that manner. But we had a chat straight away. Now we have to forget about it. It's over.
"Our fate is in our own hands. If you'd given us this at the start of the tournament, we would have taken it. We have it all to play for and we're still very excited."
Wales' match against Russia will have added significance, given their Euro 2004 play-off defeat against the same opposition.
Having hung on for a goalless draw in the first leg in Moscow, Wales lost the return fixture 1-0 in Cardiff.
A 14-year-old Bale was in the Millennium Stadium crowd on that night in November 2003, though he does not think the current crop will be affected by previous Welsh failures.
"I was actually at the game with my dad and a few of my friends," he said. "I was very young but I still remember it.
"But that was the past and this is now. No-one's even thinking of that experience. We want to go in with a fresh mind. We want to play like we've been doing and hopefully get the win."
The party's Plan A is a voluntary coalition with an opposition, operating initially on the basis of 60% weighted majority votes.
The party's Plan B would involve MLAs passing bills through the assembly, but British ministers exercising executive functions while remaining accountable to the assembly.
The TUV claim Plan A would ensure cross-community involvement, although they believe it should be possible to reduce the threshold to a straight majority over time.
In a new policy document, the TUV leader, Jim Allister, argues that "clinging endlessly to the failure of mandatory coalition is not serving Northern Ireland well".
Stormont has been in crisis for weeks following the murder of an ex-IRA man.
Kevin McGuigan Sr was shot dead near his home in east Belfast in August, and following a police assessment that Provisional IRA members were involved, all but one of the Northern Ireland Executive's unionist ministers resigned in protest.
Crisis talks involving Northern Ireland's five biggest parties, and the British and Irish governments, have been taking place over the past three weeks.
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers told the Conservative Party's annual conference that the future of Northern Ireland devolution is under threat.
However, she said a return to direct rule would be a "severe setback" for Northern Ireland's political process.
The chief executive Anthony O'Sullivan, deputy Nigel Barnett and head of legal services Daniel Perkins have been suspended since 2013 after the Wales Audit Office declared their pay rises unlawful.
Misconduct charges were dropped last year after a judge dismissed the case.
It is not yet known how much money has already been spent on the dispute.
During a meeting on Tuesday night, councillors were given an update on the situation and were asked to approve a further £150,000 for legal costs, which was agreed.
A council spokesman said on Wednesday: "Internal investigations into three senior officers are ongoing and these must be conducted fairly and thoroughly in accordance with an agreed statutory process."
It is known that disciplinary proceedings are under way using an independent investigator.
Caerphilly county borough council has been asked how much the dispute has cost so far.
Neither the former One Direction singer nor the mayor of London are black, and have no African or Caribbean heritage.
Other public figures chosen by Kent Union, which represents students from the University of Kent, include Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Trevor McDonald.
Union president Rory Murray has apologised for "not getting it right".
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Social media posts released for the union's Black History Month campaign featuring Mr Malik and Mr Khan were withdrawn on Tuesday night.
The event's official UK organisers tweeted that they were "deeply disappointed at @KentUnion's ill thought and misdirected Black History Month celebrations".
"With Asian Heritage Month being observed by a growing number of countries in May, will Black icons be celebrated by Kent University then?" they asked.
Mr Murray said: "I want to apologise on behalf of Kent Union to any individuals who were upset, uncomfortable or offended by the image shared.
"There was no intent for this to happen and I am very sorry to anybody who felt this way," he said.
"Whilst we made every effort to include black and minority ethnic students on the planning for the month, clearly, we haven't got it right on this occasion."
In a joint statement, Kent Union and the University of Kent said the campaign was in line with the National Union of Students' position on Black History Month which chose to "recognise and celebrate the immense contributions that people of African, Arab, Asian and Caribbean heritage make to humanity".
"In the planning stages Kent Union worked with students to develop a campaign that celebrated a range of ethnic cultures.
"However, we can see that many of our students disagree with the direction the campaign took and that a mistake was made," they said.
They will be urging the president to use a decree he issued last year that allows him to deport foreigners in prison or on trial.
The brothers were disappointed that Mr Greste and two co-defendants were not freed at a court hearing on Thursday.
The trio were appealing against their convictions for spreading false news.
Instead, the court ordered a retrial, but said the three must remain in custody pending the start of that new trial within a month.
Mr Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have spent a year in jail after being arrested in December 2013 and later sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison on charges of collaborating with the banned Muslim Brotherhood after the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi by the military in 2013.
The three insist that they are innocent and that they were simply reporting the news.
Mr Greste's brother Andrew said that the court ruling meant that the journalist was an innocent man in prison and that it was time for President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to "step in and honour what he has said in the past".
The president has said previously that he wished the journalists had been deported rather than being put on trial.
"The best option to get Peter home is for the president to issue a decree and get [our brother] repatriated," Andrew Greste said.
He pointed out that the coming days - until the start of the retrial - provided the president with an important window of opportunity to do this.
The Greste family says that while Thursday's ruling had come as a disappointing surprise, it was still a "step in the right direction" and the "next best result".
The ruling came as prosecutors acknowledged major problems with the verdict against the trio.
Al-Jazeera has called on the authorities to release its journalists quickly.
Two of them are foreign nationals - Mr Greste, a former BBC correspondent, is Australian, and his producer colleague Mr Fahmy holds Egyptian and Canadian citizenship.
The three journalists were convicted in June - with Mr Fahmy and Mr Greste jailed for seven years and Mr Mohamed for 10 years.
An al-Jazeera spokesman called on the Egyptian authorities to free the men quickly or risk harming Egypt's image in the eyes of the world.
Mr Fahmy's brother Adel said he had "hoped for more" - that his brother would be freed, at least on bail.
But Mr Greste's lawyer Chris Flynn described the ruling as being "a positive result" if not the "complete vindication that we were hoping for".
"It does, however, recognise... that the original trial processes contain some flaws... and we think overall provides an opportunity for the president to consider perhaps some other measures such as deportation without any further judicial action in Egypt," he said.
Condor Liberation was given its name to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the occupation in World War Two, 9 May.
The ferry firm said it was awaiting spare parts for one of two bow-thrusters, "essential" to manoeuvring.
It said this and the forecast meant Saturday morning's services between Poole and the islands would not run.
The company said the evening services would continue as scheduled.
The ferry, which entered service in March, struck the harbour quay in Guernsey on its second day in service and while that is being investigated it is restricted in what weather it can dock in.
Other problems with the engine and a ramp, as well as delays caused by bad weather, led the company to apologise to customers for a "very disappointing start" to the ferry's service.
Since the formal talks were launched in Oslo in October 2012, the two sides have reached agreement on three of the six points on their agenda.
President Juan Manuel Santos has said that he would like to see a deal signed by the end of the year, but the rebels recently accused him of rushing the negotiations.
With the talks now in their 30th round and attacks by the rebels continuing - unlike during previous negotiations the two sides have not signed a ceasefire - Colombians are getting increasingly sceptical about the president's ambitious timetable.
•An estimated 220,000 killed
•More than five million internally displaced
•230,000 fled their homes in 2012
•6.2 million registered victims
•About 8,000 Farc rebels continue fighting
Sources: Unit for Attention and Reparation of Victims, Colombian government
Meanwhile, President Santos has been trying to garner international support for a post-conflict Colombia.
So how would Colombia change if a permanent peace accord were to be reached?
President Santos has predicted that "peace alone will bring almost two percentage points annually to our already booming economic growth".
While Colombia's economy has been growing at a rate of about 4% in the past decade, analysts say that growth could have been double that if it had not been for the armed conflict.
The Colombian Research Centre for the Analysis of Conflict predicts that a peace deal would "strengthen formal employment, hasten poverty reduction and improve quality of life".
Unemployment continues to be a major problem in Colombia, which in 2011 had the highest levels in the whole of Latin America.
Although the government announced last May that the unemployment rate had dropped to its lowest level in 14 years, at 8.8% it still remains almost double that of neighbouring Ecuador.
In a study entitled ""What would Colombia gain economically from peace?", the think tank says that an end to the armed internal conflict would boost investment in particular in areas so far shunned by risk-adverse investors and drive up the value of land and assets in those regions.
But peace, or rather what Colombian politicians call the "post-conflict process", also comes at a cost.
Roy Barreras, who jointly chairs the peace commission in the Colombian senate, recently put this cost at $45bn (£28bn) over the next decade.
He said major investment was needed in areas such as land distribution, registration and management, as well as in local government and agriculture, if peace was to be achieved in areas which for a long time have had a minimal state presence.
But he told the senate that figures by the non-profit think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), suggested this cost would be offset by a predicted $49bn in extra revenue created by investors' regained confidence in a peaceful Colombia.
His sentiments were echoed by Daniel Mejia, director of the Research Centre on Drugs and Security at the University of the Andes in Bogota, who also thinks the cost of implementing a peace deal could be recouped within a decade.
"We have to see the peace accord as an investment which is costly in the short run but which has very important benefits in the medium and long term," he told me.
Although the two sides entered formal negotiations two years ago, there has been no bilateral ceasefire, despite pressure for one from the Farc.
President Santos argued that a ceasefire agreed during previous negotiations held between 1998 and 2002 allowed the rebels to regroup and re-arm to emerge stronger than before.
So while the talks have been going on in Havana, the Cuban capital, attacks have continued unabated.
The Bogota-based non-governmental organisation, Foundation for Peace and Reconciliation, says that in 2013 there were on average 182 clashes per month between the Farc rebels and the security forces.
The two sides have said that a permanent peace deal would trigger an immediate ceasefire and a decommissioning of weapons.
Figures from the Foundation for Peace and Reconciliation suggest the Farc have been good at sticking to unilateral ceasefires they have called in the past.
During a Christmas truce they declared between 20 December 2013 and 20 January 2014, there were only four violations, the foundations says.
This suggests orders passed down from Farc negotiators in Cuba were largely followed by the fighters in the field, its researchers say, boding well for a post-conflict Colombia
However, the Farc is not the only group that is a security problem in Colombia.
Colombia's second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), commands some 1,500 fighters and is also involved in armed conflict despite having started exploratory peace talks with the government.
But there is also a number of violent criminal gangs which engage in extortion, drug trafficking, illegal mining and murder.
There are fears in the security forces that Farc fighters could be lured over to these gangs rather than surrender their weapons.
One of the three points on which the government and rebels have reached agreement is the illegal drugs trade, one of the main sources of funding for the Farc.
The two sides said they would eliminate all illicit drug production in Colombia should a final peace deal be reached.
Mr Mejia, at the Centre on Drugs and Security, thinks that a final peace accord could "drastically diminish the drugs trade in Colombia", provided the government manages to widen the state presence in areas that have been neglected for decades and implements the points it has agreed with the rebels on rural development.
But security analysts fear the retreat of the Farc from the drugs trade could create a vacuum into which Mexican cartels could move.
There is no doubt Colombian society has been adversely affected by five decades of armed conflict, with an estimated 220,000 people killed and more than five million internally displaced.
Andrei Gomez-Suarez told me a peace deal could radically transform the social fabric of Colombian society.
The lecturer on Colombian politics at the University of the Andes says a peace accord would create a context for sectors of Colombian society who still view each other with distrust, such as unions, businesses, and the security forces, to start working together to generate trust - an essential part of any healthy society.
He says a peace deal would allow more room for leftist social movements - currently often stigmatised as guerrilla supporters - to express their concerns about the key problems affecting Colombian society.
According to 2012 World Bank figures, Colombia is the seventh most unequal country in the world, with inequality levels similar to those found in Haiti and Angola.
And while poverty levels have dropped from 47.7% in 2003 to 32.7% in 2012, income inequality, which fuels social tension, has remained virtually unchanged.
The countryside has suffered most from the presence of the guerrilla, with a lack of investment in infrastructure and education leaving rural dwellers with little chance to better themselves.
In the northern Colombian province of Choco, more than two thirds of the population live in poverty, according to Colombia's national statistics office.
And in Cauca, where the Farc have a strong presence, poverty levels run at 62%.
Mr Gomez-Suarez argues that a peace deal would allow Colombians to shift their attention from immediate security threats to more long-term goals and tackle these pressing issues.
He thinks that a peace deal would allow the security forces to concentrate on fighting criminal organisations.
The eastern border area has seen a growth in criminal gangs which smuggle subsidised goods from Venezuela to Colombia and drugs the opposite way.
The presence of the gangs has increased insecurity in such border towns such as Cucuta and driven many into the illegal smuggling business as well as driving local producers and merchants out of business.
Criminal gangs have also increased their presence in such places as the port town of Buenaventura.
Residents have told the BBC they are afraid to go out after a spate of particularly gruesome killings and a growing number of disappearances.
A peace accord and the shift of resources away from battling the rebels and towards fighting common crime could increase citizens' safety in such crime hotspots, Mr Gomez-Suarez argues.
Increased security would in turn allow civic and community groups - targeted by criminals who see them as a challenge to their authority - to flourish and enrich the democratic process.
•1964: Farc rebel group founded as an armed wing of the communist party
•1965: Farc fighters seize the town of Inza, the first time they take control of an urban centre
•1980: Farc rebels abduct 22 soldiers, the first time they use kidnapping as a strategy to further their aims
•1984: Government of Belisario Betancourt and Farc sign a ceasefire
•1986: Ceasefire crumbles when 22 rebels are killed by the military, the rebels retaliate with an ambush on soldiers
•1991: Peace talks are held in neighbouring Venezuela and later moved to Tlaxcala, Mexico, where they fail in 1992
•1996-1998: Farc are at their strongest, kidnapping about 200 members of the police and military
•1998: Government of Andres Pastrana engages in peace talks, agrees to grant the rebels a safe haven the size of Switzerland
•2002: Peace process breaks down. Farc rebels seize presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt
•2008: Senior rebel leader Raul Reyes killed in a bombing raid, Farc founder Manuel Marulanda dies of natural causes
•2012: Farc announces end of kidnapping for ransom
•Oct 2012: Peace talks are launched in Oslo and move to Havana, Cuba in November 2012
McAllister signed for the Iron from Cowdenbeath in July 2013, making 89 appearances for the club.
The 28-year-old has also had spells with Sheffield Wednesday, Bury, Mansfield, Shrewsbury and Port Vale.
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Thirteen people, plus the alleged bomber, were killed in Monday's attack, and around 50 people were injured.
The names of the victims have been confirmed by Russian authorities, and details of their lives have been coming out in local media.
A candle-lit memorial has been laid out in Moscow's Alexander Garden, with flowers and photos of the victims.
Doll-maker and arts teacher Irina Medyantseva died after trying to shield her daughter from the explosion, according to relatives.
Her daughter Yelena, 29, was treated for her injuries in hospital and her condition is said to be stable.
"Due to that heinous terror attack against innocent people, my beloved wife died and my daughter was injured. It's a horrible tragedy," Mrs Medyantseva's husband, Aleksandr Kaminsky, told news site Russia Today.
A psychology student from Azerbaijan, Dilbara Alieva was taken to hospital but later died from her injuries.
"She was always bright. She was fascinated by what motivated people and was so good at figuring them out. She was writing her dissertation on motivation and sport," her teacher, Irina Berezovskaya, told the Washington Post.
Maxim Aryshev, from Kazakhstan, was an IT student at St Petersburg State University of Economics, and had ambitions to become a programmer.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, he was wrongly named as the bomber on social media.
One of his classmates told Russian media, "He was cheerful, sociable, loved to joke around, be sarcastic. He was the life of the party and had many friends."
Mansur Sagadeev had recently celebrated his 17th birthday and was studying at the St Petersburg College of Communications.
He was in his second year and hoped to pursue higher education.
An obituary posted on the college websites said he was known for his modesty and kindness, and always tried to help classmates.
A martial arts coach and local kickboxing champion, Denis R Petrov was on his way to a training session when he was caught in the explosion.
Russian media found a poignant message Angelina Svistunova wrote on social media just two weeks before her death: "I thank my mother and father for giving me my life, giving me a beautiful name, giving me a wonderful childhood, a wonderful youth."
"Maria was the best wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, friend," one of Maria Nevmerzhitskaya's relatives told Russian-language website Meduza.
Ksenia Malyukova was obstetrics student who loved cheerleading.
A former member of the army, Dmitry Mazanov was a warehouse worker.
He left behind a wife and two-year-old daughter, according to news website Meduza.
The Australia all-rounder announced his retirement from Test cricket on Sunday after withdrawing from the ODI series against England through injury.
Watson, 34, previously played for the county in 2004 and 2005.
"He has often said he would like to return if the opportunity comes up," Hampshire director of cricket Giles White told BBC Radio Solent.
"It will depend on his availability more than anything, but initial contact has been made.
"I'm not sure how long things will take, but certainly there's a will there."
If Watson was to rejoin Hampshire next season, White confirmed it would be for white-ball cricket only.
"It's likely to depend on the structure of the competitions and the international fixtures next season, but we'll see how it goes," he added.
Watson played in 59 Test matches, scoring 3,731 runs at an average of 35.19 and taking 75 wickets at 33.68.
He was part of the Hampshire side which won the 2005 C&G Trophy at Lord's. He signed again for the county in 2008 to play in the T20 Cup but had to withdraw because of international commitments.
Snapchat profiles were set up in the name of Base Models, a legitimate company, not involved with the activity.
Girls received messages from the accounts, from someone who claimed to be recruiting models for the agency.
Base Models said anyone approached online by someone who claimed to work for them should contact their office.
Base Models, a London model agency, said it had received more than 40 reports from girls who said they were contacted online by someone claiming to work for the company as a model scout.
Using Snapchat accounts named after the company, somebody posing as a Base employee contacted girls aged between 14 and 19.
Girls were told they could earn between £500 and £50,000 working as models.
One report, shown to the BBC by the agency, indicated that a child was asked to send a naked picture of herself.
Base said it began receiving reports in October about a Snapchat profile named after the company that had asked girls to send indecent images.
The model agency reported the account to Snapchat, who deleted it - but a week later another account named after the company appeared and the issue resumed.
Base Models does not have a Snapchat account, nor does it use the platform to recruit models.
The BBC heard from the mother of a 14-year-old girl from Hunwick, County Durham, who was "disgusted" to discover that her 14-year-old daughter, a child model, had been targeted.
The mother said: "They messaged her saying they worked for Base and wanted to hire her as a model, so she sent some headshots."
The girl told the "scout" she was 14 but was still asked to send lingerie shots - so she told her mother about the exchange.
The girl's mother said she was "immediately suspicious" about the messages, so she contacted Base Models, who confirmed the messages were fraudulent.
She said she was worried that others who were less knowledgeable about modelling could be more easily deceived.
"If you tell a child who knows nothing about the business that they could earn up to £50,000 [working as a model] - they might think that it sounds like a great opportunity," she said.
A 19-year-old student based in Manchester, Ellie McCandles, said she had received an almost identical approach on Snapchat.
After she was asked to send pictures of herself in her underwear, Ellie declined and contacted the agency.
"Something didn't feel right about it," the student said.
Base Models managing director Max Ridd said the rise of celebrity culture had made model agencies an "easy target" for those looking to deceive young girls.
Mr Ridd said: "Young people have always been seduced by the idea of fame and celebrity - but especially today with the Kardashian fame wave going on.
"Modelling is seen as a first step on the fame ladder - and I think that's one reason why we are being targeted."
Mr Ridd said anyone approached online by someone who claimed to work for his agency should contact its office.
Police in Scotland issued a warning last month after a girl in Lanarkshire was asked to expose herself on Skype by someone who claimed to work for Base Models.
An NSPCC spokesperson said: "Every child has the right to be safe online and reports of children being contacted in this way are troubling.
"No legitimate company would ever ask a child to send indecent images of themselves, and anyone who receives such a request should report it immediately.
"Children should remember to think twice before sharing pictures of themselves, and if they are ever unsure they can call Childline on 0800 11 11."
Trainee accountant Danny Jones, 21, from Chirk near Wrexham, died from a single stab wound from a replica sword.
A sculpture is being created from seized weapons in Oswestry, Shropshire, the town where he died in 2013.
Meanwhile, a north Wales judge said there was huge concern about the number of serious injuries caused by knives.
The British Ironworks Centre is creating the sculpture - Knife Angel - using 30,000 weapons seized from the scenes of crime around the UK.
Mr Jones died in hospital from a single stab wound from an ornamental short sword during an argument with a friend after a night out in Oswestry, Shropshire in April 2013.
His killer was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter.
Mr Jones's mother Lisa McNeill said: "We don't want anyone to go through what we've gone through and what we'll always go through because it's never ending."
Sculptor Alfie Bradley said: "I'm using different contrasting blades and welding them sideways to create the contrast between big Samurai swords, machetes and normal kitchen knives.
"When it's lit up at night time it will have a diamond effect."
Police forces in England and Wales recorded 26,370 violent knife crimes in 2014-15, up from 25,974 the previous year - breaking a downward trend since 2010-11.
Meanwhile, a judge at Mold Crown Court on Thursday warned about the consequences of knife crime.
Judge Niclas Parry was jailing a Llandudno man for affray and possessing a knife, after a motorist was threatened when he stopped to intervene in a fight outside a pub.
He said it was a volatile incident which could have had catastrophic consequences.
"The public of north Wales are hugely concerned about the number of serious injuries caused by knife crime," he added.
The 25-year-old was suspended for nine games on Tuesday after admitting a charge of "other contrary behaviour" during the loss at Catalans on 1 July.
Acton appealed against the severity of the ban but his case was dismissed by a Rugby Football League tribunal.
He was charged after grabbing the injured Greg Bird's shirt, lifting him and pushing him back to the floor.
"I accept full responsibility for my actions and they weren't acceptable regardless of the grading I've been given," said Acton, who will now miss the rest of the season.
"I will continue to work hard and improve on the negative areas of my game and support the team as best I can off the field for the rest of the season and whilst I'm part of the club"
Acton's ban has been back-dated to the day of the Grade F offence - the most serious on the RFL's disciplinary scale which carries a minimum ban of eight games - but its increased length means that he will now not be able to play again until next season.
Initially he would have been available for the last of Leigh's fixtures in the Qualifiers as they bid to retain their Super League status after winning promotion from the Championship last year.
"While Jamie's actions are completely unacceptable in our game and cannot be defended in any way, I do not feel that the grading imposed was appropriate," said Leigh owner Derek Beaumont.
"We consulted a barrister familiar with these situations, who also strongly believed that the grading was inappropriate.
"People can make their own mind up and we have to accept the decision now for what it is and I would like to thank all those people offering their messages of support.
"Jamie is under no illusions of the consequences of his actions. He has worked hard on his discipline, in particular the fighting and retaliation aspect, which he has completely eradicated from his game.
"I am therefore satisfied that he will learn from this and we will work with him to eradicate the stupid and potentially dangerous aspects of his game so he can reach his potential of representing his country in the near future."
Fighting at Koutoukale, 50km (31 miles) north-west of the capital, Niamey, was reported at dawn.
Mr Amadou told the BBC the attackers were from the Mali-based al-Qaeda splinter group Mujao.
Last week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Niger in part to offer security help.
The prison is holding jihadists from both the Nigeria-based Boko Haram group and those linked to al-Qaeda.
But the government spokesman said that no-one had escaped during the attack.
"The attack has been contained. One attacker has been killed. They are now being hunted," he added.
The BBC's Himadou Hamadou in Niamey says a local journalist told him that the attackers had come from the direction of the border with Mali.
Mujao, or the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, is one of several Islamist militant groups based in Mali.
Niger has in the past been targeted by Boko Haram and al-Qaeda-linked militants.
The country's army is part of the multi-national force fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria and its neighbours.
It is described as "an oasis" in the midst of religious division. Tabeetha is the last remaining Church of Scotland school and, intriguingly, it's in Israel.
The gates of Tabeetha are easy to miss. They take you off a busy street where wires stick out of walls.
At first, the playground sounds like any playground: the same games, just as noisy but the children are speaking Hebrew, Arabic, English and other languages.
From the hall, which doubles as a bomb shelter and chamber which can be sealed in the event of chemical and biological warfare, I hear a Scottish Accent. The vice principal is from Aberdeen.
It is marked out as a Christian school by the Bible inscriptions on the alcoves.
Its founder looks down sternly from the wall in the hall. Jane Walker-Arnott was a Scottish woman, from Glasgow, who started Tabeetha in 1863 - long before the state of Israel even existed.
Under the gaze of the founder, the children file in to rehearse their nativity play.
Many people associate Bethlehem with the songs they sing at Christmas - the birthplace of Jesus, according to the Bible.
At Tabeetha, they are about 40 miles from Bethlehem, acting out a Christian tradition, about a Jewish family and Joseph is played by Adham, a Muslim. That sums up the ethos of this school.
Nawras is an A-level pupil. She is Muslim. At Tabeetha, she's encouraged to talk about the unwanted politics that invade her life.
"As somebody who lives in Jaffa, it gets quite tense, but we don't have a lot of places here in Israel where people are together, but if this expands, then our potential would be impossible to imagine," she said.
"At one point I see my brother being stopped for wearing a gold necklace, because it looks suspicious, and on the other side, I hear my friend's family being victimised from a terrorist attack. What we do is learn from it and not taking one stand, one position."
Yan, who's from a Jewish family, says life goes on as normal for him. He lives in an area where people of different faiths live peacefully side by side.
He said: "In this school there is no tension between pupils in regard to religion and race."
So I expect him to be hopeful about the future but he pauses before saying: "Things are really messy right now."
He has heard too much to have the optimism of youth. "So no. I'm not optimistic".
In 12-year-old Roberto's class they were learning about the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Roberto is Christian and eager to talk. I ask him what he thinks about the conflict around him.
"I think people are fighting for nothing; they're fighting for something useless, and I think the people should get along," he said. "I want to see people just stop have racism."
I would be unlikely to ask what religion a child is in the UK. It's unlikely it would matter. In Israel, it's entwined in their lives and ingrained in the school curriculum.
When I meet the Middle East secretary for the Church of Scotland, Kenny Roger, he is every bit the modern missionary. He wears a linen suit and drives a hybrid car.
He says Christians can chose to go to Tabeetha rather than an Israeli State school.
"Within Israel, you are either Christian, Muslim or Jew and therefore here at Tabeetha we recognise all religions," he said.
"Within the Israeli state system, it's clear that they don't recognise necessarily the Christian and the Muslim faith, so children going there, their teaching will be solely based on the Jewish religion."
Father Abdel Masih F Fahim represents Christian Schools in Israel. As we walk through St Joseph's Church in Ramleh, he casually mentions that it is named after Joseph of Arimathea who, according to the Bible, took Jesus down from the cross.
The friar tells me that St Joseph came from this town.
Fr Abdel says funding to Christian schools from the Israeli government has been cut from 75% to 29% in recent years. He describes that as discrimination against Christians.
Fr Abdel is in talks with the Ministry of Education but says even 75% is discriminatory against 100% given to state schools.
Kenny Roger adds that if Tabeetha school was to close, some of the families at the school would leave Israel entirely.
Although discussions with the Israeli government are showing signs of hope, he says he feels Christians are being marginalised.
The Israeli Ministry of Education said: "The Tabeetha school is under the status of a 'recognised but not official' institute, and therefore it is funded like all other schools in Israel that are recognised but unofficial, meaning up to 75%.
"High-schools are funded like all other high-schools in Israel, at a rate of 100%."
The government spokesman added: "The Tabeetha school, along with other recognised schools in Jaffa that are multi-cultural schools, share an attitude of mutual respect and equality among all students of the school.
"The district emphasises that the Tabeetha school participates in many activities run by the Ministry of Education which encourage the values of tolerance."
I leave Tabeetha school with an "earworm".
"Lie-lee-da, lie-lee-da." Too young to fully understand the politics, the five-year-olds sang Jingle Bells in Arabic at home-time. Home to their life in a divided land they call the Holy Land.
The Belfast Telegraph,Irish News,News Letter and Daily Mirror all feature First Minister Arlene Foster's vow to "never" agree to an Irish language act.
The News Letter carries a photo on its front page of the first minister at an election event in Lurgan.
She told party members that "if you feed a crocodile, it will keep coming back for more".
At a separate event, when told of Mrs Foster's comments, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams quipped: "See you later, alligator."
The Belfast Telegraph carries a warning from the DUP leader that Mr Adams is back "front and centre" and out for a valedictory run before he "leaves the scene".
Irish News columnist John Manley says Mrs Foster's speech showed she has retreated to a 'No surrender' message and says that, along with her deriding of the Sinn Féin president, will loom large in everything the party's members say between now and the election.
He ponders that in three weeks we will know whether the "electorate has grown weary of such arguments or whether long-standing divisions will simply be reinforced".
Elsewhere and the paper asks if the DUP has broken election broadcasting rules by filming part of its party political broadcast on the steps of Parliament Buildings.
Writing in the Daily Mirror, political consultant Quintin Oliver, adopts a more positive tone and outlines four reasons why he believes the parties are "likely to come to a further arrangement than not".
He says the poll represents a fresh chance to vote for the future, to vote for hope and to create fresh change for everyone.
Staying on a political theme and the News Letter reports that "Stormont's top spin doctor" is soon to be out of a job after only six months.
David Gordon, who was formerly the editor of the BBC's Nolan Show, was appointed by the office of the first minister and deputy first minister.
The paper says there is an outside chance that when a new first and deputy first minister are appointed after the election that he will be reappointed but says Mr Gordon "does not appear to be holding out much hope".
A post by Mr Gordon on Facebook says: " Losing my job in a few weeks. But Manchester City are up to third and Kylie is single again. Swings and roundabouts."
The case of a Dublin man arrested trying to transport 1.6 kilos of high grade explosives and three detonators on bus to Londonderry features in several of the papers.
Patrick Brennan, from Clondalkin, Dublin, was jailed for seven years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on Monday.
The Daily Mirror obtained photos of some of the items police recovered on the bus and described it as a "deadly haul" which could have killed dozens of passengers.
A terror warning also features in the Belfast Telegraph's lead story.
The paper has spoken to a serving PSNI officer who has warned that terror gangs are taking over the role of police in parts of Belfast.
It is a situation that has arisen, according to the officer, due a lack of police resources and delayed response times.
Ch Supt Chris Noble told the Belfast Telegraph that policing, like all other front line public services has had to deliver significant efficiencies but reassured the public that "the PSNI had the appropriate number of officers available 24/7 across Belfast".
The plight of the family of a young boy from Northern Ireland receiving treatment in a US hospital is also carried by several of the papers, including the News Letter.
The paper reports that Charlotte Caldwell is sleeping rough after treatment costs for her son, Billy, who suffers from a life-threatening form of epilepsy, spiralled.
The mum from Castlederg said funds that had been raised did not cover the cost of their accommodation.
On a lighter note - crooner and housewives favourite, Daniel O'Donnell showed his fun side while attending his niece's wedding in County Donegal.
Bride Patricia Doogan was left stunned when her uncle and a host of other singing stars organised a music tribute during her wedding Mass.
The paper says it echoed scenes from the film Love Actually as the singers were scattered among the congregation at the service last Friday.
Rhodes Must Fall Oxford, which seeks to address Oxford's "colonial legacy", said the history syllabus remains "hugely Eurocentric".
It reacted after Oxford made completion of one paper in non-European history compulsory for history undergraduates.
The university said it was pleased to be diversifying its curriculum.
It said the move "followed years of discussion" and was not a response to any campaign.
The likes of the "Why is My Curriculum White?" campaign have been encouraging UK universities to cover more "non-white" topics.
Neil Gregor, professor of modern European history at the University of Southampton, described the move as "long overdue", and said there was a "widely acknowledged need to make history less Eurocentric".
But, he also criticised some of the media reaction to the changes, which he said carried "an implicit accusation this is PC [political correctness] gone mad" based on the assumption global history means black history.
He added it was a "delusion" to think British or European history could be taught without some consideration of global history.
Femi Nylander, from Rhodes Must Fall Oxford, said the "real question" was why non-European history did not become compulsory on the syllabus of "the world's supposedly best institution" until 2017.
Pride Glasgow is taking place over two days for the first time, with the annual parade through the city centre on Saturday.
This year the focus is on raising awareness of transgender rights.
Texas and Union J are among acts performing at a festival site on Glasgow Green.
The parade set off from the Green, with floats and walking groups from organisations including The Equality Network, The Gay Police Association and Dogs Trust making their way through the city centre.
A rally was also held on Glasgow Green ahead of the march.
It involved more than 100 community, charity and trading stalls offering advice and merchandise, a community stage with circus performances and live music, as well as a funfair and food and drinks stalls.
Alastair Smith, chief executive of Pride Glasgow, said: "This year marks 20 years of Pride Events in Scotland and we have come along way since the first.
"Pride is a chance for the LGBTI community and their friends, family and supporters to come together and celebrate the achievements of the community and to stand together as one and raise awareness of the issues that we still face."
There are light purple flowers growing in between the olive trees, rocks and brown grass. The sun burns.
"Don't go any nearer, otherwise you'll disturb the bees' movement, and they may sting you," beekeeper Khairi Kharroubi warns.
We are in the middle of the countryside in the Siliana province of Tunisia, a two-hour drive south west of capital Tunis.
Khairi, 24, and two other beekeepers are proudly showing some visitors their hives.
The three men are the first participants in a new social enterprise project called TuniBee, which is run by students at the Mediterranean School of Business (MSB) in Tunis.
Under the scheme, people with beekeeping experience are selected from deprived areas of the country.
Money from TuniBee's sponsors is then used to buy those taking part additional beehives. The beekeepers are also given training and guidance to produce better quality and larger amounts of honey.
Each hive costs 200 Tunisian dinars ($91; £69), and in return sponsors get 1.5kg of honey a year for a period of three years.
This is just over one-third of the current average annual production of a Tunisian hive, and 1.5kg of good quality Tunisian honey costs between 30 and 45 dinars.
The beekeepers get to keep the remainder of the honey during the three years, and after that period, the hive, and all its future honey production, is theirs to keep.
The idea for TuniBee came from Noomen Lahimer, professor of economics and entrepreneurship at the MSB, whose father keeps bees.
Prof Lahimer proposed it to his students, suggesting that they should set up and run the scheme as part of their studies.
"We immediately liked the idea," says MSB student Chaima Ben Romdhan, who is TuniBee's president.
"However, we didn't have any specialist expertise [of beekeeping]."
To bring in the required beekeeping knowledge, Prof Lahimer put his students in touch with a Tunisian entrepreneur called Khaled Bouchoucha.
Mr Bouchoucha, who had previously been mentored by Prof Lahimer in a competition for start-up companies in 2013, runs a business that specialises in helping beekeepers increase honey production.
His company, Iris Technology, has developed a beehive with a camera attached to monitor the movement of the bees. The hive is also fitted with a GPS tracker to try to deter theft - which is a growing problem in Tunisia.
In addition, the hives are fitted with a monitor that measures temperatures and humidity. If anything goes wrong, the beekeepers are sent a text message so that they can react as quickly as possible.
Mr Bouchoucha agreed to come on board and provide the beehives at cost price, and offer his company's technical support.
He has been joined by Hidhli Naoufel, a veterinarian who specialises in bees. Mr Naoufel has been training the participating beekeepers in best practice.
"Expertise is often lacking, and incorrect practices are adopted from generation to generation," says Mr Naoufel.
One example of bad practice Mr Naofel is preventing is bees being fed sugar. This increases a hive's production, but results in a bland honey lacking the flavours you get if the bees are required to harvest various nectars.
TuniBee currently has 24 sponsors, including parents and relatives of the students helping to run the scheme, and MSB staff.
Recently some of the sponsors joined the students on a coach trip from Tunis to the village of Kesra, in Siliana province, to meet the first three TuniBee participants and see their hives.
Mohamed Jouini, 32, says he was very pleased to have been chosen to take part.
An electrician, he says he needs to keep bees to make extra money: "The current economic situation in Tunisia makes it hard to survive with just one job."
Abdelfatteh Sayari, 38, has his TuniBee hives nearby. A mapmaker by trade, he started keeping bees as a hobby 10 years ago, keen to restart a family tradition.
He says: "My grandmother kept bees in the traditional way - in trees - but nobody took over from her when she passed away."
Fellow TuniBee participant Khairi Kharroubi has been helping his father look after bees since he was 12. He is currently doing a degree in business administration, so selling honey brings in vital money.
One of the sponsors who travelled to Kesra to see the bees is Salwa Battikh. A retired English teacher, the 50-year-old is the aunt of one of the students helping to run TuniBee.
She says: "I like the idea, it is something new and I hope it will succeed, because it is so hard to find good honey."
Like many Tunisians she usually buys her honey direct from beekeepers in the hope of getting better quality for a lower price than that available in supermarkets.
Ms Battikh adds that she hopes the scheme will encourage more people to go into beekeeping.
Another sponsor, the MSB's vice dean, Leila Triki, is hopeful that TuniBee can help alleviate poverty in the Tunisian countryside.
The intention is for the scheme to be expanded, including sponsoring a number of female beekeepers. TuniBee is also looking to bring on some corporate sponsors, with oil firms Total and Shell and computer giant Microsoft showing an interest.
Export sales are also being explored, with the students from TuniBee having already found one US company interested in importing Tunisian honey.
Currently Tunisia has 12,000 beekeepers who look after 256,000 hives, according to estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture. About 80% of those looking after bees do so to supplement their income from other work.
The hope is that the beekeeping skills the TuniBee programme teaches will enable beekeepers to increase production.
Presently the average amount of honey produced each year by a Tunisian hive is just 4kg, compared with 13.6kg in the UK and 34kg in Germany.
Economist Mehdi Ben Braham of the University of Carthage in Tunis says TuniBee is an "interesting project".
"This kind of project could have a significant socio-economic impact in deprived areas, by giving hope and creating sustainable jobs, and providing sufficient financial resources to reduce poverty."
The dispute is over who pays for a separate electrification of railway lines in the south Wales valleys.
Welsh Secretary David Jones said documents proved the Welsh government agreed to pay for the valley lines upgrade.
But the First Minister said the UK government should foot the bill.
Carwyn Jones insisted that ministers in Westminster had said they would do so.
The Welsh secretary said the dispute was having knock-on effects over electrifying the mainline to Swansea.
Leaked correspondence between both administrations showed they agreed a funding package in 2012.
As part of the deal, the upgrade to the valley lines - the commuter lines in and out of Cardiff - would be paid for from the access charges that train operators pay to use the track.
The service is currently operated by Arriva Trains Wales, subsidised by the Welsh government. The franchise is due for renewal in 2018.
Welsh government sources said they agreed a "mechanism" to cover the cost of electrification, but that the UK government should pick up the bill.
Electrification to Swansea and the valleys was announced at a cost of £350m in 2012 by the UK government, although it now says the current estimate for the cost for infrastructure on the valley lines is £588m.
Welsh Secretary Mr Jones said: "There's a complete audit trail of the negotiations between the Welsh government and Department for Transport which makes it absolutely clear that the Welsh government would be responsible for paying for the valleys lines."
He said the UK government would pay for the upgrade on the main line between London and Cardiff, and between Bridgend and Swansea.
"We're very anxious to adhere to that bargain and we do look to the Welsh government to pay its part of the bargain too," he added.
A delay over the valley lines - including the section of the main line between Cardiff and Bridgend - was "causing problems over the upgrade of the route to Swansea", he said.
In an interview in October 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron said: "It's this government that's putting the money into the electrification of the railway line all the way up to Swansea and, of course, the valley lines."
But the Welsh secretary said: "The Welsh government can't deny what the arrangement was.
"It's documented in black and white, and all that they need to do now is to come to terms with the HM government for the upgrade of that line."
A Welsh government spokesman said: "The Welsh government has never agreed to fund the electrification of the valley lines because rail infrastructure is not devolved.
"However, the prime minister has publicly stated on a number of occasions that the UK government would fund this important project.
"If the secretary of state for Wales has any correspondence that suggests otherwise then we call on him to make it public."
The Welsh government also said the BBC appeared to have been given a "selective series of emails between officials at the Department for Transport and the Welsh government discussing the mechanism for funding early elements of the... project".
"These emails do nothing to contradict the public commitment given to the people of Wales by the prime minister when he visited Cardiff in October 2013," said the spokesman.
Network Rail will raise the money for the work on the valley lines itself initially, then recover it from the access charges.
However, its strategic business plan for 2014-19 also says the Welsh government will pay £28m in "financing costs".
A Network Rail spokeswoman said: "To progress to the next step and meet the regulatory commitment of delivering the scheme by 2019, we need confirmation that the funding for the project is secured."
BBC Wales has also seen a record of a meeting between officials from Cardiff and Whitehall in March 2013.
They discussed an arrangement whereby the Welsh government would pay to electrify the valley lines.
It is not clear whether the arrangement was approved by Welsh ministers. The Welsh government has been asked to comment.
The arrangement would involve the Department for Transport (DfT) providing the funding between 2014 - 19 because "WG have no money" to pay for the enhancement.
The DfT would then "get this back from WG" in the future and be "left revenue neutral as WG will pay for the full cost of the work".
In a letter to the first minister on 14 March, Mr Cameron accuses Welsh ministers of "misunderstanding" the funding deal.
Etxabeguren Leanizbarrutia was at Real Sociedad for five years but never established himself beyond the B team.
The 23-year-old has been training with Gary Naysmith's Scottish League Two side for a month, having moved to Scotland to attend university.
The Fifers plan to sign the Madrid-born player on professional terms at Bayview in January.
The body of the 51-year-old was found in a cesspit at her home in Royston, Hertfordshire, in July.
Her fiancé, Ian Stewart, 56, who denies murder, visited her solicitor in Ms Bailey's place on 11 April, the day she went missing, to discuss the sale.
He claimed she was "too unwell" to attend, St Albans Crown Court was told.
The Northumberland-born author of the Electra Brown series for teenagers, was last seen alive on 11 April.
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Mr Stewart reported her missing on 14 April. Her body, together with that of her dog was found in the excrement-filled septic tank beneath a garage three months later.
The prosecution alleges Mr Stewart murdered his partner, who was worth an estimated £4m, for her money.
Ms Bailey had been due to meet her solicitor Timothy Penn to discuss the sale of her £185,000 Gateshead flat on the afternoon of 11 April.
Instead, Mr Stewart attended saying his partner was unwell, Mr Penn told the jury.
While she was missing, Mr Stewart tried to push the sale through and was "not at all pleased" by the lack of progress, the solicitor said.
Mr Penn told the jury during one phone call Mr Stewart said: "You probably know that Helen is missing and I'm wondering if you can carry on with this transaction in the meantime."
Mr Penn said: "I said effectively no. He talked about a power of attorney and I said in these circumstances we would want to hear from Helen."
Earlier in the trial, the court heard Mr Stewart had been given power of attorney alongside Ms Bailey's brother John in 2015, allowing him to control her affairs should she become unfit to administer them.
Mr Stewart's sons Jamie and Oliver Stewart were also in court to give evidence on the fifth day of the trial.
Following Mr Stewart's arrest, the court heard he told his son Oliver that two men, named as Nick and Joe, had repeatedly showed up at the home to demand paperwork.
He claimed he had been assaulted by the men and on one occasion was given a mobile phone and forced to follow certain instructions.
Oliver Stewart, 21, told the court: "When he was telling me about these people, I could see that he was not joking, I could see the fear.
"Purely by him telling me that, that was the road I can see he was going down."
When asked by prosecutor Stuart Trimmer QC "what road was that?", Mr Stewart replied: "I concluded they were involved in taking Helen because of the way he was telling me - there was fear in his face, he was not just joking about this."
Jamie Stewart said on the day of the alleged killing, his father had travelled to Cambridge to watch him in a bowls match.
Later that evening the pair had a Chinese takeaway at their Royston home.
Jamie Stewart told the court, when he got home from work the following day - 12 April - his father told him Ms Bailey had left him a note saying she had gone to Broadstairs "to get some time for herself".
"Throughout that week, he began to get visibly more stressed out. He was spending a lot more time with myself and my brother and wanting to be around us," he said.
Several days later his father told Jamie he had reported Ms Bailey missing.
Ian Stewart denies charges of murder, preventing a lawful burial, fraud and three counts of perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
The city was reduced to rubble during what became known as the "Swansea Blitz".
About 35,000 incendiaries and 800 high explosive bombs were dropped during the raids which started on 19 February, 1941, killing 230 people.
The raging fires could be seen from the other side of the Bristol Channel in Devon.
Swansea was targeted because of its nearby docks and part of the Germans' bombing campaign was to cripple exports as well as demoralise civilians and emergency services.
It resulted in whole areas being completely cleared and rebuilding starting from scratch.
"Pre-Second World War Swansea had begun to look and feel like a city," said Bangor University's Dr Dinah Evans, whose research includes the impact of warfare on, and reconstruction of, Swansea.
"Hotels, restaurants and cafes abounded, together with theatres, art galleries, concert halls and shopping arcades.
Wednesday 19 February - Friday 21 February, 1941
"In the commercial centres of Wind Street, Castle Street and High Street the pavements were wide and the shops fronting onto them stylish, selling merchandise of all kinds.
"The department stores were imposing and many of a calibre usually found in London.
"However, when in 1941 Swansea came under enemy attack from the air, the face of the town was changed for ever.
"Although the town's Guildhall, art gallery and library were still standing when the bombing stopped, its social and entertainment heart had all but disappeared.
"The town centre was destroyed and Swansea people had to contend with a bleak landscape where once prosperous shops and stores had stood."
Dr Evans said the council was under pressure to produce a plan that would not only restore those areas damaged in the blitz but also ensure the future prosperity of Swansea.
She added: "Meanwhile rumours began to circulate in the press that Swansea town's reconstruction progress compared unfavourably with other bombed cities, especially that of Plymouth.
"However, when it came to the question of rebuilding a blitzed town or city centre, there were limits to what could be achieved.
"The war effort had all but bankrupted Britain and the financial stringencies of post-war Britain would conflict with the visions of many local authorities for the reconstruction process.
"Swansea was no exception; the plans of its town council for a new shopping and commercial centre were subject to endless delays, shortages and restrictions.
"The rebuilt town centre, some 20 years later, was a product of its time - functional but with little style, the outcome of inadequate funding."
Since then, plans have come and gone to regenerate the city centre on a huge scale, including the doomed Castle Quays project which was first mooted in 1994 and scrapped 10 years later.
Respective ruling councils have struggled to find an alternative option, with the most recent failure the collapse of a £1bn transformation project.
"There's been no real major investment in Swansea," said Chris Holley, who led the city's council from 2004 until 2012.
"Most development companies look at the city and say there's not enough wealth to invest in the city centre.
"After the war there was investment but we had more factories and more jobs and they've all gone now."
"Now it's the case of not having the disposable wealth which would generate sales across the patch and we haven't got a huge travel to work area."
Mr Holley pointed out the amount of investment Cardiff has received over the years and the Welsh capital is thriving both in the city centre and Cardiff Bay.
Swansea has failed to significantly move forward but planners hope the latest plans, unveiled in January, will finally give the city centre the regeneration it needs.
The £500m project will be the biggest landscape change since the blitz and work is due to start in 2017.
It will include a 3,500-seat arena, an aquarium and a new shopping area along with the creation of a city beach area with bars, restaurants, offices, 5-star hotels and homes which will open on to an extended promenade and the beach.
"I think St David's [shopping area and cafe quarter] would be great for the city centre," said Mr Holley, who is leader of the council's opposition.
"If we can build the arena, it will help the city centre with footfall.
"I'm not too sure about the civic centre development as that appears to be mostly flats."
Only time will tell.
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Sean Crawshaw, 47, got stranded after trying to break in to the house in Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester.
The homeowner, in her 60s, found him wedged on the windowsill about 15ft (4.5m) off the ground after returning from a trip to the shops.
The long arm of the law plucked Crawshaw to safety and he has now been jailed for the botched burglary.
Crawshaw, of James Street, Radcliffe was sentenced to two years and five months at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court last month.
He had pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to steal after being caught in the bathroom window in Bank Street in December.
Sgt Richard Garland of Greater Manchester Police told the BBC: "It was nice of him to hang around.
"He was actually cautioned as he was in mid-air.
"We did all have a chuckle about it later but the homeowner was actually pretty shaken up about it all.
"It's not nice having someone burgle your home and then finding them still there."
It took fire crews 20 minutes to rescue Crawshaw, who hurt his ear in the raid.
GMP officers arrested him at the scene but not before they caught his embarrassing moment on camera.
Ms Bennett said she was "open to further discussion and consultation" during a question and answer session with Pink News readers.
Her party has launched its LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer) manifesto.
She pledged the Greens would work towards ending discrimination.
During the Pink News Q&A, she was quizzed by a reader who said he was living with two boyfriends in a stable long-term relationship and asked: "Is there room for Green support on group civil partnerships or marriages?"
The reader said people in a three-way relationship faced legal discrimination because they are "denied marriage equality".
Ms Bennett replied: "At present, we do not have a policy on civil partnerships involving more than two people.
"We are, uniquely in this country, a party whose policies are developed and voted for by our members.
"We have led the way on many issues related to the liberalisation of legal status in adult consenting relationships, and we are open to further conversation and consultation on this issue."
The central bank cut its key repo rate to 7.25% from 7.50%, as widely expected, after taking similar moves in January and March this year.
The repo rate is the level at which the central bank lends to commercial banks.
The cut comes despite India becoming the world's fastest-growing major economy, beating China recently.
The Indian economy grew by 7.5% in the January to March period compared with a year ago, outstripping the 7% figure for China, the world's second largest economy.
China has also cut interest rates three times in the past six months.
Despite the strong growth, analysts have pointed to other economic indicators which suggest soft patches in India's economy.
Other data released on Tuesday - such as the MNI consumer sentiment indicator - fell by 2% in May from April, indicating that consumers were less optimistic about the economy.
"With low domestic capacity utilisation, still mixed indicators of recovery, and subdued investment and credit growth, there is a case for a cut in the policy rate today," the central bank said in a statement.
Added to that, consumer price inflation hit a four-month low of 4.87% in April - within the central bank's target range of 2% to 6% - which gave it enough room to ease rates, economists said.
However, the central bank warned that it would track inflation data and keep a close eye on risks to food prices if seasonal monsoon rains were weaker than expected, global oil prices recovered or the local currency weakened from volatile global markets.
"I think the implication of the guidance is that the RBI is going to wait for more inflation data and also for more clarity on risks to inflation," A. Prasanna, an economist at ICICI Securities Primary Dealership, told Reuters.
"We hold to our call that the RBI will be on pause for the rest of the year until December."
Despite the expected rate cut from the central bank, Indian shares fell with the benchmark BSE Sensex index down 1.5% to 27,444.88.
The Queenie Festival, which takes its name from the Queen Scallop, has been running since 2008 and is centred around the Alfred Pier in Port St Mary.
Organiser James James said: "The event aims to bring together people with an interest in marine life."
It is held in the fishing village of Port St Mary and involves water sports, cookery demonstrations and live music.
James Gale said the festival brings the whole community together "whether you are a fisherman, wildlife enthusiast or just someone who enjoys living near the sea".
He added: "The emphasis is on having fun while learning how to preserve our rich marine heritage."
The Queen Scallop is one of the Isle of Man's most popular exports which in 2012 was awarded the European Union Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) stamp.
It meant the scallop joined foods such as Gorgonzola and Champagne.
Queenie Scallop
The Queen Scallop (aequipecten opercularis) is a bivalve mollusc
It can grow up to 9cm in diameter and is found at depths of 100m
It feeds on plankton and swims by squirting jets of water
It is one of the Isle of Man's most popular exports, with local producers supplying to a number of top restaurants in the UK
The first commercially caught Queenies were landed in Peel in 1969
In ancient times, the scallop shell was a pagan fertility symbol
French energy giant Total must pay £6.2m for failing to protect workers and the public over the 2005 explosion.
Hertfordshire Oil Storage Limited (HOSL) must pay £2.4m and British Pipeline Agency Ltd must pay £780,000.
TAV Engineering Ltd and Motherwell Control Systems were told at St Albans Crown Court they must pay £1,500 each.
Total were fined £3.6m with £2.6m costs, Hertfordshire Oil Storage Limited received a £1.45m fine with £1m costs and British Pipeline Agency Ltd must pay a £300,000 fine plus £480,000 costs.
Motherwell Control Systems 2003 Ltd and TAV Engineering Ltd were both fined £1,000 with £500 costs.
Judge Sir David Calvert-Smith said: "Had the explosion happened during a working day, the loss of life may have been measured in tens or even hundreds.
"The failures which led in particular to the explosion were failures which could have combined to produce these consequences at almost any hour of any day.
"The fact that they did so at 6.01 on a Sunday morning was little short of miraculous.
"So too was the fact that not one of the few people on the site or in the surrounding area on that Sunday morning lost their lives."
Total UK company secretary Lee Young apologised "to all those who have been affected by the incident", adding that the firm fully accepted "our responsibilities for the events that took place at Buncefield in 2005".
But Hemel Hempstead MP Mike Penning has condemned the level of fines and said he would ask Attorney General Dominic Grieve to assess whether they were too lenient.
"I am deeply disappointed at the leniency of the financial fines.
"None of this money will compensate my constituents who are still waiting for compensation for having their businesses, lives, homes and health destroyed by an industrial disaster which should never have happened and was obviously completely preventable.
"I will be using the powers I have as an MP to ask the Attorney General if he thinks that the sentence has been unduly lenient.
"Frankly these fines are an insult to my constituents."
The explosion, on Sunday 11 December 2005, is widely thought to have been the largest in peacetime Europe.
It measured 2.4 on the Richter scale and could be heard 125 miles away.
Jurors had earlier been told that the environmental damage from the blast was still not known and could last for decades.
The courtroom at St Albans was told the name Buncefield would be forever linked to the explosion.
A massive vapour cloud ignited when 250,000 litres of petrol leaked from one of its tanks.
Residents described the impact as being "like an earthquake" and lawyers said it was "miraculous" that nobody was killed.
Many businesses were affected so badly they were forced to close.
Judge Calvert-Smith said the after-effects of the blast had taken a huge toll on the local community.
"Apart from the short or medium-term physical injuries and the much longer term emotional and psychological injuries suffered by those close to the explosion, families have had to cope with disruption to education, to employment and, so far as homeowners are concerned, to a dramatic drop in the value of their homes, even when repaired," he said.
"The name Buncefield is now inextricably linked to the explosion."
HOSL was found guilty of failing to prevent major accidents. Total UK admitted failing to ensure the safety of workers and members of the public.
British Pipeline Ltd also admitted two charges in connection with the explosion, failing to prevent major accidents and limit their effects, and causing pollution to enter controlled waters.
The blast injured 43 people and homes and businesses were destroyed.
'Destroy lives'
Gordon MacDonald, from the Health and Safety Executive, said "Five companies have been held to account publicly for the failings that led to the Buncefield explosions.
"This is the culmination of a thorough and complex investigation carried out by the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive into what was Britain's costliest petro-chemical accident.
"Incidents like the explosion at Buncefield are exceptionally rare. But they shouldn't happen at all.
"Risks created by these industries must be managed effectively because when things go wrong in this sector, the consequences are severe.
"It can destroy lives, shatter local communities and cause damage to the environment which can last for generations."
In a statement, Mr Young, who is head of legal at Total UK, said: "I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate how sorry we are to all those who have been affected by the incident.
"We fully accept our responsibilities for the events that took place at Buncefield in 2005 and recognise the devastating consequences that the incident has had on the surrounding communities and businesses.
"This was an unprecedented incident from which we and the industry have learnt many lessons."
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They threw him a one-week birthday party, then a two-week party and then a one-month party.
This year he'll be celebrating his 12th birthday.
"Even if I had just a little time, I wanted that with him," says his mum, Ellen.
Hayden's parents were told their son wouldn't feel, eat, think, breathe or hear after he had a brain bleed and a stroke.
He and Samuel were interviewed by Chris Ulmer, a former special education teacher who travels the world helping people with disabilities tell their stories.
Now five, Hayden "brings joy to everyone he encounters", says Chris.
Chris posts the videos on his Facebook page Special Books by Special Kids (SBSK), which has more than one million followers.
Ellen blogs about Samuel's journey here.
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Jeon Wook-pyo, now 68, was among 25 crewmen aboard two fishing boats captured by North Korea in the Yellow Sea in 1972.
He escaped North Korea in August and returned to South Korea this month, Yonhap news agency reported.
The North and South remain technically at war after the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice and not a peace treaty.
A spokesman from South Korea's Unification Ministry, which oversees affairs between the two Koreas, confirmed the man's return but did not offer additional details.
Mr Jeon made his way to South Korea via an undisclosed third country, from which he issued an appeal for help to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Yonhap news agency said, citing an unidentified government official.
No information was given about the other crewmen on the boats.
Mr Jeon was currently under investigation in the South and would be allowed to return to his family after that was complete, the official was quoted by Yonhap as saying.
There is a great deal of suspicion surrounding South Koreans who return from the North, the BBC's Lucy Williamson reports from Seoul.
According to South Korea, about 500 of its citizens - most of them fishermen - have been abducted by North Korea since the Korean War.
Those kidnapped were often used for propaganda activities or intelligence gathering, Yonhap said.
One of the most well-known abduction cases involved a film director and his actress wife, who were abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s.
Late film director Shin Sang-ok and his wife, Choe Eun-hui, managed to escape in 1986 while attending a film festival in Vienna.
North Korea is also known to have abducted a number of foreign nationals, including several Japanese civilians in the 1970-80s to train spies.
In 2002, former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi managed to secure the release of five Japanese abductees.
Pyongyang says other known Japanese abductees are dead, but Japan is not convinced and wants more information. The issue remains a highly sensitive one between the two nations.
The Nottingham-born potter, who was once ranked number 10 in the world, faces former world champion Graeme Dott in the last 64 on Saturday evening.
But he offered little hope about his chances of progressing after his 6-5 success against Craig Steadman.
"It was rubbish - seriously. I can't play any worse," he told BBC Sport.
"It was a good attitude but rubbish snooker. I am rubbish now a lot of the time."
The 43-year-old turned professional in 1991 and has spent five years in the world's top 16 during his career.
He has reached two ranking event finals, and played in four World Championship quarter-finals - the last coming in 2007.
But Hamilton, who has been plagued by a neck injury in recent years, had slipped down the rankings to number 50 by the time the tournament got under way in York.
"The tables are gorgeous," he added. "A few years ago I would have been making 80 every poke, now I am making eight every poke.
"I am getting old basically. It's no fun but it's better than working."
But despite his scathing self-assessment, Hamilton said it might suit him to face a player like Dott.
"I will probably play better against a top player," he added. "They go for their shots, force the issue and if they miss they are in position so the chances come easier.
"You get fewer chances but the chances are better. I might be able to glean some old school form.
"It's simple mathematics; they are more attacking and that is perfect for me.
"Graeme might be a bit too clever for me now I am old and rubbish. But if I play well then I have a chance, it's simple."
One glimmer of hope for Hamilton, who now lives in Muswell Hill in London, is that he will not have a one-frame penalty as he did against Steadman.
Hamilton waited in the wrong place before his match and was docked a frame for being late.
"I came out of the dressing room and saw some players standing around waiting and just joined them," he said.
"My lot were over the other side, but obviously I didn't know that.
"I was only there a couple of minutes. By the time I got there I was late so I got docked a frame.
"What can you do? It's my fault I suppose, but there was a lack of info. I didn't know we were going from two places.
"But I got over it straight away and that was the only time I played well. I played well to start with but struggled in the second half of the match."
Alan Milburn said an education system in England that left many lacking the skills they needed in the modern labour market must not be tolerated.
He called for a new target that by 2020 at least half of children from poor homes should achieve five good GCSEs.
Ministers say they want every child to reach their full potential.
Speaking at Teach First's Impact Conference, Mr Milburn also suggested:
Mr Milburn said at current rates of progress, it would take at least 30 years for the educational attainment gap in schools between poorer and better-off children to halve.
And it would take more than 50 years before the gap in access to university was closed.
He told the conference: "The truth about our country is that over decades Britain has become wealthier but we have struggled to become fairer.
"The introduction of the pupil premium and other reforms are positive steps in the right direction.
"However, efforts to narrow the attainment gap within schools are not being given equal priority to the focus there has been in recent decades on raising the bar of improving all schools. They have to be doing both.
"We should no longer tolerate an education system that produces a cohort of youngsters who simply lack the skills to compete in the modern labour market.
"It will be impossible to make progress in improving social mobility until the educational attainment gap between less well-off and better-off children is closed.
"Our future success in a globally competitive economy relies on using all of our country's talent not just some of it."
Brett Wigdortz, founder and chief executive of Teach First, said: "Educational inequality is a slow burning injustice that goes unnoticed, but threatens the very fabric and foundations of a fair society.
"The fact that a child from a poorer background is less likely to succeed at school and life is totally at odds with a British sense of fair play.
"Following Brexit, it's clear we need to invest in education, the communities and young people that have been left behind if we are to build a better Britain."
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "This government is focused on making Britain a country that works for everyone.
"We are determined that every child, regardless of background, gender or ability, has an equal opportunity to reach their full potential.
"The pupil premium, now worth £2.5bn a year, is being spent to improve the education provided to children from the poorest backgrounds."
It had been assumed that life under the waves reflected life on land and that slow-growing species were most at risk.
The researchers found that overfishing was key, but making fisheries more responsive to environmental changes could help avoid future collapses.
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal.
"On the land, slow growing animals are at most risk of decline and we used to think the same was true in the oceans," explained co-author Malin Pinsky from Rutgers University, US.
"But we studied more than 150 populations around the world and found that nearly the opposite was true."
Life on the edge
Dr Pinsky and colleagues found that over the past six decades, fast-growing species that were commercially fished were three times more likely to experience a population collapse than their slow-growing cousins.
He told BBC News that the team identified two main risk factors that made species particularly sensitive to overfishing.
"One is species that grow quickly and the other is species that are found in highly seasonal environments," he said.
"You can think of it like a finely tuned race car travelling at 200 miles per hour - one wrong move and you'd be off the track. Managing a fishery for a fast-growing species is a bit like that: you don't really have time to act when environmental conditions change."
In their paper, the researchers highlighted an example that illustrated their findings: "The collapse of the fast-growing California Current sardine (Sardinops sagax) provides a well-studied example of these interacting factors.
"The stock famously declined in the 1950s during a period of cooling temperatures that were tied to poor recruitment and a much delayed response from management to reduce harvest quotas."
Dr Pinsky said that the findings suggested that management measures needed to pay closer attention to seasonal changes in the environment.
"If you are fishing at a certain level and then the environmental conditions become poor and the fish population starts growing more slowly, it is very easy to drive that population to collapse," he observed.
"Changes in the environment are not very often included in the way that we manage fisheries. This is changing, for example in sardine and anchovy fisheries, but it could be used more widely."
He added: "I don't think we have recognised how sensitive [fast-growing species] are to overfishing. Because they grow quickly, we can harvest a larger proportion of the population every year, and that is usually what fisheries management recommends.
"We fish them harder but it turns out that they are more sensitive than we think."
Nicola Sturgeon publicly backed Hillary Clinton ahead of the presidential vote.
But she said the result of the election should be respected, and that Scotland valued its relationship with the US.
Ms Sturgeon removed Mr Trump from a list of Scottish business ambassadors when he suggested Muslims would be stopped from entering the US.
Her predecessor as first minister, Alex Salmond, has previously backed calls for Mr Trump to be banned from the UK.
Mr Trump is to become the 45th US president after a stunning victory over Mrs Clinton, the Democrat candidate.
The Republican nominee's victory came down to a handful of key swing states, despite months of polling that favoured Mrs Clinton.
As he addressed supporters at a victory rally in New York, Mr Trump said it was "time for us to come together as one united people".
President-elect Trump's mother, Mary MacLeod, was born in the village of Tong on Lewis in the Western Isles in 1912.
She left the island at the age of 18 for a holiday in New York, where she met and later married local builder Fred Trump.
Their son Donald spoke of his late mother's Scottish heritage in 2006 when he bought the Menie Estate in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, turning it into a golf resort against the wishes of local residents.
In April 2014, the 70-year-old US tycoon also purchased the Turnberry hotel and golf resort in Ayrshire.
Mr Trump also unsuccessfully challenged Scottish government ministers in court over their decision to approve an offshore wind farm near his Aberdeenshire golf course.
Responding to the result, Ms Sturgeon said: "While this is not the outcome I hoped for, it is the verdict of the American people and we must respect it. I congratulate President-Elect Trump on winning the election.
"We value our relationship with the United States and its people. The ties that bind Scotland and the US - of family, culture and business - are deep and longstanding and they will always endure."
Ms Sturgeon said the result had left many people in the US and across the world with a "real sense of anxiety".
She added: "I hope the president-elect will take the opportunity to reach out to those who felt marginalized by his campaign and make clear - in deeds as well as words - that he will be a president for everyone in modern, multicultural America.
"Today must also be a moment for those who share progressive values - all of us who believe in tolerance and diversity - to speak up loudly and clearly for the values we hold dear."
The first minister also paid tribute to Mrs Clinton, saying her candidacy had represented a "major step forward for women in America and across the world".
Ms Sturgeon told BBC Scotland she did not regret backing Mrs Clinton during the election, calling some of Mr Trump's comments during the campaign "undoubtedly racist".
She added: "The comments made during the campaign were deeply offensive to many different groups in society and there's a need now and a big responsibility on his shoulders to bring people together.
"I'm never going to shy away from my believe in articulating principles of tolerance and respect and diversity and multiculturalism.
"The relationship between Scotland and America is an important one, and I'm not going to, because of my own personal views, risk the interests of Scotland by not engaging with the American government. But the nature of that engagement will depend to some extent on how Donald Trump conducts himself as President."
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has also congratulated Mr Trump on his election as US president, and said Britain and America would remain "strong and close partners".
But several Scottish political figures have expressed their shock and disappointment over Mr Trump's victory.
Mr Salmond, who is now the SNP's foreign affairs spokesman at Westminster, said his own disappointment at the result was "as of nothing" compared to the people, religions and racial minorities who had been "demeaned and insulted by Donald Trump" during the campaign.
The former first minister added: "The difficulty with Donald Trump is not when he's winning, it's not when he's getting his own way, he's nice as ninepence when he's getting his own way.
"It's what happens when he reaches road blocks, obstacles, when somebody says no to him. In these circumstances we'd better all just hope that the presidency changes a man."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said it was not the result she wanted, and expressed her hope that "President Trump turns out to be a different man to candidate Trump".
Her Scottish Labour counterpart, Kezia Dugdale, said it was a "dark day" and accused Mr Trump of running a "hate-filled campaign that was dominated by lies, misogyny and racism".
Scottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie called on the Scottish government to shun Mr Trump, who Mr Harvie described as a "racist, sexist bully".
And Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the UK should use its "special relationship" with the US to "stand up for the different minorities in his country who will wake up today more fearful than they have for decades".
However, UKIP's Scottish leader, David Coburn, predicted Mr Trump would be "good for Scotland" because of his strong connections to the country.
The endorsements of Mrs Clinton by Scottish politicians could backfire once Mr Trump formally become president, according to Fiona Hill, an analyst at the Brookings think tank in Washington.
She said: "It might actually matter because Donald Trump does take things quite personally.
"He's made it quite clear that when he has a rift on a personal and business level that he's quite serious about responding."
But the former US assistant Secretary of State, Kurt Volker, doubted that these past concerns would feature prominently in the new president's thinking.
He said the focus would instead be on global issues including Russia, the economy, Islamic State and forging a new relationship with the UK after Brexit.
More than 1,000 students from the University of Edinburgh packed into the city centre to watch the battle for the White House unfold at an event dubbed by organisers as "the largest US election night party in the UK outside of London".
Organised by Edinburgh University North American Society and the Edinburgh Political Union, the sold-out event in Potterrow saw TV screens beaming results live from across the Atlantic with experts from the school of history providing live analysis on the results throughout the night.
The US Consulate General also held an event on Tuesday night at Edinburgh University with hundreds of North American ex-pats attending to watch the results come in.
At Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course, Sarah Malone, executive vice president of Trump International, said it was a "truly historic day" and he would serve with "unwavering passion and commitment".
However, Menie resident Susan Munro, who fought Trump over his golf development, said her reaction to the win was "shock horror".
She added: "He would not have been my choice anyway. It will be interesting".
Care home tycoon Tony Banks, 54, had denied assaulting Kimberley Anderson at his home in Kirriemuir last December.
During a trial at Forfar Sheriff Court, Ms Anderson, 28, claimed she lied to police and made up the allegation.
Sheriff Gregor Murphy asked the procurator fiscal to investigate the conduct of the witness and the evidence she gave to court.
Banks was accused of attacking Miss Anderson by throwing a mobile phone at her, striking and kicking her on the body and repeatedly seizing her by the hair.
He was further alleged to have repeatedly pulled her to the floor, repeatedly kneeled on her stomach, slapped her on the head, spat on her and seized her by the throat and compressed it, all to her injury.
After hearing Ms Anderson's evidence, the Crown said it no longer sought a conviction.
The court heard that the couple now lived together at the address in Kirriemuir.
In a statement released after the court case, Mr Banks said: "The whole episode has been a very traumatic and upsetting time for all involved.
"But I am pleased that justice has been done with this 'not guilty' verdict.
"My partner and I have already put this behind us and look forward to continuing with our life together as before."
Mr Banks founded the Balhousie Care Group in the early 1990s. It has since grown to become Scotland's largest private care home provider.
On Tuesday it is 25 years since the start of the Premier League. To mark the occasion, there will be two special Rewinds on the BBC website and the Red Button (UK only).
At 14:55 BST watch the full match between Sheffield United and Manchester United - plus there will be a live text commentary with clips of numerous goals from the opening afternoon.
And at 22:00 BST on the Red Button and website you can relive the first Match of the Day of the Premier League era, with presenter Des Lynam joined by guests Alan Hansen and Gary Lineker.
I was not a regular pundit on Match of the Day until 1994, but I did that first Premier League show in 1992 as a one-off.
I was still a player but it was during a gap I had after leaving Tottenham to join Japanese side Grampus Eight because the J-League did not start until September.
Even then, I always knew I wanted to present and I never really saw myself as a pundit because, in terms of analysis, I only really knew about strikers - and that was what I talked about.
On that first show, I gave my opinion on a certain Alan Shearer, who had scored twice on his Blackburn debut.
As you will see, Match of the Day in 1992 was a very different programme to the one it is now - we only showed highlights of one or two matches, and just the goals from the rest.
I got the presenter's job when Des Lynam left for ITV in 1999 and, when the BBC got the rights back in 2004, I thought it would make a real difference if we could show highlights of all the games.
It really worked and what happened then was people stopped complaining about their teams never being one of the main match edits - and started complaining about where they were in the running order.
Subsequently, that has become a bit of a battle, but most people agree with it most of the time - unless it is their team that are not on early enough.
In all the years of criticism on social media about the running order, I have never had anyone complaining about the treatment of a team different to the one that they support - and you get it about all of them!
The discussion about it on Twitter has actually become quite fun in many ways, though. It is just part of the show now and another way it has evolved.
What has not changed since 1992 is what makes the show so special: the mix of audience that we get on a Saturday night.
We have to be very mindful of that. Sometimes the absolute football anoraks will want more analysis but the people that just get their little football fix from Match of the Day want the action - so you have got to strike a balance somewhere in the middle.
Over the years, I think we have found the balance that placates most people, which ultimately is what you want. The audience figures reflect the fact we have got it about right.
Almost five million people watched the first Match of the Day of the season on Saturday night, which is an astoundingly high figure, despite it starting later than scheduled.
It is clearly still very much part of the staple diet of football fans in this country, despite how much the Premier League has changed in the past 25 years, along with the way people watch their football.
In many ways Match of the Day is remarkable. It bucks the trends for all other sports shows because, these days, where everyone has the information at their fingertips, highlights shows generally do not really work.
For some reason, even in this modern era, Match of the Day still does.
It is a good watch and don't forget it is an important aspect of the Premier League that it has something on terrestrial television.
Half the country do not have Sky or BT so Match of the Day gives them their weekly fix of football. I think it is important for the Premier League that everyone can watch it - and I think they understand that too.
Its survey, based on analysis of about 20,000 properties, suggested that average monthly rent paid by private tenants rose to £846.
The increase was sharpest in the South East of England.
The annual rise in this region of 14.9% was explained by a ripple effect from high rents in London.
London had the highest average monthly rents, at £1,273, the survey suggested.
Adrian Gill, director of Your Move, said: "The UK's vote to leave the European Union has not caused any immediate change in the rental market, although we must wait for longer term trends to develop."
Tenants' finances worsened in July, with 9% of tenancies having arrears of a day or more, up from 8.4% in June. This was still well below a high of 14.6% recorded in February 2010.
The survey follows figures from the Office for National Statistics, which found that rental prices paid by tenants in Britain rose by 2.4% in the 12 months to July.
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Wales drew 1-1 with Northern Ireland on Thursday without key players Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey.
The match also saw Chris Coleman's side adopt a four-man defence instead of their usual five, and there could be more experiments against Ukraine on Monday.
"We want to make sure that we have options up our sleeves," said Roberts.
"We want to try things otherwise perhaps we'd be criticised for only having a plan A and no plan B, so we are working on that. And that takes time."
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Wales play Ukraine in Kiev on Monday evening in their penultimate friendly match before the Euro 2016 finals.
They face Sweden in Stokholm on 5 June before kicking off their finals campaign against Slovakia in Bordeaux on 11 June.
"We'll pick a side to win the game against Ukraine, but at the same time it's an opportunity for one or two players and we still want to try one or two things," he added.
"Because if we don't do it now we won't have an opportunity to do and we've got a few things that we want to look at naturally that gives people an opportunity."
Manager Coleman also hinted he will make changes for the match in Kiev, which will again see him without his star duo Bale and Ramsey.
"We had a few bodies missing [against Ireland] but you learn about other players," he said.
"It gave us a chance to look a bit closer at players like Lloyd Isgrove and Danny Ward. It's nice to give them a bit of experience.
"Sometimes it's about more than the result."
State-controlled Gazprom, a major gas supplier to Europe, is expected to be accused of overcharging some buyers.
The move against Gazprom could further sour relations with Moscow, which have suffered over the Ukraine crisis.
Brussels began investigating Gazprom three years ago, but Moscow says the action is politically motivated.
According to the Financial Times and several news agencies, the EU will officially complain that Gazprom is hindering competition in the central and eastern European gas markets, where the company benefits from a dominant position.
Countries named in the EU's formal statement of objections are expected to include Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Bulgaria.
The EU had been accused to delaying action against Gazprom for fear of inflaming relations with Russia. But the EU's new anti-monopoly chief, Margrethe Vestager, appears to be taking a tougher line.
Her move comes just a week after she charged the US technology giant Google with abusing its market power.
The new regulator's tougher stance "is sending a message that her mandate is not about settling cases. If she has a solid case, she will push ahead with charges", said Mario Mariniello, a former economist at the EU and now at the Brussels think tank Bruegel.
"Sending a statement of objections to Gazprom now would be her way of saying that she will focus on the substance of the case regardless of the political implications," he said.
Russia supplies about a third of the EU's gas requirements, with half that amount going through pipelines that cross Ukraine.
Once the EU's statement of objections has been filed, Gazprom would have three months to respond.
Brussels' competition authority has the power to impose fines of up to 10% of Gazprom's global turnover.
Diabetes UK says that up to 80% of foot amputations could be avoided if better care was in place.
Patients are suffering because many areas do not have services in place to quickly deal with foot ulcers and infections.
By 2015, the number of diabetes-related amputations is expected to rise to 7,000 a year.
When diabetes, both Types 1 and Type 2, is present for many years, especially if it is poorly controlled, it can cause complications such as reducing blood flow to vessels in the feet and nerve damage which reduces sensation.
This increases the risk of ulcers and infections that may lead to amputation.
A report produced in collaboration with the Society for Chiropodists and Podiatrists and NHS Diabetes points out that people with diabetes are more than 20 times more likely to have an amputation than the rest of the population.
It recommends that all hospitals have a multi-disciplinary footcare team as recommended in national guidelines.
Figures suggest that 40% of hospitals currently do not have such teams in place.
Every hospital also needs to be able to guarantee that people with urgent foot problems can be assessed by the right professionals within 24 hours, the report urges.
This is because ulcers can deteriorate extremely quickly and a matter of hours can make the difference between keeping a foot and losing it.
In addition people with diabetes who are at high risk for foot problems need to know what to look out for and what to do when a problem develops.
Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said it is unacceptable that every week people with diabetes who have treatable foot problems are having feet or toes amputated because they are not being treated quickly enough.
"It is not as if this is a problem we don't know how to solve.
"If every hospital had a multi-disciplinary footcare team and ensured access to that team within 24 hours, then that would make a huge difference to the amputation rates."
She added that some prevention work was so poor that people were not even asked to take their shoes off when attending their annual foot check.
"This is not something that requires more money," she continued.
"In fact, putting these kind of systems in place can actually save money because the amputations that they prevent are so expensive.
Matthew Fitzpatrick, spokesman for the College of Podiatry, said they strongly welcomed the recommendations.
"The most important aspect is that patients appreciate how to check themselves and are seeking appropriate advice when they need it.
"If they're worried then their local podiatrist should be the first port of call."
Firefighters using ropes and ladders helped the woman to safety after the callout on Kingsway.
Paramedics were also called to the scene shortly after 05:00 BST.
The condition of the woman is not known.
CCTV footage showing a black Volkswagen Golf in Coatbridge and at the Asda carpark in Robroyston where Mr Carroll was killed was shown to the jury.
Det Con Neil Grieve said these were assessed by him "as the same vehicle".
William Paterson, 35, denies fatally shooting 29-year-old gangland figure Mr Carroll in Glasgow on 13 January 2010.
Various clips of CCTV from the day of the shooting were played at High Court in Glasgow showing the Asda carpark and streets in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.
Det Con Grieve was taken through a report he put together after reviewing all of the CCTV gathered by police in the original investigation.
He said that after looking at all the footage the car he pointed out as a Volkswagen Golf is assessed by him "as the same vehicle" in all pieces of footage - including on a street near to where the guns used to kill Mr Carroll were found.
The court was shown an excerpt of footage of Asda in Robroyston on the day of the murder with a number of cars driving in and out of the car park.
Advocate depute Iain McSporran, prosecuting, put to the witness: "This you took to be the black Audi car in which Mr Carroll and two others arrived at Asda." He replied: "Yes, correct."
The court heard that a short time later Mr Carroll and two others, Stephen McLaggan and John Bonner, were seen walking to the front of Asda and then back to the carpark space they parked in.
Det Con Grieve said a Volkswagen Golf arrived at the carpark and from looking at the time it arrived, it was "consistent" with it having come from Northgate Road - where earlier footage showed the same type of car.
A clip of what has been identified by police as being the Volkswagen Golf on the CCTV was played and the officer was asked to comment.
He said the car travelled "quite quickly" past the front door and "came to a halt near to where the Audi was parked".
Det Con Grieve added: "You can see legs and feet coming out the vehicle and the brake light remained on, it would appear."
Asked what the significance of that is, he said: "It would suggest there is another person within the vehicle."
Further footage was shown of the same car and the officer said: "It moves off then appears to stop again in the corridor, in the corridor of the car park."
He told the court the car then "negotiates the roundabout on the wrong side of the road".
CCTV footage from Sunnyside Road in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, was shown to the court and the officer pointed out a car he believed to be the same Volkswagen Golf.
He said the journey time was "consistent" with it being the same car at Asda.
Det Con Grieve said on the footage the car turned onto Baird Street in the area and that it is around 50m from Academy Street carpark where the guns used to kill Mr Carroll were discovered.
The court heard that a black BMW car was noted from the CCTV by the police viewing the footage.
The police witness said that same BMW and Volkswagen then "appear to be travelling in convoy" and drive out of Baird Street and are seen on camera travelling in the direction of where a burnt out car was found.
Mr McSporran asked Det Con Grieve if, in his assessment, the car that was seen at footage on Northgate Road, Asda, and other footage is the same or different car.
The witness replied it was "assessed by him" as the same car.
He confirmed that it was consistent with it being in the Glenmavis area at the time of the discovery of the burning car.
Under cross examination by defence lawyer Des Finnieston, Det Con Grieve said he came to the conclusion about the car being the same Volkswagen Golf based on information given to him.
Mr Finnieston asked: "Is there not an element of judgement or pre judgement?" DC Grieve replied: "No I have made an assessment on information available to me."
He told the court he did not read the findings made by Strathclyde Police so that he would not be tainted or have any pre-judgements.
The court was told Strathclyde Police officers who carried out the initial investigation noted a Volkswagen Golf driving along Dunbeth Road in the Coatbridge area.
Det Con Grieve said he did see that on the footage collected but he believed it was a different car and said it was a lighter colour.
The jury saw footage from the camera showing Dunbeth Road and a number of cars driving along it.
Mr McSporran pointed out a car for the witness to comment on. He told the court: "It's a Volkwagen Golf but it's a lighter colour."
Det Con Grieve confirmed he believed the car he saw going into and coming out of Baird Street that he pointed out earlier was the car from Asda.
Mr Paterson denies the charges and has incriminated six other people.
He has lodged a special defence of alibi claiming he was at an address in Cumbernauld at the time of the shooting.
The trial before judge Lord Armstrong continues.
But they insisted that the water being supplied to urban areas across the country was still safe.
The figures come amid rising concerns for the environment affecting water and air quality, with the government seeking to cut down on pollution.
Much of that focus is targeted on the industrial north, which is one of the country's most heavily polluted areas.
The water ministry last week released a report (in Chinese) showing most of the samples drawn from over 2,000 shallow underground wells in the north and east in 2015 were of poor quality:
The report, covered widely by local media, drew concern about drinking water in general.
The ministry on Monday clarified in a statement (in Chinese) that the result only pertained to shallow wells serving those in the rural north-east.
It said it had focused on testing that region as it was known to have "comparatively acute water problems".
The ministry said drinking water for urban areas across the country came from deep underground aquifers which had water of "overall good quality", with 85% meeting national water quality standards.
However, the BBC's East Asia Editor Celia Hatton says this has done little to satisfy some environmentalists who note that China will have to dig deeper and deeper to find water that is clean enough for farms, and to support millions still living in the countryside.
China has pledged to improve environmental standards and cut down on industrial pollution, even as it grapples with a slowing economy that still relies significantly on heavy industry.
Part of its recently unveiled five-year plan for the economy focuses on improving water and soil quality.
But Mr Iordache, who had drawn up the bill, insisted that "all that I've done was legal".
Bowing to pressure, the government last week scrapped the decree that would have shielded many politicians from prosecution for corruption.
However, some protesters want the entire leftist cabinet to quit.
Earlier this week President Klaus Iohannis warned parliament that "the resignation of a minister will not be enough".
The demonstrations - attracting hundreds of thousands of people - have been the country's largest since the fall of communism in 1989.
The controversial bill had been due to come into effect on 10 February.
The justice ministry has been instructed to draft a new law to tackle the issues raised by the original decree, and to initiate a wide public debate.
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The original decree would have decriminalised abuse of power offences where sums of less than €44,000 (£38,000; $47,500) were involved.
The constitutional court has still to rule on the bill's legality.
One immediate beneficiary would have been Liviu Dragnea, head of the governing Social Democrats (PSD), who faces charges of defrauding the state of €24,000.
The government had earlier argued that the changes were needed to reduce prison overcrowding and align certain laws with the constitution.
But critics saw it as a way for the PSD to absolve officials convicted or accused of corruption.
The army accused Pakistan of mutilating the bodies in Monday's clash on the Line of Control - claims the Pakistani army denied.
But Indians, including the mourning families of the soldiers, feel Pakistan "should be taught a lesson".
Indian PM Narendra Modi has also been criticised for "not taking any action".
Monika, the daughter of head constable Prem Sagar, said she wanted Indian forces to kill at least 10 Pakistani troops to avenge her father.
Many on social media have shared similar sentiments using the hashtag badlalo (take revenge).
Some anger has also been directed at Mr Modi, making #ModiWeakestPMever one of the top trending hashtags in India on Tuesday.
Others have pointed out that Mr Modi was yet to appoint a full-time defence minister after Manohar Parrikar left the post to become the chief minister of the coastal state of Goa.
India's finance minister Arun Jaitley, who is also in charge of the defence ministry, said the incident was "reprehensible and inhuman".
"Such acts are unheard of even during wars and definitely never in peace time," he said in a statement broadcast on Indian television.
"The entire country has full faith in the army that they will give the appropriate response."
But Pakistan rejected the allegation, saying its army "was a highly professional force" and it would "never disrespect a soldier, even Indian".
"Indian blame of mutilating Indian soldiers' bodies are also false," it said.
Claimed by both countries, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years.
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Meanwhile, authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have cancelled by-elections for a parliamentary seat following violence in the state.
The situation has been tense in the region since security forces clashed with protesters during another by-election on 9 April.
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At least eight people died and scores suffered injuries in the clashes.
Paramilitary forces fired bullets and shotgun pellets as people protesting against Indian rule stormed polling stations near the capital, Srinagar.
Separatist leaders had called for a boycott of the vote.
The Playpen site was located on the Tor network which is used to anonymise web-browsing activity.
The FBI found a way around this to reveal the users' real IP addresses and led to 200 prosecutions.
But it refused to reveal to the court how it managed the feat.
The site was located on the Tor network which many people use to browse the web anonymously. It conceals their location and identity by routing their connections through a chain of different computers and encrypting data in the process.
To get round this the FBI used what it called "network investigative techniques" and revealed people's identities.
But it refused a request for information on its technological investigation techniques.
Federal prosecutor Annette Hayes wrote in a court filing on Friday that "because the government remains unwilling to disclose certain discovery related to the FBI's deployment of a 'network investigative technique'" it was "deprived of the evidence needed to establish defendant Jay Michaud's guilt beyond reasonable doubt".
The government's Motion to Dismiss order is pending before the court and the judge is expected to sign a dismissal order "within the next day or two", the assistant public defender Colin Fieman told the BBC.
Mr Michaud's case is one of many emerging from the investigation into Playpen users.
In December, the Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said the investigation of Playpen led to more than 200 active prosecutions and the identification or rescue of at least 49 American children who were subject to sexual abuse.
In January, Michael Fluckiger was sentenced to 20 years in jail for running the Playpen site.
Once the site's administrators had been arrested, the FBI kept the site going for 13 days to gather information about members.
Lack of sleep does not only mean tired workers, says the study, but can also cause "unwanted" activity, which it links to lower levels of self-control.
The study, published by the Rotterdam School of Management, says that such sleep-related disruption can cost billions in lost productivity.
Sleeplessness can cause a "destructive cycle" in work, says the study.
"Unwanted behaviour in the workplace often stems from selfish impulses that are not kept in check by self-control," says researcher Laura Giurge of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
This could be anything from being rude to someone else in the office or increasing the likelihood of workplace theft.
But the study suggests that lack of sleep, even for a single night, can be a powerful influence over people who would otherwise not behave that way.
"This study shows that the display of unwanted behaviour is not a fixed character trait," says Ms Giurge.
"It can vary from day to day, even within the same person."
The study argues that lack of sleep can reduce people's sense of self-control and their ability to "regulate their impulses" - so that they behave in a way that they would not do normally.
"This can lead into a possibly destructive cycle," says the study and could contribute to unethical behaviour.
Such lack of sleep can also make it more difficult for people at work to overcome feelings of failure, says the study, with workplace problems seeming to become overwhelming.
There have been previous studies which have examined how sleep deprivation can disrupt "moral judgement" and alter the quality of decision-making.
This has been studied in areas such as whether lack of sleep changes the behaviour of judges and how sleep deprivation might change how soldiers behave under pressure.
Ukrainian officials say two civilians were killed when the separatists fired on the government-held frontline town of Avdiivka.
The separatists say two civilians died as the government shelled the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
At least 15 people have been confirmed killed in the worst fighting for weeks.
A number of people have been injured since the clashes intensified over the weekend.
There are fears that the actual death toll could be much higher.
Ukraine accuses Russia of launching an offensive, while Moscow says Kiev is seeking to push back the separatists from their positions in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The two countries again traded accusations during an urgent UN Security Council session to discuss the conflict which has claimed the lives of more than 9,700 people since 2014.
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On Thursday evening, Pavlo Zhebrivsky, the head of the Ukraine-controlled Donetsk regional administration, said a man was killed when a humanitarian aid point in Avdiivka was hit.
He later said a woman had died of her wounds after the rebels shelled an area near a school in the town.
Avdiivka, whose population is estimated to be about 22,000 people, has been left without water and electricity in freezing conditions because of the shelling.
Ukrainian officials and aid agencies have warned of a possible major humanitarian crisis, declaring a state of emergency in the town.
Meanwhile, rebel officials said Donetsk was under heavy shelling late on Thursday, and two civilians had been killed.
There are also reports that a powerful blast in the city destroyed a building.
A number of Donetsk residents have also been left without water.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine erupted after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in March 2014.
A ceasefire was eventually agreed in February 2015 but there have been frequent violations. The latest truce began on 23 December.
The US and EU imposed sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
Russia has repeatedly denied sending troops and weapons into eastern Ukraine, but admits that Russian "volunteers" fight alongside the rebels.
The report criticised the ward at Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen, after care for complex births was moved from Withybush Hospital in Pembrokeshire.
However, it said a survey of 500 patients was "overwhelmingly positive".
Hywel Dda health board chief executive Steve Moore said the report gives the opportunity to "assess where we are".
Glangwili labour ward was described as "too small, with insufficient facilities and provides a poor environment for women and staff.
"The increased numbers of women using the unit, including those with high-risk pregnancies from Pembrokeshire, has put additional pressure on the staff with two culturally very different teams learning to work together in cramped and difficult conditions."
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said: "It [the report] concludes that, despite all the persistent claims to the contrary, the changes are safe, sustainable in the long-term and have led to improved outcomes for mothers and babies.
"There is also better compliance with professional standards and more women are being cared for in the Hywel Dda area than under the previous arrangements.
"These findings will provide reassurance to people in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
"It makes it clear that it would make no clinical sense to return to the previous arrangements."
The interim report, led by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "The current services are working well and the commitment and willingness of almost all the staff to overcome the challenges of change should be celebrated and encouraged by the board and senior team.
"We found services in general to be safe with improving outcomes and better compliance with professional standards."
The findings will be discussed at a meeting of the health board in Llanelli on Thursday and Mr Moore said he expects "a clear action plan and timescale to be drawn up following this".
A survey of 500 women who used the maternity service after the changes were introduced showed "overwhelmingly positive responses" the report said.
Dozens of Catholic priests are believed to have been complicit in the killings of some 800,000 people by Hutu extremists in 1994.
Several massacres were carried out in churches where people sought sanctuary.
The Vatican has, until now, maintained that the Church as an institution bore no responsibility.
On Monday, Pope Francis conveyed his "profound sadness" for the "genocide against the Tutsi," the Vatican said in a statement.
He begged for God's forgiveness "for the sins and failings of the Church and its members" who, the statement said, had "succumbed to hatred and violence".
In November, the government in Kigali requested an apology from the Vatican for the role that some Catholic priests and religious figures played in the massacres of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
"Today, genocide denial and trivialisation continue to flourish in certain groups within the Church and genocide suspects have been shielded from justice within Catholic institutions," a government statement said earlier on Monday.
The Pope's statement, which he said he hoped would help Rwanda heal, followed a meeting in Rome with Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Mr Kagame described the comments on Monday as a great moment and a new chapter in relations between his country and the Vatican.
Mr Kagame, Tutsi, led a rebel force to halt the slaughter in 1994 as accusations surfaced that some priests and nuns had taken part in the killings.
On 6 April 1994, a plane carrying then-President Juvenal Habyarimana - a Hutu - was shot down, killing everyone on board.
Hutu extremists blamed the Tutsi rebel group the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and immediately started a well-organised campaign of slaughter.
The RPF said the plane had been shot down by Hutus to provide an excuse for the genocide.
Between April and June, an estimated 800,000 people - mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus - died at the hands of Hutu extremists.
The buyer is Huhtamaki, a Finnish-based packaging company which already has a factory in Lurgan.
Delta Print was owned by the west Belfast man Terry Cross, who founded the business in 1981.
Its major customers include the McDonalds fast food chain. Mr Cross will act as an advisor to Huhtamaki.
He paid tribute to the "innovation, dedication and hard work" of his staff in Belfast and Poland saying they had helped "capture the attention" of a global company such as Huhtamaki.
Huhtamaki operates in 34 countries and in 2015 had sales of 2.7bn euro (£2.07bn).
The two companies already had a relationship, as both are major suppliers to McDonalds.
Rosemary Mason, managing director of Huhtamaki Foodservice Western Europe and UK, said the deal allowed the firm to expand its range of products.
Huhtamaki already employs more than 200 people at its moulded fibre plant in Lurgan and paper recycling unit in Lisburn.
Delta has round 260 staff in Belfast, with a further 65 at a factory in Poland.
The unemployment rate dropped to 6.1%, its lowest level since September 2008.
That figure beat analysts' expectations and is an encouraging sign after disappointing growth in the first quarter of 2014.
The strong report sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 17,000 for the first time as investors cheered the news.
Economists blamed harsh winter weather for a 2.9% annualised decline in US economic output from January to March.
Jobs growth in professional and business services was particularly strong, with 67,000 jobs being created, followed by gains in the retail sector, which added 40,000 jobs.
Hourly wages - which is a measure watched closely by policy makers and has been recently highlight by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen - rose 0.2% in June and have climbed 2.0% for the year.
"There really isn't anything to be disappointed with," wrote Jefferies bank economists in a note to clients, noting that manufacturing jobs growth was particularly strong.
"There was a 0.2% dip in the unemployment rate based on "good reasons" and household employment was up strongly," they added.
One "good reason" was that unlike in past reports, where the unemployment rate has dipped primarily because many Americans had given up looking for work, the June decline seems to be mostly due to actual jobs growth.
The labour force participation rate remained steady at 62.8%, indicating that decline was not due to discouraged workers.
However, long-term unemployment remains an ongoing concern.
The number of US job-seekers who have been out of work for over 27 weeks decreased by 293,000 in June, to 3.1 million people - around a third of those who are out of work.
"Long-term unemployment remain[s] elevated, which [is] a key concern for Janet Yellen," said Aberdeen Asset Management's Luke Bartholomew.
"The big question for the US remains just how many of the long term unemployed will ever get back into work."
The 27-year-old England second row is tipped to be included in the Lions squad, which is named on Wednesday.
"He's up there in terms of line-out intelligence, but he brings more than that," McCall told BBC 5 live.
"He is relentless with his workrate and he is definitely the kind of forward the Lions are going to need out there."
Kruis, who made his return from a knee injury last weekend, is one of a number of Saracens players expected to be included in the Lions party.
England internationals Mako and Billy Vunipola, Jamie George, Maro Itoje and Owen Farrell are all near-certainties for selection, while Scotland pair Sean Maitland and Duncan Taylor are among those in contention.
"We hope the people that are expecting to get a call-up get a call-up," McCall added.
"If they don't, I know they will just crack on, but there is going to be some disappointment there for sure.
"We just have to deal with that when it comes."
McCall also confirmed prop Mako Vunipola would be "100% fine" for Saturday's Champions Cup semi-final with Munster in Dublin, after being rested for the Premiership victory over Northampton.
The pair were imprisoned in December after claiming €60,000 (£50,000; $64,000) from a victims fund for the November 2015 Paris attacks, despite being in the Cote d'Azur at the time.
The fraud was exposed when they claimed to also be victims of the Nice attack.
They will now stand trial again in April and face 14 years if convicted.
Sasa Damjanovic, 36, and Vera Vasic, 29, claimed they had been at the Stade de France stadium in Paris in November 2015 when it was targeted by a suicide bomber.
Vasic said she was "blown back" by the explosion, when in fact the couple were on France's south coast.
They later admitted spending most of their fraudulent compensation on vehicles that they planned to sell on, claiming that they had debts to pay off.
Damjanovic was sentenced to six years and Vasic three years and they were ordered to repay €30,000 each. They are appealing against the decision.
Investigators now say Damjanovic and Vasic also posed as victims of the Bastille Day lorry attack in Nice in a second bid to win compensation.
Eighty six people were killed in the attack, when a lorry ploughed into a large crowd watching a fireworks display.
The attacks in Paris hit a concert hall, restaurants and bars, as well as the stadium, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.
The trial begins on 19 April.
The expert was asked if it was possible Jeffrey Gafoor had been hurt in a struggle with Miss White, who could then have been killed later by one or more different people.
Gafoor admitted the 1988 murder. Three men were earlier wrongly convicted.
Eight ex-police officers deny perverting the course of justice.
Gafoor was arrested in 2003 but before then, three men had been convicted of the murder before being freed on appeal in 1992.
Five men, who became known as the Cardiff Five, were originally tried and three of them Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Tony Paris were convicted and jailed for life in 1990.
The Cardiff Three as they became known were released two years later after their convictions were quashed.
A 10-year inquiry into how they came to be arrested has resulted in the former police officers who worked on the original investigation being accused of "fitting up" the men.
Miss White, a prostitute, was stabbed more than 50 times inside a flat at James Street, Cardiff, which she used to entertain clients, in the early hours of 14 February 1988.
Gafoor, who is serving a life sentence, had told Swansea Crown Court that he "stabbed at" Miss White 10 to 12 times in a darkened bedroom.
He said he had demanded back his £30 after she had refused to have unprotected sex with him. A struggle began and he killed her. He said he had acted alone.
Dr Angela Gallop, a forensic scientist, told Swansea Crown Court on Wednesday about tests for blood she had made in 1999, 11 years after the murder.
The flat had been redecorated by then but her team was able to take away original doors and skirting boards and had access to her clothing and other items.
For the first time, she said, they were able to remove fresh paint from a door and find blood underneath.
She described how DNA profiles had been found at various points which matched or partially matched that of Gafoor and Miss White.
She agreed that the fatal wound had been to Miss White's throat.
After that, she had been stabbed several times through the chest while her jacket had been wrapped - back to front - tightly around her and both her wrists had been cut.
William Coker QC, the barrister defending then Det Insp Graham Mouncher, who had day to day control of the investigation leading up to the original arrests of the five men, put it to Dr Gallop that there could have been two episodes of violence.
He said Gafoor had told of only 10 or 12 stabs when there had been more than 50 and he had not mentioned cutting her throat three times.
Mr Coker said Gafoor did not know if the stabs had connected. He had then stopped and had not injured her again.
But he had, at some stage, suffered a cut himself.
"If he is right about 10 or 12 stabs then there is obviously more to it. The fatal attack could have been minutes or hours later," asked Mr Coker.
"It is technically possible," replied Dr Gallop.
Mr Coker asked if it was possible that during the first struggle Miss White had not been injured but Gafoor had, which could explain why traces of what appeared to have been his blood had been found at exit points to the flat.
And it could have been Miss White herself who transferred the injured Gafoor's blood to her clothing, including her left sock.
Dr Gallop said she had not been asked to reconstruct the crime scene, only to search for blood that did not belong there.
"The fatal attack could have happened any time after he had left," added Mr Coker.
Gafoor had claimed, added Mr Coker, that after the attack had finished he had sat on a bed "for about two minutes and then left in a hurry".
Dr Gallop agreed that if that had happened she would have expected Gafoor's blood to have been found on the bed.
The trial continues.
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Robert Mansfield had been out celebrating his 18th birthday when he died in July.
His aunt, Sue Mansfield, has started a petition calling for changes around Mill Pond, Pembroke.
She said: "He meant so much to so many people and for that to happen was absolutely devastating."
An inquest into Mr Mansfield's death is due to be held on 26 November.
"He was a typical teenager. He loved Xbox [and] was into technology. He was absolutely amazing on computers," Ms Mansfield said.
"He really was a special boy.
"As a family, it's brought us closer together but it's also been so emotional... everybody is trying to work their own way, in their own grief, and it has been really, really hard."
The two other men who have died in the water this year, Wayne Anthony Young, 52, and 57-year-old John Lyall, drowned accidentally, a coroner has ruled.
Pembroke Town Council has rejected calls for safety netting to be erected at the pond, with Pembrokeshire council backing that decision after saying such structures would be impractical.
Pembroke town councillor Keith Nicholas said more lifebelts have been added around the pond and improvement work will take up to six weeks.
He also said the town and county councils are discussing installing signs around the water to warn people of the danger.
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More than 25,000 classrooms in some 8,000 schools were destroyed in the 7.8 magnitude quake and its aftershocks, and more than 8,000 people died.
Many have only been rebuilt on a temporary basis using materials such as bamboo, wood and tarpaulin.
Classes will initially focus on group activities to help children recover from the trauma of the disaster.
Earlier this week, the United Nations said that one month on from the quake, the world needed to provide more food and shelter for those left homeless.
Meanwhile, the Nepalese government - which has been criticised for being slow to respond - has called for more direct aid funding.
The government closed all schools in the Kathmandu region for the month of May, amid continuing aftershocks in the aftermath of the 25 April tremor.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless, and many are still struggling to rebuild their lives.
In the worst-hit districts of Gorkha, Sindhupalchok and Nuwakot, it is estimated that more than 90% of schools were destroyed.
In all, the government is planning to open 15,000 temporary learning centres, according to the Asian Development Bank.
Education ministry official Lavadeo Awasthi told the Times of India newspaper that the temporary classroom structures "will have to do for the next two years, in which time the buildings should be restored".
Many children will be attending lessons in classrooms built on school playing fields or in buildings marked "safe" after inspections.
School days will be short and focus on game playing and cultural activities. The United Nations has distributed educational kits which include puzzles and picture books aimed at having an impact on children's psychology.
"The children are very happy here to engage themselves with different kinds of playing materials," said Unicef early childhood development specialist, Shiva Bhusal.
But many parents are still concerned about their children's safety.
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Prosecutors say Reinhold Hanning met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp in occupied Poland and may have escorted some to the gas chambers.
Mr Hanning has admitted being a guard but denies involvement in mass murder.
He is being tried in the city of Detmold, in what is likely to be one of the last cases of its kind.
Mr Hanning is one of four elderly former Nazi guards - three men and a woman - who are due to go on trial in the coming months.
The Nazis killed about 1.1m people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews.
Mr Hanning was an SS guard at Auschwitz from 1943-44, at a time when hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were murdered there.
His trial is being held in the west German city's chamber of commerce, in order to accommodate more people.
Each trial session will last just two hours, due to the defendant's age.
There was a rush of excitement as the thin old man in a brown jacket stepped into the courtroom.
Reinhold Hanning stared at the floor as, flanked by his lawyers, he limped to his chair. Cameras circled, the light from their flashbulbs reflecting on his spectacles.
I saw his jaw tense. But he did not look up.
Only once did that change. Leon Schwarzbaum - an Auschwitz survivor who is 10 months older than the man in the dock - was giving evidence, telling the court about his memories, which he said still torment him to this day.
He looked straight across the courtroom and addressed Mr Hanning, who looked up, briefly startled, at the sound of his name.
The courtroom was absolutely still as the two men looked at each other for just a moment.
"Mr Hanning," Mr Schwarzbaum continued. "We're about the same age. And we will soon face our final judge. I want you to tell the truth about what you and your comrades did."
Survivors of the World War II death camp are due to testify against Mr Hanning.
"The chimneys were spewing fire... the smell of burning human flesh was so unbelievable that one could hardly bear it," 94-year-old Leon Schwarzbaum was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.
Until recently, prosecutors were required to provide evidence that defendants were directly involved in the killings.
But that changed with the 2011 conviction of John Demjanjuk, when a judge concluded that his activities as a camp worker in Nazi-occupied Poland amounted to complicity in mass murder.
Last year a German court sentenced Oskar Groening, 94, to four years in jail as an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 people at Auschwitz.
Known as the SS "book-keeper of Auschwitz", he was allegedly responsible for counting banknotes confiscated from prisoners.
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An Ulster statement said the agreement would "result in significant investment for the game of rugby at all levels".
The global company has been a sponsor of Ulster Rugby since 1999.
The agreement is understood to be a multi-million pound deal although the precise figures have not been released.
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Ulster's announcement of the stadium naming rights deal for the redeveloped south Belfast ground mirrors the Irish Rugby Football Union's 2009 decision which saw the old Lansdowne Road venue in Dublin becoming the new Aviva Stadium.
Many other major sports stadiums throughout the world have gone through similar naming rights processes in recent years and Ulster argue that financial imperatives leave them with no option but to follow the same path.
"It's critical we get good quality investment into the stadium that we can reinvest in all of the game," said Ulster Rugby's chief executive Shane Logan.
When pressed on the sum of money involved, the Ulster chief said it was "substantial" and that the deal was "right up there at the top end" when compared with naming rights deals agreed by other top European rugby clubs in recent years.
Logan acknowledged that Ulster's decision may not go down well with traditionalists but indicated his confidence that the vast majority of supporters will be won over.
"I don't think we expect everybody to immediately get used to the name but as the with Aviva, the Etihad and other leading stadia, it does happen through time.
"We look upon it a bit like a marriage. When my daughter gets married, her name will change. It's perhaps a little bit similar. It's progress," added the Ulster chief executive.
The devolution (further powers) committee is to hear evidence about the bill's potential impact on industrial relations and services in Scotland.
The Scottish government and Scottish Labour have both made efforts to win permission for Holyrood to block the Westminster bill north of the border.
A chamber debate could be held on the committee's findings within the month.
The Trade Union Bill, which would make it more difficult to call strikes, has drawn criticism from across the Holyrood chamber.
SNP minister Roseanna Cunningham wrote to the presiding officer requesting a legislative consent memorandum, a special motion which could allow Holyrood to block the bill from applying in Scotland, although this was turned down by Tricia Marwick.
Scottish Labour has also weighed in, with leader Kezia Dugdale writing to the presiding officer to protest and MSP James Kelly was ejected from the chamber while challenging Ms Marwick.
The Scottish Conservatives do not oppose the bill, with MSP Murdo Fraser saying it is "clearly" a reserved matter and noting that Holyrood "should not be duplicating the work of the House of Commons".
Devolution committee convener Bruce Crawford said the bill raised "serious concerns for many members".
He said: "Given the bill is already progressing through Westminster, we urgently want to hear, on the record, what impact this legislation will have in Scotland, if it is enacted in its current form.
"We particularly want to examine its potential impact on Scottish public sector workers and their employers."
Witnesses will include representatives of the Scottish Trades Unions Congress, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and NHS Scotland.
Following the session, the committee will produce a report which could be debated by the full parliament by the end of the month.
Four of the attackers were killed in shootouts with police, but some managed to escape in the city of Aktobe.
Residents have been advised to stay indoors as a manhunt is continuing.
Interior ministry spokesman Almas Sadubayev said the attackers were "followers of radical, non-traditional religious movements".
The phrase is usually used to describe Islamist militants.
Islamist attacks are rare in Kazakhstan. However Aktobe - near the Russian border - was the site of Kazakhstan's first suicide bombing in 2011.
The attackers on Sunday first targeted the shops, killing a vendor, a security guard and a visitor.
They then reportedly seized a bus to break through the gates of the army unit, killing three servicemen.
At least nine soldiers were injured during the attacks.
Video on social media showed a group of armed men walking on the streets of Aktobe and apparently preparing to shoot.
The authorities shut down the entire public transport network, shopping centres and entertainment venues in the city.
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, the Welsh Tories have unveiled a five-point plan to boost the tourism industry.
Plaid Cymru has proposed a smartcard to help people to claim entitlements such as free prescriptions, bus travel and museum entry.
And the Liberal Democrats have promised a £20m scheme to support hill farmers.
Details of the bug were made public earlier this month by Google security researchers.
Microsoft criticised the disclosure, saying Google had put people at risk by sharing information about the flaw.
One hacker group has kicked off several new campaigns that seek to use the flaw before it is widely patched.
The patch for the flaw was included in Microsoft's regular software update, which this month contained 14 separate updates that addressed 68 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft's Office suite and its Edge browser.
Microsoft's patch comes a week after Google released information about the flaw and almost two weeks after Adobe patched an associated bug in its widely used Flash software.
The release of the patch fulfils a promise made in a blog by Terry Myerson, Microsoft's head of Windows, to close the loophole as soon as possible.
The blog also detailed the activities of what Microsoft calls the Strontium hacker group, which has exploited the flaw to target governments, federal agencies, embassies, military organisations and defence contractors.
The Strontium group is also known as Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sofacy and APT28.
It is believed to be based in Russia and has been linked to the cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee, the governing body of the United States Democratic Party.
The prospect of the patch had already prompted this hacker group to accelerate its attempts to exploit it, research by security company Trend Micro suggests.
Trend Micro said the group had "ramped up" its targeted phishing campaigns that used the flaw in late October and early November.
Booby-trapped attachments posing as invites to a conference about cyber-threats were used as the attack vector for the campaigns.
The group still has time to exploit the flaw because many companies do not apply patches as soon as they appear.
They can take time to test the patch to ensure they do not inadvertently shut down important systems that keep a business running.
The unofficial event was organised by rebel cheese rollers, after plans for an official event were shelved in 2010.
An estimated 5,000 people turned out to watch thrill-seekers chase a 3.5kg (8lb) wheel of double Gloucester cheese down the 1:2 gradient hill.
The winner of the first race, Josh Shepherd, said he was "really happy" but "doesn't really like cheese".
In total, four 3.5kg (8lb) and three smaller 1.5kg (3lb) cheeses are used - made by Diana Smart, 87, who has been producing them for the event for more than 25 years.
Last year, in a bid to make the race safer, revellers had to chase a foam imitation of a double Gloucester 200m (656ft) down the hill at Brockworth.
But this year, the fake fromage was binned in favour of a real wheel of cheese.
The winner of the first race, unemployed Josh Shepherd, 19 - from Brockworth, Gloucester - said he was "really proud" of himself.
"I've run quite a few times before but it is the first time I've won," he said.
"My tactic was to stay on my feet and go as fast as I can and roll with the flow.
"But I don't know what I'm going to do with the cheese. I don't really like cheese unless it's melted, cheese on toast maybe."
The second race was won by another local man, Ryan Fairley, 24, from Brockworth, who said his tactic was "just to go".
"I didn't do the first race this year but it's absolutely brilliant to have won," he said.
"I also won a cheese last year."
The women's race was won for the third year running by Lucy Townsend, 17, from Brockworth.
The tradition dates back to at least the early 19th Century.
In 2009, the official event was axed after more than 15,000 people turned up, sparking safety fears over numbers at the site.
Every year since then unofficial races have been organised during the late spring bank holiday by local enthusiasts.
This year, Gloucestershire County Council closed roads up to 2.5 miles ( 4km) around the slope to keep disruption for residents to a minimum.
The charges are in connection with a two-vehicle crash on the Caw roundabout in Londonderry on Friday, 5 February.
Police said two police officers were injured in their attempts to get out of the way of a stolen car involved in the crash.
Another officer was injured when making an arrest.
The man who has been charged is due to appear before the Magistrates' Court in Derry on Saturday.
Police made arrests outside the State Duma in Moscow after gay rights supporters planning a "kiss-in" were assaulted by opponents.
The bill echoes laws passed by Russian cities such as St Petersburg.
Human rights campaigner Lyudmila Alexeyeva said its real aim was to "curb the rights of sexual minorities".
By Yuri MaloveryanBBC Russian, Moscow
This time, the stand-off between gay rights activists and their opponents near the Duma was not as violent as it had been many previous times - no flying fists, no bloody noses.
There were no more than 30 people on each side. The gay rights activists chanted "No to fascism!" and "Moscow is not Iran!".
Their opponents, who call themselves "the Christian Orthodox activists", shouted gay insults in response. "We'll arrange for Iran here in Moscow!" one of them promised loudly.
Some of the "Orthodox activists", mostly young men, but also some older women, threw eggs and snowballs at the gay rights activists.
The bill faces two more readings in the State Duma, after which it must be approved by the upper house (Federation Council) and President Vladimir Putin before it can become law.
If passed, it would mean that across Russia events promoting gay rights would be banned and the organisers fined, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.
Last year, Moscow's top court upheld a ban on gay pride marches in the Russian capital, effectively prohibiting them for the next 100 years.
The European Court of Human Rights has fined Russia for banning such parades in Moscow.
Homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia in 1993.
On Friday, police were seen making arrests after at least one man assaulted gay rights supporters outside the Duma.
Images from the scene suggest that both supporters and opponents, believed to be militant Russian Orthodox Christians, were detained.
Under the new bill, private individuals promoting "homosexual behaviour among minors" in Russia face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£105; 124 euros; $166) while officials risk paying 10 times that amount. Businesses and schools could be fined up to 500,000 roubles.
Yelena Kostyuchenko, a gay rights campaigner and journalist with the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, told AP news agency: "The law absolutely does not define what gay propaganda is and the reasons are understandable because gay propaganda does not exist.
"In that respect, any information on, as the law puts it, 'equal values of traditional and unorthodox marital relations' is considered 'gay propaganda'."
Ms Collina sits on the floor of the front room of her house.
The lights are off and the shutters are lowered. In the corridor, there is a shelf of hardback books including works by Hemingway and George Bernard Shaw. A certificate on a sitting room wall honours a relative's service in World War Two against Nazi Germany. There are no family photos on display.
Valeria Collina is a convert to Islam. She wears a veil, and speaks quietly to a group of journalists sitting around her.
"From 2016 there were problems with my son - the fact that he was stopped at Bologna airport [whilst trying to get to Istanbul and then to Syria].
"He would say to me 'Come on Mum let's go live in Syria. Over there, they have a pure Islam.'
"I told him 'Are you crazy? I have no intention of going to Syria with you or with anyone. I'm fine in my country.'"
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After he was stopped at Bologna airport in March 2016, Italian police began to monitor her son, a move that Valeria Collina supported. The Italians shared information with other countries' intelligence agencies, including the UK's.
But Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Italian of Moroccan origin, was still allowed to travel abroad.
"After the whole incident at Bologna airport, I told him 'You have to be perfect now. You can't look at strange things on the internet or meet strange people.' But then when he went back to London…"
Her voice trails off.
In London she says that her son found work at an Islamic news channel. But she was worried that he sounded very sombre.
"He looked serious in his pictures. So I joked 'Can you send me a picture where you're smiling more?'"
They spoke for the last time two days before he carried out his attack.
"It was a very sweet phone call. We spoke normally."
After she heard of the London Bridge attack, Ms Collina tried to get in touch with her son. But she could not get through.
"We sent a friend of his to look for him at the house [in London]. At that point I thought that my son was afraid that the police would try to connect him to the attack. I thought he was in hiding."
But on Tuesday the police came to her house to inform her that her son was one of the attackers. She thinks now of the families of her son's victims.
"I can understand from my own personal tragedy. But I don't even have the courage to compare my pain to theirs. It's as if I were ashamed to say 'I'm also a mother, I'm also suffering.'"
She supports the decision of imams in the UK not bury her son.
"I understand that it is right and dutiful in this moment to give this strong signal. We need this kind of gesture. Because the press accuses Muslims of not taking a stand. But we do."
She distances herself from her son's actions.
"It's a horrible thing. It shouldn't have happened and it should never happen again. And I'm going to do everything I can to prevent this. We need more education for young people."
We left her alone, contemplating in the dark.
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The hosts proved too good for Ulster who were attempting to become the first away team to win a semi-final.
Isa Nacewa's early try and Johnny Sexton's boot had the hosts 13-0 up but Ulster hit back with two Paddy Jackson penalties and a Craig Gilroy try.
Jamie Heaslip and Sean Cronin tries put Leinster 30-11 up before Gilroy snapped up his second try.
It was Ulster's sixth defeat in seven league semi-finals, while Leinster kept up their enviable 100% per cent record in Pro12 play-offs.
The victory sent Leinster through to a 28 May decider in Edinburgh where they will play either Connacht or defending champions Glasgow.
Leo Cullen's men had all the early pressure in Dublin, ominously building a 13-0 advantage inside 16 minutes with captain Nacewa touching down and Sexton kicking the other points.
But resilient Ulster turned things around in the second quarter, Paddy Jackson firing over two penalties and supplying the final pass for Gilroy's try just before half-time.
Trailing 13-11, the Ulstermen's momentum was broken by number eight Heaslip's 47th-minute try, though.
Replacement Sean Cronin's effort past the hour mark, coupled with Sexton's unerring boot, had Leinster seemingly out of reach at 30-11.
Gilroy completed his brace with 11 minutes left, taking his tally for the campaign to 10 tries, but Leinster had done enough to avenge last month's alarming 30-6 defeat in Belfast.
Leinster: I Nacewa (c); D Kearney, G Ringrose, B Te'o, L Fitzgerald; J Sexton, E Reddan J McGrath, R Strauss, M Ross, D Toner, M Kearney, R Ruddock, J Murphy, J Heaslip.
Replacements: S Cronin, P Dooley, T Furlong, R Molony, J Conan, L McGrath, I Madigan, Z Kirchner.
Ulster: J Payne; A Trimble, L Marshall, S McCloskey, C Gilroy; P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Best (c), R Lutton, P Browne, F van der Merwe, I Henderson, C Henry, S Reidy.
Replacements: R Herring, K McCall, A Warwick, R Diack, R Wilson, P Marshall, S Olding, D Cave.
People come here to chase dreams. Some come to sing in the hope of emulating those whose faces adorn the enormous billboards.
Some come to build business, to add to the brash and brightly lit skyline which already boasts a replica pyramid and Eiffel Tower.
Some simply come to gamble, to sit in the city's myriad casinos, hoping to stumble upon the win which might just set them up for life.
Others come to fight. One of those is Lee Selby.
The Welshman is here to defend his IBF featherweight world title against Jonathan Victor Barros, on the undercard of WBA champion Carl Frampton's much-vaunted rematch with Leo Santa Cruz.
Selby is also here to triumph in style - hoping to secure a fight with the winner of Frampton-Santa Cruz - and to impress in a city boxing calls one of its spiritual homes.
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"The dream for every fighter is to one day box for a world title in Las Vegas, and for most it's not a realistic dream," Selby says.
"For myself it wasn't, but I go to show with hard work, with that dream, focus and dedication, you can make it possible.
"That's not just in boxing or sport, that's in anything you do in life."
Selby finds himself in a quintessentially Las Vegan setting, sat by the sparsely populated, palm tree-laden swimming pools at the MGM Grand hotel, where he fights Barros on Saturday.
It is a crisp January afternoon, sunshine reflecting on Selby's personalised baseball cap as the softly spoken 29-year-old from Barry coolly considers the task ahead.
This is a city of decadence, where every room seems to be a casino and the absence of windows and clocks often renders the concept of time redundant.
One can feel lost in this alternate reality, but Selby, teetotal and a devoted trainer regardless of his fight schedule, is oblivious to Las Vegas' many distractions.
"I'm here on a strictly business trip. I haven't been sightseeing. I've been to Las Vegas many times training so I've seen everything it's got to offer," he adds.
"I've been out here, been in all the gyms, been in the arena, so it's not too new.
"I'm here just to get on with the job. We had nine nights in Los Angeles [for a training camp] before we came here, so we're acclimatised and ready to put on a show."
American boxing crowds can be difficult to please and, having fought on this side of the Atlantic before, Selby knows he will have to be at his fluent best to entertain those inside the MGM Grand.
He is particularly eager to do so because of his desire to fight the winner of the headline bout between Frampton and Santa Cruz, the next step in his ultimate goal of unifying a fiercely competitive featherweight division.
Yet it might be difficult to cut loose against Barros, a seasoned Argentine who has won 41 of his 46 fights in a professional career spanning almost 13 years.
"He's knocked out more opponents than I've had fights," Selby says.
"To be honest, I'm not sure what his approach is going to be.
"In some fights of his I've watched, he's boxed on the back foot behind the jab and in other fights he's tucked up and taken the fight to his opponents.
"It will be more entertaining if he forces the fight but usually pressure fighters, you'll see what I've done to them in the past - they suit me down to a tee and I can box on the back foot and out-box them.
"So I'm not sure what to expect but, whatever he comes out with, I've got the ability to adapt in the ring and get the win by any means possible.
"The main thing is to win. The American fans like to see a tear-up.
"I've seen two quality, classy boxers here and the whole crowd has booed them, so I might have to do some fighting."
If Selby needs to scrap with Barros, he will do so. He will have to be versatile if his dream fight with Frampton is to materialise.
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If Selby needs to fight Barros tactically and pragmatically, he will do so too. The Welshman will take whatever action he deems necessary to win.
He would like to do so with a flourish, to defend his title for a third time in a manner convincing enough to enhance his burgeoning reputation in America.
What he cannot consider is defeat.
"I treat every fight the same. Even my first fight was like a world title fight," he says.
"I've got to win. The fear of losing is too much. I don't want to have regrets."
But not quite yet - with their lordships, in particular, cranking up for a considerable clash over the Higher Education Bill. And watch out for a Commons-Lords clash on peers' call for an independent inquiry into the way the police complaints system dealt with allegations of corrupt relationships between the police and newspapers... a modest appetiser, with a government decision looming on press regulation.
The one imponderable is the eagerly-awaited Supreme Court decision on whether there has to be a Parliamentary vote on the triggering of Article 50 - if that arrives (and the timing is unclear), there will be huge pressure for a rapid Commons statement setting out the next moves.
If the ruling goes against the government, it will be a highly-charged event - and if the Supremes require a full scale bill to be passed, a frantic re-jigging of the legislative timetable will follow.
Here's my run-down of the week ahead:
The Commons re-opens (2.30pm) with Work and Pensions questions - doubtless to be followed by the usual crop of post-recess ministerial statements and urgent questions.
Then MPs are on a running three-line whip for the report stage, Legislative Grand Committee and third reading of the Technical and Further Education Bill - where the only amendments down are from Labour's Gordon Marsden, who is proposing a series of changes, mostly aiming to give learners a voice on the panels regulating their teaching, and to create a new duty for the government to publish strategy on careers education.
The select committee of the day is the Communities and Local Government hearing (at 4pm) on the Casey Review into Integration, with its author, Dame Louise Casey.
Her review was commissioned by David Cameron and recommended a new strategy to help bridge divides in the UK, including an "integration oath" to encourage immigrants to embrace British values, and greater focus on promoting the English language and securing "women's emancipation in communities where they are being held back by regressive cultural practices". It has been criticised for focusing on Muslim communities.
In the Lords (2.30pm) peers celebrate their return with an interesting crop of questions to ministers. There is (but of course) a Brexit question, this time from the Lib Dem, Lord Maclennan, on the government's intentions for publishing a green paper on Brexit negotiations; the Green Party peer, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb has a question about the Pitchford inquiry into undercover policing, and infiltration of various environmentalists and radical groups; and Labour's Lord Grocott wants to highlight the fact that the vast majority of hereditary peerages exclude women from inheriting, with a question about the Register of Hereditary Peers' compatibility with equalities legislation.
But that is just a preliminary skirmish before what may become full-on trench warfare over the Higher Education and Research Bill.
A cross-party alliance of peers fears that this could open the way for the full "marketisation" of higher education - and that could, unusually, lead to a series of votes being forced at committee stage (this is the first of two committee stage days timetabled for this week).
First up is a 'before Clause 1' amendment from Labour's Lord Stevenson. The tell-tale sign here is that it is co-signed by heavy hitters from other groups including Crossbenchers Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who was Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016 and Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, a professor at King's College, London; plus the Lib Dem Baroness Garden, which sets out core principles of academic freedom and independence as a preface to the bill.
That's closely followed by a second amendment from Lord Stevenson and Baroness Garden, specifying that UK universities should operate "on a not-for-profit basis". Labour sources are already warning that if the government does not amend the bill to meet their concerns, it can expect a long drawn out battle of a kind not seen since the Health and Social Care Bill, during the Coalition years.
Also on the agenda is a short debate on the role of the Armed Forces Covenant in ensuring those who serve and their families are treated with fairness and respect - led by the Bishop of Portsmouth.
The Commons meets at 11.30am for Foreign Office questions - after which the post-holiday backlog of statements and UQs may continue. Then comes a Ten Minute Rule Bill on Mutual Guarantee Societies from Labour and Co-Operative Party MP Christina Rees . The bill encourages small and medium size enterprises to join collectively to create a Mutual Guarantee Society to negotiate a better deal from banks.
MPs then polish off their consideration of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill, which will raise the limit on the financial support that can be provided to the CDC, the UK's development finance institution.
Amendments include a proposal from the Labour front bench to prohibit any new investment from going to an investment vehicle or company which uses or seems likely to use tax havens.
More detailed legislating follows and the Commons considers Lords' amendments to the Policing and Crime Bill. The government suffered four defeats on this measure in the Upper House - on issues including the maximum sentence for stalking, a "Hillsborough" provision on financial support for bereaved families at inquests involving the police, and on an independent inquiry into the way the police complaints handled allegations of corrupt relationships between the police and newspapers. Will the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, seek to reverse those changes, and if she does, will peers bat the bill back to MPs again?
In Westminster Hall, the Lib Dem Norman Lamb, a health minister under the Coalition, has a debate on supporting children's wellbeing and mental health in a school environment (9.30am-11am). Conservative MP Justin Tomlinson raises the issue of allocation of funding from the soft drinks industry levy for sport in schools (2.30pm-4pm) and the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has a debate on the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement (4pm -5.30pm)
Committee of the day is the Home Affairs hearing (2.15pm) on hate crime and its violent consequences. The witnesses include Joanna Mludzinska of the Polish Social and Cultural Association, and Taduesz K Stenzel of the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, plus Professor Matthew Feldman of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies, Teeside University, and Professor Matthew Goodwin, of the University of Kent.
In the Lords (2.30pm), the main legislating is on the detail of the Wales Bill.
MPs gather at 11.30am for International Development questions, followed, at noon by the first Prime Minister's question time of 2017. Next comes an interesting Ten Minute Rule Bill on Guardianship (Missing Persons) from the Conservative, Kevin Hollinrake.
Families with a missing loved one have been campaigning for guardianship powers for the past five years, to enable them to manage a missing relative's finances and property until they return, and ensure any dependents are looked after. Up to 1,500 adults are missing for longer than a year and, he says, the lack of guardianship powers means that families are powerless to deal with the practical challenges like ensuring bills are paid, homes are protected and dependents are looked after.
The result, he says, is that families are forced to stand by and watch as the life they hope their missing loved one will return to falls apart.
The main debate will be on a Labour Opposition Day motion, to be announced.
In Westminster Hall (9.30am-11am), the Conservative Anne Main leads a debate on pharmacies and integrated healthcare in England - she will talk about what pharmacies are doing at the moment, how they are funded, and make the case that pharmacies should be treating more minor ailments and chronic conditions to take pressure off GPs - and she will argue that pharmacies want to do more, and this should be reflected in their funding.
Labour's Rob Marris leads a debate on access to justice (2.30pm-4pm) and Karl Turner, who had a brief spell as Labour's shadow attorney general, raises the funding of Crown Prosecution Service (4.30pm -5.30pm).
Committee of the day is the Work and Pensions hearing (9.30am) on victims of modern slavery - with former senior judge, Baroness Butler-Sloss and Kevin Hyland, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. And keep an eye out for the Treasury Committee (2.15pm) which has one of its regular hearings with the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and a supporting cast of BoE officials - always worth watching.
In the Lords (3pm) the main event is the week's second committee stage day on the Higher Education and Research Bill (see above). And there will be a short debate on equine welfare standards led by the Conservative, Lord Higgins.
It's Transport questions in the Commons (from 9.30am), followed by the weekly Business Statement from the Leader of the House - which may, among other things, confirm a date for the long-awaited vote on plans to move MPs out of the Victorian Palace of Westminster for five years, or more, to allow for a multi-billion pound renovation programme.
Or are ministers getting cold feet about the cost and gathering backbench opposition?
The main debates are on subjects chosen by the Backbench Business Committee - first, on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and then on security and the political situation in the African Great Lakes region.
In Westminster Hall (1.30pm) there's a debate on the Justice Select Committee's report on Restorative Justice, led by Committee Chair Bob Neill - and that's followed (3pm) by a debate on the future of the UK maritime industry led by the Lib Dem former Scottish Secretary, Alistair Carmichael.
In the Lords (11am) the main events are debates led by backbench Labour peers; Baroness Massey of Darwen, on the Institute for Public Policy Research's annual State of the North report; the former International Development minister Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead on the treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Burma, and the former defence secretary and Nato Secretary General, George Robertson on the future capability of the UK's armed forces in the current international situation.
The House will also wave through the Savings (Government Contributions) Bill - which, as a money bill is considered untouchable by the Lords and will go through all its stages of consideration at a single gulp.
It's private members' bill time again in the Commons, from 9.30am. First up is the second reading for the Conservative Kevin Foster's Broadcasting (Radio Multiplex Services) Bill. He argues that at present, the costs and licensing system don't help small-scale radio stations and radio services to access to the DAB digital radio network and his bill aims to make digital access available to all small-scale operators.
Next comes the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill - the Conservative Tim Loughton aims to make the option of civil partnership available to straight couples (he was accused of trying to wreck the Gay Marriage Bill when he introduced an amendment on this issue, in 2013).
Third in the running order is the Workers' Rights (Maintenance of EU Standards) Bill, from Labour's Melanie Onn, which will be launched at an event on Wednesday, with Labour Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer and Liz Snape (President of the TUC and Assistant General Secretary of Unison) speaking.
The bill targets a key Brexit issue for Labour, so I can't help wondering if some of the usual suspects will be padding out the previous debates, to minimise, or even eliminate the time available to it.
And at 2.30pm, when the names of undebated bills are read out for their ritual parliamentary pole-axing, watch out for a shout of "Object" against Peter Bone's Withdrawal from the European Union (Article 50) Bill.
If no-one objected, it would be deemed to have had an unopposed second reading and could go forward for consideration in committee. But someone will....a little end of day theatre, with points of order and show indignation.
Ministers agreed to the change in the law after carrying out a consultation, but it will be 2014 before it is fully rolled out.
When physios and podiatrists do start prescribing they will become the first in the world to be given such powers.
And it will mean patients do not have to go back to GPs to get drugs such as anti-inflammatories and painkillers.
The changes have still to be approved by Parliament.
But the decision by ministers to press ahead marks a significant milestone in the long-running campaign to extend prescribing powers.
Over the past 10 years senior nurses have been given more responsibility for prescribing and it has long been argued that other health professionals should also get the powers too.
Health minister Lord Howe said: "By introducing these changes, we aim to make the best use of their skills and allow patients to benefit from a faster and more effective service."
Dr Helena Johnson, of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, said the move would "hugely improve" the care physios could provide.
"Patients will now receive a more streamlined and efficient service, meaning they get the medicines they need more immediately," she added.
Walsh stepped down after a contract dispute with the IABA, saying it had "not made it possible for me to continue on in the role".
"I want a rethink within the next 24 hours by the IABA of their total approach to this," Irish Sports Council chairman Kieran Mulvey told RTE.
"We'll have to review our relationship with the IABA."
Walsh stepped down on Monday after 12 years in the post to take up a new position in the United States.
Ireland won Olympic, World and European gold medals at amateur level during Walsh's successful period as coach.
Mulvey added that a 22 August agreement with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, relating to Walsh, was never put to its board.
"My view now is that deal should be offered to Billy even at this late date and give up the nonsense that's going on now in the IABA about this," he said.
"What was so unacceptable about the agreement of the 22nd August that it was never put to the board and never put to Billy Walsh even though it was agreed by him - what's the problem? I don't know what the problem is.
"Billy Walsh gave up in frustration - all you have to hear is his statement of a man who does not want to go America but is being forced by the petty indignities he was facing in this country."
The IABA said it had "done its utmost to retain Billy Walsh as Head Coach".
In a tight contest, the Giants took the lead in the second period with a goal from Mike Wilson but it was soon cancelled out by Zack Fitzgerald.
The game's winning goal came with 54 seconds remaining in overtime when Jonathan Phillips beat Giants goalie Stephen Murphy.
The sides will meet again in the Elite League on Saturday night in Sheffield.
The Giants then travel to take on Cardiff on Sunday in the first leg of the Challenge Cup semi-final.
There were few chances in a scoreless first period in Tuesday's match as both sides, coming off two losses each at the weekend, were content to try an force the other into mistakes.
The deadlock was eventually broken with 8:43 remaining in the second period.
A solid fore checking shift by the Giants forced a Steelers turnover and a Colin Shields bullet pass through the slot picked out defenceman Wilson who had a open net to shoot at.
The home side weren't ahead for long, however.
Murphy had already made three big saves to deny the Steelers before Fitzgerald pinched in from the blue line and was picked out by Jason Hewitt's pass to tie the game at 1-1.
The game opened up in the final 20 minutes and both sides had periods of pressure and chances to edge ahead, but the game would head to five-minutes of sudden death overtime.
It was a mistake by the Giants defence behind their own net that resulted in a turnover by Levi Nelson and his pass found Phillips who scored from close-range.
Beaches, golf courses, colonial buildings and the subtropical climate also attract some half a million tourists a year but the self-governing territory has not escaped the global economic recession.
The 16th century Spanish sea captain, Juan de Bermudez, is believed to have discovered the archipelago of seven main islands and more than 170 islets. England took control of Bermuda in the late 17th century and slaves, mostly brought from Africa, came to outnumber the colonists. Today, three-fifths of the population are of African descent with the remainder of mostly-European extraction.
The 1968 constitution guaranteed internal self-government but tension in the 1970s saw the assassination of the colony's governor and rioting. British troops went in to restore order and recent polls show a large majority opposed to independence.
In May 2013, Bermuda along with several other territories in the Caribbean, signed agreements on sharing tax information with Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a governor
Premier: Michael Dunkley
Formerly deputy premier, Michael Dunkley became premier in May 2014 after his predecessor, Craig Cannonier, resigned over the so-called Jetgate controversy involving political donations from an American businessman.
Mr Dunkley took over as leader of the One Bermuda Alliance and brought Mr Cannonier back into the cabinet in 2015. Mr Dunkley was previously a minister of public safety for his party after it won the 2012 general election.
The territory is believed to have one of the oldest parliaments in the world; a representative assembly was established in 1620.
The islands' broadcasting scene is dominated by two commercial players, the Bermuda Broadcasting Company and VSB.
Circa 1503 - Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermudez sights the islands.
Early 1600s - African and American Indian slaves are brought to the islands. By 1617 they outnumber white settlers.
1684 - Bermuda becomes an English crown colony.
1968 - New constitution introduced. British monarch is head of state, represented by a governor and internal self-government is granted.
1973 - Tensions rise, culminating in the assassination of Governor Richard Sharples.
1977 - Riots and demonstrations for civil rights follow execution of Sharples' murderer. State of emergency is declared and British forces are sent to restore order.
1995 - Independence referendum: pro-independence Progressive Labour Party (PLP) encourages voters to boycott poll. Majority votes against independence.
2003 - Hurricane Fabian, worst storm in 50 years, sweeps across Bermuda with winds of up to 125 mph. Royal Navy task force heads out to offer assistance.
2009 - Bermuda added to OECD's "white list" of countries complying with internationally agreed tax standards, after signing information exchange agreements with several countries.
2012 - One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) wins general election, ending PLP's three straight terms in office.
He is number one on the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center's wanted list and is accused of assisting in the murder of 15,700 Jews.
Mr Csatary was taken in for questioning on Wednesday.
He has denied the accusations against him. State prosecutor Tibor Ibolya said: "One of his arguments in his defence is that he was obeying orders."
Mr Ibolya said Mr Csatary was accused of a "war crime committed by unlawful torture of human beings", which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
He said placing him under house arrest would enable authorities to confiscate his passport.
They said he was co-operating with investigators and that, considering his age, he was in good physical and mental health.
Earlier this week, reporters from the British newspaper the Sun found the former art dealer living in Budapest.
He was questioned on Wednesday by an investigative judge at the military prosecution's office in Budapest, before being put under house arrest for 30 days and released.
An AFP correspondent said he appeared and acted considerably younger than his 97 years when he emerged, wearing a grey jacket and carrying a plastic bag, to be picked up by two friends or relatives in a car.
According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Mr Csatary served as a senior Hungarian police officer in the eastern Slovak city of Kosice, then under Hungarian rule and called Kassa.
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The city was the site of the first Jewish ghetto established on Hungarian territory, following the German occupation of the country, in 1944.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center accuses Mr Csatary of involvement in the deportation of 15,700 Jews from Kosice to the Auschwitz death camp.
Earlier, he allegedly played a key role in the deportation of about 300 Jews from Kosice to Kamenetz-Podolsk in Ukraine, where almost all were murdered, in the summer of 1941.
Efraim Zuroff, the Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter, urged the Hungarian authorities to prosecute Mr Csatary, saying: "The passage of time in no way diminishes his guilt and old age should not afford protection for Holocaust perpetrators."
However, others questioned the value of hounding a 97-year-old when proving his guilt would not be straightforward.
Laszlo Karsai, Hungary's pre-eminent Holocaust historian, and the son of a Holocaust survivor, told the BBC: "The money spent hunting down people like him would be better spent fighting the propaganda of those who so energetically deny the Holocaust today."
In 1948, a Czechoslovakian court condemned Mr Csatary to death in absentia.
After the war, Mr Csatary escaped to Canada where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal and Toronto. He disappeared in 1997 after he was stripped of his Canadian citizenship.
The Sun says it tracked him down with help from the Center, whose Operation Last Chance is aimed at bringing surviving Nazi war criminals to justice.
Last year, the Center alerted Hungarian authorities to his presence, giving them evidence it said implicated him in war crimes.
Finance Wales invested more than £56m in businesses in 2015-16, up by £10m on the previous year, and £79m was raised from private sector funding.
Of those jobs, 1,163 were created and 2,555 were safeguarded.
Companies that benefited included Tomlinson's Dairies in Wrexham, Peerless Gas in Flintshire and Siltbusters in Monmouthshire.
Finance Wales, which uses money from the Welsh Government and other investors, makes investments in Welsh-based businesses, from £1,000 to £3m.
Chairman Gareth Bullock said: "We fill a gap left by mainstream lenders, offering flexible finance solutions to companies who may struggle to get the package they need from the traditional sources of finance.
"Where there is decreased risk appetite in the wider investment market, we're able to step in and take that risk burden to help support ambitious Welsh businesses.
"I'm proud of that, I'm proud of our flexibility and the approach our staff take to tailor deals for micro to medium companies."
Wood Green Animal Charity took 219 rats to its Cambridgeshire base. Some were passed to other shelters, but it made a plea for new homes to be found for 140.
A number of the females were on "pregnancy watch" and in the end they had an additional 50 babies.
Before the pack arrived, the shelter had just one rat looking for a home.
The family had started out with just a few rats, but "they were both boys and girls - and stuff happens", a spokeswoman said.
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The charity put out a plea for new owners saying: "We have a higher than normal number of rats currently living at the Godmanchester centre. We have males and females of varying ages, all very friendly and lots of different colours."
Dozens of people came forward offering homes.
To prevent owners ending up in the same situation as the Oxfordshire family, the charity usually homes rats with others of the same sex.
"Most people take either boys or girls and we always home at least two together as they're very social animals," the spokeswoman said.
"There was such a lot of interest so it was nice that we could be selective and make sure we got only the very best homes for our rats."
Alex Schalk won a penalty when he was tripped by debutant goalkeeper Aaron Lennox and Brian Graham hammered in.
Dutchman Schalk scored with a spectacular overhead kick after good work by Graham and Martin Woods.
Boyce headed in his 20th goal of the season, set up by Graham's cross, before Woods' long-ranger rounded off what could have been more emphatic win.
It was only County's second league victory since lifting the Scottish League Cup in March as Aberdeen ended a promising campaign with six defeats in their last eight matches.
Veteran midfielder Barry Robson was given rousing reception and a guard of honour before the game after being made captain to mark his final game after three years at the club.
Not that there much for the Dons supporters to get excited about when the match got underway as their side lacked a cutting edge in attack in the first half.
Then there were the problems at the back that have been all too evident since Danny Ward returned to Liverpool in January after Jurgen Klopp called a premature end to the goalkeeper's loan period.
Scott Brown and Adam Collin have been poor replacements and Australia Under-23 goalkeeper Lennox didn't have the best of debuts.
He made a couple of decent early saves, but his kicking was poor and, to make matters worse, he conceded the penalty from which County claimed the breakthrough.
With pace and trickery, Schalk evaded a couple of tackles before being tripped by Lennox while cutting across the box, earning Lennox a yellow card.
Graham did the rest by lashing the resulting spot kick into the roof of the net and the former Dundee United striker also played a part when the Highlanders grabbed their second.
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Woods worked a short corner before delivering a deep cross beyond the back post, where Graham turned it back across the danger area. Schalk still had a lot of work to do but showed his ability with a delightful overhead scissor kick to send the ball flying in to the net.
After more intelligent play by Woods, Michael Gardyne drifted back into space to accept the midfielder's pass only to squander the opportunity by taking a fresh air swipe at the ball.
Boyce missed another great chance before he finally scored with a close-range header after more great set up play by Graham.
Woods was rewarded for his performance with a wonder strike from 30 yards that sailed into the net to round off a stunning win for the Staggies.
Match ends, Aberdeen 0, Ross County 4.
Second Half ends, Aberdeen 0, Ross County 4.
Attempt missed. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brian Graham (Ross County).
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stewart Murdoch (Ross County).
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Scott Boyd.
Andrew Considine (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Brian Graham (Ross County).
Substitution, Ross County. Jonathan Franks replaces Michael Gardyne.
Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Liam Boyce.
Attempt blocked. Willo Flood (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Scott Boyd.
Substitution, Ross County. Stewart Murdoch replaces Jackson Irvine.
Goal! Aberdeen 0, Ross County 4. Martin Woods (Ross County) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Foul by Joe Nuttall (Aberdeen).
Martin Woods (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Scott Fox.
Attempt missed. Scott Wright (Aberdeen) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Daniel Harvie replaces Scott McKenna.
Goal! Aberdeen 0, Ross County 3. Liam Boyce (Ross County) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Brian Graham.
Attempt missed. Liam Boyce (Ross County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen).
Raffaele De Vita (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Willo Flood (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Willo Flood (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Alex Schalk (Ross County) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Michael Gardyne.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Joe Nuttall replaces Barry Robson.
Substitution, Aberdeen. Cameron Smith replaces Niall McGinn.
Foul by Liam Boyce (Ross County).
Barry Robson (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Brian Graham (Ross County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Scott Boyd.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Scott Boyd.
Attempt missed. Martin Woods (Ross County) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Liam Boyce (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ash Taylor (Aberdeen).
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Carrickfergus man Seeley, 37, set a lap record of four minutes, 22.7 seconds as he extended his North West winning run meeting to 10 straight years.
Somerset's Martin Jessopp, 31, earned his first North West victories as he won the Supersport and Supertwin races.
Jessopp and Michael Rutter swapped lap records in a thrilling Supertwin race.
Seeley recovered from a second-lap exit in the opening Supersport race to dominate the Superstock class as his Tyco BMW finished 12.623 seconds ahead of Lee Johnston.
Fermanagh man Johnston, a three-time North West winner, pipped Dean Harrison for second but the Englishman had the consolation of earning his first podium finish at the meeting.
Michael Rutter led early on before retiring but Seeley had a 1.94-second advantage by the halfway point after producing his lap record on the third circuit and he extended his advantage during the remainder of the race.
"I don't know what I'm doing right," said Seeley.
"I've talked about having plenty of lady luck down through the years and it seems to be continuing. Hopefully there will be more of the same on Saturday."
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But while Seeley continued his record-breaking exploits at the Triangle meeting, Jessopp also shone in the evening sun.
The Yeovil Marshes man was a close third at the halfway point in the Supersport race as Ian Hutchinson headed Harrison but Jessop led by 1.2 seconds heading into the sixth and final lap and held his nerve to take his first North West triumph.
Harrison was 0.772 seconds behind in second with Hampshire rider James Hillier completing an all-English podium as Jessopp clinched a first North West triumph on a Triumph bike since 1970.
The night then got even better for 31-year-old Jessopp as he held off a strong late challenge from veteran Michael Rutter to win the concluding Supertwin race.
Jessopp's lap record of 4:55.50 helped give him a three-second lead at one point before Rutter cut into his compatriot's advantage by improving the lap record to 4:53.
Rutter was only a couple of bikes lengths behind Jessopp midway in the closing stages but the Somerset man held to nerve his secure his double.
"We're basically a family-run team. Myself and my old man. It's huge for us," said Jessopp.
"We don't really have any sponsors to worry about but all the boys involved put in a huge amount of work."
The final whistle was greeted by a chorus of booing at Tynecastle, with the home side having fallen to a team that contained some part-timers.
Neilson said everybody at the club was "devastated" by the result, but also that his players must develop the know-how to deal with European football.
"It's a huge learning curve," he said.
"It was a year's worth of work that got us here and we let it slip.
"We can't give away goals like that. Free-kick into the box, switch off, goal. After that we're chasing ourselves.
"We've got another year now to try to get back [into Europe]. We've got to work hard and learn from tonight."
With the first-leg having finished 0-0, Hearts were confident ahead of the tie at Tynecastle and ought to have taken the lead when Sam Nicholson won a first-half penalty. Prince Buaben's weak effort was saved, though, by Miroslav Kopric.
Jamie Walker and Nicholson both hit the bar with efforts, but Hearts fell behind to second-half goals by Christian Bubalovic and Edward Herrera.
Conor Sammon pulled one back with his first goal for the club, but Hearts were unable to turn the scoreline around.
"We passed the ball well, we got into good opportunities, we hit the bar twice, and we got done," Neilson said. "That's European football. They had two shots at goal and they scored two.
"We're on a journey at the moment. We have to keep continuing to learn. You have to finish teams off, and we paid the ultimate penalty.
"This is a whole new environment for the players, it's European football, and it's about learning and developing. We're disappointed to go out, but we start building right now for next year."
Cambridgeshire County Council is looking to save just under £6m from the £19m department budget between 2013-14 and 2016-17.
The council has said possible job cuts would not affect services.
But union Unison said it could hit provision for "vulnerable" children and will have an impact on services.
The early help services department helps support families with children which are experiencing problems, through early intervention.
It also helps support children with disabilities or learning difficulties in schools.
A report to the council's children and young people committee, which meets on Tuesday, says 44 members of staff are at risk of redundancy to meet the savings target.
The posts proposed to be cut include a parent support manager, a children's centre service manager and a parenting early intervention co-ordinator.
Robert Turner, Unison branch secretary, representing workers at the county council, said: "We don't think any jobs should be placed at risk.
"It has got to make an impact on the services the department is delivering and once again it is the most vulnerable taking the biggest hit."
The council said it did not want to comment until after the meeting but added that the services are not expected to be cut.
Caer Heritage Project was awarded the cash from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop its plans for Caerau hillfort.
Plans include turning a disused gospel hall into a heritage centre and improving access to the site.
Caer co-director Dr Dave Wyatt, of Cardiff University, said the "significant" site "remains poorly understood and largely unknown".
In 2015, an excavation of the hillfort revealed a Neolithic causeway enclosure and one of the largest collections of pottery from the period ever discovered in Wales, suggesting it could date back 6,000 years.
It is hoped the grant will also help people in the area develop a better understanding of the hillfort and its significance.
The Arsenal manager told BBC Football Focus that Arsenal have come through a "sensitive period" of financing the construction of the Emirates Stadium.
Wenger said: "What people forget is you have to build a new stadium.
"Now we can compete for the best players and that was not the case five years ago."
Wenger, who has been Arsenal manager since 1996, has guided the Gunners to three Premier League titles and five FA Cup wins.
They went nine years without winning a trophy before lifting the FA Cup in 2014.
That period saw Manchester United joined by Chelsea and Manchester City in dominating the race for Premier League title.
Wenger said he turned down job opportunities to instead oversee Arsenal's transition either side of their move from Highbury to the Emirates in 2006.
"I went with the club for the challenge of building a new stadium without dropping out of the Champions League and we made it every year," he added.
"I feel that I have done my job in a very committed and faithful way. In 20 years it will be acknowledged that was a very sensitive period for the club. Today the club is in a strong position.
"You want to win everything. We were not that far away but we were facing opposition with much more resources. We had to deal with it."
Arsenal play Manchester United at Old Trafford in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Monday night.
In a wide-ranging interview with Football Focus Wenger also discussed his FA Cup memories and other key aspects of his Arsenal reign.
"Maybe the first one against Newcastle in 1998 when we won the double.
"When I was a kid I watched the cup final. So to come from a village in France and go on to win that was something special. It was the old stadium but the soul there was special."
"I don't know where my medals are. I don't look back. Maybe one day I'll regret it but I'd like to get more of the human side out my career than medals.
"You can have an influence on people's lives. Medals are important but are not the only thing that matter."
"I'm happy to see him now much more than before because we have gone through difficult spells. In the end it became more peaceful.
"He was not always objective in his defending his team and neither was I. Now we can have a nice dinner or a glass of wine."
"The availability of the players changed. We produced players like Cesc Fabregas, who is less physical than Patrick Vieira, but who are still exceptional players.
"For a while maybe we became slowly a little bit less athletic and less physical. But the players we have today, believe me, are very physical."
"I question myself after every game. It was just a shock as we were super favourites. I believe we wanted too much to make the difference in the first game and forgot the basics.
"We lost vision and panicked a little bit."
"We don't know, that's why life is interesting. I will continue as always to give my best to the job I do and for this club.
"(I want to leave the club) in a strong healthy position which means a club with good players, with good youth behind and strong financial position to go further up and develop even more and I will do that, you can believe me.
"The guy who comes in after me will be in a very strong position to deliver something exceptional."
The full interview by Martin Keown is on Football Focus on BBC One on Saturday at 12.10 GMT.
Murray, 28, said that he was moved to act by coverage of people travelling to claim asylum in Europe.
"Having seen the images broadcast on the news I felt I had to do something to help," he said.
Murray's sponsor Standard Life, along with the Lawn Tennis Association and ATP, will each match his donation.
The world number three will play for Britain in their Davis Cup semi-final and is also due to compete in events in Shanghai and Paris before the World Tour Finals in London in November.
The British number one hit 64 aces in his four matches at the US Open earlier this month.
Murray has been one of Unicef's celebrity supporters since 2014 and starred in a series of comedy skit videos in June to raise money for the charity.
In a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee, the home secretary said 30 files relating to the UK miners' strike would be sent to the National Archives.
The subject titles show that at least one file relates directly to Orgreave.
In October, Home Secretary Amber Rudd ruled out an inquiry into the clashes between miners and police at the Yorkshire coking site in 1984.
Campaigners have said officers led by South Yorkshire Police were heavy-handed and manufactured statements.
What was the 'Battle of Orgreave'?
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Writing to Yvette Cooper, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Ms Rudd said all the remaining miners' strike Home Office files should be publicly available at the National Archives in the first half of 2017.
She said the Home Office was also giving "further consideration to three files, the status of which has yet to be determined".
The "Battle of Orgreave" was the most violent day of the year-long 1984-85 miners' strike.
Huge lines of police clashed with striking miners as they tried to stop lorries carrying coke to fuel the Scunthorpe steel furnaces.
At one stage police horses were sent to charge the crowd up the field, violence erupted on both sides and officers followed to make arrests.
Ms Cooper said: "The home secretary's agreement to make public 30 further files on Orgreave is welcome.
"We are seeking further information and I have now written to a further 18 police forces involved in policing the incident to ask what related written information they hold which is not in the public domain."
Barbara Jackson, secretary of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign said, the group was "very pleased" with the announcement.
She said: "Documentation is so important in anything like this, it leads to knowledge and enables people to start getting their heads around what happened."
Vera Baird, police and crime commissioner of Northumbria Police, who acted for miners when she was a barrister, previously said she was "concerned" that the Home Office was still holding the files in light of Ms Rudd's decision not to have a parliamentary inquiry.
Kaya Langmead was left with "red raw" skin after getting stuck to the seat at McDonald's in Exeter's High Street, her mother, Nicole Langmead, said.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the girls had "apologised to the victim's mother for the upset caused to her and her daughter".
Police said the case, which was treated as an assault, has since been closed.
Updates on this story and more from Devon
Ms Langmead said her daughter managed to free herself from the toilet seat, thought to have been covered in super-strong glue, but was in tears after the incident which was thought to have been a prank.
A police spokesman said: "Following injuries to a four-year-old girl at the McDonalds in Exeter High Street on New Year's Day, police identified two juvenile girls who were subsequently interviewed by police.
"The two girls immediately accepted what they had done, were sorry and have apologised to the victim's mother for the upset caused to her and her daughter.
"Devon and Cornwall Police have subsequently taken appropriate action against the offenders."
He added that Ms Langmead was "happy with the outcome".
McDonald's previously said staff swiftly offered medical help and contacted police "as soon as our restaurant team was made aware of this incident".
Meadow, 24, went into the final round of the Pure Silk Bahamas Classic sharing 13th spot and within striking distance of a top-10 finish.
However, after playing her opening 11 holes in one under par, Meadow then dropped four shots in three holes.
A closing birdie moved the Jordanstown woman up 10 spots in the field.
While she is likely to be disappointed with her closing nine holes as she finished on 11 under par overall, Meadow should take encouragement from the tournament after posting opening rounds of 72, 67 and 67.
Meadow finished a superb third on her professional debut at the US Women's Open in 2014 but suffered a dip in form following the death of her father a year later.
The Northern Irishwoman showed signs of a return to form in the latter part of 2016 as she achieved a top-10 finish at the Canadian Open.
American Brittany Lincicome won with a birdie at the first play-off hole after tying with compatriot Lexi Thompson on 26 under after four rounds.
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Scotland centre Bennett let the ball slip from his grasp as he looked likely to score a try during Sunday's 27-20 win over Cardiff Blues.
"He put his hand up at half-time," said his head coach. "It was unlucky.
"It was great seeing him go over, a nice move, but obviously he'll put the ball down with two hands from now on."
Having fallen a try short of a bonus point, reigning champions Glasgow missed the opportunity to move above Edinburgh into sixth place in the Pro12 table.
Although they have games in hand over the teams above, Townsend told BBC Scotland: "We would have been disappointed even if we had picked up a bonus point and sneaked one in the end.
"Parts of that game weren't as accurate as we have to play and how we can play.
"In the first 50 minutes, we did some really good things, we showed at times how dangerous we can be. We showed a real determination in defence to compete for ball and we got a few turnovers in the first half.
"But we set ourselves higher standards. The last half hour, we played our poorest rugby."
Warriors, who conceded three second-half tries as Cardiff secured themselves a losing bonus point, next face matches against teams lying above them in the table.
"We need to be better, especially with Ulster and Leinster in our next two games," said Townsend.
A high point for the Glasgow coach was the return of Henry Pyrgos for the first time since October after the Scotland scrum-half underwent wrist surgery.
"I thought Henry Pyrgos was outstanding," said Townsend. "To be out of the game for four months and really add tempo to our game, make the right decisions of where to attack and the players followed him and we got a couple of cracking tries in there."
Townsend was not about to make excuses because of the state of a Scotstoun pitch that has still not recovered fully from recent postponements because of flooding.
"I think the pitch certainly slowed the tempo of both teams - I know a couple of our guys cramped up," he added.
"It's obviously not in perfect condition, but a lot of the issues were accuracy."
On Monday he said Muslim people should be banned from entering the US.
But in response to Trump's comments, Hopkins wrote in her newspaper column that he should not be demonised.
So does she simply speak her mind or is she an attention seeker? Here are five things about Katie Hopkins.
Katie Hopkins first came under the public gaze when she was a contestant on the BBC TV series The Apprentice in 2007.
She quit the show despite being offered a place in the final as she could not commit to a possible move to London.
In 2013 she caused upset when she said she would not let her children play with lower class children with names like Chardonnay and Tyler.
She made the remarks during an appearance on ITV's This Morning programme.
She admitted that she judges children by their names.
But when she said she did not like children with geographical location names, it was pointed out that one of her children was called India.
In a 2014 TV documentary, Katie raised more eyebrows when she said fat people were lazy. She added that she would not employ fat people because they look lazy.
She illustrated her point by managing to gain and lose three stone in weight.
Before the UK general election in 2015, she tweeted she will leave the country if the Labour Party were elected to power.
In November, students from Brunel University walked out of a debate where Katie was invited as a guest.
Objections were raised to her attendance while during the debate about the future of welfare, students turned their backs to her and later walked out.
Dutch printer ink vendor 123inkt said it had received more than 1,000 complaints in one day.
HP said that during its last firmware update, settings had been changed so HP printers would communicate with only HP-chipped cartridges.
It also said some devices already had the functionality built-in.
123inkt said it did not believe that a firmware update had been issued since March 2016, suggesting the change had been pre-programmed to roll out this month.
HP said such updates were rolled out "periodically" but did not comment on the timing of the last instalment.
"The purpose of this update is to protect HP's innovations and intellectual property," it said in a statement.
It has angered some of its customers as HP branded cartridges are notably more expensive than unofficial brands.
Reported error messages include "cartridge problem", "one or more cartridges are missing or damaged" or "older generation cartridge".
One contributor to HP's support forum said the firmware had been updated "without my permission" and an error message now said the ink cartridge was damaged.
"I use it daily for work and now am in trouble," he wrote.
"Others must have the same problem. Is there a way to stop HP from doing this to people who have bought their equipment?"
The HP OfficeJet, OfficeJet Pro and OfficeJet Pro X printers are affected.
Chipped cartridges filled with alternative ink would still work, HP told the BBC.
It said: "These printers will continue to work with refilled or remanufactured cartridges with an original HP security chip. Other cartridges may not function.
"In many cases, this functionality was installed in the HP printer and in some cases it has been implemented as part of an update to the printer's firmware," it added.
123inkt said it had been able to develop new chips for its own label of cartridges that were compatible, and these were currently in production, but that the problem itself was not unusual.
"Printer manufacturers regularly execute firmware-updates, claiming that they improve the operation of the printer or solve security issues," it said.
"The (un)intended result usually is that the operation of lower price private label cartridges is disturbed and error messages are triggered."
Evan Heddwyn Jones from Llanwrda was convicted of four counts of indecent assault on a child between 14 and 16 years from 1976 to 1978.
Swansea Crown Court heard he was employed to pick up school children and drop them at their nearest bus stop.
His victim was the last to be dropped off and Judge Keith Thomas said he "took advantage of the situation."
The victim, Esther Hoad - who now lives in Ireland - has chosen to waive her right to anonymity to speak about the sexual abuse she suffered as a child.
In an interview with BBC Wales, she said: "When the abuse first started I just felt wretched. I felt confused and guilty that I had somehow attracted all this unwanted attention to myself.
"I cringed in the school taxi every time he touched me or spoke to me. My feelings were guilt and self-loathing, confusion and powerlessness for allowing this to happen to me.
"As an adult I now know that this was misplaced guilt, but as the child I was then, I felt I was to blame."
Ms Hoad said she only decided to approach the police in 2014 after disclosing her experiences to her therapist.
"As the statements gathered by Dyfed-Powys police came in from people I grew up with, from people I went to school with, from other members of my family, I was appalled and angry, because it became crystal clear that everybody knew and that nobody did anything," she said.
Ms Hoad hopes that by waiving her right to anonymity, it will encourage sexual abuse victims to speak out.
Det Con Lee Davies said: "The sentencing of Jones is a significant result for Dyfed-Powys Police and also the victim of these abhorrent crimes.
"It has taken great courage for her to come forward and to stand before a judge and jury to provide her evidence. I applaud her for finding the confidence to come forward."
Ed was in a music store when he overheard his hit Thinking Out Loud being performed by 13-year-old Sydney for a charity fundraiser.
He joined her on stage and the teenager remained surprisingly calm with the Brit winner beside her.
She said: "I didn't want to stop, but I wanted to talk to him."
Ed left after the performance, stopping to pose for some selfies with fans along the way.
The singer is currently on a tour of Canada and North America.
Sydney later received a text by Ed's manager offering her two tickets to one of the the singer's concerts on the current tour.
The Land Rover hit a white van and a red Seat, which smashed through a wall and landed on the bonnet of a silver BMW X5, at Warwick Hospital.
The driver of the Land Rover was taken into the hospital to be treated after the accident at 16:20 GMT on Wednesday.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "Thankfully no-one else was injured in the crash."
Swansea council built the £27m stadium where Swansea and the Ospreys rugby team have played since 2005.
The Swans and the Ospreys currently pay rent to the Swansea Stadium Management Company (SSMC) - a partnership between the council and two clubs.
Under the new deal, Swansea would run the stadium, increasing the scope for stadium expansion and renaming.
According to the club's chief operations officer, Chris Pearlman, the "current stadium arrangement puts Swansea City at a competitive disadvantage compared to other Premier League teams".
Writing in the match programme for the Swans' match against Burnley on Saturday, Pearlman said he hoped the new agreement would:
Swansea's American owners have held unofficial talks with the council since they bought the club last summer.
Councillors hope a deal could be struck before May's council elections.
President Castro said the US should drop its demand for regime change on the communist-run island.
That would allow both sides to continue work on improving relations, he said.
Mr Castro's comments follow a public handshake with President Obama at the memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela in South Africa earlier this month.
In a rare public speech, Mr Castro said Cuban and American officials had met several times over the last year to discuss practical matters, such as immigration and the re-establishment of a postal service.
That shows that relations can be civilised, Mr Castro explained.
But he warned: "If we really want to make progress in bilateral relations, we have to learn to respect each other's differences and get used to living peacefully with them. Otherwise, no. We are ready for another 55 years like the last."
The US broke off relations in 1961, two years after the revolution, and maintains an economic embargo against the island.
"We do not ask the United States to change its political and social system, nor do we agree to negotiate over ours," Mr Castro told legislators at the closing session of the parliament in the capital, Havana.
Relations between the two neighbours have shown signs of improvement of late, although some stumbling blocks to reconciliation remain, said the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Havana.
Raul Castro, 82, took over from his brother, Fidel, in 2006. Fidel had serious health problems and was never able to come back to power. Two years later, he resigned and transferred control permanently to Raul Castro.
He has since carried out a programme of economic reforms, which has helped efforts for relations with the US to be improved.
But critics say the pace of change has been too slow.
"The reform process in Cuba cannot be rushed or it will lead to failure," Mr Castro warned.
Among the most recent changes announced by Raul Castro is the end of restrictions on private individuals to buy new and second hand cars.
Anyone with enough money will be allowed to order the vehicles from a government dealer.
Until now, only those who were given a previous government authorisation were allowed to buy cars in Cuba.
Two people were seriously hurt and 31 others injured in the explosion in New Ferry, Wirral on 25 March.
Wirral Council said 15 buildings would be repaired and it was "closely assessing" the other properties, which include a restaurant and a butchers.
It said it planned to make a decision in the next couple of weeks and if it decided to demolish them it would do so quickly as they were "unstable".
The authority said numbers 1 to 9 Underley Terrace, 2-8 Boundary Road and 45-55 Bebington Road would be repaired.
However, it said it has yet to be decided what will happen to those between 56 and 74 Bebington Road.
David Ball, Wirral Council's assistant director of environmental services, said discussions on those properties were continuing with owners and insurance companies, with a meeting set with them for mid-May.
"If demolition is the outcome, then the council want to move in fairly quickly and demolish them as they are unstable at the moment, and we can't open the road and the pedestrian areas into the shops until those buildings have been removed or dealt with," he said.
"Making a decision about the future of a property is of course a very big thing for the people who own or live in those buildings, so we've been working closely with everyone involved to come to a mutual and sensible decision wherever we can."
The council has reduced the cordon around the properties affected with only the most badly damaged still sealed off.
Merseyside Police said it was continuing to work with specialists to identify the explosion's cause.
Kenny Shiels described Republic of Ireland players as "England reserves" and Northern Ireland players as "England reserves' reserves."
The Candystripes boss maintained that he had made the remarks to journalists "in jest" after a football match.
Irish International James McClean denounced Mr Shiels' remarks as "ridiculous".
After a 3-1 defeat away to Dundalk in the League of Ireland Premier Division, Shiels told members of the press that International football "is not what it used to be."
"There's no pride in it anymore because you could have a pint of Guinness and play for Ireland," he said.
"There are Italians and Scottish people playing for Ireland," he said.
"When you look at the people who can go and play.
The Republic of Ireland are England reserves and Northern Ireland are England's reserves' reserves.
"It's diabolical. I've no time for it all."
James McClean was one of a number of players, including Darron Gibson and Shane Duffy, who declared for the Republic of Ireland despite representing Northern Ireland at a younger level.
He played for the Candystripes for a number of years before making a big-money move to Sunderland in 2011.
McClean told the Derry Journal: "What right or what credentials does Kenny Shiels hold to make such ridiculous comments on international football?"
"For me, playing in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in front of thousands of people and wearing that green jersey means so much to me and my team-mates.
"I feel very proud and very fortunate to have been given an opportunity to wear that jersey. I do everything in my power to give 100% when wearing it.
"So how dare Kenny Shiels make such ridiculous comments when he knows very little about playing international football?"
Kenny Shiels, whose son Dean has been capped 14 times by Northern Ireland, told the Belfast Telegraph his comments had been taken out of context.
"I was having a joke with reporters from Dublin and Dundalk and that's all it was - a bit of banter; something said purely in jest a couple of months ago," he said.
"We were winding each other up and McClean knows that."
Brian Parker, who represents Marsden on Pendle Council, told the Lancashire authority he wants to sit as an independent.
Pendle Council's corporate director Philip Mousdale said confirmed he had been told by Mr Parker he had resigned from the BNP.
Mr Parker and the BNP have yet to comment.
1993 - First councillor for the party was elected for the Millwall ward in Tower Hamlets - he lost the next year.
2002 - The party's next success was nine years later when three councillors were elected to Burnley Council. Subsequent gains on the council made them the official opposition.
2006 - Brian Parker wins a seat on Pendle Council.
2009 - BNP leader Nick Griffin elected as an MEP for north-west England, where he gained 8% of the vote while Andrew Brons picked up another BNP seat in Yorkshire and Humber, where it won 10% of the vote.
2016 - The only remaining BNP councillor - although this does not include parish or town councillors for which records are not readily available - resigns from the party to become an independent councillor
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The Scarlets man missed Wales' build-up to the World Cup with a broken foot, and sobbed in the changing room at Twickenham when a recurrence ended his comeback after less than three games.
Now Williams, 24, is looking forward to returning to the scene of his darkest moments when Wales face England in the Six Nations.
Both teams are unbeaten, and the winners will be hot favourites to claim the title.
"This is the biggest game you can play in and the one that you really want to be involved in," says Williams.
But flashback to 10 October and Williams cut a desolate figure in the changing rooms after limping off during the Pool A match against Australia.
Sitting alone, he knew his tournament was over and he faced another long spell on the sidelines.
"I lasted until 72 minutes against Australia when I broke the foot again. I knew straight away it was broken because of the pain," said Williams.
"Normally you go back out to sit with the other lads but because the injury was so close to the end of the game I sat in the dressing room on my own.
"It was a pretty dark place. I put my head in my hands and had a bit of 'me-time' and a bit of a cry."
If that admission of sensitivity is at odds with the fearless, all-action image which makes Williams a firm favourite with fans, then his background is also a paradox in the world of professional rugby.
Because Williams had a normal job before his talent turned him into a professional sportsman. He was a scaffolder.
Williams is not convinced that gives him a different attitude to the majority of his team-mates who came through rugby academies.
"I don't know if that's true or not. I think I'm different because that's just my character," he said.
"I know [fly-half] Rhys Priestland worked on a building site when he was young, and maybe [hooker] Scott Baldwin.
"I have worked hard to get here and had to quit being a scaffolder, but that wasn't really a hard thing to do."
Williams admits he was afraid of heights when he first started rigging scaffolding "over the top of a blast furnace, 300 feet from the ground" and that fly-half Dan Biggar still enjoys a joke at his expense.
"Biggs calls me the scaffolder who's living the dream. He asks people, 'have you ever seen a scaffolder who's living the dream?' And then points and says 'he's over here'."
Williams played in Wales' World Cup win at Twickenham but could not enjoy the celebrations.
Having been accidentally kicked in the head by England's Tom Wood, he woke up in the dressing room.
"Geoffrey Davies [Wales' doctor] was there. We were chatting and as soon as he walked off I heard this massive roar.
"It was the moment when Lloyd Williams kicked inside and Gareth Davies had scored. He came back and told me we were up. After that, I don't remember much because I was groggy.
"Someone told me we had won and I was over the moon. My head didn't feel too bad but I was driven back to Cardiff so I wasn't part of the celebrations."
Williams is not taking his selection for granted, but it would be a major surprise if coach Warren Gatland were to leave him out of his team at Twickenham.
And the Scarlets full-back acknowledges this fixture has an added edge.
"I don't really get nervous before a game, or at least not until the morning of a game," he continued. "But this is different and I'll be nervous all week.
"England are different to the team that played at the World Cup because they have a new head coach.
"They have tweaked a few things. But if we get our own house in order then there isn't an international team that we can't go out and beat.
"I'm looking forward to it - if selected."
Beat England, and Wales will have a home game against Italy to clinch the title. A dream scenario, if there ever was one.
Police said the vehicle left the carriageway near Clanfield at about 23:00 BST and came to rest on its roof.
The driver, a 22-year-old woman from Waterlooville, died at the scene.
The driver of a second car, a 26-year-old man from Portsmouth, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and driving under the influence of drugs.
Hampshire Constabulary said it did not believe the two cars had collided before the incident, which happened on the southbound carriageway.
The road was closed overnight but has since reopened.
More than half the cases involved sexual offences or robbery. The complaints were made under the Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme.
There were 713 such requests last year, more than double the number for 2010.
Attorney General Jeremy Wright said judges get sentencing right "in the vast majority of cases".
The Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme allows those unhappy about the sentence passed for some serious crimes - such as murder or rape - to ask officials to review it.
Only one person has to ask for a sentence to be reviewed, and anyone can make a request.
Of the complaints made last year, 136 were referred to the Court of Appeal.
And of the 102 sentences judges agreed should be increased, 38 were for sexual offences, 18 were for robbery, and 14 for offences involving guns.
More than 80,000 cases are heard in Crown Courts in England and Wales each year, and the government argues the small number of sentence increases show judges get it right the vast majority of the time.
Mr Wright said: "While in the vast majority of cases, sentencing judges get it right, the ULS scheme is essential in ensuring victims, family members of victims and the general public are able to request that sentences they think are unduly lenient can be reviewed and, where necessary, increased."
The NSPCC said it was "worrying" that some sentences for child abuse "appear to be too lenient".
But a spokeswoman added: "However, it is heartening to learn that the reviews picked up on these oversights and justice was eventually administered."
Nicola Woodman, 39, was found dead at a house in Bankholme Court in Holmewood at about 16:20 GMT.
A post-mortem examination found she died from a stab wound to the chest.
At Bradford Magistrates' Court, James Hutchinson was remanded in custody. The 42-year-old from Bradford is due to reappear at the city's crown court on Friday.
A 32-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder has since been released without charge.
The evocative images are being exhibited at the Bluecoat Arts Centre as part of the Look/15 international photography festival.
Tricia Porter's photographs of life in the L8 district of the city show a time when its tight-knit communities were being fragmented.
She said the project was an attempt to make a photo documentary.
The pictures were taken a decade before the area became nationally known following the Toxteth Riots in 1981.
The project was a joint venture between Tricia Porter and her future husband David, then a student at Liverpool University.
The pair lived in the area and photographed the people they came across.
They gained the trust of residents who allowed them access to their lives, businesses and homes.
The project is divided into two series: Bedford Street, Liverpool 8 (1972) and Some Liverpool Kids (1974).
The first focuses on residents in their homes, at work, or out and about in the area.
Bedford Street, Liverpool 8 (1972) includes well-known characters including social campaigner and local councillor Margaret Simey and eminent Liverpool sculptor Herbert Tyson Smith at work in his studio at Bluecoat.
Young people predominate Some Liverpool Kids (1974) in their homes, schools, clubs, shops and streets.
Ms Porter said: "It was an attempt to make a photo-documentary which would be a positive and meaningful statement about my neighbours, who had all too often been treated as statistical fodder and sociological phenomena."
The Bluecoat's Artistic Director Bryan Biggs said: "Tricia's images have an immediacy and freshness, despite being taken over four decades ago and the places they evoke having changed, in some cases beyond all recognition.
"There is an honesty to them that makes them so compelling and resonant today."
The exhibition runs between 4 April and 5 July and is supported by L8 Legacy Projects.
The "tent village" was set up on Christmas Eve in a bid to make Nottingham City Council open empty buildings for the homeless.
The authority dismissed the campaign, saying most occupants of the 15 tents were "not homeless or from Nottingham".
A court order was made at Nottingham Crown Court, with police enforcement due to take place in a few days.
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The tents are being looked after by FightBack - a Nottingham-based group with links to Anonymous - who said it was "absolutely disgraceful" for the council to claim most of them were not from the city or homeless.
Joe Public, 48, who represented the tents' occupants in court, called for them to be given "sustainable and suitable" accommodation.
But the judge said the court is not a "political forum to deal with the problem of social housing" and made the possession order.
The matter has been transferred to the High Court for enforcement, but due to police availability over the bank holiday, action will not take place for a few days.
Speaking after the hearing, Mr Public, who is himself homeless, said: "I have nothing but contempt for the lack of compassion from the city council and the justice system.
"They've abandoned these people."
A city council spokesman said: "We hope that now the encampment has been deemed illegal, the protestors will move on. Their presence has caused a nuisance to local businesses.
"We have been clear that opening empty buildings is not necessary and have offered accommodation which has been refused."
Homeless charity Framework said it believed a "significant proportion" of the occupants had some form of housing, and could be putting their accommodation at risk by choosing to sleep in tents.
The proposal was agreed at an executive meeting on Thursday morning.
It will mean non-domestic properties affected by the flooding will be eligible for a one-off £1,000 payment. It will be paid through local councils.
As well as farms and small businesses, sports facilities, community halls and churches will also be eligible.
A similar scheme is already available for homeowners.
The Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill said it was a "welcome addition" to a package of measures designed to help people affected by the storms.
Only small businesses employing fewer than 25 people can apply.
The business must have been out of use for a fortnight and show a non-insurable loss of at least £1,000.
Farm businesses will include farmyards and land.
Farmland must have been under water for a fortnight and incurred extra cost due to loss of productivity or unplanned reseeding.
The libraries affected are in Barrowford, Bolton-le-Sands, Earby, Freckleton, Fulwood, and Whalley.
The buildings are the first to be sold in a move by Lancashire County Council (LCC) to raise money.
Plans to close more than 20 of its 73 libraries were approved in September following public consultation.
The sale is designed to reduce the number of buildings the council owns, with existing services to be provided at a network of "multi-functional neighbourhood centres".
Deputy council leader David Borrow said: "We're faced with a very difficult budget position.
"In 2020-21, we will have a funding gap of £146m as a result of ongoing government cuts to our budget and rising demand for services.
He added: "We looked into options for community groups to take on responsibility for these buildings, but unfortunately no viable plans came forward, so we're looking to sell these buildings and bring in additional revenue.
"People will still have good access to good services, whilst allowing the council to deliver some of the huge savings we need to make."
The closure of Lancashire's public libraries has been criticised by local MPs including Paul Maynard, the Conservative representative for Blackpool North and Cleveleys, who complained to the government.
The situation is being monitored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which said that local authorities have a statutory duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service.
Three libraries - at Crawshawbooth, Oswaldtwistle and Trawden - are to be handed over to community groups with some financial support from the council.
In September, LCC closed five museums - including Queen Street Mill Museum in Burnley and Helmshore Mills Museum - to save money.
It is understood he was one of a group of five swimmers who got into difficulty in the sea at Tullan Strand near Bundoran on Tuesday evening.
Four of the group were able to make it to safety with the help of local surfers.
Malin Head Coast Guard said the alarm was raised by a woman who was sitting in a car park as events unfolded.
Bundoran lifeboat and the coastguard helicopter, based in Sligo, went to the scene.
Shane Smith of Bundoran lifeboat said they believe the missing man is in his late 20s or early 30s.
"The conditions yesterday saw some quite heavy swell so they could have got into trouble because of that," said Mr Smith.
"We were on scene pretty quickly and a full search began. We also had members of the Gardaà (Irish police) and defence forces helping as well.
"The search continued for a couple of hours but, of course, it is getting darker earlier now and we were stood down just after 21:00."
Tullan Strand is a popular surfing location and is regarded locally as a safe place to swim.
It is a question fans love to debate.
Of course, it is difficult to compare across eras, with technology and professionalism evolving since the Open era - which allowed professionals to compete alongside amateurs - began in 1968.
Is the number of Grand Slam wins what really matters? Serena Williams has won the most in the Open era - her victory in the Australian Open taking her to 23.
"Serena is the greatest of all-time because this era is so much more competitive than previous eras," says BBC Sport presenter Sue Barker, herself a former French Open champion.
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Barker: "Serena has won 23 in an era which is so much more competitive than previous eras. The first, second and third-round matches at Grand Slams are more competitive than they used to be.
"The pace she generates, her serve is without question the greatest ever, and put that with her movement and her power, she pushes her opponents constantly on the back foot."
Barker: "She is the greatest athlete that has ever played the game. Steffi made everything look effortless and incredibly graceful. The big forehand was her trademark.
"She was great for the game and we needed someone like her to take the game forward. However, I do feel she was in an era where she was not well challenged because Gabriela Sabatini went away and then so did Monica Seles after her stabbing. We never saw a great rivalry develop."
Barker: "Martina was the first person who changed the physical side of the women's game. While we all just went for a three-mile run, she started doing training off court - she did specific gym exercises and built up muscles which we hadn't seen before. She dominated, and the other players had to change.
"Her serve-volley was exceptional. I don't think there has been a better serve-volleyer in the women's game at the top level."
Barker: "She was mentally so incredibly hard. To try to get past Chrissie you knew you were going to suffer - you were going to run and run and run. She never broke down, she didn't make an error and played the big points so well.
"She didn't miss and never got nervous - that's why they called her 'The Ice Princess'. She never look flustered. Mentally she was incredibly strong and solid in every department."
Barker: "Margaret was from a very different era. It is difficult to compare because it was a different game then - it wasn't a hard-hitting game. She was tall and had an incredible wingspan, she could almost touch either sideline! She had great reach so just trying to pass her was very difficult.
"However, most of her Grand Slams were won in Australia - and I sound a little bit disrespectful here - when it was only Australians playing it because no-one went there. I think the records that came later from the others were greater."
Barker: "Monica could have been one of the greatest ever if the stabbing had not happened. She was just beginning to get the better of Steffi.
"I feel tennis was robbed of that incredible rivalry because she was never the same player when she came back - which was totally understandable."
Barker: "Billie Jean is the greatest in terms of the whole sport, combining her Slam wins with everything else she has done off the court in terms of promoting the sport.
"Tennis is probably the best known women's sport because of everything she has done for the game. She was a great champion and moved the game forward."
The pacer posted a picture of his wife on Facebook and Twitter on Sunday, with the words "beautiful moments".
But some users told him to "follow Islam" and "ensure that she wears the hijab and modest clothes".
The cricketer on Monday tweeted that he "knows what to do and what not to do for his family".
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Some people commented that the cricketer should be "shameful" for "allowing his wife to wear revealing clothes".
"Shame on you. As a Muslim, keep your wife in purdah [covered clothing]. Learn from others," one user commented.
Shami responded that the trolls needed to "look inside".
"My child and my wife are my companions in life. I exactly know what to do and what not to do for them. We all need to look inside to know how good we are," he tweeted.
Other users, including fellow cricketer Mohammad Kaif, have also criticised people for posting "shameful comments" on Shami's social media accounts.
Celebrities are frequently trolled in India, and they often receive threats.
Some Twitter users last week trolled Bollywood stars Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan for naming their newborn baby boy after a 14th Century conqueror.
Meanwhile, the story has renewed discussions about women's right in India. BBC Hindi's Iqbal Ahmed has spoken to some women in Delhi to hear their views.
"Women are also human beings. They can decide what they want to wear. Clothes are a matter of personal choice and it's worrying to see people raising questions over this. If you don't like something, then just don't wear it.
"Women are often asked that why do they wear the hijab? Why do they wear bikini? These questions take away women's basic right to take their own decisions. It's painful."
"It should be left to Shami to decide what pictures he wants to post on social media. I don't know why people are interested in knowing what his wife does or wears. I have seen such moral policing even in my university. People often comment on your choice of clothes.
"People comment specially when you are wearing tight or short clothes. This is happening in a university where intellectual debates should take place."
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"People love to give lectures, specially to women. Some men think it's their birth right to force their opinions on women. If a man posts his pictures in a sleeveless shirt, nobody will comment. It's simple, if you don't like anybody's picture, then just don't see it. Nobody is forcing you to look at any picture.
"Shami may have posted the picture for whatever reason, but if you find it objectionable, then you have a problem."
The twins, born in December, were fused at the liver and chest.
Swiss media say doctors had originally planned to separate them when they were several months old but brought the operation forward when they each suffered a life-threatening condition.
The operation reportedly carried a 1% chance of success.
The twins, named Lydia and Maya, were born eight weeks premature at the Inselspital hospital in Bern, along with a triplet who was fully separate and healthy.
The hospital said the twins were "extensively conjoined on the liver, but had all vital organs".
They weighed just 2.2kg (4lb 14oz) together. One of the twins had too much blood, and very high blood pressure, while the other one did not have enough.
A 13-strong medical team took five hours to separate the girls on 10 December.
"Such small conjoined siblings had never been successfully separated before," the hospital said.
The head of paediatric surgery, Steffen Berger, paid tribute to the medical staff, saying: "The perfect teamwork of physicians and nursing personnel from various disciplines were the key to success here. We are very happy that the children and parents are faring so well now."
The girls underwent further surgery to close their abdominal walls and are now recovering in a paediatric intensive care ward.
The hospital says the children are "still very small" but developing well.
Le Matin Dimanche newspaper said they had put on weight and begun breastfeeding.
Ruth Davidson was speaking in Belfast on Tuesday at the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride week.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where gay marriage is illegal.
Ms Davidson said the "time is coming" when same-sex couples in the region would be allowed to marry.
"With public support and parliamentary majority the waters are building and the dam will burst," she added.
"I truly believe that tidal wave is set to overflow and that you will, in short order, change history."
On her trip to Belfast, Ms Davidson visited a new mural depicting a lesbian couple that was added to a wall in the city last week as part of a campaign to legalise gay marriage.
The Northern Ireland Assembly has considered lifting the ban on same-sex marriage on five occasions.
Four of those votes failed on a simple majority basis, and although a slim majority of MLAs backed the the latest attempt in November last year, it was ultimately blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Gay couples can enter into civil partnerships in Northern Ireland and the DUP claims there is no desire for change on the issue.
Ms Davidson, who is a Protestant and a unionist, is engaged to a Catholic Irishwoman.
She said: "I am a practising Christian - I care deeply about the role of the church in the public realm.
"I believe passionately that it is a force for good.
"I might not always agree with every intervention churches make in politics, but I defend their right to do so.
"In Scotland, we made sure that as we passed equal marriage, we also protected the rights of religious groups.
"We owe it to those who take an opposing view to engage and explain, to discuss and persuade.
"You don't effect change by shouting down your opponents, whose votes you need."
She added that legalising same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland would "make every couple in this country equal in the eyes of the law".
Earlier this year, Finance Minister MáirtÃn Ó Muilleoir asked his officials to work on a draft bill to introduce same-sex marriage.
It is not clear if Syrian rebel groups will also cease fire during the daily three-hour window.
But UN officials say that is too short to take in enough to help the large numbers of people in need.
Intense fighting has been continuing in Aleppo between rebels and Russian-backed Syrian government forces.
There are also reports of a toxic gas attack on a rebel-held area. Medical staff say four people died and many other were injured. The gas is thought to have been chlorine dropped in a barrel bomb.
Earlier the last doctors in the rebel-held east of the city appealed to US President Barack Obama to come to the aid of the 250,000 civilians there.
All Russian military action, air and artillery strikes would be halted between 10:00 (07:00 GMT) and 13:00, a defence ministry official told a briefing in Moscow on Wednesday.
But UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Stephen O'Brien that to meet the needs "you need two (road) lanes and you need to have about 48 hours to get sufficient trucks in."
"United Nations agencies and our partners remain ready to assist the civilian population across Aleppo. We have supplies ready to roll - food rations, hospital supplies, ambulances, fuel for generators, water supplies and more.
"We will continue to use all available routes and mechanisms to do this, including cross-line and cross-border operations from Turkey. We can deliver these within 24-48 hours - if we have safe access," Mr O'Brien said.
Fighting has escalated in Aleppo in recent days, with rebels severing the government's main route to the west of the city.
The offensive sought to break a siege by pro-government forces, who encircled the east in July with the support of Russian aircraft.
The remaining Aleppo doctors say in their letter that in the five years since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began, they have "borne witness as countless patients, friends and colleagues suffered violent, tormented deaths".
"The world has stood by and remarked how 'complicated' Syria is, while doing little to protect us. Recent offers of evacuation from the regime and Russia have sounded like thinly veiled threats to residents - flee now or face what fate?"
They say that in the past month there have been 42 attacks on medical facilities in Syria, 15 of them on hospitals where they work.
On Monday, the UN said countless civilians had been killed or injured over the past few weeks in the city, and that the targeting of hospitals and clinics had continued unabated.
Moreover, attacks on civilian infrastructure had left more than two million people without electricity or access to the public water network for several days, it added.
The lobby group's small business index suggested there had been a "robust" improvement in confidence in the past three months.
It said growth and investment intentions had reached new highs since it began compiling its index in 2010.
It also said it had found "few negatives" in the overall picture.
The FSB said the latest survey readings on job creation, productivity and investment all bode well for small businesses sustaining the economy's growth through 2015.
Businesses view their prospects for the coming months very positively, with nearly two thirds (65.3%) of small businesses aspiring to grow moderately or rapidly in the next three months - the highest figure ever seen by the index.
The FSB said productivity in the sector was increasing compared to the wider economy, something that should be encouraging to policymakers, who have been grappling with the issue of low productivity growth for some time.
However, geographically the mood is very uneven, the group said.
The South East of England continues to dominate business confidence, followed by the West and East Midlands.
But in Wales, confidence and employment fell, and Scotland also reported lower business confidence.
John Allan, the FSB national chairman, said: "The results... are very positive and show the major role that small businesses play in the growth of the UK's economy."
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Santas on the Run - one of the largest events of its kind in the UK - began in Broad Street at 09:00 GMT following a zumba warm up.
The two-mile sponsored run is celebrating its 10th anniversary and supports Helen & Douglas House hospice.
Participants included Helen Lord from Oxford, who has taken part in every event so far.
Other runners on the Santa list included members of Oxford City Rowing Club, Oxford University Officer Training Corps, and Oxford City Singers.
Shaun and Julie Forth ran in memory of their daughter Ruby, who went to the hospice for respite care and died in January 2013.
Ms Forth said: "Helen & Douglas House provided us with time and space.
"We were all nurtured and this allowed us precious time with our son, whilst relieving us of our full-time caring responsibilities for our daughter.
"Taking part in the race is our way of saying 'thank you'."
And Goffin cockatoos have now shown an impressive ability to learn from one another how to use and even how to make tools.
A team of researchers has discovered that the birds emulate tool-making tricks when they are demonstrated to them by another bird.
The results are published in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B.
The researchers are interested in what they call "technical intelligence", which is essentially animals' ability to use objects to solve problems.
"Cockatoos are very interesting for this, because they're very playful with objects," explained lead researcher Dr Alice Auersperg, from the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna.
She and her colleagues had already noticed that one of birds in their research aviary, named Figaro, spontaneously used sticks to drag nuts under the bars.
Figaro also worked out how to make his "fishing sticks" by stripping long, thin pieces off a wooden block in his enclosure.
"So we had one innovator, and a very important aspect of innovation [is] how it can spread in a group," Dr Auersperg explained to BBC News.
To investigate this, the researchers set up an experiment where six birds were shown, by Figaro, how to strip a block and fish for a nut.
After watching the demonstration, most of the birds were able successfully to make their own strip of wood, and use it to retrieve a piece of food.
"This was the interesting thing," said Dr Auersperg "They were successful and interacting with the materials, but they weren't copying Figaro - they devised their own strategy of obtaining the reward."
Figaro, she explained, had developed is own method of using the tool as a sort of rake.
Holding the end between his jaw and his tongue, the inventive bird would continually shift the position of the stick to rake the nut towards himself.
On seeing this demonstration, the birds in this study achieved the same result more quickly by flicking the nut towards themselves with the stick.
"It's very interesting that they come up with this more effective technique," said Dr Auersperg.
"It confirms how innovative and how adaptable this species is to novel problems."
The scientists say it is particularly surprising how tool use can be "socially transmitted" in a bird that has great difficulty holding a straight tool in its curved beak.
Cockatoos also have no ecological reason to hold and use such straight, thin objects, as they do not build nests in the wild.
But Prof Richard Byrne from the University of St Andrews is not convinced that the cockatoos are quite so "advanced" in their behaviour.
"To emulate, you have to gain some real understanding of what's going on," he told BBC News. "In this case, the cause-and-effect of using a tool in the task.
"I'd plump for a simpler explanation."
He described something called "stimulus enhancement" - where the birds are more likely to interact with objects when they see another bird doing so.
"Then [it could just be] trial and error learning," he added.
Dr Auersperg, however, is convinced that this discovery is "a very significant finding in terms of animal innovation and creativity".
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Striker Beckford, 33, joined North End on a full-time deal in 2015 after helping them win promotion to the Championship when on loan from Bolton.
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Lindegaard, 33, made his loan move from West Brom permanent last summer, but made just 10 outings.
Defender Smith, 19, came through the academy but did not play a senior game.
The Lilywhites have also taken a option in 18-year-old keeper Mathew Hudson's contract for next season.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) aircraft had to make an emergency landing at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, on Thursday.
No one was injured and officials said the engine was being assessed.
While unable to put a timescale on repairs, an RAF spokesman confirmed the Lancaster would not be taking part in Sunday's event.
More than 7,300 Lancasters were built during World War Two but most were scrapped in the following years.
The BBMF's Lancaster, known as Thumper, is allowed to fly a strictly limited number of hours each year, in order to extend its airworthiness.
The spokesman said: "Unfortunately, due to the incident, the Lancaster will not be able to join the VE Day flypast on Sunday.
"However, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will provide a flypast which will consist of a Spitfire and two Hurricane aircraft.
"The RAF is undertaking an ongoing full assessment of any potential damage to the Lancaster but it is too early at this stage to offer any additional assessment."
Last year, the only other flying Lancaster, which is based in Canada, visited the UK.
It also suffered technical problems and had to be loaned a spare engine by the BBMF.
Shares in Anglo American were the biggest gainers, rising by 5% to end the day at 876p, with shares in another mining firm, BHP Billiton, also up by 4.4% at 1,079.
But two leading housebuilders also enjoyed continued big increases in their market value.
Shares in the housebuilder Barratt closed 5% higher at 486p, and shares in Persimmon rose by 4% to 1,870p.
Persimmon said customer interest since the Brexit vote had been "robust".
On the foreign exchanges, the pound was up slightly at $1.318, and was also up a little at €1.165.
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Grivko has been disqualified from the race and his Astana team apologised to Kittel and his Quick Step Floors team.
German sprinter Kittel posted a picture on Twitter with blood on his face, and wrote: "I won't accept an apology. That has nothing to do with cycling.
"What Grivko did is a shame for our beautiful sport."
The incident happened early on the 200km stage from Dubai to Al Aqah.
"When we passed a construction site, the sand began blowing and as soon as we went into the crosswinds we were fighting for position, which is always stressful, and Andriy Grivko punched me," Kittel said on his team's website.
"I get that riding in the crosswinds is always tense, but it gives him no right to act like that. He could have hurt my eye.
"In the finale, my mind wasn't 100% on the sprint, but I am happy I have no big injuries and I kept the lead."
Grivko later posted a statement on his Facebook page, in which he claimed Kittel had first pushed both himself and team-mate Dmitriy Gruzdev.
He said that created "a very tense and dangerous situation that could cause not only my fall, but a big crash in the peloton."
Grivko, who also accused Kittel of spitting at him, added: "I responded with aggressive action to aggressive action from the other side.
"Perhaps I got emotional and it has nothing to do with cycling, but in extreme situations, when exists a question of safety, it is difficult to stay calm."
Kittel had won the opening two stages but finished outside the top 10 on day three, as John Degenkolb of Trek-Segafredo took stage honours.
Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) also finished outside the top 10 in an untidy sprint finish, with Aqua Blue Sport's Adam Blythe the best-placed Briton in ninth place after his team-mate Mark Christian spent most of the day in the break.
Kittel retained the overall race lead by eight seconds from Dylan Groenewegen of Team Lotto NL-Jumbo.
Sam Smith, Calvin Harris and Banksy also feature on the Debrett's 500 list which recognises "people of influence and achievement in British society".
The 2015 edition, which started in 1769, includes Russell Brand and Mary Berry.
Ant and Dec, Idris Elba and Cara Delevingne also appear.
The list is put together by independent panels of specialists across 24 different fields including music, sport, stage and screen and war and peace.
The new media category features SBTV founder Jamal Edwards and YouTubers Felix Kjellberg (PewDiePie) and Charlie McDonnell, while Sir Elton John and Emma Watson were named in the philanthropists and activists.
Both Victoria and David Beckham appear on the list alongside Stephen Fry, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Wayne Rooney.
Gary Lineker, Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton and Olympic medallists Laura Trott and Lizzy Yarnold have all been named in the sport category which also includes Clare Balding, Mo Farah, Amir Khan, Vincent Kompany, Rory McIlroy and Jose Mourinho.
The music category, which is made up entirely of men, features James Blake, Simon Cowell, Radio 1's head of music George Ergatoudis and Blur frontman Damon Albarn.
Oscar nominee Eddie Redmayne, Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi and Benedict Cumberbatch feature on the stage and screen list.
Dame Judi Dench, James Bond director Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen, who directed 12 Years a Slave, are also named in the category.
Prince Charles features on the architecture and design list, Prince Harry is listed among the most influential philanthropists and activists, while the Duchess of Cambridge appears in fashion.
The 23 names on the art list include Tracey Emin, who has designed this year's Brit Awards, and Damien Hirst.
Richard Branson, David Walliams, Professor Brian Cox, Dr Stephen Hawking, JK Rowling and politicians Tony Blair and Boris Johnson also feature among the 500 names.
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Firefighters were called to Bembridge Airport on the east of the island at about 11:30 GMT after reports of an aircraft in distress.
Witnesses reported seeing the single-engine aircraft upside down on the airfield but said the occupants appeared to have got out unhurt.
Stephen Davis said he was passing the airport and noticed the plane on its back close to the runway.
He said: "I stopped to have a look in the car park and there were police, ambulance and fire engines just arriving as we parked up.
"There doesn't appear to be anybody hurt. It looks like there could have been two passengers on board and they walked away from the aircraft."
He said two people could be seen talking to emergency crews.
Isle of Wight NHS said one ambulance attended but, although the occupants were in shock, they did not require hospital treatment.
Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue said there were three casualties but described them as "walking wounded".
A spokeswoman said there was no fuel spillage. Crews made the aircraft safe and left it in the hands of the airport.
Bembridge Airport is an unlicensed airfield managed by the Vectis Gliding Club, meaning it is not open to commercial or training flights and visiting pilots require prior permission to land there.
A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of GBH after police were called to Hailey Avenue at 17:00 BST.
The woman was taken to John Radcliffe Hospital by South Central Ambulance Service where she remains in a serious condition, Thames Valley Police said.
The road has been closed while officers investigate, and the air ambulance attended.
Martin Roper, 36, fled to England from his Ormiston home after giving her £60 to buy the morning after pill.
Lord Burns ordered Roper to be monitored in the community for three years after his release from jail.
The offences took place in January and February 2016.
He was placed on the sex offenders' register for life.
Judge Lord Burns told Roper at the High Court in Glasgow: "When you were 35 you began a relationship with this girl who was 11.
"You must have known what age she was.
"You raped her on two occasions in your own home. You must have known that she was far too young to give consent.
"This was a carefully planned grooming of this girl which was methodically pursued. When you thought she was pregnant you abandoned her and fled to England."
Prosecutor Alan Cameron said: "In July 2015 the complainer and the accused became friends on Facebook. They began to exchange messages regularly though both Facebook and Snapchat.
"In January 2016 they were exchanging messages indicating they loved each other. She sent photographs of herself in her underwear to the accused. He sent her photographs of his body."
In January they began meeting at his home and in February he raped the 12-year-old twice - the second time on 16 February last year.
On this second occasion the accused had no condoms and the following day he picked her up in his car and they agreed to go to a chemist for the morning after pill.
She went in alone with £60 given to her by Roper and said she had had sex the previous night with a boy she knew who was 12 or 13.
The member of staff she spoke to was so concerned she contacted the girl's GP who said the police would have to be contacted.
When the girl heard that she began to cry and asked if it could be done another day and wanted to go home.
When she went outside she discovered Roper had driven off. She then returned to the pharmacy and waited until police arrived.
She sent him a number of messages, but he did not reply.
Eventually the girl confessed what had happened to her mother and the police were called again.
Roper's solicitor advocate Simon Whyte told the court his client suffered from bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder.
He added: "He has a lack of insight into his offending behaviour."
Nearly 10 years on from the horrific death, Mr Balkwell remains as determined as ever to find answers.
Lee Balkwell, 33, was found in a mechanism under the drum of the concrete mixer lorry in July 2002. He had multiple injuries consistent with being crushed.
The retired haulage boss believes his son was murdered and has set about seeking to highlight failures in the police investigation that followed the death.
Now, following an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report, he has received confirmation the inquiry was "seriously flawed".
But without his perseverance, the failures might never have been exposed.
Rachel Cerfontyne, IPCC Commissioner, writing in a foreword to the report, said: "It is testament to [Mr Balkwell's] dedication that, finally, the full circumstances surrounding the death of Lee Balkwell are being examined."
Mr Balkwell and his wife, Jackie, 62, believe the truth has been covered up and made 130 complaints to the IPCC.
The IPCC rejected any suggestion of corruption but Mr Balkwell remains adamant that the full story behind his son's death is yet to emerge.
"The strain and trauma it has caused is just unbelievable," he said.
"One of the reasons it has stretched out that long is because we haven't been told the truth."
Lee was last seen on CCTV footage at the farm just after midnight on 18 July 2002. Less than an hour later, paramedics were called after he suffered fatal injuries.
Mr Balkwell said the "strange" time of day Lee had been working and contradictory accounts of the death were two of the issues that provoked suspicion.
"That raised hairs on the back of my neck and I thought 'hello' there is something wrong here," he said.
Lee's employers Upminster Concrete Ltd deny any wrongdoing.
A health and safety investigation has been suspended pending the outcome of the ongoing police investigation.
Mr Balkwell said: "What people ought to realise is I am just a lorry driver, but it has taken over my life and this is what I have had to do - because I am fighting for justice for Lee."
The West Ham United football fan, who became a father five months before his death, was "very patient, very caring and would do anything for anybody," his father said.
"It might appear we are making him out to be a saint - he was just a lovely boy."
Mr Balkwell estimates he has spent at least £130,000 on his fight for justice - a sum consisting of loss of earnings, hiring experts to examine the case and travelling costs.
He sold two classic cars, his house and spent his life savings on his battle - but said he had no regrets.
"If I had to do it all again, I would," said Mr Balkwell, who now lives in a housing association property.
"We want a murder inquiry to be opened. That's what we've been fighting for, and will continue fighting for.
"We need to have justice because Lee isn't here. We were a tight-knit family - we still are, but now we are missing one."
The full investigation is on Inside Out, BBC1 on Monday 30 January at 19.30 GMT.
The Belfast Health Trust announced on Friday that children under 14 would be directed to the Royal Belfast hospital for sick children.
The Belfast Trust said the Mater emergency department sees few children - about six a day.
They also announced ambulances would be diverted away from the Mater overnight.
The trust has said it is because of staffing pressures.
It said this was particularly in regards to middle grade staff and consultants and the trust said it would be reviewing the situation.
It only applies to ambulance admissions and the emergency department has remained open to those arriving on foot.
The announcement that all children attending the department would be directed to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children about two miles away applies to all children, including those going on foot.
The trust believes the fact that there is no specialist paediatric nurses or doctors at the Mater means it is safer to advise the public to go straight to the Royal.
Health Minister Simon Hamilton was asked about the Mater in the assembly on Monday.
"The overnight diverts of ambulances from the Mater are expected to remain in place as a temporary measure and children will be redirected to the nearby Royal Hospital for Sick Children which has a dedicated paediatric emergency department," he said.
"The Belfast Trust seeks to address the concerns identified and recruit senior medical staff.
"If clinicians are coming to me and coming to my department and they are saying that a service as it's being in the short or longer-term is unsafe, then I have a duty to listen to them and I've a duty to act."
However, Unison representative Eoin Stewart, who works at the hospital, said: "The union will fight this tooth and nail, but I'm asking the community to fight this tooth and nail, because what the Belfast Trust has to remember is that it was the local community that built this hospital."
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The Sirens were aiming for a top four in their inaugural Superleague season.
But after placing sixth, Nelson wants to make improvements next term.
"We're delighted to go into season two with the same funders and investors, and when we look back at what we have achieved on and off the court, we had a phenomenal debut season," Nelson said.
"But in order to try to achieve more next season and to support our ambitions we want to secure more sponsors to join us on our journey."
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When asked whether funding had been secured for next year, Nelson - who is also Netball Scotland CEO - revealed: "Yes it has, but is it enough to do what we'd really like to do? Absolutely not.
"What we now want to do is look at how we can build on this year and bring more investment in to allow that continued growth and impact for the women and girls of Scotland."
More than 3,000 spectators came to the Sirens' opening game in February, the largest crowd in the Superleague so far this year.
"We came from a standing start with very little money and resources, but we managed to bring superstars in," added Nelson. "We have operated with integrity, passion and professionalism at every single step.
"We have set the standard around our operation, our volunteers are exemplary, our match-day delivery is exemplary, we put on incredible performances, we have challenged for that top-four position.
"We have no shortage of ideas, we know what we need to do and we know how we need to build on what we have done here.
"Is there more that can be done? Of course there is - and that's really exciting. For me it's about trying to grow our operation and deliver more significant impact off the court nationally."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Forget the mental image you might have from seaside holidays of an azure sea whose rippling waves beckon you in for a cooling dip.
I joined a migrant rescue mission out on the Mediterranean last week in the Aquarius, a search-and-rescue vessel nearly 77m long.
And it shuddered and groaned from bow to stern as it thrashed through the 3.5m swells that suddenly whip up in these treacherous waters.
So pity the plight of thousands of migrants setting out in a flimsy inflatable, most of whom are unable to swim and are weak from standing up for 10 hours on their perilous voyages.
Deaths at sea have risen ninefold since October 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) charity.
And yet in the first three months of this year, 18,000 migrants attempted the crossing from Libya - 8,000 more than in the same period last year.
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So why do they still come?
Is it the "pull factor" - are the migrants "pulled" in the direction of Europe by the belief they will be picked up by rescue missions like the one I joined?
Or is there, in fact, an even stronger "push factor"? Are the migrants being pushed out of countries such as Libya by living conditions so horrific that even the possibility of drowning at sea seems preferable?
What is certain is that those European politicians who thought the stories and images of people drowning would serve as a deterrent to others were wrong.
There are estimated to be some three million migrants and refugees in Libya. And a third of them - mostly from Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea - are believed to be waiting and working towards their passage to Europe.
In the past three years, there have been two major European-led search-and-rescue programmes in the Mediterranean.
The first, Mare Nostrum, was run by the Italian navy and was hugely successful, saving about 100,000 lives in little over a year. Yet 18 months ago, the Italians abandoned the operation.
It was expensive and, in Europe, politically unpopular. A number of European leaders thought Mare Nostrum was exacerbating the problem of migrant voyages.
The people smugglers knew the ships were there; they knew the Italian navy would come to the rescue of their desperate cargoes.
Mare Nostrum was just too successful: perhaps - said some - it represented the "pull factor".
The focus of Operation Triton, which replaced it, was much narrower in scope. While still Italian-led, the lifesaving vessels supposedly stay closer to Italian shores. And consequently the risk of drowning has grown.
Yet still the migrants come. More than 500 have been picked up by Aquarius alone in the past seven days. Many boats sink without anyone knowing, as the bodies washing up on Libyan beaches attest.
Is it time, therefore, to look at the "push" factor?
Libya is a country in ruins, dangerous for everyone. But it is especially dangerous if you are a black man, partly owing to deep-seated racist attitudes among the Libyan people.
The migrants, whether they are from the Horn of Africa or West Africa, are in the grip of the people smugglers who pick them up as soon as they leave their countries of origin and "usher" them through the Sahara. There is only one destination: Libya.
But it's not the gateway many believe it to be. The chaos and lawlessness in Libya feed the xenophobia. On Aquarius last week, I heard similar stories, time and again, of migrants and refugees murdered, exploited, forced to work without pay, robbed in their homes or in the streets.
And some of the worst places are the government-run detention centres for migrants.
Human Rights Watch has taken scores of testimonies that tell of whippings, electric shocks, beatings, strip-searches, "people being hung upside down from the trees".
The centres - run by Libya's interior ministry - are severely overcrowded. And often the day-to-day operations of these prisons are contracted out to the militias, who are in cahoots with the people smugglers.
On board Aquarius, I met Ansumana Badjie, 20, from Gambia.
He had spent several weeks in one of these notorious centres. He had been working in Libya, trying to earn enough money for his sea crossing, but was kidnapped from his home, and imprisoned. His only crime, it seemed, was being black.
"We were given just one meal a day," he told me. "It was horrendous, we were beaten, there were no showers. There were people who disappeared. Even if I had wanted to go home, there was no way out."
Eventually he did escape, in a breakout. How he found his way to the beach was not entirely clear. But seemingly he was kept in a cavernous "hole" dug into the sand on the beach for days. "We slept in the hole, we peed in the hole,'' he said.
And when it came to the day of departure?
"Oh my God!" he exclaimed. "The boat! But there was no choice. No-one in his right mind would get in that rubber boat with 110 people. But with a gun at your back? It was the only choice I had."
"The gun in the back" - the push factor.
Others - some barely into their teens - had experienced similar torture.
Zach, 13, from Ivory Coast, told me he too had been forced into the boat.
"You die or you survive," he said. "They would have shot me there on the beach. I have no parents, my brother drowned on this sea last year. And Libya? Libya was hell on earth. So why not?"
Last week, the IOM invited diplomats from Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea Conakry, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger and Gambia to visit these Libyan detention centres. They went to the Al Garabulli centre, east of Tripoli.
The visitors met 315 West Africans there, of whom 202 expressed an interest in going back voluntarily to their countries of origin. At another centre, Abu Salim, 370 out of 450 West African migrants said they would go home.
But many of these migrants and refugees have had their passports stolen or confiscated by smugglers, criminal gangs or even their Libyan employers. The truth is that they have no means of escape.
Too often the boats are the only way out.
And not a seaworthy boat but a rubber boat; a boat with barely enough fuel to travel 12 miles to international waters, a boat with 110 people on board, standing room only.
There is more than a 50/50 chance you are going to drown.
So if that is the best decision, if that is the rational decision, how bad were their lives in their home countries? And how bad must Libya be for black Africans?
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By sharing shocking images and video showing the killing of US journalist James Foley, IS has brought to the fore an issue many have warned about: that social networks are locked in a continual battle against extremists and the spread of shocking propaganda online.
Some experts say the networks are losing this battle, as more and more messages - many purporting to be from news agencies - flood services.
Others argue that social networks are doing what they can to protect users, and that measures in place to flag and remove content are effective.
Meanwhile, some have criticised social networks for putting more effort into detecting copyright infringement than they have into removing harmful material.
Here are the key issues.
After video of Foley appeared online, users on social networks urged others not to watch or share the clip.
But the effectiveness of IS's approach is staggering - mimicking the kind of efforts corporations would invest millions in for marketing purposes.
As the graphic video was circulated, some Twitter users started two hashtags - #ISISmediablackout and #DontShare - which sought to drown out messages showing the disturbing content, replacing it with images of Foley taken while he was working.
But the reality is that extremists are finding new ways to circumvent the efforts of social networks trying to shut down accounts, a constant cat-and-mouse game that one source close to a major network described to the BBC as being a never-ending "game of whack-a-mole".
JM Berger is an analyst specialising in monitoring extremism on social media. He says that the online actions of IS - formerly Isis - rival the efforts of the finest social media marketing experts in the world. Indeed, the swift "brand name" change from Isis to IS has shown the effectiveness of the group's online message.
In spreading propaganda, one tactic utilised by the group stood out - a specially created app that, when willingly exposed on a person's phone, would tweet co-ordinated propaganda messages worded by IS, carefully timed not to fall foul of Twitter's spam filter.
In one example, 40,000 tweets were sent in this way in just one day. Given the vast number of tweets, and more importantly, the vast number of usernames being used to spread such messages, it was extremely difficult for Twitter to remove the material.
There is some progress. In the past week, Twitter has been acting to disable dozens of prominent accounts believed to belong to prominent IS members. It is making it harder for IS to spread its message, JM Berger told the BBC.
"IS has been struggling with how to respond to suspended accounts on Twitter.
"In reality, Twitter is one of the most permissive social media environments for them."
But he added: "While several dozen accounts have been suspended over the last few weeks, many more have remained online and many of those who have been suspended come back with new accounts."
One further tactic seemingly employed by IS supporters has been to temporarily deactivate their own accounts in an attempt to avoid a ban, although the BBC understands this has no impact on Twitter's ability to suspend inappropriate accounts.
Furthermore, noted Mr Berger, Twitter's ability to share links easily meant that while some IS members may be banned from Twitter itself, they were now beginning to appear on smaller social networks posting material that could then be passed on.
One network, Diaspora, appears to have emerged as the new network of choice for IS - it provides greater protections because of its decentralised nature.
The question of why extremist material cannot simply be blocked by websites is a question that is frequently asked - but has a complex answer.
When dealing with images of child sexual abuse, many services use sophisticated technology to automatically check content that is being uploaded against a database of known abusive content.
It means that images are, in theory, blocked before they are uploaded to the website in question.
PhotoDNA, a Microsoft product, is a market-leading piece of software for carrying out this work. The BBC understands that the same technology could be applied to images known to be spreading extremist propaganda, but that there are currently no plans to do so.
For video on YouTube, Google has created ContentID, a system set up to detect when users upload copyrighted material. It checks uploaded content against a known database of footage and audio - most often music videos - and allows the copyright owners to either remove or place advertising on the video.
ContentID could be adapted to spot content known to be harmful - but Google is reluctant to put it to use in this way.
This is for a variety of reasons, but most significantly it is because while child abuse imagery is easy to categorise - there's no grey area; it's all illegal - violent or shocking material relating to terrorism is harder to define.
Often it is social networks that provide the only means of communication for those wanting to spread news of atrocities in hard-to-reach areas.
Facebook and Google have both in the past said that shocking images are permitted in cases where they are shown in a "news context", rather than for glorification.
Furthermore, the social networks are keen to argue that they should not be the guardians of what should be censored online.
But Mr Berger said: "As far as who should decide, Twitter and YouTube and all the rest are businesses, they are not public services or inalienable rights.
"Just as a movie theatre or restaurant can eject patrons who are harassing or threatening other patrons or engaging in criminal activity, online services have both the right and an obligation to take care of their customers and do the best they can to provide a safe environment."
This is difficult.
The very nature of social networks is that it is easy to share content, and the strength of Twitter and others is that information travels extremely quickly.
This presents a problem - a teenager browsing Facebook could stumble across the video of Foley's death in their news feed if a friend posted it. More worryingly, many videos posted to Facebook now auto-play, meaning a user does not have to click to start seeing the footage.
It's hard to avoid the possibility of seeing something upsetting, suggested security expert Graham Cluley.
"If your children are on the internet, it's an impossible task to completely shield them from some of the ghastly things going on in the world," he told the BBC.
"You can put your home computer in a shared room rather than a private bedroom, and have some oversight over what they're accessing online. But the proliferation of mobile devices makes it more difficult to oversee what your children are watching.
"Consider enabling parental controls that restrict which websites your kids can visit, but realise that it's an imperfect solution - it's perfectly possible that legitimate sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook might contain footage that many - young and old - would find harrowing."
Mr Cluley added that the best course of action for parents would be to spend time explaining what may have been seen.
"Talk to your children about the unpleasant and inappropriate things which can be watched on the net, and help them understand why it isn't cool to seek it out or to share it with their friends."
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The 21-year-old from Uttoxeter broke his own world mark by winning in 57.13 seconds, well clear of the field.
Peaty is the first British man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal since Adrian Moorhouse, who won the same event in Seoul in 1988.
Welsh star Jazz Carlin won silver in the women's 400m freestyle soon after.
"It's so surreal to get Team GB's first gold," said Peaty, who finished more than 1.5 seconds clear of his nearest rival.
"I came out tonight and took the first 50 easy and came back with everything I have got. I did it for my country and that means so much for me."
South African Cameron van der Burgh, the London 2012 champion, took silver, while Cody Miller won bronze for the USA.
Peaty, who was already the world, European and Commonwealth champion, emulates the achievement of fellow Britons David Wilkie (1976), Duncan Goodhew (1980) and Adrian Moorhouse (1988) in winning breaststroke gold.
It took five days for Britain to win their first gold at London 2012, but Peaty's medal came on the second day of action in Rio.
Peaty, making his Olympic debut in Rio, has been dominant from the first moment he got into the pool at the weekend, having first broken his own world record with a time of 57.55secs in the heats.
Moorhouse, who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s, believes Peaty's physical and mental attributes sets him apart from his rivals.
"He is very good at turning threats to opportunities," he said.
"He has the technical ability and talent to do this and can then cope with the pressure of the moment and put a bubble around himself. He has got everything."
Five-times Olympic swimmer Mark Foster added: "Everything just went right.
"He has had problems with his start but he has worked on it tirelessly and everything came right for him.
"I knew the race was over before it started. Physically he is an absolutely beast.
Rebecca Adlington, who won two Olympic swimming gold medals at Beijing 2008, said: "His stroke and power is incredible."
Peaty's achievement delighted British Olympic team-mates Adam Gemili and Greg Rutherford.
Sprinter Gemili said that Peaty was "in a class of his own", while long jumper Rutherford said on social media: "The whole of GB tower here in the village erupted when Adam Peaty won. What a brilliant feeling."
BBC Sport's chief sports writer Tom Fordyce:
"This was more than just Britain's first gold medal of these Rio Olympics, it was one of the finest displays by a British athlete in Olympic history.
"To win over 100m by 1.56 seconds, to leave the last Olympic champion more than a body length behind, is extraordinary even by the exalted standards Adam Peaty has set in his young career.
"Wilkie 1976, Goodhew 1980, Moorhouse 1988, and now Peaty 2016. The moment a young man's life changed forever."
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Peaty still lives with his parents in his hometown of Uttoxeter in Staffordshire and was afraid of water as a child.
The City of Derby swimmer rose to prominence in 2014, taking two golds at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He has also won eight European golds and three world golds.
Shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2014 and 2015, Peaty became the first man to go under 58 seconds in the 100m breaststroke at the world trials last year, setting what was then a world record of 57.92secs.
He has lowered that time by 0.79secs in Rio.
Peaty's grandmother Mavis, or Olympic Nan as she has called herself, is becoming a bit of a star on social media.
Mavis has been following her grandson's exploits in the pool from her home in Staffordshire and has also been showing her enthusiasm on social media.
Since Sunday morning, she has gone from 106 Twitter followers to more than 3,000.
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After Peaty qualified for the final, Mavis told BBC Radio 5 live: "Caroline [Adam Peaty's mum] had to phone me because I said: 'I can't get this telly on'. I couldn't get the red button going. Then I thought I know what I can do - my iPad. So I got the BBC up on my iPad and I watched it on there.
"Since I've been going to watch Adam, it's given me a new life, a different life, that I never dreamed of. I've loved every minute of it.."
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The 25-year-old, who made 11 appearances on loan at Rotherham United last season, began his career at city rivals Dundee United.
"At this time in my career this is the right place for me," said former West Brom and Hibernian player Allan.
Fellow midfielder Roarie Deacon, also 25, has signed a two-year deal with Dundee, having most recently played for non-league Sutton United.
The pair become Neil McCann's first signings since becoming permanent Dundee manager earlier this month, having earlier been interim boss.
Allan struggled to make an impact in his first season at Celtic Park, earning only three starts from 14 appearances.
Alan Stubbs, who signed him at Hibs, took the midfielder on loan at Rotherham after becoming Millers boss last summer. He returned to Celtic in January, but has not featured in a competitive match under Brendan Rodgers.
"I wouldn't say I have been disappointed," said Allan. "I have learned a lot. I think I am a better player for it.
"I got a [Scottish Premiership] winners' medal in the first year [at Celtic], I learned a lot from Brendan Rodgers in pre-season last year and I took the decision to go on loan - so I have no regrets.
"It didn't go well for me last season down south so it was about getting back up the road and getting playing again. That's why I made this decision.
"I am just happy to get the opportunity to play football week in, week out.
"Hopefully the club will get in the top six, get a cup run and I do well myself. That's my main aims."
England Under-19 international Deacon featured during Sutton's run to the FA Cup fifth round last term, where they were beaten by his former club Arsenal.
He scored 11 goals in 48 appearances last term.
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The 6-5 favourite won by four and a half lengths after holding off Ballyoptic, who fell at the last.
The eight-year-old winner, trained by Harry Fry, was racing in the colours of owner JP McManus for the second time, under jockey Barry Geraghty.
"He probably has a little more class than he lets on," said Geraghty.
"He's very good, but he only does as much as he has to. He had to work hard, so it was a good performance."
Lil Rockerfeller (8-1) followed Unowhatimeanharry home, with Un Temps Pour Tout (16-1) a distant third.
The winner was installed by some bookmakers as favourite for the World Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March.
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Unowhatimeanharry goes into the New Year with the Cheltenham Festival's World Hurdle trophy firmly in his sights and possibly at his mercy.
The eight-year-old - who won just one race from 13 starts before joining the Fry team - looks to have the long-distance hurdle brigade on the ropes after breezing home under an experienced jockey who clearly liked what he saw.
With reigning champion Thistlecrack chasing and plans for others unclear - though Jezki, also owned by JP McManus, could be an interesting player - this is not necessarily jump-racing's strongest division and Unowhatimeanharry is right at the head of things.
The idea behind "restorative practice", as the approach is known, is to encourage pupils to address any problems they have with each other, instead of going to the teachers.
Maerdy Community School in Rhondda Cynon Taf introduced restorative practice two years ago.
Harry Allan is the Year 5 teacher at Maerdy Community School.
He said: "The children are being asked to solve their problems amongst themselves. That has helped them become more respectful to each other."
"They are seeing that their actions can affect others and not just themselves."
A group of pupils in Maerdy Community School are trained to be peer mediators.
It is their job to deal with the minor problems on the school yard.
They do this by asking the children involved questions including: "What were you thinking?" and "How did it make you feel?"
Georgia, a Year 5 pupil, is one of the trained peer mediators. She said: "Sometimes when pupils talk to the teachers, they get a bit shy."
"They have done something wrong and they don't want to admit it. But they will tell us the truth."
As well as the peer mediator's scheme, the school also run "circle time" sessions every week.
Children can use this time to talk about how they are feeling and what is worrying them.
Beth Bradbury is the complex needs teacher at Maerdy Community School.
She said: "We've got children here with emotional behaviour problems."
"Since we introduced a restorative approach, we have seen an improvement in behaviour but we have also seen a rise in attendance."
Another school that adopts a restorative approach is Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Eirwg, in Cardiff.
But instead of peer mediators, they have "friendly listeners".
Iwan Davies is a teacher at Bro Eirwg. He said: "Children know there is always someone to turn to on the yard.
"With minor incidents, the friendly listeners know how to deal with it. But they also know to pass more serious issues on to the staff."
The approach builds on trials of the scheme which were run in a number of south Wales secondary schools including Cardiff's Fitzalan High and Monmouthshire's Monmouth Comprehensive.
Those included trying to prevent exclusions and reduce the number of young people becoming "Neets" - not in employment, education or training once they leave compulsory schooling.
The Welsh Government now recommends the practice as a way to reduce pupil exclusions.
Councils in areas such as Swansea, Gwent, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Cardiff now all encourage their schools to adopt a restorative practice approach.
A secondary school in Cardiff, Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern, holds a restorative circle once a month.
The deputy head teacher, Iwan Williams said: "Quite a lot of information is coming out, which we as staff can then help the children with".
"The children are also telling us that their relationships are becoming stronger, because they are listening to people they don't normally have a conversation with."
Jack Young is a year 10 student at Bro Edern. He said: "When we were coming up to our GCSE's, we would talk about what was worrying us.
"From that, the teachers would find ways to help us succeed."
FC Bayern Worldwide, which revealed the protest last week, did not enter the Emirates for the first five minutes of the match which had a £64 ticket price.
There was applause by Gunners fans when the group eventually took their seats.
Bayern's fans also displayed a banner which read: "£64 a ticket. But without fans football is not worth a penny."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's side won the game 2-0.
"I will speak with Wenger for next time to make it cheaper for our fans," said Bayern boss Carlo Ancelotti.
"We will take care of Arsenal fans in Munich with a good price. They can travel."
A BBC Price of Football study, which analysed costs at 227 clubs across Britain and Europe, found that Arsenal have the most expensive match-day ticket in the Premier League at £97.
In contrast, Bayern Munich's cheapest season ticket in the Bundesliga is £140.
Earlier this month, the Football Supporters' Federation coordinated protests at all 20 Premier League clubs and 10 Championship teams, to call for a £20 cap on away ticket prices.
The government said it would raise diesel prices by 14% from Friday.
India subsidises the prices of diesel, cooking gas and kerosene oil to help the poor and keep inflation in check.
However, this has resulted in a growing budget deficit and there have been concerns the policy may be hurting India's overall economic growth.
The government has been under increasing pressure to cut the subsidies and bring down the deficit.
"It is the first credible step towards fiscal consolidation that the government has taken, something for which the market has been waiting for long," said Manish Wadhawan, head of rates at HSBC.
The government said that it would also limit the sale of subsidised cooking gas to six cylinders a year per consumer.
Ratings boost?
India's economy has slowed in recent months and there have been fears that slow growth coupled with high inflation and a rising deficit may hurt investment in the country.
Earlier this year, ratings agency Standard & Poor's warned that India could lose its investment grade status if conditions in the country did not improve.
Another ratings agency, Fitch, cut its outlook for India's economy to negative in June.
Analysts said the decision by the government was likely to ease fears about a rating downgrade for Asia's third-largest economy.
"The government has shown it can take hard decisions, very difficult decisions," said C Rangarajan, chief economic advisor to the Indian prime minister.
At the same time the price rise has raised hopes that India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), may cut interest rates to spur growth.
"All these days [the] RBI was insisting [the] government should take steps to control [the] fiscal deficit, after this move there are all possibilities that the central bank may consider reducing interest rates," said RK Gupta, managing director at Taurus Mutual Fund.
"This is very good news for the market. Foreign institutional investors will be taking this as a positive step. This will also improve the country's ratings," he added.
While the increase has been welcomed by investors and analysts, some political parties, including one of the allies of the ruling coalition, have already voiced their displeasure about it.
Mamata Banerjee, president of the Trinamool Congress, a key part of the coalition, said that her party was unhappy with it.
"We will not accept it and demand its rollback," she said.
Ms Banerjee's party has previously forced the government to not make proposed hikes in rail fares.
Meanwhile, India's main opposition party, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), labelled the move as a "cruel joke".
"We will not allow this hike. We will not allow this government to loot the common man like this," said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, vice president of the BJP.
These comments have led to some concerns that the government may be forced not to increase prices.
"One just hopes that there is no back-tracking of this measure, and they continue to move ahead," said Shubhada Rao, chief economist at Yes bank in Mumbai.
The pup, who has been named Barnacle was less than a week old when he was spotted by painters at the lighthouse.
Donna de Gruchy, British Divers Marine Life Rescue's Jersey co-ordinator, said he was too young to swim and should have still been in his mother's care.
She said he was in good health apart from some light grazing on his head, chin and front flipper.
When his mother failed to show rescuers took him to a local vet.
Ian Cox, from New Era veterinary practice where the pup was taken, said: "It is a very young pup and that's why it's got the white fur.
"It tends to be when there's quite stormy weather the pups will get into trouble and they do get very tired, very hungry and very dehydrated and they just wouldn't survive without assistance."
Barnacle is being flown to RSPCA West Hatch in Somerset on Friday. He will be raised there until he is old enough and strong enough to be released back into the wild, Ms de Gruchy said.
Yn ôl yr Ysgrifennydd Iechyd, Vaughan Gething, daw'r penderfyniad wedi misoedd o drafod gydag arbenigwyr, y Gwasanaeth Iechyd a'r ddwy ysgol feddygol sydd eisoes yn bodoli yng Nghymru.
Dywedodd Mr Gething ei fod yn awyddus i weld cydweithio agosach rhwng prifysgolion Caerdydd, Abertawe a Bangor yn y maes, er mwyn rhoi cyfle i fyfyrwyr dreulio mwy o amser yn y gogledd yn rhan o'u hastudiaethau.
Mae AC Plaid Cymru dros Arfon wedi galw'r penderfyniad yn "frad ar bobl Bangor, Arfon a'r gogledd i gyd".
Ym mis Mai dywedodd yr Athro Dean Williams bod Prifysgol Bangor yn barod i sefydlu ysgol feddygaeth newydd i'r gogledd.
Dywedodd bod angen gwneud hynny er mwyn delio gyda diffyg meddygon yn y dyfodol.
Cafodd ei adroddiad ei gomisiynu gan AC Plaid Cymru, Sian Gwenllian, oedd wedi dweud bod Cymru'n wynebu "argyfwng" meddygol.
Dywedodd Mr Gething ei fod wedi trafod y mater dros gyfnod o fisoedd: "Er nad ydw i wedi fy mherswadio bod angen ysgol feddygol newydd, dwi yn credu bod achos am gynnal mwy o addysg feddygol yng ngogledd Cymru.
"Gall cynllun o addysg ac hyfforddi yng ngogledd Cymru drwy gydweithio agosach rhwng prifysgolion Caerdydd, Abertawe a Bangor sicrhau'r cynnydd mewn cyfleoedd am addysg feddygol yng ngogledd Cymru."
Wrth ymateb, dywedodd Sian Gwenllian: "Mae'r angen am ysgol feddygol ym Mangor yn glir, ac y mae Llywodraeth Cymru ei hun wedi cydnabod hyn.
"Ceisiodd Llywodraeth Cymru gladdu'r ergyd hon i fyfyrwyr meddygol a chleifion yn y gogledd ar ddiwrnod olaf busnes y llywodraeth.
"Brad ar bobl Bangor, Arfon a'r gogledd i gyd yw hyn."
The event on the French-Belgian border commemorated the troops who met in no-man's-land in 1914.
The grandsons of the commanding officers of the Welsh and German troops were also present and exchanged beer and plum pudding.
Teams from the 1st Royal Welsh and German Army later played a football match.
On 25 December 1914, soldiers on both sides at Frelinghien, about two miles from the Belgian border, climbed out of their trenches and exchanged cigars and souvenirs.
Royal Welsh soldiers were also at the opening of a new exhibition on the Christmas truce.
It remembers the time 100 years ago when, along parts of the Western Front, some men emerged from their trenches.
Although first-hand testimonies suggest there was no single organised football match between German and British sides, small-scale kick-abouts were held between soldiers.
There was no official truce, however, and along other parts of the frontline bloody battles continued to take place over the Christmas period.
A multi-faith service is also being held on Sunday in Frelinghien, led by the Reverend Clive Hughes from the Church in Wales and the padre of the Royal Welsh.
The 40-year-old defendant, named as Michael P, admitted making a signalling error and dialling the wrong emergency number. Two commuter trains collided near Bad Aibling in February.
The controller also admitted having played a computer game on his mobile phone just before the crash.
He expressed "huge guilt" in the case.
"I would like you to know that my thoughts are with you," he told survivors, in a statement read by lawyers. The trial took place in Traunstein.
Those who died in the crash at Bad Aibling on 9 February were all men aged between 24 and 59.
Prosecutors said Michael P had been playing the fantasy game "Dungeon Hunter 5" on his phone when he allowed the two trains on to a single-track line.
Hundreds of fans had queued outside London's Prince of Wales theatre on Monday to see the first UK performance.
The Book of Mormon, which lampoons religion and musicals, has already been a huge Broadway hit.
To deafening cheers, Parker said: "It's very cool to be here for the fan performance."
He added: "We heard that a lot of you lined up overnight for tickets... and we want to say from the bottom of our hearts, you're... crazy. We don't know that any show can live up to that."
By Will GompertzArts editor
The Book of Mormon's reputation is built on its biting satire, crude humour and the mocking of Mormonism. There is plenty of all three.
But having now seen the show twice, I suspect that at least some of its success is down to its rather conservative nature.
Strip away all the vulgarities and what you are left with is a traditionally structured, feel-good musical, which is chock-full of catchy show tunes.
The Book of Mormon follows the story of two missionaries who are sent from Salt Lake City to preach in a remote Ugandan village.
Written by Stone, Parker and Avenue Q's co-creator Robert Lopez, the show is directed by Parker and Casey Nicholaw.
The Broadway show won nine Tony awards last year. It recouped its $11.4m (£7.3m) investment in nine months, making its money back in part by charging up to $477 (£304) for tickets.
The West End show is sold out until the end of July, with a small number of daily tickets available via a lottery system.
The show's content is not for the faint-hearted, with strong language and jokes about religion, Aids and female circumcision.
"We never sit down and say how can we shock," Parker told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "It is unconventional material for a musical. That's the sort of stuff that we love."
Stone added: "It's about two white Mormon boys who grew up in Utah and are sent to a place with Old Testament problems - and nothing they've been taught helps them at all with these problems."
Elder Clifford Herbertson, a senior spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the official name of the Mormon Church), said he thought the musical would raise awareness of the church in the UK.
"I think the important point is that it's entertainment, it's not education, so it will raise awareness but I don't think it will necessarily help people's understanding or appreciation of the church," he told the BBC.
Scott Brown, New York Magazine's theatre critic, described The Book of Mormon as a "wacky, irreverent tale".
"It's one of those revitalising successes," he told BBC 5 live Breakfast. "Broadway is like the pharmaceutical business - they crank out all these drugs, but there is just one that carries the rest of the market for a huge amount of time, and this was Broadway's Viagra for a while."
Londoner Christina Tencheva was among those who queued for hours on Monday for a reduced-price ticket to the first performance.
"It was outrageous in the best way possible," she said after the show. "I knew it was going to be rude in places but I came in with an open mind. I think anyone can enjoy it as long as you leave any prejudice at the door."
Anna Koscheck, a regular West End theatre-goer, noted the show's youthful audience. "I pointed out to my friend when we went in that everyone is so young. I don't think I've ever seen that before."
Matt Stone and Trey Parker met at the University of Colorado and as students created the indie film Cannibal! The Musical. Their cartoon series South Park made its TV debut in 1997.
The big screen version South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut earned Parker an Oscar nomination for best song in 2000. In 2004, the pair returned to cinemas with Team America: World Police, an adult satire with a cast of marionettes.
Stone and Parker then spent seven years working on The Book of Mormon, which opened on Broadway in March 2011.
The claim: The Conservatives pledged to build up the size of the army to 82,000 by 2020.
Reality Check verdict: The actual manifesto pledge was to not let the size of the army fall below 82,000. It currently stands at nearly 78,500 so that pledge has been broken.
"We said we would build the army up to 82,000 by the year 2020," he replied, adding that the number was currently just over 79,000 but pointing out that it was not yet 2020.
But Mr Fallon was mistaken about what his party had promised to do two years ago.
The actual pledge from the manifesto was: "We will maintain the size of the regular armed services and not reduce the army to below 82,000."
The Ministry of Defence publishes monthly figures for the size of the armed forces, the most recent of which are for March this year.
They show that in May 2015, at the time of the last election, the number of full-time, trained staff in the army was 81,935, having dropped from 98,418 in the previous three years.
It has fallen gradually in the two years since then, so that it now stands at 78,432.
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India accused Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad of carrying out the assault in which seven Indian troops and six militants were killed.
On Wednesday, Pakistan said it had arrested several members of the group.
On Thursday, India said arrangements were being made for a meeting between foreign secretaries of both countries.
Hopes for Delhi-Islamabad detente were raised in late December after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid an unexpected visit to his counterpart Nawaz Sharif on his way back from Afghanistan, and the two sides announced plans to resume peace talks. The attack has set back the peace initiative.
But on Thursday, officials from both sides said the talks remained on the agenda.
Pakistan foreign office spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah said talks would not be held on Friday and that a new date was being considered.
His Indian counterpart Vikas Swarup said "both foreign secretaries [have] agreed to meet in the very near future".
Mr Swarup said India was happy with the steps Pakistan had taken so far to arrest some Jaish-e-Mohammad members.
"The action against members of Jaish-e-Mohammed is a positive step. We welcome the step," he said.
India has also agreed to host a team from Pakistan to investigate the Pathankot attacks.
"We look forward to the visit of Pakistan SIT [Special Investigation Team] and our investigative agencies will extend all necessary cooperation," he said.
Both Mr Swarup and Mr Khalilullah did not confirm the arrest of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar - a key demand from India.
Although Pakistan did not name those arrested on Wednesday, Indian and Pakistani media reports said Masood Azhar was among those detained.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says Mr Khalilullah's announcement suggests that India may not have found the arrests announced by Pakistan adequate enough.
But, continued engagement between the two sides indicates that India this time is willing to give time to Pakistan, instead of providing it with a chance to close its file on the matter, our correspondent adds.
The assault on the Pathankot air force base in Punjab, close to the Pakistan border, started on 2 January, when a group of gunmen - wearing Indian army uniforms - entered residential quarters on the air base.
The United Jihad Council - a coalition of more than a dozen militant groups fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir - claimed the attack.
The claim was met with scepticism - the UJC's core members are not known to have mounted attacks outside Indian-administered Kashmir.
Indian security officials instead blamed Jaish-e-Mohammed, an Islamist militant group based in Pakistan.
Started by Masood Azhar, Jaish-e-Mohammed has been blamed for attacks on Indian soil in the past, including one in 2001 on parliament in Delhi which took the nuclear-armed rivals to the brink of war.
Sammy has helped with more than 500 investigations by South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
Seven of the cases turned out to be murder scenes, after Sammy nosed in on suspicious circumstances.
Trainer Matt Jones, 32, of Usk, Monmouthshire, said before the Dogs Trust awards on Monday: "He is very passionate for his work."
Sammy, who is eight, has lived with Mr Jones since he was one and has been trained by him to home in on a range of materials often used to start fires.
He can detect the presence of petrol, diesel, paraffin, white spirit, barbecue fluid, turpentine, acetone, lighter fluid and ethanol up to two weeks after a blaze.
Mr Jones said: "He gives a passive indication that something is there. He stares at what he has found. He is very accurate, to one or two inches."
Crime scene investigators then take a sample from the area and put it through laboratory tests to determine which of the substances is present.
But Sammy's real talent is detecting the presence of these materials in minuscule quantities, at traces 200 times smaller than a grain of sugar.
Mr Jones said: "The dog's ability is above what science can detect."
Sammy's training is based on a reward system. In his case, the reward is to play with his favourite toy, a tennis ball.
Mr Jones said: "He loves his tennis ball. He will never give it back once he's got it."
The pair usually investigate a fire as soon as it has stopped smouldering and has cooled down, said Mr Jones.
Even so, Sammy wears a pair of boots to protect his paws against any sharp items or hot embers.
Sammy is the third fire dog Mr Jones has trained and the four-legged fire service employee is helping to train his apprentice, a cocker spaniel called Bow.
Mr Jones said: "Sammy is probably the best one I've had out of the three. It's his ability and his drive. That is all he really lives to do - work.
"He is constantly searching, sniffing out and smelling."
A Dogs Trust spokeswoman said: "The annual awards ceremony recognises dogs that have performed outstanding acts of bravery, dedication or devotion and Sammy has been selected as a finalist out of hundreds of entries."
Caton-Brown, 22, will undergo surgery following a tackle by Huddersfield's Danny Brough in Monday's 26-24 win.
The tackle was cited, but after viewing the incident, the RFL decided not to take any action towards Brough.
"We're not happy about it. We've asked the RFL to look at the incident. They have come back telling us it's legal," head coach Ian Watson said.
"From our point of view, we're really disappointed with what they've come back with as we've lost a good player."
Caton-Brown was making his first appearance of the season for Salford since coming back from injury, but now faces another lengthy spell out.
"He has only just come back from an injury, he's been out for a long time," Watson told BBC Radio Manchester, "He's a really nice kid and in your first game back to go down like that when you're playing so well is a big loss."
Salford moved up to seventh in Super League following Monday's win, which was marred when fighting broke out among a section of Salford fans at full-time.
In a hearing before the Treasury Committee, Mark Carney said that the economy would be affected by the uncertainty created by an exit vote.
Mr Carney emphasised that the Bank was not taking sides in the EU referendum.
However, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg accused him of making "pro-EU" comments.
In a letter sent to Treasury Committee chairman Andrew Tyrie, Mr Carney said that Britain's membership of the EU had reinforced the "dynamism of the UK economy", and that the relationship had helped the UK to grow.
In a sometimes fractious exchange with MPs on the committee, Mr Carney denied claims he was "pro-EU".
Mr Rees-Mogg said his comments were "beneath the dignity of the Bank".
The referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union is to be held on Thursday 23 June.
"We will not be making, and nothing we say should be interpreted as making, any recommendation with respect to that decision," Mr Carney said.
The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said the governor had "come down with a resounding thump" in favour of remaining in the EU, pointing out that Mr Carney also praised the deal that David Cameron had struck with Europe to safeguard the City of London.
Our correspondent said that people were likely to take notice of what Mr Carney said to make up their minds about Europe. "Mark Carney is perhaps one of those figures that people might look to as being above the political fray."
Mr Carney appeared in front of the cross-party Treasury Committee to discuss the economic and financial costs and benefits of the UK's EU membership.
Referring to a Bank of England report on the EU, Mr Carney concluded that EU membership had "likely increased the dynamism of the UK economy and correspondingly its ability to grow without generating risks to the Bank's primary objectives of monetary and financial stability".
However, Mr Rees-Mogg said this could be attributed to reforms made under Margaret Thatcher.
"It is speculative and beneath the dignity of the Bank of England to be making speculative, pro-EU comments," Mr Rees-Mogg said.
The MP said that he was concerned that the Bank was focused more on the positive aspects of EU membership than the negative, adding that it was guilty of "political partisanship" over Europe.
Mr Carney rejected Mr Rees-Mogg's statements as "wholly unfounded" and said: "With respect, what concerns me is your selective memory."
The governor said that he had not discussed what he was going to say on Tuesday with Mr Cameron. "I have not had conversations with the Prime Minister about what I might say about the European Union."
As he considered the shark infested waters he would face this morning, Mr Carney knew two things.
First, that the pro-remain camp would grab all his negative comments about Brexit and trumpet them as a victory for them.
And they will.
Second, that he was likely to be attacked by the pro-leave campaign for being deliberately partisan in his approach to the value or otherwise of the EU to the British economy.
And he was.
It was the only moment Mr Carney appeared to bridle, responding to Jacob Rees-Moggs' "beneath the Bank's dignity" attack with a testy "I cannot let that stand".
That's about as close as a central bank governor comes to blowing his top.
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Mr Carney said risks from an EU exit included the Bank's ability to control inflation, a fall in the pound and banks moving abroad.
However, if Britain votes to leave the EU, Mr Carney said the Bank "will do everything in our power to discharge our responsibility to achieve monetary stability and financial stability".
He said that there were measures that the Bank of England could take in the short term to support the financial system but said he could not rule out the possibility that there could be issues with stability.
Commenting on the short-term impact of an EU exit, Mr Carney said: "There could be lower levels of activity because of the degree of uncertainty that could affect investment and household spending. Reasonable expectations during a period of uncertainty."
However, he said it would not be possible to say what the longer term impact of leaving the EU would be on Britain. "We are not forming a view because it's outside our remit," Mr Carney said.
Mr Carney was also questioned about the financial sector's reaction to an exit.
He said: "One would expect some activity to move, certainly there's a logic to that and there are views that have been expressed publicly and privately by a number of institutions that they would look at it, and I'd say a number of institutions are contingency planning for that possibility."
On Monday, the Bank of England pledged to offer extra funding to the financial market before and after the June vote, in case uncertainty put pressure on the banking system.
It is believed the prison authorities launched an investigation into her conduct after other prison officers questioned her account of the incident.
The matter has been referred to the police.
It is believed detectives are studying CCTV footage and interviewing staff and prisoners who witnessed the incident.
On Monday, the Department of Justice issued a statement saying four officers had been injured during "an incident involving a prisoner".
It said one of the officers had received medical treatment.
Democratic Unionist Party MLA Edwin Poots had criticised prison service management when reports about the incident appeared on social media at the weekend.
Mr Poots, a former Stormont minster for health and public safety and a current member of Stormont's justice committee, said the jail was under-staffed.
On his Twitter account on Sunday, he wrote: "A prison officer scalded with hot water and five colleagues injured. How long is the SMT [senior management team] and minister going to drag their feet."
He told the BBC that under-staffing in the high-security County Antrim jail was creating dangers for both staff and inmates.
But the officer's account of what happened has now been questioned.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Prison Service said: "Following an incident at Maghaberry Prison on Sunday 31 January, the Prison Service can confirm that a prison officer has been suspended pending an investigation.
"The incident has also been referred to the PSNI."
On Wednesday, Mr Poots said he still maintains that the incident occurred as a result of under-staffing in Maghaberry.
Dicko has been ruled out for the next nine months after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in Saturday's 2-1 home win over Charlton.
The 23-year-old, who was starting only his second full season at Molineux, will be operated on next week.
Wolves, who are now in the market for a replacement striker, have had a bid for Cardiff City's Joe Mason turned down.
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Abdullah Deghayes, 18, from Brighton, went to Syria with his two brothers to fight a "dictator" and was not a terrorist, Abubaker Deghayes said.
He said his other sons, Jaffar, 16, and 20-year-old Amer, were still in Syria.
Speaking to BBC Sussex, he said: "We've lost Abdullah. Please, please come home."
He added: "My eldest son went first, he used to follow what was happening in Syria on social media and the news and was very affected by it.
"He first went on an aid convoy and from then he joined the fight against Assad. Somehow his brothers followed him without the consent of his parents."
Over the past three years, more than 100,000 Syrians have lost their lives in the escalating conflict between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule.
The bloody internal conflict has destroyed whole neighbourhoods and forced more than nine million people from their homes.
Mr Deghayes said he followed his sons to Turkey but they had left with their passports. He tried to persuade them not to go go Syria.
"They were very adamant and insisted - they wouldn't listen to me.
"You can't tie him up or force him [to stay]."
Mr Deghayes said: "I can see the novelty of helping the oppressed but I want my children to come back."
He said his sons could be more effective helping the Syrians from the UK and urged them to come home.
"If you can hear me, please come home. We've lost Abdullah already," he said.
"You do not need to fight, you can help from Britain. Please, please come home."
About 400 Britons are thought to have gone to Syria in the past two years, with an estimated 20 having died.
Having won her first match singles in almost two years in the opening round, the world number 913 lost 6-2 4-6 6-2 to the world number 498.
The 21-year-old returned from a wrist injury in June after 18 months out.
Meanwhile, British number two Aljaz Bedene lost 6-4 6-4 to Borna Coric in the second round of the Croatia Open.
Robson, who was 27 in the world in 2013, will play in the US Open next month thanks to a protected ranking.
She is able to do so as players are allowed to enter eight tournaments based on the ranking they had before a long-term injury lay off.
Ramsey will miss Wales' World Cup qualifier against Moldova on 5 September after injuring his hamstring in Arsenal's 4-3 defeat by Liverpool.
Wales boss Chris Coleman had expected Ramsey to miss the start of the season.
"He played because he didn't play the final, nor the semi-final, nor the quarter-final," Wenger explained.
"That is the only reason and he had needed preparation time.
"So he was out [of the European Championships] basically two weeks before Mesut Ozil, Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud."
Ramsey played the full game as Wales stunned Belgium 3-1 in the Euro 2016 quarter-final, though he missed their semi-final elimination by Portugal through suspension.
Coleman has made clear that he felt the injury was preventable.
"It's disappointing he's got an injury. Could it have been prevented? Possibly, yes," he said at his Wales press conference on Tuesday.
"I think we all expected him to [miss the start of the season], so I don't know what happened between then and when he ended up on the pitch.
"Obviously only Arsenal can answer that. I think, to a man, if you were looking at Arsenal's team sheet, it was a bit of a surprise he started.
"I think Aaron said himself [in France] that he wasn't expecting to."
A study in the Lancet Psychiatry suggests up to one in 11 cases of psychosis may involve antibodies attacking parts of the brain.
Blood samples were taken from 228 people in a UK-wide trial.
The finding is controversial, but opens up a new way of treating patients.
Sarah Galloway, 25, from Gateshead, is now recovering after her immune system turned on her.
She was in the final year of her chemistry degree when things started to go wrong.
"I deteriorated in a matter of days," she says.
"I hallucinated that my body has morphed spiders' legs or rabbit ears, I've seen them there, I've felt them there.
"I get strange ideas in my head that someone is trying to kill me or I have to kill someone, and then a lot of it has resulted in self-harm."
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Sarah was rapidly sectioned by doctors, given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and treated with anti-psychotic medication.
However, a chance blood test turned up something unusual in her immune system.
Antibodies should protect the body, but instead Sarah's were attacking the surface of her brain's cells and disrupting their function.
That transformed Sarah's treatment, and she was given drugs to suppress her immune system.
She even had troublesome antibodies filtered out of her blood.
Prof Belinda Lennox, a clinical psychiatrist at the University of Oxford, is concerned other patients may be slipping through the net.
She led a UK-wide trial that took blood samples from 228 people when they developed psychosis for the first time.
The strongest evidence was for antibodies that attack the NMDA receptor which helps brain cells communicate with each other.
These were the antibodies found in Sarah and turned up in 3% of people tested.
Prof Lennox told the BBC: "The implications of this are that there are patients in mental health services now who will have these antibodies and could potentially be treated in a very different way.
"I think this is a really exciting advance for psychiatry as a whole, and every psychiatrist and patient with psychosis needs to be aware of this and to look for it and treat it assertively when we find it."
But this remains - at least in part - a controversial finding.
The immune system attacks the brain in autoimmune encephalitis, and again it is the NMDA receptor that is involved.
"However, the large majority of patients develop other symptoms for example seizures or abnormal movements," said Dr Josep Dalmau, from the University of Barcelona, who made the key breakthrough in understanding autoimmune encephalitis.
He added: "These usually bring the diagnosis to the doctors, so I think [considering] the number of patients you may have in a psychiatric institution with well established psychotic disorder for several months or years, the likelihood they have these antibodies is extremely low."
Clinical trials are under way to see if this fledgling field of immuno-psychiatry can actually benefit patients.
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Sir Ketumile, who led the country from 1980 to 1998, is credited with being the architect of the country's famed stability, reports the AFP news agency.
He was also involved in peace initiatives across Africa, including ending Mozambique's long civil war.
Botswana is one of Africa's richest and most stable countries.
Sir Ketumile became president after the death of Botswana's first post-independence leader Sir Seretse Khama in 1980.
He had served as the country's first minister of finance and vice-president before becoming president, the Botswana government states.
Sir Ketumile stepped down in 1998 after overseeing a period of strong economic growth based on the effective management of the Botswana's vast diamond wealth.
He was also involved in backing South Africa's anti-apartheid movement and other independence struggles in the region.
As an elder statesman he was involved in mediation efforts across Africa, including Kenya, Lesotho, Swaziland and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sir Ketumile was also chair of the International Panel of Eminent Personalities which investigated the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and police raided properties in Merseyside, Manchester and Northern Ireland.
Storage tanks, computers, money and a lorry and trailer were seized.
Three men from Merseyside, one from Manchester, two from County Armagh, one from County Down and one from County Antrim were arrested.
The men taken into custody are aged between 34 and 72.
A HMRC spokeswoman said the raids in Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester and St Helens were at a business and four "domestic addresses", while those in Northern Ireland were at residential properties.
She said that the fuel seized was "heavy hydrocarbon oil capable of running a derv (diesel) engine".
This is a bit like the start of a new school year for politicians. The proper name given to this is the start of a Parliamentary session.
It's happened today in London.
But what actually is it and why is it so important?
The Queen's Speech explains the government's plans for the coming year.
She reads it out in front of members of the House of Commons and House of Lords, and there is normally one Queen's Speech every year.
This year will be the 63rd time during the Queen's reign that she has delivered the speech.
Although the speech is read out by the Queen, it is actually written by the government.
This is because it is their to-do list of what they want to achieve over the coming months.
It depends how much the government has on their to-do list! But normally it takes about 10 minutes.
The ceremony, as it is like today, dates back to 1852.
The Queen usually rides in a grand state coach from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords in Westminster, however this year she will be arriving by car.
When the Queen enters the House of Lords, everyone there stands up. Everyone is wearing their smartest robes and finery.
The Queen usually wears a crown for the ceremony, but this year she will be wearing a hat instead.
Next, the Queen takes her place on the throne and says: "My Lords, pray be seated."
Once this has happened, the Queen's messenger called Black Rod will walk up to the door of the House of Commons, where MPs work, but it will be slammed in his face!
It might seem a bit rude but it's meant to show that House of Commons is independent.
Black Rod knocks on the door three times with his stick. He's then allowed to go in and asks the MPs to come to the House of Lords to listen to the Queen.
An official known as the Lord Chancellor hands the speech to the Queen, and she will read it to everyone there.
After the Queen has finished her speech and the State Opening is over, the Queen returns to Buckingham Palace.
In the afternoon, the government's plans - which were explained in the speech - are debated in the House of Commons and MPs will eventually have the chance to vote on it.
The Briton, 29, was broken in the first game of the match but soon asserted his class en route to a 7-5 7-5 win.
The world number one last played on the ATP Tour in Indian Wells on 12 March, though he contested an exhibition match against Roger Federer on 10 April.
The Scot, handed a first-round bye, meets Albert Ramos-Vinolas next.
Murray, the top seed in Monte Carlo, gave up three double faults in the first game, then hit long to gift Luxembourg's Muller the break.
In his first match of the year on clay, Murray continued to labour on his serve but somehow limited the damage, saving break point in the next game then fending off a set point at 3-5.
Muller's failure to capitalise on Murray's rustiness was then brutally exposed by the Scot, who broke the world number 28 in back-to-back games to claim the opening set, before recovering from an early break in the second to wrap up victory in one hour 55 minutes.
"It was a tough first match," Murray told Sky Sports. "I started slow and wasn't serving well at the start.
"I only started serving properly four, five days ago, so I knew it was going to take time but I didn't expect to start the match serving like like that."
Third seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland is also into round three after beating Czech Jiri Vesely 6-2 4-6 6-2. Fifth seed Marin Cilic and sixth-seeded Dominic Thiem also progressed.
Also on Wednesday, fourth seed Rafael Nadal begins his bid for a 10th Monte Carlo title against British number three Kyle Edmund.
Emmanuel and Antan Edet were both found guilty of ill-treating a young person, holding him in servitude and assisting unlawful immigration.
Ofonime Sunday Inuk, now aged 40, worked up to 17 hours a day unpaid.
He cared for the couple's children, and also cooked and cleaned the house.
He was about 14 years old in 1989 when he left his native Nigeria with Emmanuel Edet, now 61, and his wife Antan, 58. They changed Mr Inuk's name and added him to their family passport when they first brought him to the UK.
He believed he would be working as a paid 'houseboy' and receive education in the UK.
But the couple, whom he referred to as 'Sir' and 'Ma' in diaries, gave him only occasional 'pocket money' and forced him to eat his meals alone and sleep on the hallway floor of the house in Perivale.
Judge Arran told the Edets: "The most serious aspect of your behaviour towards him was that it went on for an exceptionally long period of time, robbing him of the opportunity of leading a normal life.
"He has found it difficult to adjust."
Mr Inuk told Harrow Crown Court he had not seen his passport for more than a decade and once tried to join the Army, but was rejected because he did not have the document.
Edet told him it had expired and he needed to visit Nigeria to acquire a new one.
He said Mr Inuk would get an emergency travel ticket from the Nigerian embassy, but this never happened.
Mr Inuk eventually managed to alert a charity to his plight after the couple went to Nigeria for Christmas in 2013, and they were arrested the following March.
Emmanuel Edet worked for Surrey County Council as a manager in the teenage pregnancy strategy team, and was the author of published papers on the subject.
His wife was a senior nurse at Ealing Hospital.
They each served 287 days on bail with curfew conditions, and half that time will be subtracted from their six-year sentences.
The building was originally estimated to cost £5m to build but due to "significant inflation in the construction industry" over the past 18 months more money is needed.
The primary school is set to be built near the Wyndham Park estate where new homes are being built.
County councillors approved the extra funding at a meeting on Monday.
In his regular BBC Sport column, football pundit Robbie Savage looks at how Sunday's Manchester derby is the start of a big week for Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini, why Burnley do not come close to his old Derby side as being the worst team in Premier League history and what happens next for Leeds after their latest managerial change.
The people saying they are a club on the brink of a crisis are not far wrong - this is a pivotal moment for City's season and, possibly, Pellegrini's future too.
I am expecting Chelsea to beat QPR on Saturday and, if they do, City will go into Sunday's derby with Manchester United nine points behind Jose Mourinho's side.
After two defeats and a draw in their last three games, the defending Premier League champions will be under massive pressure to find some form, beat their neighbours and stay in touch at the top.
If they don't get three points against United then, with their hopes of Champions League progress also in the balance, there could be serious questions asked about Pellegrini's future for the first time since he arrived in English football in the summer of 2013.
In that time, the spotlight has usually been on the manager on the other side of Manchester - firstly David Moyes, and now Louis van Gaal.
Pellegrini, who is very much the quiet man anyhow, has rarely made the headlines other than by winning the Premier League title in his first season in charge.
It is a mystery why City have failed to find the electric attacking form from last season
That was a superb achievement, and he did it playing some brilliant attacking football, but now he is finding out how hard it is to deliver the dominance that is the long-term goal for City's owners.
For City to become as big as they want to be, which is a worldwide force in the same bracket as Manchester United and Real Madrid, they have got to win the Champions League.
That is almost certainly not going to happen this season - they might not even get out of their group.
City have another must-win game against CSKA Moscow on Wednesday but even then they face a fight to reach the knockout stage.
Another Premier League title this campaign already looks a huge ask and, for me, defeat by United would all but finish their hopes - I do not see Chelsea losing three times all season and that nine-point gap would be too big to make up.
Wednesday's defeat by Newcastle means their defence of the Capital One Cup is already over too so, by Bonfire Night, they could be realistically down to being in the hunt for one trophy - the FA Cup.
The worry for Pellegrini is whether winning that would be enough to keep him in his job.
A run in that competition did not seem to help his predecessor at the Etihad Stadium, Roberto Mancini, very much.
Mancini's departure appeared to have been decided before the 2013 final, which City lost to Wigan. If that is true, then even winning the FA Cup would not have saved him.
City's struggles this season already remind me of what happened under Mancini after he won the Premier League in 2012.
They failed to improve their squad, flopped in Europe and ended up finishing a distant second in the title race.
This time around, their early-season form has not been disastrous, just not very good.
Their defensive problems are obvious and, on the face of it, most worrying.
But it is a mystery why they have failed to find the electric attacking form from last campaign that saw them become the quickest team to score 100 goals in a season in the Premier League era.
Yaya Toure seems to be getting a lot of the blame but, while he has not been at his best, City's problems are clearly not all down to him.
Ignoring domestic cup games against non-Premier League teams, they scored 37 goals in their final 14 games of last season.
In the same period at the start of this one, and again ignoring games against lower division opposition, they have found the net only 22 times.
I don't know what has gone wrong and why they are missing their spark, but the worrying thing is that Pellegrini does not seem to know either.
It is not beyond him to turn things round, however.
This time 12 months ago, City were smashing teams all over the place at home but shipping goals badly on the road and had lost four away games in the league by mid-November.
Pellegrini adapted his tactics, added some defensive solidity to their attacking flair and did not lose again away until the middle of April.
He needs to do something similar again now, starting on Sunday.
Things look pretty grim for Burnley right now - they are bottom of the table without a win from their first nine games, and look unlikely to break their duck when they play Arsenal on Saturday.
Even so, I do not see the Clarets rivalling my old Derby side as the worst team in Premier League history, which we were when we sank like a stone in 2007-08.
We were the first Premier League side to be relegated as early as March and went down with only 11 points and just one victory, going 32 games without a win - all unwanted Premier League record lows that still stand.
The Rams had picked up that win before I joined them from Blackburn in January of that season, so I didn't even win one game with them.
I knew going into every game that we would get beaten, and most of the time that is what happened
I can laugh about it now but it was a horrible time.
Derby were eight points adrift at the bottom of the table when I moved to Pride Park so I knew there was a good chance they would go down.
But they had just made a few signings to try to stay up - players like Laurent Robert, Hossam Ghaly and Danny Mills - and, as far as I was concerned, they were still fighting. The worst case scenario was going down, and then helping them get straight back up.
Any positive thoughts had disappeared within a week of me going there, though, just from what was happening in training.
The players had no confidence and we ended up going into games every week looking at the opposition and thinking 'how are we going to get anything here?'
I learned a big lesson about how big a part self-belief plays in sport.
I knew going into every game that we would get beaten, and most of the time that is what happened.
I would still do my best but for the first time in my career I did not think that would be enough to make a difference.
I think things are different at Burnley, though.
Yes, they are the only team without a victory in the top four divisions in England but they are not playing like a beaten team.
Their manager Sean Dyche is a big believer in positive thinking, and his players are responding to that, despite their results.
On the pitch, Derby's big problem was goals. There just were not enough of them in that Rams team, and we only scored 20 in 38 league games.
Kenny Miller was our top league scorer with four. Then came Emanuel Villa, a £2m Argentine who was new to the Premier League and scored three times after signing in January.
Our other strikers, Steve Howard and Robert Earnshaw, scored one apiece.
I wasn't going to score any from midfield and neither was David Jones who, ironically, is now playing for Burnley. He is probably worried that he is going through a repeat of that 2007-08 season all over again.
Their statistics do not look good, with Burnley near the bottom of the rankings in most attacking categories, particularly shots on target and their ratio of goals to shots.
I still think that is an area they will improve in when Sam Vokes returns from injury and can partner Danny Ings again.
Even if they do find the form that won the Clarets promotion, the bottom line is that it is a huge step-up from the Championship and Premier League, as Burnley are finding out.
But they will not go down without a fight and, sadly for Derby, I think that means their records are safe.
I have not forgotten that Leeds fans pelted me with hot-dogs when I was working as an on-pitch TV pundit at Emirates Stadium before an FA Cup tie against Arsenal in January 2012.
It was the first time I had been attacked with fast food.
Despite that, I still feel sorry for them with the managerial circus that is going on at Elland Road right now.
Academy boss Neil Redfearn is set to become Leeds' third head coach of the season after the club's owner Massimo Cellino sacked Darko Milanic after just 32 days in charge.
I had a great call from a young Leeds fan on 606 on BBC Radio 5 live on Saturday, who said that he still thinks they can finish in the top six in the Championship with Redfearn in charge.
But, realistically, survival has to be the target for Leeds. To achieve that, stability has to be the main aim for Redfearn and Cellino.
I don't think Leeds will go down but it is sad to see such a massive club with a great history and a fantastic fanbase face such an uncertain future.
The only way that is going to change is if Cellino gives Redfearn time.
Robbie Savage was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan
The first, which occurred around 22:30 (19:30 GMT) on Monday, hit part of the facility in Saada province that was not being used, according to the charity.
All staff and patients had been evacuated by the time the second strike hit about 10 minutes later.
However, the Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthi rebel movement denied that it had bombed the hospital.
Asked by the Reuters news agency if he knew what had caused the blasts, spokesman Brig-Gen Ahmed al-Asiri said: "We cannot tell without investigation."
Gen Asiri has previously said the coalition has destroyed every fighter jet in Yemen.
The conflict in Yemen has left more than 5,600 people dead, including 2,615 civilians, since the coalition air campaign began in late March.
About two-thirds of the civilian deaths were caused by coalition air strikes, and the rest by the rebels and their allies, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Tuesday.
More than 15,000 people wounded in air strikes and fighting on the ground have been treated in MSF-supported hospitals in the past seven months.
The charity's hospital in Saada's Haydan district served 200,000 people and was the only life-saving facility in the region, receiving 150 emergency cases a week.
An MSF statement said that all staff on duty and two in-patients managed to escape between the first and second air strikes on Monday night.
The facility's director was slightly injured during the evacuation.
After visiting the site on Tuesday morning, MSF's project co-ordinator in Saada, Miriam Czech, said: "I was not able to go inside as we believed there were remaining bombs that have not exploded, but I can confirm that the facility is 99% destroyed."
The facility's director said that only the x-ray department and staffroom remained.
"It could be a mistake, but the fact of the matter is it's a war crime," MSF country director Hassan Boucenine told the Reuters news agency.
"There's no reason to target a hospital. We provided [the coalition] with all of our GPS co-ordinates about two weeks ago," he added.
This is the second attack this month on an MSF facility.
On 3 October, US aircraft bombed a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz, killing at least 22 people.
MSF has demanded an independent international investigation into the bombing, which it says was a war crime. The US has said the hospital was bombed by mistake and President Barack Obama has apologised.
City Road Methodist Church in Birmingham is one of the real-life locations used as 'gyms' in Pokemon Go, where users can train virtual monsters.
It has put up a sign proclaiming "Jesus Cares About Pokemon Gamers".
The game launched in the UK on Thursday, and has proven popular with people around the world.
Church steward David Hallam said it is "a great opportunity" for the church.
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He said the church had been receiving "strange" phone calls for a week prior to the game's launch, and only realised they were an unwitting part of the game when a man turned up on their doorstep.
"We all looked at each other and said 'Well, let's offer him a cup of tea," he said.
"He was there afterwards and he said 'This is phenomenal for your church, people will be coming from all over the world,' and we thought... if this is going to happen, we've got to respond.
"We... beat ourselves up [thinking] how do we appeal to younger people - we have committee meetings, and here they are on our doorstep. Well, welcome in!"
Mr Hallam said the church would look at opening an online chaplaincy or Pokemon meeting to help people interested in learning more.
"We don't know yet, but there are amazing challenges here," he said.
Rovers dominated from the outset, with Lois Maynard coming close to a first-minute goal, as the visitors adopted a defensive approach.
There were few chances for either side until just after the hour when Luke Foster brought down Norwood.
He got up to take the kick himself, putting it to the left of keeper Max Crocombe and that proved decisive.
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But Newcastle's leader, Gareth Snell, was beaten by UKIP in Chesterton - one of four seats lost by Labour. The Conservatives retained Tamworth.
UKIP is now the main opposition in Cannock Chase after Jodie Jones gave notice on Friday that she had left the Tories.
Her seat was not up for election and she has become independent.
Labour won six of the 13 seats that were contested there, leaving it with 25 seats, while UKIP have six and the Tories five.
The Labour leader of Cannock council, George Adamson, kept his seat in the Hednesford Green Heath ward.
He got 524 votes. His nearest competitor Mick Sage of UKIP got 335.
Mr Adamson said: "I'm not surprised. On the canvassing I've done a lot of people said they would vote UKIP as a protest, a vote for none of the above, if you like."
The Conservatives held Tamworth with 16 seats, despite losing Stonydelph to UKIP's Tony Madge.
Mr Madge said: "I'm very proud to be the first UKIP councillor on Tamworth council, I'm very happy."
Labour, the opposition in Tamworth, has 12 seats.
In Newcastle, the Conservatives, the opposition there, have 16 seats, while Labour now has 32 of the 60.
They also called for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his party's junior coalition partner, the ethnic Albanian DUI.
The country's leaders agreed last week to hold early elections by next April, in an attempt to end months of turmoil.
Macedonia saw months of civil conflict in 2001 between the security forces and ethnic Albanian rebels.
Mr Gruevski faces wire-tapping and corruption allegations, which he denies.
In turn, he has accused opposition leader Zoran Zaev of prolonging the crisis by "rejecting all proposals" in the latest round of EU-mediated talks between the country's main political leaders.
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Despite this, less than 17% of biographies on Wikipedia and fewer than 10% of entries in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB) are about women.
With women still under represented on the political stage - just nine of the 40 MPs representing Wales and 25 of the 60 AMs are women - that figure might not seem so surprising.
On Thursday, some of Wales' most influential women took part in a global 12-hour Wikipedia edit-a-thon in a bid to close the internet gender gap.
All were shocked by how little was written about their heroines.
While many of the women are groundbreakers and pioneers, some were limited to a single sentence on the encyclopaedia. Others had no profile of their own - instead restricted to a single line in their husband's profiles.
Co-founder of the Hang Fire Smokehouse, Shauna Guinn edited the profile of BBC Radio 4 food journalist Sheila Dillon, describing her as a trailblazer for women in a male dominated industry.
"She has been a big supporter of us as two women breaking the trend," said Shauna, who was surprised to see there were only five lines on her role model's sparse profile.
"With all her accolades and accomplishments, I thought there would be much more information about her, but this could be a symptom of the lack of women editors.
"She is such a wonderful woman, I believe she deserves much more information and to be much more of a notable person."
Ms Guinn, who founded the Barry restaurant with Samantha Evans, said she learned a lot about Mrs Dillon as she searched for facts during the global event to mark the end of this year's Women 100 campaign.
"There is so much I don't know about this woman; you think you know a lot about someone and then you realise you don't really," she said.
I'm sure other young women will find Lady Miloska just as inspirational as I have - it is just madness that there was only one line about her hidden in her husband's profile.
Former Conservative candidate and businesswoman Shazia Awan was shocked to find her "inspirational mentor" Lady Miloska Nott was nearly invisible on the encyclopaedia.
Despite setting up a The Fund For Refugees in Slovenia - a charity that has raised millions to help people forced to flee their homes during the Bosnian War - Lady Nott was confined to a single line on the profile of her husband - Sir John William Frederic Nott, Secretary of State for Defence in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet.
Caerphilly-born Ms Awan created a profile for her role model, saying: "She is one of the most inspirational women I have come across, I am inspired by her every day."
While Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, only about 15% of its editors are women, according to the site.
Wiki experts believe that with their busy lives, most women simply do not think they have the time to sit down and create profiles for those they admire, something which could explain the small number of profiles.
But Ms Awan said; "I'm surprised how accessible Wikipedia is, now that I have the skills to do it I can add a lot more to the profile."
Contestant in the 2013 Great British Bake Off, Beca Lyne-Pirkis, edited the profile of a woman who inspired her to follow her dreams of studying music at university.
Mrs Lyne-Pirkis, from Penylan in Cardiff, said there was little information on the site about her role model, Welsh composer Grace Williams.
"As a mother raising two daughters it is a way of trying to get more high profile notable people on Wikipedia," she said.
"I know the girls will be using Wikipedia when they are older, Grace was a huge inspiration to me, the girls are only four and two but I hope they will be able to find role models who will inspire them to go and do what they want to do," she said.
However, Cywiki - the Welsh language Wikipedia - is bucking the trend as 43% of its 14,204 biographies are about women.
Jason Evans, resident Wikipedia expert based at the National Library of Wales, said Cywiki had worked hard to address the gender gap.
"We have been aware of it and we have been conscious about creating more content about women over men to try and keep it as close as possible," he said.
"But you only have to look at Welsh law before it became part of English law in medieval times; women had way more rights than women in English and European law.
"Perhaps it is something in the Welsh psyche that is a bit more equal."
Under Wikipedia community rules, a person must be judged notable enough to have a profile, which can be shunned by the community of thousands of editors if they do not agree.
Mr Evans said while there were very few male sports stars who do not have Wikipedia profiles, many female football and hockey players do not.
The first Welsh woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, Tori James, and Welsh international hockey player Beth Fisher are just some of the inspiring women who do not have profiles.
Good Morning Wales presenter Felicity Evans created a page for Wales' first black head teacher Betty Campbell - but a member of the community took it down shortly after.
Thankfully, the profile was put back up soon afterwards for generations of school children, boys and girls, across the world to learn about the Butetown pioneer's remarkable life.
While no one is under any impression the 12 hour global edit-a-thon will close the gender gap for good, there is hope this will be a movement which will continue to grow, allowing these incredible women to inspire generations to come.
Mr Evans said: "It is a chain reaction, it's about raising awareness that there is such a big imbalance and that Wikipedia itself cannot fix this."
The Belarusian former world number one returned to tennis in June after giving birth to her son, Leo, in December.
Azarenka, 28, separated from his father in July and the pair are working "to resolve some of the legal processes".
In a statement, Azarenka said: "The way things stand now is that the only way I can play in the US Open this year is if I leave Leo behind."
The US Open will take place at Flushing Meadows from 28 August to 10 September.
Azarenka, Australian Open champion in 2012 and 2013, reached the final in New York in the same two years.
She was knocked out in the fourth round at Wimbledon this year. Last week, she pulled out of the Cincinnati Open because of "a family matter".
"Like most working mothers I am faced with a difficult situation which may not allow me to return to work right away," her statement added.
"Balancing childcare and a career is not easy for any parent, but it is a challenge I am willing to face and embrace. I want to support men and women everywhere who know it is OK to be a working mother - or father.
"No-one should ever have to decide between a child and their career, we are strong enough to do both.
"I remain optimistic that in the coming days Leo's father and I can put aside any differences and take steps in the right direction to more effectively work as a team and agree on an arrangement for all three of us to travel and for me to compete but, more importantly, to ensure that Leo has a consistent presence from both of his parents."
The world number two will now face Canadian fourth seed Milos Raonic, who he beat in the Wimbledon final in July.
The Scot, who served 10 aces, will attempt to stretch his career-best winning streak to 22 matches.
"I knew that coming straight from the Olympics I was going to be tired but I've still managed to win," he said.
"I played the big points well and that was the difference. That comes from winning big matches and making better decisions."
In the other semi-final Croatian 12th seed Marin Cilic will face unseeded Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.
Trees for Life said the predator could "play a crucial top-down regulatory role in ecosystems" by helping to control red and roe deer numbers.
The charity's Alan Watson Featherstone and author George Monbiot are due to speak to MSPs on "rewilding".
The men will later address a conference at Edinburgh University.
Rewilding is an effort, supported by various conservation groups, to encourage native species of fauna and floral to flourish.
In a statement, Forres-based Trees for Life said the reinstatement of lynx could help to better control wild deer, which feed on young trees.
The charity said the main impact of lynx would likely be in disturbing deer populations, causing these animals to move more frequently so that their grazing was less concentrated in specific areas.
Trees for Life added: "The lynx - already reintroduced to areas of Europe such as the Alps and Jura mountains - offers little threat to sheep.
"It is a specialist predator of roe deer, a species which has multiplied in Britain in recent years and which holds back the natural regeneration of trees through intensive browsing."
Mr Featherstone and Mr Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian and author of the book, Feral, are to speak to the Scottish Parliament's cross party group on international development.
Later, the two men will take part in Rewilding the World, an event organised by the University of Edinburgh's Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability as part of Edinburgh World Justice Festival.
Mr Monbiot said: "Rewilding offers us a big chance to reverse destruction of the natural world.
"Letting trees return to bare and barren uplands, allowing the seabed to recover from trawling, and bringing back missing species would help hundreds of species that might otherwise struggle to survive - while rekindling wonder and enchantment that often seems missing in modern day Britain."
Mr Featherstone said Trees for Life was working to restore Scotland's last remnants of native Caledonian Forest.
He said: "In the Highlands we have the opportunity to reverse environmental degradation and create a spectacular, world-class wilderness region - offering a lifeline to wildlife including beavers, capercaillie, wood ants and pine martens - and restoring natural forests and wild spaces for our children and grandchildren to enjoy."
Earlier this year, landscape conservation charity the John Muir Trust said there was "no ecological reason" why wolves could not be reintroduced to Scotland.
In an edition of its journal, JMT said the animal had been demonised in the UK.
It raised the issue of bringing back the wolf as part of a wider discussion on rewilding the UK.
Where the wild things were
The Cairngorms may have been the last stronghold of Scotland's native lynx.
They could have survived in the mountainous area's forests, one of the last places in Scotland to suffer deforestation, into the late Middle Ages.
The wolf was hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 1700s with some of the last killed in Sutherland and Moray.
Wolves were driven to extinction by persecution and hunting. Chieftains and royalty led some of the hunting parties.
One attended by Queen Mary in 1563 employed 2,000 Highlanders and ended in the deaths of five wolves and 360 deer.
Animals killed near Brora, in Sutherland, in 1700 and another at Findhorn, in Moray, in 1743 were among Scotland's last.
JMT said it hoped to stimulate debate on returning areas to more natural states.
In the John Muir Trust Journal, chief executive Stuart Brooks said the charity wanted to help develop a practical vision on rewilding.
His comments accompanied an article by the charity's communications chief Susan Wright and head of land and science Mike Daniels.
In the article, they said wolf ecotourism was growing in other parts of Europe, but also noted a cull of wolves in Sweden.
However, there has been opposition to talk of reintroducing apex predators such as wolves and lynx.
NFU Scotland said Scotland no longer had suitable habitat for the animals, and warned that they would go for the easiest kill - domestic livestock.
Data from more than 66,000 operations showed the odds of a stroke increased more than fourfold in the fortnight immediately after surgery.
The research in the journal Stroke showed that taking drugs such as aspirin could reduce the risk.
The Stroke Association said the results should be taken "very seriously".
Hip replacements are a very common operation, carried out on hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year.
Researchers in the UK and the Netherlands said the probability of having a stroke in the year after surgery was 2%, compared with 0.4% if they did not have the operation.
The risk peaked in the weeks after surgery before returning to normal over the course of a year.
One of the researchers, Prof Cyrus Cooper from the University of Southampton, said the risk was twice as high as would be expected from general surgery.
Taking medication which reduced the risk of a blood clot, such as aspirin, appeared to lower the risk in the study. The report's authors called for more studies to investigate if patients should be given pills before going under the knife.
Prof Cooper said: "This research has demonstrated that there is a high risk of stroke to patients soon after having a total hip replacement and suggests that the use of soluble aspirin might be beneficial in reducing this risk.
"Normally we would have reservations about people taking aspirin every day but our results suggest aspirin is a benefit and worthwhile to give to the patient before the surgery.
"The data is of huge clinical importance."
Dr Peter Coleman, from the Stroke Association charity, said: "Hip replacement surgery is a significant operation and can be very traumatic for the body. Like with any major surgery there is always a risk of incurring further health problems.
"This research suggests that hip replacement surgery could increase your risk of stroke and the results should be taken very seriously.
"If you are due to undergo a hip operation, it is important that you speak to your GP or hospital consultant beforehand in order to discuss the potential risks."
Kohli, who is best known for his role as shopkeeper Navid in Still Game, will play a new character called Amandeep 'AJ' Jandhu.
The actor said he was looking forward to setting up home in Shieldinch.
He said: "River City is a Scottish institution and I'm chuffed to bits to be joining the cast."
Kohli added: "To be honest, I've been waiting for the call to join for quite some time now. I even bought a special phone - which I've been staring at for seven years - and it finally rang."
The 43-year-old Glaswegian will play the role of local lad made good.
AJ is a former banker who returns to Shieldinch to rediscover his roots and start up a small business venture along with his wife and son.
The casting of Kohli's on-screen family will be announced in the coming weeks.
They will debut on the screens in October.
Another new face joining the cast in the autumn is Gayle Telfor Stevens (Scot Squad, Sketchland) who will play Caitlin McLean, the older, but not wiser, sister of Ellie (Leah MacRae).
26 April 2016 Last updated at 15:29 BST
The crowding turned into a crush and 96 people died, with hundreds more injured.
It was the biggest tragedy in British sporting history.
Families of the people who died have campaigned for many years to find out what happened on the day of the disaster.
Now the results of a special investigation, called an inquest, have been announced.
It says that the police, ambulance service and other organisations made mistakes that led to the disaster. It also says that the fans were not to blame.
Newsround spoke to students in Merseyside about what this news means to them. Watch this video to see what they had to say.
Two Ian Humphreys kicks put Ulster 6-3 up after a scrappy first half as a few promising Treviso moves came to nought.
However after Jayden Hayward's second levelling penalty, Ulster cut loose.
Sean Reidy's try edged Ulster ahead with Darren Cave, Rory Scholes and fit-again Stuart Olding adding further scores before Braam Steyn's late reply.
Olding showed he has lot none of his attacking instincts as he made an impressive return to action after 10 months out because of a serious knee injury.
The young centre's break helped set up Cave's 58th-minute try which effectively broke Treviso's resistance and Olding's 72nd-minute score ensured Ulster's bonus point.
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The victory moves Ulster up to fifth spot in the table, three points behind leaders the Scarlets, but the Irish province have a game in hand on the Welsh club.
With New Zealand-born full-back Hayward looking dangerous, Treviso showed some attacking intent in the first half but they lacked sufficient cutting edge to trouble the Ulster defence.
Hayward eventually cancelled out Humphreys's early penalty to level in the 33rd minute but the Ulster fly-half restored his team's lead a minute before the break after an Olding break.
Treviso pressure yielded a second levelling Hayward penalty in the 49th minute but Ulster were ahead again within four minutes as Reidy finished off a perfect line-out maul, with Humphreys adding the conversion.
Cave's try put further daylight between the teams five minutes later and Scholes ran in Ulster's third try in the 63rd minute after intercepting a loopy midfield pass from Sam Christie.
Olding's successful return was topped off by his 72nd-minute score and Steyn's late reply was little consolation for the home side, who have not earned a win in any competition since their home victory over Cardiff Blues last February.
Treviso: J Hayward; L Nitoglia, E Bacchin, A Sgarbi (capt), T Iannone; S Christie, A Lucchese; Alberto De Marchi, R Santamaria, S Ferrari; F Palmer, T Palmer; Andrea De Marchi, M Lazzaroni, R Barbieri.
Replacements: L Bigi for Santamaria 16, C Traore for Alberto De Marchi 58, F Filippetto for Ferrari 42, J Montauriol for T Palmer 63, B Steyn for Barbieri 58, J Ambrosini for Lucchese 66, S Ragusi for Nitoglia 58, A Pratichetti for Bacchin 68.
Ulster: L Ludik; R Scholes, D Cave, S Olding, C Gilroy; I Humphreys, P Marshall; C Black, R Herring (capt), R Lutton; A O'Connor, F van der Merwe; C Ross, S Reidy, R Wilson.
Replacements: J Andrew for Herring 72 mins, A Warwick for Black 58, B Ross for Lutton 62, P Browne for O'Connor 62, L Dow for Ross 63, D Shanahan for P Marshall 73, L Marshall for Humphreys 60, J Stockdale for Gilroy 72.
The Swans are 18th, a place and two points behind Hull, and Clement feels one of the two clubs will go down.
Asked whether he sees it as a straight fight between the Swans and Hull, Clement said: "As we sit here and speak about it, yes.
"But I don't know what the situation will be in three or four games."
Clement's change in thinking came after Crystal Palace's 3-0 home win over Arsenal that pulled the Eagles further clear of the bottom three.
After an initial improvement when Clement was appointed in January, the Swans have gone five games without a win to slide back into the bottom three, while Hull have moved out of the drop zone under Marco Silva.
Clement continued: "Mathematically if we won every game and they won every game, they are going to stay up and we are not.
"But the likelihood of that happening is actually very unlikely, based on where the teams are in the league.
"As for the teams just above us. Crystal Palace are gathering some momentum, but you can lose it quickly. And the fact is, though they have beaten Chelsea and Arsenal they still have a difficult run in.
"You cannot focus too much on what goes around us. You can take your eye off the ball and not deal with what you actually have a bit of control of, your own performances."
Clement believes his squad showed signs of tension in last Saturday's 1-0 defeat at West Ham United and he has urged his players to stay focussed.
"If you over think it and read all the media reports and listen to what the fans are saying it can drive you crazy," he said.
"Ultimately you are preparing for a game of football, you want to do well. Do your best and that's the advice I have been giving our players.
"I have always told them with the media, if you are going to listen to it and read it, like I do myself, don't get too excited when people are praising you and don't get too down when people are being critical."
The Swans will be without midfielder Jack Cork for the visit to Watford on Saturday as he is ruled out with an ankle injury.
Cork, who has been captain under Clement, will definitely miss the Watford match and is doubtful for the home game with Stoke City on 22 April.
Experienced midfielder Leon Britton, who has been on the bench but has yet to play under Clement, is vying with Jay Fulton for a recall to replace Cork.
"He has a lot of experience and what I have done with Leon, even if he has not been playing, I have tried to keep him close to the squad," Clement explained.
"Whether he's been on the bench or not. He has been a very positive influence.
"I know Leon wants to be playing, but he has shown a very professional attitude and putting the team absolutely ahead of his own thoughts and his own ideas. I like him a lot."
Bella, a nine-month-old Lakeland terrier, disappeared while out for a walk in Balgay Park with her owner Sheila Gaughan on Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters have been assisting in efforts to track her, with digging taking place at Balgay Cemetery.
It is thought Bella, who is reddish tan in colour, may have become stuck in a rabbit hole or fox tunnel.
On Monday morning, council workers were using special thermal imaging cameras to check rabbit holes on a hill at the cemetery.
Ms Gaughan has been posting updates on the Missing Pets, Dundee and Angus Facebook page.
On Sunday evening she said: "Am keeping everything crossed that she's still alive and we get her back safe. Really appreciate everything that everyone has done for Bella, there have been people as well as myself looking for her non-stop since she went missing. Say a prayer for her safe return. Thank you all so much."
Sniffer dogs were brought in to try to pick up Bella's trail. They indicated that it led to a disused fox den. A camera was used to try to locate her but was too big for the bends within the tunnels.
Firefighters then assisted park officials with digging but had to suspend efforts when darkness fell.
In a Facebook post, Ms Gaughan added: "I'm just home having still not got her but have left my coat at the entrance in case she finds her way out."
A fire service spokeswoman said: "The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was called to Balgay Park, Dundee on Sunday 22 January to assist in the search of a missing dog.
"Firefighters worked alongside animal control officers from Dundee City Council searching the area.
"Sadly, the dog was not found and the search was called off due to the deteriorating light."
Darren Kearns, 34, had just finished having a meal with his wife at a restaurant above a pub in Blackhorse Avenue near the Phoenix Park.
He was in his car with his wife when a lone gunman fired several shots at them.
Mr Kearns was hit in the head and died at the scene.
His wife remains severely traumatised and police said she was lucky not to have been shot also.
The gunman escaped in a 5 series BMW. The car was later found burned out on nearby Regal Park and men were seen fleeing the scene.
Police believe the murder is linked to drugs and organised crime and that Mr Kearns - a convicted drug dealer - was targeted.
Aberdeenshire Council said the Scottish government was "content" with the project and the processes taken to reach the final proposed design.
However, the local authority will hold a public hearing into its plans.
An inquiry can take evidence from a wider range of interested parties, while a hearing normally hears from a council and affected landowners.
Aberdeenshire Council hopes construction work can start on the scheme next year.
Stonehaven has been affected by severe flooding for many years.
Flood events led to the evacuation of homes several times between 1988 and 2012.
Action on Sugar found many children's juices contain at least six teaspoons of sugar - more than cola - and come in cartons larger than recommended.
Official advice currently says a 150ml glass of unsweetened fruit juice counts towards your five a day.
Other juice drinks, such as squash and sweetened juice, do not.
A smoothie containing all the edible pulped fruit or vegetable may count as more than one five-a-day portion, but this depends on the quantity of fruits or vegetables or juice used, as well as how the smoothie has been made.
Action on Sugar says the guidelines are baffling.
But Public Health England says the advice is sound and that consuming five or more portions a day helps reduce the risk of heart disease and some cancers.
Nutritionist Kawther Hashem said: "Parents do not always understand the difference between a juice drink and a fruit juice. And most cartons come in 200ml or more.
"Many parents are still buying fruit juices and juice drinks for their children thinking they are choosing healthy products; children should be given as little juice as possible."
She said juice should be an occasional treat, not an everyday drink.
This is something that has been echoed by government adviser and Oxford professor Susan Jebb.
She is concerned about parents using fruit juice as "routine rehydration" for their children.
"Water is the best way to get the fluid that we need in the diet," she says.
Sugars are released from fruit when it is juiced or blended, and these sugars can cause damage to teeth and contribute to weight gain.
Added sugars shouldn't make up more than 10% of the energy (calorie intake) you get from food and drink each day - or about 12 teaspoons - according to government guidelines.
It's not clear how much children should have.
The World Health Organization recently issued guidelines suggesting that cutting the amount of sugar we eat from the current recommended limit of 10% of daily energy intake to 5% would be beneficial.
The British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) said fruit juice consumption in the UK equated to an average of just 45ml per person per day - accounting for 1% of the calories in the average British diet.
"Given government figures show that the vast majority of adults and children are not getting their recommended five fruit and veg a day it is unfortunate this survey omits to mention the established health benefits of fruit juice, such as vitamin C," BSDA director-general Gavin Partington said.
Dr Alison Tedstone, of Public Health England, said: "Fruit juice is a useful contribution towards our five a day, however, because the process of juicing releases sugars from the fruit we recommend that you try to limit your fruit juice to 150ml a day, including that from smoothies and only consume these and other sugary drinks with meals to reduce the risk of tooth decay."
It will not mean the end of the vendors - homeless people who rely on the income they make from sales.
Instead they will sell a token offering online access to the magazine alongside the hard copies.
The idea is the brainchild of the Big Issue in the North and will be piloted in Manchester from Monday 29 October.
If the pilot is a success, it will be rolled out across north-west England and Yorkshire.
Users opting for the digital version will be sold a £2 card with a unique code which, when typed into a web browser or scanned with a mobile phone, will download the digital edition of the magazine.
In the week before it goes on sale, the public will be able to sample the digital version for free via a barcode found on flyers and posters.
Caroline Price, director of the Big Issue in the North, said: "This is not about replacing our traditional print magazine. It is about moving with the times and giving people a choice in how they read the magazine."
"The Big Issue in the North's primary aim is to provide homeless people with the opportunity to earn an income. In order to continue to do this, we need to ensure we appeal to a broad range of readers, including people who choose to read newspapers and magazines online," she added.
Shots were fired and vehicles torched as Ne Muanda Nsemi was freed from the jail in Kinshasa, witnesses said.
Police are suspected to have shot dead several prisoners, witnesses added.
Mr Nsemi is a self-styled prophet and the leader of an outlawed group seeking to revive the ancient Kongo kingdom.
He was arrested, along with his three wives and son, in March following clashes between his supporters and police.
Mr Nsemi leads the Bundu dia Kongo movement, which is campaigning to restore a monarchy in parts of DR Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Angola and Gabon.
He was an MP when he was arrested in Kinshasa after police accused him of inciting violence.
"Followers of the Bundu Dia Kongo attacked Makala prison at dawn and broke out around 50 prisoners including their guru, Ne Muanda Nsemi," government spokesman Lambert Mende said, AFP news agency reports.
A major operation is underway in Kinshasa to recapture the prisoners, reports the BBC's Mbelechi Msoshi from the city.
He saw Red Cross officials loading the bodies of several prisoners into vehicles and and transporting them to the morgue.
In January 2016, every prisoner except one escaped from a jail in eastern DR Congo. They included murder and rape convicts.
Rights groups say prisons in the country are over-crowded and badly guarded.
Ne Muanda Nsemi: The man behind the unrest
The 41-year-old from County Durham was in charge of the 2012 League Cup final at Wembley when Liverpool won against Cardiff City on penalties.
Clattenburg also took charge of the 2012 Olympic men's final when Mexico beat favourites Brazil at Wembley.
"It's an honour and a massive achievement," said Clattenburg, who will take charge of games at Euro 2016.
"These days you get told what games you're doing by text, but when you see a call coming in from the FA referees' department you know it's important."
United, winners 11 times, have not won the FA Cup since 2004 while Palace are seeking a first triumph.
Clattenburg refereed Wednesday's Champions League semi-final first leg between Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich, which the Spanish hosts won 1-0.
Danny Cipriani, playing his last game at the AJ Bell Stadium before moving to Wasps, exchanged penalties with Laidlaw to make it 6-6 at half-time.
Johnny Leota's try put Sale ahead after the break, before a further Laidlaw penalty kept the visitors in touch.
And the Scotland captain landed a late fourth kick to snatch victory.
In harming the Sharks' chances of securing a European Champions Cup place for next season, Gloucester also kept themselves in contention, edging to within three points of sixth-placed Northampton, who play Bath on Saturday.
The Cherry and Whites were good value for their win despite trailing for much of the second half, more than matching their hosts' physicality and producing a resolute defensive display.
Steve Diamond's side, who visit Newcastle in the final round of fixtures, are now all-but out of the play-off picture, as they remain five points behind Leicester in fourth.
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond: "We gave away silly penalties but take nothing away from Gloucester, they came here to do a job and they did it.
"We can't take the credit away from Gloucester, you make your own luck. But you also contribute to your downfall and we did that magnificently well.
"It would have been nice to win and kept the record but it takes a bit of pressure off us in one respect, so we will get down to business on Monday and see where we're at."
Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys: "From a psychological point of view, to win at Sale is a huge step forward.
"I don't think anybody can question the heart and character that's in this squad. There's huge fight, we have a competitive edge but what we lack in big games is a little bit of detail, a little bit of accuracy. That's the step forward we can make as a team.
"Greig Laidlaw hasn't played out-half for three years but you will struggle to see a better number 10 performance across the Premiership this weekend in terms of his control, composure, decision-making and defence. We had great shape and it just shows his quality as a rugby player."
Sale Sharks: Haley; Addison, James, Leota, Edwards; Cipriani, Stringer; Harrison, Taylor, Cobilas, Evans, Ostrikov, Neild, Seymour (capt), Ioane.
Replacements: Briggs, Lewis-Roberts, Mujati, Mills, Ioane, Mitchell, Ford, Jennings.
Gloucester: Atkinson; Cook, Trinder, Twelvetrees, Thorley; Laidlaw (capt), Heinz; Thomas, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Thrush, Moriarty, Kvesic, Kalamafoni.
Replacements: Cole, Wood, McNulty, Morgan, Evans, Braley, Creed, Ludlow.
Arnaud Feist said the building will have to be rebuilt "from the air conditioning to the check-in desks".
The airport said later it would remain closed on Wednesday, dashing hopes it would resume partial services.
Thirty-two people were killed and 96 more are still in hospital after bombs targeted the airport and a metro train.
EU institutions reopened on Tuesday, amid beefed-up security measures. Increased searches on bags and vehicles are being introduced at the European Parliament while many events organised by non-EU bodies have been suspended.
Some 800 airport workers were asked to return to work on Monday to test provisional arrangements involving a temporary check-in area. Enhanced security measures are being introduced in the temporary building and further screening of baggage will take place before passengers reach the departure lounge.
The airport will only be allowed to reopen if the government gives the green light, with an initial target of 800 to 1,000 passengers per hour as opposed to the airport's average of 5,000.
"The provisional structure will not be able to absorb the usual number we had before the attacks," Mr Feist told Belgian media.
"Although the structure of the building is intact, it will all have to be rebuilt, from the air conditioning to the check-in desks. And that will take months," he predicted.
He said he hoped that the airport would open at 20% capacity on Wednesday, but a later tweet from airport authorities said it would remain closed.
Police resumed their hunt for one of the three men who blew up the airport on Sunday, after they released a man named by Belgian media as Faycal Cheffou for lack of evidence. He had wrongly been suspected of being the man pictured by CCTV, wearing a hat and a light jacket. However he still faces allegations of "terrorist assassination".
The federal prosecutor said "clues that led to his arrest were not substantiated by the ongoing inquiry".
Four people have died in hospital since the attacks, which were claimed by the jihadist Islamic State group (IS). Some 94 people are still being treated in hospital, many in intensive care.
Several suspects have been arrested in Belgium and other countries in recent days
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Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur has acknowledged that mistakes have been made by Belgian investigators before and since the 22 March attacks.
Mr Mayeur, who has travelled to Paris to address the city council on the Brussels bombings as well as last November's Paris attacks, told French radio that he thought it was a mistake to free Faycal Cheffou, arguing that the suspect had actively tried to recruit refugees for jihad in a park in Brussels.
Asked why so many Islamists had come from Brussels, and from the Molenbeek area in particular, the mayor said that Paris had similar problems.
"How can our society have produced children born on our territory who turn against our society?" he asked.
The incident happened after the final match in the one-day series between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe at the Hambantota stadium on Monday.
Images on social media showed some of the temporary staff walking off in their underpants.
To add insult to injury, Sri Lanka lost the match and the series.
The affected staff were among about 100 young local people contracted temporarily on a daily wage of 1,000 rupees ($6.50; £5) to carry out ground duties at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Sri Lanka's Sunday Times website reports.
After the match they were told they would have to give back their trousers, sporting the SLC logo, before getting paid.
The Times said the staff had not been told of the arrangement and many had not brought a spare pair.
The Sri Lankan cricket board said in a statement: "Whilst stern action will be taken against those responsible, Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to apologise to those subjected to this ignominy, and will take steps to ensure they are compensated."
The board's misery was compounded by the 3-2 series loss to Zimbabwe.
It was Zimbabwe's first major overseas one-day series win since 2001.
The A712 between Newton Stewart and New Galloway was shut before Christmas after the vehicle left the road.
It has since reopened but operations near Clatteringshaws to recover the vehicle have so far been unsuccessful.
A second closure started at 09:30 on Monday and the road was expected to remain shut until 07:00 to remove the crane.
Gladys Hooper, from Ryde on the Isle of Wight, became the country's oldest person on Thursday following the death of Ethel Lang, who was 114.
Mrs Hooper is the UK's most senior supercentenarian according to the Gerontology Research Group records.
On learning of her achievement, she said: "I am surprised, I thought I was just the oldest person on the island."
Mrs Hooper, who has four grandchildren and six great grandchildren, was born in the same year as the Wright brothers invented the first aeroplane.
Asked about the secret of her longevity, she said: "I have always been busy, I prefer being busy than being idle, that's what I don't like about now, I can't get about like I used to.
"I have always lived a straight life, never done stupid things. I have never gone beyond the limit, always been active. I think always being active keeps you young.
"I have done what I wanted to do and helped others as much as I could.
"I do not feel anything like the age I am, I do not feel any different to when I was 70," Mrs Hooper said.
Born in Dulwich, south east London on 18 January 1903 she was the oldest, and now the only surviving member, of six siblings - five girls and one boy.
She was brought up in Rottingdean, east Sussex and went on to become a concert pianist before starting a car hire business in the 1920s.
She later ran Kingscliff House School, which is now Brighton College.
After being widowed in 1977 she moved to the Isle of Wight two years later to be near her son Derek Hermiston, an 84-year-old retired pilot.
Members of Mrs Hooper's family travelled from across the UK and as far away as British Columbia to be with Gladys for her big day.
Clarke, 27, did not line out for Kieran McGeeney's Armagh team in 2016 and moved to New York several months ago.
He says he is "very happy" to play for the Shamrocks in their Cosmopolitan Soccer League Division One campaign.
"I have enjoyed moving to New York and I was keen to find a soccer club that plays at a competitive level," he told the club's website.
Last year Clarke returned from New York to play for Crossmaglen in their Ulster club final win over Scotstown and also played in the All-Ireland club semi-final defeat to Castlebar Mitchels in February.
After returning to New York he was introduced to former Manchester United youth and League of Ireland player Kevin Grogan, who is the technical director and first team coach of the Queens-based club.
"It's been a good experience training under Kevin and he offers great advice and coaching experience," added Clarke.
"We're all focused on the first game now and ensuring we can start off with a win."
The club begin their league campaign on Sunday away to Zum Schneider of Randalls Island.
The US firm reported profits up 74% to $1.84bn (£1.4bn) for the three months against the same quarter last year.
The gain came as investment banking and bond trading revenues jumped, and the bank was able to set aside less money for credit losses.
The growth also reflected a rebound from 2016's rocky start.
"We reported one of our strongest quarters in recent years," chief executive James Gorman said.
"All our businesses performed well in improved market conditions. We are confident in our business model and the opportunities ahead, while recognizing that the environment remains uncertain."
Morgan Stanley's profits and revenue growth beat analysts' forecasts. On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America also reported quarterly growth, although there was some disappointment that the figures were not higher.
Total revenue at Morgan Stanley increased 25% from the same period in 2016, reaching $9.7bn.
Trading revenue rose 57% to $3.2bn, amid a surge in the fixed-income unit.
The $1.7bn in fixed income trading revenue marked the best quarter in two years and the fourth quarter in a row that Morgan Stanley hit its $1 billion target for bond trading revenue.
"This is quite a number for a company that just two years ago was setting a billion dollars a quarter as an aspirational goal, and it stands in sharp relief to Goldman's air ball yesterday," Oppenheimer analyst Chris Kotowski said in a note to clients.
England led the friendly through Duncan Watmore's sublime 35-yard chip.
Dembele hammered in the equaliser, then scored his 18th goal of the season with a powerful free-kick.
England levelled through Lewis Baker's curling set-piece, but another exquisite free-kick from Wylan Cyprien clinched victory for Les Bleus.
Chelsea youngster Baker almost nicked a dramatic draw, only to see his swerving low shot pushed out by the France keeper.
It meant the Young Lions lost for the first time since their 3-1 defeat by Italy at the European Championship finals last year.
And England interim coach Aidy Boothroyd, who has stepped up from the Under-20s while Gareth Southgate takes charge of the senior side, saw his temporary reign end with a loss.
The former Watford manager made sweeping changes for the friendly against Les Bleus, giving playing time to fringe members of the squad in the run-up to next summer's European Championship in Poland.
England reached the finals by winning six and drawing two of their eight qualifiers, but the much-changed side was beaten by a French team who failed to make the tournament.
Stunning strikes from Watmore and Baker appeared to be enough for a draw, only for Cyprien to convert the winner just seconds after England's equaliser.
England interim manager Aidy Boothroyd: "We can't win every game, we have got to take lessons from defeats like these.
"When you are away from home, you're not only against the opposition and the crowd, sometimes the referees make mistakes too. I thought the referee made mistakes, I thought the free-kick decisions were harsh. We will learn from this game.
On his future, he added: "I've enjoyed the four games, but what will be will be."
England captain Nathaniel Chalobah: "Some of the decisions for the free-kicks from which they scored were harsh - but we have got to move on from it.
"The games against Italy and France have been tests for us. We could play friendly games against weaker opposition but playing against two top countries has been a good test for us going into Poland next year."
England scorer Duncan Watmore: "We were unlucky. We were good in a lot of the game, but scored some good free-kicks. We are disappointed."
Match ends, France U21 3, England U21 2.
Second Half ends, France U21 3, England U21 2.
Corner, England U21. Conceded by Thomas Didillon.
Attempt saved. Lewis Baker (England U21) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Corner, France U21. Conceded by Jonathan Mitchell.
Attempt saved. Jean-Kevin Augustin (France U21) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sébastien Haller.
Substitution, England U21. Will Hughes replaces Jack Grealish.
Substitution, France U21. Marcus Coco replaces Yann Bodiger.
Attempt blocked. Isaac Hayden (England U21) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.
Corner, England U21. Conceded by Jean-Philippe Gbamin.
Substitution, France U21. Sébastien Haller replaces Moussa Dembele.
Goal! France U21 3, England U21 2. Wylan Cyprien (France U21) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Foul by Dominic Iorfa (England U21).
Moussa Dembele (France U21) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, England U21. Nathan Redmond replaces Rob Holding.
Substitution, England U21. Isaac Hayden replaces Nathaniel Chalobah.
Goal! France U21 2, England U21 2. Lewis Baker (England U21) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Presnel Kimpembe (France U21) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kortney Hause (England U21) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Presnel Kimpembe (France U21).
Attempt missed. Lucas Tousart (France U21) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (France U21) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Yann Bodiger with a through ball.
Rob Holding (England U21) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jean-Kevin Augustin (France U21).
Yann Bodiger (France U21) is shown the yellow card.
Nathaniel Chalobah (England U21) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yann Bodiger (France U21).
Attempt saved. Yann Bodiger (France U21) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Lewis Baker (England U21) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Jack Grealish (England U21) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Tousart (France U21).
Offside, England U21. Nathaniel Chalobah tries a through ball, but Tammy Abraham is caught offside.
Foul by Rob Holding (England U21).
Yann Bodiger (France U21) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, England U21. Jack Grealish tries a through ball, but Dominic Iorfa is caught offside.
Substitution, England U21. James Ward-Prowse replaces Harry Winks.
Goal! France U21 2, England U21 1. Moussa Dembele (France U21) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Foul by Kortney Hause (England U21).
Jean-Kevin Augustin (France U21) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Grealish (England U21).
It appears that those with pale skin, while not deficient, may still be lacking in the essential vitamin that the body makes from sunlight.
The Cancer Research UK-funded team say that even with a lot of sun exposure, those with fair skin may not be able to make enough vitamin D.
And too much sun causes skin cancer.
Clearly, for this reason, increasing sun exposure is not the way to achieve higher vitamin D levels in the fair-skinned population, say the researchers. But taking supplements could be.
Their work examined 1,200 people.
Of these, 730 were found to have "lower than optimal" vitamin D levels - and many of these were people with very pale, freckled skin.
Supplements are already recommended for groups at higher risk of deficiency. This includes people with dark skin, such as people of African-Caribbean and South Asian origin, and people who wear full-body coverings, as well as the elderly, young children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and people who avoid the sun.
Based on the latest findings, it appears that pale-skinned people should be added to this list.
Vitamin D is important for healthy bones and teeth.
A level less than 25nmol/L in the blood is a deficiency, but experts increasingly believe that lower than 60nmol/L are suboptimal and can also be damaging to health.
Most people get enough vitamin D with short exposures to the sun (10 to 15 minutes a day). A small amount also comes from the diet in foods like oily fish and dairy products.
But people with fair skin do not seem to be able to get enough, according to Prof Julia Newton-Bishop and her team at the University of Leeds.
Part of the reason might be that people who burn easily are more likely to cover up and avoid the sun.
But some fair-skinned individuals also appear to be less able to make and process vitamin D in the body, regardless of how long they sit in the sun for.
Prof Newton-Bishop said: "It's very difficult to give easy advice that everyone can follow. There's no one-size-fits-all.
"However, fair-skinned individuals who burn easily are not able to make enough vitamin D from sunlight and so may need to take vitamin D supplements."
Hazel Nunn, of Cancer Research UK, said: "It is about striking a balance between the benefits and harms of sun exposure.
"People with fair skin are at higher risk of developing skin cancer and should take care to avoid over-exposure to the sun's rays.
"If people are concerned about their vitamin D levels, they should see their doctor who may recommend a vitamin D test."
She said it was too soon to start recommending supplements, but said most people could safely take 10 micrograms a day of vitamin D without any side-effects.
Rovers defender Rory McKeown put his side ahead after seven minutes with his first goal for the club.
McManus equalised deep in the second half, but the hosts hit back moments later as Aidan Connolly fired home.
McManus found the net a second time with three minutes remaining only for substitute Hardie to hand his side all three Championship points at the death.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said more than a tonne of cocaine was seized from the boat.
The drugs had an estimated street value of £80m.
Michael McDermott, 67, was remanded in custody at Bodmin Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
Two other men - Dutchman Gerald Van De Kooij, 26, and Briton David Pleasants, 57 - were also charged and remanded in custody.
Officers from the National Crime Agency and the Border Force boarded the British-registered converted fishing trawler just south of Falmouth in Cornwall on Thursday.
They discovered approximately 50 bags of the drug on the vessel, named Bianca.
Their next hearing is at Bristol Crown Court on 20 September.
Mike Stepney, from the Border Force, said: "This is one of the most significant drugs seizures ever made in the UK.
"By working closely with the NCA and other partners, we were able to intercept this vessel before it could deliver its £80m cargo to the UK".
Mark Harding, of the National Crime Agency, added: "A seizure on this scale is likely have a significant disruptive impact right along the supply chain, leaving criminals with large debts to be covered.
"And it will have knock on effects, disrupting further criminality that would have been funded by the profits of this venture."
After becoming the new leader of the SNP in October last year, Nicola Sturgeon predicted that her party would hold the "balance of power".
Polls have suggested Scottish Labour will lose seats to the Nationalists.
Mr Murphy told BBC Radio Scotland that his party was not planning for a Labour/SNP deal.
However, UK Labour leader Ed Miliband has not directly ruled out post-election talks with the SNP.
During an appearance on the Andrew Marr show he was asked repeatedly if he would enter into an agreement with Ms Sturgeon.
Mr Miliband said a majority government was "what was needed" for the country but he did not reject the suggestion there could be a vote-sharing deal with the pro-Scottish independence party.
Separately, Scottish Labour deputy leader Kezia Dugdale has said she would have "no qualms whatsoever" about working with the SNP, prompting Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Ms Davidson to claim the SNP and Labour were "already halfway down the aisle" to forming a new government.
Mr Murphy was asked about the future role of the SNP in Westminster politics in the latest of a series of pre-election interviews with Scottish party leaders on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme.
The MP said: "We are planning for a Labour majority. We are going to go out and try to hold all the seats we have in Scotland and ensure that we get rid of David Cameron.
"The fact is that nothing in life do you plan to lose, or come second. Even when my football team is plating Barcelona I don't always accept that coming second - and David Cameron aint no Lionel Messi, so I think we can beat him.
"I am confident that we can win and as I said we are not planning, expecting or wanting a coalition - we want to win that election."
Scotland's party leaders have been setting out their UK election prospects in a series of BBC interviews.
Mr Murphy has set his sights on winning the votes of Scottish independence supporters at the general election, insisting Labour's temporary alignment with the Tories and the Liberal Democrats under the "Better Together" banner during the referendum campaign was over.
He told the BBC that he had "never been" a unionist.
Mr Murphy explained: "There are different political traditions in Scotland.
"There is a tradition which immigrants bring to the country. There is tradition based upon class, on geography.
"And the fact is that in September last year different political traditions found a common purpose. I respect traditional unionism - it's just not my political background."
He went on: "What we had was the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Labour and trade union movement and the majority of people in those two organisations from a different political history came together in one day in September."
He added: "That was last year's alliance - last year was about Scotland's constitutional future, this year is whether we want David Cameron to stay in Downing Street."
Elsewhere, the MP would not be drawn on whether he would stand again for his Westminster constituency seat of East Renfrewshire at May's election.
Mr Murphy, who will need to become an MSP in the 2016 Scottish election, said the first people to find out about his intentions to stand again would be his constituents.
The SNP's Sandra White said she was not surprised that Mr Murphy was "desperate" to rewrite history and try to "distance himself" from the Tories.
She added that "if it walks like a unionist and talks like a unionist, it is a unionist - and Jim Murphy will never sound like anything else".
In April, they were part of a group protesting about the alleged death in custody of an opposition activist.
Rights group Amnesty International described the sentences as part of the "continuing downward spiral for human rights in Gambia".
President Yahya Jammeh has in the past dismissed criticism of his record.
Political tensions are rising in the country in the run-up to elections in December, says the BBC World Service Africa editor James Copnall.
Mr Darboe and many of his supporters from the United Democratic Party (UDP) took to the streets in Serrekunda, near the capital, Banjul, on 16 April, demanding the release of their colleague Solo Sandeng "dead or alive".
He had been arrested, along with other activists, two days earlier, and it was alleged that he had died in custody after being beaten.
Mr Sandeng has not been seen since and Amnesty International says he was killed.
The judge found that Mr Darboe did not have permission for the demonstration and sentenced him, and the 18 others, on six charges relating to this.
Reports from the court says the convicted activists sang the national anthem after they were sentenced.
In a statement, the UDP called the trial a "farce" and described the verdict as a reflection of "a corrupt and discredited effort to arrest, torture and persecute innocent citizens".
In an interview in May, President Jammeh said it was "common" for people to die in detention or while under interrogation.
He said UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Amnesty International could "go to hell" for asking for an investigation.
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State media published images showing the North's leader standing next to what it said was a miniaturised weapon.
The claim is impossible to verify from the images alone and experts have long cast doubt on such assertions.
The North has stepped up its bellicose rhetoric in response to the UN imposing some of its toughest sanctions.
The move by the Security Council came after the North conducted its fourth nuclear test and launched a satellite, both of which broke existing sanctions.
In recent days, Pyongyang has threatened to launch an "indiscriminate" nuclear strike on the US and South Korea, as they began their largest ever round of annual military exercises.
The drills, known as Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, routinely generate tension.
The claim from Mr Kim was made as he inspected a nuclear facility on Wednesday.
"The nuclear warheads have been standardised to be fit for ballistic missiles by miniaturising them," state news agency KCNA quoted him as saying.
"This can be called true nuclear deterrent," he added.
He also inspected nuclear warheads designed for thermo-nuclear reaction, the type used in a hydrogen bomb, KCNA said.
If the claim is true and North Korea can put nuclear warheads on to the tips of its ballistic weapons, it would represent a clear threat to the North's neighbours and the US.
In October 2014, the commander of US forces in South Korea, Gen Curtis Scaparrotti, told reporters that he believed the North had the capability to miniaturise a nuclear device.
In May 2015, the North Korea's National Defence Commission said the country had succeeded in miniaturising nuclear weapons.
But the validity of the nuclear boasts has been widely questioned. Experts also still doubt the North's claim that the nuclear test it conducted in January was of a hydrogen bomb.
In addition to the new UN sanctions, which target luxury goods, financing and trade, South Korea has also announced its own measures against the North, which includes blacklisting individuals and entities it believes are linked to the weapons programme.
The US and South Korea are currently discussing the possible deployment of a US missile defence system to the peninsula, a move strongly opposed by North Korea, Russia and China.
The 25-year-old joined the Trotters on a six-month loan deal last season, scoring four goals in 24 appearances.
"It feels great to be back. I'm very familiar with Bolton now," Ameobi told the club's website.
"The gaffer was massive for me last season. He helped me rebuild my confidence and I believe he gets the best out of me."
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In his Budget statement, he said Petroleum Revenue Tax (PRT) would be "effectively abolished", having cut it last year from 50% to 35%.
The existing supplementary charge for oil companies will also be cut from 20% to 10%, backdated to 1 January.
The SNP's deputy leader Stewart Hosie welcomed the changes.
But he said he was "slightly disappointed in the lack of strategic direction" and that there was no mention of exploration or production allowances for the industry.
Mr Hosie said tax receipts from the North Sea had dropped to extremely low levels.
He told BBC Scotland that Mr Osborne should not have introduced the supplementary tax in 2011 and he should have acted "much sooner" to help the struggling sector.
Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney had previously written to UK chancellor George Osborne, urging him to use his Budget to help the sector by doing more to encourage further exploration.
Scottish Labour Leader Kezia Dugdale also said support for the oil and gas industry did not "go nearly far enough".
She said: "What we needed to see from the chancellor today was support to make sure that essential infrastructure such as platforms and pipelines are not decommissioned early."
I am uncertain as to whether there is much of the poetic in the soul of the Chancellor. But, still, Gideon was casting both backward and forward in his Budget statement today.
The backward bit came when he transformed an announcement of support for the North Sea oil industry into an excoriating attack upon the SNP.
In a prolonged section - to the sound of his backbenchers jeering in the general direction of the Nationalists - George Osborne said that the tax support announced for the North Sea was only feasible because of "the broad shoulders of the UK."
Reflecting back to the independence referendum, Mr Osborne argued that Scotland was better together with the rest of the UK. Cue growling from said SNP benches.
But there was a look forward as well - to the EU referendum due on June 23. Much of Mr Osborne's budget was aimed at strengthening support for the PM's position in that plebiscite - or, more precisely, avoiding issues which might see that position deteriorate.
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Industry body Oil and Gas UK welcomed the chancellor's announcement, saying the move would reduce the headline rate of tax paid on UK oil and gas production from between 50% and 67.5% to a rate of 40% across all fields.
Chief executive Deirdre Michie said: "Today's announcement does indeed mark further progress in modernising the tax regime for an increasingly mature basin.
"We welcome these measures as they will build on the industry's achievements in improving efficiency in the face of low oil prices, boosting the sector's competitiveness and helping to restore investor confidence.
"We will continue to work with the Treasury to complete its 'Driving Investment' plan to ensure that the fiscal regime reflects the business needs of a maturing basin and signals to global investors that the UK is truly open for business."
Environmental charity Friends of the Earth expressed disappointment at the tax cuts.
Campaigner Liz Hutchins said: "The chancellor's budget was full of 'next generation' rhetoric, but tax breaks for the climate-wrecking oil and gas industry pose a real threat to the security of people, the economy and planet.
"This government should do far more to develop the UK's huge renewable energy potential - creating jobs and putting us at the forefront of building an economy fit for the challenges of the future."
The UK government said the North Sea Budget measures were worth £1bn over five years.
In his budget speech, Mr Osborne said: "The oil and gas sector employs hundreds of thousands of people in Scotland and around our country.
"In my budget a year ago I made major reductions in taxes, but the oil price has continued to fall so we need to act now for the long term.
"I am today cutting in half the supplementary charge on oil and gas from 20% to 10% and I am effectively abolishing Petroleum Revenue Tax too - backing this key Scottish industry and supporting jobs right across Britain."
Other Budget measures particularly affecting Scotland included:
The North Sea offshore industry has been hit hard by plunging oil prices and has shed thousands of jobs in the North Sea over the past year.
A recent report by industry body Oil and Gas UK said that less than £1bn was expected to be spent on new projects this year, compared to a typical £8bn per year in the past five years.
On Wednesday morning, Brent crude was standing at just under $40 a barrel, about 27% lower than it was a year ago and a fraction of its mid-2014 high of $115 a barrel.
Earlier this year, Prime Minister David Cameron announced a £20m funding package to help the North Sea oil and gas sector.
Mr Osborne's March 2015 Budget also included a £1.3bn package of measures aimed at easing the difficulties facing the industry.
The Scottish government has also announced a new £12m fund to help people who face losing their jobs in oil and gas to gain new skills and find new work.
The prime minister told the party's conference the UK must change after the "quiet revolution" of the Brexit vote, urging people to "seize the day".
Labour were now seen as the "nasty party" and only the Tories would "stand up for the weak... up to the powerful".
The state should be a "force for good" to help working people, she argued.
In her set-piece speech in Birmingham, less than three months after she became prime minister, Mrs May said her vision was of a country "where everyone plays by the same rules and where every single person, regardless of their background or that of their parents, is given the chance to be all they want to be".
The vote to leave the EU, she said, was a "once-in-a-generation chance to change the country for good" and write a new page in its history.
Acknowledging the divisions caused by the referendum, she urged people whichever way they had voted "to come with me as we rise to meet this moment, come with me and together let's seize the day".
The rejection of the EU, she said, demonstrated not only a desire for greater control but also reflected the deep divisions that had built up in the country over generations, with working people too often ignored by the "privileged and powerful".
"It was not the wealthy who made the biggest sacrifices after the financial crisis, it was ordinary working class families," she said.
"If you're one of those people who lost their job, who stayed in work but on reduced hours, took a pay cut as household bills rocketed, or - and I know a lot of people don't like to admit this - someone who finds themselves out of work or on lower wages because of low-skilled immigration, life simply doesn't seem fair.
"It feels like your dreams have been sacrificed in the service of others."
Promising to build a "united Britain rooted in a centre ground", she said her government would protect jobs and "repair" free markets when they did not work properly.
Setting out a "responsible capitalism" agenda, she said the government would "go after" businesses that regarded paying tax as "an optional extra", challenge those which recruited "cheap foreign labour" at the expense of British workers and, in a reference to the collapse of retailer BHS, condemn those who "take out massive dividends while knowing that the company pension is about to go bust".
Previous Tory leaders have sought to reduce state intervention, but Mrs May said her government would take action to identify injustice, find solutions and drive change.
Analysis by Carole Walker, BBC political correspondent
Theresa May sought to define herself as the leader of the post-referendum era. The woman who voted to remain in the EU who now understands that the vote to leave was a vote for more profound change.
There was a powerful warning that if the government fails to respond to the demand for change, resentment will grow and divisions will become entrenched.
In advance of the speech, many of the pro-Tory newspapers were headlining an attack on the liberal elite, who dismiss people's concerns about immigration and crime. But the big targets for Theresa May were the rich and powerful, the big businesses and vested interests who ignore the wider needs of society.
The Tory leader made a direct claim on Labour's territory, saying the Conservatives are now the party of the workers. Her opponents, she said, were not just divided but divisive. Her best line was a re-working of her famous sound bite, as she said it was Labour which was now being called "the nasty party".
But there were challenges for her own party too. She stressed the importance of the role of the state, the need for government to be a force for good. She promised a new industrial strategy and enhanced workers rights. It was a very different message from that of previous Tory leaders who have sought to reduce state intervention and roll back the size of government.
There were no concrete proposals for how she would right the wrongs in society. But we are told this was her vision, identifying what needs to change. The details of how this will happen will come from her ministers "in due course".
It was a commanding, confident performance from a leader who has swiftly assumed an air of powerful authority. But she will be judged on whether she does manage to deliver far-reaching change. And on whether she can get a Brexit deal which protects jobs and businesses whilst giving people the control over their lives that they were promised in the EU referendum.
In a speech containing no new policy announcements Mrs May talked at length about the values which would shape her premiership, saying Labour did not have "a monopoly on compassion" and criticising its "sanctimonious pretence of moral superiority".
"Let's make clear that they have given up the right to call themselves the party of the NHS, the party of the workers, the party of public servants."
And, to huge applause from the hall, she flipped the "nasty party" tag - which was how she famously said some saw the Conservatives back in 2002 - on to the Labour Party following their recent acrimonious leadership contest.
She restated her support for extending selective education in the state sector and expanding grammar schools, saying they had a role to play "where parents want them and where they will improve educational standards".
Making a pitch for the Tories to be the party of "ordinary working-class people", she said: "Just listen to the way a lot of politicians and commentators talk about the public.
"They find their patriotism distasteful, their concerns about immigration parochial, their views about crime illiberal, their attachment to their job security inconvenient.
"They find the fact that more than 17 million people voted to leave the European Union simply bewildering."
Dismissing the labels of the "socialist left and the libertarian right", she told Tory supporters: "It's time to remember the good that government can do.
"Where many see government as a problem, I want to show it can be part of the solution.
"While government does not have all the answers, government can and should be a force for good; that the state exists to provide what individual people, communities and markets cannot; and that we should employ the power of government for the good of the people."
The speech was praised by former justice secretary Michael Gove, sacked by Mrs May in July, who tweeted: "Government has a critical role to play in supporting commerce and enterprise, providing infrastructure and ensuring markets work for all. We need markets to generate wealth but support for them is undermined by inequality and excesses of undeserving rich."
But Labour said the speech marked a decisive shift to the right, with a "backwards" schools policy and no action to tackle an NHS in "financial meltdown".
The Lib Dems said their former coalition partners were now "divisive, reckless and uncaring" while the SNP attacked "repellent" proposals - announced on Tuesday - which could force businesses to spell out what proportion of their workforce is not British.
"Theresa May's vision of Brexit Britain is a deeply ugly one - a country where people are judged not by their ability or their contribution to the common good but by their birthplace or by their passport," said SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon.
In a televised address to the nation, Mr Perez Molina dismissed claims that he had received money from a customs bribery scheme.
He insisted that his conscience was clear.
Eight members of his government have resigned over the allegations and a former vice-president has been arrested.
On Sunday, the agriculture and health minsters became the latest to resign.
"I categorically reject any link" to the scandal, the president said.
"I will not resign and will fully submit myself to the legal process."
Mr Perez Molina's comments followed a late-night cabinet meeting held behind closed doors at the presidential palace.
Anti-corruption protesters have held daily demonstrations in the capital calling for the president to step down.
On Friday, former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti was arrested on corruption charges three months after she was forced to leave office.
She is accused of taking part in the same bribery scheme.
Nearly 30 other people have been detained, accused of taking millions of dollars from businessmen who paid bribes in order to avoid higher import duties.
Presidential elections are being held in early September, but electoral law bars Mr Perez Molina from standing for another term.
The elections are expected to go to a second round of voting, later in October.
The 27-year-old, who won silver at last year's world championships, landed a 6.67m jump to finish behind Canada's Christabel Nettey and winner Ivana Spanovic of Serbia.
Fellow Brits Anyika Onuora and Tiffany Porter came fourth in the women's 400m and 100m hurdles respectively.
Compatriot Charlie Grice finished sixth in the men's dream mile.
Meanwhile, world champion Dafne Schippers clocked 21.93 seconds as she cruised to victory in the 200m.
"To run under 22 seconds in these conditions is very special for me," said the Dutchwoman.
"After all the Diamond Leagues I need to rest and train a little bit before the European Championships in my country. No more races until then."
The innovation is called 3D XPoint, and is the invention of Intel and Micron.
The two US companies predict a wide range of benefits, from speeding up scientific research to making more elaborate video games.
One expert described it as a "huge step forward".
"There are other companies who have talked about new types of memory technology, but this is about being able to manufacture the stuff - that's why they are making such a big deal out of it," says Bob O'Donnell, from the consultancy Technalysis.
If all goes to plan, the first products to feature 3D XPoint (pronounced cross-point) will go on sale next year. Its price has yet to be announced.
Intel is marketing it as the first new class of "mainstream memory" since 1989. 3D XPoint retains data when the power is switched off - one of its key advantages over RAM (random access memory), which remains faster.
Rather than pitch it as a replacement for either flash storage or RAM, the company suggests it will be used alongside them to hold certain data "closer" to a processor so that it can be accessed more quickly than before.
Because there are other situations where using today's storage slows things down or introduces constraints.
So-called "big data" tasks are a particular issue.
For example, efforts to sequence and analyse our genes/DNA hold the potential for new and personalised medical treatments.
But copying the huge amounts of information involved backwards and forwards makes this an extremely time-intensive activity at present.
Faster storage would also help cloud services better handle big files.
That could be helpful in the future, for example, if we wanted to stream 8K ultra-high definition video clips without experiencing lags at their start.
And it would also prove a boon to video game-makers.
At present, level designs are limited by how much data can be stored in the RAM - or, strictly, a type of RAM chip called dynamic RAM (DRAM).
That's why players sometimes have to halt their play while they wait for the machine to load a new section.
But if the data can be loaded more quickly from 3D XPoint, the developers should, in theory, be able to deliver them bigger, open worlds and a more seamless experience.
It refers to the fact the technology is made up of a 3D structure featuring layers of wires.
On each layer, the wires run in parallel to each other, but at right-angles to those on the layer below.
In between each layer are vertical sub-microscopic columns, which connect the points at which the wires criss-cross.
Each of these columns contains:
3D XPoint does away with the need to use the transistors at the heart of Nand chips.
Nand works by moving electrons back and forth to an isolated part of the transistors known as their "floating gates" to represent the ones and zeros of binary code.
An issue with this technique is that it cannot rewrite single bits of data at a time. Instead, larger blocks of information have to be wiped and then rewritten to incorporate the changes.
"It's kind of like a parking lot where you want to move one of the cars, but they are all jammed in," Intel executive Rob Crooke says.
"So, you have to shuffle them all around to get one new one in there."
By contrast, 3D XPoint works by changing the properties of the material that makes up its memory cells to either having a high resistance to electricity to represent a one or a low resistance to represent a zero.
The advantage is that each memory cell can be addressed individually, radically speeding things up.
An added benefit is that it should last hundreds of times longer than Nand before becoming unreliable.
Intel suggests not.
Solid state drives - and even slower hard disks - will remain significantly cheaper than 3D XPoint for some time to come, so it makes sense to continue using them to store most files.
The suggestion is the new technology will normally be used instead as an intermediary step.
Rather than copy data directly from the slower types of storage into RAM, programs will anticipate what data is likely to be needed and then transfer it in advance to the 3D XPoint.
As a metaphor, imagine a furniture retailer keeps most of its goods in a distant hub that is cheap to run but has slow road links.
It would make sense for it to build a second smaller depot on land that is more expensive but has motorway access, where it could store a selection of its most in-demand items. As a result, it should take less time to restock stores with bestselling goods.
RAM's speed advantage over traditional storage has long made it the chip of choice to funnel data directly into processors.
However, because it is relatively expensive to produce, computer makers tend to restrict how much they include.
Each megabyte of 3D Xpoint will certainly be significantly cheaper than the equivalent amount of RAM. And the new technology has the added advantage of being non-volatile, meaning it does not "forget" information when the power is switched off.
But, unfortunately it is still not quite as fast as RAM, and some - but not all - applications need the extra speed the older tech provides.
Online gaming companies might want to substitute 3D Xpoint for RAM.
At present, the amount of players that can be hosted on a single server is limited by the amount of RAM it contains.
Switching to 3D Xpoint would cause only a small - and possibly unnoticeable - difference to the performance of many of the simpler titles. But it would radically increase the number of people that could be supported for the same price.
One instance when you might want to use the new chips instead of flash would be to store operating system files that are required every time you boot up your machine.
Many users have already experienced faster switch-on times on new computers thanks to such files being kept on SSDs rather than disk drives. A similar performance leap would be experienced by adopting 3D Xpoint.
"It would make for an instant-on experience," says Intel's marketing director Greg Matson.
Whether that proves tempting will depend on exactly what 3D Xpoint costs and just how precious your time is.
The discovery was made by police during a search of a house in the Sallins area on Saturday evening.
No arrests have been made and enquiries are continuing.
Irish broadcaster RTÉ reports that an AK47 assault rifle has been found along with firearm magazines and assorted ammunition.
Operation Stack was implemented on Tuesday with lorries waiting to cross the Channel queuing on the carriageway.
Industrial action by MyFerryLink workers saw blockades at Calais port and the Channel Tunnel in Coquelles.
Thousands of migrants in France took advantage of the action and tried to board Kent-bound lorries.
On Wednesday police found 350 migrants hiding in vehicles at the French port in the wake of the chaos.
Later in the day, 10 people were found in the back of a lorry in Folkestone.
A Kent Police spokesman said: "They were all fine and taken by police to Dover Immigration Centre and are now under their care."
Another seven suspected migrants were arrested after climbing out of lorries at a service area on the M1 in Bedfordshire.
David Cameron described the scenes at the French port as "totally unacceptable".
The Prime Minister said Britain was considering the possibility of sending more UK officers and sniffer dog teams to Calais, and more fences were being installed at the port as well as around the entrance to the Channel Tunnel.
The Foreign Office has warned travellers to keep their car doors locked in slow-moving traffic heading back to the UK.
The developers said they "look forward to beginning construction by the spring of this year".
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said due diligence would include "rigorous value for money testing".
But he said the deal on the table was "certainly better" than the one last July.
Mr Skates confirmed that the developers had given names of the private investors.
He said he would also assess how the project would be delivered and it would include a fit and proper person test of the directors.
"We will seek clarity on the types and number of jobs directly and indirectly resulting from the project," said Mr Skates in his statement.
He said he wants to know "how those job numbers compare to the initially reported figure of 6,000, as well as the likely number of jobs that would be filled by local people".
The latest developments, while they might seem just bureaucratic, are a significant step for the project.
Nearly 12 months ago the Circuit of Wales plans were kicked into the long grass precisely because the Welsh Government and the company behind the circuit could not agree terms.
A process of due diligence will now begin by independent assessors.
It is a financial process for checking the assets and liabilities of the companies involved. That is expected to take about six to eight weeks.
That needs to happen before any work can begin on the ground.
The Circuit of Wales was at one time claimed to eventually result in 6,000 jobs in the unemployment blackspot of Blaenau Gwent by building a track with hotels and business units.
It has the rights to MotoGP until 2024.
In response to a question from Neil Hamilton AM, Mr Skates said the "deal on the table was certainly better than the one that was presented back in July".
He added: "It justified the position taken back then when we were presented with guarantees amounting to 83% - which is £100m more in guarantees than what we've been able to drive through with this deal.
"However, due diligence is required, as normal, as in every project of this type, to give us confidence that the investment, the potential guarantee draw-down is something the tax payer is comfortable with, something that we are comfortable with, and no investor should fear the due diligence process."
In the last year the project has attracted two new important partners.
In October 2016, the private bank Kleinwort Benson joined Circuit of Wales as its corporate advisor.
The developers then recently teamed up with the Extreme company - which has an online sports channel - with the proposals now including mountain bike trails, a BMX park, stages for live concerts and indoor skiing, a skate park and virtual reality zone.
That development reduced the risk of the project as it would be expected to attract a range of adventure sports and visitors all year round.
The partners claim the development could attract 750,000 visitors a year and inject an estimated £50m into the Welsh economy annually.
The project has hinged on financial guarantees from the Welsh Government.
Last April, the then Economy Secretary Edwina Hart said there was an "unacceptable risk" in guaranteeing it all, 100%. But the company was asked to come back with alternatives.
It was then suggested that after the circuit is built, the Welsh Government would underwrite half the cost the project - and be paid more than £125m over 33 years.
Mrs Hart's successor Ken Skates, keen for "faster progress", finally gave the developers a two-week deadline to produce details of its financial backers.
The plans were first unveiled more than five years ago and included a public inquiry over common land.
A spokesman for the Heads of the Valleys Development Company said: "We are working to a proactive timeline and look forward to beginning construction by the spring of this year."
A striking feature of the story so far has been the mismatch between the rhetoric from those behind the Circuit of Wales and eventual decisions made by the Welsh Government.
Both previous attempts to get ministers to commit public money to underwrite the cost ended up being rejected despite the build-up dominated by bullish comments from directors.
This time they appear to be getting closer, although there is still a gap.
The statement from the Circuit of Wales gives an overwhelming impression of T's being crossed and I's being dotted.
It describes the due diligence as "confirmatory", while in contrast the Welsh Government statement includes a list of "rigorous" checks and poses the fundamental question of whether it is a project that can benefit the people of Blaenau Gwent and Wales.
The 17,000-tonne drilling rig ran aground at Dalmore, near Carloway on Lewis, in a storm in August.
It remains anchored off Lewis awaiting removal. The rig would be floated on to the transport ship, Hawk.
Hugh Shaw, an official overseeing the salvage operation, said Hawk could arrive on or about 20 September.
Following a public meeting in Stornoway to provide islanders with the latest information on the operation, Mr Shaw told BBC Alba that floating the rig on to the ship would require good weather.
He added that the work would involve a number of small tugs, which should begin arriving off the Western Isles over the next few days.
Transocean Winner was being towed from Norway to Malta, from where it was to be moved to Turkey to be scrapped, when it and the ship towing it were hit by a storm off the Western Isles.
The tow line broke and the rig ran aground on the beach at Dalmore.
They will ensure the way victims are treated - and evidence gathered - is the same across Scotland.
Ministers said it was important to ensure a consistent and sympathetic service to support victims.
The government has also launched a survey to find why few female doctors have been willing to be involved in forensic examinations.
It followed claims that some rape victims in the Northern Isles do not report it because they have to travel, without washing, to the mainland for forensic tests.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) will produce the new standards to ensure best practice is applied when examining victims following a rape or sexual assault - including the conditions and way examinations are handled.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said it was important that victims of sexual violence felt confident coming forward, knowing they were going to be supported every step of the way, including forensic examination.
"While the way evidence is gathered and recorded is a top priority for the legal process, it must be balanced with the needs of victims, who may be vulnerable and traumatised," he said.
Sara Twaddle, director of evidence for HIS, said: "It is vital that victims of rape or sexual assault receive the best care and support possible, that they have confidence in the service and that forensic examinations are carried out to the same high standard across the country."
The government said many sexual assault victims wanted to be examined by a female doctor - and more were needed.
It has launched a survey to help ministers understand the barriers for woman getting involved in this area of medicine, with concerns doctors might not realise what is involved - or may be fearful the eventual court process would be time-consuming.
Dr Louise Scott, who carries out forensic examinations in Stornoway, urged more women to do the same.
She said: "When an individual has been brave enough to come forward after sexual assault, healthcare professionals have a vital role as part of that multi-agency response in meeting both the therapeutic needs of the victim and the high standard of evidential requirements.
"Many doctors and healthcare professionals may not realise they already have many of the professional skills required to provide a competent and caring response for victims of sexual assault and that, with the additional training and support available, they could be contributing to a high quality, co-ordinated, sensitive and victim-centred forensic medical response within their community.
"We need more female healthcare professionals prepared to take on this rewarding work, especially those from a GP, sexual health or gynaecology background, and help improve the experience and outcomes for victims."
Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) said developing new standards should ensure that, no matter where someone lives in Scotland, they can access an appropriate and sensitive response.
RCS national co-ordinator, Sandy Brindley said: "The response someone receives following rape can vary greatly, depending where they live and when the offence took place.
"Forensic examinations conducted in an appropriate location, by a female doctor, with co-ordinated sexual health follow-up and emotional and practical support, could make a huge difference to rape survivors experiences."
The standards are expected to be rolled out before the end of 2017.
Minimum standards for the forensic examinations to victims of a sexual offence were set out in 2013, but they are not obligatory and health boards do not have to formally report on how they are applied.
The 44-year-old started his playing career with the Iron and has agreed a three-and-a-half-year deal with the League One club.
Nick Daws, who had previously been placed in charge until the end of the season, will be Alexander's assistant.
His first game in charge of the 13th placed side will be Good Friday's trip to Barnsley.
"I'm an ambitious guy, I want to win things. The guys in charge at the club are exactly the same and I'm sure we'll do great things here," Alexander told the club website.
"There are a lot of good players in this squad without a doubt. For whatever reason it hasn't fulfilled its potential this season, but that's my remit - to come and assess, and try to improve it.
"Any manager when he comes into a new club has to look at where he needs to put his stamp on things, and get the players to enjoy their football and play as well as they can."
The former Scotland international guided Fleetwood to League One in 2014, but was sacked last September after a poor start to the season.
He will be the third person to take charge of the team this season after Mark Robins was sacked in January following a 5-0 defeat at struggling Blackpool.
Iron chairman Peter Swann added: "Over the last couple of weeks we've felt it quite important that, if we were to have a manager in place, now would be a good time.
"It made a lot of sense. We have nine games remaining this season and we'll do whatever can be done within that, but it will give him a chance to get organised for the summer, target any new players and plan what we need to do for pre-season training."
Blackpool-born Croft captained the Red Rose for the majority of the season after Tom Smith was injured and led the team to their first T20 Blast title.
He hit five half-centuries in the T20 tournament and scored at an average of 41.61, including two hundreds, as Lancashire were promoted from Division Two of the County Championship.
"I want to help us win more trophies," the 31-year-old said.
"We want to be the first club to defend the T20 Blast and challenge back in the top division of the County Championship.
"It's a really exciting time to be part of this club and it's great to see the talent in the changing room, particularly with some of the younger guys signing new contracts as well."
The length of the new deal has not been disclosed and he becomes the fifth Lancashire player to sign a new contract this week, following Stephen Parry, Kyle Jarvis, Tom Bailey and Gavin Griffiths.
South Korean troops fired about 90 machine gun rounds towards the flying object.
North Korea has flown drones over the border in the past and the incident came at a time of high tension around the heavily guarded border.
The South said the balloons were likely to have come from inside North Korea.
South Korean activists have often flown balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda messages and light goods like snacks in to North Korea, to the frustration of the South's authorities.
But defence ministry spokesman Moon Sang-Gyun said the object on Tuesday had been spherical, not cylindrical like activists' balloons.
South Korea's new president Moon Jae-in said last week that there was a "high possibility" of conflict breaking out at the border.
The pace of North Korean missile tests has increased in recent months and experts fear it indicates progress towards Pyongyang's ultimate goal of putting a nuclear warhead on a missile that could strike the continental US.
On Sunday, North Korea said it had carried out a "successful" test of a medium range ballistic missile.
That came a week after North Korea tested what it said was a new type of rocket capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead.
The UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting on North Korea on Tuesday evening. In a statement on Monday, it agreed to "take further significant measures including sanctions" to force North Korea to end its "highly destabilising behaviour".
But North Korea's historic ally and main trade partner China said the priority was to push for diplomatic talks.
China's UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi said: "There is no reason why dialogue is not taking place in the current situation," and he stressed all progress in the past "was achieved as a result of dialogue".
Sole guardians of the professional league from 1888 to the Premier League's formation in 1992, the EFL, as it was rebranded in the summer of 2016, is at the centre of the biggest issues affecting the game.
BBC Sport spoke to EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey about:
After a number of former professional footballers came forward with historical child abuse allegations, Operation Hydrant was set up by the police as an over-arching inquiry.
By January, 1,106 cases, implicating 248 clubs, had been referred in what Football Association chairman Greg Clarke called one of the game's biggest crises.
Prior to 1992, the Football League was the major domestic league and a number of its member clubs have been implicated.
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Harvey said: "This has been exceptionally difficult for football. But let's not forget, it has been a lot more difficult for the individuals who were directly affected.
"Other than help the victims, we can't do anything that changes the past. But sexual predators exist in our society. We have to make sure, as an industry, we do everything to repel them at our borders.
"I am satisfied, having seen what goes on today, that we are in an infinitely better place than we were when these historical cases came forward.
"We will never be complacent. We must put in place a culture that allows parents and players to come forward with anything they feel uncomfortable with so we can deal with these matters in the here and now rather than wait for a 20-year review."
There are currently three black managers in charge at the 92 clubs in the top four divisions of the English football pyramid; Brighton's Chris Hughton, Marcus Bignot at Grimsby and Carlisle's Keith Curle.
There have been 29 managerial appointments since Bignot replaced Paul Hurst at Grimsby on a six-month rolling contract on 7 November to become the most recent black manager to be given a job.
In June 2016, the EFL unanimously approved proposals aimed at tackling the under-representation of coaches and managers from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
The new measures were a version of American football's Rooney Rule and included the introduction of mandatory recruitment practices for coaching positions in academy football and a voluntary recruitment code in first-team football.
There has been no change in the number of BAME managers since then. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was sacked by QPR a day before Bignot's appointment.
Harvey said: "It is apparent the imbalance is there, just on a purely statistical basis.
"We have set on this process of trying to address the inequality. There is probably further to go but we have moved the dial to a position that is way beyond where we have been in the past.
"You can't just take a snap shot. The Rooney Rule wasn't an overnight success. It took time. Football needs to be given the same amount of time to achieve the same outcome."
In recent months, Leyton Orient, Morecambe, Coventry, Charlton and Blackpool have all experienced large amounts of disquiet amongst their supporters about the ownership of their clubs.
At others, including Championship trio Nottingham Forest, Blackburn and Leeds, there is an uneasy relationship between the fans and the owners.
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So, is football's fit and proper persons test for club owners and directors doing its job?
Harvey said: "It is purely an objective test. It tests against a set of conditions that ask if you are an appropriate person to own, be a director or be a relevant person at a club. That is as far as it goes. It offers no view on skill or ability. It offers no view on judgement.
"There is always something to be reviewed and we have a responsibility to ensure people are running clubs in their best long term interests.
"But it is very difficult, unless you get into areas of subjectivity, to start engaging on how someone is going to perform.
"We also have to be careful that we don't categorise people as good owners or bad owners because fans' views move, usually because of success on the pitch or ticket prices."
From 2016-17, parachute payments - the money given to clubs relegated out of the Premier League to prevent them suffering major financial problems given the increased contracts needed to compete in the top flight - are expected to be around £90m per club over a three-year period.
It has been suggested they might be reviewed because some promoted teams are choosing not to invest in their squad, knowing they will receive a huge amount of money even if they go down.
Harvey said: "Yes, the allegation has been made that clubs have got promoted, pocketed the cash, then come back down in a very healthy financial situation. In reality, the number of clubs who come into that category are very small.
"The real challenge is maintaining a competitive balance.
"If we can't keep football competitive in the Championship, week in, week out, and clubs don't start the season with a realistic ambition of getting promoted, the competition will eventually die.
"We can't allow that to happen. Neither can we get into a position where clubs are putting themselves in financial trouble chasing the dream of getting promoted."
Prior to 2016-17, when it introduced 'profit and sustainability' rules that would be assessed over three seasons, the EFL's Financial Fair Play regulations were based upon a single season.
In 2013-14, clubs that exceeded losses of £8m were subject to a transfer embargo or a fine if they had been promoted.
Champions Leicester and play-off winners QPR were fined. Both clubs decided to fight their cases through the courts. Neither has been resolved, with Leicester saying on 2 March they were confident of success.
Harvey said: "There are ongoing matters with some clubs who didn't meet FFP requirements in the relevant years. Those issues and debates continue. For everybody's benefit, they need to be brought to a conclusion as quickly as possible.
"The objective of keeping clubs secure for the long term whilst allowing them the ambition to chase promotion is one most people can agree with. The real challenge is how do you achieve it when you have some owners who would like to be able to spend as much money as they choose and we have some who seek a sustainable model so they don't have to invest as much to stay in the division.
"We will never find the right balance exactly but the profitability and sustainability model means we should be in a position where clubs' long-term futures are not messed with and everyone is given a chance of getting promoted."
In January, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said English football would benefit from allowing the reserve teams of major clubs to compete in the Championship.
A similar system applies in Spain, where B teams can be promoted as far as the league below their senior team. In 2016-17, no Spanish B team is higher than the third tier.
The concept has been resisted in England.
In July 2016, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said it would never happen.
Harvey agrees, and now also dismisses the notion of Scotland's Old Firm, Celtic and Rangers, being invited into English football, an idea that was floated when the subsequently scrapped 'Whole Game Solution' was launched in May 2016.
Asked if B teams or Celtic and Rangers will ever form part of the English pyramid, he said: "As it stands, no.
"The clubs who are the key to the 92 club professional structure make their views clear each time this conversation is mooted.
"They want sovereign clubs playing inside our competition.
"Whilst ever that is the case, it will never change."
Traffic will be diverted via the newly aligned A8 near Bargeddie from 20:00 on Friday 17 February.
The works are part of the wider M8/M73/M74 improvements project.
Transport Scotland said the diversion was necessary to connect the newly built M8 to the existing motorway at Baillieston Interchange.
Project manager Graeme Reid said: "The M8/M73/M74 motorway improvements project is a very significant investment in the central Scotland motorway network which will greatly reduce congestion and boost the economy.
"These scheduled works are a major milestone of the £500m investment in the main route between Scotland's two largest cities, which will see the completion of the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
"Whilst delays are inevitable on a project of this scale and complexity, and the impact this has on the travelling public is regrettable, these works are necessary to complete the M8 missing link.
"Road users can look forward to realising the benefits of the new motorway when it fully opens to traffic upon completion of these works in spring 2017."
He said the latest phase was the "most significant peak time traffic management" implemented as part of the works.
Ch Insp Craig Linton from Police Scotland added: "In respect of this major piece of works, I would urge drivers to take heed of the diversionary routes, which will be signposted.
"A significant amount of planning has taken place with our partners in Transport Scotland to help minimise the disruption to commuters for the duration of the works.
"We will ensure the diversionary routes are adequately patrolled. Road safety is a high priority for Police Scotland."
It said most of the jobs would go in its aerospace division, with most of the posts being shed in 2015.
It is not clear where the cuts will be made from Rolls-Royce's global workforce of 55,000, 24,000 of whom are in the UK.
However, the Unite union told the BBC there would be 800-1200 engineering jobs cut in Derby and Bristol.
Rolls-Royce also said Finance Director Mark Morris leaves after 27 years with the firm and would be replaced by David Smith, who is promoted from finance director of the Aerospace division.
The company's chief executive John Rishton said: "The measures announced today will not be the last, however they will contribute towards Rolls-Royce becoming a stronger and more profitable company."
Last month, Rolls warned that its underlying revenues for 2014 would be 3.5-to-4% lower than expected.
Unite's national officer Ian Waddell said: "Rolls-Royce is in danger of making decisions in the short term that it will later regret. This is a bitter blow to a proud workforce and we will be doing everything we can to fight for jobs and skills."
The company said voluntary redundancy would be offered, although it could not rule out compulsory redundancies.
Today's announcement on job losses is likely to be the start of a series on cutting costs for Rolls Royce. After a profits warning in February and October, the company is under pressure to act.
Aviation - where these job losses are - has not been as affected by the economic downturn and Russian sanctions as Rolls Royce's land and sea businesses, and those divisions will now be under scrutiny.
Company sources say that the aviation losses are more closely linked to a general cut in global defence spending, greater productivity after investment in new factories and an end of the development phase of the new Airbus A350 and Dreamliner engines.
Those with good knowledge of the company have told me that the 2,600 job losses will be split between civil and defence aviation in the UK and the US, with two-thirds of the losses coming in the UK.
The business hopes that all the losses will be voluntary and the process will be largely completed this year and into the first half of 2015.
The company's UK staff are employed at four locations in the East Midlands, as well as 1,500 at five sites in the North West and 2,400 employees at six locations across Scotland.
A Scottish Enterprise spokeswoman said: "We have been in contact with Rolls-Royce, and at this stage there is no impact on the Scottish operations."
The two largest sites are in Bristol and Derby.
The company said it had become more efficient, and cited the fact a large engineering team, needed for the development phase of two Trent engines, were no longer needed as both these were now in production.
That would point to job losses in Derby, where the Trent engines, used by many international airlines, are built.
Rolls-Royce is the second largest aero-engine maker in the world.
It has customers in more than 120 countries, including more than 380 airlines and leasing firms, 160 armed forces, 4,000 marine customers including 70 navies, and 1,600 energy and nuclear customers.
Rolls-Royce said the job losses would cost it £120m over the next two years, but would bring "annual cost benefits" of £80m once implemented.
A statement from the Department for Business said: "We have consistently supported Rolls-Royce in the UK and will continue to work with them and local partners to support those affected - for example the Talent Retention Solution matches engineering talent with new job opportunities."
TAV Engineering Ltd, of Guildford, Surrey, was found guilty earlier of failing to protect its employees.
Hertfordshire Oil Storage Limited and Motherwell Control Systems 2003, Liverpool, were convicted of breaches at St Albans Crown Court on Wednesday.
The blast injured 43 people and homes and businesses were destroyed.
The explosion, which could be heard 125 miles away, happened when a massive vapour cloud ignited after 250,000 litres of petrol leaked from a tank, the court heard.
Motherwell Control Systems 2003 Ltd, which is in voluntary liquidation, was found guilty of failing to protect its employees.
HOSL was found guilty of failing to prevent major accidents and limit their effects - a verdict which could not be reported on Wednesday for legal reasons.
The company pleaded guilty on Friday to causing pollution to enter controlled waters underlying the vicinity around Buncefield, contrary to the Water Resources Act.
TAV Engineering Ltd had denied committing a breach between 1 October 2003 and 12 December 2005.
Total UK and the British Pipelines Agency Limited had already pleaded guilty to offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
The verdicts follow a joint prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency (EA).
They said in a joint statement: "This was the biggest and most complex criminal inquiry we have worked on together - the product of many hundreds of hours of painstaking forensic investigation.
"When companies put workers and members of the public at risk and cause environmental damage we will prosecute.
"When the largest fire in peacetime Europe tore through the Buncefield site on that Sunday morning in December 2005, these companies had failed to protect workers, members of the public and the environment.
"The scale of the explosion and fire at Buncefield was immense and it was miraculous that nobody died. Unless the high hazard industries truly learn the lessons, then we may not be that fortunate in future."
Sentencing of the companies by trial judge Mr Justice Calvert-Smith will take place back at St Albans Crown Court next month.
New York Fed president Mr Dudley said economic turmoil in China had made the case for a rate rise harder to make.
"The slowdown in China could lead... to a slower global growth rate and less demand for the US economy," he said.
The US central bank was also "a long way from" engaging in more quantitative easing to prop up the economy, he said.
Before the recent China turmoil many economists expected rates to be raised at the Fed meeting on 16-17 September.
And only last week minutes from the minutes of the Fed's meeting on 28-29 July showed that policymakers thought then that conditions for a US rate rise "were approaching".
But the turmoil in China's stock markets and the, so-far, limited impact of Beijing's efforts to calm the situation has increased fears of a greater-than-expected slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
That in turn could drag down growth globally, and there have been calls from some economists for the US to now put back any interest rate rises.
However, despite his misgivings Mr Dudley has left the door partly open to the possibility of a rate hike in September.
He said the case for a rise "could become more compelling by the time of the meeting as we get additional information on how the US economy is performing and... international financial market developments, all of which are important to shaping the US economic outlook".
US interest rates have been held at near-zero since the 2008 financial crisis. Should there be a rise, it would be the first interest rate increase in nine years,
Eight men are accused of drilling into a concrete vault beneath the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company in London over the Easter weekend.
The guard said he was alerted about alarms going off on 3 April, but found everything in order when he visited.
Three men deny conspiracy to commit burglary.
A fourth denies conspiracy to conceal or transfer criminal property.
Kelvin Stockwell, a security guard who worked in the building for more than 20 years, agreed with defence lawyer Nick Corsellis's suggestion of burglars having "inside information".
Mr Corsellis, who is representing Carl Wood, 58, asked the guard: "But it is plain to you, is it not, having worked there for as many years as you have, appreciating the complexities of the security system, where things are located, how things were bypassed, what area of the vault was drilled into, that the people who were involved in this crime must have had detailed inside information to commit this crime."
Mr Stockwell said Alok Bavishi, son of the building's owner, called him about the alarm being activated and was told police were at the scene.
But when the guard arrived at about 12.40am, after the alleged break-in, he found no police officers but instead saw "a young boy and his girlfriend".
"I went to the front of the building and pushed against the front doors, they were secure. I went around into Greville Street to check the fire exit and I looked through the letterbox," he said.
"I called Alok, he said he was about five minutes away in the car. I told him the place was secure, he said 'go home'."
The burglary was discovered on 7 April and Mr Stockwell said he called police after being informed by a colleague.
He said: "I looked and there was a lock on the door and that had been popped, there was a hole through the wall and I saw that we had been burgled.
"On the floor there was drills, cutting material, the lights were on and the second floor (lift) barriers were left open. I went into the yard to get a signal and dialled 999."
Jurors heard the alarm system was monitored remotely by a security firm. The jury also saw photos of the alarm's damaged keypad and the transmitter, which had been removed. The cover to the control unit had also been removed.
Mr Stockwell said the basement and vault were covered by an alarm system but: "You wouldn't hear it from the street".
The burglars took jewels, gold bullion and cash, but boxes containing sentimental pieces or personal effects, and even a taped confession were ignored, the court heard.
The trial continues.
Defendants and charges
Previously John Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington; Daniel Jones, 58, of Park Avenue, Enfield; Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield and Reader, of Dartford Road, Dartford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary.
They will be sentenced at a later date.
Barrie, who was born Leslie Hulme in Stoke-on-Trent, provided the voice for Pat and many of the other characters in the animated series.
He also famously sang the show's theme tune, which was released as a single and spent 15 weeks in the top 75.
His daughter Lorraine Hulme Peterson said he died at his Buckinghamshire home after a short battle with cancer.
She told BBC News her father, who had a singing career with Embassy Records under the name of Les Carle, was "a master of different character voices" who also found success providing voiceovers for films and television adverts.
His talents saw him appear on an album with Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, provide backing vocals on Top of the Pops for the likes of David Essex and overdub the voices of Larry Hagman, George C Scott and Horst Bucholz.
Mrs Hulme Peterson said her father also gave his voice to adverts, including one for Martini, which starred his idol Frank Sinatra, and another promoting instant mashed potato product, Smash.
Barrie stopped using the name Les Carle when a friend told him it was French for The Charlie and instead took a moniker from combining the first names of his wife's brothers.
He got his most famous role as the voice of Pat in 1981 after recording his voice on tape for Bryan Daly, the songwriter who was working on the show's music.
The stop-motion animated show, created by John Cunliffe and directed by Ivor Wood, was about the adventures of a postman in and around the fictional valley of Greendale, a location inspired by Longsleddale in Cumbria.
Barrie was the narrator of the original 13-episode series and also supplied voices for famous characters such as handyman Ted Glen, the Reverend Peter Timms and farmer Alf Thompson.
He reprised his role in the 1990s when a second series was made and in a rebooted version of the show which began in 2004 before handing over the voice of Pat to actor Lewis MacLeod.
His daughter said that while he was not someone who liked the idea of "being bombarded for autographs, it was lovely to see when children realised who he was".
"He'd do the voice and they'd be gobsmacked," she said.
He also provided the soundtrack for the 1987 animation Charlie Chalk, sang the theme tune for the sitcom Hi-De-Hi and later topped the charts as part of Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band on the Official BBC Children in Need Medley in 2009.
His daughter said he was "most proud of the fact he looked after his family well".
"He was always a very reserved character who just saw it as a job. He was approached to be managed and go a lot bigger in the early days but he chose to decline because he wanted to be there at home.
"His legacy is not so much Postman Pat, he did a lot more and he loved singing after starting in the late 1950s."
BBC Children's director Alice Webb said Barrie "brought a magical warmth to the role of Postman Pat".
She said thousands of children had "grown up listening to his wonderful voice".
"Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this time."
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Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
By day the sailors receive instruction at an on-shore facility run by the Vladivostok's builders, STX France.
This week they have finally been allowed on board the vessel for the first time.
At the end of the afternoon they return to the Russian navy ship which serves as their sleeping-quarters.
The Russian navy flag - a blue Saint Andrew's cross on a white field, like an inverted Scottish saltire - flies from the stern.
There then follows half an hour of drill, commanders barking out orders as files of sailors parade along the dock. After that they mooch about and play football.
From behind a fence, locals come to stare. The atmosphere is friendly enough - at one point an officer comes over to give a Russian navy badge to a child watching with his parents.
But otherwise there is no contact. No-one here speaks Russian, and the Russians are under strict orders to stay tight-lipped.
A mass of gray steel, its superstructure looming over the town, the Vladivostok is moored a few hundred metres away.
Workers are applying some final touches, but essentially the Mistral-class helicopter carrier is complete and ready for delivery.
In another part of the dockyard not accessible to the public, work has started on a second ship, the Sevastopol.
As with the Vladivostok, the rear part of the Sevastopol - essentially the container part - was built in Russia. It was then transported by barge to the French naval dockyards at Saint-Nazaire for the all-important front section to be attached.
The French government is now in a quandary over whether to go ahead with delivery of the ships.
On the one hand the warships could greatly enhance the power of President Vladimir Putin's navy. And no-one in France wants that, during the current east-west crisis over Ukraine.
But on the other hand, the contract has been signed. And in Saint-Nazaire hundreds of jobs are at stake.
It is beginning to look very unlikely that President Francois Hollande will stop the sale of the first ship, the Vladivostok. It is paid for - and now the Russians have arrived to take delivery.
The fate of the second ship, the symbolically named Sevastopol, is less sure. President Hollande will keep options open on that sale as long as he can.
Sevastopol has long been the Russian Black Sea Fleet's base in Crimea, a "hero" city associated with Soviet sacrifices in World War Two. But Mr Putin's annexation of the whole Crimean peninsula in March drew international condemnation.
Two problems complicate a proposed alternative plan to sell the ships instead to Nato, or a friendly government.
First, as half of the ships was built in Russia, Russia actually owns part of them already.
Second, the ships are designed for Arctic ports with ice-breaking reinforcement. There is no demand for that kind of ship outside of Russia.
Among the local people watching the Russian sailors, feelings are mixed.
"They're not going to use the ship to fight a war against France," says one woman. "So what's the problem?"
But for Jean-Paul Regent, a retired ship-builder, "It's a terribly difficult decision. We need the jobs and the investment. Building ships is what we do here.
"But for Putin's Russia? The destination makes us feel very uneasy. We are all in two minds about it all."
It was felt in Italy too, where voters used a constitutional referendum to unseat a prime minister - and it may yet be felt in France where Marine Le Pen, standard bearer of the far-right National Front, seems certain at least to make it to the second round of the presidential elections next year.
The common thread from Peoria to Pinner to Perugia was a surge of angry resentment at establishment politicians - a populist revolt against being told what it is acceptable to think about issues like globalisation, migration and Europe.
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The mood of the moment in 2016 would have gladdened the heart of Pierre Poujade, the French political activist who is a sort of spiritual grandfather to our age of exasperation.
In the period following World War Two, Poujade ran a stationery shop in the little town of Saint-Cere in the Lot Valley, deep in the heart of south-west France, where fruit is grown, wine is made and foie gras is produced.
The local people in Saint-Cere are close and clannish - the authorities in the nearby cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse are regarded with a degree of suspicion, and Paris is practically seen as a foreign capital.
Steve Bellinger, a British expatriate who runs a local B&B with his wife, summed up the local people for us.
"They tend to be very conservative," he said. "They don't like change and they can be very suspicious of people from other areas. They don't tend to move around very much and they're also wary of Parisians and of what goes on in Paris."
The spark that ignited the righteous rage of Pierre Poujade was a series of visits to Saint-Cere by tax inspectors, whom local shopkeepers saw as meddlesome bureaucrats choking the life out of small businesses with burdensome demands.
We're sick to the back teeth with taxes that fatten up an unjust state. Get the rascals out, we need change!"
Poujade's protests captured the mood of a country that lurched from one crisis to another. France was painfully losing an empire, at war first in Indo-China and then Algeria.
He was an extraordinary orator. At the peak of his powers he gathered a crowd of well over 100,000 Parisians to a rally at the Porte de Versailles, quite an achievement for a country shopkeeper with no established political party behind him.
Prof Jim Shields of Aston University is an expert on that extraordinary period in French history and is in no doubt that Poujade created a kind of "politics of the outsider" which has a direct link to the campaigns for Brexit and a Trump presidency.
He listed for me the characteristics that all populist insurgent campaigns can trace back to Pierre Poujade.
"Weak against strong," he told me, "Ordinary people against remote elites and simple against intellectual."
In the hands of a certain type of politician, Prof Shields argues those attitudes can be intoxicating.
"When Donald Trump rallies forgotten Americans," he says, "when Nigel Farage speaks for the left-behind, when Marine Le Pen appeals to the forgotten and invisible majority, they are all invoking Poujade's defence of the 'little man'."
Poujade is sometimes seen as a figure who emerged from the extreme right, but that misunderstands his appeal and misrepresents his life.
His daughter, Marie-Paul Pons, told me that her father had once told his followers to vote for Socialist presidential candidate Francois Mitterrand because he felt that Mitterrand was prepared to listen to the voices of the forgotten voters of deep, rural France.
For a period in the 1950s Jean-Marie Le Pen - who went on to found the far-right National Front in France - was a member of Poujade's movement, but the two men fell out. Even then Le Pen was an extremist and he was more interested than his leader in professionalising the party and seeking power.
When I asked Madame Pons if she thought her father would have voted for Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election she was adamant that he wouldn't.
And when I asked why her answer was simple.
"He didn't like extremes," she told me.
Pierre Poujade's movement eventually fizzled out. It had always been a vehicle for expressing popular discontent than a serious political party with a genuine programme for government.
It had a touch of theatricality about it too - a blood-curdling oath of loyalty - and there was a whiff of anti-Semitism in its loathing of France's Jewish Prime Minister, Pierre Mendes France.
Mendes France, who governed with Communist support, enraged the traditional right in France with his enthusiastic support for de-colonisation. And it didn't help that he was known to drink milk at official dinners rather than the great wines of the country he led.
But Poujade lives on in the spirit of the turbulent year of 2016 when the anti-establishment mood he once helped to articulate was felt around the world.
And, interestingly, he lives on too in the dictionary, where you will see "Poujadism" listed.
That puts him in rarefied company - not many politicians have an 'ism' named after them: De Gaulle and Thatcher in relatively recent times, Stalin and Lenin from a more distant past.
Poujade never won power - and probably never wanted it - but his place in history and in the dictionary is assured. The way in which his spirit reverberated in the events of 2016 is testament to the power of the populist spirit he represented.
The collision happened on the A6094 between Wallyford and Dalkeith at about 14:40 on Monday.
The grey Lamborghini Gallardo had been travelling southbound on the A1 and exited at the Wallyford junction before going on the A6094 towards Whitecraig.
A maroon-coloured Ford Focus and a green Ford Fiesta were going in the opposite direction when it happened.
Three men and two women were taken by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment.
The road was closed while police investigated the scene and officers are appealing for witnesses.
PC Julie Bishop, of Police Scotland, said: "Our inquiries into this matter are ongoing and I would be interested to hear from anyone who saw these vehicles prior to the collision to contact police.
"Likewise, I would ask anyone who saw the collision itself to come forward if they have not already done so."
Paul Mason, from Ipswich, weighed 70 stone (440kg) at his heaviest before he had gastric by-pass surgery.
Surgeons at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York have carried out the operation to remove 10lbs (4.5kg) of loose skin.
Mr Mason, who gave up hope of having the procedure performed on the NHS, said it had "gone well".
"My arms feel like feathers and my chest is back where it should be," he said.
It is the second time Mr Mason has undergone such surgery after he had excess skin removed from his legs and midriff in May 2015.
Mr Mason, who lost 45 stone (285kg) after the initial gastric by-pass in 2010, said once he has recovered from the latest operation he will embark on a fitness regime.
"I will be having treatment for my severe arthritis in my knees and left foot, which will give me my mobility back," said the former postman.
Mr Mason said he plans to ride his bike, complete a 5km (3.1m) run and go regularly "to the gym and swimming pool".
He also thanked Dr Jennifer Capla, who donated her time for the operation, and her team, as well as "everyone else that made this surgery happen".
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The blaze broke out at St Dominic's, in Petersburn Road, Airdrie, shortly after lessons ended on Thursday. No pupils were in the school at the time.
North Lanarkshire Council said what was left of the structure would be demolished and alternative arrangements put in place for pupils.
But it confirmed that there would be no classes for pupils next week.
In a statement the council said: "Work has begun today to demolish the building and we are currently assessing the education options available when schools resume after the Easter Holidays.
"Parents will be contacted directly early next week to advise them of arrangements."
All those inside the building were evacuated before fire crews arrived and there were no reports of any injuries.
At its height, 35 firefighters tackled the blaze.
A spokesman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the fire affected the entire building and residents in nearby homes were evacuated by police as a precautionary measure because of smoke.
St Dominic's Primary was opened in August 1971 and catered for children from nursery to primary seven.
Richard Cole, 30, from Dursley in Gloucestershire, went missing during a night out in the city in January 2016.
CCTV footage showed him lying on floor and then rolling "vigorously" into the canal. His body was recovered by police divers a week later.
An inquest at Gloucester Coroner's Court recorded an open verdict.
Gloucestershire Coroner Katy Skerrett said a toxicology report showed Mr Cole had consumed alcohol, as well as amphetamines and a high concentration of MDMA.
Mr Cole's half-brother Lee Thornhill told the court that while in Amsterdam searching for him after he disappeared, he had viewed CCTV footage which showed Mr Cole being accosted by three men.
He said footage also showed a taxi pulling up and then driving off, shortly before Mr Cole was seen to roll "quite vigorously" about six feet (2m) into the Herengracht canal, in the early hours of 25 January 2016.
Mr Cole's body was recovered by police divers a week later, on 2 February.
A man was later arrested and prosecuted for stealing Mr Cole's mobile phone.
Dutch police previously said "a number of men" were suspected of robbing Mr Cole, but they were not thought to have been directly involved in his death.
Ms Skerrett recorded an open conclusion, saying Mr Cole's cause of death was drowning contributed to by the consumption of alcohol and drugs.
In a statement following the inquest Mr Cole's family said they were "pleased" with the open verdict.
"It would be easy to assume that Richard died simply because he fell into the canal while intoxicated. We know that it was not as simple as this."
They said they believed that if the family had not "personally found" the CCTV footage "Richard would not have been found until his body resurfaced".
Last season's treble winners are now 14 points off leaders Warrington and could potentially miss out on a place in the top four.
BBC Sport looks at the contributing factors to the disappointing start to the season at Headingley.
10 October, 2015 probably feels like a long time ago to Leeds Rhinos fans right now.
A long season ended at Old Trafford with a hard-fought Grand Final win over Wigan, which completed an historic treble for the club.
The game also brought down the curtain on the rugby league careers of club legends Jamie Peacock, Kevin Sinfield and Kylie Leuluai.
The experienced trio had helped the club to victories in Grand Finals, Challenge Cups and World Club Challenges and coach Brian McDermott openly admitted that he "could not sign a player in the world" who could replace Peacock.
However, even McDermott could not have envisaged just how much the side would miss their input in the dressing room and on the field.
Pretty much since day one of the campaign, Leeds have had considerable talent within the squad in the treatment room at Headingley rather than out on the pitch.
Captain Danny McGuire was injured on the opening night of their treble defence, ruling him out until round nine's home defeat by Wakefield, and, following the exit of Sinfield, Peacock and Leuluai, his leadership has been even keenly missed.
Tom Briscoe, Ashton Golding, Carl Ablett, Brett Ferres, Brett Delaney, Beau Falloon, Stevie Ward, Jamie Jones-Buchanan, Joel Moon, Ryan Hall, Jimmy Keinhorst and Keith Galloway have all missed games this season, the first three all in the same game at Widnes.
Other clubs, notably Wigan, Huddersfield and Castleford have experienced similar injury problems, but Leeds' situation has been exacerbated by the departure of those talismanic figures at the end of 2015.
It was a wet rather than a white Christmas in Leeds in 2015.
The rain that came on Christmas Day had a devastating impact on thousands of people in the area, with 1,732 homes and 519 businesses flooded.
The Rhinos' training base at Kirkstall was also badly damaged after the River Aire burst its banks - and the club are yet to return to their regular home.
Chief executive Gary Hetherington put the financial cost of the floods in excess of £1m, but it seems that the floods are costing the team just as much on the field.
Prop Jamie Jones-Buchanan told BBC Radio Leeds after the defeat by Hull KR: "We are not in our usual environment which we have become akin to in the last 10 or 15 years. There is a lot of uprooted things to start with."
Forward Adam Cuthbertson added: "We need to get back to how we were training before Kirkstall was taken away from us. It's made it hard for us because the facilities we've had have been very inconsistent. We've been able to get back down there for the first time this week and that is great for us."
Leeds hope to be back in familiar surroundings full time sooner rather than later.
"It's hard to pin the Rhinos' plight down to one particular issue. Their nomadic pre-season will undoubtedly have unsettled the squad. Players, after all, are very much creatures of habit and routine.
"The amount of injuries suffered by the squad has also taken its toll, as has the subsequent challenge of re-integrating players back into the side. Dare we also mention the players that the Rhinos lost at the end of the season?
"While the expertise of Sinfield, Peacock and Leuluai was always going to take some replacing, the loss of their combined experience has been more costly.
"However, one thing is beyond debate. The fact that the Rhinos team just hasn't been playing well enough. They've conceded too many line breaks to the opposition and, while at times they've scrambled back to rescue the situation, it's left the team devoid of energy to mount a meaningful response.
"Moreover, if the last 22 years at BBC Radio Leeds has taught me anything it's not to write off the Rhinos. They are the reigning champions after all."
Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found beaten to death near her cottage in Schull, County Cork, on 23 December 1996.
Ian Bailey, a neighbour of the victim, was arrested in Ireland over her killing but was never charged.
A magistrate in France has decided he should stand trial in the country.
Mr Bailey, who is originally from Manchester, has consistently denied involvement in the death of Ms Toscan du Plantier.
Her killing has become a notorious and protracted case of unsolved murder.
Mr Bailey, 59, was held twice over the killing but has never been prosecuted.
He tried to sue authorities in the Republic for wrongful arrest over the murder but lost his case in March last year.
He claimed in court that his life had been destroyed because police blamed him for a crime he did not commit.
In 2012, the Supreme Court in Dublin turned down an attempt by France to have him extradited.
After a long investigation, authorities in France now say he should face trial, although a date has yet to be set.
Drug dealer Anton Levin, 24, from Dagenham, east London, was found dead at a flat in Southend in November.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard the killing involved rival drug gangs.
Danielle Russell, 26, was jailed for 11 years and six months and two boys - aged 16 and 17 - were sentenced to 10 years and four months each. They had all been found guilty of manslaughter.
All three were also found guilty of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm on another man and guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery.
Mr Levin was stabbed and died at Russell's flat in St Ann's Road on 19 November.
He had just graduated from Greenwich University.
The court was told Russell lured Mr Levin and his friend Abdullatif Abdulkadir to her flat.
There the two teenagers - one from Thurrock and the other from Basildon - and a 27-year-old man, who has now fled the country, were waiting for them.
Mr Abdulkadir told the court his friend was stabbed in the femoral artery.
Judge Christopher Bell said the killing was part of a pattern he had seen across Essex - of drug dealers coming out of London and encroaching on the turf of existing drug gangs in the county.
He also praised the "outstanding police work" that led to the arrest of the young men, two days after the attack.
Ch Insp Simon Werrett said: "This was another unnecessary death linked to gang activity in Essex.
"The defendants have never any shown remorse for the attack and the needless loss of life."
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Scores from Danny Houghton, Scott Taylor, Gareth Ellis and Jamie Shaul established Hull's first-half cushion.
Luke Walsh reduced Saints' deficit after the break to add to Mark Percival and Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook's tries.
However, the visitors pulled clear with Curtis Naughton, Kirk Yeaman, Scott Taylor and Fetuli Talanoa scores.
Marc Sneyd was on target with 15 points from the boot.
Saints have a remarkable record when the year ends in six, winning in five of the past six decades, but that quirk was not to be continued as Hull continued their dual push for honours in 2016.
The home side reached the semi-finals last season but failed to match Hull throughout.
Ruck-speed, powerful forwards, ruthlessness with field position and the accuracy of Sneyd's kicking helped the Airlie Birds to dominate the game for large periods, despite conceding the opening tries of each half.
St Helens captain Jon Wilkin told BBC Sport:
"Hull outperformed us in most facets of the game, it's disappointing, it's a big game and we haven't produced.
"You can win game without possession, and whatever through penalties, poor kicking, ill-discipline or dropped-ball we gifted them.
"I thought we were terrible from the start today and without being cynical about the performance, we talked a good game all week and we haven't delivered."
Hull FC head coach Lee Radford told BBC Sport:
"It was massive effort, the conditions, the heat played a major factor but we completed at a high really high percentage which is something we've done all year so long may that continue.
"The boys did good, we made the boys [Frank Pritchard and Sika Manu - away on international duty] a promise we'd be in the draw and they've come good on that promise.
"Marc Sneyd's been fantastic over the past six games, he's leading us around the park really well and he's got one of the best kicking games in the competition.
"For a club of our size and history not to have won at Wembley is a bitter pill to swallow, but we're through and we look forward to whoever we come up against."
St Helens: Lomax; Dawson, Peyroux, Percival, Owens; Fages, Walsh; Walmsley, Roby, Amor, Vea, Greenwood, Wilkin.
Replacements: McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Tasi, Richards, Knowles.
Hull FC: Shaul; Naughton, Fonua, Yeaman, Talanoa; Pryce, Sneyd; Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Washbrook, Minichiello, Ellis.
Replacements: Green, Thompson, Hadley, Bowden.
Referee: Richard Silverwood
Taxation
When it comes to the money we have to spend, those of us who pay income tax will be a bit better off after the Budget.
About 1.3 million people in Wales pay income tax - and they start paying when they earn more than £10,600 pounds a year.
Nine out of ten only pay the 20% basic rate but from next April all income tax payers will be able to earn £11,500 before they start paying tax - a saving of about £180 a year.
That's about £3.50 a week.
1.35m
pay income tax in Wales
1.18m pay basic rate tax (20%)
140,000 pay higher rate tax (40%)
5,000 pay additional rate (45%)
Also from next April the 40% rate of income tax will not come in until people earn £45,000; at the moment in Wales only 140,000 people pay that 40% rate.
Meanwhile, the cut in corporation tax to 17% in 2020 would affect 25,000 Welsh businesses.
Tolls
The headline grabbing announcement was the halving of tolls on the Severn Crossing from 2018.
About 13 million vehicles pay Severn bridge tolls every year and the Institute of Directors (IoD) said it would make a "real difference to Welsh businesses trading across the bridge".
The level of tolls has been a particular issue for the haulage industry, which supports more than 60,000 jobs in Wales. Larger companies face bills into six figures each year.
In addition to the freeze on fuel duty, the Road Haulage Association (RHA) called the toll reduction a step in the right direction, although it said it wanted "in a perfect world" no tolls at all.
"We're extremely happy," said Kate Gibbs of the RHA. "Every added cost to a haulier has to be passed onto the customer - so you or I see higher costs in shops."
Public services
Welsh council leaders are already anticipating a "tough picture" for public services over the next four years and Finance Minister Jane Hutt also admitted her concern at what lies ahead after Mr Osborne signalled an extra £3.5bn in spending cuts.
"Councils up and down Wales will continue to be forced to make difficult choices about local services in the future, on top of the swingeing reductions that have been visited on them already," said Anthony Hunt, deputy finance spokesman for the Welsh Local Government Association.
Steel industry
There was no easing of the burden of business rates for steel producers, which the Community union called "sorely disappointing".
"Steel producers will continue to be penalised with high business rates for the investments they have made, adding uncompetitive costs in a difficult global market," said general secretary Roy Rickhuss.
Meanwhile, the Treasury has agreed to the Welsh Government's request to create an enterprise zone for Port Talbot, which includes the Tata site.
Growth and city deals
Following on from the signing of the deal for south east Wales, the Chancellor promised he would "open discussions" with the Welsh Government and local partners about the proposed city deal for the Swansea Bay City Region - welcomed by Sir Terry Mathews, who is leading the vision of an "internet coast".
It also said it would also open the door to a "growth deal" for north Wales - which would provide funding for partnerships between councils and business - to make the most of its connection to the Northern Powerhouse. This development was welcomed by the IoD, which called it "overdue".
Chairman of the Deeside Business Forum Askar Sheibani said infrastructure investment was "desperately needed" in the next Budget.
In conclusion
While some opportunities for the Welsh economy were unveiled by the Chancellor, his official forecasts for the UK economy show there are tough times ahead.
The economy here is slowing down and the Chancellor warned of potential risks from the global economy.
His argument is that to ride more difficult times those £3.5bn public sector cuts are necessary.
But they are bound to take more money out of the Welsh economy and could cost jobs.
The football club's men's and the women's sides will play home matches at the ground from the 2017/18 season.
The rugby club had been in talks with Coventry City about a similar ground-sharing plan.
The Coventry Bears rugby league side will continue to use the stadium, meaning three teams will be playing home matches at the ground.
Jon Sharp, chairman of the rugby club, said the deal with was "a good thing for the city and all the clubs concerned".
"Frankly the stadium is under-utilised. We have 15 [home] league matches a year, and that's a pretty sad use of such a marvellous facility," he said.
Mr Sharp said the club would look to find grants to improve the pitch and build women's changing rooms.
The non-league football team have played their home games at the Alan Higgs Centre since they were founded in 2013.
Chairman Jason Kay said the club was "absolutely delighted" with the move.
Phil Halsall was suspended on full pay in August pending the outcome of a disciplinary investigation into the tendering process of a £5m contract.
Lancashire County Council (LCC) said he would get statutory pay and the investigation into his role in the fleet contract tendering will cease.
It said the wider probe would continue.
Mr Halsall, who took up the role of chief executive in 2011, was on an annual salary of about £195,000 and will receive the statutory three months salary.
He said the decision to leave the authority had "not been an easy one" and he had "enjoyed" his time in Lancashire.
By Arif AnsariPolitical editor, North West
Phil Halsall was a well-respected chief executive with major successes to his credit including enterprise zones and the Preston city deal. But when Labour took over the county council, questions began to emerge, not least over the aborted transport contract.
He has always defended his integrity and denied doing anything wrong. The new council administration clearly felt otherwise. A barrister, appointed by the government, was officially investigating what, if anything, had happened.
He will never be able to reach a conclusion because both Mr Halsall and the council decided to move on.
Council sources say it was Mr Halsall who suggested the deal, and that his pay off was not more than he was legally entitled to. But crucially I am told this is not the end of the matter.
While disciplinary procedures against the former chief executive have been dropped, other investigations at the council continue. We do not know precisely what they are looking at.
The deal to create One Connect Limited with BT is a very likely contender. But council sources are clear that further revelations are to be expected.
The Labour-led council's leader Jennifer Mein said she wished him "the best of luck for the future".
The probe follows an independent review of the tendering process.
The deal to run the council's fleet services was agreed in April by the former Conservative administration which was led by Geoff Driver.
It was awarded to BT but the decision was called in by county councillors and put on hold. The council's in-house provider continued to provide the services.
The contract was revoked on 15 August with immediate effect by Ms Mein.
Mr Halsall denied any wrong-doing and previously said he was "vigorously" pursuing his reinstatement.
LCC is also investigating the authorisation of the payment of more than £500,000 to a senior officer who resigned in August.
David McElhinney received two separate payments that the council leader and treasurer said they were unaware of.
Mr McElhinney ran One Connect Ltd, which was contracted to run various council services.
LCC said Jo Turton will continue as the interim chief executive and a decision on will take over the role permanently will be made in due course.
Police said the man, who is in his 30s, answered his front door at Forthriver Crescent at about 07:30 BST on Saturday.
He was beaten by another man wielding a hammer. He was attacked a second time inside the house.
The man was treated in hospital for head injuries that are not thought to be life threatening.
Police have appealed for information.
Ford lined up alongside Owen Farrell and Elliot Daly in Saturday's 37-21 defeat of South Africa, with the diminutive combination responding well to the Springboks' physical challenge.
"People can become a bit obsessed with size," the 23-year-old Bath player told BBC 5 live.
"But it's a thinking game as well, a tactical game."
Ford believes that after the first quarter of the match - in which Eddie Jones' men were rocked by the intensity of the visitors - England were able to take control.
"The first 20 minutes of a Test match, everyone is fresh and trying to smash each other, but after that it's more about tactics and game understanding," he added.
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Next up for England is the visit of Fiji on Saturday (14:30 GMT), with Jones aiming to "bore" the Pacific Islanders into submission.
The Australian says that does not mean his side will play "bad rugby", but instead wants to execute a "smart" game plan.
"You go to Fiji and everyone is throwing 15-metre torpedo passes, flicking the ball through their legs, side stepping," said Jones.
"If they can't do that they get bored. If they get bored, they don't want to play. And when they do that you get points against them.
"We are going to win the game and I want to win it conclusively. To win it conclusively we have to bore them to death."
Ford also praised the contribution of half-back partner Ben Youngs, who set up two of England's four tries, including his own.
"He's world class," Ford said. "The more we can get numbers and motion around Ben, the more he is going to threaten defenders.
"His kicking game was outstanding as well. It's a joy to play with."
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Moscow's suggestions that civilians were poisoned by rebel weapons on the ground have been widely rejected.
The UK's foreign secretary, a rebel commander and a weapons expert all said evidence pointed to an attack by the Syrian government, Russia's ally.
International donors have pledged $6bn (£4.8bn) in aid for Syria this year.
Seventy donor nations discussed aid efforts in the war-ravaged country in the Belgian capital, Brussels.
What we know
Could there be "no-fly" zones at last?
Images of dead children spread over social media
According to UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 20 children and 52 adults were killed in the chemical incident in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, on Tuesday.
Footage following the incident shows civilians, many of them children, choking and foaming at the mouth.
Witnesses say clinics treating the injured were then targeted by air strikes.
Some of the victims were treated across the border in Turkey. One woman in hospital said: "We were affected by the gas. We couldn't stand up. I felt dizzy and sick. I suffer from shortness of breath. I couldn't breathe."
The World Health Organization said some of the victims had symptoms consistent with exposure to nerve agents.
A team from medical charity MSF treating victims in Idlib found patients' symptoms were "consistent with exposure to a neurotoxic agent such as sarin gas", the charity said in a statement.
Sonia Khush, Syria director of the charity Save the Children, said victims had travelled far and wide to get treatment, making it difficult to estimate how many had been affected.
The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denies its forces launched a chemical weapons attack.
Russia has acknowledged that Syrian planes did attack Khan Sheikhoun but says the aircraft struck a depot producing chemical weapons, for use by militants in Iraq.
"Yesterday [Tuesday], from 11:30am to 12:30pm local time, Syrian aviation made a strike on a large terrorist ammunition depot and a concentration of military hardware in the eastern outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun town," Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konoshenkov said.
"On the territory of the depot there were workshops which produced chemical warfare munitions."
Matthew Rycroft, the UK's ambassador to the UN, told the Security Council that Mr Assad had "humiliated" Russia by "making a mockery" of the peace process it had brokered with some rebel groups.
"What is your plan?" he asked. "What is your plan to stop these horrific senseless attacks? We had a plan and we had the support and you rejected it to protect Assad."
Russia and China have blocked attempts to impose sanctions on Syria.
Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Safronkov, hit back by accusing the UK of being "obsessed" with overthrowing President Assad instead of seeking peace.
He said his country - which can veto any UN Security Council resolution - saw no need for a new resolution and called for a "full, objective" international investigation. Much of the video evidence of the attack had, he argued, been "staged".
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said Syrian chemical attacks would continue if nothing was done.
"Time and time again Russia uses the same false narrative to deflect attention from their ally in Damascus," she said.
Hinting at possible unilateral action by the US, she added: "When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action."
French UN envoy Francois Delattre blamed the Assad government for the attack, accusing it of "destructive madness". He said the world needed an "America that is seriously committed to a solution in Syria".
Hasan Haj Ali, commander of the Free Idlib Army rebel group, told Reuters news agency: "Everyone saw the plane while it was bombing with gas."
Local journalists say there are no military positions in the town itself but an array of broadly aligned rebel groups controlling the area surrounding it.
Critics of the Russian statement say reports of the release of gas came hours before the times stated by Mr Konoshenkov.
Is Trump partly to blame?
US blames Assad over 'chemical attack'
A chemical weapons expert, Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, told the BBC that the Russian version of events was "pretty fanciful".
The idea that a nerve gas like Sarin could spread after a weapons manufacturing process had been bombed was "unsustainable", he added.
US President Donald Trump called the deaths a "terrible affront to humanity".
The Syrian government was accused by Western powers of firing rockets filled with Sarin at Ghouta.
President Assad denied the charge, blaming rebel fighters, but he did subsequently agree to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal.
Despite that, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has continued to document the use of toxic chemicals in attacks in Syria.
More than 250,000 people have been killed and, after more than six years, no political solution to the fighting is in sight.
Nearly five million Syrians have fled the country and more than six million are internally displaced, the UN says.
"This is the most complex and the most violent conflict in our times," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said at the conference in Brussels.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Former champion Massaro, 32, lost 3-0 in a repeat of last year's final, which was won by France's Serme, 26.
Massaro was the only Briton to reach the quarter-finals after England's James Willstrop and Nick Matthew were knocked out in the second round.
It was Britain's worst performance in the competition for 24 years.
"Disappointment in my performance last night is a massive understatement. Completely gutted but that's sport and it's how you respond that counts," wrote three-time Commonwealth silver medallist Massaro on Twitter.
Willstrop lost 3-1 to defending champion and Egyptian world number one Mohamed Elshorbagy while Matthew suffered a shock defeat by unseeded Ali Farag.
"Come on next generation, @ljmassaro & I can't do it on our own!" tweeted three-time British champion Matthew.
Serme faces Egypt's Nouran Gohar and compatriot Nour El Sherbini plays Malaysian Nicol David in the women's semi-finals on Saturday.
In the men's semi-finals Elshorbagy plays Karim Abdel Gawad while Ramy Ashour faces Gregory Gaultier.
The three-month-old boy was circumcised for religious reasons while staying with his paternal grandparents in 2013.
A police investigation was dropped but Saimo Chahal QC wants Nottinghamshire Police to take action against Dr Balvinder Mehat.
The doctor told the BBC it would not be appropriate for him to comment.
He has not clarified whether or not he had been told that the mother had consented to the procedure.
Nottinghamshire Police said in a statement: "Where a victim or member of the public feel a decision made by us to discontinue an investigation should be reviewed, we will always welcome an appeal.
"We are absolutely dedicated to getting the best for our victims and will always work with them and support them."
The boy's mother believes circumcision amounts to MGM, or "male genital mutilation", and is "inhumane".
"I am deeply hurt by what has happened to my son and the suffering I have been forced to witness," she said.
"No amount of money in the world could make right what's been done, and my only hope is to raise awareness of MGM and reveal the true suffering this procedure really inflicts on tiny babies.
"My life will never be the same again and I dread my son growing up and learning what happened to him."
Ms Chahal's previous clients include Michael Sandford, who attempted to grab a gun to shoot Donald Trump, and Tony Nicklinson, a man with locked-in syndrome who fought for the right to legally end his life.
She has written to police stating that they have misapplied the law and must review the decision not to prosecute.
Source: British Medical Association
The boy was circumcised at Bakersfield Medical Centre in Nottingham on 31 July 2013.
His mother originally contacted social services, then contacted police on 24 November 2014.
There was a police investigation but the force deemed it not to be a criminal matter, and the matter was referred to the General Medical Council.
The General Medical Council said it would not be able to confirm whether or not Dr Mehat is under investigation, and would not be able to add to the information given by police.
Dr Mehat said in a statement: "It would be inappropriate to comment whilst any investigation is ongoing."
The mother is being assisted by Tim Alford from the anti-circumcision group Men Do Complain, who said the boy has already experienced discomfort because of being circumcised.
"He has had a couple of visits to the doctors, one to the NHS emergency centre, with inflammation around the wound," he said.
"Since the hot weather he has had another flare-up, probably due to abrasion against his undergarments.
"The glans, which normally in a four-year-old would be fully protected by the prepuce at all times, looks very red and sore, and the remnants of the prepuce is inflamed, and weirdly stacked-up behind the glans.
"At the moment [his mother] is applying a prescription moisturising lotion, and ensuring he has soft underwear. It's all quite distressing really. Poor lad."
About 3,500 protesters marched through Friedrichshain on Saturday. Some were masked and threw missiles, police said.
The protest was the most violent in the past five years, they said.
Tensions have risen since moves began in June to evict squatters in the area. Friedrichshain has undergone rapid gentrification in recent years.
About 1,800 police were deployed at the protest, which began peacefully but escalated into violence. Eighty-six people were arrested, police said.
Squatters are refusing to leave part of a block of flats at 94 Rigaer Strasse. Since June, squads of police have been monitoring the building day and night, with helicopters circling overhead.
Police fired tear gas as shop windows were shattered and police cars damaged.
Many of the neighbours live in housing collectives and sympathise with the squatters, who see themselves as a left-wing alternative to gentrification and rising rents.
During the protest, some neighbours beat spoons against pots in support of the squatters.
While no team won more away games than Exeter this season, only three sides suffered more defeats at home.
The first leg against Carlisle finished 3-3 at Brunton Park on Sunday.
"There's something wrong if it's not a great atmosphere, because what more do people want?" Perryman told BBC Devon.
"You sometimes think there's a bit of negativity at home."
In the three matches involving the two sides this season there have been 16 goals, with Carlisle coming from behind in each game to earn two wins and a draw.
The play-off return game at St James Park has sold out, while 571 Exeter fans made the 694-mile round trip to Carlisle.
Asked about their away support, Perryman said: "Unbelievable, and yet they've been like that all season - we've given something to cheer, to be fair, with a great away record and we play a lot of quality football.
"I'd say that if there was similar noise, if there was more positive noise at home, I think you'd see more games like that.
"Don't anyone tell me that this manager [Paul Tisdale] lacks passion, don't tell me he lacks balls to make the decisions, to play forward and go for it."
Stefano Brizzi, 50, denies murdering PC Gordon Semple, 59, at his south London flat, and claims he died accidentally during a sex game.
The Old Bailey has heard Brizzi admit to cutting up the body and trying to dispose of it but deny eating flesh.
His lawyer told jurors to focus on how PC Semple died not what happened after.
Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC said the defendant, who is addicted to crystal meth, accepted that his actions between the time of PC Semple's death on 1 April and his arrest six days later were "both horrific and inhuman".
"He does not dispute that, but you may think whatever those actions were, and you know he has not attempted to run away from his responsibility for them, they were carried out while he was in a hell of his own making by virtue of the drugs he had taken," she told the court.
"Just as Gordon Semple was a good man, Mr Brizzi, is a middle-aged, intelligent, urbane, interested linguist, a highly skilled professional.
"He is not a monster. He is a human being, like you or I."
The lawyer dismissed the suggestion of a possible bite mark on the remains of the police officer, who was from Greenhithe, Kent, saying speculation lay beyond the remit of the jury.
The presence of strong acid at the flat - which had led to police officers needing hospital treatment - meant that "no-one could attempt to take into their mouth any form of item that had been exposed to those chemicals," jurors were told.
Ms Bennett-Jenkins also told jurors they should guard against feelings of dislike or disapproval of "promiscuous behaviour between men".
The trial continues.
Haider al-Abadi is expected to ask for more armament and equipment including surveillance drones.
They will also discuss a strategy for dislodging militants from large parts of the country they still control.
Last week, Mr Abadi launched a campaign to drive them out of Iraq's biggest province, Anbar, west of Baghdad.
IS responded with a renewed onslaught on the provincial capital, Ramadi.
The US-led coalition carried out air strikes on IS positions on Sunday in an attempt to halt the assault, inflicting heavy damage on large military units, officials said.
Tanks and other armoured vehicles were also hit near the northern IS-held city of Mosul and Iraq's main oil refinery at Baiji.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says the battle on the outskirts of Ramadi is the opening phase of what is likely to be a very long and hard struggle by Iraqi government forces to regain Anbar province.
Elsewhere, it seems to be IS which is on the offensive, our correspondent adds.
In one area further north of Ramadi, militants are reported to have surrounded an Iraqi army unit and attacked its base with suicide bombers. They are also said to be massing to the south-east of the city.
Mr Abadi's visit to Washington is his first since he took over from Nouri al-Maliki after elections last year.
He will seek Mr Obama's help to acquire billions of dollars of advanced US weaponry, including unarmed surveillance drones, attack helicopters and ammunition.
Our correspondent says Mr Abadi will also be hoping for an understanding on how to pursue the battle against IS and how US involvement - through coalition air strikes and military advice on the ground - can be harmonised with Iran's role, exercised notably through the Shia militia it supports.
The recent battle to recapture Tikrit showed that he needs both, our correspondent adds.
Shia militia played a key role on the ground, but they could not make the final push without the help of coalition air strikes.
On Sunday, the US ambassador in Baghdad warned that the coalition would not be able to conduct air strikes in support of Iraqi government forces in Anbar if Shia militia were fighting alongside them, Iraqi officials told the New York Times.
Monk quit on Thursday, two days after Italian businessman Radrizzani completed his takeover of the Championship club.
The 38-year-old was appointed on a rolling one-year contract last summer and guided them to seventh in 2016-17.
He had been expected to sign a new deal after the buyout of Massimo Cellino.
Monk said in a statement: "It is with huge disappointment that my time at Leeds United has come to an end.
"I saw myself at this fantastic club for many years to come. After discussions with the new owner, we have unfortunately been unable to agree a suitable way for us all to move forward together."
Leeds had spent much of the season in the play-off places, but missed out on a spot in the top six after a run of just one win in their final eight games left them five points adrift.
Monk, who spent 10 years at Swansea as a player before taking over as manager from February 2014 to December 2015, was the sixth full-time head coach appointed by Cellino during the Italian's controversial reign from June 2014.
The club statement said they had "reluctantly accepted" Monk's resignation.
It added: "While we are deeply saddened by Garry's decision, there is no individual bigger than our club."
"Andrea made it clear to the media yesterday that his intention was to exercise the club's option to extended the manager's contract for another 12 months and immediately begin negotiations for a longer term deal.
"Mr Radrizzani has met with Garry twice since taking over at Elland Road earlier this week and during the second meeting yesterday it became clear that Garry was considering life beyond Leeds United as at no time did Garry wish to discuss terms for a longer contract.
"Following that meeting yesterday Garry's agent requested that the option was not exercised and his resignation was received this morning.
"We thank Garry for his contribution during his time at Leeds United, we are disappointed that would could not continue on this journey together."
Monk won 48% of his league games in charge of Leeds - 22 of 46 played - the fifth-highest percentage in the club's history.
BBC Radio Leeds' Leeds United commentator Adam Pope:
It's a real shock, especially in terms of timing. I think for Garry it wasn't about how much money he could earn but whether the club had the tools to provide him with the budget to take Leeds one step further than this season. I would imagine that has been a bit of an issue.
I spoke to Andrea yesterday and he wasn't happy with how the season ended and felt there was room for Garry to improve but there's no doubt he did an amazing job.
The last I heard from Garry's camp was that he was focused on Leeds but I would be amazed if they have not had enquiries from clubs such as Middlesbrough or Watford.
Radrizzani is an ambitious guy and the next appointment is crucial. Aitor Karanka is going to be linked because I understand Victor Orta, who was Middlesbrough's head of recruitment, is coming to Elland Road. But at this stage it could be anyone.
The FA Vase match against East Preston has been dedicated by the West Sussex club to Matt Grimstone and Jacob Schilt, who were among the 11 who died.
The football match, which kicks off at 17:00 BST, is sold out with 1,000 people buying tickets to pay their respects to the players, both aged 23.
"The first game is going to be tough," said vice chairman Mark Sanderson.
"It is a big game - it is an FA competition against our near neighbours and friends at East Preston so it is massive in many terms."
The match was moved from Saturday to allow as many people as possible connected with football in Sussex to attend.
Mr Sanderson said Worthing were normally used to "less than 100 people and a dog" attending games.
Mr Grimstone was a groundsman at Brighton and Hove Albion. Ticket sales have been handled by the Championship club, whose ground safety officer Adie Morris has advised on capacity.
Memorial scarves have been printed with Mr Grimstone's and Mr Schilt's names and 2,500 programmes have been produced.
Proceeds will be used to fund a permanent tribute to the players, who were travelling together to a game when the crash happened on 22 August.
"When the players walk up the steps on to the pitch it is gong to be extremely difficult for both sides," said Mr Sanderson.
An initial report into the Shoreham air show disaster said the Hawker Hunter jet showed "no abnormal indications" during its flight.
Andy Hill, the 51-year-old pilot, remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
Total sales at Primark rose 12% in the six months to February, with operating profits rising 8% to £322m.
However, group pre-tax profits at AB Foods halved to £213m, with the company's sugar business being hit by weak prices.
The company also warned the strength of the pound could hit full-year results.
Sterling's strength against many currencies, together with the weaker euro, could lead to a "modest decline" in full-year adjusted earnings per share.
AB Foods said that the sales rise at Primark was driven by an 11% increase in retail selling space at the chain.
Like-for-like sales - which strip out the impact of new stores - were level with last year, the company said.
Sales were "held back by unseasonably warm weather across northern Europe last autumn and the impact that opening new stores in the Netherlands and Germany had on existing stores in this region".
However, it added that like-for-like sales over Christmas "were strong".
AB Foods' sugar business reported an operating loss of £3m, down from a profit of £64m a year ago, as it continued to be affected by lower sugar prices.
Sugar prices in the EU have fallen by about 40% in the past two years.
AB Foods' chief executive, George Weston, said: "This is a sound trading result with significant progress made in operating profit by Primark.
"As expected, profitability at AB Sugar was substantially lower as a result of much weaker EU sugar prices.
"Primark's performance was driven by significant expansion of selling space and superior trading by the stores opened in the last 12 months and plans for its entry into the north-east of the US are well advanced."
AB Foods' pre-tax profit was also hit by a £98m charge on its Vivergo biofuel joint venture after oil prices fell.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed a 2.9 magnitude earthquake near Loughborough in Leicestershire at 05:20 GMT.
It was felt in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire and one man described it as "like an explosion in the distance".
The BGS said it was an average tremor for the UK and one million times weaker than the 2011 Japanese earthquake.
Leicestershire Police and the fire service both said there were no reports of damage in the county.
Reports of the tremor came from several locations in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.
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Mike Flood, 45, who lives in Loughborough, said he was awake when the tremor struck.
"It was almost like a plane going over or an explosion in the distance," he said.
"The house creaked - there was no house moving or pictures falling off the wall, but the house just creaked.
"It was strange - you know something's happened and you know it's not a normal thing."
Joy Russell did not feel the tremor in Cosby, south of Leicester, but her dogs were terrified by the experience.
She said: "I was woken by my dogs who were howling like banshees. I raced downstairs thinking golly, something's happened.
"They were all really stressed and hopping about. They just couldn't wait to get out of the house. They were absolutely panic stricken."
Another caller, from Leicester, said: "It sounded like an underground train coming and everything wobbled."
Seismologist Dr Brian Baptie, from the BGS, said: "The East Midlands does have history of small to moderate earthquakes.
"The shaking would last for a few seconds - it can be a pretty scary experience."
The tremor follows just days after a similar event in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire on 12 and 14 January.
Those earthquakes were recorded by the BGS as 1.4 and 1.8 magnitude.
Julian Bukits, of BGS, said: "Earthquakes generally have to be of 4.5 to 5 magnitude to cause damage."
Both the BGS and the US Geological Survey reported the Loughborough tremor, which was about 13km (8 miles) below ground.
Wycombe offered the 23-year-old a new deal in the summer and turned down a bid for him on deadline day in August.
"I've been in exactly the same place (as Aaron)," said Ainsworth.
"You feel loyal because this is the club that gave you the chance but you're also ambitious and have agents in your ears saying 'you can't sign a new contract as it's career suicide'."
He continued: "All I know is that when Aaron puts a shirt on he gives his absolute best for Wycombe. If he goes on to have a fantastic career in League One, the Championship or the Premier League, we have to be proud of him."
Since moving to Adams Park from Brentford in 2014, Pierre has made 127 appearances and Ainsworth has said he is "probably the best centre-half in League Two".
He told BBC Three Counties Radio: "I'm hoping he's here in May and June and still playing because that means nobody came in.
"But I always live in fear because he's a fantastic player and I think he can play higher. I dread saying that because I know he might go one day."
Hughes made 53 in a sixth-wicket stand of 78 in 21 overs with Daryn Smit before becoming Nathan Lyon's maiden first-class victim for Worcestershire.
His dismissal, after Luis Reece had earlier gone for 54, ended the afternoon session before rain set in.
The two sides never returned, Derbyshire closing on 200-6.
Large pools of surface water on the outfield could not be dried, forcing an abandonment for the day just after 17:00 BST.
Three quarters of the day's play was lost, a total of only 23.1 overs being possible, during which opener Reece added just one run to his overnight score.
Lyon was making his first appearance in first-class cricket since winning his 67th Test cap for Australia in the Fourth Test against India in the Himalayan city of Dharamsala in late March.
Derbyshire's Alex Hughes told BBC Radio Derby:
"It's tough to just try and block Nathan Lyon because he's so good he will get you sooner or later, so you have to try and put a bit of pressure on him.
"I enjoy playing against spin and it's a good test against someone you're used to watching on the TV, especially in India, and do well against even though he's now got me out twice in two games.
"The action he gets on the ball is very different to the average spinner. He gets a lot of revs on it and a lot more bounce. He doesn't bowl many bad deliveries. If this pitch gets dry, he could be a tough prospect if we have to bat in the third innings."
Worcestershire captain Joe Leach told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"I don't think we got our just desserts with the ball. I feel we bowled quite a bit better than 200-6 so hopefully that will change and we can knock them over really cheaply in the morning.
"It was good for Nathan to get his first wicket. He bowled very well again.
"It was a good reward for him to get off the mark. Hopefully he will have a bigger part to play in the rest of this game."
University Hospital of Wales staff realised there were similarities between both teams and asked for help to streamline their processes.
Neonatal staff visited Williams' Oxfordshire factory to see first-hand how they operate during a pit stop.
Changes include the use of floor maps, more hand signals and video analysis.
Staff said in both cases, a large number of people had to work in a time-critical and space-limited environment.
The Williams team can change four tyres on a car in about two seconds, and works with a human performance specialist Gemma Fisher to fine-tune the crew's procedures and techniques.
She said: "Initially we were a little bit taken aback and thought 'how can we relate the two?'
"But we visited the site in Cardiff and actually when we started to dig a little bit deeper and look at the processes involved in both sides, we soon saw the correlation between the two.
"There was a lot of areas where there were a lot of similarities and ways that we can hopefully impart some strategic planning, our training techniques and analysis and look at that from a neonatal resuscitation perspective."
After their visit to Williams, the neonatal team streamlined the resuscitation equipment trolley to ensure equipment could be found as quickly as possible and mapped a standardised floor space in delivery theatres to clearly show the area for the resuscitation team to work in.
They are also adopting Formula 1 communication and analysis techniques such as a "radio-check" before a resuscitation begins, greater use of hand signals in preference to talking and video analysis to check on performance, with debrief meetings as standard.
Dr Rachel Hayward, a specialist registrar at UHW, said: "We've re-audited the streamlined trolley after six months and we found a significant improvement in the accessibility and the organisation of the equipment which in turn has a time-dependant effect on our resuscitation processes."
She added: "Delays in providing effective resuscitative care can have marked consequences on survival or the development of long-term complications."
Michael Lockwood told a public meeting on Wednesday that the charred building, in North Kensington in London, would be covered in August.
He said that he expected the demolition of the tower block, where at least 80 people died in the fire on 14 June, would begin "towards the end of 2018".
He added that some possessions could be retrieved from 33 of the block's flats.
Speaking at the Notting Hill Methodist Church, Mr Lockwood said the recovery operation tower block could last until November this year.
The criminal investigation into the building - which requires material to be collected - could go on until January.
The covering of the 24-storey tower block will use scaffolding, which Mr Lockwood said would aid workers in demolishing the building.
He said: "I think that to be honest, the building will stay up throughout 2018.
"Then towards the end of 2018, I think we could start to bring it down, if that is what the community wants, and the scaffolding will help us to do that because we can do that within the wrap."
Any decision on what happens to the site after its deconstruction would be made with input from the community, he added.
Some flats in the building remain "completely untouched and in perfect condition" he said, while others are devastated.
There are some 33 flats in the block from which some possessions could be retrieved and returned to residents "in the next week or so", he added.
A memorial service for five of the residents who perished in the fire was held at St Helen's Church in North Kensington.
The service, attended by the Archbishop of York, remembered artist Khadiya Saye and her mother Mary Mendy, Berktki Haftom and her 12-year-old son Beruk, and a five-year-old boy called Isaac.
Meanwhile, experts who recovered remains after the 9/11 attack in New York are helping police investigators comb through debris from the fire.
Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey said last week that 200 officers would be sifting through 15 tonnes of debris "until Christmas time".
Mr Haigh had pleaded not guilty to cyber slander after he was accused of sending an offensive tweet about a business partner.
He has been behind bars in Dubai since May 2014, serving a two-year sentence for financial misappropriation.
His spokesman said he was delighted to see the end of a "22-month nightmare".
Ian Monk, Mr Haigh's spokesman, said: "David is delighted that the nightmare of almost two years in jail... is now coming to an end. David now hopes to be reunited with his family in the UK for Easter. He will have more to say then."
Mr Haigh had been detained in what the BBC's Mark Lobel said were "squalid conditions" at a detention cell at the back of a big police station in Dubai.
Human Rights Watch had previously described the cyber charges as "repressive" and had asked the UK government to call for his release.
The Yorkshire-born solicitor and businessman was originally arrested in Dubai on 18 May 2014, when he was detained without charge for 14 months and had his worldwide assets frozen.
Then in August 2015, he was convicted of misappropriating items of monetary value from a position of trust from his former Dubai-based employer and sentenced to two years in prison - the majority of which he had already served.
He had expected to return to the UK on 16 November last year, after serving 18 months behind bars.
The latest complaint against Mr Haigh was from his former employer, investment bank Gulf Finance House (GFH), about tweets sent from his Twitter account in March 2015.
Mr Haigh denied the allegations and argued that he could not have committed the alleged Twitter offence while in jail. He said British-based supporters were handling his Twitter account on his behalf.
GFH Capital said they could "not make any comment upon a decision by the Dubai prosecutor".
The company said it was "now awaiting the ruling of the civil court in DIFC" regarding their ongoing business dispute with Mr Haigh.
The Briton had been the deputy chief executive of GFH Capital Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of GFH, before resigning on 10 March 2014.
Abercynon-born Roberts played for Swansea Town and Northampton before joining Arsenal in 1969.
He spent more than three years in north London and was a member of the Gunners squad that won the league and cup double in the 1970-71 season.
Roberts also played for Birmingham City, Wrexham and Hull and won 22 caps for Wales between 1971 and 1976.
The centre-half was part of the Wales squad that reached the quarter-finals of the 1976 European Championship.
Two years later, he helped Wrexham to win the Third Division and the Welsh Cup.
"Everyone at the Racecourse would like to pass on their sympathies to John's family and friends at this sad time," said a Wrexham statement.
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson described him as a "gentle giant and lovely friend" who "played a crucial role" in the double winning season.
Luna is thought to have jumped into a holidaymaker's car that was driven on to the Caledonian MacBrayne (Calmac) ferry at Oban.
She was on the MV Isle of Lewis for three return trips before Calmac staff spotted an appeal her owner Sandra Graham had posted on social media.
Ms Graham was reunited with her pet in Oban on Friday.
Luna, whose journey involved a total of 450 nautical miles, went missing from her home in the Argyll town overnight last Monday into Tuesday.
On Tuesday, CalMac workers reported seeing a fleeting glimpse of what they thought was a cat on the car deck of the ferry as it sailed to Castlebay on Barra.
Staff managed to catch Luna on Thursday and thought she was one of the stray cats that roam the pier at Castlebay.
Luna's nautical adventure comes a year after another moggy ended up on a boat from the Western Isles to Oban.
The cat sneaked onboard a yacht on the Isle of Harris and ended up about 200 nautical miles away in the Argyll town.
The animal was given a temporary home in Oban while efforts are made to return it to Leverburgh where it is looked after by local fishermen.
Argyll Animal Aid said it was one of a group of feral cats that fishermen use to control rat and mice populations.
However, a call to Calmac's office in Oban, where a member of staff had seen the missing cat posters on Facebook, led to Luna being kept on board.
Kimmi Graham, a senior catering rating on the MV Isle of Lewis and a volunteer zoo keeper in her spare time, volunteered to look after Luna on her voyage home.
She said: "There is a little stray black cat in Barra that I always get off and feed and when they said there was a cat on the car deck I thought they were joking and trying to wind me up.
"Everybody came to visit her and she had a wee massage and she had her dinner - I got her some cat food on Barra and some fresh tuna, then we watched TV.
"She was happy enough, she had a look out of the cabin window and I made her a wee bed, but then she slept at the bottom of my bed."
Luna's owner Ms Graham was delighted to be reunited with her cat.
She said: "I have had her since she was eight weeks old and she has never been outside before. She is scared of noises and has never tried to get out.
"She sometimes goes off and sleeps around the house so I didn't think anything of not seeing her on Monday night but then, on Tuesday morning, she didn't come to my bedroom as usual, when the alarm went off, to get me to feed her and there was no sign of her."
The nursery assistant added: "I went to work and when she wasn't back on Tuesday night I put it on Facebook.
"I put her litter tray outside and hung a piece of my clothing out the window for her to get my scent. I went out into the back garden and shook her treats, but there was nothing.
"I just thought, 'cats will be cats', there is a lot of greenery around the house and I just thought she would be somewhere close to the house, I never thought she would be in Barra."
Ms Graham added: "All the ferry crew were really good and the staff in the ferry terminal, they were all brilliant.
"I will let her out if she wants to go but she has made no attempt to get out again."
It comes after former health minister Edwin Poots won his appeal against a ruling that he had acted irrationally or with apparent bias in maintaining the ban.
NI's lifetime ban on gay men donating blood was lifted in September.
The Supreme Court refused the case because the matter was now "academic".
In a newly-issued decision, the court said the application did not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance worthy of further consideration.
It marks the end of a four-year legal battle over blood donations from gay men in Northern Ireland.
Mr Poots, who was health minister from 2011 to 2014, was taken to court after he maintained the ban on the basis of ensuring public safety.
Findings were originally made against him in a judicial review brought by a gay man, who has been granted anonymity.
A High Court judge held that the Democratic Unionist Party MLA did not have the power to keep the lifetime ban.
Challenges to the verdict were continued by his DUP ministerial successors and the UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
In March 2016, the Court of Appeal in Belfast decided there was no basis for concluding that Mr Poots' decision was predetermined by his Christian beliefs.
Judges concluded by a 2-1 majority that the maintenance of the ban was not disproportionate or contrary to EU law.
They further ruled that it was up to Stormont, rather than the UK health secretary, to decide when gay men can give blood.
The lifting of the ban, which was put in place during the 1980s Aids crisis, means men whose last sexual contact with another man was more than 12 months ago will be free to donate blood so long as they meet the other donor criteria.
The policy change brings Northern Ireland into line with England, Scotland and Wales.
The competition, based in the north west of Northern Ireland, is aimed at teenagers and has grown in popularity over the years.
Its organisers estimate it is worth almost £2m to the local economy.
Ex-Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez said the cutbacks, in the same year that Northern Ireland qualified for the Euro finals, is disappointing.
"With Northern Ireland obviously in the Europeans this summer you would want a competition like the Foyle Cup to be growing and ever expanding and to find it financially cut at this moment in time seems like a bit of an absurdity," he said.
The grant the competition receives from Tourism NI has been cut from £20,000 to £10,000.
The organisers said the cut means the tournament will not be able to attract the same calibre of teams from abroad as in previous years.
A Tourism NI spokesperson said the majority of applicants seeking grants this year received less than they applied for.
The Yoga Book's unusual fold-out digitiser pad can also be used to create graphics. In addition, it lights up to form a keyboard.
The tablet bucks a trend among rivals that encourage users to write and draw directly on their screens.
One expert said that pursuing a unique approach was "risky".
"There have been previous concepts like this - Microsoft toyed with something similar years ago - but it's very different to what else has actually been put on sale," said Patrick Moorhead, from the tech consultancy Moor Insights & Strategy.
"And when you bring out something new there's a risk.
"That's not necessarily bad, because there could be a higher rate of return [if it proves popular] and people recognise Lenovo as a company that brings out differentiated products.
"But if it doesn't deliver, then the spending on all the [research and development] will have been for naught."
Lenovo's share of global tablet shipments rose by about 3% over the past year, according to market research firm IDC.
But it said demand for the firm's products was static, and its improved position was the result of the wider tablet market contracting by 12%.
Lenovo made its announcement ahead of the start of the Ifa tech show in Berlin, where it will show off the product.
It comes in two versions: one powered by Android, the other - which costs more - by Windows 10.
Lenovo refers to the lower digitising half of the device as a "create pad".
A button-press illuminates a "Halo" keyboard on its flat black surface, allowing owners to use it like a laptop.
It provides haptic feedback - a buzzing sensation - when each key is tapped. But the letters, numbers and symbols are fixed and do not change shape.
The firm acknowledges that owners will probably be slower at typing on it than on the keyboards sold as accessories for Apple's iPad Pro, Microsoft's Surface and Samsung's Galaxy Tab devices, all of which feature moving parts.
But Lenovo says that new owners should still be able to attain speeds of 40 to 60 words per minute and then improve over time.
The advantage of the design is that when the keyboard is turned off, the space doubles up as a graphics digitiser that works with a bundled stylus.
The firm suggests that this offers a better experience than drawing directly onto the tablet's touchscreen.
"You don't have to hide your content [behind your hand], so you don't obstruct the view," said product manager Wahid Razali.
"The feel you have is also different as it has grain on it.
"And you can also draw at the same time as manipulating the on-screen content with your second hand. So, you get to create in a more fluid manner."
The third mode allows the part to take digital copies of notes written up to 1cm (0.4in) above its surface, meaning they can made by writing on a pad of paper.
First, the user must swap the pen's plastic stylus for an ink-based one or - if they have bought a second copy - switch add-ons.
The tablet can detect where the pen is via an electromagnetic field it generates. Its stylus, in turn, provides a signal to let the computer know when it is being pressed against paper.
This has an advantage over rival smartpens because:
However, the user needs to press a button each time they turn a page in their notepad to avoid their jottings getting mixed together, and the app involved cannot turn their handwriting into text.
As such, consumers could get the same benefit from taking a photo of their notes with a normal tablet or smartphone.
Lenovo suggests the facility will have most appeal to students, but also intends to target the tablet at bloggers, business executives and people working in creative industries.
"You get benefit from Lenovo's pen input, and the device is also a lot thinner than Microsoft's Surface," said Mr Moorhead.
"But the trade-off people will have to consider is its keyboard.
"I believe people will need to try it in a bricks-and-mortar store before they buy it, and that will require shops to have a special place to demonstrate it.
"So, Lenovo must now spend enough money to market it to buyers."
The jobless rate north of the border is now 6.1%, compared with 5.1% for the UK as a whole.
UK unemployment fell by 28,000 over the same period to 1.68 million.
Meanwhile, employment in Scotland increased by 17,000, to reach 2,631,000. At 74.5%, the rate is above the UK average of 74.1%.
In February, the number of people out of work and claiming Jobseeker's Allowance stood at 57,500, a fall of 3,000 from January.
Scotland's youth employment level increased by 15,000 over the year to reach its highest November to January level since 2009.
Scotland's Fair Work Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said: "Scottish employment continues to rise and I am very pleased to see that we are outperforming the UK on both employment and inactivity.
"Youth employment has also been one of our success stories in recent months, and today's figures are further evidence of strong performance.
"However, we are still seeing evidence of ongoing volatility in Scotland's labour market despite the positive longer term trends.
"The low price of oil and its wider effects remain one of a number of significant challenges affecting employment opportunities and the latest statistics on unemployment demonstrate that there can be absolutely no let-up in our efforts."
The UK government's Scottish Secretary David Mundell said the figures were "a reminder of the challenges" facing Scotland's economy, in particular in the oil and gas industry.
He added: "It is vital that Scotland's two governments work together to do everything possible to boost the Scottish economy.
"Earlier this year we announced a significant package of support for the oil and gas industry and the wider north east economy - this is an excellent example of what can be achieved."
Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) general secretary Grahame Smith said: "A number of factors are likely to slow jobs growth this year such as the weakening global economy and the crisis in the oil and gas sector.
"A further dose of spending cuts in today's Budget will only serve to render the Scottish labour market less resilient in the face of current headwinds."
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The 26-year-old has not played since 9 September because of the injury.
"I had to quickly get my head around it, took myself off for five minutes and shed a tear because any operation's a major operation," said Smith.
"The doctor said there's a 90% chance it would be successful. I asked about the other 10% and he said 'you might never play again'."
Smith told BBC Radio Suffolk: "That hit home at the time but thankfully the operation went really well and since then it's been about slowly building up the muscles."
The centre-back is currently spending extra time at the training ground in a bid to get fit, while at the same time writing his dissertation for a Sports and Exercise Science degree through Manchester Metropolitan University.
Smith, capped 29 times by New Zealand, was previously told by his international manager he would not be selected to represent the All Whites because of his lack of his commitment.
But he is now back in the international fold and, if fit, could feature in June's Confederations Cup in Russia.
"I had a good chat with the New Zealand manager Anthony Hudson and we cleared the air because there were a few issues previously," Smith said.
"I'm really looking forward to being back involved. It's a privilege and an honour every time I pull on the shirt for the All Whites."
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Jill Saward, then 21, was sexually assaulted by two men in Ealing, west London, in 1986. Her father Michael, and her boyfriend were severely beaten.
At the end of the trial of her rapists, the judge said her trauma "had not been so great", sparking outrage.
Ms Saward was the first rape victim in the UK to waive her anonymity.
How vicarage rape case changed treatment of victims
She went on to use her public profile to campaign for the victims of sexual violence.
Ms Saward, 51, who was also known by her married name Drake, had three sons and lived with husband Gavin in Hednesford, Staffordshire.
In a statement, her family said she had dedicated the past 30 years of her life to helping other people.
They said Ms Saward had requested her organs be donated to others after her death.
"It gives us great comfort to know that our wonderful wife, mother and sister was able to help other people to the very end," they said.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, also paid tribute, tweeting: "Sorrowed to hear of the death of Jill Saward (Drake), heroic and remarkable campaigner for the victims of rape: much sympathy to her family."
In what became one of the most high profile criminal cases of the decade, in March 1986 four men broke into the vicarage home of Michael Saward.
The churchman, who was at home with his daughter and her then-boyfriend David Kerr, answered the doorbell, only to be confronted by the knife-wielding intruders.
They broke into the house and, after demanding to know where the family kept their valuables, they attacked Mr Saward and Mr Kerr. Both men suffered serious injuries, including fractured skulls.
Two of the men then dragged Ms Saward upstairs to a bedroom, where she was repeatedly raped.
The case was the focus of huge media attention, not least because the two rapists received substantially shorter prison sentences than the man convicted only of burglary.
Robert Horscroft, then 34, was sentenced to 14 years in jail for his part in the burglary.
Martin McCall, then 22, was given five years for rape and a further five for burglary, and Christopher Byrne, also 22, was given three years for his part in the sexual assault and five for the burglary.
Mr Justice Leonard, the Old Bailey judge who made the comment about the extent of Ms Saward's ordeal, was censured for the remark and apologised for it later in his life.
"That reflected how little understanding there was," she later said.
"I'd been suicidal three times, I'd had post-traumatic stress disorder, which wasn't really recognised then."
By speaking out about her ordeal, she vowed to help tighten rape laws and called for better victim support.
In 1990, she published her memoir, Rape: My Story, and four years later set up a help group for victims and their families.
She also became a counsellor.
Among the causes she successfully campaigned for was the barring of accused rapists from cross-examining victims while representing themselves in court.
Ms Saward believed forgiveness was "very important".
"They'd destroyed enough, I didn't want them to destroy anything else. Forgiveness gave me that liberation, that freedom, to move on," she said.
In 1998, she came face to face with a member of the gang who devastated her life - but did not rape her - and told him: "You don't need to say sorry."
Speaking to the BBC in 2004, Ms Saward said she had come to terms with her public profile.
"Ealing vicarage rape victim - that's been my tag for the past 18 years... I make no complaint about this tag as it has enabled me to challenge politicians and work for change."
"I've been on TV and radio talking about the serious subjects of rape and forgiveness many times."
Ms Saward, who was born in Liverpool, stood for election to Parliament in July 2008 against then shadow home secretary David Davis.
In 2012 she welcomed proposals for tougher sentences on sex offence offenders.
And in 2015, she called a suggestion by MPs for sex crime suspects to be granted anonymity "insulting".
In a statement, the charity Rape Crisis said: "Jill Saward was a good friend and valued supporter of the Rape Crisis movement for three decades.
"Waiving her right to lifelong anonymity, she campaigned tirelessly for both legal and social justice for victims and survivors of rape and sexual violence.
"Jill was able to step outside of her own harrowing experience to highlight the needs and rights of all those impacted by sexual violence.
"Jill was courageous, pioneering and an inspiration. She will be sorely missed."
Polly Neate, chief executive of Women's Aid, said: "She made the journey from victim, to survivor, to campaigner."
Lawyers for the prisoners say the "assembly-line" of four double lethal injections is unconstitutional.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson last month ordered the death row inmates to be killed before the state's execution drugs expire.
Arkansas has not executed an inmate since 2005.
No US state has put eight inmates to death in such an accelerated schedule since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Bruce Ward - Convicted of 1989 strangling murder of teenage shop clerk Rebecca Doss
Don Davis - Condemned for 1990 execution-style killing of Jane Daniel as he burgled her home
Stacey Johnson - Found guilty of 1993 murder of Carol Heath, who was beaten, strangled and had her throat slit
Ledell Lee - Sentenced to death for 1993 killing of Debra Reese, who was bludgeoned with a tyre iron that her husband had given her for protection
Jack Jones - Condemned for 1995 rape and murder of accounts clerk Mary Phillips, and the nearly fatal beating of her 11-year-old daughter
Marcel Williams - Sentenced to death for 1994 rape and murder of Stacey Erickson, after kidnapping her from a convenience store
Kenneth Williams - Convicted of 1999 murder of farmer Cecil Boren during an escape from prison where Williams had been incarcerated for murdering cheerleader Dominique Hurd
Jason McGehee - Jailed for the death of 15-year-old John Melbourne, who had been his friend
In the latest legal action in the case, one of men, Stacey Eugene Johnson, asked the state's highest court on Wednesday to block his execution so evidence from his murder trial can be retested.
Attorneys for another of the convicted murderers, Bruce Ward, asked a state judge to block his execution, saying the prisoner is not mentally competent.
A group of former corrections officers wrote to the governor on Tuesday to say the pace of the executions threatens prison staff's mental health.
Two other lawsuits filed this week seek preliminary injunctions to halt the executions, arguing the inmates need time to appeal against their convictions.
Lawyers also argue that state authorities are unconstitutionally hurrying the clemency process.
"The state can show no valid reason it cannot schedule executions at a pace that would allow for meaningful review," said one of the lawsuits.
The convicted killers are also asking the US Supreme Court to review a ruling allowing the state to keep its source for the execution drugs a secret.
Arkansas has scheduled the executions for 17, 20, 24 and 27 April, citing a shortage of a drug used in lethal injections.
The state's supply of midazolam, a sedative used in its three-drug lethal injection cocktail, is nearing its expiration date.
The sedative has become increasingly scarce as anti-capital punishment drug-makers refuse to supply it to corrections officials.
Midazolam has been blamed for botched executions in Oklahoma, Ohio and Arizona.
Lawyers have argued that use of the sedative amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is banned under the US constitution.
The condemned prisoners are Bruce Ward, Don Davis, Stacey Johnson, Ledell Lee, Jack Jones, Marcel Williams, Kenneth Williams and Jason McGehee.
The state parole board has recommended clemency requests by Johnson and Lee be rejected. Further parole hearings are due this week.
John Atkinson, who holds other positions in the party, told BBC Wales he needed to reduce his workload.
Earlier this month, UKIP Wales' attempt to suspend one of its candidates was overruled by the party centrally.
In February, UKIP Wales also suspended its Brecon and Radnorshire branch committee after a row over election candidate selection.
Mr Atkinson is staying on as the party's general election candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire.
"As the party's success and profile has increased in Wales so has the workload," he said.
"I don't feel I have the time to continue in the role as well as working for Nathan Gill (UKIP MEP for Wales) and standing for the party at the general election".
The other candidates declared as standing in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire are Delyth Evans (Labour), Simon Hart (Conservative), Selwyn Runnett (Liberal Democrat), Gary Tapley (Green Party) and Elwyn Williams (Plaid Cymru).
The adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel has attracted a total of 2,182 complaints about mumbled dialogue.
An average of 4.1 million people tuned in to the third and final episode. That was two million fewer than watched the opening instalment on Monday.
The BBC apologised on Tuesday for "issues with the sound levels".
The corporation's controller of drama commissioning, Ben Stephenson, later said the problem was partly down to the actors.
"Actors not being clear is obviously one part of it but my understanding about the complaints about Jamaica Inn was more complex than that," he said.
"I think it's probably not right to just single out that, but clearly we want actors to speak clearly. Of course we want them to give brilliant performances and you've got to respect that but if no-one can understand what they're saying then there is a problem."
After the first episode was aired, the drama's screenwriter Emma Frost said it was "like listening through mud" and took to Twitter to blame a technical fault.
In its statement on Tuesday, the BBC said sound levels on the second and third episodes would be adjusted before they were broadcast and apologised "to those viewers who were affected".
But on Thursday, a BBC spokesperson said 1,384 complaints had been received since Wednesday, taking the total to 2,182.
Jamaica Inn's problems follow similar complaints about dramas like Birdsong and Parade's End and a promise last year from the corporation's director general Tony Hall to address the issue of mumbling.
"I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but I also think muttering is something we could have a look at," Lord Hall said last July.
"Actors muttering can be testing - you find you have missed a line... you have to remember that you have an audience."
Allan Bell, who has been in position since October 2011, receives a CBE for public services to the Isle of Man.
Clare Christian, who became the first female President of Tynwald in 2011, receives an OBE for public services.
Rosemary Mazzone from the north of the island receives a BEM for services to youth and the community in Ramsey.
Wayne Powell, 39, who worked as a DJ, was shot several times in Higham Station Avenue, Chingford, east London, by a lone gunman on 5 July 2010.
His partner was expecting their baby at the time of his murder.
Police said allegiances could have changed over the years and someone may now feel they could come forward.
Det Insp Tim Cuthbert said: "We are hoping that anyone with information, who felt they couldn't come forward and assist in 2010, may feel able to finally help us and the family now."
Mr Powell, known as DJ Connoisseur, also worked as a customer assistant for London Underground at Seven Sisters.
He was sat in his black BMW when the gunman approached him.
Police said when he got out of his car the suspect fired four shots before "calmly making off" in the direction of Coningsby Gardens.
The gunman is described as possibly black, about 5ft 10ins tall and was wearing a tracksuit. The weapon used is believed to have been a handgun.
Mr Powell's partner Anne Boriel appealed to the public for help.
"My children have no daddy and are still asking questions to which I have no answers.
"Some brutal coward took him away. We will always remember my partner but we need justice."
Thomas McPhee, 35, fatally punched 43-year-old Brian Cogan outside his home in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, on 19 June, following a row over a car sale.
He escaped to England after ordering a friend to claim that the victim had been hurt in a car accident.
McPhee admitted culpable homicide, fraud and attempting to defeat justice. Sentence was deferred.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that Mr Cogan had previously been a driver for McPhee while he served a driving ban.
On 19 June the victim had been in contact with McPhee to try to sell him his Vauxhall car.
They later discussed the sale at McPhee's home in Hamilton where an argument broke out.
A neighbour saw McPhee punch Mr Cogan three times to the head before he fell to the ground.
He was then seen to run into the house and shout to others: "I've croaked him".
McPhee and his friend Jacob Forrest tried to carry out CPR on the victim before bundling him into the back of the Vauxhall car and driving away.
McPhee then called his wife to demand blood be cleaned from the street and asked Mr Forrest to say that Mr Cogan had been injured as a result of a car accident.
Mr Forrest dropped McPhee off at a restaurant in East Kilbride before driving Mr Cogan to hospital, where the victim died from a haemorrhage.
McPhee later asked another friend to take him to Newcastle, where he checked in to a hotel.
When police investigated the death, McPhee's wife told an officer her husband was in Aberdeen.
Days later, he was discovered in Gateshead in north east England before being returned to Scotland.
The court also heard that in the lead up to the killing, McPhee defrauded an elderly couple at their home in Perth of more than £4,000 in a building scam where work was not carried out.
"Look at it now, it's such a tranquil place. It was the same that Sunday afternoon, until all hell broke loose."
McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara stands outside the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, the scene of a deadly shoot-out between biker gangs. He points to where the carnage happened.
"You could see bodies lying about - one was right there on the grass, five here on the parking lot, one over there behind that pick-up truck."
McNamara does not hide his contempt for the men involved.
"They couldn't have cared less about the families right across the parking lot in other restaurants or shops," he says. "All they were interested in was killing rival bike gangs."
All of those killed and injured were part of biker gangs who had arranged to meet at the restaurant.
More than 170 bikers were arrested. Most are still in prison, with members of the different gangs being detained separately from each other.
After some persuasion, we managed to speak to a biker who was moments away from having been caught up in the bloodshed. He had been heading to Twin Peaks, but was stuck in traffic when he heard what had happened.
"We were just as shocked as anybody else," says Sean, who spoke to us on the condition we only use his first name.
A few hours south of Waco, Sean invites us to attend the funeral of a friend of his, Jesse "Mohawk" Rodriguez. one of the bikers who died in the car park,
Hundreds of men in leathers are there, their bikes parked beside the church.
They hug each other, support the grieving family and ultimately congregate in individual groups, denoted by the insignia on their jackets.
As the coffin is brought out of the hearse, a large proportion of the bikers salute.
Many of them, like "Mohawk", Sean and thousands of bikers around the country, used to serve in the American armed forces.
"It's about camaraderie, it's about brotherhood, getting together with like-minded individuals," Sean says, explaining why so many bikers are former military.
"When you're in the military, you're really, really close to the people you serve with and when you come back there is a hole."
But another former biker, James Quinn, a professor at the University of North Texas, says when mixed with disillusionment, such biker clubs can often go beyond just men hanging out together with their bikes.
"They are very loyal to their insignia, to their brothers - and very territorial," Quinn says, adding the groups are a "great place" to set up criminal networks - "drugs, weapons, extortion and prostitution are the mainstays".
Police investigators say the killings at Twin Peaks were about a challenge over territorial control.
The dominant gang in a state (currently the Bandidos in Texas) can demand affiliation from smaller clubs in return for protection and the use of the state name on their insignia, Quinn says, adding smaller clubs may not be directly involved in criminal activity.
All of the bikers we spoke to at Mohawk's funeral said they were disappointed in the negative portrayals of bikers, saying accusation of links with criminality were far-fetched.
But when a veteran member of the Bandidos, a group that classifies itself as an "outlaw motorcycle club" arrived to pay his respects, many of those same bikers showed deference.
"If you lay down with dogs, you're going to get fleas," says Steve Cook, who worked as an undercover investigator in outlaw motorcycle gangs, and now trains law enforcement.
He goes further than many other experts, saying the vast majority of motorcycle clubs in the United States in some way support those bikers involved in criminal activities.
"As time goes by, they get a little bit more involved with the outlaw groups are doing and before you know it you have these guys getting involved in stuff like you saw in Waco," Cook says.
"The groups that don't placate these guys are few and far between."
The bikers we spoke to say the level of criminal activity Steve Cook alleges is not borne out by the number of arrests of bikers over the years.
But Cook believes that is due to romanticism that surrounds motor biking in the United States.
"Even within law enforcement here there is that romanticism about bikers," he says.
"Officers don't pay any attention to the crimes bikers commit at all, they don't take them seriously."
Sean feels the popular perception of bikers, especially in movies and television, go against them, focusing on violence and criminal activity.
"We're people who pay our taxes, have normal jobs, raise our kids," he says.
After the church service, uniformed Marines perform military rites beside the coffin.
As the hearse is pulled away by a Harley Davidson, the scores of bikers at the funeral mount their motorcycles and follow behind in a thunderous "last ride" for Mohawk.
The 2013 winner, who won Monday's opening stage, avoided a crash in the peloton but was beaten to the line by Norway's Alexander Kristoff.
Cavendish, riding for Team Dimension Data, takes a five-second lead into day three of the five-day race.
The second stage was a test event for October's World Championships in Doha.
"At the end of the day I was happy with how it went," said Cavendish.
"On that finish I can't be too disappointed losing to Kristoff, he is strong on that type of finish. I am happy to keep the jersey."
The 27-year-old, who can play in the centres or on the wing, has spent his entire Super Rugby career with the Waratahs.
Horne has won 33 caps for his country and has also featured at the last two World Cups.
"Rob has played at the highest level of the sport for nearly a decade," said Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder.
"He's going to be a real asset for us, both with his quality of play and his leadership experience in what is a crucial position."
Saints have not disclosed the length of Horne's contract.
Papa Massata Diack, a former consultant for the IAAF, and ex-IAAF anti-doping director Gabriel Dolle are charged with breaches of the IAAF's code of ethics.
Former All-Russia Athletic Federation chief Valentin Balakhnichev and coach Alexei Melnikov are also in the dock.
None are expected at the three-day hearing, which starts on Wednesday.
The charges relate to the payment of about £435,000 that Russian former London Marathon winner Liliya Shobukhova allegedly made to have her doping violations covered up.
Her 38-month ban from track and field was reduced by seven months after she turned whistleblower for the World Anti-Doping Agency.
A decision from the hearing, which will be held in London, is expected in early January.
Russia have been banned from international athletics competition after a report by Wada's independent commission alleged they were guilty of "state-sponsored doping".
The Obama administration was criticised for lax security and a slow response to the 2012 attacks on a US compound, in the report by House Republicans.
But they found no new evidence of wrongdoing by ex-Secretary of State and White House hopeful Hillary Clinton.
The issue has long haunted her on the campaign trail.
Islamic militants stormed the US compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi in 2012, killing four Americans including ambassador Chris Stevens.
Earlier this year, Mrs Clinton said she took responsibility for the attack during an 11-hour hearing before the House Republicans committee on the matter.
Military leaders have said they did not have sufficient intelligence on what was happening or the resources to respond quickly enough.
In announcing the conclusion of the committee's investigation, chairman Trey Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina, said: "Nothing was en route to Libya at the time the last two Americans were killed almost eight hours after the attacks began."
US help was too slow because of "an obsession with hurting the Libyans' feelings," he said.
The report has "not found anything to contradict the conclusions of multiple, earlier investigations," Mrs Clinton's campaign said in a statement.
Democrats, in their own report, said the State Department's security measures were "woefully inadequate" but Mrs Clinton had never refused requests for more security.
They called the Republicans' report a "conspiracy theory on steroids, bringing back long-debunked allegations with no credible evidence whatsoever."
They accused the committee's Republican majority of targeting Mrs Clinton but Mr Gowdy said that was never the committee's aim.
The amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill was jointly proposed by two DUP and SDLP MLAs.
If passed it would have prevented clinics like Marie Stopes from carrying out abortions in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Fein, however, joined by two MLAs from Alliance and the Green Party, managed to block the move.
The parties put forward a petition of concern which meant that, although a majority of MLAs voted for the amendment, it still did not have sufficient cross-community backing.
After a lengthy and at times ill tempered debate, 53 MLAs backed the ban on private clinics, more than the 40 politicians who voted against.
That straight majority, however, did not count, because the amendment did not win enough support from nationalist MLAs.
The DUP condemned the move.
The breakdown of the vote was 44 unionists and 9 nationalists for the abortion amendment, while 26 nationalists, five unionists and 9 others voted against.
The UUP allowed a free vote on the amendment with Mike Nesbitt, Michael Copeland, Danny Kinahan and Sandra Overend voting against.
Sinn Fein MLA Caitriona Ruane had put forward the petition of concern, supported by Alliance Party MLA Anna Lo, and Green Party MLA Stephen Agnew.
She said her party was not in favour of abortion but believed that the option of termination should be available in the case of rape, sexual abuse or incest, or where a pregnant woman's life was in danger.
The amendment was tabled by the DUP's Paul Givan, who chairs the justice committee, and the SDLP's Alban Maginness.
They argued abortions should be restricted to the NHS, which is robustly regulated.
One of the amendment's proposers, Mr Givan, said he "regretted" the tactics deployed by Sinn Fein and how the outcome of the vote had "shamefully been pre-determined".
Anti-abortion group Precious Life presented 250,000, what it called 'petitions of concern for unborn babies,' to the assembly on Tuesday.
On Monday, it was revealed that 100 people had signed an open letter admitting that they have broken Northern Ireland law by taking illegally-procured abortion medication, or have helped others to procure it.
The signatories said that the attempt to change the law was to effectively close down the recently opened Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast - the first private clinic to offer legal abortions in Northern Ireland - and was also an attempt to close down debate on abortion.
The former Stagecoach vehicle has been donated to The Rucksack Project.
It is being revamped to provide 12 beds upstairs, plus a kitchen and toilet facilities downstairs.
Once completed, Joanne Vines from the the organisation said it would be donated to a local homeless charity and either be driven around or used as a static facility.
Wood has already been donated to fit-out the inside of the bus and an architect is drawing up designs, Ms Vines added.
She said tradesmen, including carpenters and electricians looking to "give something back to the community", were still being sought.
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Posh's defeat against Rochdale last Saturday left them 14th in the League One table, after having hopes of a play-off place in February.
"It's been awful. It's been well and truly awful," MacAnthony told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"For the money I put in, it's nowhere near good enough. People are going to feel that wrath very soon."
Posh's play-off ambitions were wrecked by a run of six defeats in seven games between February and March, and despite responding with three wins in a row, losses at Fleetwood and at home to Rochdale have left them 14 points outside the top six.
"It's nine years now I've been at the football club," MacAnthony continued. "I can't even remember last year's league position, that's how bad it was for me personally thinking about it, and obviously this year we're 14th or 15th.
"I didn't even look last time. It's not that I don't care, it's just I've got no intentions of looking at the table when we're not where we want to be, which is challenging for promotion."
Peterborough's season went into serious decline after losing to Premier League club West Brom on penalties in an FA Cup fourth-round replay on 10 February.
"The capitulation we've seen since doing well in the league and in the FA Cup, it's been horrific. It's been horrible for me and our fans - I'm an angry man and that anger is going to be felt in the coming months.
"It's easy to say we're not going to be in this position again. Some of the fans are losing faith when I say things like that, but I promise everybody wholeheartedly this isn't going to happen again.
"I'm done with capitulations. I'm done with the choking and the underperformances of the last two years."
MacAnthony is also concerned about a downturn in the numbers coming through the turnstiles.
"You cannot take what people say on social media seriously all the time, but you have to listen to your supporter base," he said.
"When we beat Crawley last year we had nearly 6,000 people. Our last home gates were around 4,500 people, so people are voting with their feet and wallets.
"We're feeling it now on the season tickets. It's hurting the club and it's hurting me."
Graham Westley is Peterborough's seventh boss since MacAnthony arrived - predecessor Darren Ferguson had two spells in charge - and knows his position could be under threat.
"I employ over 300 people at Peterborough United, not one of those employees right now has a job in the summer," the chairman said.
"Every single person who works for me at that football club from the tea lady to the youth players, I want to see that they mean business for next season, because if I don't see it, they're gone.
"I back every manager I have. I bring players into the club, I spend money on a stadium I don't own, I spend money on a training ground. I do nothing but good things for the city and Peterborough United.
"Do you know what? I want something in return. I want success and I want it next season. In fact, I demand it.
"When you put that kind of money in you do expect the people who work for you to do their jobs properly. It's not my first rodeo. I'm not wrong. I know what I'm talking about."
One in six of those who earn more than £40,000 a year now work fewer than five days a week, the study said.
That represents a rise of 12% over the past two years.
The trend towards job sharing is also increasing, with senior staff at the Ministry of Defence, the Guardian and Lloyds Bank all benefitting.
The study includes a Power Part Time list, which details the 50 most senior workers in the UK who work part-time.
Nine of those people work in job shares, the highest number to date.
"The dramatic increase in job shares on this year's Power Part Time List, offers us a glimpse into how jobs will be designed in the future," said Karen Mattison, one of the joint co-founders of Timewise.
"All it takes is an open minded employer who is prepared to try something new in a bid to hire or keep the best people, and an innovative solution is born."
In the UK as a whole, 8.5 million people work in part-time jobs, equating to one in four workers, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Timewise said its research indicated that 86% of those actually wanted to work part-time, to fit in with something else in their life, such as caring for a child or relative.
However, those who analyse employment figures have previously suggested that many of those working part-time are doing so only because they cannot find a full-time job.
Two senior employees from Lloyds Bank are on Timewise's list for the first time: Alix Ainsley and Charlotte Cherry are joint HR directors at the bank, leading a team of 30 staff, and they each work three days a week.
Other high profile part-time workers include Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley, who are joint leaders of the Green Party, and Sarah Ellis, the head of marketing strategy at Sainsbury's.
Deals at today's price are called the "spot" market and bets can also be made on forward exchange rates.
In all, $5.3 trillion (£3.3tn) was traded per day on the forex markets in 2013, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
To put that in context, that's just over double the annual economic output of the UK, which was $2.52tn in 2013, according to the World Bank.
Currency trading started out as a way for businesses and individuals to change money for overseas travel and commerce. This was a real service industry driven by the underlying level of world trade.
Opportunities for speculation were limited by the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 to peg exchange rates to the gold price. In the early 1970s, this accord broke down, exchange rates began to fluctuate more widely and globalisation created more underlying demand for foreign exchange.
Financial institutions saw a new opportunity to make money from the increased size and volatility of the forex market. Today only a fraction of currency trading is directly related to the original purpose of facilitating cross-border trade: the rest is speculative.
There is no physical forex marketplace and nearly all trading takes place on electronic systems operated by the big banks and other providers.
Dealers display the prices at which they are prepared to buy and sell currencies: users place orders with the click of a mouse.
Prices change according to supply and demand. For example, if the US dollar is more popular than the euro at any given time, the dollar will strengthen against the euro and vice versa.
Prices are constantly changing on a second-by-second basis as currencies respond to the changing flow of economic news.
About 40% of the world's dealing goes through trading rooms in London.
Prices in the forex market change so rapidly that it is difficult to establish the going rate for particular currencies at any one time. In order to help businesses and investors value their multi-currency assets and liabilities, a daily exchange rate fix is held.
Until recently, this was based on actual currency deals that took place in a window 30 seconds before and 30 seconds after 16:00 London time. WM-Reuters then calculated the fix rates based on these observed transactions, which form the benchmarks for that day.
The probity of this public information is very important, as it is the peg on which many other financial markets depend.
Because the fix was based on actual transactions over a short period of time, the potential existed for market players to get together and place orders during the 60-second window.
If they were big enough, they could affect the benchmark calculation and create profit opportunities for their firms.
Last November, regulators said that some forex traders at five of the biggest banks had been doing just that for several years. They concluded that through online chat rooms with exotic names such as The Bandits Club, The Cartel and The Mafia, traders colluded to place aggressive "buy" or "sell" orders - known in the business as "banging the close"- in order to distort the fix.
This had apparently been going on for several years. Embarrassingly for the managers meant to have been in charge of the traders, suspicious price movements were first highlighted by a whistleblower.
Clues that were available to outsiders should have been picked up internally long ago, but prime responsibility lies with those who participated directly.
The practice appears to have been so common amongst influential traders that the phrase Warren Buffett described as the five most dangerous words in business, "everyone else is doing it", comes to mind.
The Financial Stability Board, a watchdog that advises the G20 finance ministers, has set up a task force to recommend reforms of the forex market. As a result, the window in which the daily 4pm fix is calculated has been extended from one minute to five minutes. This makes it harder to manipulate.
In addition to the five minute fix, the central banks' co-ordinator - the Bank for International Settlements - is trying to get all the banks to agree a unified code of conduct, but this has not yet been settled.
Ironically, the forex market had been considered by regulators too big to be manipulated and it has been largely unregulated. Yet there were some early warning signs that all was not well.
Minutes of a meeting of dealers at the Bank of England back in 2006 appear to suggest that the possibility of market manipulation was discussed in front of officials, but the Bank of England denies this interpretation. Nine years on, it has led global regulators in cleaning up the forex market - and not before time, critics will say.
Institutional cheating of the kind we have seen in the Libor and forex scandals will probably die out for a while.
Individual traders have seen colleagues marched off the trading floor to face questioning.
Managers have finally understood the need for line-by-line, desk-by-desk scrutiny.
Regulators now know that light-touch regulation was an invitation to the financial services industry to game the rules and they have responded with more intrusive supervision and hefty deterrents.
Against this background, it would be surprising if systemic malpractice were to continue in the immediate future. But there is no room for complacency in an industry where corporate memories are short and rewards for beating the market are great.
Philip Augar is a former investment banker and the author of several books on the City.
The PM has written to Oxfordshire council leader Ian Hudspeth saying he is "disappointed" at proposed "cuts to frontline services, from elderly day centres, to libraries, to museums".
The council should "move cautiously in setting out its budget plans", he says.
In response Mr Hudspeth reminds Mr Cameron he "worked hard to assist you in achieving a Conservative majority".
Mr Cameron is the MP for Witney in Oxfordshire, an area covered by Oxfordshire County Council.
Labour has written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood suggesting the prime minister's letter may have breached the ministerial code, because Mr Hudspeth was invited to meet the No 10 policy unit regarding budget cuts.
Shadow minister without portfolio Jon Ashworth said the code requires ministers to "keep separate their roles" in government and as constituency members.
He said the leader of Mr Cameron's constituency county council "should not be given preferential treatment", and asked whether similar offers have been made to all the leaders of other councils.
In his letter, the prime minister attempts to reassure his local colleague, pointing out that the money councils get from central government will not be confirmed until after the Spending Review later this month.
In his lengthy letter of response, Mr Hudspeth disagrees with a series of claims made in the prime minister's letter - including a suggestion that Oxfordshire County Council was failing to make back office savings and had actually seen an increase in its budget.
The county council leader points out that the authority employs almost 3,000 fewer people than it did in 2010.
He adds that the council's grants from government have fallen from £194m a year in 2009/10 to £122m this year.
"I cannot accept your description of a drop in funding of £72m... as a 'slight fall'" he writes.
Mr Hudspeth points out that in addition to the spending cuts the council has had to deal with, the demands upon it have been growing, given the "heightened awareness and concern around vulnerable children" since the Baby P case in Haringey in north London, and "the growth in the elderly population - who generate the largest demand for expensive social care placements and support".
Last night, Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet agreed to cut £3.7m in subsidies to bus companies in the county. The subsidies currently help ensure "low use routes" remain viable.
Such routes are often in rural areas - such as the prime minister's Witney constituency.
A spokeswoman for the prime minister said: "There is still significant scope for sensible savings across local government to be made by back office consolidation, disposing of surplus property and joining up our local public services; we will be discussing with Oxfordshire how this can be taken forward to help protect frontline services."
For Labour, shadow chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC: "I'm backing David Cameron on this one, he is absolutely right that his chancellor's cuts to local government are seriously damaging our communities and have to be opposed.
"I welcome the prime minister as another Tory MP joining our campaign against George Osborne's cuts."
Former West Ham midfielder Payet scored from a free-kick as Marseille, who he rejoined, defeated Guingamp 2-0.
And ex-Manchester United midfielder Depay came on as a second-half substitute to fire in Lyon's fourth goal as they defeated Nancy 4-0.
The Dutchman also won the penalty which resulted in Lyon's third.
Elsewhere, Nice kept the pressure on leaders Monaco with a 1-0 win over St Etienne.
They are third on 52 points, one place behind defending champions Paris St-Germain on goal difference, although both teams trail Monaco by three points.
Torsten Kulke, 48, was reported missing on 31 July after arriving on the island a few days earlier.
A member of the public reported finding a man's body on Cliff Beach, near to the Valtos area of Lewis, at about 15:25 on Saturday.
Formal identification is yet to take place, however Mr Kulke's family have been informed.
Mr Kulke was last seen near Aird Uig at about 18:00 on Friday 28 July.
A rucksack containing personal items belonging to the 48-year-old was found a week later during searches of clifftops on the island.
There are not thought to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding Mr Kulke's death.
Police Scotland said a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.
Aldridge Manor House in Walsall was used as medical facility between 1916 and 1919, treating 941 injured and ill servicemen.
It was mainly staffed by volunteers, other than two qualified nurses and a village doctor.
The plaque unveiling was at 15:00 GMT.
Local historian Sue Satterthwaite, who has written a book about the hospital, said: "At the time Aldridge was a small Staffordshire village of less than 3,000, but they found enough local volunteers to perform all of the duties within the hospital such as nursing, cleaning, cooking, laundry and administration.
"Others from the village offered to serve on the committee which ran the hospital and to be involved in fundraising, going door-to-door every week collecting subscriptions."
The Aldridge Auxiliary Convalescent Hospital received its patients from the 2nd Birmingham War Hospital and as the war progressed it took more and more patients.
It began with 20 and ended with more than 60 - at one point the Manor House was so overcrowded the schoolroom of the local Methodist church was used for sleeping accommodation for 10 men.
Donations from the collieries, brickworks and munitions factory allowed the hospital to carry on.
"The flu epidemic in November 1918 was the hospital's darkest hour," Ms Satterthwaite said.
"Even the village doctor lay gravely ill and volunteers from Walsall and further afield came to help.
"Sadly a volunteer nurse, Alice Amelia Potts, and a patient, Private Matthew Nell of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died".
One of the speakers at the plaque's unveiling ceremony was Pte Nell's granddaughter Marilyn Preece.
She thanked the people of Aldridge for all they did to try to save her grandfather's life a century ago.
The Portuguese has drawn up a list of signing targets and wants to "reduce the risks" by sticking to players he has knowledge of.
Caixinha says Rangers are "willing to invest" as they try to close the gap on champions Celtic.
"We need strong characters and personalities, a winning mentality," Caixinha told the Rangers website.
"And of course we need quality players. First of all, we will look for men. Only men can take this job."
Rangers are currently 36 points behind Premiership winners Celtic, and could see Aberdeen effectively secure second place in the table if they defeat Hearts on Sunday.
Back-to-back Old Firm defeats caused a period of introspection at Ibrox, but Caixinha insists he is making progress in his plans to improve the squad.
"We have our list of targets. We are working on that and we are in the market, that much I can tell you," Caixinha said.
"The club is willing to invest and we know where we can go with that sort of investment. Some players may need a higher investment, and others are maybe out of contract.
"We have identified the needs and the characteristics which are really good as a starting point.
"But we want to reduce the risks - so what I am going to look for are players that I know, either from having worked with them before or because I have watched them playing on a regular basis."
Caixinha has been at Ibrox for eight weeks since succeeding Mark Warburton as manager and as well as identifying the players he wants to add to his squad, he will also begin to inform the current players next week which of them no longer have a future at the club.
The striker Kenny Miller has signed a new one-year contract, while 38-year-old Clint Hill and Philippe Senderos are both out of contract in the summer.
"We have been assessing for a long time and because I am someone who leads by example, I want all our players to know that I will shake his hand and say: 'Thank you, but our time ends here'. Or I will say: 'Let's keep going'," said Caixinha, whose side face Partick Thistle at Firhill on Saturday.
"I will start those conversations maybe at the beginning of next week. We are professionals. Even for example, when I am about to end a contract my job is to do my very best until the end.
"You are still defending the badge and you still have a contract with the club. We are all professionals, we all live for football, we all live for Rangers and we all live for winning."
They say one in five appointments is for minor ailments, such as runny noses, back pain and colic in children.
The Local Government Association, representing councils in England and Wales, is asking people to consider going to pharmacies or NHS websites.
It says such an approach could help save GPs an hour a day on average.
GPs handle 57 million cases of minor conditions and illnesses, such as coughs, colds, back pain and insect bites a year, while A&Es deal with 3.7 million similar cases, costing the NHS more than £2bn.
Back pain is one of the most common causes for a GP visit yet most cases can be treated with over-the-counter treatments and self care.
The same is true of other minor ailments, such as coughs, colds and indigestion, says the LGA.
It cites latest figures showing:
The LGA wants GPs to help to educate people about how to treat themselves, without seeing a doctor.
It says councils, which have had a responsibility for public health since 2013, have been behind a drive to improve "health literacy" among patients.
Councillor Izzi Seccombe, chairwoman of the LGA's Community Wellbeing Board, said: "We need a new culture of care, where people stop and think before calling the doctor."
GPs and A&E departments were already overstretched yet many appointments were unnecessary, she said.
"Patients need to be helped in learning how to look after themselves, for example in managing long-term conditions such as heart disease or diabetes, and GPs can play a key role in this."
Jonathan MacShane, who is also on the LGA's Community Wellness Board, said: "We reckon that an average GP could save an hour a day if people weren't attending with the kinds of conditions, which they could look after themselves."
Dr Ian Banks, of the Self Care Forum - a body made up of representatives from organisations including the Men's Health Forum, Public Health England and the Royal College of Nursing, said: "Most people are entirely capable of looking after themselves most of the time, self-treating when it's safe and knowing where and when to seek help when they need it.
"There will always be others however, who might need a bit more support to become empowered and confident in making the right health decision."
A human rights group on Monday filed a case in a Nigerian court to try to compel the government to arrest Mr Bashir and hand him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Mr Bashir was in Nigeria for an African Union-organised health summit due to end on Tuesday.
Sudanese diplomats said he left because he had another engagement.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Mr Bashir in 2009, accusing him of committing genocide during the 10-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
On Tuesday, the ICC issued a statement saying it had asked Nigeria to arrest Mr Bashir before he left the country.
Sudan does not recognise the ICC and accuses it of being a tool of Western powers, while the AU has called on its members not to arrest Mr Bashir.
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Mr Bashir was to due to speak at the summit in the capital, Abuja, on Monday, Nigeria's Guardian newspaper reports.
But when he was called to make a presentation, he was nowhere to be found, it says.
Sudan's ambassador to the African Union Abdelrahman Sirelkhatim Mohamed denied Mr Bashir left to evade arrest, AFP news agency reports.
"He's the bravest," Mr Mohamed is quoted as saying.
"If he's afraid of arrest, he would not have come here."
Mr Bashir received a full guard of honour from the Nigerian government when he arrived in Abuja on Sunday to attend the summit, which is looking at ways to curb malaria, Aids and tuberculosis in Africa.
He was among eight African leaders who attended the summit, Associated Press news agency reports.
Some had left on Monday, but others, including Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, were still at the summit on Tuesday, Reuters news agency reports.
Nigerian presidential spokesman Reuben Abati told AP that Mr Bashir had been in Abuja at the AU's invitation, not Nigeria's.
Nigeria allowed him into the country in accordance with an AU decision not to cooperate with the ICC, he said.
The Nigerian Coalition for the International Criminal Court (NCICC) filed papers in the High Court on Monday, to push the government to arrest Mr Bashir.
Nigeria was in breach of its international obligations by failing to arrest him, and was fuelling a culture of impunity, NCICC chair Chino Obiagwu said.
Sudan's foreign ministry accused the UK of being hypocritical by criticising Nigeria for failing to arrest Mr Bashir.
"Britain participated in the Iraq invasion after it had manipulated the domestic and international opinion with reasons it knew were lies. Iraq, our friend, still suffers from the destruction," the ministry said in a statement, Reuters reports.
On Monday, the UK minister for Africa, Mark Simmonds, said Nigeria's decision to host Mr Bashir "undermines the work of the ICC and sends the victims a dismaying message that the accountability they are waiting for will be delayed further".
Although Nigeria's government has resisted the calls to arrest Mr Bashir, in 2003, it handed ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor to a UN-backed court to stand trial on war crimes charges, following intense diplomatic pressure from the US.
Mr Taylor had been exiled in Nigeria, and was arrested as he tried to flee.
Mr Bashir has visited numerous African countries since the arrest warrant was issued - including Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi.
Last year, Malawi's new leader said she did not want Mr Bashir to attend a summit there, reversing the position of her predecessor.
In 2011, a Kenyan court ruled that Sudan's president should be arrested if he ever visited the country following a case brought by a non-governmental organisation, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).
Some 2.7 million people have fled their homes since the conflict began in Darfur in 2003, and the UN says about 300,000 have died - mostly from disease.
The ICC says Mr Bashir's government backed Arab militias who targeted civilian members of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa communities.
Sudan's government says the conflict has killed about 12,000 people and the number of dead has been exaggerated for political reasons.
He was one of 16 people arrested across the central state of Hesse, as 1,100 police searched flats, businesses and mosques.
The man is also wanted by Tunisian authorities over a jihadist attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis.
Twenty-one tourists and a Tunisian were killed in March 2015.
Many of the victims were British, Japanese, French, Italian or Colombian.
Authorities in Frankfurt said Wednesday's operation was the result of a four-month investigation. They had evidence Islamists were preparing an attack, but described the planning as in its early stages.
Those arrested are aged between 16 and 46 and are suspected of helping a foreign terrorist group and of planning serious violence.
Three men were held in separate raids in Berlin late on Tuesday which included a mosque that Tunisian jihadist Anis Amri visited shortly before driving a heavy goods lorry into a crowded Christmas market in December, killing 12 people.
One of the three detained was said to be in charge of the Fussilet mosque, which has been described as a base for radical Muslims in Berlin.
Amri had spent four years in jail in Italy before travelling to Germany but repeated attempts to send him back to Tunisia had failed because officials there said he had no documents.
Police said the Tunisian man picked up on Wednesday was detained at his home in Frankfurt. He had spent 10 years in Germany until 2013 and had returned as an asylum seeker in August 2015.
Since his return he is suspected of setting up an IS support network.
Tunisian authorities have also linked him to a deadly March 2016 attack on the town of Ben Guerdane, close to the Libyan border.
He was in detention in Frankfurt facing extradition for several weeks but was released last November because Tunisian authorities had failed to submit documents in time.
Olivia, 15, was among 22 people who died in the suicide bombing at Manchester Arena on 22 May.
The funeral, at the Parish Church of St Anne in Tottington, near Bury, was "a celebration of her life".
Her mother Charlotte Campbell said they wanted "to give her the best send-off anyone can give her".
Ms Campbell said Olivia was a precious, gorgeous girl who had told her she was having "an amazing time" at the Ariana Grande concert.
Speaking ahead of the funeral, Ms Campbell said: "We are not calling it a funeral, we know we've got the official bit to do but afterwards we're calling it her party.
"She was 15... she was full of life and we want to give her the 16th, the 20th the prom, everything she's going to miss now.
"That's what getting us through as we want to give her the best send-off anyone can give her."
On a warm and sunny day in a small village near Bury, hundreds of mourners - the majority teenagers - gathered to say their goodbyes to Olivia.
Music, a significant part of Olivia's life, featured throughout the service with recordings of her singing as well as a hymn sung by her school choir.
The first hymn, The Lord of the Dance, reflected her love of performing. Her cremation, a private event, also had recordings of her singing to There You'll Be and All Of Me.
The vicar reflected on his memories of the schoolgirl - including how he remembered her yawning during an RE lesson taking place in this same church where her life was celebrated.
"Remember all that was good, fun, dare I say mischievous, loveable and kind about Olivia," he said.
Love was one of the key themes for the readings and hymns chosen for the service.
The reading from 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13 featured the line "love never ends", and for those gathered today remembering Olivia this will be the case.
Hundreds of people lined the streets as the hearse arrived at the church, carrying the pale-blue coffin.
Mourners spilled out into the grounds of the packed church, many of whom were fellow students from Tottington High School, closed for the day as a mark of respect.
The school's choir sang I, The Lord of Sea and Sky at the beginning of the service after a prayer by the Reverend Hugh Bearn.
Olivia's family has set up a charitable trust to enable young people to take part in the performing arts - her "passion".
The schoolgirl loved music and had previously auditioned for Britain's Got Talent in Manchester, singing her favourite song All Of Me by John Legend.
A recording of her singing the song was played at the end of a private cremation.
Aberystwyth University's Prof Mark Macklin said magnitudes could be 40% greater than planned for in some areas.
He told BBC Wales Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is failing to use all historical data to predict the risks.
A NRW spokesman said its flood maps were not underestimating the problem but it was considering using the data.
Prof Macklin, who heads the university's river dynamics and hydrology research group, questioned why NRW uses river gauges from the past 50 years only to predict flood risk.
He told Week In Week Out his researchers had found "evidence of much larger and more frequent floods" in the 18th century, which were between 20% and 30% larger.
Among areas most at risk, Prof Macklin said parts of the upper River Severn in Powys could see flood magnitudes between 20% and 40% greater than what had been experienced since 1980.
"We will need to rethink and re-map our flood plains to look at changing flood risks. If we don't, we're going to put more properties and livelihoods at risk," he said.
Despite £7m being spent on new flood defences in Llanrwst in Conwy Valley, residents on Conway Terrace had their properties flooded on Boxing Day 2015 when a temporary dam was not put up in time.
An NRW spokesman said while it did not accept its flood maps were underestimating the risks, it was aware of Prof Macklin's work and was considering a pilot study to see if it could use the data in its modelling.
The 30-year-old Spaniard has made six appearances for the Black Cats this season but is yet to feature in 2016.
Gomez joined Sunderland in 2014 after his Wigan contract expired and has also played for Espanyol and Swansea.
Rovers have also announced that midfielder Sacha Petshi has signed for French side US Creteil-Lusitanos on a free transfer.
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"It's the best kind of innovation - the problem-solving innovation born out of necessity," says Toby Shapshak, editor and publisher of the South African version of Stuff magazine says.
As Technology of Business embarks on a month-long series of features exploring some of these innovation stories, we kick off by looking at Africa's main technology trends and the challenges facing this vast 54-nation continent of 1.1 billion people.
You cannot talk about Africa without talking about mobile. Most innovation involves mobile devices and wireless technology in some way or another.
It's not hard to understand why.
Installing a traditional fixed-line telecoms infrastructure made no economic sense across huge, sparsely populated, and sometimes difficult to cross terrains.
The mobile phone - particularly cheap "feature phones" such as the Nokia 1100 and the Samsung E250 - offered sufficient functionality combined with long battery life.
In a continent where access to electricity is still patchy, particularly in non-urban areas, battery life and energy-frugal applications are key. This is why so many essential mobile services in Africa are based around the SMS texting platform.
Information is power, and before mobiles came along, access to data was limited for millions of Africans.
But by the end of 2014 more than 600 million people - about 56% of the population - are likely to own a mobile phone, with some researchers estimating penetration could reach 80%.
When you consider that just 1% owned a mobile in 2000, the rate of growth seems all the more astonishing. There are now more than 35 mobile network operators in Africa busily extending their base station networks to improve coverage.
Foreign companies are waking up to the commercial opportunities this presents.
"Large, multinational consumer goods companies are now looking for ways to reach their customers and employees in Africa through mobile channels, and are viewing South Africa as a gateway to the rest of the continent," says Tielman Botha, South Africa country lead for Accenture Mobility.
Even though nearly two-thirds of these phones will be accessing 2G and SMS networks rather than the faster 3G and 4G, the range of services they can access is impressive.
Whether it is farmers accessing local market prices for their produce to arm themselves against profiteering middlemen, or nurses, doctors and patients accessing medical monitoring and data services, mobiles and wireless devices are transforming lives.
But it is as a payments platform that the mobile has really blossomed in Africa.
Vodafone and Safaricom's M-Pesa mobile payments system, launched in 2007, now handles about 1.15 trillion Kenyan Shillings (£7.72bn) a year - that's 35% of Kenya's gross domestic product.
The concept sprang from resourceful Africans using and swapping mobile airtime as a form of currency.
M-Pesa is now expanding across Africa, and has also launched in India, Afghanistan and Romania, while other mobile network operators have launched their own mobile banking services.
People can pay for solar lighting, water, groceries and other goods, and also receive credits and person-to-person money transfers via their mobiles.
Such payment systems - and the digital audit trails they leave - are also proving useful for governments tackling tax evasion and corporations combating fraud.
In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, about 42% have some form of internet access, according to the country's Federal Ministry of Communication Technology (FMCT).
But with broadband costing about 30% of a household's income, and half the country's 167 million people living in unconnected rural areas, take-up of high-speed services is understandably slow.
Mrs Omobola Johnson, FMCT minister, believes information and communication technology (ICT) is "the fourth pillar of the Nigerian economy, contributing about 7.8% to the country's GDP".
Her department is working on a broadband strategy that aims to achieve 30% penetration by 2017 through public-private partnerships, in the belief that a 10% increase in broadband connectivity could lead to a 1.3% increase in national GDP.
While mobile phone operators, such as Unitel in Angola, are beginning to roll out high-speed cellular broadband, this does require users to upgrade to more expensive smartphones and tablets.
So Microsoft's 4Afrika initiative is trying another way to bring broadband to rural and other unconnected communities.
It is using so-called TV white spaces, those unused parts of the wireless spectrum usually used for television, to provide internet connectivity.
Radio signals in the TV bands travel over longer distances than other radio signals and are less prone to interference from obstacles in their way. This means fewer base stations are needed, reducing costs.
Lack of widespread broadband internet is one problem; lack of education, training and skills is another.
"There's a disconnect between employers and educators - a skills gap," says Njideka Harry, president and chief executive of the Youth for Technology Foundation, based in Owerri, Nigeria.
"We fundamentally believe that technology should be a basic human right - accessible and affordable and available to every human on the planet."
About 21 million children are not in school across Africa, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
In the Central African Republic there can be 86 pupils to a classroom, while schools in other countries can lack water, basic sanitation and electricity. Textbooks are often in short supply, as are qualified teachers.
While technology would seem to offer some answers, electronic libraries, digital textbooks, online exam marking and distance learning projects can only flourish once faster wireless connectivity has been rolled out.
"Without this connectivity we will never be competitive - ever," says Farouk Gumel, partner at consultancy PwC Nigeria.
As and when such ubiquitous connectivity is achieved, young people also need to be taught how to use these technologies and understand their potential, Ms Harry believes.
Her academy teaches "technology, entrepreneurship and life skills to young people" and is looking at the potential for "3D printing to transform the African continent from an 'Aid to Africa' to a 'Made in Africa' model".
By using low-energy, low-cost kit, such as the Raspberry Pi computer and inexpensive laptops and tablets, "our young people are creating an ecosystem of relatively inexpensive, yet innovative, technologies," she says.
Projects by her entrepreneurial students include domestic security systems and LED lighting programs.
"Technology is also enabling more people to create, record and edit their own content then distribute it cheaply via Facebook and Twitter," says Chichi Nwoko, chief executive of Hey What's On? - a media company based in Lagos and New York.
Home-grown companies like Jumia, Konga and Iroko TV are beginning to give global brands like Amazon and Netflix a run for their money, she believes.
Innovation is happening in other sectors, too.
For example, satellite mapping, GPS tracking systems, civilian drones and mobile cloud-based databases are helping farmers monitor their livestock against disease and theft, track pesticide residues in their crops and study weather patterns.
For Africa, it seems, necessity may be the mother of invention, but technology is its father.
A huge police operation was mounted and three weeks after her disappearance in February 2008, the youngster was found hidden in the base of a divan bed in a flat in Batley Carr.
She was being held by her stepfather's uncle, Michael Donovan.
The subsequent arrest of Donovan and the child's mother Karen Matthews led to one of the most notorious cases of child abuse.
In court it emerged the pair had planned the kidnap in order to claim a £50,000 reward being offered by a national newspaper.
The schoolgirl had been "drugged, subdued and hidden from public view".
Matthews, then 33, was convicted in December 2008 and jailed for eight years for her part in the kidnapping.
Donovan, who was aged 40 at the time, was given the same prison sentence.
After the trial it emerged the abuse and neglect of Shannon started long before she went missing.
The BBC's Panorama programme learnt the youngster was well known to Kirklees social services and had been put on the "at-risk" register years before she disappeared.
The programme claimed she was later removed from the register because she was not considered to be at risk of significant harm.
Former neighbours said they had raised concerns about the family with social services but nothing appeared to be done.
Matthews' cousin Vicky Saunders, who contacted the authority on two separate occasions, said: "To me I feel let down with it."
She added: "They could have done more to help Karen but they weren't there for her."
Claire Wilson, a former neighbour when Matthews lived at Batley Carr, said: "We just kept reporting it but nothing seemed to be getting done.
"We were saying that something's going to happen to those children. How can you leave them in those conditions because the house was filthy, it stank."
Now 17 months after the investigation was first launched, Kirklees Council has published a long-awaited report looking at whether the kidnap could have been prevented.
Oxford University-educated David Jenkins died when his Edge 360 plane crashed at the Old Buckenham airfield on Wednesday.
Mr Jenkins, from Stanton, Suffolk, was in his 60s and first flew as a teenager in Welwyn Garden City.
It is understood Mr Jenkins' next of kin has been informed of his death.
Norfolk Police were called after witnesses reported the aircraft falling suddenly to the ground.
The investigation into what happened will be handed over to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and a file into the death of Mr Jenkins will be prepared for the coroner.
Mr Jenkins was a member of the Wildcat Aerobatic Team, based at Old Buckenham Airfield, near Attleborough, where the event was taking place.
He was named British Advanced Champion in 2012 and 2013 and had won more than 40 medals in aerobatic competitions.
Mr Jenkins was a member of the UK team at the 2012 aerobatic world championships.
Adrian Willis, a close friend of Mr Jenkins and a chief instructor with the British Aerobatic Academy, said: "We are all really, really sad. He (Mr Jenkins) was a really top bloke.
"He helped others and spent his time generously."
Alan Cassidy, chairman of the British Aerobatics Association, said Mr Jenkins was a "great mentor" adding: "Dave helped people whenever he could.
"He was a very experienced pilot and a genuine and thoroughly nice man. It is a tragic loss."
He said the cause of the crash was not yet known.
Even if Mr Jenkins had been wearing a parachute, said Mr Cassidy, he was flying too close to the ground at the time to have deployed it in time.
"If you fly these aeroplanes in this kind of way, some of the margins of safety you expect in everyday life will be reduced a little bit."
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Costa, 28, has not returned to Stamford Bridge this summer as he hopes to force through a move to Atletico Madrid, who have been drawn in Chelsea's Champions League group.
"I said always a warm welcome for every good player and he's a good player," said Koeman.
"We are still looking to bring a striker in."
The window closes next Thursday and despite bright starts from new signings Wayne Rooney and Gylfi Sigurdsson, Koeman is keen to bring in further attacking options.
Sandro Ramirez has missed Everton's last three matches with a heel problem which has paved way for 20-year-old Dominic Calvert-Lewin to gain some playing time.
"I'm really happy with the performances of Dominic, but he's still young and we need more competition in front with the strikers."
Everton have been drawn in the Europa League group stage with Lyon, who host the final on 16 May 2018 as well as Atalanta and Apollon Limassol.
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On Monday, Avon and Somerset Police made a fresh appeal for information over the murder of Helen Fleet in 1987.
The 66-year-old was stabbed and strangled while walking her dogs in Worlebury Woods near the town.
DS Zoe Niccolls, said: "We've had several calls from members of the public, some providing us with names."
"We'll look into each piece of information to see if it can help us progress this inquiry and we'll be keeping Helen's family updated with any significant developments," she added.
Despite a major investigation at the time of Mrs Fleet's death, no murder weapon was discovered.
Police also said the motive for the murder was unclear, as it was not a robbery and there was no sexual assault.
It is hoped evidence found at the scene will yield more clues due to forensic advances.
Charter schools - publicly funded independent schools - have continued to expand across the US, with supporters seeing them as a way of re-energising standards in state education.
And the educational technology sector has been pushing to bring some hi-tech start-up innovation to teaching and learning.
So it's easy to see how the next step for a 21st Century education seemed to be a virtual classroom, combining the autonomy of charter schools with the flexibility of learning online.
Except a major report, based on research in 17 US states with online charter schools, has found "significantly weaker academic performance" in maths and reading in these virtual schools compared with the conventional school system.
The National Study of Online Charter Schools, the first major study of this growing sector, has taken a wrecking ball to the idea that pupils learn as effectively in such an online setting.
Despite the digital glitz, it concludes that online learning has failed to match the teacher at the front of the class.
The report, from researchers at the University of Washington, Stanford University and the Mathematica policy research group, found online pupils falling far behind their counterparts in the classroom. In maths, it was the equivalent of pupils having missed an entire year in school.
Online schools are still relatively small in pupil numbers, but this idea of virtual schooling has been growing quickly and has been seen as a significant future alternative to mainstream classes.
There are currently about 200,000 pupils in online charter schools in the US, says the study. In 2012-13, there were about 65,000 - and although students pay no tuition fees, based on annual funding levels of $6,000 (£3,900) per pupil, that represented $39m (£25m) in public spending.
Online schools, with no physical limits, can grow rapidly, with the study highlighting that one online charter school in Pennsylvania enrolled more than 10,000 full-time pupils.
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These online schools, otherwise known as "virtual" or "cyber" schools, are defined by teaching more or less everything online. They are an alternative to attending a traditional school, rather than providing additional lessons.
But low achievement in these schools, identified by this research, has raised big doubts about this approach.
The study found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that there was much less teacher contact time in virtual schools. On average, pupils in bricks-and-mortar classrooms received the same amount of teacher time each day as the virtual pupils received on-screen each week.
The online schools relied much more on students driving their own learning and often determining the pace at which they advanced.
And the biggest problem identified by the researchers was the difficulty in keeping online pupils focused on their work.
"Challenges in maintaining student engagement are inherent in online instruction," said report co-author Brian Gill.
"And they are exacerbated by high student-teacher ratios and minimal student-teacher contact time, which the data reveal are typical of online charter schools nationwide."
The researchers compared the performance of pupils in online schools with their equivalents in the mainstream schools, in terms of gender, ethnicity, relative wealth or poverty and the prior attainment levels. The most consistent difference in online schools was a disproportionately high intake of white students.
Researchers found that only 2% of online schools outperformed their bricks-and-mortar equivalents in reading. In maths, no online schools were better, and 88% were "significantly weaker".
James Woodworth, of Stanford's Centre for Research on Education Outcomes, described the findings as "sombre", but said that at least they provided evidence for discussions about the future role of online schools.
The University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education suggested that the findings showed the need for a better regulatory framework for online schools.
The centre's director, Robin Lake, said: "We need policies that address legitimate concerns without needlessly restricting growth."
How do you inspect standards in such a different type of school? What should be the admissions rules for virtual schools, so they can teach the type of pupils who would benefit? And how can for-profit providers be incentivised to raise standards rather than recruit more students?
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools said it was "disheartened" at the "large-scale underperformance".
Nina Rees, the group's president, said failing charter schools should be closed - and that included online charter schools.
But she highlighted that this report only examined schools that were fully online and that there were many successful examples of so-called "blended" learning, where some of the learning was online, but there was also a traditional classroom and teacher.
The study also highlights certain groups who benefit from online schools - such as rural students with limited options, students at home with health problems, those with families moving around the country and those who for whatever reason did not fit in with a conventional school.
Connections Academy, a big US provider of virtual charter schools, said comparisons should recognise the "distinct nature of instruction and the population served by online public schools".
The academy called for a more "productive direction" to find ways to strengthen online schools.
Because, as it points out, this is a form of education being chosen by a growing number of American families.
The collection was owned by Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, but was sold to Russia to pay off debts.
It is back at his family home, Houghton Hall, Norfolk after The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg agreed a loan.
The exhibition was due to end next month but is now on until November.
A spokesman for the exhibition, Houghton Revisited, said: "Tens of thousands have already been to see it, and peak-time sessions during the holidays and at weekends have completely sold out."
More than 70 pieces, including works by Van Dyck and Rembrandt, have been hung in their original positions and are surrounded by the original furniture, bronzes and marble antiquities.
It took a year to broker the deal to bring the paintings to Norfolk.
The story of the works and the exhibition is the subject of a BBC4 television documentary, Britain's Lost Treasures: How Houghton Got Its Art Back.
It will be screened on Wednesday.
Greg Moffat, 22, from Airdrie, attacked the 23-year-old woman at a flat in the North Lanarkshire town in the early hours of 16 March 2014.
The High Court in Glasgow heard he told his victim he was sorry but later claimed to police that they had been involved in a consensual sex act.
Judge Lord Armstrong placed Moffat on the sex offenders register, remanded him in custody and deferred sentence.
The court heard that the victim was part of a group who had gone back to the flat following a night out at a local club.
She ended up going to sleep in a room in the flat but was later woken by Moffat raping her.
The woman told the jury: "I said to him: 'You were having sex with me when I was asleep. I said it over and over'.
"I was shocked. I didn't know what to think - can't explain it. I just wanted to get away."
Moffat later apologised to the woman but after being arrested he insisted they were involved in a consensual sex act rather than full intercourse.
However, the woman told the court she wanted her attacker to tell the truth.
She said: "I don't know why he is just not admitting it. I cannot believe why he would say that. I don't know why this happened."
The jury was also told that the rape had changed the woman's life and she had given up her job.
She added: "My whole life has changed. I don't feel comfortable with people. I am just different. I just don't have the same life that I did."
Following the guilty verdict, first offender Moffat wept as he was led handcuffed to the cells.
However, the 35-year-old, capped 103 times, is adamant that he will never retire himself from Scotland duty.
He told BBC Scotland: "I was having this conversation with the missus yesterday, that this could be the last time I run out at Murrayfield.
"I said, 'No, it's not! No, it's not!' I want to keep going."
The Glasgow Warriors winger's caps haul is bettered only by Chris Paterson, who played for Scotland on 109 occasions.
"It is a bit of a cliche but you should play every game like it's your last," he said.
"But I'll keep going. I will become surplus to requirements rather than retire."
Lamont scored a brace of tries when Scotland last beat France, 20-16 in 2006, and he believes it is time to break that run and build on the recent win over Italy.
"Ten years is too long, way too long. One year is too long for us," he said.
"We're looking to make a statement this weekend. We should be beating Italy every year - no disrespect to them - and then looking to pick off others. We've got a good win but we now need to back that up."
Those thoughts are echoed by team captain Greig Laidlaw, who accepts there is pressure on the players to build on the success against the Azzurri at the Stadio Olimpico.
"There's pressure on us and it's that internal pressure we put on each other as a group and as the boys out on the field that have to drive this team forward," Laidlaw asserted.
"It's up to nobody else to get the win this weekend.
"After the win in Rome, which was brilliant, we now have to park that and take another step forward.
"We can't relax by thinking we've beaten Italy and won a game. That's not good enough. We have to go and win another one."
The prime minister has said the bill would remove the European Communities Act 1972 from the statute book as a prelude to EU withdrawal.
But Mike Russell said it would require Scottish Parliament approval, which may be denied if Scotland's interests are not represented in negotiations.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said there would be full consultation.
But she also stressed that the EU referendum had been a UK-wide vote and that "there is no veto for the Scottish Parliament".
Theresa May has promised that a "Great Repeal Bill" in the next Queen's Speech which would remove the 1972 treaty but also enshrine all existing EU law into British law.
This would allow the government to seek to keep, amend or cancel any legislation once Brexit has been completed.
Under the "Sewel convention" the UK Parliament would not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters in Scotland without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.
But nothing in the Scotland Act prevents the UK Parliament from legislating on matters which are within devolved competence.
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme, Mr Russell said such a bill would concern devolved matters and would therefore require MSPs' approval.
He said: "This Great Repeal Act will require the approval of the Scottish parliament - a legislative consent motion will be required.
"So the Scottish government, the Scottish Parliament has a formal role there.
"We need to make sure we are in there discussing these matters because on what we're hearing so far, the matters of great importance - matters of free movement, a whole range of matters on education and the environment - I'm not hearing the sense in London that makes me think that Scotland and Scotland's vital interests are being protected."
Asked whether the Scottish Parliament might refuse to give legislative consent, he pointed to recent parliament votes demonstrating opposition to a "hard Brexit".
He said: "Presently there is a majority against that repeal bill - that's absolutely obvious."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson insisted the Scottish government would be consulted in the Brexit negotiations.
She said: "There's a full acknowledgement from the UK government that consultation will go on within the Scottish government.
"David Davis {Brexit Secretary} spoke to Nicola Sturgeon last night. He's already sat down with Mike Russell, who is the minister Nicola Sturgeon has put in charge of the negotiations on behalf of the Scottish government.
"So it's about being integrally involved - but I think there has to be an understanding that this was a UK-wide vote.
"The UK is the member state. Foreign affairs is reserved to the UK. So there is full input there - but there is no veto for the Scottish Parliament."
Scottish Labour's Europe spokesman Lewis Macdonald accused the prime minister of brazenly putting party before country.
He said: "There is nothing 'great' about a Bill with the purpose of withdrawing from treaty obligations on one hand, then re-enacting all the laws which arise from those treaty obligations on the other.
"There is little evidence that the Conservative Government has worked out how this measure will work in Scotland, given the separate status and application of Scots Law.
"The rhetoric of 'an independent and sovereign country once again' is only too familiar to people in Scotland. It is just as meaningless for Britain in the 21st Century as it is for Scotland.
"If the Tories are intent on wrecking our relationships in Europe by pulling Britain out of the single market as well as the EU, they should at least be honest with the British people about what that will mean."
In a report, it said "cynical deals" with Libya consigned thousands to the risk of drowning, rape and torture.
It said the EU was turning a blind eye to abuses in Libyan detention centres, and was mostly leaving it up to sea rescue charities to save migrants.
More than 2,000 people have died in 2017 trying to get to Europe, it said.
The EU has so far made no public comments on Amnesty's report.
It comes as interior ministers from the 28-member bloc are meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, to discuss the migrant crisis.
They will review a $92m (£71m) action plan unveiled by the European Commission to deal with the issue.
The commission proposes to use more than 50% of the funds to boost the Libyan coastguard's capacity to stop traffickers launching boatloads of migrants out to sea to be rescued.
The rest is to help Italy feed, house and process the migrants who get there.
"Rather than acting to save lives and offer protection, European ministers... are shamelessly prioritising reckless deals with Libya in a desperate bid to prevent refugees and migrants from reaching Italy," said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty's Europe director.
"European states have progressively turned their backs on a search and rescue strategy that was reducing mortality at sea in favour of one that has seen thousands drown and left desperate men, women and children trapped in Libya, exposed to horrific abuses," he said.
Amnesty's report said measures implemented by the EU to strengthen search and rescue in the central Mediterranean in 2015 had dramatically decreased deaths at sea.
But this priority was short-lived, the document said, adding that the EU later shifted its focus to disrupting smugglers and preventing departures from Libya.
Such practices and an increasing use of unseaworthy boats had made the sea even more unsafe, Amnesty said.
Interceptions by the Libyan coastguard often put refugees and migrants at risk, the rights group warned.
It said that there were serious allegations that coastguard members were colluding with smugglers and abusing migrants.
"If the second half of this year continues as the first and urgent action is not taken, 2017 looks set to become the deadliest year for the deadliest migration route in the world," Mr Dalhuisen said.
"The EU must rethink its co-operation with Libya's woefully dysfunctional coastguard and deploy more vessels where they are desperately needed."
Mr Dalhuisen stressed that "ultimately the only sustainable and humane way to reduce the numbers risking such horrific journeys is to open more safe and legal routes for migrants and refugees to reach Europe".
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.
Championship outfit Alloa this week added Ryan Finnie from Annan Athletic after Doyle rejected a new contract.
Doyle, who joined the Wasps in 2011, had been poised to move to the League of Ireland to play full-time football.
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright said: "I know Michael well. He was about to sign for Cork City."
Doyle, who began his career with Kilmarnock and had a spell on loan to Stirling Albion, joins the Saints squad for Saturday's visit of Scottish Premiership title challengers Aberdeen.
"He wants full-time football in Scotland and this opportunity has come up at the right time for him," said Wright.
"He's a good athlete and experienced and will give us good cover at a critical stage in the season."
Mackay played through the pain barrier in St Johnstone's Scottish League Cup semi-final defeat by Hibernian on Saturday.
However, the 35-year-old now faces more surgery on his hip after initially returning successfully from a summer operation.
"Dave's been able to manage the problem since returning to action, but he has been in a lot of discomfort this week and so we sent him for further consultation and the outcome is that he needs another operation," added Wright.
"He's looking at an absence of four to five months, so unfortunately his season is over.
"I'm very disappointed for him because he put a lot of work into his recovery back in the summer and autumn."
Wright is hoping chairman Steve Brown to give him some of the £500,000 the Perth club will receive from the sale of forward Michael O'Halloran to Rangers.
Apart from Celtic, few Scottish clubs have been willing to pay transfer fees in recent years, but Aberdeen and Hearts were both been prepared to spend money to improve their squads during January.
"I've spoken to the chairman about it and feel we need to be a bit more pro-active," said Wright. I'll try my best to get him to loosen the purse strings because it is getting tougher.
"Ross County can go out and get David Goodwillie on loan - we couldn't afford that."
Meanwhile, Alloa manager Jack Ross has turned to Scotland Under-19 cap Finnie to replace Doyle, who made 178 appearances for Alloa.
The 20-year-old was coached by Ross at Dumbarton while on loan from Hamilton Academical before he won a move to Rangers.
Finnie failed to break into the first team at Ibrox and subsequently with Partick Thistle.
However, following trial spells with Dunfermline Athletic and Brechin City, he made 17 appearances for Annan after joining the League Two outfit in September.
More than 50 people are being treated at the hospital in the town, which is on the shores of Lake Chad.
The camp on the town's outskirts is home to tens of thousands of Nigerians who have fled Boko Haram attacks.
Chad is host to a new regional force set up to tackle the Nigeria-based militant Islamists.
Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria agreed to establish the 8,700-strong force, but it has yet to start operations in earnest because of reported funding difficulties.
At least 37 people died in the Baga Sola explosions on Saturday afternoon.
This figure may include the suicide attackers, which some reports put at five.
Witnesses reported hearing three blasts, one at the busy fish market and two at the refugee camp.
Officials suspect Boko Haram to be behind the attacks - the group first attacked Chad in June using suicide bombers to target the capital, N'Djamena.
Since then Chad has banned people from wearing the full-face veil, fearing attackers use the garment to cover explosives, and reintroduced the death penalty for acts of terrorism.
Borno state, which has been at the heart of Boko Haram's six-year insurgency, is on the Nigerian border with Chad.
Earlier this year, Chad was instrumental in helping Nigeria's army retake most of the areas Boko Haram occupied.
But in the last few months, suicide attacks in particular have intensified.
This week, two new Boko Haram propaganda videos have been released with footage suggesting it still has scores of fighters.
In one of the videos, the group reaffirmed its allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
According to Amnesty International, at least 17,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 2009, when the group launched its violent uprising to try to impose militant Islamist rule.
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Subjects for the negotiations, which officially start in Brussels later, include the status of expats, the UK's "divorce bill" and the Northern Ireland border.
Mr Davis said there was a "long road ahead" but predicted a "deep and special partnership".
The UK is set to leave the EU by the end of March 2019.
Day one of the negotiations will start at about 11:00 BST at European Commission buildings in Brussels.
Mr Davis and the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier, a former French foreign minister and EU commissioner, will give a joint press conference at the end of the day.
The UK minister, who will be accompanied by a team of British officials, is expected to say: "Today marks the start of negotiations that will shape the future of the European Union and the United Kingdom, and the lives of our citizens.
"We want both sides to emerge strong and prosperous, capable of projecting our shared European values, leading in the world, and demonstrating our resolve to protect the security of our citizens.
"I want to reiterate at the outset of these talks that the UK will remain a committed partner and ally of our friends across the continent.
"And while there is a long road ahead, our destination is clear - a deep and special partnership between the UK and the EU. A deal like no other in history."
The BBC has been told by European Union sources that the talks will follow the EU's preferred pattern of exit negotiations first, with the future relations between the two sides - including the free trade deal the UK is seeking - at a later date.
Five major UK business bodies have come together to call for continued access to the European single market until a final Brexit deal is made with the EU.
In a letter to Business Secretary Greg Clark, they urged the government to "put the economy first".
The letter is from the British Chambers of Commerce, Confederation of British Industry, EEF, Federation of Small Businesses and Institute of Directors.
On the eve of talks, Chancellor Philip Hammond issued a strong warning about the implications of the UK leaving the EU without a deal in place.
Mr Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that having no deal would be "a very, very bad outcome for Britain" but added that one that aimed to "suck the lifeblood out of our economy over a period of time" would be even worse.
He called for a transition deal to be in place to avoid businesses being affected by a "cliff edge" scenario as the UK leaves.
Mr Hammond has said the UK should "prioritise protecting jobs, protecting economic growth and protecting prosperity".
"In college I was studying to become a doctor, but I was constantly doodling in the margins of my medical books," she says.
"Shortly afterwards I decided to take a U-turn and managed to persuade my parents to let me take fine arts."
The decision paid off.
The star of Nazar's comics, Gogi, is a progressive, educated Pakistani woman who wears polka-dotted dresses - and is loved by thousands around the world.
One of her favourite cartoons explores how many in Pakistan prefer having sons to daughters.
"In our country a girl's birth isn't celebrated very much and I really hate that," Nazar says.
She focuses on social issues and contradictions in society, saying: "I get inspiration from things that happen around me."
The Gogi comics have messages about women's education and the environment - but also depict the humorous side of everyday life in Pakistan.
Nazar says she began reading comic books as a child in the US: "It really began when my father was on a posting in Washington.
"When we returned to Pakistan, unable to find any local comic books, I stuck to the comics I used to read in the US and frequented the local bookshop to borrow, exchange or buy comics."
After she dropped her pre-medical degree to pursue her love of drawing, she won a scholarship for art.
However, she says: "It was a struggle because there was no training offered in comic art.
"I joined an art institute but I had no formal classes, I was just told to draw a cartoon everyday."
"I borrowed some 'teach yourself' books on cartooning and while that kept me going for some months, the real work began when I got a job with a daily newspaper."
Although Gogi is beloved by many in Pakistan, Nazar says her strip is not often published in local newspapers because comics about social issues are "not as popular as political cartoons".
"I've tried to turn my attention to social media now, and instead of newspapers, I've made awareness raising comic books," she says.
"I've made 14 comic books on a range of issues like extremism and corruption, girls' education and women's rights."
Pakistan ranks 147 out of 180 countries for press freedom, according to the Reporters Without Borders index.
Nazar admits that she sometimes has to self-censor: "In a way there's a lot of freedom of speech in Pakistan but it's only limited to certain topics that don't address some of the more real issues that affect people.
"Tolerating freedom of speech will only happen in it's truest sense when people's mindsets also change."
However, she also believes that comics offer a unique way for people to express themselves.
"I stay away from religion-related topics but it's not like I haven't addressed any taboos at all," she says.
"In some cases I've used quotations from the Holy Koran and got approval from clergies to support my cartoons on education as a basic right for girls and anti-sexual harassment cartoons."
"I think you can get away with saying a lot through cartoons that you can't say in any other way."
Matthew Daley, 35, stabbed Donald Lock 39 times on the A24 in Findon, after the 79-year-old ran into the back of his vehicle.
He was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The court heard his family had pleaded with the NHS to section him prior to the murder.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has apologised for its role and said it had commissioned a "thematic review" of 10 killings between 2011 and 2016 involving patients - including Daley - it had come into contact with.
The trust's chief executive Colm Donaghy said: "We decided there was a need to look to see whether lessons or common themes from the homicide emerged.
"The review of 10 cases is not to reopen those cases - it's to look at the themes."
During the trial, jurors were told Daley's mother pleaded with mental health experts to have her son sectioned.
She told the court the day she heard Mr Lock was killed was "the day that all your nightmares came true".
Mr Donaghy admitted the trust should have listened to those family pleas for help and said it had failed Daley.
"We should have carried out a formal assessment of a formal diagnosis for Matthew," he said.
"We had a diagnosis of Asperger's and what we should have done is had a formal diagnosis because he was also suffering from symptoms of psychosis.
"We should have also considered different ways potentially of treating Matthew. And finally we should have listened to the family more closely and taken action on some of the things they indicated."
"We failed in the care that we gave Matthew."
The mother of a former trust patient, who stabbed a woman to death seven years years ago, said the organisation should be "investigated and monitored long term".
The mental health trust apologised after an investigation found there were signs about the risks posed by Samuel Reid-Wentworth before he killed his victim in Littlehampton.
Angela Reid-Wentworth told BBC Sussex in an email: "When an organisation persistently and repeatedly fails then it comes from the top.
"There needs to be urgent legislation which makes health authorities and their professionals do their work properly and to be much more accountable."
The 23-year-old, who did not make a senior appearances during a year with the Hornets, has signed a two-year deal with the O's.
Woods began his career in Cambridge United's youth set-up and subsequently joined Manchester United's academy.
He moved to Doncaster Rovers in 2009 and went on to make 82 appearances, before leaving the club last summer.
Woods, a former England Under-19 international, will provide competition for fellow new arrival Adam Legzdins.
Steyn, 32, was in the Gujarat Lions squad, having made two appearances in the T20 World Cup for South Africa.
He is scheduled to play six games for Glamorgan in the T20 Blast.
"I'm ready to go, bowling fast and the body's good so I really want to get back on the park," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"I want to get some overs under my belt. I was supposed to be rested [by South Africa] but I felt like going home and doing nothing was not going to benefit me at all. I needed to play."
Steyn's appearances for Gujarat Lions were limited because the franchise was dependent on its overseas batsmen, and there is a limit of four non-Indians per match in the IPL.
He had previously been sidelined after breaking a bone in his shoulder in the first Test against England in Durban in December 2015, having dismissed Alastair Cook for nought.
Steyn revealed his link with Glamorgan came about when fellow South Africa fast bowler Morne Morkel, who was due to play for the Welsh side, was recalled by the national side for a one-day series.
"Morne Morkel was supposed to come here and he got selected to go to the Caribbean and I was rested, but I just wanted to get out and play some cricket," Steyn added.
"He said 'maybe you should get hold of [Glamorgan captain] Jacques Rudolph because I was going to go to Glamorgan', and within an hour I was on the phone to [Glamorgan chief executive] Hugh Morris. By the next day I was on my way to get a visa and here I am.
"I'm just excited to be here because I haven't played a lot of cricket this year."
Steyn will make his Glamorgan debut on Wednesday at the SSE Swalec Stadium against Essex, for whom he played in 2005.
"It's really cool. My first county was Essex with guys like Ravi Bopara and Alastair Cook - we were just kids at the time," Steyn said.
"These guys have gone on to do amazing things. Cooky became the first English batter to score 10,000 Test runs the other day and that's incredible, it's quite a journey.
"Ravi's played for England and he's done really well. Hopefully I can get him out again."
Steyn made a vital contribution in Cardiff to a South African win over West Indies during the 2013 Champions Trophy.
"One memory is that I bowled Marlon Samuels here, then just before the rain came down Kieron Pollard played the worst shot of his career and I caught him at third man. I can even remember where [on the ground] I caught that ball," he said.
"As we went to the middle to celebrate it started raining. The game was tied [on Duckworth-Lewis method] and we went on to the semi-final and they were out - so good memories."
Steyn will go on to play for Jamaica in the Caribbean Premier League before rejoining South Africa for a Test series against New Zealand in August 2016.
It will last for 48 hours from 16:00 GMT Friday and covers the Pontfaen area.
Officers will be on patrol and will have the power to direct people acting anti-socially away from the area.
Local inspector Sarah Davies said: "A small minority are causing alarm and distress to local residents."
Areas covered by the order include Fallowfield Drive, Pontfaen Road, Fosse Road, Greenmeadow Road, Nash Grove, Eastmoor Road, Mulcaster Avenue, Westmoor Close, Willow Close, Meads Close, Hillview Crescent, Fosse Close and Heath Close.
The 33-year-old was sent off by referee Stuart Atwell during Friday's 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday for denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity.
An independent panel upheld the decision at a hearing on Monday.
Murray, who had blocked a goal-bound shot with his hands, will miss Tuesday's home game against Cardiff.
The former Rochdale and Crystal Palace player has scored 15 goals in 26 Championship games after joining the Seagulls on a season-long loan from Bournemouth.
Meanwhile, under-23 striker Jonah Ayunga, 19, has joined League of Ireland club Sligo Rovers on a 12-moth loan deal.
Jessica Urbano Ramirez has now been formally identified as one of the 80 people killed in the blaze on 14 June.
In a statement, the family said they were "totally crushed" by the news.
Nura Jemal, 35, was also named by the police, bringing the total number of formal identifications to 45.
Baby Logan Gomes, who was stillborn in hospital on 14 June, has also been recorded by police as a victim of the fire.
In a statement released by the Metropolitan Police, Jessica's family said it had been "probably the hardest news any parents will ever have had to bear" learning of her death.
But as well as paying tribute to the "loving, kind-hearted and caring" schoolgirl, the family called for justice for all of the victims.
"Nothing will ever bring our little girl back, and we are angry that this should ever have happened to our little angel," they said. "We will not rest until we get justice for her and for the many other lives lost as a result of this crime.
"We will only feel justice has been served when the highest possible charges are applied to culpable individuals. We entrust this task to the authorities in the hope that we will not be let down."
Nura's family described the wife and mother as "vibrant, full of life and positive-minded", as well as devoted to her faith in Islam.
"You were grateful and appreciated even the smallest things in life," they added. "And your joy was contagious. Being around you could lighten up anyone's day in a matter of seconds.
"You were so passionate when you talked about heaven. Even your last words were about asking for forgiveness. You seemed to know that heaven was waiting for you and your family."
Earlier on Monday, the inquests of three victims were opened at Westminster Coroner's Court. Forty-one inquests have now been started.
Eslah Elgwahry, 64, was found on the 23rd floor of the tower block and is believed to have lived on the 19th floor.
Joseph Daniels, 69, was found on the 16th floor of the building.
A third victim, a 35-year-old woman whose family asked for her not to be named, was discovered on the 23rd floor of the 24-storey building.
The preliminary cause of death for all three victims was recorded as "consistent with the effects of fire".
All of the inquests have been adjourned while the public inquiry and criminal investigations are carried out.
More than 1,600 people have also been injured by stings in Shaanxi province, according to China News Agency.
It says 206 people are still being treated in hospital, with 37 patients remaining in a critical condition.
Local officials have been quoted as saying that drier and warmer weather this year may have contributed to a rise in hornet numbers in the area.
Environmental activists have also blamed rapid urbanisation for worsening the problem as more rural land is swallowed up for urban development, intruding into habitats where hornets hunt and build their nests.
The cities of Angkang, Hanzhong and Shangluo have been worst affected by the spate of attacks over the past three months.
The provincial government has dispatched pest control experts to help deal with the situation.
China News Agency says local police and fire-fighters have been given equipment and protective clothes to help remove and destroy hornet nests.
Hornet attacks are a recurring problem in Shaanxi province in particular, but the authorities have released no casualty figures for previous years.
Zhao Fang, a city government official in Ankong, told the China Daily newspaper that hornet attacks had increased in recent years as the "local ecological environment improved".
Winters have been getting milder and summers hotter and more humid in Shaanxi, which may have helped caused hornet numbers there to rise.
The Chinese term for hornets is "hu feng" - those behind the deadly attacks this summer appear to be the Asian giant hornet, or Vespa mandarinia.
They can grow up to 5cm long with a 6mm sting.
The area is also home to the smaller Asian hornet, Vespa velutina nigrithorax.
And for many people who visit Brasilia, the capital city regarded as the Brazilian architect's masterpiece, that is undoubtedly true.
Oscar Niemeyer, who has died aged 104, was one of the most innovative and daring architects of the last 60 years.
Rejecting the cube shapes favoured by his modernist predecessors, Niemeyer built some of the world's most striking buildings - monumental, curving concrete and glass structures which almost defy description.
Conceived with a few curving lines on a sheet of paper, his designs are regarded by many as more sculpture than architecture.
Oscar Niemeyer was born into a financially comfortable family in Rio de Janeiro in 1907. As a young man he was something of a rogue - describing in his memoirs, The Curves of Time, his visits with friends to the local bars and brothels.
His love of the female form, and the curving mountains which hem Rio to the sea, were a great influence on the architect.
"Curves," he wrote, "make up the entire universe, the curved universe of Einstein."
In 1928 he married Annita Baldo - it was a marriage that lasted 76 years until she died in 2004.
After graduating in the mid-1930s, he joined a Rio architectural firm run by a man who would become one of his great collaborators, Lucio Costa.
Having won wide praise for a number of buildings in Brazil, he was chosen in the early 1950s to be part of an international team given the task of designing the UN buildings in New York.
It was led by the great Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, who was 20 years older than Niemeyer.
He praised the young Brazilian's work, but some commentators have suggested he was so nervous about Niemeyer's growing reputation that he prevented his designs from being selected for the project.
The work which is regarded as the most complete expression of Niemeyer's approach to architectural design is Brasilia - an entire city carved out of the Brazilian interior 700 miles from the beaches of Rio.
It was the brainchild of Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, who was the Brazilian president between 1956 and 1961.
The project was highly ambitious but was officially inaugurated just four years after work was started in 1956.
Lucio Costa laid out the street plan in the shape of a bird or an aeroplane.
Niemeyer, his friend and colleague, then designed a huge number of the city's residential, commercial and government buildings.
They include the National Cathedral - a crown-shaped structure of glass suspended between concrete struts which sweep upwards and inwards and then reach out to the heavens. Rather than dark and forbidding like the interiors of older cathedrals, the inside is awash with light.
Many criticise Brasilia for being impersonal.
But 50 years on more than two million people live there and it is the only modern city to be named a Unesco World Heritage site.
Niemeyer was a life-long communist so when a military dictatorship came to power in Brazil in 1964, he was forced to move to France.
However, his work took him all over the world.
As well as building the Communist Party headquarters in Paris, his other commissions included a casino in Madeira and the University of Constantine in Algeria.
In the 1980s he returned to Rio - his true spiritual home.
One of his later buildings was the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum which was completed in 1996.
Across the bay from Rio, it perches on a cliff-top - an upturned flying saucer, its curves reflected in a pool which encircles its central pillar.
He remarried when he was in his 90s and continued to work beyond the age of 100.
His most recent projects included a cultural centre for the town of Aviles in Asturias, Northern Spain and he also opened a museum of his work housing models and plans from his career.
Despite his passion for design he never believed architecture would change the world.
He accepted that great buildings were often the reserve of the rich - but he hoped that he could provide joy and amazement for ordinary people. In that, he must surely have succeeded.
The first minister will state the Scottish government's commitment to Europe.
She will reiterate her call for a "double lock" on membership to prevent Scotland being forced out of the EU against its will in the referendum.
David Cameron has vowed to stage a vote on EU membership by the end of 2017.
Ms Sturgeon's speech in the European Policy Centre to an audience of policy makers and institution representatives will be her first in the EU capital.
She will also highlight the Scottish jobs linked to EU trade and the economic and cultural contributions made in Scotland by people born elsewhere in the EU.
The first minister is expected to say: "I firmly believe that membership of Europe is in Scotland's best interests - and have done for all of my adult life.
"We value Scotland's place in Europe, and the benefits it brings in terms of jobs and investment - with more than 300,000 Scottish jobs estimated to be associated with our exports to the European Union.
"Perhaps most fundamentally of all, the freedom to travel, study and work across Europe has brought major benefits to Scotland. At present there are 171,000 people from elsewhere in the European Union who live and work in Scotland.
"They contribute hugely to the diversity of our culture, the prosperity of our economy, and the strength of our society."
She will add: "Polls in Scotland consistently show strong support for EU membership. That is why we will propose a 'double lock', meaning that exit from the European Union would only be possible if all UK nations agreed. That way Scotland couldn't be forced out of the European Union against our will."
Speaking to business leaders in Edinburgh last week, Ms Sturgeon reiterated her opposition to the Tories' in-out referendum on UK membership of the EU, and said her Government would "work to protect Scotland's interests".
During a speech in Glasgow on Saturday, Scottish Labour leader candidate Kezia Dugdale called for EU nationals who have made the UK their home to allowed to vote in the referendum on Europe.
Earlier this week, No 10 said citizens from most EU countries living in the UK would not get a vote.
The SNP has also said it is "absolutely vital" the referendum on Europe is as inclusive as possible.
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The nine-year-old became the first mare in 22 years to win the Champion Hurdle at last year's festival, as she was ridden to victory by Ruby Walsh.
She followed that by winning the Aintree Hurdle in April, but has not competed since.
Trainer Willie Mullins had expected her to return at Punchestown on February 22 but announced the injury on Wednesday.
He told the Racing Post: "She is definitely out of Cheltenham and possibly the rest of the season, but it's too early to say."
Cornelius Lysaght, BBC horse racing correspondent
With her catchy name and a talent that earned victory in her first 10 races, Annie Power has become one of jump racing's great favourites.
And after two near-misses at successive Cheltenham Festivals, her Champion Hurdle victory there last March was widely acclaimed.
For Willie Mullins this represents another element to a challenging season. As well as losing 60 horses owned by the powerful Gigginstown House Stud operation and star chaser Vautour as a result of a freak accident at his Carlow stables, he's facing the strongest of challenges to his long-held training championship from Gordon Elliott.
Labadie saw red after a confrontation with Crawley's Welsh defender Josh Yorwerth, who was also sent off.
Newport appealed against the dismissal but were rejected at a hearing.
Captain Labadie now misses games away to Exeter City, at home to Yeovil and their trip to face Plymouth Argyle.
Also called Hitomi, the satellite was launched in 17 February to observe X-rays coming from black holes.
Contact was lost with $273m satellite on 26 March sparking a scramble by Japanese scientists to find out what had happened.
The next time a similar satellite will be launched is in 2028 by the European Space Agency.
Hitomi was a joint effort between Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA and other groups.
"We concluded that the satellite is in a state in which its functions are not expected to recover," Saku Tsuneta, director general of JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, told a press conference on Thursday.
"JAXA will cease the efforts to restore ASTRO-H and will focus on the investigation of anomaly causes," the space agency said in a statement.
It added that it was likely two solar arrays had broken off their bases.
Until now, there was hope that the satellite could be recovered after JAXA said it had received three signals from Hitomi. It said on Thursday that it now thinks those signals were not sent by the spacecraft.
Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon finished fourth, with Germany taking gold and silver and Switzerland the bronze.
It was Tasker's first major global competition as a pilot and he said: "I'm pinching myself.
"The result was far, far better than I could ever have imagined and I'm absolutely over the moon."
Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke were the last Britons to win a World Championship medal when they claimed gold in Lake Placid in 2009.
In the men's competition, Robin Dixon and Anthony Nash won three world medals between 1963 and 1966 as well as winning Winter Olympic gold in 1964.
Britain's last major medal was at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, where the four-man team claimed a bronze medal.
Tasker, who is only in his second season as a pilot and also competes as a brakeman in four-man, added: "It's amazing to know that is our best result since 1998. I've had my ups and downs this season and I'm just glad to get it right on the day."
Fearon added: "It's surreal - it's better than any dream I've ever had - and we can still get better at the start so I hope there's more to come."
World Championship result:
1. Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis (GER) 3:26.09 (51.68, 51.59, 51.32, 51.50)
2. Johannes Lochner and Joshua Bluhm (GER) 3:26.26 (51.57, 51.55, 51.47, 51.67) + 0.17
3. Beat Hefti and Alex Baumann (SUI) 3:26.31 (51.68, 51.66, 51.37, 51.60) + 0.22
4. Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon (GBR) 3:26:51 (51.83, 51.66, 51.40, 51.62) + 0.42
Martin's inclusion for the opening two World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Lithuania has surprised many observers.
He narrowly missed the target with a volley and a header as the Scots were held 1-1 by Lithuania on Saturday.
"I had Chris at Norwich and he is not going to run in behind people, he can't do that," Lambert told BBC Sportsound.
"He hasn't got the speed to do it. If you ask him to link play up and get hold of the ball and, if a chance comes his way, he is one of the most natural finishers I have ever worked with. There is no problem with his finishing.
"But, if a team lies deep against you, like Lithuania, there is nowhere for him to run because he hasn't got the pace to run in behind.
"But he can certainly lay it off for someone else - and the guy is a natural finisher."
Martin, 27, scored 23 goals in 48 games in Lambert's first season in charge of Norwich City, 2009-10, before his scoring form tailed off and he spent time on loan at Crystal Palace, Swindon Town and Derby County.
The 2013-14 season, in which he plundered 25 goals in 51 games for Derby, led to a Scotland debut and he has scored 21 and 16 goals respectively - including a first for his country - in the past two seasons.
Although he has yet to score in 12 club games for Derby and Fulham - where he is on loan - this season, and his last 20 in all, Lambert believes he can prosper for Scotland with someone alongside him.
"For me, if Chris is playing up front, I think he needs someone up around him, whether that is Leigh Griffiths or Oliver Burke, who I think is a brilliant talent. Then you have support round about Chrissy.
"He is a natural finisher if you get a service to him with someone in behind him, but he is not going to run over the top of people. No disrespect, but he can't do that."
Lambert, who won 40 caps for Scotland between 1995 and 2003 and played at the 1998 World Cup, believes Scotland will still "have a big say" in their World Cup qualifying group, despite Saturday's setback.
"It may not be the most talented group of players Scotland have ever had, but they have great endeavour and enthusiasm and I do think they will be close," he said.
"They might pick up points where nobody expects them to. I don't think there is much between the teams in the group - and I include England in that.
"Scotland normally need to go away and get a result somewhere and this campaign will be no different."
Lambert, who won the Champions League in 1997 during a 16-month spell with German club Borussia Dortmund, believes 19-year-old winger Burke will benefit hugely from his recent £13m move to RB Leipzig.
"He is at a club where he will get properly schooled tactically," the 47-year-old added. "He is raw at the moment, but that will come.
"He will learn how to high press - when to go, when not to go - and different methods. There will be little things like going to hotels at different times, training at different times.
"He will do things differently, live differently and he will grow up really quickly. It brings you on as a person.
"I was fortunate enough to play with a team that had world-class players. Leipzig are a bit away from that, but they are a developing club that is going places.
"He is at a really good club where I am sure he will get a lot of help. For a 19-year-old to have that opportunity is fantastic and I am glad he has done it."
Pro-Russia Ukrainian rebels and the Ukrainian authorities have accused each other of shooting down flight MH17.
A Ukrainian official said on Monday that MH17's data recorders show a "massive explosive decompression" caused by a rocket.
Meanwhile, heavy fighting has again prevented international police from reaching the crash site.
Ukraine's military said it was battling separatists for control of several towns near the site in eastern Ukraine.
All 298 people on board the airliner - mostly Dutch - died on 17 July.
International police want to help secure the huge site so that plane wreckage and human remains can be examined by crash experts.
Most of the bodies have been removed, many of them repatriated to the Netherlands.
"This violation of international law, given the prevailing circumstances, may amount to a war crime," Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said of the downing of MH17.
"Every effort will be made to ensure that anyone committing serious violations of international law including war crimes will be brought to justice, no matter who they are," Ms Pillay said.
Ms Pillay spoke as the latest UN report on Ukraine suggested at least 1,129 people have been killed and 3,442 wounded in the Ukraine conflict since mid-April.
The conflict has displaced more than 200,000 people, many of whom have fled east to neighbouring Russia.
Pro-Russian rebels have been accused of attacking the plane with a missile fired from a Buk system, also known to Nato as an SA-11 Gadfly. The missile is designed to explode close to an aircraft, spraying it with shrapnel.
Flight MH17's two black boxes are currently being analysed by aviation experts in the UK.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he hoped international monitors would be able to deploy on the Ukraine-Russia border in the next few days.
In a statement on Monday, the Ukrainian military said it had "entered" the towns of Shakhtarsk and Torez and was working to seize control of Pervomaysk and Snizhne - all close to the crash site of MH17.
A separatist leader in Donetsk, Vladimir Antyufeev, told the AFP news agency that the Ukrainian army had taken over part of the crash site.
A team of Australian and Dutch police and forensic experts abandoned attempts to reach the site on Monday, blaming the security situation in the area. It was the second failed attempt in as many days.
"We are sick and tired of being interrupted by gunfights despite the fact that we have agreed that there should be a ceasefire," said Alexander Hug, an official from the OSCE mission to Ukraine.
The army is also trying to take control of two main roads in eastern Ukraine, which the government in Kiev believes to be vital supply lines from Russia for rebel forces in Donetsk.
In the past 24 hours there has been heavy artillery fire at the city of Horlivka, where several civilians were killed.
In Donetsk at least three people died in shelling, the municipal authorities say. And there are reports of civilian casualties in the shelling of Luhansk, which is also held by the rebels.
The US has produced what it calls satellite evidence that rockets have been fired at Ukrainian forces from Russian soil.
Russia denies that any of its forces are helping the rebels.
Julie Walker, 37, and Lucas, six, died despite the efforts of members of the public and emergency services to save them.
Lucas' 13-year-old brother, Samuel, was among those who joined the rescue effort.
The Crown Office said the procurator fiscal had concluded that no further investigation was required.
It was a busy Saturday afternoon at Aberdeen beach last August when Ms Walker and Lucas drowned.
Ms Walker had gone into the sea to try to save her son.
A Crown Office spokesman said: "The procurator fiscal received a report in connection with the death of a 37-year-old woman and a six-year-old boy in Aberdeen on 20 August 2016.
"After careful consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, the procurator fiscal concluded that no further investigation is required.
"The family have been informed of this decision."
A review was ordered following the tragedy, leading to the setting up of the Aberdeen Water Safety Group.
It involves eight different agencies, including the RNLI, Aberdeen City Council, UK Coastguard and Police Scotland.
Classmates of Lucas at Bramble Brae School were joined by his relatives when they paid tribute to him by releasing balloons.
John Brooker sent an email to employees at Storm Technologies in Watford on 8 June, the day of the general election.
It said: "Labour voters will be made redundant first if Labour do win and things slow down".
The GMB union said it was "unacceptable and morally wrong" but Mr Brooker insisted it was "totally made in jest".
Managing director Mr Brooker sent the email to more than 100 employees at the company's offices on Croxley Business Park.
It said he would have to "re-think a few things here at the company" if Labour won.
"So if you value your job and want to hold onto your hard earned money vote Conservative," it continued.
Warren Kenny from the GMB said: "A boss should not be harassing employees or interfering with their right to vote for who they wish - it's Dickensian, workhouse nonsense.
"Any staff working for John Brooker should have been able to vote for their candidate or party of choice without fear for their jobs and their livelihoods."
In a statement, Mr Brooker said: "The email was a 'tongue in cheek' note sent immediately after a large group of my staff and I were having a joke in the company canteen on the day of the election and was totally meant in jest.
"No offence was intended, nor was there any threat whatsoever levelled at staff. This was nothing more than 'internal banter' now completely taken out of context.
"Obviously in hindsight I regret any offence this has caused and have reiterated to all my staff the respect I have for their political views and opinions."
Saldana, who starred in 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, will play the young pregnant wife who becomes convinced she is the target of a satanic cult.
Mia Farrow famously played the role in Roman Polanski's 1968 film.
NBC's Quinn Taylor called Saldana "one of our most gifted actresses" adding that she had "the perfect combination of spirit and gravitas" for the role.
Based on Ira Levin's 1967's horror novel, the four-part drama will be directed by Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland, who has worked on The Wire and The Killing.
"With Zoe leading the cast under the direction of Agnieszka Holland, this re-imagined event mini-series is off to a great start," added Taylor.
Saldana recently completed shooting the lead role in the forthcoming Nina Simone biopic, Nina.
The decision to cast her was criticised by singer Aretha Franklin and Simone's daughter who claimed she did not sufficiently resemble the star, who died in 2003.
The biopic is due out later this year.
Dr Arpad Adorjan treated the "vulnerable" woman at the Priory Hospital Bristol, but went on to abuse his position.
A tribunal found he had sex at the patient's house, despite knowing she was on a "sedating and disinhibiting" mix of alcohol and medication.
Adorjan was not present at the hearing.
Dr Adorjan worked as a resident medical officer at the Priory - an independent hospital specialising in mental health issues - between 2010 and July 2013.
The Medical Practitioners' Tribunal Service panel heard how in 2013 he had "pursued a sexual relationship" with a patient who suffered from anorexia, depression and was a suicide risk.
It was told on one occasion, he had stroked her hair, hugged her and told her she was beautiful. He had also discussed the "sexual traits of their respective star signs".
On another occasion, he told her she could be "pregnant by the time she was 41" and on her discharge from hospital gave her his contact details.
After a meeting in Bristol, the panel heard he texted her saying 'Feelings R getting more certain. XO' and when he met her at her house - had sex despite knowing she had been mixing alcohol with her medication.
The tribunal found his behaviour was "fundamentally incompatible with being a doctor", violated the patient's rights and caused "psychological harm".
"Dr Adorjan's sexually motivated behaviour towards a vulnerable patient constituted a particularly serious departure from the principles set out in good medical practice," a spokesman said.
"The panel considers that erasure is the only appropriate sanction."
In a statement the Priory Hospital said Dr Adorjan had been contracted through an agency, which had carried out a "full background and clearance check".
"The safety and wellbeing of our patients is our top priority," a spokesperson said.
"As soon as this allegation came to light, Dr Adorjan was immediately reported."
PathXL specialises in software which improves the analysis of cancer tumours.
It was established in 2004 as a spinout from Queen's University, Belfast, and currently employs 30 people.
Philips said PathXL's image analysis and tissue pathology software will complement its existing products.
A spokesman for Philips told the Reuters news agency that its digital pathology business was already "doubling every year".
He said its digital pathology sales would pass "several tens of millions" of euros in sales this year, including the acquisition.
Philips chief executive, Frans van Houten, said: "The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.
"We're acquiring a company that has deep clinical knowledge and technology to analyse cancerous cells."
PathXL was founded by Queen's University academics Prof Peter Hamilton and Dr Jim Diamond.
They are shareholders in the business which has been through several rounds of funding.
Its backers include Crescent Capital, Beltrae Partners and Invest Northern Ireland.
The terms of the sale have not been disclosed.
The ruling Barisan Nasional (BN, National Front) coalition has held power since independence in 1957.
But it suffered its worst result in decades in the last elections in 2008, ceding five state governments to the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition.
It also lost a two-thirds majority in parliament for the first time.
Prime Minister Najib Razak, 59, is the son of Malaysia's second prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak, and leads the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party in BN.
His main rival is Anwar Ibrahim, 65, who leads the three-party opposition alliance, Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Mr Anwar served as deputy premier under Malaysia's longest-serving leader, Mahathir Mohamad, until he was sacked in 1998.
Mr Anwar has spent much of the last 15 years fighting what he says are politically motivated charges against him and spent six years in jail for misuse of power. He has also been charged with sodomy twice (homosexual acts are illegal in Malaysia) - one charge was overturned on appeal and he was acquitted of the other.
Mr Najib is highlighting his economic track record. Malaysia is one of South East Asia's most prosperous countries, with GDP growing 5.6% last year. Mr Najib's manifesto pledges to raise living standards, attract investment and fight corruption.
In the run-up to the election date announcement, BN handed out one-off bonuses to thousands of workers at state-linked firms such as the national oil firm, Petronas. It boosted government spending and increased salaries for civil servants, the police and military. BN has also promised to continue a popular scheme of cash handouts to low-income households if returned.
Pakatan Rakyat is trying to tap into a desire for greater political and economic reform by pledging to fight corruption and cronyism, and improve transparency.
It says its experience of government in the state of Penang, where investment flows doubled in the last four years, shows it can manage Malaysia's economy. PR has also pledged to reduce living costs and provide free education up to university level.
Decades-old race-based policies that give preferential treatment in education, employment and business to ethnic Malays are also an election issue. The opposition says these must be reformed to create a more open society and increase Malaysia's economic competitiveness.
The BN, meanwhile, has in recent months emphasised its 1Malaysia campaign for national unity. Mr Najib has also repeatedly said that a vote for him is a vote for stability.
In 2012, Bersih - a coalition of NGOs - led Malaysia's largest-ever street rally, urging greater transparency and fairness in the election process.
The Election Commission has now reformed postal voting, introduced the use of indelible ink and made efforts to better manage the electoral roll. Anti-corruption authorities will also monitor polling.
However, the main media outlets are either state-controlled or linked to BN parties.
Mr Najib broadcast his manifesto live on state-run TV over two hours, while opposition parties were offered only 10 minutes each to do so - which the Pakatan Rakyat rejected.
Elections follow the first-past-the-post system. There are 570 candidates for 222 parliamentary seats with some 13.2 million voters.
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Emergency services were called to the scene at 08:39 BST on Tuesday, near the Siabod Cafe on the main A5 road in Conwy county.
The crash involved a red Seat Leon and a silver Mercedes car, and the driver of the Seat vehicles was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident.
The road between Capel Curig and Betws-y-Coed has now reopened.
North Wales Police said no-one else was seriously injured in the crash, but they have appealed for any witnesses to come forward.
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Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has won three of six races and leads Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton by 24 points before this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix.
Wolff said: "It's painful but we are not the favourites for this year's championship. At the moment, it's Ferrari.
"We need to rise to the challenge to prove we are the team to beat."
Ferrari's resurgence following a major set of rule changes for 2017 follows three years of dominance by Mercedes.
Although Mercedes have proved to have the fastest car over one qualifying lap, the Ferrari is more flexible, works more easily in a wider range of conditions and has generally appeared to have an advantage in races.
Hamilton has won two grands prix, in China and Spain, and his new team-mate Valtteri Bottas one in Russia, which came against the run of play after Ferrari dominated qualifying in Sochi.
Wolff said: "This is the reality of the situation now. We have to fight with all that we are worth for every single win, pole position, podium finish and every point. You can no longer expect that when you look at a timesheet the two Mercedes will be right at the top.
"We've come into this season with a strong car that has allowed us to win three of the first six races. But it has also caused us more complications than we have seen in previous years.
"Everybody at the factories is working absolutely flat out to assess the current difficulties we are facing - to define our objectives, work with the data we have and then come up with the right solutions.
"Some of these fixes will be short term, others may take longer.
"We've had bruising weekends before and it's about showing resilience and getting up after falling.
"I remember the troubles we had in Singapore in 2015, which hurt badly. We gave ourselves a deadline to address that setback before switching our focus to the next race in Suzuka, which we won.
"We've done exactly the same thing after Monaco - addressing the problems before turning our attention to Montreal. We know that this season is a marathon, not a sprint."
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Mercedes' fundamental struggles this season revolve around a difficulty in getting the Pirelli tyres to work consistently in their correct operating temperature window.
And Wolff admits that the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal might not play to the strengths of the Mercedes car.
The circuit is a series of slow corners linked by long straights with a low-grip, low-abrasion track surface.
It is exactly the sort of track that could provide difficulties in operating the tyres, lacking the faster, longer corners which work the tyres harder and where the Mercedes' strong high-speed aerodynamics can come into play.
Wolff said: "I'm expecting an interesting weekend in Canada. It could be a tricky race for us in terms of the layout of the track. But, equally, it's a circuit that suits both of our drivers. Lewis has won a number of times in the past and Valtteri has always gone strongly there for Williams."
Hamilton has won five times in Canada in nine appearances and it has consistently been one of his favourite tracks.
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The UKIP leader, who appeared with Mr Trump during the election, said he "liked" the UK and valued the special relationship between the nations.
He said reports that Mr Trump might give him a job were a "bit premature".
But the UK needed to "get cracking" in dialogue over trade and other issues and he was willing to help.
Prime Minister Theresa May has written to Mr Trump following his victory over Hillary Clinton, affirming the UK's commitment to work with him "to build on the enduring and special relationship between our two countries and to ensure our shared security and prosperity in the years ahead".
It has been reported that Mr Farage and other senior UKIP figures will meet Mr Trump this weekend after his victory.
The UKIP leader, who is due to stand down at the end of the month, met Mr Trump several times during the campaign and has been linked with a job in the Trump administration - potentially even as his envoy to the EU.
This, he said, was "somewhat premature" but he said he would be willing to play a role in facilitating links between the Trump administration and the UK before he formally takes office in January.
"I do have a relationship with Trump and his team," he told the BBC during a trip to Spain. "I think it is important that the British government gets on with this guy.
"If I can do anything to help the relationship between the UK and America, via Donald Trump, I will do that."
He said he was confident that Donald Trump would strengthen the much-vaunted special relationship between the two countries, claiming his victory meant "at last we have a US president who likes our country".
There was a much greater prospect of the UK agreeing a free trade deal with the US after it leaves the EU with Mr Trump in the White House than either his opponent or the current incumbent.
"President Obama and Hillary Clinton have treated us with disdain," he claimed. "They thought we were a little country, not very relevant any more. Trump's mother was Scottish. He values the special relationship and he has told me that himself.
"Famously Obama said we would be at the back of the queue for a trade deal if we voted for Brexit. Donald Trump has said we would be at the front of the queue."
Asked about Mr Trump's personality and what kind of president he would be, the UKIP leader accepted that the businessman could be a "bit brash and out there" on the campaign trail but that he was rather different in private.
"In private, one-to-one, I found him amenable and he will listen," he said, adding that the "success or otherwise" of Mr Trump's presidency would depend on the people he surrounded himself with.
While many of Mr Trump's policies - such as his pledge to deport illegal immigrants and build a wall between the US and Mexico - were not as "outlandish" as portrayed in the media, Mr Farage said he would have to make them happen.
"There is no question that there is going to be big pressure on Trump to deliver. Trump voters, the Brexit voters, want action. They don't want their votes, their overturning of the establishment to get kicked into the long grass.
"There is an element of anger among those voters. But it is more than that. It is about offering different policy solutions."
Ministers have congratulated Mr Trump on his election but his victory has not been universally welcomed, with former Labour foreign secretary Margaret Beckett saying she was "appalled and terrified" by the result.
Accusing the Republican of "lying every day" during the campaign, she said his triumph felt like "the end of the world".
Jason Wilkes, 45, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the opening day of his trial at Maidstone Crown Court.
He had pleaded guilty to supplying a class A drug at an earlier hearing.
Chloe Wilkes, 17, died after falling ill at their home in Tunbridge Way in Ashford, Kent, on 27 July.
An inquest into her death was adjourned in August.
MDMA is the base that ecstasy is made from before it is mixed with other chemicals to form a tablet, and is sold as a powder that is snorted or swallowed.
Wilkes and his daughter had taken drugs, including ecstasy and cocaine, together at least three times before but text messages between them showed it was a regular occurrence, prosecutor James Mulholland QC told the court on Tuesday.
Two days before her death, Wilkes and Chloe had taken a gram of cocaine and a gram of MDMA between them, staying up all night.
The following day, Wilkes bought another gram of MDMA and each wrapped half a gram of it up in a cigarette paper and swallowed it with water - "a method of ingestion called bombing", the prosecutor said.
By 01:00 BST on 27 July, Chloe had started to become agitated and disorientated, Mr Mulholland said.
The court heard Wilkes failed to get medical help for Chloe for more than an hour - driving her first to a woodland area on the edge of Ashford, and then to an industrial estate where he worked, in an attempt to cool her down rather than taking her to the nearest hospital, which was less than three miles away.
He eventually called 999 at 02:01, telling the operator his daughter was not breathing and did not have a pulse.
Chloe died later that day in hospital.
The court heard, had he sought medical help for his daughter, hospital staff might have been able to stop her overheating, which caused her heart to stop.
A toxicology report showed Chloe had 3.1mg of MDMA per litre in her blood, enough to prove fatal.
Cocaine was also found in her blood, the court heard.
Wilkes, who split up with Chloe's mother when she was nine or 10, later told police his daughter had been taking drugs, including MDMA and ketamine, since she was 13 years old.
Sentencing him, Judge Philip Statman said: "You will lead the rest of your life knowing that your conduct led to the death of your daughter who in my judgment you loved.
"That's an enormous burden for you to have to carry with you, but it is not just your burden.
"She is lost to her mother, brother and her extended family, a life tragically cut short."
Det Insp Richard Vickery, from the Kent and Essex serious crime directorate, said Wilkes had "denied her the chance of survival".
"He was there as Chloe's role model and father. She was an impressionable teenager and she clearly looked up to her father.
"Not only did he legitimise the taking of class A drugs, he actively encouraged it," he said.
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Berahino had said he would not play after a move to Tottenham was blocked.
Spurs had four bids rejected for the 22-year-old, who has been left out of the team for the past three matches.
"Saido is immature at times but I'm more concerned with getting him back playing," Pulis told BBC WM.
"The fact that he wants to play for a top team, I wish most of the players here would have those expectations and ambitions.
"The problem Saido has is in the way he's gone around it. He's not shown the respect to people around this club that he should have.
"It's unfortunate that Saido's been exploited by a system I've said I don't like and I think it should be changed."
West Brom play Southampton at home in a 15:00 BST kick-off, with Pulis' side 15th in the Premier League table with four points from their first four matches.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling introduced the policy last year after high-profile cases of violent prisoners absconding from open prisons.
But two judges at London's High Court said such bans were inconsistent with Mr Grayling's own parole directions.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said it would appeal against the ruling.
Prisoners can be moved to open prisons - also known as category D prisons - if the parole board finds they are not a danger to the public or other inmates, or they are unlikely to abscond.
Prisoners are often moved to open prisons towards the end of their sentence.
Inmates can then be given release on temporary licence (ROTL), allowing them to leave the jail for a few hours or even overnight.
Last year, Mr Grayling said the government was "tearing up" the current system and introducing restrictions on known absconders, following a number of high-profile escapes.
However, Lord Justice Bean, sitting with Mr Justice Mitting, ruled the policy of excluding such transfers - except in exceptional circumstances - was inconsistent with government directions to the parole board.
The directions state that "a phased release" from a closed to an open prison is necessary for most inmates "in order to test the prisoner's readiness for release into the community".
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said it would appeal the decision, saying the "fundamental principles of the policy are not unlawful".
"The court found there was inconsistency with the implementation. Our position remains that temporary release can be an important part of rehabilitating offenders but not at the cost of public protection," the spokesman said.
The Prisoners' Advice Service, which offers free legal advice and support to adult prisoners, said the absconder policy had been a "knee-jerk reaction".
"The secretary of state's contention that he is entitled to ignore and contradict his own policy guidance demonstrates either his ignorance or flagrant disregard for basic legal principles of consistency and transparency in public decision making.
"The so called 'absconder policy' was introduced as a knee-jerk reaction to negative press reports without adequate consideration for either existing policies, or its impact on the prisoners whose progression to open conditions was abruptly prevented," the charity said in a statement.
Every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data - 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the past two years alone.
This amount of data has in turn driven a revolution in ever smarter computers that can make sense of all that information.
Medicine is just one area benefiting from this closer relationship between information and machines.
The collaboration between astronomers and oncologists began at a cross-disciplinary meeting in Cambridge to discuss data management.
At the meeting, Dr Nicholas Walton, an astronomer, met James Brenton from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
Prof Carlos Caldas, who also works at Cancer Research UK, explains what happened next.
"Astronomers are looking at pictures of the sky, but they can't sift through millions of pictures by hand, so they use imaging algorithms that can analyse and classify objects," he says.
"We obtain images from humans. Could we deploy the same algorithms to read that data?"
The answer was yes and the algorithm has been advancing the study of cancer ever since.
"Using the astronomy algorithm, we can automatically classify hundreds of thousands of cells, we can look at patterns, how cells are related to each other, we can precisely count them and find the average distance between cells," Prof Caldas says.
"It speeds up diagnosis and allows us to glean information that had previously been glossed over.
"It is completely transforming pathology into the digital realm.
"The sky is the limit."
Scientists at Cancer Research UK have just announced a breakthrough in the way they "read" breast cancer cells.
It means that they are now able to create a 3D map that links the shape of breast cancer cells to genes turning on and off, matching it to real disease outcomes.
It is not just the diagnosis of disease that can be transformed by big-data insights.
"Data is exploding but so is the technology and that understand and exploit it," said Nick Millman, an analyst at consultancy firm Accenture.
"In health, the techniques that have previously been used in marketing analytics that have allowed brands to understand an individual's preferences can be applied to wellness - how to encourage someone to follow a healthier diet, for instance."
Big data is the key theme of an exhibition currently running at London's Science Museum, which looks not just at how it is transforming industry but also how our own data footprints are affecting our privacy.
Sheldon Paquin, the exhibition's curator, told the BBC: "This silent revolution has completely changed everything about our lives, from how we look to the stars, to our trips to the doctor, to how we talk with one another. We imagine the modern world to be fast-paced, connected and interwoven with technology, all things that we owe inescapably to big data.
"We can now examine the evolution of language, search the genome for disease, navigate cities yet to be built and identify our common fears. Our increased connectivity is making us easier to read."
The exhibition features a study done at Cambridge University, which illustrates how easy it is to read our personalities via Facebook likes.
Volunteers were asked to complete a series of personality tests and that was compared with their Facebook data.
"We found we could predict personality as accurately as a spouse from the average person's Facebook likes," said David Stillwell.
"We could predict intelligence, personality traits, age, gender, religious views."
Now the team has turned its attention to working out how much data we share with our increasingly smart cities - in a partnership with games publisher Ubisoft to promote its futuristic city game Watch Dogs 2.
Just as Watch Dogs, which is based in a city run by an operating system that collects and analyses data on every citizen, Predictive World assumes that privacy will be a distant concern in our future urban environment.
The tool generates psychological predictions from users' Facebook data as well as finding relationships between gender and salary, location and crime risks, personality and life expectancy.
But can citizens turn their data footprints to their own advantage?
CitizenMe is one of a growing number of firms that aims to offer people the chance to better understand the data that is collected on them as well as allowing them to sell it.
It enables people to collect copies of their data from around the internet and put it into an app on their phone.
"These insights and data quickly become very valuable. If they wish to, citizens can choose to anonymously exchange some data for immediate cash reward," explained StJohn Deakins, the founder of the company.
The app is currently being trialled with about 10,000 people.
Promotion-chasing Rovers were dominant from the start and hit the crossbar on three occasions through Tommy Rowe, Andy Butler and Mandeville.
But they found themselves behind after 19 minutes courtesy of Callum Kennedy's brilliant 35-yard free-kick that slammed into the top corner.
Though they pushed almost constantly, it took Rovers until the stroke of half-time to draw level when Chelsea loanee Jordan Houghton slammed in from the edge of the box.
Doncaster took the lead after 59 minutes when Orient substitute Josh Koroma hacked down the on-rushing Matty Blair and Mandeville converted the penalty with confidence.
The third goal also came from the spot seven minutes later. Tommy Rowe was clipped in the box by Tom Parkes as he twisted and turned, with Mandeville slotting in again to give Doncaster the cushion they deserved in a one-sided game.
Rovers keeper Marko Marosi showed excellent reactions on his line to keep out Paul McCallum's header but there was no way back for Orient, who sacked manager Alberto Cavasin on Wednesday.
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Match ends, Doncaster Rovers 3, Leyton Orient 1.
Second Half ends, Doncaster Rovers 3, Leyton Orient 1.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. William Longbottom replaces Liam Mandeville.
Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient).
Attempt saved. Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Alfie Beestin replaces James Coppinger.
Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient).
Foul by Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers).
Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient).
Foul by Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers).
Josh Koroma (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Josh Koroma (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Marko Marosi.
Attempt saved. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Robbie Weir.
James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient).
Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient).
Attempt saved. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 3, Leyton Orient 1. Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Doncaster Rovers. Tommy Rowe draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Tom Parkes (Leyton Orient) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Paul McCallum replaces Ollie Palmer.
Attempt blocked. James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient).
James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient).
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 2, Leyton Orient 1. Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty Doncaster Rovers. Matty Blair draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Josh Koroma (Leyton Orient) after a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Josh Koroma replaces Sandro Semedo.
Foul by Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers).
Robbie Weir (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tommy Rowe (Doncaster Rovers).
If you live in a city where the population is booming, like Peterborough, competition for popular schools has increased.
Speaking to parents there this week, everyone knows pressure on schools generally has been mounting.
Such is the difficulty in finding places that some families have to drop children off each morning at four different schools.
It is not unknown for twins to be separated, starting in reception classes in different schools.
Between 2010 and 2015, the number of primary school pupils has increased by 24%.
The change has been driven by a relatively high birth rate and by a new wave of immigration.
The Beeches Primary School stands in a grid of small terraced streets close to the city centre.
There was a time when most of the children were from second or third generation British Pakistani families.
But many of those families have now moved out of the inner city as new arrivals from Eastern Europe have moved in to the cheap rented accommodation in the area.
Like many other council-run schools in the city, the Beeches has expanded during the last five years and now takes 90 children into reception classes each year.
They expect to have a waiting list for places and to face more requests to squeeze extra children in as they arrive during the year.
Head teacher Tim Smith says the old school logbooks record concerns about coping with much earlier waves of Italian immigrants.
So in some ways it is not a new problem, but still one that presents him with a dilemma.
He can sometimes find a space for one child in a family but not another in a different year group.
"The difficulty for us is we're judged on our standards. To take on a larger group of children mid-year can be very disruptive, particularly if they're children that haven't been to school before or don't speak English."
He laughs ruefully as he tells me it can be a threat to the school, and a head teacher's career, if standards dip.
For parents too there are pressures.
Picking up his daughter from the reception class at the school, Irfan Ullah tells me each day he has to dash across the city centre as his other child is in a different school.
He has 15 minutes to get them both to school on time.
The city is quite simply running to keep up with the number of children.
At the city council offices Jon Lewis tells me they have expanded every nook and cranny of schools they can to create 4,501 places in the last five years.
This election issue includes funding for schools, university tuition fees and early years education.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
The city council has taken a pragmatic view of recent government policy assuming any new school should be opened as a free school.
They have worked with academy chains interested in expanding in Peterborough.
Even so, just 13% of the new places created have come from schools that were academies at the time of the expansion.
Labour says the pressure on school places has been made worse because of the priority given to funding the opening of free schools.
Under the coalition, the presumption has been that councils can no longer open a new school they directly manage.
But education ministers have argued the free schools policy has given parents and community groups a greater say in where and how schools should be opened and run.
In the end, the legal duty to make sure each child has a place to start school by September rests with the council.
What has happened in Peterborough has been repeated in other communities around England.
And there is more pressure on the horizon with primary school pupil numbers expected to grow nationally by 9% by 2023.
The capital spending in the education budget fell by 34% between 2010-11 and 2014-15 according to the economists at the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies.
So expect more debate about how to pay for the classrooms for the children coming through the system.
Bernard Watt, 28, was shot by the Army during disturbances in Ardoyne in Belfast in 1971.
In the post, the Parachute Regiment asked former members with any knowledge of the incident to get in touch.
Hundreds of Facebook users posted angry comments describing the appeal as a "witch hunt against ex-soldiers".
Of the killings being investigated by the PSNI's legacy branch, 530 were carried out by republicans, 271 by loyalists and 354 by the security forces.
It is not known who was responsible for the other 33 killings.
But an MoD spokesperson said they were co-operating with the coroner's process and must make all reasonable attempts to contact those who may have knowledge of a particular incident.
The appeal was posted last week, before a preliminary hearing of the inquest on Friday.
The PSNI's legacy branch is re-investigating 1,118 deaths not previously reviewed or completed by the now defunct Historical Enquiries Team (HET).
Solicitor Padraig O'Muirigh who represents the Watt family, said progress on the case, to date, had been "very disappointing".
"This inquest was directed by the Attorney General in 2012, almost five years ago, and to date there has been very little success in identifying soldiers involved on that particular day," he said.
"This family never had a proper investigation and it's not about a witch hunt. An inquest is a fact-finding mission, it doesn't make decisions on criminal or civil liabilities so to call it a witch hunt is a gross exaggeration."
Major General Tim Cross, a retired British Army officer who served in Northern Ireland, said he was not surprised that the MoD had had difficulty in tracking down former soldiers.
"I would be very surprised and amazed if soldiers start ringing up and saying 'yes, I'm happy to come up and give witnesses' because they'll fear that they'll end up in the dock themselves," he said.
"Part of the problem is for good or ill is that a lot of soldiers are angry about the way that people are going back in history and trying to dig up stuff and put them on trial when these guys as young men put their lives on the line defending democracy and serving on behalf of their nation and they feel that the government are just abandoning them."
Unionists and senior Conservative politicians, including the Secretary of State, James Brokenshire, have claimed that investigations into Troubles killings have been unduly focused on killings by the Army.
This was disputed by police figures seen by the BBC.
They showed that investigations into killings by the Army account for about 30% of the PSNI's legacy workload.
Djokovic, who has struggled with a wrist injury, won 6-3 5-7 6-2 6-1 after calling the trainer in the first set.
Spanish fourth seed Rafael Nadal beat Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-1 6-4 6-2.
Germany's Angelique Kerber, seeded second in the women's draw, led Polona Hercog 6-0 1-0 when the Slovenian succumbed to leg cramps.
Djokovic had spoken ahead of his opening match about the left wrist injury that has hampered him since the Olympics, but it was the right arm that appeared to be troubling the Serb against Janowicz.
He called a medical timeout after the fifth game to allow the trainer to work on his elbow and upper arm, but promptly broke the Janowicz serve on his way to the first set.
A wildly uneven display from both men saw Janowicz level at one set all after Djokovic double-faulted and blazed a forehand wide, shaking his right arm in apparent discomfort.
The defending champion began the second set serving at below 90mph but Janowicz was too inconsistent to take advantage, and Djokovic eventually ran out a comfortable winner - at least in terms of the scoreline.
He goes on to face Jiri Vesely in round two - the Czech who beat him in Monte Carlo earlier this year.
On calling for the medical timeout, the Serb said: "It was just prevention. It's all good. It's getting better and better each day.
"Hopefully as the tournament progresses, I'll reach my peak.
"There are periods when you're not feeling 100% but I don't think it's necessary to talk about this now. I'm just glad to come through this day and let's keep on moving."
There was an early shock in the men's draw as Britain's Kyle Edmund upset French 13th seed Richard Gasquet 6-2 6-2 6-3.
John Isner, the 20th seed, almost followed Gasquet out of the tournament but the American came back from two sets down to beat 18-year-old compatriot Frances Tiafoe 3-6 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-2 7-6 (7-3).
"It hurts, it hurts a lot," said Tiafoe, who served for the match in the fifth set. "Especially not getting over the line."
Nadal, who missed the French Open and Wimbledon with a wrist injury, said after his win: "The most important thing is that I am here in New York. Injuries are part of the career. I had a hard time this year."
Women's third seed Garbine Muguruza of Spain avoided an upset as she fought back to beat Belgian Elise Mertens 2-6 6-0 6-3.
Olympic champion Monica Puig was beaten in her first match since winning gold in Rio, going down 6-4 6-2 to China's Zheng Saisai.
Australian Open champion Kerber made it through to round two without dropping a game, as she looks to land a second major title and end Serena Williams' 185-week run at the top of the rankings.
Kerber, 28, came within one match win of toppling the American eight days ago in Cincinnati, and Muguruza and Agnieszka Radwanska also have a chance to do so in New York.
"To be one day number one, I think this is a goal from everybody, especially also for me," said Kerber.
"But I will not put too much pressure on myself because I know that when I put the pressure on, I'm not playing my tennis then."
Gael Monfils overcame Luxembourg's Gilles Muller - and a close encounter with an on-court scoreboard - to progress to round two.
The Frenchman, seeded 10th, won 6-4 6-2 7-6 (7-5) to take his summer hard-court record to an impressive 15-2.
However, he almost came a cropper when he collided with a courtside clock on court 17, causing it to topple over and break.
"When you are in the moment you don't feel really anything," said Monfils. "Just jump. I saw a wall, but it was quite lucky."
American Madison Keys overcame compatriot Alison Riske in a closely-fought match to reach round two.
The match, which finished 4-6 7-6 6-2, is officially the latest finish to a women's singles match at the US Open having concluded at 01:49 local time.
Having won the first set, Riske was a break up in the second set tiebreak before eighth seed Keys began to take control.
"I looked up and it's almost 2am so who wants to go party," Keys told Eurosport.
"To be honest my party is going to be a protein shake and then sleep but everyone else can party for me."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent:
"Djokovic voiced concern about the strength of his left wrist last week, but it was his right arm which needed on court treatment just five games into the defence of his title. He stretched out his arm at regular intervals, and looked in some discomfort.
"The world number one struggled at times with his serve and was frequently erratic, but still comfortably good enough to win a match against a man who has just returned from a six-month injury lay-off.
"He gave very little away in his post-match interview, preferring instead to look ahead and point out the importance of peaking at the end of the fortnight."
Gary Smith, from the GMB union, has called on the Scottish government to do more to oppose the bill.
UK ministers intend to introduce new laws in the Trade Union Bill.
The Scottish government said it was opposed to the legislation.
The new trade union law would force unions to give employers 14 days' notice of action and could limit the amount of money unions have to mount campaigns.
Mr Smith said: "The Scottish government needs to say very clearly that policing is about priorities, and trying to crush dissent and attack trade unions is not a priority for the Scottish police.
"The Scottish government has a choice here - they are either on the side of the trade unionists or they are going to be supporting the jailing of trade unionists.
"This is this generation's poll tax moment."
UK minister have argued the move is not "a declaration of war" on unions.
The community charge - more commonly known as the poll tax - was introduced in Scotland in 1989, a year before it was implemented in England and Wales.
It was a single flat-rate tax on every adult, set by the local authority.
Many people refused to pay it and the subsequent protests and riots contributed to Mrs Thatcher's downfall as prime minister.
After widespread civil unrest and protest, it was replaced by the council tax in 1993.
A Scottish government spokesperson said: "We have set out our clear and strong opposition to the proposals in the Trade Union Bill, which we regard as a totally unjustified attack on workers' rights.
"We will continue to oppose these plans in the strongest possible way, and we urge the UK government to look again at these deeply flawed proposals."
Meanwhile, Cosla - which represents 28 out of 32 Scottish councils - has said it stands "shoulder to shoulder" with trade unions in opposition to the UK government's proposed law.
The body's HR spokesman, councillor Billy Hendry, said: "Cosla leaders are highly concerned that these changes are being brought in with no evidence to back up the assertion that this would modernise the industrial relations between councils and their trade unions."
The announcement has been welcomed by the EIS teaching union and GMB.
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It also now has significant new powers over the civil service and the judiciary.
The European Parliament President Martin Schulz, a German centre-left politician, has referred to the changes as a "dangerous Putinisation of European politics".
The conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government, was elected in October. For BBC Newsnight, Katie Razzall reports from Warsaw.
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The point was enough for Guinea to finish as group runners-up and secure a place at the World Cup in India in October.
In the other Group A game, Cameroon beat hosts Gabon 1-0 in Port Gentil courtesy of a goal from Stephane Thierry Zobo.
The result was not enough for Cameroon to progress, ending the tournament in third place in the standings, ahead of Gabon who had already been eliminated.
On Sunday, the final Group B games will take place.
Group leaders and defending champions Mali face Angola in Libreville, whilst Tanzania - who are level on points with Mali - face Niger.
A point for both Mali and Tanzania would be enough for them to progress to the semi-finals and earn a place at the World Cup.
Alan, a 10-year-old Burmese from Skipton, was fitted with the tube by vet surgeons in Cambridgeshire.
Using a technique the vets said has not been reported before in cats in the UK, they opened his trachea with a stent made from a metal alloy.
Alan's owner, who paid £4,000 to save him, said he was "delighted".
The cat was referred as an emergency by his vet in North Yorkshire to surgeons at Dick White Referrals in Six Mile Bottom.
They suspected Alan's trachea had become obstructed and without intervention his breathing difficulties "would be life-threatening".
He was diagnosed with tracheal stenosis (narrowing), described by the vets as "an uncommon condition". It left Alan barely able to get oxygen through his windpipe - which had narrowed to just 2mm in some sections - to his lungs.
Alan could either undergo surgery which might leave him with scar tissue causing further narrowing of the trachea, or vets could try a less invasive procedure used for some time in humans.
Vets used interventional radiology (IR), which uses imaging techniques to guide a mechanically woven stent (a wire mesh tube) made of a "memory-metal" alloy into the cat's windpipe.
The nickel/titanium alloy - a material originally developed by the US Navy - can be formed into a variety of medically useful shapes for use in the body, vet Jon Wray said.
Once released the stent re-forms to its original shape, although while it was inserted the cat was unable to breathe at all.
His "oxygen saturation had fallen to life-threatening levels", Mr Wray said, although as soon as the stent opened they climbed rapidly.
The stent took "just seconds" to insert although Alan was on the operating table for about 30 minutes.
Two weeks after the operation the Burmese is recovering in Skipton.
Owner Ian Mills said the family was "delighted to have Alan back home with us".
Patients offered books, plus sessions guiding them in how to use them, had lower levels of depression a year later than those offered usual GP care.
The effect was seen in addition to the benefits of other treatments such as antidepressants, Scottish researchers report in the journal Plos One.
Such an approach may help the NHS tackle demand for therapy, they said.
More than 200 patients who had been diagnosed with depression by their GP took part in the study, half of whom were also on antidepressant drugs.
Some were provided with a self-help guide dealing with different aspects of depression, such as being assertive or overcoming sleep problems.
Patients also had three sessions with an adviser who helped them get the most out of the books and plan what changes to make.
After four months those who had been prescribed the self-help books had significantly lower levels of depression than those who received usual GP care.
A year later, those in the self-help group were more likely to be keeping on top of their depression.
Study leader Prof Christopher Williams, from the University of Glasgow, who also wrote the books called Overcoming Depression and Low Mood, said the guided sessions were the key to getting people engaged.
The sessions can be delivered in general practice without referral to a specialist, taking pressure off waiting lists.
In Scotland, a telephone support service has now been set up to help support those using the books, which can be freely copied and disseminated, he added.
"We found this had a really significant clinical impact and the findings are very encouraging," he said.
"Depression saps people's motivation and makes it hard to believe change is possible."
The challenge for the NHS, where self-help books are already used in many places, is how to implement this model so people have easy supported access in primary care, he said.
There has been huge investment in better treatment for depression in the UK in recent years with the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme in England set up to widen access.
It has been estimated this approach could save the NHS up to £272m and the wider public sector £700m.
But, says Prof Williams, despite the huge levels of investment, it is just not possible to refer everyone with depression to mental health services.
Dr Paul Blenkiron, consultant in adult psychiatry at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said the results showed that guided self-help is effective and is "something the NHS should be investing in".
He is currently advising on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, on a National Books On Prescription Scheme, to be rolled out across UK public libraries this year.
Thirty books, including the one used in the study, have been selected.
But Dr Blenkiron said self-help would not be suitable for everyone: "The key thing is that the person is committed to doing some work."
Under the law, models will have to show they have a Body Mass Index (BMI) above a certain level.
Modelling agents that break the rules face fines and six months in jail.
The lower house of parliament also passed a separate measure making it illegal to condone anorexia, a move targeting internet sites that encourage dangerous weight loss.
Up to an estimated 40,000 people suffer from anorexia in France, nine out of 10 of them women and girls.
The new law on fashion models, part of a wider Health Bill, won a majority vote in the National Assembly lower house of parliament on Friday and must now be approved by the Senate.
"Anyone whose body mass index... is below a certain level will not be able to work as a catwalk model," it said.
The move would allow agencies to be "severely punished" if they forced models to undergo excessive weight loss, endangering their health, Olivier Veran, the Socialist MP who proposed the bill, told French news channel BFMTV.
He has said there would be regular checks to enforce the rule.
The deputy previously said models would have to present a medical certificate showing a BMI - the ratio of height to weight - of at least 18 before being hired for a job.
The average BMI for a woman in France is said to be 23.2.
Doctors say a normal BMI for adults is between 18.5 and 24.9, but some critics say the measure is not the best way of judging a healthy weight.
The National Union of Modelling Agencies has complained the ban would affect the competitiveness of French modelling.
But doctors and women's rights groups have long campaigned against the image they say is too often put out by the fashion industry of young women of an unnatural and unhealthy thinness, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris.
In 2007, Isabelle Caro, an anorexic 28-year-old former French fashion model, posed for a photographic campaign to raise awareness about the illness - she died three years later.
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Ehiogu died at the age of 44 on Friday after suffering a cardiac arrest at Spurs' training centre on Thursday.
Players wore black armbands and held a minute's applause before kick-off.
The same tributes will be held before Villa's derby against Birmingham on Sunday.
Alonso is missing the Monaco Grand Prix this month, where Jenson Button will return to Formula 1 to substitute for him, to race at Indianapolis.
The Spaniard completed his mandatory 'rookie' test before starting his preparations for the event on 28 May.
"So far it is a good experience but now starts the real thing," Alonso said.
"It has been a very helpful day in terms of knowing all this different world and getting up to speed a little bit.
"There's still a long way to go but I am happy with this first step."
Button sent his former McLaren team-mate a good-luck message on social media before the test session.
All drivers who race at Indianapolis for the first time are required to complete an initiation test, no matter what their calibre or experience.
To pass, two-time F1 world champion Alonso had to complete three phases of running - 10 laps each at an average of 205-210mph; followed by 15 at 210-215mph; and 15 at 215-220mph. He completed the requirements in just 50 laps.
Alonso said: "It is a good way to start to build the speed. It was probably a little bit difficult at the beginning to reach the minimum but then in the phases it felt good.
"At the beginning, the right foot has its own brain and it was not connected to my brain. I wanted to go flat-out but the foot wouldn't let me. But after a few laps it was fine."
After passing the rookie test, Alonso began a programme with his Andretti Autosport team to start learning the intricacies of IndyCars on an oval track where each 2.5-mile lap has four left turns that look identical but are each subtly different.
He ended the test with a fastest lap of 222.548mph. Last year's pole position time for the Indy 500 was 230.760mph.
"Everything went fine so far," Alonso said. "The circuit looks so narrow when you are at that speed. I was trying different lines but I was not as comfortable as I probably will be in a couple of weeks' time."
Alonso is racing in his home grand prix in Spain on 12-14 May before flying back to the States to start the official practice sessions for the Indy 500 the next day.
The competitors have a total of 30 hours of practice over five days before qualifying weekend on 20-21 May, with pole position decided on the Sunday.
Alonso's F1 team are fully involved in his Indy programme, with the car painted in the company's historic orange colour and given the McLaren name. It is the first time for 38 years that a car branded McLaren has raced at Indy.
He is taking part because McLaren are struggling in F1 this year as a result of a lack of performance in their Honda engine and Alonso has said one of his ambitions is to win the 'triple crown' of Monaco Grand Prix, which he won in 2006 and '07, Indy 500 and Le Mans 24 Hours.
McLaren executive director Zak Brown said he wanted to give Alonso the chance to win something after three difficult seasons since joining the team in 2015.
"We wanted to see Fernando running at the front because that's where he deserves to be," Brown said.
Brown revealed that Alonso had already watched about 25 Indy 500s in his preparations, including one entirely from an in-car camera on one particular car.
The test progressed so quickly that within four hours Andretti already had Alonso testing fuel saving and techniques for running behind a safety car.
But Alonso said he still had a lot to learn about fine-tuning the car for changing conditions on the track, a key aspect of driving at Indy.
"The guys make changes all the time to the car," he said. "On that aspect I am not up to speed. I am not yet able to to feel the car because at the moment I am not driving the car, the car is driving me around."
Mario Andretti, the 1978 F1 world champion, former IndyCar champion and father of ex-F1 and IndyCar driver Michael Andretti who runs the team Alonso is driving for, said: "He did a perfect job. He's the real deal and I think he's going to be strong this month."
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While breast cancer and prostate cancer have a five-year survival rate of more than 80%, lung cancer's is around 10%.
Those who survive lung cancer for five years are then 10 times more likely to get another cancer.
Macmillan said improving early diagnosis was key.
In their report, the cancer charity carried out an analysis of almost 85,000 cancer patients' experiences of the NHS in England from 2004 to 2011.
They looked in detail at what happened to people with one of four types of cancer - breast, prostate, lung or brain cancer - after they were diagnosed.
The research showed that one in five (20%) women with breast cancer and one in four (25%) men with prostate cancer survived for at least seven years after diagnosis in good health.
But the picture was significantly worse for people with lung cancer, or the most common form of brain cancer, of whom less than 1% survived long-term and in good health.
The report suggests that one in five people with lung cancer die within one month of being diagnosed and 73% die within one year.
If you have these symptoms, you should see your doctor. But these symptoms are also very common in people with other lung diseases.
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Although survival rates for some cancers "have soared" over the past 40 years in England, the report says other cancers are lagging behind and the figures make the case for improving cancer care across the UK more urgent.
In its report, Cancer's unequal burden, Macmillan Cancer Support urges NHS leaders and GPs to plan cancer services better, improve early diagnosis and provide the best treatment available regardless of age or location.
Ciaran Devane, chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, said the findings revealed "stark variations".
"Cancer is not just one disease, and therefore there is no one-size-fits-all approach to treatment and aftercare.
"The NHS needs to get much better at using robust data to understand the complex needs of people with different cancers so that services can be planned accordingly. It's no good papering over the cracks any longer, we need a complete system overhaul."
Dr Penny Woods, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, said the report made an important call for improvements in early diagnosis.
"Late presentation and diagnosis is one of the main reasons lung cancer survival rates in this country lag so far behind rates in Europe and the US, as well as rates for other cancers. As such, the report's revelation that over half of lung cancer patients die within just six months of diagnosis is sadly very telling."
Dr Woods said evidence suggested that public awareness campaigns were starting to increase early diagnosis rates.
But she added: "It is no coincidence that survival rates are so much greater for the likes of breast cancer, given the amount of research funding allocated to such areas have long dwarfed the amount given to lung cancer.
"Lung cancer is by far the biggest cancer killer in this country: it's time we stopped treating it like the poor relation."
Most cases of lung cancer are related to smoking, which is the biggest risk factor for the disease.
Although rates of lung cancer are decreasing in men, they are rising in women because of the number of women who continued to smoke during the post-war period and into the 1970s.
The proposal, known as the "Enforcement Initiative", has been put forward by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP).
It is not the first such vote: in 2010, the Swiss backed proposals to deport foreigners convicted of murder or sexual violence. That policy has come into force, but the Swiss People's Party, believing it does not go far enough, now wants to strengthen it.
The new plan would also deport those who commit two minor offences, such as speeding, or arguing with a police officer, within 10 years. There would be no right of appeal: conviction would lead to deportation in every case, regardless of individual circumstances.
Supporters of the proposals say it will make Switzerland a safer place, and point to statistics indicating that foreigners take up more than their fair share of prison cells.
Opponents argue that those statistics reflect only a partial reality, because many of those in prison are illegal migrants awaiting deportation anyway, while the proposed new law would target the 25% of the population who are foreign, but permanently and legally resident in Switzerland.
The campaign has been emotional and divisive. An infamous black sheep poster, widely criticised as racist when it was first used by the People's Party several years ago, has reappeared.
Opponents of the new law have responded with blunt posters of their own, showing jackboots stamping on the Swiss parliament, and the figure of justice being smashed by a wrecking ball.
What seems to worry some voters most is not the idea that the Swiss government should be tougher on crime, which is in fact low by European standards, but that the new proposal would create a two-tier justice system, one for the Swiss, and one for foreigners.
Getting Swiss nationality remains a long, complicated, and relatively expensive process. Being born in Switzerland does not confer citizenship, so hundreds of thousands of Swiss residents may not have a Swiss passport, but have never actually lived anywhere else.
Hypothetical cases are being offered to try to give voters a picture of how the new law would work.
Take, for example, two young men born in the same village, who attended the same school, and have lived all their lives in Switzerland. But only one is Swiss, the other is third-generation Portuguese.
Both are convicted of petty offences, possession of cannabis perhaps, or being drunk and disorderly outside a nightclub. After they get their driving licences, both are booked for speeding.
Under the new law, the Portuguese would be automatically deported, irrespective of whether he had ever lived in Portugal, could speak the language, or whether he had dependants in Switzerland.
This prospect has struck real fear into Switzerland's foreign community, with some families even approaching their Swiss neighbours and quietly pleading with them to reject the proposal.
Others have lashed out, bitterly condemning the Swiss People's Party as dangerously discriminatory.
"How long before foreigners are forced to wear a sign so that the law-abiding Swiss know to steer clear of them? Maybe a big red A for Auslander (foreigner)?", wrote one.
A leading Swiss columnist has even described (in German) Sunday's vote as Switzerland's "Nazi moment", suggesting that the imagery and the language of the Yes campaign bear comparison with Germany in the 1930s.
The Swiss People's Party angrily rejects such comparisons, arguing that getting tough with foreign criminals will protect other law-abiding foreign residents who, the party line goes, currently risk guilt by association simply because they are foreign.
But the People's Party is well known for campaigning on one single issue: immigration.
Many political analysts see this vote as the latest in a clever strategy to keep that topic at the forefront of voters' minds, so that when parliamentary elections come around again, the Swiss People's Party can, it hopes, gain yet more seats.
Ms Clwyd - critical of her late husband's care in a Cardiff hospital - said some were afraid complaining would mean poorer treatment.
She said she had calls about the issue from medical staff who would not give names for fear of being sacked.
Ministers said they wanted everyone to "feel comfortable" raising any concerns they have about the Welsh NHS.
Labour MP Ann Clwyd was appointed by David Cameron as an adviser on how hospitals in England handle complaints.
This followed her speaking out against failings in the care of her husband at the University Hospital of Wales.
She was also asked to advise Mr Cameron after the findings of an inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital in Staffordshire.
As she addressed the Welsh assembly health committee, Ms Clwyd repeated her call for a review of the Welsh NHS, similar to Sir Bruce Keogh's review in England.
Referring to fear among patients and their families, she claimed some felt put off raising concerns on the actual ward.
She said nurses tend to 'cluster' at nurses' stations and people can feel they are intruding if they approach them.
"One person asked a nurse for help where they were all doing eBay," she told the committee.
"They turned to them and said 'when we do this we'll come to you'."
Previous attempts to call Ms Clwyd before the committee were blocked by Labour AMs.
Labour had argued it was "constitutionally inappropriate" for the committee to interview backbench MPs on devolved matters.
But last month Plaid Cymru, Liberal Democrat and Conservative AMs put forward a fresh proposal under a different procedure, which was accepted.
Speaking before the committee on Wednesday, the Cynon Valley MP insisted: "The staff are afraid, the patients are afraid, the patients' relatives are afraid and that just can't be right.
"And I think in Wales there's a tendency not to complain as much as people ought to complain when something's wrong.
"There's a tendency to feel 'oh well, we don't want to upset anybody, we don't want to bother them'.
"And also the fear it'll be taken out on them in some way if they do complain, that they'll get poorer treatment."
Ms Clwyd's concerns about the Welsh NHS followed the death of her husband at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in 2012 and an inquiry she led into standards in the NHS in England.
An internal health board inquiry upheld many of her complaints, but not her claim he died "like a battery hen".
In a statement, ministers said they wanted the Welsh NHS "to be a place where anyone can feel comfortable about expressing any concerns or views they have".
"When things do go wrong the right mechanisms need to be in place to address any concerns and ensure they are put right," the statement continued.
"We recently published an independent review which made a number of recommendations to make sure that the Welsh NHS continues to be open and accepts feedback from patients as a gift which should be acted on and used to improve care."
Arianne Plumbly gave the BBC voicemails she said the Telford MP had left after she was signed off work for four weeks.
One message said: "I'm advising you to work as normal or resign. We all know you're not ill."
The BBC has been unable to contact Ms Allan, but a Tory Party spokesman said the complaints had been dealt with "appropriately and sympathetically".
In a written response to the Evening Standard, Ms Allan said: "Arianne Plumbly was dismissed from her employment with Lucy Allan, MP in Telford, after four months' employment, for gross misconduct following misuse of the Parliamentary email system, persistent unauthorised absenteeism, refusal to follow a reasonable instruction and rudeness to residents."
But Miss Plumbly, 26, told the BBC she disputed those claims.
"That never happened, " she said.
"It [her contract] was terminated due to four weeks ill, as per my termination letter, signed by Lucy."
She said the alleged verbal abuse had begun in May and continued until she says she was dismissed "without reason" in September.
"It got really bad the week before the election," said Ms Allan's former employee, who became her senior constituency caseworker.
"She was screaming and shouting at me down the phone saying I was useless and I hadn't done any work.
"But I was working nine until eight, Monday to Saturday every week for eight weeks.
"When she won, she was telling me how wonderful and amazing I was and I did get an apology.
"I naively put it down to the stress of the election and I did decide to stay on."
September 2014 - Arianne Plumbly begins volunteering at Lucy Allan's office
December 2014 - She is employed as the campaign manager's assistant
March 2015 - The 26-year-old is promoted
May 2015 - Miss Plumbly claims the alleged verbal abuse started the week before the election, but says she received an apology when Ms Allan won the Telford seat.
June 2015 - She claims it started again when she asked for a week's holiday to be extended to two weeks.
September 2015 - Miss Plumbly was dismissed before her contract was due to finish in December.
Miss Plumbly said she had requested an extension to a week's holiday and the MP had later threatened to sack her.
She said after the office manager had left, Ms Allan had "turned her anger and frustrations to me".
"I was off ill for two days in September with a terrible cough and then I got a gum infection.
"My doctor told me to have four weeks off. That's when she threatened to sack me."
In one voicemail, Ms Allan said: "You've been nauseous day after day. I don't know you're, if this is some sort of alcohol problem or whatever it is, but it's not a very good excuse."
Miss Plumbly said: "I have no idea why she would say that to me. I work part time in a pub and everyone knows I hardly ever drink."
She said it had had a "devastating impact" on her and she currently did not have a job.
"Before this I was extremely ambitious and enthusiastic. I was successful at every interview I got."
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "As soon as these complaints were made they were dealt with appropriately and sympathetically."
Poppy Widdison, four, from Grimsby, died from a cardiac arrest in June 2013 at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
Her mother Michala Pyke, 37, and Ms Pyke's ex-partner John Rytting, 40, both deny child cruelty.
Opening the case against them at Hull Crown Court, prosecutors said Poppy had ingested a variety of drugs for up to six months before her death.
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Prosecutor David Gordon said the drugs included sedatives, heroin, methadone and ketamine.
Mr Gordon said text messages between the couple referred to the child having a "blue Smartie" and going to sleep, which he said was a reference to the sedative diazepam.
"We say the defendants are just wanting to get on with their love life, wanting to enjoy each other's company and it may be this young girl was something of an encumbrance," he said.
Mr Gordon said: "She regarded her child, her own daughter, as something of a nuisance and interfering with Miss Pyke's enjoyment of her relationship with Mr Rytting."
The exact cause of Poppy's death is not known but Mr Gordon said experts agreed there was a a long-period of ill-treatment and neglect.
Quantities of prescription and controlled drugs were found at Mr Rytting's house in Grimsby when it was searched.
The prosecutor said: "It was clear that various types of drug were simply left lying around the house."
Both defendants have pleaded guilty to child cruelty by allowing Poppy to live in a house where prescribed and controlled drugs were unsecured and within reach.
Miss Pyke has also admitted child cruelty by emotional abuse.
Both Miss Pyke and Mr Rytting deny one count of child cruelty by encouraging Poppy to ingest prescription and/or controlled drugs and one count of child cruelty by assault causing bruising.
Miss Pyke denies two charges of possessing methadone with intent to supply and supplying the same drug.
Mr Rytting denies possessing cannabis with intent to supply but admitted one count of importing drugs and two counts of supplying controlled drugs.
The trial continues.
The girls' shoes carry a heart-patterned insole, while the boys' insoles are decorated with footballs.
The shoe manufacturer has removed the Dolly Babe from its website following "customer feedback" about the name.
"We are working hard to ensure our ranges reflect our gender-neutral ethos," Clarks said.
"We apologise for any unintended offence caused."
However, the girls' shoe is still available online from retailers including Amazon and John Lewis and the Leader remains on sale.
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, said the situation was unacceptable and "almost beyond belief" in 2017.
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Miranda Williams, a councillor and cabinet member for children and young people in Greenwich, southeast London, first took Clarks to task on Twitter this week.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Conservative MP for North East Somerset, also criticised Clarks. "To call a pair of shoes for a girl Dolly Babe is dreadful. It's wrong in all sorts of ways ... this is just really silly," he told the BBC.
Carolyn Harris, shadow minister for women and equalities, described the situation as "blatant discrimination", while Sarah Ludford, a Liberal Democrat peer and shadow Brexit minister, called the name choices "depressing".
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Lesley Williams, a Gloucestershire councillor, tweeted that it was "offensive":
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Clarks said it was removing the Dolly Babe shoe, which it described as an "old and discontinued line", from its stores.
The row follows another claim of sexism levelled against Clarks earlier this month by Jemma Moonie-Dalton, who wrote a Facebook post about trying to buy school shoes for her seven-year-old daughter and five-year-old son at a Clarks store in east London.
"In the boys' section the shoes are sturdy, comfortable and weatherproof with soles clearly designed with running and climbing in mind," she wrote. "In contrast, the girls' shoes have inferior soles, are not fully covered and are not well padded at the ankle. They are not comfortable and are not suited to outdoor activities in British weather."
Clarks said it was creating more unisex shoes in response to customer feedback and promoting its gender-neutral stance both online and in store.
But Williams said Clarks had failed to learn lessons from a similar controversy last summer. In a Facebook post that went viral, Welsh mother Laura Greenwood accused Clarks of making girls' shoes that are "fussy, impractical and prone to scuffing - quite unlike your sensible, practical, durable ranges designed for boys".
The row comes as the Advertising Standards Authority plans to crack down on ads that feature stereotypical gender roles.
The move, announced last month, follows complaints about adverts such as one for Aptamil baby milk formula that showed girls growing up to be ballerinas and boys becoming engineers.
The Scottish First Minister and Remain supporter said "fear-based" campaigning could have a negative effect on voters.
She was speaking as Tory Leave backers dismissed a Treasury study suggesting Brexit would hit growth, jobs, wages and house prices as "more propaganda".
Liam Fox said the analysis was "disreputable, shabby and misleading".
The economic arguments for and against the EU have intensified with a month to go before the 23 June vote on Britain's membership as Chancellor George Osborne said a vote to leave could propel the UK economy into a "do-it-yourself recession".
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
Appearing alongside David Cameron, he said in a worst-case "severe shock" scenario, a UK exit could result in 6% lower GDP over two years, the loss of 820,000 jobs, a 4% fall in average incomes, a 15% collapse in the value of the pound and £39bn added to government borrowing.
The SNP leader, who is leading the campaign for a Remain vote in Scotland, said there would be an economic impact from leaving but the Treasury was "overstating its case".
Ms Sturgeon said Monday's assessment - the latest in the series of gloomy predictions of what would happen in the event of a vote to leave - could even be counter-productive.
"People have got the savvy to see through of some of the overblown claims," she said.
"We only have to look at the Scottish independence referendum to know that kind of fear-based campaigning starts to insult people's intelligence and can start to have a negative effect."
Only a positive, upbeat message could deliver what was needed on 24 June, she said, which was an "overwhelming rather than a narrow" victory for the Remain side.
"I'm much more interested in the reasons to stay in the European Union, the positive reasons, being part of a single market of 500 million people, the investment in jobs that come with that but also the social and employment protections."
By BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed
Sometimes this debate can feel a little like "my plague of frogs is worse than your plague of frogs".
And we could all be forgiven for becoming a little fed up with politicians shouting at each other, particularly when they claim, as the prime minister did earlier, that "this is what happens" to the economy, without a nod to "coulds" or "maybes".
These are forecasts, not definitive outcomes.
But, political hubris to one side, the Treasury analysis can be set apart from the "he said, she said" tenor of much of the EU referendum debate. It is based on a well-understood and tested economic model.
It might be wrong, or the outcomes might be substantially different once real events take hold - as is true of all forecasts - but it is very much worth the paper it is written on. Read Kamal's full analysis
Boris Johnson and other senior figures in the Vote Leave campaign said the worst-case scenario being talked about - based on there being no trade agreement with the EU after two years - was bleaker than the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Treasury had been "hopelessly wrong" in previous forecasts, including in its support for the Exchange Rate Mechanism in the early 1990s.
Leave-supporting Conservative MPs attacked the study in the House of Commons, saying that it downplayed the risks of remaining in the EU and ignored alternative scenarios, such as the UK becoming a member of the European Economic Area,
Bernard Jenkin said it was "just rubbish" and an example of a government "obsessed with producing propaganda to get its way in the vote".
"Does not the government's entire campaign reinforce the unfortunate impression that today's political leaders will say anything which will help them get what they want whether it is true or not," he asked.
Brexit-supporting economist Patrick Minford said the assessment ignored all the "upsides" from leaving, including the money saved from not being a member of the Common Agricultural Policy and not having to abide by EU regulation.
Former Chancellor Lord Lawson accused the government of trying to "scare the pants" off voters while UKIP's leader Nigel Farage said his opponents' strategy was "irresponsible".
"It's pretty disgraceful the way voters are being bullied. Project Fear has now become Project Threat. But I think people are used to politicians not telling them the truth and getting it wrong."
John Mills, the chair of the Labour Leave, said the Treasury's economic warning was "grossly exaggerated". While there might be a "small blip" in the immediate aftermath of a vote to leave, he said the economy would soon recover to a higher level.
"These wild claims we hear from the Remain side do nothing to help their cause," he told the BBC News Channel.
The Treasury published two different models of what may happen after a vote to leave based on three factors: the "transition effect" of the UK becoming less open to trade; the impact of economic "uncertainty"; and the potential "volatility" of financial markets.
In the lesser "shock" scenario, based on assumptions of a bilateral trade agreement with the EU, it predicts economic growth would be 3.6% less than currently predicted in the two years after exit, sterling would fall by 12%, unemployment would rise by 520,000, average wages would fall by 2.8% and house price growth would be hit by 10%.
Mr Osborne said the analysis had been "peer reviewed" prior to publication by Charlie Bean, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England and that the economist had said it was based on "reasonable estimates" and "best practice procedures".
But three museums are telling the stories of real life heroes of the Battle of the Somme in a novel way.
Armagh County Museum, Craigavon Museum Services and Monaghan County Museum have managed to come up with a different way of telling the story of its horrors through a comic book.
They recall the real-life stories of three people from each area.
The comic tells the true stories of Pte Tommy Chambers from Armagh, Pte Thomas Hughes VC from Monaghan and Anne Acheson from Portadown.
The curator of Monaghan County Museum, Liam Bradley, said the museums had worked closely together to create the comic, but there was one particular genre they were keen to attract.
"There is a cohort that all museums struggle to attract - that is typically teenagers and secondary school pupils," he said.
"We were looking for ways to attract and target them. With the huge amount of impact that comic books have on film, art and popular culture, we thought this was a good way to tell the personal stories."
"All the creators involved in the were very mindful the subject matter.
"We were in contact with all the family members and wanted to make sure they were happy with what we were doing and how we were telling the story.
"For the most part they were over the moon to see their their relatives being portrayed in such a light," said Liam.
"We wanted to tell a story that was realistic but it also had to be attractive and punchy," he added. "I think we struck that balance".
The museums enlisted the help of comic book designer Stephen Mooney.
He had studied animation - before getting into the rather niche area of comic book writing, after the owner of a local comic shop enlisted his help with writing his own comics.
Taking about the Somme project he said: "They were stories worth telling, and I was very aware when I was writing the scripts it had to be okayed by members of the family, so always had that in mind."
You can download a copy of the complete comic here.
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"Keep hold of my hand!" shouts a harassed man at his little daughter as she runs enthusiastically towards the kaleidoscope of colours exploding in the sky over Frejus port, trailing a toy rabbit by its ears.
"What did I tell you about holding Daddy's hand at the fireworks?" He sees me looking at him, and shakes his head.
"You can't help being nervous, you know?" he says. "In crowds like this, even with the police presence, you can't help thinking..."
There is a reasonably healthy turnout at the port for the firework display, but everyone is a little on edge.
The National Front (FN) Mayor of Frejus, David Rachline has upped security spending since the Nice attack - concrete bollards block vehicles from entering certain public areas, there are extra officers patrolling the streets, there are more CCTV cameras.
"There are even soldiers on some of the beaches," says one man pushing his toddler in a buggy.
"That is a first, and it is startling."
Nice is only 65km (40 miles) from the quaint little town of Frejus, and the impact of the 14 July attack there is very much being felt along the entire length of this seaside stretch of France.
"For the first time in my life, I'm going to vote Front National," one local man tells me as he waits on some steps for family members to catch him up after the fireworks.
"We've been attacked too many times now, and I think the FN is the only solution, extreme though it is, unfortunately.
"No other party is tough enough with Islamist extremists."
The geographical position of the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region, facing North Africa just across the Mediterranean, has made it a natural far-right stronghold.
A large proportion of the white population is descended from the "pieds noirs", the French colonists expelled from Algeria in the early 1960s who arrived in France with a "fear of Arabs", says Nonna Meyer, of Sciences-Po, formerly Paris Institute of Political Studies.
And since the attack in Nice, there has been an increase in the number of people looking at the FN websites and signing up as party members.
"Terrorist attacks," Ms Meyer says, "are very good for a party like the FN and for its leader, Marine le Pen.
"She has been saying for years that we have too many refugees, too many immigrants and she has been linking them to Islamist fundamentalism and saying they are a reservoir for potential attacks.
"So, now, she says, 'The right was in office, the left was in office, and what did they do? Nothing. Come to us. It is time to try the FN.'"
On his wide desk, in his large office, the young FN Mayor and senator, Mr Rachline, has a poster of and a book about Johnny Hallyday.
It was a real coup for Mr Rachline to persuade France's ageing but incredibly popular rocker to play a gig at his little seaside town last month - not least because Hallyday has long been a close supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy, party leader of the right-wing Republicans.
"Of course, we have had a little drop in tourism this season," Mr Rachline tells me, as we settle into leather chairs and I mention that some of the beaches along the coast do not seem as packed as usual in high summer.
"But then nearly 300 French citizens have been killed in just a few months.
"Naturally, we have seen a lot more interest in the FN locally because of the security fears.
"OK, I have stepped up some measures here in Frejus, but it is up to the state to introduce proper security measures, like clamping down on Salafism and closing radical mosques.
"But the interior minister is just letting it all happen - he is not doing his job.
!We need to hit this problem at its base - the great tide of immigrants and refugees - that is the real problem."
I remind him that those responsible for the recent attacks in France were French.
"French on paper," he replies. "And perhaps today we are offering nationality to those who do not deserve it."
On a bench in front of Mr Rachline's town hall, four Muslim women sit watching me work. They can guess why I am here.
"Just because we are Muslims, it does not mean we are not crying with you, crying with the French," one head-scarfed older lady tells me sadly.
"The people who commit these crimes are monsters, not Muslims.
"But you know, dear," she says, catching my hand, "everyone of us must do his best to carry on living through these times."
She nods to the restaurant-heavy square in front of us, where little children twirl and dance in front of the live band.
"You go now and have a lovely evening."
The band's singer seems uncertain as to how he might best please his audience and flits frenetically between crooning French chanson numbers and lively American pop.
The right-wing Republicans (LR) have a similar dilemma in finding an appealing voice to present at next year's presidential elections.
In 2007, moving further to the right and focusing on security issues hot on the heels of the 2005 riots won Mr Sarkozy the election.
But a similar approach this time could see the LR simply drowned out by the stronger voice of the FN.
And few people like the cover track as much as the original.
"It's true that the FN is gaining ground a little here - but it's not true that Nicolas Sarkozy imitates the Front National, we have concrete proposals," says Jeremy Campofranco, who leads the young Republicans group in the Var region.
"Security is a problem for all of us, and we can't just let that subject belong to the FN."
This November, the LR will be holding primaries to choose its presidential candidate.
The two frontrunners are the pugilistic Mr Sarkozy and the former French Prime Minister and more harmonising figure Alain Juppe, whose popularity extends beyond the right.
Mr Campofranco will not say which candidate he will be backing but warns that whoever the winner is, everyone will need to unite behind him.
"So that we don't leave the door open to the extreme right," he says, raising his eyebrows at me and smiling wryly.
The seaside borders of Frejus bleed into neighbouring St Raphael, and it is from there I board a boat to St Tropez - that cosmopolitan, glitzy playground of the rich and famous where, nonetheless, 48% of the town voted FN in last December's regional elections.
I turn when I hear a local family seated behind me discussing politics.
Mrs Melchior tells me she will happily vote for Ms Le Pen because it is time someone was tougher on crime.
"She will not be able to do everything she wants, like closing the borders or leaving the euro," she says, waving her hand dismissively.
"But when she is elected, she will give us a safer life."
The younger members of the family begin to argue.
One family member admits he is also tempted to vote FN for the first time, in the wake of the attacks.
And a female family member scowls at him.
"Security is the most important thing now," she tells him.
"But we should not vote for a president just thinking about security."
Back in Paris, Prof Meyer remains convinced the FN is only a first-round party and that if, as is now expected, Ms Le Pen should be in the second round of the presidential elections, a cross-party alliance will form to block her from taking the Elysee.
"But in politics we have to be careful," she says.
"If you look at what happens in the aftermath of attacks, it is fear and anger.
"And if there are more attacks, we do not know what will happen."
You can hear Emma Jane Kirby's report for the PM programme on the BBC Radio 4 website.
Her parents had met at the theatre in the town of St Poelten, west of Vienna.
Her mother visited her father frequently in the eastern province of Burgenland where he was later stationed with his company.
But one day, when she was seven months pregnant, she turned up to find the company was gone.
Christa is one of 30,000 children thought to have been fathered by Allied soldiers in Austria in the decade after World War Two.
Meanwhile it is estimated that about 400,000 children in Germany were fathered by the occupying soldiers, who came from United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union.
In German, these children were often described as "Besatzungskinder" - or "Children of the Occupation".
They were born as the result of love affairs, short flings, "survival prostitution" and rape, says historian Barbara Stelzl-Marx, the author and editor of a new book Besatzungskinder: The children of Allied Soldiers in Austria and Germany.
Many of the children - and their mothers - faced discrimination and social exclusion.
"It was very difficult," Christa Wais told me. "I don't have good feelings about my childhood. I was excluded everywhere. All the children had been told to avoid me.
"Later even my husband used to make nasty remarks about my background."
Ms Stelzl-Marx says there was a stigma surrounding the children of Allied soldiers; the fathers were often still regarded as the enemy.
"Many children were also illegitimate, which was a problem at that time," she said.
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"There was a very negative picture of the Soviet soldiers. Nazi propaganda of the Slav Untermensch [subhuman] played a role.
"In the American zone, women were seen as having affairs because they wanted to have nice nylon stockings or chocolate."
One prominent example of a "Besatzungskind" is British singer, Marianne Faithfull, says Ms Stelzl-Marx.
"She is the child of a British officer [Robert Glynn Faithfull] who was based in Vienna and who married her Viennese mother (Eva von Sacher-Masoch). They moved to Great Britain and there she gave birth to Marianne," she said.
Many other "Besatzungskinder" never met their fathers.
Gitta Rupp is one of three children of British fathers whose stories are included in Ms Stelzl-Marx's book.
She describes shouting in anger at a photo of her absent father, Paul Wade-Brown.
But she also gives a warm description of her two half-sisters, whom she met in 2014. One, Anastasia Lewis, lives in London, while the other, Celia Wade-Brown, is the mayor of Wellington, New Zealand.
Christa Wais has yet not managed to trace her father and his family, who, she believes, came from Kiev.
But she is determined to keep searching.
"You shouldn't let anyone stop you looking for your roots, if you want to," she said. "Otherwise something will always be missing."
The Australia batsman (101 not out) hit 12 fours and a six in his first Championship ton for the Tykes, who were 177-1 when play was curtailed.
There was little prospect of a win for either side once Lancashire, who began on 264-6, had avoided the follow-on.
Ryan McLaren (84) and Simon Kerrigan (59) helped them to 432 all out.
McLaren and Stephen Parry (39) got them past their first target of 299, ensuring their first-innings deficit would be below 150, before Kerrigan and Tom Bailey (40) added useful lower-order runs.
Kerrigan marked his 100th first-class match with only his second half-century, but was bowled by Tim Bresnan three runs short of his career-best score of 62 not out.
Lancashire and England seamer James Anderson, who is waiting to discover the full extent of the groin injury he suffered while bowling on day one, batted with a runner and then did not bowl in Yorkshire's second innings.
The hosts collected 10 points to remain unbeaten in the County Championship in 2017, but they have not beaten Yorkshire in Championship cricket since 2011.
Yorkshire, for whom opener Alex Lees made 62 not out in the second innings, claimed nine points.
Lancashire captain Steven Croft told BBC Radio Manchester:
"To come out with one more point than them is slightly pleasing, but we got ourselves in a good position and unfortunately lost Jimmy Anderson, which made it a lot harder.
"In that sense, we're a little bit disappointed. But, all in all, it was a good game played by two good sides. We lost about 50 overs to rain.
"From there, it was going to be tough to get a result on that wicket. We felt the pitch might spin a bit more. There was a bit in it that first day.
"Shiv Chanderpaul had a brilliant innings as usual and Ryan McLaren down the order."
Yorkshire coach Andrew Gale told BBC Radio Leeds:
"It was a bit attritional. I'm disappointed we lost the time through rain because it could have been a good game. But we played some good cricket.
"We've spoken about taking our half chances. It's something we haven't always done this year. When you look back at the games we've played. Hampshire at home, the first morning of the fourth day, we dropped a couple of half chances.
"We dropped Shiv in this game when he was on 40-odd. Players like that on pitches like that make you pay. You just have to be a little bit more ruthless and concentrate harder.
"We felt we had the better of the cricket, but Lancashire stuck at it well and fought their way back into it. But it's a mini series. We've got them again in a week's time on our patch."
Speaking on his Radio 2 breakfast show earlier, he said he had texted Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May before the announcement was made.
Hammond, he said, had wished him good luck and gave assurances he "didn't blame him" for taking the job.
Evans also said there will "absolutely" be a woman in the new Top Gear line-up.
But he said he would not have a female co-presenter just "for the sake of it".
"I want to have people who are extremely knowledgeable about cars... people who have great energy, good timing... who are keen to do things differently," he told Radio 5 live.
The BBC has yet to confirm the rest of the Top Gear line-up - but Formula 1 presenter Suzi Perry featured prominently in the audience of Evans' TV show TFI Friday last week.
In his first remarks about the Top Gear job, broadcast on Radio 2 at 08:15 BST, Evans said Clarkson had also wished him "the best of luck".
Clarkson "then gave me a piece of advice which I'm not going to repeat on the radio", the broadcaster told his listeners.
Clarkson's contract was not renewed by the BBC after he punched a Top Gear producer in March.
Evans, a noted car enthusiast, had previously ruled himself out of becoming taking over the show.
Evans said he had wanted Top Gear to carry on with Hammond and May and had not wanted to "contaminate the situation" by throwing his hat in the ring.
"Whenever I said 'I categorically rule myself out of running for office', it was because I didn't want to be a pawn in a chess game involving three of my friends."
The situation changed this week, he explained, with Hammond and May confirming they would not continue on the programme in Clarkson's absence.
This led to a conversation with Mark Linsey, the BBC's controller of entertainment commissioning, and an offer he felt he had to accept.
Top Gear, said Evans, was "the biggest television show in the world" and his "favourite television show of all time".
"I love producing TV... and so I said yes," continued the former TFI Friday host, who will lead an as yet unconfirmed line-up of new presenters.
Hammond, Evans went on, had told him he was "designed and built" for the Top Gear job and that his hiring was "always the BBC's very best option".
Evans also hinted obliquely that James May may play some role on the programme in future.
"We're going to meet up today and tomorrow and talk about things and who knows what might happen there."
Evans has signed a three-year deal to host and produce the BBC Two show, one of the corporation's most popular international exports.
It is watched by 350 million viewers worldwide, with overseas sales worth an estimated £50m a year.
Evans has also received the backing of Chris Goffey, who co-hosted Top Gear in the 1980s and 1990s.
The broadcaster, Goffey told BBC Breakfast, was "the obvious choice", asking: "Who else in TV is really clued-up about the cars and has got a persona to match Jeremy's?"
Speaking to Radio 5 live on Wednesday, Evans said he had started formulating ideas for the show on Saturday, adding they involved "evolution, not revolution".
"The films have got to stay there," he said of the elaborate film sequences that were a feature of the Clarkson era. "They're a crucial part of what Top Gear is.
"We'll look at what we have to put in, what we need to put in, and then we'll see what we might want to put in," he continued.
"The first thing I'm going to do is sit down [with the Top Gear production team] and say, 'tell me what you know.'"
In addition to confirming "100 percent" that a woman would feature on the new presenting line-up, Evans said the popular Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment would remain a Top Gear staple.
But he said it would change and that "bells and whistles" would be added.
Top Gear, he went on, was "a fantastic programme" that was "so rock solid" and had "always been brilliant".
"I've never seen a bad Top Gear," he told Nicky Campbell. "They don't exist."
Evans also reiterated his earlier stated intention that he hoped to remain as host of Radio 2's breakfast show.
If the champions were a surprise package, the collapse of previous holders Chelsea also sent shockwaves throughout the season, along with managers on the move, a parochial relegation fight between north-east of England rivals Newcastle United and Sunderland and a top-four battle that went down to the final day.
So as the dust settles on another Premier League season, how will this turbulent, exciting campaign be remembered?
Leicester City went from celebrating Premier League survival and 5,000/1 outsiders in May 2015 to champions inside 12 months - when the story of football is told this season will be forever associated with the Foxes.
The signs, at least some of them, were in evidence in that renaissance as they won seven of their final nine games last season but to suggest the transformation would lead to them being presented with the Premier League trophy at an exultant King Power on Saturday, 7 May 2016 would have been dismissed as the work of a fantasist.
Leicester provided the footballers of the year in England striker Jamie Vardy and Algeria forward Riyad Mahrez, with 24 and 17 goals respectively, while France midfielder N'Golo Kante was not far behind. The trio are a tribute to the meticulous scouting model employed at the club.
Vardy cost just £1m from Fleetwood in May 2012, Mahrez £400,000 from French second-tier side Le Havre in January 2014 and Kante £5.6m from Caen in August 2015. That is just £7m for the inspiration behind a Premier League title, with credit to former manager Nigel Pearson for those first two deals.
And at the heart of all was the man who arrived at Leicester to replace the sacked Pearson. Claudio Ranieri's appointment was, at best, unheralded and followed a spell when he was dismissed by Greece after losing to the Faroe Islands.
Against all odds - like the Foxes - the Italian led his team in masterly fashion from the 4-2 opening day win against Sunderland, managing expectation and pressure superbly while winning the hearts and support of neutrals with his humble, yet charismatic style.
Leicester's title win - a prolonged shock to sport's system - takes its place in the greatest sporting achievements of all time.
Five clubs had their highest ever finish in the Premier League:
It was 7 May 2015 and all was well at Stamford Bridge. Manager Jose Mourinho had brought the Premier League back to Chelsea, signed a new four-year contract and spoke of building a team for a 10-year dynasty.
In one of the most startling, chaotic declines of any champion team and manager, Chelsea's fortunes collapsed to such an extent that seven months later Mourinho was sacked by owner Roman Abramovich after just four wins from 16 league games.
From day one and the row with Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro against Swansea City, when she went out on to treat injured Eden Hazard without his permission, and was subsequently removed from first-team duties which led to legal action, Mourinho's Chelsea tenure went into meltdown.
Players he counted on when winning the Premier League such as Hazard, Diego Costa - who scored 20 league goals in the title win - and Cesc Fabregas were ineffective and anonymous.
The end came amid the rancour of a 2-1 loss at Leicester City on 15 December, after which Mourinho claimed some players had "betrayed" his work. Two days later he was gone - a spectacular downfall complete.
Blackburn Rovers dropped from first to seventh after winning the title in 1994-95 - and Manchester United did the same after being crowned champions in 2012-13. Chelsea's drop was even more acute and demonstrated their fall from grace.
Leicester City's feat will be regarded as the greatest in Premier League history - and it has been helped along the way by the giants stumbling at the wayside.
Chelsea's downfall has been chronicled while Manchester City's hopes of regaining the title they won twice in recent years was undermined by rampant inconsistency, a lack of performances worthy of an expensively assembled squad and, perhaps, the announcement in February that manager Manuel Pellegrini would be replaced by Pep Guardiola that provided the backdrop to the closing months of their season.
Manchester United's league season was dull under manager Louis van Gaal, with only the occasional sparkle of victories at Liverpool and Manchester City. They were so poor for so long it was a minor miracle they sustained a top-four challenge until the final day.
Arsenal told us the same old story of promise until the turn of the year then fragility when the pressure is on. This was, in many ways, the season Arsene Wenger and his players had waited for as their usual rivals stuttered - and they still could not take advantage.
This was a season awash with managerial speculation - most of which ended up being about a man who actually lasted the season in Manchester United's Van Gaal.
The Dutchman was the central figure in some sort of "in-out-in-out" managerial hokey cokey from December as United went out of the Champions League, with Mourinho almost a permanent shadow on his shoulder after he was sacked by Chelsea before Christmas.
Other than Mourinho, the highest profile casualty was Liverpool's Brendan Rodgers who lasted only eight games - with three wins - into the new season before he was sacked and replaced by Jurgen Klopp. It was a swift downfall only 18 months after he almost won Liverpool's first title in 24 years.
Aston Villa's shameful season was reflected in two sackings. Tim Sherwood went in October after one win and eight losses in 10 games, while his successor Remi Garde fared no better. He was sacked at the end of March after just two wins in 20 games and with relegation inevitable.
Sunderland's replacement of Dick Advocaat with Sam Allardyce in October worked perfectly as he kept the Black Cats in the top flight, while Swansea's eventual replacement of Garry Monk with Francesco Guidolin - after a spell under Alan Curtis - was also a success.
Not so at Newcastle. They left it too late to sack Steve McClaren on 11 March. It only gave Rafael Benitez 10 games - so the relegation the Magpies have invited so long came through the door.
Last one out the door was Everton's Roberto Martinez on 12 May, his fall from grace coming amid fan anger, protests and the worst record at Goodison Park in any season in the club's history.
The Premier League season may be over - the postponed meeting between Manchester United and Bournemouth apart - but the big guns will already be turning their attention to firing back next season.
Manchester City's season ended in a disappointing fourth position but Guardiola, the world's most celebrated coach, will soon come through the door at Etihad Stadium to replace Pellegrini and will be backed by huge transfer funds.
He is the man City's hierarchy want to fulfil their dreams, especially in the Champions League, while it remains to be seen whether there will be similar movement at Manchester United.
Van Gaal's future has been debated for most of the season without any indication of a willingness from those inside Old Trafford to remove him from his job as manager.
Mourinho has seemingly been waiting in the wings for six months - so will the failure to secure Champions League football finally prompt a decision to dispense with Van Gaal or will United keep faith with the 64-year-old Dutchman who has taken them to next weekend's FA Cup final?
The prospect of former La Liga foes Guardiola and Mourinho recreating their crackling rivalry at Barcelona and Real Madrid in the same city is mouth-watering.
Klopp, meanwhile, will have his feet even further under the table at Liverpool after reaching the Capital One Cup final and the Europa League final after succeeding Rodgers in October.
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Chelsea will want Antonio Conte to recreate their former successes, while Everton will move with renewed ambition under new billionaire major shareholder Farhad Moshiri. He will pursue ambitious managerial targets after sacking Martinez.
So as one season ends, planning for the next will start instantly.
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The work and pensions secretary said the infrastructure investment fund could finance essential projects including flood defences, a national fibre-optic broadband network and Crossrail Two.
The money would come from issuing new government bonds, Mr Crabb said.
Bond yields have fallen since the Brexit vote, lowering borrowing costs.
"The cost of borrowing is incredibly low. Spending government money on infrastructure has therefore never been more affordable," Mr Crabb said.
Mr Crabb announced his plan in conjunction with Business Secretary Sajid Javid, whom he plans to appoint as chancellor if he wins the leadership election.
The duo said they would also bring forward current infrastructure plans, including the electrification of the TransPennine Manchester to Leeds rail route which was put on hold last year.
They plan to issue up to £20bn of long-dated bonds each year for five successive years to create the fund.
It would also be used to invest in social housing, school buildings and new prisons, Mr Crabb said.
Mr Javid claimed the plan could create "hundreds of thousands" of new jobs.
Mr Crabb is the latest Tory leadership contender to set out his stall.
Rival candidate Michael Gove, currently justice secretary, has vowed to cut immigration by blocking EU free movement and spend an extra £100m a week on the NHS if he wins.
Current frontrunner Home Secretary Theresa May has promised to reconcile the Remain and Leave sides and "govern for the whole country".
The leadership contest was triggered by David Cameron's decision to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the EU in last month's referendum.
Mr Crabb and the four other candidates - Mr Gove, Mrs May, Andrea Leadsom and Liam Fox - will take part in a series of ballots of the party's 330 MPs, starting on Tuesday.
The two most popular will then go on to a vote of the wider party membership, with the result due on 9 September.
The French hosts started brightly, with Kylian Mbappe heading at Gianluigi Buffon before forcing another low save.
But Higuain ruthlessly finished two fine Dani Alves assists, sweeping the Brazilian's back heel in on 29 minutes.
Radamel Falcao went close for Monaco after the break before Alves' measured cross saw Higuain put Juve in control.
After Real Madrid's comprehensive first-leg win over city rivals Atletico on Tuesday, it now looks almost certain the two teams in Cardiff on 3 June will form a repeat of the 1998 final, in which the Spanish side beat Juve 1-0.
It will prove fitting, as the two sides sport the only unbeaten records in this season's competition.
Monaco, free scoring and dangerous with their youthful side all season, showed moments of threat which could unnerve Juve in the second leg on 9 May.
But at Stade Louis II, Massimiliano Allegri's side showed just how efficient they can be and Monaco's task looks huge as Juve have not lost a home fixture by two goals since April 2013.
This was another victory built on organised defensive work, with Buffon making a couple of key saves to help usher in a ninth Juve clean sheet in 11 Champions League matches this season.
Buffon's low stop from 18-year-old Mbappe inside 10 minutes illustrated the narrative this fixture threw up as experience met youthful exuberance.
Allegri's squad boasted almost three times as many Champions League appearances in total as their hosts, who are seeking a first final appearance since 2004.
The Italian side sat deep for spells, hitting Monaco with a flowing move for the opener before pouncing to rob Tiemoue Bakayoko deep in his own half before the second.
Buffon's low save from Falcao at 1-0 underlined the resistance Monaco faced.
Ultimately the experience 39-year-old keeper said would be crucial before kick-off shone through as his side squeezed the life from Monaco, preventing the Ligue 1 leaders from scoring at home for the first time since November 2015.
Juve could win Serie A this weekend as they chase a treble, having already booked their place in the Italian Cup final.
They look machine-like in their winning approach. Stalwarts Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci look driven to ensure the Italian side go one better than their 2015 final defeat to Barcelona, while Higuain, signed for £78m in 2016, offers a killer instinct.
Alves played on the right of midfield rather than in his customary role at right-back and despite now being 33, he showed clear energy to gallop forward and provide an opportunistic back heel to lay on the opener.
His delivery for the second was inch perfect and in creating both goals he now has six assists in the competition, bettering his best tally of five when at Barcelona in 2007-08 and 2010-11.
Feeding off such quality was Higuain, who refused to be overshadowed by the much-hyped Mbappe in the battle of the goalscorers.
The 29-year-old finished without breaking stride for the opener and peeled to the back post expertly to prod a 31st goal of the season in all competitions - one which looks set to send Juventus to the final in Cardiff.
Monaco midfielder Fabinho: "They were better and deserved to win but we're going to try everything in the return match."
Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini: "We have to congratulate Dani Alves and Gonzalo Higuain - sometimes we look to Gianluigi Buffon. We concede chances but when they come we have Gigi."
Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain: "I fight so hard for these moments. Goals were not coming for me in this competition but I knew I just had to stay calm and keep working hard."
Match ends, Monaco 0, Juventus 2.
Second Half ends, Monaco 0, Juventus 2.
Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Danijel Subasic.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Gianluigi Buffon.
Attempt saved. Valère Germain (Monaco) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross.
Valère Germain (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus).
Substitution, Juventus. Mario Lemina replaces Miralem Pjanic.
Foul by Tomás Rincón (Juventus).
João Moutinho (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Leonardo Bonucci.
Attempt blocked. Falcao (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kamil Glik.
Substitution, Monaco. Almamy Touré replaces Bernardo Silva.
Substitution, Juventus. Tomás Rincón replaces Claudio Marchisio.
Hand ball by Falcao (Monaco).
Hand ball by Paulo Dybala (Juventus).
Substitution, Juventus. Juan Cuadrado replaces Gonzalo Higuaín.
Hand ball by Bernardo Silva (Monaco).
Attempt missed. João Moutinho (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Jemerson (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus).
Falcao (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Paulo Dybala (Juventus) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Djibril Sidibe (Monaco).
Substitution, Monaco. Valère Germain replaces Thomas Lemar.
Substitution, Monaco. João Moutinho replaces Tiemoué Bakayoko.
Andrea Barzagli (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Djibril Sidibe (Monaco).
Attempt blocked. Djibril Sidibe (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus).
Falcao (Monaco) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Nabil Dirar (Monaco) because of an injury.
Goal! Monaco 0, Juventus 2. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dani Alves.
Claudio Marchisio (Juventus) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Claudio Marchisio (Juventus).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Kylian Mbappe (Monaco) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Djibril Sidibe.
Attempt saved. Claudio Marchisio (Juventus) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Matt Bellamy, frontman of Muse, was among those to criticise Leicestershire Police for scanning the faces of music fans at Download festival in June.
It was done as a trial as a method of identifying known criminals.
Chief Constable Simon Cole said parliament needs to decide "what is OK or not".
"For me it's an area where technology has advanced probably quicker than legislation," he told BBC Radio Leicester.
"The Police and Criminal Evidence Act was written in the 1980s - this kind of technology existed in science fiction films at that point and now it exists in reality.
"The law needs to change to take account of that."
Matt Bellamy criticised Leicestershire Police during his band's performance at Download.
He used an expletive and referred to how the force was "scanning your faces".
Rachel Robinson, a policy officer for human rights group Liberty, said: "We really think that there's a real need for caution here.
"The police [need] to think about their relationship with their communities and the broader impact that this kind of mass surveillance can have."
The use of facial recognition technology at Download was a trial, but Leicestershire Police routinely uses the NeoFace system to compare suspect images against the 92,000 faces on the force's database.
Mr Cole said this helps them identify suspects more quickly than traditional methods.
The force's database contains faces of everyone who has been photographed in custody - including those who turn out to be innocent.
"As the law stands at the moment the Police and Criminal Evidence Act says we can keep those photos," said Mr Cole.
"At the moment it's everybody [photographed in custody] and that's one of the discussions that's ongoing, and we are involved in those discussions nationally, because parliament needs to decide whether that's OK or not."
The models LIFEPAK CR Plus and LIFEPAK EXPRESS Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) were the ones affected, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said.
The manufacturers have sent out safety instructions for the devices.
No patient incidents have occurred.
The defibrillators, made by Physio-Control, are public access defibrillators (PAD) - so called because anyone can use them in an emergency.
Approximately 2,600 devices are thought to be defective.
The MHRA said the fault was caused by an internal component that could become stuck in the closed position.
This means the device could fail to deliver an electric shock to resuscitate a patient in cardiac arrest.
It advised people to carry out a safety check on their devices and arrange for the component to be replaced.
If they have not received the manufacturer's safety alert, they should locate the serial number on the label on the back of the device and call the manufacturer's customer support number or visit their website to seek further advice.
John Wilkinson, MHRA's director of medical devices, said: "These devices deliver lifesaving treatment and it is vital that they work in an emergency.
"Those responsible for them should carry out the instructions by the manufacturer.
"If you have any questions, or have not got the manufacturer's safety alert, call Physio-Control's customer support on 0808 258 0094."
The news offers a glimmer of hope for many farmers in developing nations.
Climate projections suggest that 50% of the countries' bean production will be lost by 2050 if farmers do not have access to the new variety of bean.
The discovery was made by plant breeders at CGIAR, a global agricultural research group.
One of the plant breeders involved in the research, Steve Beebe - a senior bean researcher at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) - explained that bean plants were, as a rule, very sensitive to excessive heat.
"Typically, beans are not grown in environments where the night temperature is above 18C (64F) or 19C," he told BBC News.
"Night temperatures are especially critical because the bean flower pollinates itself during night hours and the pollination process is very sensitive to temperature.
"When we talk about heat tolerance, we are especially concerned about the night-time temperatures."
Dr Beebe said the team wanted to see if there were varieties that displayed a trait of coping with night-time temperatures in the region of 23C.
"We gathered up the lines that we had in our breeding programme - lines that had been selected for other traits such as drought tolerance, which has been a high priority as well.
"We also pulled some lines off the shelf that were the result of a crossing programme about 12-15 years ago between our common bean and a tepary bean."
Vintage traits
He explained that the tepary bean was a neglected crop, grown by native Americans in the southwest US and Mexico in very hot and dry environments.
"We first started evaluating them for drought tolerance but when we decided to go into temperature evaluations, we selected these along with a much larger line of beans selected for drought or disease resistance," he recalled.
"We looked for varieties that were able to set pods and produce seeds in those conditions. We selected about 30 materials that were promising. That meant it was about 3% of our material that was of any interest at all.
"When we looked at what we had selected, the vast majority went back to the crosses that we had made 12-15 years ago."
Dr Beebe said the tepary bean as a food crop was not a popular cultivar.
"The grain type is very unusual, it is very small - only about half the size you are probably accustomed to. The plant type is not agronomically acceptable because it is very low growing and spreads," he said.
"But it has some very interesting traits of heat tolerance and drought tolerance."
The beans, nicknamed heat-beaters, could help maintain a valuable source of protein and iron for almost half a billion people as the world warms, if researchers are able to get seeds to farmers.
Seeds of hope
A recent report by the The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) said millions of smallholder farmers were unable to access the wide range of crop seeds because they were too costly or simply not available from local seed sellers.
Dr Beebe explained: "Beans and other legumes are self-pollinating so they are not very attractive to private sector seed producers.
"What self-pollination implies is that the farmer can save their own seed year after year, so a seedsman in business thinks that they can sell seed once and then they will have no more market."
But he added that there had been several very innovative approaches to getting seed to smallholder farmers in this situation.
"One of the most successful has been selling seed but in very small packets.
"Seed is often marketed in sacks of 50lbs (23kg) or more, and farmers cannot afford that. If you offer them a small packet that could be as little as 100g - they can buy that easily.
"It will only cover a very small area but for the farmer, she looks upon that favourably because it provides an opportunity for her to experiment with a new variety: does it grow well? Does it produce well? Does she like the grain? Does she like the taste? If she evaluates it favourably, she can either save her own seed or she can go back and buy a little more."
Dr Beebe said selling seeds in small packets also provided a way for new varieties to be more widely disseminated.
As for when farmers will be able to get their hands on the new "heat-beater" beans, he revealed: "As a matter of fact, if a farmer wrote to us today then we could - subject to certain restrictions - send them some."
He added: "But regarding when the seed is widely available to a massive number of farmers is subject to a process that has certain legal steps to it.
"To formally release a variety of crop, it must go through a series of tests, certified by the government, to validate a new variety. Then it needs to go through a seed production process.
"From now, these processes will take at least two years and in some countries, which have a longer process, it could even take four years."
But not through my ears. I'm wearing a SubPac, which is strapped on to my back and allows me to feel the beat of the music as it thumps through my body.
Chris is trying to replicate what it would feel like if, like him, I were deaf. And this is his aim - to give the opportunity for deaf dancers in his classes to feel the music so they can learn his choreography with ease.
"Dance classes are always so fast-paced, and without being able to hear the music you end up just being out of time," says Chris.
The SubPac, which is widely used in the music world to help music producers feel the music without damaging their ears, works by transferring low, bass frequencies directly to your body, providing the physical dimension to sound.
As soon as his aunty introduced him to music videos, dancing became a passion for Chris. But when he became deaf at a young age, after having meningitis, he thought his dreams of dancing and choreography were over.
Through his love of dance, Chris persevered, joining dance classes at the back and allowing his natural ability to shine through.
But he knew that not every deaf dancer would be as confident as him without being able to hear the music.
James Williams, who does business development for SubPac, tells the BBC: "Giving Chris, and those with hearing impairments the ability to experience something that we all take for granted is a rare opportunity.
"Since the focus is on physicality, the SubPac is great for helping dancers with hearing problems to dance in time to the beat."
And technology is giving people with all kinds of disabilities the chance to stay active and keep fit.
Take Simon Wheatcroft, who lost his sight at 17.
Simon was born with the genetic degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which causes gradual deterioration of the retina. But that hasn't stopped Simon becoming an ultra-marathon runner.
"I started running for something to do. I used a guide dog to run outside or went running with other people," he says.
He has run the New York marathon and many much longer races, normally with a human guide. But what happens when you want to run solo?
In a bid to do a 155-mile ultra-marathon in the Namibian desert this May he turned to IBM Bluemix - the tech giant's app development arm - to help him create an app.
Called eAscot after his guide dog, the app uses sensors, similar to car parking sensors, and satellite navigation to help him stay on course.
A desert race can be broken down into a series of straight lines, each with its own bearing on a compass. If he veers off to the right, the app emits a high-pitched beep that increases in frequency the further away he goes. If he runs too far left, low pitch beeps warn him.
Silence means he's heading in the right direction.
"I was tired and in pain after the marathons, but I was also happy knowing I had achieved something that once seemed impossible, made possible thanks to technology," says Simon.
"What sticks with me is the feeling of accomplishment," he adds. "Being able to do something that had never been done before. To create an application in a matter of weeks that changed what was possible for visually impaired runners felt even better than completing any race."
Paralympians, too, are using technology to help them compete at the highest level.
Advances in 3D printing, lightweight materials and computer design are having an impact in a number of areas, from tailor-made racing wheelchairs to aerodynamic prosthetic limbs.
"The technology being used, such as 3D tech, is evolving every year and we will see a wide range of new advancements at the upcoming Paralympics that will aid those competing to achieve even greater records across all disciplines," says Nick Braund, head of tech and innovation at PHA Media.
Designworks carried out full body scans of track and field athletes in the US Paralympics team to create the sporty racing wheelchairs.
But what about assistive technology for everyday sports?
When Anthony Netto, a South African-born professional golfer and US veteran, was paralysed after being shot through the hip whilst on duty in Iraq, he thought he'd never be able to play golf again.
As a paraplegic he knew it wouldn't be possible without being able to stand. So he invented the Paragolfer, a machine that can elevate you from a sitting position to a standing position.
Initially invented in 2001, it was finally launched in April this year at Mearns Castle Golf Academy in Glasgow.
Anthony says it's transformed the prospects for people who thought they'd never be able to play the sport again.
"From tears of joy, to smiles from ear to ear, hugs and kisses for grateful heartfelt thank yous - I feel like I've made a real difference to people's lives," he says.
Nick Braund concludes: "New tech innovations like these have allowed those previously not able to take part in sport or exercise the opportunity to compete and succeed."
And that can only be a good thing.
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Fines of 250,000 euro (£181,000) were imposed for each violation.
It followed the news that the company's Paris offices were raided by police investigating the same service.
And in South Korea nearly 30 people linked to the company were charged with running an illegal taxi firm. They included Uber's chief executive Travis Kalanick, police told the BBC.
On Thursday 19 March, an Uber spokesman denied reports, which had surfaced the previous day, that Mr Kalanick was among those charged.
But a South Korean police official told the BBC on Friday that he had been charged.
Uber said it regretted the Frankfurt District Court's decision, saying it represented a "fundamental infringement of our ability under European law to establish and provide a service".
While UberPop, which unites passengers with drivers who do not have professional licences, is banned, the company insisted it would continue to run its services using licensed limousine and taxi drivers in Germany.
A spokesman said it would also appeal against the court's decision and, in the meantime, would introduce an "alternative ridesharing service that we are developing specifically to fit the court's interpretation of existing regulations in Germany".
The spokesman added that Uber would continue discussions with German regulators in the hope of finding a compromise.
The case, brought by German taxi operator group Taxi Deutschland, is one of more than a dozen lawsuits which have been filed in countries across Europe in recent months against the San Francisco-based company.
Dieter Schlenker, chairman of the Taxi Deutschland co-operative, hailed the decision as a move that would protect professional taxi drivers from competition by unlicensed Uber drivers.
The presiding judge Joachim Nickel said Uber violated German laws on commercial passenger transportation because its drivers did not have the right kinds of licences.
And he said Uber's business model violated both national and European Union laws because it did not fully insure drivers or passengers in the event of accidents.
Lawyers representing Uber denied it was subject to rules governing taxi operators, claiming the company merely acts as an exchange connecting drivers with clients.
In response, Uwe Eilers, one judge on the three-judge panel that delivered its decision on Wednesday, said: "In that case, you should include in your business description that Uber offers rides for free."
The judges' decision came after it emerged that Uber's Paris offices had been raided by police investigating its UberPop service on Monday. Staff and other people linked to the firm in South Korea were charged with running an illegal taxi firm as part of a separate investigation.
Uber said its South Korean staff had not broken any laws and called the Paris raid "disproportionate".
South Korean police told the BBC that they had already summoned Mr Kalanick and planned to file for an arrest warrant.
In France, 30 police officers descended on the company's Paris headquarters looking for information, the company told the BBC.
A spokesman said the officers stayed all day and took away mobile phones that were intended for the use of Uber drivers.
He called the raid "intimidation", saying: "Why would they send 30 police officers? We are 46 [people] here. The only things we have are computers and telephones."
Uber said the police investigation was based on French legislation it has already complained to the European Commission about, and was confident would be scrapped.
According to Agence France-Presse AFP, dozens of non-professional UberPop users have been fined since the start of the year.
UberPop has been ruled illegal in France, but the company has appealed against a 100,000 euro (£72,000) fine it received last year, it said.
According to a report from the South Korean news agency Yonhap, 29 people connected to Uber had been charged.
The agency reported Mr Kalanick, who has already been indicted on charges of establishing and running Uber Korea, had been charged again on suspicion of conducting an illegal business, citing local police sources.
But, on Thursday, Uber said that - barring December's indictment - he had not been charged by South Korean authorities.
Among those also charged were the heads of six different car rental firms, who were suspected of connecting passengers with nearby drivers through the UberTaxi app without a licence, police told Yonhap.
According to the reports, police said the Uber app posed a risk for passenger safety because drivers were not screened, cars were uninsured and mobile phone numbers and credit card numbers could be leaked.
Police also said Uber Korea took 20% of passengers' taxi fares as commission and paid the remainder to drivers.
By providing such services, one car rental firm made 96 million won (£58,000) in three months, officers claimed.
Asked about the reports, an Uber spokesman said: "Uber has fully co-operated with the police during the course of their investigation and we will continue to do so as the matter is referred to the prosecution for review.
"Uber does not believe the employees in Korea have engaged in any misconduct or illegal behaviour. We believe the prosecutors will come to a similar conclusion."
Amelia Caller, 22, is accused of buying gas that her friend, Emma Crossman, used to take her own life.
The 21-year-old was found dead at her home in Sleaford, Lincolnshire in January 2014.
Miss Caller denies the murder on the basis she did not think Miss Crossman would kill herself.
In a recording of her police interview, which was played at Lincoln Crown Court on Thursday, Miss Caller said: "I was the only one who knew what she was planning.
"I was trying everything to stop her...I didn't want her to do it."
The court has previously heard Miss Caller, of Great Hale, Lincolnshire, was "obsessed and infatuated" with Miss Crossman, who had a history of depression, self-harm and overdoses.
A series of Facebook and text messages exchanged between the two women, discussing how Miss Crossman would take her own life, were also read out in court.
One message from Miss Caller suggested the pair have "one fun final day out" while another said "I keep thinking what kind of mate murders their best mate".
Earlier in the trial, Miss Crossman's ex-partner, Adrian Kemp, 56, said she had sent messages about ending her life after they had split up.
He said the two friends drank heavily together and he had confiscated gas bought for Miss Crossman by Miss Caller.
The trial continues.
State-controlled Channel One TV said it was the worst disaster in the history of Russian aviation. Russia and Egypt "fully understand each other on issues relating to the investigation of the crash", it quoted Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov saying.
NTV said the black boxes will be deciphered by Russian specialists and the pro-Kremlin rolling news station LifeNews TV said: "The whole world mourns the victims of the air disaster."
"We cannot rule out that terrorists could have had a hand in the air disaster. It is well known that since Russia started a military operation in Syria, a number of jihadist groups have declared a 'holy war' against Russia and its citizens," mass-circulation newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomolets said on its website.
On Ekho Moskvy radio, a former member of the elite anti-terrorism Alpha force, Sergey Goncharov, dismissed reports that the group calling itself Islamic State (IS) might be responsible for the crash. "This is another publicity campaign by IS," he said.
The pro-government paper, Izvestia, reports that the airline owes the Russian state Pension Fund money for insurance fees, but it notes that the company's alleged cash flow problems stem from tour companies not paying their bills.
An aviation engineer, Viktor Alksnis tells the pro-government tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda this is not the first time that "we are stepping on the same rake". He says dozens of small airlines that emerged in "the wild 1990s cannot ensure safety of air travel".
Novaya Gazeta newspaper warns against the tendency by watchdogs to criticise disasters only after they happened. They should focus on trying to prevent them, the article argues. "We have too little information so far to develop versions on the causes of the air crash... The agencies always find airlines' violations after the trouble has happened".
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It is the snappy shorthand for a final settlement that would see the creation of an independent state of Palestine on pre-1967 ceasefire lines in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem living peacefully alongside Israel.
The United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union, Russia and the United States routinely restate their commitment to the concept, and US President Barack Obama is sure to do so once again as he visits Jerusalem and Ramallah this week.
But many experts, as well as ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, now believe the two-state option should be abandoned or at least reconsidered.
Twenty years after the breakthrough Oslo Accords there is no sign of a final agreement.
Meanwhile, the construction of Israel's barrier in and around the West Bank and the expansion of settlements on occupied land make a Palestinian state less possible.
On Israel's left and far right in particular, as well as among Palestinian activists, there is renewed talk of a one-state solution.
The Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas has never officially dropped its claim to a single state in all of historic Palestine.
Some hawkish Israelis, meanwhile, also discuss another alternative: a "three-state solution".
Under heavy US pressure, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a speech in 2009, in which he first committed to a "demilitarised Palestinian state".
A year later, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians were revived but then quickly derailed with the end of a partial freeze on Jewish settlement building.
In recent months, Mr Netanyahu's government has announced plans to construct thousands of new settler homes, including in the sensitive "E1" area that would separate East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
If these go ahead, even the UN has said they would represent "an almost fatal blow" to the chance of a two-state solution.
The noted British-Israeli historian, Avi Shlaim has memorably remarked that Mr Netanyahu "is like a man who, while negotiating the division of a pizza, continues to eat it".
"I've always been a supporter of the two-state solution, but we've reached a point where it is no longer a viable solution," he says. "Now I'm a supporter of a one-state solution, not as my first choice, but as a default solution in the light of Israeli actions."
In recent years, more Israeli leftists and Palestinian thinkers have made the ideological case for a single bi-national state giving equal citizenship and rights to all residents of Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Even some on Israel's right - like the former Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, who is a member of Mr Netanyahu's Likud party - say they would prefer this to a division of the land.
A series of books, articles and conferences have discussed various alternatives - from a power-sharing model similar to that seen in Northern Ireland, or a Bosnia-Hercegovina-type federation where Jews and Palestinians would enjoy a high degree of autonomy.
Last year, the former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, an architect of the Oslo Accords, said Palestinians needed to start their own debate.
"It could be that despite all the negative aspects and all the differences, we should not rule out the one-state solution as an option," he wrote in the newspaper, al-Quds al-Arabi.
"It should be discussed in an internal dialogue and put to the Palestinian people in a referendum, before it is laid on the negotiating table as an option and thrown in Israel's face like a hot coal because it caused the two-state solution to fail."
Aware that a one-state solution would undermine the Jewish identity of Israel, frustrated Palestinian officials increasingly warn that they may abandon their quest for statehood and push for that instead.
President Mahmoud Abbas has said there is a danger of "an apartheid-style state" being created.
The argument goes that Muslim and Christian Palestinians - with their growing populations - would quickly outnumber Jewish Israelis. If it acted to raise the status of Jews, Israel would be undermined as a democracy and could end up with an apartheid system. Some claim this exists already.
Several right-wing groups in Israel believe new ways must be found to strengthen a single state of Israel. The "Yes to a Strong Israel" campaign backed by settler groups has a growing presence online and in social media.
"I'm 10 minutes down the road from Jerusalem," says Rut Lieberman from Gush Etzion in the occupied West Bank. "For people who want a two-state solution - cutting up Israel more - this would become Palestine. I'm not sure that works."
"I just drove past a contiguous Jewish population of tens of thousands of people. The two-state solution is a dead end. We have to get it off the table."
Among Israel's 500,000 settlers there is wide support for a plan by the Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party, which joined the new Israeli government sworn in on Monday.
It proposes annexing the 61% of the West Bank known as "Area C", where Israel already has full military control. Settlers would stay, about 50,000 Palestinians living there would get Israeli citizenship, and the remaining 2.6 million Palestinian residents of the West Bank would be left under autonomous local government.
Last November's conflict in the Gaza Strip brought another idea back into circulation - that of a separation of the Palestinian territories, or the "three-state solution".
Some Israeli analysts suggested that with Hamas governing Gaza - the coastal territory should be stabilised and treated as a state separate from the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority controls Palestinian areas.
A former Israeli national security adviser, retired Maj-Gen Giora Eiland, has proposed that in order to achieve this Israel should change its long-time policy and talk directly to Hamas.
Others say that Egypt - whose president is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has ideological links to Hamas - should open its border crossings with Gaza and take responsibility for it.
Egypt and Jordan controlled Gaza and the West Bank respectively from 1948 until 1967, when Israel captured them during the Six Day War.
Some right-wing Israelis also posit that for historic reasons, Jordan is Palestine and should provide a home for the Palestinian people. They foresee only three states remaining - Israel, Jordan and Egypt - which have already signed peace treaties.
Such a neat formulation overlooks the fact that Cairo, Amman and the Palestinians themselves would never agree to it.
"Palestinians will never melt into another entity or identity," says Mahdi Abdul Hadi of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs.
"Especially after all these years of occupation and struggle and sacrifice, Palestine cannot be moved and placed in someone else's lap."
Much to the annoyance of Israel and the US, Palestinians were granted the status of a non-member observer state at the UN General Assembly in November.
This has earned them the right to use the designation "State of Palestine" on UN documents and possibly to challenge Israel's occupation of Palestinian land before international courts.
However, in real terms a sovereign Palestinian state remains as elusive as ever.
An opinion poll carried out last November suggested that the number of Palestinians supporting a two-state solution remained steady at 51%. But support for a bi-national solution had risen to 27%, up five percentage points from the previous year.
There are serious doubts - on both sides - about whether President Obama can achieve anything and whether he can be trusted.
An Israel Democracy Institute poll this month found that 62% of the Jewish public believed he lacked the ability to bring a real breakthrough in relations with the Palestinians.
As Mr Obama will no doubt find, Israeli and Palestinian leaders are divided among themselves about how to proceed and ongoing political turmoil in the region confuses the situation further.
At the same the conflict continues to fester and cannot be ignored.
It said Mr Assange had in recent weeks released material that could have an impact on the US presidential election.
Ecuador also said its move was not the result of pressure from Washington.
The US denied WikiLeaks accusations that it had asked Ecuador to stop the site publishing documents about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Transparency activist Julian Assange has sought asylum at London's Ecuadorean embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations.
In a statement (in Spanish), the Ecuadorean foreign ministry said WikiLeaks' decision to publish documents could have an impact on the US presidential election.
It said the release was entirely the responsibility of the organisation, and Ecuador did not want to interfere in the electoral process.
"In that respect, Ecuador, exercising its sovereign right, has temporarily restricted access to part of its communications systems in its UK Embassy," the statement said.
It added that "Ecuador does not yield to pressures from other countries".
WikiLeaks earlier said that Ecuador had cut off Mr Assange's internet access on Saturday evening.
The site has recently been releasing material from Hillary Clinton's campaign, including those from a hack of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails.
It released transcripts on Saturday of paid speeches Mrs Clinton made to the US investment bank Goldman Sachs in the past, which her campaign had long refused to release.
The scripts reveal bantering exchanges with bank executives, which correspondents say may increase concerns among liberal Democrats that she is too cosy with Wall Street.
The Democratic White House candidate's camp has claimed the cyber-breach was orchestrated by Russian hackers with the aim of undermining the US democratic process.
While Mrs Clinton's team has neither confirmed nor denied the leaked emails are authentic, there have been no indications they are fake.
According to the latest leaked emails, Mrs Clinton told a Goldman Sachs conference she would like to intervene secretly in Syria.
She made the remark in answer to a question from Lloyd Blankfein, the bank's chief executive, in 2013 - months after she left office as secretary of state.
"My view was you intervene as covertly as is possible for Americans to intervene," she told employees of the bank in South Carolina, which had paid her about $225,000 (£185,000) to give a speech.
Mrs Clinton - who is accused of being hawkish by liberal critics - added: "We used to be much better at this than we are now. Now, you know, everybody can't help themselves.
"They have to go out and tell their friendly reporters and somebody else: Look what we're doing and I want credit for it."
The Federal Reserve indicated it was more positive about the US economy, but gave no clear indication on when rates would rise.
The Dow Jones closed up 114 points to 17,630.
The S&P 500 rose 15 points to 2,093, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 23 points to 5,112.
"We started off on the right foot and we didn't get anything negative from the Fed," said Michael James, managing director for equity trading at Wedbush Securities.
Northrop Grumman rose 6% after it reported better than expected earnings and raised its outlook for the year.
On the downside, Twitter shares closed down 14.5% following an honest assessment of its difficulty attracting new users in its earnings call after the market close on Tuesday.
Consumer review website Yelp shares were another overnight casualty, losing a whacking 25% after results came in way below hopes. Its chairman also said he was leaving to pursue other interests.
The man, who has not been named, fell unconscious at the event in Hikone, in Shiga prefecture, on 13 November while trying to eat five onigiri balls in three minutes.
He died in hospital three days later without regaining consciousness, contest organisers told Japanese media.
Speed-eating contests are popular spectator events in Japan.
Experts warn that as well as choking, speed-eaters risk damaging their stomach or oesophagus.
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With Sats tests taking place in schools in England this week some of you might be feeling those pre-test nerves.
So, we asked some top CBBC stars to tell us how they felt before taking a test at school, and what they did to help beat the nerves and feel exam-ready.
Whether it's asking for extra study help, or just remembering to breathe, these guys have got some great advice...
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The 31-year-old, most recently on loan at Middlesbrough, was released by Swansea in September 2015.
Tiendalli worked with new Oxford manager Pep Clotet while the Spaniard was assistant manager manager at Swansea.
"He was a free agent and is desperate to get back playing again after a spell out of the game," said Clotet.
The defender is Clotet's third signing since being appointed manager, following the arrivals of Jon Obika and James Henry.
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Oxford United have completed the signing of former Swansea City defender Dwight Tiendalli on a one-year deal.
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At least 85% of patients should start treatment within 62 days of a GP referral for suspected cancer.
But official figures show the target was missed for an entire year, with just 83.4% seen on time in 2014-15.
Cancer Research UK said the situation was getting worse and called for urgent action.
Early diagnosis and treatment is vital for improving the chances of recovering from cancer.
But more than 21,000 people were not seen within the 62-day target in the last financial year.
Sara Hiom, the director of early diagnosis at Cancer Research UK, said: "This is the worst result since records began, in 2009.
"Thousands of cancer patients are being failed.
"Patients want confidence that suspected cancer is taken seriously and prioritised by the NHS.
"These breaches have become a trend, and they are worsening.
"This is why urgent action must be taken to support the NHS to ensure it has the resources it needs to meet this challenge."
Breakdowns for individual cancers in the previous quarter show the proportion of patients treated on time:
Sean Duffy, NHS England's national clinical director for Cancer, said: "The NHS is helping more people survive cancer than ever before.
"Swift diagnosis is key, and our latest annual figures show that over 1.5 million people were urgently referred to a specialist by their GP - that's over 70% more than five years ago.
"But it's crucial we focus on maintaining waiting time standards for treatment as demand increases, and we are working hard to pinpoint any issues on the ground."
Andy Burnham, Labour's Shadow health secretary, said: "[Prime Minister] David Cameron promised to improve cancer care, but under his government the cancer treatment target has been missed again and again and again.
"He is trying to tell people the NHS is safe in his hands, but the reality is the health service is in deep trouble and going backwards fast."
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The NHS in England is failing "thousands" of cancer patients by treating them too slowly, a charity warns.
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Developed by US start-up Nanostim, the device is designed to be implanted intravenously directly in the heart.
It is less than 10% of the size of a conventional pacemaker and uses a built-in battery.
Experts said it was an "exciting development" but at a very early stage.
The pacemaker has yet to receive full US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
Conventional pacemakers require a patient to be cut open and a pocket created in the body to house the pacemaker and associated wires.
Such wires are regarded as the component of pacemakers most likely to fail. The pocket created for the pacemaker is also liable to infection.
By contrast the Nanostim pacemaker is delivered via a catheter inserted through the femoral vein near the groin.
It has a built-in battery, smaller than an AAA battery, that lasts between nine and 13 years. Eliminating the need for wires lowers the risk of infection or malfunction and means that patients are not restricted in the amount of activity they do, the firm behind the device claims.
The procedure to fit the pacemaker typically lasts around half an hour. The device is designed to be easily retrievable so that the battery can be replaced.
Because the device is delivered intravenously, it also means patients will have no scarring.
One doctor, involved in its trials, described it as "the future of pacemaking".
"For the past 40 years the therapeutic promise of leadless pacing has been discussed, but until now, no-one has been able to overcome the technical challenges," said Dr Johannes Sperzel of the Kerchhoff Klinik in Bad Nauheim, Germany.
"This revolutionary technology offers patients a safe, minimally-invasive option for pacemaker delivery that eliminates leads and surgical pockets," he added.
But others were more cautious.
Prof Jeremy Pearson, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said: "This is a potentially exciting development but it's early days.
"Before this leadless pacemaker becomes widely available, we need a better understanding of how long it will last, as well as how easy it is to replace if necessary. As our knowledge of this new pacemaker widens, so too will the expertise needed to fit this potentially exciting device."
The company behind the device has recently been bought by global medical device firm St Jude.
It has had several wire-based pacemakers recalled in recent years.
Other device makers are also planning to go wireless. The Wireless Cardiac Stimulation system has been developed by US start-up EBR Systems and UK-based tech firm Cambridge Consultants and uses a tiny wireless electrode no bigger than a grain of rice powered by an ultrasonic pulse generator, inserted lower down in the chest.
In 2011 the device was implanted in 100 patients in hospitals across Europe.
Cardiac pacemakers are used to treat slow heart rates. The devices monitor the heart and provide electrical stimulation when the heart beats too slowly.
The first pacemaker was fitted in 1958. Currently more than four million people around the world have some sort of cardiac rhythm device with an additional 700,000 people getting one each year.
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A miniaturised, wireless pacemaker that can be inserted into the body without invasive surgery has been given approval for use in the European Union.
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The University of Edinburgh research team said its findings could help to shed light on the causes of depression, which affects about one in five people.
It could also pave the way for better diagnosis and treatments for people suffering from the condition, experts believe.
There is currently no test for diagnosing depression.
The condition has symptoms such as persistent low mood, losing interest in life and thoughts of self-harming.
Experts have suggested the condition may be a number of different illnesses with varying causes and effects.
Edinburgh researchers used samples provided by Generation Scotland, a bank of human tissue from volunteers, to look for genetic causes of depression.
They examined whether people known to have genes putting them at risk of schizophrenia shared a genetic make-up with those who had depression.
The research indicates there may be a distinct group of people with depression who have increased genetic risk for schizophrenia, the team concluded.
Schizophrenia is known to share some factors with depression, such as low mood and neuroticism.
The results suggest some people with depression have genetic factors associated with schizophrenia, researchers said.
Heather Whalley, senior research fellow in the University of Edinburgh's division of psychiatry, said: "Depression is a serious and disabling condition yet we know very little about what causes it.
"There appears to be a distinct form of depression based on the risk of schizophrenia.
"The more we know about the causes of different forms of depression, the more likely it is that we can develop better ways of diagnosing and treating what is a major cause of disability and trauma for so many people."
The research, part of an initiative called STRADL - stratifying resilience and depression longitudinally - is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
The findings are published in the journal Translational Psychiatry.
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The two-time Wimbledon champion, 27, was stabbed by an intruder at her home in December.
Czech Kvitova returned at last month's French Open before earning the first comeback win in Birmingham on Monday.
British number two Broady, who beat Alize Cornet in the first round, failed to create a break point.
Broady, 27, was overpowered by Kvitova's trademark serve and booming groundstrokes as the 2011 and 2014 Wimbledon champion wrapped up both sets by winning four consecutive games.
"So far it is working very well. I still have a lot of things to improve but it is good news," said Kvitova, who will compete at Wimbledon when the tournament starts on 3 July.
"I want to play as many matches as I can. It was a dream come to true to play again and it is great preparation for Wimbledon."
The 4-1 shot claimed his second Group One win of the season as veteran trainer Sir Michael Stoute earned a record sixth win in the race.
Having finished second in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, the four-year-old beat 5-2 favourite Churchill, trained by Aiden O'Brien, in the final furlong.
"It all went so smoothly," said Stoute.
"There was not a blip out there. This is his best performance so far."
2,000 Guineas winner Churchill and jockey Ryan Moore battled with James Doyle on Barney Roy for much of the race, but Crowley timed it perfectly to win by two lengths.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
Ulysses demonstrated himself a racehorse of the highest calibre as he gave Michael Stoute yet another success in this ever-significant prize.
The best form around was represented and - by winning so comprehensively - he can fairly be called the best colt in Europe. The best female horse, Enable - Ulysses' conqueror in the King George at Ascot - races in this week's Yorkshire Oaks.
An idea of the upward curve of this horse comes from Stoute, who described him with the relatively modest adjective "admirable" after the Eclipse, but this time the beaming smile said "superstar", and he'd know one.
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said there would be "widespread anger" at the decision to back the railway line, which will run through London.
Liverpool City Region's mayor said there needed to be "balanced spending".
The government said it was spending billions on infrastructure elsewhere.
On Friday it was announced that the rail link between Manchester and Newcastle may not be fully electrified, despite promises from the previous government.
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said: "We can't wait forever, we need improvements now, that's why the electrification is important, and it's also why we need more capacity at Manchester Piccadilly.
"People travelling [to Manchester] across the northern cities who will have a long commute home, I think, will be furious... that the government has cut back on rail investment in the north on the day that it's green light to Crossrail 2.
"They're not governing for the whole country."
Crossrail 2, a north-east to south-west railway, which would tunnel beneath central London, could be running by 2033.
It is estimated the scheme will cost about £30bn at 2014 prices and construction could start in the early 2020s.
It would link Hertfordshire and Surrey, passing through Tottenham Hale, Euston-St Pancras, Tottenham Court Road, Victoria and Clapham Junction.
Announcing the decision to back Crossrail 2, the Department for Transport (DfT) said Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan had agreed there was "no doubt London needs new infrastructure to support its growth and ensure it continues as the UK's economic powerhouse".
Mr Grayling said: "I am a supporter of Crossrail 2, but given its price tag we have to ensure that we get this right.
"The mayor and I have agreed to work together on it over the coming months to develop plans that are as strong as possible, so that the public gets an affordable scheme that is fair to the UK taxpayer."
Last week, the government was criticised for scrapping the planned electrification of railway lines in parts of England and Wales.
At the time, Mr Grayling said the government would instead introduce faster trains with more seats and better on-board facilities.
On Monday Mr Burnham tweeted: "On Friday, Tories say they can't afford rail schemes in the North.
"On Monday, they find billions more for London. Are these 2 things linked?"
He said: "People here have had to put up with sub-standard rail services for decades and will simply not accept that spending billions more on London is the country's highest priority for transport investment.".
He added that the fact the announcement had been made after Parliament had broken up for the summer was "denying any real scrutiny" of the decision.
Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said that while he did not "begrudge" the investment in London and the South East, there needed to be balanced spending to "support growth in the North as well".
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said: "Crossrail 2 is essential for the future prosperity of London and the South East, so I'm pleased that the transport secretary and I have reached an agreement to take this vital project forward."
A DfT spokesman said that while it had agreed to work further with Transport for London on Crossrail 2, it said London needed to pay half of the upfront construction costs and that the government had not committed any public funding yet.
The spokesman added that the government was spending £57bn on HS2, £1bn to improve rail infrastructure in the north of England and £800m on new road schemes.
In (re)Assignment, Michelle Rodriguez plays a male assassin who awakes to find himself transformed into a woman.
The film has been criticised by some in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community for using surgery as a sensational plot device.
But actress Sigourney Weaver said no-one was "demeaned or denigrated".
The Alien star plays the deranged surgeon who performs the operation. "It's not a Disney movie - it is noir," she said.
At the film's world premiere on Wednesday, its director Walter Hill said: "It's a crime story, it's a noir vision, it's comic book in a way.
"Quite a few women have said to me that after seeing the movie, they feel empowered by it."
Rodriguez, meanwhile, said her own bisexuality inured it from criticism, explaining: "You can't really argue with me because I'm you.
"I'd never do a movie with the intention of offending anybody in the LGBT community because I'm a part of it."
The festival's official website calls (re)Assignment a "jaw-droppingly audacious revenge thriller" that "confronts the gender binary on which so much genre cinema is based."
Some reviewers have taken a tougher line, though, with one calling it "a strong contender for 2016's worst movie".
It is, continued The Guardian's critic Benjamin Lee, "a film made with such staggering idiocy that it deserves to be studied by future generations".
The film got equally short shrift from Variety's Dennis Harvey, who dismissed it as "crude", "drab-looking" and "unintentionally funny".
But it got more love from the Hollywood Reporter, whose critic Todd McCarthy found it "deliciously transgressive" and "an instant cult item".
It is not known yet whether (re)Assignment will receive a UK release.
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Japan scored the opening try through Shota Horie, but their ruinous ill-discipline dynamited their chances.
A penalty try for the Scots came while Japan's Hendrik Tui was in the sin bin.
Tui was still off and had been joined by Rikiya Matsuda when Scotland got their second and last score, via a barrelling finish from WP Nel.
The unerring goal-kicking of Greig Laidlaw steered Scotland home, the captain landing 16 points in all.
Vern Cotter's side rarely looked convincing against a team shorn of seven of the men who created history by beating South Africa at the World Cup last year.
For Scotland, the beginning was grim, Alasdair Dickinson going off injured after just two minutes. Laidlaw calmed them soon after with his first penalty but the wheels came off in quick order.
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The dogs in the street knew what Japan were going to try to do here. Any chance of introducing pace and fury to proceedings would be taken, any penalty that was tapable would be tapped and things would happen at breakneck speed.
That was the way of it when they won a penalty around halfway in the ninth minute and Scotland were not ready for it. Japan attacked in a blur, Amanaki Mafi roaring down the right and punching holes in the Scotland defence, then Harumichi Tatekawa following in the next wave.
It all ended with Scotland stretched and porous, Horie darting in under the posts for a try that was converted by Yu Tamura.
Scotland were jumpy for a spell. Stuart McInally overthrew at a lineout and the visitors looked weary. Their respite came in the guise of wretched Japanese discipline at the breakdown and their inability to hold Nel in the scrum.
They conceded six penalties in the opening 23 minutes - and 11 in the first 40 including those two costly yellow cards. Laidlaw booted Scotland into a 9-7 advantage before Tamura restored Japan's lead with a penalty of his own on the half-hour.
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It was then that Japan's problems began in earnest.
Scotland got little change out of their lineout maul, but they did get a bonus of having Tui, Japan's blindside flanker, binned in trying to stop it. One yellow card became two when Matsuda walked after deliberately knocking-on a pass from Stuart Hogg to Tommy Seymour that would have seen the wing score in the corner.
Matsuda need not have bothered. Referee Ben O'Keeffe gave a penalty try in any event and Laidlaw added the extras.
Scotland made hay against the 13 men, Ruaridh Jackson's deft chip ahead at the start of the second half putting Japan in a hole they did not get out of until Nel had blasted his way through bodies to score Scotland's second try, converted from the touchline by Laidlaw.
Tamura made it 23-13 with a penalty soon after, Laidlaw negating it with a simple kick after a fine counter attack by Hogg, Sean Maitland and Duncan Taylor.
Scotland looked a tired team even by that point, midway through the second half. Japan got some ball and plenty of territory but could not break the tourists.
Japan: Matsushima, Paea, Bennetts, Tatekawa, Sasakura, Tamura, Shigeno, Inagaki, S. Horie, Hatakeyama, H. Ono, Kotaki, Tui, Kin, Mafi.
Replacements: Uchida for Shigeno (49), Kakinaga for Hatakeyama (52), Yamamoto for Tui (79). Not Used: Kizu, K. Ono, Mikami, Yatabe, Matsuda. Sin Bin: Tui (35), Matsuda (38).
Scotland: Hogg, Seymour, Taylor, Scott, Hoyland, Jackson, Laidlaw, Dickinson, McInally, Nel, R. Gray, J. Gray, Barclay, Hardie, Wilson.
Replacements: Horne for Taylor (67), Maitland for Hoyland (57), Brown for McInally (48), Low for Nel (65), Swinson for R. Gray (67), Denton for Wilson (65). Not Used: Sutherland, Pyrgos.
Ref: Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand).
The federal charges include use of a weapon of mass destruction, bombing and use of a destructive device.
The 28-year-old allegedly bought bomb-making equipment on eBay and was filmed by a relative lighting "incendiary material" in a bin.
Mr Rahami remains in hospital with gunshot wounds from a police shootout.
The Afghan-born US citizen was already charged by the state of New Jersey with the attempted murder of police, stemming from his arrest on Monday outside a bar in Linden, New Jersey.
The FBI complaint reveals that 31 people - two more than previously reported - were injured when a bomb went off in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan on Saturday.
Unsealed on Tuesday in a Manhattan federal court, the document says an unnamed Briton was among the casualties.
The victims included a woman who "had to have multiple ball bearings removed from her body, as well as metal fragmentation from her ear and wood shards from her neck".
The FBI said Mr Rahami was also found with a notebook containing such writings as, "my heart I pray to the beautiful wise ALLAH. To not take jihad away from."
Another passage in the journal allegedly said: "You [USA Government] continue your [unintelligible] slaught[er]" against the mujahideen, or holy warriors, be it Afghanistan, Iraq, Sham (Syria), Palestine."
Yet another refers in glowing terms to Osama Bin Laden; Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Muslim cleric killed in a 2011 drone strike; and Nidal Hasan, a former Army officer who killed 13 people at a Texas Army base in 2009.
Mr Rahami - who worked at a family-owned fried chicken shop in his hometown of Elizabeth - was preparing for months for the attack, the court documents suggest.
He bought citric acid, a circuit board and electric igniters for fireworks from eBay, according to the complaint.
The FBI said they had recovered video from a mobile phone belonging to one of Mr Rahami's relatives.
Allegedly filmed at or near the family home two days before the blasts, it showed the suspect igniting incendiary material in a cylindrical container.
As the object bursts into flames, laughter is heard on the footage.
US media are reporting that Mr Rahami's wife - who is thought to be a Pakistani national - is being questioned in the United Arab Emirates.
The terror charges come after the FBI admitted they investigated Mr Rahami for terrorism in 2014.
This followed a complaint from the suspect's father, but they found no link despite alleged acts of violence.
Investigators say Mr Rahami planted two bombs in Chelsea but one failed to detonate.
Another bomb exploded in a New Jersey seaside town earlier on the same day but no-one was hurt.
He is also accused of leaving explosives in a discarded rucksack in a rubbish bin in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The series of bombings over the weekend have sparked a heated debate about national security between the two presidential candidates, days before their first televised debate.
The 22-year-old has made only three appearances for the Premiership outfit since his summer switch from Hearts.
Saints manager Tommy Wright said: "He won't just be going for the sake of it, we want the right team for him.
"He's very much part of the squad here but he's not been able to get into the team and we both feel he needs games."
McKay made 13 appearances for Hearts last season but has struggled to make an impression at McDiarmid Park during this campaign.
"He came here from Hearts and he hasn't played as much as he would've liked because of the way others are playing," Wright continued.
"He's been working hard in training but needs to get playing again.
"Brad is still contracted to us for 18 months so he's still very much our player and in our thoughts, but at this moment in time he needs football.
"If the right club comes in we'll look at it, if not he'll stay here and fight for a place."
An under-pressure manager marked 25 years since taking his first job, while what looked like a dream return to a former club went horribly wrong for one player in League One.
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On Saturday, it was 25 years to the day since Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy took his first steps in football management, named player-manager at then-second-tier side Millwall.
Since then, the 58-year-old has been in charge for 845 competitive games in English football with the Lions, Sunderland, Wolves and Ipswich, and 52 games as boss of the Republic of Ireland.
He could not have asked for much of a tougher task to mark his anniversary as the Tractor Boys travelled to Cardiff, where they have not won since 2011.
The Bluebirds were not in the mood to allow any celebrations, as two goals from Kenneth Zohore and one from Joe Bennett helped the Welsh side to a 3-1 victory.
The result leaves Ipswich only five points above the relegation zone with eight games left to play, and McCarthy was asked if was still the right man for Ipswich job.
"Well you wouldn't expect me to say anything but yes, would you?" he told BBC Radio Suffolk.
"I think we should make sure that I'm still the right man to make sure we're still in this league, and the players are the right players to make sure we're still in this league, and then they can pick the bones out of it after that."
Nottingham Forest hosted Derby County in the East Midlands derby in an early kick-off, the fifth successive match between the two sides with both teams being led by different managers.
Former Rangers boss Mark Warburton became Nottingham Forest's eighth manager since Fawaz Al-Hasawi bought the club in 2012 on Tuesday, while ex-Birmingham City boss Gary Rowett was confirmed as the Rams' fifth manager in 13 months a few hours earlier.
Derby had run out 3-0 victors when the two sides met in December, but they had not won in three trips to the City Ground.
Two goals in six second-half minutes from Matej Vydra and David Nugent had the Rams on course to end that run, after Zach Clough had given the Reds an early lead.
But the hosts rescued a point in the 94th minute from an unlikely source, as full-back Daniel Pinillos scored his first Forest goal in his 31st game for the club.
"It was important to take something out of the game of such significance," Warburton said.
"It means a lot to the fans and a lot to the players, it is a huge local derby."
If you had been asked to predict the highest scoring game of the day, it's unlikely you would have pointed to Burton Albion as one of the teams to provide it.
The relegation-threatened Brewers played host to Brentford, having seen just eight goals scored in their previous six matches.
That tally was matched in 90 minutes of football at the Pirelli Stadium, as Nigel Clough's side came from a goal down to lead 3-1, only to then ship four goals in 35 minutes in a 5-3 defeat.
The result marked the end of a six-game unbeaten run for Burton, who are now just one point above the relegation zone.
"As good as we were in the first half we were just as poor in the second," Clough said.
"We told them at half-time to keep doing the same things in the same way we did in the first half and not to give them any encouragement.
"Suddenly they are 3-3 by the hour mark. That message obviously wasn't taken on board."
Walsall midfielder Franck Moussa has had a difficult 2017, making only two appearances since the start of the year before Saturday.
The Belgian must have thought his luck had started to turn, as he scored twice within 10 minutes of being brought on as an early substitute at former club Southend.
The Saddlers held that two-goal lead all the way up to the 63rd minute, when the wheels fell off in spectacular style.
Nile Ranger headed in the first goal for the hosts, before Anton Ferdinand levelled the scores.
Moussa was then substituted, and Simon Cox completed the turnaround a minute later when he scored directly from a free-kick to seal the three points for Southend, who climbed into the top six in League One as a result.
Southend were not the only League One promotion candidates to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Leaders Sheffield United fought back from a goal down to beat Charlton, while second-placed Bolton scored twice in seven minutes to win 2-1 against Northampton, and Charlie Wyke scored twice in six minutes to help Bradford beat Swindon and climb to fourth.
That last result was particularly bad news for Scunthorpe, who dropped to fifth after being on the receiving end of yet another comeback, Curtis Nelson's 91st-minute goal sealing a 2-1 victory for Oxford.
Meanwhile, Fleetwood - in the automatic promotion spots at the start of the day - perhaps made a mistake in not allowing their opponents to score first, as they were held to a goalless draw by Wimbledon.
"Can you bring Trump here?" he asked the audience, as he introduced a screening of his film The Libertine.
After receiving jeers from the crowd, he added: "You misunderstand completely. When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?"
"I want to clarify," he added, "I'm not an actor. I lie for a living [but] it's been a while. Maybe it's about time."
The star acknowledged that his comments - which may have been a reference to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by actor John Wilkes Booth in 1865 - would prove controversial.
"By the way, this is going to be in the press and it'll be horrible," he said. "It's just a question, I'm not insinuating anything."
He is not the first US celebrity to allude to killing the president.
At a rally in Washington DC, Madonna said she thought "an awful lot about blowing up the White House" and the US rapper Snoop Dogg shot a toy gun at a Donald Trump character in a music video.
But on social media, some have criticised Depp's comments - which come days after a gunman shot and injured Republican congressman and four others in Virginia in the US.
"Casual Johnny Depp: 'When was the last time an actor assassinated a President?' GOP reps targeted & shot days ago," tweeted one user, Chet Cannon, referring to the incident.
The US Secret Service is aware of Depp's comments, according to US media reports.
Festival-goers in Somerset met his comments about President Trump with laughter, albeit mixed with shock.
Depp - wearing distressed jeans and a black fedora - was mobbed by fans as he arrived at Worthy Farm.
Speaking to the BBC afterwards, one fan was more concerned with meeting her idol than analysing his politics.
"I don't even know what to say. I'm going to die," said Jess Gallagher. "He reached out and touched my hand and I don't know what to do.
"He's an amazing actor and I've loved him ever since I studied him in year 11 in A-Level drama. I can't cope!"
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The vision for Ebbsfleet, Kent, will be developed around the international railway station over the next 15 years.
Pedestrian bridges and cycleways will link Swanscombe, Northfleet and Greenhithe with the city, alongside eight new urban villages.
A primary school will open in 2017 and more than 30,000 jobs will be created.
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The River Thames will also be opened up, with new promenade walks giving the public access to the waterfront in the area for the first time in a century.
Construction on the site, which was once four quarries, has already seen more than 400 new homes built, with work on several hundred more under way.
Ebbsfleet has a stop on the high-speed rail line, which links passengers with central London in 17 minutes and Paris in two hours.
Michael Cassidy, chairman of the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, said the "exciting vision for Ebbsfleet Garden City is already becoming a reality".
"The pace of growth over the last 12 months has been impressive, with major developers now on site building hundreds of homes," he added.
Open days will be held in October to inform the public about the plans.
Thames Valley Police said the family of the 57-year-old from Rotherham had been informed and were being given support.
Mr Cresswell is the third victim to be recovered since the boiler house partially collapsed in February. John Shaw, 61, also from Rotherham, is the last workman yet to be found.
A guard of honour was formed as Mr Cresswell was taken from the site.
Representatives of the missing men's families joined police and fire and rescue crews, and staff from site owners RWE and contractors Coleman and Company, as his body was taken away early on Thursday morning.
A police spokesman said: "Our thoughts are with his family and also with the family of the remaining missing man, John Shaw, and we would ask that their privacy is respected during this incredibly difficult time."
The body of a third man Christopher Huxtable, 34, from Swansea was found last week.
A fourth man, Michael Collings, 53, from Brotton, Teesside, died from multiple injuries following the partial collapse of the structure in February when it was due for demolition.
The remaining section was brought down using explosives in July.
Many of the bomber's movements and actions were "carried out alone" in the four days prior to the attack, Russ Jackson, head of the North West counter terrorism unit, said.
But police have yet to rule out whether he was part of a wider network.
Three men arrested over the attack were released without charge on Tuesday.
Det Ch Supt Jackson said much of the police investigation had been working through Abedi's last movements.
Officers have examined his movements on CCTV and other interactions he had with people as well as phone calls he made.
"Our enquiries show Abedi himself made most of the purchases of the core [bomb] components and what is becoming apparent is that many of his movements and actions have been carried out alone during the four days from him landing in the country and committing this awful attack," said Det Chief Supt Jackson.
However, it was "vital" that police make sure he is not part of a wider network and there were a "number of things" about this behaviour that were a concern, he added.
Det Ch Supt Jackson said police were keen to find out why Abedi kept going back to the Wilmslow Road area of the city and wanted to find the blue suitcase he used during those trips.
A total of 16 people have been arrested in connection with last Monday's attack. Five have been released without charge while 11 are still in custody.
By Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
The police investigation has moved into a different phase, with detectives trying to bring the various strands of information and evidence together to build a case against Salman Abedi's alleged co-conspirators.
Not surprisingly, some of those arrested in the flurry of police activity have been released without further action, and others may follow.
There's a big difference between the "reasonable grounds of suspicion" required to detain someone and the "realistic prospect of conviction" needed to charge them.
What's slightly confusing is that investigators now say they can't "rule out a wider network" whereas last week they spoke with near certainty about Abedi being part of a network.
The impression is there are still gaps in the police's understanding of what happened in the days and weeks before the atrocity.
Every police force in the UK has assisted in some way since the terror attack in Manchester, according to the National Police Chiefs Council.
Twenty-eight forces, as well as the National Crime Agency, have been helping police in Manchester on their investigation and the response to the bombing.
Det Ch Supt Jackson said police have made "huge progress" in the week since the attack but it will "take considerable time before we fully understand what has happened".
Twenty-two people were killed and many injured after the bomber carried out an attack following an Ariana Grande concert.
The singer will be joined by the likes of Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Take That at a benefit concert for victims on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Liam Gallagher played his first solo gig in Manchester on Tuesday night, with the proceeds also being donated to the victims of the bombing.
He applauded as heartfelt cries of "Stand up for the 22" rang out from the crowd in reference to those killed.
The 35-year-old Swiss, ranked 10th, won 6-1 6-3 and goes on to face Mikhail Youzhny or Evgeny Donskoy.
Elsewhere, Andy Murray lost out to fellow Briton Dan Evans in the first round of the men's doubles.
Murray and Nenad Zimonjic lost 6-1 7-6 (7-2) to Evans and Gilles Muller.
World number one Murray will return to singles action against Tunisia's Malek Jaziri, ranked 51st, on Tuesday.
The Scot has not played since losing in the fourth round of the Australian Open last month, but says he is 'ready to go' in Dubai.
This is Murray's sixth appearance at the Dubai tournament - his best result was reaching the 2012 final where he lost to Federer.
Third seed Federer missed last year's tournament with a knee injury.
"It's incredible to be back, I missed playing here last year. I'm standing and I'm here,' he said.
Federer faced three break points in the match, but he saved them all.
"There were some break points to be saved,'' he added. "I think I returned very well for a first round. I was able to get my second serves in deep, was able to go into the offensive quickly.''
It's a historic day as the UK has been a member of the EU for more than 40 years.
More than 33 million people voted, with around 52% deciding to vote leave, while 48% chose remain.
Newsround has been covering what's been happening on this massive day...
This afternoon Naz put some of your questions to BBC political reporter Theo Leggett.
Find out what he said about how the EU vote result might affect education and what will happen to projects funded by the EU...
We've tried to answer more of your questions here.
It's been a historic day for the country, with adults voting to leave the European Union after more than 40 years inside it.
Watch Naz's report from London about everything that's happened.
All day you've been sending us loads of questions about what the result means - from holiday money to what it means for farmers.
We've tried to answer as many as possible - click here to read them!
There are hundreds of journalists outside the Houses of Parliament, where Naz is preparing to present the 4:20pm bulletin live.
Naz sent us this video from the scene.
Naz has been busy in London all day rounding up the reactions to the EU vote result.
She's moved from Downing Street to College Green outside the Houses of Parliament for the 4:20pm bulletin on CBBC.
School children in Salford, England, have been telling Hayley what they think about the result.
They all have different views - ranging from worried to happy...
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a second independence referendum is "highly likely".
She backed the UK staying in the EU and, overall, people in Scotland voted to remain. So she argues Scotland is being taken out of the EU against their will.
In 2014, Scotland held a referendum on whether or not it should become an independent country. People voted no.
Leave campaigner Boris Johnson has spoken, calling the decision to leave the EU a "glorious opportunity".
He also paid tribute to Prime Minister David Cameron, describing him as "brave and principled".
Earlier, the PM said he would step down by October.
Naz was at 10 Downing Street watching the moment when David Cameron came outside to say he'll step down as PM by October.
BBC political reporter Theo Leggett tries to answer more of your questions - including how the result might affect our money and what it'll mean for children and teenagers.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has appeared outside 10 Downing Street to say he's going to resign by October.
He campaigned for the UK to remain in the European Union.
But he said that the will of the British people must be respected.
Two Newsround viewers put their questions to BBC political reporter Theo Leggett.
If you have any questions then you can send them to us here.
So Ricky's been up all night following everything that's been happening. Here's his round-up...
Ricky is live in Westminster this morning for our two bulletins on CBBC - at 7:40am and 8:15am.
He'll update you on what happened overnight and what the result means for the country.
Catch up on Watch Newsround.
The final result of 382 areas has been declared. It was Cornwall, which voted to leave.
The Leave side won by more than one million votes.
It's official - the UK has voted to leave the European Union.
The Leave campaign has crossed the line to win with 16,835,512 votes.
Naz has been up early too. She's at 10 Downing Street this morning, waiting for Prime Minister David Cameron.
Ricky says: "I've been up ALL NIGHT! I'm so tired but it's been a busy night with so much going on."
He'll have the latest on CBBC at 7:40am.
The BBC forecasts a win for the Leave campaign based on the results that have come in so far.
Ricky has been up all night covering the results for Newsround. He took this picture of the Houses of Parliament while out getting some cool shots.
Voting ended at 10pm and then the votes were taken away to be counted.
Adults were asked one question: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?"
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Now, in an exclusive interview with BBC Sport, the 20-year-old has confirmed all contract talks are off the table until the summer, increasing speculation his future may lie away from Anfield.
So is Sterling worth all the fuss and the figures of £180,000 a week that are currently swirling around - and how much would Liverpool miss him if he left?
Sterling is very good with the potential to be outstanding - but is nowhere near the finished article. He remains a work in progress in the manner of any 20-year-old with a career almost in its infancy.
He is blessed with natural pace that makes even the best defences and defenders take a step back, allied to a talent that plays on the opposition's nerves.
The perfect example was the brilliant individual goal he scored against Chelsea to earn Liverpool a 1-1 draw in the Capital One Cup semi-final at Anfield in January, taking a pass from Jordan Henderson, leaving Nemanja Matic for dead and making Gary Cahill look like he had weights attached to his boots before beating Thibaut Courtois in front of The Kop.
This was Sterling at his best but his finishing is still not his strong point and he has struggled at times this season to reproduce the brilliance he showed alongside Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge when Liverpool almost claimed their first title in 24 years last season.
Sterling may develop into a natural finisher in time but he is nowhere near that as yet. He is still more of a creative force than a player who delivers the end product with regularity and reliability.
He remains an integral part of England's present and future under manager Roy Hodgson, with his adaptability and ability to play wide, at the tip of a midfield diamond and centrally, offering flexibility.
But he is still not England's "go to" man, which is understandable at this early stage of his career. He is not yet a player England cannot afford to be without.
Sterling will undoubtedly have been noticed on the world stage, but he has not captured the imagination completely. He will be recognised as a fine talent and a potential star of the future - but the key word is "potential".
There is no way he can be bracketed among the game's elite stars and he is blameless for that. This is a young man making his way in the game, which has also added to the conjecture, and in some areas disapproval, about the contract numbers being played out.
Liverpool still remain hopeful Sterling will stay and if he does he will be a prime asset for however long he remains at Anfield - but the clocks would not stop and the foundations on the new stand would not shift if he left.
The departure of Luis Suarez, who had moved into the top three group of world stars alongside Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo when he moved to Barcelona in a £75m deal, was far more damaging simply because of the scale of his talent, his intensity which was the stuff of manager Rodgers' dreams and his ability to strike instant fear into opposing teams and fans.
And when captain Steven Gerrard leaves for LA Galaxy, it signals the departure of the man plenty regard as the greatest player to wear Liverpool's shirt, someone who drove the team and the club in hours of need sometimes by sheer force of personality.
Sterling would not fall into that category as a departure. Of course it would be a blow but Liverpool would be well rewarded and he could not be regarded as irreplaceable.
Suarez and Gerrard were players to build a team around. Sterling has not had time to reach that sort of stature. It may happen in the future but if he were to leave now it would be a setback, but not a mortal one.
Liverpool have youngsters such as Jordon Ibe coming through as well as a manager in Rodgers set on developing talent through their Academy so while there would be disappointment, they would recover.
There will be interest but do not rule out Liverpool owner John W Henry taking the same hard line he adopted when Luis Suarez tried to force a move in the summer of 2013.
He simply refused to do business, especially with Arsenal, and only sold at a time of his choosing and after Suarez had made it virtually impossible for him to return to the Premier League after biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup.
Henry will be even more reluctant to do business with teams in the Premier League, especially those he regards as rivals. Liverpool do not need money so there will be no financial pressure to sell. Sterling also has two years left on his contract so it is not as if it the paper it is written on is burning down before Liverpool's eyes, or indeed the player's.
Manchester City will look to rebuild this summer and would cast an eye in Sterling's direction but the money involved would be eye-watering even for them - and the same would apply to the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea.
City manager Manuel Pellegrini said recently: "Can you get Sterling? Maybe if you go to Liverpool with £100m you can."
This leaves the usual suspect. Real Madrid.
They could afford a deal and, in Liverpool's terms, Sterling would be out of the way in Spain rather than on the doorstep in the Premier League. It is certain the idea would appeal to Sterling and his representatives should he decide he does not wish to stay at Anfield.
Technically yes - but all the noises coming out of the Bernabeu from the club and the player suggest he will stay although everyone knows how quickly the scenery can shift at Real Madrid.
The more pertinent question is whether Real would believe Sterling is good enough and has the sort of profile they invariably require for a signing who would cost "Galactico" money?
In real terms he is only taking the first footsteps in his career. He is a name that would intrigue rather than excite Real's fans.
He is no Cristiano Ronaldo (nor should he be at this stage of his development) or has he had the sort of season Bale had behind him at Tottenham when he moved to Spain for £85m in summer 2013, when he scored 21 goals in 33 Premier League games, with four assists.
And would such a move be right for him at just 20, leaving a club where he will be carefully nurtured by a manager in Rodgers who loves the challenge of moulding young players?
Rodgers can offer the sort of sympathy he might not be afforded in a hothouse such as The Bernabeu, even allowing Sterling a short break in Jamaica this season to recharge his batteries.
Will Real feel he is ready for them? And is it wise for Sterling to move to a club where players can be swallowed up by expectations that demand success yesterday?
Sterling still has more to do to make him seem like a neat fit for Real.
Liverpool's fans are notoriously loyal to their own but there is no doubt Sterling risks tampering with that loyalty and affection the longer a new contract lies unsigned.
It was noticeable in the home defeat against Manchester United that - amid a poor team performance it should be stressed - there was more than the usual level of discontent and murmuring when Sterling erred.
Sterling has not been in Liverpool's first team long enough to have won the hearts of supporters in the manner of Gerrard, Suarez, Jamie Carragher of even Fernando Torres in his glorious golden period. He is liked but not loved.
And the sense from most Liverpool fans is that while they would be delighted he if he stayed, you do not uncover many who would shed tears if he left. Some may even feel that if £100,000 is not enough to persuade him to stay, then he should be swiftly shifted out.
The timing of this continued speculation is not working in his favour with supporters who may, despite Sterling's insistence money is not a motive, start to believe he and his representative are overplaying their financial hand.
It takes a lot for Liverpool supporters to turn on their players and it would be major shock if there was an open show of discontent aimed at one player.
It does not usually work like that at Anfield - but for Sterling's sake his games at Anfield will be a lot more comfortable if he excelled between now and the end of the season.
Sterling insists again in his BBC interview that it is not - therefore he must be taken at his word.
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So what is the delay? Is it the timing at such a late stage of the season? He admits if it had been offered earlier he would have signed.
Does he want Champions League football? Well he had that earlier in the season and played his part in Liverpool's downfall at the group stage. It is in his power to help deliver it again next season for Liverpool.
Is he worried about a lack of trophies? Possibly, but Liverpool are in the process of building a vibrant young squad and this smacks of over-impatience from a 20-year-old.
Does he merit £150,000-a-week or more? Each to their own bargaining power, but you are not talking about a player who is a world name or someone who can be bracketed with the likes of Wayne Rooney at Manchester United?
All will be revealed at the end of the season - until then the speculation will continue.
Sharon Kemp, currently strategic director at Manchester City Council, is expected to take up the £160,000 position from March.
The council's elected members have until Monday to give reasons on why a formal offer should not be made.
Government commissioners currently run the council after a report over its handling of child sexual exploitation.
The five commissioners replaced the cabinet in February following the Casey Report's criticism of its woeful response to child exploitation.
Last year the Jay Report found 1,400 children had been subjected to abuse.
The authority said it had received 15 applications and Ms Kemp was chosen following a "rigorous assessment process", with final interviews on Wednesday.
She has worked at Manchester City Council since 2009, and before that was assistant chief executive at Haringey Council in the aftermath of the Baby P case.
Ms Kemp, who was born and lives in Lancashire, said she looked forward to working with Rotherham Council to "make a positive difference".
The actor was charged with culpable homicide by the Mumbai court for the September 2002 hit-and-run incident.
Khan said his driver Altaf was driving the car when the crash occurred.
The actor is one of Bollywood's biggest stars and has starred in more than 80 Hindi-language films.
Several of his films, including Dabangg, Ready, Bodyguard, Ek Tha Tiger, Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aap Ke Hain Kaun, have been huge commercial hits.
The actor has always denied the charge against him.
If convicted, he faces 10 years in prison.
Late on the night of 28 September 2002, Khan's Toyota Land Cruiser rammed into the American Express bakery in the Bandra area of Mumbai, authorities say.
The vehicle ran over five people sleeping on the streets, killing 38-year-old Noor Ullah Khan and seriously injuring three others. Another person received minor injuries.
The prosecution has alleged that Khan was driving the car and that he was drunk.
On Friday, the actor told the court he was not drunk and was not driving the car either.
He said he got out of the vehicle from the driver's side because the door on the passenger side was jammed.
Khan is a hugely popular and successful actor, but he has often been described as a "bad boy" heart-throb.
In 2006, he was sentenced to five years in prison for hunting a protected deer, but was released on bail after spending less than a week in jail.
An appeal in that case is being heard in a higher court.
The 31-year-old posted a picture of his damaged bike on Twitter saying: "Rammed on purpose by an impatient driver who followed me into the pavement."
Froome was unhurt and praised French police for their response, adding: "I have given them all the details."
The Team Sky rider posted on Twitter that he was back on the saddle after having a new bike flown in.
The incident is believed to have taken place in Beausoleil, near to his Monaco home.
The Team Sky rider is expected to race in next month's Criterium du Dauphine, a race he has won three times.
The race will serve as a warm-up to the Tour de France, which takes place between 1-23 July.
Malouda, 33, left Chelsea this summer after six years with the club, but did not feature at all last season.
with his last appearance for the club coming in the Champions League final win in Munich in 2012.
The France international also won the Premier League title and three FA Cups during his stay with Chelsea.
Barry McRae, 34, from Stonehaven, died after being struck by a vehicle south of Stracathro at about 02:45 on Friday.
Officers want to speak to anyone who saw a black Audi A3 travelling south from Stonehaven between 01:30 and 02:30.
It stopped in a layby north of the Brechin junction before the accident involving another vehicle happened.
The main Aberdeen to Dundee road was closed in both directions for several hours as a result.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre report reveals prescriptions for antidepressant medications rose by 7.2% from 53.3m to 57.1m.
Treatments for high cholesterol and diabetes also went up.
Experts point to a number of reasons behind this, including more people heading into their sixties and beyond.
People over this age are more likely to be taking a number of medicines.
While the majority of medicines tracked in this report were prescribed by GPs and dispensed by community pharmacies, the document also looked at drugs and medical kit such as bandages and glucose meters, prescribed by other health staff, including dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
It suggests an overall 3.3% increase on items prescribed in 2013.
Other reasons behind the rise could include improvements in making diagnoses, better care for some patients and an increase in the number of people living with long-term conditions, such as diabetes.
But the mental health charity Mind says more needs to be done to understand the rise in antidepressant prescriptions.
Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, said: "These latest figures show no sign of this trend slowing and we need to understand why we are seeing persistent year-on-year increases.
"It may be that more people are coming forward and seeking help, or that doctors are getting better at spotting the symptoms of mental health problems, but these are unlikely to be the only reasons.
"It's important to remember that while antidepressants can be very effective for some, they are not the solution for everyone."
Concrete firm Moore Readymix terminated a contract with Cuadrilla to supply the Preston New Road site following a "blockade" at its depot.
Cuadrilla condemned "intimidation" of its suppliers by "hard line activists". Moore Readymix declined to comment.
Frack Free Lancashire denied any bullying saying its members had a right to protest "within the law".
The campaign group - which claims extracting shale gas is harmful to the environment - said Cuadrilla's allegations were "nonsense" and "completely unfounded".
A spokesman said: "There is no intimidation or bullying by protesters who are merely exercising their democratic right to protest within the law."
The government approved energy firm Cuadrilla's plans to frack at the Preston New Road, Little Plumpton in October last year.
An application by the firm to frack at a second Lancashire site in Roseacre Wood has been rejected.
Francis Egan, chief executive officer of Cuadrilla said he "empathised" with suppliers who have decided to withdraw but he said its main contractors "will not be browbeaten" by a small group of "irresponsible bullies".
He added: "Lancashire jobs and revenue opportunities are at stake and we will not allow activists to rob the county of those."
Police said there was a "minor collision" between a protester and a Mitsubishi vehicle at the demonstration at Moore Readymix' in St Annes earlier.
The injured party received "very minor injuries" and the driver has been spoken to but not been arrested, said police.
Protests have been held at the Preston New Road site since work started on 5 January.
Four people were charged with breaching public order on Wednesday after demonstrators locked themselves to each other.
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Team number one Chris Froome leads the Tour, with Welshman Thomas lying in fifth place overall.
After his dominant victory on stage 10, Froome stressed he was a clean rider - a sentiment echoed by Thomas after Team Sky maintained that lead on stage 11.
"It's a shame that's the way the sport is at the moment," said Thomas.
"You kind of understand why in a way because of the past. But you don't see that happening if a tennis player plays really well or if a footballer is really good.
"It's just a shame that if you do a good performance on a bike everyone just assumes it's in the wrong way.
"That's the way it is, but we've just got to keep doing what we're doing. I've got a clean conscience and that's it."
Team Sky claimed on Monday their computers had been hacked by critics convinced 30-year-old Froome is using performance-enhancing drugs.
But as the team maintained their dominance - Froome leads by two minutes and 52 seconds - all the riders are coming under scrutiny.
Double Olympic gold-medallist Thomas, who won road-race gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, says it is difficult to ignore the issue.
"It's not the nicest thing to hear," Cardiff-born Thomas added.
"It's the first time I've had it directed at me, but that's life and if you take to heart what every guy says about you you're not going to be very happy."
Says who? Well, Chinese officials, as it happens.
Earlier this year, China's top promoter of foreign trade, Wan Jifei, said rising protectionism was having a negative impact.
"Trade protectionism is shortsighted and narrow-minded, and it cannot fundamentally address the problems of unemployment and economic growth worldwide," said Mr Wan, who is president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.
"Free trade is the engine of national economic growth," he added.
His view was backed by President Hu Jintao, who praised the council's role in countering protectionism.
Now, you might think it a bit rich for China to denounce such measures, given that Beijing is routinely accused by others of protectionist behaviour.
Most recently, US President Barack Obama has alleged that China illegally subsidises exports of cars and car parts, thus forcing US manufacturers to shift production overseas.
On the other side of the US political fence, anti-China sentiment is also strong. The Republicans' Mitt Romney has pledged to declare China a "currency manipulator" if he is elected president in November, reflecting the anger felt by many Americans over what they see as the deliberate undervaluing of the yuan to favour Chinese exporters.
China is already facing several cases at the World Trade Organization (WTO), including one brought jointly by the US, the EU and Japan over its restrictions on rare earth exports.
On the other hand, China also sees itself as a victim of protectionism. In an effort to alleviate the pressure, it has begun talks with Japan and South Korea on a free-trade pact.
Some observers think the US should put its own house in order before it starts calling other nations protectionist.
After all, one proposal on the "to-do list" that President Barack Obama presented to Congress in the spring was a 20% tax credit for firms that relocate jobs to the US from abroad.
But the US can also point to fresh progress on trade liberalisation after its long-delayed free-trade deal with Colombia finally took effect in May.
Even so, fresh bilateral trade disputes between the US and China keep emerging.
In another row, Washington has slapped anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese solar panels, which it says are being sold at unfairly low prices. China denounced the move as protectionist, but the EU has also now begun an anti-dumping investigation into the trade.
It seems that free-trade and protectionist tendencies are fairly evenly balanced among the great powers, with every nationalist impulse countered by a liberalising one.
This "one step forward, one step back" behaviour can be seen in the EU as well, beset as it is by the crisis in the eurozone.
The recent French presidential election saw both the successful challenger, Francois Hollande, and the defeated incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, stepping up their protectionist rhetoric in an effort to woo the 80% of voters who are anti-globalisation.
However, as has often been stated beyond the country's borders, France is a big winner from globalisation, with French companies doing 14 times more business abroad than foreign firms do in France.
Mr Hollande has said he wants French financial aid to go to exporters of French products.
But if he is serious about his campaign promise to create 150,000 new jobs in France, many analysts feel he will have to promote more competition in the economy, not less - in other words, more liberalisation and less protectionism.
In any case, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has long maintained that a return to protectionism would be a grave danger for the global economy, making it unlikely that Mr Hollande will get his way at a pan-European level.
Other regions of the world, notably Latin America, are similarly blowing hot and cold in the same trade debate.
In retrospect, the 2005 collapse of the ambitious Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) plan, which would have included all 34 of the hemisphere's democracies, marked the global turning of the tide against wholesale trade liberalisation.
Not long afterwards, the Doha world trade talks, held under the auspices of the WTO, entered their current moribund state, dispelling hopes of lowering trade barriers around the world.
Now Argentina is spearheading moves in South America's biggest economies to batten down the hatches and fend off imports from outside the region.
Argentina and Brazil are the most powerful members of the Mercosur trading bloc, which also includes Paraguay and Uruguay.
Argentina has proposed to Brazil that the external tariff levied on goods from outside the Mercosur region should rise from 10% to 35%, the maximum allowed under WTO rules.
At the same time, the cash-strapped government in Buenos Aires is desperate for Brazil to buy more of its goods and is pressing Brasilia to remove its import barriers to certain Argentine goods, including pharmaceuticals and citrus fruits.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's economic nationalism recently manifested itself in her government's expropriation of Spanish-controlled oil company YPF.
Now her "fortress Mercosur" approach is demonstrating why some economists think trade blocs, or indeed bilateral trade agreements, do not actually promote free trade but merely divert existing trade.
India, too, is facing both ways on the issue. Recent comments by Indian politicians have echoed those of China in denouncing protectionist sentiment, particularly on the part of the US.
But India is still reluctant to give foreign firms greater access to its economy, as shown by the political row over its much-delayed decision to open up the supermarket sector to global giants such as Wal-Mart, Tesco and Carrefour.
Single-brand firms such as Starbucks and Ikea are already allowed to open stores in India, but only provided they buy 30% of their goods from domestic small industries.
From the perspective of the UK, such restrictions are frustrating. The list of British companies that have passed into foreign ownership is endless, from Cadbury's to Jaguar Land Rover.
Yet while Foreign Secretary William Hague has pledged to "argue relentlessly" around the world in favour of free trade and against protectionism, UK firms seeking to make acquisitions abroad do not always have reciprocal access to those foreign investors' home markets.
At the same time, some commentators in the UK are now beginning to wonder openly whether protectionism is such a bad thing after all.
The left-wing Compass pressure group caused a stir when it published a paper arguing that globalisation was "the underlying cause of today's economic and social malaise" and that "progressive protectionism" was the answer.
This is defined as "encouraging and allowing countries to rebuild and rediversify their economies by limiting what goods they let in and what funds they choose to enter or leave the country".
This prompted a heated response from a senior fellow at a free-market think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, who described the idea as "fascist economic policy" that was "stuck in some sort of 1700s mercantilist time warp".
But given the current ambivalent mood of politicians and voters alike in the face of global economic crisis, a return to widespread protectionism can hardly be ruled out.
"It must be clear that if Britain wants access to the internal market, all the rules and freedoms around the internal market must be totally respected. On that point we must be intransigent. I see the manoeuvres... You cannot have one foot in and one foot out. If we start to dismantle the internal market by agreeing to the demands of a country that wants to leave, then we will be bringing about the end of Europe." (Paris news conference with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, 7 Oct)
"Brexit negotiations won't be easy. If we don't say full access to the internal market is linked to full freedom of movement, then a movement will spread in Europe where everyone just does whatever they want. We have to make our interests align so that European industry federations don't put pressure on us." (Speaking at German trade and industry meeting in Berlin, 6 Oct)
"We must try to formulate offers in a way so that the British remain close to us, also to have the chance to return some day." (At same meeting in Berlin, 6 Oct)
"The UK wants to leave and pay nothing. It's not possible. There must be a threat, there must be a risk, there must be a price. Otherwise we will be in a negotiation that cannot end well." (Speaking at Paris Delors Institute, 6 Oct)
"There are principles, and on these principles no country still remaining in the EU will budge. That is the position of France, just as much as it is the position of Germany." (10 Oct)
"We want to work towards a constructive, open and close relationship with the UK, both bilaterally and also in terms of the UK's relationship with the EU as a whole. The UK can leave the EU, but the UK doesn't stop being a big European partner." (Bloomberg TV interview in Macau, 11 Oct)
"It appears as if there's quite a lot of work that needs to be done in the UK before there's a clear view of what the British want. The British government is putting in some efforts to identify what kind of relationship they want. All the same, the UK's partners can't move ahead until the UK has done this work." (Bloomberg interview after meeting British Prime Minister Theresa May in Copenhagen, 10 Oct)
"The first step must be taken by the UK... The internal market means free movement of people, goods, services and capital. That is not a selection menu, it is all inextricably linked. The negotiations will require significant British effort: a final agreement is not only in the interests of the EU but also of the UK..." (After meeting Mrs May in The Hague, 10 Oct)
"Shutting the frontiers for a day would show people what it means to wait two hours to get into Italy or Spain, to have controls everywhere, to block all exchanges. One day. So that people see what it is to be outside Europe. It's terrible what I'm saying, but it would be good for people to understand. The UK wants to have its cake and eat it. Before, they were in and they had many opt-outs; now they want to be out with many opt-ins. We're not on Facebook where there's an 'it's complicated' status." (Speaking at a conference on Brexit in Paris, 10 Oct)
"It is their choice to go for a hard Brexit, and I would not be in favour of that at all." (10 Oct)
"Whatever the final settlement, what we know with certainty is that Brexit has increased the risk to the Irish economy." (10 Oct)
"It will be a process like no other with far-reaching consequences - its final scope no-one can predict with absolute certainty. It is not only about trading arrangements and access to the EU's single market... is also about preserving our joint and unique culture, our decades of strategic partnership and our commitment to the same shared values..." (Speaking in London after meeting Theresa May, 11 Oct)
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It follows government criticism over "significant quality failures".
Disabilities Minister Mike Penning said a new company would be appointed in early 2015, and Atos would not receive "a single penny of compensation".
Atos had been due to finish in August 2015. It said the settlement was "in the best interests of all parties".
It also said it would "work hard to support transition to a new provider", adding: "We will be transferring our infrastructure and employees to ensure consistency of service to those going through the process.
"There will be no change for those applying for Employment and Support Allowance."
Last month, Atos said it was seeking to end its government contract under which it carried out the Work Capability Assessments.
Atos will continue to carry out the assessments in Northern Ireland under a separate contract.
It will also continue with assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) - another welfare change introduced by the government - in Scotland, the north of England, London and the south of England.
Another company, Capita, provide PIP assessments in central England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Claimants applying for Employment and Support Allowance must undergo a Work Capability Assessment to see how their illness or disability affects their ability to work.
Atos has been criticised over the number of these assessments it has made as well as for lengthy waiting times.
Disability campaigners have described the work tests as "ridiculously harsh and extremely unfair".
Last summer, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) identified "significant quality failures" in the written reports Atos produced after tests and put a plan for improvement in place.
But in February, the DWP said standards had declined unacceptably.
Mr Penning said the government was looking for a provider to replace Atos "with the view to increasing the number of assessments and reducing waiting times".
He said: "I am pleased to confirm that Atos will not receive a single penny of compensation from the taxpayer for the early termination of their contract.
"Quite the contrary, Atos has made a substantial financial settlement to the department."
The DWP said "one national provider" would be appointed to take over the contract early next year.
In the longer term, it said, it planned to take on "multiple providers".
Atos chief executive Ursula Morgenstern said: "We are pleased to have reached an agreement with the government to allow us to exit this contract early and we remain committed to delivering essential services to the UK government as a strategic supplier."
She said the company would "work hard to support transition to a new provider".
Richard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, meanwhile, said: "I doubt there's a single disabled person who'll be sorry to hear that Atos will no longer be running the fit-for-work tests."
He said the "fundamentally flawed" test should be "more than an exercise in getting people off benefits".
"It should make sure disabled people get the specialist, tailored and flexible support they need to find and keep a job."
Public and Commercial Services union general secretary, Mark Serwotka, said the assessments were "designed to harass vulnerable people and take their benefits away rather than provide support and guidance".
"Doctors, MPs and disabled people all believe the tests should be scrapped so, instead of replacing the failed Atos with another profit-hungry provider, the government should bring the work in-house and invest in it properly."
And charity Sense called for a "root-and-branch reform of the system to ensure disabled people are judged fairly on their ability to work".
Shadow work and pensions minister Kate Green joined calls for the government to "reform fundamentally" the assessment system, adding that people with disabilities who could work must be given the "support they need to find a job".
This would prevent the militants from rebuilding a presence in the area, Gen Tukur Buratai added.
The military overran the militants' last camp in Sambisa on Friday.
It had become their main base after they lost control of urban strongholds in north-eastern Borno state in 2015.
Many of the militants are thought to have fled to areas closer to the border with Niger and Chad before the camp fell, says BBC Hausa service editor Jimeh Saleh.
In an address to troops in Damasak town in Borno state, Gen Buratai said that troops were conducting a "mop-up operation" against Boko Haram in the forest, a former colonial game reserve.
"We are opening up roads in Sambisa forest to site a base. It is going to be one of our training centres in the country as well as ground for testing acquired equipment before putting them into operation," he added.
There has been speculation that some of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 were being held in the forest, after it was named by a small number of girls who have been freed.
On Saturday, President Muhammadu Buhari said that efforts to find the remaining girls would be intensified.
He congratulated the armed forces on the Sambisa operation, calling the apparent success "long-awaited and most gratifying".
The militant group, which is linked to the so-called Islamic State, still stages suicide bombings in the north-east and in neighbouring Niger and Cameroon.
More than 15,000 people have been killed and two million left homeless during the seven-year insurgency in the region.
The row is over drivers being in charge of operating the doors, and guards being changed to on-board supervisors.
Its members have taken 31 days of strike action since last April.
The RMT is also in dispute with Arriva Rail North and Merseyrail over the same issue, with members from across the country joining the protest in London.
Protesters held up banners which read Safety Before Profit, and Keep The Guard On The Train.
The real cost of the Southern rail row
Two days of talks between the union and Southern's parent company, Govia Thameslink Railway, were adjourned on Tuesday.
The RMT said both sides were planning to reconvene next week.
Southern is also in dispute with the train drivers' union Aslef after two attempts to seek a resolution were rejected by union members.
A 24-hour strike on Arriva Rail North is due to go ahead on Friday after the failure of talks, the RMT said.
It will coincide with the first day of the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.
Talks between Merseyrail and the union also ended without agreement on Monday, with commuters facing the prospect of more strikes.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash has accused the government of causing the disputes and of "tying the hands" of companies over staffing of the railways.
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Future Motion's complaint led to Changzhou First International Trade's products being seized at the CES tech trade show in January.
But the Chinese firm is now seeking $100,000 (£69,900) in damages plus reimbursement of its legal fees after the Californian firm dropped its claim.
Changzhou said there had been no reasonable basis for its rival's case.
Both Future Motion and Changzhou make electric-powered hoverboards that are unusual for having a single central wheel rather than one at each end.
In January, Future Motion's chief executive Kyle Doerkson told the BBC that Changzhou's Trotter product was a "knock-off" of its own more expensive Surfing Electric Scooters.
"We have design and utility patents that cover our invention," he added.
US marshals enforced a restraining order after receiving a complaint from the US firm, which led to the closure of Changzhou's stall at the CES tech show on 7 January.
Footage of the incident was posted online by the news agency Bloomberg and it was widely reported elsewhere.
Changzhou subsequently rejected the allegations, saying a side-by-side comparison of the two firms' products demonstrated that the platform, footpad and tyres designs were "plainly dissimilar to the ordinary observer".
Furthermore, Changzhou said that the actual scope of Future Motion's patents were much narrower than had been indicated and that US firm could in no way could claim the rights to "all one-wheeled, self-balancing vehicles".
Future Motion maintains its claims, dismissing the first of the points as "legal puffery" and insisting that it still believes its intellectual property was infringed.
However, on 4 February it told the court that it wanted to voluntarily dismiss the case.
"We had achieved our goal of preventing [Changzhou's] exhibition at CES," Mr Doerkson told the BBC.
"Looking forward at the cost-benefit of continued litigation to seek an injunction, we decided that that cost benefit did not pencil out for us and that our intellectual property budget would be better spent in other ways."
But Changzhou has since petitioned the judge to re-open the case saying it wants to be reimbursed for "business expenses incurred, lost sales suffered, and reputational damage".
Moreover, the Chinese firm is also demanding Future Motion be forced to issue a press release notifying the public that it had dismissed its original claims.
Future Motion's lawyer told the BBC it plans to formally oppose these demands once Changzhou's legal team has filed some additional paperwork.
The 46-year-old was found at Restalrig Circus at about 01:00 BST after officers were called to a disturbance.
He was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary but was later pronounced dead.
Police Scotland said a murder investigation was now under way. They are keen to trace three men seen in the area at the time.
Det Ch Inspector Keith Hardie added: "We believe the victim had been in the Tor public house prior to the murder.
"Anyone who believes they heard or saw anything that could help with this investigation should contact police on 101."
A 1-0 second-leg win ensured Accies retained their top-flight status.
United had to come through two two-legged ties to reach the final, at which point Hamilton, 11th in the Premiership, entered the play-offs.
"The six games has taken its toll - it was an evenly contested game but I felt we ran out of steam," McKinnon said.
"I'm not making that an excuse, it's just a fact. You could see the legs were gone in the second half. We didn't have the same intensity to our play or our pressing."
McKinnon's side, who finished third in the Championship, overcame Morton 5-1 on aggregate in the play-off quarter-final and beat Falkirk 4-3 on aggregate in the semi-final.
But following a 0-0 draw with Hamilton at Tannadice in the final first-leg, Greg Docherty's goal on Sunday was enough to consign United to a first defeat in 12 games and at least another season in the second tier.
"We were running on empty and I'm really disappointed for the players because they wanted it so much," McKinnon added.
"We came down here with high hopes considering the form we're in, but unfortunately we've just come up short at the final hurdle.
"We've been using the same players regularly over the last six to 10 weeks and that's taken its toll today. They've given everything, they tried everything to get back into the game but just didn't have the legs at the end."
McKinnon said the staff and players were left "feeling flat" by the result but he is already hopeful that his side will be better equipped for another promotion push next season.
"We have to work hard over the close season to identify people we can attract to the club, better quality than what we've got - we need to improve that," he said.
"We're going to work hard to put a really good squad together. We've started the recruitment process well with James Keatings and Billy King (already signed). If we can maintain that kind of standard, we'll give ourselves a great chance next season."
Voodoo is completely normal in Benin.
People across West Africa, especially Togo, Ghana and Nigeria hold similar beliefs but in Benin it is recognised as an official religion, followed by some 40% of the population.
Voodoo Day is a public holiday and there is a national Voodoo museum.
It has none of the negative connotations it has in the West and many of those who are officially Christian or Muslim also incorporate some Voodoo elements into their beliefs, especially in times of crisis.
In pictures: Voodoo priestess
But Voodoo is more than a belief system, it is a complete way of life, including culture, philosophy, language, art, dance, music and medicine.
The Voodoo spiritual world consists of Mahou, the supreme being and about 100 divinities - or Voodoos - who represent different phenomena, such as war and blacksmiths (Gou), illness, healing and earth (Sakpata), storms, lightning and justice (Heviosso) or water (Mami Wata).
Voodoo priests ask these gods to intervene on behalf of ordinary people but local adherents stress that they have nothing to do with sorcery or black magic.
People here do not stick needles into dolls to cause misfortune to their enemies, as you see in some Western films - this image may have arisen from the icons of a particular god which a priest may have in their shrine.
Some Voodoo priests use herbs to cure the sick - and possibly to poison enemies.
They also sometimes ask for offerings, such as a chicken or a sheep, which is then sacrificed to the divinity, or some alcohol is poured onto the floor.
This can happen when asking for help or when you wish has been granted.
People seek help on a variety of issues - to be cured of a disease, find a job, complete a business deal, find a spouse or have a child.
The situation has got so bad staff are carrying out what have been dubbed "safari rounds", where consultants go searching for their lost patients.
Figures show it is common for patients, particularly elderly ones, to get moved four or five times during their stay.
One nursing union representative said it was a "constant juggle" of patients.
Nurses at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) conference in Liverpool said the issue was created by pressures on A&E.
Latest data in England shows the number of patients waiting more than four hours is rising.
In the week ending 17 March more than 27,000 patients waited longer than four hours in accident and emergency - double the number from the same week the year before.
The RCN said the problems have been building for years and exacerbated by problems with the rollout of the new non-emergency 111 number, although the bad weather is also likely to have been a factor.
Delays are also being experienced discharging patients from hospital because of the lack of social care support, it said.
In turn staff have to move patients from ward to ward so patients waiting in A&E units can be admitted, nurses said.
Karen Webb, the RCN East of England representative, said it has resulted in what has become known as "safari rounds" in her region.
"The pressure leads staff to move people off the A&E department. They then get lost in the hospital.
"Consultants aren't sure where they are so they have to go looking for their lost patients. It is widespread."
Other delegates described how some hospitals had started creating jobs known as "queue nurses" solely to look after people waiting to get seen.
RCN general secretary Peter Carter said: "This is where you get chaos in the system.
"It takes time [finding them] and is very concerning for patients. It is the system not working."
Neil Evans, an A&E nurse from south Wales, broke down as he described how he had seen patients left waiting on trolleys for 24 hours at a time.
"It is heart-breaking seeing what our patients are putting up with."
Norman Provan, the RCN's associate director for Scotland, added: "This is happening everywhere up-and-down the country."
Mark Drakeford, health minister for Wales, said he recognised hospitals were under pressure with steep rises in A&E demand coupled with the need for older patients, with more complex conditions, needing to stay in hospital for longer.
"All parts of the UK are experiencing these pressures but Wales has the highest proportion of people over 85."
Meanwhile, NHS England has already announced a review of emergency and urgent care.
Janet Youd, the RCN's emergency care association chairman, said it was a "constant juggle" to accommodate patients appropriately.
"Because of the pressures we have to move them out of the MAU [medical assessment unit], they can get put on an inappropriate ward and then when there is more time they will get transferred to somewhere better.
"But after a while there could be more pressures to move them as more patients get admitted."
Research by the Royal College of Physicians suggests it is common for a patient, particularly an elderly one, to be moved four or five times during their stay.
"No-one comes to work wanting this to happen, we all want to do our best but that is not always possible," said Ms Youd.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "The NHS needs to ensure it has proper plans in place to deal with high demand on A&E.
"But it's obvious that this isn't just about A&E services in isolation, it's also about how the NHS works as a whole and how it works with other areas such as social care."
Lancashire Police said the baby, from Shannon Street, was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital at 08:30 BST on Wednesday where he later died.
Officers are treating his death as "unexplained" and are examining the circumstances surrounding it.
A post-mortem examination to establish the precise cause of his death will take place later.
Det Insp Nick Connaughton said: "At this moment we are treating the sudden death of this baby boy as unexplained.
"I would like to stress that we are in the very early stages of our inquiries and we have not made any arrests."
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In a five-year deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), more than 100 hours of cricket will be broadcast each summer.
The contract includes live TV coverage of England men and women's Twenty20 internationals and the ECB's new men's domestic T20 tournament.
TV highlights of England men's home Tests, one-day internationals and T20s will also be shown.
The BBC, which this year celebrates Test Match Special's 60th birthday, also retained radio rights and digital clips for English cricket.
Digital clips mean in-play video action clips and short-form highlights on the BBC Sport website and app for all England internationals and domestic games.
The BBC last broadcast live televised cricket in 1999 and the sport has not been available on free-to-air TV since the 2005 Ashes series, shown on Channel 4.
"It's long been our ambition to bring live cricket back to BBC television," said BBC director general Tony Hall. "I'm thrilled to see that ambition realised.
"Cricket is an integral part of the British summer and the BBC will be putting its full weight behind the nation's favourite summer sport.
"Our aim will be to make the new T20 competition a huge success."
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Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "This will lead to a step change in the BBC's coverage of cricket across TV, radio and digital platforms.
"We are extremely excited about what we have to offer by taking cricket to the widest possible audience and inspiring the next generation to pick up bat and ball.
"With 97% of the UK population using the BBC every week, the potential for growing the game further is huge."
The ECB's deal with the BBC and Sky is worth £1.1bn.
Sky will broadcast live TV coverage of Tests, England men's and women's internationals, plus the One-Day Cup and the County Championship.
ECB chief executive Tom Harrison said: "Together, these new deals will deliver the partnership, distribution and investment that will fuel the future of our game, driving recreational, professional and international cricket for years to come.
"BBC are valuable long-term partners, bringing cricket to listeners, viewers and a new digital audience.
"We are delighted they will go to another level with live coverage of international and domestic T20 - men's and women's - alongside prime-time highlights shows and a commitment to taking the game to even wider audiences."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew on Radio 5 live
The ECB has recognised the need to show free-to-air cricket - the game urgently needs it.
When Channel 4 lost the rights in 2005, there is no doubt participation levels and awareness of the game slumped dramatically.
That, and the fact it has a new tournament starting in 2020, is what prompted the ECB to bring this deal forward.
The new tournament needs this coverage and exposure - this is why the ECB was keen to get it on terrestrial television.
This deal has raised over a billion pounds, which is a huge amount for English cricket.
Importantly, the BBC will show highlights of all England home internationals at prime time, which is a significant change from the usual late-night schedule.
Former England bowler Ryan Sidebottom called the deal "fantastic" news.
Speaking on the 5 live Friday Sports Panel, Sidebottom said: "I think it's much-needed. After the 2005 Ashes, the intake of children taking up cricket has slowly gone downhill so I think it's amazing for cricket.
"It's great for the players, it's great for international cricket, the fans. It's great for county cricket that players will get to showcase their talents on free-to-air TV, which is fantastic.
"It is difficult in modern society with mortgages and the cost of living.
"I grew up watching Test matches and one-day games on television - hopefully it'll grow more and more popular with the younger generation watching it on television."
Keith Brown said the firm agreed to "consider" his request to pay a "living wage" of £8.45 an hour.
He said they would have another meeting in two or three months' time.
The minister had previously said he was concerned by reports that staff at the Dunfermline site could be sacked for being off sick.
The Sunday Times claimed that workers could be dismissed for taking four days off, even if they had a sick note from a doctor.
The issue was raised in the Scottish Parliament, with North East Fife MSP Willie Rennie saying he had been contacted by constituents who reported "intolerable" working conditions.
Speaking after his visit to the Dunfermline "fulfilment centre" on Monday, Mr Brown said: "I had a productive meeting with senior members of Amazon's management team this afternoon and I asked them a series of questions around personnel and transport related-issues, which had been the subject of recent media reports.
"I then made a series of requests of the senior management team including in relation to becoming involved in our Fair Work agenda through the fair work convention, paying the real living wage and trade union activity in the workplace
"They have agreed to consider these requests and to a further meeting in the course of the next two to three months.
"These jobs are important to Scotland's economy - 4,500 at its current peak and 1,800 permanent employees - and so it's crucial that we continue to work with Amazon to help deliver fair work practices."
Amazon said all permanent and temporary Amazon workers started on £7.35 an hour or above, regardless of age, and £11 an hour and above for overtime.
A company spokeswoman said: "Amazon provides a safe and positive workplace with competitive pay and benefits from day one. We are proud to have been able to create several thousand new permanent roles in our UK fulfilment centres over the last five years.
"One of the reasons we've been able to attract so many people to join us is that we offer great jobs and a positive work environment with opportunities for growth."
A general election gives adults in the UK the chance to have a say on who runs the country.
They do this by voting for an MP to represent them and be their voice in Parliament (in the picture above).
You can find out more about how MPs get their jobs - and how a general election works - here.
But to find out more about what MPs do once they've got the job, read on below.
MP stands for Member of Parliament. He or she is a person who represents a particular area of the country in parliament.
The UK is divided into 650 of these areas, called constituencies - and there is an MP for each one. So that makes 650 MPs in Parliament in total.
They meet together in the House of Commons, which is part of the Houses of Parliament in London.
MPs split their time between working in Parliament and working in their constituency.
When they are working in Parliament, they can suggest and consider new laws, and take part in important votes on how the country is run.
Most MPs belong to groups called political parties - for example, the Conservative Party or the Labour Party
They can also bring up issues that matter to people in their constituency with important members of the government.
They might do this by asking a question to a politician on one person's behalf or they might bring up a topic in the House of Commons that is important to people who live in their constituency.
Sometimes, if the members of their constituency want something different to what their own political party wants, MPs may have to choose between upsetting their constituents or upsetting their party!
Some MPs who belong to the party (or parties) in power at the time will be given special jobs in the government, on top of their role as an MP.
They will be made government ministers and asked to look after particular areas of how the country is run - for example, health or education.
When MPs are working in their constituency, they will often hold special meetings called surgeries, at which members of the public can go to meet them if they have something they want to talk to their local MP about.
They will go along to public events, and visit local schools and businesses, so they can better understand what matters most to the people they represent. It also helps local people to get to know their MP.
Currently, if MPs want to have another paid job on top of their job as an MP, they can, but they have to officially register it.
Some people think it is a good thing if MPs have another job too, as it keeps them in touch with members of the public, and means they have more skills and knowledge to bring to their job in Parliament.
Others think that MPs shouldn't be allowed to have another job, as they should be fully committed to their job in Parliament and should focus all of their time on this.
There is a report currently being put together about what should be allowed with MPs having second jobs. The results will be presented in June.
When MPs come together in the House of Commons, they will debate and vote on issues that are important to the country.
This might be to do with rules in schools or how much money your parents have to spend on things, so these things can affect you.
Currently, there aren't any MPs as Parliament has been "dissolved" ahead of the election. Click on the link to find out more about what this means, but it's a bit like the end of term has happened.
All over the UK, the people who want to be MPs - called candidates - are currently working very hard to convince people to vote for them on 8 June.
While you cannot vote yet, when you turn 18, you will be able to vote in the general election to choose who you want to be your MP.
Some (78%) of those surveyed by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers say the work they do when covering a class is the same as that of a teacher.
The union said schools did not have enough funds to replace staff when they leave because of tightening budgets.
The government said schools should not use support staff to replace teachers.
Support staff who act as cover supervisors are only supposed to supervise the pupils not to teach them.
The ATL survey of nearly 1,000 members working as support staff suggested there had been a rise in such staff covering lessons in a more formal way.
A similar survey by the union the previous year suggested less than two-thirds were teaching lessons.
And just over seven in 10 (72.5%) of those who responded to the question said it had not been possible to supervise a class without effectively delivering a lesson.
One primary school teaching assistant in Buckinghamshire told the union: "We are expected to deliver high-quality lessons not just supervise the class."
And a higher-level teaching assistant (HTLA) working in a secondary school in Durham said: "We are told sometimes with only five minutes or less notice that we are covering lessons.
"We are expected to teach students."
ATL general secretary Dr Mary Bousted, said: "As these results show, support staff are feeling the pressure to actually teach lessons and to plug the gap in staff shortages when teachers leave and do not get replaced.
"As the government continues to squeeze school budgets, there simply aren't enough funds to replace staff.
"It is worrying that this year more support staff feel the work they do when acting as cover supervisor is identical to that done by supply teachers, with an increase of 14%."
Rob Webster, who has overseen a project on maximising the impact of teaching assistants at the Institute of Education, said: "The survey results suggest TAs, cover supervisors and other support staff are being deployed to backfill teaching staff shortages on top of covering their existing demands, all at the same time as overall staffing numbers are in decline."
The warning comes amid continuing concerns about a growing teacher shortage in England, especially in disadvantaged schools and subjects such as physics.
A major report published last year found that UK schools are more hindered by staff shortages than many of their international counterparts.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) study, which covers 72 countries and economies, found a "relatively large share" of UK head teachers reported that their school was affected by staff shortages.
A Department for Education spokesman said that while teaching assistants were allowed to teach classes "we are absolutely clear that schools should use them to add value to what teachers do, not replace them.
"It is up to individual schools to decide how to train, develop and use their teaching assistants effectively."
The spokesman added that the core schools budget had been protected in real terms with so that "in 2016-17 schools have more funding than ever before".
The world's biggest fast-food chain said it would drop the ketchup after Bernardo Hees, the former head of rival Burger King, took over as Heinz's chief executive.
"We have decided to transition our business to other suppliers over time," McDonald's said.
In February, Heinz was purchased in a $28bn (??17.3bn) takeover.
McDonald's said that it would work with Heinz "to ensure a smooth and orderly transition of the McDonald's restaurant business", which has 34,000 restaurants around the world.
Mr Hees took over after Heinz was bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian investment fund 3G Capital. Burger King is controlled by 3G Capital.
McDonald's uses the ketchup at many stores around the world, though only in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis inside the US.
"As a matter of policy, Heinz does not comment on relationships with customers," the ketchup-maker said.
Those displaced are headed towards the city of Samarra, the UN said, but many families are stranded at checkpoints.
Aid convoys carrying relief supplies are being sent to the area by UN agencies to help those affected.
The operation to retake Tikrit, involving some 30,000 soldiers and Shia militiamen, is now in its fourth day.
They are trying to encircle the IS fighters, but their advance has been slow due to the roadside bombs and booby traps planted since the city was overrun last June, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.
Iraqi jets and helicopters are supporting the ground troops but US-led coalition aircraft are not involved.
Militants also set fire to oil wells outside the city on Thursday, officials said, creating clouds of smoke in an apparent bid to obscure targets from air strikes.
Iraqi Gen Abdul Wahhab al-Saadi told state TV that the burning oil wells would not affect the operation.
But as the fighting continues, concerns for the civilian population are growing.
A UN statement said: "Military operations in and around Tikrit have precipitated displacement of an estimated 28,000 people to Samarra.
"Field reports indicate that additional displacements are under way and that yet more families remain stuck at checkpoints."
The White House and human rights organisations have also warned against the danger of sectarian reprisals by the Shia militia in the predominantly Sunni area.
Militia leaders have vowed to seek revenge for the massacre of hundreds of soldiers, most of them Shia, at Camp Speicher near Tikrit in June.
On Wednesday, a Iraqi army source told the BBC that government forces had taken control of the village of al-Maibdi, on the road between Tikrit and the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk, as well as the nearby Ajil and Alas oilfields.
The road was a key supply route for IS between Salahuddin and Diyala provinces, the source said.
Another official told All Iraq News that the villages of Siha and Mazraat al-Rahim, just to the north of Tikrit in al-Alam district, had also been retaken.
However, the soldiers and militiamen have not breached IS defences around Tikrit and al-Dour, a town 19km (12 miles) to the south, which officials say is another stronghold of the jihadist group.
Tikrit, the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein, is a key target for the Iraqi government if it wants to retake Mosul, Iraq's second city, which was also seized by IS last year.
It may never have opened at all but for the hard work of journalist Tom Stephenson, a prominent member of the Ramblers Association.
Today the association considers it one of the best trails in the country, crossing three national parks.
Chief executive Benedict Southworth says it remains a "national treasure" five decades on.
"It's just an amazing trail to walk, both if you try to do it in one go, which gives you one type of challenge, or the ability to dip in and out of it," he says.
The traditional start point is Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District, close to Kinder Scout, the location of the famous mass trespass in 1932.
On 24 April - exactly 33 years before the official opening of the Pennine Way - hundreds of ramblers protested there for their right to roam the countryside.
Mr Southworth says for this reason it is one of the most important sections of the entire 268 miles (431km) of the trail.
"It has come to represent the spirit of all those ramblers and what their enthusiasm achieved."
In 1935, Tom Stephenson received a letter from two American women on a walking holiday in England enquiring whether there was a similar route to the 2,500-mile (4,020-km) Appalachian Trail.
While the answer was no, it got him thinking. Attitudes towards access to the countryside were changing following the mass trespass, three years earlier.
But it took another 30 years before his campaigning paid off and a UK long distance route came to fruition.
"It was the first - it pioneered the development of those long distance routes which have gone on to make the UK an absolute magnet across the world," Mr Southworth says.
The trail continues north to the Yorkshire Dales where it takes in the majestic peaks of Pen Y Ghent and Fountains Fell and the dramatic limestone of Malham Cove.
"I was born the year it opened - 1965 - and as a kid and a teenager I have walked stretches of it," says Mr Southworth
"It's brought me different things at different stages in my life. The last time I was there was with the Ramblers but I have been there with my teenage daughter.
"There's such a diversity to it, such a range of experiences."
But it is not just the breathtaking landscape that draws visitors in.
"There's a wonderful changing landscape but there are also huge cultural icons along the route like Hadrian's Wall," he says.
"You can be in the wilderness but see great culture and heritage along the way."
The highest point in England outside the Lake District - Cross Fell in Cumbria - is another highlight of the route.
There are now 15 national trails in the UK. They are designated by the government and managed by the local authorities they pass through.
"What's happened since World War Two is we have embraced as a country getting outdoors," says Mr Southworth.
"What the Pennine Way shows is we have a fabulous network in England of routes which bring benefit to those involved and the communities - pubs, bed and breakfasts, and so on - along the trails."
As the trail reaches County Durham, the sights include the waterfalls of Low Force and High Force in Teesdale.
It moves on into Northumberland before the final stage - 27 miles (43km) without passing through a single human settlement.
The trail ends just over the Scottish border at Kirk Yetholm.
The "granddaughter of the Pennine Way", says Mr Southworth, will be the England Coastal Path, which is opening in sections around the English coast and will also, perhaps perversely, take in landlocked sections such as the Offa's Dyke path at the Welsh border and along the Scottish border.
"We're working as hard to achieve it as we did with the Pennine Way - the campaigning and the optimism has not gone away," says Mr Southworth.
Work is due to be complete by 2020.
Three days of events are planned to celebrate the milestone anniversary, including walks, talks and even a singalong of folk song The Manchester Rambler, about the mass trespass.
Colin Horner, 35, was shot dead in front of his three-year-old son on Sunday 28 May.
The man has also been charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
He is due to appear in court on Monday.
The talks were called in a bid to resolve an industrial dispute which has hit Sunday services.
They follow moves by Aslef to ballot its members for industrial action from next month.
The dispute centres around plans by ScotRail franchise holders Abellio to introduce a seven-day rota for drivers.
Currently drivers work a six-day week, with Sundays classed as overtime.
The union has said it does not object to the plans, but wants to see drivers given a pay rise for the extra work.
About a third of ScotRail's trains were cancelled on Sunday after drivers refused to work overtime.
Aslef has warned that industrial action could start as early as 17 August, if no settlement can be reached and members back action.
The talks are due to continue on Wednesday.
The BBC understands the government will take over the Medway Secure Training Centre, which was run by G4S.
A source said a report, commissioned by ministers to examine improvements at the centre in Rochester, would make "uncomfortable" reading for the firm.
The government said it was looking at options. G4S has declined to comment.
Police began investigating staff after the BBC's Panorama programme in January revealed assault claims at the unit.
Four men were arrested on suspicion of child neglect while a fifth was held on suspicion of assault.
All have been released on police bail.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will start operating the centre through its National Offender Management Service (Noms) by the end of July, according to the source.
A new director is expected to be appointed, but staff at Medway are likely to transfer to Noms.
It will be the first time the government has run a secure training centre.
An MoJ spokesman said it would announce the next steps in due course.
He said: "Our priority will always be the safety and welfare of young people in custody - that is why the Justice Secretary set up an Independent Improvement Board to examine the running of Medway STC.
"This sits alongside a wider review of youth justice."
The Panorama programme included footage apparently showing staff mistreating and abusing inmates.
Allegations relating to 10 boys, aged 14 to 17, included use of unnecessary force, foul language and a cover-up at the centre.
Five members of staff were sacked and three more suspended, while the unit's director, Ralph Marchant, stood down.
The unit takes youths aged 12 to 17 both on remand and after conviction.
In April, it emerged further allegations had been made by a young person who had been placed at the centre since the documentary was aired.
Minneapolis officer Matthew Harrity has reportedly said they were startled by a "loud sound" before last Saturday night's shooting of Justine Damond.
Police have released the transcript of her call to police, in which the 40-year-old reports a suspected rape.
She was fatally shot in the abdomen by one of the officers she had called.
Officer Mohamed Noor, who fired the fatal shot in Ms Damond's upmarket neighbourhood, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.
Fred Bruno, a lawyer for Officer Harrity, said on Wednesday: "It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush.
"It was only a few weeks ago when a female NYPD cop and mother of twins was executed in her car in a very similar scenario."
He was referring to the 5 July shooting of a 48-year-old police officer as she sat in her patrol car in the Bronx borough of New York City.
The attorney's comments come a day after Officer Harrity spoke to investigators with the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is leading the investigation.
During the interview, he described seeing a young person on a bicycle pass by moments before Ms Damond pounded on the door of the police car, according to KSTP-TV.
Detectives have appealed to the cyclist to come forward with any information he may have.
On Wednesday police released the transcript of her two separate 911 calls, which she made after hearing screams nearby.
"I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped," she told the police operator, before giving her address.
"I think she just yelled out 'help', but it's difficult, the sound has been going on for a while," she continued.
Ms Damond called back eight minutes later to ensure police had the correct address.
Body cameras, which are worn by all Minneapolis police, had not been turned on at the time of the shooting and the squad car dashboard camera also failed to capture the incident.
Officers Harrity and Noor, who between them have spent three years on the police force, have been placed on paid administrative leave.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is appealing to the US for an explanation.
"It is a shocking killing, and yes, we are demanding answers on behalf of her family," he told Australian TV on Wednesday.
Hundreds of friends and family of Ms Damond held a vigil on Sydney's Freshwater beach on Wednesday morning.
The slain yoga instructor and spiritual healer was engaged to marry an American man.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton told reporters he has been in touch with the Australian embassy, adding the state may need to review rules covering police use of body cameras.
Cole, 35, is free to join former England team-mate Steven Gerrard after his contract with the Italian club was terminated by mutual consent.
The ex-Chelsea and Arsenal left-back joined the Serie A side in July 2014 and made 16 appearances.
Capped 107 times, Cole has won three Premier Leagues, seven FA Cups, one Champions League and one Europa League.
Roma sacked manager Rudi Garcia on 13 January after a poor run of just one win since the beginning of November.
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Norman Cornish, a former miner from Spennymoor, County Durham, was known for his paintings of life in the industrial North East. He died in 2014.
His family has donated the painting in "recognition" of his relationship with the University of Sunderland.
A spokesman said they were "honoured" to add the artwork to their collection.
Pit Road, Winter, captures two miners striding to work at Dean and Chapter Colliery at Ferryhill - a road Cornish himself walked along almost every day for over 30 years.
Cornish was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the university in 2012.
His son John said: "In the 1960s he was offered a visiting lectureship, for one day a week, at what was then Sunderland College of Art.
"This short teaching venture came at a very important time when he had left the mines and had lost the security of a weekly wage packet. This appointment helped fund his transition from the mines to a professional art career.
"The painting reflects Wearmouth's strong industrial heritage. Hopefully it will be enjoyed by visitors to National Glass Centre for many years to come."
Two lanes of the M25 at the Dartford tunnel were closed, leading to queuing traffic between junctions 1a and 31 because of the faulty sign.
The Highways Agency said the lanes reopened by 09.00 GMT but warned motorists to expect delays.
The closure comes less than a week after the new Dart Charge was introduced to ease congestion.
The new cashless payment system came into force at 06:00 on Sunday, replacing the toll booths on the Kent side of the crossing.
Work on a new road layout at the crossing is expected to be completed by Spring 2015.
On average more than 140,000 vehicles use the River Thames crossing every day.
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The Portaferry woman underwent surgery almost exactly three years ago and it was a further 14 months before she was able to race again.
"It was a long tenuous road back to championship racing," said Mageean, 24.
"I was confident I was going to try but you can never be sure what the future is going to bring."
After bursting onto the Irish Athletics scene by winning a national indoor title as a 15-year-old in 2008, Mageean continued a remarkable junior career by winning silver medals at the 2009 World Youth Championship and 2010 World Juniors.
However after running an Olympic B 1500m standard in 2011, Mageean missed out on qualifying for London 2012 as the ankle problem began to inhibit her severely.
After splitting with her then Belfast-based coach Eamonn Christie in early 2013, Mageean, by now studying at UCD, linked up with former Olympian Jerry Kiernan a few more months shortly before undergoing her surgery in London.
"I had a fantastic group of people behind me with the staff of Athletics Ireland and physio Emma Gallivan and my coach Jerry Kiernan who took me under his wing just before my ankle surgery.
"Jerry would come to watch me training when I was only able to jog for about five minutes but he would make it his business to be there."
Mageean was greeted by a large crowd of family, friends and supporters as the Irish team returned to Dublin from Amsterdam on Monday morning.
The county Down woman was pushed to the front of the arrivals queue by Athletics Ireland's high performance manager Kevin Ankrom.
"Kevin said you have to go out first. I said 'OK'," laughed Mageean.
"I'm over the moon. It's not every day an Irish athlete comes home with a medal from a European Championship."
Mageean finished the race not realising that she was only the third Irishwoman to win a European championship medal, after the previous exploits of Sonia O'Sullivan and Derval O'Rourke.
"It's kind of dawning on me now but it probably won't hit me fully until I'm back in the house or having a chat with my coach."
After earning her first senior championship medal in Amsterdam, Mageean will now refocus for her Olympic Games challenge in Rio next month.
Before that, Irish fans will have a chance to see her in action at the Morton Games at Santry on 22 July.
The state TV headquarters, the international airport and a military base in the city were all targeted.
Religious leader Paul Joseph Mukungubila told the BBC his followers carried out the raids.
Information Minister Lambert Mende said the situation was now under control and about 46 attackers had been killed.
Meanwhile, the army has also clashed with unknown gunmen on the outskirts of Lubumbashi, according to a military spokesman.
He said some of the attackers in Lubumbashi, the main city of DR Congo's southern mineral-rich Katanga province, had been arrested.
President Joseph Kabila, who won his second term in office two years ago, is touring Katanga but was not under any threat, Mr Mende told the BBC.
Mr Mende said the attackers at the state TV and radio headquarters had been armed with weapons such as knives, and there was "no chance of them even to maintain their positions, even for a single hour".
"People were frightened when security personnel were firing against these attackers," the minister told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme after visiting the RTNC headquarters.
He said the attackers numbered fewer than 100 and that the security forces had killed about 46 of them and captured about 10.
On the government's side, an army colonel was killed when the attackers struck the military base, Mr Mende told the BBC.
He said he understood that two staff members forced to read a statement on TV were safe.
Reuters said the statement appeared to be a political message against President Kabila's government.
"Gideon Mukungubila has come to free you from the slavery of the Rwandan," said the message, according to Reuters.
In 1997, Rwandan-backed troops ousted DR Congo's long-serving ruler Mobutu Sese Seko and installed Laurent Kabila - the father of incumbent leader Joseph Kabila - as president.
According to Reuters, Gideon is the nickname used for Paul Joseph Mukungubila by his followers. He ran unsuccessfully for president in 2006.
Mr Mukungubila - a Christian leader and self-proclaimed prophet - told the BBC the violence was carried out by his supporters in response to government harassment. He denied it was an attempted coup.
Meanwhile, Mr Mende told the BBC the shooting in Lubumbashi was linked to a disarmament programme and not to the attacks in the capital.
The armed youths stormed the studio in Kinshasa around 08:40 local time (07:40 GMT) during a live magazine programme, shouting slogans - one of which in French said "for the liberation of Congo".
In a separate incident, a taxi driver told AFP that he had heard about "six or seven shots" from heavy weapons fired at the Tshatshi military camp. The shots were heard between 09:00 and 09:30 local time.
After RTNC went off air, a customs official at Ndjili airport told Reuters: "Shooting has started here. They are shooting everywhere. We are all hiding."
Kinshasa RTNC TV has now resumed normal programming.
The US embassy in Kinshasa has advised all US citizens not to travel around the city until further notice.
"The embassy has received multiple reports of armed engagements and fighting around Kinshasa… The embassy has also received reports that there are police and military checkpoints and barricades in many places," it said in a statement posted on its Facebook page at 10:00 local time.
There will be comprehensive coverage of the four-day meeting, which takes place from Tuesday to Friday, on BBC Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra.
There will be about 12 hours of live commentary on Radio 5 live, and up to another four on 5 live sports extra, with coverage also available online and via the BBC Sport app.
No trainer has ever before assembled such a powerful squad of horses for the Cheltenham Festival. The list of 60 or so runners that will travel from Mullins' County Carlow HQ to the Cotswolds contains the favourite, or at least a strong fancy, for 21 of the 28 races.
So the answer is yes, of course Ireland's champion jumps trainer, who's topped the Festival league table for four of the past five seasons, may equal or even go by last year's record tally.
With the likes of Annie Power, Un De Sceaux, Vautour, Djakadam and Don Poli, he has the equine ammunition to achieve it. But with horseracing as unpredictable as it is, no-one will be amazed if he falls short.
The general consensus is that Douvan (Racing Post Arkle Chase, Tuesday, 14:10 GMT) and Limini (Trull House Stud Mares Novice Hurdle, Thursday, 16:50), both to be ridden like a majority of the team's leading lights by the Festival's winning-most jockey Ruby Walsh (45 victories), are perhaps the standouts.
Mullins modestly insists he goes to Cheltenham hoping rather than expecting, seeking just one winner, but with the millions that have been pumped into his string, particularly by financier Rich Ricci and his wife Susannah, anything less than five or six will be viewed as disappointing.
No question. In 2015, had his quartet of first-day 'bankers' all gone in it would have cost the betting industry a not particularly small fortune, with the final-obstacle fall of heavily backed Annie Power in the OLBG Mares Hurdle said to have saved a £50m payout.
Such was Mullins' luck however that he still won that race with the less-fancied Glens Melody.
For the bookmakers, Cheltenham is the biggest week of the racing year, knocking Royal Ascot into a Champagne bucket with a £150m turnover that can tear gaping wounds in their accounts.
This year some bookies may be more evident than others as the sport's new policy of awarding 'authorised betting partner' status only to those considered to be contributing sufficient of their profits to fund the sport means non-ABPs are no longer welcome as new or renewing race sponsors.
It is, very much so. In contrast to many construction projects the 6,000+ capacity stand was completed within its £45m budget and, after 18 months of work, ahead of the planned schedule so it's been in use since the autumn.
The building blends into the landscape remarkably well, and it's anticipated that balconies looking out over the paddock/winners' enclosure will enhance considerably the amphitheatre atmosphere, especially when there's a popular winner.
Public bars on the ground and first floor have been named respectively after long-serving course chairman Lord Vestey and the four-time World Hurdle victor Big Buck's. Upper floors are reserved, and, in my experience, their exclusivity is policed with a rare determination.
You could do worse than get a good position around the paddock before and after day two's Weatherbys Bumper (17:30) because race-favourite Augusta Kate is owned by a group calling itself The Masters Syndicate, which includes TV's Ant and Dec, football pundit Alan Shearer and golfer Lee Westwood.
The daughter of stallion Yeats has recorded two wins from two career starts so far, and attempts to give her trainer - yes, you've guessed it, Willie Mullins - an eighth Festival Bumper success.
Willie Mullins' dad, the legendary Paddy, trained Dawn Run, probably Ireland's outstanding horse since the great 1960s icon Arkle - and it's 30 years since Jonjo O'Neill, then a top jockey, steered the mare to a famous victory over Wayward Lad, Forgive 'N' Forget and Run And Skip in one of the great Cheltenham Gold Cup finishes of all time.
Sadly, only a short time after the much-celebrated victory of the only horse to have completed the Champion Hurdle (1984)/Gold Cup double, she lost her life in a fall in France and O'Neill was diagnosed with cancer.
He made an inspiring recovery and now trains at stables close to Cheltenham from where former champion staying hurdler More Of That defends an unbeaten record over steeplechase fences in Wednesday's RSA Chase (14:10).
The winner of the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase in 2013 - when he also took equivalent major trophies at the Aintree and Punchestown Festivals - Sprinter Sacre's apparent invincibility combined with a flamboyant style led him to be dubbed an equine James Bond by adoring fans.
But later that year the now 10-year-old, trained by the Festival's most successful trainer Nicky Henderson (53 winners), dropped from 007 to zero when pulled up in his comeback race.
A heart problem was discovered followed by a long winless period, including pulling up behind Dodging Bullets in this race 12 months ago, but in November, the gelding made a triumphant return to the track at Cheltenham before following up at Kempton after Christmas.
Henderson and new jockey Nico de Boinville, last year's Gold Cup winner, believe 'Sprinter' is back to somewhere near his best. However, with the brilliant Un De Sceaux, Dodging Bullets, Sire De Grugy, another former winner on the comeback trail, and Special Tiara in the mix he will have to be.
It is not quite a Leicester City scenario - trainer Colin Tizzard has been a growing force for some time - but his stable stars Cue Card, bound for the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup (Friday, 15:30), and Thistlecrack (Ryanair World Hurdle, Thursday, 15:30) have behind them a tide of emotional as well as financial support at least partly because the Tizzards aren't among the 'usual suspects'.
And the former dairy farmer, based on the Somerset/Dorset border and assisted by ex-jockey son Joe and daughter Kim, has the opportunity to win more than most at the Festival. Cue Card will net £1m if he adds the Gold Cup to his Betfair Chase and King George VI Chase successes late last year, as winner of the Jockey Club's new Steeplechasing Triple Crown.
Already a two-time Festival winner, he and Smad Place are the two big hopes for the Britons in the race which has the strongest of Irish challenges. Meanwhile, Thistlecrack is hot favourite for the World after a prolific run.
Tizzard, who as a schoolboy preferred cricket and played with and against Ian Botham at county level, has gone through the season looking part-excited and part-disbelieving at his latest 'innings'. A memorable Festival double is not impossible.
The double Olympic cycling champion's attempt to swap saddles and line up as a jockey on Pacha Du Polder in the St James's Place Foxhunter Chase, the race for amateur riders immediately after the Gold Cup on Friday, has ensured the most frenetic Festival build-up in years.
Pendleton's every high - a first win, at Wincanton - and low - the inevitable tumbles - have been well-documented and forensically analysed.
Either you believe Pendleton has embarked on a daring and bold adventure barely a year after being legged up of a horse for the first time, or it's an extremely well-paid and hazardous sideshow on the most significant day of the jumps season.
Of course there will be an element of distraction on Gold Cup day, but it's hard not to doff the proverbial Trilby to what she's achieved already. As for the horse, the three-and-a-quarter-mile distance is probably a little far and completing the course without incident is, realistically, the best that can be hoped for.
With the reigning Stan James Champion Hurdler Faugheen absent from the first-day feature, along with the next three home from 12 months ago, there may well not be as much strength-in-depth as usual. Last year's fifth The New One, the mount of jockey Sam Twiston-Davies, is being talked up for the race in which he was also a luckless third in 2014.
Yanworth, trained by Alan King and unbeaten over hurdles, is all the rage to get the new association between owner JP McManus and jockey Barry Geraghty, who replaced the new retired AP McCoy, off to a flying start in the Neptune Investment Management Novices Hurdle (Wednesday, 13:30).
On a pre-Festival visit to Ireland I heard the name of McManus' Gordon Elliott-trained Campeador being well-touted for the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (Wednesday, 16:50).
And while Geraghty and Ruby Walsh head the betting for the week's top jockey, one or two shrewdies like the look of the chances of Bryan Cooper in his capacity as number one rider to airline tycoon Michael O'Leary's powerful Gigginstown House Stud operation, which is likely to have 30-plus runners.
Final word to Balthazar King, the mount of champion jockey-presumptive Richard Johnson in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase (Wednesday, 16:10). Returning from serious injury sustained in the Grand National, the 12-year-old veteran attempts to win the race for the third time.
From January 2016, the African Standby Force (ASF) will be able to intervene in cases of war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity if an African Union member state requests assistance or if the AU itself considers the situation serious enough.
It will also be able to provide humanitarian assistance and undertake peacekeeping and observer missions, although any deployment would be subject to donor funding.
This multidisciplinary force will be made up of five brigades - each with police, military and civilian components that could be deployed within 14 days in their own regions.
The Cameroonian city of Douala will host the logistics base, where equipment will be stored, but the ultimate power remains in Addis Ababa, at the AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital.
The force was initially expected to be ready by 2008, but AU members have dragged their feet over its creation.
It was part of Muammar Gaddafi's vision for his United States of Africa.
Regardless of the late Libyan leader's intentions, it was clear that the continent needed an improved response to its continuous conflicts.
At the moment, 5,000 troops from around the continent are taking part in an ASF field training exercise in South Africa to help evaluate how ready the force is to deploy.
The number of personnel is expected to rise to 25,000 by the time the force is operational in January.
But Africa does have experience in mounting special response operations, and has already begun taking responsibility for its own peacekeeping, even providing most of the troops in the UN missions on the continent - more than 8,000 troops from Ethiopia alone.
Under the AU's own auspices, South African troops were deployed to Burundi in 2001 to oversee a peace process, while in 2008 Tanzanian-led forces quelled a rebel uprising in the Comoros.
"There's been a positive experience of African contributions to keeping peace on the continent," says Peter Pham, director of the Africa Centre of the Atlantic Council.
The nature of conflict has evolved from being primarily armed intra-state conflicts - mostly rebel groups fighting for control of natural resources or to topple governments - to the increasing threat of Islamist militants.
It means that the role of the intervention forces has also changed from traditional peacekeeping to engaging in active combat like the AU troops fighting al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia.
The force which has grown from initial deployment of 8,000 troops in 2007 to more than 22,000 has managed to recapture all major towns and cities from al-Shabab.
This change strengthens the cause of the ASF, says Ben Payton from the risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft.
"The rise of cross-border terrorist campaigns in Africa potentially increases the usefulness of the standby force, since African governments will be more willing to use the force to counter what is seen as a common threat."
The 2012 crisis in Mali presented a good example of where the ASF could have intervened but the initial poor response by African nations meant France stepped in to drive away the Islamist militants.
With the escalation of violence by the Boko Haram group in areas bordering north-eastern Nigeria - the insurgents' base - yet another AU-backed multinational force was created.
This one took seven months to become operational - and is still not fully funded.
The existence of the ASF would eliminate the need to set up a fresh force for every conflict.
While the troops should be in place, the force still faces several issues.
The biggest one is funding - the AU says it still needs $1bn (£650m) to properly finance the force.
Without donor support it will be difficult for a mission to actually be deployed.
Home-grown financing could prove a problem, especially as countries with larger budgets might prefer to invest in countering their own domestic threats rather than contributing to a force they have little control over.
Militarily there are weaknesses too - air power and solid intelligence gathering are poor across the continent.
"The concept of specialisation has largely not occurred in Africa," says Mr Pham.
"For example, it's harder to co-ordinate infantry brigades from five different countries that are trained to do the same thing, than having five different units that do five different tasks that learn to operate together and complement each other.
"The latter is more efficient in terms of resources and operation."
Some of the contributing nations also have armed forces that lack training, equipment and discipline.
Another major challenge is that of political will - getting a timely reaction from AU member states when a crisis erupts.
An ASF intervention also has to come with the approval of the UN Security Council, which could further delay the response.
Despite these hurdles, come January, the AU member states do not have much holding them back should troops need to be deployed to trouble spots speedily.
The country's football federation was also fined US$1m (£650,000) and ordered to pay 8m euros (£5.9m) in damages.
Morocco had expressed concerns about hosting this year's event following the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Africa.
They asked for the tournament to be delayed until 2016, but the Confederation of African Football (Caf) rejected the request.
Equatorial Guinea were named as replacement host for the 16-team event, while Morocco, who had qualified as hosts, were expelled.
Caf also fined hosts Equatorial Guinea US$100,000 (£65,000) for crowd trouble during Thursday's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final loss to Ghana.
Tunisian Football Association president Wadie Jary was also banned from all activities by Caf after his organisation failed to apologise for accusing African football's governing body of cheating.
Tunisia made the allegations after being beaten by quarter-final opponents Equatorial Guinea in controversial circumstances.
The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations finishes on Sunday, when Ghana and Ivory Coast meet in the final in Bata.
The scheme started on Monday, but with no agreement yet in place for French police to patrol vessels in UK waters, they arrived by helicopter and boarded a ferry as it approached France.
The two governments are in talks about French officers patrolling for full crossings, France's marine police said.
The Home Office said security plans were under "constant review".
French authorities told the BBC no timeline had been set for an agreement to be reached.
Speaking to the AFP news agency, French marine police spokesman Lieutenant Pierre-Joachim Antona said a "permanent unit" had been deployed since Monday to carry out high-visibility patrols on passenger ferries.
"The marine gendarmes will carry out patrols, which will be random but regular, with the aim of securing these vessels against the terrorist threat," he said.
The first patrol took place on Monday, when three French sea marshals arrived on the Brittany Ferries vessel Mont St Michel by helicopter.
A Brittany Ferries spokesman said the vessel left Portsmouth for Caen in France at 14:45 BST and, in a "pre-scheduled security exercise", the marshals were flown on to the boat at 17:30.
"They then proceeded to patrol the bridge and passenger areas of the vessel," he said.
He added: "Passengers were informed via announcements in English and French before the exercise took place.
"Access to outside decks was not allowed at the time of the helicopter's arrival."
Professor Andrew Serdy, a maritime law expert at Southampton University, said French police have "no jurisdiction" in UK territorial waters, except by agreement with the British government.
But he said airlifting officers showed an "abundance of caution" - and suggested France may be "treading carefully" until a deal with the UK is agreed.
Outside of UK and French territorial waters - which stretch up to 12 nautical miles from the countries' coasts - Prof Serdy said jurisdiction would depend on where a vessel was registered.
Brittany Ferries' 10 vessels are all "French-flagged", meaning French police could operate on them outside territorial waters.
It is not clear whether the French police's plan includes non-French vessels, such as UK-flagged ferries arriving in France.
The UK Home Office did not comment on the talks with French officials.
"We work extremely closely with our French counterparts on matters related to security and counter-terrorism," a spokesman said.
"We keep security arrangements, including those related to maritime security, under constant review."
The French police plan comes in the wake of several attacks in European countries including France.
Last month there were lengthy delays for UK passengers heading to the port of Dover due to increased security checks at French border posts.
The 35-year-old midfielder is coming to the end of his 11th season at the club and has a testimonial on 4 June.
Contract talks have progressed well, and confidence has been expressed on both sides that an extension to his existing deal, which expires on 30 June, will reach a positive conclusion.
Carrick joined United from Tottenham in an £18.6m deal in 2006.
He has made 457 appearances in all competitions, putting him 17th on United's all-time list, and scored 24 goals.
The former England international has won five Premier League titles, the Champions League, an FA Cup and two League Cups during his time at Old Trafford.
The city council said it had earned £4.72m between April 2016 and April 2017.
The RAC Foundation warned money being made from fines should not be seen as "a mark of success".
But the local authority stressed provisional figures showed it made just £390,325 profit, as the majority of the money went on enforcement costs.
According to the council, the average amount of money made in each quarter was £1.2m.
It received the most income between October and December 2016, a total of £1.4m.
A spokesman from the RAC Foundation said: "Councils shouldn't regard large sums of money being made from fines as a mark of success but possibly a symptom of things going wrong.
"Are the rules imposed on drivers fair and transparent? Why are so many motorists finding themselves on the wrong side of the law?
"It is hard to believe that people entering the city are purposefully setting out to wrack up big fines."
Matthew Wakelam, the council's head of infrastructure and operations, who manages the scheme, said the costs to deliver services were "often overlooked".
"These provisional figures - which will be audited - clearly show that the net financial gain for the last year is well under half a million pounds," he said.
"We ask all road users to abide by the Highway Code so we can keep Cardiff moving, reduce congestion and further improve public transport infrastructure across the city."
Yovan Garcia accessed payroll records at Security Specialists, which provides private security patrols, to inflate the number of hours he had worked.
He later hacked the firm's servers to steal data and defaced its website.
District Judge Michael Fitzgerald said Garcia had used the stolen data to help set up a rival business.
Security Specialists first noticed issues with Mr Garcia's pay records in July 2014, about two years after he joined.
In one example, they showed he had worked 12 hours per day over a two-week period and was owed 40 hours of overtime pay, when in fact he only worked eight hours per day.
According to the Central District Court of California, Mr Garcia had obtained login credentials - without ever having been given them - and accessed the records without authorisation.
Judge Fitzgerald said: "As a result, defendant Garcia was paid thousands of dollars more in overtime wages than he was really owed."
This led to his sacking, but soon afterwards he hacked Security Specialists' servers with "at least one other individual".
Mr Garcia took emails and other confidential data to "lure away" Security Specialists' clients to his new business, the judge said.
He also deleted or corrupted back-up files creating "debilitating" damage, according to the company.
A few days later, Security Specialists' website was also vandalised, with the website's header being changed to read "Are you ready".
An "unflattering picture" of a senior member of staff was also published on the site, Judge Fitzgerald said.
He ordered Mr Garcia to pay $318,661.70 to cover costs to Security Specialists such as lost income and lost data.
Mr Garcia could also be liable to pay the firm's legal costs at a later date, he said.
Wykeham House School in Fareham could close at the end of the Autumn term after being open for 100 years.
A statement from the school said: "The school is working hard with families to help find them alternative school places."
Both the boys' and girls' school sites face closure, the school said.
Wykeham House School was founded in 1913 and was originally a girls' school.
In a statement the school said: "'Due to increasing financial pressure, Wykeham House School in Fareham is facing the prospect of closure at the end of the Autumn term.
"The Board of Trustees are confident that the school will be continuing at least until the end of the term and the school is working hard with families to help find them alternative school places.
"With regards to the boys' school, although they are on separate sites and are taught separately, they are part of the same organisation so this news applies to both sites."
The 24-year-old was cited by the Rugby Football Union for shoving Greg Garner with both hands in Friday's Premiership defeat to Newcastle Falcons.
He will miss the final match of the season against Leicester on Saturday.
Rapava Ruskin, who will join Gloucester at the end of the season, is available to play again on 4 September.
The Georgia-born player went before a disciplinary panel on Wednesday.
In a statement, the panel said the sanction "reflects the seriousness of making contact with a referee or any match official".
Rapava Ruskin's suspension rules him out of a potential England squad call, but three of his current Warriors team-mates - lock Will Spencer, stand-off Ryan Mills and winger Perry Humphreys - have been included in a 20-man three-day England 'strength and conditioning' training camp from 9-11 May,
England face the Barbarians on 28 May before playing two Tests against Argentina in June.
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Geraint Rowland, 26, of Morriston, was struck by a Ford Transit van on the A4067 near the Wychtree roundabout, at about 03:00 GMT on Saturday.
He and his partner Cara Gregory became parents to a baby boy, Gunnarr, a month ago.
In a tribute, Ms Gregory said the call centre worker's death would leave a huge void.
A statement from her read: "Geraint was a much respected, cherished and fun loving partner and new father.
"I cannot believe this has happened and it will leave a huge void in the lives of me and our baby son."
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A man who died after being hit by a van in Swansea had just become a father for the first time.
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The figures come from a survey of more than 800,000 patients across England.
The government wants GP practices to team up to offer services over seven days of the week in their local area, saying it will reduce pressure on A&E.
But doctors' leaders say the move is not the best use of NHS resources.
The research, carried out by a team from the University of East Anglia and the University of Oxford, used data from the 2014 General Practice Patient Survey which was sent to more than 8,000 GP practices.
Responding to the question: "Is your GP surgery currently open at times that are convenient for you?", the large majority (81%) responded: "Yes", while 19% said: "No".
Of those who were not happy about opening times, 76% were in favour of weekend opening.
From that group, three out of four said opening surgeries on a Saturday would make it easier for them to see or speak to a doctor.
But only one in three said Sunday opening times would be preferable.
The groups most likely to favour weekend opening were:
People with illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, learning difficulties or problems with walking were more likely to be happy with traditional opening times.
Dr John Ford, lead researcher from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said Sunday opening was not targeted at patients who needed to see their GP the most - such as older people with long-term health problems.
"General practice is facing huge challenges in terms of workload and workforce, so we need to think carefully about where to spend precious resource," he said.
"We should also remember that currently it is possible to see a GP out of hours over the weekend for urgent problems."
Not every GP surgery will be expected to be open at the weekend.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said he wants GP practices to team up to offer seven-day services by 2020.
A decline in patient satisfaction with GP practices over the past few years underlies the government's policy.
A Department of Health statement said the public wanted GP appointments seven days a week to suit their busy lives.
"That demand is being met by nearly half a million evening and weekend appointments and patients say the service is invaluable," it said.
Pilot schemes currently running in England to test the benefits of providing extended GP opening times "are also benefiting the rest of the NHS, reducing minor A&E visits by 15%", the Department of Health said.
But critics - including GP leaders - say the move is unaffordable and not matched with what patients need.
Dr Maureen Baker, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "Our patients have better things to do on a Sunday afternoon than have their ears syringed.
"We hope this research will quell the government's obsession with seven-day working once and for all."
She said a better use of the NHS's scant resources would be to invest in thousands more GPs, a "robust, routine five-day service" and existing GP out-of-hours services.
A recent NHS England review of the 20 pilot schemes offering extended GP opening times indicated weekday slots were well-utilised but patient demand for routine appointments on Sundays was very low.
The review said that providing additional opening times on Saturdays, particularly in the morning, was most likely to meet people's needs.
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Four out of five people are happy with their GP surgery's opening hours, and Sunday appointments are not in demand, suggests research in the British Journal of General Practice.
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Davidson twice stooped to nod corner-kicks beyond Neil Alexander, with Darnell Fisher capping a brilliant counterattack with a late third.
Saints climb to fourth in the table thanks to Ross County's Highland derby drubbing.
A poor Hearts side lost at Tynecastle for the first time since September.
Defeat brought to an end a run of four straight wins for the Jambos as Saints captain Steven Anderson created a new club record in making his 362nd appearance.
The visitors started the game brightly with Chris Kane, supported by former Tynecastle midfielder Danny Swanson causing all sorts of problems.
The opening goal game from a corner after just 11 minutes.
Teenage defender John Souttar allowed Davidson to escape and the midfielder had a simple task in converting Liam Craig's delivery.
It was no more than Tommy Wright's side deserved after a very positive opening to the game.
Indeed, only a last-gasp challenge by Blazej Augustyn denied the visitors a second after Alexander had blocked a David Wotherspoon strike from 16 yards out.
Set-pieces were in particular proving fruitful for Saints as the home rearguard's marking continued falter.
Hearts slowly eased their way into the game and came close to an equaliser after 19 minutes, when Juanma's cross was met by Jordan McGhee, but Alan Mannus saved well.
It was from another Craig corner that Saints doubled their advantage. In a carbon copy of his opener, Davidson had space to knock the ball into the empty net.
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson introduced Sam Nicholson at the break with the ineffective Abiola Dauda making way.
Still though the visitors piled forward, Chris Millar sending in a searching cross that was just wide and Alexander saving well at the feet of Kane.
It was proving a frustrating afternoon for the home fans as they watched their side struggle to find any rhythm to their game.
Neilson made a further switch as captain for the day Augustyn was replaced by striker Gavin Reilly, with Prince Buaben dropping back to centre-half.
Jamie Walker came close to reducing the deficit with a pile-driver of a volley that fizzed just over the crossbar, and Juanma had claims for a penalty turned away by referee Thomson after he clashed with Anderson.
At the other end Craig crashed a terrific 35-yarder off the crossbar as Hearts, who were pouring men, forward left gaps at the back.
The scoring was wrapped up with two minutes left when Fisher finished off excellent build-up from Wotherspoon and Stevie McLean to round off a terrific afternoon for Saints.
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Murray Davidson scored two first-half headers as a dynamic St Johnstone defeated Hearts to all but secure a top six Premiership finish.
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Concerns had been raised over the car park at Maeshowe.
Historic Environment Scotland said a shuttle bus service was being introduced from Thursday from the visitor centre at Skara Brae, allowing three tours a day.
The agency said work to find a long-term solution was ongoing.
Academics at the University of Lincoln have discovered that these men have been taking thousands of pounds from their new wife's family and using the women as domestic slaves for their in-laws.
These "disposable women", as the report calls them, are also often physically abused and then abandoned either once they have moved to the UK, or - more commonly - while still in India.
Some are brought temporarily to the UK but later taken on a pretend holiday back to India, where they have their passport taken away.
Many women hide the fact that this has happened to them, so academics spent more than a year finding 57 women in India who had experienced the phenomenon and would share their stories.
Marriage for Sunita, not her real name, began how she had always dreamed it would in a grand venue in India's Punjab region, with hundreds of guests and a beautiful red dress.
"Everything was great," she says, as she runs through photos of her big day on her phone.
After the wedding, her new husband stayed with her for a month in India before returning to his home in the UK. Sunita expected him to come back to India shortly afterwards and take her back to live with him there, but things then started to go wrong.
"It was coming up to a year and he still didn't return," she says. "I asked him many times 'Come back to India, when are you coming?' but he would just say 'Not now, another time'.
"He demanded a lot from me too. At times 'give money' and at other times 'give furniture'."
Sunita's husband eventually stopped talking to her on the phone. She hasn't seen him since and has also since found out he was already married to another woman in the UK.
As is common in India, and some other countries in South Asia, Sunita's family had given her husband's family almost £3,000, as well as around £4,000 in gold as a dowry - money or goods given by the wife's family to the husband's when they get married.
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Sunita says her husband and in-laws were also physically abusive towards her.
"When I used to question if he had a wife [in the UK], and why did he marry me - they would beat me just for asking."
Her family is not rich and her father is watching on as she speaks, clearly devastated by what has happened. He spent thousands of pounds on a marriage he thought would give his daughter a happy future.
"I'm very upset. I'm finding it hard to talk about. He made [sexual] relations with me, my life is ruined," she says.
Researchers point out that this problem also exists in Pakistan and Bangladesh - countries where marriages to people living in the UK, the US, Canada, and other nations with a large South Asian diaspora are common.
Dr Sundari Anitha, from the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln, spoke to women personally affected on a number of trips to Punjab, Delhi and Gujarat in India.
She met women who had paid as much as £25,000 in dowry before being abandoned, women raped by their new husbands, some who were used to have a child and then abandoned and others left in India to act as carers and domestic slaves for their in-laws.
She says patriarchal culture in South Asia means being abandoned can ruin a woman's life.
"The stigma is massive and it even has an impact on other people in the family. So a woman's sister will find it harder to get married. She will find it harder to get a job, she faces financial insecurity and she's seen as damaged goods - primarily because the assumption is she's had sex."
The report recommends that the British state recognises abandonment as a form of domestic violence and offers protection to women "disposed of" by British men, even if they never travel to the UK.
Pragna Patel, director of campaign group Southall Black Sisters, worked with academics on the study and says this would offer recourse to some sort of justice for women who at the moment have none.
The group says that the constituent parts of abandonment - such as blackmail, fraud, emotional abuse, financial abuse, controlling and coercive behaviour and domestic servitude - can be prosecuted under existing laws, but that "few, if any, perpetrators face any consequences".
The victims may be unaware of their rights or feel too ashamed or frightened to report their abuse, it is suggested.
Ms Patel explains, however, that "once it is recognised as domestic violence then all the legal avenues that should be open to women either to seek protection or prosecution, or other legal remedies, would be available to abandoned women".
She says that in the last month, staff at Southall Black Sisters have encountered a case in which a man had married and abandoned five different women - each time profiting financially.
"It's like a business for him," she says. "The perpetrators are British nationals. If the British state turns a blind eye or is indifferent to this abuse then it is contributing to this culture of impunity - these men are not held to account by anyone.
"We have to wake up to the fact that violence in transnational spaces is a new and emerging form of violence against women."
A Home Office spokesperson said: "This government will not tolerate abuse through marriage or other relationships.
"We have taken a lead in tackling modern slavery, forced marriage and domestic violence and will continue to do so.
"We will look carefully at any evidence of where further action might help to prevent abuse or support victims".
The reusable, unmanned craft is designed to operate in Earth orbit for extended periods. Its prior missions in 2010 and 2011 lasted 224 and 469 days.
The US government kept the timing of Tuesday's launch secret and has not said how long the mission will last.
That has prompted fevered speculation as to the craft's ultimate purpose.
Tuesday's launch had been pushed back from October, delayed by two satellite launches. Patrick Air Force Base in Florida gave notice of a hazard from a launch in a window between 15:45 and 22:15 GMT (10:45 to 17:15 local time).
It is the second flight for X-37B craft launched on Tuesday, one of two in the programme, the other of which flew for the first time in 2011. Designed by aerospace giant Boeing, the craft share more than just a passing similarity to the now-retired space shuttle.
It is just a quarter the size of the shuttle, but is launched on a rocket - the Atlas V. It is coated in thermal tiles to withstand the heat of re-entry, after which it lands on its own gear autonomously.
The stated mission of the craft, according to the US Air Force, is an "experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform".
But the latest mission in particular sparked speculation that the craft was spying on the Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 - an idea that has since been largely discredited.
When it returned from its second mission in June, programme manager Lt Col Tom McIntyre said: "We knew from post-flight assessments from the first mission that OTV-1 could have stayed in orbit longer. So one of the goals of this mission was to see how much farther we could push the on-orbit duration."
But any official mission objectives seem set once again to remain secret.
The Upper Chinese Pagoda is at risk from ground movement and will be placed in storage, Liverpool City Council said.
The pagoda was a defining image of the 1984 festival, which was launched in a bid to boost tourism in the city.
The council wants to regenerate the festival site with housing and space for public events.
The pagoda, which was initially developed as a temporary structure for the Chinese Garden at the site, will be stored "with a view to possible future re-use", the council said.
It became neglected, but was later refurbished.
She told the BBC it was "laughable" that a "supposed" application made in February 2003 should be central to the Holyrood election campaign.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said no-one "should be judged too harshly" on what they did in their youth.
Parties are in the second week of campaigning ahead of 5 May poll.
When asked by the BBC's Glenn Campbell whether she had applied for work experience with the SNP, Ms Dugdale said: "Thirteen years ago I supposedly applied for work experience in the Scottish Parliament.
"Now I applied for lots of work experience, lots of young people at university do just that.
"But the idea that this is a central issue of the Scottish election campaign is really laughable."
The 34-year-old repeated "This is 13 years ago. In February 2003, apparently. I was studying law, I likely applied for lots of opportunities for work experience."
Ms Dugdale said she had never voted SNP and had never been an SNP supporter.
Last week Ms Dugdale was forced to clarify reports she might back Scottish independence if it could secure Scotland's EU membership.
In an interview with the Fabian Review she was quoted as saying it was "not inconceivable" in such circumstances.
But she later insisted she would vote to stay in the UK in any future referendum and opposed one being held.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson questioned whether anyone could trust Labour with a leader that "keeps flip-flopping on this most vital issue".
The pro-Union backer added: "Firstly, Kezia Dugdale says she's happy for Labour MSPs to campaign for independence, then she says it's 'not inconceivable' she'd vote for it herself and now we find out she even asked the SNP for a job - twice."
Ms Sturgeon, who was out on the campaign trail in Edinburgh, was asked about the work experience claim.
She joked that her opponent may have had better judgement when she was 21.
However, Ms Sturgeon went on to say that people should not be judged too harshly on what they did in their youth.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said whether or not Ms Dugdale applied for work experience with the nationalists was "largely trivia".
But he added the SNP had "serious questions" to answer over how the information had become public. Mr Rennie believed it should have been kept private.
It said a decree was issued by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, without stating the reason.
Mr Saakashvili, a former ally of Mr Poroshenko, is currently abroad. He vowed to fight for his rights.
He was made a Ukrainian citizen in 2015 and appointed governor of the southern Odessa region. He quit last year.
In a statement (in Ukrainian) on Wednesday evening, Ukraine's migration service said that "according to the Constitution of Ukraine, the president takes decisions on who is stripped of Ukrainian citizenship based on the conclusions of the citizenship commission".
It did not provide the exact reason, but stated that this could be done if a Ukrainian national acquired citizenship of another country or submitted false documents.
President Poroshenko has so far made no public comments on the issue.
Meanwhile, Mr Saakashvili posted a video on his Facebook page, saying that he was "being subjected to the same approaches that are used by Ukraine's prosecutors or bureaucrats against regular Ukrainians, whose rights are spat upon"
"I have only one citizenship, that of Ukraine, and I will not be deprived of it! Now there is an attempt under way to force me to become a refugee. This will not happen!
"I will fight for my legal right to return to Ukraine!"
Mr Saakashvili automatically lost his Georgian citizenship when he was given the Ukrainian one.
In his video message, he also suggested that President Poroshenko had made a deal with the authorities in Tbilisi during his visit to the country several days ago.
Mr Saakashvili, who led Georgia from 2004 to 2013, is accused by the Georgian authorities of abuse of power - charges that he describes as politically motivated.
Last year, he resigned as the Odessa governor, expressing fury at rampant corruption in Ukraine.
He has since formed his Movement of New Forces political party, which urged its supporters to hold a protest rally in Kiev on Thursday.
More than 100 people later gathered on Independence Maidan - the square in the heart of the capital, Ukrainska Pravda website reports.
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A big reason for this is road safety.
One of Britain's most famous cyclists, Chris Boardman, says the UK should follow the example of other European countries and make cycle routes safer.
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Data analysis by BBC News found in some parts of the country 18% of the GP workforce was made up of locums compared to a national average of 3.4%.
The BMA warned of an unacceptable "variation in care quality".
NHS England said it planned to recruit an extra 5,000 doctors to work in general practice by 2020.
The data was collected for the first time by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
It showed in September 2015 there were 1,321 locum GPs working in practices across England.
A locum doctor is defined by the NHS as being a doctor who is standing in for an absent doctor, or temporarily covering a vacancy.
Analysis found Clinical Commissioning Groups in some of the most deprived parts of the country used a higher percentage of locums.
NHS Bradford City - the most deprived CCG area in the country - had the second highest use of locum doctors with 18% of its of GPs being classed as temporary practitioners in September 2015.
Its clinical chair, Dr Akram Khan, says there have been occasions where some GP practices have been entirely staffed by locum doctors.
"There is a recruitment crisis within this profession," he said.
"Working in an area like Bradford can be difficult as we have a range socio-economic challenges and lots of patients from different ethnic backgrounds.
"We have to remember doctors are effectively working in a market place, they can choose where to work and therefore many choose to work in areas where the demands are less strenuous".
In comparison to Bradford, nearby NHS Harrogate in North Yorkshire is one of the most affluent CCG areas in the county. The data shows over the same period just 1% of its GPs were classed as locums.
Dr Richard Vautrey the deputy chair of the BMA General Practitioners Committee, says patients in deprived areas face the prospect of receiving an inferior level of care.
"There is a real risk of a variation in care quality between areas and that is unacceptable.
"There are CCGs that struggle to recruit GPs because there aren't enough doctors to go round. If practices are reliant on using locum doctors then patients don't get the continuity of care that they would otherwise get from a full time GP."
Dr Shazia Ahmed, a newly qualified doctor who has chosen to become a locum practitioner, said she did so in order to choose her hours and look after her six-year old son.
"People shouldn't think we're a second class of GP though," she said.
"We're just as qualified and my main priority is always patient care and given the pressures the NHS is under I would say locum doctors play a vital role in supporting the work full time GPs do".
Data about the use of locum doctors in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is either not collected or not comparable.
Furthermore, the BBC has excluded from its analysis data provided by CCGs in the NHS England South (South East) region owing to the data set being incomplete.
NHS England say they acknowledge there is a growing issue with the use of locum doctors and have set out a plan to recruit more full time GPs by the year 2020.
Going forward, NHS England says it will spend an extra £206m on boosting GP recruitment, which will see £20,000 bursaries made available in areas that have found it hard to recruit new GPs.
Foreign prisoners were previously expected to pay for their own medication, unlike local inmates.
Two HIV-positive prisoners had challenged the government's refusal to pay for their anti-retrovirals (ARVs).
The UN estimates that about 25% of people aged between 15 and 49 are HIV-positive in Botswana.
A year ago the High Court ruled in favour of the two prisoners and the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/Aids (Bonela), which backed their case.
But the state appealed against the decision.
According to the legal rights group Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), the appeal court ordered that the treatment for foreign prisoners begin immediately and that free HIV testing also be offered.
"The judgment marks a decisive victory for public health in Botswana and the region. We look forward to the government taking immediate steps to roll out treatment to those prisoners falling within the treatment gap," Bonela's Phazha Molebatsi said in a statement.
Foreign prisoners made up more than 14% of Botswana's prison population in 2013, the International Centre for Prison Studies says.
The Science Minister, Jo Johnson, will give details while opening a joint UK-Chinese plant research centre just outside Shanghai.
Scientists at the centre will investigate new ways of growing crops to feed an expanding global population.
The centre is the latest effort by the UK to tap into the rapid growth in scientific investment by China.
Chinese research has grown rapidly in the past 20 years. Spending on R&D is now over 40 times what it was in 1995, amounting to £150bn in 2015 - just over 2% of the country's economic production (GDP).
That compares with the UK government's spending on R&D of £8.4bn, which is just under 0.5% of Britain's GDP.
Despite this spending mismatch, the quality of UK research is still among the highest in the world. In order to maintain Britain's leading status, research leaders have decided that it is important to leverage our science spending with the emerging new science superpower.
At current growth rates, China is forecast to overtake the US to become the world's largest funder of R&D in 2022.
It is a science spending spree that the UK is ideally placed to tap into, according to Mr Johnson, who is in Shanghai with 150 scientists who are on a drive to strengthen links between British and Chinese researchers.
"Over the past 20 years, China has significantly increased investment in science and when UK and Chinese scientists work together, the results are proven to have more impact than when each country works alone. Frankly, it's obvious that we should continue exploiting our shared success," he said.
Collaboration between the two countries has grown steadily in recent years, particularly in areas of common interest, such as food security, energy and antimicrobial research. According to Prof Jane Elliott, who is the chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), collaboration between the UK and China is a marriage made in heaven.
"The UK really does punch above its weight in science and research so we are seen as the partner of choice," she said.
"One of the challenges for China is its aging population and they have a demographic puzzle as a result of having had their one child policy, so they are very keen to work out how to sustain and care for their aging population.
"Their problem is on a different scale from the UK but we also face similar challenges and so it's good to be able to collaborate on those sorts of topics."
Agricultural research is an important area of collaboration between China and Britain. As China has modernised its agricultural systems to increase productivity, its scientists have also been investigating ways of reducing the consequent CO2 emissions.
The UK-China Centre for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture has brought Chinese universities together with one of Britain's leading agricultural research centres, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, to form a scientific cooperative to find environmentally friendlier approaches.
Prof Melanie Welham, who is the CEO of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), said international collaboration with China was crucial:
"A lot of challenges that our researchers are addressing are global challenges. The UK leads the world in bioscience and that puts us in a really strong position to form international collaborations and partnerships," she told BBC News.
As China's vast energy sector continues to rely on coal, the need has grown for improved carbon capture technology to reduce CO2 emissions. A collaboration between Edinburgh University and North China Electric Power University led to a new process that reduced the energy needed for CO2 capture by up to 30%.
The UK-China Space Science and Technology Programme has brought together a UK institution, RAL Space, with China's Beihang University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, allowing researchers, businesses and agencies to collaborate in monitoring the Earth by satellite to monitor agriculture and the effects of climate change.
The new plant research centre just outside Shanghai is the latest UK effort to tap into the rapid growth in Chinese scientific expertise
Researchers at the Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science will investigate ways of improving crop yields, decreasing the threat from pests and diseases and reducing the need for artificial fertiliser. They will also study ways of harnessing the benefits of Chinese medicine.
The centre will work closely with the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich. Its director, Prof Dale Sanders, said that the collaboration would build on historic ties.
"The partnership dates back to the 1980s when the JIC was among the first UK institutes to welcome Chinese researchers working abroad," he said.
"Today we are seeing our vision of a world class UK/China collaboration in plant and microbial sciences become a reality and I have no doubt that the excellent, world leading science delivered by this centre will make a huge impact on the big global challenges relating to food security and human health."
As well as the opening of the new plant science centre, the government announced a plan by the Open University and the CAS Centre for Excellence in Advanced Materials in Dongguan, Guangdong, to explore the development of a joint engineering centre with facilities in the UK and China and discussions to develop further collaborations in space science in the fields of remote sensing and satellite technology.
China has a long history of development work in Africa. In recent years, the UK has also made development research a priority, devoting more than £1.5bn to it over the next five years, and so this is another potential area of collaboration.
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Michael Levack, who is chief executive of the Scottish Building Federation, told Holyrood's finance committee that bureaucracy was getting in the way.
He added that ministerial claims that the draft budget was for growth was "out of touch with reality".
However, the Scottish government said the procurement system had improved.
A spokesman added: "To further improve the system, we are currently consulting on a procurement reform bill to ensure that major public contracts deliver training and employment opportunities, and will conduct a thorough review of construction procurement across the public sector."
Mr Levack told the committee that bureaucracy was causing many projects to "get stuck in the constipated public sector procurement system".
He called on all councils and public sector bodies to make sure capital projects on the "wish list" were coming to the market, which he claimed was currently "not the case".
The businessman said: "Many construction businesses are in survival mode, we've got to get that message through. Political rhetoric from any political party suggesting otherwise hurts those who have lost their jobs."
The building federation claimed further job losses in the construction industry would risk creating major problems in the future for the delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects.
Mr Levack criticised the progress of the Scottish Futures Trust, the Scottish government body tasked with the funding of the infrastructure plan, branding its performance "very, very slow".
He added that those in the construction industry were not approaching this spending round with the "begging bowl out", but they were merely wanting work.
The budget, announced by Finance Secretary John Swinney last week, contained a stimulus package for the construction sector worth £40m this autumn and in the next financial year.
In a written submission ahead of the meeting, Gary Clark of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said business costs were continuing to rise and he did not believe the package of rates relief announced by the SNP government would help.
He said he wanted to see Mr Swinney neutralise the rates increase planned for next year.
Mr Clark added: "We do not believe the rising burden of business rates upon Scottish business is conducive to business growth, nor is it helpful at a time when cashflow remains a challenge to many businesses."
The Scottish Property Federation had also expressed its concern over what it described as adding "significant risk" to commercial property development.
The federation's David Melhuish criticised the new tax being introduced on empty properties.
Mr Swinney had said that training a workforce for the future was important to his government's plans to get the economy back on track.
The measures the minister unveiled in his draft budget included;
Mr Swinney said: "In these difficult economic times this government is doing everything within its limited power to stimulate Scotland's economy, to invest in our young people, protect households and support front line services."
A Scottish government spokesman pointed out that while the committee was sitting, Education Secretary Mike Russell was announcing plans for 30 new or refurbished schools by March 2018.
He added: "This has been achieved because of the Scottish Futures Trust's vigorous commitment to value for money and is fantastic news for Scotland's construction sector.
"And we absolutely agree there needs to be more projects under way in Scotland. That is why we have done all we can to boost investment, despite a 33% cut in our capital budget."
MSPs have been taking evidence from a variety of organisations in a budget process that would not be finalised until the new year.
Mr Swinney will also appear in front of the finance committee over the coming weeks.
Many questions surround Shahbaz Taseer's abduction and release - and there are few clear answers.
Shahbaz Taseer's release comes barely a week after Pakistan executed Mumtaz Qadri, the police guard who assassinated Salman Taseer (Shahbaz's father) for defending reforms to the country's blasphemy laws.
As such, one would have expected the extremists holding him to use him as an object of their revenge. Instead, he walked free, apparently with the consent of his captors.
There are various theories. Some say that in the wake of Pakistan's military operations in the Waziristan region, the militants were on the run and found it difficult to hold him.
Others believe he was released after ransom was paid to his kidnappers.
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Initial reports attributed to Pakistani officials said he was recovered in an "intelligence-based" operation conducted by a premier Pakistani intelligence service (a euphemism for the ISI), the intelligence unit of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FCIU) and Balochistan police's counter-terrorism department (CTD).
A CTD official said they recovered him from a compound in the Kuchlak area, some 25km (16 miles) north of Quetta.
The military's media wing, ISPR, confirmed Mr Taseer's release and promised more details in a subsequent message which was never released, apart from a couple of his pictures, with the ISPR chief assuring readers in a tweet that he was "hale and hearty".
Just when the media were desperately looking for reports of a shootout or arrest of kidnappers, some reporters in Quetta got in touch with the owner of a roadside restaurant in Kuchlak.
The owner said that a man with long hair and an overgrown beard had walked into the restaurant at about 5:20pm local time (12:20 GMT) and ordered roasted mutton, a local speciality.
After finishing his food, he paid his bill of 350 rupees (£2.35; $3.35). He walked up to the counter and asked for a telephone. The owner told him he didn't have one. He then asked a waiter for his phone, made a call and then sat down at his table.
At about 5.50pm, a motorcade of Frontier Corps pulled up at the side of the restaurant. The man stood up and rushed towards the FC vehicles. Some soldiers put a scarf over his head and put him inside one of the vehicles and drove away, shouting to the people present there to look the other way.
The owner said that when he heard the news of Mr Taseer's release and saw his pictures on TV, he realised who his client was.
The restaurant owner's account was seen by many as evidence that the governor's son was voluntarily set free by his captors, not snatched by the security forces.
Initial police investigations focused on local business rivals, but a mobile phone found by the police at the spot from where he was kidnapped led in July 2013 to the arrest of two Uzbeks and five Pakistanis.
They were said to have orchestrated the kidnapping of not only Shahbaz Taseer but also of an American aid official, Warren Weinstein, as well as former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son, Haider Gilani.
But by then they had passed on their victims to militant groups based in Pakistan's tribal region of Waziristan.
The two Uzbek brothers arrested in July 2013 were said to be members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), while the five Pakistanis were mostly engineering students affiliated with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Pakistani sectarian militant group with links to the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), al-Qaeda and its various international affiliates, including the IMU.
Many believe that before his release on Tuesday, Shahbaz Taseer was being held by some elements of the TTP, which hosted the IMU in their stronghold of South Waziristan for years.
Extortion and kidnapping for ransom have been a major source of revenue for this entire militant network. Apart from ransom, kidnappings have also been used by these groups to secure the release of their arrested comrades.
In the past, Pakistani and Afghan governments have both paid ransom and released militants to secure the freedom of at least one Pakistani diplomat and an Afghan diplomat.
In most cases the money changed hands through TTP leaders. In the case of Shahbaz Taseer, there were reports of a higher ransom being demanded which was later reduced to 1bn Pakistani rupees ($10m).
However, haggling went on and some quarters have indicated that the Haqqani network, which despite denials is long believed to have enjoyed support from Pakistan's military establishment, helped mediate a deal involving a lower ransom. It is not clear if any prisoner releases were also part of the agreement.
Pakistan has moved against militant sanctuaries in the north-western tribal areas, but northern parts of Balochistan have remained largely untouched.
These areas have been home to a large Afghan refugee population, and to the leadership of the Afghan Taliban called the Quetta Shura.
During the operations in Waziristan, most TTP and IMU militants based in the south of that region spilled over into northern Balochistan.
They have also been able to move across most of the Afghan territory adjacent to the tribal areas and Balochistan.
The Department for Regional Development (DRD) says the project has now been pushed back to August 2018.
Mr Dallat said: "This is yet another setback in the pursuit of a modern transport system fit for purpose.
"On this occasion we do not have a minister to answer questions or explain what has led to another delay.
"This announcement, coming amid yet another political crisis, suits those responsible for the mess, but who have been left virtually unaccountable by the impending collapse of the executive.
"The minister would be serving this community better if he was present to explain this latest cop-out in a departmental project managed entirely by civil servants," he added.
DRD secretary Peter May said he recognised this was "going to be a disappointment" but said he wished to stress the delay did not relate to the "current political difficulties" or the resignation of the regional development minister.
"Severe budget pressures remain on the department and there is still uncertainty about the position for future years," he said.
"Continued uncertainty has meant that the programme has not been able to commit resources in the original time frame."
Mr Dallat said that in this instance, Translink was not to blame because "this is a project where the total responsibility lies with the DRD".
"They have failed and must now come before the committee to explain the reason for this delay," he said.
"The rapid transport system is a poor substitute for a proper dedicated cross-city rail system but at the least it was a beginning, now we need to know when the beginning will be."
The rapid transport system was originally due to begin operating by autumn 2017.
With inflation outpacing the government's 1% limit on pay rises for state employees, real wages are being eroded, said the trades union body.
It said prison officers and paramedics were more than £3,800 a year poorer.
However, the chancellor has said state sector workers get a 10% "premium" over private sector counterparts.
The government has come under pressure since the election in June to alter its policy of limiting pay rises in the public sector.
"It's been seven long years of pay cuts for our public servants. And ministers still won't tell us if relief is on the way," TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said.
Inflation measured by the most commonly used method, CPI, which does not take housing costs into account, has picked up in recent months hitting 2.9% in May. According to the Bank of England it averaged 2.7% a year between 2010 and 2016.
The TUC calculates that if firefighters' wages had kept pace with inflation their average pay would be nearly £2,900 higher than it is. For nuclear engineers and teachers the figure is about £2,500.
On the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Chancellor Philip Hammond said public sector pay had "raced ahead" of the private sector after the economic crash in 2008.
He added that when "very generous" public sector pension contributions were taken into account, public sector workers enjoyed a 10% "premium" over their private sector counterparts,
But Mr Hammond refused to comment on reports he had said at a meeting that public servants were "overpaid".
The average pay for an NHS paramedic is £35,577.
But if the paramedic's salary in 2010 had kept pace with inflation measured by CPI, by now he or she should be earning £39,435 - £3,888 more, says the TUC.
The TUC says if RPI (the inflation measure which does include housing costs) is used, the paramedic would need to earn £41,717 - £6,140 more - to maintain their 2010 spending power.
The TUC's analysis suggests workers in different parts of the public sector are out of pocket in real terms to varying degrees (based on CPI):
Pay rises for most public sector workers are set by independent pay review bodies, but have effectively been capped at 1% each year since 2013.
Before that, there was a two-year freeze on pay for all but the lowest-paid workers.
Trade unions plan to submit a petition to the Treasury on Monday calling for the pay freeze to be lifted.
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The birds are nesting on a chimney at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens near Great Yarmouth and are involved in mating rituals, experts say.
The white stork breeds in continental Europe, migrating to Africa in winter.
The last record of storks breeding in Britain was at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, in 1416.
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Ken Sims, director of the wildlife gardens said: "We gave the storks a helping hand by building a structure for their nest on the hall's front chimney.
"But they turned their back on our handiwork and have built their own nest on one of the rear stacks."
He said he thought the female stork was on the point of laying and they had been watching them mate.
"The beaks are used like clappers and they throw their heads back," he said.
"They greet each other with lots of clicking and clacking."
The nesting birds are part of the collection at the wildlife gardens and director Ken Sims said they had been trying to get storks to nest for many years.
"We've kept them for a number of years but they have been pinion birds [flight feathers on one wing have been removed} and have occasionally bred on the ground.
"But to have them free-flying and nesting as they would do in the wild is very rare."
Elected mayor of Copeland Mike Starkie said United Utilities' (UU) "lack of communication" had "caused great concern" in West Cumbria.
Some residents complained of rashes, mouth ulcers and upset stomachs after drinking the water.
UU has apologised for its lack of communication but said "numerous" safety tests had been carried out.
Water and scientific services director Martin Padley said change in supply "can cause understandable concern".
"I can reassure everyone that our regular analysis and monitoring of the water supply shows that even though it's different it still meets the same high quality standards," he said.
Mr Starkie said he was "disappointed that United Utilities did not consult or inform residents about the change", which would have avoided "some distress".
The company said it has been running drop-in sessions for residents to explain the plans for the water supply and its effects.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) has tested samples provided by UU and says the water is safe to drink.
The introduction of harder water containing more minerals explained some changes noticed by customers, such as it making a "popping" noise when boiled, it said.
UU is in the process of stopping supplies from Ennerdale Water in the Lake District to protect rare freshwater mussels and is currently supplementing supplies with harder water from boreholes near Egremont.
Eventually a new 62-mile (100km) pipeline being built from Thirlmere Reservoir will provide water to about 150,000 people.
Abstracting water from Ennerdale will cease once the new £300m pipeline is complete in 2022.
Ward took Ben Osborn's pass and slotted past Dimi Konstantopoulos to give them the lead against the run of play.
The home side had long spells of possession, but missed key chances as Emilio Nsue headed over from close in, while Grant Leadbitter hit the bar.
Hull's win at Fulham moved them above the Teessiders, who dropped to second.
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Forest, who also saw Osborn's shot strike a post, started with a game-plan to stifle the home side and executed it to perfection to secure a first win on Teesside since February 1993.
Boro's impressive home defensive record, without a goal conceded in 851 minutes at the Riverside before kick-off, was in little danger during a first half lacking in action.
Jack Hobbs' mis-kick was the nearest the visitors came to a goal, as Boro enjoyed the best of the play, with David Nugent, Tomas Kalas and Cristhian Stuani all unable to connect with teasing deliveries into the box.
Dougie Freedman's side continued to frustrate Boro after the break, with occasional forays from Oliver Burke causing the home side some concern on the break.
Both sides struck the woodwork and then Nsue's miss from three yards out ramped up the anxiety around the Riverside, before Ward's finish eventually broke the deadlock.
Aitor Karanka's side tried to lift a sizeable home crowd, with roars for a penalty when Fernando Amorebieta went down under Gary Gardner's challenge, but they were unable to avoid a first league defeat since August.
Middlesbrough head coach Aitor Karanka:
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"Losing at home is disappointing, but it's not just the game today it's the last three games now. They have been really poor.
"We've lost two games but we're still in the top two and I'm really optimistic.
"I know the reason for the problem but I prefer to fix it on the training ground. The problem is when you're in a bad run and don't know why - but I know the reason.
"With these players we're at the top of the table. We've got two weeks to work and I want to transmit a positive message. It's not by chance we're near the top of the table."
Nottingham Forest boss Dougie Freedman:
"It's a big result for us. The last time Forest won here Mr Clough was in charge, so it's been a long time.
"That was our toughest match of the season because they grind you down and never stop going.
"We stopped Middlesbrough in the right areas. They were not getting shots from the edge of the box or playing one-twos in front of the area.
"Give us credit for not letting them get time and space. We believed from the first 10 or 15 minutes that we could win this."
Butt scored 135 runs and Asif returned bowling figures of 2-22, both for Water and Power Development Authority in Pakistan's domestic one-day tournament.
Butt, 31, and Asif, 33, were exiled from the sport, along with bowler Mohammad Amir, after Pakistan bowled no-balls to order at Lord's.
"It's a sort of rebirth," said Butt.
"I will do my best to perform and return to Pakistan team."
The duo finished on the winning side, with Water and Power Development Authority beating Federally Administered Tribal Areas by 141 runs.
Amir, 18 at the time of the offence, was recalled by Pakistan earlier in January.
Although his ban - like Butt and Asif's - was originally from all forms of cricket for five years, Amir was cleared to play domestic cricket in January 2015 and is part of the Pakistan tour of New Zealand which begins with a Twenty20 match on Friday.
Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis has said there would be no reason to deny Butt and Asif their international comebacks if their form justifies selection.
After their series against New Zealand, Pakistan will play four Tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 international on a tour of England that begins in June.
Batsman Umar Akmal will miss the first meeting with the Kiwis after he breached tournament rules by wearing two, rather than one, sponsorship logo in the final of Pakistan's domestic Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.
It says an information letter and TB fact sheet has been sent to parents and pupils at the school as a precautionary measure.
A consultant at the Public Health Agency, Dr Michael Devine, has said he would like to reassure parents and those attending the school that "children with TB are rarely infectious to others and the risk to pupils and staff at the school is low".
The agency is working with the Southern Health and Social Care Trust and Dungannon Primary School to ensure an appropriate response at the school in line with standard practice.
The Ballycastle Chronicle reports on a decision to rename a Glens of Antrim rally stage after driver Ronan McAuley.
Mr McAuley died suddenly last April while working at the family farm in the townland of Glendun - the setting for one of this weekend's closed road tests.
His wife Paula told the Chronicle that the family was "incredibly touched" by the move to call Glendun 'Ronan's Way' for Saturday's competition.
She said Ronan would be "immensely proud of it".
"It is just lovely," she said. "Not for a minute did I ever expect this, but it just goes to show how highly Ronan was regarded by everyone in the motor club and by the people of the Glens community."
A council's go-ahead for planning permission for a new nursing home and 41-apartment complex in Rostrevor makes the front page of the County Down Outlook.
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council's planning committee overturned a recommendation to refuse the development arguing that the economic benefits outweigh the environmental arguments.
The newspaper says car sales firm, JC Campbell, is set to relocate to the Newry area to enable construction of the nursing home and apartments.
The Londonderry Sentinel reports that a tribute to talented young cricketer Jack Glenn has been restored at Foyle Bridge.
Mr Glenn's body was recovered from the River Foyle in March after an eight-week search operation involving hundreds of volunteers and specialist rescue teams.
The 'Camp Jacko' sign was restencilled recently having been removed.
Councillors said the decision to cover over the memorial without consulting the Glenn family was "insensitive".
The mayor of Derry City and Strabane Council, Hilary McClintock, has apologised to the family on behalf of the council.
The Impartial Reporter front page features a Fermanagh mother speaking of her "devastation" after her 24-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer.
It says Pam Gunn from Florencecourt and her husband, Joe, were diagnosed with cancer within 11 months of one another, "but beat the illness last year".
Their son, Grant, who has asperger syndrome, is battling lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Grant has received a platelet transfusion and two blood transfusions at Belfast City Hospital.
Forever in Tandragee is the front page headline in the Ulster Gazette and Armagh Standard as it remembers motorcyclist Dario Cecconi.
Mr Cecconi died after a crash at the Tandragee 100 last month.
The Italian rider's ashes have been scattered at the course at his grieving family's request, the newspaper says.
Mr Cecconi's body had been taken on a lap of honour of the road race circuit as more than 300 motorcyclists turned out to say a final farewell.
Relegated Villa have drawn seven of their 10 league games this season, including their past five.
It has left them just two points above the Championship relegation zone.
But Di Matteo is happy at their general form and is looking the other way up the table, pointing out: "We are only seven points behind sixth place."
Villa travel to Preston North End for the first time in 42 years on Saturday, followed by a home derby against Wolves on 15 October.
The Italian told BBC WM: "I believe that this team will be in the top six at the end of the season. That is the confidence I have, that the team has, that we will be up there.
"Who knows where, but we will be up in the top six."
Villa might have been a lot higher had they hung on to leads in three of their five successive draws, against Nottingham Forest, Brentford and Barnsley.
But they came from behind to claim a point against Championship title favourites Newcastle United last weekend.
Meanwhile, midfielder Jack Grealish has been included in the England Under-21 squad for the forthcoming games against Kazakhstan, and at home to Bosnia and Herzegovina at Walsall (11 October, 15:00 GMT).
Grealish missed the Newcastle game, after being suspended and fined following a club investigation into his part in an all-night party at a Birmingham hotel.
But he was back for the midweek trip to face Barnsley at Oakwell, where he played the full 90 minutes.
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Ribbans, 21, made his debut for Stormers in 2015, and was part of the squad which reached the quarter-finals of Super Rugby in 2016.
"David has the potential to have a successful rugby career," Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder said.
"He is a big man who is also very athletic and has a good understanding of the game."
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh is using a scanner and printer in a process which creates a perfect template.
This is then used as a model by a plastic surgeon as a replacement ear is carved out of the child's rib cartilage.
In many cases, the procedure can help restore hearing.
When Anya Storie was born nine years ago, it quickly became obvious there was something wrong.
As she puts it herself, she has an "odd ear".
Her left one is perfectly fine but her right ear has not developed.
She says some people tease her about it but the overriding problem is that it affects her hearing.
With only a little prompting from her mum Aurea, Anya can even tell you the correct medical term: Microtia.
That's when the pinnea - the external part of the ear - is underdeveloped.
Anya is not alone: some children are born with deformed or missing ears, others damage them in accidents.
Happily in many cases plastic surgery can restore both their appearance and hearing.
That is why Anya is attending the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh where plastic surgeon Dr Ken Stewart is an expert at rebuilding or creating young ears.
In Anya's case, that means three operations: one to fit the structure of a new ear, carved from her rib cartilage, beneath the skin on the side of her head.
After the skin has conformed to that, a second op will move the replacement ear into position.
Only after that can the third procedure begin: to open the ear canal which has been closed since Anya was born.
New technology is helping create Anya's replacement right ear.
It uses a handheld scanner made in Luxembourg by a company called Artec 3D. As their name suggests, the scanner captures a 3D image.
Anya sits as still as can be expected of someone who seems to be full of beans on a permanent basis.
On a computer screen there slowly builds an image of her left - normal - ear.
Software then flips it to create a 3D mirror image: a matching replacement for the other side of her head.
The data is sent more than 15 miles to a 3D printer at St John's Hospital in Livingston.
It makes a hard copy of the image - a plastic model for a plastic surgeon.
Suitably sterilised, it will go into the operating theatre as a guide to how the new ear should be carved out of Anya's rib cartilage.
The 3D scanner has been paid for by the charity The Edinburgh Sick Kids Friends Foundation. Ken Stewart says it has transformed his team's work.
"We're able to get more sophisticated carving, we're more able accurately to replicate the details of the opposite ear," he says.
"And by having that template on the table it's like having an artist's model right in front of you."
Dr Stewart thinks the new technique could be taken much further:
"We're also doing some work with the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University.
"Ultimately we want to 3D print the ear that we want as a matrix and combine that with a mixture of stem cells and cartilage cells to grow an ear in a lab and implant that."
Anya appears to have become an expert on the procedures she's about to undergo. And she's not worried about the possibility that it might hurt a wee bit.
"No," she says, "as long as you think about the good things."
The good things? She laughs as if that's a silly question, which on reflection it is.
"That I can hear out of my ear."
Anya's mum Aurea Storie is delighted that Anya has been scanned, the model for her ear printed, and is ready for her operation.
"The timing couldn't have come along any better in terms of the new technology," she says.
"That, combined with the skills of our surgeon.
"We're looking forward to a perfect ear for Christmas."
The Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill aims to clarify and strengthen the law.
It will introduce a new single offence and increase the maximum penalty for offenders to life imprisonment.
Holyrood's justice committee heard from Barnardo's Scotland, the Scottish Refugee Council, Abolition Scotland and Victim Support Scotland.
In 2013 there were 55 trafficking victims identified in Scotland.
Home Office research has suggested there could be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery, forced labour and human trafficking in the UK.
In March last year, the Scottish government announced that it was bringing forward a new bill to combat trafficking and exploitation.
If passed, the new bill will also seek to enhance the rights of victims of trafficking, with access to immediate help and support based on their individual needs.
It will give prosecutors the discretion not to punish victims forced to commit crime against their will - including those trafficked into the country and then forced into cannabis factories.
Scottish Ministers will also be required to work with other bodies to publish and keep under review a Scottish Anti-Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy.
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They had been closed to try to stop the spread of the potentially deadly disease, Ebola.
Lots of charities are trying to help families in the country, and now children there can catch up with their studies - but for some families, getting kids back to school isn't an option.
Ayshah has more on the children there who can't go back to school.
The German, 26, replaced Phil Foden for the final 20 minutes of the game against the Spanish side, arranged to cement a partnership between the clubs.
Gundogan tore cruciate knee ligaments last December, having joined City from Borussia Dortmund the previous June.
It was his third major injury in less than four years.
Last month he told BBC Sport it had been "heavy mentally" to accept his misfortune.
Only central defender John Stones and full-back Danilo kept their places in the starting line-up from the City team that won their opening Premier League game at Brighton on Saturday.
New signing Benjamin Mendy was not involved despite training on Monday as he recovers from a thigh problem he was suffering from prior to his £52m move from Monaco last month.
The 31-year-old, who has 119 caps, has only started 15 league matches for Manchester United this season.
Tottenham right-back Kieran Trippier has been called up for the first time for the World Cup qualifier in Glasgow and friendly at the Stade de France.
Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland returns, having recovered from the ankle injury suffered against Germany in March 2016.
Rooney's United team-mate, striker Marcus Rashford, is once more included in coach Gareth Southgate's party.
Burnley centre-back Michael Keane misses out, having missed the Clarets' last three games through injury, and Everton midfielder Ross Barkley has a small injury.
England travel to Hampden Park on 10 June for their qualifier against Scotland. Southgate's side lead Group F with 13 points after five games. Scotland are fourth with seven points.
They then travel to France for a friendly on 13 June.
Southgate said: "The Scotland game is one of football's great fixtures.
"We're in a place in the group where a win can really put us in a very strong position, and that's what we want to achieve.
"France is a great challenge for us. Our ambition with our friendly matches is to play the best possible teams - we've done that by playing Spain and Germany already."
Rooney - England's record goalscorer with 53 goals - was not included in Southgate's previous squad in March for the matches against Lithuania and Germany because he was recovering from a leg injury.
But even when fit, his appearances at club level have been reduced since manager Jose Mourinho took over at Manchester United last summer.
Rooney was a substitute during United's Europa League final win over Ajax on Wednesday, with Rashford starting.
The 19-year-old's inclusion in the senior squad means he will not now link up with the Under-21s for this summer's European Championship.
Tottenham striker Harry Kane's return also marks the first time Southgate has been able to select the Premier League golden boot winner, who has missed all six of the manager's matches through injury.
Defender Ben Gibson, who was relegated with his team Middlesbrough, is called up again. The 24-year-old and Tripper are the only members of the squad yet to win a cap.
BBC Radio 5 live chief football reporter Ian Dennis:
Wayne Rooney's omission again might generate the headlines, but the inclusion of 19-year-old Marcus Rashford should focus the debate on England's future.
The Manchester United striker's involvement with the senior squad means Rashford will not be going to Poland with the Under 21s for this summer's European Championship.
I spoke with the player in March and he said he would leave it to others to decide on what was best for his development. It will be seen as a climb-down by the FA as United boss Jose Mourinho gets his way.
The decision goes against everything that the FA has said on the importance of 'tournament experience', while U21s manager Aidy Boothroyd was keen to take his strongest side to Poland.
As for Wayne Rooney... I wouldn't write off his international career just yet. He won't retire, but he must decide what's best for his club future to stand any chance of fighting his way back into the England squad.
Goalkeepers:
Jack Butland (Stoke), Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Torino, on loan from Man City), Tom Heaton (Burnley)
Defenders:
Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Aaron Cresswell (West Ham), Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough), Phil Jones (Man Utd), Chris Smalling (Man Utd), John Stones (Man City), Kieran Trippier (Tottenham), Kyle Walker (Tottenham)
Midfielders:
Dele Alli (Tottenham), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), Jesse Lingard (Man Utd), Jake Livermore (West Brom), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Raheem Sterling (Man City)
Forwards:
Jermain Defoe (Sunderland), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Man Utd), Jamie Vardy (Leicester)
Southampton pair Nathan Redmond and James Ward-Prowse have been selected for the England Under-21 squad for their training camp before the European Championship in June.
Both players earned their first caps for the senior side against Germany in March and will be making their last appearances for Aidy Boothroyd's side before becoming too old to play.
Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has also been included in the squad, as has Celtic striker Patrick Roberts.
The deadline for countries to name their final 23-man squad for the tournament in Poland is 6 June.
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The first time I hid in a public bathroom, I was 14. I locked the door, closed the toilet seat, sat down, and waited until the angst passed.
The trigger was a handsome young boy called Magnus who wanted to kiss me as I had promised to be his girlfriend a week prior. I had never kissed a boy before and, even though I thought I wanted to, my whole body reacted differently. Suddenly I needed walls around me. As close as they possibly could come.
"You've been in there for almost an hour," our mutual friend Victor shouted into the girls' bathroom, "Magnus says that if you don't come out soon, he will break up with you."
"Let him!" I shouted back, and thus I lost my first ever boyfriend, but gained the friendship of public toilets, and hiding in them, when it all becomes too much.
Flash forward to now. "I would like a table for one in a corner," I said to a waiter at a restaurant in Leeds recently.
I had high hopes for this particular restaurant as their bathroom was perfect. It was on a totally different floor, far away from everything. No one else would be able to hear me breathe in there because the stalls are completely closed with no gap above or under the door.
Each stall had a decent lock and a good coat hook too. It was big enough for my butt to feel comfortable on the seat without half of it having to rest on the bin for Embarrassing Lady Stuff. And it was quiet - no music, no queue, no other people in there.
This was a five-star public bathroom and I spent a good 20 minutes in it, taking deep breaths (after flushing) while trying to get my head together. I had spent six hours straight among people that day, loud people in particular.
"Yes, of course," the waiter answered, and I was not surprised - I already knew. Based on their toilets alone, I knew that this must be one of the only social-angst-friendly restaurants in all of England. I followed him to a table that was - wait - in the middle of the room?
It's a table for one," he said, "but it's not in a corner." He laughed a bit and placed the menu on it. "Enjoy and let me know if you need anything."
"A table in a corner is what I need," I almost shouted. And maybe I would have, had I not been at a high level of social angst. Then again, had I not been at a high level of social angst, I would not have needed a table in a corner in the first place.
Corners are amazing in the same way that bathrooms are amazing. The more walls that are around you without including other people, the better. Instead I was placed right between two tables which both had dating couples on.
I remember that day as the day I learned to insist on corner tables. Those you ask will all look at you like you are weird for they are most likely people who do not care about corners and public bathrooms. They are people who go to parties and like it.
If I do go to a party, I will excuse myself at least once an hour to go somewhere and sit. I find a corner (oh, corners), a staircase or go outside and find a nearby alleyway. Then I take deep breaths. Fifteen minutes later, I feel I have to go back and put a smile on my face and pretend I am listening to conversations, but the chances are I'm focusing on not being in the way of people walking close to me or on how the voices around me seem to get louder and louder.
I do function. I have a job that my social anxiety rarely interferes with. I have friends, but I prefer to see them at their houses instead of at cafes.
If I have to put a name to these feelings, I use words like social angst.
To be fair, I am not sure of the technical term. Social anxiety, social angst, introversion - I've never had an official diagnosis. Instead I describe it like this - when there are too many people, or when people are loud and I have been among them for too long, I begin to dig my nails into my hand, I start sweating and then hyperventilating.
Google tells me it's the beginning of a panic attack, but Google also tells me that Magnus is now engaged to a model... so I prefer to not take everything Google says as fact.
It could, of course, be one of the other diagnoses I have been given through my life:
I have been called a diva many times. And I guess I could easily be, because, if I was ever to be famous, like Madonna-famous, my first demand would be that I always had a corner table ready for me wherever I go. And I would only dine in restaurants with social-angst-approved five-star public toilets. But most of all, I just want a table in a corner.
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But it is a document notable for failing to commit to what have been major Welsh Labour Government projects - up until now.
The party promises to form a government that will be "there for you and your family at the moments that matter".
"All schools will be better funded, but not in competition with one another. Our NHS will be modernised, but not privatised," says party leader Carwyn Jones in the forword.
Big pledges include childcare support for working parents, more money for schools, 100,000 all-age apprenticeships, tax cuts for small businesses, a new treatment fund for the NHS, and a "better deal" for people who need care in old age.
But the document does not say how many local councils should be cut, nor exactly which M4 relief road route should be built.
There's a lot of information on past delivery. But by leaving out some of the most contentious proposals by the Labour government, could this manifesto be the starting point for a post election deal?
And like the Welsh Conservatives and UKIP, there is sparse information on how the policies will be afforded.
The party insists the manifesto is costed, however.
The most remarkable thing about the document's details on transport policy is the lack of information on Welsh Labour's biggest infrastructure project - the M4 relief road.
A Welsh Government consultation is currently underway on plans to build a six-lane motorway south of Newport and over the Gwent Levels.
It is a scheme known as the "Black Route" that is thought to cost more than £1bn and has proved controversial with all political parties.
But the manifesto just says Labour will deliver "a relief road for the M4", and doesn't mention the specific route.
It means that no party is going into the election with a specific manifesto pledge to build the black route - something that could be useful for post-election negotiations with parties that have rejected the project.
Mr Jones told BBC Wales that Labour's preferred option was the black route but added: "We have to keep options open, as we see for example the environmental assessments on the black route".
The manifesto says the South Wales Metro - a plan to upgrade existing transport networks in South Wales - will open "further opportunities to strengthen and diversify the economy of the Valleys", and says the government would start work on the development of a North Wales Metro system
Other pledges include:
Labour says it will "continue" to invest more money per person in health and social services in Wales than is being invested in England.
There is a big stress in the manifesto on the responsibility of individuals to look after themselves. The website says that "everyone in Wales has a responsibility to look after their own health, supported by the NHS".
The document vows there will be no "top-down, large-scale reorganisation under the next Welsh Labour Government", in contrast to proposals from Plaid Cymru.
For North Walians, Labour says it will start discussions with locals about the future of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
The document says a Labour government would "provide ongoing support" to the health board, which is still in special measures, "including reviewing the governance structure if necessary".
It also proposes a new £80m treatment fund to enable most advanced drugs and high cost treatments for cancer and other life threatening illnesses.
One omission is that Labour says it would "re-introduce a Public Health Bill", but they do not say they will try to bring in any kind of e-cigarette restrictions - perhaps a recognition of the reality that it would be very difficult to pass them through the assembly.
Other pledges include:
Mr Jones, who is the current First Minister, has made a big play of the party's business policies - saying Welsh Labour is passionate about growing the economy in a recent Telegraph column.
As well as a Welsh development bank, one of the party's stand out pledges is a business rate cut for all small firms. The manifesto says this would help 70,000 companies and reduce business rate bills to zero for half of eligible firms.
Other economic pledges include:
Labour is promising £100m extra to drive standards in schools, and to create 100,000 "all-age" apprenticeships.
It also says the party would invest £2bn between now and 2023 in the 21st century schools building programme, which is already in operation.
The manifesto is perhaps the least specific of the five big parties when it comes to the issue of tuition fees, suggesting this will be decided after the election.
It says there will be a "better package of student support than that on offer in England based on the recommendations of the Diamond review."
Other pledges include:
Another surprise is a lack of detail on how many local councils there should be, following mergers.
The manifesto does commit to "stronger, larger local authorities" but does not say how many.
The Welsh Labour Government has previously stated it thinks eight or nine authorities are the best model for Wales.
But like the M4 relief road Black Route it is hugely contentious, with no real support from any other party for the precise map.
It's extraordinary given how the government has pushed the issue - the wording could again prove useful for coalition building.
Mr Jones said on Monday that he would prefer it "if we could work with other parties to get to an agreed position on the number we need".
It all suggests Labour is prepared to move away from the eight or nine council map.
There is not much in the way of new pledges in the area of natural resources and rural affairs. Labour says it will continue to improve animal welfare, and that sustainable development will remain a central organising principle of the government.
Other notable pledges include:
The midfielder, 31, has been out of action since fracturing a bone in his leg and suffering ankle ligament damage in the League One fixture against Sheffield United on 6 August, 2016.
Pratley returned to training but had to undergo another operation on Tuesday.
"It's a real shame for both Darren and ourselves," manager Phil Parkinson told the club website.
"We'll move on though and wish him all the best in his recovery."
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The unnamed Israelis were minors, aged 17 and 16, at the time of the high-profile killing. One was given a life sentence; the other 21 years in jail.
Abu Khdair, 16, was forced into a car, then beaten and burned alive.
The court says 31-year-old Yosef Haim Ben David led the attack, but it is yet to rule if he was mentally competent.
Abu Khdair was killed in apparent revenge for the murders of three Israeli teens in the West Bank.
The killings were part of an escalating cycle of violence, culminating in a war between Israel and militants in Gaza.
Mohammad Abu Khdair's body was found in a forest in West Jerusalem on 2 July 2014, two days after the bodies of the Israeli teenagers abducted and murdered by Hamas militants that June were found.
In November, the Jerusalem District Court found that Ben David and the two youths had abducted the Palestinian at random as he stood on a road in East Jerusalem.
The youths then beat him unconscious in the back of a car being driven by Ben David, the judges said. One of the youths helped douse him with petrol while he was still alive, before Mr Ben David lit a match and set him on fire, they added.
The two youths confessed to the abduction in court, though one testified that he was not involved in the killing. Mr Ben David chose not to testify.
The judges found that Ben David, who was portrayed as the ringleader, had participated in the abduction and murder. But they said a formal verdict would be postponed until a psychiatric evaluation had been carried out.
Following Thursday's sentencing hearing, Israeli state prosecutor Ori Korb said: "The sentence imposed on the defendants reflects what we asked for and the barbaric and atrocious act."
But Mohammad Abu Khdair's father, Hussein, told reporters that the family would appeal against the lesser sentence given to one of the youths.
The case has been closely watched by Palestinians who often claim of prejudice in Israel's justice system, the BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem reports.
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Joshua Nott, 23, has been branded a hypocrite on social media for accepting the £40,000 ($49,925) scholarship.
Mr Nott was a key figure in the Rhodes Must Fall movement at the University of Cape Town.
The campaigners called the British mining magnate a backward-looking symbol of racist colonialism.
Following a Twitter outcry in Spring 2015, they succeeded in their bid to have the Cape Town statue removed.
Students at Oxford University then mounted an unsuccessful campaign to remove a Rhodes statue at Oriel College, where the businessman was educated.
Oriel resisted the pressure after a consultation showed "overwhelming" support for keeping it.
Mr Nott, who compared the Cape Town statue to "a swastika in Jerusalem", will now receive tens of thousands from Rhodes' legacy.
The activist, who is the son of a wealthy South African lawyer, has been widely condemned on social media and accused of selling out.
While some branded him an "arrogant hypocrite", others questioned whether poorer South Africans might not be more deserving of a £40,000 scholarship.
But Mr Nott has said he will "never toast Cecil John Rhodes" and will use the opportunity to fight against the ideals that Rhodes represented.
He does not plan to participate in the anti-Rhodes movement while at Oxford.
The Rhodes Trust has defended its choice of candidate, praising Mr Nott's commitment to social justice.
A spokesman said: "We pick young people of enormous ability without regard to any particular political affiliation … Mr Nott has been involved in a wide range of social change initiatives. He made this clear."
Rhodes was a revered figure in the days of the British Empire, but some now view him as an imperialist who profited from South Africa's resources at the expense of the local people.
He believed that the English were naturally superior, and was once quoted as saying: "I contend that we are the first race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race."
His sizeable trust was established at Oxford over a century ago to fund postgraduate awards for non-British students.
Previous Rhodes scholars include former US President Bill Clinton, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the astronomer Edwin Hubble, and country singer Kris Kristofferson.
Almost 8,000 Rhodes scholars have graduated from Oxford since the scheme was established in 1902.
About 2,000 people turned out in Delhi. Protests were also being held in 15 other cities as well as in London, protest organiser Saba Dewan said.
The campaign, #NotInMyName, started with a Facebook post she wrote after a Muslim teenager was killed last week.
Many Hindus consider the cow a sacred animal.
Wednesday's protests come amid reports that a Muslim dairy farmer in Jharkhand state was assaulted and his house was set on fire after the carcass of a cow was found at his door on Tuesday afternoon.
Cow slaughter is banned in several Indian states and those found violating the law can be jailed for up to 10 years. Parliament is also considering a bill to bring in the death penalty for the crime.
But ever since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in the summer of 2014, vigilante cow protection groups have been emboldened and there have been numerous attacks on Muslims and Dalits, for whom beef is a staple.
Nearly a dozen people have been killed in these attacks over the past two years. Targets are often picked based on unsubstantiated rumours and Muslims have been attacked for even transporting cows for milk.
Crowds gathered at Jantar Mantar, a historical Delhi monument and popular venue for protests.
Many of the 2,000 present held posters and banners saying #NotInMyName. Others wondered if it is so easy to divide Indians on the basis of religion. On the stage, poets recited verses, and musicians sang songs of protest.
Organiser Saba Dewan demanded that Indian citizens be protected, saying the right to life is non-negotiable. One young woman told me the murders were not how she wished to remember her country.
The protest organisers have alleged that the family of Junaid Khan, the 16-year-old Muslim boy brutally killed by a Hindu mob on a train last week, had not been able to attend because they were intimidated by the authorities.
Protests under the banner #NotInMyName are being organised in 16 Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Allahabad as well as in London on Wednesday. Gatherings are also planned for later in the week in Toronto, Boston and Karachi.
The protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar monument was expected to be the biggest, Ms Dewan said.
The documentary filmmaker said she was "shattered" when she heard about last Thursday's attack on 16-year-old Junaid Khan, who was killed by a mob of about 20 men on a train in the northern state of Haryana while returning home from Eid shopping in Delhi.
Her anguished Facebook post has managed to galvanise a large number of Indians, with thousands pledging to participate in the protests.
"The protest is against this systematic violence against Muslims and Dalits that is going on in our country at the moment," Ms Dewan said.
"Junaid's killing was a shattering moment for me, and also for a lot of other people. I started crying when I heard about his murder.
"We've always been saying we should protest, but there's been no leadership. So we decided to do this ourselves. How long can you keep waiting till the cows come home?" she added.
Brann lead the second qualifying round tie against Ruzomberok 1-0 before next Thursday's second leg in Norway.
Everton, back in Europe for the first time since 2014-15, will host the first leg at Goodison Park on 27 July with the second leg away on 3 August.
Aberdeen will play Apollon Limassol of Cyprus or Moldova's Zaria Balti, if they get past Siroki Brijeg.
The two teams drew 1-1 at Pittodrie on Thursday, with the second leg in Bosnia-Herzegovina on 20 July (19:45 BST).
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Ronald Koeman's side will advance to the play-off round if they beat Brann or Ruzomberok.
Brann finished runners-up in Norway's top-flight in 2016, while Ruzomberok were third in Slovakia's Super Liga last season.
Cork City will face Rabotnicki of Macedonia or Dinamo Minsk of Belarus if they can overturn a 1-0 first leg deficit against AEK Larnaca.
Shamrock Rovers face a trip to Kazakhstan's Kairat Almaty or Albania's Skenderbeu if they overturn a 3-2 deficit against the Czech Republic's Mlada Boleslav.
Holders Manchester United, who beat Ajax 2-0 in the final in May, will start their 2017-18 European campaign in the Champions League group stage.
Mr Putin urged other countries to join Russia in sending "military-technical assistance".
He said the flow of refugees to Europe would have been "even bigger" without Russian support for Syria's government.
But the White House said Russia's support for President Assad was "counterproductive".
The US would prefer to see more "constructive engagement" from Russia with the coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS), spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Moscow has been a key ally of Mr Assad throughout the bloody civil war, which began in 2011.
It says military equipment is being sent to Syria to help the government combat IS.
President Putin said on Tuesday: "We support the government of Syria… in countering the terrorist aggression.
"We provide and will continue to provide it with the necessary military technical assistance. And we urge other countries to join us."
Russia's backing for Mr Assad should be seen not as a vote of confidence in Syria's embattled president but as an investment in a country where Russia believes it can play out its foreign-policy role.
Indeed Mr Putin's military deployments signal that he will not let the Assad regime fall. This does not mean Mr Assad will be there forever.
Russian diplomacy is working in tandem with its military policy, exploring all avenues for reaching some sort of interim deal in which Mr Assad might stay on, at least for the time being.
But Russia's horizons in Syria probably extend well beyond Mr Assad's active presence - a reflection of Russia's concerns about militant Islam and wider trends in the region, and also its belief that Western remedies in the Middle East have been an unmitigated disaster.
Russia sends signal over future role
Speaking at defence summit in Tajikistan, Mr Putin also said the situation in Syria would have been "worse than in Libya" had Russia not been supporting its leadership.
European countries have been struggling to cope with thousands of people arriving at their borders after fleeing the conflict.
President Putin's comments come after the US expressed concern at Russia's recent movements near Syria's coastal city of Latakia.
Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said on Monday that a steady flow of people and equipment suggested that Moscow was planning to establish a "forward air operating base" at an airport there.
Last week, officials in Washington quoted by Reuters said Moscow had sent more aircraft and two tank landing ships to Russia's naval base in the Syrian coastal city of Tartus.
They also said a small number of naval infantry forces had been deployed.
Correspondents say US officials fear that the stepped-up Russian support will strengthen the Syrian government at a time when it has been losing on the battlefield and will complicate efforts to find a political solution.
Russia has denied building up their presence in Syria, although Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last week that Russia would send more help to Syria if requested.
The war between President Assad's regime and various rebel groups has so far killed at least 240,000 people and displaced millions.
Syrian and Russian state media said on Saturday that two Russian cargo planes with 80 tonnes of humanitarian aid had landed at Latakia - a stronghold of President Assad.
Russia's defence ministry said the plane was carrying materials for setting up a tent camp for refugees.
A team looking like a fighter on the ropes, covering up for dear life and awaiting the sweet music of the final bell.
A clock that ticked so slowly that you thought on occasion that time had stood still.
A prize that was so close and yet so far away. Glory or despair - no Celtic fan who craved Champions League group stage football almost as much as they craved their next breath could be altogether sure which one it was going to be.
At the end, the cameras picked out some Celtic players and again the boxing metaphor seemed apt. There was joy, no doubt, but some of them looked too exhausted to celebrate. They were physically spent after playing two matches - the one against Hapoel on the pitch and the one against themselves in their heads.
Celtic wrestled with their own shortcomings all night and it must have been mind-altering. Their passing, defending, attacking and physicality. Nothing was easy. They had to dig deep to haul themselves across the line.
They did it, just. But 'just' is OK for now. 'Just' is absolutely fine when you've spent two years outside the Champions League watching the party with your nose pressed to the window.
They have many improvements to make, but they can think about them against the backdrop of Zadok the Priest - the soul-stirring Champions League theme song - rather than the death march that would have played on a loop had Tuesday gone wrong.
Celtic's recent history is littered with the names of men who have sickened them in the final minutes of European games, opposition players who capitalised on weakness and turned good Celtic nights into moderate ones and desperate ones.
Jo-Inge Berget for Malmo at Parkhead last season, Lasse Schone and Vaclav Cerny for Ajax in Glasgow and Amsterdam a few months later. Marcos Tavares for Maribor the season before. Jonathan Soriano for Salzburg, William de Amorim for Astra, Freddy Guarin for Inter.
Late goals that, mostly, turned Celtic wins into Celtic draws and Celtic draws into Celtic losses, all of the sucker-punches coming no more than 15 minutes from the end and the majority coming a whole lot closer to the conclusion than that.
The concession of late goals in Europe was a Ronny Deila curse and, in Israel, on Tuesday, it looked like the hex was about to transfer to his successor, too.
The endgame showed that Hapoel's dominance of possession stood at 62%. They launched a total of 21 attempts on Celtic's goal - three times Celtic's number. Uefa have a statistic for what they call dangerous attacks - Hapoel had 50, Celtic had 18.
Uefa also have possession stats. Celtic's inability to hold on to the ball was palpably obvious - and almost completely ruinous - in real time, but the numbers are worth a visit in any event. No starting Hapoel player had a passing accuracy of less than 70%.
Nobody will have much heart for beating up on Craig Gordon after his outstanding late save in the first leg and his penalty save in the second, but his distribution is something that Brendan Rodgers is looking at and his accuracy figure on Tuesday was 26%. Of the 10 goalkeepers in Champions League action on Tuesday night, Gordon was the least economical with the ball at his feet.
Kieran Tierney's number was 55%, Mikael Lustig 59%, Scott Brown 62%, Callum McGregor 63%, Scott Sinclair 65%, Saidy Janko 69%. They can be better. They'll have to be.
Celtic gave away a penalty (it was not a penalty, but it was given) and they survived it. They conceded a goal after 21 minutes that was farcically soft, then conceded another after 48 minutes that had the hallmarks of Chaplin and Keaton rather than Janko and Gordon.
Celtic were in freefall at 2-0. They gave Hapoel easy possession and free headers on goal, they gave them space and time and invitations to shoot. Celtic were out-played and out-muscled. It was as if the humidity had not just impacted on their ability to run and pass, but their ability to think.
But they did not cave, that was the difference, the change to the narrative. They found enough resilience and resistance, like that boxer on the ropes, ducking and diving and doing all they can to see it out.
For the past seasons it has seemed that all that mattered to Celtic people was getting back to the Champions League. Qualification was the be-all and end-all, but it isn't, not really, not to Celtic supporters.
They say that making the group stage is 'job done' and 'mission accomplished' and while that seems like enough right now, it won't necessarily feel that way to the fans when the smoke clears in the coming weeks. They will not expect last 16, but they will expect something. Some big nights, some wins, some glory.
Neil Lennon got a lot of love for bringing Celtic to the group stage in 2013-14 - and then a lot of grief when Celtic fared poorly against Barcelona, Milan and Ajax, winning just one from six. The feel-good of qualification dissipates. Rodgers knows that.
He will know that he needs to plug some holes in his team. He needs another option to Lustig at right-back and needs another passer, or two, in his midfield for those exacting, but thrilling, Champions League games to come.
On Tuesday night, given the drama, he might also have needed a blast of oxygen. He would not have been alone in having an unnatural heart-rate in those closing minutes. Celtic fans would have been forgiven for lapsing into hyperventilation, blowing into a bag on the full-time whistle while applying a wet towel to their brow.
It was that kind of night. The beauty for the club is that there is now a promise of more of them.
The Bath Rock building was removed for repair after suffering severe damage in early January.
The decision to rebuild the shelter followed a meeting between Ceredigion council and the heritage body, Cadw.
The work will use as much of the original timber as possible, and is likely to start before the end of May.
Part of the shelter fell into a hole that opened up after its foundations were washed away by waves that pounded the seafront.
"A meeting took place between officers of Ceredigion County Council and Cadw on Monday 3 March, with the outcome being that the Bath Rock Shelter on Aberystwyth Promenade will be rebuilt using as much of the original timber as possible," said a council spokesman.
"The rebuilding will commence when the sea wall has been adequately strengthened and the weather improves. Work is likely to begin before the end of May."
In January, Cadw told the council that it wanted the 1920s landmark to be repaired and replaced in its current position.
The council has said the cost of repairing Aberystwyth promenade and other locations in Ceredigion damaged by storms was more than £1.5m.
The council aims to completely reopen the promenade to the public by Easter.
When he died, society was caught in uncertainty - who would succeed him, and how? Some even predicted a violent power struggle.
But the power transfer went remarkably smoothly. Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev was named as the acting president and Karimov's Liberal Democratic party nominated him as its candidate for the presidential election scheduled on 4 December.
Few people today doubt that Mr Mirziyoyev will be the next leader of Uzbekistan.
But the job is far from over.
Mr Mirziyoyev has not been officially registered as a presidential candidate yet but his campaign seems to be in full swing. He has been criss-crossing the country meeting people, issuing decrees and signing laws.
"He does that because he needs to become visible, not everyone will know him," argues Luca Anceschi, a lecturer in Central Asian studies at the University of Glasgow.
Mr Mirziyoyev worked in the shadow of Karimov's rule and, according to cables released by the Wikileaks organisation, he instructed state media not to show images of him because the president may have got jealous.
Now, he's trying to make up lost time: he has visited eight of Uzbekistan's 13 regions of Uzbekistan in two weeks.
Interestingly, Mr Mirziyoyev has so far avoided visiting regions in the Ferghana valley, where discontent over the government's policies is believed to be high. People there still remember how the army violently broke up a major public protest in Andijan in 2005.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev seems to be consolidating power by reshuffling the cabinet, appointing new governors, police chiefs and prosecutors.
He even changed the minister of education and his deputy. The resources of this ministry are regularly used during elections to manipulate votes and reach out to the voters.
Regional media also report that Mr Mirziyoyev's family has started taking over the businesses that belonged to the Karimov family.
But gaining control over finance and powerful state agencies is not enough. The interim president has to compete with Karimov's legacy and convince people he is the rightful successor.
The entire legitimacy of the regime in Uzbekistan was based on Islam Karimov's image. Any thought that someone else could lead the country was suppressed before it could be even voiced. State propaganda relentlessly reminded people that Uzbekistan was a "state with a great future" thanks to Karimov.
"People in Central Asia are very close to their first-generation leader because they have this first president's aura, which others don't have," says Dr Anceschi.
Mr Mirziyoyev needs to boost his legitimacy - and he has done that by promising to follow the course of his predecessor.
"It is our duty to implement the main concepts of the progressive path determined by [Islam Karimov] and follow its direction, goals and aims without questions and in full," he announced when the joint session of the parliament named him as the interim president.
And yet, his first steps reversed some unpopular decisions made under Karimov's rule. He abolished "unscheduled" audits of businesses. Foreign currency revenue regulations for farmers were eased. Main roads used by the president's convoy, and closed for the public, were opened again.
These measures seem to have had an effect on the population. "People say that the new leader cares about them," a resident of the capital Tashkent tells the BBC. "Many are quite optimistic."
In foreign policy, Mr Mirziyoyev called for an "open and widened dialogue" with Tajikistan, which until recently was regarded as the arch enemy. He also invited a delegation from Kyrgyzstan a month after a tense stand-off between the two countries over disputed territories.
These moves are also aimed at bolstering legitimacy, says Alisher Khamidov, from the University of Newcastle.
"In the absence of Karimov, the Uzbek elites need new forms of legitimisation. Good relations with large states such as Russia and with neighbours fit this purpose."
But Lawrence Markowitz, associate professor at Rowan University in New Jersey, says that these steps are superficial. No changes in the political system can be expected in Uzbekistan, he says.
"Elites have vested interests in preserving the status quo that enables them to continue to channel side payments and rents into their private coffers," Dr Markowitz says. "Political institutions are too weak to support a diffusion of power away from the presidency."
In his attempt to get recognition, the new leader of Uzbekistan seems to be offering carrots to the society. But observers agree that this honeymoon period will unlikely last very long and that soon, sticks will replace carrots.
Population 28.1 million
Area 447,400 sq km (172,700 sq miles)
Major languages Uzbek, Russian, Tajik
Major religion Islam
Life expectancy 66 years (men), 72 years (women)
Currency Uzbek som
Alvaro Negredo assisted both goals, with Stuani's opener a brilliant 25-yard effort into the top corner.
The Spaniard then unselfishly squared to Stuani for their second.
The Black Cats improved in the second half and Patrick van Aanholt gave them hope when he turned home after Brad Guzan parried Duncan Watmore's shot.
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David Moyes' side had been booed off after a first half which saw them fail to test Boro debutant Guzan, replacing the injured Victor Valdes.
But after a second-half revival, they almost had a draw when Guzan fumbled another shot, but Donald Love turned the rebound wide.
Relive the game, plus reaction, here.
Middlesbrough's summer signing of Negredo on loan, only a year after Valencia paid £21.25m for the striker from Manchester City, caused some surprise.
A haul of five goals in La Liga last season meant his £100,000-a-week wages would be a gamble for newly promoted Boro.
But a goal on his debut against Stoke was followed by another key performance. He set up the opener for Stuani, although the goal was very much of the Uruguayan's own making as he smashed home from distance.
Negredo only assisted three goals in 40 games for Valencia last season, but had his second of the day when he could have gone alone. The 31-year-old Spain striker had space to shoot but instead, with goalkeeper Vito Mannone braced to attempt a save, Negredo rolled it across to Stuani to fire home.
Sunderland boss Moyes decided to start with Paddy McNair, usually a defender, in midfield alongside Jack Rodwell. And when they needed a tactical reshuffle following an injury to centre-back John O'Shea, it was Rodwell, rather than McNair who dropped back to defence.
But when Moyes scrapped that experiment at half-time and replaced McNair with midfielder Jeremain Lens, they made a game of it.
After the break they had more shots (14-3), more possession and more passes - having been behind on all of those counts in the first half.
But with 34-year-old debutant Steven Pienaar the only Sunderland player other than Jermain Defoe to have more than 10 Premier League goals in his career, they rarely looked like scoring - with the exception of Van Aanholt's goal.
Sunderland boss David Moyes told BBC Sport: "I did not think we deserved to be 2-0 down at half-time. After we lost John O'Shea, we did not get quite sorted. We did not take some chances but they did.
"We played well, we had a great level of intensity but ran out with 10 minutes to go. We have so many young boys and are at the bare bones. The boys did try to win and score in the second half but were unlucky.
"I took positives from the first half, we played well. Overall, they were fine."
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Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka: "The most important thing as always is the points. It's always important to win, especially in a derby and for our crowd who have been waiting for this moment for a long time, so I'm pleased for the players and the crowd.
"The key was the first half. I told the players they would start at 150% but with players of the quality of Cristhian Stuani we were able to score a first goal like that which opened up the game.
"In the second half we had problems but that's normal. The players showed we are ready for the season. We are playing well, compact and with intensity so it was important to get points as quickly as possible."
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The North East rivals are both in EFL Cup second-round action on Wednesday. Boro go to Fulham, with the Black Cats hosting Shrewsbury.
Sunderland's next league game is at Southampton on Saturday, while Boro go to West Brom the next day.
Match ends, Sunderland 1, Middlesbrough 2.
Second Half ends, Sunderland 1, Middlesbrough 2.
Foul by Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough).
Donald Love (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. David Nugent replaces Álvaro Negredo.
Foul by Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough).
Lynden Gooch (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George Friend (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland).
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Ben Gibson.
Attempt missed. Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Stewart Downing.
Attempt blocked. George Friend (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Daniel Ayala replaces Nsue.
Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Donald Love (Sunderland).
Substitution, Sunderland. Joel Asoro replaces Duncan Watmore.
Lynden Gooch (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt blocked. Jeremain Lens (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Donald Love.
Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lynden Gooch (Sunderland).
Foul by Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough).
Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Brad Guzan.
Attempt saved. Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Steven Pienaar.
Attempt blocked. Lynden Gooch (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adnan Januzaj.
Goal! Sunderland 1, Middlesbrough 2. Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Duncan Watmore (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jeremain Lens.
Foul by Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough).
Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Jeremain Lens (Sunderland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough).
Jeremain Lens (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Patrick van Aanholt.
Attempt missed. Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Duncan Watmore with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by George Friend.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by George Friend.
Attempt blocked. Jeremain Lens (Sunderland) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adnan Januzaj.
Attempt blocked. Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Forshaw.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Brad Guzan.
Attempt saved. Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
It is the first time a Swedish commoner has become a princess of Sweden in centuries.
"It's a real Cinderella story," says royal expert Roger Lundgren.
But like the fairytale, this royal love story has not always run smoothly.
News of the couple's relationship in 2010 caused quite a stir.
The prince's new girlfriend was known for appearing in the popular Swedish reality show Paradise Hotel in 2005, which saw young, scantily-clad singles compete to stay in a luxury hotel the longest.
She had also posed topless with a boa constrictor for the men's magazine Slitz.
And her tattoos and belly button piercing raised some eyebrows, with reports that the royal palace may have asked her to have them removed ahead of the weekend's wedding.
"When Carl Philip and Sofia first met I think that many people were critical to her, because of her background and the fact that she had done those bikini-shots and had been part of a reality show," says Johanna Lejon, royals reporter for the newspaper Svensk Damtidning.
Meanwhile Catarina Hurtig, the journalist who first broke the news of the couple's relationship, says: "At first there was quite a lot of fuss about her.
"Perhaps it was quite normal [behaviour] for a Swedish teenager, but maybe not a very appropriate history when falling in love with the prince."
But both experts say that attitudes towards her have changed over the years.
"Sofia has shown... that she is not in this relationship for fortune and fame," says Johanna Lejon.
Ms Hellqvist, 30, herself has said she does not regret anything about her past, although she would not make all the same decisions again.
Meanwhile, the royal palace has set about highlighting her other achievements.
We now know that after her stint on Paradise Hotel, Ms Hellqvist spent time in New York where she studied accounting and became a yoga instructor, helping to set up a yoga centre.
In 2009, she worked as a volunteer in Ghana, and the next year she co-founded the organisation Project Playground, which helps vulnerable children and young people in South Africa.
The previous focus on the raunchier elements of her past caused a "big problem" for the royal house, says Catarina Hurtig.
So the palace turned its attention on transforming her image, she says. "Her charitable work has been great for the royal house to focus on."
A team of stylists also helped prepare her for her new life, replacing the fake tan with classic outfits and swept-back hairstyles.
Catarina Hurtig says they took inspiration from Prince Carl Philip's mother, Queen Silvia.
Born in Germany, the queen also does not have blue blood, but has gone on to become popular among the Swedish public.
It may be down to King Carl XVI Gustaf's own choice of spouse that Prince Carl Philip - who is third in line to the throne - has been able to wed whom he wants.
The prince, 36, must get permission from the king to marry a commoner, and his great uncles lost their royal titles and succession rights when they went ahead with a wedding without it.
King Carl XVI Gustaf has given each of his three children, who have got married within five years of each other, his blessing.
Carl Philip's elder sister, Crown Princess Victoria - the next in line to the throne - married her personal trainer, Daniel Westling, in Stockholm in 2010.
And Princess Madeleine married US-British businessman Christopher O'Neill in 2013.
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Roger Lundgren, royal expert and editor of Kungliga Magazine, says that like in the UK, the younger royals have taken the spotlight from older members in recent years.
And the glamorous couples will no doubt attract the cameras yet again this weekend.
Ms Hellqvist's past career choices are "not a problem" for the liberal Swedish public, Roger Lundgren says, and her experience with the media may well help her in her new role.
Meanwhile Catarina Hurtig says Ms Hellqvist has also helped her future husband to be more comfortable with publicity.
The new princess is expected to devote most of her time fulfilling her royal duties once married, and many hope she will be a role model for future generations.
"The royals have a lot of money and a lot of help with everything from cleaning their castles to taking care of babies, so they should be doing good things in the world and their country," says Catarina Hurtig.
Opinion polls have shown the Swedish royal family's popularity waning in recent years, particularly following a scandal in 2010 over claims the king had visited strip clubs.
But with as many as half a million people expected to line the streets of Stockholm on Saturday, the monarchy is still popular among many.
Fans say Ms Hellqvist - along with her story - has played a big part in this, arguing that she has changed the way people in Sweden view them.
"She is a small town girl and comes from a normal background, just like any of us," says Johanna Lejon.
"The fact that she is now becoming a member of the royal family says a lot about the Swedish king and the queen. They seem, and are, very open to change."
Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May clashed after an alleged Islamist plot to take over some schools in Birmingham.
David Cameron has instructed Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood to look into the row between the ministers.
It came after the prime minister vowed to "sort out" the dispute.
Mr Gove was said by aides to believe Mrs May was too soft on extremism - Mrs May hit back by criticising his department's handling of the Birmingham allegations.
Speaking at the G7 summit in Brussels, Mr Cameron said: "I think it's very important that you recognise that we have got to deal not only with violent extremism but also the sink of extremism, of tolerating extremist views from which violence can grow.
"The whole government is signed up to that agenda and is driving through changes to deliver that agenda.
"As for these issues for the last day or so, I will get to the bottom of who has said what and what has happened and I will sort it all out - once I have finished these important meetings I am having here."
Mr Gove and Mrs May clashed at a recent meeting of the Extremism Task Force - a committee of cabinet ministers set up by Mr Cameron in the wake of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
Allies of Mr Gove, who has long argued for the need to confront Islamist ideology, briefed the Times newspaper about his frustrations that the Home Office was being too soft on extremism.
The home secretary hit back by releasing a letter she had written to Mr Gove accusing his department of losing control of the education system - and of failing to act when concerns about the Birmingham schools were brought to its attention in 2010.
The briefing war escalated, with a Home Office source telling the media: "The Department for Education is responsible for schools, the Home Office is not.
"They have got a problem and they are trying to make it someone else's problem."
Mr Gove denied he was at war with Mrs May, saying he thought the home secretary was "doing a fantastic job".
Asked if he thought she was too soft on Islamic fundamentalism, as his aides appeared to suggest, he said: "No, absolutely not."
Hunt said she was "proud of what has been achieved on BBC One" but "could not resist the chance to join Channel 4 at such an exciting time."
Jana Bennett, the BBC's director of vision, said Hunt had "led BBC One with great commitment and creative flair."
Her appointment follows that of David Abraham, who was made Channel 4's new chief executive in January.
"Channel 4 requires a fearless creative leader to help steer us through our next phase," he said.
"Jay has demonstrated... her appetite to challenge the status quo, create and lead change, and promote new talent."
Julian Bellamy is currently Channel 4's acting chief creative officer and will leave the station after "a short period of transition".
The newly created chief creative officer role combines the channel's former two most senior creative posts, Head of Channel 4 and Director of Television and Content.
Hunt's successes at BBC One include the modern update of Sherlock Holmes, crime thriller Luther and hard-hitting drama Five Daughters.
She was previously controller of BBC Daytime and worked as editor of the One O'Clock and Six O'Clock News.
Hunt was director of programmes at Five when she was appointed BBC One's controller in 2007.
At least eight people died in Garland, near Dallas, five of them when their cars were blown off a motorway.
In west Texas, snow combined with high winds to cause drifts that left a number of roads impassable.
Heavy rains have caused flooding further north, leaving 12 people dead in Missouri and Illinois.
The storms across the south have been unusually powerful for winter.
Reports from Texas said churches were destroyed, cars mangled and trees toppled across a 64km (40 mile) zone from south of Dallas up to suburbs in the north-east.
Garland police believed that tornado-strength winds late on Saturday were the cause of car accidents, Melinda Urbina from the Dallas County Sheriff's office, told the BBC.
Ms Urbina said the winds "tossed cars around" and vehicles were later found below Interstate 30, about 15 miles (24km) north-east of Dallas. She urged local residents to stay off the roads.
In a Sunday morning briefing, Lt Pedro Barineau, of Garland police, said 600 buildings had been damaged.
"It is total devastation," he said.
The Red Cross is setting up shelters for those with damaged homes.
Two people were also found dead at a petrol station in Copeville, and a third was killed in Blue Ridge, reports in Dallas media said.
Kevin Taylor, a church pastor in Glenn Heights, south of Dallas, described to WFAA how his church began collapsing around him.
"Doors began to turn inward, when I saw that I figured the glass was going to shatter and hit me in the face, so I broke and ran down the hallway and by the time I got just a few feet everything collapsed and went dark and fell on top of me," he said, adding: "By the grace of God I'm here though."
Some 25,000 people were without power on Sunday morning.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared Dallas County and three other counties disaster areas.
He warned the death toll could rise.
The National Weather Service confirmed that several tornadoes had touched down near Dallas and other towns in northern Texas.
In the Texas Panhandle and parts of New Mexico and Oklahoma, the problem was snow - high winds caused drifts that have made a number of roads impassable.
Interstate 40 west of Amarillo to the New Mexico border is set to be shut until Monday morning.
The deaths in Dallas come as much of the south-central region of the US has been hit by severe weather in the past week.
Further north, six people died in two incidents when cars drove into flooded roads in Missouri. Another driver was found dead in his car in a creek.
Three adults and two children also drowned in southern Illinois when their vehicle was swept away.
While extreme weather in the US around Christmas is not unknown, meteorologists say that unseasonably high temperatures in some areas contributed to the severity of the storms.
The forecast for the eastern US is of continuing high temperatures - Washington DC pushed close to 70F (21C) on Sunday.
Police say they were first called to Nelson Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent at around 21:00 BST having been told car windows had been smashed.
They were then called to Rochester Road, Sandford Hill to more reports of people fighting and smashed windows.
Six men, aged between 18-23 were arrested on suspicion of affray.
Staffordshire Police say they seized "a machete and hammer along with a red Mercedes" and say they are linking both incidents.
More on this and other Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire stories here
Officers recovered a suspected firearm but say examinations show it was a "plastic, toy gun."
Inspector Mick Eyre, of Staffordshire Police said: "I want to take this opportunity to reassure residents that we take such matters extremely seriously and respond with the appropriate resources."
"Such behaviour on our streets is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Police are appealing for any witnesses to the incidents to get in touch with them.
The senior Conservative MP said mass immigration had put unprecedented strain on education, health and jobs.
The former shadow home secretary also warned that migration was putting too much pressure on certain communities.
In an interview with BBC Look North, David Davis, said: "We are a tolerant nation. We accept people with open arms, but this challenges that.
"From the point of view of maintaining a civilised society, we need to change the rules and that has to be one of the conditions of us staying in the EU."
In a recent speech on immigration, Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to curb welfare for EU migrants coming to the UK - a proposal which would see workers from overseas prevented from claiming certain benefits for up to four years.
However, the Mr Cameron has so far ruled out a limit, or so-called "emergency brake" on EU migration - a move many Conservative backbenchers support.
Any proposal to cap the number of European migrants coming to the UK would be opposed by those who argue that freedom of movement is a fundamental EU principle.
Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, Richard Corbett, said: "There are almost as many Brits living in other European countries as there are EU migrants in Britain.
"Those EU migrants in Britain pay far more in taxes than they take out in benefits."
The recent debate around immigration has focussed largely on the arrival of citizens from Romania and Bulgaria into the UK.
Many argue that newspaper predictions about being Britain being 'swamped' by a new wave of migrants from Eastern Europe proved wide of the mark.
My colleague Sarah Corker travelled to Romania to produce a special report for Sunday Politics in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
She found that many Romanians are worried about young, skilled workers leaving the country, creating a 'brain drain' in hospitals, schools and universities.
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There were hundreds of entries from 51 countries around the world, showcasing the cosmos beyond our planet.
Astronomer judges Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, from the BBC's Sky at Night, and Marek Kukula whittled the entries down to just 20 winning photographs.
Categories included; Earth and Space, Deep Space and Our Solar System.
Images from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 can be seen at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, until 22 February 2015.
Images by: Patrick Cullis (Moon Balloon), Catalin Beldea (Totality from above the clouds), Rogelio Bernal Andreo (California vs Pleiades), David Fitz-Henry (The Helix Nebula), Matt James (Wind Farm Star Trails), O Chul Kwon (Venus-Lunar Occultation), George Tarsoudis (Best of the Craters), Alexandra Hart (Solar Nexus), Stephen Ramsden (Calcium K Eruption), Alexandra Hart (Ripples in a Pond), Olivia Williamson (The Martian Territory), Emmett Sparling (New Year over Cypress Mountain), Eugen Kamenew (Hybrid Solar Eclipse), Chris Murphy (Coastal Stairways), J P Metsavainio (Veil Nebula Detail), Bill Snyder (Horsehead Nebula), James Woodend (Aurora over a Glacier Lagoon)
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Now, he cannot rely on the famous old competition to protect him - or his failure to win the Premier League since 2003/04 - after Watford's shock 2-1 quarter-final win at Emirates Stadium.
So no FA Cup, as good as out of the Champions League as Arsenal attempt to overturn a 2-0 deficit against holders Barcelona in the Nou Camp on Wednesday, and eight points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City after two losses and a draw in their last three league games.
The 66-year-old is a towering figure in Arsenal's history - but if The Gunners finish this season empty-handed it must be time for Wenger to consider relinquishing control of the club he has served with such distinction since September 1996.
So why should the end of Wenger's era be on the agenda?
No Arsenal fan - even Wenger's fiercest detractors - would wish to see a wonderful career peter out to the soundtrack of growing criticism after bringing four titles, which also included two doubles with the FA Cup, and six FA Cup triumphs in all.
There comes a time, however, when any manager's recent record must be subjected to close scrutiny, irrespective of the past. It is not a vendetta or a personal campaign against Wenger, simply an examination of unflattering facts.
It is the law, the reality, of football management.
And if Arsenal do not win the title this season, a campaign they have almost been waiting for in many respects, the time would be right to hand over power because there are no signs that Wenger is close to recreating his successes of the past.
If he fails again, Wenger will have faltered with Arsenal's rivals all stumbling around them. Chelsea have imploded, Manchester City have been indifferent and Manchester United have been off the radar.
It would be a desperate reflection on Wenger and his team if they fail to take advantage of that collection of circumstances.
Since that last title, on the back of 38 games unbeaten, Wenger has only finished second once, in the following season. There have been six fourth-placed finished and four seasons in third. Arsenal have rarely threatened to actually win the title again.
And if they go out to Barcelona, it is will be their sixth successive Champions League exit at the last 16 stage.
If history repeats itself this season, then it must be the end of the old "Arsene Knows" and "In Arsene We Trust" mantras, and change must be considered. Wenger cannot be immune from the normal measures of success and failure.
Any regular visitor to Emirates Stadium will sense the growing frustration and fury among Arsenal fans as their team falls short - an understandable emotion they rightly feel at this huge club.
There were reports of Arsenal supporters confronting each other after the FA Cup loss while a tetchy Wenger described criticism (justified given Arsenal's recent record) as "a farce".
Arsenal fans brandished a prominent banner at the 4-0 FA Cup fifth round replay win at Hull City bearing the words: "Arsene. Thanks For The Memories But It's Time To Say Goodbye."
The air can only be cleared by a trophy and will become more polluted by criticism should Arsenal, as they so often have under Wenger in recent times, come up short once more. Or it could be cleared by a change of manager.
There is growing unrest, not helped by Leicester City's rise to the top and north London rivals Tottenham moving into second place, with Wenger inevitably the central figure and the focal point for fans' disappointments.
This, in reality, means winning the Premier League. Surely Wenger's future now largely hinges on that.
Arsenal's flaws remain the same this season as they have for so many of the barren years. Responsibility for that lies with the manager.
Wenger has invested in big signings by bringing in £42.4m Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid and Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona for £32m - but old failings have been left unattended to undermine Arsenal.
Indeed, Arsenal were the only major club in Europe's top five leagues not to sign a single outfield player last summer. Show of faith or flawed gamble? It will be seen as the latter if Arsenal win nothing.
Arsenal have lacked a powerful midfield presence for many years, yet Wenger has failed to address the problem. It has led to a heavy burden of responsibility being placed on Francis Coquelin, with a free transfer in his second spell at the club, Mathieu Flamini, as back-up.
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And while Olivier Giroud is a serviceable Premier League striker, he is short of true world-class and once again Wenger has failed to produce. Arsenal have been linked with Luis Suarez, Karim Benzema and Gonzalo Higuain, to no avail.
Wenger's once golden touch in spotting and capturing the best youngsters also seems to have deserted him, with Juventus snapping up the brilliant 22-year-old Argentine Paulo Dybala and Borussia Dortmund's Pierre Emerick Aubameyang stating he has no interest in moving to north London.
He was on Arsenal's radar when he was at St Etienne but moved to the Bundesliga in 2013.
Wenger bristles at suggestions Arsenal lack natural leaders but their constant failures and mental weakness at pressure points suggest otherwise - as seen against Watford and also when they lost 3-2 to a youthful and injury-hit Manchester United in February.
These problems have been a narrative in Arsenal's failures - and Wenger has not changed the storyline.
Arsenal's board will not escape scrutiny either, but Wenger has never suggested in recent years that he was stopped from spending money. He has simply adopted a frugal approach that has seen the club left behind.
Sometimes a manager's time simply comes to a conclusion. Twenty years is a lifetime in football and Wenger may well be the last Premier League manager to preside over a dynasty.
And, no matter how fiercely the desire burns to bring back the former glories, a fresh voice is needed - and that time may have finally arrived at Arsenal.
Change is often required to refresh hearts and minds and simply blow away the cobwebs within a club. This is not a criticism of Wenger, simply that a manager's timespan just comes to an end.
Wenger's words praising Arsenal's spirit and attitude have been a constant accompaniment to a lack of silverware and it has been present again during a run of just four wins in 14 games.
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It is a familiar sound, but a hollow one after defeats, and maybe it has become too familiar to his players. They do not back up Wenger's words with actions - maybe they now need to hear someone else.
History will remember Wenger as one of British football's greatest managers, but all good things must come to an end and some results and performances in recent weeks have smacked of the last days of his reign.
There is no agenda against Wenger. There is barely anyone who would begrudge him a happy ending at Arsenal.
Football, however, is not always like that.
This is now actually the biggest problem facing Arsenal's board after their years of complete loyalty to Wenger. It has meant those who would be a perfect fit for the club have gone elsewhere.
Two of the prime contenders are no longer available. Pep Guardiola, who many believe would have seen Arsenal's location, infrastructure and financial power as his perfect Premier League platform, is joining Manchester City, while Jurgen Klopp is at Liverpool.
Manuel Pellegrini will be available at the end of the season after leaving Manchester City, but is the 62-year-old an upgrade on Wenger?
Jose Mourinho is also available but he seems destined for other parts and is hardly the sort of combustible character Arsenal's board would consider, despite his great success. Forget that.
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Ajax manager Frank de Boer would surely welcome the move. He has no Premier League experience but has great pedigree as a player and has won four Eredivisie titles.
Bayer Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt is highly rated, while plenty with Arsenal connections might emerge from the pack.
Steve Bould has worked alongside Wenger but has no managerial experience, while others are serving their apprenticeship.
Patrick Vieira appears to have been lost to Manchester City as he now coaches New York City FC, Dennis Bergkamp works with De Boer at Ajax, while Thierry Henry has just completed his Uefa "A" coaching qualifications.
If Wenger leaves he will be a hard act to follow - and a hard man to replace.
Brendan Rodgers' side survived early pressure to sweep to victory and secure the earliest title success, with eight games to spare, in a 38-game campaign.
Two deadly finishes from Sinclair - he has scored six in three outings against Hearts - edged Celtic ahead.
Stuart Armstrong and Patrick Roberts matched them before a Sinclair penalty.
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The final whistle signalled a party in the Edinburgh sunshine as Celtic celebrated their 48th Scottish title - their 12th this century and first with Rodgers as manager.
And the records keep tumbling for Celtic, who remain unbeaten in 37 domestic games this season, eclipsing a 100-year-old club record.
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Winning the title in Edinburgh was an act of perfect symmetry for Rodgers' side.
The Northern Irishman's first domestic game in charge of Celtic was at Tynecastle and the packed stands were playing host to the 300th league meeting between the sides - and the 150th to be hosted by Hearts.
On that day back on 7 August, a late goal from Sinclair was needed to subdue hosts who were looking to overtake Aberdeen as Celtic's main title challengers after finishing third in their first season back in the top flight.
A Sinclair double also helped secure a 4-0 win over Hearts in Glasgow in January on a day when he deputised up front due to the absence of first-choice strikers Moussa Dembele and deputy Leigh Griffiths.
That day, the 28-year-old's goals came after he was switched to a more natural wide role, with Roberts in the centre, and that's the way they started at Tynecastle this time out as Rodgers was again denied his two top marksmen through injury.
Lesson learned, one-time Manchester City winger Sinclair combined superbly with fellow Englishman Roberts, himself on loan from the Etihad Stadium, twice within three first-half minutes to virtually end Hearts' challenge.
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Aberdeen's 7-0 thrashing of Dundee on Friday had ensured that Celtic would require another three points to secure the title.
However, there were few signs that Hearts had the form to make them wait any longer.
Celtic had arrived at Tynecastle unbeaten in their last 10 visits since their last defeat by Hearts - 2-0 at Tynecastle in October 2011 - with the Edinburgh side only avoiding defeat once during that spell.
Since Ian Cathro had taken over as head coach from MK Dons-bound Robbie Neilson, they had slipped from second to fifth and had won only once in their last seven outings.
Yet they had lost only two of their last 14 Premiership home games and they came out full of determination to deny Celtic a title party in their own back yard.
Cathro looked to have won the early tactical battle, with his high-pressing game knocking the visitors out their stride and Isma Goncalves twice testing goalkeeper Craig Gordon, who then saved at point-blank range from Jamie Walker.
It had looked ominous for Hearts when Sinclair played in Callum McGregor to find the net after only two minutes.
The linesman's flag allowed the home side to breathe again and they were soon giving as good as they got in a fast and furious start that raged from end to end.
McGregor somehow side-footed wide from only six yards and we began to question Rodgers' decision to switch to an unusual formation with three at the back.
However, Sinclair played a clever one-two with Roberts on the edge of the penalty box before thumping high past goalkeeper Jack Hamilton to give Celtic a 24th-minute lead.
It was soon two as Roberts threaded the ball behind the Hearts defence for Sinclair to score again.
Hearts' defensive frailties had come home to roost and Armstrong's 20-yard drive after the break and Roberts' deft chip from the edge of the penalty area ensured the title was on its way back to Glasgow.
Sinclair completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot after being pulled down by Krystian Nowak.
What now for Celtic? With the League Cup already won, a Scottish Cup semi-final awaits as they seek a domestic treble and the prospect of ending the domestic season unbeaten - a feat no Scottish champions have achieved since the late 19th century.
Match ends, Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 5.
Second Half ends, Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 5.
Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Kieran Tierney (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian).
Foul by Stuart Armstrong (Celtic).
Andraz Struna (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Celtic. Kolo Touré replaces Dedryck Boyata.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 5. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty Celtic. Scott Sinclair draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian) after a foul in the penalty area.
Kieran Tierney (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian).
Substitution, Celtic. Cristian Gamboa replaces Mikael Lustig.
Substitution, Celtic. Gary Mackay-Steven replaces Patrick Roberts.
Attempt saved. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Angus Beith replaces Esmael Gonçalves.
Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Dedryck Boyata (Celtic).
Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Krystian Nowak.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Prince Buaben replaces Alexandros Tziolis.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Malaury Martin replaces Jamie Walker.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 4. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Callum McGregor.
James Forrest (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Don Cowie (Heart of Midlothian).
Attempt saved. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Goal! Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 3. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alexandros Tziolis (Heart of Midlothian).
Attempt missed. Bjorn Johnsen (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian).
Foul by Jozo Simunovic (Celtic).
Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 2.
First Half ends, Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 2.
James Forrest (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The bus was travelling from Kandahar to Kabul when the accident took place in the Jildak area of Zabul province.
Many of the dead, including women and children, were charred beyond recognition in the inferno. At least 25 people were also injured.
Afghanistan has a bad traffic accident record, with many poorly maintained roads and vehicles.
The injured were taken to Zabul's capital, Qalat, and to Kandahar province. Some are in critical condition.
Gul Islam Seyal, spokesman for the provincial governor in Zabul, accused the drivers of both vehicles of recklessness.
The Kabul-Kandahar road is prone to militant activity and some drivers increase speed to avoid involvement.
In May, 73 people died when two buses and a fuel tanker collided on a highway in Ghazni province.
At least 30 people died in a similar accident in Kandahar province in April 2013.
The sport's next global event will be held in 12 locations in Japan, from Sapporo City in the north to Kumamoto City in the south and all manner of compelling places in between.
Shimazu is talking about the pressure, and the honour, associated with a leading role in hosting not just Asia's first Rugby World Cup but the first to take place outside of the game's traditional hotbeds.
"Yes, I feel the pressure," says Shimazu. "Especially after the England World Cup was such a great success. Even when the national team failed to make the knockouts, there was a fantastic atmosphere in the country.
"Our challenge, though, is not to try to imitate England but to make a very Japanese World Cup, to identify the things that make us unique. We have three years, but the reality of it all is really sinking in."
This woman from Kirkintilloch, this surreal departure from the Land of the Rising Sun to the village in East Dunbartonshire, is Shimazu's idea. He mentions that Japanese people, in the past few years, have come to have a greater understanding of Scotland through a programme that ran on the NHK channel, a mini-series - 15 minutes from 08:00 six days a week - that brought in upwards of 20 million viewers per show during its 150 episodes that ran from September 2014 to March 2015.
It was a drama called 'Massan', based on the real-life story of Masataka Taketsuru, an heir to a liquor store with a passion for making whisky, and his wife Jessie Roberta Cowan, a doctor's daughter from Kirkintilloch. "It was a dramatisation of their lives and it was very famous in Japan," says Shimazu.
He tells the tale of Taketsuru leaving Japan for Glasgow in 1918 in pursuit of knowledge about the whisky industry. He enrolled on a course at Glasgow University and fell in love with the daughter of the family he was staying with - Jessie, who was known as Rita.
Taketsuru learned about whisky on visits to distilleries in Speyside and Campbeltown. He married Rita in a registry office in Glasgow in January 1920.
"And then they came to Japan and created Nikka Whisky, which is still very popular today, 100 years later," explains Shimazu. "They set up their distillery in Hokkaido [Japan's northernmost island]. That's close to Sapporo, a host venue for the World Cup.
"Even during World War II, Rita stayed there. Her husband asked if she wanted to go home, but she stayed. Maybe Scotland and their fans should base themselves in Sapporo in 2019 and taste the Nikka Whisky that one of their own people helped create."
Taketsuru - known as Massan - is remembered as the father of Japanese Whisky - a vastly successful industry - and Rita is known as its mother. "Through this programme we learned about Scottish culture," says Shimazu.
There are many other things he has had to learn about in the role he has held for two years, his appointment coming largely because of his knowledge of how local government works in Japan.
"We have 12 host venues but we actually have 19 local governments covering those 12 venues," he says. "I've 40 years' experience working in that world."
A World Cup in Japan is by turns exciting and challenging. From the 72,327 capacity at the International Yokohama Stadium - where the 2002 football World Cup final was held and where the rugby equivalent will be staged in 2019 - to the 16,187 capacity in Kamaishi City, the 12 host grounds have a total average capacity of 37,888, which is almost 10,000 less than England in 2015 but almost 9,500 higher, per ground, than the New Zealand World Cup in 2011.
That's an awful lot of tickets to sell. True, there are 126 million people living here but this country is one of rugby union's newborns in the grand scheme of things.
Fewer than 25,000 turned up at the Toyota Stadium - capacity 45,000 - last Saturday to watch the Brave Blossoms lose 26-13 to Scotland. On top of that, there is competition from the Olympics that will take place in Tokyo less than a year after the World Cup.
Shimazu and his team wanted the ticket-selling process up and running by the end of this year, but that's not going to happen. Some of the leading rugby nations were successful in their bid to have the draw put back until May 2017. "We'd like to sell our tickets as early as we can," he says.
"There are lots of infrastructural advantages of having the Olympics straight after the World Cup, but one small worry is that one of our stadiums in Tokyo is also hosting the Olympic sevens so we're concerned that some Japanese people, who don't know much about rugby but would like to come and watch, may be confused about tickets for the 15-a-side games and the sevens games.
"The quicker we know who is playing where, the better chance we have of getting our plans in place.
"There are other challenges. Accommodation is a big challenge, but hotels are under construction. There's also a higher expectation amongst the people of Japan after the team did so well in England. Maybe we'll be drawn against Scotland again, like in England. Of course, next time we'll win."
It's said as a joke, but you wouldn't doubt them. The hosts will stage a hell of a party - and they're not intending to bow out early.
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A South African activist who campaigned to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes has been given a place at Oxford - as a Rhodes scholar.
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Protests are taking place across India against rising attacks on Muslims and Dalits (formerly untouchables) by vigilante cow protection groups.
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Everton will face Slovakia's Ruzomberok or Brann of Norway in the third qualifying round of the Europa League.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged continued military support for Syria's Bashar al-Assad despite growing concerns over Moscow's role in the war.
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Celtic fans might not have expected it to be easy, but few could have thought it would be so hard.
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A Grade II-listed seafront shelter is to be rebuilt after being badly damaged by the winter storms that battered Aberystwyth promenade.
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Up until recently, people in Uzbekistan knew only one leader - Islam Karimov, who created one of the most repressive states in the world.
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Cristhian Stuani scored twice on his Premier League debut as Middlesbrough beat Sunderland in the first Wear-Tees league derby in seven and a half years.
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Former model Sofia Hellqvist is marrying Sweden's Prince Carl Philip in a lavish ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday.
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Britain's most senior civil servant will investigate the high-profile row between two senior cabinet ministers over tackling extremism in schools.
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Jay Hunt is to leave her role as controller of BBC One to become chief creative officer at Channel 4.
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Eleven people have been killed in tornadoes in Texas, police say, with heavy rain and snow causing deaths and disruption in a number of other states.
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Armed police were called to two reports of men fighting in the street, some said to be armed with bats, poles and what was described as a gun.
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Former Europe minister David Davis has called for a cap on the number of EU migrants coming to the UK.
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From a close up look at the swirling angry gases on the Sun, to a serene night sky filled with a shimmering green aurora - the Royal Observatory's annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, has produced some incredible photographs.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has used the FA Cup as a safety net for the last two seasons - final victories against Hull City and Aston Villa bringing the success that has eluded him elsewhere for so long.
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Celtic clinched a sixth consecutive Scottish title with a flourish as three-goal Scott Sinclair again proved to be a thorn in the flesh of Hearts.
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A passenger bus and fuel tanker have collided in southern Afghanistan, leaving at least 36 people dead.
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We're sitting in a room at the Prince Chichibu Stadium in the Aoyama district of Tokyo, hearing about a woman from Kirkintilloch; a bewildered Irishman (me), a puzzled Scotsman (John Beattie) and, holding court, a former government internal affairs minister, Akira Shimazu - president of the organising committee of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
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The Team Sky road captain suffered injuries including a broken rib in a crash on the opening stage, but rode on to support team leader Froome.
"It's been brutal," said the Welshman.
"It's been the hardest Tour. I crashed on stage one and it just whacked me, broke a rib, hit my head and really shook me up."
Froome secured the yellow jersey in Saturday's penultimate stage, a 22.5km time trial in Marseille, extending his overall lead from 23 to 54 seconds with Rigoberto Uran second and Romain Bardet dropping to third.
Tradition dictates that no general classification rivals attack the yellow jersey on the final stage in Paris on Sunday, meaning Froome should win the race in Paris.
Geraint Thomas, Rowe's fellow rider from Cardiff - who became the first Welshman to wear the yellow jersey - was forced out with a broken collarbone after a crash on stage nine when second in the overall standings.
Rowe admits that if his own crash had not been in the Tour de France, then he might also have withdrawn because of his injuries.
"You never like to go home [early] from a race, but there's times I was in a bit of a mess, times were pretty tough," Rowe admitted.
"But when you've got the yellow jersey in the team and what I believe to be the best rider in the world, you're in that position where you've got to defend yellow.
"The only way you go home is if you physically can't ride your bike or missed the time limit... but if it had been another race then yeah, it could have been an early taxi.
"I knew I had a job to do and I battled through and did it.
"The first 10-12 days I was really struggling, the toughest Grand Tour I've ever done.
"It's been quite nice on a personal achievement to be here [at the end], to have made it to Paris. It's been a tough three weeks."
Rowe is in line to claim the lanterne rouge, an unofficial award for the cyclist who completes the Tour in last place, as he finished in 167th in Marseille.
Unlike in other sports where last is seen as failure, the lanterne rouge carries respect as it honours the role of the domestiques - the team riders who sacrifice their own ambitions to help their team leader's bid for yellow.
Rowe has spent much of the 2017 Tour chasing down breakaways at the front, then bringing up the rear of the peloton having spent all his energy in Froome's cause.
The 27-year-old again typified that role in Saturday's time trial, as his earlier efforts were used to help his fellow Team Sky riders.
"For me it was more a case of absorbing as much information as possible that I could feed back to the lads, that was the most important thing," Rowe added.
"There was quite a bit of wind out there, a cobbled section, so where's best to ride, check out a few of the bends and... feed it back.
"It's a time trial with some big, long and straight boulevards so there's plenty of places to put the power down, then stay calm on the technical sections."
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In an interview after his arrest, the 28-year-old England international admitted kissing the girl, but denied more serious sexual contact.
A jury at Bradford Crown Court heard Mr Johnson told officers he "knew it was wrong" and that he "had a girlfriend".
He denies two counts of sexual activity with a child.
In the interview, conducted after his arrest at his County Durham home, Mr Johnson admitted exchanging messages with the girl on social media before meeting her to sign football shirts.
He also admitted kissing her at a second meeting on 30 January last year, but denied it was passionate and repeatedly denied more serious sexual conduct.
Mr Johnson told detectives: "I knew it was wrong. I have a girlfriend for one. Lots of reasons. I've got a family, a career.
"I said to myself 'it was poor ... I should have known better'."
During the interview, the player denied undoing the teenager's jeans or touching her intimately, adding: "I did not touch her down her pants or anything like that."
Mr Johnson agreed he had met the girl after they had talked on WhatsApp about a "thank you kiss" for him signing the shirts.
He added: "She came into the car and she said about a thank you kiss. It was just like a normal kiss. Just how you would kiss someone."
The interviewing officer, Det Con Kimberley Walton, asked the footballer why, when he was arrested, he told his girlfriend, Stacey Flounders, the teenager told him she was 16.
Mr Johnson said he had been trying to keep the truth from Miss Flounders and he had not been trying to deceive the police.
He said: "It was more between me and her. I didn't want to go back home and she'd taken my daughter and didn't give me a chance to explain myself.
"I sort of just panicked. I wasn't going to keep it from you (the police)."
Earlier, Mr Johnson admitted he had created a new Snapchat account to talk to the teenager, who cannot be named, so Miss Flounders could not see it.
He said they had had problems in the past with him "texting girls and stuff".
He said: "It was more to hide it from my girlfriend, if you know what I mean."
Dr Paul Hunton, a forensic computers expert, told the jury a Google search for "legal age of consent" was made on Mr Johnson's phone four days after he met the girl.
He described how he examined an iPhone 6 from Mr Johnson's house and verified a series of web pages were accessed on 3 February last year.
The court heard Miss Flounders, also 28, quizzed Mr Johnson about the age of the girl.
Det Con Walton agreed that Miss Flounders said to him: "Who is she?"
The officer also agreed that he replied: "It's (the girl's name). I just gave her a couple of shirts."
The court heard that Miss Flounders said: "How old is she?"
And Mr Johnson replied: "Well, she said she was 16."
The footballer has previously pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child and one charge of grooming. He was sacked by Sunderland as a result.
The trial continues.
Keane, who missed the warm-up games against the Netherlands and Belarus with a calf injury, trained with his leg strapped.
Jonathan Walters and Robbie Brady sat out the session in Abbotstown.
The squad were given the weekend off but resumed training on Monday and will travel to France on Wednesday.
Manager Martin O'Neill put the squad through their paces at their Dublin base with Everton midfielder James McCarthy also taking a full part in the session having recovered from his groin and hamstring injury.
Stoke forward Walters sat out the warm-up as he gets over his Achilles strain, as did Norwich winger Brady.
The pair trained separately but are expected to be fully fit for the Group E opener at the Stade de France.
The Republic face Belgium and Italy after their match against Sweden.
At the end of the first week of a review of the 56 stalled proceedings, Lord Justice Weir said matters "needed to be taken out of neutral and put into a forward-moving gear".
He suggested that better training for those engaged in redaction work might be of benefit.
The review will continue next week.
The two-week review into 56 legacy cases began on Monday.
The cases involve 95 deaths where inquests have still to be heard.
These include some of the most controversial killings during the Troubles.
GVC Holdings has raised its takeover bid to about £1bn, topping an offer from 888 Holdings.
888 bid £898m for the firm earlier this month, an offer Bwin accepted.
GVC said it was "working on finalising" its bid, which Bwin said would be considered by its board, although it cautioned "there can be no certainty that an offer will be made by GVC".
GVC's offer is worth 122.5 pence per share, which will be made up of 25 pence in cash and 1 new GVC share.
The 888 deal valued Bwin shares at 104.09p each. This latest move comes less than six months after 888 rejected a takeover bid from William Hill, which valued it at about £750m.
Online gambling companies are merging to try and reduce operating costs as they are exposed to stricter regulation.
"This is a real statement of intent from GVC. The proposed premium over the accepted offer by 888 is such that the bwin.party board will probably have no choice but to reconsider its acceptance of the 888 offer," analysts at Davy Research said.
"We would be surprised if 888 does not come back with a counter-offer of its own."
Craig Levein, the club's director of football, said earlier this week that the 23-year-old wants to leave Hearts.
In a statement on Thursday, Hearts aimed to "correct some misinformation" surrounding Walker's contractual situation.
"It would seem that the player would prefer to see out the remaining year of his contract."
Walker came through Hearts' development system, has been a first-team regular at Tynecastle since 2012 and is under contract until 2018.
Levein said head coach Ian Cathro had "been through quite an extensive discussion with Jamie to try to get him to stay".
The director of football added: "Jamie said he has been here a long time and feels it is time to move on."
On Thursday, Hearts addressed "ill-informed and potentially damaging stories relating to Jamie Walker and his contractual position with the club".
"Naturally, the club wants him to stay and made earnest efforts to secure his long-term future here at Hearts," the statement added.
"Those efforts were reflected in the new three-year deal offered to the player in February 2017, one which would've made Jamie the highest paid player at the club.
"Despite Jamie initially agreeing to sign this contract, the club was then informed that he had changed his mind and would not be signing the new deal.
"Despite the club doing everything in its power to hold onto, and reward, one of its top youth products, it would seem that the player would prefer to see out the remaining year of his contract, leaving the club in a no-win situation.
"The club has no desire to lose a talent such as Jamie. He is a firm favourite both with the fans and indeed the management. Nor would it stand in the way of any player who does not want to sign a contract and play for Hearts.
"We must protect the interests of the fans and the business when faced with such a scenario.
"Hearts totally refute any suggestion that a member of the club board or senior executive would be less than honest with any information provided to the media or the fans and it was insulting to see such accusations and falsehoods spread across social media."
"We're not making a Smurfs 3 film," said its director Kelly Asbury.
"Our story will explore the beginnings of the beloved little blue creatures in a fun full CG-animated comedy-adventure for every generation to enjoy."
The August 2015 release will follow two live action/CGI "hybrids" in which the Smurfs interacted with human actors.
The new film, Asbury added, "will be stylistically closer to the original artwork created by Peyo".
Peyo was the pen name of Pierre Culliford, the Belgian comic book artist who in 1958 created Les Schtroumpfs, as they are known in their home country.
Asbury's previous films include 2011's Gnomeo & Juliet and 2004's Shrek 2, which he co-directed with Andrew Adamson and Conrad Vernon.
Released in 2011, the first Smurfs film made $142.6m (£85.6m) in the US and Canada and more than $563.7m (£338.4m) worldwide, according to the Box Office Mojo website.
Yet its 2013 follow-up did not perform as strongly, making just $71m (£42.6m) in North America and £347.5m (£208.6m) in total.
It is not known whether US singer Katy Perry will return to provide the voice for Smurfette, the only female in the fantasy village where her mischievous species reside.
Sony Pictures Animation has also announced plans for a fully computer-generated return of spinach-eating sailor Popeye, to be directed by Genndy Tartakovsky of Hotel Transylvania fame.
Bomb Gaza - in which players control an Israeli military jet that attacks missile-firing Palestinian militants - is no longer available on the sites.
But Rocket Pride - which sees players attempt to outmanoeuvre Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system - is still available on Google Play.
Advocacy groups criticised the games.
"Games that glorify violence or normalise conflict when referring to an actual conflict that is happening as we speak are deeply problematic and deeply distasteful," Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab British Understanding, told the BBC.
"Google, Facebook or any other company that host such games, should be reviewing their policies and making absolutely all efforts to ensure that such games are not hosted on their platforms."
Amnesty International UK added that it thought the games were "in highly questionable taste" bearing in mind the "terrible suffering" caused by the conflict.
"[Gamers] should consider closing their war games app and instead read about real life right now in Gaza City, Rafah or indeed in southern Israel," said Allan Hogarth, the group's head of policy.
A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it needed to look into the titles in question before commenting.
The Daily Dot was one of the first news sites to bring attention to the phenomenon when it named several Android games relating to the conflict on Monday.
Many of the titles that are still online were released in the past few weeks and involve the player taking control of Israel's Iron Dome system to destroy incoming missiles.
"Intercept the rockets launched by Hamas by clicking on them and activating the Iron Dome. Hurry up, civilians are threatened and you will be held responsible if anything happens," reads the description of Iron Dome by Gamytech.
Apple's iOS store features a similar title - Iron Dome Missile Defense, released by Simon Rosenzweig on 30 July - however, its description is more vague, referring instead to an unnamed "enemy".
Google Play also features Rocket Pride by Best Arabic Games, in which the player is tasked with "supporting heroes besieged in the Gaza Strip from an oppressive occupier" by "controlling the resistance missiles and hitting the objectives assigned to them".
Google has, however, removed:
The games had attracted negative reviews from some other Android device owners before being deleted.
A spokeswoman for Google would not discuss specific apps, but said: "We remove apps from Google Play that violate our policies."
The firm's developer's terms and conditions ban apps that advocate "against groups of people based on their race or ethnic origin", and/or are judged to threaten other users.
A spokesman for Facebook was unable to provide comment or confirm who was responsible for removing Bomb Gaza from its platform.
Other titles relating to the conflict - including Raid Gaza, a Flash-based game - have also been released to run on desktop computers.
One industry watcher suggested the major mobile app store owners were relatively well positioned to tackle complaints.
"The difference between Google Play and Apple iOS is that on the Apple's store apps are vetted before they are listed, while on Play, Google curates but only takes things down after they are published," said Ian Fogg, a tech analyst at the IHS consultancy.
"But in both examples they are managed experiences, which makes them better at handling this kind of thing than random websites that allow an app to be downloaded to a PC."
The foreign ministry approved the extradition in May but Guzman's lawyers have been fighting the decision in a district court.
They say they will now take the case to a higher court.
The head of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel was recaptured in January after escaping for a second time from a maximum security prison.
Mexico has said it expects to extradite Guzman to the US by February. He faces multiple charges in the US, including drug trafficking and murder.
In a statement, the Mexican attorney general's office said the federal judge had "decided to reject the protection" sought by Guzman.
Andres Granados, one of Guzman's lawyers, said he would seek a Supreme Court hearing and might take the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
"We are not defeated," he told AFP news agency.
Guzman is being held in a maximum security prison in Ciudad Juarez, near the US border. He was arrested in January after six months on the run following his escape through a tunnel in his jail cell.
He had already escaped a maximum security facility once before, spending 13 years at large.
Mexico agreed to transfer Guzman in May after the US guaranteed he would not face the death penalty.
The device was demoed at the CES tech show where it autonomously detected and avoided a fallen object.
Intel part-owns Yuneec, the company behind the drone, and provided the device's 3D camera sensor.
The RealSense technology involved uses infrared lasers to detect the distance of nearby things.
Should evasive action be necessary, the aircraft takes it on its own.
At CES, the Typhoon H drone followed a cyclist through a small course on stage, complete with a handful of mock "trees".
When one of these obstacles was made to fall in the drone's path, it dodged it, and thereby avoided a collision.
"The drone was able to stop, wait and go round that obstacle as well - following the rider all the time," said Intel's chief executive Brian Krzanich.
"Any other commercial drone out there would have crashed into the tree."
The Typhoon H also has a 4K camera which has can pan 360-degrees and take photographs with a 12 megapixel sensor.
Intel said it would be on sale within six months. It is set to cost $1,799 (£1,200).
Features such as collision avoidance are not likely to prevent the kind of tumbles which nearly caught skier Marcel Hirsher last month, commented IHS analyst Tom Morrod, when a drone malfunctioned.
"There's a safety aspect which is probably not going to go away - things that fly occasionally crash," he said.
However, he added, the benefits of more intelligent drones are not to be underestimated.
"Things like collision avoidance, self navigation, spatial awareness - all of these technologies that take away the manual control of the drones are enabling drones for commercial purposes," he said.
"Those could be security or delivery or maintenance, all of those types of applications - that's going to be what really drives the market."
Another safety conscious drone at CES comes in the form of Belgian firm Fleye's device. It encloses its spinning blades within both a shell and a cage to help reduce the risk of injury.
However, as a demo for the BBC proved, it is still possible for the device to swerve off-course and crash.
Parrot announced another new drone - one capable of flying much further and faster than helicopter-inspired devices, thanks to a fixed wing design.
The Disco drone can fly for up to 45 minutes and follow a pre-planned flight path via GPS waypoints.
Its on-board camera is embedded into the drone's nose and captures video in 1080p high definition.
Parrot hopes to make the device available later in 2016.
"This 'drone on steroid' speaks to the innovation in this wave of consumer drones," said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Research.
"We believe this is a $3bn market opportunity over the next few years and high-octane drones like Parrot's are a sign of things to come."
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The image by Atena Farghadani depicted MPs casting votes on the proposed legislation as animals.
Ms Farghadani, 28, faces charges of spreading propaganda, insulting MPs, and insulting the supreme leader.
The laws would end decades of family planning in Iran, outlawing vasectomies and restricting contraception.
Ms Farghadani was first arrested in August 2014, when her home was raided by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, and taken to Gharchak prison.
She was released in December but was rearrested again in January after posting a video online in which she alleged that she had been beaten by prison guards and interrogated for up to nine hours a day.
Three weeks after being rearrested, Ms Farghadani went on hunger strike to protest against conditions at the prison. She was taken to hospital in late February after suffering a heart attack and briefly losing consciousness.
She has since been held in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison.
Raha Bahreini, an Iran researcher for Amnesty International, told the BBC: "We are very concerned that Atena has even been put on trial.
"She is a prisoner of conscience and she has been held solely because of her opinions and for exercising the right to free expression.
"From our point of view she must be released immediately and unconditionally."
Ms Bahreini said that her trial might be as short as just one day. If convicted of the charges, she could face up to two years' imprisonment.
The draft laws mocked by Ms Farghadani's cartoon would outlaw vasectomies for men and voluntary sterilisation for women, and restrict women's access to birth control.
The legislation was widely criticised when it was announced in March. Amnesty said that if approved by parliament, it would set women's rights in Iran back by decades.
Women's rights groups warned that restricting access to birth control risked forcing women into unsafe abortions.
Ms Farghadani's cartoon has been shared on Twitter and Facebook since her arrest using the hashtag #freeatena, and a Facebook page set up to document her case has attracted messaged of support from around the world.
Responding to the charges laid against her in an open letter to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ms Farghadani said: "What you call an 'insult to representatives of the parliament by means of cartoons' I consider to be an artistic expression of the home of our nation (parliament), which our nation does not deserve!"
An Amnesty petition calling for Ms Farghadani's release garnered 33,000 signatures and was presented at the Iranian embassy in London on Monday.
Data released for the first time, shared with BBC News, reveals the most popular locations outside London that people share with their followers.
Stonehenge, the Reading Festival and Manchester United's ground Old Trafford all appear high on the list.
Manchester was England's most Instagrammed city after central London.
The capital has previously claimed all 10 of the most photographed locations in the UK, including Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, Harrods and the Houses of Parliament.
The latest data concentrates on sites outside the capital's main tourism spots.
Instagram does not release figures for the number of times each location was photographed. However, a spokeswoman revealed its users were "twice as likely to Instagram Brighton Pier compared to the University of Oxford", which is the seventh most popular site.
Stonehenge was the second most popular location, with visitors taking selfies by the Neolithic monument in Wiltshire.
Marc Thorley, spokesman for Brighton Pier, said: "We get some really clear skies, which help create the perfect backdrop for amateur and professional photographers.
"It's an iconic place in British history, even if it hasn't been around as long as Stonehenge."
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Dismaland, the dystopian theme park in Weston-super-Mare created by Banksy, ranked highly at number five, despite being only a temporary art project.
After London, Manchester was the place where the most photographs were taken in England, according to Instagram.
Birmingham, England's second biggest city for population, came fifth after Brighton, Bristol and Liverpool.
One is Dos Erres, a village in the jungle of the Peten region which was wiped from the face of the earth by soldiers in December 1982.
The other is Efrain Rios Montt, the de facto president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces at the time.
Today, the road to Dos Erres is long and riddled with potholes.
But for our guide, Luis Saul Arevalo, known as Don Saul, it was a far more arduous journey. Don Saul is a survivor of the notorious massacre, and the trip to the place where his village once stood brought back some very traumatic memories.
He points out grisly signposts along the way - a parcel of land where his friends once lived, the place where the school used to be, or perhaps worst of all, the site of the village well, where the army dumped the mutilated bodies of their victims.
Don Saul was just 25 when scores of troops came into his village. In three days of sustained torture, rape and murder the army killed at least 200 villagers. Among them were Saul's parents, his five younger brothers and sisters, and his three-year-old niece.
Don Saul was only saved because he had gone into town with his wife.
As he surveys what is now cattle-grazing land, he remembers the day he returned to the once-thriving village after the soldiers had carried out their infamous "scorched earth" policy in the search for left-wing guerrillas.
"Two weeks after the massacre, I was able to come back here. Where children had once run and played football, where you could previously hear hymns being sung in church or see birds overhead and cattle in our pastures, there was nothing. All the homes had been burned. They left nothing."
In all, six soldiers have been tried for the crimes at Dos Erres for which they received dozens of consecutive life sentences. And yet, even though it was one of the most notorious events of his time in power, the massacre did not even appear on the list of charges against Gen Rios Montt.
Rather, the former military leader was tried for genocide related to the murders of 1,771 members of the Ixil ethnic group in another part of Guatemala.
But Don Saul believes his village should have been part of the genocide case.
"It was the bloodiest year in Guatemala's history. They can't say that there wasn't genocide in Guatemala, because we gathered up the bodies of children, pregnant women, the elderly, of young women who'd been raped. I saw little children's socks stained with blood.
"By not leaving a single human being alive in this village, they committed genocide."
Barely two weeks ago, a court agreed. There had been genocide in Guatemala, the presiding Judge Jazmin Barrios said, and the then-President Rios Montt was guilty of having planned it and ordered it.
For that and other crimes against humanity he was sentenced to 80 years in prison, sending the human rights activists and victims' families in the chamber into jubilation.
But his legal team immediately sought to overturn the sentence. Earlier this week, they were successful.
The ruling was annulled and the case has been reset to where it stood on 19 April.
On that day, Gen Rios Montt's lawyer, Francisco Garcia Gudiel, was thrown out of the courtroom after accusing the judge of bias, leaving the former military leader temporarily without legal representation. Now a new verdict must be reached.
Mr Garcia Gudiel says the decision to overturn the genocide sentence was right for two reasons.
"The constitutional court ordered that there be no sentencing until after a series of appeal issues had been resolved. But the tribunal disobeyed that order and hurriedly issued their sentence. That's why we disagree with the verdict, on the one hand.
"And secondly," he adds, turning to a point of deep division in Guatemala, "we simply don't agree that there was genocide in Guatemala. In Guatemala there has never been genocide. We can't be compared with Rwanda or Yugoslavia or Nazi Germany."
The victims' families disagree.
Dona Maria Esperanza Arriaga, whose two daughters, aged four and six, were murdered in December 1982, says it has been hard watching the former military leader lodge appeal after appeal.
"This man has asked for so many appeals. But why didn't he give us the opportunity to appeal?" she asks, the tears rolling down her cheeks.
Sitting on the porch of her wooden shack in the Peten, she remembers those days vividly.
"He just ordered the army to scorch the earth. He never gave us the chance to show that we weren't guerrillas. I'd never met the guerrillas, I didn't know them."
In the municipal cemetery in the nearest small town to Dos Erres is a very forlorn-looking blue and white concrete cross next to a reconstruction of a well. Around it there is a metal fence and some tatty plastic bunting.
It is the only monument in the country to the victims of Dos Erres.
Under the terms of the Peace Accord of 1996, the government of Guatemala was supposed to build a proper monument to the dead. It never has.
As the two sides get ready for the next stage of the legal battle, once again the name Dos Erres will not feature in the list of charges against Efrain Rios Montt.
Perhaps the state of disrepair of the monument is the least of the families' concerns.
The labour market statistics showed there were 216,000 unemployed people.
This represented 8.1% of the workforce - higher than the UK average unemployment rate of 7.8%.
Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Moore said the figures showed the "scale of the challenge we face in getting the economy back to health".
The International Labour Organisation data showed there were 35,000 more unemployed people in the three months from March to May than during the same period last year.
The claimant count in Scotland, based on the seasonally adjusted number of people claiming Job Seeker's Allowance, fell by 600 to 133,200 between May and June.
However, this represented an increase of 5,500 compared to June 2009.
Mr Moore said it was crucial the Scottish and UK governments worked together to help those who had lost their jobs get back into work as quickly as possible.
He added: "These figures show the real human cost of the economic legacy the government has inherited.
"Our budget will tackle the record deficit and help us achieve balanced economic growth across the UK.
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"These measures will keep interest rates lower for longer and encourage investment, both of which are important for the creation of new jobs."
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney said the figures demonstrated both the legacy of the previous UK government's handling of the public finances and the dangers of the new coalition's cuts, which he claimed were "too deep, too quick".
"Scotland is continuing to see fragile signs of recovery. Today's figures highlight a fifth consecutive monthly fall in the number of people claiming Job Seeker's Allowance, and our unemployment rate remains below many other parts of the UK such as London, Wales, the North East of England, North West, and Yorkshire and the Humber," he said.
"But today's figures again demonstrate that recovery is in its early stages - which is why the UK government is wrong to risk jobs and recovery through spending cuts that are too quick and too deep, and come on top of those already imposed on Scotland by the previous Westminster administration."
Of course to die hard fans, it never went away.
With the introduction of more accessible ways to listen to music you might be forgiven for thinking the death knell of plastic rang decades ago.
But in 2016, sales of vinyl records reached their highest level for 25 years.
The British Phonographic Industry, says the figures for last year are up 53% on those for 2015, with the late David Bowie topping the best selling artist list.
Owner of Dragon Records in Belfast Jeff Doherty who has had his shop for six years said he is seeing an increase in teenagers coming into the shop.
"There's a certain element of it becoming trendy - which is no bad thing," said Jeff.
"Before that, primarily, it was people in their 40s and 50s but it's hitting a younger age group now. Even looking at the art work on a 12-inch record, you really feel like you have something.
"As well as that, vinyl has a really nice sound to it which people are enjoying.
"Rather than buying current records, teenagers are buying The Beatles, Pink Floyd and bigger groups from the past," Jeff added.
So why have sales rocketed this year?
Walk into any number of high street shops and chances are you'll see trendy new record players, re-vamped and stylised for a new audience.
What is it about vinyl that makes it so tenacious? Is it the sound, or is it being able to hold something tangible in your hand?
Music journalist, DJ and BBC Radio Ulster presenter Stuart Bailie said there is no comparison when it comes to vinyl v digital.
"There is a better, warmer sound off vinyl and also the digital experience tends to be cheap, tinny and compressed.
"Also, you'll always remember where you bought your record, where your life was at the time and what your state of mind was when you got it.
Stuart said his 16-year-old daughter got a record player for Christmas.
"She has taken possession of my old Smiths and Pixies album and it's a lovely thing to be able to hand that over.
"The millenials are just loving vinyl - I don't think they're bothered about whether it's cool. They just love the feel, touch and sound of it.
"We're all pretty sure now it's not a fad - it's something that is going to be in it for the long haul."
"My most precious piece of vinyl is the first Clash album because I went to the gig in the Ulster Hall and got them to sign it - it's irreplaceable.
"I play Astral Weeks by Van Morrison a lot - it's a work of genius," said Stuart.
So if you have an old record player gathering dust it may be time to fire it up and stick on whatever you fancy.
It doesn't matter if it is The Everly Brothers, The Smiths, Springsteen or Ella Fitzgerald - as long as it's vinyl.
The left-back was caught in the mouth by Aberdeen striker Jayden Stockley during the first half of the 2-1 triumph at Hampden Park.
Tierney, 19, is in the Scotland squad for the home 2018 World Cup qualifier against England on 10 June.
He has indicated on social media that the win had been "worth a broken jaw".
"I think he needs an operation," Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Scotland. "It wasn't nice, and I'll have to speak to the medics on that."
Stockley's left arm connected with Tierney as the pair turned in pursuit of an aerial clearance and the defender was replaced by Tom Rogic, who would score Celtic's winner in stoppage time.
"I'll have to see [the challenge] again," Rodgers said. "There's two challenges he's had on Kieran - there was one up at Aberdeen which was questionable.
"I'll have a look at this one, and take it from there."
Rodgers' Aberdeen counterpart Derek McInnes believes his player did not intentionally make contact with Tierney.
"Nobody even appealed for a foul," McInnes said. "Kieran Tierney is an honest boy, he's a brilliant boy how he plays the game and I think he's got his eye on the ball and just ran into Jayden.
"Jayden was under strict orders not to be flaying elbows or whatever. I think it is just an unfortunate accident. I don't think there's a foul there and not many Celtic players appealed for that either."
The 46-year-old second seed was comfortable throughout as he won each set 3-1 to make progress towards a third straight title.
Fifth seed Adrian Lewis, runner-up last year, also went through by defeating Joe Cullen 4-0.
Michael Smith, the 11th seed, edged Mervyn King 4-3.
The 26-year-old Smith let a two-set advantage slip, but overcame King 4-2 in the decider.
Benito van de Pas also had a seven-leg match, eventually winning 4-3 against Terry Jenkins, while Darren Webster saw off 17th seed Simon Whitlock 4-0.
Ian White won the day's opening match to reach the last 16, beating Jonny Clayton 4-1.
Beryl Larkin, 72, has been fighting to remain in the caravan on land at Treuddyn near Mold.
Last year, a move to demolish her home was called off when the pensioner was taken ill as the bulldozers arrived.
She has now submitted another appeal to government inspectors after Flintshire council rejected a new planning application for the mobile home.
"Our client did put in a further planning application in relation to her continued occupation at Bwthyn Celyn, " said her solicitor, Phillip Lloyd Jones.
"As you will appreciate, the local authority refused the application.
"Our client submitted a written appeal and we anticipate that the appeal will be imminent, possibly within the next two or three months, if not before."
Mrs Larkin was originally told she must leave the site in 2013, following two prosecutions for failing to comply with enforcement notices demanding her caravan was moved.
After the eviction was called off last May, the former nurse asked the council to consider another "personal" planning bid for her to stay.
But the application for a static caravan for permanent residential use, retention of septic tank, ancillary building, LPG tank and access track was refused again.
The matter will now set to be decided by the Welsh Government's' Planning Inspectorate.
The $22bn (£14bn) contract is Japan's first successful bid for an overseas nuclear project since a tsunami wrecked the Fukushima power station.
The deal was signed by visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it would transform relations with Japan into a "strategic partnership".
"What happened at Fukushima upset all of us. But these things can happen. Life goes on. Successful steps are being taken now with the use of improved technology," the Turkish prime minister added.
The deal comes as part of renewed efforts to promote Japanese nuclear technologies abroad, despite concerns over safety.
One of the Japanese firms included in the consortium is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, one of the companies behind the Fukushima plant damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Turkey is also prone to earthquakes, and the government cited Japan's expertise in earthquake protection as one of the factors in signing the deal.
The other firms are Itochu Corporation and French utility group GDF Suez.
Japan is looking to boost exports of its technological expertise as it attempts to increase economic growth and escape two decades of near stagnation.
Fast-growing Turkey, meanwhile, is planning to invest in domestic energy generation to reduce its dependence on imports as the economy expands.
The new nuclear plant will be Turkey's second. It is currently dependent on imported oil and gas to meet 97% of its energy needs.
Tettey, 30, has made 113 appearances for the Canaries since joining from French side Rennes in August 2012.
"I'm really pleased and feel privileged to be continuing my relationship with the club," he told the club website.
"Norwich have put trust and faith in me since I've been here, which is really good. It's a massive season for us and hopefully we can go on to do well."
The march began at Writer's Square and moved towards Belfast City Hall, where a rally was held.
The organisers said Northern Ireland is "out on a limb" as the only part of the UK and Ireland not to change its laws.
The Northern Ireland Assembly has debated the issue four times, and each time MLAs rejected same-sex marriage.
Saturday's demonstration was organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), Amnesty International and the Rainbow Project.
Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International's Northern Ireland programme director, was among those who addressed the rally.
He said it was "simply unacceptable for the state to discriminate against people on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity".
"Amnesty International believes that states should end discrimination on this basis and instead ensure that all families are equally protected before the law," he said.
"That's why we are on the march today and why we will walk every step of the way with you and the LGBTI community, and why we will not stop until every one of us can enjoy the same rights and recognition before the law."
The singer and actress Bronagh Gallagher performed at the event, which was attended by a number of Northern Ireland politicians. The Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody was also present.
In a statement, the ICTU said: "In 2005, history was made when Northern Ireland became the first place in the UK to hold a civil partnership.
"Ten years later, with every other part of these islands recognising marriage equality, citizens in Northern Ireland have effectively been left behind."
The ICTU added that its members had "played a leading role in campaigning for a Yes vote in the marriage equality referendum in the Republic of Ireland".
Last month, more than 62% of the electorate in the Republic of Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage.
It was the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by a referendum.
Renowned Northern Ireland novelist Glenn Patterson also spoke at the rally on Saturday and alluding to the symbolism of the DeLorean car currently situated in the grounds of City Hall, asked the crowd to permit him a 'Back to the Future' moment.
"We will never forsake the blue skies of Ulster for the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet skies of the Irish Republic," he said.
"We are going to bring them here."
They show he told the 1992 Kirkwood Inquiry into child abuse he had almost no dealings with Beck from 1976-86.
But residents and staff of children's homes, a former police officer and a former council official have told the BBC the men were associates.
Lord Janner died in December. His family have denied claims against him.
Beck, a care home manager and prominent social worker, was convicted of prolific child abuse in 1991 and died in prison.
In January, an inquiry by retired judge Sir Richard Henriques into the allegations against Lord Janner concluded that there was an "abundance of evidence" that he and Beck knew each other.
Police and prosecutors believe Lord Janner, a veteran Leicester MP, used his relationship with Beck to get access to children in the city's care home system.
Lord Janner died in December last year, days after a judge had ruled his dementia made him unfit to stand trial for 22 counts of alleged child sexual abuse against nine complainants.
A "trial of the facts" had been planned to resolve whether the alleged incidents had taken place, without bringing a verdict of guilt or innocence, but this was cancelled after Lord Janner's death.
The documents, released to the BBC after a series of Freedom of Information requests, are from the files of the inquiry ordered by the government in 1992 to investigate child abuse in Leicestershire care homes in the wake of the Beck case.
Its chairman Andrew Kirkwood QC questioned Greville Janner - later Lord Janner - on 19 June 1992.
Both the transcript of this hearing and Lord Janner's statement to the inquiry have been released to the BBC in redacted form.
The transcript reveals Mr Kirkwood examined Lord Janner about the period between 1976 and 1986, when Beck resigned from Leicestershire social services.
"Your contacts with Mr Beck would have been to what extent?" he asked.
Lord Janner replied: "Nil", except on one occasion when he said Beck might have answered a phone call.
But this year's Henriques report concluded: "There was considerable evidence... that [Lord] Janner was a regular visitor to children's homes and that he had a number of dealings with Beck.
"All of this would have been supporting evidence discrediting [Lord] Janner and, thus, supporting the prosecution case."
A former police officer has described to the BBC seeing Lord Janner in Beck's office in the late 1970s.
Eight former children's home residents and staff say he visited their homes, and a former council official said Beck claimed support from Lord Janner when confronted about his treatment of children.
The Kirkwood documents detail the inquiry's attempts to examine an allegation against Lord Janner, dating back to the 1970s, that he sexually abused a boy from a care home whom he had "befriended".
The boy, as an adult in his 30s, reported the allegations to the police in 1991. They were then made public by Frank Beck at his trial that year.
These documents set out for the first time Lord Janner's detailed defence against the claims.
During the Kirkwood Inquiry hearing, Lord Janner discussed taking the boy on official visits as an MP, on a short business trip to Scotland, and swimming at the Leicester Holiday Inn hotel.
He also put the boy up in his house in London, and the pair swam in a pool belonging to one of Lord Janner's friends.
Both in his statement and cross-examination, Lord Janner strongly denied sexually abusing the boy and insisted he always asked for permission from care home staff before taking him on trips.
He said the director of Leicestershire Social Services, Dorothy Edwards, was "very positive about it and encouraged me to continue".
In his statement, he said he had intended to help the boy improve his future prospects: "A sensible, genuine and kindly effort by me."
He denied taking the boy to a friend's wedding in London.
But the Henriques report revealed that police uncovered film of the boy at the event.
The recent Leicestershire Police investigation, Operation Enamel, also gathered evidence from 32 witnesses supporting the boy's claim that he was abused by Lord Janner, including 12 dealing with events at the Holiday Inn.
The 1992 documents released to the BBC also reveal that, following his questioning by the inquiry, Lord Janner asked chairman Andrew Kirkwood if he could tell the media waiting outside that he had not been asked about allegations of child abuse against him.
Andrew Kirkwood replied: "Of course, Mr Janner."
Lord Janner left the hearing and told a BBC camera crew: "I have the chairman's permission to tell you that there was questioning about the social services and their operation, and none whatever concerning the allegations made against me."
The documents show this was not true, and the revelation that the real substance of the inquiry's questioning was withheld from the media will further fuel allegations of a cover-up.
Lord Janner was not prosecuted at the time and he rubbished the child abuse claims in the House of Commons.
He also refused to answer police questions.
The Kirkwood files will be crucial evidence for the national child abuse inquiry, chaired by Justice Lowell Goddard, which will examine the Janner case, including whether the inquiry wrongly left out allegations against Lord Janner in its final report.
Liz Dux, from the law firm Slater and Gordon who represents 16 alleged victims of Lord Janner, said the new evidence showed how "crucial" the Goddard Inquiry would be.
"All of my clients will be giving their personal testimonies before the inquiry and much of their evidence will contradict what Lord Janner said to the Kirkwood Inquiry," she said.
Leicestershire County Council said it was "fully committed to co-operating with the Goddard Inquiry".
"We worked closely with the police on aspects of their investigation that related to historic abuse involving former county council children's homes in the 1970s and 1980s," a council spokesman said.
"Since that period, the council has introduced a series of safeguards and procedures to strengthen the protection of children."
Otto Warmbier, 22, was serving 15 years of hard labour for attempting to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel.
He was sent back to the US last Tuesday on humanitarian grounds - it emerged he had been in a coma for a year.
North Korea said he had contracted botulism but his family say North Korea subjected him to "awful torturous mistreatment" in detention.
A team of US doctors have also disputed North Korea's version of events.
Mr Warmbier had suffered severe brain damage, and was medically evacuated from North Korea on 13 June to a hospital in his home city of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is unclear how he fell ill.
A statement from the family on Monday said: "It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home. Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20pm."
They said the student had been "unable to speak, unable to see and unable to react to verbal commands".
"The awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today."
The economics student from the University of Virginia had travelled to North Korea as a tourist.
A month after his arrest, he appeared at a news conference tearfully confessing to trying to take a sign from his hotel as a "trophy" for a US church.
"The aim of my task was to harm the motivation and work ethic of the Korean people," he said.
Foreign detainees in North Korea have previously recanted confessions, saying they were made under pressure.
The company Mr Warmbier travelled with, China-based company Young Pioneer Tours, has announced it will no longer take visitors from the US to the country.
"The way his detention was handled was appalling and a tragedy like this must never be repeated," it said in a statement.
"Despite constant requests, we were denied any opportunity to meet him or anyone in contact with him in Pyongyang, only receiving assurances that he was fine."
North Korea said last week that it had released Mr Warmbier "on humanitarian grounds".
Shortly before he was freed, his parents told the Washington Post newspaper they had been informed by the North Korean authorities that their son had contracted botulism, a rare illness that causes paralysis, soon after his trial.
He was given a sleeping pill and had been in a coma ever since, the newspaper said.
But a team of doctors assessing him in Cincinnati said they had found "no sign of botulism".
Doctors confirmed that there was no sign he had been physically abused during his detention, based on scans.
They believe respiratory arrest led to his condition, which is caused by a lack of oxygen and blood in the brain.
President Donald Trump said Mr Warmbier's death had deepened his administration's resolve "to prevent such tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not respect the rule of law or basic human decency".
"The United States once again condemns the brutality of the North Korean regime as we mourn its latest victim," the presidential statement added.
It shows the risk of miscarriage after IVF is one-and-a-half times higher.
The study by Birmingham University could not find specific reasons why, but says it was not previously known.
The researchers analysed the success rates from nearly 14,000 cycles of IVF in what is believed to be the largest study into IVF and ethnicity.
On average 15 out of every 100 IVF pregnancies end in miscarriage across all ethnicities.
A previous study looking at IVF success affected by ethnicity found the live birth rate for ethnic minority women was significantly lower than for white women.
But is was too small to analyse specific ethnicities
Dr Rima Dhillon, one of the researchers, said: "Because their sample size was so small they were unable to separate the ethnic groups, so they combined the black women, Asian women and Chinese women all as one ethnic group which we of course know, they aren't.
"So this is the first study where we could separate the ethnicities and see there were definite differences for each ethnic group."
This study found that although the live birth rates for Asian women was reduced, when it looked at the clinical pregnancies, which is the ability to become pregnant, it found that Asian women had a similar success to white women in getting pregnant.
But Dr Dhillon says the most significant finding was that those Asian women would then lose the baby in the first trimester of their pregnancy "so we saw that south Asian women had a higher miscarriage rate".
She added: "After taking into consideration important factors than can affect miscarriage, such as a woman's age, her body-mass index or higher weight, south Asian women have up to one-and-a-half times increased chance of having a miscarriage after IVF."
The causes of the miscarriages among south Asian women are not known and a separate study is currently being done to look into the reasons why, but Dr Dhillon says she hopes her study will help medical professionals provide more tailored counselling for Asian couples considering IVF.
She said: "Essentially what we're saying is the counselling before you go for treatment needs to be more personalised.
"So, although we quote percentages and figures we tend to quote them for any woman without being ethnicity-specific.
"Whereas I think now what we need to do is explain to these women that the chances are slightly lower and what we're adding to the personalisation is that ethnicity should also be taken into consideration."
For 10 years he has been the MP for Upper Bann. With a majority of 3,361 votes he should feel more comfortable.
But he doesn't. And here's why.
The Ulster Unionist candidate is MLA Jo-Anne Dobson. The DUP says she can't win, but can take enough votes off Mr Simpson to allow Sinn Féin's Catherine Seeley to take the seat on 7 May.
That would be quite an upset.
Upper Bann has always been in unionist hands, but at the last assembly election Sinn Féin was the largest single party by a handful of votes with unionists having to choose between the DUP, UUP, TUV and UKIP.
Westminster is a different kind of election, but David Simpson said unionists have been warned.
"Let's look at the figures," he said.
"I have been accused of scaremongering that the seat could go to Sinn Féin. Let's look at the last elections, not the council elections, but the one relevant to Westminster which was the last assembly election. Sinn Féin won ahead of any other party by 29 votes. The figures are there to prove that.
"I believe that the SDLP could lose a lot of votes to Sinn Féin. Their campaign has not been going that well.
"They may say different, but their campaign has not been going that well so I think they (Sinn Féin) could take away votes from the SDLP and could come up the middle and take the seat. Remember they won it by 29 votes on the last assembly elections."
That is why the DUP wanted the Ulster Unionists to step aside and include Upper Bann in the pact that is now limited to four constituencies: East and North Belfast, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, and Newry and Armagh.
So why did the Ulster Unionists not agree? Simple. They really believe they can win in the former heartland of David Trimble and Harold McCusker.
And watching Jo-Anne Dobson walk through the centre of her home town of Banbridge, it is easy to see why.
Shoppers flock to shake hands with the 49-year-old MLA and her equally well-known mother, Joanie.
Tell her David Simpson says she can't win and the reply is instant.
"I think he needs to go back to school and study maths because this is a unionist seat," she said.
"It always has been a unionist seat and it's been an Ulster Unionist seat for a very long time. The people of Upper Bann are telling me it's been on loan to the DUP for the last 10 years. What has the outgoing MP delivered for Upper Bann?"
She said David Simpson's campaign is built on fear, not hope.
"I am fighting a positive campaign based on the hard work that I have done for this constituency," she said.
"I don't have to fight a campaign of fear and I think that says a lot for the outgoing MP."
Fighting the seat for Sinn Féin is 27-year-old Catherine Seeley.
She made headlines last year when she became the victim of an online sectarian campaign that forced her to stop teaching at a north Belfast secondary school.
But she showed her star potential shortly after when given a prominent speaking role at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, and since then she's been deputy mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.
To some extent, she makes David Simpson's point for him when she says Upper Bann is Sinn Féin's "for the taking".
In 2010, when the Education Minister John O'Dowd was the Sinn Féin candidate, he finished just 402 votes behind the Ulster Unionists who were fighting the election jointly with the Conservative Party.
Some believe Catherine Seeley can do even better, and she is not about to play down expectations.
"You get a combination of things," she said.
"The two unionist candidates have high profiles in the area, so there is talk that it would then split the unionist vote, but I also think that in the area through John O'Dowd and our local councillors that we have delivered, and I think there are SDLP voters on this occasion who are willing to give Sinn Féin a vote.
"Definitely if I was on the sideline at the minute, this would be one of the constituencies I would be watching closely. Nothing is sewn up yet. This isn't a safe seat for anyone and it is ours for the taking."
The SDLP candidate is the party's deputy leader and MLA Dolores Kelly, whose job is to arrest a recent decline in the party's vote.
She knows it will not be easy.
"I think there is always an issue of tactical voting by the voters," she said.
"We do have an intelligent electorate. However, I have spoken to a number of people who said that they will never vote for Sinn Féin and certainly many of them would not vote for the unionist parties.
"I think this is going to be a close call in these elections . I know Jo-Anne Dobson is fighting a formidable campaign; the DUP are somewhat frightened about that."
The other candidates are Peter Lavery from Alliance, Damien Harte of the Workers Party; Amandeep Singh Bhogal representing the Conservative Party and Martin Kelly of Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol (CISTA).
Upper Bann has known long and hard battles before.
It is, after all, the constituency of the Drumcree parade dispute. Now, it is witnessing a battle of a different kind, and fought every bit as hard.
Peaty, 20, already held the 50m world record time and won European and Commonwealth titles during 2014.
He finished in 57.92 seconds, beating the previous mark of 58.46 set by South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh at the London 2012 Olympics.
"I kind of surprised myself," Peaty told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I was going to wait until Kazan [World Championships] to produce that time and I can't really believe it.
"I just dived in hoping for a 58 really and I have to say a big thank you to my family for supporting me."
Scotland's Ross Murdoch finished second in 59.13 secs with James Wilby third in one minute 0.31 secs.
Murdoch's time is a new Scottish record and automatically qualifies the 21-year-old for the World Championships later this year.
Francesca Halsall, who was a surprise second in the 100m freestyle earlier in the week, claimed a comfortable victory in the 50m event.
England's Commonwealth and European champion secured her 10th British 50m freestyle crown in 24.37 secs, with Lauren Quigley (25.22) second and Rebecca Guy (25.49) third.
"To win 10 titles and be the best in Britain is fantastic," Halsall told BBC Sport.
"My preparation hasn't been great [due to a shoulder injury] but I'm quicker than I was at this time last year, so that's really good."
Scottish Commonwealth gold medallist Dan Wallace defeated England's Roberto Pavoni and Lewis Smith in the 400m individual medley.
However, his time of four minutes 12.78 secs was not quick enough to guarantee him a place in the World Championship team.
"I'm not where I or British Swimming would like me to be in terms of time at the moment," said Wallace.
"However, I usually get stronger as the season goes on, so hopefully the selectors will see that."
Ben Proud added 50m freestyle gold to the 50m butterfly title he won on Thursday.
The Plymouth-based swimmer touched in 21.99, to beat team mate Thomas Fannon (22.48) who was second and third-placed Andrew Weatheritt (22.50).
Sophie Taylor - the Commonwealth 100m breaststroke champion - won the British title in the same event for the second year running.
However, despite touching ahead of Sarah Vasey and Molly Renshaw, she finished in tears after missing out on the time to guarantee her place at the Worlds.
Loughborough-based Rachael Kelly successfully defended her British 100m butterfly title, beating Jemma Lowe and Siobhan-Marie O'Connor.
The British Championship is the first elite swimming event to be held at the London Aquatics Centre since the 2012 Olympics.
First Bus appealed against a court ruling, won by a disabled man from West Yorkshire, that the firm's wheelchair policy was discriminatory.
Doug Paulley, 36, was denied access to a First bus to Leeds when a woman with a pushchair refused to move.
The Court of Appeal overturned a Leeds County Court judgement in his favour.
Mr Paulley had attempted to board the bus in Wetherby to visit his parents in Leeds in February 2012.
But he was told to wait for another one when the woman with the pushchair refused to move because her baby was asleep.
First's policy was one of "requesting but not requiring" non-disabled travellers, including those with babies and pushchairs, to vacate space needed by a wheelchair user.
In September, a county court judge said the firm's policy was in breach of the Equality Act 2010.
Mr Paulley was awarded £5,500 damages.
But earlier, judges at the Court of Appeal ruled the "proper remedy" for wheelchair users to get improvements in such cases was to ask parliament.
Lord Justice Lewison said: "The judge seems to me to have thought that the needs of wheelchair users trumped all other considerations.
"If that is what he meant, I respectfully disagree."
Clive Coleman, legal correspondent, BBC News
The net effect of this ruling is that if someone refuses to move from that designated, disabled, wheelchair-user bay on a bus or train then that is that.
The disabled wheelchair user will simply have to wait for the next bus or train.
Doug Paulley's lawyers have already sought a leave to appeal to the supreme court, the highest court in the land, for them to make a ruling on an issue which is of enormous importance to many, many disabled people in particular.
Lord Justice Underhill said: "It has to be accepted that our conclusion and reasoning in this case means that wheelchair users will occasionally be prevented by other passengers from using the wheelchair space on the bus.
"I do not, however, believe that the fact that some passengers will - albeit rarely - act selfishly and irresponsibly is a sufficient reason for imposing on bus companies a legal responsibility for a situation which is not of their making and which they are not in a position to prevent."
Lady Justice Arden she did not underestimate the difficulties of travel for wheelchair users "or their frustration at the pace of change".
Andy Cole, of Leonard Cheshire Disability said, the charity was disappointed with the judgement and it did not provide "clarity and certainty for disabled bus passengers that the space they need will definitely be made available".
Mr Cole said if the case moved to the Supreme Court he hoped any judgement would provide that certainty.
The New West End Company, which represents 600 retailers in the area, said stores could earn more than £100m over the next three days.
It said 50% of Boxing Day shoppers in the capital were tourists, with most coming from China, the Middle East and the US.
Selfridges said it had taken in more than £2m in an hour - a new record for the retailer.
It said it expected 130,000 shoppers to visit its flagship store on Oxford Street.
Campaigners argue they need to be preserved because they support biodversity and also store carbon.
Scottish Natural Heritage's National Peatland Plan highlights actions to protect, manage and restore peatlands.
The Flow Country in Caithness and Sutherland is Europe's largest area of blanket bog peatlands, extending to 1,544 sq miles (4,000 sq km).
Peat is found across large parts of Scotland, storing an estimated 3,000 megatonnes of carbon as well as providing a habitat for a range of wild animals and plants.
Dr Aileen McLeod, Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, welcomed the release of the plan.
She said: "Scotland is a peat-rich nation, and our peatlands are now recognised globally for their outstanding biodiversity and carbon storage.
"I am delighted to see the publication of a plan which sets out what we are doing, and where we are heading, in our programme to conserve and restore peatlands and so support the multiple benefits they deliver.
"I thank the many organisations and individuals who have contributed to the plan which sets a firm foundation for action."
Ms McLeod added: "I am also greatly heartened by the significant roles played by land managers and non-government organisations in improving the state of our peatlands."
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has described peatlands as a "Cinderella habitat" which has been "overlooked and undervalued".
Jonathan Hughes, of IUCN UK, said: "Scotland's National Peatland Plan is a vital to tackling the globally important issue of peatland conservation.
"We urgently need to convert peatlands from a liability to an asset. Healthy peatlands can lock up carbon, support wildlife, regulate water flow and improve water quality - but only if we make an investment to restore them.
"We must all play our part but clear leadership from the Scottish government with the right policies and funding in place is essential if people are to be empowered to look after Scotland's peatlands and appreciate their true benefits to society."
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About 250 people gathered in Leeds' City Square chanting 'time to go, Massimo', with numbers swelling as the march headed to Elland Road.
Protest organisers, the Time To Go Massimo group, said it was time to "end the farce" of chairman Massimo Cellino's ownership.
The club are yet to comment on the march.
Organisers said ex-Leeds manager and current Reading boss Brian McDermott "will return to our club to discover that Leeds United very much remains the circus that he left behind".
Mr Cellino agreed in principle to sell his majority share to supporters' group Leeds Fans United last October, but changed his mind a week later.
A recent tribunal involving former club employee Lucy Ward heard Cellino told a third party that women "should be in the bedroom or the beautician's" instead of in football.
In a statement, the club said Mr Cellino denied making the comment.
At Elland Road, Leeds United beat Reading 3-2.
Only, they were not actually bird watchers - that was just a cover. These were socialists from all over Europe, meeting to discuss ways to bring peace to a continent ravaged by World War One.
Two of the most famous participants were Russian: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, or Lenin, and Leon Trotsky.
Their peace campaign made secrecy necessary: opposing the war was viewed as treason in many countries.
Lenin and Trotsky were already political refugees. They were both living in neutral Switzerland - Trotsky in Geneva and Lenin in Berne, quietly planning the overthrow of Tsarist Russia.
Today, Zimmerwald is not much changed from that day in 1915.
It is a sleepy little place, population 1,100, with a few farms, a church, and the Alps soaring majestically across the valley.
And for 100 years there was no sign that the founders of the Bolshevik Revolution had ever set foot there.
Thousands of kilometres to the east, however, Zimmerwald gradually became famous.
In classrooms across the Soviet Union, the village was being celebrated as the birthplace of the revolution.
"In the Soviet Union, Zimmerwald was such a famous place. Every Soviet school child knew about Zimmerwald," explained Julia Richers, a historian at Berne University.
"But you can ask any Swiss school child, they would never know what Zimmerwald was about."
Julia describes Switzerland's attitude to its history as a kind of "forceful forgetting", especially in Zimmerwald itself, where, in the 1960s, plans to have a small plaque marking Lenin's presence were formally banned by the village council.
Switzerland's neutrality probably lies at the root of that reluctance to acknowledge the past.
During the Cold War the Swiss were extremely nervous about showing overt friendliness to either East or West, and spent billions on a vast army and on bunkers for every family, in the hope of sitting, neutrally, out of any future conflict.
But in Zimmerwald, reminders of Lenin's presence were dropping through the letter box every day.
Mayor Fritz Broennimann has a vast archive of earnest missives: postcards, drawings, and notes, from hundreds of Soviet schoolchildren, many of them addressed to the "President of Zimmerwald", all begging for information about their national hero Lenin.
"They asked for photographs, for booklets," he explained, showing a fraying postcard of a Lenin statue in Moscow.
"Some even sent their letters to the Lenin museum in Zimmerwald."
Of course, there was no museum, and there were no photographs or booklets.
Most of those letters were never answered.
But occasionally a Zimmerwald official, perhaps made anxious by the excessive amount of mail with Soviet stamps landing on his desk, tried to stem the flow.
And so, in 1945, this firm reply was sent:
"Sir, I have not been briefed on your political sympathies. However, I am not inclined to provide material to a political extremist, which could then be of use to enemies of the state."
Even in this centenary year, Zimmerwald has wrestled with the apparently agonising decision over whether to mark it.
"We had an idea [for an article] - 'A hundred years, a hundred opinions'," explained Mayor Broennimann.
"So we put an advertisement in the local paper. We got about six answers."
But just a few kilometres north of Zimmerwald in the Swiss capital Berne - one of the most left-leaning of Switzerland's cities - the significance of the Zimmerwald conference is getting a good deal of attention.
"Zimmerwald was actually a peace conference," said Fabian Molina, president of Switzerland's Young Socialists party.
"They were young leftists from the whole of Europe, discussing peace, discussing their strategy against war."
"A hundred years after Zimmerwald, we are in a similar situation, if we compare the wars that are going on, with 60 million people fleeing.
"We have a refugee crisis, it reminds us how violent the world is, and so it's important to remember there was once a conference of people uniting for peace."
Historian Julia Richers agrees, pointing out that the conference was the only gathering in Europe against the war, and that the final manifesto from Zimmerwald contained some fundamental principles.
"The Zimmerwald manifesto stated three important things," she explained. "That there should be a peace without annexations, a peace without war contributions, and the self-determination of people.
"If you look at the peace treaties of World War One, those three things were hardly considered, and we know that World War One led partially to the World War Two, and so I think the manifesto did state some very important points for a peaceful Europe."
A little-known fact is that that manifesto was not revolutionary enough for Lenin and Trotsky, who wanted it to contain references to replacing war between nations with an armed class struggle.
Their fellow socialists and social democrats in Zimmerwald outvoted them, but Lenin continued to harbour hopes that Switzerland might be fertile ground for staging a revolution.
"He once stated that the Swiss could have been the most revolutionary of all, because almost everybody had a gun at home," said Julia Richers.
"But he said that in the end the society was too bourgeois… so he gave up on the Swiss."
"I think he recognised after a few years that it was not a good idea to start a revolution in Switzerland," laughed Fabian Molina.
"Switzerland has always been a quite right-wing country, it… never had a left majority, and I think Lenin saw that the revolutionary potential here in Switzerland was quite small."
But back in Zimmerwald, that historic conference, and its most famous participants, have finally received some modest recognition.
On the spot where the hotel Lenin stayed in once stood (it was pulled down in the 1960s to make way for a bus stop) are two small signs.
Made only of plywood and cardboard, they will not last once winter begins, Fritz Broennimann admits, but they do at least commemorate the events of 1915.
And, after much discussion, the village held a memorial event, with speeches by historians and politicians.
It took place in the local church which, Mr Broennimann remarks with a wry smile, "was full for a change".
And Lenin? He carried on living in Berne, where he wrote some of his most important political treatises.
In 1916 he moved to Zurich, and in early 1917 he took the famous train from Zurich to St Petersburg, which was teetering on the edge of revolution.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Patients queued in corridors because of a lack of cubicles in the department and there were not enough staff to care for them, a report said.
The Care Quality Commission said its layout made it difficult to keep an eye on patients, which "posed unacceptable risks to patient and staff safety".
The trust said improvements were being made.
In October 2015, the CQC investigated Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the main hospital and four community hospitals - Chippenham, Savernake, Trowbridge and Warminster.
All community hospital services were rated "good", while children and young people's services were rated "outstanding".
But Chief Inspector of Hospitals Sir Mike Richards, said there was a "marked variation in the quality of services" between those hospitals and the Great Western Hospital.
Its "observation unit" was isolated, meaning children waiting to be seen could not be properly watched, the report said.
There were not always enough staff to look after patients left queuing in corridors and not all staff adhered to "good hand hygiene practices or using protective personal clothing".
Overall the trust's services "require improvement", the inspectors found.
Sir Mike said: "Although these issues were recognised and known, we found that the necessary improvements had not been made or sustained."
He said the trust had been under financial pressure and leadership was "open" about challenges and "must now work hard to meet the demands required".
The trust's chief executive Nerissa Vaughan said safety was "our number one priority".
"We know we need to do more to build on the improvements we have already made," she said.
She added measures had been introduced to improve the situation including new initial nurse assessments, meaning "patients are likely to be seen sooner", and more training for staff.
The 24 year-old, who came through Manchester City's academy, left Shrewsbury in December after agreeing with the club to cancel his contract.
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Final year primary pupils sat a raft of tough new tests in the summer. Only 53% of pupils passed, compared to the 80% who passed easier tests in 2015.
Primary heads leader Russell Hobby said ministers had stressed the scale of the changes meant comparisons could not be drawn on previous years' results.
The government said schools had responded well to the higher demands.
Pupils at 14,930 state primary schools sat the new national Sats tests in reading, writing and maths - the "Three-Rs"; they also sat a spelling and grammar test.
Schools are then ranked by these results to enable parents to narrow down the choice of schools for their children.
Tap here to search for the results for your area.
In the run up to and during the tests, teachers and heads across England complained that the new papers had been set at too high a level and that not enough information had been made available.
The government's expectation is that 65% of pupils in each school should meet the new expected standard in the "Three Rs".
In total, about 11,000 schools failed to meet this target.
However, the Department for Education (DfE) said schools that achieved sufficient progress scores in reading, writing and maths would not be considered to be failing.
It had deliberately held steady the percentage of schools deemed to be failing at 5% - the same as last year - so that the volatility of this year's results did not lead schools that were otherwise successful to be targeted for intervention.
Conversely, just 47 schools saw all pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
General secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, Mr Hobby, said: "The pass mark for the test was set at a ridiculously high level.
"We have just failed half the children in the country and yet Ofsted is saying nearly 90% of schools are good or outstanding.
"Pupils were doing what they should have been doing in the early years of secondary school. Some of the grammatical stuff was the same level as GCSE English."
He added: "This data is not worth the paper it is written on. The government itself has said that it cannot be used to trigger interventions in schools.
"This year we saw the Sats system descend into chaos and confusion.
"Delayed and obscure guidance, papers leaked online, mistakes in test papers and inconsistent moderation made this year unmanageable for school leaders, teachers, parents and pupils."
But School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said the introduction of a new curriculum had raised expectations and ensured "pupils become more accomplished readers and are fluent in the basics of arithmetic, including times-tables, long division and fractions".
"Many schools have responded well to this more rigorous curriculum, supporting their pupils to be leaving primary school better prepared for the demands of secondary school," he said.
Last year, when four-fifths of school pupils reached the expected level, then known as Level 4C, ministers praised schools for "rising to the challenge of raised standards and expectations for all pupils".
Julie McCulloch, primary specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools had "performed miracles" in very difficult circumstances and deserved great credit.
"The tests are based on a new, much harder curriculum, which the children had followed for only two years, and the expected standard has been significantly raised.
"In addition, the government's introduction of these tests has been chaotic."
The data shows a continuing gender gap, with 57% of girls reaching the expected level in reading, writing and maths compared with 50% of boys.
And the most disadvantaged children fared far worse in these new tests, compared to their non-disadvantaged peers, than they did in the previous test with just 39% achieving the standard.
The government data also reveals regional differences, with London performing very strongly.
Of the top 10 ranking local authorities, in terms of the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, nine are in London
Of the 33 London boroughs, all but one (Enfield) was above the national average in terms of the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
The five local authorities with the highest percentage of pupils making the grade:
The five local authorities with the lowest percentage of pupils making the grade:
Ludgvan School in Cornwall was the only school where more than 50% of students achieved a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing.
As well as test result data, the school league tables also provide lots of information about schools' social make-up, teaching workforce and the historic trend in their results.
"It is beyond dispute at various periods of its long history that Tibet came under differing degrees of foreign influence: the Mongols, the Gurkhas of Nepal, the Manchu emperors of China and the British rulers of India all played their parts. At other periods in the plateau's history, it was Tibet which exercised power and influence over its neighbours - including China.
It would be hard to find any state in the world today that has not been subjected to foreign domination or influence at some era in its history. In Tibet's case the degree and duration of foreign influence and interference was relatively limited."
"Traditional Tibetan society - like most of its Asian contemporaries - was backward and badly in need of reforms. However, it is completely wrong to use the word "feudal" from the perspective of medieval Europe to describe traditional Tibetan society. Tibet before the invasion, in fact, was far more egalitarian than most Asian countries of that time. Hugh Richardson, who spent a total of nine years in Tibet as Britain's last and independent India's first representative, wrote: "Even communist writers have had to admit there was no great difference between rich and poor in [pre-1949] Tibet."
"An internal Chinese military document states that from 1952 to 1958, the People's Liberation Army crushed 996 rebellions and killed over 10,000 Tibetans in the north-eastern region of Kanlho. Golog, another Amdo area, saw its population halved from an estimated 140,000 in 1956 to about 70,000 in 1964.
Referring to this area, the late Panchen Lama [the second most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama] told Beijing's leaders: "If there was a film made on all the atrocities perpetrated in Qinghai Province, it would shock the viewers. In Golog area, many people were killed and their dead bodies rolled down the hill into a big ditch. The soldiers told the family members and relatives of the dead people that they should celebrate since the rebels had been wiped out. They were even forced to dance on the dead bodies."
"The '59 uprising against Chinese rule was a people's movement to resist all the changes the Chinese Communist Party were introducing in Tibet.
In the 17 Point Agreement signed between Tibet and China in 1951, the Chinese Communist Party promised that in return for Tibet coming to the fold of motherland, China would not change Tibet's traditional social system or tamper with the powers of the Dalai Lama. Both these promises were not kept, and the introduction of collectivisation and other aspects of the social system in Tibet forced the Tibetans to rise up."
"In the early 1980s, a liberal policy was introduced in Tibet. This policy dismantled collectivisation and there were plans to withdraw 85% of the Chinese cadres working in the Tibet Autonomous Region. This policy was aimed at letting Tibetans govern themselves.
However, in 1994, all these liberal measures were withdrawn and a new policy called "grasping with both hands" was implemented in Tibet. This policy continued Tibet's economic development while reimposing political repression targeted at undermining Tibetan culture and Tibetan Buddhism. The widespread protests in Tibet are Tibetans' resistance to this hardline policy."
US TV network ABC also ordered a new spin-off show, Marvel's Agent Carter, based on Hayley Atwell's Captain America character.
Both series tie into the Marvel film series, which includes star-studded titles like Iron Man and Thor.
They add background to events on the big screen, providing an overarching story to the so-called Marvel Universe.
Agents Of Shield was created by Joss Whedon, who scripted the Avengers Assemble film, and previously created Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly.
The drama resurrected the character of Agent Coulson, who was killed in Avengers Assemble, with his character's miraculous recovery the central mystery of the opening episodes.
Played by Clark Gregg, the character took charge of a team of law-enforcement agents, tasked with investigating super-human individuals and unusual events.
Eventually, the plot of the series overlapped with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which the SHIELD organisation was brought down from within.
When the series debuted in the US in September 2013, it garnered 12.12 million viewers, marking the biggest network drama debut in four years.
Audience figures fell by nearly 4 million between the first and second episode, while figures for recent episodes average 5.5 million.
In the UK, where it is shown on Channel 4, the show's audience has also plummeted - from 4.5 million in September 2013 to 1.1 million last week.
However, the series plays well with young men, a much sought-after demographic with advertisers, and its ratings tend to recover once time-delayed viewing is taken into account.
Agent Carter, which follows the story of secret agent Peggy Carter, is being hailed as a "bridge show", which will be screened during Agents Of Shields' mid-series hiatus.
Meanwhile, Marvel comics is preparing another four series - Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage - via its partnership with Netflix.
And it is rewarding to bear in mind that even technological innovation is not just about inventing things.
Somebody has to make the link between the invention and the prospective user. Somebody has to turn the integrated computer on a chip into a usable computer.
Somebody has to make people actually want personal computers... even if (in retrospect) they turn out to be one of the most must-have empowering inventions ever conceived.
Those "somebodies" are often entrepreneurs: the opportunists who see the possibilities of a new machine or innovation just ahead of the rest of us.
People like Sir Charles Dunstone, for example, now in the process of merging his company Carphone Warehouse with Dixons Retail, owners of Curry's and PC World.
Charles Dunstone has made a fortune out of mobile phones, but he was not a communications outsider. He was working in mobile phones when he spotted their true potential.
The company he originally worked for was doing the conventional thing people do with a new technology: apply it to the obvious existing marketplace.
In this case the big companies were the obvious market for business equipment: those phones as big as a brick that people used to lug around 25 years ago as symbols of their importance... to somebody.
Ideal equipment for corporate sales people out in their company cars seeking out somewhere with a signal.
Mobile phones were a business-to-business product, everyone agreed.
Charles Dunstone - immersed in this strategy - saw things differently from the company he was working with.
He realised that if there were thousands of big company people, there were hundreds of thousands - maybe millions - of small business and sole proprietors whose lives would be transformed by being unshackled from the "he's not here now" or the answerphone.
The painter up a ladder could arrange his or her next job without coming down to earth. Over and over again. A real small business revolution.
In response to this insight, Carphone Warehouse was set up by Charles Dunstone and Julian Brownlie in 1989; Dunstone's old school friend David Ross joined a year later.
The phone retailer with a High Street presence was an almost immediate success.
It never needed to borrow money to create a hectic pace of expansion across the UK and then Europe. It was an idea whose time had come, but somebody had to realise it.
The name of the stores crystallises a now vanished era for mobile telephony: portable but not too portable. The move to retailing was a stroke of entrepreneurial genius, and brilliantly timed.
Carphone Warehouse had first mover advantage, and knew how to capitalise on it. That entrepreneurial drive imbued the company for a long time afterwards.
The look and feel of a company headquarters are very revealing about the way the business runs, and I have been in few more impressive than Carphone Warehouse's base in a workaday part of West London close to the A40.
Two huge open plan floors were at the heart of the business, and a visitor walked up what I remember as a big curved staircase into the main floor which had a very familiar feel.
It had the look, noise and intensity of a big media newsroom. Decisions could be taken on a minute-by-minute basis by people who walked across the room to consult on a new idea (such as a new pricing strategy).
Then the in-house broadcast studio could turn into the price announcement into a local radio advertisement within an hour or so.
Here was an organisation set up around flexibility and market responsiveness. Even a casual visitor like me caught the entrepreneurial buzz.
Mind you, businesses mature, and so do the people who run them. Charles Dunstone got his knighthood and he was in demand as a non-executive director.
One of the companies whose boards he graced was the now disgraced bank HBOS, where he chaired the retail risk committee from 2006 to 2008. HBOS later needed a government bailout because of the risks it took, and the losses it made.
"A colossal failure," said the parliamentary commission on banking standards.
Banks and entrepreneurs are not necessarily good bedfellows.
Now the mobile phone marketplace is maturing, and so are computers and home electronics. The wireless networks that created Carphone Warehouse are busy disrupting bricks and mortar selling with electronic retailing.
Sir Charles Dunstone is to be chairman of the newly merged Dixons Carphone.
In a disrupting world it will be interesting to see whether he has retained the entrepreneurial nous that 25 years ago spotted the original opportunity... when mobile phones seemed to most other people to be just a big business proposition.
The plane, which took off from RAF Northolt, was forced to land at Luton Airport following a "technical issue", a Foreign Office spokesman said.
Mr Johnson thanked the crew for their professionalism and was grateful to Luton Airport for the unscheduled welcome, the spokesman added.
He has now continued his journey.
The delay means Mr Johnson will be late for an informal dinner with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, but the pair intend to meet later in the evening, the BBC understands.
A spokesman for Luton Airport said all 16 passengers on board the plane left the aircraft safely, but the runway was disrupted for more than 30 minutes.
"Several scheduled flights were disrupted whilst the runway was cleared," he added.
After United's Europa League final win against Ajax on 24 May, Mourinho said he had given executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward a list of transfer targets.
Senior United figures spoke privately about signing three or four players.
There could be developments later this week, but so far the only new signing has been 22-year-old defender Victor Lindelof from Benfica for £31m.
It is understood Mourinho wants at least one forward to compensate for the loss of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 35, because of injury, as well as a holding midfield player.
Efforts to sign Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann, 26, for a fee that would have come close to the world record £89m United paid Juventus for midfielder Paul Pogba 12 months ago were compromised by Ibrahimovic's major knee injury, which will keep him out until the New Year.
Atletico were also banned from buying players during the current transfer window and Griezmann signed a new contract, retaining a 100m euros release clause.
Another potential target, Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, 24, is thought to be more interested in joining Chelsea, so Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata, 24, has emerged as United's preferred striking option.
However, efforts to do a deal with Real have, thus far, met with frustration.
His father and agent met with Real officials at the Bernabeu on Monday and although it is still anticipated a transfer will happen, United's departure for their five-match pre-season tour of the USA on Sunday has created an artificial deadline there is no certainty of meeting.
Tottenham's Eric Dier, 23, and Chelsea's Nemanja Matic, 28, have been spoken of by club officials as possible additions to fill the holding midfield role.
However, any attempt to get Dier would involve protracted discussions with Tottenham, which United have never found easy.
It is understood Chelsea will not even entertain the prospect releasing Matic until they have completed the transfer of 22-year-old France midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko from Monaco.
United officials also spoke to Inter Milan about winger Ivan Perisic, 28, but that move is hampered by the Italian side's improved financial situation, meaning they have no urgent need to sell.
The situation is somewhat different to 12 months ago, when Ibrahimovic, centre-half Eric Bailly and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan were all signed two weeks before United went on their pre-season tour of the Far East, with Pogba coming in later.
Mourinho is mindful his squad needed improving, as - despite winning the EFL Cup and Europa League last season - they finished sixth in the Premier League.
Tour matches against Manchester City, Real Madrid and Barcelona in particular will offer an indication about how much improvement is required.
The Uruguayan scored an equaliser and a goal in the penalty shootout against Portugal as his country progressed to the semi-finals of the tournament.
But in his goal celebration he pulled his eyes back to make them into slits.
"It is not a racist celebration. It was a private celebration for friends," he later tweeted in Korean.
"I did not have any racist intent. I'd like to apologise."
Last month Argentina international Ezequiel Lavezzi apologised after he made a slant-eyed pose in promotional pictures for his Chinese football club.
He was photographed pulling the corner of his eyes in pictures taken for the Chinese Super League side Hebei China Fortune.
About 40 firefighters continue to tackle pockets of fire inside Maple Mill in Oldham. The blaze began early on Thursday and has been alight for about 30 hours.
Residents from Cardwell Street are unable to return home due to the "unsafe structure" of the building.
The demolition process could take about three days, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said.
The Honeywell Centre in Hadfield Crescent remains open for residents.
A full investigation into the fire, which started on the upper floor, will begin once the building has been made safe.
A total of 80 firefighters battled for seven hours to bring the huge blaze under control on Thursday.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue warned people not to come to the Cardwell Street mill to watch the demolition.
Group manager Ben Levy said: "Having people come to watch the demolition process wouldn't be helpful to crews.
"And so if your intention is to come to the area for this reason - we urge you to stay away."
Local residents are still being advised to keep their doors and windows closed.
Meanwhile, the mill owner has claimed he warned police and the council about travellers at the site.
Vance Miller, 51, alleges they were charging people to dump illegal tyres and asbestos there.
The kitchen businessman insists the blaze would "never had happened" if the travellers had been evicted.
Mr Miller, who is wanted for questioning over fraud charges, said he was speaking to the BBC from China.
The businessman, who was the subject of a failed Trading Standards prosecution in 2010, claims he told police the travellers had "dismantled" the mill.
He said: "Once they had stripped everything and there was nothing left to strip they then started charging people to dump illegal asbestos and illegal tyres.
"I phoned environmental health services in Oldham and said, look, they were dumping asbestos and tyres there, but they didn't want to know.
"They said: 'We'll nip down there and take a look'. What did they do? Nothing.
"If the council had done as I'd asked it wouldn't have happened. If the police had done as I'd asked it wouldn't have happened."
Oldham Council has said it received reports of caravans at the mill in September and reported concerns to the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive.
Jean Stretton, Oldham Council leader, said: "As the site is privately owned we contacted the owners' solicitors to advise them and remind them of their legal obligations to keep the building and site safe."
Greater Manchester Police is investigating.
He's been putting pressure on US companies not to move jobs south, and this week Ford announced it was investing in its factory in Michigan rather than building a new plant in Mexico.
During his election campaign, Mr Trump threatened to rip up Nafta, the free trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico, which has been in place for 23 years.
But what impact has Nafta had in Mexico, and what would its potential demise mean for the country?
In a leafy square in Mexico City on a warm December evening a group of excited children are hitting a brightly coloured pinata stuffed with sweets. A fellow passer-by explains to me that pinatas are a Mexican tradition, particularly at Christmas and birthdays.
However, Mexicans also like pinatas "in the shape of everything we want to hit", he says. "The latest trend is Donald Trump pinatas," he adds.
Mr Trump is not popular in Mexico. He was incredibly rude about Mexicans during his election campaign, and at a time when the world seems to be turning away from free trade he threatened to end the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) between the US, Mexico and Canada.
The important thing about Nafta is that companies importing and exporting between the three countries pay no tariffs. Mr Trump believes it's been bad for the US as cheaper Mexican labour has meant some US manufacturers have moved production across the border, resulting in job losses at home.
Nafta was implemented in 1994 and over the past 23 years Mexico has grown as a manufacturing hub. Today the United States and Mexico trade over $500bn (£400bn) in goods and services a year, equal to about $1.5bn a day. Mexico is the US's second-biggest export market, and the US is Mexico's largest.
Red Sun Farms, a large vegetable-growing firm in central Mexico, depends on the free trade agreement. Its managing director, Thierry Legros, shows me into a vast greenhouse, 200m long, with row upon row of tomato plants. The company also grows peppers and exports 90% of its crop to the US and Canada.
So what would it mean if Mr Trump repealed the Nafta agreement completely with its tariff-free trading? "We might need to close the whole company," Thierry tells me. "It would be around 3,000 direct jobs, so with all the indirect that's quite a lot, probably double that."
Outside Thierry's office three flags flutter in the wind - one for each Nafta country.
Red Sun Farms even owns a farm in the US and sends Mexican workers over there. However, there's a stark wage differential, with pay significantly higher in the US.
"Right now with the exchange rate that's huge," Thierry explains, "it's about one to eight, one to 10."
As well as enabling Mexico to export freely, Nafta also opened the door to US imports, giving Mexican consumers much greater choice.
"It was an achievement, it was against history," says economic consultant Luis de la Calle, who was one of the negotiators of the free trade agreement.
"Most Mexicans thought that it was impossible or not convenient to have a strategic association with the US, and many people in the US never thought that Mexico could be their partner."
You can listen to In Business: Mexico and Mr Trump on BBC Radio 4 at 20:30 GMT on Thursday, 5 January and at 21:30 GMT on Sunday, 8 January.
Increased demand, as a result of free trade, forced Mexican manufacturers to improve quality.
Luis de la Calle says that before Nafta Mexico had three producers of TV sets, and the quality was "awful". But today, Mexico is "the largest manufacturer of TV sets in the world". They are exported and are "high quality, completely different from the protected market we had before".
Mexico is now a centre of manufacturing for overseas companies, such as the motor industry. General Motors and Ford both have factories in Mexico as well as the US.
But Donald Trump has put public pressure on US companies not to move production, and has threatened to impose import duties on cars coming in from Mexico. It's a sensitive subject and the American carmakers refused to be interviewed.
However, in the city of Puebla, a two-hour drive from the capital, the German car manufacturer Volkswagen is the biggest employer with 14,000 staff. It's the only place in the world where VW produces its famous Beetle, and as you enter the site you're greeted by a display of Beetles suspended in the air like a piece of installation art. The Golf and Jetta models are also produced here.
Like the US carmakers, Volkswagen's Mexican production is integrated with its US plant. "We use a lot of parts coming from the US for assembly here in Mexico in Puebla, and our colleagues in Chattanooga in Tennessee - they use a lot of parts coming from Mexico," explains Thomas Karig from Volkswagen Mexico.
This integration is possible because there are no tariffs to pay each time components are sent from one Nafta country to another. But when I ask whether Volkswagen has come under pressure from Mr Trump about keeping jobs in the US, the atmosphere cools and there is a curt "no comment".
The Nafta agreement has not benefited everyone in Mexico though. Some small farmers were unable to compete with US agricultural imports and big Mexican rivals.
According to a study by the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, from 1991 to 2007 some 4.9 million family farmers were displaced. Some found work with big exporting agricultural companies, but there was still a net loss of 1.9 million jobs.
An hour's drive from Puebla I meet Aurelio, whose family has farmed a tiny patch of land since 1925. Deep in the dry countryside he raises a few cows.
Job opportunities are scarce and three of his five children have migrated illegally to the US where they have found work painting cars. But Donald Trump has said he wants to deport illegal immigrants. Aurelio takes out his mobile phone and calls one of his sons in the US. Is his son worried about this, I ask.
His son says that if there is a chance of being deported they will have to look elsewhere, but adds: "Mexico is a tough choice because of lack of opportunities, violence, high taxes and the economic situation, so it wouldn't be easy."
President Obama has deported at least 2.4 million illegal immigrants so this isn't a new policy. And according to the Pew Research Center, by 2014 more Mexican immigrants returned to Mexico than migrated to the US.
Mr de la Calle acknowledges that the free trade agreement has split the country. He says there are two types of regions in Mexico.
"[There are] parts of the south of Mexico that are disconnected from international trade, that are lagging behind, where Nafta had little impact. Rates of growth are low, there is little investment, and you don't see large manufacturing operations."
In contrast to this, he says: "There are 16 or 17 other states that grow very fast, you see a lot of dynamism." These he describes as "Nafta states" with exporting businesses.
However, he dismisses Mr Trump's criticism of Mexico. "He says [Nafta's] been great for Mexico, actually his whole argument is that Mexico is doing so well. It's flattering."
He also claims that the US is benefiting from its close manufacturing links with Mexico.
However, when I ask who would come off worst if Nafta were repealed, the US or Mexico, he answers, "Mexico because we are smaller, but the US would lose quite a bit as well."
Donald Trump wasn't the first US presidential candidate to criticise Nafta. Hillary Clinton and even Barack Obama did so on their campaign trails.
But abandoning it completely? The US may find it has too much to lose and perhaps Mr Trump has realised that too.
In Business: Mexico and Mr Trump is on BBC Radio 4 at 20:30 GMT on Thursday, 5 January and at 21:30 GMT on Sunday, 8 January.
The 23-year-old Portugal right-back, who has won six caps for his country, will have a medical in Barcelona on Friday.
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Cities and towns across the continent are plastered with signs and posters advertising churches, usually with apocalyptic names, promising instant cures and salvation from every intractable situation or sickness.
The churches are usually led by charismatic pastors, who set up their own churches rather than joining an established institution, and often claim to have miraculous powers.
However, the miracles are however tied to worshippers "planting a seed" - or giving money to the preachers.
Here are some of Africa's more controversial preachers:
Pastor Lesego Daniel heads the Rabboni Ministries based in South Africa's capital, Pretoria.
He famously instructed members of his congregation to drink petrol, claiming that he had turned it into pineapple juice.
A video shared online shows a worshipper pouring the petrol into a pan and then lighting it to prove that it is combustible.
He then sips from the bottle and declares that "he feels fine and does not have any side effects" when the pastor enquires about the taste.
A woman then rushes to the pulpit to have a sip of the drink and then declares it is "sweet" - an enticing assessment that gets a group of women rushing to the pulpit to have a taste.
However, the video shared on the church's YouTube account did have a warning message:
"The level of anointing is not the same. If you cannot turn water into wine, do not try this at home."
Penuel Mnguni is only 25 yet has been running the End Times Disciples Ministries church since 2014.
He is a protege of Lesego Daniel, the South African pastor who used pesticide in his healing rituals.
In the same year he opened his church, pictures of worshippers eating grass and flowers on his orders were shared on Facebook and on the church's website.
Other images showed the self-proclaimed prophet feeding his members stones which he claimed to have turned into bread.
He earned his nickname "snake pastor" last year after pictures emerged of him feeding his followers snakes and rats, which he claimed had been turned into chocolate.
Locals later chased him out of Soshanguve, a township north of Pretoria where his church was located.
In Ghana, Bishop Daniel Obinim of International Godsway Ministries has an expansive list of rituals which he uses in various cases.
In one incident, which was widely shared he was shown stepping on the abdomen of a woman, who was reportedly pregnant, to exorcise her from being possessed by evil spirits.
In another case in June, he is seen grabbing men's crotches, saying this would heal their erectile dysfunction.
The men obediently stand in line, with their arms raised in their air, waiting for their turn to be touched by the preacher.
This seems to be the restrained version of his prayer said to cure men suffering from impotence.
In another video shared online last year he is seen praying over a man whose penis is exposed.
More recently, he was seen flogging a young woman and man during a service for allegedly having extra-marital sex.
One of the preacher's aides is shown holding the woman as she attempts to run away.
The pastor is then seen lashing out at the woman repeatedly with a belt, while the church members remain seated.
Media reports say that a court in the capital Accra has issued a warrant of arrest for the pastor and two of his associates for allegedly "flogging the two teenagers in church".
An investigation by Kenya's KTN TV station in November 2014 exposed the tricks Victor Kanyari, a famous televangelist, was allegedly using to fool worshippers at his Salvation Healing Ministry church.
He used potassium permanganate, a chemical compound that easily dissolves in water to give a reddish solution, to wash the feet of his members and then claim that blood was oozing from their feet as a sign of healing.
One of his former aides demonstrated how the preacher performed the trick.
Another video shows him putting his hand under a woman's dress to touch her breast, saying this would cure her from breast cancer.
The woman is seen turning away from the camera but the preacher forces her to turn around to face the congregation as he exposes her breast for all to see. He then calls for a church worker to anoint the "diseased" breast with oil.
The investigation said Kanyari was the son of "Prophetess" Lucy Nduta, another controversial pastor who was convicted in 2009 for "defrauding vulnerable people" claiming she could cure them from Aids.
Shortly afterwards, he appeared on another TV programme, saying his "tribulations" were the work of his enemies.
Kanyari is still preaching.
Listen again to the extended interview with Willo Flood on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound podcast from Tuesday, 24 January.
The slight midfielder is now in his fourth spell at the club. It's the place he's always been content. That's why he'd rank restoring United's top-flight status this season as his "biggest achievement in football", if he can indeed help the Terrors return to the Scottish Premiership.
Flood, 31, is a well-travelled veteran, having also played for Manchester City, Cardiff City, Celtic, Middlesbrough and Aberdeen, but Tannadice has proved something of a magnet throughout his career.
Last season, he watched on with anguish as the club so close to his heart slid inexorably towards relegation, their demotion finally confirmed in the most humiliating fashion, a 2-1 defeat at Dens Park, inflicted by their fearsome city rivals Dundee.
So when new manager Ray Mackinnon reached out last summer and asked Flood to play a pivotal part in his rebuilding job, it proved too tempting an offer to resist.
"When you've been to a place and you've had good memories you always want to go back," he says. "That's what Dundee United is for me.
"I watched about seven, eight games last year and for me there was too much negativity about the club. I never experienced that at Dundee United. It was horrible to see, just a mess."
Flood has been shaped by experiences on and off the field. At Manchester City as a youth he was burgled at knifepoint in his own house.
"I was 19, I had just bought a house and had a plasma on the wall - they were the thing back then," he recalls. "I was watching TV and a boy walks in with a big knife. It wasn't his own knife, it was a knife he took from my kitchen!
"I jumped up, and I was like, you've gotta run for him. Then I thought, nah, nah, don't be doing that, Willo."
Flood was told to take the television off the wall. He laughs as he's retelling the story but it was a serious and frightening incident.
It turned out the burglar was a City fan who insisted, "don't take this personally".
"He ended up getting a screwdriver out, taking the plasma off the wall," Flood continues. "The plasma took two days to get up, and one minute to get off the wall.
"I remember carrying it outside and the knife was to the back of me. As soon as I got to the front door I threw it on the floor. There was one house lit up down the end of the road - I've never ran so fast in my life.
"Man City found out within two minutes and they were round to my house looking after me. It had a massive impact (on me). At the time it was a traumatic experience but you become stronger after it."
Flood's meandering journey through football has also taught him what's important.
"If I could give any advice to anybody I'd say, 'Who cares about the money? Just go and play games,'" he says.
That's something that eluded him after hesitantly moving from Tannadice to Celtic. It turned into a personal disaster.
Speculation about the transfer was rife as Dundee United faced the Hoops in the League Cup semi-final of 2009.
It ended 11-10 in a penalty shoot-out in Celtic's favour. Flood missed the decisive kick having already netted. His medical at Celtic was the following day.
"I was at Celtic for three months and thought, 'you shouldn't have done this Willo,'" he admits.
"I just wasn't playing and I was hating it to be honest. People say, the green and white hoops, it's great for a Dublin boy, but I absolutely hated it. I just wanted out.
"Maybe I wasn't (good enough). I never got a chance to prove whether I was or wasn't."
Tony Mowbray had replaced Gordon Strachan as Celtic manager and did so again once Flood had moved to Middlesbrough. Talk about bad luck.
"He just didn't fancy me as a player," Flood says. "I just wish he was honest with me at the time and said, I don't fancy you."
For that bad experience under a manger, there have been several others that Flood beams about. Craig Levein, Peter Houston, Gordon Strachan and Derek McInnes.
Under the latter at Aberdeen, he won the League Cup in 2014 and can't compliment the Dons boss enough.
"He was good for me," he says. "He was brilliant, he can't do enough for you. He's one of those managers that helps his players big time.
"For me, I was signing for Derek McInnes. Derek McInnes could have been manager of St Johnstone at the time. I think I would have signed for him.
He's endured hard times on and off the pitch but has returned to the place he feels is home.
His strength, experience and influence at Dundee United shines through. Promotion is everything.
"Get the club back where it belongs," he says. "And I'd retire a happy man."
Tupolev Tu-22M3 and Tu-95MS bombers will fly from Siberia as far as Hawaii, Guam and Japan, all of which host major US naval and air bases, Russia's Izvestia daily reported.
Russia has sent Tu-22M3s on bombing runs in Syria and Tu-95s regularly carry out patrols near Western Europe.
Nato has criticised Russia's flights.
Britain's RAF and other Nato air forces regularly scramble fighters to monitor the Russian bombers' movements over the North Sea and Atlantic.
A Russian defence ministry official told Izvestia dozens of the Tupolevs would be based at Belaya and Ukrainka, in eastern Siberia.
The announcement comes amid heightened Russian-US tensions over the Syria conflict. Western politicians have accused Russia of bombing civilian areas heavily and indiscriminately in support of Syrian government forces.
The new bomber division will be Russia's second - the first was created last year in western Russia, Izvestia reported.
The Tu-22M3 has the Nato codename "Backfire", while the Tu-95 - a decades-old, Cold War turbo-prop plane - is called "Bear".
The Soviet Union sent bombers over the northern Pacific regularly during the Cold War, but such patrols ceased in the 1990s and early 21st Century.
However, Russian bombers have been spotted in the region in recent times. In 2007 President Vladimir Putin announced the resumption of Russian long-range bomber flights.
A Russian military expert quoted by Izvestia, Anton Tsvetov, said "this build-up of Russian military capabilities in the Pacific Ocean demonstrates the seriousness of Russia's ambitions in the East".
Russia is also expanding its military facilities on the Kuril Islands, north of Japan. The islands were occupied by Soviet forces in 1945 and the sovereignty dispute over them still hampers Russian-Japanese relations.
This might sound like a line from Yes Scotland's latest campaign leaflet, but it was actually said over a century ago.
In 1913, William Cowan presented a successful Scottish home rule bill to Westminster, but the outbreak of World War One prevented the creation of a strong Scottish parliament which could have completely changed Scotland's modern history.
This is the story of Scotland's parliament that never was.
For most of the 1800s, Scottish political nationalism remained dormant.
Although the UK was technically run by one Westminster parliament, much of the day-to-day running of Scottish affairs was carried out within Scotland which meant there was little appetite for independence or the establishment of a Scottish parliament.
Moreover, many of Scotland's ruling elite were educated in English schools and benefited financially from the Empire, meaning most Scottish MPs were very much part of, rather than opposed to, the British establishment.
However, the introduction of the 1872 Education Act - which legislated for Scottish school boards which were supervised by London - and the creation of the Scottish Office in 1885, meant more and more decisions affecting Scotland were made outside of Scotland.
On top of that, the Irish home rule movement was rapidly gaining strength in the late 1800s, creating a feeling within Scotland that Ireland was getting unfair preferential treatment.
In 1894, a Scottish Home Rule Association was established with the aim of setting up a devolved parliament in Edinburgh.
One of its grievances, which may resonate with modern-day Scots who watched Team GB at the Olympics, was "against the mis-use of the terms 'England' and 'English' for 'Britain', its Empire, its people and its institutions."
With the Home Rule Association's leadership, Scottish home rule was debated seven times in parliament between 1886 and 1900, although none of this discussion led to a successful bill.
A change came with the establishment in 1900 of The Young Scots, an offshoot of the Liberal Party committed to social reform which strongly believed in Scottish home rule.
By 1914, they had 10,000 members in 50 branches, with 30 of its members having been elected to Westminster.
With increasing power, The Young Scots made home rule a central feature of national politics in the run up to the First World War.
The culmination of these efforts resulted in the 1913 home rule bill, which was presented to parliament by William Cowan MP.
When Mr Cowan presented the bill to parliament, he gave a speech which will sound familiar to those following the 2014 independence debate.
His opening statement could easily be describing present day Scotland, saying: "You cannot nowadays take up a Scottish newspaper with very much chance of finding no reference to this burning question.
"I do not care who goes to Scotland today, if he speaks to anybody, if he goes anywhere, if he consults the people, he will find that this is the most absorbing political topic in Scotland."
His arguments for home rule might also resonate with 'Yes' voters today, as he cheekily cited lack of interest in Scotland from English MPs.
He said: "English members will be conspicuous by their absence, or will be represented by gentlemen who, having shootings, fishings, or deer forests in Scotland, imagine themselves experts on Scottish affairs and insist on wasting our time and their own by intervening in Scottish debates."
Summing up his argument, he said: "Is it any wonder Scotland is tired and demands a parliament of her own? That she demands her own legislation for land, for the liquor trade, for education, for housing, for fisheries, for ecclesiastical affairs, for one-hundred-and-one matters of purely local concern?"
The press reaction might seem familiar too, with a 1913 Spectator article asking of the proposals "Are we to establish a customs line along the Roman Wall, with an army of watchers to prevent smuggling?"
The powers outlined for the 1913 Scottish parliament actually outdo what the current Scottish parliament has.
Its powers would have included pensions, national insurance, labour exchanges and all "purely Scottish affairs."
Or, as William Cowan, explained: "The powers of the Scottish parliament will closely resemble those of the Irish parliament, with the exception that we do not desire to control the Post Office."
It would have left to the UK parliament matters involving the crown, war, foreign affairs, national defence, immigration, trademarks, coinage, weights and measures, external trade, postal service, public loans to Scotland before the passing of the Act, and the collection of taxes.
Also, weirdly, Scottish lighthouses.
The bill was given its second reading in parliament in May 1914.
However, weeks later, on 28 June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in Sarajevo, starting the series of events which led to the First World War.
During the war, parliament continued to sit without interruption, but mainly dealt with measures for the conduct of the war, both at home and on the front line.
For the duration of the war, at least, Scottish devolution was simply forgotten about.
After the war, home rule was brought up again in parliament in the 1920s, but Scottish political nationalism faded as a force in the late 1920s and 30s, and didn't enter mainstream politics again until the SNP won its first Westminster seat in 1945.
It's hard to tell how much Scotland's modern political history might have changed if Scotland had been granted a parliament in 1914.
However, leading historian Tom Devine says: "My bet would be in the long run it might have promoted a more federal approach and so a stabilisation of the Union."
If Scotland votes 'Yes' on Thursday, 1914 might be looked back on as a great "What if?" of Scottish history.
Clayton Williams, 19, denied attempting to inflict grievous bodily harm with intent on PC Thomas Birkett by driving a stolen truck towards him.
His colleague, PC Dave Phillips, 34, died after he was hit by the truck in Wallasey last October.
Mr Williams claims he did not intend to injure the officer and denies murder.
The jury is continuing to deliberate over the murder charge in relation to PC Phillips and will return to Manchester Crown Court on Monday.
PC Phillips and PC Birkett had been responding to reports of a burglary in Birkenhead before the collision.
They had been attempting to stop the vehicle using a tyre-puncturing "stinger" device.
Fellow officers tried to save PC Phillips' life but he died shortly after arriving at hospital.
Mr Williams has admitted the burglary in which the car was stolen and a charge of aggravated vehicle taking.
Glenavon duo Joel Cooper and Mark Sykes are on Northern Ireland duty while the club also cite injuries and suspensions as reasons for the decision.
The Mourneview Park fixture will now be played on Tuesday, 5 April.
Cliftonville's league games on Saturday and Tuesday are also off because of internationals.
It has looked at duplication where branches are very near each other, and 19 are to be closed for that reason.
A further six branches without a nearby alternative will shut.
The lender said the change, by next summer, will mean about 90 fewer staff - about a third of the branch workforce.
It said it was seeking to avoid redundancies by redeployment.
Tony Prestedge, Nationwide's chief operating officer, said: "We have made considerable improvements to our range of products and services, and are now in a position to ensure our members under the Dunfermline brand can have full access to the benefits our other members already enjoy.
"It is a logical step to integrate our businesses under one unified, strong, and nationally recognisable brand.
"The strength of the Nationwide brand is increasingly compelling and we will offer customers of the Dunfermline a vastly improved proposition.
"As well as benefiting from access to our full suite of products and market leading customer service, more people will have access to our strong branch network than at present."
The rebranding will take place over one weekend, expected to be in Summer 2014.
From the following Monday morning, customers will be able to access their accounts from any Nationwide branded branch and Nationwide's online bank if they have already registered.
It has retained Caledonia House, the former headquarters of the Dunfermline Building Society, as a customer service administration and telephone channel centre, for customers across the Nationwide Group.
About 300 jobs are to be based at this site.
The Dunfermline branches that will be integrating with nearby Nationwide branches are: Ayr, Coatbridge, Dundee, East Kilbride, Falkirk, Glasgow (Hope St), Glenrothes, Inverness, Kirkcaldy, Leven, Livingston, Montrose, Paisley, Perth, Shawlands and Stirling.
The Nationwide branches that will integrate with nearby Dunfermline branches are: Cupar, Dunfermline and Hamilton.
The Dunfermline branches that will be rebranded Nationwide are: Aberdeen, Anniesland, Edinburgh, Kirkwall, Peebles, Petreavie and St Andrews.
The Dunfermline branches that will close are: Castle Douglas, Cowdenbeath, Johnstone, Largs, Rosyth and Tranent.
Tony Nicklinson, 58, from Wiltshire, has locked-in syndrome following a stroke seven years ago.
His barrister also told the High Court he is not seeking a new law to allow euthanasia, but just wanted a "remedy".
But the government is to argue that such a ruling would authorise murder.
This legal bid differs from recent right-to-die cases which have focused on assisted suicide.
By Fergus WalshMedical correspondent
The hearing at the High Court represents a fundamental challenge to the law on murder. It amounts to an appeal to allow euthanasia - the deliberate killing of a person on their request - which is strictly prohibited.
It goes further than the case of Diane Pretty, who had motor neurone disease. The House of Lords rejected her appeal in 2001 to allow her husband to assist her suicide.
The case raises huge ethical and social issues which will spark major debate in the weeks ahead.
Win or lose, Mr Nicklinson can be assured that the issue of whether there is a right to die will be discussed in great detail by judges, politicians, the media and the public.
Instead, Mr Nicklinson's paralysis is so severe that he would have to be killed by someone else, known as euthanasia.
The married father-of-two had a stroke in 2005 while on a business trip to Athens, leaving him paralysed, but with a fully-functioning mind.
Before the hearing, he told the BBC his life was a "living nightmare" because he cannot speak and needs other people to do everything for him.
He has to use a special computer to communicate.
Mr Nicklinson is not attending court, but in an email to his legal team, he said: "Legal arguments are fine but they should not forget that a life is affected by the decision they come to.
"A decision going against me condemns me to a 'life' of increasing misery."
His barrister, Paul Bowen QC, told the court: "Tony has now had almost seven years to contemplate his situation.
"With the continuing benefits of 21st century health and social care his life expectancy can be expected to be normal - another 20 years or more. He does not wish to live that life."
Mr Bowen added: "The claimant, who has made a voluntary, clear, settled and informed wish to end his own life with dignity, is too disabled to do so.
"The current law of assisted suicide and euthanasia operate to prevent him from adopting the only means by which he could practically end his life, namely with medical assistance."
Mr Bowen went on to claim that the current law had forced euthanasia underground, where it is unregulated.
Diane Pretty was terminally ill with motor neurone disease. She wanted the courts to give her husband immunity from prosecution if he was to help her die. In November 2001 the House of Lords refused her application.
Ms B was left a tetraplegic by a brain condition. She went to court because doctors refused to stop her artificial ventilation. The High Court ruled in 2002 that her request was valid and treatment was stopped.
Mrs Z, who had an incurable degenerative disease, wanted to go to Switzerland to die and Mr Z arranged it. An injunction to prevent the travel was granted to the local authority. The order was overturned in 2004.
MS sufferer Debbie Purdy challenged the lack of clarity on the law on assisted suicide. She wanted to understand how prosecutors would make a decision on whether or not to prosecute her husband if he was to assist her to get to Switzerland to be helped to die. Ms Purdy won her case and guidance was issued.
He said there were in the region of 3,000 cases each year.
Mr Nicklinson's legal action was launched to seek an assurance that a doctor could intervene to end his "indignity" and have a common law defence of necessity against any murder charge.
His legal team is arguing that the defence of necessity can be used against a murder charge - arguing that the only way to end his suffering is to allow him to die.
They are also claiming that his case is covered by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which deals with the right to respect for private and family life.
The hearing is expected to last four days, and judges will also hear argument in a judicial review claim by another locked-in syndrome named only as Martin, who is 47.
Part of his case involves a challenge to the Director of Public Prosecution' s policy on assisted suicide.
A ruling will not be made until a later date.
Craig and Graham Cavin carried out the "brutal and sustained" assault on Charles Lamont at his nephew's christening party in Dundee.
A jury found the two men guilty after a five-day trial at the city's sheriff court.
Sheriff Tom Hughes told the brothers they had acted like "animals".
The court selfie and comments posted below it relating to the case led to the trial being delayed by a day as lawyers investigated.
Graham Cavin, 19, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years detention and his 26-year-old brother jailed for three years and nine months.
Craig Cavin also admitted carrying out a baseball bat attack in Dundee city centre in a separate incident.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson told the trial that the christening party at Downfield Junior FC social club had been "a lovely happy day" until the incident.
She said Mr Lamont had become unhappy with the way Mark Leggatt, who was cleared of any involvement in the assault during the trial, had been dancing with his mother.
The fiscal said Mr Lamont confronted Mr Leggatt, who later "went on and on" about his behaviour.
Miss Robertson said Craig Cavin who was a friend of Mr Leggatt later launched a "completely unprovoked assault on the dancefloor" on Mr Lamont.
She said: "At this stage numerous other men, including Graham Cavin, get involved and subject Charles Lamont to a brutal, sustained and violent assault that leads the group across the room and ultimately out of the back door as Charles tries to escape."
Sentencing the two men, Sheriff Hughes told them: "You were in the sheriff court on trial before a jury.
"Were you taking that seriously? I think not.
"You were outside court taking selfies, posting stuff on Facebook, making comments during the course of the trial which caused problems to the court because of your stupid behaviour."
Sheriff Hughes said he was "not taken in" by the "worthless comments" from the brothers in social work reports prepared for the case.
He said: "During the incident you acted like animals - it was like a nature programme where a pack descends on its prey and attacks."
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Hogg was named man of the match after scoring one try and creating another in Scotland's 29-18 win over France.
"He was the youngest player on the Lions tour three years ago," Hastings said.
"There's no doubt he will be on the Lions tour assuming he plays as well as he's done in this Six Nations."
Hastings has been encouraged by the back-to-back victories over Italy and France, and although he believes it is too early to confidently predict who will earn selection for next year's Lions tour, he feels several Scots could play their way into contention.
"Let's wait another 12 months or so, let's hopefully get Scotland a few more victories under their belt and then we'll talk about not only Stuart but hopefully a whole lot of other Scottish players as well."
After going over for Scotland's opening try in the first-half, Hogg produced a moment of magic to flick a pass over his head to put Tim Visser over in the corner for the crucial third try with 14 minutes remaining.
Hastings believes the Glasgow Warriors full-back's display against the French typifies how far he has come as an international player.
"He's one of these players that gets the crowd on the edge of their seats because you always think he's capable of making something happen," said the former Scotland captain, who won the Five Nations title in 1986 and 1990.
"He's very comfortable in that position. He's got great pace, great acceleration and he's got great awareness as well. There are so many players I see, they don't seem to realise how much time they have but that certainly doesn't apply to Stuart. He's always got time on the ball and I think that's the hallmark of a great player.
"He's a very important part of the team. He's played his part and he's very much one of these key men. As long as he continues that performance the team have got a great chance of winning. He's a very exciting player to watch.
"You realised it was Scotland's day when Stuart jumped up and he flipped the ball back into the arms of Tim Visser. What was really nice was he put his hands up prior to Visser going over in the corner because he knew he had created that try. It was Scotland's day and it was great to see.
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A fan protest has been held against the ownership of Leeds United ahead of the side's Championship tie with Reading.
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On a crisp autumn day in 1915, 38 ornithologists gathered in the tiny Swiss village of Zimmerwald.
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The Greens and Conservatives campaigned about transport infrastructure, while SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon continued her tour of the northern isles.
Elsewhere, Labour and the Lib Dems promoted their financial policies on education and council tax ahead of the election on 5 May.
Ruth Davidson got behind the wheel at the Knockhill race track, chasing down a red car - symbolising Labour - in her Tory blue vehicle.
The Scottish Conservative leader said Scotland's roads were in a "terrible state", calling for better infrastructure to keep the country moving.
She pledged £20m a year to fix potholes over the next parliament, from a special roads maintenance fund for local authorities.
Ms Davidson added: "It is one of the top doorstep issues and 80% of Scottish drivers say they've had to swerve to avoid a pothole in recent weeks - it's clear we need action to fix our roads infrastructure."
Green party co-convenor Patrick Harvie campaigned at a busy intersection in central Edinburgh while highlighting his party's call for improved bus services.
Mr Harvie ran a campaign called Better Buses during the last session of parliament, and said the Greens were taking the issue seriously.
He said: The SNP has ploughed extra millions into new motorways and dual carriageways while commuters and rural residents without access to a car are left behind.
"We need more electric or hybrid buses to reduce the air pollution harming public health, and we need a renovation programme for bus stations to make them attractive public spaces."
Nicola Sturgeon continued her tour of Orkney and Shetland by visiting Kirkwall.
The SNP leader said she was committed to devolving more powers to the islands, saying: "We want to work with our island communities to further empower them to make sure that the decisions that shape the lives of people living in Orkney and Shetland are taken here."
Ms Sturgeon also defended the memorandum of understanding she signed with a Chinese consortium which has been criticised over corruption allegations.
She said: "There is no agreement to invest, this is about exploring opportunities and if there are any specific proposals for investment then full due diligence will be done."
Kezia Dugdale promoted her plans for a new system of council tax while campaigning in Glasgow.
The Scottish Labour leader said the SNP had broken its promises to "scrap the unfair council tax", but said her party would make good on this pledge with a new system based on recalculated property values.
She said: "People deserve bold proposals from the next Scottish government, not broken promises.
"Labour's fair plans will see 80% of households pay less - that means the average household will be better off by £111."
Willie Rennie visited Step Change, a Glasgow charity which provides people with free financial advice.
The Scottish Lib Dem leader said his party would help families with the cost of early years care and support families through the education system while closing the "attainment" gap in school performance.
Mr Rennie aims to introduce a "targeted pupil premium", worth £1,400 for primary pupils from more deprived backgrounds, paid for by adding 1p to income tax bands.
He said: "We know that putting extra investment into education is crucial to raising attainment across the board and ensuring that people get the skills they need to thrive in the workplace."
Unemployment saw a "small" rise of 10,000 to 1.66 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
"These figures show that employment continued to grow over the summer and vacancies remain at high levels, suggesting continuing confidence in the economy," the ONS said.
Average weekly earnings grew by 2.3%, a slight fall from the previous month.
Businesses cautiously welcomed the employment figures, but said more was needed to help boost workers' pay as inflation starts to rise.
The CBI business group called the pay growth "lacklustre", saying it underlined the need for a "laser-like" focus on making companies more productive.
With the number of self-employed workers increasing by 273,000 to 4.79 million - 15% of all people in work - more should also be done to guarantee their pensions, mortgages and income protection, the Federation of Small Businesses said.
The total number of people in jobs remained at a record high of 31.8 million, the ONS figures showed.
Although there was a "small rise" in unemployment, it was accompanied by more people actively seeking work, ONS statistician Nick Palmer said.
Some of that rise came from more women looking for work. In the three months to August, 73.4% of women were either in work or seeking jobs, the highest rate since records began in 1971, the ONS said.
Employment Minister Damian Hinds welcomed the total jobs rate, but said: "There's more to do, particularly when it comes to supporting young people into employment."
Businesses and economists said the figures showed UK jobs had proved "resilient" since the Brexit vote.
However, some also argued that an easing in the pace of job creation suggested the labour market was slowing down.
Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Markit, said "cracks are appearing", as jobs growth dipped to 106,000, compared with the 174,000 jobs added in the three months to July.
The unemployment estimates come from the Labour Force Survey in which the ONS talks to 40,000 households.
Although it is a very large survey, there is still a margin of error. The ONS says it is 95% confident that the figure of a 10,000 rise in unemployment is correct to within 79,000.
As the estimated change is smaller than the margin of error, it means the change in unemployment is not statistically significant.
It's thought her costume caught fire while she was out trick-or-treating.
A Twitter user, who Newsbeat is not naming, has posted five messages including one which says: "What's your daughter's favourite dance? I'm guessing the #HotStep."
Another one says: "I fancy a bacon sarnie, extra crispy."
The account now appears to have been deleted.
It's thought eight-year-old Matilda's Halloween costume caught fire after it brushed against a candle flame.
Other Twitter users have also sent abusive messages about Claudia Winkleman.
In reply to the tweets, another user said: "At least she won't have to fork out for a Halloween costume next year....#ClaudiaWinkleman."
Another person wrote: "Claudia Winkleman isn't presenting Film 2014 tonight. I don't want to suggest her daughter being burned was a good thing, but..."
Twitter's own rules state that users "may not make direct, specific threats of violence against others, including threats against a person or group on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, or disability. Targeted abuse or harassment is also a violation of the Twitter Rules and Terms of Service".
A spokesman for the social media service told Newsbeat: "We review all reported accounts against our rules, which prohibit violent threats and targeted abuse."
Claudia Winkleman, 42, and her film producer husband Kris Thykier, who's also 42, said in a statement earlier this week that they were hopeful their daughter would get better quickly.
It said: "Matilda is having the best care possible and we are hopeful of a full recovery. We would like to thank everyone that has been so supportive."
Claudia Winkleman also used the statement about her daughter's burns to warn other people about the dangers of using or handling fireworks, especially at this time of year.
"We would like to remind anyone taking part in fireworks parties or Guy Fawkes celebrations to be vigilant about the dangers of candles, open fires and fireworks," she said.
"Please have the appropriate safety measures in place and to hand."
Claudia Winkleman misses her second lot of Strictly Come Dancing shows on Saturday and Sunday night.
It's unclear how long she'll be missing from the BBC One show.
Zoe Ball will again replace her on this weekend's episodes as she co-hosts with Tess Daly.
At the start of Saturday night's BBC One show, Tess Daly said: "Claudia can't be with us again this week.
"All our thoughts go out to her and her daughter and we're wishing her a speedy recovery."
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Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence.
The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the university library for almost a century.
The British Library's expert on such manuscripts, Dr Muhammad Isa Waley, said this "exciting discovery" would make Muslims "rejoice".
The manuscript had been kept with a collection of other Middle Eastern books and documents, without being identified as one of the oldest fragments of the Koran in the world.
When a PhD researcher, Alba Fedeli, looked more closely at these pages it was decided to carry out a radiocarbon dating test and the results were "startling".
The university's director of special collections, Susan Worrall, said researchers had not expected "in our wildest dreams" that it would be so old.
"Finding out we had one of the oldest fragments of the Koran in the whole world has been fantastically exciting."
The tests, carried out by the Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, showed that the fragments, written on sheep or goat skin, were among the very oldest surviving texts of the Koran.
These tests provide a range of dates, showing that, with a probability of more than 95%, the parchment was from between 568 and 645.
"They could well take us back to within a few years of the actual founding of Islam," said David Thomas, the university's professor of Christianity and Islam.
"According to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad received the revelations that form the Koran, the scripture of Islam, between the years 610 and 632, the year of his death."
Prof Thomas says the dating of the Birmingham folios would mean it was quite possible that the person who had written them would have been alive at the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
"The person who actually wrote it could well have known the Prophet Muhammad. He would have seen him probably, he would maybe have heard him preach. He may have known him personally - and that really is quite a thought to conjure with," he says.
Prof Thomas says that some of the passages of the Koran were written down on parchment, stone, palm leaves and the shoulder blades of camels - and a final version, collected in book form, was completed in about 650.
He says that "the parts of the Koran that are written on this parchment can, with a degree of confidence, be dated to less than two decades after Muhammad's death".
"These portions must have been in a form that is very close to the form of the Koran read today, supporting the view that the text has undergone little or no alteration and that it can be dated to a point very close to the time it was believed to be revealed."
The manuscript, written in "Hijazi script", an early form of written Arabic, becomes one of the oldest known fragments of the Koran.
Because radiocarbon dating creates a range of possible ages, there is a handful of other manuscripts in public and private collections which overlap. So this makes it impossible to say that any is definitively the oldest.
But the latest possible date of the Birmingham discovery - 645 - would put it among the very oldest.
Dr Waley, curator for such manuscripts at the British Library, said "these two folios, in a beautiful and surprisingly legible Hijazi hand, almost certainly date from the time of the first three caliphs".
The first three caliphs were leaders in the Muslim community between about 632 and 656.
Dr Waley says that under the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan, copies of the "definitive edition" were distributed.
"The Muslim community was not wealthy enough to stockpile animal skins for decades, and to produce a complete Mushaf, or copy, of the Holy Koran required a great many of them."
Dr Waley suggests that the manuscript found by Birmingham is a "precious survivor" of a copy from that era or could be even earlier.
"In any case, this - along with the sheer beauty of the content and the surprisingly clear Hijazi script - is news to rejoice Muslim hearts."
The manuscript is part of the Mingana Collection of more than 3,000 Middle Eastern documents gathered in the 1920s by Alphonse Mingana, a Chaldean priest born near Mosul in modern-day Iraq.
He was sponsored to take collecting trips to the Middle East by Edward Cadbury, who was part of the chocolate-making dynasty.
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The local Muslim community has already expressed its delight at the discovery in their city and the university says the manuscript will be put on public display.
"When I saw these pages I was very moved. There were tears of joy and emotion in my eyes. And I'm sure people from all over the UK will come to Birmingham to have a glimpse of these pages," said Muhammad Afzal, chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque.
The university says the Koran fragments will go on display in the Barber Institute in Birmingham in October.
Prof Thomas says it will show people in Birmingham that they have a "treasure that is second to none".
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Alex-Marie Quinn had 65 other injuries, pathologist Prof Rupert Risdon told St Albans Crown Court.
Carl Wheatley, 31, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, denies murder but admits Alex-Marie's manslaughter.
Concluding the bruise led to her death, Prof Risdon told the court he had never seen such an injury.
Prosecutors have alleged Mr Wheatley lost his temper and beat his daughter to death with "sustained persistent hard hitting". He had gained custody of her just a few months earlier.
Prof Risdon found 65 marks of injury across her body, head and arms but a "66th" area of bruising had caused Alex-Marie's death.
Bruising covered the lower body and legs from above her belly button ending shortly before her ankles, in the front and back.
Alex-Marie's soft tissue was damaged under the skin releasing a massive amount of fat cells into her blood stream, the court was told.
The cells then travelled to her lungs, blocking them and causing an embolism.
Prof Risdon said: "It's an unusual finding. I've never seen anything quite like it."
Jane Bickerstaff QC, defending, asked him to consider a "scenario" where the little girl had been repeatedly smacked over her clothing.
But, for a period of up to 36 hours before her death, she had not been hit anymore as she lay "moribund" on her mattress.
Prof Risdon said: "I find that scenario hard to accept because once the fat lodged in the lung the subsequent deterioration and demise would be fairly quick and not over a period of days."
Mr Wheatley denies murdering Alexa on 12 March 2014, but admits manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility.
Lloyd Coleman, 20, who is partially deaf and blind, played clarinet in the British Paraorchestra created by conductor Charles Hazlewood.
"They were incredibly kind and incredibly open to us," said the young musician of headline act Coldplay.
Mr Coleman had previously composed new music for the Cultural Olympiad.
A short set of songs by Coldplay formed one of the highlights of a spectacular Paralympic closing ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London on Sunday.
Mr Coleman told BBC Radio Wales how the orchestra was pleased to accompany the band as part of their appearance.
"I was performing with the British Paraorchestra, formed a year ago by the conductor Charles Hazlewood to provide a platform for musicians with disabilities," he said.
"Coldplay were very kind and invited us to perform with them at the ceremony and we provided an introduction to the song Strawberry Swing which was just fantastic.
The young musician said it had been a "privilege" to work with Coldplay and lead singer Chris Martin in particular.
"He came and spent a day with us in north London," said Mr Coleman.
"We threw a few ideas around and we weren't quite sure what we were going to do at that point but it soon became clear that they were very interested in collaborating with the orchestra.
"They were incredibly kind and incredibly open to us and allowed us to basically do our own arrangement of their song - we really enjoyed playing with them.
"I know they are a kind of Marmite band - love/hate - but actually I've always liked Coldplay and was delighted when I realised the ceremony would be based around Coldplay's music.
"I think that was a very good move by the organisers because sometimes these things can become a little bit overblown and overlong.
"Just to have what was essentially a Coldplay concert but then bring in all these other elements like the Paraorchestra, Rihanna and other artists too, I think it worked really well last night and I hope the public enjoyed it as much as we did."
'Gamechanger'
Mr Coleman said it was very poignant to perform at the moment when the Paralympic flag was lowered, and that it was sad to see the end of an event that he like millions of others had followed avidly.
He was also confident that the Paralympics had displayed disabled people in a positive light.
"This year's Paralympic games have been a real game changer in perceptions of disability and attitudes towards disability," he said.
"How appropriate is it that that has happened in the country where the Paralympic movement first started. I think that's absolutely wonderful.
"People with disabilities have some amazing things to offer. Some people might think this has been said time and time again, that the message is getting slightly old now and that we've heard it all before.
"I do know people who still just have misconceptions and still haven't had their eyes opened to the extraordinary things that people with disabilities can do.
"I introduced some of my housemates to blind football which they'd never seen before … they were absolutely amazed by it.
"It's that coverage and exposure which is needed so that people can have their attitudes towards disabilities changed."
The accolade comes after Mr Coleman was asked to compose a piece of Olympic-themed music performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales during 2012 as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
Royal Tank Regiment corporals Matthew Hatfield, 27, from Wiltshire, and Darren Neilson, 31 from Lancashire died when an ammunition round exploded as they were in a tank at Castlemartin Range on 14 June.
An MOD spokesman said a "thorough investigation" will be undertaken.
Two other soldiers were injured in the incident.
One is still in a serious condition in hospital and the other has now been allowed home.
On Thursday, the MOD confirmed Dyfed-Powys Police is still investigating, but that it would carry out a defence safety authority service inquiry.
"Safety is of paramount importance to the MOD. In the event of a fatality or major loss of equipment a thorough investigation will be undertaken," the spokesman said.
"A service inquiry is one form of investigation that can take place, as is the case here.
"The purpose is to investigate what happened in order to learn from it and to make recommendations to prevent it happening again."
The team from Austria's University of Salzburg measured the breakdown of muscle proteins in dead pigs over time.
It is a significant step forward from the current method of measuring core body temperature, which only works up to 36 hours after death.
The breakthrough was announced at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual conference in Prague.
Dr Peter Steinbacher, the lead researcher on the study, told BBC News that there was "a huge lack of reliable methods" to calculate the time of death "after the moment when the body has cooled down to environmental temperatures".
"Depending on the temperature, this takes normally about one to two days," said Dr Steinbacher, from the University of Salzburg.
"We're searching for a new way to assess the time of death after this... [and found that] muscle protein degradation proved to be a very promising method."
The team studied the muscle proteins of pigs, because of their close similarity to human muscles.
The protein building blocks of our muscles are very large, tangled molecules that, after death, begin to break down into smaller pieces.
"This happens for some of the proteins in a very specific time frame," Dr Steinbacher explained. "Even the breakdown products are present for a specific time.
"So if you know which of these products are present in a sample then you know when the individual died."
The team has also analysed more than 60 human tissue samples from the forensic department of the same university. And their preliminary findings showed similar clockwork-like changes.
"We now need more samples to find out whether gender, body mass index, temperature, humidity, etc play a role in the time-course of muscle breakdown," said Dr Steinbacher.
He and his colleagues hope that within three years, this technique could help in the gathering of vital forensic evidence.
Dr Stuart Hamilton, a forensic pathologist from the University of Leicester said the research was interesting and that "any research that could assist in helping narrow down a time of death is always of value".
But he cautioned that there had been many "false dawns" in this quest.
He told BBC News: "It will take some time before this is validated for court use.
"There is so much riding on the time of death in many murders that we will all as a forensic and legal community have to be very convinced that there are no confounding factors before we start relying on this to convict someone."
Mewn llythyr at y Prif Weinidog dywedodd Carwyn Jones fod canlyniad yr etholiad cyffredinol yn dangos fod "dim mandad" ganddi ar gyfer "Brexit caled".
Mae'n galw am gyfarfod brys o'r cyd pwyllgor Gweinidogion rhwng arweinwyr ar draws y Deyrnas Unedig er mwyn canfod "consensws" ynglŷn â'r mater.
Dywedodd nad oedd Theresa May bellach mewn sefyllfa i atal mynediad i'r farchnad sengl ac y dylai arweinwyr y DUP a Sinn Fein hefyd fod yn rhan o'r cyfarfod.
Ychwanegodd na fyddai yn bosib taro bargen ynglŷn â gadael yr undeb a sefydlu perthynas i'r dyfodol gyda'r undeb o fewn dwy flynedd oherwydd y sefyllfa wleidyddol.
Yn y llythyr mae Mr Jones hefyd yn annog Mrs May i "barchu'r setliad datganoledig" ac yn ei rhybuddio i beidio ymyrryd mewn materion fel amaeth a datblygiad economaidd pan fydd cyfrifoldeb yr UE yn y materion yma yn dod i ben.
"I siarad yn blaen, does dim angen i chi gael y frwydr hon," meddai.
Mae trafodaethau gyda Brwsel ynglŷn â gadael yr undeb i fod i ddechrau 19 Mehefin ac mae Mrs May yn ceisio cael cefnogaeth y DUP er mwyn sefydlu llywodraeth leiafrifol.
The won fell 0.3% against the US dollar after the Bank of Korea cut the seven-day repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%.
The Kospi stock index fell 0.14% to close at 2,024.17 points.
Analysts say that there could be further rate cuts in the coming months as the economy is in a weak state.
"As things stand, the economy is already in a fragile state and could certainly use more support," said Krystal Tan from Capital Economics.
Other Asian stock markets are erasing earlier gains and falling following subdued Chinese inflation data.
Consumer prices on the mainland rose 2% in May from a year earlier, compared to estimates of a 2.2% increase.
Producer prices fell by 2.8% which was below estimates for a fall of 3.2%.
Japan's Nikkei 225 ended 1% lower at 16,668.41 while the broader Topix also lost 1% to shut at 1,337.41.
Over in Australia, the ASX 200 index slipped 0.15% to 5,361.
New Zealand's main index fell 0.3% to close at 6,970.55 after its central bank kept interest rates on hold due to concerns about rising home prices.
Markets in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are closed for a public holiday.
Michael Cohen confirmed to US media that he had been asked to "provide information and testimony" about any contacts he had with the Kremlin.
Mr Cohen said he turned down the request because it was "overly broad" and "not capable of being answered".
Last week Mr Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was named in the Russia probe.
Mr Cohen is the latest Trump associate to rebuff the House and Senate investigations into the matter.
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"I declined the invitation to participate, as the request was poorly phrased, overly broad and not capable of being answered," he told ABC News.
He later told CNN that lawmakers "have yet to produce one single piece of credible evidence that would corroborate the Russia narrative".
The widening inquiry into Russia's alleged interference in the US election and whether Trump campaign officials colluded with the Kremlin is threatening to engulf his fledgling presidency.
His son-in-law is said to be under scrutiny as part of the FBI inquiry.
According to US media, Mr Kushner, a top White House aide, discussed setting up a back channel line of communication with Moscow's envoy to Washington during a December meeting.
In Tuesday's daily briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer refused to be drawn on whether Mr Kushner had tried to set up such a secretive mode of contact.
Mr Spicer said the claims were based on reports "not substantiated by anything but anonymous sources".
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The press secretary added, however, that "in general terms, back channels are an appropriate part of diplomacy".
Meanwhile, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is to submit documents to the Senate intelligence committee as part of its investigation, government sources tell US media.
Last week, Mr Flynn initially said through his lawyer that he would refuse to hand over files relating to his contacts with Russians dating back to June 2015.
Similar congressional request for information have been sent to other former Trump aides, including Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Carter Page.
Mr Manafort and Mr Stone have complied, but Mr Page is not thought to have responded yet.
The forward - standing 5ft 7in - comes in shorter on average than the 59 previous winners of the award, handed to the player deemed the best on the planet.
But what does such a rare player typically look like? Where are they from? And what heroics typically see someone take the honour?
From inaugural winner Stanley Matthews in 1956 to Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo last year, we have profiled each of the recipients prior to Messi's win to analyse the "perfect" Ballon d'Or winner.
Note: The Ballon d'Or could only be won by European footballers between 1956 and 1994. Nominations were extended to include Europe-based players in 1995. In 2010 it became the world player of the year.
So if you're a 26-year-old, dark-haired, right-footed, German/Dutch-born Barcelona forward then you've a great chance of bagging the trophy.
But what about winning the World Cup or European Championship? Does lifting either trophy, or simply catching the eye that summer, help propel a player towards Ballon d'Or glory?
In World Cup years, 47% of Ballon d'Or winners helped their nation become champions - including England's 1966 hero Sir Bobby Charlton, France's 1998 match-winner Zinedine Zidane and Italy's 2006 victorious captain Fabio Cannavaro.
Only 36% helped their nation win the European Championship on the way to earning that year's Ballon d'Or.
However, strong performances by an individual at a major international tournament - for example, Czechoslovakia midfielder Josef Masopust at the 1962 World Cup finals, or USSR midfielder Igor Belanov at Mexico 86 - have helped unfancied names earn their place on the gold-covered bauble.
England winger Matthews, then aged 41, was the first player to win the prize - but only five other men from the UK have followed in his footsteps.
Brothers John and Geof Bitmead constructed an adult-sized copy of a Little Tikes toy car, which takes petrol, has a tax disc, and can reach speeds of up to 70mph (110km/h).
The modified Daewoo Matiz also includes an airbag, headlights and mirrors.
But Geof said his company Attitude Autos, based in Bicester, was selling the car after it failed to bring in enough revenue.
The brothers said they had the "nutty idea" to build the motoring marvel after noticing the similarity of the front and headlamps of the Daewoo to the Cozy Coupe classic toy.
But while it captivated passers-by, the car which cost about £30,000 to build, failed to turn into the money-spinner they had intended.
"We were hoping it would be out on a regular basis, create some revenue and recoup the money used to build it," he explained.
"But in real life it ended up going out four or five times in two years. So we thought we might as well sell it and if anyone's interested in buying it that will bring back some money for us."
The captivation around their "Big Tike" is down to the design being a "part of people's childhood and their children's childhood", Geof said.
"They're amazed to see the real thing on the road. I've seen people with tattoos all up their arms walking along the road just cheering at us.
"There was that kind of response to it. Everybody recognised it. It's part of our life. We see these things in people's front gardens, and now you can see it on the road."
The car sale does not mark the end of the Bitmeads' wacky schemes. They hope to put the money received towards creating an Addams Family-inspired "creepy" camper van.
The girl, known as X, will be moved to a special unit on Thursday after doctors managed to find her a place.
Sir James Munby, head of the family courts in England and Wales, said the provision of care "should not be dependent" on legal involvement.
The secure unit where the 17-year-old has been living has spent £125,000 on extra staff to care for her.
The unit - which has not been named - said the Youth Justice Board "failed" to provide additional resources to maintain X's safety despite repeated requests.
The details were revealed in the latest judgement in her case.
Three social care staff were said to be off work suffering from "stress and anxiety" due to the "unusual experiences" they had observed with the girl.
Sir James, who previously criticised the lack of supervision available for the girl, said the latest development was "not a matter for congratulation".
He spoke out last Thursday to say there would be "blood on our hands" if the teenager did not receive adequate supervision upon her release from secure custody.
He made his comments after finding out a secure unit place had not been found for the girl, who had made several suicide attempts.
In Sir James' judgement, he said: "I feel shame and embarrassment; shame, as a human being, as a citizen and as an agent of the State... that I can do no more for X."
The judgement in the case of X - who is in the formal care of Cumbria County Council - revealed she was convicted at a youth court and has been detained in custody for almost six months.
An earlier ruling heard how unit staff had witnessed "a profoundly disturbing and distressing scene when X self-harmed by repeatedly banging her head and face against the wall".
Staff said she must be checked every 50 seconds when she is in the shower.
The unit has said 13 young people who were also being detained at the centre complained the quality of the care they were receiving was "in breach of their statutory rights" because staff had to attend to X and had less time to organise activities for them.
Following the latest ruling, the judge said X should not be "privileged" because her case came before a senior judge.
He added: "I emphasise this because a mass of informed, if anecdotal, opinion indicates that X's is not an isolated case and that there are far too many young women in similar predicaments. How are they to be protected?"
Sir James said the publication of his judgment last Thursday had "prompted substantial coverage", with his "blood on our hands" warning making front pages.
He added: "This seems to have had some effect."
The teams exchanged early tries through Woodburn and Nans Ducuing, but Exeter stretched clear through the boot of Henry Slade and Moray Low's try.
Ian Whitten scored Exeter's third try early in the second half.
And they secured the bonus as Woodburn finished off a counter-attack, Bordeaux bracketing that try with scores from Julien Rey and Yann Lesgourgues.
Exeter looked to play at a high tempo to run Bordeaux's bigger pack of their feet and they took the lead when young England back Slade - who showed some lovely footwork as he impressed in the 10 shirt - landed an early penalty.
The hosts were happy to play from deep and Slade's England team-mate Jack Nowell featured twice before Woodburn, signed from Bath in the summer, crossed in the corner to finish off an 80m attack.
Exeter always looked the livelier side but Bordeaux could never be entirely discounted and they scored a fine try of their own through full-back Ducuing.
However, Scotland prop Low somehow robbed Bordeaux of the ball at a maul near their line to score Exeter's second try and two Slade penalties gave them a 14-point half-time lead.
It was now just a question of whether the hosts could secure the bonus point and they added a third try as Whitten dummied and finished off another pacy attack two minutes into the second half.
And they added a fourth before the hour mark as Woodburn won a turnover, Slade showed his class as he countered from his own 22, and Woodburn was on hand to race over from 40m.
Bordeaux scored tries from Rey and Lesgourgues either side of Woodburn's second, but Exeter were deserved winners.
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter: "What ultimately won the game for us was the speed and tempo but there were times in the second half when that dropped away a bit and we went a little soft defensively.
"But overall the boys stuck pretty much to plan. I was particularly impressed by the first-half tackle quality because we were up against some big guys.
"We chopped them to ground and made them have to keep getting off the floor which is important when you play big French teams."
Bordeaux-Begles head coach Raphael Ibanez: "It was a tough lesson for the team, we were really struggling in the opening 20 minutes with the pace of the game.
"The most pleasing point was that the players didn't give up and they tried to play some good rugby, even if sometimes it didn't lead to a successful conclusion.
"At least we tried to pass the ball to each other - which is what I wanted to see."
Exeter: Dollman; Nowell, Whitten, Hill, Woodburn; Slade, Chudley; Moon, Yeandle, Low, Parling, Welch, White, Salvi, Johnson.
Replacements: Campagnaro for Woodburn (63), Lewis for Chudley (59), Rimmer for Moon (59), Taione for Yeandle (73), Brown for Low (59), Atkins for Welch (64), Armand for Johnson (51).
Not Used: Steenson.
Bordeaux-Begles: Ducuing; Talebula, Guitoune, Rey, Connor; Beauxis, Lesgourgues; Kitshoff, Avei, Toetu, Le Devedec, Marais, Madaule, Chalmers, Goujon.
Replacements: Serin for Ducuing (70), Brousse for Rey (59), Lonca for Beauxis (48), Taofifenua for Kitshoff (48), Maynadier for Avei (59), Gomez Kodela for Toetu (29), Tauleigne for Goujon (59).
Not Used: Jaulhac.
Att: 11,000
Ref: Leighton Hodges (Wales).
His family were warned to expect the worst and they soon took delivery of official confirmation of his death from the War Office.
But Capt Samson's father, John, never gave up hope that his son had survived the bloody conflict.
And almost 12 weeks after his apparent "death", the family received a letter from their son confirming that he was very much alive.
The remarkable document reveals that he had been shot in the arm and the side and was being treated in a German prisoner of war hospital.
Now, exactly 100 years since that battle, the legacy of Capt Samson and his father's unfailing hope stands in a church in Dumfriesshire.
The chancel at St Bride's Church in Sanquhar celebrates the astonishing survival of the soldier who fought in a battle which claimed 18,000 Scottish lives.
Capt Samson, who served with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, led C company "over the top" on the morning of 3 May, 1917.
It was not a success and he failed to return to the British lines with the remnants of the 6th Battalion, many of whom fell that day.
An eyewitness reported seeing the brave soldier fall to the ground beside Oppy Wood not long after beginning his mission.
Capt Samson's body was never recovered and his family were warned that he was likely to have died.
However, his father John Samson, who was managing partner of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries, never gave up hope that his son was alive.
The family repeatedly pressed the War Office and Spanish Consul, which represented British interests in the war, for news.
Letters and telegrams were exchanged for three agonising months
One signed by Major A Innes Browne, who commanded the 6th Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, stated: "There is just a remote chance that your son might be a prisoner and wounded, but so remote we do not believe it is so".
The family were informed on 22 July, 1917 that Capt Samson had been killed.
But a few weeks later they finally received the news they had all been praying for.
Capt Samson, who was known to his Army mates as "Sammy", had been captured and was being held in a PoW hospital in south-west Germany.
The family received a letter from the soldier himself, dated 27 July, 1917, in which he informed them that he was being treated well in the circumstances.
Capt Samson wrote: "I hope you have received my letter and postcard sent from this camp, so you will know now that I am alive still.
"The camp itself is quite a nice one, though necessarily confined so that we do not get much exercise.
"I am living in a room with two other English captains and we endeavour to make it as comfortable as possible during our stay here.
"Though we are at the disadvantage of not knowing when we may be ordered to move."
Capt Samson, who also served with the Cameronians, The Scottish Rifles, spent the rest of the war in a variety of PoW camps.
He eventually returned to Scotland in December 1918 and took up residence at the family home, Glaisnock House in Cumnock, East Ayrshire.
To celebrate his son's survival, John Samson made a large donation to the church in Sanquhar, to extend the building.
The oak-panelled chancel was constructed in 1929-30 and has a stunning stained glass window.
It features a plaque on the wall which gives thanks for the "preservation" of the decorated soldier's life.
Capt Samson's name adorns a roll of honour of all the men from the Sanquhar area who fought in the Great War, which hangs on a wall at the front of the church.
Rev Bill Hogg, minister at St Bride's Church, said: "The chancel was built as a sign of thanksgiving, endurance and love.
"It's an inspiring story of family loyalty and hope coming to a joyful conclusion."
Duncan Close, session clerk of St Bride's Church, added: "The link between our chancel and the dreadful struggles of WW1 has never been stronger.
"We are fortunate that we know so much of Capt Samson's involvement during the war, and his survival and return home indicates a very brave and resolute soldier.
"From the terrible scenes from the trenches and Arras, the new chancel took shape.
"Today, 100 years after Capt Samson's miraculous escape from death, we have a truly magnificent memorial to one soldier's survival, and the family faith that refused to believe he had been lost".
It is understood that Capt Samson worked for a spell in his father's mining company before training as a stockbroker.
He was married and had two children.
During the World War Two he served with the Home Guard in Inverness.
He moved south of the border in later life and died in Hove, Sussex, in 1971 at the age of 76.
Jamie Charles Reed, 26, of Scunthorpe, appeared at Grimsby Magistrates' Court in connection with the death of 60-year-old Robert MacNeil.
Humberside Police said Mr MacNeil, died at Great Oaks Hospital on Monday, but would not reveal his injuries.
Mr Reed was remanded in custody and will appear before Hull Crown Court on Friday.
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A spokesman for the trust said: "We can confirm that we have had an incident at Great Oaks in Scunthorpe and a patient has died. Our heartfelt sympathies are with the man's family and friends.
"The police were notified immediately of the incident in the early hours of Monday morning and we are fully co-operating with their inquiries.
"We cannot comment any further at this time due to the police investigation."
The central bank voted to raise its key rate target to a range of 0.75% to 1%.
The Fed had been expected to raise rates after a robust February jobs report, solid pay gains, rising inflation and a dip in the unemployment rate to 4.7%.
Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to increase rates a total of three times this year.
The Fed aims to keep the cost of lending between banks within a specified band, which it does by buying or selling financial assets.
It is raising that band by a quarter of a percent.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen said the committee judged that a "modest increase" in the rate was appropriate "in light of the economy's solid progress."
"Even after this increase, monetary policy remains accommodative, thus supporting some further strengthening in the job market, and a sustained return to 2% inflation," she added.
The decision was approved with a 9-1 vote. Neel Kashkari, the head of the Fed's regional bank in Minneapolis, cast the dissenting vote.
This is the second time the Fed has raised rates in three months. It signalled that further hikes this year will be gradual.
The Fed's statement said its inflation target was "symmetric," indicating that after a decade of below-target inflation, it could tolerate a quicker pace of price rises.
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Wall Street stock indexes jumped after the announcement, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 0.5%, 109 points at 20,946.
The US dollar fell about 0.9% against the euro and more than 1% against the pound.
The central bank's outlook for the economy changed little, with officials expecting economic growth of 2.1% for both this year and 2018, before slipping to 1.9% in 2019.
Those forecasts are far below the 4% growth that President Donald Trump has said he can produce with his economic programme.
But Ms Yellen told reporters that she didn't believe it is "a point of conflict" between the Fed and the Trump administration.
"We would certainly welcome stronger economic growth in the context of price stability, and if policies were put in place to speed growth... those would be very welcome changes that we would like to see," she said.
Some economists think the next rate hike will be no earlier than June, given that the Fed probably wants time to assess the likelihood that Congress will pass Trump's ambitious program of tax cuts, deregulation and increased spending on infrastructure.
Central banks in the US and Britain both have inflation targets of 2%, while for the European Central Bank the aim is "below but close to" that level.
In all three, the headline inflation rate is there or thereabouts. And yet among these three it is only the Federal Reserve in the US that has taken the anti-inflation step of raising its interest rates from record lows.
In the UK, the Bank of England expects inflation to rise above the target due to the decline in the pound after the EU referendum. It's reluctant to raise interest rates to fully offset that because of concern about the impact on jobs and economic growth.
In the eurozone inflation is still quite subdued if you take out energy and food prices which are very volatile. So no move yet from either - and not looking very likely in the near future.
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Luke Bartholomew, an investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management, said the Fed "faces a tricky path from here".
The US economy may turn out to be stronger than expected, leaving the Fed playing catch-up, he said.
"Meanwhile, they're facing increasingly shrill calls for their independence to be curtailed. It's hard to imagine that the rest of this hiking cycle will go off without a hitch," he added.
Kully Samra, UK managing director of Charles Schwab, said there were "a lot of unknowns" about the path of future US rate hikes.
"If White House plans for deregulation, tax cuts and more government spending are realised, then growth and inflation could be stronger than expected and lead to more hikes," he said.
"On the other hand, potential border taxes, trade tariffs and tighter monetary policy could slow growth and inflation," he added.
Stephen Sutton, 19, from Burntwood, was diagnosed with bowel cancer aged 15 and started raising funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
He has compiled a bucket list, featuring things he wants to accomplish before he dies, which includes getting in the Guinness Book of World Records.
His record was getting the most people to make a "heart-shaped hand gesture".
The event took place at Stephen's former school, Chase Terrace Technology College and involved 554 people.
Stephen himself attended the event and the organisers said he was "so excited" to have achieved the record.
One of the event's organisers, Maria Tucker, said the previous record stood at 501.
She said: "Stephen was in very good spirits. It was phenomenal how the whole community pulled together."
Stephen's fundraising efforts have attracted a huge online following.
On Friday, Prime Minister David Cameron praised him after visiting him at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Eight children and two women were among the dead, said the civil defence force known as the White Helmets.
An Aleppo resident told the BBC the city had endured heavy bombing in the past 24 hours, with "bunker-buster" munitions shaking the ground.
The EU foreign affairs chief has said sanctions against Syria might be expanded.
But Federica Mogherini said increased sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad's Russian backers were not on the agenda.
She was speaking as EU foreign ministers met in Luxembourg.
The family died in the al-Marja area of the city on Monday, after what the Syrian Civil Defence force said was a strike by a Russian jet.
The White Helmets said another 25 people were killed late on Sunday in a strike on a residential building in the al-Qaterji district.
Rescuers used a crane to extract a 12-year-old boy from an upper floor after part of the building collapsed on his legs, and they later carried a dead baby from the rubble, her face caked in mud, AFP reported.
In a BBC interview, a teacher in Aleppo described the latest wave of air strikes: "They are using a new kind of weapons. The same bunker-busters but they are stronger. The earth would shake for longer time. We had to wake up about five or six times. This is the first time it happened like this."
A ceasefire in Syria brokered last month collapsed after just a few days.
Since then Syrian forces, backed by Russia, have been bombing the city of Aleppo - the most high-profile battleground in the country's civil war - in what Washington has called a war crime.
Aid agencies say a 72-hour ceasefire is urgently needed to allow supplies in and civilians out of devastated areas in the rebel-held and government-besieged east of the city, where 275,000 people live.
The US and UK warned of new sanctions in response to continued air strikes on Aleppo following talks in London on Sunday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said "crimes against humanity" were taking place daily in Aleppo, after meeting his British counterpart Boris Johnson.
Mr Johnson said that additional sanctions on the Syrian regime "and its supporters" were under consideration, as measures designed to "keep the pressure up".
Britain, France and Germany are expected to push for strong condemnation of the Russian and Syrian bombings at the EU meeting in Luxembourg on Monday.
According to Reuters, diplomats say a fresh ceasefire with an observation mission, a renewed push for peace talks, access for EU aid and proposals for economic sanctions on some 20 Syrians suspected of directing attacks on civilians are all likely to be discussed.
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North of Aleppo, Turkey said it had largely regained security on a key stretch of border.
The Turkish military said Turkish-backed rebels had seized control of nine areas from the Islamic State group, including the symbolically important town of Dabiq, 10km (six miles) from the border, on Sunday, Reuters reports.
The small northern town holds great value for IS because of a prophecy of an apocalyptic battle, and features heavily in its propaganda.
Why is Dabiq so important for IS?
In August, Turkey launched an offensive to clear the border region of militants, meaning both IS and Kurdish rebels fighting IS.
A war that started with an uprising against President Assad has now split Syria into many parts. It has been going on for more than five years and has claimed 300,000 lives.
The World Health Organization now believes a "turning point" might have been reached in the fight against the disease.
But how does the scientific community define the scale of the problem, and that of other of other transmissible diseases as they emerge?
What's the difference between an outbreak, epidemic and pandemic?
An outbreak is the sudden occurrence of a disease in a community which has never experienced the disease before, or when cases of that disease occur in numbers greater than expected in a defined area.
For example, when there is a sudden increase in the number of measles cases in a particular region, it is termed an outbreak.
An outbreak affects a smaller geographic region, probably a county or a city, but for infections not seen before, the term can be used for the entire region affected by the disease.
Ebola started off as an outbreak, since it was detected for the first time in West Africa. It is now being termed an epidemic due to its geographical spread and the number of people infected.
An epidemic is the occurrence of a group of illnesses of similar nature and derived from a common source, in excess of what would be normally expected in a community or region. The Sars epidemic of 2003 is a classic example.
Epidemics eventually spread out via means of long distance travel, migration of infected animals or aerosols.
Sometimes the speed of spread of disease determines whether it is classified as an outbreak or an epidemic. For example, the slow moving E.coli outbreak in 2011 in Western Europe in 2011 remained classified as an outbreak, even though many people were eventually affected over a wide area.
A pandemic refers to a worldwide epidemic, which could have started off as an outbreak, escalated to the level of an epidemic and eventually spread to a number of countries across continents. The 2009 flu (H1N1) pandemic is the most recent in human history. Airborne organisms seem to have the highest pandemic potential.
Two things that indicate the seriousness of an infectious disease are the number of people affected or killed, and the geographical spread of the disease.
However, no clear-cut number is assigned to any of these definitions.
Government policy may influence the label given to a disease. For instance, labelling a disease as an epidemic or pandemic could lead to travel restrictions and affect trade (exports). It can have a major impact on the disease-affected country's economy.
Sometimes governments and authorities do not want to call an outbreak an epidemic simply to avoid panic.
What are emerging and re-emerging diseases?
An emerging disease is one that has appeared in a population for the first time or one, which may have existed before, but is rapidly increasing in incidence.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is an example of an emerging disease. It appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2012, but now there are reported cases in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.
Re-emerging diseases are those that have historically infected humans, but continue to appear in new locations or reappear after apparent control or elimination.
Most of the re-emerging disease agents appeared long ago and have survived and persisted in the environment.
For example, due to decline in vaccination against measles, the measles virus could re-emerge and affect a large number of individuals.
Thus it becomes important to continue vaccinating susceptible individuals against all bugs, which could re-emerge, unless the organism has been eradicated, for example smallpox.
What are the most persistent endemic diseases and why?
A disease is described as endemic when it is habitually present within a given geographic area.
For example, rotavirus diarrhoea is endemic in India, and Nipah virus, endemic in South-east Asia, more specifically Bangladesh.
There are several reasons why a disease could become endemic in a region.
The lack of vaccine or prophylactic treatment may enable the disease to linger.
Climate and geographical location also plays an important role in the survival of a disease-causing organism.
For example, Dengue is more likely to become endemic in a tropical region, where mosquitoes and water-logging are common.
The presence of animal reservoirs is another factor that could cause a disease to become endemic.
Non-human primates in Africa maintain the life cycle of yellow fever. This becomes a source of occasional spillover to humans and the disease remains in the area for a long time.
The presence of susceptible host and a low mortality rate may enable a disease-causing agent to become endemic.
If a virus kills a host, it has to look for another host to continue replicating.
If an affected region was cleared of susceptible individuals, by virtue of high mortality of the disease, the disease would die out eventually as well.
Finally, the duration of time that a virus can remain active outside the host in the environment is also important.
Some viruses such as HIV do not persist for long outside the host and are inactivated, whereas smallpox at room temperature could have remained infectious for years.
Launching a new literacy "mission", Mrs Morgan also announced plans to create at least 200 new book clubs in England.
Mrs Morgan has enrolled children's author David Walliams to add his weight to her pledge to "make our young people the most literate in Europe".
But critics said government cuts meant many libraries had closed or had been forced to reduce their opening times.
Lauren Smith, from the group Voices for the Library, said the closure of libraries meant many services were "completely inaccessible" to children.
"Libraries have been massively underfunded for a very long time, which is the result of the government refusing to acknowledge the educational role of libraries," she said.
"It does stagger me that politicians are placing responsibility for literacy away from themselves and local authorities and on to parents - who are trying their best for their children - and on to library services which have been trying to do this for years without enough money."
Mrs Morgan said the government was giving funding to the Reading Agency to extend its Chatterbooks reading club scheme and to set up new book clubs in 200 more primary schools in England.
The Department for Education will also support the Reading Agency to work with schools and get more Year 3 pupils (aged 7-8) enrolled at their local library.
It said this would help "more get into the library habit early".
Mrs Morgan said: "No matter where they live or what their background, every single child in this country deserves the opportunity to read, to read widely, and to read well - it's a simple matter of social justice.
"Our reforms have already helped tens of thousands more pupils to leave primary school as confident readers but we must go further.
"That's why I am pleased to team up with David on this national mission to make our young people the most literate in Europe."
David Walliams added: "Books fire children's imaginations like nothing else can.
"In a world of the constant distractions of television and computer games, it is more important than ever to encourage youngsters to read."
Snow has fallen in the mountains around Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians live.
With icy winds blowing there have been attempts to anchor tents more securely, and prepare for flooding.
The UN is also "extremely concerned" about the situation in Jordan, where it is distributing extra blankets.
More than 7.6 million people have been displaced inside Syria since the uprising began in 2011, while more than 3.3 million have fled abroad.
The winter storm, forecast to last several days, has brought snowfall and freezing temperatures to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey. Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have also been affected.
In Lebanon's Bekaa Valley - where tens of thousands of refugees are living in tents, and many others in unfinished or unheated buildings - the snow blocked roads and forced many businesses to close.
"Refugees in informal settlements are very cold. Most of them are staying inside their tents to keep warm next to the heating stove," UNHCR spokeswoman Lisa Abou Khaled told the BBC.
"Some are wiping the snow off the roof of their makeshift tents because they are worried that they might collapse under the weight of the snow."
One of the tents - used as a schoolroom - has collapsed from the weight of snow. The "main street" of the camp is a lake of dirty, icy water. Children stand around, seemingly dressed more for summer than for winter. Some even wear flip-flops.
We are in a makeshift refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. Even after four years as refugees, people are still living under plastic sheeting. Conditions are miserable.
One man shows us water leaking through the roof. We meet a family with seven children huddling around a wood burning stove. The two latest additions to the family are twin babies, born three days ago. The mother looks exhausted, wrapped in a blanket on the floor.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are living like this in Lebanon. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, has provided emergency winter aid or one kind or another to some 660,000 people in Lebanon. No-one thinks this fourth winter away from home will be the last for the refugees.
Ms Abou Khaled said the UNHCR and its partners began their preparations for the winter in early October and had so far reached 75% of the families targeted.
The charity Oxfam said it was also worried that tents would be flooded when the snow melts and that refugees would not have proper access to clean water for days.
A Red Cross source told the AFP news agency that the bodies of a Syrian man and a six-year-old boy were found in Ain al-Joz, in the mountains of southern Lebanon. A Lebanese security source said they were overcome by the cold while trying to enter the country on foot.
The Palestinian Authority also declared a state of emergency in the West Bank and Gaza, where tens of thousands of people lost their homes during the war between Israel and Palestinian militants last year.
An eight-month-old baby was killed in a fire caused by a heater in the Tulkarem refugee camp, a civil defence ministry spokesman told the Associated Press.
There was also heavy snowfall in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights. Schools in Jerusalem, to the south, also closed.
In Syria, traffic was brought to a near standstill in the capital Damascus, and the education ministry said schools and universities would not open.
Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said nationals from those countries would now be unlikely to be granted asylum.
The move is part of new measures aimed at tightening rules in a country which last year received more than 1.1 million asylum seekers.
Earlier, 26 migrants drowned off a Greek island after their boat capsized.
The migrants died near the island of Samos, near Turkey. Ten of the victims were children.
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Mr Gabriel's comments came after his Social Democrats held talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and their Bavaria-based sister party, the Christian Social Union.
"The mood is good," Mr Gabriel was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Morocco has already responded to the proposal, saying it would repatriate any of its nationals who had arrived illegally in Germany.
The German coalition partners also agreed that migrants with restricted asylum status would be unable to bring relatives into the country for two years.
The deportation of failed asylum seekers would also be speeded up.
The migrant issue has been straining the coalition, with the CSU threatening to take Mrs Merkel's government to court if the party's demand to stem the flow of asylum seekers is not dealt with decisively.
The coalition proposals still need to be approved by the government and parliament.
Mr Galliano had been keeping a low profile since he was sacked from Christian Dior in 2011, after a video of him using anti-Semitic language in a drunken tirade was released.
He is currently creative director at Russian perfumery chain L'Etoile.
He also spent a three-week stint at designer Oscar de La Renta last year.
"Margiela is ready for a new charismatic, creative soul," Renzo Rosso, whose OTB group controls the house, told industry journal Women's Wear Daily.
"John Galliano is one of the greatest undisputed talents of all time. I look forward to his return to create that fashion dream that only he can create," he added.
The 53-year-old designer is considered to be one of the most influential designers of his age and has been awarded the title of British Fashion Designer of the Year four times.
He spent 15 years at Dior, but was sacked after footage of his drunken tirade was released.
A Paris criminal court found him guilty of proffering anti-Semitic insults in public, an offence under French law, on two occasions in February 2011 and October 2010.
Mr Galliano apologised and blamed his actions on drink and drugs.
Fifteen members of the Llanberis mountain rescue team were called out to at 07:00 GMT on Friday.
The man, 51, from Cerrigydrudion, Conwy county, had fallen whilst walking on the Pyg trail.
He was winched aboard a coastguard helicopter and flown to hospital in Bangor.
Kevin Younger, 51, died when he was hit by a silver Hyundai on the eastbound carriageway at Bilbrough, at 22:30 GMT on Monday.
The driver was not hurt in the collision.
Mr Younger's family said they were "devastated" by his death but also extended their sympathy to the car driver.
Clattenburg, 41, is to become the new head of referees in Saudi Arabia and was expected to leave immediately.
However, the Premier League has confirmed he will take charge of Saturday's match between West Brom and Bournemouth at The Hawthorns.
Clattenburg, a Fifa referee since 2006, is widely considered to be one of the best officials in world football.
He took charge of the Euro 2016 final, the Champions League final and the FA Cup final last season.
The Blue Bird, which was built in 1919, set a record 90 years ago of more than 150mph (241km/h).
The car, now kept at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire, was driven at low speed by Sir Malcolm's grandson, Don Wales, at Pendine Sands.
It was fired up for the first time in 50 years following a rebuild last year.
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Three men in their 40s were arrested at the scene just north of Swords, County Dublin, on Tuesday evening. The cash was found inside vacuum packs.
In follow-up searches, a vacuum packing machine was found in Tallaght, Dublin.
Sleeping tablets worth more than 10,000 euros (£7,900) were also seized at an address in Baileboro, County Cavan.
Two of the men who were arrested have since been released pending files being sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The third man remains in custody.
The Nottinghamshire swimmer started the Ocean's 7 Challenge in 2008 with a swim across the English Channel.
He has since conquered seas in Gibraltar, Hawaii, New Zealand, USA and Japan.
The final leg of his challenge saw him swim from Northern Ireland to the west coast of Scotland.
He completed the 21 mile (33km) swim on Wednesday.
Mr Walker said it was a great feeling to finally complete all of the swims, during which he had been stung by jellyfish, encountered sharks and been protected by dolphins.
The 35-year-old has been raising money for marine charities.
During the swim across the Molokai Channel in Hawaii, Mr Walker was stung in the face by several jellyfish and "nearly shot out of the water" after being stung by a Portuguese man o'war.
He also came close to a large tiger shark during the 17-hour challenge.
He said: "I was stung after 14 hours and I can only describe it like someone had slashed me repeatedly across the front of my stomach and down the side.
"I was shouting in agony for around two minutes and then realised I had a 5in (12cm) tentacle stuck to my stomach, which I ripped off."
Whilst swimming the Cook Strait in New Zealand, Mr Walker said he was lucky enough to swim with a pod of dolphins.
He said he also spotted a large shark swimming beneath him and thought the dolphins had come to protect him.
Mr Walker described it as "a real privilege".
As well as seeing numerous sharks during his swims, Mr Walker has also swam close to a pilot whale in the Straits of Gibraltar.
He said the sea temperature on the latest leg across the North Channel was the coldest of the lot.
The Daily Stormer had denigrated 32-year-old Heather Heyer who died while protesting against a far-right rally in Charlottesville.
This led to a backlash in which multiple web firms kicked the site off their platforms.
But the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has now criticised this response.
"We strongly believe that what GoDaddy, Google, and Cloudflare did here was dangerous," the EFF said.
"Because internet intermediaries, especially those with few competitors, control so much online speech, the consequences of their decisions have far-reaching impacts on speech around the world."
It added that it believed "no-one" - including the government and private companies - should decide who is able to speak or not.
"We wholeheartedly agree with the concerns raised by the EFF," said Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince.
"They reflect the same concerns we raised in our blog."
Mr Prince had said that explained that he made his decision after the Daily Stormer's administrators suggested that Cloudflare supported their cause.
Google and GoDaddy said earlier in the week that they were cancelling the Daily Stormer's registration with Google Domains as it had violated the terms of service.
The Daily Stormer is currently inaccessible on the open web, after various domain providers and hosting firms - including one in Russia - banned it from their services.
However, it has relocated to the dark web.
Dark web network Tor has said it cannot stop the Daily Stormer from using its technology.
"Tor is designed to defend human rights and privacy by preventing anyone from censoring things, even us," the Tor Project explained in a blog post.
But the list of businesses that have shut out the Daily Stormer and other neo-Nazi or white nationalist sites has now grown very large.
Payment giants Mastercard, Visa , Paypal and American Express all said this week that they would take a tough stance on sites that engaged in illegal activities.
Paypal, for example, mentioned sites that incite hate, racial intolerance or violence.
And music streaming services offered by Google, Deezer and Spotify have said they would remove music that incites violence, hatred or racism.
Spotify said: "We are glad to have been alerted to this content - and have already removed many of the bands identified, while urgently reviewing the remainder."
The cup, thought to have been made for an emperor in 1425, was among a collection of antiques discovered by chance at Staffordshire University.
Valued at £2m, an unknown buyer paid £3.17m at auction in Hong Kong.
Professor Flavia Swann said she was "delighted" at the sale and the money will fund a national ceramics centre.
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Little is known about the collector of the rare Chinese artefacts other than his name was Ernest Thornhill and he was a chemist in London.
He donated his collection of more than 270 pieces to protect them from being bombed during World War Two.
Prof Swann said the antiques had been discovered in the 1970s after a chance conversation with the head of the Ceramic Technology Department.
It was after they said: "I've got some dusty old pots cluttering up my corridor, would you like to have a look?"
The pots, including the cup, were put into storage at the university. The cup only emerged again last year, when it was revalued.
The remaining collection is stored at a secret location in the West Midlands.
Crews were called to the property in Seaview Road, Sandend, between Portsoy and Cullen, at about 01:00.
The man was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for treatment. He was not thought to be seriously injured.
Four fire engines attended and had extinguished the blaze by about 02:15. No other properties were affected.
Abdirahman Abdirizak Mahmoud Adam, 22, died in hospital shortly after he was discovered in St Matthews Way, Leicester, on Monday afternoon.
The teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.
He appeared before magistrates on Thursday and was remanded in custody.
He will next appear at Leicester Crown Court on Friday morning.
Police said a post-mortem examination revealed he died from a stab wound.
David Beckett said his beloved wife has passed away peacefully in a Manchester hospital.
"David and the programme's cast and crew are heartbroken and deeply saddened at the loss of Anne," said a statement on the ITV website.
She had starred on the soap opera for more than 40 years.
William Roache, who played Anne's onscreen husband Ken Barlow, said: "I feel Anne's loss so personally having worked closely with her for over 40 years.
"She was such a loving and vibrant person. You always knew she was there because her laugh was never far away.
"She was an impeccable performer with superb comedy timing and an immense gift for really heightened drama.
"We had some rows over the years as Ken and Deirdre and it was wonderful to play those scenes opposite her.
"Coronation Street has lost one of its iconic characters and Anne will be greatly missed."
Executive producer Kieran Roberts said: "We know only too acutely how much Anne meant to the millions of people who watched her create the legendary character of Deirdre Barlow."
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"There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism," he said in a 2012 interview. "It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world."
He moved to the wilds of Chile and Argentina, espousing an anti-consumerist philosophy, buying huge swaths of land and making enemies along the way.
To some he was an environmental hero, but many in South America viewed him with suspicion, unconvinced his motives were altruistic.
North Face founder dies in kayak accident
After founding The North Face as a small ski and backpacking gear shop in San Francisco in the 1960s, Mr Tompkins helped his then wife start Esprit, a clothing brand.
Both companies would grow into multinational clothing giants.
But in the late 1980s, he left the business world for South America in order to pursue environmentalism, co-founding the Foundation for Deep Ecology in 1990.
He often said that he felt lucky to have escaped the shackles of the corporate class and, in his own words, do something with "meaning".
That, it seems, he unquestionably did, spending millions of dollars buying up swathes of pristine land in Argentina and Chile - areas in which he claimed to feel like a "de facto citizen" - and turning them into conservation areas.
In a statement after his death in a kayaking accident, Tompkins Conservation, which represents his family's various environmental foundations, called him "one of the earth's foremost conservationists".
He and wife Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, it said, had purchased some 2.2 million acres of land, including Pumalin Park in Chile, one of the world's largest private nature reserves, made up of forests, lakes and fjords stretching from the Andes mountains to the Pacific.
But their large-scale South American activities have not been immune from controversy or opposition.
Right-wing Chilean politicians accused the US couple of land grabbing, while local media have sometimes peddled conspiracy theories alleging all sorts of "dark" motives lying behind their activities, according to a 2009 profile.
As a fierce activist, Mr Tompkins also faced-off with corporate interests and their political backers, from loggers to salmon exporters and energy companies hoping to dam Patagonia's rivers.
Despite the heat, he took a bold stand - asserting that he was acting in the best interests of his adopted homelands.
"It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot," he once said.
"If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot."
Maintenance work was disrupted after the dam was briefly seized by militants from so-called Islamic State in 2014.
If the dam burst, floodwaters could kill 1.47 million Iraqis living along the River Tigris, the embassy said.
Iraq's prime minister has said precautions are being taken, but that such a scenario is "highly unlikely".
The dam, Iraq's largest has suffered from structural flaws since its completion in 1984, with the water constantly eating away at the soluble gypsum base on which it is built.
To counter the erosion, engineers need to drill holes in the gypsum and fill them with a cement grout mixture six days a week.
IS only controlled the dam for 11 days, but many of the people working at the dam did not return after it was recaptured and regular maintenance did not resume.
The statement issued by the US embassy on Sunday it had "no specific information that indicates when a breach might occur" in the Mosul Dam.
"But out of an abundance of caution, we would like to underscore that prompt evacuation offers the most effective tool to save event of a breach," it added. "Proper preparation could save many lives."
Some models estimate that Mosul, which has been controlled by IS since June 2014, could be inundated by as much as 21m (70ft) of water within one to four hours of a catastrophic breach.
The embassy also published a factsheet that said approximately 500,000 to 1.47 million Iraqis living along the River Tigris in areas at highest risk probably would not survive unless the 482km (300-mile) long flood zone was evacuated.
It recommended that Mosul residents would need to move at least 6km (3.5 miles) from the banks of the Tigris and avoid all rivers and riverbeds feeding into it.
Residents of Tikrit, which would be hit between 24 and 48 hours later, probably could reach safety by moving at least 5km from the riverbank, while those in the central city of Samarra would need to be 6.5km away, according to the factsheet.
Some parts of the capital Baghdad, including the international airport, would also be flooded, with standing water likely to remain for weeks to months.
Much of the territory projected to be damaged by a dam breach is contested or controlled by IS, which the embassy said would likely mean a directed evacuation was unlikely and that some people might not be able to escape.
The embassy said it welcomed Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's commitment to undertake all necessary measures to finalise and implement a contract with the Italian engineering firm Trevi Group in order to address the structural integrity of Mosul Dam.
Some 450 Italian troops will be deployed to protect the dam during the urgent repair work, which is expected to take 18 months.
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter also said on Monday that Iraqi government forces would lead the coming battle for Mosul, and that the coalition expected to provide types of support that were offered during the offensive on Ramadi last year but were not needed, such as logistics and bridging.
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It was thought baboons did not have the throat muscles needed to make vowel sounds.
But after scientists analyzed more than 1,300 sounds made by 15 Guinea baboons they realised that sounds similar to vowels a,e,i,o,u were found in their voice, whether mating calls, grunts, barks, or even yaks.
The research points to some monkeys having the physical ability for language for millions of years.
It's hoped that these finding will reveal more about how human language began and developed.
The club play in the Second Division of the Uruguayan league and have had two top-six finishes in two years.
The City Football Group already owns clubs in Australia, Japan and the United States and the purchase of Atletico Torque is seen as a way of increasing scouting in South America.
City have also entered a collaboration agreement with Atletico Venezuela of the Primera Division of Venezuela.
CFG chief executive Ferran Soriano said: "We are pleased to take this next step in our football development operations.
"The investment in CA Torque enables our organization to build on existing connectivity in Uruguay and helps to expand the options for identifying and developing local and South American talent.
"This move also provides us with an administrative hub for our pre-existing scouting operations in the region and provides a footprint for City Football Group in South America."
CFG owns MLS outfit New York City, A League Melbourne City, and J League Yokohama F Marinos.
Arrested in eastern DR Congo in December, Mr Ntaganzwa, 53, is accused in a UN indictment of genocide, crimes against humanity and violating the Geneva Conventions.
He is alleged to have helped form a Hutu militia "to exterminate" Tutsis while mayor of the town of Nyakizu.
Some 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, died in the 1994 genocide.
Militias from the majority Hutu ethnic group massacred Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
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The US had issued a $5m (£3.2m) reward for Ntaganzwa's arrest, calling him "one of the main instigators of the genocide".
The indictment by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) describes his involvement in the killing of more than 20,000 Tutsis between 14 and 18 April 1994.
It says he "substantially participated in the planning, preparation and execution of the massacre".
He told a group including Hutu civilians to surround Cyahinda parish, in southern Rwanda, "so that no Tutsis could escape and told them to kill Tutsis", the indictment alleges.
Mr Ntaganzwa is also "alleged to have orchestrated the rape and sexual violence committed against many women".
His lawyers have yet to comment.
Reacting to his transfer from neighbouring DR Congo, the head of Rwanda's Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit, Jean-Bosco Siboyintore, said: "We are very happy to see this effected."
Eight suspects remain at large and are still wanted by the UN for their alleged role in the genocide.
The ICTR was closed in December and Mr Ntaganzwa was delivered to Rwandan prosecutors with the help of the successor UN organisation, the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals.
The ICTR convicted 61 people of involvement in the genocide.
Pierre Le Guennec and his wife Danielle say they were given the art by Picasso and his second wife Jacqueline in the 1970s.
The cache includes hundreds of unsigned lithographs, portraits and sketches.
But prosecution witnesses said Picasso would always insist on signing work before giving it away.
Gerard Sassier, the son of Picasso's long-time chambermaid told the court in Grasse, France, that Picasso would often draw pictures for people he liked but would always sign them.
He said the artist had drawn a portrait of his mother every year, and gave her lithographs and ceramics.
Sassier told the court that after a theft attempt, Picasso told his mother, who kept the keys to his studio: "Nothing can be stolen as nothing is signed."
He said it was "unimaginable" that Picasso would have given the works away unsigned.
Dominique Sassi, who worked alongside Picasso in a ceramics studio, told the court that the artist would keep everything, "even his failed ceramics."
Le Guennec began working as a general handyman at Picasso's estate in the South of France in 1970 and told the court he had a good relationship with the artist.
"Picasso had total confidence in me. Maybe it was my discretion," he said.
"Monsieur and Madame called me 'little cousin.'"
He told the court that Picasso's wife Jacqueline one day unexpectedly gave him a box with the 271 works of art inside.
He said he found "drawings, sketches, crumpled paper," but did not look through everything.
Asked by the judge whether he was curious, he said: "No, I didn't have in mind that they were works of art, they were essays, torn bits, it didn't grab me.
"It's not as if I saw a painting, it's not the same," he said.
The works had remained in his garage until 2010 when he took them to Paris to have them authenticated by the Picasso Administration.
He and his wife are being sued for illegal possession of the works by a number of Picasso's heirs, including his son Claude Picasso, who runs the administration.
Christine Pinault, an authentication expert at the Picasso Administration, told the court that among the 271 works were eight very rare Cubist collages, as well as "intimate souvenirs" such as a portrait of his first wife Olga and of a girlfriend called Fernande.
"One can't imagine he could have given them to another person," she said.
Picasso's granddaughter Catherine Hutin-Blay, the only one of the plaintiffs to have known Le Guennec, admitted to the court that the electrician had a privileged relationship with the artist.
"We really trusted him. He was someone who was very familiar in the house and had an absolutely friendly relationship."
"However, all this absolutely extraordinary collection, Picasso would never have given that," she said.
Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members walked out at 13:00 BST and are expected to do the same on Sunday in a row over pay and pensions.
The union said it was particularly concerned at cuts to allowances for weekend and bank holiday working.
NMW said it was "very disappointed" by the action and apologised to visitors.
It said all its sites were likely to face disruption, apart from the National Roman Legion Museum in Caerleon, which would remain fully open.
Geraint Parfitt, vice-chair of the PCS branch for the museums, said: "Museum staff are not only looking after national collections but are also dealing with 600,000 visitors a year, providing a valuable educational service.
"Yet the very people dealing with the public are those hit hardest by the proposed cuts to allowances, which make up a large proportion of their take-home pay."
NMW said National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans National History Museum and the National Waterfront Museum would remain open from 10:00 to 17:00 BST on Saturday and Sunday but may have reduced services.
Big Pit, the National Slate Museum and the National Wool Museum closed at 13:00 BST.
A spokesperson for NMW said: "We have been and are continuing to consult with staff, trade unions and other partners on a number of proposals regarding these allowances.
"At the request of the trade unions, final decisions have been deferred pending the progress of other concurrent reviews.
"We are therefore naturally very disappointed with the planned action and apologise to our visitors for any inconvenience caused."
The men have been drawn in Group A, along with Iraq and Denmark. The women are in Group E, with China and Sweden.
Brazil's men were runners-up in 2012, the women runners-up in 2008. Both teams are expected to be tough opponents in their home country.
Fifty eight matches - 32 for the men, 26 for the women - will be played in the tournament from 3 to 20 August.
Full draw for the Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016:
Group A
Brazil, South Africa, Iraq, Denmark
Group B
Sweden, Colombia, Nigeria, Japan
Group C
Fiji, Korea Republic, Mexico, Germany
Group D
Algeria, Portugal, Honduras, Argentina
Group E
Brazil, China, Sweden, South Africa
Group F
Canada, Zimbabwe, Australia, Germany
Group G
USA, New Zealand, France, Colombia
Amber Rudd ruled out a public inquiry into clashes between miners and police at the height of the miner's strike.
The group said a Commons committee inquiry would "minimise costs".
The Home Office denies claims Ms Rudd had committed to establishing an inquiry. The BBC understands Theresa May was also unlikely to back a review.
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A letter to Ms Rudd was signed by senior Conservative backbencher Sir Edward Leigh, as well as Labour MP Andy Burnham, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, Green co-leader Caroline Lucas, former SDLP leader Mark Durkan and Scottish National Party MP Joanna Cherry.
They urged the home secretary to order the Home Office to release all relevant police and government documents, and co-operate fully with any such probe.
"If you were able to give this commitment it would significantly enhance confidence that such an arrangement could work," they wrote.
A parliamentary inquiry would "minimise costs and administration", they argued.
Sir Edward raised proposals for a select committee inquiry in the Commons on Monday, when he said it would have the power "to interview all witnesses about matters - including advice to ministers".
In a letter to campaigners on Monday, Ms Rudd said policing had changed sufficiently in the years since Orgreave to mean an inquiry was not in the public interest.
She said "ultimately there were no deaths or wrongful convictions" resulting from the conduct of South Yorkshire Police at the time.
Ms Rudd appeared to leave the committee inquiry route open when she described the suggestion as "interesting", but added it was a matter for MPs to decide.
On Tuesday, Orgreave Truth and Justice Committee announced they would not back down on calls for a public inquiry.
The BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was understood that, prior to becoming prime minister, former Home Secretary Theresa May had come to the view that a full public inquiry was unlikely.
Whitehall sources insist, however, that the actual decision was taken by Ms Rudd, not Mrs May.
6,000 police officers from around the country attempted to prevent striking miners from blocking coke deliveries.
95 individuals were charged with riot and violent disorder, but cases collapsed and South Yorkshire Police were later required to pay compensation.
The "Battle of Orgreave" was the most violent day of the year-long 1984-85 miners' strike.
Huge lines of police clashed with striking miners as they tried to stop lorries carrying coke to fuel the Scunthorpe steel furnaces.
Violence erupted on both sides and at one stage police horses were sent to charge the crowd up the field as officers followed to make arrests.
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The document sets out the qualities for permanent secretaries, who are the UK's most powerful government officials.
Francis Maude criticised a suggestion they had to balance ministers' needs with their departments' long-term aims.
The Cabinet Office said the document did not reflect the constitutional position and was being updated.
The incendiary accusation by Mr Maude follows his discovery of the official civil service document, which has been passed to BBC Newsnight and the Times by a source outside of government.
It says that a permanent secretary must "balance ministers' or high-level stakeholders' immediate needs or priorities with the long-term aims of their department, being shrewd about what needs to be sacrificed, at what costs and what the implications might be".
In a letter to cabinet colleagues seen by Newsnight, Conservative Mr Maude says: "As currently framed [the document] plainly does not conform with constitutional propriety.
"The civil service aims not to serve the 'long-term aims of the department' but the priorities of the government of the day."
The civil service code of conduct, the main official document setting out guidelines for all of Whitehall, says only that civil servants "serve the government, whatever its political persuasion, to the best of your ability in a way which maintains political impartiality".
But this previously unseen document, written in 2009, was intended to set out the criteria by which permanent secretaries would be chosen.
It is still in use and in recent weeks civil servants brought it to the attention of Mr Maude, suggesting he update it.
Using descriptions that have enraged cabinet ministers, it says civil servants must "tolerate ambiguity" and deal with "at times irrational political demands".
The document continues: "[Permanent secretaries] act as a 'pivot point' in terms of knowing when to 'serve' the political agenda and manage ministers' expectations, versus leading their department with a strong sense of mission."
Former Conservative minister Nick Herbert told Newsnight: "I think this is an extraordinary document. This is actually beyond a joke.
"We can't have a kind of permanent government of an unelected bureaucracy deciding that it has its own long-term priorities which may be different to those of ministers and elected government.
"And I think this does go to some of the problems that we're seeing of a civil service which is sometimes resistance to change."
Former head of the civil service, Lord Butler, said the document seemed to be an accurate summary of the relationship between civil servants and politicians.
"Ministers have a political agenda which civil servants can't get into," he said.
"Although you're working very closely together, you've got to keep a bit of difference between yourselves."
He added: "There is nothing there that I wouldn't have put down in black and white... some of it could have been a bit more straightforwardly expressed but... I think it does reflect the borders that permanent secretaries can't cross."
Mr Maude's comments are the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter fight over Whitehall reform.
Elsewhere in his letter to cabinet colleagues, Mr Maude gives the prime minister an audit of the programme of civil service reform.
He writes: "Productivity has markedly improved since 2010, with a civil service 17% smaller delivering at least as much as before.
"However, it remains far from clear how much real and lasting reform can be achieved.
"The first civil service commissioner himself, David Normington, recently questioned 'whether the reform agenda matches the scale of the changes needed'."
He adds that the "greatest challenge" is probably to change the civil service's culture, saying "younger, high potential civil servants" had been asked to draw up plans to address this.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said of the document: "The constitutional position is clear that the civil service exists to serve the government of the day, while retaining the potential to serve a future government.
"A document laying out the criteria for permanent secretary candidates from 2009, which predates both this government and the leadership of the civil service, did not reflect that position and is therefore being refreshed.
"Permanent Secretary appointments are made on merit following fair and open competition."
After restricting Sri Lanka to 150-4 in Dhaka, Pakistan's top order hit form to reach 151-4 in 19.2 overs.
Umar Akmal top-scored with 48 off 37 balls after Sharjeel Khan (31) and Sarfraz Ahmed (38) laid the foundation.
Tillakaratne Dilshan was the star performer in Sri Lanka's innings, scoring 75 from 56 balls.
The victory is Pakistan's second in the competition and leaves them third in the points table, behind leaders India and second-placed hosts Bangladesh, who will face each other in Sunday's final at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.
Sri Lanka finish fourth, having won just one of their four matches.
Wales defender James Collins was sent off after 26 minutes for a lunge on Guillaume Gillet, and Belgium enjoyed almost total dominance thereafter.
Vincent Kompany's front-post header from a Dries Mertens corner gave the Group A favourites a deserved lead.
Gareth Bale was denied an equaliser by a superb save but Jan Vertonghen's late free-kick wrapped up victory.
Tottenham left-back Vertonghen and Manchester City centre-back Kompany were two of Belgium's seven Premier League contingent that started, and the visitors showed plenty of poise and power to dispatch a limited Wales without much difficulty.
It leaves Wales manager Chris Coleman still searching for his first win and first goal since taking over, but his side were left a near impossible task once Collins saw red.
Having already been consigned to the role of firm underdogs, Wales were on the back foot even before the first whistle following the loss of Joe Allen.
Illness deprived Coleman of his most accomplished passer, forcing centre-back Ashley Williams to leave his comfort zone in defence for a holding midfield role.
That left a back four which, although all nurtured at Cardiff City, had never before played alongside each other.
But their night as a defensive unit lasted only 26 minutes before Collins was sent off in controversial circumstances.
Until then, Wales had acquitted themselves well in the face of Belgium's obvious superiority in possession, and even threatened as David Edwards found the side netting after 10 minutes.
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Collins, returning to the side for the first time in 18 months, had made a crucial intervention in his own six-yard box to deny Thomas Vermaelen, but moments later the West Ham defender stared in disbelief at his red card.
Both he and right-back Gillet left the ground with studs showing as they lunged for a loose ball in midfield, but the Welshman was marginally late and caught the Belgian's ankle.
Wales re-organised well as Williams slotted back from midfield, but the home side's resistance was broken three minutes before half-time.
The outstanding Mertens, who had already fired inches wide, whipped a vicious corner towards the Wales front post and Kompany used his strength to resist Darcy Blake's challenge to head past Boaz Myhill.
While Belgium had looked more than capable against 11 men, their numerical advantage almost turned the game into a training exercise.
Mertens, Vertonghen, Axel Witsel and substitute Romelu Lukaku peppered Myhill's goal with shots as Belgium camped in the Welsh half.
The sharpness of the visitors' passing eventually began to drop and Bale almost made them pay with a fiercely driven free-kick from 25 yards that needed a fine fingertips save from the otherwise untested Thibaut Courtois.
But just as the home side began to raise hope of an unlikely equaliser, Vertonghen's thunderous strike settled matters eight minutes from time.
Again Wales were unhappy with Swedish referee Stefan Johannesson as he gave a free-kick for a soft foul on Lukaku, and Vertonghen hammered past Myhill's despairing dive from 20 yards.
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The Italian side led 3-0 at the break - with summer signing Andre Silva scoring his first two goals for the club since joining from Porto in July.
Fabio Borini - on loan from Sunderland - also scored his first goal for Milan.
Luca Antonelli and Riccardo Montolivo also struck for the Rossoneri, who are back in European competition for the first time since the 2013-14 season.
It was Milan's second biggest win at home in European competition, after their 8-0 victory over Union Luxembourg in 1962-63.
Their 3-0 lead at the break was also the first time they led by that margin at half-time in a European competition since the 2005 Champions League final, which they went on to lose on penalties to Liverpool.
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The move is the latest step in the company's attempts to expand globally.
Pinewood currently has studios in Canada, the Dominican Republic, Malaysia and the US.
The UK studio company has produced international blockbusters such as Star Wars movies and the James Bond franchise.
"Pinewood has been working in China for a number of years and we have forged some strong relationships with film companies, content producers and games developers," said Andrew Smith, president of Pinewood China.
"A permanent presence in China is a key strategic element of Pinewood's overall international strategy."
Pinewood currently already provides consultancy services to a number of Chinese film companies, including advising Wanda Group, the Chinese entertainment and property conglomerate.
Earlier this year, Pinewood's owners agreed to sell the company to a property investment fund for £323.3m ($421.9m).
It is the second year in a row in which the supermarket has announced falling profits.
Tesco said like-for-like sales, which strip out the effect of new store openings, also fell by 1.4%.
But the fall is not quite as bad as many analysts had expected. Many had forecast a fall of up to 10% to £3bn.
Alongside its struggling UK business, Tesco also announced a £734m loss of value in its European business, which has been hit by the eurozone crisis.
In Europe, group trading profit fell 28% to £238m as sales in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey, as well as Ireland, all slumped.
Group trading profit was also down 5.6% in Asia to £692m.
Tesco's core UK market share has fallen to a near 10-year low.
Sales at UK stores open over a year, excluding fuel and VAT, fell 3% in the last three months of Tesco's financial year, the sharpest quarterly drop since Philip Clarke became chief executive three years ago.
By Kamal AhmedBBC Business editor
The question investors will be asking is "has Philip Clarke grasped the nettle" on the fundamentally changing retail market?
Investors have expressed "frustration" to me at the pace of change, pointing to the fact that the fall in like-for-like sales and profit margin squeeze accelerated in the final quarter of the year.
Mr Clarke has brought in greater capital discipline, which is welcome, and is still running a very profitable business.
He will now need to show how Tesco is going to take the battle to the discounters which are slowly but steadily eating the retailer's s lunch. In the end, that will be about how much Mr Clarke invests in bringing down prices
But the supermarket reported strong growth of 11% in its UK online grocery sales, while sales at its Tesco Express stores grew 1.1%.
Tesco is refreshing 650 stores across the UK over three years and plans to focus on a multi-channel offering that will include a greater focus on its online offering.
Mr Clarke said: "We are transforming Tesco through a relentless focus on the most compelling offer for our customers.
"Our results today reflect the challenges we face in a trading environment which is changing more rapidly than ever before. We are determined to lead the industry in this period of change."
The supermarket has also recently cut prices on essential items such as bread, eggs and milk by 24% in an effort to compete with discount stores. But Mr Clarke admitted that it was "impossible" to win against stores likes Lidl and Aldi.
He told the BBC: "Discounters will never allow you to be cheaper than them. But you can get closer to them."
Questioned on his future, Mr Clarke told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I intend to be here to see this job through. We are in the middle of a very big change and I intend to see it through and lead my team.
"I will focus on what I have got to do. Many people want to talk about business leaders, but I know what I have got to do."
At the beginning of April, Tesco confirmed the resignation of its finance director, Laurie McIlwee, after 15 years with the company, following what is believed to have been unrest among investors.
His resignation followed a 23.5% fall in half-year pre-tax profits in October.
At the time, Tesco blamed the fall on a challenging retail environment, particularly in Europe.
The half-year figures showed that Tesco's UK like-for-like sales - which exclude new store openings - fell by 0.5%.
At the same time, Sainsbury's reported a 2% rise in like-for-like sales during the second quarter of its financial year.
In recent years, Tesco has found itself locked in a price war with rivals including Aldi and Lidl.
Recent industry figures showed the UK's "big four" supermarkets - Tesco, Morrisons, Asda and Sainsbury's - all lost market share in the first 11 weeks of this year to rival discount stores, as well as upmarket rivals Waitrose and Marks & Spencer.
Last April, Tesco announced the first fall in its profits in 20 years to a restated £3.5bn.
But its statutory pre-tax profits fell 51% to £1.96bn.
The results included a £1.2bn write-down on Tesco's Fresh & Easy US chain of stores, which had never turned a profit.
Tesco also wrote down £804m on its UK property portfolio.
The supermarket's post-tax profits including the cost of the US exit were just £120m, down 95.7%.
Eamon Gilmore admitted the government was concerned about the threat posed by dissident republicans and international terrorists.
However, he said he is confident both visits will be successful.
Mr Gilmore said the Irish police had "considerable experience" dealing with security teams from Britain and the US.
The PSNI has confirmed it will be supplying equipment to the Garda for the royal visit, but would not specify what type.
It said no officers would be travelling south of the border.
Last month members of the Real IRA declared their opposition to the Queen's first visit to the Irish Republic on 17 May.
At a rally in Londonderry they said: "The Queen of England is wanted for war crimes in Ireland and is not wanted on Irish soil."
Mr Gilmore said the government is concerned about the threat.
"Clearly the murder of Ronan Kerr was a stark reminder to us of what a small group of people can do," he told RTE radio.
"We've seen every menacing threats coming from these groups.
"These are obviously taken on board by the government and gardai (Irish police) in making the security arrangements for the upcoming visits and ensuring that none of these group's succeed in carrying out an act that will kill or maim innocent people in this country.
"We are confident that will be done. There is considerable experience for putting in place security arrangements for visits like these."
Part of the arrangements will involve two PSNI water cannons, which have been borrowed by Irish police.
Mr Gilmore said he was also aware of the threat posed by international terrorists following the death of Osama Bin Laden.
"The security arrangements would be very tight and comprehensive in any event and the gardai are making sure that everything is in place and the Irish people will be able to give the traditional welcome to both Queen Elizabeth and President Obama."
Mourinho, who led Chelsea to the Premier League championship last month, admitted driving at 60mph in a 50mph zone on the A3 in Esher last September.
The 52-year-old, who already had points on his licence, was also fined £750 and ordered to pay £160 costs.
He admitted the offence by letter to Surrey Magistrates' Court in Staines.
Under her proposals, firms could be forced to disclose what percentage of their workforce is non-British as a way to encourage them to hire more locals.
Ms Rudd said she wanted to "flush out" companies abusing existing rules and "nudge them into better behaviour".
Business has attacked the idea while one Tory MP called it "divisive".
The workforce proposal - announced at the Conservative conference on Tuesday as part of a series of measures designed to "change the tide of public opinion" on immigration after the Brexit vote - is not policy yet as it is subject to consultation.
But it has already provoked a backlash, with Labour saying it will "fan the flames of xenophobia and hatred in our communities" and the SNP called it "the most disgraceful display of reactionary right-wing politics in living memory".
The home secretary believes firms are "getting away" with not training enough British workers and the existing resident labour test - which requires firms to advertise vacancies in the UK for 28 days before looking outside the EU - should be toughened up
Companies recruiting staff from outside the EU could have to demonstrate what they have done to "foster a pool of local candidates" and show what impact the choice of overseas candidates have on the local labour market.
Briefing notes after her speech also suggested they could be required to "be clear about the proportion of their workforce which is international", a practice which the Home Office says is standard in the US.
Ms Rudd said the existing system did not give firms a "clear incentive" to properly consider the merits of local candidates or to spend more on training to equip them to do the jobs on offer.
Asked whether she was prepared to "name and shame" companies which did not comply by publishing a breakdown of the nationality of their workforce, Ms Rudd told BBC Radio 4's Today it was "not something we are definitely going to do" but it was "one of the tools" under review "as a way of nudging people into better behaviour".
While many companies were doing a great job employing local staff, she said there were firms "which are not so constructive and these are the ones we want to flush out" - citing one business she knew of where 80% of whose staff were from outside the UK.
"There is still one in ten 18-24 year olds in the UK who are unemployed," she added. "I want businesses to think first about locally training people where possible... and work with us to deliver what we need to have which is a more skilled local labour force."
In 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was criticised for suggesting that firms should give preference to local staff where they could - a policy that was dubbed in the media "British jobs for British workers".
Ms Rudd, who campaigned to remain in the EU during the referendum, said she was careful not "to fall into the trap" of using such language - particularly given the volatile climate after the Brexit vote in which immigration remains a highly-charged issue and some areas have seen a rise in hate crimes.
"I am very aware about the language and when I looked at the speech and thought how I would present it," she said.
But she said immigration could not be a no-go area for politicians. "We should be able to have a conversation about the skills we need.
"I don't think we should have a situation where we can't talk about immigration. We must not ignore the fact that people want to talk about immigration and if we do talk about immigration don't call me a racist."
Business groups reacted warily to the proposals, warning they would limit their members' ability to recruit people with the right skills for the job.
"Companies do so much in the UK to train up their workers and, of course, look for local hires before going to the overseas market," said Adam Marshall, acting director general of the British Chambers of Commerce.
"I don't think they should be penalised for having to do so when they have specific skills needs."
The EEF said more than two thirds of the UK manufacturers it represented offered apprenticeships.
The CBI's deputy director general Josh Hardie said: "British companies invest £45bn a year training workers in the UK, but there are skills gaps right now and if firms do not fill them they cannot grow and spread prosperity."
Conservative MP Neil Carmichael, chair of the Commons education select committee and member of the Open Britain campaign, urged Ms Rudd to reconsider the plan.
"This unsettling policy would drive people, business and compassion out of British society and should not be pursued any further," he said.
"People coming to the UK to work hard, pay their taxes and make a contribution to our society should be celebrated not shamed.
"This kind of divisive politics has no place in 21st Century Britain."
And Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said "drawing up lists of foreign workers won't stop unscrupulous employers undercutting wages in Britain".
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon: "It is an appalling, regressive, and hugely troubling development which will leave many people in Scotland - and across the rest of the UK and beyond - wondering, with real concern, what kind of country the Tories want us to be."
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said: "The government's plan on foreign workers is a nasty little policy that deserves to be thrown out on the rubbish heap."
Ministers say they are still committed to reducing net migration to "sustainable" levels - taken to mean below 100,000 a year - even though David Cameron failed to meet the target between 2010 and 2015, with net migration recently exceeding 300,000.
Lisnagarvey had gone into the weekend level on points with Bann but were beaten 3-1 at Three Rock Rovers who move above them and into second place.
Bottom club Instonians recorded their first win of the season, 3-1 over UCD, to close the gap to the university side to only four points.
In the women's IHL, leaders UCD hammered bottom side Ulster Elks 8-1.
Belfast Harlequins continue to pull away from the relegation zone with their second win in a row over Pembroke Wanderers.
Banbridge's convincing win over Monkstown was an ideal warm-up for Sunday's Irish Senior Cup semi-final against Corinthian.
Bann's international contingent led the scoring with Eugene Magee netting twice and the others coming from Matthew Bell, Johnny McKee and Dane Ward.
Their lead at the top of the table is two points over Three Rock Rovers who beat Lisnagarvey 3-1.
The County Down side sit in third place, one point ahead of Cork C of I who lost 4-1 at home to Railway Union.
Instonians' first win as an IHL club, 3-1 over UCD, has reignited their hopes of survival. The gap between the two teams is four points and Inst have two games in hand.
William Robinson converted a first quarter penalty corner and, after UCD had equalised, two late goals from Mark Irwin and Stephen Kelso sealed three important points.
UCD continue to set the pace in the women's IHL with internationals Katie Mullan, Lena Tice and Deidre Duke among their scorers in an 8-1 win over the Elks at Jordanstown.
Anna O'Flanagan was on target twice for Hermes-Monkstown as they defeated Loreto 4-2 to stay a point behind in second place but with a game in hand.
The Elks remain bottom, a point adrift of Pembroke Wanderers but Belfast Harlequins have moved closer to safety by edging Pembroke 2-1 in a tightly-fought contest.
Laura Johnston scored both Harlequins goals after they now have a five-point cushion as they look to maintain their top flight status.
Pegasus hopes of reaching the play-offs suffered another blow as they lost 2-1 at home to Cork Harlequins.
Olivia Roycroft tapped in the opener for Cork and then she turned provider for Karen Bateman to make it 2-0. Michelle Harvey scored for the Belfast side just before the end.
The database has been put together by Historic Scotland to give greater protection to the sites and to act as a guide to planning authorities.
It includes famous battles such as Bannockburn, Culloden and Killiecrankie.
Less well known Alford and Skirmish Hill also feature.
Work started on the inventory about four years ago with the public consulted on battlefields suggested for inclusion.
The 39 scenes of conflicts - selected from a list of 50 - were added to the database in three phases of consultation and research.
The most recent phase placed 11 sites in the inventory and included:
Historic Scotland said more battlefields could be added at later dates.
Culture and External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop said it was a real achievement that so many battles had been researched.
She said: "The interest in protecting battlefield sites from across the country has been immense and continues.
"The consultation in 2008 generated more responses from the public than any other Historic Scotland policy at that time."
Ms Hyslop added: "Introducing this first Inventory of Historic Battlefields acknowledged this high level of public interest and support for giving lasting recognition to places where lives have been lost, even where no other commemoration has existed."
The full list of battlefields added in three phases held so far are: Alford (1645), Ancrum Moor (1545), Auldearn (1645), Bannockburn (1314), Bothwell Bridge (1679), Culloden (1746), Dunbar II (1650), Dupplin Moor (1332), Falkirk II (1746), Glenshiel (1719), Harlaw (1411), Killiecrankie (1689), Kilsyth (1645), Philiphaugh (1645), Pinkie (1547), Prestonpans (1745) and Sheriffmuir (1715).
Barra (1308), Carbisdale (1650), Cromdale (1690), Drumclog (1679), Fyvie (1645), Inverkeithing II (1651), Inverlochy II (1645), Linlithgow Bridge (1526), Mulroy (1688), Rullion Green (1666) and Stirling Bridge (1297).
Blar-na-Leine (1544), Dunbar I (1296), Dunkeld (1689), Glenlivet (1594), Inverlochy I (1431), Langside (1568), Loudoun Hill (1307), Roslin (1303), Sauchieburn (1488), Skirmish Hill (1526) and Tippermuir (1644).
Dr Iain Banks and Dr Tony Pollard at Glasgow University's Centre for Battlefield Archaeology carried out the research.
Dr Banks said: "These sites preserve the last traces of historical events that shaped the nation of Scotland through history, and there is no substitute for visiting the battlefields for understanding what happened in each battle."
He added: "What we have found when researching the battlefields is that there is never any difficulty in persuading people of the importance of a particular site.
"The most difficult job has been explaining why individual battlefields have not made it onto the inventory.
"We have been really astonished at the high levels of enthusiasm for the preservation of battlefields at the local level - people are fascinated by them and want to see them preserved."
Charity Bawso received enquiries about FGM from 788 people in Swansea, Newport and Cardiff between April 2014 and March 2015.
It received 249 inquiries the previous year.
A recent report found victims of FGM are likely to be living in every area of England and Wales.
The study, funded by charity Trust for London and the Home Office, concluded that all areas of England and Wales needed services and strategies to meet the needs of FGM victims.
Dr Mwenya Chimba, Violence Against Women Director at Bawso, believes people are becoming more aware of FGM.
She said: "The FGM summit in London last year really raised the profile.
"We have been approached by women where it happened a long time ago and they require support psychologically.
"We are contacted by women who have undergone FGM themselves and fear if they return home their child would be at risk.
"We also work one-to-one with families when we feel a child could be at risk. We speak to mothers and fathers to try and raise awareness."
FGM, sometimes called female circumcision, refers to procedures including the partial or total removal of external female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It is illegal in the UK.
The NHS says FGM is prevalent in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and is carried out for "cultural, religious and social reasons". It can cause issues including severe pain, infections, pregnancy complications and even death.
Makaziwe Mandela told the BBC that her father was surrounded by his family in his final moments and she talked about sharing him with the world.
Tukwini Mandela, daughter of Mr Mandela's daughter Makaziwe, and Nandi Mandela, daughter of Mr Mandela's eldest son Thembi, spoke about their grandfather's legacy and about how the family is dealing with his death.
Ndaba Mandela, one of Nelson Mandela's grandsons, told the BBC about his reactions to the memorial service for his grandfather, and about his emotions as the funeral neared.
Nelson Mandela's grandson Mbuso and great granddaughter, Phumla, spoke on behalf of the family at the memorial service at the FNB stadium.
Dr Amuah, who is married to Mr Mandela's eldest daughter Makaziwe, said the late president became emotional over the "expectations of some family members, which never came to be".
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The Dorset line from Swanage to Wareham was closed by British Rail, and ripped up in seven weeks, in 1972.
Swanage Railway volunteers rebuilt it from 1976, and it ran its first passenger trains on 5 August 1979 on a few hundred yards of track.
Pete Frost, a volunteer driver on the 5.5-mile (8.8km) heritage line from Swanage to Norden Park and Ride, was one of the first people to gain access to the site after the British Rail closure.
Next year, a regular service on the 10-mile stretch between Swanage, Corfe Castle and Wareham is set to run, for the first time in 43 years.
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West Midlands Ambulance Service confirmed it was called to the scene at Birmingham Trade Park, on Kingsbury Road in Erdington, at about 11:55 BST.
The man, believed to be in his 40s, was confirmed dead at the scene. The lorry driver, another man and a bystander were also treated for shock.
West Midlands Police confirmed it is investigating the incident and is appealing for witnesses.
The road was closed for several hours while emergency services dealt with the incident.
More updates on this and other stories in Birmingham and the Black Country
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The hospital is Northern Ireland's regional centre for orthopaedics.
People in need of back surgery have to wait longer than most and can expect to wait up to 18 months for a consultant's appointment.
BBC News NI's health correspondent Marie Louise Connolly reports.
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Comolli was appointed by club co-owners John W. Henry and Tom Werner following their takeover of the club in September 2010.
He oversaw a major spending spree which included the signings of Andy Carroll for £35m and Luis Suarez for £22.7m.
Comolli said: "I am happy to move on from the club and go back to France for family reasons."
He added: "I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to work at Liverpool. I wish the club all the best for the future."
The announcement was made as Liverpool prepare for their FA Cup semi-final against Everton at Wembley on Saturday.
Liverpool's head of sports science and medicine Peter Brukner has also left the club. The Australian, who has also worked with with the swimming, athletics and hockey national teams in his home country, arrived at Anfield in 2010 after a spell with the Socceroos at World Cup in South Africa.
Liverpool chairman Werner said: "The club needs to move forward and we now have a huge game on Saturday. It is important that everyone joins us in supporting the manager and gets behind Kenny [Dalglish] and the team and focuses on a strong finish to the season."
Principal owner Henry added: "We are grateful for all of Damien's efforts on behalf of Liverpool and wish him all the best for the future."
Comolli, 39, was appointed by Liverpool in November 2010 to work alongside former manager Roy Hodgson.
At the time of his appointment the Frenchman said Hodgson, who was replaced by Kenny Dalglish in January 2011, had the final say on all transfers.
He said his role was identifying targets and meant he was responsible for overseeing Dalglish's £112.8m spending spree last year.
As well as Carroll and Suarez, the Reds also paid a combined £36m for Aston Villa winger Stewart Downing and Sunderland midfielder Jordan Henderson.
Last September Comolli said he was not looking for new players as he believed Liverpool's squad was "complete".
Following Comolli's departure, Dalglish said: "He has been really helpful in every transfer target that we've gone for.
"Everyone who has come into the club since Damien has been here was of my choice.
"Once I made the choice who I wanted, Damien went away and did a fantastic job of bringing them in.
"It's sad to see anyone leave the football club and he goes with my best wishes."
Comolli's appointment marked a return to the Premier League for the Frenchman, who spent three years as Tottenham's director of football before he was sacked by the north London club in October 2008.
"From the outside, Comolli was involved in all those deals involving Henderson, Downing, Carroll and Adam. I'm not really sure whether he has paid the price for Liverpool's poor form. Only the football club and Kenny Dalglish can answer that. But people like Downing, Henderson and Adam have been, at best, average for Liverpool this year. So, yes, it may well be the case."
Initially he worked alongside Martin Jol, who complained that Comolli recruited players without his consent following his own dismissal in October 2007.
Comolli returned to former club St Etienne, where he was technical director in 2004, before switching to Merseyside as he looked to rebuild his reputation in England.
After a modest playing career in Monaco's youth team, Comolli gained his French coaching licence and worked at the club under then manager Arsene Wenger.
Wenger employed Comolli as his European scout when he took over at Arsenal in 1996 and Comolli received credit for the signings of Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Eboue and Gael Clichy.
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McGregor, 35, is on loan from Hull City until the end of the season.
Ex-Wales goalkeeper Dibble is full of praise for the Scotland international, who has made 13 appearances for the Bluebirds.
"He's been absolutely fantastic the way he approaches training and games," Dibble said.
"Yes, we would love to have him long term. That's up to the powers that be with the financial side.
"But he would be one on our radar definitely. He's a model professional."
McGregor had fallen behind Eldin Jakupovic and former Cardiff number one David Marshall in Hull's pecking order before joining Cardiff in January.
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That's according to a detailed global analysis from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
It says that 2016 was not only the warmest year on record, but it saw atmospheric CO2 rise to a new high, while Arctic sea ice recorded a new winter low.
The "extreme and unusual" conditions have continued in 2017, it says.
Reports earlier this year from major scientific bodies - including the UK's Met Office, Nasa and NOAA - indicated that 2016 was the warmest year on record.
The WMO's State of the Global Climate 2016 report builds on this research with information from 80 national weather services to provide a deeper and more complete picture of the year's climate data.
Compared with the 1961-1990 reference period, 2016 was 0.83 degrees C warmer than the average. It was around 1.1C above the pre-industrial period, and at 0.06C just a fraction warmer than the previous warmest year record in 2015.
"This increase in global temperature is consistent with other changes occurring in the climate system," said WMO Secretary-General, Petteri Taalas.
"Globally averaged sea-surface temperatures were also the warmest on record, global sea-levels continued to rise, and Arctic sea-ice extent was well below average for most of the year," he said.
Not all the world warmed at equal speed in 2016.
In the Arctic, temperatures were about 3 degrees C above the 1961-1990 average. In Svalbard, the Norwegian island high in the Arctic circle, the yearly average was 6.5 degrees above the long-term mark.
The report says that temperatures in 2016 were "substantially influenced" by the El Niño weather phenomenon, contributing 0.1 to 0.2 degrees on top of the longer-term warming driven by emissions of CO2.
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However, El Niño also had an influence on the levels of the gas in the atmosphere.
"The CO2 rise in 2016 was the fastest on record - 3.4ppm (parts per million) per year - because the El Niño weakened the tropical carbon sink and gave the ongoing CO2 rise an extra kick on top of the effect of human emissions," said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office Hadley Centre.
"As a result, 2016 became the first year in which CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa remained above 400ppm all year round."
The report states that extreme weather events in 2016 included severe droughts in southern and eastern Africa, and in Central America. Hurricane Matthew in the North Atlantic was one of the most damaging weather-related disasters, leaving hundreds of dead and swathes of destruction across Haiti.
The WMO says that the "extreme and unusual" climate and weather trends have continued into 2017. At least three times this winter, the Arctic experienced the equivalent of a heatwave, as powerful Atlantic storms drove warm, moist air into the region.
Changes in the Arctic and the melting of sea-ice are also leading to a shift in atmospheric circulation patterns impacting other parts of the world. This is causing unusual heat in some areas - In the US, over 11,000 warm temperature records were broken in early 2017.
"Even without a strong El Niño in 2017, we are seeing other remarkable changes across the planet that are challenging the limits of our understanding of the climate system. We are now in truly uncharted territory," said David Carlson, World Climate Research Programme Director at the WMO.
In the face of all this information, climate researchers around the world are irked by the attitude of the Trump government in Washington.
The new administration has rolled back some of the global warming measures taken by President Obama, while the newly appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, denied that CO2 was a primary contributor to warming.
"The WMO's statement on the 2016 climate leaves no room for doubt. The much-hyped warming hiatus is over - and the 'missing' heat energy didn't go missing at all. Instead, that heat went into the ocean, and we got much of it back again last year," said Dr Phil Williamson, from the University of East Anglia.
"Human-driven climate change is now an empirically verifiable fact, combining year-to-year variability with the consequences of our release of extra greenhouse gases. Those who dispute that link are not sceptics, but anti-science deniers."
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Perry Beeches Academy Trust, once praised by ex-prime minister David Cameron, has been criticised by watchdog the Education Funding Agency.
It breached Charity Commission regulations by sponsoring the Labour Finance and Industry Group. The money has since been returned, the EFA said.
The trust has adopted recommendations.
The EFA investigated the trust - which runs five schools in the city - in March after allegations of "novel and contentious use of trust funds and assets" and irregular expenditure.
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Information from a whistleblower prompted the investigation, which found an additional salary of £160,000 was paid to chief executive Liam Nolan, over two years, through a third-party agreement - on top of his £120,000-a-year salary. He resigned in May.
The agency's full report, revealed on Thursday, details breaches and failures by the trust to follow its procurement processes.
It looked at how contracts and jobs were awarded and highlighted the employment of Mr Nolan's nephew and niece, the latter being promoted six times in three years.
There was also no evidence of tendering for contracts for legal and PR services worth thousands of pounds or reasons for the payments.
EFA key findings:
In a statement the trust said the report related to historical allegations and board of trustees resigned in April and a new management structure was in place.
The new team has been working "very closely" with the EFA and department for education "to move Perry Beeches The Academy Trust and its schools forward to a better future".
"All recommendations in the report have been adopted by the trust," the spokesman added.
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A flagship academy chain gave £5,000 to the Labour Party and spent £20,000 with a consultancy firm run by the wife of a school director, a report has found.
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They admitted themselves after feeling unwell and although two were discharged shortly after, the other was "quite poorly" and was kept in for treatment.
North Wales Police believe the illnesses are linked to "legal highs" but were waiting for test results.
Det Ch Supt Dermott Horrigan said it was important the public realised the potential dangers of these drugs.
"Just because a substance is sold in a shop or on the internet as legal does not mean it is legal or safe," he said.
"Sadly there are clever people out there making a lot of money by selling drugs under the misnomer 'legal highs' which may in fact pose a risk to people's health.
"The reality is that many of these products either contain controlled substances which are illegal or uncontrolled substances whose side-effects cannot be predicted."
North Wales Police and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board are supporting a national campaign launched this week aimed at raising the awareness of "legal highs" in the run up to Christmas.
The police-led campaign - co-ordinated by Titan, the North-West Regional Organised Crime Unit - is supported by the Home Office, the National Crime Agency and UK Border Force.
Godfrey Hayes, substance misuse programme manager at the health board added: "As we come into the festive season we must remember that many types of drug can cause problems if taken at the same time as alcohol.
"Many prescribed medications warn people not to drink when they are taking them, but the risks are much greater with illicit drugs and legal highs where the content of the drugs and any possible interactions with alcohol are unknown."
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Police have warned about the dangers of "legal highs" after three young men from Caernarfon ended up in hospital.
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She is the second Welsh woman to seal gold in Switzerland after Olympic champion Jade Jones won on Friday.
Williams, 17, was fighting in just her second competition of 2016 following two major ankle operations.
"I didn't expect a medal, let alone gold," said the Blackwood fighter and 2014 world junior champion.
"I can't even explain it, I'm just overwhelmed.
"I've just come back from injury so it's my second competition [and] to win a major it's insane, I can't explain it."
It was a dramatic afternoon for the youngster who beat Ukraine's Tetiana Tetereviatnykova 11-10 on golden point in the quarter-final, before edging out Croatia's Matea Jelic 13-12 in the last four.
Williams made her return to competitive action in April's President's Cup after having two ankle reconstruction operations in the last two years.
She has not qualified for the Rio Olympics, but is targeting success at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
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Lauren Williams has won 67kg gold in her first senior major final after beating Turkey's Nur Tatar 4-3 in the European Taekwondo Championships.
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Mr Issoufou took 48% of the vote, with jailed opposition leader Hama Amadou on 18%, official preliminary results say.
The run-off vote between the two candidates is scheduled for 20 March.
Mr Amadou is currently behind bars accused of trafficking babies, a charge he strongly denies.
President Issoufou is running for a second term.
The run-up to the vote was marred by accusations of repression and a row over identification documents.
The authorities announced that roughly 1.5 million people without ID papers would be able to cast their ballots by having witnesses vouch for them, in a move that was condemned by opposition leaders.
Niger is rich in natural resources, including uranium and oil, but is one of the poorest countries on Earth, ranking last in the UN Human Development Index.
Niger is seen as an important ally of Western powers in the fight against militant Islamists in the fragile Sahara region.
However, the country is far from stable. Corruption, food shortages and porous borders remain serious problems.
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Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou has failed to secure an outright majority in Sunday's elections, taking the contest into a second round.
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One exception is the German tabloid Bild, which maintains the jocular tone it set on Benedict XVI's election to the papacy in 2005, when the paper famously declared "We are the pope". Bild's coverage also features a clock counting down the hours, minutes and seconds to the pope's final departure.
Though some commentators hint at the challenges that will face the Catholic Church in the wake of Benedict XVI's departure, media speculation as to who might succeed him appears to have been temporarily put on hold.
Giacomo Galeazzi in La Stampa
The last that people will see of Benedict XVI (at least in his role as Pope) will be at 5.30, when he will appear on the balcony of Castel Gandolfo in order to greet the faithful in the square below. Then the window will be closed and Ratzinger will withdraw into a secluded life of prayer.
Ilvo Diamanti in La Repubblica
Benedict XVI is leaving. Retiring. Weakened by health problems and by age. But perhaps also by the weight of the scandals that have shaken the Church during his papacy. And by the intrigues and tensions with which the Vatican is riddled.
Banner headline in best-selling paper Bild
We were the pope for 2872 days.
Headline in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Farewell in gratitude
Headline in Die Welt
The world's most popular and loved German
Richard Herzinger in Die Welt
As much as [the pope's] resignation is understandable and from a human point of view even appealing, it also proves the fact that the papacy has become sucked into the mill wheels of secularisation - and will probably be crushed by them. The fact that in the end, the pope just wants to be a human being like me and you profanes an office that according to the will of the Church should represent an inviolable alternative to the inadequacy of worldly existence.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski via Twitter.
Morning in the Eternal City on the last day of [Benedict's] pontificate. A historic day, but a sad one. Another anchor is lost in this crazy world.
Polish news website TVN24
The first day of this kind in Vatican for 598 years… Yet it looks as if 28 February is just another regular day in the Vatican. Tourists from all over the world are strolling across St Peter's square, crowds head for the Basilica. Many of them stop at the tomb of John Paul II in the chapel of St Sebastian.
Dominican priest Maciej Zieba writing in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza
What takes place tonight is an act of courage and weakness mixed with strength. The pope admitted that he is no longer able to continue. We are all made of flesh and blood, after all.
Polish theologian Pawel Milcarek writing in the daily Rzeczpospolita
The church now needs someone who knows and understands everything that Benedict XVI did, but who also has the strength that Benedict lacked.
Vatican expert Silvije Tomasevic in the news portal Index.hr
Pope Benedict XVII is saying farewell to his papal duties today. He will spend his final day in the company of the cardinals and then fly by helicopter to his future residence at Castel Gandolfo. By 8 o'clock this evening the papal chair will be empty.
Dominique Greiner in French Catholic daily La Croix
Benedict XVI's decision, which is virtually unprecedented in the history of the papacy, is that of a man who is fundamentally free.
Editorial in El Pais
The Pope's resignation… can be interpreted as a way of humanising the papacy, and the last steps of his mandate could also be seen as reaffirming that there is no place for concealment and taboo within the Catholic hierarchy.
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Friends, family and admirers displayed pink ribbons as they listened to various speakers celebrate her life.
Kayla Mueller's death was confirmed in Syria this month by her family and the American government.
Islamic State militants said she died in a Jordanian air strike.
But the Pentagon says that it does not know the exact circumstances of her death.
Members of local churches and community groups in Prescott wrote scrapbook messages and signed cards in Ms Mueller's memory, with many describing her as the best of humanity.
Her brother, Eric, urged the crowd to emulate her example in life and reach out to suffering people.
"May God keep you from any more harm, any more hurt," he said.
"You are in His hands now. You do not have to suffer anymore. Only now will you be able to see how much you did and truly did for this world by looking down on it from above."
Ms Mueller travelled to the Turkey-Syria border in 2012, to work for the Danish Refugee Council and Support to Life, according to her family.
On 4 August 2013 she was taken captive by Islamic State in Aleppo, Syria, while leaving a hospital run by MSF (Doctors without Borders).
Duncan Potts, 28, from Coldridge near Crediton in Devon, died climbing in the Mont Blanc range near Chamonix, the Marines confirmed.
He was with a friend on Wednesday when a large rock came loose and fell about 3m (9ft) onto him according to reports.
Mr Potts had been in the Royal Marines, where he was a mountain leader, for 11 years and left in April.
The Foreign Office said it was providing assistance to Mr Potts' family.
Col Kevin Oliver, from the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines in Lympstone, Devon, paid tribute to Mr Potts.
He said: "We are saddened to hear of the death of Duncan Potts, an ex member of the Royal Marines family and a mountain leader.
"We knew him as a fine young man who was a credit to the service, who left having achieved much in his career. The thoughts and sympathies of those that knew him go out to his family and friends."
His fiancee, vet April Lawson, said on Facebook that Mr Potts, who she got engaged to in Rome on 11 June, was her "soulmate".
"I love you so much," she wrote.
"I always will love you and you will remain in my heart forever. You mean the world to me and are my life.
"I'm truly grateful for the time we had together. My kind-hearted, handsome gentleman."
She said her partner was a skilled climber, surfer, skier and musician who was going to pursue a career in physiotherapy.
"You are such a strong and brave man," she said.
"I miss you and want cuddles please. I hope you were happy Duncan because I was so happy with you.
"I will always love you Duncan Potts to the moon and back."
Mr Potts' brother Andy said: "It's really starting to hit home how much and widely he is going to be missed. I'm still struggling to come to terms with the fact that my big brother is no longer with us.
"Duncan had such an incredible group of friends and you all made his life so fun filled and special and I want to thank every one of you for being such an important part of his life."
Wendy Lawson, mother of April, said her daughter's "world has been ripped apart".
"My heart grieves for this lovely man and for the future now denied both," she said.
"My love and thoughts go out to all his family and friends; Duncan is a beautiful man, inside and out."
Jeff Henry, 39, was chased and fatally assaulted in Cambridge in June 2015.
Martin Saunders, 35, and Anthony Kenny, 37, admitted manslaughter at the Old Bailey and were jailed for 22 years and 16-and-a-half years respectively.
Ben Maguire, 29, was jailed for four-and-a-half years after admitting conspiracy to commit GBH and assisting an offender.
The attack, the court heard, was the result of a feud between Mr Henry and Saunders, of Beaton Crescent, Huntingdon, over Mr Henry's attempts to get back with his ex- wife.
When Mr Kelly arranged to meet Maguire, of Cambridge, he contacted Saunders and Kenny, of Burgess Walk in St Ives, knowing they wanted to assault him.
After Friday's sentencing Det Insp Al Page said: "This was a cowardly attack."
Mr Henry's sister Suzanne Henry said: "There is no excuse for what they did to Jeff that night and the devastation they have caused, which we have no choice but to live with, and then will have to re-live, when Jeff's youngest children are old enough to understand what happened to their dad, and then we will have to watch them hurting and grieving."
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The fireworks, discovered in Textile Street, Gorton, are so powerful people must be at least 25m (82ft) away, said the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.
Assistant county fire officer Geoff Harris said whoever dumped them was "incredibly irresponsible".
"Thanks to the vigilance of our staff these fireworks are in a safe place, but the boxes were open and we fear some of them may have been taken.
"They are very large and very powerful explosives - the consequences for any young people, who may have taken these fireworks and decide to light them, don't bear thinking about."
Last winter's pressure in accident and emergency units pushed the system close to its limits and that was clear from weekly updates from the front line.
A year on, there is much speculation about how the service will perform as cold snaps arrive and patient numbers increase, especially among the elderly.
But now it's far more difficult to get a feel for week-by-week NHS performance in England because figures for people waiting to be treated or assessed in A&E units is no longer published every Friday.
Only yesterday did we get statistics for October, let alone the first weeks in December, and they showed another downward slide below the 95% target - and below the figure for Scotland that month.
Ironically, Scotland recently moved from monthly to weekly figures. Wales and Northern Ireland publish theirs monthly.
There has been much criticism of NHS England with suggestions of a deliberate plan to reduce news coverage during the difficult winter weeks.
The counter-argument is that weekly fluctuations can give a misleading impression of hospital performance and be unhelpful to trusts that have been subject to temporary local pressures.
NHS senior management have now brought together all the performance data along with A&E on a monthly basis, including cancer treatment times that used to be quarterly.
By doing that they have created a statistical "super Thursday" every month, allowing a broad judgement of overall performance.
Yesterday's data did not make happy reading for NHS chiefs in England.
Six out of seven key targets were missed - the only one met was on referral to treatment times (the proportion of patients on a waiting list for less than 18 weeks).
It has been suggested that referral to treatment was only inside the target level, and by a small margin, because some trusts did not publish their data.
The chances of it being breached this winter seem high so there could be a month when the headline is "NHS in England misses all key targets".
NHS England is still publishing some weekly data and the first batch was out today, covering the week until 6 December.
It amounts to an alphabet soup of stats.
The key finding was that attendances at major A&E departments were lower than in the same week last year, nearly 328,000 compared with just under 345,000. That could be weather-related.
For the key indicator of emergency admissions, the latest figure is just over 90,000 but there is no comparable figure for last year.
The only other figures come from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
It carries out its own weekly survey of more than 40 hospital trusts around the UK.
In the week ending 27 November, according to this exercise, fewer than 88% of patients were treated or assessed within four hours, which was lower than the previous week.
This has been dismissed by NHS England as it is far from comprehensive (there are 180 hospital trusts in England alone). But it is what it is, and provides the most up-to-date snapshot available.
Anecdotal reports from London hospitals, reported in the Evening Standard, suggest "significant pressure" at present with GPs being urged to refer only the most urgent cases to A&E units.
Bed occupancy is said to be very high. One Midlands trust acknowledged that its four-hour wait performance has been below 80% in recent weeks.
The festive season may well bring additional stresses and strains, along with a possible flu impact.
Twas ever thus and the NHS has got through previous winters despite forecasts of doom and gloom.
But this time we wont have the data till after the event - the Christmas season story won't become clear until February.
The capture of the Bala Hisar fortress came despite efforts by government reinforcements, backed by Nato airstrikes and special forces, to retake the city.
They are now battling to keep the airport, the army's last stronghold.
The Taliban over-ran the city of 300,000 people on Monday, their biggest gain since losing power in 2001.
The Taliban had blockaded the Bala Hisar fortress for two days.
The nearly 200 Afghan security personnel then abandoned the position after running out of food and ammunition, an Afghan security official told Reuters.
Late on Tuesday, the Taliban tried to capture the airport as well, but US air strikes and coalition special forces halted their advance.
A special forces commander said the foreign troops - who are in Kunduz in a non-combat role - had acted in "self-defence".
On Wednesday, hundreds of Afghan troops were delayed as they approached Kunduz, due to a Taliban ambush and time taken to remove explosives from roads.
Afghanistan's health ministry said more than 40 people had been killed and more than 330 injured in the fighting, the vast majority of them civilians.
The fall of Kunduz is a win-win for the Taliban, whatever happens now. Even if the insurgents are expelled in the army counter-offensive, they will leave with both booty and publicity.
Taliban fighters emptied the coffers of banks in Kunduz, seized weapons, including armed vehicles, and also gained a propaganda victory.
The seizure of one of Afghanistan's most strategic and richest cities has also increased the prestige of new Taliban leader, Mullah Mansour - those within the insurgent group will see him as someone who can deliver impressive victories on the battlefield.
Victory also reasserts Taliban control amid competition from the Islamic State group, which has been challenging the Taliban's supremacy in many parts of the country.
The fact that a few hundred Taliban fighters defeated thousands of Afghan security forces is also embarrassing for the National Unity Government in Kabul, especially when the assault coincided with the first anniversary of its formation.
Kunduz is one of Afghanistan's largest cities, and is strategically important as a transport hub for the north of the country.
Militant violence has increased across Afghanistan since Nato ended its combat mission in Afghanistan in December, leaving a 13,000-strong residual force used for training and counter-terrorism operations.
Fighting has been going on in a number of other areas:
The BBC's Dawood Azami says the Taliban are now trying to open multiple fronts to divert the attention of the Afghan military from Kunduz and stretch them thin.
On Tuesday the United States acknowledged the seizure of Kunduz as a setback, but said it remained confident that Afghan security forces could retake the city.
Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, a spokesman for Kunduz's police chief, told Reuters: "Hundreds of Taliban are killed and their dead bodies are on [the] streets."
There was no independent confirmation, and the Taliban denied their local leader had been killed.
Residents, nervous of both the Taliban and the possibility of street-fighting, are largely staying indoors.
An Afghan MP, Dr Fatima Aziz, told the BBC she fled the city with her children, coming under fire from the Taliban as she escaped.
"I'm very worried for my people," she said.
The Taliban's new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, said the government should admit defeat.
In Kabul, members of parliament called for President Ghani to resign. The head of Afghan intelligence was called to parliament to explain what went wrong in Kunduz.
The assault on Monday was swift and took Afghan forces by surprise.
As darkness fell, heavily armed fighters crossed fields to attack the city from multiple directions.
They quickly overwhelmed several of the police checkpoints defending the perimeter of the town before moving into the centre.
Kunduz province has seen a number of attacks since April, with the Taliban joining forces with other insurgents.
He was a judge on Australia's version of The X Factor between 2010 and 2012.
The announcement was made in a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday morning.
Australia was given a special entry to the 60th edition of the competition, to be held in Vienna, Austria.
Sebastian has since had eight top ten albums and two number one singles in his country.
The singer said he was "pumped" to be performing at the competition.
"It's Eurovision, it's huge and keeps growing here in Australia which is nice," he told Australia's ABC news.
He has yet to choose a song to perform.
The annual song contest is hugely popular in Australia - three million watched the competition in 2014.
The European Broadcasting Union said the country had been given a pass to the final "to not reduce the chances" of the semi-final participants.
Australia will be allowed to vote in both semi-finals, as well as the grand final.
Australians have participated in the competition before, representing other countries. Olivia Newton John sang for the UK in 1974 - coming fourth - as did Gina G in 1996. Jane Comerford represented Germany in 2006.
Laura Matthews-James, 25, was seven months pregnant when her Fiat 500 collided head on with Robert Hitchcock's car on 26 February 2016.
She denies causing death by driving without due care and attention after the crash on the B4300 near Carmarthen.
Swansea Crown Court heard she overtook two vehicles in one go before crashing.
Andrew Morgan, who was driving behind Ms Matthews-James, said: "The car did get back in, completed the manoeuvre.
"Quite instantaneously [it] shot some mud up from the verge like a plume and shot back across the road into the path of the oncoming car.
"As a result of the mud, it appeared to lose control and jettisoned across the road."
Ms Matthews-James was on her way to work at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen when the crash happened.
Prosecutor Jim Davies told the jury Mr Hitchcock was "probably instantaneously" killed by the impact.
The accused was also seriously injured and had to be airlifted to hospital.
Mr Morgan, who went to help after the crash said: "I am bitterly sorry I could not do more. I went to the second car, I tried everything I could, I am sorry."
Peter Jennings, a road traffic collision investigation expert, said the speedometer in the Fiat had been frozen at 56mph.
He told the court that would be a "fairly accurate" indication of the speed the car was doing at the time of impact and "certainly suggests the car was not exceeding the speed limit".
He said the speed of Mr Hitchcock's Citroen C3 would probably have been broadly similar and it was "certainly in its correct lane".
The trial continues.
A day after an attacker was foiled outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, tension was high as police boarded the train at Valence station.
But the suspect in the train's toilet was just an actor rehearsing a part.
He was taken off the train for questioning and eventually released.
The drama unfolded on Wednesday afternoon as the high-speed TGV buzzed through the French countryside en route from Marseille to Paris, France Bleu website reports (in French).
The suspicious speech emanating from the WC went on for some time. The man, an unnamed Parisian comic actor aged 35, could be heard speaking loudly in English and reportedly Dutch too. It is not known what play he was rehearsing for.
The conductor decided to act, alerting his bosses who contacted local police.
The TGV made an unscheduled stop at Valence and even the military were called in. This should come as no surprise, considering France is under a state of emergency and an express train in France was targeted in a terror attack less than two years ago.
"Bearing in mind the current state of terrorism and the national alert level, the conductor wanted to avoid any risk or doubt and had the person questioned," a spokesman for French rail company SNCF told AFP news agency.
The suspect was taken to a police station outside Valence for questioning but it soon became clear that he posed no danger.
He said he had been preparing for an audition and had chosen to practise the part in the toilet so as not to annoy his fellow passengers in the first-class carriage.
Although the unnamed actor missed his train, one French commentator suggested that at least he could say he had given a convincing performance.
Cook resigned as England captain in February, with Root taking over for this summer's home series against South Africa and the West Indies.
"It is a big role, but an exciting one. Joe will find his feet," 32-year-old Cook told BBC Look East on Wednesday.
"He will find his way, it will probably take him a while to get used to it."
Essex batsman Cook led his country to Ashes victories in 2013 and 2015 during a record 59 matches in charge.
He is England's highest run-scorer in Test cricket with 11,057, while his 140 Test appearances and 30 centuries are also England records.
"I am looking forward to working with Joe in a different way.
"I think a couple of moments will be slightly strange in that first test match week but it won't be any different in the long run.
"Hopefully I can help him, and the most important thing is England winning.
"I don't think anything can prepare you for the England captaincy but he will find his feet. He is a very good player, has a very good cricket brain and has got the respect of the dressing room."
Cook has been ruled out of Essex's opening County Championship game against Lancashire on Friday with a hip injury.
But he still holds ambitions of playing under Root during the next Ashes series at the end of the year.
"I have still got a few games left in me. I'm 32 years old but hopefully I can carry on scoring runs for England.
"It is a different phase of my career after being captain but I love playing for England. I hope to score enough runs to get on that plane for the Ashes tour."
And last month Root confirmed that having Alastair Cook in the side was integral to both his and the team's future success.
He told BBC Sport: "If I feel I need help he'll be more than willing, but he'll also let me do it my own way."
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The region was also highly rated in global rankings for primary reading - being placed fifth in the world and second in Europe, behind Finland.
NI also surpassed England, which was placed ninth in global maths and 11th in world primary reading rankings.
The NI education minister said the local results were "truly impressive".
Source: TIMSS 2011
The global rankings are the result of two studies - the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
The research was carried out by US academics who examined the results of tests taken by 900,000 pupils in over 60 countries.
The TIMSS is produced every four years while the PIRLS is published every five years, but this is the first time Northern Ireland has taken part in the test results study.
The studies reveal that Asian countries continue to dominate the top of the global tables in maths, science and reading.
In global maths, NI took sixth place behind five Asian countries.
In reading, NI made the top five group - alongside such education superpowers as Finland and Hong Kong.
In terms of the proportion of pupils reaching the highest ability levels in primary reading, Northern Ireland was even more successful, ranked third place in the world.
In science, NI was placed 21st in the world, six places behind England which came 15th.
Source: PIRLS 2011
The NI Education Minister, John O'Dowd, said the "importance and significance of these findings cannot be overestimated".
"This is the first time we have measured our primary level schools against international standards and the results are truly impressive.
"In numeracy we rank just behind a group of high-performing Pacific-rim countries, whilst in both reading and numeracy we are the highest-ranked English speaking region in the world," Mr O'Dowd added.
The minister said the statistics showed the "exceptional results our system is producing at primary level education" and he paid tribute to staff in the sector for their "hard work and dedication".
"Pupils, teachers, all school staff, leaders and governors should be justifiably proud today of what they are achieving."
The former head of F1's governing body the FIA said Liberty "need" Ecclestone as it learns about its new acquisition.
"These people may take a more active role and they want to sort of run the business but that could bring them into conflict with Bernie," Mosley said.
But he added: "It is much more likely there will be a collaboration."
Mosley, an old friend and ally of Ecclestone, was talking in an exclusive interview with 5 live.
He said he expected F1 to continue as before under the new owners, despite the need for a succession plan for Ecclestone, who is 86 next month.
"There has to be a succession sooner or later unless Bernie's immortal, which I don't think he is," Mosley said. "So I guess this would be part of that process.
"But as far as the overall picture is concerned, I doubt very much that anything is going to change because they bring I would imagine certain sorts of expertise to the table.
"But Bernie on the other hand has this enormous big knowledge of F1 which they certainly won't have so they will need him.
"It is going to be very interesting to see what things they wish to do in addition to what has been done already."
Ecclestone, who said last week he had been asked to stay on for a further three years, has been criticised for failing to embrace the possibilities offered by the internet and social media to expand F1's audience and potentially its income.
Mosley said Ecclestone was "the first person to say he doesn't understand social media and he's not really into the digital age. On the other hand he is very good at keeping the whole structure going."
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Mosley said he believed Ecclestone and the new chairman of F1 Chase Carey, who has worked extensively for companies owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, would be able to work together.
"If Chase Carey is a person of real ability and he wants to understand and he's clever, I think he'll get along fine with Bernie," Mosley said.
"Most of the people Bernie has not been able to get on with, it's because they are not up to the level at which he operates."
Liberty has said that part of its plans to change F1 will be to offer the teams the chance to buy shares in the sport.
But Mosley, who was FIA president from 1993-2009, said he believed this was a mistake, saying that "every time that has happened in any other form of motorsport, it hasn't worked - you have examples of that in America".
"Really what you need (is) an independent body making and enforcing the rules and it is up to them to make it attractive to the teams on the one side and the spectacular on the other. So I think the teams having a say is wrong.
"And the big difficulty at the moment is that Bernie runs the commercial side of F1 and the sporting side is supposed to be run by the FIA. And from the outside - and I am not involved now - it would appear that the sporting side is not run quite as carefully and in such detail as perhaps it should be."
He criticised his successor as FIA president, Jean Todt, for not following through on a promise he made before being elected that he would introduce a commissioner for F1.
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The Gunners remain third, five points adrift of leaders Leicester, after Sunday's 3-2 loss at Old Trafford.
"We cannot feel sorry for ourselves," said Wenger, whose side host the 16th-placed Swans at Emirates Stadium.
"We dropped important points but we have to show we're up for the fight."
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Arsenal are also three points behind second-placed Tottenham, who came back to win 2-1 against Swansea on Sunday, with nine matches left.
Wenger added: "Mathematically, what this defeat means, we will only know at the end of the season."
Arsenal, who have not won the Premier League title since 2004, lost further ground in this year's race after United teenager Marcus Rashford inspired the home win.
But Wenger refused to accept that an under-strength Old Trafford side should have been an easy scalp for his men.
The Red Devils were missing several key players, including captain Wayne Rooney, but still fielded big-money signings such as Memphis Depay, Morgan Schneiderlin and Juan Mata.
"Let's not go overboard - they still had a few millions on the pitch today, from De Gea to the whole of the midfield," said Wenger.
"They spent a lot of money on [Memphis] Depay - you cannot call him a player from the academy."
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He joined as youth team coach in 2012 and has been academy boss since 2014.
The 54-year-old has had two spells in charge of the Reds as caretaker manager, in 2014 following the sacking of Billy Davies and last season following Philippe Montanier's exit.
"The academy has produced some outstanding young talent," chairman Nicholas Randall told the club website.
"Securing the continued involvement of Gary will provide much needed continuity and stability.
"A functioning and productive academy is vital to the long term success of any football club."
Until now, the app had focused on offering singles a way to find dates.
Its chief told the BBC that the move marked the "first step that we're taking to make Tinder more social and a little broader when it comes to the types of connections we want to enable".
But one expert said Tinder Social might be seen as a group sex feature.
"Tinder is seen by many as being a hook-up site," commented Ben Wood from the CCS Insight consultancy.
"So, it needs to be careful. By expanding in this direction, rather than becoming a more interesting social meeting service, it could be perceived as an orgy app."
Tinder's chief executive Sean Rad, however, stressed that it was not about targeting this "niche" activity.
"It definitely allows you to make connections beyond just romantic ones," he explained.
"We look at Tinder as not just being a dating app, but capturing your entire social life. And your social life has so many different aspects to it.
"The beauty of putting this in the same app is that we have scale - we have tens of millions of users all over the world.
"So, overnight you can get the power of Tinder and connect with others going out tonight in a way that was never possible."
Tinder is owned by InterActiveCorp (IAC), a New York-based business that also owns the dating site Match.com, the search service Ask, and The Daily Beast news site.
It says that 85% of Tinder's users are between the ages of 18 to 34, and that the app has already led to more than 11 billion matches since it launched in 2012.
An earlier version of Tinder Social was tested earlier this year in Australia. It is now being rolled out in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.
To use it, users must first opt in to the feature within the existing app.
Then they need to:
Users can then see other groups. If a member from both sides "swipes right" to pick the other, members can then make the necessary arrangements via a group chat feature.
As a security measure, users may leave a group at any time. Furthermore, the next day, the group chat expires, and individual members need to like each other to stay in contact, assuming they have not already swapped other contact details.
For the moment, Tinder Social is completely free to use.
But Mr Rad suggested his firm could make money by adding premium features, which users would need to have a Tinder Plus account to access.
Tinder Plus currently costs £3.99 for under-28s and £14.99 for older users, allowing them to look at members they had initially rejected and see people who live in other parts of the world.
"Over the coming months we will clarify the relationship between the two products," Mr Rad said.
"But it's not different from Snapchat having multiple products within the same app. They sort of mingle, but you can really use them separately."
Graham Carey put Derek Adams' men on the road to victory, firing into the roof of the net from 12 yards after nine minutes following Ben Purrington's incisive run and perfect cutback from the by-line.
Plymouth surged further ahead on the hour when on-loan Reading winger Craig Tanner's cross from the right was tapped in at the far post by Jordan Slew - one of five changes to Adams' starting line-up.
Medy Elito cut into the box on the right and smashed a low shot past Luke McCormick to make it 2-1 after 79 minutes, but the hosts held on.
McCormick had done well to deny substitute Adam McGurk just after half-time and pulled off a spectacular save to tip over Joe Piggott's goal-bound header in the 49th minute.
First-half sub McGurk came within inches of scoring in the 42nd minute but powered his header just wide, while U's skipper Luke Berry's 25-yard free-kick was tipped onto the crossbar and over by McCormick.
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Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Cambridge United 1.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Cambridge United 1.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Connor Smith.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Luke Berry.
Attempt saved. Arnold Garita (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Craig Tanner.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Luke McCormick.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces David Fox.
Attempt blocked. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Arnold Garita (Plymouth Argyle) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Brad Halliday.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 2, Cambridge United 1. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam McGurk.
Attempt missed. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Leon Legge (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Arnold Garita (Plymouth Argyle).
Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United).
Arnold Garita (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Connor Smith replaces Jordan Slew.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Luke McCormick.
Attempt saved. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Will Norris.
Attempt saved. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Adam McGurk (Cambridge United) right footed shot from very close range is too high.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) header from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Uche Ikpeazu replaces Joe Pigott.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Harrison Dunk replaces Greg Taylor.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by David Fox.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 2, Cambridge United 0. Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Craig Tanner.
Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United).
Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Carers Scotland has called for action from the UK and Scottish governments and urgent reform of the financial help available to carers.
The Scottish government said it is providing an additional £9.2m to the Scottish Welfare Fund.
The UK government said it is spending £2bn this year on carer's allowance.
Carers Scotland conducted a year-long investigation into the challenges faced by those looking after loved ones who may be old, disabled or seriously ill.
It found vast numbers of carers were accumulating unmanageable debt, with one in six more than £10,000 in the red.
Carers Scotland director Simon Hodgson said: "Those caring, unpaid, for loved ones save society vast sums, but at huge personal cost - a cost this inquiry shows is pushing families to the brink."
The charity's research, called the Caring & Family Finances Inquiry, found carers were struggling to cope with loss of income, savings and benefits alongside rising everyday food, fuel and care related bills.
Key findings were that almost half, 47%, were in debt as a result of caring. A fifth were relying on overdrafts or credit cards to make ends meet, while a third were said to be more than £20,000 worse off as a result of caring.
Some 44% admitted to cutting back on essentials like food, while 59% of carers were in fuel poverty, the research found.
The charity claimed that government cuts to support were leaving carers across the UK facing a £1bn cut.
Carers Scotland has called for "urgent reform" and urged the UK and Scottish Governments to make a commitment that future policy will not leave carers worse off, by implementing a "carer" test for future benefits and social care proposals.
Mr Hodgson added: "Caring is often a dual blow, with household incomes hit by reduced earnings and bills rising as a result of the extra costs of ill health or disability.
"With an ageing population, more of us will care for loved ones - yet a blizzard of cuts to social care and benefits mean there is less and less support available.
"This is unacceptable and unsustainable."
A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spokeswoman said: "We recognise that carers provide an invaluable service to people in some of the most vulnerable circumstances in our communities.
"That's why we're spending around £2bn this year on carer's allowance, and even more in the future."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "Being a full-time carer for a loved one can be a difficult and isolating experience at times and we must ensure that carers receive the support they deserve.
"Despite Westminster's programme of welfare cuts, we are doing all we can, with our limited powers, to alleviate the burden of poverty. This includes providing an additional £9.2m to the Scottish Welfare Fund."
He's suspected of running the men over after an argument on a film set.
"So far we have not confirmed it was him, driving the truck. So we're not saying Suge Knight was driving the truck at this time," said Lt John Corina, from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
"Although we want to talk to him, since the truck supposedly belongs to him."
A lawyer for the Death Row Records founder seemed to confirm Knight had been driving at the time but claimed it was an accident and he was running away from attackers.
"He was in the process of being physically assaulted by two men and in an effort to escape he unfortunately hit two (other) individuals,'' lawyer James Blatt said.
"He was in his car trying to escape.
"We are confident that once the investigation is completed, he will be totally exonerated," Mr Blatt added.
Knight, 49, planned to turn himself in to authorities, he said.
Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt John Corina said: "From the people we've talked to so far, and we still have more witnesses to talk to, so far the people we've talked to say it looked like it was an intentional act.
"So we're handling it as a homicide."
Police say a red pickup truck hit the men while they were in the car park of a fast-food restaurant and then drove away.
A 55-year-old man died at a hospital and a 51-year-old man was injured but Corina did not have any more information about his condition.
The empty truck was found on Thursday night in a West Los Angeles car park.
It's been claimed that Marion "Suge" Knight drove to the fast-food restaurant car park after an argument on the set of a film about rap pioneers NWA.
Witnesses said another argument then occurred before the accident.
Mr Blatt said he had not yet spoken to Knight but that he planned to negotiate to surrender. There is no word yet on when that will happen.
Knight founded Death Row Records with Dr Dre in the 1990s but later declared bankruptcy and the company was auctioned off.
Last August he was shot six times at a nightclub in Los Angeles. No arrests have been made relating to that incident.
In November, he pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed after a celebrity photographer accused him of stealing her camera in Beverly Hills.
He could face up to 30 years in prison because of prior convictions.
The music boss has previously been convicted of armed robbery and assault with a gun.
He has also served time for violating probation.
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The Awel Aman Tawe co-operative wind farm started construction at the Mynydd y Gwrhyd site, 20 miles north of Swansea, in March.
The project has been funded by £1.34m community investment and a £3.55m Welsh Government loan.
Volunteers said they had to "pinch ourselves to believe it is happening."
Dan McCallum, Awel Co-op's project manager, said "It was fantastic to see the tower sections go through very quickly without a hitch.
"There were lots of people on the street watching the spectacle."
The site has been constructed using materials from the Port Talbot steelworks.
Mr McCallum added: "We've been working on the project for 18 years as local volunteers, and we had to pinch ourselves to actually believe it is happening."
The group is holding a series of events to "encourage people to invest", with the aim to secure another £1m worth of funding.
Members are offered a 5% return on their investment.
It is thought wind power could contribute £2.3bn to the Welsh economy.
The Welsh Government loan £3.55m has helped the project secure a higher level of income from Feed in Tariffs, a payment made to households or businesses that generate their own electricity from renewable resources.
Samuel Armstrong, 23, who appeared Southwark Crown Court, denies two counts of rape, one of sexual assault and one of assault by penetration.
He has been suspended from his position as chief of staff to South Thanet's Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay.
Mr Armstrong, of Copt Hill, Danbury, Essex, is go on trial on 11 December.
A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for 29 September.
Judge Deborah Taylor bailed Mr Armstrong on the condition he does not enter the Palace of Westminster or contact the alleged victim.
The two 12-year-olds were attacked in Granitehill Road in the Northfield area of Aberdeen about 20:00 on Wednesday.
The area was cordoned off as police and specialist fire crews carried out investigations.
Police Scotland described the suspects as two youths wearing dark clothes and possibly gloves.
The sister of one of the boys posted a picture of him on Facebook, which showed the extent of his injuries.
It showed him with extensive blistering on one side of his face, particularly around his eye.
The post said: "My gorgeous little brothers face! Someone threw some sort of acid/chemical at him and his friends faces!! My poor boy is devastated!"
She later told BBC Scotland her brother was in a lot of pain.
Det Insp Allen Shaw, who is leading the investigation, said: "This has been a shocking and despicable incident against two young boys who have obviously been left upset and shaken by what has happened to them.
"They have been left with significant injuries and were taken to the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital for treatment.
"Extensive inquiries are ongoing to trace those responsible and we are working with our colleagues in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service as part of our investigation.
"There will be a police presence in the area for some time, however the scene where this incident happened has been examined and I can assure the public it is safe.
"I would appeal for anyone with information about the incident, whether you were in the area at the time or know anything about it, to please get in touch.
"You can contact Police Scotland on 101, via the Police Scotland website or via the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 if you would prefer to remain anonymous."
He added: "I can assure the local community that all resources available to us will be used to trace those responsible. It won't be tolerated."
All of the affected beach huts are brick-built chalets in Jubilee Parade in Lowestoft.
Waveney District Council has written to leaseholders saying they will not be able to use their huts this year.
The council said the future of the huts depended on what structural engineers found on further inspection.
Waveney currently has about 400 people on its beach hut waiting list and people can expect to wait anywhere between five and 30 years for a hut to become free.
Cabinet member Stephen Ardley said :"One of the things I have to say is just how understanding the leaseholders have been. There has been sadness rather than annoyance."
The Lancashire wicketkeeper, 25, is second choice in the Test team behind Jonny Bairstow, and England are keen to give their players more exposure to white-ball cricket.
"It's something we've spoken about," Bayliss, a former IPL coach, said.
"If the opportunity arrives and he is not in the Test team and the IPL window is a possibility, I'd be all for it."
England have been reluctant to release their players for the lucrative Twenty20 tournament because it clashes with the beginning of their international season.
This year's tournament is scheduled to be played between 8 April and 29 May, meaning players would miss England's first two Tests of the summer, against Sri Lanka, if they were to commit to the full tournament.
Buttler holds the record for England's fastest one-day international century - smashing an unbeaten 116 off 52 balls against Pakistan last November.
However, he has a batting average of only 13 in the seven Tests he has played since the start of the Ashes against Australia in Cardiff last July. He was dropped during October's series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.
England leg-spinner Adil Rashid was recently encouraged to play in Australia's Big Bash in preparation for the World T20 in March, and is the joint second highest wicket-taker in the competition with 10.
Pearson shares climbed 2.1% after it said it will sell the Financial Times Group to Japanese media firm Nikkei.
The FTSE 100 index was 12.33 points lower at 6,655.01 at the close.
Shares in Unilever rose 1.6% after the food and cosmetics giant reported a better-than-expected 2.9% rise in second quarter underlying sales.
B&Q owner Kingfisher also climbed 2% after it reported a pick-up in sales growth over the past 10 weeks.
Aberdeen Asset Management was the biggest loser on the FTSE 100, dropping 7.6% after investors withdrew £9.9bn from its funds in the second quarter.
The company blamed the fall on worries over the stock market swings in China, and the increasing prospects of a US rate rise.
Energy firm SSE fell 5% after saying its retail business was expected to report lower profits this year.
Outside the FTSE 100, shares in Daily Mail and General Trust sank 8.7% after the publisher said full-year results would be at the lower end of expectations because of a "marked deterioration" in the UK print advertising market.
Shares in baby goods retailer Mothercare fell 5.9% after it reported a slowdown in sales growth.
It said trading in its international division - which has been its more profitable side in recent years - had been "more volatile", with consumer confidence hit in some markets.
Meanwhile, like-for-like sales in the UK rose 1.3% in the second quarter, compared with 5.1% growth in the first.
On the currency markets, the pound fell after UK retail sales figures for June came in weaker than expected.
Sterling dropped 0.6% against the dollar to $1.5518 and fell 1% against the euro to €1.4144.
The 29-year-old centreback will officially become a Timbers player when the transfer window opens next month, pending receipt of his International Transfer Certificate.
Mabiala has played in Turkey since 2012, first for Karabukspor before switching to Kayserispor in 2015.
He also played in France's top flight with PSG and Nice.
"We are pleased to acquire a player of Larrys' quality and experience, and we are excited that he has chosen to join the Portland Timbers," said Gavin Wilkinson, general manager and president of soccer for the Timbers.
Caleb Porter, head coach of the Timbers, said: "Larrys Mabiala is a player that will bring a strong, physical presence to our team.
"His experience and leadership will be key and we expect him to make an immediate impact once he is fully transitioned."
Capped nine times by the Leopards since making his debut in 2008, Mabiala has been brought in as cover for Nigerian defender Gbenga Arokoyo who tore his Achilles in January.
The Timbers are hopeful that Mabiala will help shore up a defence that has conceded 28 goals this season, the fourth worst in the MLS.
Wilkinson said in a statement: "This has been a positional need since losing Gbenga Arokoyo to an injury and while it took longer than we would have liked, we are delighted to add a proven central defender with the right profile to help the team.
"We are pleased to welcome Larrys to Portland and look forward to his contributions to the club."
As French finance minister in 2008, she approved an award of €404m ($429m; £340m) to businessman Bernard Tapie for the disputed sale of a firm.
Ms Lagarde, who always denied wrongdoing, was not present in court, having left Paris for Washington DC.
The IMF board said it retained "full confidence" in her leadership.
She said she would not appeal against the ruling: "There's a point in time when one has to just stop, turn the page and move on and continue to work with those who have put their trust in me."
The French government also confirmed its confidence in Ms Lagarde, who was reappointed to a five-year term at the IMF in February.
On Friday, she told the trial she had always acted in good faith and the suspicion she had lived under for the past five years had been an "ordeal".
Cases at the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) may not be retried but can be appealed against on grounds of procedural errors.
Ms Lagarde's lawyer said his team would consider appealing, Reuters reported.
Ms Lagarde, 60, was tried on charges of "negligence by a person in position of public authority".
Accused of allowing the misuse of public funds, rather than actual corruption, she could potentially have been sentenced to a year in prison and a fine of €15,000, but escaped a sentence and emerges from the trial without a criminal record.
Explaining the verdict, which took many by surprise, Judge Martine Ract Madoux said: "The context of the global financial crisis in which Madame Lagarde found herself in should be taken into account."
She also cited Ms Lagarde's good reputation and international standing as reasons.
The CJR is composed mostly of politicians rather than judges, and handles allegations of crimes committed by cabinet ministers in office.
CJR trials are rare but in a similar judgment in 1999, it found another French politician, Edmond Herve, guilty of negligence over a contaminated blood case but did not punish him.
The earlier decision rested on a legal article (in French) which allows courts to deliver a guilty verdict but withhold actual punishment.
A lawyer for Ms Lagarde, Christopher Baker, told the Associated Press: "The result of this last five years is nothing, which leaves us in kind of a complicated and strange situation."
Ms Lagarde's case originates in the early 1990s, when Mr Tapie was a majority shareholder in sports goods company Adidas.
After launching a political career and becoming a cabinet minister in Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government in 1992, Mr Tapie had to sell the company.
In 1993, he sued Credit Lyonnais, a state-owned bank that handled the sale, alleging that the bank had defrauded him by deliberately undervaluing the firm.
By 2007, the long-running case was referred to binding arbitration by Ms Lagarde, who at that time was finance minister under conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy.
A three-member panel awarded the compensation a year later, causing a public outcry.
Last year, after eight more years of legal wrangling, a French court ruled that Mr Tapie had not been entitled to compensation and should repay the €404m.
In its verdict, the CJR said Ms Lagarde should have asked her aides and others for more information about the "shocking arbitration award" that included damages of €45m.
1993: Credit Lyonnais bank handles sale of Adidas to enable Mr Tapie to pursue ministerial career under then Socialist President Francois Mitterrand
1993-2007: Mr Tapie claims Credit Lyonnais undervalued Adidas and that he was cheated; lengthy court battle ensues
1994: Bernard Tapie's highly indebted group collapses and is wound up by Credit Lyonnais
2007: Mr Tapie supports conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in presidential election. Finance Minister Christine Lagarde intervenes in Tapie case to order binding arbitration
2008: Special judicial panel rules Mr Tapie should receive damages of €404m; Ms Lagarde decides not to challenge ruling
2011: Several months after Ms Lagarde is appointed head of the IMF, public prosecutor recommends investigation into her decision to order arbitration
2015: Appeals court orders Mr Tapie to pay back €404m with interest
2016: Ms Lagarde found guilty of negligence but spared prison sentence and criminal record
Photographs taken by police suggested large knives had been placed near the bodies after they had been shot, a lawyer told an inquest into the deaths.
Thirty-four miners died when police opened fire at striking miners in August, leading to widespread shock.
The police say they were acting in self-defence.
The bloodshed occurred on 16 August, days after the deaths of 10 people, including two police officers who were hacked to death. Judges are holding an inquiry into all 44 of the deaths.
The inquiry was presented with photographs showing the bodies of the miners after the shooting - the most deadly police action since the end of apartheid in 1994.
In one photograph, a dead man is seen lying on rocky ground near the mine. A second picture, taken later the same day, is identical except a yellow-handled machete is now lying under the man's right hand.
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"The evidence clearly showed there is at least a strong prima facie case that there has been an attempt to defeat the ends of justice," lawyer George Bizos told the inquest, according to the Sapa news agency.
Lawyer for the police Ismael Semenya told Sapa that the national police commissioner Riah Phiyega had begun an investigation into the allegations.
He said police authorities had been aware of the photographs since they were handed to the inquiry two weeks ago.
The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says the court also saw video footage which showed the dead bodies of miners with their hands handcuffed behind their backs.
The shootings caused huge shock in South Africa and led to comparisons with apartheid-era policing.
In the immediate aftermath, authorities sought to portray the miners, who were striking illegally, as responsible for the violence and bloodshed.
Some 270 of the striking miners were arrested and charged with murder, though the charges were later dropped.
The strike ended in September after workers agreed a 22% pay rise with the mine's owners, platinum giant Lonmin.
Former Tottenham youngster Ryan Fredericks is the only absentee as he must complete a three-match ban.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino believes Jan Vertonghen could be fit enough to return after missing six games with ankle ligament damage.
Harry Kane suffered a minor knee injury in Thursday's defeat at Gent and is unlikely to be involved.
Guy Mowbray: "After successive defeats at Liverpool and in Belgium, perhaps being relatively close to home will sort out Spurs' away travails?
"Since the end of September, they have won two of 14 away games - form that's put them out of the EFL Cup, the Champions League, Premier League contention (for now) and maybe the Europa League too.
"Manager Mauricio Pochettino has remained calm throughout the 'bad period' so far, but another loss here might change the mood - and it's far from unthinkable against a Fulham team firing in goals galore just as they've dried up for Spurs.
"There have been five goals in each of the last three games at Craven Cottage (all home wins). Another would do nicely!"
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Fulham head coach Slavisa Jokanovic: "This competition is famous for its surprises. It's a fantastic chance for us, and isn't a moment for us to surrender.
"We don't need any further motivation. I will choose the best XI for the game in front of us. It's one of the top Premier League teams and isn't a time to experiment."
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino: "We need to assess some players. Harry Kane got a knock in his knee and different players maybe. If we need to refresh the team we will do.
"We will put out a team that aims to win and we will be ready again to compete."
I think Tottenham might struggle to get the job done at Craven Cottage, but I think they will come through a replay back at White Hart Lane.
Prediction: 1-1
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Portmeirion festival-goers claim they have been waiting for up to four hours as tractors tow cars out of the water-logged field.
One visitor, Catriona Mcgee, said there was "no organisation and no priority" over drivers trying to leave.
A statement on the festival's website said: "We are doing everything in our power to minimise impact."
Ms Mcgee said: "There's nobody here from the festival organising it, there's no system whatsoever.
"It's a case of whoever flags the tractor down first gets to leave. It's terrible."
The festival's online statement said: "Due to the adverse weather conditions over the weekend we are expecting some delays at the park and ride site.
"We are doing everything in our power to minimise impact and would like to thank everyone for their patience, cooperation and for being part of yet another incredible Festival No.6."
The singer announced the concerts in an Instagram video, where she sang football anthem Three Lions as well as the Match of the Day theme song.
Dubbed "The Finale", the performances will see her play to more than 150,000 fans on 29 June and 1 July 2017.
Tickets go on sale to members of her fan club on 30 November, followed by a general sale on 2 December.
Wembley Stadium has not announced any other events planned for that week, raising the prospect that Adele may add further concerts if demand is high enough.
Launching in Belfast on Leap Day, Adele's first world tour has incorporated 107 dates across Europe and North America, with more dates to come in Australia next year.
Alongside flawless renditions of hits like Hello, Skyfall and Someone Like You, the star's unfiltered, uncensored on-stage chatter has often made headlines.
In Belfast, she confessed to having "severe bowel movements" as opening night nerves kicked in. She announced her Glastonbury headline slot from the stage of London's O2, and allowed a couple in Toronto to get engaged during her show.
"You got a Tiffany ring! Nice work, nice work," she told the bride-to-be.
After Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced the end of their marriage in September, the star jokingly dedicated her show to them, calling it "the end of an era".
And just last week, she had an encounter with a bat during a show in Mexico.
"There's a bat there and it landed by your head!" she said, pointing at an audience member. "It landed right by your head! Welcome to Mexico! I'm happy to be here, but a bat? Jesus Christ!"
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Works, which began in February, are due to finish next week but users have complained there are no controlled crossing points.
The £5.7m scheme included the removal of signals to improve traffic flows.
The council said it would make the contrast of tactile paving more pronounced and add signs encouraging motorists to give way to pedestrians.
Joel Young, who is registered blind, said: "I wouldn't want to take that risk of trying to cross on my own without the support of someone else because there are no controlled crossing points.
"Taking away the traffic lights and pedestrian-controlled crossing points has taken away my ability to cross independently."
David Deriaz, vice chairman of Oxfordshire Transport and Access Group, said: "You need to watch out for cyclists, which I can do, and I am also concerned that crossing the narrow dual carriageways - there isn't enough space for pedestrians to wait in the central reservation."
The county council said it had met Mr Young and Mr Deriaz to discuss their concerns.
A spokeswoman said: "Any new design needs to be road-tested by users. In particular, innovative designs such as that at Frideswide are likely to require tweaks.
"Following our meeting, we will be improving the contrast of the tactile paving by introducing a band around its perimeter in a contrasting colour to further highlight their presence.
"The design of the square takes into account the needs of a range of people, including those with disabilities.
"There are contrasting and ridged paving stones leading to the crossing points where the tactile paving is.
"Clutter, such as seating and bins, is kept to a minimum and situated away from areas that could pose a problem for people with disabilities."
The Shanghai Composite index closed up 0.2% at 3,022.86, however Hong Kong's Hang Seng index reversed earlier gains to close down 0.9% at 19,711.76.
The Shanghai benchmark plunged another 5.3% on Monday after last week's sell-off rattled global markets.
China's central bank set the yuan guidance rate steady for the third day to stem currency devaluation fears.
Trading of the offshore yuan also strengthened on suspected intervention by the central bank.
The Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate (Hibor) - the rate at which banks charge each other to borrow yuan - surged to a record high for the second day on Tuesday.
The record high means the onshore and offshore yuan rates were on par for the first time since late last year.
The People's Bank of China (PBoC) is thought to be spending enormous amounts of money to buy up its currency - a move analysts say is an attempt to steady its own stock market.
The PBoC weakened the yuan last week to boost exports, which raised questions about how concerned authorities were about the health of the Chinese economy.
Financial markets in Hong Kong are legally separate from those in mainland China.
Here in Hong Kong the Chinese currency, the yuan, trades freely. And for the past few months, its value has been noticeably weaker than the yuan that trades in China itself, reflecting views among investors about the weakness of the Chinese economy.
But this week, the yuan has been in short supply, driving the cost of borrowing it to a record high in Hong Kong. Many believe China's central bank is behind the shortage.
The goal, analysts say, is to send a strong message of stability to investors at home and abroad.
Trading in the rest of the region remained cautious.
"A lot of the long-term concerns around China have still not dissipated," said Angus Nicholson, market analyst at trading firm IG in a note.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index finished down 2.7% to 17,218.96. The market was playing catch-up with the losses on global markets after being closed on Monday for a public holiday.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.1% to 4,925.10, while South Korea's Kospi index ended lower by 0.2% to 1,890.86, reversing earlier gains.
Meanwhile, shares in Sharp fell 1.8% after local media reported that a government-backed fund had offered to invest 200bn yen ($1.7bn; £1.2bn) to help bail out the struggling electronics maker.
Reports also said that a $3bn restructuring plan for the firm was likely to be finalised as early as this week.
Oil prices hovering near 12-year lows, sent shares in resources-linked shares lower.
Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto shares were down another 3.5% and 3.3% respectively in Sydney.
The man asked the woman for a cigarette light as she walked on a path at Wychall Reservoir, Birmingham.
Moments later he "grabbed her from behind, dragged her to the floor and assaulted her", police said.
The man who carried out the attack on 18 November was smartly dressed in blue trousers and black pointed shoes and spoke with a Scottish accent.
He was also described as white and in his 30s or 40s. The woman also recalled that her attacker smelled strongly of aftershave.
The assault took place on a path running between Popes Lane and Wychall Road at about 17:00 GMT.
"This is a shocking attack on a woman by a stranger," said Det Con Fay Mason. "We need to identify her attacker as soon as possible."
Anyone with information was urged to contact West Midlands Police.
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The positions are mainly management and supervisor roles and the intention is they will be voluntary redundancies
The US engineering firm employs about 2,000 people in plants at Larne, west Belfast and Monkstown.
In September, the company - which employs more than 126,000 worldwide - said it would cut up to 5,000 jobs by the end of 2016.
It is looking to reduce annual costs by $1.5bn by the end of 2016.
Caterpillar has been hit by the collapse of commodity prices that have affected its key customers in the mining and energy sectors.
Since 2011 it has shed over 1,000 staff in Northern Ireland.
In a statement on Tuesday, Caterpillar said: "These reductions, which include salaried and management roles as well as agency positions, will begin to take effect over the fourth quarter and into 2016.
"Caterpillar Northern Ireland will reduce its workforce by approximately 20 salaried and management positions.
"These roles provide support functions for the organisation. Resources will be provided to assist impacted individuals during this transition.
"We know this is difficult for our employees and their families, but we must take steps to position the company for long-term success."
Drawing on his training as a Muslim cleric, Mr Erdogan elicited cries of "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) as he launched into a passionate tirade against Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians in his acceptance speech.
The moment perfectly captured Turkey's growing popularity in the Arab world under Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party government that shot to power in 2002.
And it will have undoubtedly provided fresh fodder for those who argue that - under AK - Turkey is hurtling out of the West's orbit and going a decidedly Islamic green.
Yet for all Mr Erdogan's fiery talk about Muslim solidarity, the main purpose of his three-day visit to Kuwait and Qatar by his own admission was to create new markets for Turkey.
Some 358 Turkish businessmen eager to cash in on Kuwait's $140bn (£88bn) five-year infrastructure spending budget travelled to Kuwait with the prime minister.
"Sure there are political dimensions, but the primary aspect is economic," Mr Erdogan told journalists on the flight home.
Turkey's growing regional clout is pinned on ambitious plans to create a zone of economic, political and cultural influence in its long-neglected Arab hinterland.
The brains behind this scheme is Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu.
His "zero problems with neighbours" policy is multi-pronged: improving political relations, sowing up business deals, establishing free-trade zones, easing visa restrictions and adding Arab capitals to the rapidly swelling destinations offered by the national carrier, Turkish Airlines.
The results are palpable. Between 2001 and 2008 the value of Turkey's exports to the Middle East and North Africa grew seven-fold to $31bn.
From cars to canned tomatoes, jeans to generators, Turkish-made goods once seldom seen are now ubiquitous in markets from Irbil to Tehran.
Turkish contractors who now rank only second to China are building everything from airports to cement factories across the Middle East.
And Turkish soap operas have millions of Arab viewers glued to their televisions every evening.
This soft power pragmatism is in stark contrast with American strategies that mix military might with diplomacy and trade in the Middle East, where anti-US sentiment has reached record highs.
Friendship with the Arabs marks a shift for Turkey, which once saw itself as an eastern bulwark of the Nato alliance.
Disdain for the Arabs was summed up by an old Turkish adage: "We want neither the sweets of Damascus nor the face of the Arabs."
Turkish peddling of Western credentials invariably included its strong military ties with Israel and a determined emphasis on the fact that Turks are Muslims, but not Arabs.
The turnaround mirrors the dramatic shift within Turkey itself.
Turkey's once omnipotent generals used to be at the vanguard of Turkey's Western orientation. But with AK's rise to power, their influence has been steadily eroded.
Ironically, this comes from Mr Erdogan's aggressive pursuit of reforms aimed at winning full membership of the European Union.
In 2005, he persuaded the EU to open membership talks. But these have been lagging over Turkey's refusal to open its air and seaports to Greek Cypriot carriers and also because of strong opposition among some EU countries to Turkish membership, notably in France.
Even so, Mr Erdogan has repeatedly stressed that the EU remains a priority and that better relations with the Arabs does not mean a chill with the West.
The EU is still Turkey's top trading partner.
But relations with America's top regional ally, Israel, hit an all-time low when Israeli soldiers raided a Turkish-led aid flotilla on 31 May 2010, killing nine Turkish civilians.
Turkey recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv and has said he can only return if Israel apologises and compensates the families of the victims. Israel has refused to comply.
Washington has exerted heavy pressure on Israel and Turkey to mend fences.
But it appears that Israel's coalition government won't bend.
And with nationwide parliamentary elections set to take place in June, it is extremely unlikely that Mr Erdogan will back down either.
All of this has added to Mr Erdogan's popularity on the Arab street.
So too has his refusal to vote in favour of additional UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.
But Washington's ire has been offset by Turkey's endorsement of Nato plans to erect a missile shield over Europe.
Although the project (thanks to Turkish insistence) does not identify Iran by name, it is designed to defend Europe against a possible missile attack from that country.
Meanwhile, Turkey continues to facilitate the flow of supplies to American servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan from the Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey.
Leaked American diplomatic cables published this week by the Wikileaks website reveal that until 2006, the US used Incirlik to transport "terrorism suspects" as part of its "extraordinary renditions" programme.
The generals are no longer in the driving seat, but Turkey's military relations with the West continue to thrive, just as it merrily consumes "the sweets of Damascus" and strokes "the face of the Arab".
Amberin Zaman, an Istanbul-based journalist, is the Turkey correspondent for The Economist and a columnist for the Haberturk daily.
The government's first capacity market auction saw power firms secure more than 49GW of electricity generation capacity.
SSE won agreements to provide a total of 4,409MW of capacity for 2018-19.
But several SSE plants, including Peterhead, failed to win contracts.
The backup capacity market aims to ensure power is available when intermittent renewable energy sources fail to produce electricity.
SSE said it was pleased that the majority of its plants had been successful in the auction, which was run by the National Grid.
A spokesman said: "Whilst we would have preferred to get a contract for Peterhead, the capacity market is just one option available to the station.
"This auction was for contracts starting in 2018 and doesn't affect existing operations.
"Peterhead currently has a Supplemental Balancing Reserve (SBR) contract with National Grid which could be extended.
"There's the option of entering the station into next year's capacity market auction and we are continuing to develop the pioneering carbon capture and storage project at the site, in partnership with Shell.
"We will continue to analyse market conditions and opportunities for all our plants going into next year's capacity market auction and beyond."
He added: "These include future Capacity Market auctions, future SBR tender rounds, contracts with National Grid, and business-as-usual operation in the market."
As a result of the auction, power generation firms are to receive close to £1bn to ensure their plants stay open and prevent the lights going out in the coming years.
It will add around £11 to the average household energy bill.
The auction will provide power for the year 2018-19.
Clayton-based councillor Jeff Bray was picked for the seat last week over national executive committee member Paul Oakley by three votes.
However, the party's ruling committee has now announced London-based Mr Oakley will be its candidate.
Mr Bray told the Clacton Gazette he was "very angry" about the decision.
In emails seen by BBC Essex politics reporter Simon Dedman, one party activist said: "Shambolic doesn't even begin to describe HQ's handling of this".
Another added: "My faith in HQ has gone".
Former party donor Arron Banks, who had previously put himself forward to stand in the seat, tweeted: "Paul is a good chap, disappointing that the branch couldn't select their own candidate - it's the reason I didn't stand."
Mr Bray, who represents Weeley and Little Clacton on Tendring Council, had initially decided not to compete for selection after the Huffington Post claimed he had posted controversial tweets.
He then later changed his mind and stayed in the selection race, beating Mr Oakley.
Former Clacton MP Douglas Carswell had been UKIP's only MP until he quit the party and later announced he would not stand for re-election.
The BBC has approached London-based barrister Mr Oakley for comment.
Mr Oakley will compete for the seat against Liberal Democrat David Grace, Labour's Natasha Osben, independent Caroline Shearer, Chris Southall from the Green Party and Conservative Giles Watling.
Candidates have until Thursday to submit their nominations.
With his dark sunglasses, his gun and his tattoos, he looks every inch the movie stereotype of the maverick American law enforcement officer, but until seven years ago Christian lived in Brechin.
He swapped the east coast of Scotland for the eastern seaboard of the US when he was 21.
He worked briefly as a bouncer in Washington DC before obtaining a licence as a bail enforcement agent, often referred to as bounty hunters.
They are contracted by bondsmen, money lenders who offer to cover bail money for those who can't afford it in exchange for a 10% commission.
If the accused fails to show in court the bondsman loses the entire sum unless a bounty hunter can track down the fugitive.
In Virginia, like most US states, it is not only police who get to carry guns and chase criminals.
Christian says: "Every boy, every man wants to have the gun and go kicking in doors.
"It's exciting being like that but I prefer being the undercover detective kind of guy."
He says he is not a typical bounty hunter and has a low opinion of some others who seem to delight in the macho violence of the job.
Christian moved to the US seven years ago to track down his American father.
He had been getting into a lot of trouble at home and could not get a job.
"Plus I thought Americans always looked a lot cooler in movies so I thought I'd give it a try," he says.
In the BBC documentary - The Scottish Bounty Hunter - Christian tells how he felt the need to escape his home town because he was taking "a lot of ecstasy" during "week-long parties".
"There was bugger all else to do," he says.
"I feel like in Scotland I was supposed to die there."
His mother tells the programme she is pleased he left.
She says: "They were getting into trouble with the police and drinking and hanging around with the wrong people.
"Brechin doesn't have anything going for it really. There's not a lot of work in the area. It's like some place to sleep now.
"There's no potential here for young people."
Christian sees similar problems in Virginia.
About 80% of the jobs he gets as a bounty hunter are drugs related.
He says he wants to help offenders and their families get back to a normal life but he gets paid for finding and putting people back in jail.
He says: "I can't feel sorry for anyone or I'd just end up taking handcuffs off everybody.
"I've thought about taking them off many times and letting folk go but I can't do that. This is what I signed up for."
Christian can use lots of different methods to track people down but his first port of call is Facebook, which can give him clues to where people like to go and who they might be with.
He says he caught a woman in Maryland because she used Facebook "check in".
Christian says he knew she was going to a beauty school but didn't know which one.
"She would 'check in' at this coffee shop every single morning," he says.
"Every morning she was there at the same time 'Getting coffee on my way to school' - on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
"On the Thursday - no check in. Because I checked her into Winchester jail."
As well as getting paid to put people in jail, Christian makes money getting people out.
Four years ago he started lending bail money as a bondsman himself.
In an average week he'll track down five or six people and bail even more out of jail.
He says the job is stressful, dangerous and exhausting.
"Bounty hunters don't last very long," he says.
"I only know of three or four who have been in it as long as I have.
"They either can't handle the hours or can't handle the stress."
But Christian says he keeps doing it because it is a chance to help people turn their life around.
He says: "I've got a lot of relationships with people who might end up going off the rails if I left.
"This is a job you can't do half-arsed.
"You are either going to be a bounty hunter full time or you are not going to be one at all.
"I've tried to get out of it two or three times but I just can't seem to stop doing it."
The Scottish Bounty Hunter is on BBC One Scotland on Monday 13 February at 22:40.
North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones has made tackling the "insidious" crime central to his blueprint for policing the area.
The force said it had helped safeguard 60 victims in the last year.
The new officer will provide "unique and never-seen-before" support to victims, Detective Inspector Gary Kelly said.
The post is being funded by Mr Jones' office and the successful candidate will be based at the North Wales Victim Help Centre in St Asaph, Denbighshire, which caters for victims of all crimes.
Mr Jones said: "Modern slavery and human trafficking are appalling and callous crimes which reach right into our society here in north Wales.
He said it was "vital" to increase public awareness to tackle modern slavery.
High-profile modern slavery cases in south Wales include one which saw three members of the same family jailed for forced labour offences.
Last year, North Wales Police mounted two major investigations into modern slavery, resulting 17 people being made safe.
It currently has seven investigations under way, but the force said gathering evidence from frightened victims was "difficult".
DI Kelly said: "It is a challenge. The victims can be affected by language barriers and by self-blame and are often people being held under duress or coerced."
He said modern slavery and human trafficking in north Wales can often be linked to Ireland with north Wales as a thoroughfare, through the port of Holyhead, to the north west of England.
DI Kelly said consumers who "drive into a car wash or visit a nail bar" and "wonder how they can get full valet for £4.50" need to question why.
"We need to start asking these difficult questions because there's exploitation taking place here," he added.
Heather Knight rounds off her first summer as England captain with a look back at the first Women's Super League - and a look ahead to another busy winter.
It was really good fun being part of the brand new competition and I think it has been a huge success. Unfortunately, our campaign ultimately ended with defeat in the final at the hands of the Southern Vipers…
Despite the result, it was great to be involved in the first finals day at Chelmsford and the first ever final, after coming away with a win in the semi-final against Loughborough Lightning. Although no one likes coming second, the Vipers were the better team on the day and congrats to Lottie (Charlotte Edwards) and her team.
We played some brilliant cricket all tournament and we can be proud of the competition we had as a squad, including a very well deserved player of the tournament award being presented to my Storm team-mate Stafanie Taylor, the West Indies captain.
It's been great to get to know and bring together a new group of players, including our overseas imports. I've definitely learnt that South Africa's Lizelle Lee is very gullible, with a perfect example when Kiwi Rachel Priest persuaded her she could definitely make this shot during a round of pitch and putt…
In terms of how the tournament has gone as a whole, I think it has been a massive success. People have come to watch, the cricket has been of a very high standard and it's created that level between international and county cricket that it set out to do.
Another massive positive for me has been to see some of the younger England Women's Academy and county players putting in some match-winning performances.
The younger girls in the Western Storm squad have definitely developed and learnt a lot over the course of the competition - something that I'm sure has happened in all the teams. That opportunity for them to train with and play against the best players really is priceless.
When I first played for England six years ago, I'd only played a handful of games with a white ball, I'd hardly played in front of more than 20 people and I didn't have a clue as to what to expect from international cricket - I had to learn pretty quickly.
Now the girls coming through have the opportunity to play in this type of competition below international cricket where people are watching them, their skills are under pressure and they're playing against the best players in the world - that can only be a good thing in developing England players of the future.
As a first year, it's a great place to start from, so big credit to Clare Connor (the England & Wales Cricket Board's director of England women's cricket), Jo Kirk (Super League general manager) and everyone at the ECB who has made it possible. Hopefully the competition will continue to develop and grow over the coming years with an increased radio and TV presence.
I wrote in my last column that I hoped to see some Stormtroopers out to watch our home games, and people of the West Country, you didn't disappoint! The crowds overall were brilliant and it was great to see people getting behind the new competition.
With the ICC Women's World Cup taking place in England next summer and a number of the leading international players in the country for the Super League, a few of us headed to Lord's for a marketing shoot and interviews to promote the tournament.
Alongside fellow Western Storm players Anya Shrubsole and Stafanie Taylor, we hot-footed it down to London on the train following our game at Headingley. I had to chuckle to myself as we all ran along the platform for our train with our massive cricket bags - I think it was a new experience for Stafanie as there aren't many trains in Jamaica!
She did, however, proudly declare that she had taken the London Underground before, to a place called Pretoria. Following our bemused looks, it took her two hours to realize she actually meant Victoria!
We made it safely to Lord's ready for a 6am start the next day alongside Dane van Niekerk (South Africa and Loughborough Lightning), Ellyse Perry (Australia and Loughborough Lightning) and Suzie Bates (New Zealand and Southern Vipers). We were all then dressed in some very strange "Ghostbuster" outfits ready for the shoot. Uncanny…
It was a long, but fun day and definitely got the excitement going for a home World Cup next year.
So it's not long now until we head away again with England at the end of September to the West Indies, which is a massive tour for us, with ICC Women's Championship points up for grabs.
Beyond that, we have a tour to Sri Lanka and then I'll be heading out to Australia for the Women's Big Bash League to join up with the Hobart Hurricanes once again.
Roll on another winter chasing the sun.
BBC Test Match Special will have ball-by-ball commentary on England's one-day international series in West Indies, which runs from 8-19 October - and you can read more BBC columns from Heather during the winter.
Mike Christie and Jonathan Ansell were attacked at a recreation ground in Yardley, Birmingham, during the early hours.
Christie was hit over the head and Ansell received a blow to the eye as he wrestled back a stolen laptop.
Both singers were treated at Heartlands Hospital but did not report the attack to police.
Ansell and Christie were two of the original members of the group who rose to fame when they came second in the X Factor in 2004, losing to Steve Brookstein.
On Twitter, Christie, 35, expressed his disbelief at the attack after the would-be thief ran off with his rucksack containing a laptop.
Ansell, 34, said he realised crucial information relating to the group was on the laptop and chased and struck the mugger.
He said the pair had gone out "at midnight-ish" to "barn-storm over ideas" and the plan had been to go to McDonalds.
"All of a sudden I just heard Mike shout out an expletive and saw this figure running off with the rucksack," he said.
"I instinctively chased after him and grabbed the bag and ended up with stars in my eyes after being punched in the face."
He did not report the incident to police because they got their property back, he said.
According to the group's Twitter feed G4 were in Birmingham on Sunday to appear at a wedding show.
The Republic of Ireland's power grid operator EirGrid is to submit a planning application for the long-delayed scheme.
It has already said overhead lines are the most cost-effective option for what will be a second connection between the two networks.
They will join between Woodland, County Meath, and Turleenan, County Tyrone.
Environmental and health campaigners had wanted the cables placed underground.
Exact details of the application, to be submitted to An Bord Pleanála, will not be disclosed until a ten-week public consultation process starts on 16 June.
The project, which will take three years to complete, was meant to have been ready by 2017.
EirGrid is submitting the application for the southern half of the project.
In Northern Ireland, the lead is being taken by System Operator for Northern Ireland (SONI) and a separate planning application is before the Planning Appeals Commission (PAC).
But its public inquiry was adjourned several years ago pending the submission of detailed environmental information that has only recently been provided.
In a statement, the Department of the Environment said: "The information will be advertised in the local press, giving the public opportunity to make comment."
It will also consult with public bodies before requesting that the PAC resumes the inquiry.
But a timetable has yet to be set.
The inter-connector project has three purposes - to deliver security of electricity supply to Northern Ireland, reduce costs to consumers and help achieve targets on renewable energy.
Ageing ravers attended the event in an underground car park on the site of the venue, which was demolished in 2002.
Fans still have "very intense" feelings for the club, said Joy Division bassist Peter Hook, who organised the party.
The club became legendary for its place at the heart of the acid house scene in the late 1980s and '90s - as well as for its drug dealing and gang violence.
The anniversary attempted to recreate the euphoric atmosphere of its heyday with sets from classic Hacienda DJs including 808 State, Dave Haslam, Graeme Park and Jon DaSilva.
Steve Oldroyd used to travel from Harrogate to the venue every Saturday night. Now 45 and a telecommunications engineer, he said: "There's never been anywhere like the Hacienda.
"Everybody just seemed to be on the same wavelength. So it's quite nice to be part of something like this tonight."
Friend Steve Wallace, a 39-year-old commercial director, recalled the atmosphere that made it famous. "If you came in a bit later, you'd walk into a wall of sound and smoke and heat," he said. "You could feel it throbbing. There really is nothing like it.
"I talk to my girlfriend about it and she looks at me like I'm from a different planet but she was never here. The people that weren't here, who hear us oldies going on about it all the time, they don't get it.
"It was unique and special. It's quite nice to be back. It's not quite the same, but it's a good second."
The Hacienda opened on 21 May 1982 and was run by the Factory Records label and New Order.
As well as hosting acid house club nights, it also saw gigs by seminal bands including New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays.
The club's feelgood heyday was famously fuelled by ecstasy - which led to drug rivalries, violence and eventually closure in 1997.
A block of flats was built in its place and the anniversary party took place in the block's car park. It finished at midnight to avoid overly disturbing residents.
Peter Hook, who played bass with Joy Division and New Order, said: "The idea came about to celebrate the 30th simply because Graeme Park and I thought that we might not be here for the 40th.
"I'm hoping so, but I'm not sure I'll be in any fit state to rave."
The Hacienda was also famous for its financial mismanagement and Hook has claimed it lost his band £18m.
"We're even managing to lose a fortune on the 30th anniversary party - because it's for charity," he said. "I suppose this is our way of having a party and giving something back."
With a 500-strong crowd, the night raised money for Nordoff Robbins music therapy.
Hook said the party was "the icing on the cake" in a summer when The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and his estranged New Order bandmates - dubbed "New Odour" by the bassist - are back on tour.
Hook himself is playing Joy Division's albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer on tour with his band The Light. Two more Hacienda anniversary events are being held at the Sankeys nightclub on 2 and 4 June.
A survey by KPMG found 60% of firms with operations north of the border felt greater access to skilled talent could help them increase productivity.
More than 40% said there was a lack of talent and skills available.
The findings were contained in KPMG's Rethink Manufacturing report.
It said the industry faced "a number of challenges" driven by technological innovation, evolving customer behaviour, regulatory changes and a turbulent global landscape.
James Kergon, from KPMG in Scotland, said: "Our report finds the majority of manufacturing executives with operations in Scotland view boosting workforce skills and quality education as the key priorities for the manufacturing sector's continuing growth.
"If the skills challenge in Scotland is not effectively addressed, manufacturing and associated industries are at risk of decline.
"Manufacturers can take action now by investing in training, education and continuous development to raise Scotland's productivity and prosperity for the future."
The survey also found that, following the UK's decision to leave the EU, more than one in three manufacturers with Scottish operations (38%) would consider relocating some of their operations out of the UK.
About two-thirds had no plans to move.
Karen Briggs, head of Brexit at KPMG, said: "When our survey was carried out in January, two-thirds of respondents with operations in Scotland expected the uncertainty from Brexit to be bad for economic stability.
"However, Britain's manufacturers are an especially resolute group.
"Although some fear increased raw material costs, labour pressures and higher indirect taxation, they are taking a range of practical measures to prepare.
"These include partial relocation, supply chain management, increased business development and new sources of financing."
A mobile phone video appears to show three people pushing against the famed "Pillar Rock" until it collapses.
The unique outcropping, also known as the Duckbill, has long been a popular destination for tourists visiting Cape Kiwanda park on Oregon's Pacific coast.
Officials had at first believed that the coastal sandstone pedestal had naturally eroded.
But they are currently re-evaluating that assessment after being shown the video by David Kalas, a visiting beachgoer.
Mr Kalas said that up to eight people participated in toppling it a week ago, but that five had walked away when the remaining group stayed to push it over.
"We confronted them and they said it was a safety hazard," said Mr Kalas, who had gone there to film a summer holiday video with friends.
"They said one of their friends had broken a leg on it. It's like their weird revenge thing", he added.
The pedestal was roughly 10ft (3m) across, and had been a popular destination for tourists seeking photos.
Police and parks officials will meet on Tuesday to discuss possible criminal charges.
A similar incident took place at Goblin Valley State Park in the state of Utah in 2013.
Two Boy Scout leaders received probation and a fine after posting online a video of themselves knocking over a rock formation believed to be about 170 million years old.
An hour after Manchester's Lord Mayor opened the National Speedway Stadium in front of a capacity 5,000 crowd, riders said the track was unsafe and the Peter Craven Memorial meeting was scrapped.
"The winter weather played a major part," a Belle Vue statement read.
"With safety being our number one priority there was no other conclusion but to abandon the meeting,"
The next scheduled meeting at the venue is against Wolverhampton Wolves on 25 March (13:00 GMT).
The Imagination Library was launched in 2007 as the first arm of a project pioneered in the US.
It encourages children under five to read by sending them a free book every month, with more than 80% of the town's under fives signed up to the project.
The council said the scheme was facing closure because of budget cuts.
Since 2008 over 28,000 children have joined the library, with the current membership standing at 13,000 children.
The authority said it cost £387,000 a year to run the service and it could not longer afford it because it had to make savings of £23m in the next financial year.
A final decision will be made after the month-long consultation.
If closure is agreed, the council said the library would stop in December.
HIE, along with other enterprise and skills agencies, has been the subject of a review.
The process sparked a political row with opposition parties concerned HIE's board could lose its independence or be wound up altogether.
HIE supports businesses in the islands, Highlands, Argyll and Moray.
It began as the Highlands and Islands Development Board 50 years ago, becoming HIE in 1990.
The first phase of the Enterprise and Skills Review was published in October last year and recommended that a new national board co-ordinate the activities of HIE, Scottish Enterprise and other bodies.
In January, MSPs voted to demand the Scottish government allow HIE to retain its own board.
In his response, Mr Brown said HIE would "continue to be locally based, managed and directed" under his plans.
A report was recently published on the scope, structures and functions for a new board.
Prof Lorne Crerar's publication recommended HIE and the others retain their independent boards.
A new national strategic board would oversee the organisations' activities, it was suggested.
Ahead of Mr Brown's statement in the Scottish Parliament, former Labour MSP Maureen Macmillan has present a petition to Holyrood's public petitions committee.
The petition asks for the Scottish government "to reverse its decision to move power from the region to a centralised body".
Ahead of the statement, Mr Brown said the proposals were part of a wide-ranging programme to improve services for businesses and individuals.
He said: "It is essential that we do not lose sight of our aim of enhancing our enterprise and skills services to boost Scotland's economy, which will help to deliver our ambition of ranking among the top quartile of OECD countries in terms of productivity, equality, wellbeing and sustainability.
"In order to achieve this, our agencies must align behind a common purpose and be driven by strong leadership.
"Far from diminishing the role of agencies, the review will strengthen their capability and grow their capacity to jointly step-up the services and support they provide to businesses and individuals across Scotland."
HIE's work in recent years has included providing funding to upgrade a fabrication yard at Arnish, near Stornoway on Lewis, and helping to secure the future of jobs at a call centre in Forres.
It is involved in the roll-out of superfast broadband to rural areas and initiatives to encourage young people to live and work in the Highlands and Islands.
HIE has also flagged up the need to better tackle gender imbalance in the workplace.
In 2015, it officially opened its Inverness Campus, a large area of land at Beechwood in Inverness which HIE has made available for businesses and research organisations.
Inverness College UHI built a new college on part of the campus.
However, during the early stages of planning the campus, HIE was criticised by Western Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
It said the agency should be investing in fragile areas of the region and not "booming" Inverness.
United manager Louis van Gaal said his team "struggled" during Sunday's goalless draw at Tottenham, which began just 43 hours after their 3-1 Boxing Day win over Newcastle.
England captain Rooney, 29, agreed the demands of the schedule had led to a decline in quality.
"Hopefully in the future it has to change," he said.
Rooney also suggested that fatigue may lead to a player being seriously injured.
On playing twice in three days between Boxing Day and Sunday, Rooney said: "It will probably take someone getting a really bad injury from doing it, which no-one wants to see, but it is very demanding and I think it does need looking at."
United had the better of the first half at White Hart Lane, with Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris making a series of saves to deny Robin van Persie, Rooney and Ashley Young, but Van Gaal's side faded noticeably in the second period.
"It is difficult. We started so well in the first half, but in the second half it was tough," Rooney said. "You do lose a lot of the quality from both teams."
Van Gaal described the congested Christmas schedule as "the culture of England", but said after Sunday's draw in north London that it did not allow players enough rest.
The vessel crashed on to the northbound stretch of the A12 between Ardleigh and Dedham near Colchester just before 12:00 GMT.
The Shona Mae had come off the back of a four-wheeled trailer pulled by a grey car.
Essex Police coned off the affected carriageway to traffic. Essex Fire and Rescue Service said nobody was hurt.
Although the trailer flipped over, the boat came to a rest upright on its keel. One lane remains closed while the scene is cleared.
Diana McCrea said there had been a "continuing, unacceptable number of slurry pollution incidents".
She made her comments in a detailed letter to Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths, saying she was "increasingly concerned and more needed to be done".
The Welsh Government said it would work with the industry to find a solution.
Soil, fertiliser and slurry from farms as well as waste from industry can find its way into rivers, killing fish and their food sources.
Ms McCrea outlined efforts being undertaken by NRW, the environmental regulator, including the establishment of a working group involving farming unions and Welsh Water.
It comes after river and fishing groups criticised the regulator's record earlier this year, claiming agricultural pollution was "out of control".
Ms McCrea said there had been 679 slurry pollution cases reported since 1 January 2010, mostly from dairy farms, ranging from about 70 to 118 a year.
Cautions, prosecutions and serving notices were used in 15% of cases, which were the most serious.
She said there were good examples of the NRW and Welsh Government working well together but she was becoming "increasingly concerned that we may have lost sight of the necessary overview".
Ms McCrea, who will raise the issue at the Royal Welsh show on Monday, wants Ms Griffiths to prioritise the work of officials to help take improvements forward.
She has set out her thoughts on improving good practice on farms, inspecting slurry and silage stores while they are being built and regulating anaerobic digestion plants on farms.
Ms Griffiths is also being asked to look at allowing the use of civil sanctions to help tackle agricultural pollution, to bring Wales in line with England, but it needs the Welsh Government to pass the legislation.
A Welsh Government spokesman said Ms Griffiths would respond to the letter in due course.
He added: "Tackling agricultural pollution is crucial if we are to improve water quality in Wales.
"We look forward to working with natural resources, the farming industry and other respective parties to find a solution that works for all parties."
He might recall the time at Wembley in 1977, when he watched as a fan on his honeymoon, with his new wife and his best man.
They ended up as reluctant pitch invaders following the visitors' 2-1 win, because a policeman in the stand said: "What are you standing there for? You're the only three Scots not on the pitch."
Or he might remember desperately hoping that Richard Gough would convert a header in the 1-0 win at Hampden in 1985 because Strachan was "having a stinker" and the ball was going to land at his feet if Gough didn't connect inside the penalty area.
Strachan doesn't really do nostalgia, but his memories of games between the Auld Enemies are of their significance in the football calendar and of the personal rivalries that illuminated them - and provided an edge.
These are all concepts that, in Strachan's eyes, are diminished in today's game - which, depending on the result and the performance, could also be about his future as the national team boss, with England visiting Hampden on Saturday evening.
"[It was] the best international game, but that real energy that you put into one game over a season, as a supporter or a player, has dissipated over the years because they were the only games you saw on TV," Strachan said.
"Scotland v England, the cup final, and highlights of two games on a Saturday night, that was your lot. We are saturating football just now. There are so many games. It's not the same anymore.
"There were individual clashes that you got because we all used to play at the same clubs. That's not there anymore. We don't really know each other that well.
"When I played against Bryan Robson, I knew exactly what was coming, I was going to get kicked up in the air and I would try to beat him, give him a mouthful of abuse.
"[Scotland v England] was THE fixture. If you said to me now, do you want to go to Scotland v England, or do you want to go to an orangutan safari in Borneo, I'd go for the orangutan safari. I've been to loads of Scotland v England games, I've played in them."
Strachan will be as competitive and engrossed in the game as ever at Hampden. He took his side to Wembley in November and, despite losing 3-0, came away convinced that his players can still consider the World Cup qualifying campaign as relevant.
A very late Chris Martin goal secured a victory over Slovenia at the national stadium in March, with the result keeping Scotland's hopes in Group F alive, albeit still diminished by previous results.
"The last game, we had to win, this game, we don't get beaten," Strachan said. "But that's not the philosophy - we want to win.
"The lads, the last time they played [against England], the way they conducted themselves, they were brave and playing up against people. There aren't many times in football when you feel sorry for your players, but I did that night because they didn't deserve that.
"[England] had three attempts on goal on target and nothing else really bothered us, but the three headers went in. If [goalkeeper] Craig Gordon does as little as he did at Wembley then we'll be all right."
Strachan evades questions about his future with the sharpness and wit that once flowed through his trickiness as a winger.
He has been in football long enough - 43 years now - to know how the game and the media narrative around it works. Strachan has always been most comfortable standing his ground rather than going with the flow.
"I watch Sky Sports every morning for about 20 minutes then I get bored and fed up because I hear the same cliches," he said.
"I hear about projects. Then, after four games, the guy wraps up his project because he got the sack. It's all about the immediate, football, not the future.
"It doesn't matter about me. I pick teams and get people prepared. That's what I like doing. What am I thinking about today's game: players, fans, backroom staff, family. I've got no interest in where my future's going to be.
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"I've got no plans for after the game. I get in the car and go home. 'How did it go'? 'Great, we won, let's go for a cup of tea'. If it doesn't go well, I might not be happy for a couple of days, but we'll still have a cup of tea."
Strachan talks warmly of his appreciation of supporters who stop to encourage him when he is out. He accepts the level of expectation that comes with the job, and the scrutiny, but he has little enthusiasm for enduring it.
He has worked with an array of different types of managers, from Davie White, who "was good for me as a kid", to another Dundee manager in Tommy Gemmell, who once arrived with his assistant, Willie Wallace, at Strachan's hospital bed after an operation, their arms laden with a dozen cans of lager and two bottles of wine.
"I'd had my toenails taken out by the roots, so you can imagine how painful that was," Strachan said. "And we relived the Lisbon game [Celtic's 1967 European Cup final win in which Gemmell scored] for four hours."
His relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson broke down after they worked together at Aberdeen and Manchester United, but they talk again now and meet each other at Doncaster games, where their sons work.
"My 40th [wedding] anniversary's coming up soon and anybody who's in the football world and gets to their 40th anniversary, I've had an argument with them - every one of them," Strachan said. "Life's like that. It's not a problem."
Football is a world of judgement, but Strachan knows that as well as anybody. He has his way of dealing with it and few reputations are sacrosanct.
"I played golf with Kenny [Dalglish] last week and my two boys," Strachan said. "One of my grandsons is six and he's football bonkers. His father, Craig, went home and said, 'do you know what I did today, Owen? I played with the best Scotland player ever'.
"Owen looked at him and went, 'Leigh Griffiths'?"
To hear an extended interview with Gordon Strachan, tune in to Sportsound on BBC Radio Scotland on Saturday from 15:00 BST.
The DUP leader Peter Robinson said that "by refusing to settle this matter until after the election, Sinn Féin will cause further cuts to public services. No doubt when services are cut Sinn Féin will, without embarrassment, blame everyone else".
Sinn Féin's negotiator Conor Murphy denied his party was to blame over the delay in resolving the welfare stand-off.
He insisted Sinn Féin's full negotiating team had been ready to discuss any proposals and told BBC's Inside Politics programme about his frustration at waiting for documents from the DUP-led Department for Social Development (DSD).
If the Stormont welfare negotiations are going nowhere this side of the election, then the logical reason would be that the parties want to see the colour of any future UK government's money.
It is fair to assume that a Conservative-led government would deliver more of the same, with George Osborne already on record predicting a further £12bn of welfare savings.
A Labour-led government is a different prospect. Martin McGuinness says he thinks Labour "gets" the welfare issue, but what does their manifesto have to say on the topic?
As expected, Labour reiterated that it intends to abolish the so-called "bedroom tax" or spare room subsidy, which it describes as cruel. According to Peter Robinson in a recent Inside Politics interview, that could save Stormont around £20m per year in mitigation costs.
However, the Labour manifesto also says that if the party forms the next government it "will cap structural social security expenditure in each spending review so that it is properly controlled" and pledges to "keep the household benefit cap and ask the Social Security Advisory Committee to examine if it should be lower in some areas".
That might put the dampeners on Martin McGuinness's hopes of getting a much better deal from Mr Miliband than the one on offer from Mr Cameron.
In these days of a likely hung parliament, every party's manifesto is less a promissory note and more an opening offer.
That will apply not just to any London-based discussions on forming a UK government, but also to any future talks aimed at resurrecting something from the ruins of the Stormont House Agreement.
In the year to March, 6,179 teachers who qualified elsewhere had their qualifications recognised in England, suggests Department for Education data.
This amounts to 16% of 38,746 teachers who gained qualified status that year.
England faces a "major shortage" of teachers, said a head teachers' leader.
"Schools will recruit anybody who meets the standards and has the relevant qualifications," explained Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, which represents secondary heads.
The overall figures on the number of overseas teachers who achieved qualified status in England last year are from the annual report of the National College of Teaching and Leadership.
The TES also obtained Freedom of Information figures on the countries from which these teachers came.
Almost a third (1,851) qualified in Spain, 10% (610) in Canada and 9% (574) in Poland.
The figures also include small numbers who qualified in Scotland (250) and Northern Ireland (99).
The government allows teachers who qualified in the European Economic Area, as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US to register their qualifications to obtain qualified teacher status in England.
A Department for Education spokesman explained: "Outstanding teachers are in demand across the globe and where schools wish to recruit from overseas we want to ensure they are able to do so from those countries whose education standards are as high as our own."
To be awarded qualified teacher status in England, applicants must have been fully qualified and trained in countries that are recognised as comparable teaching standards, said the spokesman.
Teacher recruitment expert, Prof John Howson, a visiting research fellow at Oxford University's department of education said the UK's shortage of teachers was "beginning to suck in people from other countries where there's a surplus of teachers".
Prof Howson suggested high unemployment in Spain and the need for Spanish language teachers in England could explain the large numbers of teachers from Spain in the figures.
"Given the high level of unemployment in Spain, it's not surprising that someone has sussed out there's a way you can get a job as a teacher in England if you trained in Spain, since Spanish is a popular language", he told the TES.
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to the property in Thornhill Place, Thornbury, just after 09:00 GMT following a report from a concerned caller.
Firefighters forced entry into the home and discovered the body of a female.
West Yorkshire Police said the property has suffered fire damage and inquiries are continuing to establish the circumstances of the blaze.
Karen John, 60, from Merthyr Tydfil, died in December 2014 after going into the town's Prince Charles Hospital.
Her daughter, Taryn Rees, 39, said it was "disgusting" research claimed only 12% of people were initially screened and treated in line with best practice.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said consistency would help save lives.
Mrs John was admitted to hospital in November 2014 for a hernia operation and to treat a stomach problem.
Mrs Rees said she was groggy for several days after waking up from the anaesthetic and was treated with antibiotics.
"My mother was very confused and scared - she didn't know anybody. I was told it was nothing to worry about," she added.
Mrs Rees said her mother was rushed into intensive care on 12 December after having breathing problems, but died two days later.
"I was told my mother had sepsis and it was two days of hell, she didn't respond to anything," said Mrs Rees.
"It's frustrating - at that time I knew nothing about sepsis. Had I known what I know now, my mother had every single symptom on the sepsis chart."
Mrs Rees said sepsis was mentioned as a possible cause of her mother's symptoms on 8 December, but it was "too late" by the time she was in intensive care.
"I'd like to see more awareness - it's a massive killer and we have all the advertisements on TV for stroke, cancer, meningitis. I think a campaign should be going on TV and in schools - there's nothing being done about it."
The mother-of-five said it was "absolutely disgusting" there was the variation in how clinical teams responded to sepsis.
"I'd never wish for anybody to go through what my family went through," she added.
A Cwm Taf University Health Board spokeswoman said: "There was a review of the care and treatment provided to Mrs John and where improvements were required, these were made to try and minimise the risk of this happening again.
"Please be assured that the treatment of sepsis is a high priority for the university health board and we work consistently to improve our rates of sepsis and the outcomes for patients in our care.
"We would like to once again convey our deepest sympathy and sincere apologies to Mrs John's family."
Mr Gething said how consistently the health improvement programme was followed was key to its success.
"If we level out that variation, we will end up saving more lives. So I wouldn't pretend to you or anyone else that we are perfect where we are," he added.
The advice was issued after a number of schools banned photography on their premises to protect pupils who were adopted or in foster care.
Earlier this week a father complained he was threatened with arrest at a school in Leicestershire.
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said such photos did not breach the Data Protection Act.
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones says it is a common experience at this time of year for proud parents trying to take pictures of their children performing in nativity plays to be be told by teachers that photography is banned.
The Information Commissioner's Office has released guidance for schools after receiving numerous queries from parents.
The regulator said photos for personal use were not covered by the Data Protection Act.
Fear of breaching the law should not be used to to stop people taking pictures or videos, he added.
Mr Graham said: "Having a child perform at a school play or a festive concert is a very proud moment for parents and is understandably a memory that many want to capture on camera.
"It is disappointing to hear that the myth that such photos are forbidden by the Data Protection Act still prevails in some schools."
He added: "A common sense approach is needed. Clearly, photographs simply taken for a family album are exempt from data protection laws.
"Armed with our guidance, parents should feel free to snap away this Christmas and stand ready to challenge any schools or councils that say 'bah, humbug' to a bit of festive fun."
It certainly started as an uprising of Syrian citizens.
They took to the streets in 2011 to demand democracy and an end to corruption, and their opposition to the government of President Bashar al-Assad quickly spiralled into a war.
But if you look at today's headlines, it's clear that what is happening today in Syria is far more complex.
Some of most powerful countries in the world are involved. As are an alphabet soup of armed opposition groups, the Kurds and, of course, so-called Islamic State.
It's complicated - but the best way to start is by looking at the war as a conflict between those who, in broad terms, support and oppose Mr Assad and his government.
On the Syrian government's side, we have:
And, on the side of the rebels* we have:
*The term "rebels" is used to describe a huge and diverse array of fighters, some of whom co-operate with jihadists like those from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an al-Qaeda-linked alliance. Different foreign states often back different rebel factions.
At this point, it's also worth noting that although the US supports some rebel groups, it had not intentionally attacked the Syrian government directly until Friday, when it fired missiles at an airbase used in an alleged chemical attack.
Yes, you have. But those were targeting IS militants as part of an international campaign that began in September 2014.
Lots of other countries are taking part, including the UK, France, Jordan and several Gulf States.
Basically, IS exploited the war in Syria to carve out a large part of the country for the "caliphate" whose creation it proclaimed three years ago.
This is where the battle-lines get blurry. The Syrian government and Russia are also bombing IS, but separately to the US-led coalition.
So think about it like this: Syrian rebels (and their backers) are fighting the Syrian government (and their backers), and both sides are fighting IS. Although IS wants to overthrow the government, it also violently opposes the rebels.
Easy.
There's just one more piece of the (simplified) puzzle.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend," is a saying that doesn't apply in Syria.
Kurdish people living in Syria's north declared the creation of an autonomous government in areas under their control in early 2014.
This added a fourth dimension to the widening conflict.
The Kurds - who say they support neither the government nor the opposition - have been battling IS along the Turkish border.
They have benefitted from considerable military support from the US, which sees them as one of most effective anti-IS forces on the ground.
Turkey is also fighting IS. But in this case, the enemy of their enemy is also their... enemy.
Basically, Turkey sees the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been fighting the Turkish military for decades.
To prevent Syrian Kurds establishing a contiguous autonomous region along its border, Turkey has carried out air strikes on the YPG and backed a Syrian rebel offensive that drove IS out of the last bit of territory not controlled by the YPG.
Russia has military interests in Syria, including its only Mediterranean naval base and an airbase in Latakia province. It intervened at the request of the Syrian government and said its motivation was to fight terrorism.
Analysts say it also wants to bolster its influence in the Middle East, and globally, by being the key player in Syria.
Iran sees Mr Assad, a member of the heterodox Shia Alawite sect, as its closest Arab ally. Syria is also the main transit point for Iranian weapons shipments to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Regional Sunni powers like Saudi Arabia oppose Iran's influence in Syria, whose population is predominantly Sunni.
The US began backing rebel groups because it said Mr Assad was responsible for widespread atrocities.
But in the last two years it been more focused on the battle against IS, and President Donald Trump suggested only days before Friday's missile strike that getting Mr Assad to leave power was no longer a priority for him.
Tuesday's suspected chemical attack appears to have changed everything.
Read more to understand Syria's war
Why is there a war in Syria?
Syria 'chemical attack': What we know
Islamic State group: The full story
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Turkey v Syria's Kurds v Islamic State
The £5m project is being funded by the Welsh Government.
Orders for the new service are being placed, with the first delivery expected later this year.
Ms Williams said "I am committed to making sure all our schools have the infrastructure needed to prepare pupils for the modern world."
The new service should provide an immediate increase in speed.
Minimum broadband connections are currently of 10Mbps for primary schools in Wales and 100Mbps for secondary schools but some are not able to upgrade the speed of their services because of technical limitations.
"Superfast" is defined as providing download speeds of more than 24Mbps.
Ms Williams added: "Making sure every school, no matter where they are based, has access to superfast broadband remains a priority for me.
"It is simply unacceptable for a school to be at a significant disadvantage due to poor internet speeds."
Giles graduated in physics at Durham University in the summer before turning his attention to a career in football.
He posted a highlights video of his time playing in the north east online and eventually an agent secured him a trial with the club.
"I'm hoping to learn a lot while I'm here from a really talented bunch of players," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
Giles played for National League South Maidenhead United as a youngster and while at university, played for Durham and Ashington, who are now managed by former England cricketer Steve Harmison.
After arriving at Oxford, he played in development matches against Premier League clubs Aston Villa and Southampton, who included internationals Juanmi and Jay Rodriguez in their side, and showed enough to earn a professional contract.
"This is a new chapter for me. I've never played football professionally before so I'm going to try and develop for the first couple of months," he added.
"I think I'll improve coming back from training every day and hopefully eventually reach new heights at this club."
The Federal Trade Commission is calling on telecom and marketing industry leaders to attend a "summit" about the issue in Washington on 18 October.
It said it wanted to explore innovations that could let it trace where such calls come from and prevent the use of faked caller IDs.
The US made it illegal to make unwanted automated calls in 2009.
The law says marketers must have written permission from a user before such calls can be made. Exceptions are made for surveys or if the subject matter is political or to do with a charity.
"The FTC hears from American consumers every day about illegal 'robocalls' and how intrusive they are," said the agency's chairman Jon Leibowitz.
"We're ratcheting up our efforts to stop this invasion of consumers' privacy."
The agency said it had already imposed penalties totalling $41m (£26.3m) since the change in the law.
These include the seizure of $3m worth of assets from SBN Peripherals, a Los Angeles business trading under the name Asia Pacific Telecom.
The firm was accused of making about 2.6 billion pre-recorded calls claiming it had urgent information about consumers' credit-card and vehicle insurance.
The FTC said users who had pressed "1" to hear more information had been transferred to human operators who had tried to sell them inferior or worthless products.
The agency was also responsible for shutting down another company, which it alleged had used at least 10 different names to defraud 13,000 people out of a total of about $13m. It said the business had made bogus promises that it could secure them refunds.
However, experts believe many offenders operate by routing calls via the internet from offshore centres, making it hard for the US to completely eradicate the problem.
The FTC has said that members of the public are invited to attend its meeting in October, adding that it would answer questions about the issue via
Twitter and Facebook on 17 July
.
The UK also requires user-consent for automated phone messages if the recipient does not have the opportunity to speak to a real person during the call.
In addition users are able to opt out of all unsolicited marketing messages by contacting the
Telephone Preference Service
.
Despite this, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office recently reported a 43% jump in the level of complaints it had received about unsolicited electronic marketing messages last year, with automated phone calls the most commonly complained about.
An RAC Foundation investigation found that 2,375 bridges spanning over 1.5m (5ft) were not fit to carry the heaviest vehicles, such as lorries of up to 44 tonnes.
It would cost about £328m to refurbish all affected bridges, the charity said.
The Department for Transport (DfT) said it was providing up to £1bn funding to English councils this year.
RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said it was important for councils to keep their highway bridges up to scratch, and urged Chancellor George Osborne to provide more money for bridge maintenance.
"Councils are doing their utmost to keep their structures inspected, but where they find fault the price of repair can bust the hard-pressed maintenance budget," he said.
"We hope the chancellor has this in mind as he completes his spending review calculations this month."
The bridges deemed inadequate by the study represent 3% of the estimated 71,000 local bridges in Britain.
According to the research, which was carried out using Freedom of Information requests to 193 of Britain's 207 highways authorities and a survey of 50 councils, some of the bridges are substandard because they were built to less modern specifications.
It found others have deteriorated through age and use.
Mr Gooding cited the closure of London's Hammersmith Flyover, which was shut in 2011 for emergency repairs, as a "graphic illustration" of what could happen if national infrastructure is not maintained.
The flyover was closed following damage to cables in the structure, leading to major congestion.
A DfT spokesperson said funding due to be provided to local councils this financial year would "help repair local roads, including bridges and other structures."
Councils could focus on roads and infrastructure in need of urgent attention, they added.
However, a spokesman for the Local Government Association said councils are "stuck between a rock and a hard place", with traffic set to increase while local budgets are reduced.
Wandsworth Council granted permission to upgrade the 40-year-old New Covent Garden in Nine Elms, south London.
The plan includes 11.5 acres (4.6 hecs) of market facilities and 135,000 sq ft (12,540 sq m) of office space.
More than 3,000 homes and 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sq m) of retail and leisure facilities will also be built.
A visitor centre and education space focused on the food industry will also be included in the development.
Sarah McDermott, chairman of the council's planning committee, said: "The market is the biggest single development site in Nine Elms and an incredibly valuable source of local jobs.
"Its revival is key to our vision for the area and the redevelopment of its perimeter sites will fuse together key sections of the new people-friendly environment we are creating here. "
The government-owned New Covent Garden Market Authority was set up in 1974 to oversee the move of the Covent Garden Market from its famous Westminster base to 57-acre site at Nine Elms.
The authority is a statutory body that reports to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The plans have been developed by St Modwen Properties, VINCI Construction and the Covent Garden Market Authority.
The first phase will be works to upgrade utilities and other infrastructure in preparation for the construction in 2016.
In 2011, the government secured agreement for a £10bn release of public sector land to build 100,000 homes and redeveloping the Nine Elms site is a key part of the plan.
Work is expected to start on site in spring.
Lenders are lending less than they were at the height of the market, with total lending in 2011 likely to be less than 40% of 2007's total.
This climate means that lenders on the whole now adopt a "pricing for risk" policy and are still rationing their lending.
This means that you can anticipate that at 90% loan-to-value, a loan may cost close to 5% interest, but a 60% loan will carry an interest rate nearer to 2%.
Lenders are also less flexible in their attitude to new prospective borrowers - and even existing ones who want a fresh loan.
Meanwhile the continued culling of banking jobs leads to few people in authority wishing to take any risks.
As a result, totally sound borrowing proposals are being turned down by lenders.
This leaves borrowers confused and annoyed and needing to find an alternative lender in a hurry.
To illustrate the frustrations you can encounter, and to put you on your guard, here are some problems that we have encountered recently.
Now I understand that some or all of these examples may seem unusual and perhaps involve larger loan sizes than the national average, but they are used here to prove a point.
Your own circumstances may seem simple and obviously deserving of a mortgage.
But your chosen lender may decide otherwise.
They may keep falling back on unreasonable rules in order to allow them to say no to you, and only lend to the most risk-free applicants to ensure their own jobs with your lender remain safe.
For instance, a self-employed applicant running his business for 20 years and making over £100,000 per annum was refused a loan of 30% of the value of his home.
This was despite the loan being less than 2.5 times his income.
The explanation was that if "goodwill" was stripped out of his business, the income would fall and thus make the loan unsustainable.
No appeal against the decision was acceptable to the lender, despite having had a perfectly conducted mortgage for 20 years.
In an other example, an employed couple had their application approved by the lender and moved on with the process.
The application was then terminated because, in the lender's opinion, the funds being raised for home improvements would be repaid too quickly.
This potentially made the loan "short term borrowing" even though the loan was a flexible mortgage that allowed for total redemption for any reason with no penalties.
Three appeals to the lender were rejected.
Another couple who had been through a financially difficult five years decided to downsize.
They wished to reduce their mortgage from £600,000 to £120,000, and to repay all other debts of £150,000 when they moved.
They approached their current lender and proposed a suspension of mortgage payments until the property was sold.
Six months later they had a new home agreed and an offer on their property and a lender who would help with the new mortgage.
They approached the current lender, who had not communicated with the borrowers in any fashion for six months, for a reference.
The current lender then denied any agreement to suspend payments, despite not applying for any payments or communicating with the client for six months.
They would only confirm arrears of six months or more on the account - thus denying the borrowers a new mortgage as the new lender needed a reference.
Public respectability and status does not appear to confer any advantage.
A professional couple already borrowing £550,000 needed a further advance of £250,000.
By reorganising their current borrowings they could arrange the extra funding to be available for an identical monthly cost.
Despite the fact that they were already paying the same amount per month to the lender, they were asked to produce three months of bank statements to prove "affordability".
Getting originals documents for one of them was tricky but internet bank statements were submitted, signed by the applicant as true copies, but these were unacceptable.
The applicant, by the way, was a judge.
The lender then suggested that their "affordability model" now suggested that the mortgage was in fact "unaffordable".
The loan term would need to be lengthened, the lender said, even though the current costs were no higher than the proposed future costs.
This added thousands of pounds to the borrowers' potential costs over the years.
In each of these cases we negotiated solutions with alternate lenders or negotiated with the proposed lenders.
We were finally able get someone to see the sense and commerciality in the proposed loans and our clients finally got what they wanted.
How come?
An experienced and well connected broker (of which there are many) can persuade lenders to change their minds or rapidly change lender to ensure your aims are achieved.
They can do this because brokers arrange thousands of mortgages in a career.
You, on the other hand, may only apply for two or three in your lifetime so it is worth remembering there is no substitute for experience.
The current lesson here is simple.
Do do not expect that once you have your deposit and your stamp duty saved, and you have identified a property, made an offer and approached a lender with apparently attractive terms, that your problems are over.
Often they are only just beginning. Such is life in the 2011 mortgage market.
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BBC South East has found people smugglers who operated in the Calais migrant camp are continuing their activities in daylight in Paris.
An agent for the gang said: "For an Iranian it will not be less than £5,000, but for Afghans it is £3,000."
Lidl said it had asked its haulier firms to conduct urgent investigations.
In a statement, Lidl said it "does not tolerate the facilitation of people smuggling through its international transport network" and has "robust procedures" in place with its hauliers.
Sultan, an agent for the people-smugglers, told a BBC undercover reporter the migrants were "guaranteed" a safe passage from the French capital.
He said: "They don't tear the tarpaulin off the vehicles. They open it and place you in.
"They will fit you in a way that even the dogs will not sniff you out.
"You will be in London 100%, this is how it works."
He said the smuggling operation was extensive, quick and guaranteed.
Another man described by Sultan as "an experienced smuggler" said: "I can take you tonight. We try every night.
"Three people got through last night."
Relatives or friends of the person who wants to be smuggled into the UK are asked to make the payment via Sultan's brother Sayed, who runs a mobile phone repair shop in London.
Sayed told the BBC the guaranteed service meant the lorry driver would know someone was on board, and he knew of several boys who had recently been successful.
"One of the boys got off the truck in Southall and the other in Kent," he said.
In a statement, Lidl said: "Upon being alerted to this report, we immediately contacted the haulier companies that we work with to ensure that the matter could be urgently investigated and we are still awaiting the conclusions of that investigation.
"Lidl does not tolerate the facilitation of people smuggling through its international transport network.
"We take matters such as these extremely seriously and have robust procedures in place with the hauliers within our own network to safeguard our international logistics."
The company added that all its hauliers were required to immediately report any matters relating to illegal migration to ensure appropriate investigations were carried out.
Best-known as a painter and print-maker of the 1960s avant-garde movement, Smith died in New York, his representatives said in a statement.
Among his most famous works were large-scale sculptural canvases featuring a "protruding" 3D effect, with names such as Panatella and Revlon.
Smith pushed the boundaries of painting and had an "abstract painterly style very much his own", said the statement.
His works are currently on display at Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London.
There are also pieces on show at Downing College in Cambridge, until 22 May, and in his hometown of Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, until 5 June.
Smith studied at the Royal College of Art and soon after graduation was awarded the prestigious Harkness Fellowship, which allowed him to move to New York and hold his first one-man show.
On returning in 1963, he made a name for himself with giant canvases, which would seem to overtake a gallery space.
As well as the "synthetic" names he gave his works, he chose to paint in loud, vibrant colours, inspired by the consumerism he encountered during his time in the US.
Later works for which he became renowned were his Kite paintings. They stood out for replacing the traditional wooden supports used for canvases with aluminium rods and strings.
This allowed the paintings to be hung freely in most environments and in a way which complemented the surrounding architecture.
Art historian Marco Livingstone said Smith "was at the forefront of a development in painting that took its cues not from the natural world but from visual stimuli already processed through culture".
"Smith's joyful embrace of glamour and prismatic colour after the grey decade-and-a-half of post-war austerity, brought him within the orbit of Pop Art at its very inception and assured him an important place in its early history," Livingstone added.
Smith continued in the subsequent decades to construct site-specific works in public and private spaces, often hanging from the ceilings or architectural supports.
Smith was chosen to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1970. He also won many prizes for his work, including the Grand Prize at the Sao Paulo Biennial. He was made a CBE in 1971.
Permanent collections of his works are held by various organisations and galleries in the UK and the US, including the British Museum, the Tate, the V&A and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Smith is survived by his wife Betsy and his two sons Edward and Harry and their families.
A total of 185 people died in what was considered to be the country's worst natural disaster in more than 80 years.
It left the centre of Christchurch in ruins, with thousands of homes destroyed.
The city is slowly being rebuilt, but many residents are still waiting for insurance claims to be settled.
Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae spoke at the public ceremony in Christchurch on Monday. Prime Minister John Key was also among the dignitaries taking part in the commemorations.
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After the service, a protester poured a brown substance from an ice cream container over the head of the minister overseeing the recovery, according to local reports.
Minister Gerry Brownlee told radio programme Newstalk ZB: "It was just a guy who just walked up at the end of the memorial service and said 'this is for you'."
He would not not speculate on what the substance was but said it "didn't smell too good".
Mr Brownlee and Mr Key were quickly whisked away by security.
Local media reported that Mr Brownlee had also been heckled earlier in the day while doing a live interview on television by a man saying "Gerry Brownlee you suck, you've done a bad job".
The magnitude 6.3 earthquake caused widespread damage on 22 February 2011 as it occurred at a shallow depth of 5km (3.1 miles) during lunchtime when Christchurch was at its busiest.
Almost two-thirds of those killed were inside the Canterbury Television building, which collapsed in the tremor.
It housed a language school, and the victims were of many different nationalities, reports the BBC's Phil Mercer.
Bereaved families from Japan flew to New Zealand for the fifth anniversary of the disaster, our correspondent says.
Each year more than 15,000 earthquakes are recorded in New Zealand, but only about 150 are large enough to be felt.
Residents in the Douglas North and Douglas South constituencies elected businessman Ralph Peake and former politician Bill Malarkey respectively.
Chief Minister Allan Bell said they are "two energetic individuals who I know will make a name for themselves".
The seats became vacant when Bill Henderson and David Cretney were elected to the Legislative Council.
Four candidates stood for election in Douglas South, while three others put themselves forward in Douglas North.
Mr Peake was elected for the first time whilst Mr Malarkey returns four years after being ousted from his seat.
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Kevin de Bruyne angled in an effort to put leaders City in front before Eric Dier equalised with a 25-yard shot.
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Toby Alderweireld then nodded Spurs in front from an Erik Lamela free-kick.
Kane side-footed in when team-mate Christian Eriksen's free-kick came back off the woodwork before Lamela slid home as the visitors chased the game.
Kane scored four goals in his first eight games for Spurs last season but had gone 12 hours without scoring for his club when the clock ticked past 33 minutes here.
He looked to be in for another frustrating game when, having already shot wide, he was denied by keeper Willy Caballero after digging the ball out to get another effort away with his left foot.
But just after the hour mark, he was rewarded for his persistence to end a run of 748 minutes without a goal for his club.
"There's been a lot of talk but I'm a confident man and have faith in my ability," Kane told BT Sport. "I'm delighted. It was a very good victory against a team who were top of the table."
Both sides had cause for complaint as the assistant referees failed to spot players in offside positions for three of the goals at White Hart Lane.
De Bruyne was marginally ahead of play when he was set up by Yaya Toure before putting City in front, though it was a close call.
The decision for Tottenham's equaliser was more clear cut. Kyle Walker was clearly offside as he ran onto the ball down the left, before Son Heung-min had a shot saved at point-blank range by Willy Caballero. De Bruyne could only clear to Dier, who scored. City centre-back Martin Demichelis was booked for his complaints.
England striker Kane then appeared to be in an offside position before latching onto the loose ball for his goal.
City had won five league games in succession before losing to Juventus in their opening Champions League match of the season 11 days ago.
Defeat by the Italian champions appears to have knocked them out of their stride, and Manuel Pellegrini's side have now lost three of their past four matches.
Injuries to key players have not helped, with goalkeeper Joe Hart on the bench at Spurs because of a back injury which meant he only trained for one day before the game.
Caballero, his deputy, was caught out when he came for Lamela's free-kick and allowed Alderweireld to put the hosts 2-1 up.
Like Hart, City skipper Vincent Kompany was also missing, while midfielder Toure injured a hamstring to add to Pellegrini's problems.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "It is never easy to play against a club like Manchester City as they have so many great players. I congratulate my players because they were brilliant. We fully deserved the victory.
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"We are all very happy for Harry Kane. As a striker, you want to score. It is very important for the team and him. We believe in his talent and quality."
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "Two of their goals were offside. I think we didn't play well in second half. The Premier League is always very difficult.
"We must continue working and playing like we did in the opening 45 minutes."
Former England midfielder Jermaine Jenas on Final Score: "Spurs showed real character. Harry Kane has got his goal and they've taken their chances. After the derby defeat by Arsenal in midweek, this is exactly what they needed."
City will aim to get their Champions League campaign back on track when they visit Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday. Spurs are next in action on Thursday, when they travel to Monaco in the Europa League.
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 4, Manchester City 1.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 4, Manchester City 1.
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur).
Offside, Manchester City. Samir Nasri tries a through ball, but Aleksandar Kolarov is caught offside.
Bacary Sagna (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Carroll (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt blocked. Clinton N'Jie (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Clinton N'Jie (Tottenham Hotspur).
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Patrick Roberts (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Tom Carroll replaces Erik Lamela.
Substitution, Manchester City. Patrick Roberts replaces Sergio Agüero.
Foul by Jesús Navas (Manchester City).
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Jesús Navas (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.
Attempt missed. Jesús Navas (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aleksandar Kolarov.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 4, Manchester City 1. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Clinton N'Jie.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Clinton N'Jie replaces Son Heung-Min.
Attempt missed. Samir Nasri (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Nacer Chadli tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Nacer Chadli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Erik Lamela with a cross.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Fernando.
Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Martín Demichelis (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Manchester City. Samir Nasri replaces Fernandinho.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Hugo Lloris.
Attempt saved. Jesús Navas (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Bacary Sagna.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Nacer Chadli replaces Christian Eriksen.
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Ben Davies.
Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
The South Korean firm now expects third quarter profits of 5.2tn won ($4.7bn; £3.8bn), which is a third lower than its original estimate of 7.8tn won.
The Note 7 was recalled last month after battery fires, but after replacement phones experienced the same problem, Samsung scrapped the device.
Ahead of the profit warning, Samsung shares fell 0.8% on Wednesday.
That added to Tuesday's 8% fall.
The company has seen more than $20bn wiped off its market value in two days.
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Samsung's shares have fallen on concerns that the current crisis will go beyond the costs of the recall and affect the brand's overall reputation.
Analysts are suggesting the Note 7 crisis could cost Samsung in the long run, particularly coming just as rivals, such as Google and Apple, have announced new high-end smartphones.
The Note 7 had been seen as the main rival to Apple's new iPhone 7 model. Samsung's woes have sent Apple's shares to a 10-month high.
In September, Samsung recalled around 2.5 million phones after complaints of exploding batteries.
It later insisted that all replaced devices were safe. However, that was followed by reports that those phones were catching fire too.
But on Tuesday, the company said it would permanently cease production of the device and urged owners to turn it off.
Scottish Power Renewables is to build up to 172 wind turbines 43 miles (69km) off the coast of Norfolk.
The East Anglia Three project is one of four the firm wants to develop off the region's coast and the second to receive planning consent.
RenewableUK, the renewable energy trade association, said it was a "vote of confidence" for the industry.
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Planning permission was granted by business secretary Greg Clark.
Scottish Power Renewables said the wind turbines are "larger and more efficient next generation" structures, reaching up to 247 metres (810ft) at the tip.
The electricity will be fed ashore at Bawdsey, on the Suffolk coast, and transferred to the transformer substation at Bramford, near Ipswich.
Construction is expected to start in 2022, with the project creating a range of new jobs over 30 years.
RenewableUK's executive director Emma Pinchbeck, said: "Not only will the wind farm use the latest, innovative turbines, but it will also provide a massive boost for local businesses to grow."
Work on the company's first project, East Anglia One, is under way and the wind farm is due to be fully operational in 2020.
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Fans were told singer Liam Payne had taken ill and could not perform.
Audience member Sarah Stevenson recorded the cancellation announcement on her mobile phone and published the video on her YouTube account.
Keith Robinson, who lived locally, died at the scene on the Aghintain Road. No other vehicles were involved.
The collision was reported to police just after 05:00 BST, and they have appealed for witnesses.
The Aghintain Road has reopened to traffic.
It is something that has been talked about for some time, but has still come as a surprise.
The move has been hailed by campaigners as a significant step in the fight against child obesity.
The levy is squarely aimed at high-sugar drinks, particularly fizzy drinks, which are popular among teenagers.
Pure fruit juices and milk-based drinks will be excluded and the smallest producers will have an exemption from the scheme.
It will be imposed on companies according to the volume of the sugar-sweetened drinks they produce or import.
There will be two bands - one for total sugar content above 5g per 100 millilitres and a second, higher band for the most sugary drinks with more than 8g per 100 millilitres. Analysis by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility suggests they will be levied at 18p and 24p per litre.
Examples of drinks which would currently fall under the higher rate of the sugar tax include full-strength Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Lucozade Energy and Irn-Bru, the Treasury said. The lower rate would catch drinks such as Dr Pepper, Fanta, Sprite, Schweppes Indian tonic water and alcohol-free shandy.
The whole health community, more or less. In recent years campaigners have been putting forward a vociferous case for why a sugar levy is important in the fight against childhood obesity.
The most high-profile supporter has been TV chef Jamie Oliver, who has introduced a sugar levy in his restaurants. He set up an e-petition that saw more than 150,000 people backing a tax.
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has also spoken out in favour of a tax and has announced the health service will be introducing its own "tax" in hospitals.
When it comes to a sugar tax, all the emphasis has been on drinks. There are a number of reasons for this.
Firstly, unlike a chocolate bar or slice of cake, they are not automatically seen as a treat. People who drink them tend to have them every day.
Secondly, some of the drinks are incredibly high in sugar. A typical can contains enough sugar - about nine teaspoons - to take someone over their recommended sugar intake in one hit.
For teenagers they are the number one source of sugar intake while overall, children get a third of their daily sugar intake from them.
They have also been dubbed "empty calories" as they have no nutritional benefit.
35g
The amount of sugar in a 330ml can of Coca-Cola (7 teaspoons)
30g
The recommended max. intake of sugar per day for those aged 11+
£520m The amount George Osborne expects the sugar tax to raise
Mr Osborne said the money raised - an estimated £520m a year - will be spent on increasing the funding for sport in primary schools.
There has been pressure on ministers to increase spending in this area to build on the legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games and in light of the low numbers of children who take part in regular activity.
Research has shown that half of seven-year-olds do not do enough exercise.
But while the tax applies to the whole of the UK, Mr Osborne announcement on where the money is spent applies solely to England. The devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are free to decide how to spend their share.
At the start of primary school one in 10 children in England is obese (very overweight) and by the end it is one in five.
If you take into account pupils who are overweight, those figures rise to one in five and one in three respectively.
There are fears this could rise even further - although there are some signs obesity rates may be starting to level off.
The issue has been described as one of the most serious public health challenges for the 21st Century by the World Health Organization, while NHS England's Simon Stevens has dubbed it "the new smoking".
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Smalling has been out with a foot injury since 23 October, while Shaw played in the Europa League defeat by Fenerbahce on Thursday.
Before the game, Mourinho said: "Smalling doesn't feel that he can play 100% with his pain. Shaw told me this morning that he was not able to play."
Afterwards, he added: "For the team, you have to do anything."
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Mourinho, serving a touchline ban, watched from the stand as two goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and one from Paul Pogba helped United end a four-game run without a Premier League win.
"There is a difference between the brave, who want to play at any cost, and the ones for whom a little pain can make a difference," said the former Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid boss.
"If I were to speak with the many great football people of this team, they will say they played many times without being 100%.
"We have players on the pitch with problems. In every sport, how many times do you play and you're not 100%?"
United were also without two more defenders in Antonio Valencia, who has had arm surgery, and Eric Bailly, absent with a knee injury.
With four defenders missing, winger Ashley Young played at full-back and Phil Jones, who had been out since January with a knee injury, returned.
Mourinho praised the pair, saying he needs such players if he his to change the mindset at Old Trafford.
"It is not just the players, but the people that surround the players," said the Portuguese.
"Yes, it takes time, but with the help of people like Phil Jones, who was playing without having even trained, Ashley Young and Wayne Rooney - with these people it will not be an impossible mission but a possible mission."
To add to Mourinho's selection problems, Ibrahimovic will miss the home game against Arsenal on 19 November after picking up a yellow card against Swansea.
Central defender Smalling, 26, and left-back Shaw, 21, have both been left out of the England squad for the World Cup qualifier against Scotland and the friendly against Spain.
"Chris has not played for quite a while. Luke played and had ongoing difficulties," Southgate explained on Monday.
"Our medical teams are very close, and we liaise closely. The decision with Luke to not play yesterday was a bit late and we are aware both players are carrying injuries."
On whether Mourinho was right to criticise the players, Southgate added: "It is a club matter and it is not for me to comment on in terms of players playing with injury."
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Ms Guevara was riding her motorcycle on Sunday evening when a car hit her and caused her to fall, she said.
Ms Guevara, a former Olympic medal winner, said the men in the car got out and hit her in the ribs and the head.
She said the attack had been "cowardly and vile" and that the car had rammed her on purpose.
She said the men had insulted her for being a woman and a motorcyclist.
Ms Guevara, an Olympic-medal winning athlete before entering politics, has reported the incident to the police.
She posted a photo of herself on Twitter looking bruised after having surgery on her face with the hashtag #bastadeviolence (#NoMoreViolence).
Violence against women is a major problem in Mexico and across Latin America, where there have been mass protests demanding authorities do more to protect women from aggression.
Proposals for a bill would give the Welsh government the power to directly fund universities.
But the Learned Society of Wales wants the legislation to protect universities from interference.
The Welsh government said it was considering responses to its plans.
Responding to a white paper, the society also repeats a claim that Wales' universities are "handicapped" by their "significant underfunding" compared to competing institutions in England and Scotland.
And it accuses the Welsh government of being "in denial" about the market in higher education.
Universities currently get their public funding through the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (Hefcw).
The Further and Higher Education Bill would give ministers the power to directly fund higher education "where it is strategically appropriate to do so".
The society welcomes an assurance from Education Minister Leighton Andrews that he will not interfere in what universities teach, but says the legislation should protect the sector's autonomy.
"The society is concerned that there are real dangers in government's wish to write into law that it should have the power to directly fund higher education partnerships and collaborative activities in 'strategically appropriate' circumstances without reference to independent knowledge experts in Hefcw," it says.
"Why do this if it doesn't want more direct control of what the universities do?
"The arm's length principle under which British universities have always operated will be severely damaged in Wales, but not elsewhere.
"It is a question of whether politicians are better equipped to decide on matters of scholarship, teaching and research than expert practitioners."
The consultation on the bill - which calls for Wales to have fewer universities "with greater critical mass" - comes at a time of change in higher education.
Cardiff Metropolitan University is fighting plans to merge it with Glamorgan and Newport universities.
In its response to the white paper, the society says the Welsh government already has considerable influence through an annual remit letter to Hefcw. It also has the ability to allocate funding directly, as happened in the creation of a medical school in Swansea, it says.
Changes to the law could give future governments "unprecedented powers" to decide what subjects are taught and researched, "solely on the opinions of politicians and their paid advisers".
It points to Mr Andrews' recent intervention over this summer's GCSE English results when he ordered that they be re-graded.
"Political control of issues of scope, content and evaluation in the universities should be specifically excluded from any forthcoming legislation," it adds.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "We are currently considering all responses to our consultation on the Further and Higher Education Bill. We will publish our response shortly."
After Hampshire won the toss, the visitors started well, left-arm paceman Keith Barker taking two of the wickets to reduce the hosts to 31-3.
However, Adams (104 not out) and Ervine (160 not out) batted sensibly on a slow wicket for the day's last two sessions.
Both made their 22nd first-class tons to leave Hampshire on top at stumps.
Warwickshire's day started brightly, as Barker (2-62) dismissed Michael Carberry and Rilee Rossouw to go past 300 first-class wickets.
But the Bears, who are still looking for their first win of the season, struggled to make further inroads, captain Ian Bell using seven bowlers to try and break up Adams and Ervine's partnership.
Warwickshire's other wicket-taker was fit-again Boyd Rankin, on his first start in 11 months.
Ervine brought up his first century of the season before Adams reached 13,000 first-class runs as the pair set a new Hampshire record for the fourth wicket in games against Warwickshire.
Hampshire batsman Jimmy Adams told BBC Solent:
"It was a big relief to get those runs as it had been a while and we were in a bit of strife at the beginning of the day. To do it at a time when it was needed means a lot.
"I am just delighted to see it through as you have days where you know you're not at your best. You just stick in there and do what the team needs. To have someone like Slug going well at the other end was important.
"I heard the PA over the speakers say about the record. Me and Slug had a chuckle about that. It's a nice milestone, especially when you hear it has been so long. Unfortunately, Slug got most of them."
Warwickshire first team coach Jim Troughton told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:
"We knew it would be a good toss to win and get a bat out there. Then we got them 30-3 and we thought we could get into them and open the innings up.
"But Adams and Sean showed their experience there and put on a great partnership for them. Whatever the ball did do it did slowly, so it was hard work for our boys.
"Barks, Boyd and Clarkey all bowled exceptionally well but they got the better of us in that partnership. We stood together well. This game hasn't got away from us."
The blizzard of claims and counter-claims by politicians can seem bewildering, so what faith should voters put in the views of their employer?
The BBC has today seen three examples of big employers intervening, by warning staff of the dangers of leaving the EU.
While all of them stressed it is up to individual voters to decide for themselves, they all made it clear on which side the company's bread was buttered. One company's chairman takes the opposite view.
Microsoft told its employees: "As a business that is very committed to this country, our view is that the UK should remain in the EU."
Aviva went further, warning that "the pound is already slipping, the stock market could fall steeply, interest rates could rise and the economy could go into reverse".
And United Technologies - the US manufacturing company behind engine maker Pratt and Whitney and Otis lifts - had the strongest warning. An internal memo to staff warns that leaving the EU "would create years of uncertainty, jeopardising investment and jobs".
In the Leave camp, Tim Martin, chairman of pub chain Wetherspoons, has already penned a long pro-leave article in the company magazine which finished with the line: "Continuing to give away power to the unelected elite in Brussels is a dangerous and unpredictable path."
Is it appropriate for company bosses to get involved in this way?
Yes - According to the CBI, "Responsible business leaders should give their employees the choice to hear what impact a Brexit would have on company growth, their jobs and their local community"
No - Vote Leave said the implicit threat to jobs amounted to intimidation.
John Longworth, chairman of the Vote Leave Business Council, said: "I've never seen such an establishment stitch-up. It's highly regrettable to see big corporate bosses plotting to gang up on their staff and lecture them on how to vote."
As I've said before in this blog, the lessons from the Scottish Referendum on these tactics are inconclusive.
Did the warning from major employers such as RBS and Lloyds (both partly owned by the government) that they would move their HQs to London scare voters into voting to stay, or did it antagonise floaters and end up backfiring?
After all, the referendum is by secret ballot and employers will never know how their staff voted.
There is one common denominator. In both cases, the leavers feel outgunned on the campaign trail. Vote Leave points out that the government's decision to spend £9m of public money on a single pro-EU leaflet is more than the £7m it is allowed by the Electoral Commission to spend over the entire campaign.
That is not to say that Vote Leave is struggling for money - it has plenty of rich friends of its own.
Donations to groups favouring Brexit currently stand at £8.2m - 10% more that the £7.5m raised by the Remainers.
Vote Leave say that is not enough of an equaliser when you are up against "the establishment".
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The blaze has been raging at Alexandra Docks in Newport since 17:00 GMT on Saturday.
South Wales fire service said it had broken out at a timber mill and 30 firefighters were at the scene.
Residents are advised to stay indoors and keep windows and doors closed to avoid smoke and ash caused by the the blaze.
Environment body Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said it was working with the site owners, fire service and Public Health Wales to minimise the impact of smoke.
Sarah Jones, a consultant in environmental health protection, said: "Some people may experience symptoms such as nausea, headaches or dizziness as a reaction to odour, even when the substances that cause those smells are themselves not harmful to health."
The 30-year-old Russian was denied a wildcard for the French Open, with tournament officials saying her doping suspension counted against her.
Sharapova will have to win through three qualifying rounds to earn a spot in Wimbledon's 128-strong main draw.
Qualifying in Roehampton will be ticketed for the first time this year.
"Because of my improved ranking after the first three tournaments of my return, I will also be playing the qualifying of Wimbledon in Roehampton, and will not be requesting a wildcard into the main draw," said Sharapova in a statement on her website.
Sharapova is ranked 211th in the world - below the status needed for direct entry into the main draw - but her recent form is good enough to earn a place in qualifying.
Had she reached the Italian Open semi-finals last week, Sharapova would have climbed high enough to make the main draw automatically, but she retired in her second-round match.
Had she applied for a wildcard it would have been reviewed by a Wimbledon committee, with a decision to be announced on 20 June.
Wildcards are "usually offered on the basis of past performance at Wimbledon or to increase British interest".
The Women's Tennis Association criticised the basis for the French Open's decision, saying there are "no grounds to penalise any player beyond the sanctions set forth in the final decisions resolving these matters".
Sharapova herself tweeted in apparent response to Roland Garros' decision.
"If this is what it takes to rise up again, then I am in it all the way, everyday," she wrote.
"No words, games, or actions will ever stop me reaching my own dreams."
However, former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash was one of several prominent figures urging the All England Club not offer the 2004 champion a route straight back into the main draw.
Tickets to Wimbledon qualifying will be £5 each, with all funds going to the Wimbledon Foundation.
Ronaldo looked unhappy after being taken off 18 minutes from the end of Real's 2-2 La Liga draw at Las Palmas on Saturday.
"I know he always wants to play and always wants to stay on the field," said Real coach Zidane.
"But I also have to think about the players and for me it was best to rest and think about Tuesday."
On Tuesday, Champions League holders Real Madrid are away to Borussia Dortmund, who also won their opening Group F match in this season's competition.
Ronaldo missed a couple of chances against Las Palmas as the La Liga leaders dropped points for the second successive game after conceding an 84th-minute equaliser.
The 31-year-old has scored twice in four appearances for Real this season, having missed their opening two La Liga games as he recovered from a knee injury sustained during Portugal's Euro 2016 final win over France.
Ronaldo, the three-time world player of the year, has rarely been replaced during games in his seven years at Real.
But Zidane, who took over as coach in January 2016, warned it may happen again.
He added: "I have to take him off sometimes and tonight we did it. That isn't going to change what we are going to continue to do."
A disturbance, involving a group of youths, took place at Sydney Russell School in Dagenham on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Three boys aged 12, 13 and 15 have been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.
Two of the injured pupils have been discharged while the third remains in hospital.
The three victims are believed to be two girls and a boy.
All those involved were pupils at the school, the Metropolitan Police said.
The school was rated outstanding by Ofsted at its last inspection. The school itself has yet to comment on the incident.
Hundreds of farmers supplying chickens to the poultry processing company are recipients of the heating subsidy.
Earlier Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said the meeting had raised "fresh concerns" over the operation of the scheme.
Poultry farmers use the wood chip boilers to heat the buildings where chicks are housed.
Many took advantage of the scheme to replace LPG heating systems.
In his statement, Mr Ó Muilleoir said the Moy Park briefing with his officials had raised "further issues".
But in a statement the company made no reference to any concerns about the operation of the scheme.
It said it had met officials from the departments of economy and finance in order to help find a solution "to secure the Northern Ireland RHI scheme within budget".
It said it had extensive experience of "benchmarked energy use" in the poultry industry.
That appears to be a reference to attempts to establish what would be considered acceptable levels of heat use by poultry farms.
Moy Park said it advocated "responsible use of heat".
The finance minister also said cost control proposals had been submitted to his department by Department of Economy officials on Monday evening only to be withdrawn 10 minutes later.
Mr Ó Muilleoir has already described the proposed cost control measures as a "sticking plaster".
He said he wasn't interested in a "botched solution to the RHI scandal".
The scheme to create a "strategic business park" off the M1 close to junction 36 in the Dearne Valley was backed by the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority.
Road building along the site is expected to start in October 2015.
The authority said it would allow potential employment and housing sites to develop.
After giving the scheme approval, the authority said in a statement: "This will allow work to take place on the key highway connections along the Dearne Valley Parkway and will see the provision of access roads along with the preparation of additional sites along the route.
"It will provide businesses with the right infrastructure they need to thrive and is essential in helping to attract and retain new and existing businesses.
"There will be significant impact on the number and proportion of private sector jobs in Barnsley."
The Sheffield City Region Combined Authority is made up of councillors from Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster and Sheffield along with others from parts of neighbouring Derbyshire.
The Carroll family, from Newtownabbey, County Antrim, and the Hughes family from Belfast cannot get home because their Easyjet flights were cancelled.
They were offered replacement flights but the planes depart late next week.
Easyjet said the strike was outside its control and was "doing everything possible to limit the inconvenience".
Robert Carroll travelled to Spain 11-days ago for a family holiday with his wife and three children in Salou.
Their flight home from Barcelona to Belfast was cancelled on Wednesday afternoon, on the first day of a two-day strike by air traffic controllers in France.
The dispute, over working conditions, led to several airlines cancelling hundreds of flights across Europe.
The couple, who are both due back at work in Northern Ireland, had not budgeted for an extra week in Spain.
Mr Carroll described a scene of delays and confusion when they got to their airport in Barcelona.
"After waiting in a queue for Easyjet for three hours, we were told we were going to a hotel, so we queued for a bus for another hour," he told BBC Radio Ulster.
After the family were bussed to the hotel, they said they had to queue at reception for an hour and a half before being told that there were no rooms left.
"They then sent us back to the terminal, who then sent us to another hotel, who told us they can only take us for two nights," Mr Carroll said.
"So we're here for two nights. Then after that we have to make our way back to the terminal, at a cost of 60 euros (£44) to ourselves, to find out where we're going to stay for another couple of nights."
Mr Carroll said he accepted that Easyjet had no control over the strike, but criticised the airline for "sending us to places that don't have any rooms".
He added that his wife has had to take unpaid leave from her job because of the unforeseen extension to their stay.
Although Easyjet is providing a replacement flight and free accommodation, the family are running low on money.
"If we had to go out and spend money it would have to come out of money to pay for other things We have been in Salou for 11 days so our spending money is depleted," Mr Carroll said.
Brenda Hughes was trying to get home to Belfast after a week's holiday in Benidorm, Spain, with her elderly mother and teenage son.
She said they were told their flight home was cancelled shortly after they checked their bags in at Alicante airport on Wednesday night.
Ms Hughes described the situation in the airport as "horrendous".
She said they had to stand in a queue for six hours, waiting to speak to the two Easyjet staff members on the information desk.
The airline has offered the family a replacement flight home but no seats are available until next Thursday, 16 April.
Ms Hughes said it will mean her son will miss a week of school and she will have to take extra time off from her job as a GP receptionist in Belfast.
She added that her 76-year-old mother requires daily medication and does not have enough tablets to last another week in Spain.
Ms Hughes also criticised staff at the airport, saying passengers, including children and elderly people, were not offered as a much as "a sip of water" during the six-hour wait.
The family were bussed to a hotel at about 03:00 local time on Thursday.
Ms Hughes said they have no money left after their holiday and are concerned about the cost of food in their four-star hotel.
In a statement to the BBC, an Easyjet spokesperson said the airline "worked hard to secure hotel rooms and transferred all passenger onto alternative flights free of charge".
"Due to the high demand on these routes some upcoming flights may not be available, but our airport staff are currently looking at other rerouting options for passengers."
"Although this is outside of our control, EasyJet would like to apologise to its customers for any inconvenience caused."
Addressing the accommodation complaints, the airline said it has "booked two nights for passengers at the moment as we do expect some will travel back on their own accord".
"We will continue to review the situation and provide hotel rooms for passengers until the next flights are available."
In a televised interview, Mr Hollande acknowledged he had made mistakes since taking office in 2012 but vowed to go "to the end" to reform the economy.
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris says the interview is widely seen as an attempt by Mr Hollande to revive his flagging popularity.
Earlier on Thursday, a new poll put the president's approval rating at 12%.
Unemployment in France is currently at 11% and economic growth has all but ground to a halt.
With Mr Hollande's popularity at an all-time low, the far-right Front National led by Marine Le Pen has been making steady gains.
"I've got a thick skin. For two-and-a-half years I've been hanging on," said Mr Hollande.
"I have made mistakes. Who hasn't?"
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris writes:
Bruised by personal scandal, with his popularity sunk to 12% and a rebellion growing within his party, this was a key moment for Mr Hollande to reclaim some support.
At times nervous, frequently interrupting his challengers, he fielded questions from voters about his personal life, rising unemployment and France's business environment. He had some tough debates, and announced some small initiatives to help those seeking work, but this felt more like an endurance test than a magic bullet.
The stakes, though, were high. France is beset by rising unemployment and high levels of debt, and Mr Hollande's reforms have yet to bear fruit.
"I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster," he said.
Having been elected on a promise to boost employment, Mr Hollande admitted that jobs had not materialised and staked his political future on turning the situation around.
Referring to his failed promise to "invert the trend" of unemployment, he said: "Do you think I can say to the French people, 'I didn't manage it for five years, but I promise I'll do it in the next five?' It doesn't work like that.
"If I don't manage it before the end of my term, do you think I will go before the French people in 2017? The French people would be unyielding and they would be right."
However, Mr Hollande vowed to go "to the end to reform France... to make it stronger in the two and a half years I have left".
He also promised that from next year there would be no additional tax "on anyone".
The president was questioned in the live TV programme by journalists and members of the public.
At one point a businesswoman chided him for using overly official language, telling him to "speak French".
John Arthur Jones, 65, of Bodffordd, denies 13 counts of recklessly or negligently acting in a manner likely to endanger aircraft or persons in an aircraft.
The trial at Mold Crown Court heard Mr Jones lived near the Mona airfield.
The jury was told he was "annoyed" by activity in the skies over his land.
John Philpotts, prosecuting, told the court 208 Squadron, which trains fast jet pilots, is based at RAF Valley and uses Mona airfield as part of the training for Hawk pilots.
"An important part of their training involves night flying," he said, including take off and landing.
He added: "It's the prosecution's case that Mr Jones endangered aircraft and their pilots repeatedly... and he did that, the prosecution say, by shining a bright light into the cockpits."
Mr Jones kept detailed notes of RAF activity and, Mr Philpotts said: "He was a man on a mission so far as RAF Valley was concerned."
The trial continues.
The group of around 50 off-road motorcycles and quad bikes brought Kirkstall Road, a major route into Leeds, to a standstill on Monday night.
Witnesses posted videos on Twitter and described the scenes as "utter chaos" and "madness" and compared them to those in the Mel Gibson film Mad Max.
A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Police closed the road until the group had dispersed.
Up to 200 bikers 'rode amok' on roads
Videos posted online show bikers riding in convoy, with some pulling wheelies. Others can be seen riding on the pavement.
There were also reports of vehicles being driven around pedestrianised parts of Leeds city centre, according to some witnesses.
Kirkstall Road was believed to have closed for around 90 minutes while drivers on other roads around the city also reported similar problems.
A police helicopter also attended the incident.
West Yorkshire Police confirmed the event had been organised on social media and the road was closed in order to resolve the situation. It said the group had dispersed by about 22:00 GMT.
The force said detectives were trying to "identify those involved and take robust action against them".
On Sunday, the Met Police arrested eight men for failing to stop during a similar "ride-out" in London.
Officers used tyre deflation devices to stop 17 motorbikes and three quad bikes.
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Zane Gbangbola, seven, died after his home in Chertsey was engulfed by what his family believes was contaminated floodwater.
His parents have disputed tests which indicate he was killed by carbon monoxide from the pump.
Zane's mother Nicole told an inquest into his death she felt "vilified" by suggestions she had used it inside.
Ms Lawler found her son not breathing in the early hours of 8 February 2014. He later died in hospital.
On the second day of an inquest into his death at Woking Coroner's Court she repeatedly denied using the device to drain their basement.
Ms Lawler and Zane's father, Kye Gbangbola, believe floodwater was contaminated with hydrogen cyanide from a lake built on an old landfill site next door.
Mr Gbangbola was left paraplegic as a result of the same incident.
Christopher Coltart QC for Surrey Hire and Sales Ltd, which hired out the pump, told the court Ms Lawler made a statement to police in which she said she had used it "sporadically" on 7 February.
He said she also spoke to a doctor the morning Zane died and told him they had been using the pump to drain their basement.
Ms Lawler said the pump was switched on to check it worked then switched off again.
Mr Coltart claimed there was a "fundamental conflict" in Ms Lawler's evidence about how she was advised to use the pump.
He said: "My client's account is that you were told not to use the pump indoors."
Ms Lawler denied this. "Both of them told me as long as the window's open, that's fine," she said.
She continued: "I would not have a child in a house with a petrol pump going."
Mr Coltart put it to her that Mr Gbangbola had a "falling out" with officers who were due to take his statement, leading him to write his own.
She agreed and said: "I know why they were falling out - it was about the disgusting way they spoke about our son's body."
Ms Lawler said she felt under pressure to sign a statement about her son's death.
She said the police behaviour was "abusive" and officers had been removed from the case.
An initial post-mortem examination into his Zane's death proved inconclusive.
The inquest continues.
Player-of-the-match Helen Housby was in inspired form as Thunder ran out 62-37 victors against Team Bath, who had gone into the match with two wins from two.
Hertfordshire Mavericks are the only other team to remain unbeaten, after Monday's 62-45 win at Team Northumbria.
Elsewhere, Loughborough Lightning beat Celtic Dragons 58-53 and Surrey Storm sealed a 59-36 win over Yorkshire Jets.
Storm, champions in 2015, were beaten by Team Bath on the opening weekend but have since bounced back to record two victories in a row, while Jets remain bottom of the table with three defeats from three matches.
Like Team Northumbria, Dragons are also yet to pick up a point in 2016 following their narrow defeat by Lightning.
The hosts started the brightest and striker Mangan opened the scoring on 12 minutes as he found the back of the net with a great curling effort from the left side of the penalty area.
Four minutes later, the former Bolton youth player sent home another chance before the referee's assistant chalked it out for offside, but he made no mistake as he fired through Torquay goalkeeper Brendan Moore's legs to double his tally at the start of the second half.
The Gulls pulled one back just after the hour as Lee Vaughan miscued a pass back to Scott Davies and Dan Sparkes took advantage and reduced the deficit, but Rovers held on for maximum points which saw them move up a spot to fourth.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Tranmere Rovers 2, Torquay United 1.
Second Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 2, Torquay United 1.
Substitution, Torquay United. Sam Chaney replaces Jamie Reid.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jake Kirby replaces Jay Harris.
Substitution, Torquay United. Nathan Blissett replaces David Fitzpatrick.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 2, Torquay United 1. Dan Sparkes (Torquay United).
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. James Norwood replaces Andy Mangan.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Michael Ihiekwe replaces Liam Ridehalgh.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 2, Torquay United 0. Andy Mangan (Tranmere Rovers).
Second Half begins Tranmere Rovers 1, Torquay United 0.
First Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 1, Torquay United 0.
Giancarlo Gallifuoco (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Torquay United. Ben Gerring replaces Luke Young.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 1, Torquay United 0. Andy Mangan (Tranmere Rovers).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
A spokesperson for the luxury brand said it was too expensive and time-consuming to renovate Temple Works.
Proposals for the £50m manufacturing and weaving facility creating more than 200 jobs are still on hold while Burberry considers its future plans.
The news comes as the retailer unveiled rising first quarter sales.
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Chief finance officer Julie Brown said: "We have decided not to push ahead with the Temple Works building. We have let the option lapse."
But the company told the BBC it was "still looking at land" adjacent to the building while it was "continuing to think through our plans" for the factory.
In a statement, a spokesperson said the company remained "committed to the city and the region".
On Wednesday, it reported a 3% increase in retail sales to £478m in the three months to 30 June, while like-for-like sales rose 4%, driven by demand from China and the UK.
Burberry, best known for its trench coats and distinctive checked patterns, announced its intention for a new facility in Leeds South Bank in November 2015.
However in April the group said it was "taking a moment to think through" its plans despite an "exceptional" performance in the UK.
The following month it revealed 300 jobs across finance, HR and procurement, customer service and IT would be relocated from its London offices to Leeds in a bid to save £100m.
US Gen Philip Breedlove said they were "weaponising" migration to destabilise and undermine the continent.
He also suggested that criminals, extremists and fighters were hiding in the flow of migrants.
Migrants are continuing to accumulate in Greece, after Macedonia stopped allowing more than a trickle through.
On Wednesday it allowed around 200 Syrian and Iraqi refugees to cross, with thousands still stuck on the Greek side of the border.
New figures suggest last year's total of one million seaborne migrants arriving in Europe could be matched well before the end of the year.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said nearly 129,500 migrants had arrived by sea so far in 2016, plus another 1,545 by land. It said 418 had drowned or were missing.
The crisis has caused tensions to surge, with Greece struggling to cope with the influx and the European Commission criticising Macedonia for using tear gas on a crowd of migrants on Monday morning.
"The scenes we just saw are not our idea of managing the crisis," said EC spokesman Margaritis Schinas.
In the Jungle camp of migrants in Calais, France, the demolition of the southern half of the camp continues - in what the government has termed a humanitarian operation but which critics say will just leave hundreds of desperate migrants without shelter in winter.
A volunteer with an aid organisation in the camp told the BBC that children were in danger in the camp, saying that she had spoken to children who had been raped and who were carrying out sex work.
Gen Breedlove is the head of the US European Command as well as Nato's Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
He told the US Senate Armed Services Committee that the crisis was allowing Russia to use non-military means to create divisions in the Nato alliance and Europe.
Greece is now the bottleneck in the migration crisis and six years of deep financial crisis have reduced the ability of the Greek state to respond quickly and effectively on its own. So the European Commission is assuming that it will have to help Greece look after a shifting population of about 100,000 refugees and migrants for the foreseeable future.
But that figure only makes sense if considerable progress is also made in reducing the number of arrivals by sea, from Turkey into the Greek islands. The rate of arrivals has fallen in recent days, but the average so far this year is close to 2,000 people per day. That means greater co-operation from Turkey remains essential if the EU is to succeed.
One sign of progress is the announcement that about 300 irregular migrants from North Africa are being returned to Turkey from Greece this week, under a little-used bilateral agreement. But its effect will be limited. The vast majority of recent arrivals are from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - three countries in which civil wars continue to rage, and from which asylum applications are routinely accepted.
So the strain on the system in Greece will continue to be substantial. And the fact that huge amounts of European humanitarian aid will be spent here, in the same way that it's spent in conflict zones in the developing world, is a striking symbol of the depth of Europe's migration crisis.
Russia and Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad, Gen Breedlove said, were "deliberately weaponising migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve".
He cited the use of barrel bombs - unguided weapons - against civilians in Syria. The only purpose of these indiscriminate attacks was to terrorise Syrian citizens and "get them on the road" to create problems for other countries, Gen Breedlove said.
Gen Breedlove added that violent extremists, fighters and criminals - including elements from the extremist Islamic State group - were in the mix of migrants.
He said he had requested that more US forces be permanently based in Europe. Their numbers have dropped from a Cold War high of half a million to about 62,000.
The European Commission has now adopted plans to disburse €700m (£543m; $760m) of emergency humanitarian funding between 2016-18 to help tackle the crisis, says humanitarian aid commissioner Christos Stylianides.
Under the plan, which still needs approval by the European Council and Parliament:
Greece has asked the European Commission for nearly €500m in assistance to help care for 100,000 asylum seekers.
"We cannot bear the strain of all the refugees coming here," government spokeswoman Olga Gerovassili was quoted as saying.
Despite commitments to relocate 66,400 refugees from Greece, EU member states have so far pledged just 1,539 spaces and only 325 people have actually been relocated, Reuters quoted a spokesman for the UN refugee agency as saying.
Meanwhile Turkey has expressed frustration at the lack of a common position from the EU on the crisis.
"If the burden is going to be lifted from Turkey, we should be hearing something about... giving the Syrians a legal possibility so they can go to EU countries without having to brave the waters... the EU has to get its act in order," Selim Yenel, the Turkish ambassador to the EU, told the BBC's HardTalk programme.
Paul Mason, of Ipswich, used to weigh 70 stone (440kg) but has lost more than 40 stone (254kg) with the help of gastric band surgery.
He is to have excess skin removed in New York but his visa application has been delayed due to a conviction.
Mr Mason, 53, said he hoped senator Elizabeth Warren could help his cause.
Ms Warren, who has declined to comment, is a senator in Massachusetts, where Mr Mason's fiancé Rebecca Mountain lives.
"I've asked Rebecca's senator if she could help get my visa application granted, on medical grounds," Mr Mason said. "I think they could take notice if she got involved."
Mr Mason built up a relationship with Rebecca Mountain online, after she had seen the coverage of his battle with obesity.
He travelled to the US in December for a consultation with Dr Jennifer Capla, who has offered to perform the operations, and to appear on the television programme The View.
During the recording, Miss Mountain asked him to marry her.
Mr Mason was due to return to the US for surgery, but his visa application was referred to Homeland Security in March because of a conviction for fraud in 1986.
"It's just a matter of waiting again," Mr Mason said. "But the longer they delay it the more prone I am to infections and permanent damage to my bladder and kidneys. I'm hoping they'll grant the visa quickly."
The excess skin operations could help Mr Mason shed a further seven stone (44kg) from his current weight.
"They will also make me more mobile and allow me to get on with my life," he said.
The distinctive patterned blue and grey number is seen in a picture of Guzman shaking hands with US actor Sean Penn in Rolling Stone magazine.
Penn interviewed fugitive Guzman in October. He was recaptured on Friday.
The company behind the shirt, Barabas, quickly advertised the "celebrity link" on its website.
However, it said it did not know how Guzman had got hold of one of its shirts
Barabas published the now famous picture of the meeting between Sean Penn and Guzman, who at the time that the image was taken, was on the run from the Mexican authorities after escaping from a maximum-security jail.
With the words "Most Wanted Shirt" emblazoned across it, Barabas posted the photograph next to an image of one of its models sporting the same shirt.
On its Facebook page, the company also offered customers the chance to win "our Barabas 'El Chapo' shirts" if they liked Barabas on Facebook or Instagram.
Barabas also posted a screenshot of a video showing Guzman wearing a silk paisley shirt, which the company says is one of its "Crazy Paisley" models.
Both shirts sell for $128 (£89).
The images first appeared in the Rolling Stone article last Saturday.
In the article, Penn recounts how he interviewed the fugitive cartel leader in a remote undisclosed location in Mexico.
Penn came in for scathing criticism over the interview both in Mexico and the US, with Republican Marco Rubio calling it "grotesque".
But a Barabas representative said the shirt maker was benefitting from increased sales.
"This is the shirt! It's the sensation of the moment, the phones haven't stopped ringing and we're making lots of sales and shipping many shirts, and we're expecting more to come," Barabas's Sandra Macia told news agency Efe.
Juventino Romero told Efe he had driven for 20 hours to buy the shirts at Los Angeles-based Barabas to resell them at his clothes shop in Washington state.
"I came for the new shirt that 'El Chapo' was wearing in the interview, people are asking for it," he said.
Despite his reputation for being a ruthless cartel leader, whose men have killed thousands of people, "El Chapo" is seen by some as a folk hero.
After his jail break in July, shirts and baseball caps emblazoned with his name became popular and "El Chapo" masks became a bestseller at Halloween in Mexico.
Following his recapture on Friday, Guzman is being held at Altiplano prison in Mexico awaiting extradition to the United States on drugs charges.
Tui plans to sell its holidays under a single brand in a move that follows the merger of the UK business with its German parent. It will take up to three years to complete.
The two brands have more than five million customers, with the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Greece the most popular destinations.
The Thomson name dates back to 1965.
Tui has 30 million customers, as well as more than 300 hotels, 136 planes and 1,800 shops across Europe.
Its joint chief executive, Peter Long, said the firm would begin phasing out other European regional brands in the Netherlands and France first.
The UK's First Choice and Thomson, which was set up by Canadian media baron Roy Thomson, will be the last brands to go because of their size.
The move was announced along with Tui's results, which showed its half-year losses narrowed to 272.6m euros (£195.5m) from 341.4m last time.
Like other travel businesses, Tui traditionally makes a loss in the less-busy winter period.
Bookings for the summer season were picking up nicely, said the company, with long-haul destinations doing better.
Jamaica is popular this year, bookings are up 22% on last year, and Mexico is also attracting more visitors, up 37% over the same period.
A new offence of creating an "individual terrorist enterprise", designed to counter the threat of "lone wolves", would also be established.
Government officials say that two or three young Muslims leave France every day to join Islamist groups abroad.
There are fears they will eventually pose a threat to France itself.
A French citizen arrested for the killing of four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum in May, Mehdi Nemmouche, had returned from Syria, after being radicalised in prison.
Another French-born jihadist, Mohamed Merah, killed seven people in Toulouse in 2012 before being shot by police. His victims were three paratroopers as well as three children and a teacher at a Jewish school.
EU counter-terrorism coordinator Gille de Kerchove announced on Tuesday that interior ministers from nine countries had adopted an action plan to identify people travelling to Syria and stop them falling into terrorism on their return.
The countries that signed up to the plan are Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands
The French bill would allow the authorities to impose six-month travel bans on people suspected of planning to make the trip to the danger zone.
Young Muslims planning to join militant groups like Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) travel on low-cost tourist flights to Turkey, then are met by contacts who take them across the Syrian border.
Under the new bill, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve would be able to impose a renewable six-month travel ban on individuals who have been identified by the intelligence services.
These people would have their passports confiscated and in theory be unable to travel - though, in fact, because of the border-free Schengen zone, they will still be able to move about inside the EU, right up to the Greek border with Turkey, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
The "individual terrorist enterprise" clause is meant to counter the threat of solitary Islamists, acting outside organised structures and planning personal acts of terrorism on French soil.
Details of the EU action plan were confidential, Mr Kerchove said after interior ministers met in the Italian city of Milan. The plan is due to be discussed further in October.
Five ministers were replaced, including Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka. Satoshi Morimoto, an academic, succeeds him.
The opposition Liberal Democratic Party had wanted four ministers removed.
Mr Noda's government wants to double the consumption tax rate to at least 10% by 2015 to help cut Japan's public debt and fund rising welfare costs.
"This reshuffle is to strengthen the cabinet and ensure that the government can make progress on several different policies, including tax and welfare reform," the prime minister told a news conference.
"I cannot allow this bill to be defeated. I will do my best to make sure this bill gets passed."
Mr Morimoto, a well-known security policy expert at Takushoku University, is reportedly the first non-politician to serve as Japan's defence minister.
Apart from Mr Tanaka, the Liberal Democratic Party had also demanded the removal of the ministers of transport, justice and agriculture, who face allegations of misbehaviour.
Mr Noda also replaced the minister for financial and postal reform.
The consumption tax legislation still faces challenges in the opposition-controlled upper house and from within the ruling Democratic Party.
The cabinet approved an outline of the legislation in February but has been stuck in negotiations since.
Mr Noda is looking to present the bill to the lower house before parliament ends its session on 21 June.
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Nathan Smith's goal gave the Gulls a 1-0 win at Macclesfield Town and booked a quarter-final trip to Bognor Regis.
However, the Gulls slipped to 12 points from safety in the National League after Boreham Wood won at Braintree.
"We can do that, it's on for us because we've got games coming thick and fast," Gulls manager Nicholson told BBC Devon.
"I keep saying it, but one good week is all we need to get ourselves right back in the mix.
"We've got three games in hand on most of those teams now, so we go out there, we put the work rate in like this, we can go to Boreham on Saturday confident and go there to try and win the game."
Torquay reached the semi-finals of the FA Trophy last season before being knocked out by Wrexham, and Nicholson says his side are capable of making the final this year.
"This season, fifth bottom and finishing the season at Wembley and we'll go away for a great summer," he added.
"That's the target, that's what I've told them, that's all that we need to concentrate on, but we have to do it one game at a time.
"I've been a professional for nearly 20 years and I've been fortunate enough to play there twice, which is twice more than most, and I'm very grateful.
"But it's an experience that these lads have got to earn, they've earned it so far, they're still in the hat."
A High Court judge said the cap was not intended to cover such households, had "no good purpose", and the failure to exempt them was discriminatory.
The government said it intended to appeal and there would be no change to the cap while this process was ongoing.
The cap limits the income households receive in certain benefits.
It stands at £23,000 for those in London and £20,000 a year outside London. Parents must work for at least 16 hours a week to avoid the cap.
The ruling was made in response to a judicial review brought by four lone parent families - including two who had been made homeless owing to domestic violence. Their solicitor said their benefits were, or were expected to be, cut as they were unable to work the 16 hours.
A judge in London ruled on Thursday that he was "satisfied that the claims must succeed" against the work and pensions secretary.
Mr Justice Collins said: "Whether or not the defendant accepts my judgment, the evidence shows that the cap is capable of real damage to individuals such as the claimants.
"They are not workshy but find it, because of the care difficulties, impossible to comply with the work requirement.
"Most lone parents with children under two are not the sort of households the cap was intended to cover and, since they will depend on DHP (Discretionary Housing Payments), they will remain benefit households.
"Real misery is being caused to no good purpose."
Solicitor Rebekah Carrier, who represented the claimants, said: "The benefit cap has had a catastrophic impact upon vulnerable lone parent families and children across the country.
"Single mothers like my clients have been forced into homelessness and reliance on food banks as a result of the benefit cap.
"Thousands of children have been forced into poverty, which has severe long-term effects on the health and well-being."
She said she thought around 17,000 families were affected.
A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said the government was "disappointed" with the decision and intended to appeal.
"Work is the best way to raise living standards, and many parents with young children are employed," he said.
"The benefit cap incentivises work, even if it's part-time, as anyone eligible for working tax credits or the equivalent under Universal Credit, is exempt. Even with the cap, lone parents can still receive benefits up to the equivalent salary of £25,000, or £29,000 in London and we have made Discretionary Housing Payments available to people who need extra help."
He said that households with young babies were among the groups that such housing payments were specifically aimed to assist.
The department said the benefits cap remained in place while the appeal process continued.
Alison Garnham, chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: "We have the ridiculous situation where one part of the DWP has been telling lone parents with very young children that it understands they should not be expected to work, and another part of the DWP is punishing them severely for exactly the same thing."
He faces losing ground to title rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who is one point ahead and starts from pole.
"We can't do anything in the race. We can't follow or overtake a car that is as fast or faster," said the Briton.
"It is going to be a battle to get on the podium - and unless something happens with the others that is probably going to be where we are."
Hamilton's remarks are founded on the difficulty of overtaking on the tight and twisty Hungaroring.
The 32-year-old said his unsurpassed record on the track, where he has won five times in 10 races, was "not relevant".
"It has been a good track. I was hoping to make the difference today but I wasn't able to," he added.
Mercedes have struggled compared with Ferrari all weekend but when Hamilton set the fastest time in the second part of qualifying it raised hopes he might be able to take a record-equalling 68th pole.
But he complained of lacking tyre balance on his first lap in the top 10 shootout and then ran wide at the fast Turn Four, forcing him to abort that run.
That meant he had to minimise the risks on his final lap to ensure he qualified close to the front, which he said was "unfortunate".
"That's the way it goes and at least I am on the second row," he said. "I don't think we could have matched the Ferraris even if I did a great lap."
Hamilton's performance was the latest in a series that is evolving into a pattern - that when Mercedes are struggling on low-grip tracks with slow corners, he is less competitive than Bottas.
The Finn was 0.254secs behind Vettel's pole, with Hamilton 0.431secs behind the German.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said: "I don't really have an explanation. Is that really a pattern? I don't know. I need to look it up. I have to think about it. Give me until Spa [the next race in four weeks] and I can give you a proper response."
Wolff said he believed Mercedes' drop in form compared with recent races was caused by the different nature of the Hungaroring track.
"We are starting to see a little bit of a pattern that the DNA of our car just seems to be more suited to the faster circuits and Ferrari is doing very well on these twisty, slow circuits," he said.
But he added that he thought Mercedes had made progress since their difficult weekend in Monaco, when Ferrari qualified one-two - as they have this weekend - and finished that way in the race.
"Final practice did not look good," Wolff said. "The car was very difficult to drive and Lewis wasn't able to put one single lap together.
"We recovered for qualifying. We changed the set-up a little bit. And we found the operating window of the tyre better and we recovered - but it wasn't enough.
"In Monte Carlo, we had much more severe problems. The car was new for us and we discovered a pattern we did not see while in Monaco. We solved that and this is what I take positive from the day, that we are much closer to Ferrari on these types of circuits."
Vettel said: "Chances are good. We start at the front, they couldn't be any better but tomorrow is a long day.
"It's hot, it's always hot here. It's tough for tyres. We saved a set compared to the others. We'll see. I think the race is long and a lot of things to look out for.
"A clean race is a good race and then we'll see which result we get."
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An open-top bus carrying the team left Albyn Place at 13:00, and went along Union Street to the Town House.
It followed Aberdeen beating Inverness 4-2 in a penalty shoot out in Glasgow last weekend.
Aberdeen Lord Provost George Adam said the parade gave the whole city the chance to celebrate the team's first major silverware in 19 years.
Union Street became a sea of red and white as thousands of fans watched.
Club chairman Stewart Milne said the turnout was "beyond our expectations".
One fan said: "I have never seen so many people in my life - a great atmosphere."
Alongside the cheering and applause, a loud chant of "Peter Pawlett Baby" echoed along the city's main thoroughfare.
Fans have been singing the alternative lyrics to the Human League song Don't You Want Me at game
A social media campaign around the song swelled following the League Cup victory last Sunday.
Campaigns on Facebook and Twitter to get the single to the top of the charts have snowballed since the club won the trophy.
As a result, the song reached the top of the Scottish singles chart and number 19 in the UK chart on Sunday.
Aberdeen City Council made £25,000 from the city's Common Good Fund available to fund the parade.
The frame was due to be hoisted up in sections by a 200-tonne crane on Tuesday morning.
Hundreds of people had gathered to watch but experts decided more counterweights were needed, which had to be transported from Bristol.
It is hoped the lift will begin on Wednesday morning, weather permitting.
The operation is part of a project to conserve and restore lead work on the east end of the roof.
It is part of a larger £20.5m scheme, which includes new exhibition spaces in the south transept and the refurbishment of the Learning Centre.
The captain alerted Dyfed-Powys Police on Saturday morning when crew realised Josh Winsper from Cornwall was missing.
Police divers and HM Coastguard are involved in the search.
Mr Winsper's family posted a plea to find him on social media. His aunt told the Cornish Guardian the family were "holding out for a miracle".
Mr Winsper was last seen at Astoria nightclub in the town at 02:30 BST on Saturday.
Rachel Gerred-Hart‎ told the newspaper: "His mother Sandra Winsper is beside herself with worry.
"You wouldn't believe the support coming from the town of Milford Haven. On behalf of the family we want to say the Welsh police have been incredible."
Mae S4C yn bwriadu symud i adeilad Yr Egin ym Mhrifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant y flwyddyn nesaf, gan symud 55 o aelodau staff o Gaerdydd i Gaerfyrddin.
Maen nhw wedi cytuno i dalu £3m mewn rhent i'r brifysgol ymlaen llaw, sy'n cyfateb i £150,000 y flwyddyn. Mae'r Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol yn talu rhent o £26,000 y flwyddyn i'r brifysgol am adeilad ger Yr Egin.
Yn ôl S4C a'r brifysgol nid oes modd gwneud cymhariaeth rhwng sefyllfa'r darlledwr a'r Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.
Yn ôl ffigyrau sydd wedi dod i law BBC Cymru, ddaeth yn dilyn cais rhyddid gwybodaeth, mae'r Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol yn talu £26,000 mewn rhent yn flynyddol i'r brifysgol.
Mae ganddyn nhw 20 aelod o staff mewn adeilad hŷn ger datblygiad Yr Egin.
Dywedodd AS Gogledd Caerdydd, Craig Williams wrth raglen Newyddion 9: "Byddaf yn siarad â chadeirydd y Pwyllgor Materion Cymreig, yr wyf yn meddwl y byddwn yn eu galw nhw [Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant] i mewn i siarad am drefniadau y datblygiad cyfan a'r gwahaniaeth rhwng y swyddfeydd.
"Mae'n gwestiwn o dryloywder, mae tipyn o niwl o gwmpas y datblygiad hwn.
"Yr ydym wedi ei weld yn y cais i Lywodraeth Cymru am grant, ac eto ar yr un pryd sicrwydd i S4C nad oes angen iddynt [gael] grant i allu symud ymlaen. Rydym wedi ei weld gydag un taliad rhent ymlaen llaw o £3m.
"Byddai'r person mwyaf gwrthrychol yn edrych ar hyn yn amheus.
"Hefyd mae yna wahaniaeth rhwng y rhent ar gyfer y Coleg Cymraeg drws nesaf, sydd rhaid cyfaddef hanner maint [S4C] ond yn sicr, nid hanner y taliad."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran S4C na ellir gwneud cymhariaeth â sefyllfa'r Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.
"Mae'r swm mae'r Coleg yn ei dalu ar gyfer swyddfeydd sy'n 12 mlynedd oed ac am y cyfnod presennol," meddai.
"Mae'r hyn mae S4C yn bwriadu ei dalu ar gyfer yr 20 mlynedd nesaf ac ar gyfer swyddfeydd o safon uchel, fydd yn rhoi sicrwydd, di-risg i S4C."
Ychwanegodd bod gan y darlledwr gynllun busnes am 20 mlynedd sy'n "gost-niwtral", a bod modd ymestyn i les 25 mlynedd heb gost ychwanegol.
"Ni fydd unrhyw adolygiadau rent ar draws y cyfnod o dan y trefniant yma. Roedd y prisiau a gytunwyd yn unol â barn y Prisiwr Dosbarth am werthoedd renti yng Nghaerfyrddin."
Yn ôl llefarydd ar ran Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant: "Ni ellir cymharu sefyllfa tenantiaid y Llwyfan ac S4C - mae'r ddau adeilad yn wahanol iawn o ran natur ac oedran.
"Mae'r Brifysgol yn cadarnhau fod y rhentiau fesul troedfedd sgwâr wedi'u meincnodi yn erbyn costau rhent yn ardal Caerfyrddin."
Bydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn penderfynu'n ddiweddarach yn y mis a fydda' nhw'n cyfrannu hyd at £6m i'r cynllun.
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A number of families have moved out in the area around Chobham Street.
Housing Executive workers spent Friday morning putting up boards to protect windows and doors at 54 properties.
The bonfire is on land owned by the Department for Regional Development.
It is 30 feet from terraced houses.
Ulster Unionist councillor Sonia Copeland has appealed to the bonfire-makers to reduce it in size.
They say they are willing to listen to suggestions to make it safer, but their current intention is to make it bigger.
Some families living beside the bonfire moved out of their homes after the Fire and Rescue Service warned their lives and property could be in danger.
Despite a number of meetings with various statutory agencies the people who are building the bonfire have refused to move it elsewhere.
Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers said it was the biggest that he "could ever recall".
"This is a very worrying time for many of the residents," he said.
"There are four streets which are worrying the Fire and Rescue Service as well as the Walkway community centre which is voluntarily owned."
Mr Rodgers said a series of meetings had been held over the last two months with a wide range of public bodies to try to address the issue.
He said attempts had also been made to try to persuade the builders to reduce its size.
"We have tried to work with the bonfire builders, we're not against the bonfire, but where there is a risk to life, where there is a risk to property, action needs to be taken, but unfortunately they're adamant that the bonfire is not going to be reduced in size," he said.
"What I'm asking them now to do is to behave in a responsible fashion.
"We don't want to see this district ruined. It's a very good area, I was born and brought up in it.
"This is a very worrying time for many elderly residents and people just don't know what to do."
Bonfires are lit every year on the eve of the annual Orange celebrations to mark the anniversary of the victory of the Protestant King William III over the Catholic King James II at the battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The hippos lived on Escobar's estate in the northern province of Antioquia but some escaped.
The population living wild is estimated to have grown to around 60 animals.
There have been years of debate about what to do with them.
The hippos have thrived in the tropical Colombian climate, its waterways and rich vegetation.
There have been sightings of them far from the Escobar estate, which has fallen into disrepair.
But the animals eat tons of vegetation and farmers' crops.
There have been years of debate about what to do with them and discussions about whether they should be culled.
But many Colombians like them and there there have even been cases of calves being taken home as pets.
Five years ago, the authorities shot and killed one of the hippos on the Escobar estate and the incident caused outrage. The hunt for other animals was called off.
But the government says the hippos pose a public safety risk and is funding the sterilisations from money seized from drug traffickers.
The boy was riding on Brantingham Road, Elloughton, when he was hit from behind and knocked down by a car at about 23:15 BST on Friday.
The driver failed to stop and the boy was found lying injured in the road, Humberside Police said.
Sgt Claire Hall said: "At this stage we have little detail about the vehicle involved.
"However we do believe it will have sustained some damage, possibly some dents or some smashed glass.
"I am appealing to the driver of the vehicle to come forward, or anyone who has information about the collision or the vehicle or driver involved."
Exiles flanker Ofisa Treviranus grabbed the only try of the first half as London Irish led 7-6, with Gareth Steenson responding with two penalties.
London Irish's Theo Brophy Clews and Steenson traded penalties before Dave Lewis's try put the visitors ahead.
Two Steenson kicks put the game out of Irish's reach, despite Topsy Ojo's try.
Sunday's other reports: Newcastle 26-25 Northampton
Pro12: Ulster 20-21 Scarlets
London Irish, who did enough to secure a losing bonus point, were the only side in the bottom three to lose this weekend, with Newcastle Falcons overcoming Northampton 26-25 to move up to 10th after Worcester Warriors ended a 13-game winless run to boost their survival hopes on Saturday.
Victory was Exeter's first in three league games, moving them to within four points of leaders Saracens.
There was a minute's silence before kick off in Berkshire in memory of former London Irish chairman and player David Fitzgerald, who passed away aged 55 following a battle with cancer.
Treviranus gave the hosts the lead inside 10 minutes, linking up with Ojo after the winger burst through the middle and dished off a pass under pressure.
Irish, with the worst defensive record in the top flight, frustrated Exeter for long periods, limiting the Devon club to two first-half penalties, despite being a man down before the break following David Paice's sin-binning.
Teenager Brophy Clews, making his first Premiership start for London Irish, edged the lead back out to four after the interval but Steenson hit back immediately from the tee.
Exeter looked more menacing after the break, Olly Woodburn threatening after intercepting a pass, while the visiting pack asserted itself against an overworked side, but it was not until replacement scrum-half Lewis threw a dummy to scamper over that the Chiefs went ahead.
A second yellow card, this time for Ian Nagle, who had replaced injured captain Matt Symons in the first half, allowed Steenson to kick the margin out to nine points.
And while Ojo raced away for a near length-of-the-field try with 18 minutes remaining, Exeter did not allow the hosts any more hope of a comeback, with Steenson adding a fifth penalty to complete the win.
London Irish head coach Tom Coventry told BBC Radio Berkshire:
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"I was pretty gutted today. We started so well and we had the attitude that I thought would be good enough to beat Exeter.
"We had it for long periods of time and I think the changing room reflects that disappointment in the result. But the effort I thought was pretty good today.
"Not being able to take vital opportunities was probably key in the end.
"The players make enough mistakes and referees are entitled to make a few as well. That's human nature.
"When things aren't going your way and you're under the cosh, most of those fifty-fifty things will go against you."
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter: "We found a win with our driving game and scrum coming through in the end.
"We battled as there's no team in the Premiership which rolls over.
"We squeezed them but it gets tougher and tougher and you need to pick up points all the time to remain in the top four."
London Irish: Fenby; Ojo, Mulchrone, Williams, Hearn; Brophy Clews, Steele; Smallbone, Paice, Aulika, Symons, Stooke, Treviranus, Narraway (capt), McCusker.
Replacements: Ellis, Tom Court, Halavatau, Nagle, Trayfoot, Allinson, Geraghty, Lewis-Pratt.
Exeter: Dollman; Woodburn, Whitten, Hill, Short; Steenson, Chudley; Moon, Yeandle (capt), Low, Hill, Parling, Armand, Salvi, Waldrom.
Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Hepburn, Francis, Atkins, Horstmann, Lewis, Hooley, Campagnaro.
Referee: Dean Richards (RFU)
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The 10m (32ft) long mammal was seen milling on the surface of the sea, just north of Portpatrick on Wednesday.
Experts from the Sea Watch Foundation claim this may be one of the most southerly sightings of a sperm whale on the west coast of the UK.
They are more commonly spotted in waters off the north-west coast of Scotland and two were seen near Skye last year.
Fisherman Simon Olley, who has seen otters, porpoises, seals and jellyfish, reported the rare sighting to the foundation.
He said: "What struck me about this sighting was the whale was just sort of sitting on the top, at first it wasn't obvious it was a whale until it moved slightly and I saw it's very noticeable large and square head and then I heard it take a couple of breaths.
"There was no obvious dorsal fin either. I watched it for a minute or so before it very gently just disappeared again."
The foundation's sighting officer Kathy James said they have been unable to fully verify Mr Olley's account as he did not take a photograph.
She added: "Simon has seen various cetaceans around the coast before, and with his experience and the description of the animal it is highly likely that he was watching a sperm whale."
Sea Watch director Peter Evans said lone adult male sperm whales have been spotted around the Northern Isles and the Hebrides over recent decades.
He added: "Increasingly, however, adolescent males have occurred in our waters, sometimes in groups of five to 10 individuals.
"The increased occurrence of winter and spring sightings in Scottish waters could be a reflection of climate change, if their main prey, squid, have become more abundant locally in recent years, resulting in animals staying through the winter to feed rather than travelling into lower warmer latitudes."
The foundation received a report of a stranded sperm whale in County Donegal in 1990 and a sighting of one in March 1996, north-west of the Isle of Man.
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Tosin Femi Olasemo, 37, of Cardiff, used a picture of a uniformed soldier as his profile photo on the dating site match.com.
He was jailed in 2015 for four-and-a-half years after admitting fraud.
A confiscation hearing at Cardiff Crown Court ruled he would serve a further two-and-a-half years if he did not pay.
Olasemo will be deported from the UK whenever he is released.
Following his conviction, a Proceeds of Crime Act investigation took place which revealed that Olasemo had links to Nigerian bank accounts containing more than £150,000.
He also had land purchased in Nigeria for about £47,000 and was found in possession of more than £1,100 when he was arrested.
During his sentencing in July 2015, the court heard he had tried to take more than £400,000 from lonely women using the alias Captain Morgan Travis, but banks stopped some payments going through.
He had told his victims he needed money to arrange leave from the army.
At the latest court hearing, he was ordered to repay just over £200,000 to his two victims, who live in Denmark.
He also has three months to arrange the sale of the land in Nigeria to repay the remaining money.
South Wales Police Det Insp Paul Giess, from the economic crime unit said: "This case has demonstrated the dangers of providing personal details and sending money to strangers online.
"Fraudsters use a variety of tactics to con their victims, such as pretending to be in need of urgent medical attention or having been discharged from the armed services into a life of poverty."
The United States Air Force (USAF) announced a year ago that it would vacate the base by 2020.
A decision on its future is due in the spring, but council leaders fear the site will be "mothballed".
They calculated that RAF Mildenhall and nearby RAF Lakenheath are worth up to £700m a year to the local economy.
Proposed changes at the bases would see the loss of 2,900 local jobs, including USAF personnel, they said.
In November it was announced that 350 personnel would be relocated from RAF Lakenheath to an airbase in Italy.
Forest Heath District Council is one of several authorities that have joined together to campaign to secure the future of the bases.
Its leader James Waters said: "We are pushing the Ministry of Defence to make a decision regarding any future military use for all or part of the RAF Mildenhall site.
"We want a commitment that the site will not be mothballed when the USAF leave - the potential damage of doing so is clear for all to see."
The Ministry of Defence said it was reviewing future uses of the site.
"We will continue to work with the relevant councils to ensure any decision takes into account local strategic planning issues," a spokeswoman said.
Viewers also saw what appeared to be the last of Thandie Newton's DCI Roz Huntley, the target of AC-12's latest investigation into police corruption.
The Guardian praised the show's "great acting and writing" while the Telegraph called it "insanely gripping".
A fifth series of the drama has already been commissioned.
ITV broadcaster Susanna Reid was among those to salute the season finale on Twitter, describing it as "suspenseful, stimulating, superb television".
"THANK YOU so much each & every one of you for watching," wrote cast member Vicky McClure. "It's been an absolute joy seeing your response over the last 6 weeks!"
Overnight ratings show that Line of Duty fetched an average audience of 7.46 million on BBC One, way ahead of the 3.79 million who tuned into Grantchester on ITV.
World Productions, who make the show for the BBC, said the ratings were "the highest live audience ever for the show".
At the end of Sunday night's episode, it was revealed that "Balaclava Man" was not one person but several people working for a mysterious criminal network.
One of the balaclava-clad men was shot dead by police in a tense stand-off and was described as "a known violent criminal with long-term associations".
An AC-12 police report briefly shown on screen revealed his name to be Robert Denmoor.
The episode also saw Newton's character finally confess to her role in the death of forensics expert Timothy Ifield (Jason Watkins).
But she did not go down without a fight, ensuring her husband's lawyer Jimmy Lakewell (Patrick Baladi) was arrested for perverting the course of justice.
The episode ended with both characters in prison and Assistant Chief Constable Derek Hilton (Paul Higgins) dead in what appeared to be a staged suicide.
According to the Mirror's TV critic, the only flaw in the "tense and twisting" hour-long final was that it "wasn't long enough".
Actress Maya Sondhi, who played WPC Maneet Bindra in the series, told Radio 4's Today programme earlier that writer Jed Mercurio had yet to start writing the fifth series.
She also revealed that it had been "a shock" to find out in episode four that her character had been secretly feeding information to ACC Hilton.
"He does write amazing twists, doesn't he?" she said of "evil genius" Mercurio.
"The beauty of his writing is there are so many layers to it."
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Avon and Somerset Police has been publishing details of inappropriate 999 calls to highlight misuse of the emergency number.
In another call, a man dialled 999 because staff on Weston-super-Mare pier would not let him on the rides.
And a woman told told call handlers she had no money to buy bread because her benefits had not arrived.
In a fourth call 999 made on Sunday a man told emergency operators a cash machine "had swallowed his card".
Police later took to Twitter to say people should only use the emergency number if offenders were nearby, life was at risk, an injury had been caused or threatened, or if a crime was in progress.
"For everything else call the non-emergency number 101. Although these are real calls and may generate humour [they] stop people getting the help they need."
An independent review, published in March, warned teacher training had deteriorated over the previous decade.
On Tuesday, Mr Lewis also announced education degrees would be studied over four years rather than three.
Plaid Cymru said too many universities were offering teacher training courses and this was reducing standards.
"In return for that extra level of effort what we will also be offering - and this is my ambition - we will be offering the best teacher training in the UK without any doubt at all," Mr Lewis told BBC Wales.
He said trainee primary school teachers would specialise in certain subjects.
"For a very long time we've had too few subject specialists in our primary schools - people teaching mathematics that may not be entirely comfortable with mathematics," he said.
"We have to redesign that primary teachers course to ensure every primary teacher has a subject specialism built in."
Plaid Cymru education spokesman Simon Thomas said it was "disappointing" that in a statement to AMs Mr Lewis had been "silent" on whether "the delivery of teaching training needs to be streamlined".
This year, 2,700 teachers are being trained at three centres involving five universities in Wales.
Mr Thomas said: "Can we continue to have so many colleges providing teaching training when some struggle to maintain the highest standards and how can we develop expertise in this field in Wales?"
Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts welcomed ministers' "acknowledgement of the report's recommendations", but expressed concerns about how the plans would "work in practice" and questioned whether the resources needed would be provided.
The Glovers had dominated throughout, hitting the crossbar twice, but failed to make the breakthrough as substitute Alex Nicholls punished them late on.
Yeovil came close twice in the opening 10 minutes as Ryan Hedges and Otis Khan both drew saves out of Jamie Stephens, and then nearly broke the deadlock early in the second half when Kevin Dawson's long-range deflected effort was well parried by Stephens.
Six minutes later, the hosts thought they had their goal when Barnet failed to clear a Ryan Dickson cross and Tom Eaves' header beat Stephens, but cannoned off the bar.
And the woodwork saved the Bees for a second time when Khan's half volley flew into the frame of the goal with the keeper well beaten.
It looked as though it was only a matter of time before the Glovers found the net, but Nicholls grabbed a shock opener for Barnet six minutes before the end as his low drive beat Artur Krysiak to leave Huish Park stunned.
Khan had the chance to equalise in the final minute, but shot straight at Stephens as the Glovers left the field wondering how they had ended the game on the losing side.
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Match ends, Yeovil Town 0, Barnet 1.
Second Half ends, Yeovil Town 0, Barnet 1.
Foul by Otis Khan (Yeovil Town).
Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Curtis Weston.
Attempt missed. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by John Akinde.
Elliot Johnson (Barnet) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Elliot Johnson (Barnet).
Goal! Yeovil Town 0, Barnet 1. Alex Nicholls (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Curtis Weston.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Tahvon Campbell replaces Tom Eaves.
Substitution, Barnet. Sam Muggleton replaces Luke Gambin.
Attempt saved. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Elliot Johnson.
Attempt missed. Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
Attempt missed. Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) header from very close range is too high following a corner.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Elliot Johnson.
Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Attempt missed. John Akinde (Barnet) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Francois Zoko replaces Ben Whitfield.
Attempt missed. Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.
Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Elliot Johnson (Barnet).
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Curtis Weston.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Bira Dembélé.
Substitution, Barnet. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro replaces Ephron Mason-Clark.
Attempt missed. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town).
(Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Jamie Stephens.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Jamie Stephens.
Attempt saved. Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Barnet. Alex Nicholls replaces Tom Champion.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
Attempt missed. Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
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The win denied the lacklustre visitors an all-Welsh final against their closest rivals in Dublin.
But they could have no complaints on a day when only Munster touched down.
Francis Saili, Simon Zebo and Andrew Conway went over for the clinical hosts while Dan Biggar kicked Ospreys' sole penalty.
Scarlets had stunned Leinster 27-15 in Dublin a day earlier and will meet Munster at the city's Aviva Stadium on Saturday 27 May (18:15 BST) in the final.
Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb was a late withdrawal for Ospreys because of a groin injury.
It meant he did not face Ireland's Conor Murray before they head to New Zealand together on the British and Irish Lions tour in June.
The visitors and their hosts were evenly matched until Zebo made the line.
Ospreys stand-off Biggar kicked the opening points and they led until Saili's try.
The twice-capped New Zealand international was a powerful midfield presence throughout, although he was penalised for an off-the-ball tackle on Biggar.
Soon after that, Saili made his presence felt in a more positive fashion by powering over when centre partner Rory Scannell was halted on the touchline.
Biggar failed with a penalty attempt and saw opposite number Tyler Bleyendaal kick the hosts further ahead to close the opening period.
The hosts gradually tightened their grip on the contest up front while Ospreys attacks fell flat.
And when Murray launched a counter-attack in which Saili and Earls combined before Zebo raced clear, Munster were almost home and dry.
Ospreys' replacement hooker Scott Otten had hopes of a memorable moment of glory denied when his chip and chase effort was ruled out by Tom Habberfield's knock-on in the build up.
At the other end, Conway evaded three defenders on the narrow side of a scrum to score.
And at the end, wing Keelan Giles' spectacular dive to the line was denied, as television match official Graham Hughes spotted the Ospreys man's foot had hit the touchline.
Teams
Munster: Simon Zebo; Andrew Conway, Francis Saili, Rory Scannell, Keith Earls; Tyler Bleyendaal, Conor Murray; Dave Kilcoyne, Niall Scannell, John Ryan, Donnacha Ryan, Billy Holland, Peter O'Mahony (capt), Tommy O'Donnell, CJ Stander.
Replacements: Rhys Marshall, James Cronin, Stephen Archer, Jean Deysel, Jack O'Donoghue, Duncan Williams, Ian Keatley, Jaco Taute.
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Keelan Giles, Kieron Fonotia, Ashley Beck, Tom Habberfield; Dan Biggar, Brendon Leonard; Nicky Smith, Scott Baldwin, Rhodri Jones, Bradley Davies, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), Sam Underhill, Justin Tipuric, James King.
Replacements: Scott Otten, Paul James, Dan Suter, Lloyd Ashley, Olly Cracknell, Jay Baker, Sam Davies, Josh Matavesi.
Referee: Luke Pearce (RFU)
Assistant referees: Matthew O'Grady (RFU), Wayne Falla (RFU)
TMO: Graham Hughes (RFU)
Edmund, 22, led 6-3 5-0 15-0 when the Frenchman was penalised a game for smashing a ball out of the court.
Mannarino had earlier kicked a chair, and hit a ball towards a ball boy.
Edmund's previous match, against Dennis Shapovalov in the Davis Cup, ended with the Canadian being defaulted.
The 17-year-old angrily smashed a ball which hit umpire Arnaud Gabas, who later required surgery to repair a fractured eye socket.
Edmund, the world number 49, had lost to 60th-ranked Mannarino in straight sets at Wimbledon last year, and the Yorkshireman goes on to face American Bjorn Fratangelo or Yen-Hsun Lu of Taiwan in the second round.
Canada's Milos Raonic, the world number four, is the top seed at Delray Beach and a potential quarter-final opponent for Edmund.
Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro is making his first appearance of 2017 after extending his off-season following victory in the Davis Cup in November.
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The Puma running shoes, signed by the Olympic champion sprinter, had been bought at an auction raising money for a sport charity.
They were in a frame with a certificate of authenticity and a photo of Bolt, both of which were also taken after thieves broke into the BMW in Watling Street, St Albans on 21 December.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
The owner of the shoes had paid "a significant amount of money" for the shoes, Hertfordshire Police said.
Thieves broke into the car between midnight and 10:00 GMT, smashing the frame which held the trainers, and making off with all the items.
Jamaican-born Bolt won three gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a further three golds in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Manchester and Surrey universities warn cutting sleep is leading to "serious health problems".
They say people and governments need to take the problem seriously.
Cancer, heart disease, type-2 diabetes, infections and obesity have all been linked to reduced sleep.
The body clock drives huge changes in the human body.
It alters alertness, mood, physical strength and even the risk of a heart attack in a daily rhythm.
It stems from our evolutionary past when we were active in the day and resting at night.
But scientists have warned that modern life and 24-hour society mean many people are now "living against" their body clocks with damaging consequences for health and wellbeing.
Prof Russell Foster, at the University of Oxford, said people were getting between one and two hours less sleep a night than 60 years ago.
He said: "We are the supremely arrogant species; we feel we can abandon four billion years of evolution and ignore the fact that we have evolved under a light-dark cycle.
"What we do as a species, perhaps uniquely, is override the clock. And long-term acting against the clock can lead to serious health problems."
He says this is an issue affecting the whole of society, not just shift workers.
Prof Foster said that this was an acute problem in teenagers and he had met children who sleep by popping their parent's sleeping tablets in the evening and then downing three Red Bulls in the morning.
Emerging evidence suggests modern technology is now keeping us up later into the night and cutting sleep.
"Light is the most powerful synchroniser of your internal biological clock," Prof Charles Czeisler, from Harvard University, told the BBC Day of the Body Clock.
He said energy efficient light bulbs as well as smartphones, tablets and computers had high levels of light in the blue end of the spectrum which is "right in the sweet spot" for disrupting the body clock.
"Light exposure, especially short wavelength blue-ish light in the evening, will reset our circadian rhythms to a later hour, postponing the release of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin and making it more difficult for us to get up in the morning.
"It's a big concern that we're being exposed to much more light, sleeping less and, as a consequence, may suffer from many chronic diseases."
Life for the Griffiths family in Rhyl, north Wales, is nothing short of hectic.
Parents Steven and Sam share the same job in the ambulance service. One works 06:30-18:30 when the other comes into work 18:30-06:30.
Throw in a 16-year-old, a 12-year-old, kickboxing classes, cycling and the fact they work in Liverpool, which is an hour away, and there's not much free time in the day.
Steven says: "In a perfect world I'd rather have more sleep, but life now doesn't let you have that much sleep.
"The kids have activities, we want to exercise and you want to cram all of that in.
"I could do with more sleep."
Pioneering genetic research is now uncovering how living life against the clock is damaging our health.
About 10% of human DNA has a 24-hour pattern of activity, which is behind all the behavioural and physiological changes in the body.
But studies have shown rhythm can be disrupted by short sleep durations or shift work.
Dr Simon Archer, who conducted the studies at the University of Surrey, said there was a "large impact" on how the body ran.
"These are all fundamental biological pathways that can be underlying links to some of the negative health outcomes that we see such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and potentially cancer in people who don't get enough sleep or do shift work," he said.
Experiments show people can become pre-diabetic after a few weeks of shift work.
Dr Akhilesh Reddy, from the University of Cambridge, said the body clock influences every biological process in the human body and the health consequences of living against the clock were "pretty clear cut", particularly in breast cancer.
He said: "Try to live more rhythmically, in tune with the environment and not have too much bright light before bedtime because it will affect the clock and sleep."
Prof Andrew Loudon, from the University of Manchester, said: "The problems caused by living against the body clock may be less sexy than the countless 'this or that causes cancer stories' it is none-the-less a major problem for society."
"You might not notice any short-term changes in your health following circadian disruption, but over a long period of time, the consequences could be quite severe.
"Governments need to take this seriously, starting perhaps with reviewing the health consequences of shift work, and society and legislators needs to take this on board."
Do you want to change your sleep pattern? Sleep expert Professor Russell Foster will be answering your questions from 1430 GMT . Email [email protected]
North of Dupont Circle it is where a large number of the foreign embassies are clustered: the British, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian, South African, Mexican to name but a few. South of Dupont Circle is where a lot of the big, well-funded foreign policy think-tanks are housed. In my mind, I have a picture of the mandarins and panjandrums of this rarefied world listening to Donald Trump: wincing occasionally, tutting every now and then, a bit of head-shaking, a good deal of concern.
And if I am correct in this surmise, my guess is that Trump would not give a damn. These people, through the telegrams they will despatch back to their foreign ministries and through learned articles that will be published in worthy magazines, are not his audience. Yet. Maybe if we do get a Trump administration, a phrase he used repeatedly in his speech in a smallish ballroom at the Mayflower Hotel, then that will undoubtedly change. But for the moment, the only audience he cares about is the Americans watching at home.
So what did it add up to? Well, let me pose this question: what has been the standout policy of Trump thus far in his extraordinary bid for the Republican nomination? Surely it has to be Mexico and building the wall to halt the flow of illegal immigrants heading across the Rio Grande. Well, there was mention of the wall. But only the Ronald Reagan quote aimed at Mr Gorbachev about tearing down the Berlin Wall. There was no mention of Mexico, Mexicans, building a wall, and getting the Mexicans to pay for it. Nothing. Zero. Zilch.
Maybe if you're trying to be philosophical and reflective, there is no space for that sort of pantomime rhetoric that has become a staple of his campaign stops
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But there were things that you would recognise from Trump 1.0: first, this swipe at the current administration: "Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision, no purpose, no direction, no strategy."
So let's deal with the vision. First of all, his foreign policy would put the interests of the American people, and American security, above all else. So far so uncontroversial: which candidate is going to say he is not going to put the interests of the American people first?
He also had a good poke at Nato, saying - essentially - the free ride is over, everyone must pay their share, only four of the 28 members are paying the 2% of their national wealth on defence that was agreed as the baseline a couple of years back. But I have just returned from Europe with President Obama, and in a speech in Hanover he said more or less the same thing.
He reiterated that Iran must not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, spoke up for Israel, he wants America's service men and women to have the best equipment and treated well when these veterans return. Again: who is going to argue with that?
So don't look at this speech and think it is ALL outside the foreign policy consensus.
Of course there were rhetorical flourishes, and there will have been things outlined where, I'm sure, grizzled and gnarled foreign policy veterans would be saying 'good luck with that, mate' - notably his assertion that he wanted an end to the hostility with Russia, easing of tensions with China, that he wanted to be friends with them.
He also said the era of American 'nation-building' around the world was over. But wouldn't Barack Obama say the same thing?
What is different is that Donald Trump would be more pre-disposed towards isolationism than his recent predecessors. He is suspicious of multi-national institutions, doesn't like big trade deals that lead to a loss of American jobs. The world, he promises, will be viewed through the clear prism of American interests
The charge has been made that Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be commander-in-chief. Today he sought to explain why he was not only fit, but had a vision too. The vision was clear….but how he'd make that a reality - well, that wasn't quite so clear.
Which leaves an impression that Trump's foreign policy has a lot of "what" but is desperately short of "how".
Irfan Wahid, also 16, was attacked in Harehills Lane, Leeds, on Friday afternoon. He later died from a single stab wound to the chest.
The suspect has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article.
West Yorkshire Police said the boy, who cannot be named due to his age, will appear at Leeds Youth Court on Tuesday.
There are two other League One games and one in League Two scheduled for Wednesday, all kicking off at 19:45 GMT.
Brechin City host Alloa Athletic and Stenhousemuir visit leaders Livingston in the third tier.
And Clyde take on Cowdenbeath in League Two.
An analysis of admission policies found that only 73 out of the 163 existing grammar schools in England gave priority to children eligible for free school meals.
Enter a postcode to find out whether the state-funded grammar schools closest to you give any priority in their admissions policy to children based on eligibility for free school meals.
Some schools use eligibility for free school meals (FSM) at the time of application while others apply the broader "pupil premium" - which includes children who were eligible at any point in the past six years.
Note: % eligible for free school meals refers to the period 2009-15 for English schools and 2015-16 for those in Northern Ireland. The school admissions policies are the latest available. Some policies have changed in recent years.
Once widespread, grammar schools are now confined to just 36 of England's 152 local authorities, but Prime Minister Theresa May plans to change and expand the system.
New selective schools would have to show they were "genuinely reaching out across society" and taking children from a range of backgrounds, Mrs May said.
Grammar schools are, by their nature, selective: children must sit a test to be considered for admission.
But while some schools select on ranked test scores alone, others use a range of criteria to decide which pupils to admit once they have passed the test.
Oversubscribed schools may prioritise particular postcodes, siblings of children already at the school, religious faiths and other criteria - including past or present eligibility for free school meals.
The BBC analysed the admissions policy of all 163 English state grammar schools for the school year starting September 2017, or if unchanged for the year 2016-17.
In 21 schools, a quota of children currently or previously eligible for free school meals are admitted separately from other applicants.
A further 31 schools put such children top of their oversubscription criteria: the method for deciding whom to admit if there are more eligible pupils than places.
Putting children from lower income families at the top of the oversubscription criteria can result in higher numbers than a simple quota.
The Skinners' School in Kent has a quota but only sets aside five places specifically for children entitled to free school meals.
Ninety schools give no priority for past or present free school meals eligibility, and 21 give a lower priority in their oversubscription criteria or use it as a potential tie-breaker for the last place in the school.
Northern Ireland's 66 grammar schools tend not to prioritise pupils on free school meals, but they are more socially inclusive anyway, with a higher proportion of pupils from poorer backgrounds.
Grammar schools are more likely to be located in wealthier areas, but there appears to be no obvious link between their admission policies and how close they are to more deprived areas.
Looking at deprivation levels within a 5km (three-mile) distance of a grammar school can reveal how closely the school matches its locality.
Handsworth Grammar School, in Birmingham, is in one of the most deprived areas in the country, and its intake reflects that: even without a quota, 27% of its pupils have been eligible for free school meals within the past six years, close to the England average of 29.4%
The King Edward VI Foundation Schools, in Birmingham, has introduced the most ambitious quota systems, allocating up to 25% of places for children from lower income families.
Wolverhampton Girls' High School gives no priority to children who have been entitled to free school meals, although it sits between affluent and more deprived areas.
In Reading, both the boys' and girls' grammar schools give high priority to children who have received free school meals in the past six years and live within the catchment area.
The designated areas for the schools are wide, covering postcodes that include more deprived parts of the town but the proportion of their pupils entitled to free school meals in the past six years is tiny compared with the local authority average.
Grammar school pupils travel further than children going to a non-selective school.
So the boys' grammar school in Tunbridge Wells has altered its admission policy to give priority to pupils from low income families who also live close to the school.
In England, the Department for Education gathers data not only on whether pupils are currently taking free school meals but on whether they have been eligible at any point in the past six years - a so-called "Ever 6" measure.
This is seen as a robust way of measuring poverty as it covers families where, for example, a parent is in and out of employment. Schools receive a "pupil premium" of extra funding for each Ever 6 child.
Across all state secondary schools in England, an average of 29.4% of pupils are or have been eligible for free meals under the Ever 6 criteria, according to latest figures.
But the proportion varies widely across of the country, with impoverished Tower Hamlets in London seeing 70.5% of its secondary school pupils needing free school meals in the past six years but only 14.7% in Buckinghamshire.
In grammar schools, our analysis shows that the Ever 6 average is much lower, at 6.9% of pupils.
Handsworth Grammar School, in Birmingham, has the highest proportion, at 27%, although this is still below the England average and well below the city's figure of 49%.
At the other end of the scale, is Beaconsfield High School, where just 0.8% of the pupils were eligible at any point between 2009-15.
By Branwen Jeffreys, Christine Jeavans, Ed Lowther, Katherine Smith, Mark Bryson, Rachel Schraer, Zoe Bartholomew
The Illegal Money Lending Team (ILMT) in England is offering schools ready-made lessons designed to warn their pupils about the danger.
The educational packs, which include videos, have been funded by confiscated money from convicted loan sharks.
More than 2,500 primary and secondary schools have already expressed an interest.
Yeading Junior School in west London has been trialling the lessons, which have been developed to raise awareness about the dangers of loan sharks and help children manage their money wisely.
In one classroom, when asked what a loan shark was, hands shot up in the air.
"A loan shark is an illegal money lender who is friendly to you but then after a while they turn nasty and put interest on the money they lent out," piped up 10-year-old Ariana.
Colourful wall displays about various aspects of personal finance adorn classrooms and corridors throughout the primary school.
The school's ethos was admired by Cath Williams who is spearheading the lesson plans on behalf of the IMLT.
"It's key to teach kids about financial education. What these lesson plans do is look at things like needing something and wanting something and also the difference between debt and credit.
"Hopefully if we can get those basic skills right then people won't need to go to loan sharks in the future".
The benefits of the classes could be two-fold believes head-teacher Carole Jones.
"When the children go home with the knowledge that they have from the classroom and the skills that they have been using, they will inevitably talk about that and parents will be able to clue into what the children are talking about and in turn make alternative decisions for themselves."
Source: Policis/Illegal Money Lending Team
It is estimated that 310,000 families use loan sharks, typically borrowing £350 at a time.
But as the debts escalate to thousands of pounds, it is thought borrowers are paying £700 million a year to unlicensed lenders.
While teachers and schools can play their part in trying to cut off demand for illegal money lenders, action to tackle the supply-side of the problem continues.
Since first piloted 10 years ago, the Illegal Money Lending Team has secured 308 prosecutions and managed to get £42m of illegal debt written off.
Last week, following a tip-off to its 24/7 hotline the IMLT made an early morning knock on the door of a house in Welwyn Garden City.
Trading standards officers, accompanied by the police entered the property and systematically searched through drawers and cupboards for evidence of unlicensed lending practices.
Two hours later, carrying a large see-through plastic bag, Head of the Illegal Money Lending Team Tony Quigley seemed pleased with the haul.
"We've found some documentation and some cash, potentially in to the thousands (of pounds), which will now go to the local police station where we'll do further examination."
Three suspects were arrested and released on bail until 26 June 2014 while further enquires are carried out.
While the IMLT has managed to help more than 23,000 victims of loan sharks over the past decade, its mantra is clear: teach our children about the dangers of getting involved with illegal lenders and you can limit the damage.
The Citroen driver was in a battle for a podium spot when he went off on stage 14 to drop him out of contention.
Although the car emerged unscathed, the 37-year-old Dungannon driver lost over eight minutes as spectators helped to remove him from a snow bank.
Finnish driver Jari-Matti Latvala won the rally for Toyota, ahead of M-Sport duo Ott Tanak and Sebastien Ogier.
Second place in stage seven showed that Meeke had potential, but he lost the back end of his Citroen over a crest in stage 14.
He plummeted down the order as the minutes passed, emerging in 12th place where he eventually finished.
The Northern Irishman still recorded his first championship points of the season as he finished fourth in the powerstage, which leaves him 14th in the standings.
Meeke's team mate Craig Breen, making his debut in an 2017 spec rally car, had another strong showing as he came home in fifth.
Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville held a 43.3 second lead heading into the final stage on Saturday, but crashed out for the lead for the second successive rally.
The incident which handed victory to Latvala and Toyota, in what was only their second rally back after a 17-year absence from the World Rally Championship.
He told reporters in Jerusalem it was not too late to avoid a broader crisis.
Mr Ban spoke soon after police said a Palestinian drove his car into a group of Israelis in the occupied West Bank, injuring a soldier and a civilian.
Eight Israelis and more than 40 Palestinians, including attackers, have been killed in recent weeks.
The upsurge in violence began last month when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over amid rumours that Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex. Israel has denied such claims.
Mr Ban appealed for calm at the start of a surprise visit to Jerusalem.
"My visit reflects the sense of global alarm at the dangerous escalation in violence between Israelis and Palestinians," he said, after meeting Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. "If we do not act fast, the dynamics on the ground will only get worse."
Prior to his visit, Mr Ban had urged both Israelis and Palestinians to end their "posturing and brinkmanship".
Addressing Palestinian youth, he said he understood their frustration and anger "at the continued [Israeli] occupation and expansion of settlements". But he added: "You must put down the weapons of despair."
Mr Ban told Israelis that he understood their "genuine concern about peace and security", but warned that "walls, checkpoints, harsh responses by the security forces and house demolitions cannot sustain the peace and safety that you need and must have".
On Tuesday morning, an Israeli soldier was stabbed and wounded during clashes with Palestinians near Beit Awwa, a village west of Hebron, the Israeli military said. The Palestinian attacker was shot and killed.
Hours later, an Israeli soldier and a civilian were injured in a vehicle attack at Gush Etzion junction in the southern West Bank, the Israeli military said.
The assailant reportedly drove his car into a group of pedestrians standing at a bus stop, and then got out and attempted to stab them before he was shot dead.
A Palestinian man was also killed during clashes with Israeli troops near the Gaza border fence, medics said.
Late on Tuesday, Israel's military said two men were shot dead after a stabbing attack in Hebron that wounded a soldier.
Palestinian medics in the Gaza Strip meanwhile said a Palestinian man was shot dead and three others wounded during clashes between protesters and Israeli troops east of the Bureij refugee camp.
The Israeli military said "terrorists in Gaza" had attempted to attack soldiers near the border fence. They were "identified and targeted", and hits were confirmed, a statement added.
In another incident in the West Bank, an Israeli man died after being run over at the al-Fawar junction, south of Hebron, Israeli medics said.
An Associated Press photographer who witnessed the incident said the man left his car after Palestinian protesters threw stones at it, began to hit passing Palestinian cars with a stick or bat, and was struck by a lorry.
The Palestinian lorry driver handed himself in to Palestinian police, saying he collided with the man accidentally, Palestinian news agency Maan reported.
Overnight, Israeli troops destroyed and sealed the home of a Palestinian man who ran down, stabbed and killed an Israeli woman in the West Bank last year.
The Israeli military said the demolition was a "clear and deterring message that the involvement in terrorism has a price".
Such demolitions have been denounced by human rights groups as a form of collective punishment and against international law.
There has been a spate of stabbings of Israelis and some shootings - several of them fatal - by Palestinians since early October, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli. The attackers have struck in Jerusalem and across Israel, and in the occupied West Bank. Israel has tightened security and its security forces have clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza.
After a period of relative quiet, violence between the two communities has spiralled since clashes erupted at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site in mid-September. It was fuelled by rumours among Palestinians that Israel was attempting to alter a long-standing religious arrangement governing the site. Israel repeatedly dismissed the rumours as incitement. Soon afterwards, two Israelis were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank and the stabbing attacks began. Both Israel and the Palestinian authorities have accused one another of doing nothing to protect each other's communities.
There have been two organised uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation, in the 1980s and early 2000s. With peace talks moribund, some observers have questioned whether we are now seeing a third. The stabbing attacks seem to be opportunistic and although they have been praised by militant groups, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.
What is driving the latest violence?
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League bosses have shut the north stand of their Olympic Stadium for Sunday's visit of Udinese after Juventus players were abused in the Supercoppa final.
Paul Pogba, Angelo Ogbonna and Kwadwo Asamoah were all targeted during Lazio's 4-0 loss at the weekend.
Lazio fans were found guilty of racist behaviour by Uefa four times last term.
"We heard it, they're ignorant," said former Manchester United midfielder Pogba. "What can I do? I'm alone against 30,000 fans. They do that even though there are black players in their team.
"It's also a lack of respect towards their own players. It's really not nice to come to a football match and hear those sorts of things, but I'm a player, I concentrate on my job."
In February, the Rome club were ordered to play their next two home European games behind closed doors following crowd trouble.
They were also fined £120,000 by Uefa following racist chanting in a Europa League game against Tottenham Hotspur.
"(Lazio) are obliged to play one game with the 'Curva Nord' closed to spectators," said a statement published on Serie A's official website.
"Fans from the nominated stand directed racially discriminatory chants to three opposition players between the 16th and 28th minutes of the first half and the 20th to 43rd minutes of the second half."
Lazio's city rivals Roma, who also play in the Olympic Stadium, have already been punished with a partial stadium closure after fans racially abused AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli in May.
The heavier sanctions have been made possible by new anti-racism legislation passed by the Italian Football Federation on 4 June. Referees can now stop matches to allow fans to be warned about their behaviour, while clubs and individuals face increased fines and longer suspensions.
AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng walked off the pitch after being racially abused by Pro Patria fans in January, while team-mate Kevin Constant did the same during a pre-season tournament last month.
Both Lazio and Juventus were also handed additional 5,000 euro (£4,300) fines after supporters from both clubs were seen throwing smoke grenades and lighters on to the pitch during Sunday's traditional season opener between the previous campaign's league and Coppa Italia winners.
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An eight-year-old boy, Martin Richard, was killed by the first blast, caught in the carnage as he watched the race at the finish line with his family.
Martin's mother and sister, six, were badly injured. Martin's mother received emergency surgery for a head injury, and his sister was treated for a leg wound.
Boston Globe journalist Kevin Cullen told the BBC that a firefighter friend of his, who picked up the injured girl, described the scene as worse than anything he had seen while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At a city hospital, two brothers - said to have been standing next to the boy who was killed - are now recuperating. Each lost a leg in the explosion.
"I feel sick," the boys' mother, Liz Norden, told the Boston Globe newspaper from the hospital. "I think I could pass out."
"I'd never imagined in my wildest dreams this would ever happen."
The large crowds gathered for the marathon meant there was no shortage of witnesses to the horror.
"The explosion utterly shook my body, I could feel it in my heart," Ramsey Mohsen told the BBC.
Mr Mohsen, a digital strategist from Kansas City, was in Boston watching his girlfriend, Ali Hatfield, compete in the race.
After congratulating her, the pair were little more than 100ft (35m) from the finish line when the first explosion went off.
"Out of nowhere there were two loud explosions. Everyone had gone from happy and smiling and full of excitement from running the race to complete silence.
"People didn't know how to react."
Stunned by the explosions, the couple attempted to reach their hotel, and were given food and fruit juice by kindly Bostonians before they made it through security and back to their sanctuary.
Writing on her blog hours after the carnage, Ms Hatfield described the panic among the crowd.
"Seeing a huge group of people with a panicked look on their face was so scary," she wrote.
"I keep thinking about the what-ifs. What if we had not finished when we did? What if we were not with our families when the explosions went off? What if, what if, what if."
Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino, already in hospital recovering from surgery to repair a broken leg, checked himself out to take up his position at the city's command post.
"The marathon is a great day in the city of Boston, but we had a tragedy," Mr Menino said from a wheelchair.
"I offer my condolences and prayers to the victims."
Among those victims was a young man who appears to have been saved by a Costa Rican peace activist, Carlos Arredondo.
Mr Arredondo survived a suicide attempt after his US Marine son was killed in Iraq, before seeing his other son take his own life in 2011.
Mr Arredondo was hailed as a hero after a striking and graphic picture emerged from Boston of him wheeling a badly injured man for treatment.
Apparently the victim had lost both legs but had his life saved by Mr Arredondo's application of a tourniquet.
In a YouTube video that emerged later on Monday, a visibly shaken Mr Arredondo told a questioner he found "blood, blood everywhere".
"So much was happening, I just concentrated on that young man, tying up his legs... and I managed to take him away to the ambulance."
Elite runner Josh Cox, now a US athletics commentator, said the race was usually a festival of sport and a great day out.
"The majority make it to the finish line to see... friends and family finish," he said.
"We run because of the spectators - they give us courage, they give us motivation," 2012 winner Wesley Korir of Kenya, an early finisher in Monday's race, told the BBC.
"To see this you worry about the future because you never know if they will come back next year... are there going to be spectators, how many people are going to register, how many people are going to be scared?"
Edenilson Steven Valle's body was found floating in the pool on Sunday. The star - who was away at the time - said this was an "unthinkable tragedy".
Mr Valle , 21, is believed to have been a member of the household staff. Relatives reportedly told investigators he could not swim.
It is thought he may have fallen into the pool during a party.
Moore, 52, said in a statement: "My heart goes out to this young man's family and friends."
Los Angeles County coroner's Fred Corral said Mr Valle, had been missing for 10 or 15 minutes before his friends found him floating in the deep end of the pool early on Sunday morning.
Emergency crews were called to the house in the city's Beverly Crest neighbourhood. Paramedics treated the man but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Demi Moore bought the house together with her former husband Ashton Kutcher. She was once the highest paid actress in Hollywood.
The 25-year-old, who was allowed to leave the Broncos with a year remaining on his contract, also has a second-year option with the Wildcats.
Walton played just six times for the Broncos in 2015 after leaving Salford.
"Jason has immediately impressed everyone at the Wildcats with his enthusiasm," said coach Brian Smith.
"His rugby talents and strong physical attributes suggest that Jason will make a real contribution in this big opportunity for him."
Dozens of tyres and pallets had been left in the middle of the recently opened pathway at Connswater, east Belfast.
It forms part of the £40m Connswater Community Greenway project.
Earlier, Robert Osborne, Bloomfield Community Support Group, said those who had collected for the bonfire were "happy to step away".
He told the Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster that he had been involved in talks with the collectors and that the plan was to hold a fun day and light a beacon on 11 July.
Workers from the Environment Agency cleared away the debris.
Mr Osborne said the decision had been made "in order to keep east Belfast progressing and flourishing".
"The youths know they can always go to a different bonfire, you have got ones within a couple of metres of each other. It is near enough - a stone's throw away for most of them.
"I can't talk for every other bonfire, but because of what is going on in that park and the amount of money spent, our community is happy enough to step away from a bonfire.
"A bonfire is like a family, heart and soul goes into it and whenever they realised that there was so much money put into making their community look better, they obviously saw the outcome was going to be better for future developments and what might come for them."
Traditionally, bonfires are lit in many loyalist areas of Northern Ireland on the "eleventh night" - the eve of the Twelfth of July.
They celebrate William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The greenway project includes a number of new bridges, cycle paths and walking routes.
It also features a new civic square with sculptures of characters from Narnia - in tribute to author CS Lewis who grew up in the area.
Earlier this month, about 500 people attended the official opening of a new greenway bridge, dedicated to Z Cars actor, James Ellis.
The investment was aimed at improving the urban environment by creating open public spaces and cleaning up rubbish from neglected riverbanks.
For weeks, complaints were lodged with Belfast City Council about the discarded tyres and pallets.
It had replied that bonfire issues were "complex" and it was working with communities to address the matter.
Five men and a woman from Devon each faced charges under the Animal Welfare Act at Newton Abbot Magistrates Court.
After legal argument the charges were dismissed by a district judge as not being animal fighting as defined by the act, said the RSPCA.
The charity said it was "considering its position" after the decision on 12 November.
The RSPCA said in a statement that the judge ruled that "'taking a dog into the countryside seeking another animal to attack and perhaps kill, in that other animal's own environment and in which that animal is not constrained, artificially or otherwise' did not constitute animal fighting as defined in the act.
"The Animal Welfare Act has been one of the most successful ever pieces of legislation in protecting animals from harm and the RSPCA furthers its charitable purposes through enforcing the legislation."
Defence lawyer Simon Rees said on Facebook that the judge was "100% correct in his interpretation of the law".
He said: "The decision was that section 8 of the Animal Welfare Act was confined to animal fighting proper and was not, as the RSPCA suggested, any fight between say a lurcher and a fox in the context of a hunt.
"The decision upheld the old law under the Protection of Animals Act 1911, which the Animal Welfare Act replaced, to the effect that only captive animals could be the subject of fighting."
Taiwan is also demanding compensation and the arrest of those responsible.
It has warned the Philippines of diplomatic and economic measures if it does not respond positively.
The Philippine coastguard acknowledged that it had fired at the boat to "disable" its machinery.
It says that it was acting in self-defence.
Fisherman Hung Shih-cheng, 65, was shot dead on Thursday when the coastguard vessel opened fire on his boat.
He was in waters south-east of Taiwan and north of the Philippines, an area considered by both countries to be their exclusive economic zone.
Hours after his remains and vessel were returned to Taiwan, the president's office and the foreign ministry issued a series of demands to the Philippines.
They asked for a formal apology, the speeding up of the investigation into his death, punishment of the perpetrators, the payment of compensation to the fisherman's family and talks over fishing rights in the disputed area.
Taiwan also threatened to send the Philippines' representative back to Manila if its neighbour does not respond within 72 hours.
The BBC's Cindy Sui in Taiwan says that while the Philippines' representative to Taiwan has expressed sympathy and condolences to the victim's family, the Philippines has refused to apologise, pending the investigation.
Officials in Manila have said that their initial findings suggest that the coast guard acted in self-defence and that fishing boat tried to ram into the coastguard vessel.
The three surviving fishermen on board the vessel, including Mr Hung's son and son-in-law, have disputed this account.
After inspecting the boat, Taiwanese officials also said they did not find this explanation credible as there were 52 bullet holes in the boat and the fishermen were unarmed.
"This is very brutal and cold-blooded," Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said on Saturday, warning that his country would consider sanctions against the Philippines amid widespread public anger towards Manila over the shooting.
Taiwanese officials say that the coastguard chased the boat for some time and did not offer help to the distressed vessel after it was damaged by the shooting.
It argues that opening fire on an unarmed fishing boat violated international law.
Tens of thousands of Filipino migrant labourers work in Taiwan's manufacturing sectors and homes.
It was the second time in two days that the country's national anthem was subject to a mix-up at the tournament.
Organisers apologised for playing the Chile anthem instead of Uruguay before their game against Mexico on Sunday.
Chile went on to lose Monday's game 2-1 to the 2014 World Cup finalists.
Fans and players were still singing as the the pre-recorded anthem music ended, and, according to reports, the Pitbull track was next on the tracklist at the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
American Pitbull has sold more than 60 million records globally - leading to his nickname 'Mr Worldwide'.
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The PHA also say they will offer additional services, including support sessions for carers and relatives of those in distress or despair.
Complementary therapies will also be made available for those with the greatest levels of anxiety.
Investment will remain at the current level of £3.5m per year.
The PHA says that changing how the budget is spent will enable them to provide a "more effective service" to people in crisis.
The work of Lifeline is currently undertaken by Contact and is funded under the Suicide Prevention Strategy.
Contact's contract was due to end in 2015 but special arrangements were put in place by the Department of Health to extend it.
It is understood that the procurement process for the new service model will begin shortly.
The PHA has already held two 12-week consultations on Lifeline's future services.
James' brace and Mike Haley's effort just before the break put Sale 21-14 up, with Worcester's tries coming from Francois Hougaard and Joseph Taufete'e.
Second-half Bryon McGuigan and Ben Curry tries ensured victory for Sale.
But scores from Chris Pennell and Biyi Alo were enough to move Warriors 10 points clear of bottom side Bristol.
While Worcester have not won away in the Premiership since beating Harlequins in March 2016, and their defeat in Greater Manchester extends their miserable winless run to eight matches at Sale, the point on their travels was a valuable one.
If Bristol fail to beat second-placed Exeter on Saturday, their relegation could be confirmed against pacesetters Wasps a week later.
Victory for Sale was their first in four games, and they were made to work hard for it. The lead swapped three times in the first half and Sharks then had to play much of the final 15 minutes with 14 men after Halani Aulika and Mike Phillips were sin-binned.
On both occasions, yellow cards were followed by tries, but the efforts of England Under-20 international Curry to score Sale's fifth try, having initially relieved pressure with a smart kick before then stealing the ball to score, put the result beyond doubt.
Sale Sharks director of rugby Steve Diamond: "We played some good rugby, we finished some good tries.
"I thought Sam James, McGuigan and AJ MacGinty played particularly well in the backs and Bryn Evans controlled the lineout pretty well.
"They obviously worked on us because they knew our wingers were quick and that missed ball beat Denny (Solomona) a couple of times.
"Once we sorted that out, once we got our lazy forwards off the deck and around the rucks then in the second half it was totally different; they struggled to score in those areas when it was 15 on 15."
Worcester's director of rugby Gary Gold: "I'm starting to get a little bit annoyed by the same story over and over again.
"We're scoring tries, we're playing good passages of rugby and asking questions with ball in hand, but we stopped concentrating. The try before half-time was a soft one.
"Mathematically, it's not enough (for us to be safe) and I would never want to say it's enough. Anything can happen and I just don't want us to think that we're comfortable because that will bite us, badly."
Sale: Haley; Solomona, James, Jennings, McGuigan; MacGinty, Phillips; Harrison, Webber, Aulika, Evans, Ostrikov, Neild, T Curry, Beaumont (capt).
Replacements: B Curry, Pope, Longbottom, Nott, Pearce, Mitchell, Bedlow, Charnley.
Sin-bin: Aulika, Phillips
Worcester: Pennell; Humphreys, Willison, Te'o, Adams; Mills, Hougaard; Bower, Taufete'e, Schonert, O'Callaghan (capt), Spencer, Vui, Lewis, Mama.
Replacements: Bregvadze, Grant, Alo, Barry, Potgieter, Baldwin, Lamb, Olivier.
Referee: Matthew Carley
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The 26-year-old, who began his career at Chelsea's academy and also spent time on the books at Wolverhampton Wanderers, has yet to play a game in the Football League.
He has spent the past two seasons with National League South side Whitehawk.
Ijaha worked alongside current Pilgrims assistant manager Craig Brewster during his time with the Sussex club.
He is the 12th player to join the beaten League Two play-off finalists this summer, but the length of his contract with Argyle has not been disclosed.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Police were called to Royton Avenue in Sale, Greater Manchester at 23:10 BST on Thursday after reports of a scuffle involving a group of men.
The 34-year-old victim was treated at the scene and taken to hospital where he later died.
Detectives believe he was beckoned into the road by three men before he was fatally stabbed. A murder investigation has been launched.
Det Insp Mark Astbury, said: "In the space of minutes, the lives of this man's family have been turned upside down and his children have been left without a daddy.
"I'm urging anyone who either witnessed the incident itself or has information that would help us, to get in contact."
Spain took the lead when Cesc Fabregas dinked the ball over keeper Danijel Subasic and Alvaro Morata tapped in.
An Ivan Rakitic lob hit the woodwork for Croatia, who equalised when Nikola Kalinic turned in Ivan Perisic's cross.
Subasic saved a Sergio Ramos penalty and Perisic's late winner gave Croatia, who finished top of the group, a tie against a third-placed qualifier.
Perisic lashed in an 87th-minute shot in a thrilling match to inflict Spain's first defeat in 15 games at the European Championship since losing to Portugal in Euro 2004.
Croatia will now play on Saturday in Lens, while Spain's mouth-watering tie against Italy - a repeat of the 2012 final - will take place on Monday in Paris.
Relive Croatia v Spain
This was an eagerly anticipated game because of the quality at Croatia's disposal and the type of test they were expected to give the reigning champions.
From that point of view, Croatia pressed and pushed further up than Spain's previous opponents - Turkey and the Czech Republic - and, despite going behind, caused plenty of moments of uncertainty at the back for Vicente del Bosque's side.
Spain centre-back Ramos gave the ball away early on and Perisic had a shot palmed away by keeper David de Gea.
De Gea was then dispossessed by Kalinic and the ball fell to Rakitic, whose chip hit the crossbar and the post before bouncing the wrong side of the post for Croatia.
Spain again dominated possession but their resistance was finally broken when they conceded their first goal in 735 minutes at the Euros as Kalinic stole in front of Ramos to turn in Perisic's left-wing cross.
A weak punch from De Gea led to him having to save Tin Jedvaj's shot before Marko Pjaca sent an overhead kick wide.
Spain's keeper and their defence looked vulnerable when exposed before they were caught out on the counter-attack, with Perisic's strike beating De Gea at his near post.
Croatia coach Ante Cacic made five changes while his team were without key midfielder Luka Modric and striker Mario Mandzukic through injury.
Nevertheless, they managed to provide further evidence they pose a danger to any team in the tournament by not only showing character to come back from a goal down but discipline in defence and a threat when going forward.
Perisic and captain Darijo Srna are key to their play with their energetic running on the flanks and ability to whip in dangerous crosses, like the one which led to the equaliser.
Croatia, who left Ramos unmarked twice from crosses only for him to fail to get his headers on target, were angered by the penalty award for Sime Vrsaljko's challenge on David Silva and will have felt justice was done when Subasic, who was three yards off his goal-line, saved.
In another plus for Croatia, there was no trouble from their fans following the crowd unrest and throwing of flares on to the pitch which marred their draw with Czech Republic.
Spain manager Vicente del Bosque: "The players were sat in silence. They don't enjoy losing. We had the game under control, I'm not going to defend our performance excessively but I think we played quite well.
"We didn't hold on to the ball as well as we should have [before the winning goal] and weren't ready for the counter attack. But we're still in the competition, we are not on the path we wanted to be but we have to rise to the situation."
Croatia boss Ante Cacic: "This team is like our nation. The players have shown how to represent your country and how to behave.
"I wanted to play the next match with really fresh players. It's a huge achievement, and now we can be even more self-confident."
Former Wales forward and BBC Radio 5 live summariser John Hartson: "I think Croatia have deserved it, Spain have played some good football, easy on the eye, but they were not clinical enough in front of goal."
Match ends, Croatia 2, Spain 1.
Second Half ends, Croatia 2, Spain 1.
Offside, Croatia. Ivan Rakitic tries a through ball, but Duje Cop is caught offside.
Substitution, Croatia. Andrej Kramaric replaces Ivan Perisic.
Substitution, Croatia. Duje Cop replaces Marko Pjaca.
Foul by Sergio Busquets (Spain).
Sime Vrsaljko (Croatia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sergio Ramos (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nikola Kalinic (Croatia).
Ivan Perisic (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Croatia 2, Spain 1. Ivan Perisic (Croatia) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nikola Kalinic following a fast break.
Attempt blocked. Aduriz (Spain) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sergio Busquets.
Substitution, Spain. Thiago Alcántara replaces Cesc Fàbregas.
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Spain).
Darijo Srna (Croatia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Croatia. Mateo Kovacic replaces Marko Rog.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Vedran Corluka (Croatia) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Spain) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Darijo Srna.
Sergio Ramos (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ivan Perisic (Croatia).
Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Aduriz (Spain).
Milan Badelj (Croatia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Penalty saved! Sergio Ramos (Spain) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.
Darijo Srna (Croatia) is shown the yellow card.
Sime Vrsaljko (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Spain. David Silva draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Sime Vrsaljko (Croatia) after a foul in the penalty area.
Sergio Ramos (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darijo Srna (Croatia).
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Spain).
Darijo Srna (Croatia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Spain) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Vedran Corluka.
Substitution, Spain. Aduriz replaces Álvaro Morata.
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Milan Badelj.
Attempt blocked. Jordi Alba (Spain) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Álvaro Morata.
Substitution, Spain. Bruno replaces Nolito.
The track, which was streamed 5.97 million times, knocked his previous chart topper, Sorry, to number two.
The last living artists to achieve the feat were The Beatles in 1963 with She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand.
Former number one Hello by Adele held firm at three, while Bieber's third track in the top five - What Do You Mean - was at four.
In the album chart, Adele's 25 retained her number one position thanks to another week of high sales.
The record sold 439,000 copies, outselling the rest of the top 10 combined.
Earlier this week, the Official Charts Company confirmed it was the fastest million-selling album in UK chart history, managing it in 10 days.
Elvis Presley's If I Can Dream and Bieber's Purpose remained at two and three, with Little Mix's Get Weird climbing two places to four.
Jess Glynne's I Cry When I Laugh also rose three places to five.
The highest new entries came from The Vamps with Wake Up at 10 and The Corrs' first album in 10 years, White Light, at 11.
Christmas came early elsewhere in the singles chart, with Mariah Carey's 1994 hit All I Want For Christmas Is You re-entering the top 40 at 35.
Analysis - Mark Savage, music reporter
By replacing his own song at the top of the chart, Justin Bieber matches a feat previously achieved by The Beatles and Elvis. But unlike them, he didn't do it by selling records - his position at the chart summit is mainly down to streaming.
When his album, Purpose, was released a fortnight ago, it broke records on Spotify, being played 205 million times in seven days. To put that in context - it's the equivalent of everyone in the world listening to Justin Bieber for a minute-and-a-half over the course of a week.
By contrast, the record only sold 90,596 copies in the UK - a figure that actually incorporates streaming data.
The contrast to Adele (800,307 first week sales, all on CD or download) is striking. Her audience skews older, towards people who grew up with CDs - hence her decision to withhold 25 from Spotify. ("It probably is the future," she told Rolling Stone earlier this week). Bieber, who was discovered on YouTube, is firmly part of the streaming generation.
None of that makes his achievement less impressive. Indeed, when you consider that, 12 months ago, his career was considered to be over, it's nothing short of a miracle.
Read more on Bieber's career resurrection.
Work on the bridge for the city's new West Link road was suspended earlier this week because of high winds.
A large crane is being used to lift sections of the crossing into place over the river.
The West Link is also under construction. Highland Council hopes that once completed it will ease congestion in the city centre.
It will form a link between the A9, A96 and A82 trunk roads.
The Parma-based Pro12 club are now under the control of the Italian Rugby Federation which announced 54-year-old Bradley's appointment on Monday.
Former Italy players Carlo Orlandi and Alessandro Troncon will be on the Irish man's coaching staff.
Bradley, who won 40 Ireland caps, began his coaching career with the country's under-21 side in 2002.
He coached Connacht between 2003 and 2010 and was Ireland's interim head coach for the 2008 summer tour to New Zealand and Australia.
Bradley spent two years at Edinburgh, guiding the Scottish club to the semi-finals of the Heineken Cup, before becoming Georgia assistant coach in 2013.
Developer Dandara said it was responding to a change in market conditions, with supply now outstripping demand for offices.
The tower and spire, built in the 1800s, became derelict in the 1970s.
Dandara said it was working with the city council's planning department over the change.
The singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets changed his plea to guilty to "depraved" child sex offences including attempted rape of a baby.
The 36-year-old from Pontypridd, and two women in their 20s, had been due to stand trial at Cardiff Crown Court.
Helen Whittle from the National Crime Agency described his case as unusual.
"It's likely that someone with celebrity status will use that to gain access to individuals and a route into grooming behaviour," she said.
"It is quite unusual but unfortunately we are seeing a trend over the last few years of very young children being victimised in these images.
"While it's not the norm from our perspective, it is a reality."
Det Ch Insp Peter Doyle, of South Wales Police's specialist crime investigations team, said there was "no doubt" in his mind that Watkins exploited his celebrity status in order to abuse young children.
Watkins was due to stand trial having previously "furiously denied" the allegations against him claiming he was the "victim of a malicious campaign" but changed his pleas on Tuesday.
He admitted attempted rape and sexual assault of a child under 13 but not guilty to rape - which was accepted by the prosecution.
The court also heard the two women involved sexually abused their own children and made them available to Watkins for him to abuse.
Ms Whittle added: "It's likely that those mothers would have been groomed by the offender to commit the abuse, but without the motivation to sexually abuse a child it's unlikely they would have taken it that far.
"It's likely the offender has normalised the sexual abuse of children, has rationalised it, minimised it for these females, and therefore the psychological barriers that had stopped those females abusing in the past were then eroded and they took the steps of abusing the children."
She said research showed that 90% of child sex offenders knew they were interested in children when they were developing sexually at around the ages of 14 to 16.
And it is unlikely that someone who has had that motivation and interest since their teenage years has only just started offending in their adult life, the research found.
Two thirds of a new concourse linking eight platforms will open to passengers at London Bridge on Monday.
The concourse, set to be completed in 2018, will ultimately link 15 platforms serving 80 trains an hour.
The project has not been without challenges, with the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) citing "life-threatening chaos" during one crush.
London's oldest station, which opened in 1836, is used by 55 million people annually.
Network Rail said the work, as part of the £6.5bn Thameslink project, involved the station "effectively being rebuilt" while keeping it open to passengers.
This led to some jumping over and crawling beneath ticket barriers in an effort to avoid a crush on the concourse.
Monday will also see new stairs and escalators linking platforms unveiled, while Charing Cross trains - via Waterloo East - will start calling at London Bridge for the first time since January 2015.
Tim Witcomb, from Network Rail, said: "The concourse is very impressive. It's spacious, easy to navigate and very modern, but still keeps some of the character of the old London Bridge."
The next phase will see construction work relocated to the north of the station, where Southeastern trains to Cannon Street currently run.
It will mean major changes to services, including Cannon Street trains not calling at London Bridge, until January 2018.
The Thameslink Programme is focused on improving north-south travel through London with upgrades to Blackfriars and Farringdon stations and Borough Viaduct.
2011 - Planning permission granted
2013 - Complete redevelopment of London Bridge station started
2014 - First new platform opened
2016 - Partial reopening of concourse
2018 - Station redevelopment complete
Cheryl James, 18, from Llangollen, Denbighshire, was found dead at Deepcut barracks in November 1995.
The army claimed she had shot herself in the head, but in December 1995 a coroner recorded an open verdict.
Lawyers told a new inquest that evidence suggested her injuries may not have been self-inflicted.
Alison Foster QC, acting of behalf of human rights organisation Liberty and representing Pte James's family, said any scientific evidence should be heard before other witnesses to set out what was possible.
She said: "Now there is distinguished pathological evidence showing that the shot that killed Cheryl James may not have been self-inflicted.
"Third party involvement is more than merely speculative, according to this inquest's pathologist. It's important such evidence is fully acquired and assimilated."
Lawyers representing the Ministry of Defence and Surrey Police, who investigated the death, opposed a request for an adjournment for more forensic and ballistics reports to be filed.
Pte James was one of four Army recruits to die at the barracks, in Surrey, between 1995 and 2002 amid claims of bullying and abuse.
She was found at the base with a single gunshot wound to her head.
Coroner Brian Barker QC, has said he will not consider allegations of a culture of abuse at the base during the inquest, which was granted by the High Court as a result of the emergence of new evidence, although he will explore "the impact of any sexual abuse against Cheryl on her state of mind".
At the resumption of the hearing, in Woking, Ms Foster told the coroner: "The family has at all times sought to assist you with regards to forensics and ballistics. It is not fair or practical to start this inquest other than with the scientific evidence."
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The 24-year-old has agreed a six-year deal and is City's fourth high-profile summer arrival after Raheem Sterling, Fabian Delph and Nicolas Otamendi.
It is the second highest fee paid by a British club after Manchester United's £59.7m signing of Angel Di Maria.
"It takes a special player to improve our squad," said City manager Manuel Pellegrini of the ex-Chelsea player.
"We like to play attacking, attractive football. Bringing in a player like this will only aid us.
"He has all of the mental, physical, tactical and technical attributes required to fit straight in."
De Bruyne said: "I want to reach the highest level possible as a player and I think the most important thing is that at the end of the season we can be happy and maybe have some titles."
De Bruyne, who will wear the number 17 shirt at Etihad Stadium, joined Wolfsburg in January 2014 for a reported £16.7m after making three Premier League appearances for Chelsea.
Wolfsburg won last season's German Cup and finished second in the Bundesliga.
Chelsea signed the winger from Belgian side Genk for a fee in the region of £6.7m in January 2012.
He was at Stamford Bridge for two years, during which he spent spells on loan at Genk (where he scored twice in 13 appearances) and Werder Bremen (10 goals in 33 games).
He started two of the first three league games of the 2013-14 season, but after that began only three more matches - all in the League Cup.
Manager Jose Mourinho walked out of a news conference after being irritated by questions about the midfielder, who had been left out of the squad to face Steaua Bucharest in the Champions League.
"He was not selected. It was my decision," said Mourinho. "Only 11 can play and 18 can be selected. I try to decide, by what they do on the pitch, when they play and what they do in training.
"He's not selected because I didn't like the match he played against Swindon [in the Capital One Cup] and I didn't like the way he was training."
Having made his international debut in 2010, De Bruyne became a Belgium regular during qualification for the 2014 World Cup and with the tournament in Brazil looming and the midfielder struggling to start games, national team manager Marc Wilmots urged him to leave the Blues in search of first-team football.
After his move to Wolfsburg, De Bruyne told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws he had "lost his joy" at Chelsea and that he asked Mourinho to let him go.
De Bruyne has enhanced his reputation since leaving Stamford Bridge.
It took De Bruyne 13 games to score his first Wolfsburg goal, but since then he has netted regularly, while also laying on even more chances for others.
He ended 2013-14 with three goals in four games and last season struck 16 times and made 28 assists as Dieter Hecking's men finished runners-up in the Bundesliga before then winning Germany's domestic cup competition.
Only one other player - Dimitri Payet - then of Marseille, now of West Ham - in the top five European leagues created more chances than De Bruyne's 112 last season. Chelsea duo Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas created 101 and 95 respectively.
During his time at Wolfsburg he created 254 goalscoring chances in 73 domestic matches, resulting in 35 assists.
City have begun this season in superb fashion, winning all four of their Premier League matches - including a 3-0 victory over champions Chelsea - without conceding a goal.
Midfielders David Silva and Yaya Toure have played a key role in this positive start, while Raheem Sterling - a £49m signing from Liverpool - has started every game.
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During his productive last season, De Bruyne operated mainly as a number 10, the role occupied by Silva, although he also spent some time in Sterling's left-sided role.
De Bruyne has also played on the right of an attacking three and you would expect the man most at threat following his arrival is Jesus Navas, who has looked more effective than last season but whose end-product pales in comparison to one of Europe's most prolific providers.
However, as Match of the Day pundit and former England international Danny Murphy warns: "De Bruyne is undoubtedly a quality player but he is not a natural winger.
"If he were used instead of Navas on the right, City would lose some of their width which is proving so effective at the moment."
Bristol City Council won an injunction against Tent City residents - who are camping in an Easton park.
The group, which has camped in Peel Street Park since April, has 28 days to leave or be moved by bailiffs.
Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, said despite an offer of help through a specialist homeless service some people were "choosing to remain in the camp".
"The council and its partners understand that sometimes tents or temporary shelters are erected by vulnerable people in need of help and support," he added.
The group of 10 homeless people said they had raised £1,500 to fund a campaign to stay.
Spokesperson Ben Richie called on the council to "properly assess their housing needs".
He said: "Bristol has a serious homelessness problem that needs properly addressing. We understand the council is desperately short of resources but are shocked they are trying to criminalise homeless people."
However, Mr Rees said: "Those camped on the land have all been offered the support of St Mungo's outreach team, which is commissioned by the local authority to provide support to people sleeping rough.
"St Mungo's visited the camp more than 18 times and spoke to 15 different people. In addition the council's Streetwise team, which deals with anti-social behaviour issues, has visited the camp five times.
"This support is ongoing and we will continue to engage with the people still left at the camp."
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said the Dutch ambassador would be barred from returning to Ankara, and high-level political talks suspended.
Turkish attempts to hold rallies in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands have been blocked.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Dutch and Germans of Nazism.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Istanbul says Turkey and the Netherlands, two Nato allies, are now locked in an unprecedented diplomatic crisis.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered the Netherlands her "full support and solidarity".
On Monday, the Dutch foreign ministry issued a new travel warning, urging its citizens in Turkey to take care and noting the new "diplomatic tensions".
Voters in the Netherlands go to the polls on Wednesday for a general election dominated by concerns about immigration and Islamic radicalism.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte cited security concerns ahead of the vote as a reason for blocking the Turkish rallies.
The proposed rallies aimed to encourage a large number of Turks living in Europe to vote Yes in a referendum on 16 April on expanding the president's powers. The plans were criticised by senior EU officials on Monday.
In Germany, for example, there are more than three million people of Turkish origin, of whom an estimated 1.4 million are eligible to vote in Turkish elections. In effect, the diaspora is Turkey's fourth-largest electoral district.
Officials in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands said the rallies could stoke tensions.
A gathering in France went ahead, however, after officials said it did not pose a threat.
Two Turkish ministers were barred from addressing crowds in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, with one of them escorted to the German border after entering the Netherlands by land.
Police used dogs and water cannon against protesters waving Turkish flags in Rotterdam.
Mr Kurtulmus, who is also the Turkish government's chief spokesman, said: "We are not allowing planes carrying Dutch diplomats or envoys from landing in Turkey or using our airspace."
Ambassador Kees Cornelis van Rij is currently out of the country, with a charge d'affaires standing in for him.
Mr Kurtulmus added that all high-level political discussions would be halted, and parliament would be advised to withdraw from a bilateral friendship group.
The measures would remain in effect until the Netherlands took steps to "redress its actions", the deputy prime minister added.
Earlier Mr Erdogan likened the Netherlands to "a banana republic", demanded international organisations impose sanctions on the country and accused countries in the West of "Islamophobia".
"I have said that I had thought that Nazism was over, but I was wrong," he said.
Turkish officials have also suggested reconsidering part of a deal with the EU aimed at curbing an influx of migrants, namely Turkey's efforts to prevent them crossing by land to Greece and Bulgaria.
Mr Rutte said Mr Erdogan's comment that the Dutch were "Nazi remnants" was "unacceptable", and demanded an apology.
Responding to Turkish calls for sanctions, he said the Netherlands would "never negotiate under threat".
In a news conference on Monday, Mrs Merkel said she had condemned Nazi analogies made by Mr Erdogan about Germany the previous week.
"This rejection is also valid for our allies," she said. "These comparisons are completely misguided... particularly in the Netherlands that endured so much agony through the National Socialists [Nazis]. That's why the Netherlands can count on my complete support and solidarity in this."
The Netherlands was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1940 and occupied right up until the final days of World War Two in Europe, in May 1945. Rotterdam was devastated by German bombing during the invasion.
"We talk to a lot of bosses and there has been uncertainty whether it's for the election or the referendum," said Mr Carney on the BBC's Today programme.
Analysts fear businesses may delay making investments while there is uncertainty over Britain's future in the EU.
David Cameron has promised a vote on whether the UK stays in the EU by 2017.
"[Businesses] have not yet acted on that uncertainty," he said. "Or to put it another way, they are continuing to invest and they are continuing to hire."
But he added that it was in everybody's interests to resolve the uncertainty.
Companies may also be investing less in technology than they otherwise would do as a result of the wide pool of available workers.
Older people willing to work and workers seeking more hours added 500,000 to the labour force over the last two years, said Mr Carney.
Migrant labour also expanded the workforce, but its impact was only a tenth of the size according to Mr Carney.
Mr Carney told the BBC's Today programme that he would "really dampen down" the argument that foreign workers were to blame for lower productivity.
As the number of jobseekers falls, attention will turn to productivity, he added.
"Now that spare capacity is being used up," said Mr Carney. "For the economy to move forward, it's going to be a story of increased productivity.
"We think that it's going to start to pick up over the next few years."
Analysis: Jonty Bloom, BBC Business Correspondent
British productivity is awful and has been for years.
Take computerised lathes, hi-tech equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy. You might think that British and German workers with such a piece of kit would make the same number of widgets or car parts or whatever.
But they don't. Experts tell me there are two main reasons. German workers are more highly trained, so get more out of the machine. The second is that when it breaks down or needs reprogramming, they can do it themselves. British workers turn off the lathe and wait for an expert to come and fix it.
Just one example of a much wider problem that explains why a German, French or US worker can produce as much as a British one and still take every Friday off.
The UK's level of productivity per worker fell during the global economic crisis.
"This is one of the great costs of the financial crisis," said Mr Carney. "What you have in economies after a financial crisis is a sharp drop in productivity… There is a huge opportunity cost."
Productivity levels have taken longer to recover than expected.
"We have been successively disappointed with the productivity performance of the UK," Mr Carney told the BBC.
"[Productivity] matters in terms of the speed limit for the economy and for when we should raise interest rates," said Mr Carney. "We think the most likely path for interest rates is up."
Mr Carney warned on Wednesday that "persistent headwinds continued to weigh on the UK economy", which would mean more gradual increases in interest rates than had previously been the case.
Inflation was 0% in March for a second month, well below the Bank's 2% target.
Carney said that the UK might fall into deflation next month, but inflation was expected to pick up, notably towards the end of the year.
"Our aim is not just to get the inflation rate back to 2% but to keep it there," said Mr Carney. "In order to get it there and keep it there, there will be limited and gradual increase in interest rates over the next few years."
It has taken Cellnovo more than a dozen years and tens of millions of pounds to bring its product to market.
The company employs 120 people in Bridgend and Swansea.
It is one of 12 firms being showcased by Innovation Point, set up to support technology start-ups.
Innovation Point was launched this week as a not-for-profit company and is a Welsh Government-supported venture with the private sector.
It will offer expert advice and help develop ideas and secure funding.
Cellnovo is a good example of how long the process can take.
It started as far back as 2002 and quickly identified type 1 diabetes as an area in which it could apply its technology.
The product is a wearable patch pump for insulin, which can be worn discreetly on the body.
It also comes with a touch-screen handheld device which controls the pump, but also enables people to record their activity and input blood/glucose readings.
This also connects to a medical database so patients or doctors can monitor how they are doing.
Dr Julian Shapley, founder and chief science officer, said: "The majority of patients take multiple daily injections - one in the morning of slow-acting insulin and then they have to inject themselves based on whatever they eat.
"Other than that there's the pump community - these are generally large belt-worn devices, with long tubes so you know you're wearing a medical device.
"We decided what we wanted to do was remove the visibility and add some consumer iPhone technology to it."
Getting the product to market had been a long journey but sales are now accelerating - the company also has an office in Paris - and have already increased to more than £330,000 for the last quarter.
"We started putting some designs together and building prototypes - back of an envelope details - and went out looking for investment and eventually got some venture capitalist funding in 2008," said Dr Shapley
As well as financial hurdles, the company had to go through the rigorous design and testing needed to pass the regulations required for medical devices.
The digital dozen
The companies will be showcasing their technology at the Digital 2016 conference in Newport on 6-7 June.
A recent Tech Nation report found more than 43,000 are employed in the digital technology sector in Wales and it contributes £600m to the economy.
But 59% of businesses surveyed highlighted a limited talent supply as a problem while 48% identified accessing finance as another difficulty.
Dr Shapley welcomes the involvement of Innovation Point as providing expertise.
"We did quite well out of the Technium process when we were growing but there was always room for more advice, to get mentors to give knowledge and experience," he said.
"My advice is get yourself a mentor, speak to your friends and family - and ignore the nay-sayers."
The test for Innovation Point will be whether it can help companies like Cellnovo reach their potential, allowing the company to grow and create skilled jobs along the way.
Three Pokestops, the game's real-world locations, attracted hundreds of players to a park in inner Sydney.
Nearby apartment residents endured traffic jams, piles of rubbish and noise until the early hours.
The creators of the game are working to remove some real-world locations that do not wish to be included in the mobile game.
"There is loud shouting throughout the night, people dumping rubbish and cigarette butts and constant traffic jams," one of the apartment's residents told the Sydney Morning Herald last week.
The local council has put on extra rangers and undertaken extra garbage collection to deal with the influx of players at Peg Paterson Park in Rhodes.
There were also reports of disgruntled apartment residents water bombing Pokemon Go players.
"When playing Pokemon Go, we ask that people do this with consideration to where they are: in residential areas, keep noise levels to a minimum and bin any rubbish," Canada Bay deputy mayor Helen McCaffrey said.
The Anzac Memorial in Sydney, Arlington National Cemetery in the US and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan have asked to be removed from Pokemon Go.
The country's International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that it used technology developed by InterDigital without permission.
Microsoft said that it would challenge the decision.
The judge's findings will be subject to a review before any import ban comes into force.
"This is one step in the process and we look forward to the full Commission's thorough review," Microsoft said in a statement.
"We have a successful track record challenging patent assertion entities that misuse industry standards."
Judge Theodore Essex ruled that Microsoft infringed two wireless cellular patents which relate to technology that powers up phones and connects them to 3G networks without interference.
The ruling would cover the majority of its handsets which are manufactured outside the US.
The next step will be a review by the ITC with a decision expected by late August.
In response, InterDigital said it would have "continued discussion" with Microsoft to license its patents.
It has also been involved in patent disputes with several large mobile vendors including Samsung and Huawei.
It first accused Nokia of infringing its patents in 2007. It lost that case but won an appeal in federal court.
Microsoft acquired Nokia's handset division last year but it is struggling to make its phone business profitable.
According to its latest quarterly earnings report its hardware division lost $4m (£2.6m) on revenues of $1.4bn.
Hospital staff contacted police after four people carried the 17-year-old, who had been shot in the stomach, to a hospital on Monday afternoon.
He is thought to have been shot in a flat in Rubery Lane South, Rubery.
Three people, a 19-year-old man from Rednal, a 19-year-old man from Frankley and a 33-year-old man arrested in Rubery Lane South, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Police said a car and suspected drugs have been seized.
In a new report, the rights group says asylum seekers' lives were put at risk in two incidents in May and July.
In response the Australian government denied the allegations, as it has done ever since they first emerged in June.
The country has a controversial policy of zero tolerance towards migrant boats approaching its territory.
No migrants or asylum seekers are allowed to reach Australia's territories by boat. They have been instead intercepted at sea and turned back or taken to detention facilities in neighbouring Pacific countries.
Amnesty is now calling for a government-appointed investigation, known as a Royal Commission, into Operation Sovereign Borders, the name for Australia's controversial security operation to stop such boats.
In the first incident on 17 May, 65 passengers and six crew were allegedly intercepted by Australian officials and subsequently turned back to Indonesia.
Amnesty, which says it has interviewed all on board, claims that officials handed over US$32,000 (£20,900) to the crew.
The passengers were then transferred from their boat to two smaller rickety boats - one of which sank near an island in Indonesian waters. Passengers managed to swim to safety.
The report also speculates that officials may have paid another crew of people smugglers to return to Indonesia in a second incident on 25 July, based on testimony from 15 asylum seekers.
Their group of asylum seekers and people smugglers was intercepted by Australian officials and held separately on an Australian vessel for several days, before being put on another boat and told to head for an Indonesian island.
The officials allegedly gave two large bags to the smugglers and told the asylum seekers not to open the bags. They also threatened to shoot them if they returned.
Their boat ran out of fuel before reaching the island and they were eventually picked up by Indonesian officials.
In response to the report, the Ministry for Immigration and Border Protection said "people on intercepted vessels are held lawfully in secure, safe, humane, and appropriate conditions by the personnel of the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Australian Defence Force (ADF)".
"To suggest otherwise, as Amnesty has done, is to cast a slur on the men and women of the ABF and ADF," the statement said.
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At both ends of the African continent, there is macabre drama being played out over migration.
At the southern tip of the continent, poor black South Africans have risen up against poor black immigrants from African countries.
They want them to go back to their own countries. At least seven people have been killed.
There has been reaction from almost every part of the continent.
Threats have been issued to South African businesses. There is general outrage - African countries helped black South Africans fight apartheid and Africa expected some gratitude in return.
According to the South African High Commissioner to Ghana, there have been threats to burn down her High Commission in the capital, Accra. In Ghana, the main opposition party has accused the government of a "meek reaction" to the events in South Africa.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, current chairman of the African Union, has had some choice words to say on the matter.
Meanwhile at the other end of the continent, at the northern-most tip, desperate young Africans are drowning in the Mediterranean whilst trying to get to Europe.
In the past two weeks about a thousand people have drowned in the seas between North Africa and the southern coast of Italy.
The European Union has had an emergency meeting on the matter and announced measures they intend to take.
The measures seem to amount to: "We will not open our doors to African migrants, no matter how many of them drown trying to enter Europe." Nothing more.
The Pope has had something to say and human rights activists around Europe have all made pronouncements on the humanitarian disaster that is taking place off the Libyan coast.
Everybody has had something to say except the African leaders whose citizens constitute the majority of those dying trying to get into Europe.
Elizabeth Ohene:
"The drama unfolding on the North African coast demands some noise of some kind from Africa. Otherwise we shall forfeit forever the right to comment on any other world event"
Eritrea heads the list of African countries generating the people wanting to leave their countries and go to Europe; followed by the usual suspects: Somalis, Senegalese, Gambians, Nigerians and my compatriots, Ghanaians.
There came a story within the story, when it was reported that on one of the migrant boats, the Muslims turned on their fellow desperados who happened to be Christians and threw some of them into the sea.
It has been determined that six Ghanaians were among those who perished in that incident.
Our foreign minister has said officials from the Ghana embassy in Italy have gone to find out more details from the survivors and from the Italian prosecutors.
On the main story of desperate young Africans - who would rather die in the cemetery of the Mediterranean Sea, to borrow the colourful words of the Maltese prime minister - not a single word has come from any foreign ministry or government on the continent, or opposition party.
The first comments on the subject made by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma came when she attended a meeting with the EU.
I have heard even her make a more spirited statement on other subjects.
I have heard African governments make statements on issues that do not concern them in any way; I have heard them on issues when their opinions are not sought and I have heard brave statements on issues about which we obviously are not well informed.
The whole world now knows that there must be something very wrong in Eritrea to drive their young people to such desperation. The African Union has not whispered one sentence of anxiety on Eritrea.
I do not suggest that African governments should, or can stop their citizens from leaving their countries.
But the drama unfolding on the North African coast demands some noise of some kind from Africa.
Otherwise we shall forfeit forever the right to comment on any other world event.
At the start of the year, I wrote the following in these columns as part of my predictions for 2015: "And struggling economies on the continent will mean there will be more desperate young would-be African migrants washing up on the shores of Lampendusa in Italy.
"The African Union will hold regular summits and our leaders will make speeches that will make no reference to why our young people are so desperate to leave our countries."
I did not expect to be proved so dramatically right and so early in the year.
If ever there was a need for an emergency summit by the African Union on a problem, this is it.
I have no idea what they will do or say, but at least it will give the impression that we care.
It is simply not like Africa to be silent. Somebody, anybody, please say something.
Or could it be that for the first time, we are feeling the shame that our young people cannot see any hope in our countries?
That must explain our silence.
At a spring conference in Liverpool, Ms Lucas will say the two parties could "forge a new grouping in Parliament".
The Greens are polling in similar numbers to the Lib Dems and say their membership quadrupled in the past year.
But the party's leader Natalie Bennett has faced criticism of her performance in recent weeks.
She struggled in a radio interview to explain how a flagship policy to build 500,000 new social rented homes would be funded, later attributing her performance to an "excruciating mind blank".
The leader of the Green Party on Liverpool council, John Coyne, said he had been "taken aback" by her "excruciating" performance and she had clearly been "underprepared".
He told the BBC that it wouldn't happen again as Ms Bennett - who could take part in a TV debate with other party leaders should they go ahead - would in future rehearse her performance in mock interviews.
"It's a failure that she was underprepared we know why that happened and we know it will be fixed for the future," Mr Coyne - a former Liberal Democrat who is now chair of the Green Councillors Association - said.
Main pledges
"It was a serious failure and we thought it might be damaging to us but one thing that perhaps is saving us from that is people who are attracted to the Green Party tend to have a more generous disposition anyway tend to be able to forgive a mistake."
In her conference speech, Ms Bennett will say her party offers a "message of hope and real change" and would create "a political system that puts the public first".
The Green Party in England and Wales is fielding its largest ever slate of candidates, aiming to stand in 90% of parliamentary seats on 7 May. The Green parties in Scotland and Northern Ireland are separate organisations.
In her address, former leader Ms Lucas will say the Green Party should join forces with the SNP in the next Parliament to maximise their influence on the next government.
"With the rise of the SNP, and with our own Green surge, we have the chance to forge a new grouping in Parliament. A progressive alliance.
"Of course, in Scotland and in Wales we'll be fighting hard for our distinctive values and policies. Just as we do against those individual Labour and even Lib Dem candidates with whom we have something in common.
"That's the nature of British politics under the first past the post system."
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The SNP is riding high in the polls, threatening even the safest Labour seat in Scotland, according to recent opinion polls published by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft .
In the past I have driven through some of the areas so described and its no idle metaphor. There are mile upon mile of oxidised, red metal skeletons, dead factories entombing dead jobs, dead hopes.
But the Interstate 75 road outside Detroit is a reminder that manufacturing industry could just be America's future and not only its past.
Towers and gantries poke up into the skyline, plumes of steam billowing white against a grey sky from dozens of chimneys: little lights, appropriately red and white and blue, blink with brisk industrial efficiency. This is the home of Motown - Motor City - famous for its music and its cars.
Eight years after a heart-stopping crisis for the motor industry Detroit is working again. Some say that is thanks to Obama. Others look to Mr Trump to make it what it once was again.
I am talking to Brian Panbecker in his car opposite Detroit's Ford plant. He's a forklift truck driver and he is just about to go on shift.
"Life around Detroit is always cyclical, up and down. My dad warned me when I was first hired in by Chrysler back in 1978. He said 'Brian, the auto industry is up and down. It is like a rollercoaster. When times are good you have to work overtime, save some money, pay off all your debts. When times are bad you have to ride it out'."
He says Mr Trump speaks the language of the shop floor - sometimes crude and vulgar but straight to the point. And many of those Brian works with support him as a result.
President of the 3000 branch of the United Automobile Workers union, Steve Gonzalez, tells me there are plenty who agree with Brian.
"Some of our members are Donald Trump supporters. I can't get into their heads but a lot of our workers were for him. Not sure if it was the promise of change, or his appeal on TV, little quips, on Facebook, on Twitter. People run with that."
But didn't President Obama and the bailout of Chrysler and GM save this city?
I meet Thomas in a trendy brewery pub. Bit of a waste as he does not drink, and I am not doing so at the moment. Still the brewery logo, of a heroic worker raising a glass, says something about this unionised city.
"I lost a job and I wasn't capable of relocating and because Obama saved this industry I got a job," he explains. The bailout "stopped GM and Chrysler being sold off to companies who would have split it up and sold it for parts. And that is what saved the industry".
I ask if he is better off than in 2008 and he replies: "I'm not broke and would have been."
Brian could not disagree more.
"The bailouts did not save the auto industry, bankruptcy saved the auto industry. That allowed GM and Chrysler to survive in some form and return to profitability. I would not give credit to Barack Obama. As a matter of fact, I think his policies - continuing high taxes and allowing the unions to remain powerful - have caused more jobs to flee to Mexico."
I am in Motor City at a big time of year for the industry - the North America International Auto Show 2017 has just opened. It is a huge sparkly, bright white space where cars rotate on their stands, polished so hard the lights positioned just so that they seem to glow, rather than simply gleam.
Despite the symbols of success and prosperity at the show and despite the health of the industry, the American worker feels insecure.
The Ford stand at the show is particularly impressive but I am drawn to a prototype, a silver car. Not particularly special looking - apart from the round cameras on its windscreen and roof rack-like sensors running along its length. On its side it says "autonomous vehicle development" and underneath "on the road by 2021".
Ford made an important announcement at the beginning of this year - they would invest $700m (£580m) in a plant just outside Detroit, a few miles from here, to make an electric SUV and driverless car.
And - this is where the politics comes in - they would cancel their plan to build a new engine plant in Mexico, something Mr Trump had called "an absolute disgrace", He thanked Ford and said it was only the beginning.
So, has Mr Trump's policy of imposing tariffs on goods made outside the USA - mocked as impractical by many - already paid off, before he is even in the White House?
Darrin thinks not. He is a newly-elected Democratic representative in Michigan's state house - and says without the bailout he would not be where he is now. His dad was an auto worker and Darrin argues that if the local economy had failed he would never have made it to college. But what about Mr Trump?
"I know he likes to take credit for a lot of different economic activities that have happened but the truth is that project had been in the works for a lot longer than the last couple of weeks, or even November.
"Part of this is some of these companies are trying to get out ahead of it, saying 'this isn't really Donald Trump doing this work, its really the unions and management getting together and looking for opportunities'. My read of it is that they want[ed] to put it in place before he was in office so he didn't take credit for it. But he did anyway."
The Detroit bureau chief of Automobile Magazine, Todd Lassa, agrees.
"That decision had a lot to do with the fact that Americans are not buying small cars, they're buying pick-ups and SUVs.
"I think a lot of the Mexico investment had to do with small cars that have thin profit margins and you have a little bit of a better profit margin if you are using Mexican labour. It's very much a commercial decision."
Union leader Steve says this will be the way of President Trump.
"When the news came out [that] we had the autonomous car coming here, we had it coming up on Facebook and Twitter: 'Thank you Donald Trump!'" he laughs.
"Trump did it already! He's not even in office so, that was a kind of misleading. But he puts it out there and, all of a sudden, any positive news he's going take credit for."
This will be the test of Mr Trump and the media. It is easy to mock the bombast. But the first evidence suggests crude and forceful plans may have played at least a part in changing the mind of a multinational.
More to the point, we have witnessed what may be a trademark of this presidency. He may have been pushing against an open door, but Mr Trump has very loudly portrayed himself as the author of a positive story.
Sophisticated observers may question if he deserves the plaudits but if America applauds he will reap the rewards.
Listen to Mark Mardell's report from Michigan for The World This Weekend via BBC iPlayer. The World at One will be broadcasting from the United States during the week beginning Monday 16 January.
Having lost game one on home turf, Kevin Walters' side fought back to win game two and dominated the decider.
Cronulla winger Valentine Holmes ran in a hat-trick, with Gold Coast prop Jarrod Wallace adding another as the Maroons scored four tries to one.
Josh Dugan got the Blues consolation.
Three series in a row have re-established Queensland's dominance of the Origin series, in spite of the absence of the talismanic Johnathan Thurston through injury.
While the relatively inexperienced Holmes and Wallace picked up the tries and Cameron Munster impressed on his debut, the victory was built on the experience and class of long-serving trio Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk and Billy Slater.
New South Wales failed to match the Maroons intensity, and had few chances to trouble their rivals on a tough night north of the Tweed River.
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Amnesty International says it has evidence showing Australian officials paid people smugglers to turn back boats and threatened asylum seekers.
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Queensland recorded their 11th State of Origin series win in 12 years with a thumping victory against New South Wales before their own fans at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.
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Researchers say fungi from the stomachs of these animals produce flexible enzymes that can break down a wide variety of plant materials.
The scientists say that in tests, the fungi performed as well as the best engineered attempts from industry.
The study has been published in the journal, Science.
Environmentalists have long criticised the current generation of biofuels that are produced from crops, such as maize, as they believe that using land for fuel instead of food drives up prices and impacts the poor.
Researchers have had some success making usable fuel from food and animal waste. But, so far, the ability to efficiently use the vast majority of cheap, waste organic material has eluded them.
The problem with turning wood chips and grasses into fuel is the matrix of complex molecules found in the cell walls of these tough materials.
Industrial attempts to break these down into the type of sugars that can be refined for fuel often require preheating or treatment with chemicals, which add to the complexity and the cost.
To solve the problem, researchers have turned to the well-known abilities of goats and sheep to digest almost anything they eat.
Researchers believe this facility is the result of the presence of anaerobic gut fungi, organisms that have existed since the time of the dinosaurs.
To test their ideas, the scientists collected fresh manure from a zoo and a stable and isolated three previously uncharacterised cultures from goats, sheep and horses.
They found that these fungi excrete enzymes that break down a wide range of plant material.
Unlike the best genetically engineered enzymes produced by the biofuel industry to date, they discovered that the sheep and goat fungi produced many hundred more of these proteins.
These were "substantially better" at breaking down a type of material found in wood - and when the researchers changed the diet of the fungi from grass to sugar, they found that the organisms changed the type of enzymes they produced in response.
"Because gut fungi have more tools to convert biomass to fuel, they could work faster and on a larger variety of plant material," said Prof Michelle O'Malley, the lead author from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"That would open up many opportunities for the biofuel industry," she said.
The scientists involved say that these types of fungi can be found in a wide variety of animals apart from sheep, ranging from cattle to elephants.
"In our work we have identified hundreds of enzymes from anaerobic fungi with commercial biotechnology potential," said Prof Michael Theodorou from Harper Adams University, UK, another author on the paper.
"We need to invest more resources to study this group of relatively unknown micro-organisms. They may hold the key to the renewable technology of effective biomass conversion. Their full potential must be explored and exploited."
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The legendary abilities of goats and sheep to digest a wide range of inedible materials could help scientists produce cheaper biofuels.
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The New Jersey businessman has bought a "significant minority share".
However, a statement confirmed chairman James Brent will keep his majority shareholding and has not sold any of his shares.
"I'm absolutely thrilled to be involved with Argyle - it's the realisation of a boyhood dream," Hallett said.
"I've learned from talking to James and his colleagues, and from doing due diligence, that this is now a really well-run club."
The Pilgrims went into administration in 2011 and were taken over seven months later by Brent's Akkeron Group.
Hallett, who went to school in the city, has been joined on the now eight-member board of the League Two side by his associate John Morgan.
"Our ambitions for the club are well aligned and we look forward to their contribution in moving the club forward as we leave the shadows of administration well behind us," Brent commented.
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Plymouth Argyle have appointed USA-based lifelong fan Simon Hallett as a director after he invested a "substantial sum" in the club.
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Little Angels Nursery in Calne closed down in September, a month after a man and a woman were arrested and bailed by detectives.
The pair have now been released without charge and the investigation has concluded, police said.
The nursery opened in 2009 and had been previously rated as good by Ofsted.
A spokesman for the Wiltshire force said: "Whilst we appreciate this has caused a considerable amount of concern in the local community, due to the nature and scope of the investigation, it was imperative given the information passed to us that our enquiries were comprehensive and thorough."
The owner of the nursery Rachel Cartmell, who was not arrested, had previously said she and her staff were fully co-operating with police.
Before its closure the nursery looked after 78 children and its nine staff members had all been vetted appropriately according to Ofsted.
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A police inquiry into alleged sexual abuse at a children's nursery in Wiltshire has been dropped after a five-month investigation.
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Arpaio, who styled himself as "America's toughest sheriff", was found guilty of violating a 2011 order to stop detaining migrants.
Mr Trump's announcement came during a campaign rally in Phoenix, where he was also greeted by dozens of protesters.
Arpaio frequently appeared on the campaign trail with Mr Trump in 2016.
He was among the earliest supporters of Mr Trump, who branded himself "the law-and-order candidate" before he was elected.
Arpaio, 85, rose to national prominence for his sweeps of undocumented immigrants in Hispanic communities, and for detaining Spanish-speakers under suspicion of being undocumented migrants.
The Republican ex-lawman was convicted in July of deliberately violating a 2011 injunction halting his practice of detaining migrants who are not suspected of having committed a state crime. Only federal officers have jurisdiction over immigration.
Arpaio could have faced six months in jail and was set to be sentenced in October.
Arpaio was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and served in the US military before he became a police officer.
He was first elected as sheriff of Maricopa County in 1993 and was subsequently re-elected five times before he lost in November 2016.
Maricopa County includes Phoenix, a population of more than four million people, about 30% of whom are Latino.
He first made headlines in 1993 for the construction of Tent City, an open-air jail created for undocumented immigrants that he billed as a "tough on crime" solution to overcrowded prisons.
Arpaio famously forced the prisoners to wear pink underwear and socks and old-fashioned black-and-white striped prison jumpsuits. The inmates lived outdoors while enduring sweltering Arizona desert temperatures.
He also revived chain gangs, including a voluntary one for female prisoners.
Newly elected Sheriff Paul Penzone, the Democrat who defeated Arpaio, announced in April the city would close the outdoor prison.
Legal battles
A group of Latinos filed a class-action lawsuit against Arpaio in 2007, alleging his officers relied on race when choosing whom to stop.
US District Court Judge Murray Snow in 2011 issued a temporary injunction against Arpaio, banning him from detaining people based on their immigration status.
The order was made permanent in 2013, when Judge Snow ruled that Arpaio's office improperly targeted Hispanics in routine patrol stops for undocumented immigrants.
The case led to a federal investigation and the US Justice Department eventually sued him, accusing his office of multiple civil liberties violations, including punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish.
He has described the Justice Department's investigation into his practices a "witch hunt". The case was settled in 2015.
Arpaio, along with Mr Trump, was one of the leading figures of the birtherism movement, which questioned the authenticity of former President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Mr Trump encouraged Arpaio in 2012, when the then-sheriff created a "cold case posse" to pursue the claim about Mr Obama's citizenship.
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Arpaio re-emerged on the national stage again in 2015 as one Mr Trump's staunchest supporters during the early months of the Republican primary presidential campaign.
Mr Trump echoed Arpaio's anti-immigrant rhetoric, bolstering the ex-lawman's views on immigration crackdowns and reform.
He was a fixture at Trump campaign rallies and was given a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention.
Mr Trump returned the favour by campaigning for Arpaio, but he lost a bid for his seventh term in November 2016.
Before Tuesday's rally, Mr Trump had said he was "seriously considering" pardoning Arpaio.
"He has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration," Mr Trump told Fox News earlier this month.
"He's a great American patriot and I hate to see what has happened to him."
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President Donald Trump has issued a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the controversial former Arizona sheriff who was convicted of criminal contempt.
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The 45-capacity Ashley Manor Nursing Home in Shedfield, Hampshire, has 18 residents.
Administrator RSM said the business would close on 31 August and it would work to find suitable alternative accommodation.
Resident Ivy Shafe, 95, said she was "very distressed" at having to leave.
She said: "I've been very happy here, they're lovely people. It's very hard to accept."
Ashley Manor's most recent CQC report found it "requires improvement" but in September 2015 it was placed in special measures after inspectors described it as dirty, unsafe and uncaring.
It was taken out of special measures in August last year.
Hampshire County Council said it was advised of the closure "at very short notice".
A spokesman said: "Each family is being allocated a dedicated social worker and we have begun detailed discussions with each individual resident about their care needs and preferences in order to source suitable alternative accommodation for them.
"While we look for new homes, residents will continue to be cared for in Ashley Manor with the care overseen by our dedicated county council care team.
"This is a very worrying time for all those involved and we are taking every possible step to manage the situation sensitively and minimise distress for those affected."
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Residents at a nursing home which inspectors had described as dirty and unsafe have been given 28 days to leave after it went into administration.
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UKIP's Nicholas McQueen and John Foster from the Green Party told BBC London 94.9, the current system was "totally anti-democratic".
It comes after former mayor Lutfur Rahman was removed from office after being found guilty of election fraud.
Ten candidates are standing for the position of Mayor of Tower Hamlets.
Frontrunners in the Tower Hamlets election race, Labour's John Biggs and Independent Rabina Khan, who is supported by Lutfur Rahman, did not express support for changing the council's system of governance, but did speak of a need for more transparency in the future.
But, Mr McQueen told the debate the executive mayoral role had "caused us so much trouble here and given us a bad image" and "to get rid of the role, first you have to become the role".
He said: "I think people now want rid of this executive mayoral role. We want the councillors to have the power back with committees."
Tower Hamlets has had an executive mayor since 2010 when local people voted in favour of the system in a referendum.
It is one of four London boroughs to have the role along with Hackney, Newham and Lewisham.
Executive mayors have more control over budgets and services than their counterparts in the leader and cabinet systems of governance.
Supporters argue they are more accountable because they are directly elected by voters.
But speaking at the hustings, Mr Foster said "I think the mayoral system is totally anti-democratic and putting too much power in the hands of one person.
"It's opening the door for corruption and it's opening the door for mismanagement".
A re-election, with 10 candidates, will take place on 11 June.
The full list of candidates:
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Two candidates standing in mayoral elections in east London are hoping to get elected to the position so they can abolish the post.
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Wilson, 29, struck the winner in Wednesday's 2-1 second-round win over Morecambe in his first game since joining the Cherries from Stoke City.
"I couldn't care who scores the goals to be honest as long as we get the results," Wilson told BBC Radio Solent.
Wilson has also been recalled to the Republic of Ireland squad after injury.
The goal was Wilson's first in club football since a 2-0 Premier League win for Stoke against Blackburn in December 2010, while his last professional goal was for his country in a World Cup qualifier against Faroe Islands in October 2012.
Wilson is part of Martin O'Neill's squad for a friendly against Oman, followed by their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier against Serbia.
"It's been a great day," he added. "I can't complain and I'm happy we got the result and that we're through to the next round, that's the main thing.
"Some of the boys were saying 'don't shoot' as I took a touch inside and thought, 'why not have a go?' But, I hit it and found the back of the net."
Barry Davis Ryan disappeared along with his father, also named Barry, and his girlfriend, Niamh O'Connor, in Baltimore, County Cork.
Mr Ryan Sr, 51, and Ms O'Connor both drowned and their bodies were found on the day of the incident.
It is understood all three were part of a group walking close to the harbour when one of them fell into the sea.
Two others then went into the water to try to rescue the first person, but all three got into difficulties.
The body found on Friday will be taken to Cork University Hospital where a post-mortem examination will be carried out.
Official confirmation on the identity of the body is expected over the coming hours.
The party said she would have to seek re-selection as its candidate after reconsidering her decision to step down.
The 77-year-old MP announced in February she would retire after more than 30 years in Parliament but said in September she had changed her mind.
It followed a row over a party decision to impose an all-women shortlist.
The three other contenders have been named as Cardiff-based PCS union official Katie Antippas, Rhondda Cynon Taf councillor Sue Pickering, and scientist Aysha Raza, a Labour councillor in Ealing, west London, originally from Aberdare.
Ms Clwyd said in September that local voters had asked her to reconsider her retirement, and said she had received a "very enthusiastic" reaction to her change of heart.
It followed a row over Labour's decision to use an all-women shortlist to select her successor, which has been strongly opposed by the local party.
Ms Clwyd, a former Labour shadow minister, has been outspoken on the state of the NHS following failings in the care of her husband at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, in the days leading up to his death.
David Cameron appointed her as an adviser on how hospitals in England should handle complaints.
Ms Clwyd has represented the Cynon Valley since winning a by-election there in 1984.
Under Labour party rules a serving MP can be re-selected by a "trigger ballot" if more than 50% of local party members agree to back them.
However, sources within the Labour party questioned whether there was sufficient time to organise a trigger ballot in Cynon Valley before the 2015 general election in May.
A Welsh Labour spokesperson said earlier in November: "Under established procedures a full selection takes place where a sitting MP announces their intention to stand down."
The candidate will be chosen by local party members in December.
The Northern Irishman started six shots behind overnight leader Paul Casey, but seven birdies in a six-under-par 65 saw him finish two shots clear at 15 under.
England's Casey, 39, missed an eagle putt on the final hole at TPC Boston that would have forced a play-off.
It was 27-year-old McIlroy's first tournament win since the Irish Open in May and first PGA title since May 2015.
The victory comes just a week after he changed his putter and putting coach.
"I knew my game was in good shape, I just needed to do something with the putting," said McIlroy. "I found something.
"I still need to keep going with it, it's definitely not the finished article, but it's a big step in the right direction.
"I'm excited with how my game is and what I've found this week, and hopefully I can keep it going for the next couple of tournaments, but ultimately into the Ryder Cup."
The Deutsche Bank Championship is the second of the four that make up the season-ending FedEx Cup.
McIlroy will rise 34 places to fourth in the FedEx Cup standings - and nearer the $10m (£7.52m) prize for the winner - as a result of his victory.
The competition features the top 100 players in the world. The leading 70 after this weekend progress to next week's BMW Championship, where the field will be reduced to 30 for the Tour Championship on 22-25 September.
Statistics from the National Records of Scotland showed that a total of 16,521 deaths were registered between 1 January and 31 March, the highest number since 2000.
Deaths from stroke rose to 1,317 in the three-month period, an increase of 20% on the same period in 2014.
Coronary heart disease claimed 2,008 lives, an increase of 12%.
The provisional figures from the National Records of Scotland showed there were also 4,072 deaths from cancer during the three months - a rise of 4.2%.
A total of 462 same-sex marriages took place during the first full quarter since the Marriage and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Act 2014 came into force in December.
The total number of marriages rose by 9.6% to 3,889, while the number of civil partnerships fell by 57 to 20.
Meanwhile, 13,320 births were registered in Scotland - 4.4% less than in the same period in 2014.
Mother-of-three Natalia Doherty, 50, was last seen in 2003 and her body was found in a garden in Luton last year.
Joseph Doherty, 72, of Port Glasgow and Daniel Doherty, 67, of Icknield Way are accused of obstructing a coroner and perverting the course of justice.
Joseph Doherty is also charged with preventing a lawful burial.
Ms Doherty, who was also known by the surname Wilkanowska, was last seen on 15 April 2003 in Eastbourne, where she was living at the time.
Her remains were discovered in December 2015 in the back garden of Daniel Doherty's house in Icknield Way.
Detectives believed she had travelled to Luton to stay with her ex-husband Gerald Doherty at the now-demolished Regents Arms on Hastings Street.
Luton Magistrates' Court heard both men are charged with knowingly concealing Ms Doherty's body in the back garden of Daniel Doherty's house in Icknield Way,
It is alleged they committed all the crimes alongside Ms Doherty's late ex-husband Gerald Doherty.
The pair were released on bail to appear at Luton Crown Court next month.
Billal Amin sent a taxi to collect the teenager and her 15-year-old friend and take them to a hotel in East London.
The two girls were given alcohol before the 14-year-old performed a sex act on Amin and had sex with another man.
Amin was jailed for 12 years and put on the sex offenders' register for life at Lincoln Crown Court.
Martin Hurst, prosecuting, said after the assaults Amin took a taxi with the girls telling them they were going to his home.
When they left the taxi Amin disappeared abandoning the girls in London in the middle of the night.
The court was told they sought help and police were contacted resulting in an investigation that led to Amin's arrest.
The inquiry revealed two months earlier Amin had met the girl in London when she had also performed a sex act on him.
Jailing him for 12 years, Judge Simon Hirst said he acted "disgracefully".
He told him: "Abandoning a 14-year-old girl in London in the middle of the night beggars belief."
Amin denied a charge of trafficking for sexual exploitation in March 2013 and two charges of sexual activity with a child but was convicted by a jury on a 10 to two majority.
He was cleared of a further charge of trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The 33-year-old, of Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, was also given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order banning him from having contact with any child under 16.
Ireland followed up their opening win over Scotland by brushing aside defending champions Wales with surprising ease in Dublin.
England recovered from their first-day defeat in Paris with an equally comfortable victory over Scotland to boost their own title hopes.
But France remain the only other side apart from Ireland who can win a Grand Slam after dispatching Italy in Paris.
The poverty of Wales and Scotland's performances see neither country provide any players for Jonathan Davies's Team of the Week, which features seven who are in it for the second week running.
Rob Kearney had an excellent game for Ireland, but Brown played superbly well again in difficult conditions at Murrayfield. He has carried on where he left off in the autumn: very solid in the air, a threat when he runs the ball back and scored a try for the second week in a row.
Did you know? Brown made more metres (114 from 11 carries) than any other player across the three matches this weekend.
Trimble didn't have too many opportunities but showed what he could do with one side-stepping run off his wing past several Wales players which almost brought a try, and chased every kick, which was important in keeping the pressure on, given Ireland's tactics.
Did you know? Trimble was left out of Joe Schmidt's initial 34-man squad when the new coach took over for last autumn's Tests. He made 63m with ball in hand against Wales, second only to Rob Kearney (79m).
Burrell may be new to Test rugby but he ran some great lines and was rewarded with another try from a well-timed run on the angle. He nearly scored again, and seems to be learning quickly at this level.
Did you know? Burrell had his first taste of international rugby playing Sevens for the West Indies (his father Geoff is Jamaican) while he was out on loan at Championship side Rotherham.
Stamped his class on the game in Paris with a superbly taken try. He also claimed the interception that led to France's third try, and defended well when the Italians threatened.
Did you know? Fofana has now scored seven tries in 12 Six Nations games since his debut in 2012. He made more metres (95) than any other French player against Italy, from just eight touches of the ball.
May carried the ball well and looked a danger every time he cut back in off his left wing. An elusive runner, it will be interesting to see him on a dry day at Twickenham, as he clearly has the pace to trouble sides.
Did you know? May was playing against Scotland just a week after breaking his nose against France. He was second only to Mike Brown in terms of metres made (80) at Murrayfield.
Owen Farrell did well for England again but Sexton put on a tactical master-class against Wales, particularly in the first half. Against Scotland we saw how his running game can be the difference but the accuracy of his kicking kept Wales pinned back on their heels.
Did you know? Sexton has nailed 10 of his 12 kicks at goal in this Six Nations (83%). His 333 Test points put him third on Ireland's all-time list, behind Ronan O'Gara (1,083) and David Humphreys (560).
He just carried on from where he left off against France the previous week. Knocked over a smart early drop-goal, created Burrell's try after the forwards had put him in position, and set the tempo for England. Also made his fair share of tackles (nine).
Did you know? Care was part of Sheffield Wednesday's academy before turning his back on football as a 14-year-old. He ended up at Leeds, when current England coach Stuart Lancaster was in charge.
Angela De Marchi had a strong game for Italy but the Leinster loose-head was solid in the scrum, part of a great Irish mauling unit that brought two tries and was great around the park with several strong charges.
Did you know? Healy has missed only one of Ireland's 22 Six Nations matches since his debut at the start of the 2010 campaign - last year's game against Scotland, after he was banned for stamping.
Hartley had another strong all-round game. He was immaculate at the set-pieces, carried the ball well and was part of an impressive England pack which strangled the life out of Scotland.
Did you know? England had a 100% success rate from 20 line-outs in the 70 minutes Hartley was on the field against Scotland. They lost two out of four after he went off.
'Castro' made his presence felt in the first half against France, popping his opposite number Thomas Domingo out of the scrum as Italy won a couple of penalties at scrum-time. His work-rate around the field was good too [he was Italy's joint-top tackler with 10].
Did you know? Castrogiovanni and Sergio Parisse joined Andrea Lo Cicero as Italy's most capped player, playing in their 103rd Tests against France. They are among five Italians to have won more than 100 caps.
He made a huge difference to the Irish performance after missing the win over Scotland. Instrumental in the two catch-and-drive line-outs that led to Ireland's tries, he helped lift the intensity of those around him.
Did you know? Despite leaving the field after 54 minutes, O'Connell was Ireland's third highest tackler with 10, behind Jamie Heaslip (12) and Chris Henry (11).
Another dominant display from the Northampton lock, who put himself about to great effect. He was immaculate at the line-out and played a big part in messing up Scotland's ball as well. Also carried the ball well and is starting to look like the player everyone thought he would be.
Did you know? Lawes has won more line-outs (14) than any other player to date in this year's Six Nations. He took 11 at Murrayfield, and also carried the ball 11 times.
Man of the match against Wales, he was a dominant figure at the tackle area, where he got over the ball and forced several turnovers and penalties. Was clearly pumped up for it and did all the nitty-gritty stuff that allowed Ireland to win so comfortably in the end.
Did you know? O'Mahony, still only 24, led Ireland on their North American tour last summer while senior players were away with the British and Irish Lions and also took over the captaincy of Munster this season.
The England captain was part of a very positive performance in tricky conditions at Murrayfield and put in another big 80-minute shift, making his tackles, linking up play and marshalling the troops well.
Did you know? Robshaw has lifted the Calcutta Cup after each of his three Tests against Scotland. He made 13 tackles at Murrayfield, second only to fly-half Owen Farrell (14) for England.
Louise Picamoles put in a decent shift for France but this guy is just an awesome ball-carrier. He makes yardage through the heaviest traffic, and has plenty of skill to go with it too. One offload round the back of a Scottish player was high class.
Did you know? Vunipola carried the ball more times (16) than any player during this weekend's matches. Only Sergio Parisse (34, to Vunipola's 33) has made more carries across the first two rounds of fixtures.
The ex-Welsh national champion beat Stuart Hardy in the singles final before also winning the doubles.
Le Tocq, 33, has not been beaten at the Senior Closed championships since 2002.
"I've got a decision to make as to whether it's good for me to play until someone beats me or if it's someone else's turn," he told BBC Guernsey.
Despite his long winning record, Le Tocq said he was still nervous when it came to the final.
"For the last four years I've really been working towards 10, and I almost don't know what to do now, it's everything I've wanted," he said.
"I was more nervous than I have been for half of them, it almost felt like the first one again, where I was really worried about getting over the line."
The inquiry heard that
former News International executive Rebekah Brooks told Mr Cameron "professionally we're definitely in this together",
after the Sun paper switched loyalty to his party.
Mrs Brooks sent the text to David Cameron on the eve of his speech to the 2009 Conservative Party conference.
The prime minister appeared at the inquiry on Thursday.
He also said Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's appointment to handle News Corporation's bid to buy BSkyB "was not some rushed, botched, political decision".
And he said hiring ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson had "haunted" him.
Mr Coulson became Mr Cameron's communications chief after resigning from the paper when its royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed for phone hacking.
The week started with an appearance by the prime minister's predecessor, Gordon Brown.
On Monday, the former prime minister
revealed that NHS chiefs had apologised to him after finding it was "highly likely" details of his son's cystic fibrosis were disclosed by a staff member.
The Sun ran a story in 2006 about Fraser Brown's medical condition, but denied accessing his medical records.
Covering his relationship with the media in general, Mr Brown also said that, contrary to many reports, he did not instruct his aides to use the media to brief against ministers, in particular to attempt to force Tony Blair's resignation towards the end of his time in office.
Chancellor George Osborne gave evidence at the inquiry on the same day.
He told the inquiry
it would be "complete nonsense" to believe there was a "vast conspiracy" to hand control of BSkyB to Rupert Murdoch.
The chancellor said News Corp's £8bn bid for the broadcaster had been a "political inconvenience".
On Tuesday another former prime minister, Sir John Major, told the inquiry that Rupert Murdoch had warned him to switch policy on Europe or his papers would not support him.
Sir John recalled the exchange from a private meeting in 1997, which he said he had not spoken about before.
His Conservative party lost power to Labour later that year, with the Sun backing his rival Tony Blair.
Labour Leader Ed Miliband and his deputy Harriet Harman also gave evidence on Tuesday.
Mr Miliband said Mr Murdoch's dominance of the British media
fuelled his empire's "arrogance".
The Labour leader said his aim was "not to stifle one particular organisation or another - my aim is plurality".
And he said he had been "too slow" to speak out on the phone hacking issue.
On Wednesday, Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond
told the inquiry that he believed his bank account was accessed by the Observer newspaper in 1999,
although the paper said it had been "unable to find any evidence to substantiate the allegation".
Deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg also gave evidence on Wednesday.
He told the inquiry
his party had been threatened with rough treatment from the Murdoch press if it did not support News Corp's BSkyB takeover bid.
The specially designed bags will be inflated to raise the wreckage from the seabed and allow search teams to check underneath the aircraft for bodies.
Four people were on board helicopter R116 when it crashed off the County Mayo coast on 14 March.
Winch operator Paul Ormsby and winch man Ciaran Smith are still missing.
The most senior pilot on board the aircraft, Cpt Dara Fitzpatrick, died after she was rescued from the sea hours after the crash.
The body of her co-pilot, Capt Mark Duffy was recovered from the cockpit at the weekend.
At the time of the crash, the R116 crew were providing communications support to another Irish Coast Guard helicopter, which had been deployed to airlift an injured fisherman to hospital.
The main part of the wreckage was located almost a week ago about 60m west of Blackrock island, but difficult weather conditions have hampered the recovery operation.
The aircraft is lying on the seabed at a depth of about 40m and Irish Naval Service divers have been sent down to the wreck in pairs to attach the lifting bags.
The divers are among about 80 members of the Irish Defence Forces, including air corps and army personnel, deployed to assist the multi-agency operation in Blacksod Bay.
A planned attempt to left the wreckage was postponed on Monday due to deteriorating sea conditions.
The 4-0 victory lifted the world champions, who had lost and drawn their previous two games, from third to second place, level on points with Scotland and the Republic of Ireland.
Low said: "I am everything but satisfied with this. The team did not do what we wanted to do.
"We wanted to play as world champions and four goals are too few."
Thomas Muller scored twice before Mario Gotze and a Yogan Santos own goal sealed a comfortable win in Nuremberg.
Former Portsmouth midfielder Liam Walker went close for the visitors with a dipping shot from 35 yards.
Gibraltar, Uefa's newest member nation, have lost all four qualifiers and conceded 21 goals without scoring but coach Allen Bula was delighted with his team.
He said: "It's a great result and we really needed something like this - 0-4, I could not have asked for more."
Poland won 4-0 in Georgia to maintain their three-point lead at the top of the group.
Match ends, Germany 4, Gibraltar 0.
Second Half ends, Germany 4, Gibraltar 0.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Jean Carlos Garcia.
Substitution, Gibraltar. Adam Priestley replaces Brian Perez.
Foul by Lars Bender (Germany).
Roy Chipolina (Gibraltar) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Lars Bender (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Mario Götze.
Kevin Volland (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brian Perez (Gibraltar).
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Roy Chipolina.
Attempt blocked. Thomas Müller (Germany) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Shkodran Mustafi with a cross.
Substitution, Germany. Lars Bender replaces Toni Kroos.
Foul by Kevin Volland (Germany).
Liam Walker (Gibraltar) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Jean Carlos Garcia.
Attempt missed. Lukas Podolski (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Liam Walker.
Attempt blocked. Max Kruse (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lukas Podolski.
Attempt saved. Liam Walker (Gibraltar) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Brian Perez.
Attempt blocked. Mario Götze (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Foul by Shkodran Mustafi (Germany).
Roy Chipolina (Gibraltar) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Germany. Jonas Hector replaces Erik Durm.
Substitution, Gibraltar. Kyle Casciaro replaces Lee Casciaro.
Attempt missed. Karim Bellarabi (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Toni Kroos.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Jean Carlos Garcia.
Attempt saved. Max Kruse (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Karim Bellarabi.
Attempt missed. Karim Bellarabi (Germany) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Toni Kroos.
Own Goal by Yogan Santos, Gibraltar. Germany 4, Gibraltar 0.
Attempt missed. Toni Kroos (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Attempt missed. Thomas Müller (Germany) left footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Max Kruse.
Attempt missed. Max Kruse (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Germany. Kevin Volland replaces Sami Khedira.
Attempt missed. Toni Kroos (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Mario Götze.
Offside, Gibraltar. Joseph Chipolina tries a through ball, but Lee Casciaro is caught offside.
Substitution, Gibraltar. Yogan Santos replaces Jack Sergeant.
Karim Bellarabi (Germany) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joseph Chipolina (Gibraltar).
Attempt missed. Toni Kroos (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Attempt blocked. Lukas Podolski (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Toni Kroos.
Incumbent Conservative PM Stephen Harper is fighting for a rare fourth term but the frontrunner is Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, son of late prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
The left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) could also play a decisive role.
Opinion polls have suggested many people are still undecided.
Voting hours are staggered across the country and polls opened in Newfoundland at 0830 local time (1100 GMT). Polls will close in the west of the country at 19:00 (02:00 GMT).
It is one of the longest and possibly closest election campaigns in Canada's history, with leaders criss-crossing the country to try to sway undecided voters.
Mr Harper, 56, is selling himself as the steady hand who can steer Canada's troubled economy back on track.
His campaign has run TV advertisements saying that Liberal leader Mr Trudeau, 43, is "just not ready" to take office.
"Every single vote for a Conservative candidate is a vote to protect our economy against Liberal and NDP deficits and taxes," Mr Harper told supporters in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Sunday.
As polls opened, he tweeted that a vote for the Conservatives would "protect Canadian jobs and our economy".
Mr Trudeau started the race in third place but the Liberals took the lead in opinion polls in a late surge.
Stephen Harper's final stand?
The Toronto Blue Jays have their first home game in the playoffs for baseball's American League Championship series, and a sea of fans wearing blue T-shirts are filling downtown Toronto ahead of the big game.
But will blue be the dominant colour for the other big result of the night? After nearly a decade in power, the Conservatives (the blue team in this political race) are fighting to stay in office.
The Liberals (red) led by the photogenic Justin Trudeau have been ahead in the polls. If they win it'll be a stunning victory for a party which began this race in third.
If Mr Harper hangs on, he'll pull off an equally impressive feat in becoming the first prime minister to win a fourth term in more than a century. Either way this election will be historic. Will Canadians plump for continuity or change?
Speaking in Calgary, Alberta, on Sunday, Mr Trudeau urged voters to "come together as a country".
Mr Trudeau's father, Pierre, is considered the father of modern Canada.
NDP leader Tom Mulcair, 60, is hoping to build on his party's second-place finish in the 2011 elections.
However, support for the NDP appeared to have fallen in recent weeks.
At a stop in Toronto, Mr Mulcair hit out at the Liberal leader, saying: "They may try to fool you by giving the old car a fresh coat of paint. But as we've seen, the Liberal Party is just as rusted-out underneath as it was when Canadians kicked them out of office for corruption the last time."
An opinion poll released on Sunday showed the Liberals on 37.3%, seven points ahead of the Conservatives at 30.5%. The NDP had 22.1% according to the Nanos survey taken on October 15 to 17. The margin of error was 2.2%.
Mahrez missed an early chance after being put clean through but made amends when he turned in Jamie Vardy's cross.
Damien Delaney hit the bar for Crystal Palace in injury time, but the Foxes held out to clinch another vital win.
The Eagles are into the FA Cup semi-finals but remain without a league victory since 19 December.
Relive the action from Selhurst Park
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri revised his points target for the title this week - moving it upwards from 79 points to 82 points, which is the most that nearest rivals Tottenham can manage if they win all their remaining games.
However Spurs do, Leicester know that if they win six of their last seven fixtures - and reach 84 points - nobody can catch them.
Winning is what the Foxes are doing pretty well at the moment. Saturday's success was their third in a row, and the way it came will surprise nobody.
Ranieri's side have now won 13 games by a single goal this season, more than any other top-flight team.
They also have the best away record in the Premier League, with 10 wins on their travels.
They will take some shifting from the top of the table, as their fans did from Selhurst Park.
The Foxes supporters sang "we're going to win the league" solidly for 15 minutes after the final whistle, and it took repeated announcements from the stadium announcer to persuade them to leave.
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Palace certainly put plenty of effort in as they attempted to end their dismal league form - they are the only club in the top four divisions without a home win in 2016.
They fired 31 crosses into the Leicester area, with substitute Bakary Sako proving particularly dangerous when he came on.
However, the Eagles could not find a finishing touch and their sixth-straight home league defeat means their relegation worries remain very real.
Norwich's win at West Brom means Palace's eight-point cushion above the bottom three will be reduced on Sunday, no matter what the outcome of the north-east derby between Newcastle and Sunderland.
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Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew: "We are down, frustrated, we wanted to keep momentum after the FA Cup win over Reading but Leicester are top of the league for a reason. They have a lovely balance to the team, they will be difficult to catch and they would be worthy champions."
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri on being top of the league by eight points: "It sounds good, our fans are singing a very good song about that but we are to stay calm because the Premier League is the same as every match, you don't know what will happen.
"We have to continue to push a lot because the Champions League is very close to us. Maybe in the next two matches I can say something more."
Leicester can take another step towards the title when they host Southampton on 3 April.
Palace will aim to end their 13-match winless run in the league when they travel to West Ham the previous day.
Daphne the deer was found at Waters' Edge Country Park in Barton on Wednesday, and later put to sleep.
She was so badly injured she could not be saved, staff at the 110-acre park said.
A £200 reward has been issued for information leading to a successful prosecution.
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The park is home to numerous deer, but Daphne, who was about three-years-old, chose to stay close to the visitor centre after people started feeding her.
A spokesman for North Lincolnshire Council, which owns the site, said she would be "greatly missed".
"Daphne the deer was a friendly face for many visitors to Waters' Edge", he added.
Staff believe she was attacked by a dog and are warning visitors that although dogs are welcome, they must be on either a lead or in close control at all times.
Anyone with information about the attack is asked to contact staff at the visitor centre.
Jenas, who is on a season-long loan from Tottenham, was stretchered off during Saturday's loss to Manchester United after he pulled up sharply.
The 28-year-old underwent surgery on his left Achilles tendon on Wednesday.
Villa manager Alex McLeish said: "This is tragic for Jermaine and we are all deeply disappointed for him."
McLeish added: "To lose a player of his talent and experience is bad enough, but never to have seen him play enough in the Villa shirt for our fans to appreciate the player he is, that's terrible bad luck."
"Obviously, we wish Jermaine as speedy a recovery as possible and a full recovery, too.
"He has been a great professional to have at the club since he arrived on loan in August."
Jenas said on Twitter: "Back home after the surgery today.
"All went as well as it can, thank you all so much for the kind messages. They mean a lot to me!"
The midfielder has been dogged by injuries since he joined the Midlands club.
Earlier Achilles and calf problems meant that Jenas did not make his debut for Villa until 5 November, when he came on as a second-half substitute against Norwich.
Since then, he has made one more substitute appearance - against Swansea - and Saturday's game was his first start for the club.
The Nottingham-born player has made 21 appearances for England.
McLeish indicated after Saturday's game that he would be looking to strengthen his squad in January due to his growing injury list.
First-choice goalkeeper Shay Given was also taken off during Saturday's game and will miss the next month with a hamstring injury.
The item, described by producers as "a world famous piece owned by a sporting institution", was discovered during filming in North Yorkshire.
The nature and exact value of the item has not been revealed. The previous holder of the title - a model of the Angel of the North - was valued at £1m.
The BBC One show, filmed at Harrogate's Royal Hall, will be screened in April.
A spokesman for the show, presented by Fiona Bruce, said: "An item seen at the Antiques Roadshow in Harrogate is the highest valued object ever to appear on the show in its 38-year history.
"It is a world-famous piece owned by a sporting institution.
"The final valuation given will be revealed when the programme airs in Spring 2016."
The 2008 estimate for Antony Gormley's model of the Angel of the North - or maquette - of his towering sculpture was three times the show's previous record.
That was held by a £300,000 collection of silver dating back to the reign of Charles II.
More than 2,500 people turned out to have their antiques appraised and valued in Harrogate.
Some owners of potentially valuable antiques queued for about 90 minutes to be seen.
The Royal Hall is a Grade II-listed Edwardian hall and theatre near the town centre.
The MacRobert Award judges said Artemis Intelligent Power's "digital displacement" system was a "technical advance of global importance".
The technology could increase the power of offshore wind turbines and cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions in commuter trains and buses.
The award judges called it "a massive leap forward".
The £50,000 MacRobert Award has been presented by the Royal Academy of Engineering annually since 1969.
It is known for spotting the "next big thing" in the technology sector, previously recognising technologies such as the catalytic converter and the CT scanner.
The judging panel said the Artemis system had "done for hydraulic engines what James Watt did for steam engines".
It has developed a digital hydraulic power system that can replace the mechanical gearbox in conventional wind turbines.
The "Digital Displacement" system is set to power the next generation of offshore turbines, making them more efficient and reliable.
One system has already been installed in a 7MW turbine - double the current average turbine power of 3.5MW - off the Scottish coast.
The same technology can also be used to reduce the fuel consumption of commuter trains and buses.
A regenerative braking energy storage system based on "Digital Displacement" can be retrofitted to existing diesel commuter trains, reducing fuel consumption by about 10%.
The system also generates less noise and cuts exhaust emissions within stations.
Artemis has been working with Lothian Buses and Alexander Dennis to develop hybrid buses which are cheaper and more fuel efficient.
Originally a spin-out from the University of Edinburgh, Artemis was acquired by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 2010.
Chairwoman of the MacRobert judging panel, Dame Sue Ion, said: "The Artemis story is truly compelling. The company has achieved a technical advance of global importance, making significant power delivery from offshore wind considerably more credible and realisable, and facilitating the global goal of reducing CO2 emissions.
"This is not simply evolutionary improvement but a complete step change, and one that took years of commitment to achieve.
"The Artemis Digital Displacement system is both an incredible piece of invention, and a brilliant example of detailed engineering design. It represents excellence in multiple facets of engineering, from control system technology to software and elegant mechanical design.
"The multidisciplinary engineering team within Artemis has produced a unique, world-beating product and is realising significant commercial success as a result. As a UK SME, Artemis represents the very best of modern UK engineering with global significance, which the Academy continues to champion through its Engineering for Growth campaign."
Last year's MacRobert Award winner, SME Cobalt Light Systems, won for the innovation behind an airport security liquid scanner that can now be found in over 65 airports throughout Europe.
The Lifetime Isa will be launched in April 2017, and savers will receive a 25% bonus from the government.
They will be able to put in up to £4,000 a year, with the annual bonus of up to £1,000 paid until the age of 50.
And from April 2017 all savers will be able to put up to £20,000 a year into Isas, up from £15,240 at the moment.
So it will be possible to have both a standard and a Lifetime Isa, subject to the £20,000 limit.
The chancellor said that savers would be able to withdraw money from a Lifetime Isa at any time, and would not pay any tax on it.
Those wanting to use the money to buy a home will be able to do so after just a year; those wanting to use it for retirement will have to wait until the age of 60.
Investors will be able to put their money into either a cash, or a stocks and shares Isa.
Savers who have already taken out a Help to Buy Isa will be able to move their money into a Lifetime Isa.
If they have both types of Isa, they will only be able to use the bonus from one of them to buy a home.
The Help to Buy Isa scheme, which is slightly less generous than the new Isa, is due to end in November 2019.
Those using the Lifetime Isa to buy property can spend up to £450,000 on a home, but they have to be first-time buyers.
The government said savers would be allowed to withdraw money in the event of "other life events", such as a terminal illness.
But those just wanting to take money out for other reasons will not qualify for the bonus. They will also have to pay a 5% charge.
"The Lifetime ISA is a fantastic boost for anyone under 40 who's fighting the growing cost of getting on the property ladder," said Hannah Maundrell, editor-in-chief of Money.co.uk.
"It's not quite so appealing if you already own a house, as your cash will need to be tied up until you're 60 to get the free top-up."
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For those wanting to save for retirement, the Lifetime Isa raises the issue of whether it is better to save through a traditional pension, or through the Isa system.
Pensions are tax-free when you put the money in, but consumers pay income tax when they take the money out.
Under the Lifetime Isa, money would be put in tax-paid, but would be free of all tax when taken out.
"There is a huge risk that the Lifetime Isa will undermine pension contributions, undoing the hard work to get people saving'", said Mick McAteer, director of the Financial Inclusion Centre, a think-tank.
Before the Budget, George Osborne had been considering introducing an Isa-style pension to replace traditional pensions, but rejected a change for the time being.
However, some experts believe the Lifestyle Isa has similarities to that idea.
"Philosophically it does seem to be a Pensions Isa, with a nod towards first-time buyers," said Nigel Barker, a personal tax partner at accountancy firm Deloitte.
"You're not as locked in as a pension fund; it feels more flexible."
The animal fell through the frozen surface of Loch Morlich near Aviemore after a ball was thrown on to the ice.
A man smashed his way through the ice, wading in up to his neck, to rescue the struggling animal.
The rescue was captured by photographer Roger Cruickshank, who was using a drone camera to film views of the loch.
Mr Cruickshank said: "The dog wasn't big enough to pull itself out of the water. Every time it did manage, the ice would just crack again. We honestly thought it wouldn't make it and drown.
"A man went in to rescue it and the ice was thin enough so that he could punch through it. They were very lucky."
Although the man made it back to shore in the incident on Saturday, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service warned pet owners not to attempt similar action around ice.
A spokeswoman said: "We would encourage people to keep their animals under control so they do not go out onto ice.
"If their animal does go out, whilst it may be weight bearing for the animal, it might not be for the person. So please do not go onto the ice to coax the animal back to shore.
"If the animal has entered the water and they feel it is at risk, then they should call 999 for assistance. But under no circumstances, should they enter the water themselves as it could put them at risk."
Christie, 20, signed from Inverness Caledonian Thistle in September, and featured from the bench against his former side on Saturday.
"Because it's such a big squad, there's so much competition, it's going to be frustrating at times," he said.
"But I think over a long period, the players that keep working hard will eventually get success in the team."
It is an altogether different dynamic than that which faced the midfielder in the Highlands, where he proved one of John Hughes' pivotal players.
"That was one of the things I thought about when I moved," Christie told BBC Scotland. "I wasn't going to be straight into the starting 11; I had to almost start from scratch again.
"But I'm delighted I've eventually started making appearances on the park."
Celtic recovered from a shaky first half at Parkhead to put Caley Thistle to the sword 3-0 after the break
"It was very strange playing against old team mates," said Christie. "Nice to see them again and I wish them all the best in the future. I spent many good years at Inverness, but it's time to move on now.
"First half, fair credit to Inverness, I think they passed the ball excellently and shocked us a bit. We regrouped a bit at half-time and showed we were definitely the better team.
"I think in front of goal we were more clinical, which can prove vital in these games."
The 45-year-old was found guilty of adopting an aggressive attitude towards counterpart Jim Duffy and match officials at the 0-0 draw on 29 March.
Lennon's ban begins immediately, with a further two games suspended should he offend again in 2017.
Hibs were fined £750 for player behaviour at the final whistle.
The Edinburgh club, who have won the Scottish Championship title and promotion, will have to pay a further £250 should they transgress again before the end of the year.
Lennon will watch games against Raith Rovers and Ayr United from the stands but can return for the final day of the season at home to St Mirren when Hibs are presented with the league trophy.
A Scottish FA tribunal upheld a complaint that "on or around the 93rd minute, three or more players and/or members of team staff from your club were involved in a confrontation with opposing players and/or members of team staff".
Lennon was accused of adopting "an aggressive attitude to... Jim Duffy and/or a player from Greenock Morton FC".
He was also charged with "immediately following on from the dismissal of Darren McGregor of Hibernian FC, you did adopt an aggressive attitude to the match officials".
However, a charge that he had also adopted an aggressive attitude towards Morton striker Kudus Oyenuga was "not proved".
Tempers flared after Oyenuga was dismissed for a foul on Hibs defender Jordon Forster in front of the home dugout.
Hibs' Darren McGregor was also red carded for confronting Oyenuga, but that was later reduced to a booking after an appeal against referee Nick Walsh's decision.
Duffy has already been served with a two-match ban, with another game suspended should he transgress further.
Morton were fined £500, with £250 suspended.
Gavin Samuels, 26, was convicted after two trials at Luton Crown Court.
Sentencing Samuels on Friday Judge Lynn Tayton QC described him as "predatory and manipulative".
Samuels, the 2011 winner of the Faldo Series Grand Final and who coached two of the victims at a Bedfordshire golf club, was jailed for 14 and a half years.
Samuels, of Melfort Drive, Linslade, near Leighton Buzzard, was convicted of four counts of rape and six charges of various sexual assaults on two girls aged under 16.
Judge Tayton QC said: "I have been told that golf was your life but you were not deterred that you could lose your career. You were in a position of trust.
"There is evidence of a long history of your interest in young girls which manifested itself when you were 15 and continued until you were reported to police," said the judge.
The offences were committed between 2006 and 2014.
The first victim was about 12 when the abuse began and he was aged between 15 and 16 years.
She was 13 when he first raped her.
The two other victims were aged between 14 and 16.
He urged the girls not to tell anyone, saying it would ruin his career.
Sasha Bailey, defending, said before the sentence was passed: "Golf has been a major part of his life and career. He knows he is going to receive a lengthy sentence."
Det Insp Grant Maxted said after the case: "Samuels took advantage of the youth and naivety of his victims in a bid to sexually abuse them.
"He gave them gifts and items such as cigarettes in exchange for attention and sexual acts, as well as bombarding them with inappropriate messages."
Unmanned spacecraft have transformed understanding of our cosmic neighbourhood. But this avalanche of data has also thrown up many new questions.
As the 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference gets under way in The Woodlands, Texas, here are just a few of the open questions about the fascinating family of objects that share our celestial postcode.
From the tubeworms that cluster around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, to the bacterial communities eking out an existence in the dry valleys of Antarctica, life on Earth is found in some extreme environments. But what does that say about the prospects for life elsewhere in our Solar System?
Prof Andrew Coates of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory says there is a check-list of requirements that indicate whether a moon or planet could support life. Liquid water is of crucial importance, as is a source of heat, time (for life to evolve) and the right chemical ingredients.
The elements most vital for life are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur, which go by the mnemonic CHNOPS. Assuming this shopping list holds true elsewhere in the cosmos, a handful of planets and moons emerge as prime targets in the search for non-terrestrial life in the Solar System.
While Mars may have glistened with seas and lakes early on in its history, today its surface is a frozen desert battered by cosmic radiation. A recent study of data from Nasa's Phoenix spacecraft - which investigated the Martian "arctic" in 2008 - suggests the Red Planet's soilis indeed too dry to support microbial life. But if pockets of liquid water persists beneath a layer of sub-surface ice on Mars, so might communities of micro-organisms. This idea was given a boost a few years ago when scientists detected methane in the Martian atmosphere (more on this below).
The prospects for extra-terrestrial life might be as good or even better on icy satellites like Jupiter's moon Europa or the saturnian satellite Enceladus. In the 1980s, the Galileo spacecraft detected signs of a liquid water ocean beneath Europa's ice shell. In addition, this ocean seemed to be in contact with the moon's rocky mantle, providing a ready supply of chemical building blocks.
A future mission to Europa might be able to study samples from the ocean without having to drill through tens or hundreds of km of ice. Convection is thought to dredge up ocean water to the surface, and a recent paper in Nature suggests the presence of shallow lakes just 3km below the ice crust. A much smaller ocean might be the source of the water spewed out in geysers from Enceladus' south pole. Water is kept liquid on Europa and Enceladus by "tidal heating", caused by the pull of a planet's gravity.
Methane has been detected in the Martian atmosphere by Europe's Mars Express probe and by telescopes on Earth. But this poses a problem: the Sun's rays rapidly break this gas down into other molecules, so it cannot have been there for very long. This suggests there must be some source on Mars that continuously "tops up" the atmospheric methane as it is being destroyed.
So where is it coming from? There are several possibilities. Although Mars was once considered geologically "dead", active volcanoes could provide one explanation. A chemical process known as serpentinisation, which can occur deep in the crust, offers another way to make the organic molecule. Another, even more intriguing, option is that microbes generate the gas. A Nasa mission known as Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) will launch to the Red Planet in 2013 to investigate the source of this methane gas.
A similar problem exists over the methane on Saturn's moon Titan. The moon is shrouded in a dense orange-hued atmosphere, a small but significant proportion of which is methane. As on Mars, UV rays rapidly break it down, and scientists estimate that all the methane could be destroyed in tens of millions of years - a long timescale by our standards, but short compared with the age of the Solar System.
There isn't enough liquid methane on the surface to replenish the atmosphere, which suggests the presence of underground reservoirs. The Huygens probe, which landed on Titan in 2005, showed that the carbon in this methane lacks a tell-tale signature which might point to a biological origin. Instead, it might be stored beneath the surface in a form of methane-rich ice known as clathrate.
How it gets to the surface remains unclear, says Ralph Lorenz, from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory: "Is that methane being continuously replenished from the interior through vents, or a seep - the way radon seeps up through the ground on Earth? Does it come spewing up through geysers, or is a lot released by a volcanic eruption once every million years? We just don't know," he explains.
The striking contrast between the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars has posed a conundrum ever since it became apparent in images sent back in the 1970s by the Mariner 9 and Viking missions. Geologically young, low-lying plains dominate the northern half of the planet, while the southern half is characterised by old, highland terrain that is pock-marked with craters.
In the 1990s, Nasa's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft showed that the crust was thicker in the south than it was in the north. Magnetic anomalies are also seen in the southern half of the planet but not the north. But what was the cause?
Some scientists have proposed that an internal process - perhaps convection in the mantle or plate tectonics - could be responsible for Mars' two-faced character. Under the plate tectonics model, the present day boundary between north and south hemispheres marks the ancient plate margin.
However, other groups have long argued that the "Martian dichotomy" resulted from a gargantuan space impact, or even several. Such large collisions would have been quite common in the early Solar System. Indeed, a massive smash-up at around the same time is widely thought to have created Earth's moon.
In 2008, two groups published studies in the journal Nature that support the single impact theory using computer simulations. In one paper, Dr Francis Nimmo and colleagues suggested the northern crustoriginates from deep mantle rockmelted by an impact some 100 million years after Mars formed. The collision was powerful enough to send shock waves travelling to the other end of the planet, causing the magnetic anomalies seen there.
Inthe other paper, a team led by Margarita Marinova estimated that an object one-half to two-thirds the size of the Moon, striking at an angle of 30 to 60 degrees could fit the bill.
Saturn is defined by its vast ring system - a majestic halo that extends 270,000km from one side to the other. The material in the ring is 90% water ice, and ranges in size from tiny grains to boulders a few metres wide. Yet exactly how this colossal structure was created remains an open question.
Astronomers had long thought that the ring system was as ancient as the Solar System - about 4.6 billion years old. But if the rings had been around for a long time, they should have become relatively dirty, due to constant bombardment by meteorites. However, observations showed the icy ring material to be surprisingly bright, and therefore largely untainted by the dust from space rocks. This has led some scientists to the conclusion that the rings are actually much younger.
But this view is complicated by observations that the icy material is simultaneously being broken apart and clumping together, recycling the dust throughout the ring system and making it seem brighter than it might otherwise look. Dr Linda Spilker from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that, in addition to young versus old there is a third possibility - a hybrid theory. She says the most massive rings, such as the B ring, could be relatively old, while more tenuous rings formed later.
As to what the rings formed from, scientists think they could be the result of a comet breaking up near Saturn's or a moon several hundred km in diameter that was destroyed after being dragged inwards by the planet's gravity. Planetary scientist Robin Canup proposes another explanation: that a large moon was stripped of its icy mantle as it collided with Saturn, and that this ice provided the material for the ring.
Up until the end of its mission in 2017, the Cassini space probe will take more accurate measurements of the rings' mass; combining these with estimates of how often meteorites hit the rings could yield fresh insights into their age. Dr Spilker says Cassini will also shed light on two other Saturn conundrums - the uncertain length of a saturnian day, and the mechanics of a hexagon-shaped storm at the planet's north pole.
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The 44-year-old last tasted success over the Triangle circuit on a Kawasaki in a Superstock race in 2012 but has threatened to add to his tally since.
Rutter first raced at the North West in 1992 and took his first win in 1997.
"I'd like to think I could still catch Alastair Seeley's record of 17 wins but it would be very difficult because he is riding so well," said Rutter.
The Englishman will again ride BMW machinery for the Bathams/SMT outfit in the Superbike and Superstock classes on the roads in 2017.
"Hopefully I still have another win or two left in me at the North West," said Rutter.
The former British Superbike star dropped down into the Superstock ranks of the British championship last season, finishing fourth overall in the series, but is still undecided as to which series he will race in in 2017.
"We have built a superbike spec BMW and will ride it in the first BSB test at Donington next week." he explained.
"If we get on OK we will consider doing some BSB rounds."
The development of the S1000RR augurs well for Rutter's performances at Portrush in May.
"Last year the superbike hadn't turned a wheel before we arrived at the North West." he said.
"We developed the bike all year and it showed how good it was in Macau (where Rutter finished runner up behind Peter Hickman). We have continued to develop it over the winter so it should be a good bike."
Rutter will also ride a new R6 Yamaha for former racer Stephen Thompson in both Supersport events at Portrush in May.
The Crumlin man, who was seriously injured in a crash at the 2015 North West, will also run the Yamahas under the Thompson Plastering banner at the Isle of Man TT for his friend and former rival.
The Centre for Social Justice - set up by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith - said drink and drug abuse cost the UK £36bn a year.
Its report warned that the UK has become a hub for websites peddling potentially dangerous "legal highs".
The CSJ also criticised the government for failing to tackle heroin addiction and cheaply available alcohol.
The report, No Quick Fix, found that last year 52 people in England and Wales died after taking legal highs, up from 28 the previous year.
The substances, sometimes referred to as club drugs and including Salvia and Green Rolex, are often marketed as bath salts or research chemicals.
But the drugs can be sold legally as long as they are clearly marked "not for human consumption", but have been known to cause permanent bladder damage, blood poisoning and death.
According to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), there are now more than 130 UK-registered websites selling the products cheaply by mail order - making postal service workers unwitting drug mules.
The think tank said one in 12 young people in the UK admitted to having taken legal highs - the highest figure in Europe.
It said a faster system of prohibition was needed to deal with legal highs, as 150 new substances have come on to the market in the last three years, while the government has managed to ban just 15 in the same period.
The report also attacked a failure to offer heroin addicts effective treatment.
A Freedom of Information inquiry found that 55% of councils in England have had funding for residential treatment cut since the coalition came to power, despite Prime Minister David Cameron pushing for more residential programmes.
The report said that almost a third of people in England on drug-substitute prescriptions such as methadone have been on them for four or more years, and one in 25 for more than 10 years.
The CSJ found alcohol dependence among British men was second in western Europe and seventh overall, while alcohol dependence among women is higher in the UK than anywhere in Europe.
One in four adults in England drank to harmful levels, and one in 20 were "dependent drinkers", it said.
The report also found a stark north-south divide in the problem of alcohol abuse, with 26 of the 30 local authorities with the highest rate of alcohol-related admissions in the north of the country.
The CSJ said the government had recognised the dangers of excessive drinking, but criticised its failure to tackle cheap alcohol through minimum unit pricing or a "treatment tax", with revenue put into treatment for addicts.
Noreen Oliver, chairwoman of the CSJ review, said: "Despite some slow progress in this last three years, much more needs to be done to tackle the root causes of addiction so that people have a better chance of breaking free.
"Alcohol is taking an increasing toll across all services in the UK and new emerging drugs are causing more harm - all the while funding to rehabilitation centres is being dramatically cut and methadone prescribing is being protected."
Crime Prevention Minister Jeremy Browne said the government took the threat of legal highs seriously, describing them as "highs which should not be assumed to be either safe or legal".
"Our Forensic Early Warning System enables us to closely monitor their availability, so we can target activity to reduce demand and supply.
"We are banning whole groups of substances rather than individual drugs and have introduced temporary drug orders which allow us to place harmful substances under control - protecting the public while giving time to our independent experts to prepare more detailed advice."
And the Paisley club say they expect Gary Teale to apply for the post he has occupied since replacing the sacked Tommy Craig in December.
St Mirren picked up their eighth win of a disappointing Premiership campaign at Ross County on Saturday.
But their nine-year stay in the top flight was brought to an end the night before when Motherwell beat Kilmarnock.
"As a board of directors we have always made what we believed to be the best decisions for the good of the club," read a statement from the Buddies.
"This season, unfortunately, we have got some of those decisions wrong, and we hold our hands up and accept responsibility."
Teale, 36, was put in charge until the end of the season and has spoken regularly of his desire to stay on.
However, he must now enter an open selection process if he is to lead the team next season.
"We are now inviting applications from managers interested in managing this great club with first class facilities and excellent young players," added the statement.
"The board would like to place on record our thanks to both Gary Teale and David Longwell for taking over the reins after Tommy Craig's departure and whilst the job of avoiding relegation proved to be a step too far their commitment, effort and endeavour has been there for all to see.
"We would expect Gary to put his name forward for the vacant manager's position and we will duly consider his application along with all others we receive."
The airport will be closed for six weeks, starting in February 2017.
The announcement comes after airlines threatened to stop flying to Abuja because of safety concerns over the state of the runway.
During the repairs, domestic and international flights to Abuja will be diverted to the city of Kaduna more than 160km (100 miles) away.
BBC Nigeria correspondent Martin Patience says passengers diverted to Kaduna will face a two-hour journey along a road that has recently been hit by a spate of kidnappings.
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The hour-long flight from Nigeria's commercial centre Lagos to the capital is used as a shuttle by many businesses.
Critics are warning that the closure will prove hugely damaging to the country's economy, which is already reeling from its worst recession in decades.
But the government says that by carrying out the major work in one go, it will not have to make smaller repairs in the future.
The weekend-long event started at Carlisle Castle and ended 69 miles (111km) later at Newcastle's Quayside.
It was organised by adventure sports event company, Rat Race, which described the event as "not for the faint hearted".
The winner, Ian Hammett, managed it in nine hours and 43 minutes. Some 800 people completed the route.
Organisers described it as a success and said that entries for the 2016 race would soon be available.
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Leicester City moved eight points clear at the top of the Premier League after Riyad Mahrez's goal saw off a stubborn Crystal Palace side.
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Owners have been warned to keep their pets under control after a "friendly" deer was fatally attacked by a dog.
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Aston Villa's on-loan midfielder Jermaine Jenas has been ruled out for six months after undergoing surgery on an Achilles injury.
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Pet owners have been warned about the dangers of venturing into freezing water after a dog and its owner had a lucky escape on a Highland loch.
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Ryan Christie concedes Celtic's sizeable posse of midfielders is going to limit his game time.
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Hibernian head coach Neil Lennon has been given a two-game touchline ban and his club fined after their stormy game against Morton.
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A former professional golfer who raped a teenage girl and sexually assaulted two others has been jailed.
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Here's BBC News Channel chief political correspondent Vicki Young's afternoon round-up:
Follow all the reaction, key points and analysis of the debate on our rolling live coverage.
Labour's non-dom pledge unravels?
Footage emerges of shadow chancellor Ed Balls telling BBC Radio Leeds in January: "If you abolish the whole status it will end up costing Britain money because some people will leave the country."
For sale: a general election "battle bus", at the bargain price of £25,000. It weighs 18-tonnes, is bombproof, has fewer than 14,000 miles on the clock and counts among its previous owners, the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She used it during the 1983 general election campaign.
It's not the only bus to have caused excitement in this election campaign. Labour's "Woman to Woman" campaign bus was derided when it was first unveiled, with much of the criticism reserved for the colour.
Labour's Harriet Harman defended the pink hue, saying it was important to make sure the bus was conspicuous.
Labour leader Ed Miliband: "Stop defending the indefensible and abolish the non-dom rule - it's the right thing for the country."
Chancellor George Osborne, on Labour's non-dom proposal: "If you look at what Ed Miliband has announced today, it is a total shambles. Within hours the policy has unravelled."
Beth Rigby, deputy political editor, Financial Times tweets: "Like a chocolate truffle wrapped in gold leaf, non-dom status is nice to have, hard to justify."
Tory MEP Daniel Hannan writes in the Daily Mail: "What the blithering flip was he thinking? How did Tony Blair imagine that it would help Ed Miliband if he were to pop up mid-election and remind us that Labour is too disdainful of ordinary voters to ask their opinion on EU membership?"
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The flag was taken from an 80ft (24m) post at Trump International Golf Links on the Menie Estate between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.
Police are keen to trace a white van seen in the area shortly before 22:00 on Monday.
The flag and its pole were the subject of a planning wrangle after being erected without council permission.
Trump International took its case against Aberdeenshire Council to the Scottish government, which later ruled in its favour.
The 29-year-old Fiji international is one of 18 players to leave Sixways, and is the ninth addition to Dean Richards' Falcons squad for next season.
Cavubati has made 15 Test appearances, and was a member of Fiji's 2015 World Cup squad.
"Tevita offers us some outstanding carrying and offloading ability," director of rugby Richards said.
"He is already familiar with Premiership rugby from his time at Worcester Warriors, he is an experienced international and this is the sort of quality signing which will help us build on the improvements we have already shown this season."
Falcons have not confirmed the length of the contract.
On Friday, Poundland claimed it had been advised to remove food from its Corporation Street store because of nearby "road works".
But the council's environmental health team said it had received complaints of mice and, after a visit, concluded there was an "imminent risk".
Poundland said it had followed advice.
In a statement, it said: "All food is now back on sale and the prohibition notice has been lifted. The company's primary concern is for the health and well-being of its customers and it reacted swiftly to resolve the situation."
In a previous statement, released on Friday, the firm said: "Poundland has removed food from display at its Corporation Street store in Birmingham following advice from the local environmental office.
"This advice relates to issues caused primarily by the extensive building and road works in the area."
Birmingham City Council said food went back on sale in the store on Monday.
The foreign secretary reportedly told a Czech paper the UK was likely to leave the EU customs union post-Brexit - but still wanted to trade freely after.
However, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister, said such an option "doesn't exist" and was "impossible".
Number 10 said a decision on membership of the customs union had not been made.
Mr Johnson reportedly told the Czech newspaper Hospodarske Noviny he did not believe the UK would remain in the EU customs union after Brexit.
He was quoted as saying he believed such a move could be done while "maintaining free trade" with EU states, suggesting the UK could remain within the single market.
The customs union allows members to move goods without the imposition of tariffs on each other.
However, members also have to apply the same tariffs to goods that are imported from outside the union - which is seen as a disadvantage by some Brexit supporters who want the UK to be able to negotiate its own deals.
Speaking to the BBC's Newsnight, Mr Dijsselbloem - who is also president of the eurozone's Eurogroup - said Mr Johnson was putting forward options that "are really not available".
"He's saying things that are intellectually impossible, politically unavailable, so I think he's not offering the British people a fair view of what is available and what can be achieved in these negotiations," he said.
EU leaders have continually warned that the UK cannot expect access to European markets after Brexit unless it accepts the free movement of labour.
Mr Dijsselbloem said that while firms in the UK currently have full access to European markets "without any hindrance or customs duties", some of that "will disappear".
He said it would be "a step back", adding: "The UK will be outside the internal market and there will be some hindrances."
The Dutch minister told the programme that both the UK economy and the European economy would be in "a worse situation" post-Brexit.
"There is no win-win situation. It's going to be a lose-lose situation and in the best case if we set aside all emotions and try to reach an agreement that is least damaging to both of us we can minimise the damages," he added.
"We can do our best to minimise damages but it's going to be a step back and that is what Boris Johnson should start talking about."
Downing Street has insisted that the government's position has not changed and no decision has been taken on the future membership of the customs union.
Mr Johnson also reportedly said it was a "complete myth" that free movement was one of the fundamental freedoms of the European Union.
In response, the European Parliament's lead negotiator on Brexit, Guy Verhofstadt, tweeted: "Can't wait to negotiate with @BorisJohnson, so that I can read him Article 3 of the Treaty of Rome."
The section includes removing "obstacles to freedom of movement for persons".
On Monday Downing Street "wholeheartedly" rejected comments in a memorandum leaked to the press describing cabinet "divisions" over Brexit.
Prime Minister Theresa May wants to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning the formal two-year process for leaving the EU - by the end of March next year.
An international study led by the university said there was "strong evidence" of metformin's anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers said this "may prove significant" in relation to non-diabetic cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Metformin has been in use for more than 50 years.
The study said the drug "continues to reveal significant possibilities for treatments other than those for diabetes."
The drug is also undergoing new clinical trials to determine if it can promote healthy ageing.
The study is being led by Professor Chim Lang and Dr Graham Rena, from the university's division of molecular and clinical medicine.
Professor Lang said: "The anti-inflammatory effects of the drug were observed, not only in those with diabetes, but also in a cohort of non-diabetic heart failure patients."
Dr Rena said: "We found that this drug acts differently to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs by inhibiting a different target."
Dr Rena said the next step would be to establish exactly how the drug inhibits this target and to identify "specific non-diabetic" patient groups that benefit from the anti-inflammatory properties.
Prof Jeremy Pearson of the British Heart Foundation said: "These findings offer further evidence that old drugs can perform new tricks.
"Repurposed medicines can much more quickly benefit patients.
"If this existing and affordable drug can be repurposed as a heart disease treatment, then this is excellent news for the 2.3 million people in the UK living with the condition.
"We look forward to seeing how the research progresses in patient studies."
It is the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, the seminal event that led to Irish independence and in some ways to the creation of Northern Ireland.
But who owns the legacy of 1916, especially in an election year?
The 1916 Pathé news footage clearly shows the destruction to the centre of Dublin arising from the Easter rebellion.
The bombed-out General Post Office (GPO) from where the Republic of Ireland was proclaimed has no roof, it is windowless and its front is scarred by the firing of artillery.
The buildings near it either have collapsed or are in a poor state of repair.
On 27 March, Easter Sunday, people will again gather outside the GPO to commemorate the events that paved the way towards the foundation of a new state.
Last August, the Irish state began its centenary commemorations by marking the funeral of the Fenian leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa.
Padraig Pearse, one of the rebellion's leaders, gave the graveside oration, where he famously said that "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace".
The Irish army, officially known as Oglaigh na hEireann, played a key role in that commemoration and will do so again over the coming months.
Irish politicians want to celebrate the foundation of the state, but without giving succour to dissident republicans and the violent republican tradition.
The 1916 rebels had no democratic mandate, but it could be argued that nobody had, because there was no universal suffrage not every adult had a vote.
Regina Doherty, a member of the Irish parliament with Fine Gael, the main government party, said 2016 belongs to everyone on the island and provided a chance for stock-taking.
"For me it's not about Sinn Féin or Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael," she said.
"It's about the inclusivity of the government programme and is a chance for us all to reflect on what has been achieved over the last 100 years.
"But more importantly it's also about our ambitions for the next 100 years.
"And that's the responsibility of everyone on this island, north and south."
Sinn Féin, while taking part in state commemorations, has also organised its own, including one last August for O'Donovan Rossa, where party activists re-enacted the funeral dressed in costumes of the time.
Simon Reeves, presenter of the BBC programme Ireland with Simon Reeves, noted that the centenary was the extraordinary story of the birth of a nation.
"Irish nationalism has in many ways gone into the background in the Republic," he said.
"It's not front and centre in people's minds - they've got other concerns and this is part of a series of events Sinn Féin is using to try to awaken that sense of Irish national identity, of one island."
Sinn Féin is also planning a major event at the GPO on the calendar date of the Rising at the end of April.
There will be marches and vigils at important sites of the Rising and for at least six months from February there will be an exhibition of artefacts from the Rising at the Ambassador venue at the top of O'Connell street.
Sinn Féin parliamentarian Aengus O'Snodaigh said the party is not trying to claim ownership of the centenary.
"Sinn Féin has been organising commemorations since 1917 throughout the country," he said.
"We'll be doing in 2016 what we've always done and adding to it because of the significance of the 100 years.
"We're not trying to compete. Indeed, we're trying to make sure that our events aren't directly competing with the state events.
"We've timed them at different times."
The details of the state's Easter Sunday plans have yet to be announced, but they are expected to include a military march past the GPO where senior state figures and other VIPs will be gathered on a podium.
To date the centenary has not proved divisive or controversial, possibly because the general election is due to happen before it and so no one party can seek electoral advantage from the events of 100 years ago.
But it will be interesting to see if that changes over the coming weeks and months.
A draft of the report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef and references to Kakadu and Tasmania.
But Australia's Department of the Environment requested that Unesco scrub these sections from the final version.
A statement from the department said the report could have had an impact on tourism to Australia.
It also said the report's title, Destinations at Risk, had "the potential to cause considerable confusion".
"In particular, the World Heritage Committee had only six months earlier decided not to include the Great Barrier Reef on the in-danger list and commended Australia for the Reef 2050 Plan," the statement said.
"The department was concerned that the framing of the report confused two issues - the world heritage status of the sites and risks arising from climate change and tourism.
"Recent experience in Australia had shown that negative commentary about the status of world heritage properties impacted on tourism."
Prof Will Steffen, an emeritus professor at the Australian National University and head of Australia's Climate Council, was one of the scientific reviewers on the paper.
He told the BBC that he was "amazed by the apparent overreaction that's gone on".
"I don't understand it at all. I think it was a very balanced report. There was nothing in that report that was not already known," he said.
Prof Steffen was sceptical about official explanations that the report risked causing confusion over the status of the reef and could impact tourism.
"There's no substance to either of those arguments," he said.
"There was no mention at all that the Great Barrier Reef might be listed as endangered. There was also a paragraph at the end that discussed steps the Australian government is taking to mitigate risks to the reef."
Prof Steffen also noted that distribution of the report, which summarises risks to World Heritage areas in many nations, would likely be limited to specialists who worked in associated fields.
"You wouldn't expect to see it on a bestseller list," he said.
The report was created by Unesco in partnership with the Union of Concerned Scientists and the United Nations Environment Program.
It is not clear why Unesco agreed to the government's request to remove the passages.
The 47-year-old took over at Valley Parade in August 2011 and helped the club to promotion from League Two in 2012-13.
He guided the Bantams to the League Cup final in that same year and last season led them to the FA Cup quarter-finals.
"I'm very proud of my record here so far but I've been very lucky to receive the backing I've had from the chairmen and board," he told the club website.
"You always need good people around you as a manager, and I think we have a very good team both above me at boardroom level and around me at the training ground.
"We are all still striving to keep improving - that is the key. Hopefully we can continue to do that and make this season a successful one.
"It is a fantastic honour to be the manager of this football club. Every time I drive to the ground for a match day, I always get a feeling of immense pride that I am the manager of Bradford City."
Parkinson's assistant Steve Parkin, goalkeeping coach Lee Butler and head of sport science Nick Allamby have also signed new three-year deals.
The Bantams are currently 11th in League One with eight points from their first six matches this season.
The blaze happened at Papa Busty's take-away, on Waterloo Street, at about 16:30 BST on Monday. The take-away has only been open for five weeks.
The Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze was started accidentally.
On Sunday the Rainbow Chinese take-away on Carlisle Road was also damaged by fire.
Paul Quinn's 21-year-old son, Darren, owns the pizza business. Mr Quinn said he was devastated.
"It's a new business, he came back from England with his girlfriend, it's only open five weeks," he said.
"Business was picking up great, they were very happy with it. They put everything into it so it's very upsetting.
"It's just unfortunate, but I'm just glad there were no lives lost or people hurt."
Jonathan Tate from the Fire and Rescue Service said it was a very difficult blaze to deal with.
"There were 30 firefighters here to deal with the incident. The damage to the take-away is significant."
Mr Tate told BBC Radio Foyle that the inside of the business was "destroyed".
The take-away is on the bottom floor of a three-storey building. The two flats above the restaurant are derelict.
That is the conclusion of The Committee for the Protection of Journalists, who together with the internet giant Google SA, have gathered African journalists together in Johannesburg's financial hub Sandton to take stock in the wake of the North African uprisings.
In recent months we have seen the traditional means of blocking content continue.
Uganda, for instance, turned off social networking sites in April during the peak of the "walk-to-work" campaign.
Though it denied doing so at first, the Uganda Communications Commission wrote to service providers asking them to "block the use of Facebook and Twitter" and "to eliminate the connection and sharing of information that incites the public".
The BBC saw a copy of the letter.
In June, the Rwandan site Umuvugizi was blocked as its editor was sentenced in absentia to more than two years in jail for insulting the President Paul Kagame in an opinion piece.
And in Swaziland, SMS and the Facebook site were suspended during the much-trumpeted protest marches that failed to take off at the start of April.
But these "technical blocks" are fast becoming surpassed by "more sophisticated and targeted tools using Malware", says Danny O'Brien from the CPJ.
He says a tactic that was previously used in China, Malware enables an individual's website to be infiltrated via a virus or spyware designed to damage a user's system and "suck out important content".
It also enables the "infiltrator" to clone the original system and send out information that would be hard to detect as being fake.
There is evidence that this sophisticated tool is being used in Tanzania and Sudan, according to Tom Rhodes, CPJ's East Africa lead.
JamiiForums, a Swahili language version of Wikileaks, is being "cloned" by Tanzania's government to disrupt conversations of opponents, he says.
There has been no comment from the Tanzanian authorities on this.
Nevertheless with Chinese influence in Africa growing rapidly, should journalists and bloggers be more concerned?
Google thinks so.
The company has found its search engine periodically blocked by China over the past decade and Ory Okolloh, its feisty government relations manager, is a trailblazer for media freedom.
She was the brainchild behind the Kenyan site Ushahidi, which used mapping technology and mobile phones to help identify sites of post-election violence in 2008.
Given the events in the Middle East and North Africa, Ms Okolloh argues that there is a "growing need among individuals and organisations in the forefront of online freedom of expression, to learn about the complex issues surrounding news technology products and social media tool".
Journalist defence networks agree.
"Governments now have unprecedented access to the wires and pipes of the internet," says Mr O'Brien.
What is more, with 80% of those Africans using the internet accessing it via mobile phones, the breadth of information that can be gleaned is much greater.
Mobile phones require government licences and greater co-operation between providers and the authorities, and so the pressure to suspend services cannot be underestimated
Internet accessed by smart phone users not only tells a hacker what sites are being monitored and who they are talking to, but it will also gather information on their precise geographical location and what they are seeing.
This is no longer the stuff of sci-fi movies but the everyday reality of citizen journalists everywhere.
Timothy Kalyegira was in a Ugandan prison cell facing charges of criminal libel last week.
A few days later the Ugandan journalist and blogger was out on bail as one of the delegates of the meeting in a plush hotel in Sandton.
Mr Kalyegira's "crime" in the eyes of the Ugandan government was to stray into the sensitive territory of security issues.
On his website, the Uganda Record, he questioned whether it really was the Somali Islamist organisation al-Shabab that was behind last year's World Cup bombings in Kampala.
He faces criminal charges.
Some will undoubtedly appreciate Uganda's argument that is an issue of national security, but many of the other delegates who joined Mr Kalyegira in Sandton have felt the strong arm of the law for what may seem far more "benign" reasons.
For instance simply posting a view on Facebook, publishing a cartoon or publishing a few tweets on Twitter.
These men and women earn a pittance from their online work; they do not enjoy the diplomatic cover that big news organisations receive when things go wrong; but they are rapidly becoming the voices of dissent.
Just like the "samizdat" illegal publications in cold war Europe were the engine of change in the late 1980s, so the voices of the Rwandans, Ethiopians, Ivorians and Nigerians gathered in Sandton are making contributions that are rattling governments continent wide.
The 23-year-old has agreed a two-and-half-year deal with the Daggers.
"Ollie is a player we have watched for some time and everyone who saw him was impressed," boss John Still told the Dagenham website.
"I decided I would try and sign him in this transfer window and the fact that I changed clubs is Dagenham's gain."
Hawkins becomes the former Luton Town manager's fourth signing of the January transfer window.
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The conviction of Jeffrey Davies, 45, at Newport Crown Court follows an investigation by the force, managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The rapes happened in 2002 and 2003 while he was a serving officer in the Rhondda.
He was convicted on Thursday and will be sentenced at a later date.
Davies was dismissed from South Wales Police in 2013 after being convicted of other sexual assaults and the latest rape allegations followed publicity from those cases.
He was convicted of raping one woman in 2002, who he met through work and drove up to the Bwlch mountain in Rhondda Cynon Taff where he attacked her, and another woman who he raped in 2003.
Chief Supt Dorian Lloyd, head of South Wales Police's professional standards department, said: "He abused his position as a police officer and gave no regard to the traumatic effect that his actions would have on his victims.
"These were vulnerable women who, having encountered Davies, found themselves subjected to an appalling abuse of trust."
IPCC Commissioner for Wales, Jan Williams, said: "Jeffrey Davies was a sex offender hiding within the police service, who committed fundamental breaches of the trust placed in him as a serving officer."
Roland, one of a pair of swans at Markenfield Hall near Ripon, was found dead in the moat on 14 April.
Staff at the 14th Century manor later managed to capture the suspect otter on film.
Owner Ian Curteis said the otter was caught on camera after his swan was "completely savaged" by some unknown creature last week.
He said footage from a motion-sensor equipped camera revealed "a three and a half foot otter, virtually wiping his mouth with his napkin and putting down his knife and fork".
Roland's female partner, Sylvia, has been removed from the moat for her own safety. Staff said they hoped the otter would eventually move on.
Otters are a protected species in the UK and cannot be killed, captured or sold.
The black swan is native to Australia and was largely brought into the UK for ornamental purposes.
One of the strikes hit near the Bayan hospital in the eastern Shaar district, activists and a monitoring group said.
Video footage, purportedly of the aftermath, showed bodies being pulled from burning and destroyed buildings.
It was not clear who was responsible, but government forces are seeking to regain control of the divided city.
In a defiant speech on Tuesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promised to retake "every inch" of the country from his opponents.
Aleppo, he said, would be "the graveyard where the hopes and dreams" of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - a key backer of the rebels - would be "buried".
The speech to Syria's newly-elected parliament was Mr Assad's first major address since UN-brokered indirect peace talks in Geneva broke down in April.
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Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided since 2012, with the government controlling the western half and rebel factions holding the east.
But in recent months, government forces backed by Russian air strikes have almost encircled the rebel-held areas and cut off one of the rebels' two routes to Turkey.
The battle for the city led to the collapse of a cessation of hostilities negotiated by Russia and the US, which supports the opposition, at the end of February.
The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an opposition activist network, reported that Tuesday's air strikes had resulted in multiple casualties in the Maadi, Haidariya and Shaar districts.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said children were among at least 10 people killed when the Bayan hospital was hit.
The Syria Civil Defence, whose volunteer search and rescue workers are known as the White Helmets, said 15 civilians were killed in Shaar and that the hospital was hit by two suspected barrel bombs.
The government has denied that its forces drop barrel bombs - oil barrels, fuel tanks or gas cylinders packed with explosives, fuel, and metal fragments - and other unguided weapons, but their use has been widely documented.
The Independent Doctors Association, which describes itself as a cross-border Syrian humanitarian organisation, said an air strike had hit its children's hospital in Aleppo, destroying one floor.
Almost 740 medical workers have been killed in more than 360 attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities since the uprising against Mr Assad began five years ago, according to Physicians for Human Rights.
In April, an air strike blamed on government forces destroyed a hospital in Aleppo, killing at least 50 people including one of the city's last remaining paediatricians.
Three-year-old, Maisie Phillips, had been taking her first trip on Nottingham's new tram line to Clifton with her parents on Tuesday evening.
Her father Anthony Phillips said he tried opening the doors but the driver refused to stop "for safety reasons".
Nottingham Express Transit (NET) said "lessons had been learnt" from it.
Mr Phillips said he got off at the next stop and ran half-a-mile back to Maisie, who was being looked after by another passenger.
"I'm glad Maisie didn't go wandering off anywhere, anything could have happened to her," he said.
"I was shouting to the driver but she said we had to wait until the next stop.
"I understand these are new trams but the doors closed stupidly quickly. If someone was disabled or elderly they wouldn't have got out quick enough."
Maisie had been spotted by Angela Wilkinson who had got off at the same stop.
She said: "I noticed she was on her own and was running away shouting 'mummy', 'daddy'. I just couldn't leave her.
"She was absolutely devastated. It was awful."
An NET representative apologised and said while the driver had closed the doors too quickly, she was "unable to stop once the tram was moving for safety reasons".
Their statement added that "lessons had been learnt" and drivers have since been reminded to look out for passengers who might need extra time or assistance getting on and off the trams.
Ex-serviceman, Robert McNamara, 24, of Scarborough, pleaded guilty at Chester Crown Court to attempting to enter as a trespasser with intent to steal.
The alarm at the footballer's £6m property in Prestbury, Cheshire was reportedly triggered on 3 August.
McNamara will be sentenced on 21 December.
Judge Nicholas Woodward said there were "very worrying features" in the case and ordered a pre-sentence report to be carried out by the probation service.
Rooney, his wife Coleen, and their three sons, Kai, Klay and Kit, were attending the charity tribute game against his first club, Everton, when the break-in bid took place.
McNamara of Newby Farm Crescent, Scalby, was arrested six days later.
The prosecution case was not outlined during the brief hearing but the court heard that McNamara had recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and that his family had sought help from Combat Stress, a veterans' mental health charity, earlier this year.
After Tuesday's 1.9% devaluation, China's central bank cut the guiding rate for the yuan for a second day.
The fall in the yuan has hit commodity prices, driving down share prices in the big UK-listed mining companies.
The FTSE 100 was down 93.35 points at 6,571.19, with shares in mining giant Glencore falling 5.7%.
The losses were echoed across other major European stock markets, with Germany's Dax index and France's Cac 40 down 3.3% and 3.4% each.
Companies with direct exposure to China came under pressure. Shares in fashion house Burberry, for which China is an important market, fell 3.5%, having dropped more than 4% on Tuesday.
Shares in Unilever were down 4.3% after Goldman Sachs cut its rating on the consumer goods company to "sell" from "neutral".
Randgold Resources was the top riser in the FTSE 100, climbing 5.4%, after the price of gold rose.
Gold is traditionally seen as a safer asset in times of market turmoil, and the spot price of gold touched a three-week high of $1,119.80 an ounce on Wednesday morning before slipping back.
On the currency markets, the pound fell sharply against the euro after signs of a slowdown in UK wage increases pushed back market expectations of when interest rates might rise.
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed unemployment rose slightly in the three months to June, while earnings growth - including bonuses - slowed to an annual rate of 2.4%.
The pound fell by 1%, more than one euro cent, against the euro to €1.3959 but edged up 0.42% against the dollar to $1.5638.
The result eased Clyde's relegation fears, moving them up to eighth in Scottish League Two.
Edinburgh City beat Arbroath 1-0, with bottom club Cowdenbeath picking up a vital win over Stirling Albion.
Forfar Athletic remain top despite a 1-0 loss at Montrose, while Berwick drop to ninth after a 2-1 defeat by Annan.
Clyde faced criticism for signing Goodwillie, 28, on a deal until the end of the season after a court judgement in January ruled he and a former team-mate raped a woman.
But the former Dundee United striker made the most of the chance afforded to him with a 12-minute hat-trick to cancel out first-half goals from Elgin's Chris McLeish and Chris Dodd.
Goodwillie's first goal for the club got Clyde back into the game after 52 minutes, he added his second five minutes later and completed his treble with a well-taken third shortly after Elgin's Thomas Reilly had a penalty saved by Kyle Gourlay.
Basement side Cowdenbeath grabbed a much-needed victory as they eased to a 3-0 win at Stirling.
The Blue Brazil opened the scoring in the fourth minute when the home side failed to clear a corner and Dale Carrick turned the ball home.
It was 2-0 after 21 minutes when Kris Renton was left unmarked to hammer in his 10th goal of the season, and former Hearts striker Carrick added a third with another close-range effort to seal the points.
Clyde's victory coupled with Ryan Porteous' last-gasp winner for Edinburgh City at second-placed Arbroath meant it was a crucial three points for Cowdenbeath.
Table-topping Forfar succumbed to Chris Templeman's magnificent seventh-minute winner for Montrose, as he took advantage of a poor clearance from goalkeeper Grant Adam to curl the ball into an empty net from 30 yards. Forfar remain a point clear at the league summit.
At Galabank, Darren Ramsay broke the deadlock for the hosts from the penalty spot in the 52nd minute after Lee Hamilton had fouled Aidan Smith.
Berwick levelled through Steven Thompson's sublime free-kick after 68 minutes, but Smith's low finish into the corner won it for Annan.
Republic boss Martin O'Neill described Elliot's injury as "serious".
"It's a real disappointment and obviously a dampener on the evening," said O'Neill after the 2-2 draw.
Elliot, 29, was hurt as he tried to keep out Miroslav Stoch's opening goal in the Aviva Stadium game.
"He was going really well at Newcastle and looking forward to the game and coming here into the squad with a lot of confidence," added O'Neill.
"I have just spoken to the doctor and he's not happy."
Newcastle later tweeted that the full extent of Elliot's injury would be assessed on Wednesday.
Elliot's misfortune further increases the chances of a recall for veteran Stoke keeper Shay Given.
The 39-year-old was working as a TV pundit at Tuesday's game in Dublin and spoke to O'Neill about his own recovery from a knee injury.
Jack Butland's broken ankle suffered on England duty against Germany has increased Given's chances of featuring for Stoke during the club's Premier League run-in.
Elliot has earned praise for his club performances since coming into the team in place of injured Dutchman Tim Krul in October.
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O'Neill declared himself satisfied with his team's performance as first-half penalties by Shane Long and James McClean earned the Republic a draw against their fellow Euro 2016 qualifiers.
"We played some nice attractive football, particularly in the first half," he said.
"There were a lot of substitutions made by both teams and that disrupted things in the second half.
"Overall, there were some good performances. The cohesion we had was surprising given how much we had changed things around for this match."
McClean, eager to seal his place in O'Neill's squad, revealed he is a novice at taking penalties.
"I took the second penalty because Shane was a bit sore after taking a knock," said McClean. "I had never taken one before so there was a bit of pressure on it."
The US actor played Paul, a member of Kiefer Sutherland's blood-sucking gang, in the 1987 horror comedy film.
In a statement, his "heartbroken" family said he died on Tuesday "from the genetic liver condition alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AAT)".
The message describes McCarter as a "loving son, brother, father, uncle, cousin, nephew and friend".
The Facebook statement added: "We appreciate your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time."
Born in 1963 in Philadelphia, McCarter was a high school athlete and model before landing his best-known screen role.
As blond-haired "lost boy" Paul, he met a grisly end after being knocked by a dog into a bath full of garlic-infused holy water.
Unlike some of his co-stars, who included Jason Patric, Corey Feldman and the late Corey Haim, McCarter did not go on to pursue a full-time acting career.
Instead he worked in the telecommunications industry while also making music and occasionally appearing at horror conventions.
According to People magazine, the father-of-one died from liver failure at his home in Tampa, Florida, after having been admitted to hospital earlier this year.
Actor Alex Winter, who played vampire Marko in The Lost Boys, paid tribute to his former co-star on Twitter.
"RIP Brooke McCarter and condolences to the family," he wrote. "We had some very very good times together back in the day."
The 1000-strong special force is equipped with helicopters, armoured cars and assault weapons.
Officials say it will target gang leaders who left the cities because of a government crackdown.
There are an estimated 70,000 gang members in El Salvador. The country has one of the highest murder rates in the world largely due to their turf wars.
At a ceremony to unveil the new force, Vice-President Oscar Ortiz said:"The moment has come to stop the scale of violence which has imposed itself in the last few years on our country and which has created so much blood and sacrifice."
"We are going to go after them in the countryside and in the city," he said, adding that human rights would be respected.
Last month the government started a campaign against gang leaders, many whom run their operations from jail.
President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, a 71-year old former left-wing guerrilla commander, declared a state of emergency at seven prisons and 299 high-ranking gang members were transferred to other prisons.
He also presented a bill to Congress to isolate jailed crime bosses by limiting their movements and family visits, as well as blocking mobile phone signals from their cells.
The government pressure led to an offer by the gangs for negotiations which President Sanchez Ceren refused.
He has been criticised by some of his left-wing allies wary of trying to resolve gang violence with hard-line tactics.
With Norwich losing at Arsenal and Sunderland drawing at Stoke, they moved into 17th - a point above the Black Cats and two clear of the Canaries.
Townsend gave Newcastle the lead after the break with a magnificent 20-yard free-kick.
Karl Darlow then came to the rescue when he saved Cabaye's poor penalty.
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Stoke 1-1 Sunderland
They had been written off by pundits and even some of their fans had stopped believing but, on a sunny spring day at St James' Park, Newcastle provided another twist in this fascinating Premier League season.
Until the second half it had been an error-ridden display by the Magpies, whose midfield were overrun by their Palace counterparts.
However, as they have in recent matches, Newcastle improved tenfold after the break and it was their January signing Townsend who caused the ground to erupt in the 58th minute when he cracked home a stunning free-kick from the right.
It was his fourth in 11 games for his new team - more than the three in 50 he managed for Tottenham.
As if matters on the pitch have not been bad enough, Newcastle have also been very unlucky with injuries to their goalkeepers this campaign.
Both Tim Krul, in October, and then Rob Elliot, in March, were ruled out for the season which handed 25-year-old Darlow a chance in between the sticks.
Like team-mate and another former Forest player, Jamaal Lascelles, he has grasped the opportunity and understood the perilous situation like a seasoned professional.
Against Palace, he pulled off arguably the most important save of his career when he dived to his left to block ex-Magpie Cabaye's 70th-minute spot-kick after Moussa Sissoko was penalised for handball.
He also looked assured in the final moments as Palace flung in balls in a desperate attempt to get something from this encounter.
Palace are highly unlikely to go down, but Alan Pardew's side are making hard work of reaching that 40-point mark.
They were largely untroubled in the first half, but their insistence on slowing the tempo not only riled the home fans but also meant they under-utilised the pace they possessed in attack, which is their key weapon.
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Newcastle boss Rafael Benitez:
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"We still have to play another two games. We will enjoy this weekend because we won and then we will focus on the next one against Aston Villa, which will be a tough one.
"The victory means a lot - it gives us momentum, confidence and a connection with the fans.
"Hopefully it will be the same against Tottenham when we can avoid relegation and everyone will be happy.
"The free-kick was fantastic and the penalty save. I was really pleased for them. Hopefully Karl does not need to save any more until the end of the season."
Palace boss Alan Pardew:
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"For long periods we looked in control of the game, especially in the first half.
"They had a good spell in the second half. The crowd got involved and they scored right at the end of that period. We needed to score and we didn't. The game came down to two set-plays and that is the margin we are at.
"This was a tight game. Rafa has improved Newcastle in terms of the defensive structure. It is difficult to get at them and they have edged a win here.
"I thought the reception I got was muted, which was nice. A lot of people understand that I managed here to the best of my ability and we had some good times that I lean on."
Newcastle are at relegated Aston Villa next Saturday and Palace have a home game against Stoke.
Shafiq Latif missed Dundee City Council warden Maureen Feuntos by "inches" after she put a £30 fine on his vehicle.
The incident happened in the city's Strathmartine Road in November last year.
Latif was fined £600 and banned from driving for a year at Dundee Sheriff Court.
The court heard Latif had parked his car up on the pavement opposite an RBS bank branch beside the city's Kingsway dual carriageway.
Ms Feuntos then fined him because his Peugeot 207 was on double yellow lines.
When Latif returned to the car, Ms Feuntos was standing nearby.
In an incident captured on the warden's body camera, Latif then revved his engine and drove at her.
Fiscal depute John Adams told Dundee Sheriff Court: "She saw the accused's car which had two wheels on the pavement and was on double yellow lines.
"She placed the ticket on the windscreen then stood two metres away with her back against a wall.
"The accused then returned to his car and revved the engine then drove towards the lady.
"The car missed her by inches and appears to have been driven at her to give her a fright."
Latif, 33, of Dundee, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving.
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC fined Latif and imposed the driving ban.
She said: "This lady was just doing her job. She had her body against the wall and you missed her by inches which makes this serious."
The government is cutting the number of regular forces and increasing the number of trained reserves in an effort to save ??10.6bn over 10 years.
But the Public Accounts Committee said it was behind its target and lacked "understanding" of how to reach it.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the government's aims were "challenging" but achievable.
But Labour called the report, which comes out as the UK hosts the Nato summit in Newport, south Wales, "hugely embarrassing".
The coalition's Army 2020 programme is aimed at reducing costs over the next few years. It involves cutting the number of regular soldiers from 102,000 to 82,500 and increasing the number of reservists from 19,000 to 30,000.
But the committee's report warned: "Shortfalls in Army recruitment are increasing the risk of capability gaps emerging in some parts of the Army's structure."
It added: "A huge step-up in performance is required if the Army is to hit its ambitious target of recruiting 9,270 new reserves in 2016-17. The size of the regular Army is reducing faster than originally planned but the size of the trained Army Reserve has not increased in the last two years because more people have left the reserve than joined."
While the Army had put some contingency plans in place which could help in the short term, there may be "long-term negative consequences", the MPs said. Tours of duty for regular soldiers could be extended, but this "could lead to lower morale and more people leaving... thereby exacerbating the problem".
Capita, the private firm brought in to handle recruitment, was said to have brought in 2,000 reserves in 2013-14 against a target of 6,000.
The committee's chairman, Labour MP Margaret Hodge, accused the MoD of "bungling" its contract with the company, adding that there had been "no clear understanding of the scale of the recruitment challenge" and "poor information about potential recruits".
For Labour, shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker said the report was "scathing" and showed a "litany of catastrophic failures at the Ministry of Defence".
He added: "Defence ministers were advised that these plans would not work unless they were properly tested and monitored. They were warned that front-loading cuts to the Army and back-ending recruitment to the Reserves would leave the armed forces under strength."
The MoD rejected much of the committee's criticism, saying the Army had been properly consulted on the Army 2020 programme.
It added that "flexibility" was at its heart and that "the effectiveness of the Army is not simply based on its size; it is about the capability that force is able to bring to bear on the battlefield around the world".
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "The Chief of the General Staff and I are confident that we will reach our target of 30,000 trained Army Reservists by 2018-19. Indeed, we have arrested the many years of decline and neglect that has plagued our Reserve Forces and now we need to build on that.
"Our Army 2020 plans are on track and will deliver by 2020 the Army we need to counter the wide range of threats we face."
Improved recruiting had seen "a steady stream of recruits coming through the door", Mr Fallon said, adding: "Our targets are challenging but they are achievable. With a government investment of ??1.8bn in better training and equipment, I believe that many young people will realise the great offer we have for challenging and exciting roles in the Reserves."
In a scathing report, John Sopko said that officials bought "forest" pattern uniforms, despite the country's landscape being only 2.1% wooded.
The decision was "not based on an evaluation of its appropriateness for the Afghan environment", he wrote.
A former Afghan defence minister chose the pattern in 2007, he says.
In the 17-page report, Mr Sopko writes that Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak chose the privately-owned pattern over a cheaper pattern that the US military already owned.
US officials, who had been searching for patterns online with Mr Wardak, authorised the purchase because he "liked what he saw", they wrote at the time.
"My concern is what if the minister of defence liked purple, or liked pink?" Mr Sopko told USA Today in an interview.
"Are we going to buy pink uniforms for soldiers and not ask questions? That's insane. This is just simply stupid on its face.
"We wasted $28 million of taxpayers' money in the name of fashion, because the defence minister thought that that pattern was pretty."
For years, Mr Sopko's office has criticised the Pentagon for wastefulness during the United States' longest war.
In January, he told a think tank in Washington there was evidence that Taliban leaders had instructed commanders to purchase US fuel, ammunition and weapons from Afghan soldiers, because it is cheaper.
Senator Chuck Grassley called the uniform decision "embarrassing and an affront to US taxpayers".
"Those who wasted money on the wrong camouflage uniforms seem to have lost sight of their common sense," the Republican senator added.
The Pentagon is currently considering raising the level of US troops in Afghanistan, with a formal announcement expected this week.
John Atkinson, from Norton in North Yorkshire, faces charges of criminal damage with intent to endanger life and attempted grievous bodily harm.
He was also charged with dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and having no insurance.
The 26-year-old was remanded to appear at Lincoln Crown Court on 17 July.
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The 23-year-old, capped once by South Africa, joined Boro after leaving Peterborough United last summer.
Ntlhe made 24 appearances for Darren Sarll's side as they just missed out on the fourth-tier play-offs last term.
The announcement of his departure comes after Stevenage confirmed the signing of former Millwall left-back Joe Martin on Tuesday.
The chances of England experiencing an exceptionally warm year is 13 times more likely due to human influences on climate, a study suggests.
2014 was the UK's warmest since records began in 1910.
The research, published in Environmental Research Letters, is based on climate models and temperature records for England dating back to 1659.
Dr Andrew King from the University of Melbourne is the lead researcher.
"Both of our approaches showed that there is a significant and substantial increase in the likelihood of very warm years occurring in central England," he said.
Dr Peter Stott, of the Met Office Hadley Centre, said the new findings added to evidence that human-induced climate change was increasing the chances of record-breaking temperatures around the world, including in the UK.
"At the Met Office we produced similar research late last year showing how climate change had made UK record breaking temperatures about 10 times more likely," he said.
"The fact that what might seem relatively modest rises in temperature around the world are causing quite dramatic increases in the likelihood of extreme temperatures may seem surprising but this is a well understood feature of how changes in mean temperatures affect extremes."
2014 was the warmest year on record, with global temperatures 0.68C (1.24F) above the long-term average.
It was also the UK's warmest since records began in 1910.
The Hereford and Limousin-cross cattle, worth about £15,000, were taken from a farmer's field in Cambridge Road, Stretham on 6 December.
Cambridgeshire Police warned that cheap beef from an unusual source "may also carry health risks".
It was "an unusual crime for the area," a spokesman said.
The loss of the cattle has had "a massive effect on the victim and their livelihood", he added.
It is the longest winning streak for the share index since January 1987.
Analysts said Wall Street was buoyed by hopes the US president would set out more on his spending and tax plans in a speech to Congress on Tuesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, one of the US's three main stock indexes, finished 15 points higher at 20,837.
Ahead of the speech, Mr Trump said: "We're going to make it easier for states to invest in infrastructure and I'm going to have a big statement tomorrow night on infrastructure."
The president also said he would seek to boost defence spending by $54bn (£43bn), a 10% rise, in his proposed budget plans for 2018.
As well as significantly raising infrastructure spending, Mr Trump has previously pledged to cut taxes for US businesses.
"For the moment, whenever he speaks of those upcoming plans, we get a leg up in the market," Peter Jankovskis, director of research at Oakbrook Investments, told BBC World Service.
"Whenever he's not talking, there's enough momentum to keep it moving forward."
The S&P 500 index also edged two points higher to 2,370, while the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite index rose 17 points to 5,862.
The biggest winners were shares in energy, financial and healthcare firms - areas that stand to gain if Mr Trump's policies spur faster economic growth, Mr Jankovskis said.
The Dow closed at record highs for 13 sessions in a row in January 1987, nine months before the Black Monday market crash.
Damien Bancroft shared the photographs and videos from addresses in Dundee and Forfar over a four-and-a-half year period.
A court was told that the 36-year-old could not explain why he had distributed the material to others.
Bancroft had already been placed on the sex offenders register.
Depute fiscal Trina Sinclair previously told Forfar Sheriff Court court that police officers, acting on information, found more than 600 still images and 16 videos on two laptops and also on a mobile phone.
Miss Sinclair said Bancroft admitted to police that he was a pornography addict, having started watching adult material at the age of 19.
He accepted that he had downloaded and shared images with others but could not explain why that included indecent images of children.
Bancroft admitted taking or making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children between 14 May, 2011 and 20 October, 2015.
He further admitted distributing indecent photographs of children or pseudo-photographs - where computer graphics have been used to generate a photograph-like image.
Defence solicitor Brian Bell said: "He knows this is a serious matter and he has taken action to seek immediate assistance.
"He has issues he needs to address."
Sheriff Gregor Murray imposed a three year community payback order with supervision, 225 hours unpaid work, a requirement to take part in a sex offender group work programme and restrictions on his internet use.
He said: "The distribution element is a serious aggravation. The consequences are obvious."
The show's creator Jed Mercurio told BBC News last week he was uncertain about the possibility of a sixth series.
But BBC director general Tony Hall has now confirmed fans can look forward to two more outings.
"I am very excited to say there's not one but two more series of Line of Duty. So hooray for AC-12!" he said.
Mercurio had previously told Radio Times: "I certainly would make six. Whether I would go beyond six would depend on how series five went."
The fourth series of the BBC One police drama reached a dramatic climax on Sunday, with an average of 7.46 million viewers tuning in to the finale.
The new season of Line of Duty was one of a whole load of new commissions the corporation announced on Thursday including:
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South Wales Police said it was called to Neath Road, in the Hafod area of the city, at about 13:35 BST on Tuesday.
The area has been cordoned off and an investigation is under way, police added.
A 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death and is currently in custody at Swansea Central Police Station.
The victim's father was with the 18-year-old woman before the assault, but he was forced to flee at gunpoint.
The father ran for help, but the suspects had fled by the time two police officers arrived at the scene late on Thursday night.
The suspects include a 14-year-old, a 17-year-old and two 15-year-olds.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) said that two teenage suspects surrendered and two were arrested by police.
The father and daughter were drinking a beer on the playground in Brooklyn's Brownsville neighbourhood when the teenagers approached them, an unnamed police official told the New York Times.
After the father fled at gunpoint, he found two police officers on patrol after 20 minutes of searching.
By the time they reached the playground, the suspects had fled, having each raped the young woman.
Some have questioned why it took so long for the father to find help in a densely populated neighbourhood. Police said no one called 911 to report the attack, the Times reported.
The victim was treated at a local hospital and released.
On Saturday, police tweeted "We need your help finding 5 males wanted for raping an 18y/o girl in Bklyn" and released a video of the suspects entering a shop before the rape.
A day later, police said that they had the four suspects in custody, with charges pending.
It is unclear how the teens had obtained the gun and whether the weapon had been recovered.
According to the newspaper, residents say the playground is a dangerous place, and the attack has "set off waves of fear and uncertainty" in the area.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was "disgusted and extremely saddened by the horrific attack".
On Sunday, at least one community activist encouraged residents to get involved in the case.
Activist Tony Herbert told neighbours, "get up, get outraged, and identify these individuals that we see in the video that's being provided by the NYPD," according to CBS New York.
The police department's handling of the case is also being question, with one local official saying that the police did not notify the public of the attack soon enough.
The police have said that their public notification followed standard procedure.
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Number 1 Capital Quarter was built as a speculative development and purchased in 2013 to stimulate development in the city's enterprise zone.
The building, which is now fully occupied, has been bought by Global Gate Capital as an investment.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said the Welsh Government "acted as a catalyst and inspired confidence in the market".
Ministers said they bought the building from its developers to ensure it was completed, providing Grade A office space to attract new investment and jobs.
"The provision of office accommodation of the highest quality has contributed to the success of Central Cardiff Enterprise Zone, enabled existing businesses in the financial and professional services sector to expand and attracted new inward investment," Mr Skates said.
Network Rail and the Welsh Government's own Finance Wales arm are among the organisations based at the premises.
The Welsh Government's purchase of land and buildings for development has faced criticism from opposition parties.
In September, Plaid Cymru AM Neil McEvoy said it was "staggering" that three shops in Pontypridd bought in 2008 for £1.25m as part of regeneration plans were sold in 2016 for £271,000 after plans for a new shopping centre failed to come to fruition.
Zoe Morgan, 21, and Lee Simmons, 33, were found stabbed near Cardiff's Queen Street store on 28 September, 2016.
Andrew Saunders, 21, of no fixed abode, researched methods of killing in the days before the attack.
He previously admitted their murders at Cardiff Crown Court.
The court heard Saunders was jealous of the couple who started a relationship in July 2016 after he and Miss Morgan split up.
After making threats to kill the pair in the weeks before, he waited for them outside the Matalan store before launching his attack at about 05:50 BST.
Witnesses saw him attack Mr Simmons first, stabbing him "in a frenzy" as he pleaded for him to stop.
He then moved on to Miss Morgan telling her "I'm coming for you next" as she tried to help her boyfriend.
He chased her down the street, eventually catching up with her outside the Boots store where he stabbed her several times.
Sentencing Saunders, Mrs Justice Nicola Davies described the killing as "savagely violent conduct".
She said: "Whatever your mental state, you took the lives of two people. You robbed the families of Lee Simmons and Zoe Morgan of a much-loved son and a much-loved daughter."
She added there was a "significant degree of planning" before the killing as he bought the two knives he used and a rifle in the days before the attack and searched the internet for ways to kill.
Afterwards, he phoned his mother telling her what he had done and sent a text message to his father saying: "Thanks for being a pathetic, useless father. Just killed two people, cheers."
When he was arrested, he confessed to officers: "I'm sorry, you know sometimes, you just snap."
Speaking after the hearing, Det Insp Mark O'Shea, of South Wales Police, said Saunders was a "cold, calculating" killer who had planned his crimes over a number of weeks.
He added he deserved to spend the majority of his life in prison where he could reflect on the gravity of his offences.
Kelly Huggins, from the Crown Prosecution Service, described the killing as a "brutal, unprovoked and premeditated attack" and said Saunders showed no concern for witnesses who were subjected to a "frightening scene of violence".
In a statement, Miss Morgan's family said their lives had been changed forever by their daughter's murder.
It read: "I hope that every day Saunders is thinking about what he has done to us and what he has done to our beautiful daughter. We will think of Zoe for the rest of our lives."
Lee Simmons's family said no sentence or punishment would ever compensate for the loss of his life and they would never be able to forgive Saunders for "selfishly taking Lee away from us".
Both families added they were disappointed with the length of sentence given to Saunders.
Police said the four men were all Bangladeshi and were being held in the northern state of Punjab. It takes the number of arrests in the case to six.
Six alleged attackers were caught on CCTV as they burgled the convent before the 74-year-old woman was raped.
The incident caused outrage in India and led to street protests in many cities across the country.
It is still not clear whether the men who have been arrested so far were those caught on camera.
Senior West Bengal police official Dilip Kumar Adak told the AFP news agency the four men resembled the photographs and sketches of the suspects which had been circulated.
Last week, the police said they had arrested two men in connection with the case. One of them was held in the western city of Mumbai.
Mr Adak said police had identified all eight people who broke into the convent in Ranaghat town on 14 March.
The attackers ransacked the convent school and stole money. The nun was then raped in the convent itself.
The men also stole money from the school, vandalised the chapel, broke open the tabernacle and took away the ciborium, the sacred vessel used during Mass.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed "deep concern" over the attack and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee promised swift and strong action against those involved.
Harley Dunford was found dead at home in Camber, East Sussex, in August 2003.
Lesley Dunford, 37, formerly of Windermere Close, Exeter, admitted his murder in January but changed her plea the following month.
She was jailed for seven years in June 2012 for the manslaughter of her three-year-old daughter Lucy in 2004.
The Old Bailey was told of her change in plea on Friday, where the case was adjourned to a date to be fixed in April for sentencing.
Samples of dog mess will be collected by officers from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council and park rangers during the next three months.
DNA will then be compared to a database of registered owners.
Registering dogs is voluntary for owners but will be required by law from April.
The pilot is being carried out in local wards Abbey, Mayesbrook and Longbridge.
The council said it will assess the scale of the dog mess problem during the trial and whether people who fail to come forward to register their pets are responsible for the majority of it.
Councillor Darren Rodwell at Barking and Dagenham Council said: "This scheme, which is in response to concerns raised by our residents, is about bringing considerate owners on board with us now, enabling us to gather evidence so we can get tough on inconsiderate owners later."
Registering pets with animal DNA specialists PooPrints is free for the first 1,000 registrations, the council said.
Gary Downie, managing director of PooPrints UK said the technique was useful "in this age of austerity".
He said it would ensure dog owners who do clean up after their pets are "not tarred with the same brush by the actions of those dog owners not playing by the rules".
The error was the result of a faulty gas line which was dispensing nitrous oxide at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital.
A doctor discovered the problem after the baby died unexpectedly.
New South Wales Health Minister Jillian Skinner said she felt "profound sorrow" at the "tragic mistake" and ordered an investigation.
"I deeply regret these families have suffered through such a devastating error. NSW Health will do all it can to support them," she said.
Sonya Ghanem, the mother of the newborn who died, told Australian broadcaster Channel 9: "I said, 'I want to see him.' Just looking at him, shaking. 'My son, wake up,' I would tell him. 'Wake up, wake up. What did they do to you?' "
Ms Skinner said the gas lines were checked and certified by the gas company, BOC Ltd and the hospital. The legal counsel for New South Wales has demanded an explanation from BOC Ltd.
In a statement, the company said: "We deeply regret that these families are suffering pain and sorrow."
BOC Ltd is carrying out an internal inquiry.
Ms Skinner has ordered all medical gas lines to be checked. "Mothers can feel confident that we have checked every operating theatre, every [resuscitation] bay where babies are treated and there are no other examples of this, " she said.
Media in Australia criticised Ms Skinner for attending a performance awards ceremony as news of the gas incident emerged.
The opposition party has called for her resignation, but Ms Skinner says she will not stand down.
The metal sculpture, inspired by the sleeve for Bowie's Aladdin Sane album, will hang above acts like Coldplay and Adele when they play the stage in June.
The Park Stage will also host a performance of Philip Glass's Symphony No 4, based on Bowie's Heroes LP.
Eavis added plans were also taking shape for a Prince tribute.
The musician, who died last month at the age of 57, had long been rumoured as a potential headliner at the festival.
Eavis confirmed his appearance had been "close to happening for three years" and called his death "a huge loss to music".
Bowie did headline the festival in 2000, playing dozens of hits including Starman, Heroes, Let's Dance, China Girl and Life on Mars.
Footage from the show - which Eavis called "the best festival set I've ever seen" - is due to be screened around the site this year.
Eavis co-runs Glastonbury with her father, Michael, who established the event in 1970.
She played down reports the festival was moving away from its base at Worthy Farm, but confirmed plans for a separate festival in 2018 or 2019.
"It's going to be the whole team behind the Glastonbury Festival but it's not going to be called Glastonbury," she said, explaining the event would be a "visual feast" featuring "larger-scale installations, as well as music".
"The main thing to set straight is that Glastonbury Festival itself will always be at Worthy Farm."
Everybody's flat out. It's all hands to the pump. But it's looking to be a great festival, to be honest.
The pyramid stage is going to have a tribute to David Bowie - the Aladdin Sane lightning flash, in metal, which will be designed by Joe Rush.
And we're doing Philip Glass's Heroes Symphony on the Park Stage on Saturday night, which is going to be a really intimate tribute to Bowie. It's being conducted by Charles Hazlewood with members of the Paraorchestra. And we're going to do an incredible light show which will go on for the whole show and beyond, into the night.
We're also looking at a few Prince tributes. There's talk of late-night Prince parties and things.
Oh, it's gutting to be honest. We were so shocked and sad. It's been so close to happening for the last three years. A couple of times it's been confirmed and then not happened. It's really disappointing that he hasn't played here but it's also, obviously, a huge loss to music because he was an incredible force. Just phenomenal. There was no-one else like him on the planet.
I did think it might happen. We were told she would like to announce it from the stage - but we didn't know exactly when.
Getting Adele is such a huge deal for us. She's not doing any other festival in the world. We're really, really excited about that. It's just a huge coup.
Not at all! Like all performers, she needs a few nerves then she'll come on and smash it.
I went to see her show at the O2 and it was phenomenal. Her voice is just off the scale. You don't hear voices like that very often. It was amazing to see a whole arena completely struck by her voice. Then between each song, she was just so funny and it was like watching stand-up. It was so refreshing and brilliant and funny.
I have no doubt about her.
I hope not. They've got such a great history here. Every time they play, they have the whole field in their hand. So I'd like to hope they won't retire but I don't know what their plans are.
Haha! We have been looking at drones, and unfortunately I don't think we can have them - for various reasons.
But to be honest, all three nights have really unique and majorly ambitious plans. Some of the ideas that are floating around at the moment are really massive. Things we haven't done before on the Pyramid Stage. Every night, people are going to get very contrasting but amazing experiences.
We've got a history of political speakers, of people arguing from all sides, so I think Jeremy Corbyn will go down well.
The deal on the year off is we're planning a show - another event - somewhere nearby. It's either going to be in 2018 or 2019. It's going to be the whole team behind the Glastonbury Festival but it's not going to be called Glastonbury.
The idea [is to plan] an event which is more of a visual feast, something really spectacular, using all of these incredible creative people that we work with all year. That's an idea that really excites us.
It will be a music festival predominantly but it will have other elements which we already do at Glastonbury. There'll be more, larger-scale installations, as well as music.
You know, we work with these artists all year, but we're always confined by the same hedgerows. The idea of doing it somewhere else, where you've got a huge, vast space is hugely exciting.
Yeah, we try to keep it as equal as we can. There are so many stages across the site that you have to rely on the bookers across the site to consciously book women as well as men. Some are better than others but we do our best and it's really important that we represent both equally.
The pistols, dated 1814, were the French emperor's last gift to his then-three-year-old heir, Sotheby's says.
The gold-encrusted pistols feature Napoleonic symbols such as the imperial eagle and the iron crown of Italy.
Napoleon was defeated in battle and sent into exile on Elba island soon after they were given.
"These remarkable treasures epitomise the greatest personal tragedy of Napoleon's life, that he saw his beloved son and heir for the last time in January 1814, destroying his hopes to create a lasting dynasty," said Christopher Mason, a specialist in European sculpture and works of art from Sotheby's.
"Within weeks the emperor had been defeated, abdicated his throne and was forced into exile on Elba. A year later he faced his final humiliation at Waterloo."
Sotheby's expects to sell the pistols for between £800,000 to £1.2m at auction on 8 July in London.
Napoleon declared himself emperor in 1804 and waged war with other European powers, conquering much of the continent.
He was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and imprisoned on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena, where he died on 5 May 1821.
His son Napoleon II, also known as the King of Rome, died of tuberculosis in 1832, at the age of 21.
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The duo were the only entrants to the competition after rivals Matty Lee and James Denny pulled out following a power-cut at the venue in Southend.
Daley, 21, competed alongside now-retired Pete Waterfield at London 2012.
"We'll try and qualify for the Olympics and then, anything can happen," said Daley.
He and Goodfellow, 19, will reach the 2016 Games if they can place in the top-four of nations who have not already qualified at the Rio World Cup next month.
Tonia Couch claimed her third individual 10m National Cup title with a narrow victory over fellow Olympian Sarah Barrow as defending champion and European Games gold medallist Lois Toulson came third.
Couch finished second in the synchronised 10m event alongside Toulson on Friday, with her regular partner Barrow dropped from the line-up following a series of shin injuries.
Despite her lack of training, Barrow performed five strong routines and hopes her performances will be enough to restore her to the synchronised line-up for the World Cup.
"I did feel like I had something to prove and hopefully I've done that," she said.
2015 World Championship bronze medallist Daley last competed in a synchronised 10m platform competition at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, where he finished second alongside James Denny.
Daley originally stated he would only compete in the synchronised event again if there was a chance of winning an Olympic medal.
"There are lots of reasons to compete in it again and if we make it to the Olympics there's only eight teams and three will come away with a medal," he said.
Goodfellow, who trains at Daley's old pool in Plymouth, has missed much of the last two seasons with an elbow injury.
"I have been thrown in at the deep end competing with Tom, but I've learnt two new dives and it's certainly helping me improve," he told BBC Sport.
"The power-cut just before the competition was a bit weird, but it was my first event back after injury and I know we can both be better in the future."
English Commonwealth champions Rebecca Gallantree and Alicia Blagg comfortably won the women's synchronised 3m title.
They will attempt to qualify GB a berth for the event in Rio next month, while Blagg will also target an individual place with Gallantree having secured one through the 2015 World Championships.
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Data centres, the server farms that handle internet traffic, have emerged as voracious users of electrical power.
They already account for 2% of global power demand, according to research by the campaigning group Greenpeace, conducted several years ago.
The current figure is likely to be higher than that and is expected to rise exponentially in the future as computing increasingly shifts to the "cloud", meaning more stuff gets done over the internet and is stored and processed at data centres.
The trend is a big worry for environmentalists who are concerned about the implications for climate change.
The burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity is a prime source of carbon dioxide emissions - the main gas associated with global warming.
It is also a concern for data centre managers who must wrestle with enormous power bills.
Facebook has positioned itself as a leader in tackling both these aspects. The social networking giant has just inaugurated a massive new data centre in Lulea in Sweden, its first such facility outside the US.
The project has given the social networking giant an opportunity to burnish its green credentials.
The data centre runs entirely on renewable energy generated by nearby hydroelectric schemes.
It is also designed to take advantage of the sub-arctic location.
A cold climate provides natural cooling for the literally tens of thousands of servers - Facebook won't say exactly how many there are - packed together in long aisles. This saves a lot of electricity.
If you post a status update, upload a photo or do any other kind of activity on Facebook in Europe, it will probably pass through the server farm in Lulea.
The plant isn't pretty. It is a vast warehouse-like structure, painted a drab grey, spread over 30,000 sq m - equivalent in size to four and a half football pitches.
Facebook's PR team seem to like these sort of statistics - another frequently repeated favourite is that 350 million photographs get uploaded onto the social network every day.
With that kind of volume of data to handle, it is hardly surprising that Facebook needs a new shed to house some extra servers.
But why put it in a remote corner of northern Sweden?
"There are some must-haves and there are some nice-to-haves" says Tom Furlong, Facebook's global head of data centres, as he outlines the factors influencing the decision.
The must-have list is topped by guaranteed access to power and good internet connectivity.
This part of Sweden has access to two separate and very secure grid systems.
The last significant power outage was more than 30 years ago, and the area's hydro power capacity seems more or less limitless.
The nice-to-have list is dominated by the environmental arguments in favour of a climate-friendly power source that doesn't rely on burning fossil fuel.
There was also the chance to avoid using electricity altogether.
Servers are a bit like human beings in the tropics.
They like air conditioning and get hot and bothered if the temperature goes too high.
The advantage of a northern location like Lulea is not so much that is often cold but that it almost never gets very hot.
The predictable absence of warm days means the Lulea plant has 70% less energy intensive, expensive-to-run mechanical cooling capacity installed than the average data centre.
Facebook says it has a policy of sharing the knowledge it has acquired about how to make data centres efficient through a programme called Open Compute.
The information is open source and freely available.
But environmentalists claim Facebook took a little persuading before it got serious about these issues.
Over a million users signalled their concern by "unfriending" coal on the social network in one recent campaign, says Gary Cook, senior IT advisor at environmental group Greenpeace International.
He claims this played an instrumental role in the company's decision to move towards using renewable energy in its data centres.
The first two facilities Facebook built, both in the US, were in areas where most of the power came from coal-fired generating stations.
Greenpeace believes this reflects a wider trend.
"Certainly in the US and in many other parts of the world, data centres are being drawn to dirty sources of electricity much like moths to a candle because it's cheap," says Mr Cook.
Power is cheap in states like Virginia and parts of North Carolina because power utilities have surplus capacity thanks of the decline of traditional industries.
So they have offered data companies exceptionally low-priced deals.
"It's a big problem if we are simply taking the most advanced 21st century technology, and attaching it to dirty 19th Century coal technology," says Mr Cook.
Coal is a particular bete noir for environmentalists because it produces the highest carbon emissions.
Greenpeace says Apple, Facebook and Google, among the leading tech brands, have made significant progress in tackling these issues.
Google, for example, has become a major investor in wind power.
But online retailer Amazon has yet to get engaged, campaigners claim.
Many data companies are simply not in a position to take dramatic steps like insisting on power from wind farms or shifting operations to cold climates.
Options Technology runs a medium-sized data centre in an industrial estate in west London, along with smaller operations in 21 other locations around the world.
It has to stay close to its corporate clients, for example financial firms in the City, London's financial district, involved in high frequency trading.
The rapid fire nature of the transactions means even milliseconds count.
Having a data centre far way could put them at a disadvantage, even though digital signals travel at the speed of light.
Glen Selby, the data centre manager at Options Technology, is focused on taking small, practical steps that added together have a significant impact in reducing electricity consumption.
Among them is attaching sensors to important bits of equipment and then monitoring them with software that gives staff easy to grasp information concerning safety and power consumption.
"One thing data centre managers aren't short of is data," explains Philip Petersen, director of software company AdInfa.
"Our inSite software helps mangers see the critical information they need to make better decisions in a way that is easy to understand."
I notice that his customer Glenn Selby glances at the screen of his smart phone as frequently as any teenager.
Presumably he's checking for alerts about his company's power consumption - not swapping Facebook messages with his mates.
Leigh Griffiths scored the only goal as the champions made it 10 Premiership victories in a row.
Celtic are now 11 points clear of nearest challengers Rangers.
"It wasn't at the level we've been for a lot of the season but the mentality of the players was very strong," Rodgers told BBC Scotland.
"We weren't as fluent as we normally are, the pitch is slow, it looks a little bit heavy so it affects the speed of our game. But we had chances to be a lot more comfortable.
"Of course when its 1-0 late in the game, they've got nothing to lose, but give credit to Hamilton, they played with a back five, a diamond in midfield with one up front and really condensed the space.
"They've conceded a lot of goals here in the past, so they were never going to come and open up, but it's up to us to break it down. We did break it down a number of times and we goat the important goal.
"Whenever you're a winning team, you have to have persistence and drive. The players have got that in spades. To stay focused on the game, we made so many passes, got into good areas, but failed with just that little bit of incision inside the box."
Rodgers played Griffiths and Moussa Dembele up front together, setting his side up in a 3-5-2 shape to allow the strikers to work as a duo. They combined for the only goal of the game, but otherwise lacked the cohesion of a well-practised partnership.
"It's collective, I'm not so worried about those two, I'm more worried about the team," Rodgers said. "We weren't as fluid with our positioning as we normally are, but both players worked hard. They've both got qualities, but I'm worried about the team rather than individuals.
"We were poor [coming out of defence towards the end], we gave the ball needlessly away. In our build up we weren't secure enough, we took a risk and we gave it away cheaply, but thankfully it didn't cost us.
"We're missing a lot of our real dynamic players in terms of James Forrest and Scott Sinclair, so we're having to find different ways to play. We'll analyse the game. Where we can do better, an look to be bette on Saturday."
Hamilton manager Martin Canning was happy with the industry and application of his side, and believes he saw enough in the narrow defeat, and in previous games against top four sides, to believe his team can take something from a run of games that sees them face Rangers on Friday, then Celtic again, then Aberdeen.
"We performed well and worked really hard, we were disciplined, kept our shape well and limited Celtic to not a lot," said Canning.
"We did what we hoped we could do, stay in the game for long enough to make the last 10, 15 minutes uncomfortable and give ourselves and opportunity to take something from the game. A couple of times we were unfortunate, we got into decent areas and didn't quite make the most of it.
"Scott McMann was magnificent for a young kid, it's his first time coming here, and Ross Cunningham comes on at the end as well. We need to build on that."
The 22-year-old made his international debut in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals and appeared in the host nation's 1-0 defeat by Portugal in the final.
The five-year contract contains a buy-out clause of 60m euros (£50m).
Umtiti made over 150 appearances for Ligue 1 side Lyon and won the Coupe de France in 2012.
Barcelona confirmed Umtiti had completed his move on Tuesday after announcing in June they had agreed to sign the player.
Picture the scene. It's Londonderry, it's the summer of 1963, and to great fanfare the late Sir Roger Moore is cutting the ribbon at the opening of a furniture shop.
While crowds of young girls screamed their adoration from the streets below, two Derry women were lucky enough to get up close and personal with the movie star.
One of them, Bronagh Sharkey, spoke to BBC Radio Foyle in 2013 about the time she met 'The Saint' and the man who subsequently starred in seven James Bond films.
"Roger had come over to open an exhibition in Cavendish furniture company in Bishop Street in Derry," said Mrs Sharkey.
"I was the cashier clerk in the same store and Gloria worked along with me."
At the time, the actor had recently been cast as Simon Templar in the TV series 'The Saint', based on the novels by Leslie Charteris.
The show went on to become a huge success and made the British actor a household name in the United States.
"Roger came into my office to sign autographs," said Mrs Sharkey, "he put his arm round Gloria and me and moved us to the open window which was looking down on to Bishop Street.
"I really felt fantastic - and, I suppose, very special and flattered because I could have been one of the girls down below screaming up at Roger."
A dashing figure, known for his smooth talking, Sir Roger did not disappoint in the flesh, said Mrs Sharkey.
"Roger was very tall, tanned and, oh my God, good looking. The thing is, he sort of had the hots for me as they say nowadays," she revealed.
"He asked me to come over to London and meet up with him sometime later. I refused because I knew I wouldn't have had a minute's peace with so many women idolising him and in love with him."
Love was not lost, however, because Bronagh ended up meeting her future husband, Gerry, a short time after.
They were married in 1966 and Mrs Sharkey said she has no regrets.
"Sure Roger and me wouldn't have lasted that long, but I'll always have the memories and the photo," she added.
Racing in the world champion rainbow jersey for the first time, Armistead launched a solo attack with 10km to go.
Her Boels Dolmans team-mate Chantal Blaak won the sprint for second and Tiffany Cromwell was third.
She said: "That wasn't exactly the plan. I was out there way too long. Wow. I'm really happy."
In the men's race, Britain's Luke Rowe, riding for Team Sky, finished fourth in a sprint finish, which was won by BMC's Greg Van Avermaet.
Their bodies were discovered at Langdon Cliffs on Sunday during a search for another man, whose body was also found.
Kent Police said the "siblings" were believed to be in their 60s and from the Cheshire area.
Their deaths are not thought to be connected to the death of the first man, who is believed to be in his 40s, from the Greater Manchester area.
Police said the deaths were not being treated as suspicious.
They have appealed for anyone who saw a man and a woman in dark-coloured wet weather clothing at the top of the cliffs in the period between Boxing Day and New Year's Day to contact them.
Oliver and jump jockey Paul Hamblin - who was banned for 30 days - failed trackside breath tests at the Warrnambool racing carnival.
Both riders were stood down from races later in the day.
Oliver, 43, pleaded guilty and says he drank with dinner the previous night, adding to stewards: "I am very embarrassed and sorry about it."
In 2012, he was banned for 10 months after placing a £6,500 bet (AU $10,000) on a rival horse.
A pilot phase of the Truth Project, part of the inquiry headed by New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard, will begin in Liverpool next week.
Victims and survivors will be able to share their experiences in a private session or via a written statement.
Justice Goddard said it would help the inquiry understand why many crimes went unreported and undetected for so long.
The pilot scheme is part of the independent inquiry launched by Home Secretary Theresa May, looking at how institutions and organisations, including the BBC, police, armed forces, schools and children's homes, handled abuse claims.
Justice Goddard will visit organisations supporting victims and survivors of child sexual abuse to hear how they hope the inquiry can provide an opportunity to share their experiences.
Any allegations of ongoing abuse uncovered during the Truth Project will be referred to police, but the private sessions are not part of a legal process. A series of public hearings, when witnesses will give evidence under oath, will be held separately.
The identities of victims taking part will be kept private.
Speaking at the launch, Justice Goddard said: "It will help us gain a better understanding of the patterns of abuse, and will assist in explaining why many crimes went unreported and undetected for so long, often leaving other children at risk of abuse in later years.
"If you have suffered, because any organisation within England or Wales has failed in its duty to protect you as a child from sexual abuse, we want to hear from you."
The first institutions publicly named as under investigation by the inquiry will be announced at the end of the month.
It is their first face-to-face meeting since relations deteriorated over a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran.
Mr Netanyahu is also seeking a boost in the annual US military aid for Israel's security.
The Washington talks come amid weeks of unrest between Israel and Palestinians.
Six Israelis were wounded in knife attacks by Palestinians on Sunday. A Palestinian who drew a knife on Israeli guards was shot dead on Monday.
In brief remarks at the White House ahead of the meeting, Mr Obama said he would seek his counterpart's thoughts on ways to lower tension between Palestinians and Israelis.
He said he wanted to get the two groups "back on a path towards peace".
Mr Netanyahu echoed the sentiments saying, "we have not given up our hope for peace". He underscored his desire for a two-state solution.
The two leaders are also planning to talk about the ongoing conflict in Syria and the implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran.
Relations between Mr Netanyahu and Mr Obama were strained over that deal, which was bitterly opposed by Israel.
In the last week, the US has also expressed its surprise at Mr Netanyahu's choice of a new spokesman, Ran Baratz, who made controversial comments about administration officials.
On Facebook, Mr Baratz accused Mr Obama of anti-Semitism and described US Secretary of State John Kerry as having a "mental age" of no more than 12.
A US state department spokesman said the posts were "troubling and offensive". Mr Baratz will not be part of Israel's delegation.
The talks in the US are expected to pave the way towards an increase in US security aid to Israel from $3.1bn (£2bn) a year to $5bn, media reports say.
On Monday morning a Palestinian woman was shot dead when she ignored warnings to stop after approaching security guards with a knife at a crossroads in the West Bank, Israeli officials said.
In the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, four Israelis were struck by a car driven by a Palestinian man, who was then killed by security forces.
The upsurge in violence began in September, when tensions at a flashpoint holy site in East Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims boiled over amid rumours Israel planned to relax long-standing rules to strengthen Jewish rights at the complex.
Israel has repeatedly denied such claims.
Although born into a Welsh-speaking Merseyside family in 1893, it was during his time as a lecturer in Swansea that Mr Lewis rose to prominence.
The plaque was unveiled on Thursday by Swansea council.
It is close to the area of Hanover Street in Uplands where he lived with his father between 1916 and 1924.
In August 1925, Mr Lewis met fellow nationalists at the Pwllheli National Eisteddfod, with a view to establishing what became Plaid Cymru.
He was the party's president between 1926 and 1939 and while it gained little electoral success during this time, it was credited with reawakening a sense of Welsh identity in people.
In 1936, he was jailed for nine months for helping to torch an unpopular RAF base on the Llyn Peninsula.
While he was greeted as a hero by a crowd of 15,000 people on his release, the action created unease among more moderate, pacifist wings of the party.
He stood down as president of the party in 1939 and became a campaigner for the Welsh language.
Mr Lewis predicted its death without action and his efforts led to the creation of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, (Welsh Language Society).
Unveiling the plaque, David Hopkins, Lord Mayor of Swansea, said he occupied "a unique place in Welsh history" because of his patriotism and achievements.
Lisa Burbidge was among 38 people killed in a shooting by Islamist Seifeddine Rezgui on 26 June 2015.
The 66-year-old was on holiday with three friends at the time of the attack at the five-star Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in the Tunisian resort.
Her two daughters wept as a portrait of her life was read to the inquest.
The hearing into the deaths of the 30 British victims was told that Mrs Burbidge, from Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, had never got over the death of her husband, Bill, who passed away in 2005 after being diagnosed with cancer.
The inquest at the Royal Courts of Justice in London heard her that it was her two daughters who had persuaded her to take a two-week holiday in Tunisia.
Mrs Burbidge had been on the beach with her friend Jennifer McDine when they heard gunshots, the hearing heard.
Ms McDine said in a statement that she had seen a police patrol about 15 minutes earlier and had even remarked how safe Tunisia was.
Moments later she had hid behind her sunbed and glanced up to see a figure in black with a gun "just like the ones you see on the TV".
Ms McDine then ran up the beach, thinking her friend was ahead of her, and hid inside a toilet cubicle in the hotel until the attack was over.
"It was just chaos, people were running all over the place while we were being shot at," she added.
She and her other two friends waited in their room for hours afterwards for Mrs Burbidge to appear but she never arrived.
They had finally identified her body at the hospital mortuary by her toenail polish, the inquest was told.
A post-mortem examination found Mrs Burbidge died from a gunshot wound to the head.
A family statement read at the inquest said: "She was a beautiful person, a loving grandmother, mother, sister, daughter and best friend."
David Thompson, who was 80 and the oldest victim of the attack, had been on holiday with his long-term partner, Anne Kear.
They were sitting by the pool when Ms Kear heard a "horrific sound like a bomb", she said in a statement.
She started making her way to the hotel, along with a group of other holidaymakers, but realised Mr Thompson was not with her.
She said she was later taken to the hospital mortuary in Tunis to identify his body.
A post-mortem examination found he died from gunshot wounds to the chest.
Bruce Wilkinson, 72, from Goole in East Yorkshire, was staying at the hotel for the second year in a row with his wife Rita.
The couple were sunbathing together in the hotel grounds when the shooting started.
After they were told the incident was "serious" they got split up, and Mrs Wilkinson hid inside a luggage room in the hotel reception until the attack was over, the inquest was told.
The next time she saw her husband he was lying dead on the ground, killed by a gunshot wound to his neck, the inquest heard.
The inquest continues.
Antoin Duffy, 39, his cousin Martin Hughes, 36, and Paul Sands, 32, had denied plotting to kill Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair and Sam McCrory in Scotland.
They were convicted in July following a nine-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow, where Duffy and Hughes were also convicted of terrorism charges.
Duffy was jailed for 17 years, Hughes for 11 years and Sands for 10 years.
Two other men, Craig Convery and Gordon Brown, were found guilty of organised crime charges.
Convery was jailed for nine years and Brown for six years.
Jailing the men, judge Lady Scott said the murder plot had involved "considerable planning" by all three and that they had been "excited participants" in the offences.
The court heard that Mr Adair and his best friend Mr McCrory were both former members of prohibited Loyalist terror organisations the UDA and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).
They were involved in the Good Friday agreement in 1998, and both have been living in Ayrshire for a number of years.
Duffy, originally from Donegal, who had been living in Scotland, was the driving force behind the murder plot.
Described as passionate about a united Ireland, he believed the peace agreement had sold out the Republican movement.
Duffy initially planned operations from his cell in Castle Huntly open prison having been jailed in 2010 for brandishing a loaded handgun in a Glasgow nightclub during a dispute with a bouncer.
Every four weeks, when he received home leave back to his flat in Old Castle Road, Glasgow, Duffy talked to criminal associates in a bid to obtain weapons.
He also enlisted his cousin, Martin Hughes, and recruited fellow prisoner Paul Sands - a Facebook friend of Mr McCrory - who knew about McCrory's daily routine.
What the men did not know, however, was that MI5 had learned of their plans and had authorised the bugging of Duffy's flat and Hughes' car.
The surveillance began in 12 December 2012 and was later handed over to Police Scotland.
The court heard that Duffy believed Mr Adair and Mr McCrory were responsible for ordering the murders of dozens of innocent Catholics during the Troubles.
Evidence was presented that he wanted to shoot Mr McCrory using a pistol or revolver and then quickly target Mr Adair using an AK 47, which he dubbed "the big fella".
In a bugged conversation he was heard boasting to his girlfriend Stacey McAllister: "I'm trying to get a war started and get as many guns and explosives as I can."
A recording was also played from a conversation in Hughes' Mercedes Jeep, which travelled from Glasgow to the Ayrshire home of Mr McCrory on 1 October 2013.
On the tape Sands said: "There are so many places you could hit this guy. It's unbelievable."
There were then discussions about cameras at a nearby school and shops and the best vantage points to get their target.
Duffy went on: "We'll just drive up to him and...blast him. In his ear.
"There 's an AK that could possibly be getting made available for us with armour piercing rounds."
Duffy's cellmate in Castle Huntly, Edward McVeigh, 27, revealed that Duffy hated Adair and talked of shooting him as he walked his dog or trained at the gym.
He said that Duffy was a Republican sympathiser who claimed he was a member of the Real IRA.
The trial also heard that Duffy even approached Celtic player Anthony Stokes in the Brazen Head pub in Glasgow on 1 September, asking him to get his father to pass a message on to someone in Ireland to obtain weapons.
Regulars reacted furiously to this and Duffy was thrown out of the pub.
Duffy's defence lawyer claimed that he was a drug addicted fantasist with mental health issues.
Hughes' lawyer said he had not agreed to murder anyone while Sands' lawyer branded him "a total idiot".
The jury, however, did not believe the three men's claims and convicted them of conspiracy to murder.
Speaking outside the court after sentencing, Mr Adair said: "The severity of the sentence reflects the seriousness of the charges and I am just delighted that justice has been done today."
He added: "They deserve every minute of it."
Lindsey Miller, procurator fiscal for counter-terrorism, said: "Duffy and his co-accused planned on conducting two public assassinations in the west of Scotland.
"There is no doubt that their plan was viable, and they went to great lengths to gain access to weapons and to attempt to avoid traces of their movements.
"We are pleased that these individuals and the weapons have been taken off our streets."
Det Ch Supt John Cuddihy from Police Scotland's Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit said: "Make no mistake; the intent of those who have been sentenced today was to carry out a murderous terrorist attack on the streets of Scotland.
"There is no doubt Police Scotland officers have saved the lives of two men and prevented significant negative community impact across Scotland and further afield."
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The Irish had more penalty corners and goal attempts than the Dutch but lacked a cutting edge.
After the Irish twice went close, Mink van der Weerden and Jorrit Croon netted for the Dutch inside eight minutes.
In the second half, goals from Van der Weerden, Mirco Pruijser and a Eugene Magee own goal completed the scoring.
After Saturday's opening 3-2 defeat by India, the Irish were always going to be up against it as they faced a nation that they had only beaten once in 39 previous meetings.
However, the underdogs made a promising start as Dutch keeper Jaap Stockmann had to make final early saves to deny Mitch Darling and Jonathan Bell.
But within a minute, the Netherlands had two goals on the board as Van der Weerden punished Alan Sothern's loose sliding tackle and Rogier Hofman then sent up Croon to score.
After the break, a succession of Irish attacks came to nothing before Van der Weerden hammered to the roof of the net in the first Dutch counter of the second period.
Pruijser quickly added the fourth with Ireland's painful night being completed by Magee turning a Jeroen Hertzberger cross into his own net with a minute remaining.
Ireland coach Craig Fulton urged his team to "keep the spirits high" despite Sunday's reverse as they still remain in contention for a quarter-final place.
"We are playing good hockey. We are getting punished for our mistakes as you will at this level," said Fulton.
Ireland next meet reigning champions Germany on Tuesday which will be followed by must-win games against Canada on Thursday and Argentina on Friday.
Ireland: D Harte, J Jackson, R Gormley, M Watt, J Jermyn, E Magee, K Shimmins, M Darling, K Good, P Gleghorne, C Harte. Subs: J Bell, C Cargo, A Sothern, P Caruth, S O'Donoghue
Netherlands: J Stockmann, G Schuurman, B Bakker, S van Ass, J Hertzberger, S de Wijn, S Baart, M Pruijser, R Hofman, R van der Horst, M van der Weerden. Subs: V Verga, R Kemperman, B de Voogd, J Croon, H Turkstra
The changes involve different measures for ranking sites and people checking results are accurate.
In a blog, Google said the changes should thwart attempts to abuse its algorithms that let extremists promote their content.
Google was criticised last year for giving prominence to groups seeking to deny that the Holocaust took place.
Ben Gomes, a vice-president of engineering at Google's search division, said it was making "structural" changes to tackle the new ways people had found to trick its algorithms.
In particular, he said, many groups and organisations were using "fake news" to help spread "blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or downright false information".
To combat this, he said, Google had added new metrics to its ranking systems that should help to stop false information entering the top results for particular search terms.
In addition, he said, it had updated the guidelines given to the thousands of human raters it used to give feedback on whether results were accurate.
The guidelines included examples of low quality and fake news websites, said Mr Gomes, to help them pick out "misleading information, unexpected offensive results, hoaxes and unsupported conspiracy theories".
Google has done its best to play down the extent of fake news and hateful material - or what it prefers to call "low quality content" - in search results.
The company keeps repeating that this affects only 0.25% of queries.
But the fact that searches such as "Is Obama planning a coup?" - or even "Who invented stairs?" - produced such questionable results meant it had to act.
These searches threw up a prominent "snippets" box telling you that, yes, President Obama was planning a coup, or that stairs had been invented in 1948.
Now both boxes have gone, and Google's almighty algorithm has been tweaked so that such content is less likely to rise to the top.
What's interesting is that a company that has put such faith in technology solutions is turning to 10,000 humans to try to make search a better experience.
This giant focus group, which tests out changes in the search algorithm, has been told to pay more attention to the source of any pages rated highly in results, looking round the web to see whether they seem authoritative and trustworthy.
Questions are bound to be raised about whether this panel, which Google says is representative of its users, is impartial and objective.
Google's Ben Gomes, a veteran who's been wrestling with the intricacies of search since arriving as one of the earliest employees, believes it is now on the path to getting this right.
But with so many people trying to game the system, the battle to make search true and fair will never be over.
Google also planned to change its "autocomplete" tool, which suggests search terms, to allow users to more easily to flag up troubling content, he said.
Danny Sullivan, founder of the Search Engine Land news site, said the changes made sense and should not be taken to suggest that Google's algorithms were failing to correctly index what they found online.
"It's sort of like saying that a restaurant is a failure if it asks for people to rate the food it makes," he said.
"The raters don't rank results," said Mr Sullivan.
"They simply give feedback about whether the results are good.
"That feedback is then used to reshape the algorithms - the recipes, if you will -that Google uses."
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After all, if the FA is so outraged with the world governing body's handling of the investigation into the bidding for the next two World Cups, why not take drastic action and salvage some dignity by voting with one's feet?
Sadly for the FA, there are plenty of reasons.
Firstly, with £267m of debt still to pay off for the £757m Wembley Stadium, the FA simply could not afford to lose the revenue that comes with hosting World Cup qualifiers, not to mention the sponsorship that results from contesting one of the world's most fabled sports events.
Breaking away from Fifa would have major ramifications, too.
A place on the International Football Association Board - the game's law-making body - would be sacrificed, for instance, while England representative teams at every age group would be unable to compete in their respective world championships.
As Bernstein himself suggests, the FA would never dare to go it alone. It would need the support of Uefa. But there are encouraging signs on this front.
Over the past weekend, the president of the German Football League warned that Uefa's 54 member nations could quit Fifa if Michael Garcia's full report into the 2018 and 2022 World Cups is not fully published.
Certainly, at a time when European football is already furious with Sepp Blatter - for standing for a fifth term as Fifa president after promising not to and for being expected to entirely rearrange its calendar to accommodate a winter World Cup in Qatar - you may think a breakaway has never been more likely.
After all, Europe has the Champions League and the European Championships, which attracts the best of the global talent pool.
Then there is the 'Nations League', which, from 2018, will attempt to make international friendlies more significant.
But it's unlikely that this new format will be extended to fill the vacuum left if European countries refused to take part in the World Cup.
With Russia hosting the next World Cup, it is hard to see them feeling the need to join a European rebellion.
As for Spain and Portugal, they have no problem with the report into allegations of World Cup corruption, not after they were cleared of any wrongdoing over their bid for the 2018 World Cup.
Then there is Uefa president Michel Platini.
Having voted for Qatar as 2022 World Cup hosts, it is not easy to see why he would back a boycott.
And if Uefa is so upset with Blatter, why isn't it putting up a credible challenger? Why is Platini himself not standing?
In my view, Uefa will use Fifa's current meltdown, not to turn its back on football's world governing body, but to strengthen its power and influence, especially when it comes to the presidential election next year and negotiations over 2022 scheduling.
The FA knows this and that is why its plan is to bring about change from within.
Next year, it hopes to get its vice-chairman David Gill - already a member of Uefa's executive committee - on to the Fifa executive committee as the home nations representative.
If the FA was to suddenly agree with its former chairman Bernstein and call for a boycott on moral grounds, it would stand accused of hypocrisy.
After all, according to Fifa ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, Garcia found that England's own £21m bid for the 2018 World Cup was guilty of breaking bidding rules.
And let us not forget that, as recently as 2010, the FA attacked the BBC over a Panorama programme that alleged Fifa corruption, such was its desperation to land the game's showpiece event.
Would Bernstein and the man who replaced him as FA chairman Greg Dyke be this outraged by Fifa if England had won? And would there by quite so much current media scrutiny of the 2022 World Cup hosts if Australia or the USA had won, rather than Qatar?
Almost certainly not.
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Given all this, how easily could the FA claim the moral high ground?
One can understand why the FA feel hard done by following the Fifa report into World Cup corruption. Much of it is simply inexplicable.
Why, for example, was the English 2018 bid criticised when it was so obviously more open and transparent about what it did than the "highly uncooperative" Russians, for instance, whose computers were destroyed along with any potential email chains?
How can England be admonished for their $35,000 sponsorship of a Caribbean Football Union gala dinner when Qatar got away with a $1.8m sponsorship of the CAF Congress in Angola shortly before the 2010 vote?
Why did Eckert take it upon himself now - before Garcia has even had the chance to open proceedings against individuals suspected of wrongdoing - to recommend there was no need for any kind of re-vote?
Why was the evidence from whistleblowers dismissed so readily? Why was Blatter praised in Eckert's concluding sentences. And what exactly is it about Eckert's summary that Garcia has such a problem with?
These questions have left Fifa in apparent meltdown, the credibility of its landmark investigation - something that was meant to restore faith and trust in a scandal-plagued organisation - in tatters.
Its next move will be interesting, but football's world governing body will no doubt come under increasing pressure to publish the full Garcia report.
Nevertheless, thanks to Fifa's "Financial Assistance Programme" - the hundreds of millions of pounds that it hands out to regional confederations and national associations in the form of "development" payments - Blatter knows he has solid support in Africa, Asia and South America.
A European breakaway would simply be portrayed as a selfish move by the wealthiest region in the sport.
Blatter will not lose any sleep over what his old adversary Bernstein says. Or about current FA chairman Greg Dyke calling the Eckert report "a joke".
Rumours coming out of the United States that the FBI are keen to press ahead with their own reported investigation into senior Fifa officials, however, should concern him more.
So should the fact that Dubai-based airline Emirates recently ended its sponsorship deal with Fifa, with South Korean electronics giant Samsung expected to follow suit. The continuous loss of the sponsors that generate billions of pounds for Fifa, rather than the threats of former FA chairmen, are what would really rattle Blatter.
Three years ago, when he was FA chairman, Bernstein made a lone appeal to postpone the unopposed re-election of Blatter in the wake of serious bribery allegations involving Fifa executive committee members Mohamed bin Hammam and Jack Warner.
The rebellion failed and left the FA more isolated than ever.
Just like then, Bernstein may now win praise for his principles, but this latest stand will almost certainly meet the same fate.
The 23-year-old man had already been charged with drink driving following the incident outside the EQHQ nightclub in Livingston at 03:15 on Saturday.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment but his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
The arrested men is expected to appear at Livingston Sheriff Court on Monday.
Mr Durst is waiting to be transferred from Louisiana to Los Angeles to face trial for the 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman.
The former real estate tycoon was arrested on 14 March - a day before a documentary aired that appeared to show him confess to three killings.
His lawyers say he is innocent and his arrest was illegal.
Mr Durst has spent the much of the past week in a prison's mental health unit.
The 71-year-old millionaire appeared in court wearing padded handcuffs and seated next to his lawyers. Last week, officials deemed him at risk of committing suicide.
Mr Durst is being held in Louisiana on gun and drug charges.
He was arrested at a New Orleans hotel where he had registered under the name Everette Ward.
Mr Durst agreed to be transferred to California to stand trial for Ms Berman's death, but the gun and drug charges have delayed his extradition.
One of the weapons charges alleges that he had a .38-calibre revolver, which he is not allowed to possess after previous felony convictions.
The other charge accuses him of having illegal drugs while in possession of a weapon.
Prosecutors have not said whether they will take those charges to a grand jury.
Police said they found his passport, almost $43,000 (£28,700) in cash, the gun, and a latex or rubber mask that could cover his neck and head when they searched his hotel room.
Mr Durst has long been suspected in the disappearance of his first wife, who went missing from their country home in New York state in 1982. He has never been charged.
He was acquitted of the death of his neighbour Morris Black, after claiming the killing was done in self-defence.
He was recently the subject of The Jinx, a multi-part documentary on the American cable network HBO.
The Jinx chronicled his links to his first wife's unresolved disappearance decades ago, the death of Berman and the killing and dismemberment of Black.
In a recording that was made during a break in the filming of the documentary, Mr Durst can be heard saying "I don't know what's in the house," just before saying he "killed them all".
According to new data, up to 57% of all Amazonian trees may already fit the criteria of being globally threatened.
If confirmed, the estimates would raise the number of threatened plant species on Earth by almost a quarter.
Forest cover in the Amazon has been shrinking for decades, but little is known about the impact on individual plant species.
The trees at risk include iconic species like the Brazil nut tree, food crops such as cacao, the source of chocolate, as well as rare trees that are almost unknown to science.
The research, published in the journal, Science Advances, compared data from almost 1,500 forest plots with maps of current and predicted forest loss to estimate how many tree species have been lost and how many are likely to disappear by the middle of the century.
It found that the Amazon - the world's most diverse forest - could be home to more than 15,000 tree species.
Of these, between 36% and 57% are likely to qualify as being globally threatened under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species criteria.
Prof Carlos Peres from the University of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences in Norwich is one of 158 researchers from 21 countries who worked on the study.
He said there was a big gap in knowledge about all the plants and animals in the Amazon, from trees and ferns to bats and birds.
"Our research estimates that more than half of all species may face extinction," he said.
"Fortunately protected areas and indigenous territories now cover over half of the Amazon basin, and likely contain sizeable populations of most threatened species. "
He said parks and reserves - which face "a barrage of threats - from dam construction and mining to wildfires and droughts" - will prevent extinction of threatened species only if they are properly managed.
"In a sense this is a call for more effort into the 'last chance saloon' to discover this diversity before it goes inevitably extinct," said Prof Peres.
William Laurance from James Cook University in Australia, who also contributed to the study, added: "Either we stand up and protect these critical parks and indigenous reserves, or deforestation will erode them until we see large-scale extinctions."
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is regarded as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species.
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Health boards received 3,000 complaints in 2012, slightly less in 2013, then 3,471 in 2014, and 955 so far in 2015.
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said the "staggering" figures showed staff were "in desperate need of help".
The Welsh government said NHS staff numbers had risen by a third since devolution in 1999.
The Welsh Lib Dems asked health boards how many complaints they received from workers about a lack of qualified staff.
"These figures paint a picture of a Labour-run NHS that is under enormous strain and in desperate need of help," Ms Williams said.
"The Welsh Lib Dems' More Nurses Bill would see Wales become the first country in the UK with a legal duty on safe nurse staffing levels.
"It will save lives by ensuring a safe level of nurse staffing in our hospitals."
Eluned Parrott, Lib Dem AM for South Wales Central, denied the party was raising the issue now in an attempt to seek political leverage for its More Nurses Bill, which has reached the amendments stage in the assembly.
"Absolutely not," she told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme. "What we're raising here is a serious issue about the concerns that staff have within the NHS."
She said the bill was one way of looking to tackle the problem, but other staffing levels also needed looking at.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "Our commitment to the NHS is clear - more than 43% of the total Welsh budget is invested in our health service every year.
"There are more doctors, more nurses, more midwives, more paramedics and more dental staff working in the Welsh NHS today than there were 10 years ago."
National Australia Bank (NAB) saw shares climb to a 6-week high, up by 3.11%.
The country's biggest lender said its cash profit for the six months to March rose 6.5% to A$3.31bn ($2.47bn; £1.69bn).
As for the benchmark index, the S&P ASX 200 was flat during the morning session, at 5,276.70 points.
Shares of NAB's rivals - Westpac and ANZ Bank have also traded higher, up by more than 3%.
Many of the banks in Australia have decided to pass on the latest rate cut by the central bank, in full.
On Tuesday the Reserve Bank of Australia trimmed its key lending rate to a record low of 1.75%, citing lower-than-expected inflationary pressures.
Meanwhile other Asian markets have traded lower on Thursday, tracking losses from the US and Europe.
Over in Hong Kong the Hang Seng index has opened lower by 0.79% - or 161.97 points - to 20,363.86.
On the mainland the Shanghai composite index was also flat at the open, at 2,987.02.
US markets closed lower for a second day after a private sector report showed weakness in the labour market in the month of April.
Markets in South Korea have shut for a long weekend from Thursday, and trading there will resume on Monday 9 May.
And markets in Japan are shut for three days of national holidays and will re-open on Friday.
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Nizami was appealing against last year's conviction for war crimes committed during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
The 72-year-old is accused of helping the Pakistani army identify and kill pro-independence activists.
He was convicted on charges including genocide, murder, torture and rape.
Many of those killed during the nine-month Bangladeshi war of secession were teachers, engineers and journalists.
A war crimes tribunal - looking into abuses during the war - was set up in 2010, but critics have accused the government of using it to target political opponents.
Nizami, who served as a minister in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government from 2001-2006, is one of the most important figures to have been found guilty.
He is expected to be executed in the coming months unless he requests a review of the Supreme Court verdict, or is granted clemency by the president - which analysts say is unlikely.
Shoppers fell in love with 'easy-care' fabric dresses in the 1950s and 60s and with its tailoring and knitwear in the 70s and 80s.
The customer was always right, and they got what they wanted - quality everyday wear.
A renewed focus on design in the 1990s saw the retailer scale new heights. Its clothing even graced the front cover of Vogue magazine. Supermodel Amber Valetta was featured wearing a £21 M&S polyester shirt.
And with acclaim from the fashion press came bumper sales. Marks and Spencer's profits peaked in 1997 and 1998, topping £1bn.
But after the magic and sparkle, and despite the launch of a range of sub-brands like Per Una and Autograph - aimed at a more fashion-focused shopper - fortunes began to change for Britain's biggest clothing retailer, and the love affair began to chill.
Sali Hughes, a beauty and fashion journalist, says the retailer lost its crown producing high quality pieces that are key to a woman's wardrobe.
"Marks and Spencer should be about beautiful basics. They used to be really brilliant for quality knitwear, tailoring and good hosiery and underwear. I could go there and know I could buy a white t-shirt that wasn't too short or a plain cashmere jumper that was well made.
"Now it seems the designs are terrible, the sizing is all strange and the styles are badly cut. There are also far more retailers on the high street and it's easier to go somewhere else."
In 2008, M&S splashed out £31m on advertising and profits peaked again, topping £1bn. They have steadily fallen since.
Not even the slew of celebrity endorsements from the likes of model Twiggy and actress Dame Helen Mirren have been enough to raise womenswear sales.
But there have been some glimmers of hope. Fashionistas went mad for the mid-length suede skirt from M&S after it was worn by fashion celebrity Alexa Chung.
In 2015, the skirt was credited with helping to "jump start" the first profit rise for four years but not everyone was convinced.
The Guardian's Hadley Freeman claimed the skirt represented "a triumph of M&S PR over actual fashion for women".
For the past five years, clothing sales have been in an inexorable decline, but apart from the fashion what else is to blame?
Was it the weather? Marks and Spencer said its recent 5.8% drop in general merchandise sales - which include clothes - was due to "unseasonal conditions and availability".
It also claimed the weather was a factor in January 2015, when it said its 14th consecutive quarterly drop in clothing sales was down to unseasonal autumn weather.
However, retail analyst Nick Bubb said: "You can't make excuses about the weather every year."
He says that one of the main problems has been that the retailer has been besieged, and bitten from both ends.
Discounters and budget chains have been taking market share from M&S at the lower end. Brands like Zara and H&M are taking a chunk out of the middle end of the market, while John Lewis has stolen a march on M&S at the higher end.
"If you want to be all things to all men - and all women - it's going to be an impossible task," he said.
M&S also has problems competing with certain chains on price versus quality. Barclays Capital analyst Christodoulos Chaviaras said the quality of M&S clothes is good, but people can get better value for money elsewhere.
The firm's focus on full price items while other retailers have discounted, also played a part in M&S's negative sales, he said.
And Mr Bubb says that Marks and Spencer has failed to keep up with the Joneses online - which is now the key battleground for retailers.
John Lewis started investing in online sales more than ten years ago, he says, and Marks and Spencer has been playing catch-up.
"Marks and Spencer has too high a share of a declining market - offline retailing - and too low a share of the online market."
Senior management must also examine its conscience, he adds.
"They [the board] have taken the decisions on branding and marketing, and they've been very late to the party [with online]," he said.
Many yearn for the retailer to succeed again, so what can M&S do?
Kirsty McGregor from fashion industry publication Drapers says: "There has been a good response to the last few seasons from the fashion press... what we're not really seeing is these styles and sizing options in the regional stores and customers find that quite frustrating."
Retail analyst Tony Shiret adds: "They need to decide where the gaps in their coverage are, improve the quality of their classic staple lines and continue to make progress with the fashion."
But be warned M&S, there is a troubling rival also striving for the title of national treasure.
"Unfortunately for them [M&S] John Lewis has stolen the crown as the retailer that everyone loves and trusts," Sali Hughes said. "They have become the well loved and dependable aunty on the high street.
"I don't think this is the end for M&S, they can turn it around. They just have to get back to what they were really good at."
The work by scientists at St Andrews University found evidence of bubble formation in the bodies of cetaceans.
The researchers said this indicated that the marine mammals could be prone to the condition known as "the bends".
They have also suggested the animals diving behaviour could be affected by excessive human noise, such as exposure to military sonar.
Dr Sascha Hooker of St Andrews University, who led the research, said: "Decompression sickness, commonly known as 'the bends' is a serious problem for human divers, but the jury has been out as to whether marine mammals could get the bends or if it would be as serious for them.
"Unfortunately the technology doesn't yet exist to measure what is going on physiologically inside a free-living whale during its descent to depths of over 1000 metres.
"However, our review of recent work on marine mammal diving physiology leads us to the conclusion that they could suffer from the bends in the same way that humans do."
Pressure-induced increases in nitrogen levels in the blood and body tissues can be followed by depressurisation, which causes the nitrogen to come out as bubbles.
The St Andrews research involved experts from diverse fields including human diving medics, veterinary pathologists and experts in comparative animal anatomy, physiology, ecology and behaviour.
They studied cases including bubbles in the major organs of beaked whales that had beached following exposure to sonar; bubbles in the kidney and liver region of mass stranded dolphins, and bubbles in the tissues of dolphins and seals caught accidentally, for instance by becoming snagged in fishing nets.
The researchers concluded that marine mammals are not all free from the dangers associated with deep dives and rapid ascents.
They suggested that environmental changes could push some species beyond the limits of their coping mechanisms.
Dr Hooker added: "One concern is that these naturally evolving mechanisms may be stretched by human pressures.
"An apparent threat to these animals, such as sudden high-levels of noise, could cause them to react; altering their dive trajectory or eliciting a fight-or-flight response - that causes them to exceed their normal coping mechanisms for the prevention of the bends.
"While the bends is rare under normal circumstances, excessive human noise or disturbance may cause a marine mammal to change its diving behaviour in ways that result in serious illness or injury."
The proposals for the People's Market have proved controversial with opponents raising doubts over the cost and the location.
But a report to Wrexham council's executive board said the £4.5m plan was to regenerate a key building and increase footfall in the town centre.
The Oriel gallery has been looking for a base since it left the town library.
It has since moved to a temporary shop in Chester Street near the market and former gallery space has been earmarked for a new police station.
Councillor Huw Jones, lead member communities collaboration and partnerships, said it was "one of the most significant developments in Wrexham in recent years".
The project would be funded by the Welsh government, Arts Council of Wales and Wrexham council.
Councillors had raised concerns about the project in Stranraer, prompting the investigation.
Auditors PWC found no evidence of staff acting "beyond delegated authority" or a failure to secure best value.
However, they listed a string of "key learning points" to help strengthen arrangements for future projects.
The report followed an internal investigation which delivered similar findings.
Local councillors had voiced concerns about changes in the specifications of the project with some claiming they had left the slipway "virtually useless".
They took their concerns to the council's monitoring officer who, in turn, contacted Audit Scotland.
PWC was subsequently appointed to carry out the best value review.
It found no rules or policies had been broken but that there were areas where project management arrangements "could have been better".
It listed a number of key learning points:
The review was based on key council documents, 18 committee reports and interviews with "key individuals" involved.
British and Scottish Swimming called it "clearly unacceptable behaviour".
"It is with much regret that I was found to be driving under the influence of alcohol," said the 24-year-old, who trains at Stirling University.
"Not only have I let myself, my family and team-mates down, I have put others at risk and I am profoundly sorry."
In May 2014, the former Warrender Baths Club swimmer was arrested in Florida - where he was attending the state university - for urinating on a police car.
Later that year, Edinburgh-born Wallace became widely known for his yell of "for freedom" when he set a British record to win the 400m individual medley for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
He said at the time it was a "spur-of-the-moment thing", inspired by the film Braveheart, and nothing to do with the vote on Scottish independence that was soon to follow.
Wallace was part of the GB men's 4x200m silver medal-winning relay team at last year's Olympics in Rio.
In a statement, the Scot said: "I recognise that I am in a position of influence and this type of behaviour is not acceptable in any way, shape or form.
"I am now looking to rebuild trust in everyone who has supported me and put their faith in me, and will do whatever it takes to come through this a better, stronger person.
"I am deeply sorry."
British Swimming and Scottish Swimming say Wallace is banned from all national programmes until 12 September.
The organisations say he has also signed "a letter of intent outlining his commitment to work with the necessary support systems provided and reaffirming his responsibility to British Swimming, Scottish Swimming and the University of Stirling as an athlete".
British Swimming national performance director Chris Spice and Scottish Swimming director of performance Ally Whike said: "We can confirm that Dan Wallace has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. This is clearly unacceptable behaviour from Dan and we are disappointed by his actions.
"Dan has publicly acknowledged the seriousness of his mistake and is accepting of the consequences that must follow. Together, we will now support him through this difficult period to try to get this young and talented man back on track."
The National Grid wants to build the 22m (72ft) high building at Daedalus Airfield to join 120 miles (200km) of seabed cable between the two countries.
IFA2 is a £500m National Grid scheme which aims secure electricity supplies in the UK.
If it goes ahead work could start on the site in late 2017.
National grid said the electricity interconnector could be up and running by 2020.
Fareham Borough Council said it had agreed in principal to lease the land to the National Grid.
The plans for the scheme can be seen until 20 March.
The grid connection building in France will be at Tourbe in Normandy.
IFA2 is a joint project between French power transmission operator Réseau de Transport d'Electricité (RTE) and National Grid International Limited (NGIL), a subsidiary of National Grid.
Mr Modi is to start his first visit to Britain on Thursday.
In 2012, the country ended a decade-long diplomatic boycott imposed on the leader over the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Mr Modi's visit comes at a time when his Bharatiya Janata Party has suffered a massive defeat in Bihar amid concerns over growing religious intolerance in India.
British dailies say Mr Modi will carry the baggage of these developments to London.
The Financial Times describes the Indian prime minister as a "charismatic international statesman" but emphasises that his next foreign visit "will for the first time be overshadowed by deepening troubles at home".
The paper highlights examples of prominent voices such as Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and the federal bank governor Raghuram Rajan criticising the environment of intolerance in India.
"Such people are heard in New York and London as well as Mumbai, which could make Mr Modi's hitherto triumphant foreign trips less comfortable in the future," it says.
The Independent says Mr Modi has suffered an "embarrassing setback" ahead of his "high-profile visit".
"The result means that as he prepares for an enthusiastic welcome in Britain this week??? Mr Modi will be smarting from the defeat on home soil, which comes as his administration also faces mounting accusations of fomenting intolerance," the paper says.
Mr Modi will arrive in the UK with his "standing weakened after his party was comfortably defeated" in the Bihar elections, writes The Telegraph.
The Guardian calls the prime minister "the divisive manipulator who charmed the world".
"While Modi makes a triumphant visit to the UK after more than a year as India's prime minister??? One can only hope that the barefaced viciousness of Hindu supremacists will jolt the old elites out of their shattered dogmas and pieties while politicising a cheated young generation," it says.
However, The Economist quips that the visit will bring Mr Modi "relief" and "distraction from his stinging defeat" in Bihar.
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The tourists fell apart after a good start, losing their last eight wickets for 45 as Adil Rashid's 5-27 helped dismiss them for 126.
England's reply began badly as Jason Roy was caught without scoring.
But a typically brutal 55 from Alex Hales and an unbeaten 49 from Joe Root saw England home with 30 overs left.
The second and final ODI of the series is at Lord's on Sunday at 11:00 BST.
England, who have never won a major 50-over competition, are likely to start June's Champions Trophy on home soil with the unfamiliar status of favourites following their rapid improvement in the format since the 2015 World Cup.
Most of the praise for Eoin Morgan's side has focused on their brutal scoring, but it was their ruthlessness with the ball that brought them victory here.
On a benign track at a windy Bristol, it initially appeared to have been a good toss for Ireland to win, as the aggressive Paul Stirling and efficient Ed Joyce added a quick-fire 40 for the opening wicket.
But England, without IPL trio Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler, halted their progress with the dismissal of both openers in quick succession. Mark Wood, playing his first ODI since September after ankle surgery, bowled Stirling before David Willey trapped Joyce lbw.
From that platform, the home side spun the game decisively in their favour, with Rashid the star turn.
That was his first five-for in ODIs and the second-best figures by an English spinner in the format, behind only the 5-20 taken by Vic Marks against New Zealand in Wellington in 1984.
Combining superbly with fellow Yorkshire player and spinner Root (2-9), Rashid demonstrated control and variation to bamboozle Ireland, who lost their last eight wickets for just 45 runs.
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The greatest moment in Ireland's cricket history came at the expense of England in the group stages at the 2011 World Cup, when Kevin O'Brien's heroics helped them knock off 327 with five balls to spare.
Off the pitch, Irish cricket has improved significantly in the past six years - as they continue their pursuit of Test status - but on the pitch they remain reliant on the players who helped them achieve that victory in Bangalore.
Seven of the team that played in that win - including the same top six - also featured at Bristol, serving as a reminder of how far they have to go before they can graduate from an associate nation.
They had their moments - most notably Stirling's early blitz and the bowling of Peter Chase, who took all three of the England wickets to fall.
But they were ultimately outclassed by an England side who are a very different animal to two years ago, let alone six.
The chase was a formality, taking on the feel of a practice match at times, with Hales nonchalantly striking 10 fours during an innings that was ended by a catch from Porterfield, and Root cruising during his unbeaten 49.
Morgan will have been disappointed to score just 10 against his native country before he was caught by Kevin O'Brien, but will be pleased with his side's display.
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England captain Eoin Morgan, speaking on Test Match Special: "Putting in a clinical performance is as good as we can ask for as a side. It shows how ruthless we need to be going forward."
Asked if Rashid's bowling was the best he has produced, Morgan said: "Yes. He had a tough winter with some quality opposition and to come back from that to show calmness and composure, all credit to him."
On Mark Wood: "Any first game back it's important to just get some overs under your belt. It's important to get some momentum building towards the Champions Trophy."
Ireland captain William Porterfield, speaking on Sky Sports: "It wasn't the seamers that damaged us, it was the spin. We could have played that a lot better.
"When it comes to this stage, when games come thick and fast, it's more mentally that anything. You have to put yourself back on track mentally.
"Mark Wood is a quality bowler. From their point of view it's good to have those lads back fit.
"We've had a lot of support here today and there'll be that again at Lord's - we've got to put a performance in for them more than anything."
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World number two Murray was broken in the first game of the match and his 25-year-old Canadian opponent went on to take the first and third sets.
But the 28-year-old Scot prevailed 4-6 7-5 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 6-2 in a gruelling four-hour contest.
Murray will meet defending champion Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final.
"It was tough in that third set. In the tie-break he didn't miss a single serve and it is frustrating when you don't get a say in the points," said Murray, who has been a runner-up in the tournament four times.
"Over the match, I got a better read on his serve and that was crucial."
The result means Murray and older sibling Jamie are the first brothers in the Open era to reach the finals in both the men's singles and men's doubles events at a Grand Slam.
Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares will play Daniel Nestor and Radek Stepanek in the doubles final on Saturday.
The Murrays' fellow Scot Gordon Reid is on course for an Australian Open double after reaching the final of the men's wheelchair in both the singles and doubles.
Much has been made of distraction off court for Murray during this tournament, with wife Kim heavily pregnant at home in Britain, and her father Nigel recovering from illness.
The Scot had come through the first five rounds relatively unscathed but made the worst possible start to his sixth Australian Open semi-final, as Raonic went on the hunt for a place in his first Grand Slam final.
The 6ft 5in Raonic stunned Murray by breaking him in the first game and the Briton failed to execute three break points on the Canadian's serve as he fell 2-0 behind.
Raonic, who was unbeaten in 2016 having won the Brisbane Open earlier this month, was then able to rely on his trademark big serve to see out the first set without much drama.
Raonic held off two breaks but rarely threatened on his opponent's serve, and Murray's patience was rewarded as he took the second set 7-5.
After five games were won to love in the third set, it became a matter of who was going to crack first.
A tie-break followed, and big-serving Raonic was in his element. He raced into a three-point lead and, with two set points, he won it with his 13th ace of the match.
But Murray's confidence was not affected and he made sure he took the match all the way by breaking late in the fourth to take it 6-4.
Raonic looked to be struggling through injury and fatigue, and called for a medical time-out before the start of the fifth. As the Canadian tired, Murray seemed to get stronger and he took the final set with ease.
"He definitely slowed down in the fifth set for sure which was unfortunate for him," the Scot said of Raonic's injury.
"I obviously got a bit lucky on that but you just try to focus on your side of the court."
Raonic said: "That's probably the most heartbroken I felt on court, but that's what it is."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
Raonic came out of the blocks like Novak Djokovic: breaking Murray to love in the opening game and tormenting him with serves to the body at 140mph.
The leg injury which denied the Canadian the chance to make the deciding set truly competitive was cruel on someone who had played so magnificently, yet Murray had been his equal throughout. He actually won a higher percentage of first-serve points than Raonic, and won two out of every three points on his much maligned second serve.
Murray also kept his emotions much more in check than he was able to earlier in the week: he will need a repeat performance come Sunday's final.
Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash: "This match won't have taken an awful lot out of Murray - the rallies weren't that long. He was moving very well at the end and was playing confidently. He knows where he failed in last year's final against Djokovic. He knows he must keep the pressure up and can't afford any lapses.
"Last year he was at himself the whole time. He shouldn't have been but he couldn't stop himself and for his sake I'm hoping he has learnt the lessons from that and can control his emotions."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller: "Maybe last year Murray didn't believe he could beat Djokovic, but now he's more confident in his abilities and Djokovic has been a bit off-key at times, making 100 errors in his match against Gilles Simon."
There will be live coverage of Djokovic v Murray on Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website from 08:00 GMT on Sunday, plus highlights on BBC Two from 14:00 GMT.
Dominic Chappell headed up a group called Retail Acquisitions, which bought BHS from Sir Philip Green for a nominal £1 in 2015.
He told the BBC's Newsnight: "We could have saved BHS".
Mr Chappell said he was "upset and devastated" about the company going into administration, but that he had no regrets about doing the deal.
Mr Chappell blames two things, though, for the failure of his plan.
Firstly, Christmas trading, which is the mainstay of any big retailer, was well below expectation.
Secondly, he says he was badly affected by the decision of the pensions regulator to launch an inquiry into the takeover of BHS, known as an anti-avoidance case.
Mr Chappell maintains that the effect of that case was to make it almost impossible for him to get credit from frontline banks, pushing him to take on high-cost loans in order to cover costs. He borrowed at an interest rate of 15% and says "the impact of the regulator is one of the main things that knocked us over".
Mr Chappell has faced criticism ever since his deal to buy BHS was announced. A man with no retail experience, he has been declared bankrupt three times - although Mr Chappell told me that he expected one of those bankruptcies to be annulled within weeks.
His lack of experience has raised questions over whether he was an appropriate man to buy such a large business. However, those close to the deal insist that Mr Chappell came across as a perfectly legitimate businessman, with colleagues who were experienced in corporate turnarounds.
He also had advisors from two of the City's best known firms - accountants Grant Thornton and law firm Olswang. "My portrayal has been too harsh," said Mr Chappell.
"Yes I've had two bankruptcies, but the long and the short is that I had a strong board, internationally renowned companies representing me, and I was prepared to spend a lot of money on BHS.
"We were faced with some serious problems. We reduced the overheads of the company and I am confident that, if we could have kept trading, we would have been breaking even in September of next year. We had made huge progress."
As for regrets, he said he should have been quicker with introducing the Company Voluntary Arrangement, which was eventually voted through in March and saw rents fall at many stores. When it came, he said, it received "overwhelming support".
As for now, Mr Chappell remains hopeful that BHS can still live on. He is involved in one of the bids presently being considered by the administrator, Duff and Phelps.
"The company has a future - it doesn't need to be the PanAm of the High Street," he said.
Khabi Abrey, 30, and her unborn baby died in hospital two days after the blaze ripped through the ninth floor of the flats in Westcliff-on-Sea on 7 May. Mrs Abrey was eight months pregnant.
Lillo Troisi, 48, admitted manslaughter and arson. He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced later this month.
Troisi also lived in the council-owned building on Balmoral Road.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of Mrs Abrey's death as complications arising from the inhalation of fumes. Her baby died after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Speaking after the Old Bailey hearing, Essex Police described Mrs Abrey's death as "such a sad case to investigate".
Det Ch Insp Marina Ericson said: "An innocent and beautiful woman who was 32 weeks' pregnant needlessly lost her life, and that of her unborn child."
Prosecutor Simon Spence QC said Mrs Abrey's husband had been told about the decision of the Crown to accept the plea and ask for the remaining charges against Troisi to lie on file.
Troisi will remain in custody until psychiatric reports are drawn up ahead of a sentencing hearing later this month.
Judge Mrs Justice McGowan told the defendant: "I need to know, both for your sake and the protection of the public, most importantly, whether you need to be in a hospital or whether you will be in prison."
Blueprints of the Mosquito were thought to have been lost but were discovered by Airbus in an office it was closing down in Broughton.
The twin-engine bomber was one of the most versatile RAF aircrafts to serve during the war.
The find has boosted plans by a group, the People's Mosquito Project, to rebuild the bomber.
Bill Ramsey, the project's operations director, who served in the RAF for 41 years, said the drawings weighed 67kgs (148 lbs) in total and were going to be thrown into a skip.
"It is actually probably unique in the world in that it's a complete collection of drawings for every mark and modification that was ever made to a Mosquito," he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.
"You could actually build any form of Mosquito, including one that never actually flew."
He said it would cost about £7m to rebuild the aircraft, which was largely made from plywood and balsa, with the aid of the plans.
"It sounds like a lot of money but what the drawings do, they're important historically because they're a unique document [and] they have a certain commercial value to us," he said.
"Technically, it means that for some of the pieces of the aeroplane, the slightly more obscure ones, the Civil Aviation Authority will let us use those drawings to remanufacture them."
He added there was "a nostalgia for all things old" and that rebuilding a Mosquito capable of flying would please "lots and lots" of people.
Stephen Bannon also told the New York Times that news organisations had been "humiliated" by their failure to anticipate Mr Trump's election victory.
Media outlets have clashed with the White House over the number of people attending Mr Trump's inauguration.
They have also questioned his claim about millions of illegal ballots.
In a telephone interview with the newspaper, Mr Bannon said that "the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while".
"The media here is the opposition party," he said and later added "not the Democratic party".
Mr Bannon also argued that news outlets "don't understand this country".
"They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States."
During the interview he was mostly referring to the "mainstream" or "elite" media, however he specifically mentioned the The New York Times and The Washington Post.
He spoke in blunt but calm tones, peppered with a dose of profanities, The New York Times said.
Mr Bannon had been in charge of right-wing Breitbart News website until August, later becoming the campaign CEO for Donald Trump in the final campaign months before the November election.
Edward Davies, 39, from Hampshire, is thought to have been missing in the Glencoe area since Sunday 8 May.
Police Scotland were alerted on Wednesday last week after he failed to get in touch with family and friends.
A statement from his family said: "We still have every hope we can find Edward alive."
They said he was an experienced hillwalker and had intended to climb Sgurr na h-Ulaidh.
"We know he was very likely to be in this area or the area of Ben Finlay during the day, potentially early in the morning," the statement said.
"This is a critical time for Edward. He is very likely to have a small dark grey/green one man tent with him for emergencies and supplies adequate to last several days."
The family added: "Edward is physically capable and an experienced hillwalker. He is also a wildlife enthusiast who may have been drawn to particular nature spots beyond the area.
"The weather on the Sunday and through the week has been excellent so we still have every hope we can find Edward alive.
"We love Edward very much and are all desperate for his safe return.
"We would urge anyone who was walking in the area weekend of 7/8th May or since to think back with these details in mind and consider any potential sightings of Ed or anything that may assist the search effort.
"Ed's friends and family wish to thank everyone involved in the search so far, especially police and Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team. Their support and determination has been overwhelming."
Mr Davies is slim with dark hair and was thought to have been wearing a blue RAB waterproof jacket, a T-shirt or green Buffalo fleece.
The last known sighting of him was on the evening of Saturday 7 May at the Clachaig Inn, Glencoe.
Over the weekend, members of Glencoe, Oban, Lochaber and RAF mountain rescue teams, search and rescue dog teams, police officers and a coastguard helicopter carried out searches.
The teams' search areas included Aonach Dubh a Ghlinne, Meall Mhor, River Coe and Signal Rock.
Anyone who thinks they may have seen Mr Davies should contact police.
22 April 2015 Last updated at 16:37 BST
The journey is very dangerous: criminal gangs organise the crossings illegally, which means there's no-one checking that conditions are safe.
People are packed very tightly into small boats, which leak and often sink.
The biggest number of migrants arrive in Italy and Greece, because these countries are directly across the sea from Libya in north Africa.
Even if people do make it, they may not be allowed to stay in Europe. There are rules over who can and can't stay, so many have to be sent back to their own countries.
Ayshah has been to Sicily, an island near Italy, where many migrants flee to.
She has been finding out what problems migrants face if they survive the journey...
The paper in BMJ Quality & Safety found areas that suffer include monitoring patients adequately.
The fewer nurses there are, the higher the risk care will be compromised, according to the study which involved almost 3,000 nurses.
The Department of Health said it was down to each hospital to decide staffing levels.
The researchers from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery in London surveyed nurses from 400 general medical or surgical wards in 46 hospitals across England between January and September 2010.
They were asked about "missed care" - care that nurses deemed necessary, but which they were unable to do or complete because of insufficient time.
The 13 areas covered included adequate patient monitoring through to adequate documentation of care, and pain management.
The researchers wanted to find out if there was any association between nurse staffing levels and the number of these episodes, and whether these were linked to overall perceptions of the quality of nursing care and patient safety in a ward.
They found 86% of the 2,917 respondents said that at least one of 13 care activities on their last shift had been needed, but not done, because of lack of time.
On average, nurses said they had been unable to do or complete four activities.
The area that suffered most was talking and comforting patients, cited by 66% of the nurses.
Educating patients and developing or updating care plans were identified as not being adequately performed by around half of those questioned.
And pain management was reported as not being done by 7%.
The more patients needed assistance with routine daily tasks, or particularly frequent monitoring, the more likely staff were to say there were "missed care activities".
Staffing levels varied considerably, but the average was 7.8 patients per nurse during day shifts and 10.9 at night.
Jane Ball, who led the research, said: "The study not only reasserts the connection between staffing levels and patient outcomes, but provides an indication of the scale of the staffing problems we face.
"The majority of general medical/surgical wards have staffing levels that are insufficient to meet patient needs on every shift."
Ms Ball said publication of the survey had taken three years because "that's the nature of academic work".
Asked if the situation could have improved since 2010, she said evidence suggested "nothing is better" and "if anything, we have had more cuts to staff posts".
Dr Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "These are depressing findings and unfortunately not surprising.
"When nurses are overloaded with tasks, and have extremely limited time to complete them, something has to give."
A spokeswoman for NHS England said it was committed to ensuring that "all patients receive compassionate and competent nursing care".
"We welcome this report and expect providers to use the evidence available to ensure they have sufficient staff on wards with the right skill-mix to provide high quality services to patients."
She said the new chief inspector of hospitals would work closely with the Care Quality Commission to ensure units met standards of care.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Hospitals themselves must decide how many and which staff they employ.
"But we have been absolutely clear that these decisions must be based on providing the best patient care."
Despite having two years remaining on his contract with Super League club Castleford Tigers, Solomona retired from rugby league and subsequently joined Premiership rugby union side Sale Sharks on a three-year deal.
On Sunday, the 23-year-old made his debut in Sale's 24-10 European Champions Cup defeat by Saracens.
Castleford are taking legal action "as a last resort", with the Tigers suing for damages against Sale, Solomona and Andy Clarke - his agent - at the High Court in Leeds.
The case, Tigers chairman Steve Gill said, is "for the integrity of all sports, including, of course, rugby union clubs".
"It may lead to something that has an effect like Bosman - it has the potential to be like that," said David Seligman, a sports lawyer at CM Solicitors, who also works as a football agent.
Former footballer Jean-Marc Bosman famously took his own case to the European courts and, in December 1995, won - setting a precedent allowing footballers to leave their club for no transfer fee once their contract had expired.
As the Solomona dispute has exposed legal and financial issues, a number of experts have spoken to BBC Sport about:
The legal battle for Solomona has been more than 120 years in the making, according to professor Tony Collins, a world leader in both rugby codes from the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University.
"The case throws up a huge amount of issues that have either been under the surface in both games or ones that are inevitably going to arise as rugby becomes more commercialised and professionalised," he told BBC Sport.
"One problem in dealing with issues like this is that there is well over a century of, at times, hostility, sometimes distrust and always a mutual incomprehension."
Rugby Football League chief executive Nigel Wood has said he is worried about the "implications for the game" as the "sanctity of contracts need to be respected".
And, while a Rugby Football Union spokesman said they respect those concerns, they did not stop the move as it relates to Solomona's employment status in a different sport.
Solomona retired from one sport, only to start a career in another - breaking his contract with Castleford and leaving them with his registration as a rugby league player, but free to cross codes.
"Rather than rolling over and doing nothing, they have fought it," Seligman told BBC Sport.
"They have had to instruct a QC because there is no easy path to take, there is nowhere to turn to, no single body, which is unfair really."
Castleford chairman Gill said that Sale were "repeatedly" told that they did not have permission to approach Solomona about a move to rugby union.
Tigers are now seeking damages against the player for breach of contract and for damages, including exemplary damages, against Sale Sharks and agent Clarke for "inducing" Solomona to breach his contract.
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond has said he does not think that the Premiership club have done anything wrong, and hopes the case can be settled without a legal battle.
He is also intent on trying to downplay it as a clash of rugby codes.
Talking to BBC Radio Manchester's Rugby Union Extra, Diamond said: "I've no experience of situations like this but we believe it could still be settled out of court.
"Let's move away from the fact it is rugby union-rugby league at each other. It's not. It is a contractual issue that will get sorted one way or another.
"Castleford's representatives haven't replied to ourselves over the past three or four weeks.
"No doubt once all the credentials are put in place a decision will be made either before it goes to court, or at court."
Talented players switching between rugby codes is nothing new.
And, for a long time, it was the professional rugby league welcoming players from rugby union, a sport that remained amateur until 1995.
"In rugby union there is still the feeling that, 'well rugby league did this to us for a long time and now we are doing it to rugby league'," said Collins. "But it's not quite the same and it is incredibly short sighted.
"The reason players left union to play league was so that they could make money at a time that union was amateur - it was restricting their trade, their abilities and, in a sense, their move to rugby league was them joining the modern world so they could make money.
"There is a difference now with Solomona, who has decided to bail on his contract.
"To some extent it kind of suggests that in a professional age rugby union does not yet understand the full implication of what professionalism means.
"The difference is rugby league has had 100 years of dealing with these issues and, while they clearly don't handle them perfectly themselves, the sport has the experience, an institutional memory of how to deal with it."
Collins also feels Solomona's actions, citing his retirement from rugby league, has set a dangerous precedent.
"If a player is unsatisfied with his club or simply sees a bigger pay packet at another club, he can simply quote the words 'I'm retiring from this game or this club' and thereby leave his contract.
"It really does open a Pandora's box of where this will stop - how can a contract be enforced?"
By losing Solomona after his record-breaking try-scoring exploits, Castleford lost a prized asset, one of Super League's highest-profile and marketable athletes.
Rob Wilson, a sport finance expert at Sheffield Hallam University, says being left with nothing after Solomona's exit "will damage the brand".
"Those that entertain and score tries are of real financial value - and cost because they command higher wages - but this player would have been very valuable to transfer, so to speak," said Wilson.
"There certainly seems to be a loop hole and it's one that could hurt clubs in both rugby league and rugby union financially.
"The lack of compensation, particularly for rugby league clubs, is difficult to stomach. Financially, most clubs need all the money they can get so removing something of this value is a real blow."
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Sports lawyer Seligman said the case should prompt the establishment of a global independent arbitration body capable of dealing with such cases, closing the legal hole between the two sports.
He said football benefits from having Fifa as its "overarching body" to look in to disputes.
"There really does need to be something like that in rugby," he added. "Otherwise the contracts are not worth much.
"If there is a dispute in relation to a contract, rather than referring the dispute to the RFU or RFL, refer it on to an outside body. I don't think the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) would be the right one, but CAS could do it.
"What is needed is a global rugby arbitration tribunal system, which clubs can refer disputes with contracts to. Not only could it cover both codes, but cover them in Australia, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Italy and others.
"If they all sign up and all decisions are binding, that would promote enforceability and privity of contracts. But rugby union clubs in particular may not sign up to it because it may not be in their interests.
"It would be morally corrupt for them not to and it could be short sighted."
Collin, however, said rugby codes joining forces is a "bit unrealistic" and that CAS remains the "logical place" to take disputes.
"The problem is that as soon as one decision is made in favour of one sport over the other, there will be accusations of bias," he said. "It would be very difficult for a body like that to have credibility on both sides.
"A body that clearly sat outside of that, as a Swiss body would, is something that should be looked at."
Ofsted's findings highlight violence among young people and towards staff at the Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent, formerly run by G4S.
It rated the centre inadequate in five of the eight categories inspected.
Police investigating allegations of assault made in a BBC Panorama programme have made 12 arrests so far.
The inspection was carried out in June, shortly before the management of the centre was transferred to the Ministry of Justice's National Offender Management Service (Noms).
The report revealed two-thirds of the staff had left in the past year - some as a result of the criminal investigation - leaving an inexperienced team to run it.
Lead inspector Sheena Doyle, who carried out the unannounced visit, said stability at the centre had been "sorely undermined" by uncertainty over its future and the consequences of the Panorama broadcast, including the police investigation.
She found behaviour management had deteriorated significantly since a previous inspection. "Levels of violence are high, particularly against staff and oversight of the use of force and restraint is poor," she reported.
G4S, the specialist security group whose contract to run children's services at Medway was not renewed, said it would apply the lessons learned from what it called a "deeply disappointing" report to its remaining secure training centre near Milton Keynes.
Jerry Petherick, managing director of G4S custodial and detention services, said in a statement: "This was clearly a period of intense disruption which created uncertainty and instability for the young people and staff at the centre and it proved extremely challenging to maintain appropriate staffing levels and standards."
Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss, whose department took over Medway, said: "The findings of this report are shocking and decisive action has already been taken.
"G4S have been removed from the running of Medway. Since 1 July the centre has been under new leadership. The safety and rehabilitation of young offenders is extremely important."
Ofsted is demanding immediate improvements to child protection and safeguarding at Medway, including ensuring adequate staffing levels and keeping proper records of staff interaction with young offenders.
It has also issued a list of longer-term actions after declaring Medway inadequate in terms of: care and safety, the promotion of positive behaviour, the effectiveness of managers and its overall effectiveness.
It says a number of staff have been arrested and five dismissed. Ten are currently suspended and four others placed on non-operational duties pending the outcome of investigations.
Kent Police says of the 12 people arrested in connection with their investigation, one has been charged, nine are currently on bail and two have been released without charge.
The incident happened during a 21st birthday party in the Californian city in the early hours of 16 June.
The inspectors did not specifically say the rotten beams caused the collapse.
But Eric Angstadt, Berkeley's director of planning and development, said they want more frequent inspections.
"I'm going to propose that similar to San Francisco that we require the owners to get a structural engineer or a structural past expert in to do the inspections every five years," he said.
Funeral masses took place on Tuesday for two of the six students killed in the balcony collapse in Berkeley, California.
Eoghan Culligan and Eimear Walsh, both 21, were laid to rest after ceremonies in Dublin, at which hundreds of mourners gathered.
Olivia Burke and Niccolai Schuster, also both 21, are expected to be buried on Wednesday, while Lorcán Miller will be laid to rest on Thursday.
The sixth victim, Ashley Donohoe, 22, was buried in California on Saturday.
Five of the six people who died were Irish students based in the US as part of a work exchange programme.
Neil MacFarlane, who taught computing, science and chemistry at Greenfaulds High School in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, was deemed unfit to teach.
The ruling was delivered by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS).
They also found that MacFarlane should be unable to reapply to join the teaching register for at least two years.
He was caught by deputy head teacher Suzanne Beattie viewing an image of a naked woman on his computer screen on 24 October 2014.
Mrs Beattie told a GTCS hearing, held at the end of last month, that she had gone to MacFarlane's class in the former Greenfaulds High building, which has since been demolished and rebuilt, to speak to a pupil.
However, as she entered the room she said the teacher was sitting at his PC with a full-sized nude picture of a woman on the screen.
She described how the screen was facing MacFarlane as pupils sat around the three walls opposite.
Mrs Beattie told the hearing that anyone walking into the room would have seen the explicitly nude picture.
She added that when he saw her enter the room, he quickly minimised the screen or closed it down.
The hearing was told that MacFarlane was flustered but did not say anything.
The deputy head spoke to the pupil and left before reporting the matter to the head teacher.
When MacFarlane's computer was later checked by IT specialists, they found pornographic images downloaded onto the school computer.
However, he had claimed that the material had been inadvertently transferred to the PC by automatic synchronisation from his own personal Dropbox file sharing account.
This was discounted by IT witnesses who stated that the material that had been downloaded required "human intervention".
They also found that MacFarlane had accessed other inappropriate sites to view horror films, celebrity stories and sport.
The ruling panel heard that MacFarlane had not attended the hearing after claiming he had been unable to afford representation and had also been unable to get annual leave from his current employer.
Ministers would also get powers to seize disused land, while major housing projects could be fast-tracked, and rules on extensions in London relaxed.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid unveiled the plans as part of a broader push to boost Britain's productivity.
It came as official figures showed new house building fell by 5.8% in May, the sharpest decline in nearly four years.
There is a question mark over whether building more homes will boost productivity as much as ministers claim and Labour said the Conservatives had a record of making "empty promises" over the past five years.
Treasury sources say workers are more productive when they live closer to their jobs - but critics say increasing airport capacity and electrifying the Transpennine rail line would have a much bigger effect.
Emran Mian, a director of the Social Market Foundation think tank, said: "I think if I was thinking about a productivity plan, housing wouldn't be the first issue I would leap to."
Electrification of the Trans Pennine line between Manchester and Leeds and a section of the Midland Mainline has been delayed and a decision on a third runway at Heathrow, recommended by an independent commission, will not be made until the end of the year.
Analysts have also questioned whether there is enough brownfield land - a term which refers to land that has previously been developed but is vacant or derelict - available to meet the UK's housing needs over the next 15 years.
Under the new proposals - which will need to be approved by MPs - automatic planning permission would be granted on all "suitable" brownfield sites under a new "zonal" system.
Another change would see ministers seek to scrap the need for planning permission in London for developers who want to extend buildings to the height of neighbouring properties, which they say will "add dynamism" to house building in the capital.
Planning powers will be devolved to mayors in London and Manchester, while enhanced compulsory purchase powers will allow more brownfield land to be made available for development.
There would also be new sanctions for councils that do not deal with planning applications quickly enough, and the government would be able to intervene in councils' local development plans.
Mr Javid told the BBC the 141,000 new homes built last year were a fraction of those needed to meet demand.
"Local people will still have control over planning," he said.
"The point of this is to make sure we build more homes, that local people are still rightly involved in those decisions and we find ways to speed it up."
There was "no need" to build on green belt land, he insisted, to meet the government's targets.
"The green belt can be rightly protected. There is plenty of land which is not green belt that we can build on and which is suitable for housing and we need to get on with it. We need to find new ways to encourage it."
In 2013, ministers were forced to back track on plans to allow single-storey extensions of a certain size to be built without planning permission, so that neighbours would have the right to be consulted on building work.
Mark Field, Conservative MP for Westminster and the Cities of London, said the chancellor may have "run out of patience" with councils for dragging their feet on the issue and he expected "some kickback" against the plans, including from Conservative-run county councils.
"We have tried the carrot approach with our councils and now we need to have more of a stick," he told the BBC's Daily Politics. "Whether that stick works is another matter."
But the Local Government Association said councils were not holding up new homes and that developers were not prioritising brownfield sites. It called for stronger compulsory purchase order powers to allow councils to buy up sites "stuck in the system".
Labour said productivity had stagnated since 2010 and was forecast to fall in every year up to 2020.
"Today's document is a patchwork of existing schemes rather than a substantial reform to boost skills, business growth and wages," said shadow Treasury secretary Shabana Mahmood.
"Working people need delivery, not more empty promises. Instead of investing in the infrastructure and skills we need, the government are dithering on airports, have cancelled the electrification of key rail lines and have rebadged existing training as apprenticeships."
The Fixing the Foundations package also includes measures on higher education, transport, devolution of powers to cities and trade although much of its contents were announced in Wednesday's Budget
Speaking in Birmingham at the report's launch, Mr Javid pledged to get "Britain moving, building and learning".
He acknowledged the UK was falling behind its competitors in terms of productivity, saying it took British workers five days more than their German counterparts to match their output per hour.
This, he said, was not the fault of workers, whose commitment was "second to none", but of the failure of successive governments to modernise infrastructure and invest in skills and training.
Up to £100bn would be spent on improving the transport network by 2020, he said, warning that unless action was taken 100 million working days would be lost every year to congestion by 2040.
John Phillips took up to £480 a time in "accreditation fees" from applicants.
He now appears to be operating under a new guise - prompting calls for him to be arrested.
Safer Jobs, an agency which fights fraud, said it was the "biggest scam of its kind".
When his previous scam was uncovered, numerous victims told the BBC they had reported Phillips to the authorities.
But he does not appear to have been arrested, and has continued causing misery to unsuspecting job seekers, operating under the name Roy Parker instead of John Phillips.
BBC London is aware of several people who have recently lost out to the scam.
Angelique Norman paid Mr Phillips £150 and gave up a job for the promise of a non-existent position as an office assistant.
She said: "I now can't pay my rent. I'm unemployed. I can't feed my kids.
"I'm so angry with him. It's disheartening to know someone can take advantage of someone who is trying to better themselves."
She said she was "in shock" when she found out he had already been the subject of a BBC investigation.
Mr Phillips is alleged to have been carrying out the scam since at least 2012, using various names.
A former senior Met police detective has joined calls for Mr Phillips' arrest.
Peter Kirkham, now a private fraud consultant, said: "Every day he is victimising more and more people, vulnerable people, people looking for jobs.
"There are people in various levels of desperation looking for jobs because of the difficult times we live in. They need to stop him."
When the BBC confronted Mr Phillips for a second time he said: "I have nothing to say... I don't wish to talk to the BBC."
Former inspector Peter Kirkham believes Mr Phillips should have been caught by the authorities before.
"Nobody seems to have picked up that this is a linked series of offences," he said.
The Met Police said it was not aware of any investigation being carried out into the dealings of Mr Phillips.
Action Fraud said the reports of fraud were being assessed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
The building society said the increase was due to "growing demand", and the limit would be in force from July.
It means a 60-year-old could take out a 25-year mortgage as long as they prove they can afford the repayments.
The move comes as Halifax increases its age limit for mortgages from 75 to 80 from Monday.
There have been calls for the industry to do more to help older buyers after tougher mortgage checks, introduced in the wake of the financial crisis, have made it harder for middle-aged people to get a home loan.
Rising house prices have exacerbated the issue, with many people not able to afford to buy their first home until they are in their thirties or forties.
Nationwide said the new age limit would apply to existing customers for all its standard mortgages, but the maximum loan size would be £150,000, and could be no greater than 60% of the property value.
"Access to the mainstream market has been a challenge for older customers, resulting in their needs going unfulfilled. This measure helps to address these needs in a prudent, controlled manner," said Nationwide head of mortgages Henry Jordan.
Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown, told the BBC the change could shake up the mortgage market.
"Why pay off the mortgage at at all?" he said on Radio 5 Live.
"As long as the value of the property is there to meet the liability in the future, why worry about paying it off when you are alive?" he added.
House prices grew 7.6% in the year to February, official statistics suggest.
And a recent survey by Halifax suggested that one in three 20- to 45-year-olds expected to be working beyond their retirement age to pay off their mortgage.
Halifax said its decision was a response to changing demographics, with people living and working for longer.
The policies of rival mortgage lenders for older borrowers varies. Santander, for example, says 75 is its cut-off while RBS' upper age limit is 70.
HSBC says it does not turn down mortgages on the basis of age, but reviews applications of those over 75 on "a case by case basis".
At Barclays the upper age limit is 70, or the customer's retirement date - whichever is sooner.
It follows a collision involving the MV Hebridean Isles last month with Kennacraig pier on the Mull of Kintyre.
Since then the repairs needed to ferry have resulted in Islay being left with a single vessel.
CalMac said it would also move another vessel to become a 24-hour service to ease disruption for travellers.
The MV Finlaggan will run an overnight freight service between Islay and Kennacraig for large vehicles such as caravans and camper vans, as well as her normal daytime timetable.
The changes will take place from Monday night.
North Wales Police are not treating the death in Llandyrnog, near Denbigh, as suspicious but the Health and Safety Executive is looking into it.
Officers were called to the farm on Wednesday.
The man has been named locally as 48-year-old Aled Jones. His next of kin have been informed, as has the coroner.
Police are investigating how swastikas and far-right images were displayed on the city centre screen on Tuesday night after a hacker gained control.
The perpetrator says log-in details of the remote access software were displayed on the screen on Monday.
Developers TeamViewer said there were "security features to avoid this".
BlowUP media, which controls the billboard, has been asked to comment.
Writing in an anonymous online post, the hacker claimed there was a security vulnerability with the screens.
A TeamViewer spokesman said if the "instant support client" showing the nine-digit ID and password were displayed on the screen on the billboard "everyone who saw the screen could have gained access to the system".
"This is certainly not a structural deficit of our software," the spokesman said.
"There are many security features available to avoid this."
TeamViewer said the programme - known as a client - is set up to provide remote support from another location.
"However, that client should have never been publicly visible," the spokesman added. "So user mismanagement is the most likely root cause in this case."
South Wales Police said they had received a number of calls relating to the incident.
A digital billboard outside a Liverpool shopping centre was hacked in May.
The camp, where teenage diarist Anne Frank was among thousands to die, was liberated by British soldiers in 1945.
The UK monarch, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, laid a wreath at a memorial there on the final day of her four-day state visit to Germany.
She met British veterans who liberated the camp, and heard stories of the "horrific" scenes that greeted them.
More than 50,000 prisoners from all over Europe were killed at Bergen-Belsen or died later as a result of their treatment in the camp.
This was a Queen who lived through World War Two as a teenager, coming to learn first-hand about some of the very worst excesses of a former enemy.
With Prince Philip she passed the mounds that mark where the mass graves are. There are 13 mounds. They contain the remains of more than 20,000 people.
There was no pomp or ceremony; just a couple from the wartime generation taking their time to reflect and to pay their respects.
The 89-year-old Queen and her husband, who's 94, walked quite a distance through what remains of the camp, and met a few of those who lived and three of the British soldiers who set them free. The survivors and the liberators told them about their shared experience of horror.
At the end the Queen said to one person: "It's difficult to imagine isn't it?"
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The Queen, who is patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, had not visited a concentration camp before and it is believed she requested the trip.
She was taken on a tour of the site - which was razed to the ground and is now a museum and memorial to those who died - with the minimum of protocol.
She met with representatives of Jewish and Christian communities, as well as a small group of survivors and liberators.
Among them was veteran pilot Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, 96. The Queen asked him what sort of scene greeted the British troops when he first arrived.
"I told her this was just a field of corpses," he said.
He said the Queen replied: "It must have been horrific really."
"She was listening very carefully. I would say she was quite affected by the atmosphere here. You can't avoid it, can you?" he added.
The Queen also visited a memorial to Anne Frank and her sister Margot.
Millions of copies of Anne Frank's Diary, written during the two years the teenager and her family hid from the Nazis in occupied Amsterdam, have been sold across the world.
Dr Jens-Christian Wagner, head of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial who gave the royal couple a guided tour, said the experience of visiting the site had been an emotional one for the Queen.
British troops found 60,000 prisoners when they entered the gates in April 1945, suffering from malnutrition, disease and the brutal treatment they had endured.
Thousands of corpses also lay unburied on the camp grounds.
Another of the first British soldiers to arrive after liberation described the scene to BBC Radio 5live.
Corporal Bernard Levy, who was 19 at the time, said: "It was so horrendous that nobody could take it in.
"For 68 years I'd shut the whole subject out of my mind.
"But we've got to make sure that this particular horror stays in people's minds."
The visit to the former concentration camp was the Queen's final engagement before returning to the UK.
During her official visit, she also met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visited Berlin and Frankfurt.
Bottom club Newport were leading 1-0 at the break after a strike from Tom Owen-Evans which would have been the teenager's first goal for the club.
But as water started to gather on the Rodney Parade pitch, referee Brendan Malone called the game off.
County have long-standing drainage problems on the pitch, which is also used by rugby's Newport Gwent Dragons.
A match against Barnet was abandoned on 3 September and that was followed by the postponement of a League Two match with Stevenage on 1 October.
Emergency drainage work was carried out on the pitch in early October with a new drainage system due to be installed in the summer of 2017.
Newport County manager Graham Westley told Radio Wales Sport: "Premier League managers moan at having to play 38 games a season, when you are Newport manager you have to play 138 games because a lot get cancelled at half-time.
"It is what it is. It was probably the right decision to call it off. I thought in the first-half we were as good as we've been in a while."
Match abandoned due to waterlogged pitch, Newport County 1, Morecambe 0.
ends, Newport County 1, Morecambe 0.
First Half ends, Newport County 1, Morecambe 0.
Foul by Marlon Jackson (Newport County).
Liam Wakefield (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joss Labadie (Newport County).
Dean Winnard (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Peter Murphy.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Peter Murphy.
Corner, Newport County. Conceded by Dean Winnard.
Attempt saved. Luke Conlan (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Ben Tozer (Newport County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luke Conlan (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Michael Rose (Morecambe) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Scot Bennett (Newport County).
Peter Murphy (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County).
Luke Conlan (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Darren Jones.
Attempt blocked. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Josh Sheehan (Newport County).
Luke Conlan (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Newport County 1, Morecambe 0. Tom Owen-Evans (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Darren Jones (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dean Winnard (Morecambe).
Attempt saved. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the left wing is saved in the top right corner.
Jennison Myrie-Williams (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Aaron McGowan (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Josh Sheehan (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Josh O'Hanlon (Newport County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Michael Rose (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Rhys Turner (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Alex Kenyon (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Ben Tozer (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Luke Conlan (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
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Net services in the south-west and north-west regions of the nation were cut on 17 January.
Cutting net services was an "appalling violation" of the right to freedom of expression, said UN special rapporteur David Kaye.
He said the widespread net shutdown also broke international law and he called for links to be restored.
"I am particularly concerned at the tightening of the space for free speech at a time when its promotion and protection should be of the utmost importance," said Mr Kaye, an independent expert who advises the UN about attacks on free speech.
"A network shutdown of this scale violates international law - it not only suppresses public debate, but also deprives Cameroonians of access to essential services and basic resources," he said.
In 2015, the UN issued a joint declaration which stated that net shutdowns were never justified under human rights law.
Mr Kaye said he and the UN were closely monitoring the situation in Cameroon.
The Cameroon government has not explained why the two regions have been cut off. However, many believe officials took the step to tackle anti-government sentiment there.
Protests have been staged by people living in the English-speaking regions who claim they are being marginalised by recent government policies. Cameroon has two official languages - French and English - but most government and court proceedings are conducted in French.
The shutdown has also hit Cameroon's digital industries, many of which are based around "silicon mountain" near Buea - the south-west's regional capital.
And it has forced 17 year-old coding champion Nji Collins Gbah to move to the capital Yaounde from his home in the north-west town of Bamenda. Net access in Yaounde has not been cut off.
Mr Gbah is the first African winner of Google's annual coding competition that is open to pre-university students worldwide between the ages of 13 and 17. More than 1,300 young people from 62 countries took part in the latest competition.
Change is in the air: exciting and emboldening for some, frightening for others.
Imagine the EU in a bowling alley. Well, frankly, its pillars of stability have been falling like ninepins.
Brexit, mass migrant arrivals, Russian activity in Ukraine, cross-border Islamist terror (with the Paris attacks anniversary at the weekend), and now the election of Donald Trump as US president, with all the implication that may have for European politics, trade, security and defence.
The UK foreign secretary may dismiss it as a "whinge-o-rama" and Hungary's government may mutter about "exaggerated panic", but EU leaders - and their foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday - have a list of clear-cut concerns about President-elect Trump.
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Mr Trump's America-first attitude, his comments appearing to question Nato's founding all-for-one-and-one-for-all clause and his apparent admiration for Russia's Vladimir Putin have Europeans worried about defence and security, about Syria, about the Iran nuclear deal and about Europe itself.
The Russia-fearing Eastern and Baltic countries feel particularly exposed.
Yes, Donald Trump's commitment to Nato worries them but they're also apprehensive about changes in political tone towards Russia - not just in the US but here in Europe too.
Resurgent anti-establishment, populist parties across the continent - in France, Italy, Austria and beyond - applaud Mr Trump and have established links with Russia.
Far-right French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, well-known for relations with Moscow, said she had accepted an invitation to work with Mr Trump. In Italy, the leader of the nationalist Northern League party told a crowd waving Russian and American flags that he was Italy's Trump.
Now Russia-friendly candidates have won elections in Bulgaria and Moldova. And a party close to Moscow is making a power play in Estonia.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini is clearly worried.
Once again, EU talk of a European Defence Union looms large.
It's hardly a new idea - big powers France, Germany, Italy and Spain pushed loudly for it following the UK's Brexit vote in June - but now there's a sense of increased urgency.
This is not about building an EU army, insist advocates (though some Europeans are in favour), but rather about sharing defence capabilities and moving towards increased self-reliance in an insecure world.
The EU already has its own rapid reaction forces. One argument is that it should deploy them more assertively and effectively.
Until now, the UK - one of only two significant military powers in the EU - consistently blocked any moves towards a common EU defence body but it has voted to leave the bloc.
Still, to have a European defence union, you need unity amongst EU countries and there's little evidence of that amongst the fractious bunch of 28.
When big power Germany hastily convened an EU foreign ministers' dinner in Brussels on Sunday night to discuss Donald Trump's victory, key players Britain and notably France didn't bother showing up.
Nato ex-Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen dismisses any talk of the EU going down the defence path alone as "a paper tiger".
And as much as Ms Mogherini asserts that the EU should be able to defend itself "with the full potential of a superpower", the bloc will continue to rely on the US and on Nato in particular.
Not that long ago in Europe, mainstream politicians were wondering out loud about whether Nato was an out-dated organisation - hugely important in the shadow of World War Two but less significant in the 21st Century.
But increasingly in the face of its multitude of crises - masses of migrants and asylum-seekers braving the Mediterranean to reach Europe, European cities under attack from cross-border Islamist terror and Russia flexing its muscles in the East - the EU has become increasingly reliant on Nato once again.
Political memory is short.
The online service is a portal for customers to download games, e-books and other content on to Vtech devices.
They can now register, manage their accounts and use the app store, but some products, including the Power Xtra Laptop and InnoTV, remain offline.
Almost 6.4 million children's details were exposed by the hacker.
Other products which remain offline include the Secret Safe Diary Selfie, Snuggle and Sleep Musical Sheep and MobiGo Touch Learning System.
"After the cyber-attack, we have focused on further strengthening security around user registration information and other services within Learning Lodge," said Vtech chairman and group chief executive Allan Wong in a statement.
"With the key services now resumed, we strongly suggest that our existing customers log into Learning Lodge as soon as they can and change their passwords.
"We apologise that there are still some Learning Lodge services that remain unavailable at this time. We continue to work very hard towards reopening them as soon as possible."
Vtech confirmed at the time that the data accessed by the hacker included children's names, dates of birth and gender as well as the "name, email address, encrypted password, secret question and answer for password retrieval, IP address, mailing address and download history" of the account holder.
The hacker claimed to have acted to highlight the firm's vulnerability.
Some parents expressed anger that the service had not been restored in time for Christmas.
The police said the militants were shot dead after a heavy gun battle near the base in Kupwara district.
The fighting comes after an attack on another base killed 18 soldiers last month. India blamed the attack on Pakistan, which denied the claim.
Disputed Kashmir is claimed by both India and Pakistan in its entirety
Police Superintendent Ghulam Jeelani told the AFP news agency that the attackers clashed with Indian soldiers near the base.
The nuclear-armed neighbours have accused each other of increasing hostilities along their de-facto border in Kashmir since last month's attack.
Last week, India said it had retaliated by carrying out "surgical strikes" against suspected militants along the de-facto border.
Pakistan denied that India had carried out any strikes and said two of its soldiers were killed in unprovoked cross-border shelling.
But after a call from Ms Ismail's father, the two set out on on a trip which they say involved death threats, escape across international borders, and a spell in a Turkish jail where, Ms Ismail says, the treatment was "unexpected, inhumane and horrible".
Safe in Ms Rico's Spanish hometown of Torrox, the couple faced the cameras to reveal a nightmarish three-week ordeal which, according to Ms Rico, began after her partner's family in Dubai had tried to separate them by force.
"I really want to tell our story because I think it could help many people who live in a situation of repression for being homosexual," Ms Rico told reporters who had gathered in the room to hear their story.
It had all started innocently enough. According to the 28-year-old, the couple flew from London to Dubai on 14 April because Ms Ismail's father had said that her mother was ill in hospital.
"But it was a trick," said Jimena Rico. "He threatened to kill us and said we could go to jail for being lesbians."
According to her partner, 21-year-old Ms Ismail was locked up by her family. But the couple managed to escape and flew to Tbilisi, Georgia, from where they were hoping to catch a connecting flight to London.
But even putting more than 2,000 miles between them and Ms Ismail's family had not guaranteed their safety.
Ms Ismail's father appeared at the airport and the Egyptian woman's papers, including the visa she needed to return to the UK, were torn up in the altercation.
Ms Rico explained that at this point the Georgian authorities escorted the couple to the Turkish border. Spain's foreign ministry says the couple were then arrested in Samsun, northern Turkey, and taken to Istanbul.
There, they were arrested on a charge "apparently to do with terrorism", says Ms Rico, adding that they signed papers they did not understand.
Ms Rico got word to her family, who reported the situation to the Spanish police.
After three days in a Turkish jail, the Spanish foreign ministry managed to secure their release - allowing them to fly home to Spain, where Ms Rico's relieved family welcomed them with open arms.
"I thought we were not going to get out of [prison]," Ms Rico said. "They told me I could leave but she had to stay, and I said I wasn't going without her."
Ms Ismail's father, however, tells a different version of events, although he admits travelling to Tbilisi airport and forcibly attempting to retain his daughter.
"When she arrived in Dubai, I embraced her," the unnamed father told Spain's Antena 3 television station.
"She said she wanted to stay in London and I asked her to come home and talk about her being a lesbian because she told us via text message. She came out of the closet like that, sending her mother a text message."
Ms Ismail's father said that he offered to take his daughter to a psychologist and that she had agreed to stay in Dubai and study there. Then, he claimed, his daughter vanished from the family home.
"I went to the police after she had disappeared. A friend told me Shaza was in Georgia and I reported that she had run away or been kidnapped."
He explained that he had gone to Tbilisi with a lawyer, but insisted the only papers he had torn up were part of an old passport belonging to his daughter.
Jimena Rico accepts her partner's father is doing what he thinks is best: "I know that [Ms Ismail's] father loves her. But his mind is so closed that he can't understand."
She is now hoping to marry Shaza Ismail, currently staying with her on a temporary visa after the Spanish government secured the couple's release.
The crash happened on Monday morning on an icy road in North China's province of Shanxi.
An additional 37 people were injured when the vehicles collided during snowy and rainy weather on the Beijing-Kunming expressway.
Images from the scene showed lorries that had been completely crushed by the impact.
One truck was thrown through the air, landing on the vehicles in front of it, while others dangled off the side of the road, above a sharp drop to the ground below.
Cranes were brought to the scene as rescuers tried to work through the wreckage.
State media has since reported that all the injured are in a stable condition.
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 250,000 people die in traffic accidents every year across China, though official government statistics report a far lower number.
The three belong to a criminal gang in the north-western state of Sinaloa, police said.
They confessed to killing the two tourists when the pair fought back during an attempted robbery.
Forensic experts are carrying out DNA tests to confirm the identity of the two charred bodies found in the Australians' burnt-out van.
Two other men who took part in the killings are still at large, prosecutors said.
The three men detained have been identified as Julio Cesar Muniz, accused of leading a local drug trafficking gang, Martin Rogelio Munoz and Sergio Simon Benitez.
They said they shot two foreign tourists and set fire to the bodies and the van.
Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas, both 33, were last seen alive in the night of 20 November in the town of Topolobampo.
The burn-out vehicle found on a road in Sinaloa last month was the white Canadian van that belonged to Mr Coleman, Sinaloa Prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera confirmed.
They were living in Edmonton, Canada and had driven down to Mexico for a surfing trip.
Sinaloa state has been plagued by violence in recent decades, much of it linked to drug cartels battling to control the illegal drugs trade from South America to the United States.
City of London Police says it has heard from some potential victims who claim to have invested thousands or millions in a "Ponzi" scheme with little return.
A Ponzi scheme fraudulently distributes returns to investors from the money paid in by other investors.
Police investigating City-based foreign exchange trading firm Capital World Market have arrested 14 people.
City of London Police believe about 450 Gurkha and Nepalese community members invested but many have not made contact with police.
Det Ch Insp Dave Manley said those who had not come forward were "a large piece of the jigsaw that is missing".
"The harm caused to individuals, their families, their pension pots and life savings - at the moment is not being represented within the case. The story of how this has impacted and affected people needs to be told in the judicial process.
"It would be a shame for us to get to the next stage, and the level of harm that's been caused to the community is not measured or part of the case."
Police have been probing Capital World Market (CWM), which was promising returns of 5% per month to investors, since October 2014.
Gary Ghale, from the Gurkha Welfare Trust, said it was the first time he had heard of so many people from the Gurkha and Nepalese communities being linked to such a scheme.
He believes many may have been encouraged to take part by family and friends.
"We would recommend those who believe they have fallen victim to contact the police," said Mr Ghale.
"Their case will be treated with care and absolute confidence and they will be treated as victims and not as suspects. We believe it is in people's best interest to come forward."
City of London Police arrested 10 men and three women at CWM's London offices nine months ago on suspicion of fraud by false representation and money laundering.
They were questioned and released on police bail until March.
Detectives, supported by the Financial Conduct Authority, also seized computers and documents.
Another man was later arrested and is also on bail.
Four government soldiers and 15 rebels died on Monday, government spokesperson Lambert Mende told the BBC.
These are the first clashes between the two sides since the rebels pulled out of Goma last year.
The UN said it would speed up the deployment of a new intervention force in response to the violence.
By Gabriel GatehouseBBC News correspondent, Goma
It was a familiar sight at Kanyaruchinya, 10km (6 miles) north of Goma: White armoured personnel carriers had taken up positions along the road. Indian peacekeepers wearing blue helmets sat peering through binoculars. A group if civilians stood around in a tight knot, waiting to see what would happen. Sporadic shots rang out from the surrounding hills.
The sense of security the UN soldiers provide is little more than an illusion, as the people here know only too well. The force, known by its acronym, Monusco, has repeatedly pledged to stand its ground. It has repeatedly failed. In November it stood by as the rebels overran Goma.
The UN is in the process of boosting its forces with 3,000 extra troops, who will have a more aggressive mandate to actively pursue the rebels. But peace may still prove elusive: By some estimates there could be as many as 50,000 armed men in the region, belonging to several dozen armed groups.
A 3,000-strong brigade is being sent to neutralise and disarm the rebels, with the first contingent arriving last week.
"Considering what has happened I think we must expedite the deployment so they will be fully responsible as soon as possible," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told AFP.
The BBC's Maud Jullien in the capital, Kinshasa, says the government believes the M23 is trying to disrupt the deployment of the UN force.
Mr Ban is due to visit DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda later this week.
The two sides exchanged artillery and mortar fire north of the city of Goma, with each accusing the other of provoking the clashes.
Fighting in Mutaho, 10km (6 miles) east of Goma, broke out early on Tuesday after M23 rebels tried to take back positions lost to the army on Monday, Col Olivier Hamuli told AP.
In a statement to AFP, M23 denounced the "military option" taken by the government and reaffirmed its commitment to peace talks.
Peace talks began following the withdrawal of M23 troops from Goma in December but have stalled in recent months.
On Monday, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told the BBC that UN troops had "in some cases" made the situation in DR Congo worse.
He said any military effort to bring peace to DR Congo needed to be "properly co-ordinated" with political efforts.
Mr Kagame dismissed long-standing UN allegations that Rwanda backed the M23.
Some 800,000 people have fled fighting since the M23 launched its rebellion last year.
Mr Gove's statement on British values in schools follows concerns about an Islamist takeover in schools in Birmingham - the so-called Trojan Horse claims.
In response to the issue, Mr Gove said pupils must be made aware of the "the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs".
His stance has the backing of Prime Minister, David Cameron.
But what do head teachers make of this latest requirement? which, the Department for Education (DfE) says, will come into force from September after a consultation on its exact wording.
"I think they'll be quite sceptical when a politician makes a statement in response to a crisis," says Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).
"They're never thought through, never debated, the crisis goes and a different one comes, but the requirements on schools don't end.
"They can only do so much and the time spent on this takes away from the core. There are only so many hours in the school day."
Mr Hobby adds that defining British values is no easy task - and feeling uncomfortable about talking about them is a very British trait in itself.
"Values are an important issue within the education system, but what are they? Liberty, freedom, democracy? - but I think these are universal values as much as they are British.
"And when we start listing them, it's interesting. But who gets to sign off the list?"
Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) says schools are already working to promote core British values.
"For the vast majority of schools, this will make no difference to what they're doing, because they're already engaged in this agenda," says Mr Trobe.
"Classroom teachers will continue to do what they always have done, which is developing young people to work together as a community, whether that's as a teaching group or a school."
The DfE says the understanding and knowledge that pupils will be expected to have include:
Currently academies and free schools (some 4,000 institutions) have a duty to "respect" fundamental British values, but this does not apply to England's 16,000 local authority-run schools.
Talks have begun to establish how these new standards will be judged by inspectors from the schools watchdog, Ofsted, the DfE says.
Mr Trobe says the best way for schools to instil such values in pupils is to reflect them in the way the institution is run.
"Schools have to embody it [democracy] in the way they work and within the ethos and culture of the school - within a framework of rules, regulations which are there for the benefit of everyone.
"It's not just a question of sitting and teaching children about it."
The NAHT's Russell Hobby agrees that the way a school operates is more valuable than separate lessons on individual values.
"It's got to be more about how adults treat the children, how adults treat other adults, how we all behave towards one another."
Whatever the teaching profession makes of the new requirement to promote British values, Mr Gove has the blessing of Prime Minister David Cameron.
Speaking from Sweden, Mr Cameron said: "I think what Michael Gove has said is important and I think it will have the overwhelming support of everyone, including people who have come to settle in Britain and make their home in Britain."
Tents and field kitchens are being erected in the north-east of the city to house the migrants arrested at a garment factory on Wednesday.
Many detainees are Vietnamese, but they include Egyptians and Syrians too.
Moscow has also cracked down on illegal migrants from ex-Soviet states after a brawl at a market on Saturday.
On that day, a policeman received a serious head injury at the city's Matveyevsky Market, when fighting began as they they tried to arrest a man accused of attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl.
Both the policeman's suspected attackers and the attempted rape suspect were arrested.
But the brawl, which was caught on video and published by Russia's lenta.ru news website, also embarrassed the city's police force and led to the sacking of six police officers and investigations into the behaviour of two others.
In addition to the raid on the garment factory, Moscow police have arrested at least 1,000 other people since Monday, said to be mainly migrants from ex-Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus. At least 250 have been charged with migration violations.
The camp being set up on Second Irtyshsky Proyezd is equipped with toilets and washing facilities, officials told Russian media. Detainees will be fed buckwheat porridge, biscuits and rations, they said.
The detainees, who include pregnant women, will be kept in the camp until their cases are heard by a court.
Those arrested were found living in unsanitary conditions in warehouses.
Vietnamese migrants have been working illegally in Russia's textile industry for years, often in conditions of near-slavery, as a BBC Russian Service report discovered last year.
Russia increasingly relies on cheap immigrant labour, much of it from Central Asia, where many families depend on migrant earners.
Millions of Uzbeks, Tajiks and Kyrgyz people have migrated to Moscow and other parts of Russia in recent years, in search of work.
However, the presence of large numbers of migrants has fuelled social tensions.
Often poorly paid and badly housed, they are predominantly Muslim, creating tensions with central Russia's mainly Orthodox Christian population, and they frequently face discrimination. Moscow's lack of mosque space is a particular sore point.
Russian officials have also voiced concern about the involvement of migrants in crime, such as the trafficking of heroin from Tajikistan.
The police too are often accused of turning a blind eye both to illegal migration and abuses against migrants, in return for bribes.
PC Rob Stevens, a neighbourhood officer from Northamptonshire Police, asked people to change their pictures and use the hashtag #Superhero17.
Senior Met officers are among those whose images have changed.
The week-long campaign is being supported across the UK and abroad.
PC Stevens launched his first social media campaign to raise awareness of issues surrounding the sexual exploitation of children two years ago.
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Hundreds joined in from as far afield as Canada, the US and Australia.
"I hope this year we'll reach even more people," PC Stevens said.
"I urge social media users to get creative in choosing their superhero - which could be a cartoon character or somebody who inspires them... and to circulate messages which raise awareness of CSE - how to spot it, how to prevent it and how to get help and support."
His chief constable, Simon Edens, was one of the first to change his Twitter avatar and is now a rather fetching pink Lego Batgirl.
Police across England to follow suit so far include Norfolk Police, Wiltshire, Leicester and Fulham Town's officers.
Dozens of other officers across the UK have also changed their individual accounts, choosing superheroes as diverse as Bananaman, Danger Mouse and characters from Marvel's Avengers.
PC Stevens, an officer working in the community in Wellingborough, said issues surrounding child sexual exploitation were "close to his heart".
His campaign is "not just for police", he said, saying he hoped it would bring the subject to the forefront of people's thoughts.
Linda Norgrove, 36, from Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland, was employed by US aid group DAI. She was seized with three local staff on 26 September.
Their two-car convoy was ambushed in the eastern province of Kunar.
Ms Norgrove was killed by her captors on Friday during a rescue mission by US forces.
Her colleagues were released unharmed last week.
The Briton is believed to have been taken by her captors from village to village as British, Afghan and other intelligence agencies worked in the remote and mountainous area of Kunar province to locate her.
Both the prime minister and Foreign Secretary William Hague were kept fully informed and British approval was given for a rescue mission to be mounted on Friday night, involving US forces with British officials offering advice.
In a statement, Mr Hague said the aid worker was "killed at the hands of her captors in the course of a rescue attempt".
He said: "Working with our allies we received information about where Linda was being held and we decided that, given the danger she was facing, her best chance of safe release was to act on that information.
"Responsibility for this tragic outcome rests squarely with the hostage takers.
"From the moment they took her, her life was under grave threat. Given who held her, and the danger she was in, we judged that Linda's best chance lay in attempting to rescue her."
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "My thoughts are with Linda's family, who will be devastated by this tragic news. She was doing valuable work for the Afghan people.
"Decisions on operations to free hostages are always difficult. But where a British life is in such danger, and where we and our allies can act, I believe it is right to try. I pay tribute to the courage and skill of all those involved in this effort, and join the foreign secretary in condemning hostage taking."
International Security Assistance Force Commander General David Petraeus said Afghan and coalition security forces did everything in their power to rescue Ms Norgrove.
He said: "Linda was a courageous person with a passion to improve the lives of Afghan people, and sadly she lost her life in their service. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family during this difficult time."
And Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, expressed his "deepest condolences" following her "extremely sad and upsetting" death.
"Ms Norgrove was a dedicated aid worker who was doing everything she could to help people in Afghanistan - hopefully that legacy of service in a humanitarian cause can be of some comfort to her loved ones in their time of grief," he said.
Ms Norgrove had been based in Jalalabad where she supervised US-funded reconstruction programmes in the eastern region of Afghanistan.
'Wonderful woman'
DAI president James Boomgard said the loss of a "beloved friend and respected colleague" was "devastating news" and sent his condolences to her family.
In a statement, he said: "We are saddened beyond words by the death of a wonderful woman whose sole purpose in Afghanistan was to do good, to help the Afghan people achieve a measure of prosperity and stability in their everyday lives as they set about rebuilding their country.
"Linda loved Afghanistan and cared deeply for its people, and she was deeply committed to her development mission. She was an inspiration to many of us here at DAI and she will be deeply missed."
A colleague who was working with her in Jalalabad told the BBC Ms Norgrove was a "very kind and hard-working lady".
They said: "You know she didn't need to go for the completion ceremony of that project, but the only reason she wanted to go there was to show her love and commitment to the people of Kunar province.
"Everyone in our office is crying including our Afghan and foreign colleagues. Starting from the boss of the office even to drivers and guards are shocked and crying. No one thinks that she was a colleague, but it looks like she was part of everyone's family and we have lost one of our dearest."
Ms Norgrove, who had travelled extensively, was an experienced aid worker who had been based in a number of countries.
She worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan and Laos and, prior to that, led a conservation and poverty reduction project in Peru.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul said the Dewagal valley, in eastern Kunar province, where she was held, is known for its difficult terrain. It is mountainous and densely forested. The valley is extremely remote.Â
There has never been any government control; it is virtually ruled by militants, tribal elders and powerful clans.
Various armed groups operate in the area, Afghans and foreigners can be targeted by gangs seeking ransom money, but they are sometimes sold on to militant groups.
DAI carries out aid work, often subcontracted by the United States Agency for International Development.
In July, a British private security guard was among four people killed in an attack on DAI offices in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. Shaun Sexton, 29, from Northumberland, a former member of the Parachute Regiment, was working for the firm's security sub-contractor, Edinburgh International.
A month later, British doctor Karen Woo and nine other aid workers and translators were killed by gunmen, in the north-eastern province of Badakhshan, in what police said was a robbery.
Dr Woo worked for Christian charity the International Assistance Mission, providing eye care in remote villages.
Baby and adult ashes were mixed together at Hazlehead Crematorium and given back to relatives of the adult.
The parents of the infants were told there were no ashes.
Aberdeen City Council said it had received 205 claims and the process for determining compensation was moving to the next stage.
The date set for all claims to be lodged was 1 February.
The council announced in December last year that it had approved a new financial compensation scheme for those affected.
BBC Scotland revealed in 2013 that no ashes had been offered to the families of infants cremated in Aberdeen over a five-year period.
Bamba, 31, has signed until 2018 and joins ex-QPR winger Junior Hoilett at the Bluebirds.
Ivory Coast international Bamba will help bolster a defence that has conceded 19 league goals this season to leave Cardiff 23rd in the Championship.
Striker Marouane Chamakh is also expected to join Cardiff before they host Bristol City on Friday.
Warnock told Cardiff's website: "I tried to sign Sol a few years ago when he was at Leicester, on a couple of occasions. They didn't come off then, but now is the right time and opportunity to bring him in.
"Sol's a leader and he's another good addition for us."
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Bamba said: "I'm excited to be here. I always want to work with the gaffer, so as soon as this chance arose I jumped at it.
"I know the league very well and am looking forward to offering my experience and leadership."
Chamakh, a 32-year-old Moroccan who was released by Crystal Palace, had previously attracted interest from Bluebirds boss Warnock.
Centre-back Bamba left Leeds for personal reasons in September.
Bamba, Hoilett and Chamakh are set to be involved against Bristol City, which will be Warnock's first game since taking charge.
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Coulthirst was allowed to leave the ABAX Stadium by mutual consent, having been on the transfer list.
The 22-year-old joined Posh in January 2016 from Tottenham, but ended last season on loan at Mansfield, scoring five goals in 20 League Two games.
He made 35 League One appearances for Peterborough, scoring four times.
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The 16-year-old's body parts were found about two weeks after she went missing from her home in Bristol in February.
The city's Safeguarding Children Board (BSCB) has confirmed a serious case review will take place.
Chair Sally Lewis said it would analyse "what happened and how agencies worked together".
She said: "Whilst it is understood we can never eliminate risk completely, we will be thorough in establishing what can be learnt from this very sad event to identify if there is anything that services can do differently to prevent a future tragedy."
Becky Watts' stepbrother Nathan Matthews, 28, from Warmley, has been charged with her murder.
He has yet to enter a plea and a provisional trial date has been set for October.
His girlfriend, Shauna Hoare, 21, is charged with perverting the course of justice.
Four other defendants, Jaydene Parsons, 23; James Ireland, 23; and Karl and Donovan Demetrius, both 29, were charged with assisting an offender.
It happened on the Knockmore Road at about 14:25 GMT on Wednesday.
The road has been closed at its junction with the Ballinderry Road and police have put diversions in place.
Meanwhile, in Bangor, County Down, a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle on the town's Main Street. She is said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
Police Scotland said it happened at about 17:05. It is understood two vehicles were involved.
The motorway was shut in both directions between J15 Moffat and J14 Elvanfoot, with a diversion via the B7076.
Traffic Scotland warned of queues in the area.
The vote - which is non-binding - followed news that the chief executive's pay last year rose 20% despite the firm making a record loss.
John Fallon made £1.5m in 2016, including a £343,000 bonus.
Pearson, whose share price has tumbled since last summer, said it was disappointed at the outcome of the vote.
"We acknowledge our shareholders' feedback and will continue to engage with them to ensure our approach to remuneration reflects the best long term interests of the company," it said in a statement
Ahead of the vote at Friday's annual general meeting, Pearson announced that Mr Fallon had invested his full, post-tax bonus back into Pearson shares.
In addition, chief financial officer Coram Williams had bought 5,000 shares and chairmen Sidney Taurel 20,000 shares through Pearson's secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange, the company said.
Pearson said the move was a sign that the directors were "fully aligned with the long term growth prospects" of the group.
Mr Fallon received his bonus because Pearson met its operating profit target of £630m, although it made a £2.6bn pre-tax loss after writing down its US assets.
Pearson, the former owner of the Financial Times, said Mr Fallon's basic salary was frozen and would remain so in 2017.
News of the pay award had drawn criticism from the Institute of Directors and a high pay campaign group.
Long-suffering investors have seen Pearson's share price sink amid profit warnings about the health of its operation in the US.
However, the shares bounced 12.4% on Friday after Pearson announced plans to cut costs by £300m a year by the end of 2019.
The company also launched a "strategic review" of its troubled US school publishing business.
Pearson has already announced that it is in discussions with its joint venture partner Bertelsmann to sell its 47% stake in book publisher Penguin Random House.
Meanwhile, 27% of investors in Man Group, the world's biggest listed hedge fund, rejected its 2016 remuneration report.
However, Man said it had been talking to its biggest shareholders and had made "material changes to the implementation of its remuneration policy" and that it was clear a number of its shareholders acknowledged the "positive steps taken to address previous concerns".
As a result, it added, fewer investors had rejected the latest remuneration report.
Michael Samwell, 35, died after confronting intruders who broke into his home in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester, at about 03:00 BST.
Shouting was heard outside the property and he was found badly injured in a parking area behind his home. He died in hospital a short time later.
Police believe he was run over by his car, a black Audi S3, which was taken.
A murder inquiry has been launched and officers are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened on Cranbourne Road.
Mr Samwell suffered multiple injuries in the "tragic" incident, police said, although they are not yet sure how many times he was struck by his vehicle.
Det Supt Jon Chadwick from Greater Manchester Police said: "My thoughts go out to Michael's wife and his family. I cannot comprehend what they must be going through.
"This is the murder of an innocent man who has merely sought to protect his property from criminals."
He appealed to the criminal community to "search their consciences" and provide information about the crime, which had "crossed the line".
He said this "could have happened to anyone".
According to the website LinkedIn, Mr Samwell trained as a naval officer at Britannia Royal Naval College in Devon and was in the senior service for about 10 years before leaving in 2014.
It also said the University of Leeds graduate worked in several roles, including on board a nuclear attack submarine as a weapons officer.
Since leaving the Royal Navy he had worked as a programme manager for engineering firm Atkins in Warrington, Cheshire.
An Atkins spokesman said: "This is a tragic event and our thoughts go out to Mike's family, friends and colleagues. We will support the family in any way we can."
Det Supt Chadwick said the Audi was driven away from the scene "erratically" and it hit a kerb before the driver and occupants abandoned it a short time later on Whitby Avenue, Ladybarn, with extensive damage.
He urged anyone who was in Cranbourne Road at the time of the killing or saw the car being driven away to come forward.
"We will not stop until we have found the person responsible for this dreadful crime," he said.
A neighbour of Mr Samwell spoke of his shock at the events in the "really quiet" and "friendly" street.
The man, who did not want to be named, told the BBC there had been a persistent problem with car thieves in the area.
"I know Chorlton is a bit of a crime hotspot; because it is a nice, affluent area people do come in from other areas of Manchester, unfortunately, and target us."
The park was opened to the public in 1858 and was the site of the first Durham Miners' Gala in 1871.
The project will see a new heritage centre, cafe and play areas built, along with the restoration of the park's amphitheatre and footpaths.
A Durham County Council spokesman said it was great to see work getting under way on the city's "hidden gem".
The project received a £2.45m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and additional funding from Durham County Council and the council's Durham Area Action Partnership.
Wharton Park closes for 12 months on 11 May.
A 126-tonne crane lorry got jammed on the one-lane bridge into Sudbrook, near Caldicot at about 09:30 GMT, cutting off the village.
The lorry has since been removed and the road cleared.
Network Rail assessed the "structural viability" of the bridge and carried out "remedial works."
The bridge crosses the main south Wales to Birmingham railway line.
The line remained open, but trains from Newport to Gloucester and Birmingham were subject to a 20 mph speed restriction.
A Network rail spokeswoman said that restriction was lifted at 16:45 GMT.
Stranded residents took to social media to vent their frustration.
"Wide load stuck on the bridge in Sudbrook!" said Julie May. "If an ambulance or fire engine was needed here then how would they get through?"
Monmouthshire council leader Peter Fox tweeted: "We have been campaigning for years for a second access to Sudbrook. An issue like this blocks emergency services."
At the time, Gwent Police insisted: "I'd like to reassure residents that, if there was an emergency, we'd find a way to get to them."
The Irish parliament (Dáil) has reduced in size, meaning any new government needs the support of nearly 80 elected members (called Teachtaí Dála or TDs).
More than 3m people are eligible to vote, including Irish and UK citizens.
Polling stations across 40 different constituencies opened at 07:00 local time (same as GMT) and will close at 22:00 on Friday.
More than 2,000 voters living on Irish islands off the coast of counties Donegal, Mayo and Galway got the chance to cast their ballots on Thursday.
The sealed ballot boxes were brought back to the mainland where they will be kept in police stations until counting begins on Saturday.
The outgoing government was a coalition between the largest political party, Fine Gael, and the Labour Party.
Led by Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny from Fine Gael, the coalition had been in power for almost five years, since March 2011.
They are being challenged by 13 other parties, including the largest opposition party, Fianna Fáil, led by Micheál Martin, and Sinn Féin, led by Gerry Adams.
There are also a number of independents among the 552 people standing for election.
TDs will be elected according to the single transferable vote (STV) system, in which candidates have to reach a quota, before their surplus votes are distributed to other candidates.
There will be a total of 158 seats in the next parliament, but one of them has already been filled.
That is because, under Irish electoral law, the Speaker (Ceann Comhairle) is automatically re-elected unless they have announced their intention to retire.
The election count is expected to last over the weekend.
A record number of young people are expected to vote on Friday and this age group, in particular, have been warned that taking photographs of themselves in polling booths is strictly forbidden, as it could identify individual voters and their ballot papers.
Cork County Returning Officer Sinead McNamara told Irish broadcaster, RTÉ that "selfies" were "a modern phenomenon" but electoral officials would not permit them to interfere with the democratic process.
"I know it's nice, particularly for first-time voters - they like to record the fact that they are voting for the first time. That's OK to certain extent, but we'll be saying to our staff 'absolutely no selfies in the polling booth itself'.
"The primary function is to preserve the integrity and secrecy of the ballot, so taking a selfie - it could include a photograph of a marked ballot paper - which is an absolute no-no."
The forward rose highest to meet a deep cross from Kevin Dawson, sending his header beyond keeper Christian Walton in the 78th minute.
Earlier, visiting stopper Artur Krysiak made a stunning save to deny Glen Rea the opening goal on 18 minutes, wonderfully sticking a hand out to turn his header over the bar.
Luton had the lead on 26 minutes with a wonderful long range shot by Stephen O'Donnell, the defender hammering in from 25 yards.
Yeovil's Otis Khan fired straight at goalkeeper Christian Walton, while the hosts went close to a second, with Jack Marriott denied by Krysiak, Danny Hylton failing to turn in O'Donnell's cross and then Marriott's angled attempt flews wide.
However, with 13 minutes to go, the visitors had the equaliser their play deserved through Eaves' towering header.
Luton almost won it in the closing stages, O'Donnell trying his luck again, but this time swerved narrowly over.
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Match ends, Luton Town 1, Yeovil Town 1.
Second Half ends, Luton Town 1, Yeovil Town 1.
Attempt missed. Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Dan Potts (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dan Potts (Luton Town).
Attempt missed. Jonathan Smith (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Luton Town. Isaac Vassell replaces Jack Marriott.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Omar Sowunmi replaces Tom Eaves.
Attempt saved. Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dan Potts (Luton Town).
Attempt missed. Jake Gray (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town).
Danny Hylton (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Luton Town 1, Yeovil Town 1. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Kevin Dawson.
Jack Marriott (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jake Gray (Luton Town).
Foul by Bevis Mugabi (Yeovil Town).
Jack Marriott (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonathan Smith (Luton Town).
Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Danny Hylton (Luton Town).
Attempt saved. Tahvon Campbell (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Jack Marriott (Luton Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Stephen O'Donnell.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Christian Walton.
Attempt saved. Tahvon Campbell (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Glen Rea (Luton Town).
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Artur Krysiak.
Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stephen O'Donnell (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town).
Substitution, Luton Town. Jonathan Smith replaces Cameron McGeehan.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Stephen O'Donnell.
Attempt blocked. Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.
It plans to fund the increase in security with a 0.1p rise in business rates from 0.4p to 0.5p in the pound.
Police authority funding can be raised locally, the home secretary has said.
The corporation said because of the City's low residential base, funding would be raised from April through a rise in rates rather than council tax.
It estimates about 9,000 people live in the Square Mile.
Roger Chadwick, chairman of the City of London Corporation's finance committee, said: "We are determined to ensure that the City's police officers have the resources that they need to combat the threat of terrorism on our streets - particularly following the Paris attacks last year.
"This decision will strengthen the City's armed response teams and support the crucial role that they would play on behalf of the public in the event of a terrorist attack."
City of London police commissioner Ian Dyson said: "The terrorist threat continues to develop and adapt and working with the City of London Corporation we continually look to ensure we have the right skills and capabilities to protect the Square Mile.
"This extra investment will ensure that we can continue to protect the people, businesses and buildings of the Square Mile against terrorism."
Sterling fell sharply in value against the euro after the Brexit vote.
As a result, eurozone countries are more expensive for UK holidaymakers.
Kevin Toland told an Irish parliamentary committee that UK traffic to Dublin airport is "falling like a stone".
He added that the airport is seeing good growth from other markets.
Mr Toland said the DAA, the body that runs the airport, is "very, very exposed" in the event of a hard Brexit as 39% of its traffic is to and from the UK.
The UK is currently part of the EU's Open Skies arrangement which gives all EU airlines the right to fly between member states and domestically within member states.
That arrangement is ultimately governed by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the current British government has ruled out submitting to the authority of the ECJ after Brexit.
That will mean the UK will need a new bilateral aviation agreement with the EU.
However, if one cannot be agreed before March 2019 there could be disruption to flights.
Mr Toland said an aviation agreement needs to be reached quickly because airlines do not want to be in a position where "they will be selling a service they can't deliver".
He said that some airlines will begin making decisions about routes in the spring of 2018.
Mr Toland said the UK appeared to have "essentially missed" the importance of aviation matters after Brexit and was only now engaging with the detail.
He added that Dublin could ultimately face greater competition from UK airports.
"They've allowed their air capacity to be gridlocked for 40 years. Post the Brexit vote they've woken up."
Philip Mould was always convinced the painting was an original by British artist John Constable, but unable to produce proof, he sold it for £35,000.
Now, 17 years later, he has been vindicated.
Research by the BBC's Fake or Fortune? programme found it is an early version of Constable's famous Hay Wain.
The presenter - more used to telling other people they had missed out on fortunes - had his own dealings put under the spotlight in Sunday's episode of the art detective show.
Mr Mould told Radio 5 live he believed he had got hold of an original, when he paid £10,000 for the picture as a young dealer.
"I tried to prove it - but couldn't," he said of the depiction of Willy Lott's Cottage on the River Stour.
So he sold it on, only to buy it back a few years later and try again to prove its authenticity.
But still unable to, he sold it to Gloucestershire businessman Henry Reid in 2000.
He paid £35,000, having "believed [Mould's] conviction" he would one day be able to prove its true worth.
"I promised the person I sold it to that one day I would return and try and prove it and wonderfully, we were able to do it," Mr Mould said.
"We have proved that a painting that I bought for a few thousand pounds originally, hoping it was a work by one of the greatest landscape painters who ever lived, is now finally proved to be so. I am so thrilled."
Earlier this year, 1821 painting The Hay Wain was voted one of the nation's favourite art works.
The trail led Fake or Fortune? co-presenter Fiona Bruce to experts in Los Angeles.
Mr Mould said the programme team examined the layers of paint and the work's provenance.
"Art history has moved on so magnificently - and technology - in the last 17 years. We can do things and find things out that were not possible when I was a youngster," he said.
"We were able to trace it back through various owners... right back pretty well to the brush of Constable himself. We found it in a sale sold by his son after his death which was a real slam dunker."
Presented with all the evidence, two specialists finally gave it "the thumbs up".
Despite missing out on a multimillion-pound windfall, the dealer is not bitter.
"I'm enormously happy for him," he conceded.
"It's also wonderful for Constable himself. I had visions of him saying why is my picture being deemed a fake?"
Watch Series 6 of Fake or Fortune? on the BBC iPlayer.
It was found by a member of the public as police stepped up their search for Kayleigh Haywood, of Measham, Leicestershire.
Leicestershire Police say she may have been in the Sence Valley Forest Park area of Ibstock on Saturday.
Two men, aged 27 and 28, have been arrested over her disappearance.
They were arrested in the Coalville and Ibstock areas of the county.
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A Leicestershire Police spokesman said: "It is now believed she was in the (Sence Valley Forest Park) area, near to the footpath which leads to the park, off Ravenstone Road."
She was dropped off outside Ibstock Community College, in Central Avenue, Ibstock, at 18:00 GMT on Friday.
Det Ch Supt David Sandall, of Leicestershire Police, said: "Our concern for Kayleigh is growing. She does not have her phone with her and has no way of contacting us, which adds to our worries about her safety.
"We have been trying to piece together her last movements and, we believe she may have been in the Sence Valley Forest Park area on Saturday afternoon.
"I would urge you to get in contact with us if you were in the area between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning. This area is used by a lot of local people, particularly dog walkers, and it is these people I need to hear from."
Kayleigh is a student at Ashby School and previously attended Ibstock Community College.
She is described as about 5ft 6in (1.7m) tall, of medium build with mousey-coloured long hair.
The principal of her former school, Ibstock Community College, David Phillips, said: "We are very concerned about the welfare of Kayleigh Haywood, who was a student here until 2013.
"We are a small school and so every student who has been part of our community is well known.
"We have a strong relationship with Kayleigh's family and this continues.
"As the search continues we can assure parents that school is continuing to focus upon learning as well as giving support to students who are understandably concerned."
A statement from Ashby School said: "We are all becoming increasingly concerned for the safety and whereabouts of year 11 student Kayleigh Haywood.
"If you have seen Kayleigh or have any information as to her whereabouts, please contact the Leicestershire Police incident room."
"We have a lot of evidence about what works in schools, but it's not spread within the school system," she said.
Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, will be the first to take the role.
Ms Greening said her top priority would be to improve social mobility.
But, speaking at a Sutton Trust event in London, she said there would now be an "evidence champion" to make sure changes were informed by objective evidence.
Ms Greening said the evidence champion would ensure more "value for money and impact".
"You can have some fantastic work and insights in a school in Exeter, but it won't necessarily get to a school in Newcastle," she said.
"We want to disseminate the best practice."
The role of expert opinion has sometimes been controversial in education.
During the debate over plans to reintroduce grammar schools, the government was challenged over whether it was refusing to accept the evidence of experts.
Former Education Secretary Michael Gove also prompted a debate, during the Brexit referendum campaign, with comments that "people have had enough of experts".
Ms Greening said the new "guiding mission" of the Department for Education would be addressing the lack of social mobility.
She said there was a "social mobility emergency" - a problem that in some respects had "gone backwards".
In particular, she warned of some parts of England with "entrenched disadvantage", where low skills and poor employment were found in a downward spiral alongside underachieving schools.
Ms Greening has previously announced 12 "opportunity areas", where attention will be focused on raising standards and encouraging better training and work opportunities.
These areas are Doncaster, Bradford, Fenland & East Cambridgeshire, Hastings, Ipswich, Stoke, Blackpool, Derby, Norwich, Oldham, Scarborough, and West Somerset.
Sir Kevan said his role would be to ensure the evidence of research was being applied.
"Let's start with what we know, rather than what we think we know," he said.
There had been much detailed work into the "blockages" in social mobility, said Sir Kevan, and this needed to be shared.
"It's another signal that we're being thoughtful and rigorous," he said. "Let's look at the evidence."
The Education Endowment Foundation was created to test ideas that would help to raise standards in disadvantaged areas.
Photographer Olivia Acland has been documenting the barber shops that line nearly every busy street in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
Most people will tell you that they have a trusted hairdresser who they visit on a regular basis. Geoffrey, a 29-year old tour guide, said: "Appearance is very important in Sierra Leone, people want to make sure their hair looks good."
Barbers also take on the role of counsellors, listening to clients agonise over their love lives or confide in them about family crises. The barber shop provides a safe space for people to sit back and unwind - after all, it's important to feel relaxed as someone takes a knife to your chin or a pair of scissors to your head.
Police believe Jerry Ablorh, 41, from Thornton Heath, may have more victims who have not come forward.
He was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on Friday, after being found guilty of rape and two counts of sexual assault by penetration.
His young victim "sobbed throughout" as she relived her ordeal in court, police said.
Detectives believe Ablorh knew an investigation against him had been launched and "went to ground".
Several raids at addresses linked to him were unsuccessful, however he was eventually detained after being spotted outside a church in Croydon on New Year's Eve.
Laura Davis, of the Met Police's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, described Ablorh's crimes as "despicable".
"He singled out the victim before launching his attack," she said.
"It was clearly the most horrible and terrifying experience for her, a girl of just five years old," she added.
Goswami is a household name, famous for his loud, fast-paced news show and habit of interrupting guests with the phrase, "the nation wants to know".
Many social media users are speculating on why he might leave his job, with his name the top Twitter trend in India.
Goswami has not given a reason and his employer has yet to confirm the news.
His signature style quickly propelled him to the status of national icon at Times Now, where he was editor-in-chief and also the host of the channel's popular Newshour programme.
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His show's style meant guests and host frequently talked over one another - prompting many tongue-in-cheek social media messages about his departure.
He was not, however, universally popular.
Reacting to the news on Tuesday, the Indian Express wrote that Goswami was "often criticised for being judgmental on his news show".
"Arnab has a dedicated viewer base of people who love his direct interrogative style of debates, and also those who hate him," the newspaper explained.
Speaking to the BBC, a source in Times Now confirmed local media reports that he had announced his resignation at a staff meeting earlier on Tuesday.
However, there has been no official confirmation from the company, who were running teasers on Tuesday about his return to the channel after several days' absence.
At 21:00 local time, when Newshour aired, Goswami appeared to his captive audience - but left little clue about his future at the end of the show.
Indian media, though, are widely reporting that the famous anchor is set to embark on his own news venture - possibly in conjunction with the Rupert Murdoch news empire, News UK.
Another report carried by outlet The Quint quoted Goswami, via a second-hand source, as saying his new project would be "formidable competition to the BBC and CNN".
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The device went off as the man drove away from his home in the Sweep Road area of Cookstown. He was not injured in the attack.
The man is a former police officer who currently works as a guard at the town's PSNI station.
PSNI Chief Supt Michael Skuce said those who planted the bomb had "scant regard" for human life.
It is the third attempted car bomb attack on security personnel in the past seven days. It was the first time one of the devices exploded.
Dissident republicans have been blamed for the attacks.
Police said the alert began at about 0800 BST on Tuesday.
The Sweep Road was closed to the Glenavon Hotel as army bomb experts examined the car but has since reopened.
A number of homes and a children nursery were also evacuated.
Chief Supt Skuce described the road where the device partially exploded as very busy, especially at that time of the morning.
"This device was designed for one purpose - to kill and injure," he said.
"This is a densely populated and busy area. We are fortunate that we are not dealing with a multiple murder here today."
Last Wednesday, a device fell from the car of an Army major in Bangor and on Saturday, a Catholic police officer was targeted in Kilkeel, both in County Down.
On Tuesday, Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said such attacks did "nothing to further any cause".
"There is no support for the action of these people and the complete lack of any sort of mandate for mindless attacks is in stark contrast to the overwhelming public support that exists for the institutions which the first minister and myself lead," he said.
The first minister, Peter Robinson, said those behind the bombs wanted to "bring death and destruction back onto our streets"
"As an administration, that enjoys the support of all sections of the community, we will remain steadfast in our determination not to be deterred or deviate from our course," he added.
Acting chair of the Policing Board, Brian Rea, called on the community to help the police investigation.
He said those responsible had no "concern for the community".
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The pop star accidentally stole the show at February's awards when she was pulled backwards down the stairs by a malfunctioning matador cape.
A huge cheer rang around the arena on Tuesday when she performed the same routine without a hitch.
The show also included a surprise appearance from Graham Norton, who gyrated with the star on stage.
And, in a break from her tour's standard setlist, she played Like A Prayer to highlight World Aids Day.
"The entire family of my adopted son died of Aids," said Madonna, whose youngest son, David, was born in Malawi.
"It is not a disease that had gone away. We need to remember that. Let's acknowledge all the people who have passed, and those who have fought to raise awareness. We shall overcome one day."
The Rebel Heart tour launched in Canada three months ago and has already become one of the highest-grossing shows of the year, taking $46m (£30.5m) at the box office, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
Over two-and-a-half hours, the visual spectacular addresses themes of love, loss, revolution, sin, salvation,power, corruption and Madonna... But mainly Madonna.
"Even I have to admit that I outdo myself," she deadpans half-way through the set.
The concert is split into roughly four sections, the first of which has a pan-Asian theme, with Madonna descending from the sky in a kimono-like robe and performing martial arts moves with her dancers.
Elsewhere, there is an x-rated re-enactment of The Last Supper, a Day of the Dead themed street party and a balletic tussle with a back-up dancer during Heartbreak City.
But Madonna is charismatic enough to command the entire arena on her own and the show's strongest moments come when she's solo on stage, shaking her hair to Like A Virgin or leading a singalong to Who's That Girl?
The star is in an 80s mood throughout, resurrecting overlooked gems like True Blue (performed on a ukulele) and Burning Up, one of her earliest songs, which still sounds like a mission statement: "I'll do anything, I'm not the same, I have no shame, I'm on fire."
More recent material is drawn from Madonna's current album - the scattershot, but largely successful, Rebel Heart.
The record marks one of the first times the star has addressed her own legacy and accomplishments and that sense of reflection is on display at the O2.
"I'm still trying to figure out who I am after all these years," she observes after playing Who's That Girl? "Does anyone ever really know?"
She even addresses her two divorces, saying she "sucks at marriage" and joking about the "three rings in every marriage - the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffering".
Both moments come in the latter half of the show, when the pomp and pageantry give way to a more relaxed atmosphere.
Into The Groove gets a flirtatious flamenco makeover, while a slowed down Material Girl sees Madonna throwing tuxedoed dancers down a sloping LED screen (revenge for the Brits? Who knows).
Norton makes his appearance at the end of the night, dragged up on stage for the reggae-tinged Unapologetic Bitch and careening down the walkway, arms akimbo, with Madonna in tow.
She gives him a banana as a thank you present.
By this stage, Madonna actually seems to be having fun, teasing the crowd ("you've had your tongue down his throat all night," she scolds one unfortunate couple) and asking for help when she forgets her words.
Twenty-five years after she invented the modern, multi-media pop spectacle with her Blond Ambition tour, it seems the star has found the freedom to play with the format.
Where once she declared "I am the boss" and commanded attention, she now thanks fans for the longevity of her career. "It's an amazing gift for me to have been able to do what I do for more than 30 years," she says.
The Queen of Pop's crown may have slipped at the O2 in February - but her grip is firmly back on it now.
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Madonna has put the painful memory of the Brit Awards behind her with a triumphant return to London's O2 arena.
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Alan Drennan, from Newtownabbey, County Antrim, was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday, less than 24 hours after police escorted him off a plane.
Friends of the 21-year-old have claimed he sustained head injuries in custody.
However, Spanish police say there were no sign of violence when they carried out an autopsy on Mr Drennan.
The family's solicitor, Michael Madden, told the BBC that a problem with the paperwork in Ibiza means that his body may not be brought back home until Monday.
The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, a charity based in Newry, County Down, is assisting the Drennan family with the repatriation arrangements.
The Republic of Ireland's state pathologist is on standby to carry out a post-mortem when the body arrives in Dublin.
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More importantly, with their big, populist personalities, trainer and horse made a necessary contribution to reviving the flagging fortunes of the world's most famous horse race.
During the 1970s, there was much talk of Aintree closing and, consequently, the future of what was then a near 140-year Grand National heritage looked fragile to say the least.
It was into this picture that Red Rum and McCain, eyes twinkling and ready laugh never far away, entered and provided the race with a new impetus.
Since then, although there have been choppy waters, it has never really looked back, even though McCain regularly used his colourful style to say what he thought of the modern, less perilous course which he felt was dictated by loathsome "do-gooders".
McCain was, of course, best known for Red Rum and Amberleigh House, but also for a catchy if invariably politically incorrect turn of phrase
Back in the 1960s and 70s, Ginger McCain was a taxi driver and car salesman based on the Lancashire coast, at Southport, only a few miles from Aintree. He trained a few horses behind the car lot.
Crucially, however, he drove around a wealthy businessman, Noel Le Mare, who agreed to let McCain buy him a racehorse for a price up to a not inconsiderable £7,000, and Red Rum was purchased at Doncaster Sales.
Famously trained on the beach at Southport, the horse went on to become one of the greatest ever, winning three Grand Nationals and finishing second in two more.
To get to the line-up just once must be considered a feat, but it is nothing short of remarkable that McCain brought Red Rum back there so many times.
The horse, retired after being injured on the eve of the big race in 1978, absolutely adored Aintree, bounding around the place like it was a playground, his playground.
"Rummy", to millions, and the McCain family - wife Beryl played a big if long-suffering part too - became some of the most famous figures in Britain, and the horse did everything in retirement from appearing at supermarket openings to starring on TV.
He was eventually put down in 1995 aged 30, and buried at Aintree.
It took 27 frustrating years before McCain was back where you felt he belonged, in the Grand National winners' circle, when Amberleigh House gained the trainer an emotional, and record-equalling, fourth victory in 2004.
As always, at BBC Radio 5 live we wanted one of the winning team on air as quickly as possible after the race.
I'll never forget the pride at getting a microphone to the successful trainer just 27 seconds (the producer timed it) after the horse had passed the finishing line.
And that pleasure was only slightly tempered by the great man roaring characteristically on live radio: "It was f****** magic, cock."
Afterwards, unforgettably, he told us how he walked to Red Rum's grave for a chat after racing, and believed that the winner of 1973, 74 and 77 had opined: "Well done, cock, but that Amberleigh House has got to win a few more to get anywhere near me."
McCain was, of course, best known for Red Rum and Amberleigh House, but also for a catchy if invariably politically incorrect turn of phrase.
These were frequently devoured by the media.
There were passionate defences of the Grand National when required; famously, a distinct scepticism about female jockeys ("broodmares") riding at Aintree; and, lately, all sorts of banter at the expense of his son Donald.
McCain Jnr, who in 2006 took over the family training licence, now in Cheshire, has been phenomenally successful and this year himself trained the Grand National winner, Ballabriggs.
Ginger McCain was obviously frail, but afterwards we had all the usual talk: "He can train this boy, but he doesn't drink and he doesn't party - can he really be my son?"
However, the pride that April afternoon positively flowed off his 80-year-old shoulders.
How appropriate that the last Grand National he witnessed should have ended in that manner, and that the McCain family's Aintree baton had been handed on to such a safe pair of hands.
The area, near the border with Bangladesh, has been sealed off by security forces since attacks on border posts left nine police officers dead.
Access to about 50,000 vulnerable people is restricted, the UN says.
Rakhine has seen long-running tensions between Buddhists and the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority.
Since the co-ordinated attacks near Maungdaw earlier this month, army operations have reportedly left at least 30 Rohingya Muslims dead and displaced up to 15,000.
But with journalists banned from the most sensitive areas, these figures are impossible to verify.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) both issued pleas for the government of Myanmar, previously known as Burma, to do more to allow aid to reach Rohingya populations and other groups.
"The Burmese government has a responsibility to search for and arrest those who attacked the border posts," HRW's Asia director Brad Adams said.
"But it is required to do so in a manner that respects human rights, ensures that the area's people get the aid they need, and allows journalists and rights monitors into the area."
Amnesty said it had heard reports that civilians have been required to cross conflict lines to receive help.
"Civilians cannot be put in a position where they have no other option but to put their lives in harm's way to access much needed aid," said Rafendi Djamin, the organisation's South East Asia and the Pacific director.
Buddhist nationalists in Myanmar see the country's estimated one-million Rohingya as Bangladeshi intruders, despite many having lived in the country for generations.
The government of Myanmar refuses to grant them citizenship.
All roads around the 37.75-mile (60km) TT course will close to traffic at 18:00 BST, with the Mountain section closing an hour earlier.
Race newcomers will be the first to depart down Glencrutchery Road at 18:20 BST on a speed-controlled lap.
Practices will continue on Monday and be held every evening next week ahead of the opening racing on 4 June.
TT stars including John McGuinness and Michael Dunlop will have their first taste of TT 2016 during Monday evening's first timed session.
McGuinness is three wins away from equalling Joey Dunlop's all-time record of 26 wins.
The TT sees riders reach speeds in excess of 200mph.
Last year more than 43,000 fans travelled to the island for the festival, which has been running for more than 100 years.
The opening Superbike and sidecar races will be held on 4 June with the main Senior race on 10 June.
Manx rally driver Mark Higgins will also attempt to break his own TT lap record in a car at this year's event on 10 June.
Races are also being held on the Billown circuit in the south of the island this weekend with the holding of the Pre-TT races.
Charles Buckingham from Nash Court Gardens in Margate, Kent, is charged with three offences of withholding information.
Mr McCauley, from Londonderry, was attacked and left in a vegetative state while at a friends barbeque in 2006.
He died nine years later in a care facility in June 2015.
At the time, Police believed up to 15 people were involved in the attack.
Mr Buckingham is accused of withholding information about Mr McCauley's murder, withholding information about an attempted murder and withholding information about a police investigation into an incident of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent.
The defendant, who made no reply to the three charges, is alleged to have committed the three offences on 16 December 2015.
The district judge ordered Charles Buckingham to have no contact with anyone involved in the case.
Last year, Piper John McClements, previously known as Daryl Proctor, was charged with Paul McCauley's murder.
In April, 28-year-old Matthew Brian Gillen from Kennedy Place in the Fountain area of the city was charged with murder.
Mr Gillen is also charged with GBH and attempted GBH.
A defence barrister for Mr Buckingham said there was a slight issue to the connection of the charges which would require a further hearing.
Mc Buckingham was released on bail until 8 June.
Julian Cole suffered a broken neck outside Elements nightclub in Bedford in May 2013.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has examined the circumstances around the arrest.
It said there may be a case to answer for gross misconduct and has made a referral to prosecutors.
Bedfordshire Police has confirmed four of the officers in question remain on active duty and one has retired from the force.
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Four of them could face a charge relating to their honesty and integrity, and one could face a case of misconduct for use of force, which is not believed to be linked to Julian's spinal injury.
Visiting Julian Cole in his care home was a deeply moving experience.
Since May 2013, his life has changed beyond all recognition. Once an energetic and athletic young man, he's now dependent on nursing staff and his devoted parents for everything.
An Arsenal calendar hangs above his bed - a reminder of his love of football - but he will never be able to enjoy a match, let alone play the game, again.
How exactly he sustained the injuries is unclear - and may never be known with certainty.
But his family has moved a step closer to finding out some of the answers with the conclusion of the IPCC investigation.
It means there's the possibility of a criminal trial and misconduct hearings which, under new rules, will be open to the public.
The case is so serious it needs transparency - that does not now seem such a distant prospect.
The IPCC said it had been a "complex and lengthy investigation involving examination of over 900 documents, interviews with witnesses, a number of medical expert opinions, CCTV trawls and forensic analysis".
The Crown Prosecution Service will now decide whether charges should be brought.
The 23-year-old student's mother, Claudia Cole, told BBC News the announcement was "welcome" but had taken too long.
"It has been the hardest three years waiting for the IPCC investigation to conclude," she said.
"Julian is still alive, but it cannot be said that he is really living."
Flint, 19, was released by City in October, and had since been playing for third-tier side Preston North End.
"I think it's the right move for me to come along to County and set myself some new challenges," she told the Women's Super League 1 club's website.
"I'm looking to score and to supply goals. If I can bring trophies to Notts County I'll be very happy."
They will also ban the exploitative use of zero hours contracts.
The new statutory guidance for the public sector is part of the Scottish government's commitment to fair work procurement practices.
Companies will also be required to commit to giving workers an "active voice" in the workplace.
Infrastructure Secretary Keith Brown said the guidance sees the government "nail its colours to the mast".
He said: "Our model of procurement, putting the social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability at the heart of all we do, remains the foundation of our approach.
"Employers must now recognise - as many already do - that if you want to do business with the public sector in Scotland, you have to be a responsible employer and value your workers. You have to do your bit to make Scotland a fairer and more equal society."
The Living Wage is an hourly rate set independently and updated annually by the Living Wage Foundation.
The government pays its own workers the living wage of at least £7.85 an hour and has a voluntary accreditation scheme for other employers.
The living wage is more than a pound an hour higher than the current national minimum wage, which is currently set at £6.70 for over-21s.
While the minimum wage is a legal requirement, the living wage is designed to reflect the actual cost of living and is paid voluntarily by some employers.
In July, Chancellor George Osborne announced plans to replace the minimum wage for over-25s with a National Living Wage of £7.20 an hour from next April.
The chancellor said he wanted the National Living Wage to rise to £9 by 2020.
The introduction of the new guidance on public sector procurement was welcomed by trade unions.
Mr Hickey is among a number of people facing charges related to a probe into alleged ticket touting at Rio 2016.
He has denied all allegations made against him.
Although released almost two weeks after his arrest in August, officials retained Mr Hickey's passport.
A judge at the Special Court for Supporter and Large Events in Rio de Janeiro, which had jurisdiction during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, ruled on Wednesday that Mr Hickey can be allowed to leave Brazil "to treat a health problem".
The 71-year-old must pay a bond to the court of €410,000 (£352,240).
He has temporarily stood aside as president of the OCI during the investigation.
In her deliberation, the judge said that, as Mr Hickey "has no links with Brazil", she would allow him to leave to receive medical attention.
She noted that there was a risk Mr Hickey may not return to Brazil, but that this needed to be balanced with health concerns.
The judge said that Mr Hickey should be allowed to attend to his health, provided that this does not interfere with the ongoing case.
In addition to payment of the bond, Mr Hickey must agree to fully cooperate with the legal process in Brazil and be present for any calls that are made of him as the process continues.
The judge further agreed that the case be split, as per a request from the public defender's office.
This means Marcus Evans, Michael Glynn, Ken Murray, Maarten Van Os, David Gilmore, and Martin Studd will answer to one legal process in Brazil.
Mr Hickey, Kevin Mallon, Barbara Carnieri and Eamonn Collins will answer to another.
She also rejected requests made that the legal process be shelved due to a "lack of just cause" as was claimed by Mr Hickey's and Mr Mallon's legal teams.
In her judgement, Justice Leal de Melo also gave permission for Brazilian authorities to have full access to phone and other electronic devices which were apprehended during the police investigation and she gave 30 days for Brazilian police to come back with their findings.
The rebel-held east of the city is under renewed bombardment after a ceasefire deal broke down.
Mr Johnson said a new set of "kinetic" options would be considered at a UK meeting of foreign ministers on Sunday.
Many people had changed their minds since 2013, when MPs blocked military action against Assad's forces, he said.
Mr Johnson has summoned a meeting of foreign ministers, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as ministers from France and Germany on Sunday, to consider a new way forward in Syria and Iraq.
He told the foreign affairs committee: "Most people - I think including John Kerry - feel that the process of discussion with the Russians has basically run out of road. On Sunday, we will be talking about all the options that we think are available to us and to the West.
"I am not going to pretend that there is any easy answer here, because there isn't. Most people, I think, are now changing their minds about this and they are thinking 'We can't let this go on for ever, we can't just see Aleppo pulverised in this way, we have to do something'.
"Whether that means we can get a coalition together now for more kinetic action now, I cannot prophesy, but certainly what most people want to see is a new set of options."
Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and the country's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided roughly in two since 2012, with President Assad's forces controlling the west and rebel factions the east.
UK MPs have urged the government to consider establishing a no-fly zone over Aleppo, which would involve western powers being prepared to destroy Russian and Syrian government planes and air defences.
Some MPs are pushing for a no-bombing zone instead, which could involve targeting runways and munitions stores and potentially using naval ships to launch missile attacks on helicopters dropping barrel bombs.
Mr Johnson said: "It is right now that we should be looking again at the more kinetic options, the military options, but, you know, we must be realistic about how these, in fact, work and what is deliverable.
"And certainly, you can't do anything without a coalition, without doing it with the Americans, and we're still a pretty long day's march from getting there, but that doesn't mean that discussions aren't going on, because they certainly are."
He said: "It is vital we do not raise false hopes. We know the difficulties and implications of a no-fly zone or no-bombing zone, no matter how easy these concepts may be made to seem."
Earlier this week Mr Johnson called for demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in London, arguing that "all the available evidence" pointed to its responsibility for the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria. Moscow accused him of "Russophobic hysteria".
Darren Sykes, 44, and his son Paul were found in the property in Penistone, near Barnsley, on Wednesday evening.
A second boy rescued from the house has been named as Jack Sykes, 12. He remains critically ill in hospital.
South Yorkshire Police said the fire was started deliberately and they were not looking for anyone else over the incident.
Ch Insp Debbie Mahmood, said: "This is a tragic incident in which a young child has lost his life and a full investigation will be carried out.
"My thoughts and condolences are with the family of the young boys at this distressing time."
Emergency services were called to the property in Tennyson Close at about 18:30 BST.
The three victims were taken to hospital, where Mr Sykes and his son were pronounced dead. A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Friday.
Andy Platt, head teacher at Springvale Primary School in Penistone, paid tribute to the youngster.
"Paul was an outgoing, popular boy who was blossoming into a fine runner and cornet player. He will be greatly missed," he said.
Jack's mother is keeping a bedside vigil, police said.
The house remains cordoned off and the cul-de-sac is closed to traffic.
Police declined to comment on whether a substance had been used to accelerate the spread of the blaze.
The two sides meet in the last 16 of the tournament on Saturday (17:00 BST).
Real Madrid's Bale, 26, and 28-year-old Lafferty, who plays for Norwich, both scored seven goals in qualifying.
Bale said Wales' "ultimate goal" is to win the Euros, while Lafferty said he believed Northern Ireland "can go all the way" in France.
Chris Coleman's Wales side qualified for the last 16 as Group B winners - ahead of England - while Michael O'Neill guided Northern Ireland to third place in Group C.
They are in the opposite side of the draw to England, current world champions Germany, reigning European champions Spain, four-time World Cup winners Italy and hosts France.
"Obviously you come to the tournament for one reason - to win, not to play three games and go home," said Bale, who is Euro 2016's joint top-scorer with three goals in the group stage.
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"The ultimate goal is we want to try and win the tournament.
"It's a cliche but we'll take each one as it comes. Yes, we would love to win it, but all our focus now is on Northern Ireland."
Lafferty, who is yet to score at the tournament, said: "We honestly believe with our heart and determination that we can beat anyone.
"With the squad we have I honestly am sitting here thinking we can go all the way. If we get a bit of luck we can upset a few teams.
"Stopping Bale is the big question. He's a very big part of their team as a player of that calibre is going to be. We'll look at areas where they are strong and areas that we can exploit.
"It'll be interesting to see who it wants it most on Saturday. I believe we'll come out on top."
Prior to their defeat by England in the group stage, Bale suggested Wales had "more passion and pride" than Roy Hodgson's side - and the two-times Champions League winner thinks his team have more in common with Saturday's opponents.
"They topped their [qualifying] group, you don't do that by mistake," said Bale.
"They have very similar team spirit to us. They are a bit more defensive than us -it will be difficult to break them down, but we will try our best."
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Meanwhile, veteran Northern Ireland defender Aaron Hughes, 36, expects the supporters of both teams to make the match a memorable occasion.
"It'll be a fantastic game," the 102-capped player said. "I think the atmosphere will be tremendous - as good as any here.
"Everyone has seen how good our fans have been so far and the Wales fans have been similar. One of the best atmospheres I played at was against Wales at the Millennium Stadium in 2004."
Hughes' fellow-centre back Jonny Evans added: "We're in such a position here to create history that can last a long time and we don't want to let go of that.
"We want to go as far as we can and not waste this opportunity."
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The screening took place at 17:00 BST at a cinema in the West Midlands town and was followed by a question and answer session with Sir Lenny.
The one-off drama, which was written by and stars the comedian, is a "fantasy memoir" of his teenage years.
Half of the tickets were distributed to homes with Dudley postcodes.
Sir Lenny said: "It is about everything that I love about Dudley in the 1970s... it is a story that is heartfelt and funny and moving."
Speaking before the screening, Steve Waltho, Mayor of Dudley, said: "Lenny Henry is one of Dudley's most famous sons and is as proud of his roots as we are of him.
"We have presented him with the freedom of the borough as a celebration of his achievements and I am sure this drama will capture many of the aspects that helped make him synonymous with the town.
"I am very much looking forward to the special screening of Danny and the Human Zoo and finding out more about the early life of our very own Lenny Henry."
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Her comment came at Prime Minister's Questions after being asked by Labour MP Peter Dowd if she regretted appointing Mr Johnson to the Foreign Office, suggesting that she may have misunderstood the meaning of the letters FO written next to his name when she was choosing her cabinet.
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They say the fisheries deal between ministers and the European Parliament is good for fish and fishermen.
It is the latest step in marathon negotiations to reform the controversial Common Fisheries Policy.
Fishing groups are urging politicians to ensure that the reformed CFP rules allow them to stay in business.
The decision is a compromise between the European Parliament, which wants radical reform, and the Council, where member states led by Spain and France are trying to protect industrial fishing.
The final wording of the package has not yet been agreed and the full parliament plans to hold a vote on it in June or July.
Campaigners say the result is largely a victory for reform. It will allow nations to reallocate fish quotas from large operators to small, in a drive to reduce the damage caused by overfishing.
Simon Clydesdale from the environmental group Greenpeace said that “for decades in Europe fishing has been a story of decline, with severe over-exploitation of fish stocks and small-scale fishermen squeezed out of business by a minority of fishing barons.
“For all its loopholes and sluggish timelines the policy agreed last night has the potential to turn Europe’s destructive and oversized fishing industry into a sustainable, low-impact sector.”
Another key decision consolidated the broad principle that Europe’s fish quotas should be set at a level where stocks can actually recover, instead of just stabilising. This was said by the Council to be a breakthrough, although Tony Long of the campaign group WWF complained: “The majority of Europe’s governments decided to stonewall negotiations.”
The meeting confirmed a previous decision to phase out the policy of discarding fish – starting with mackerel and other pelagic species by 2015. Pelagic fish live in the upper layers of the oceans. All fish will be covered by the policy by 2020. Again, there is something of a loophole as a small percentage of fish discards will continue until then.
The next phase is for fisheries to start working on detailed multi-annual plans to ensure that stocks are managed prudently. These should take the place of the annual December Fisheries Council meetings that have led to ministers bidding against each other to raise the quota for domestic fleets.
The UK environment department Defra has welcomed a move to allow regional fisheries to escape micro-management from Brussels.
Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon said the UK "has pressed hard for many years to reform this broken policy so we can fish more sustainably, ban discards and end the one-size-fits-all approach to decision-making.
"It is great news that we are almost there. We hope that we can agree the final deal very soon," he said.
An industry body, the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, is urging the rule-makers to take practical steps to help fishing fleets. Its chief executive Bertie Armstrong said: “Fishing provides a crucial renewable food resource, so it’s vital that measures to protect our fishermen are at the heart of the CFP.”
Meanwhile the British celebrity chef and Fish Fight campaigner, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, said the CFP reform "doesn't mean the Fish Fight is over, but this is a tremendous achievement which I really believe would not have happened without the help and support of all 860,000 of our Fish Fight supporters".
"The great news is that it will hugely reduce discards across Europe," he said.
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The Local Government Association (LGA) wants internet service providers to surrender accurate data about speeds to resolve the issue.
It says current methods only give an estimate covering hundreds of houses.
These can "vary significantly" from the speeds that a particular household might receive, it added.
There is no one place that consumers could go to get accurate side-by-side estimates of the speed an individual address might enjoy, the LGA said in a statement.
The only way that consumers could find this out, it said, was to carry out their own speed tests via the websites of each internet service provider (ISP) offering them a service.
This process, it said, added unnecessary time and complications for consumers.
"The quality of digital connectivity can be markedly different from area to area with some households being able to access superfast broadband speeds whilst others can only achieve substantially less, said Mark Hawthorne, head of the LGA's People and Places board.
The LGA, which represents 370 councils in England and Wales, said regulator Ofcom should have the power to make ISPs hand over information about address-level speeds.
This data, it said, could be used to monitor the accuracy of speed predictions and be given to third-parties so they can provide live data on household speeds.
The issue of obtaining more accurate data about broadband speeds is part of the Digital Economy Bill which is due to get its second reading in Parliament on Tuesday. The LGA said it supported the text in the bill that handed Ofcom powers to find better data.
"Good digital connectivity is a vital element of everyday life for residents," said Mr Hawthorne.
Sebastien Lahtinen from the Think Broadband website said; "There is no question that more transparency about available speeds is good for consumers as it allows them to make informed decisions about providers."
Often, he said, speeds to postcodes could vary because cable broadband was available only down one side of a road or because houses were linked to different exchanges.
He said one other issue that might arise was whether a headline speed was fit for a consumer's particular needs.
For instance, said Mr Lahtinen, a line that can support 200 megabits per second (Mbps) but only for 80% of the day might not be right for everyone.
"For someone who relies on their broadband for working from home, this might well present problems and a stable 10Mbps service may be more suitable," he said, "It's not all about the fastest speed."
The Digital Economy Bill also features plans to include the introduction of a legal right to receive a minimum download speed and automatic compensation for customers if networks fail.
It also introduces tougher penalties for nuisance callers and will force porn sites to ensure only adults can view their content.
An unknown environmental trigger is thought to have caused two types of normally benign bacteria found in the antelopes' gut to turn deadly.
The animals die within hours of showing symptoms, which include depression, diarrhoea and frothing at the mouth.
Because it is calving season, entire herds of female antelope and their new-born calves have been wiped out.
"They get into respiratory problems, they can't breathe easily. They stop eating and are extremely depressed; the mothers die and then the calves are very distressed and then they die maybe one or two days later," said Richard Kock from the Royal Veterinary College in London.
Prof Kock spoke to the BBC's Science in Action programme after joining an international team in Kazakhstan studying the causes of the die-off.
The Saiga antelope is a species adapted to cope with the extremes of temperature found on the central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan. They are about the size of a large sheep and once roamed in their millions from Great Britain to northern China.
Populations have fallen repeatedly due to hunting, reaching a low of around 50,000 individuals after the fall of the Soviet Union. This rendered the species critically endangered.
Conservationists have made great progress with Saiga in recent years, due to international efforts to reduce poaching and monitor their populations.
This die-off is a severe setback to the conservation effort because it has wiped out four of the six calving herds in the largest remaining - and best protected - "Betpak-dala" population, in central Kazakhstan.
Steffen Zuther, head of the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Kazakhstan (ACBK), was monitoring calving in one of the herds containing thousands of affected animals.
"Over two days [in the herd I was studying] 80% of the calving population died," he told the BBC.
The whole herd then died within two weeks.
About 120,000 individual antelope have died, from a global population of approximately 250,000. Fortunately, mortality rates are now dropping, although the deaths continue in some populations.
"What we're seeing is sort of a perfect storm of different factors," Prof Kock explained.
Two different bacteria, pasteurelosis and clostridia, have been found in every dead animal studied. These bacteria are naturally found in the animals' respiratory and gut systems, so something must have reduced the immunity of the animals.
One possible trigger is climatic. This year a very cold winter was followed by a wet spring, and this may have affected the immune competence of the animals, making them more vulnerable to the bacteria.
This, or some other trigger, pushed the animals past a threshold at which the bacteria overcame Saiga immune defences and became deadly enough to transmit to their calves.
"There's no infectious disease that can work like this," said Prof Kock. He added that the wave of Saiga deaths was not unprecedented. "[This] die-off syndrome has occurred on a number of occasions."
In 1984, 2010 and 2012 there were massive die-offs, but none of these claimed such a massive proportion of the population.
Despite these huge losses, Saiga antelope are surprisingly well adapted to recover quickly from population crashes.
"Its strategy for survival is based on a high reproductive rate, so [the Saiga] produce triplets and have the highest foetal biomass of any mammal. It's built, in a sense, to recover from collapse," Prof Kock said.
The Saiga's natural habitat has dramatic temperature fluctuations. "In a very severe winter… you could lose 90% of the population."
But losing 100% percent of some populations within two weeks "doesn't make any sense" from a biological or evolutionary perspective, Prof Kock said.
Saiga antelope have been a conservation success story after recovering from their critical low in the 1990s. The animals now exist in five locations across central Asia, but all individuals affected by the sudden die-off are from the largest remaining Betpak-dala population in Kazakhstan.
This population consists of six major herds, of which four have been completely wiped out.
Steffen Zuther is going back into the field to investigate more remote populations. He hopes to identify what triggered this population collapse, so he can work to stop it happening again.
In both cases, the logins appear to have been stolen several years ago but only recently came to light.
The incident comes the same month it emerged that a four-year-old database containing more than 167 million LinkedIn IDs had been traded online.
One expert said it was "intriguing" all had emerged in such a short period.
Security researcher Troy Hunt also said millions of IDs from adult dating site Fling - which had been breached in 2011 - had been offered on a hacking forum at the start of the month.
"There's been some catalyst that has brought these breaches to light and to see them all fit this mould and appear in such a short period of time, I can't help but wonder if they're perhaps related," he blogged.
"Even if these events don't all correlate to the same source and we're merely looking at coincidental timing of releases, how many more are there in the 'mega' category that are simply sitting there in the clutches of various unknown parties?"
Of the two most recent leaks, MySpace is potentially more serious.
The touted list contains details for 360.2 million accounts, including email addresses and up to two linked passwords.
The passwords were stored in a modified form that was meant to protect them, but the technique used was relatively weak and it seems the vast majority have been cracked.
News site Motherboard has been in contact with one of the sites selling access to the list. It said of the five accounts it tested, all yielded the real passwords, suggesting the leak was real.
"We have invalidated all user passwords for the affected accounts created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old MySpace platform," the social network said in a statement.
"MySpace is also using automated tools to attempt to identify and block any suspicious activity that might occur on MySpace accounts.
"We have also reported the incident to law enforcement authorities and are cooperating to investigate and pursue this criminal act."
Despite the age of logins and decline in use of the social network, expert Mr Hunt said some users should still be concerned.
"It all comes back to whether they've been following good password practices or not," he told the BBC.
"If they've reused passwords across multiple services - and remember, these breaches date back several years so they need to recall their practices back then - then they may well have other accounts at risk too."
The Tumblr IDs come from a breach flagged by the Yahoo-owned blogging site on 12 May.
At the time it referred to the leak as a "set of Tumblr user email addresses with salted and hashed passwords from early 2013".
Mr Hunt's analysis indicates that more than 65 million accounts were affected, making it one of the largest data dumps of its kind.
The reference to "salted" means that the firm added random characters to the passwords before converting them into a string of digits and recording them to a database.
This makes it much harder to expose them.
Motherboard reported that a hacker, nicknamed Peace, had said the Tumblr dump amounted to "just a list of emails", and so was advertising it at a lower price than the MySpace and LinkedIn logins also offered for sale.
However, the addresses could still be useful to scammers as a basis for a phishing attack.
Mr Hunt's Have I Been Pwned site already provides a free way to check whether people's Tumblr, Fling or LinkedIn IDs are among those contained in the data dump.
The security researcher said he was also in the process of "finalising the load" to make it possible to search for affected MySpace accounts as well.
Officially, HM Revenue and Customs would only confirm that an operation is ongoing in the Newry area.
However, BBC News NI has been told that the operation began on Wednesday and centred on a property just outside Newry.
It is believed the property was searched on a previous occasion without anything untoward being found.
This time, however, HMRC investigators brought with them specialist metal-detecting equipment.
It is understood that two underground pipes were discovered apparently leading under a field to what the authorities believe is an illegal laundering plant.
Some 18,000 litres of suspected illicit fuel are believed to have been recovered.
This is the second suspected plant to be discovered in days, with one having been recovered in Cullyhanna earlier this week.
Stories coded according to the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) initiative's guidelines appear in a dedicated carousel in the firm's search results.
It says this will help the public find pages that load "blazingly fast".
However, it is likely to disadvantage sites that opt not to take part.
Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai also told an audience in Paris that his firm would offer to defend news organisations against distributed denial of services attacks.
DDoS attacks involve a perpetrator flooding a site with traffic to knock it offline, and often involve hijacked PCs to bolster the assault's force.
The AMP project was first announced last October, at which point "dozens" of sites said they were taking part.
Google has revealed that the list has since expanded to more than 160 news providers across Europe.
In addition, it said, other news sites in the US, Brazil, Japan, Indonesia and Mexico were taking part, and there were plans to extend AMP further soon.
Blogging platform Wordpress has also enabled its users to have their pages automatically translated into AMP-enabled pages, which could swell numbers further.
AMP pages load on smartphones and tablets between four and 10 times faster than those made in traditional HTML.
Once a user has read an article, they can flick to the side to see another publication's take on the same topic.
Much of the Javascript code normally used with the webpages is absent, meaning loading the articles should also use less battery power.
Publishers can continue to use paywalls and tap into the same ad networks as before, but they will not be able to display some types of adverts including pop-ups and "sticky" images that move as users scroll down a page.
The effort acts as a disincentive to people who might otherwise have used ad-blockers to speed up loading times.
In addition, it helps Google deal with a threat from Facebook. The social network is promoting its own Instant Articles scheme, which makes third-party content appear more quickly by hosting it on Facebook's own servers.
The BBC is involved in both schemes.
"With over 65% of traffic to BBC News coming from mobiles or tablets, optimising this performance is crucial," said BBC executive Robin Pembrooke.
"Google AMP is another important step to help achieve this goal."
AMP is open source, meaning anyone can adopt the technology without having to seek Google's permission.
Because of the firm's dominance in search, organisations may feel compelled to join to avoid losing traffic.
Mr Pichai also invited independent news organisations to join Project Shield without charge.
This is a scheme originally launched in 2013 to offer select organisations the same DDoS protection used by Google itself.
It works by using a technology called a reverse proxy, which lets Google identify and stop "bad traffic" before it reaches the news organisations' computers.
To enable this, news organisations will have to let Google see the data flowing to their sites.
Google says it will use the information only to protect them and will delete raw traffic logs a fortnight after each is created.
DDoS attacks are an increasing threat to news sites. One attack briefly knocked the BBC's news site offline in December.
However, one expert suggested that bigger news organisations were likely to continue to manage their own security.
"Google's product doesn't offer the same level of customisation as commercial services, but its simplicity will be appreciated by smaller-scale organisations without specialist technical experts," said Dr Steven Murdoch from University College London.
"A potential side effect is that some countries might find it harder to censor the website without blocking all of Google's other services."
He added, however, that there was a risk that some legitimate users would be accidentally blocked.
Bannan is into its third series on BBC Alba and it is hoped that it could also make it onto BBC2 or BBC Four.
The deal with the international distributors DRG will help showcase the island abroad.
Bannan, which is based around the fictional village of Camus, is filmed in Tarskavaig in the south west of Skye.
It has emerged as BBC Alba's most popular series since the channel launched on Freeview in 2011.
John Tory won 40% of the vote, ahead of Doug Ford, whose brother Rob admitted problems with alcohol and crack cocaine use during his four years in office.
Rob Ford announced last month that he would not seek re-election as he undergoes treatment for a rare cancer.
However, he did win election to a council seat in the Etobicoke district.
"In four more years, you're going to see another example of the Ford family never, ever, ever giving up," he said, hinting at another run for mayor.
The results of the mayoral election were announced on Monday night after more than 90% of the votes had been counted.
Doug Ford congratulated Mr Tory on his victory and said he was proud of his brother.
"I still believe he's the best mayor ever," he said.
Earlier this year, Rob Ford began rehab for drugs and alcohol problems after a slew of newspaper reports and videos that depicted him under the influence.
In 2013, the mayor admitted he had smoked crack cocaine in a "drunken stupor".
He was stripped of many of his powers by the city council.
John Tory - 40%
Doug Ford - 34%
Olivia Chow - 23%
Researchers believe the sea birds could not get enough fish to eat after prolonged gale force winds brought in huge Atlantic swells.
They estimate that 5,000 birds have died as a result, which is about 25% of the puffin colony mostly found on Skomer and Skokholm islands.
Breeding has also been affected.
Experts who monitor the sea birds on the island were concerned after some 12,000 puffins were washed up dead in France after Pembrokeshire's birds went south for the winter months.
In spring this year, the team of field assistants and researchers involved in Skomer's long-term studies went to the island to find out how many of the islands' 20,000 puffins would return to breed.
Dr Matt Wood, lecturer of biology at the University of Gloucestershire, said: "We found that about a quarter of the birds that we would have expected to come back never returned - that's something like 5,000 puffins in Pembrokeshire that will have died over the course of the last winter.
"We have been following puffins on Skomer for about 40 years and we have never seen anything like this before."
The researchers have also found that the puffins - which mate for life - are breeding unusually late this year.
Their chicks are hatching weeks later than normal and are being fed at only a third of the rate of 2013.
Stephen Sutcliffe, Skomer's warden from 1985 to 1994, admitted the situation was bad.
But he said the puffin numbers would probably recover - unless more extreme gales hit this winter or in the next four to five years.
"We have to be concerned," he said.
"These severe weather events could have a significant effect over a number of years.
"But I'm not unduly worried because sea birds are very resilient and we know from previous events, like the Sea Empress oil disaster, that they do bounce back pretty quickly.
"They only need to reproduce themselves once every 20 years."
Meanwhile, the waters around Skomer have been designated as Wales' first Marine Conservation Zone.
The island is already protected as the nation's only Marine Nature Reserve.
The conservation zone will not affect current levels of protection for the area but new zones could be established elsewhere.
Plans to create 10 marine conservation zones around the Welsh coast were dropped in 2013 amid concern from seafarers and the fishing industry that they could be banned from those areas.
Marine Conservation Zones are replacing Marine Nature Reserves across the UK under the 2009 Marine and Coastal Access Act.
Kainos will invest £900,000 as part of a fundraising round of £3.5m, led by existing shareholder Kernel Capital.
Cirdan Imaging, which is also based in Belfast, has a customer base in the US, Canada, Australia and the Middle East.
Kainos envisages that Cirdan Imaging could become an important reseller of its Evolve healthcare software in those territories.
As part of the dealt, Cirdan Imaging has entered into a five-year licensing agreement for Evolve software.
Brendan Mooney, the chief executive of Kainos, said the new relationship will "open doors for both businesses, creating interesting new growth opportunities".
Cirdan Imaging was founded by Dr Hugh Cormican in 2010.
Dr Cormican was also a founder of the Andor Technology firm that makes high-performance digital cameras for use in scientific research.
He said the investment in Cirdan Imaging would be used to strengthen its laboratory information software product and grow its customer base.
Former Labour foreign secretary Lord Owen told the BBC's Newsnight critics of Jeremy Corbyn should "fight like hell" for the next two years but that creating a new party was an option.
Baroness Williams said she saw a new party of the centre-left party reviving "the concept of the SDP".
She said Mr Corbyn was "an idealist" being "manipulated" by others.
Two of the so-called "Gang of Four" former Labour MPs who set up the Social Democratic Party in 1981 have been talking to Newsnight ahead of the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the party.
Lord Owen, who served in Jim Callaghan's Cabinet before leading the SDP-Liberal Alliance, told the programme that Labour MPs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn should remain where they are for the timing being and fight for their values.
"For at least two years fight like hell I would say," he said. "I wouldn't contemplate a new party until the end of 2017."
But he said what the SDP stood for and achieved was still relevant four decades later.
"Labour MPs are thinking about creating a new party. Why? Because they see you can do it; It may not have succeeded in every aspect but that's an option open to them. So the SDP did not die in vain, it planted many new ideas into British politics."
Baroness Williams, who later became Lib Dem Leader in the House of Lords, also told the programme she thought the exact same people who made her feel compelled to leave Labour in 1981 had returned to the party under Mr Corbyn's leadership.
"I think he [Corbyn] is like Michael Foot's son - a kind of idealist - who is I think being manoeuvred and I think manipulated by exactly the same people as I couldn't stand but who are not visible in the same way."
She added: "I think the one way we get out of the mess at the moment is the SDP concept struggling back and becoming eventually there will be a new party of the centre left."
Former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley advised Labour centrists not to emulate the Gang of Four's example and to stay within the party and fight, as he did in the early 1980s. But he acknowledged that Labour's situation is "now is worse than the 1980s".
"I think our chances of getting back are still there and we will get back but it will take longer," he said. "I think it's more difficult for a number of reasons; I think the leader is less susceptible to reason than Michael Foot was, he was a sensible and mature politician although of the left.
"I think the trade unions are in a different position to what where they were in 1979 and 1983. But somebody has got to carry on the fight and must carry it on internally not externally. The lesson of the Gang of Four is you don't win by leaving you win by staying and fighting."
The Dandelion Project said the mayor would be "symbolic" but the election would be a study in democracy.
Marc Winn, founder of the project, said he wants to see if island-wide electronic voting can work.
Chief Minister Jonathan Le Tocq said it was an interesting concept and he was in favour of engaging more people in politics.
However, he said a mayor would not solve the question of how Guernsey should be governed.
"We are not going to please everyone, there is not a utopia out there but there is a journey and the more people on the journey the better it is for everyone," he said.
Guernsey's parliament, the States of Deliberation, is made up of 47 representatives, elected as people's deputies, in multi-member districts, and two representatives of the States of Alderney.
Mr Winn said the successful candidate would have no power, but it could show that island-wide voting was feasible.
He said: "We could be testing an electronic voting system for island wide voting, which the population wants but the government can't work out how to achieve."
The Dandelion Project was launched with the goal of making Guernsey "the best place to live on earth by 2020".
Mr Winn said it had been set up to bring islanders with a range of skills together to work to improve conditions for everyone.
The blue rock thrush was first spotted in a garden in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, just before Christmas.
Since then Fisher Close has been invaded by birdwatchers, who have donated "well over" £2,000 to a local charity to make up for the disruption.
Karen Pengilley, of Kate's Home Nursing, said: "It went a bit mad but it was just such a lucky opportunity."
The last confirmed sighting of the starling-size bird on British soil was in 2007.
Richard Baatsen, county bird recorder for Gloucestershire, said it was "potentially" only the third time the bird had been seen in the UK.
"There's a lot of interest generated by a bird of that sort of calibre," he said.
"And with social media, it just went straight out and all these crowds turned up straight away."
Despite being "taken aback" by the level of interest, the owner of the house where the bird was spotted was advised to wave a charity bucket at birdwatchers.
"Luckily a couple of our fundraisers were available to go along to where the bird had been spotted with some buckets," said Ms Pengilley, from the end-of-life care charity.
"But they very quickly realised they couldn't cope with the number of people there and the number of donations."
After drafting in more help and offering coffee, bacon sandwiches and cake to hungry twitchers, they managed to raise more than £2,000.
"Day after day more and more people came along and visited the bird and donated," she said.
"It's incredible; it's such an unassuming little bird but it will pay for a good week's nursing."
With food and shelter readily available, the rare visitor is expected to remain in the area until the spring.
It is hoped it will stop people starting long-term sick leave and get people who are already signed-off back to worker sooner.
The project will target issues such as musculoskeletal problems, mental health and drug and alcohol problems.
It will run in Conwy, Gwynedd, Denbighshire, Anglesey, Bridgend, Neath Port Talbot and Swansea.
Some £3.2m of the money comes from the European Union and people can access help via their GP, employer or refer themselves.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said: "It will provide rapid access to early, work-focused interventions, including physiotherapy, psychological therapies and occupational therapy."
The project is for people working in small and medium-sized businesses in the private and charitable sectors, which lack access to occupational health services.
The court decided that MPs must have a say on starting the formal process of Brexit via an act of parliament.
However, they also rejected arguments from the Lord Advocate that devolved administrations should also have a say.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to hold a Holyrood vote on the matter regardless of the ruling.
She said there remained a "clear political obligation" on the UK government to consult devolved administrations, adding that "it is becoming clearer by the day that Scotland's voice is simply not being heard or listened to within the UK".
Ministers wanted to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the formal process for leaving the European Union, without consulting the Westminster parliament.
Campaigners disputed this, saying the referendum result alone does not give ministers the power to change the British constitution and supersede legislation.
The Supreme Court justices backed the challenge by eight votes to three, with President Lord Neuberger summarising their ruling as: "The Government cannot trigger Article 50 without an Act of Parliament authorising it to do so."
With Jeremy Corbyn pledging the support of Labour MPs to backing the government on Article 50, the defeat in court is not expected to derail the Brexit process, although it could pose complications.
The SNP have vowed to vote against invoking Article 50 if it does go to a vote at Westminster, while the Lib Dems have said they will oppose it unless there is a referendum on the final Brexit deal.
Today's Supreme Court ruling delineates precisely where formal, statutory power lies on the issue of reshaping Britain's relationship with the EU.
Europe, as an issue, is reserved to Westminster along with foreign affairs more generally.
It falls to the UK Parliament to implement the expressed popular will of the UK as a whole.
Quite right, say supporters of the Union, advising Nicola Sturgeon to fall into step. Which brings us back to the fundamental issue in Scottish politics.
Ms Sturgeon does not accept a UK mandate but rather seeks the power to implement an independent Scottish mandate.
Two competing options, then. It seems now very likely - perhaps indeed "all but inevitable" - that the people of Scotland will be asked, once more, which constitutional arrangement they favour.
Read more from Brian here.
Meanwhile, the Scottish government was also represented in the Supreme Court case, with Lord Advocate James Wolffe arguing Holyrood's consent should also be sought due to the "significant changes" Brexit would have on devolved powers.
Lawyers for the UK government rejected this, saying the argument was "fatally undermined" by the fact that powers over foreign affairs are reserved to Westminster.
The judges unanimously rejected Mr Wolffe's arguments, saying that the principle of legislative consent "does not give rise to a legally enforceable obligation".
They said the Sewel Convention, which provides that Holyrood should be consulted where Westminster legislation cuts across devolved areas, plays "an important role in the operation of the UK constitution", but is not a matter for the courts.
They added: "The devolved legislatures do not have a veto on the UK's decision to withdraw from the EU."
The SNP welcomed the ruling in relation to the Westminster vote, with the party's international affairs spokesman Alex Salmond pledging to introduce 50 amendments to the Article 50 legislation as it passes through parliament.
Later in the day, Ms Sturgeon will convene a meeting of her Standing Council on Europe, a team of legal, economic and diplomatic advisors.
Also in attendance will be External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop, Brexit minister Mike Russell and Europe minister Alasdair Allan.
The first minister, who has said a second Scottish independence referendum is "undoubtedly" closer due to Theresa May's Brexit plans, declared her intention to hold a Holyrood vote on Article 50 regardless of the ruling of the court.
She said: "We are obviously disappointed with the Supreme Court's ruling in respect of the devolved administrations and the legal enforceability of the Sewel Convention.
"It is now crystal clear that the promises made to Scotland by the UK government about the Sewel Convention and the importance of embedding it in statute were not worth the paper they were written on.
"Although the court has concluded that the UK government is not legally obliged to consult the devolved administrations, there remains a clear political obligation to do so.
"The Scottish government will bring forward a Legislative Consent Motion and ensure that the Scottish Parliament has the opportunity to vote on whether or not it consents to the triggering of Article 50."
Ms Sturgeon also said the ruling raises "fundamental issues above and beyond that of EU membership", saying it was "becoming ever clearer" that Scots face a fresh choice over independence.
The Scottish Conservatives called on the SNP to stop trying to "hold the UK to ransom" over Brexit.
Leader Ruth Davidson said: "Whatever side people were on last year, Scotland wants to get on with the negotiations so we can start to leave the uncertainty of the last few years behind us.
"We have all had enough of the nationalists using every diversionary tactic they can to try to use Brexit to manufacture a case for separation.
"The SNP needs to decide: does it want Britain's renegotiation to succeed or fail? If it is the former, it needs to end the attempts to sow division and add to the uncertainty we face, and instead get behind the UK attempt to get the right deal for the whole UK."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said her party would "continue to work with the Scottish government to get the best deal for Scotland within the UK".
She added: "Both the SNP and the Conservatives are casting about for an expedient political position rather than working in the national interest. Unity cannot be achieved by a politics that sees one half of the country constantly facing off against the other.
"We are divided enough already. That's why there will be no support from Scottish Labour for any SNP plan for a second independence referendum."
Scottish Green co-convener Patrick Harvie said the ruling showed Scotland is "not an equal partner in the UK", saying it was "hard to see any other option" than a second independence referendum.
And Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said the case presented "a huge opportunity" for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.
Mathew Martoma was found guilty of conspiracy and securities fraud for his part in a scheme that made SAC $275m (£169m) in profits and avoided losses.
Prosecutors in New York called it the most lucrative insider trading scheme in history.
SAC paid out a total of $1.8bn last year to settle related charges.
Mr Cohen, who founded SAC in 1992, has not himself been charged with any wrongdoing.
But he faces civil action from US regulators who say he failed to supervise Martoma and a fellow trader properly, allowing them to conduct insider deals. He disputes the allegations.
Prosecutors outlined how Martoma cultivated relationships with doctors involved in the trials of a new Alzheimer's drug.
Two doctors confessed to telling him the results of the trials in advance, allowing SAC to "short" the stocks of the two research companies involved.
This delivered massive profits when the share price fell on the publication of the trial data, and earned Martoma himself a $9m bonus.
The conviction is being seen as yet another success for New York federal prosecutors, who have secured a total of 79 guilty pleas or verdicts relating to insider trading since 2009.
Martoma's conviction is the eighth involving current or former employees of SAC, which was once an unrivalled hedge fund presence on Wall Street.
His lawyers said he planned to appeal against the conviction, which could see him face up to 45 years in prison.
Edward Huxley, 70, of Cookham, Berkshire, had denied two counts of indecent assault in a trial at Mold Crown Court which began in April.
Four other men have already been convicted and another has been cleared. The jury has now retired for the day as it considers verdicts on a seventh man.
Boys were assaulted at sex parties, the trial was told.
Former police officer Huxley, 70, who at the time worked as a civil servant at Wrexham Barracks, has been convicted of charges of indecent assault on the main complainant.
The men were arrested as part of the Operation Pallial investigation into historical abuse across north Wales.
The bus, carrying pupils from Hungary, collided with a roadside column as it exited the A4 motorway near Verona late on Friday.
Italy's national fire service said that another 39 people had been injured.
The bus was returning to Budapest from France, where the pupils had been on a mountain holiday.
Italian news agency Ansa said a number of the pupils, who were mainly boys aged between 14 and 18, were thrown out of the vehicle when it collided with the pylon.
It is not known why the bus left the road.
Others were trapped inside the bus when it caught fire, Ansa said. Ten of those in hospital are seriously hurt, it said.
Ansa quoted Judit Timaffy, Hungary's consul-general in Milan, as saying a number of the pupils were saved by a sports teacher, who returned to the middle of the fire to drag them out. The teacher suffered burns as a result, she said.
The death toll is not expected to increase, the fire service added.
Although I disagree with a lot of what Piers Morgan says on social media, I was in strong agreement with his tweets last week about the mentality of settling for a silver or bronze medal and celebrating like it was a gold.
I think it comes down to the individual and whether they are reaching for the very top to get the ultimate prize, or are satisfied with coming second or third.
As a top-level sportswoman, I have my own experiences of the difference between all three, having won a bronze at the 2015 World Cup and a silver at the European Championship in 2009, and also winning last season's Women's Super League and FA Women's Cup.
All of those medals felt fantastic but I would make no secret of the fact that the two I won with Chelsea felt the best - because we won.
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I understand that every athlete has their own journey and challenges to overcome that may mean that they see silver or bronze as a 'win' for them but personally I would like to think that they all want to strive to be the best.
When you look at the athletes at the very top of their respective sports, you can see how relentless they are in their pursuit of winning.
Swimming legend Michael Phelps is a great example of this, because after winning his 23rd Olympic gold medal at these Games, he clearly does not settle for anything less.
So I understand Morgan's point that Team GB needs that mentality too, or gold would not have been the benchmark in Brazil or for our next generation of athletes.
Thankfully, Team GB are now sitting nicely in second place in the medals table, with cycling superstars Laura Trott and Jason Kenny collecting five golds between them in Rio. They have 10 in total, which is a fantastic achievement.
The same principle applies at the top of the Premier League too, where some clubs seem to see finishing second, third or fourth as a "win".
The main reason I think Manchester United will win the title this season is because they have signed proven winners like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba and finishing first is all that matters to their manager Jose Mourinho too.
Mourinho knows how to achieve it because he has done it so many times before. I believe his winning experience in the Premier League will be the defining difference between him and Pep Guardiola this season, although it is a difficult one to call.
I saw a quote recently from tennis world number one Serena Williams about how she hates losing more than she loves winning, and I can definitely relate to that.
Sometimes the fear of losing acts as a motivator for me to do all that I can - within the rules - to win and when you have that kind of desire it is not always easy to deal with defeat.
I saw that this week with one of my former team-mates, United States goalkeeper Hope Solo, after her side were knocked out of the Olympic tournament on penalties by Sweden in the quarter-finals.
Hope already has two Olympic gold medals and is the most decorated goalkeeper, male or female, playing in the world.
She is a serial winner and one of the reasons she has had the career she has is that she is one of the best winners - and worst losers - that I know.
Hope is known for being outspoken too, and I think her criticism of Sweden after the game - referring to them as "cowards" because of their tactics - was regrettable to say the least.
Part of the reason she said what she did was because of when she was interviewed. I am not defending or excusing her but I do appreciate how difficult it must have been to speak straight after a high intensity, highly emotional match.
But I think her comments represent someone who was so driven by her desire to win that it was difficult to be gracious in defeat too. I guess not everyone can be a serial winner and gracious loser all at the same time.
Another indication of that were her delaying tactics during the shoot-out against Sweden, when she changed her gloves just before Lisa Dahlkvist scored the decisive penalty.
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Many people saw it as unsporting behaviour but I believe that if Dahlkvist had missed after having to wait so long to take her penalty, then Solo would have been applauded for her tactics.
By distracting her opponent, she was doing whatever it took within the rules to win and although I commend and endorse sporting behaviour, I also know that winning at the elite level doesn't always involve niceties.
Sweden also beat Brazil on penalties in their semi-final and will play Germany in the Olympic final.
I am hoping my team-mate at Chelsea, Sweden goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, will bring home the gold, and she is another player who I know wants nothing less.
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As I have written in previous columns, it is a huge shame that politics meant the Great Britain men's and women's football teams were not at Rio 2016. I just hope that situation can be resolved in time for the Tokyo games in 2020.
I felt pretty jealous of all the athletes seeing all their smiles at the opening ceremony in Brazil but it has been great to be watching as much of the Olympics as I can.
I have been really inspired by all the inspiring athletes and their life stories, like the Brazilian judo gold medallist Rafaela Silva who has gone from a favela to the top of the podium after facing a lot of racism in her career.
Then you have the Muslim women who played beach volleyball wearing hijabs, representing a diversity and acceptance in sport that needs to be celebrated and which we cannot take for granted.
My favourite Olympic winning story so far though is seeing the 74-year-old female veteran coach Anna Botha beaming with joy and pride after seeing South African Wayde van Niekerk break the world record and win a gold medal in the 400m. What an incredible story for women in sport of all ages.
The Women's Super League season resumes at the end of August and although we have not had any games recently in the last few weeks, I have been really enjoying training with Chelsea and look forward to what is now the business end of the season with six league games to go.
A lot of our other players are away on international duty at the moment so I have been able to do more individual work - a lot of shooting and finishing - and the coaches have more one to one time to coach me individually.
I was not selected for the latest England squad for their training camp this week but I am very happy with the way I am performing.
I am currently the top-scoring English striker in the WSL with seven goals in all competitions and I hope to keep scoring and assisting goals and performing well to help Chelsea to win our remaining league games.
Like all the gold-winning Olympians, winning the league and retaining our FA WSL trophy is what I have in mind - I am not targeting second place.
England and Chelsea forward Eniola Aluko was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
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Allardyce, 61, has signed an initial two-year contract after the FA agreed compensation with Sunderland.
Manchester United striker Rooney, England's all-time leading goalscorer, was part of the squad knocked out of Euro 2016 by Iceland in June.
"He will probably bring a different way of playing to England," he said.
"Hopefully it's a good way and we can be successful under him."
The 30-year-old said he had no intention of retiring from international football.
"Am I going to carry on?" said Rooney, who has scored 53 times for England in 115 appearances. "It was asked of me after the Euros, but yes, I'll be there."
The former Everton striker was speaking during United's pre-season tour of China, which they started with a 4-1 defeat by Borussia Dortmund.
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William Allright, three, had been helping his father sweep the backyard of their home in Great Yarmouth when he picked up the syringe.
His father Stephen believes drug users who use a nearby alley dumped it there.
Residents raised £1,000 to put up gates but the council removed them saying the alley was a right of way.
The needle incident happened in the back garden of the Embassy Hotel where the family is living.
Residents are now fighting to get the alley closed off officially to stop it happening again.
Mr Allright said: "When you see your child at such a young age with a needle in his hand you wonder where on earth he got it from.
"You find yourself worried to death."
The boy has had a hepatitis B vaccination and is on antibiotics after a visit to hospital.
He now faces six months of further tests until he is cleared of any infection concerns, his father said.
In a statement, Great Yarmouth Borough Council said the situation was under constant review and it encouraged businesses in the area to keep reporting incidents.
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Matty Pearson's header put the Tykes ahead during an impressive opening, but Forest switched from five at the back to a 4-4-2 and began to dominate.
Daryl Murphy headed the equaliser from Barrie McKay's cross and McKay, Ben Osborn and Murphy all went close.
But Hedges restored the lead after the break and although Forest remained in control, Barnsley held on.
Forest's desire to continue the attacking approach which brought them a thrilling 4-3 win over Brentford on Saturday saw Barnsley exploit the space behind their wing-backs early on.
Tom Bradshaw, Hedges and George Moncur all threatened after Pearson's header from Moncur's free-kick made it 1-0 inside three minutes.
Murphy did hit the post with a strike almost immediately and, after the change in Forest tactics, his second goal in two games restored parity.
With McKay impressing out wide and Forest's movement, passing and creativity posing problems, Forest looked likely to earn a third league win in three.
But Hedges' low left-footed effort, his third goal in four games this season, made it 2-1 against the run of play soon after the interval.
And a combination of wayward finishing and some smart goalkeeping by Adam Davies, notably when he denied Tendayi Darikwa late on, saw the Tykes earn their first league points.
Barnsley boss Paul Heckingbottom:
"I am delighted. The players have been surprising me.
"I said after the Ipswich game on Saturday we should have won as we played really well, and I said we would have to play better than that and win.
"That is the organisation, the hard work, being in the right places at the right time, showing people the right way, which makes your job easier when defending your own box. I am happy because certain players are further down the line than I thought."
Nottingham Forest boss Mark Warburton:
"We gave an away early goal, but we re-gathered and changed our shape and scored a really good goal.
"I thought we then controlled the game and looked really dangerous every time we went forward.
"We looked so, so good in the final third, but we snatched at the ball too many times, pulled shots wide, had them saved, and we didn't get our rewards."
Match ends, Barnsley 2, Nottingham Forest 1.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 2, Nottingham Forest 1.
Substitution, Barnsley. Harvey Barnes replaces Adam Hammill.
Kieran Dowell (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan Hedges (Barnsley).
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Adam Davies.
Attempt saved. Tendayi Darikwa (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Jason Cummings (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Osborn.
Joe Williams (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card.
Kieran Dowell (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Williams (Barnsley).
Attempt missed. Jared Bird (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt saved. Kieran Dowell (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mustapha Carayol.
Foul by Daryl Murphy (Nottingham Forest).
Adam Hammill (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tendayi Darikwa (Nottingham Forest).
Matty Pearson (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Brad Potts (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andreas Bouchalakis (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brad Potts (Barnsley).
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Armand Traore.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Hedges (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jared Bird.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Jason Cummings replaces Barrie McKay.
Foul by Andreas Bouchalakis (Nottingham Forest).
Jason McCarthy (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Andreas Bouchalakis (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Tendayi Darikwa.
Barrie McKay (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Hammill (Barnsley).
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Jared Bird.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Mustapha Carayol replaces David Vaughan.
Tendayi Darikwa (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Hedges (Barnsley).
Attempt missed. Brad Potts (Barnsley) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Tom Bradshaw.
Foul by Kieran Dowell (Nottingham Forest).
Joe Williams (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Barnsley. Jared Bird replaces George Moncur.
Attempt saved. Daryl Murphy (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matt Mills.
Attempt missed. Matt Mills (Nottingham Forest) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Barrie McKay with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Angus MacDonald.
Attempt blocked. Kieran Dowell (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Barrie McKay.
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A Ryan Hedges strike secured Barnsley's first win of the season as they ended Nottingham Forest's 100% start.
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The Electoral Commission said Royal Mail was told not to fold leaflets with its material but there were instances where this had been breached.
Caerphilly MP Wayne David said it had happened "in large parts of Wales".
Royal Mail said it was not its policy to fold leaflets together.
A spokesman said: "It appears that in a small number of cases some leaflets may have been folded together with other mail simply for ease of posting through letter boxes. This is not our policy.
"All staff have again been reminded that this is not our policy. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and have already spoken to the Electoral Commission."
Mr David raised the issue in parliament, saying: "In large parts of Wales this leaflet has been distributed by post inside a very, very good leaflet from the Electoral Commission which explains the voting system for Welsh assembly and the PCC elections.
"We are trying to get to the root to how this happened but if in fact it's the Royal Mail that is responsible for this, will he [the speaker] join me in condemning them?"
An Electoral Commission spokeswoman said it was a politically neutral organisation and did not support any referendum campaigning organisation.
"We have raised these concerns with Royal Mail," she said.
Another three ex-policemen were sentenced to 20 years hard labour.
Mr Habre is currently in Senegal's custody, awaiting trial for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Dubbed "Africa's Pinochet" by his critics, he denies that thousands of people were killed and tortured during his rule from 1982 to 1990.
The men sentenced to life in prison include Mahamat Djibrine, described by investigators as one of the "most feared torturers in Chad", and Saleh Younouss, a former senior official in Mr Habre's notorious Directorate of Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS).
BBC French Service analyst Abdourahmane Dia says the other five men to receive life imprisonment were sentenced in absentia, as they had fled Chad after Habre's overthrow.
In 2008, Mr Habre was sentenced to death in Chad in absentia for planning to overthrow the government.
A special court, set up by the African Union and Senegal, is due to try him for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during his rule.
Mr Habre was living in exile in Senegal at the time of his arrest in 2013.
No date has been set for the case, which will be the first use of universal jurisdiction in Africa.
Daimler uses the refrigerant, called R-134a, in the air-conditioning units of Mercedes cars.
The Commission says Germany failed to apply an EU directive called MAC, which requires the use of a refrigerant "with less global warming potential".
Daimler says the new chemical, R1234yf, catches fire more easily.
The court case comes as German car firm Volkswagen remains under huge international pressure over its failure to comply with car emission standards.
According to the Commission, Daimler's safety concerns about R1234yf "were not shared by any other car manufacturer and were rejected by Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, KBA) and the [Commission's] Joint Research Centre".
If Germany loses the case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) - the EU's top court - it could be liable for a big fine.
The MAC Directive - short for mobile air-conditioning systems - says fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential (GPW) higher than 150 must no longer be used.
Since 2011 MAC systems in cars have had to comply with the directive.
But what happened on Tuesday was both extraordinary and unprecedented. The resignation of an American national security adviser had Russian politicians reacting furiously and jumping to Michael Flynn's defence.
At the upper house of the Russian parliament, senator Alexei Pushkov tweeted that Mr Flynn was the victim of "paranoia and a witch hunt".
In a message posted online, the head of the parliament's foreign affairs committee, Konstantin Kosachev, claimed that "either Donald Trump has been driven into a corner or the new administration has been permeated with Russopohobia from top to bottom".
The language from Moscow is both colourful and angry.
That is because the Russians had high hopes for Mr Flynn. They saw him as an influential figure who championed closer ties between America and Russia.
Mr Flynn was well known to Moscow. In the past he was a semi-regular contributor to RT, Russia's state-controlled English-language TV channel.
Two years ago, Mr Flynn attended an RT gala dinner in Moscow and sat at the same table as Vladimir Putin.
But the Russians are not only disappointed. I detect a degree of embarrassment here, too.
As late as yesterday, the Kremlin was continuing to insist that, before President Trump stepped into the White House, there had been no conversations between Moscow and Washington about sanctions.
Asked by journalists today about Mr Flynn's resignation, Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin "wouldn't like to comment on this".
"It's the internal affair of the Trump administration. It has nothing to do with us. We have commented many times on this subject. We have nothing more to add."
I asked Mr Peskov if, after Mr Flynn's resignation, he continued to assert there had been no discussion of sanctions.
"I repeat: I have nothing more to add. We don't want to comment on this."
It's not all bad news for Moscow. Far from it.
From the kind of comments he has been making in recent months, Mr Trump comes across as the most pro-Russia president in modern US history; the Russians are still counting on him to improve relations between Moscow and Washington, to ease sanctions and help bring Russia in from the cold.
Which is why the Russian state media avoids criticising President Trump; instead, it accuses his alleged "opponents" and "enemies" within the US establishment, intelligence services and American media of plotting to undermine Mr Trump's attempts to improve US-Russian ties.
And if America's 45th president fails to deliver what Moscow is waiting for?
In that case, instead of becoming a partner, America would most likely become the "enemy" again; a useful scapegoat to deflect attention from Russia's own problems at home.
She said it needed to be reviewed, as she was asked about what her party would do to increase security.
Prevent was set up by Labour in 2003 and its remit was widened by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition in 2011.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd recently said if the Conservatives were re-elected, the strategy would receive more money.
Setting out her views on Prevent on the Andrew Marr Show, Ms Lucas said: "Many in the Muslim community believe it's been an attack on their group in particular.
"We absolutely want there to be a mechanism whereby people can come to the state with concerns, but when it is perceived by the Muslim community itself as being a toxic Big Brother brand, then we need to look at it again."
Prevent is designed to support people at risk of joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities, focusing on schools, faith organisations, prisons and other communities where people can be at risk of radicalisation.
Ms Lucas also defended her opposition to mass online surveillance, saying the security services should focus on "targeted" measures.
The Green co-leader told Andrew Marr she and colleague Baroness Jones had been labelled "domestic extremists" in the past by police because of their campaigning and protesting activities, which was, she said, a waste of officers' time and resources.
Great Western Railway (GWR) launched a campaign to find the owners of more than 40 toys in its lost property in November 2014.
It had previously failed and the cuddly animals were due to be donated to charity.
However, GWR said two bunny toys had successfully been returned to their owners.
The toys, which also included bears, monkeys, a hedgehog, penguin and lion, were all found on GWR trains.
Any remaining unclaimed toys have been washed and are expected to be donated to children's charities.
The operation, which took place on Monday at a government hospital in the capital, Tehran, was said to be "routine".
An announcement about the surgery ahead of the procedure was unprecedented, as the Ayatollah's health is traditionally a confidential subject.
The 75-year-old cleric has led Iran since 1989 and is its top authority.
Earlier on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei was seen on Iranian state television asking people to pray for him, but said there was "no room for concern".
Ayatollah Khamenei's health has always been a secret topic in Iran, like other aspects of his personal life, says BBC Persian's Bozorgmehr Sharafedin.
In January 2007 a rumour of the Ayatollah's death spread in Iran and the world, simply because he did not announce he had a bad case of flu and could not attend public ceremonies, our reporter says.
The Ayatollah's appearance on TV before the surgery and announcement of the news by himself is a clear change of approach. Either he knows that the critical situation in Iran and the region cannot bear another rumour of his death, or he has decided to be more open about his personal life, our reporter adds.
In 1989, Ayatollah Khamenei succeeded the first Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, following Khomeini's death.
As the country's highest authority, Ayatollah Khamenei's power outranks all politicians, including the country's President Hassan Rouhani.
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A mixture of ash and concrete will be put into the 40m (130ft) deep chasm outside The Laurels, in Oakamoor, in April.
The business had already been forced to close after cracks appeared in the property and the car park.
As BBC Midlands Today's David Gregory-Kumar reports, the work forms part of a £2m scheme to stabilise the whole area.
A new study says that green vegetation has helped offset a large fraction of human related carbon emissions between 2002 and 2014.
Plants and trees have become more absorbent say the authors, because of so much extra CO2 in the atmosphere.
The slowdown, though, can't keep pace with the overall scale of emissions.
Over the past 50 years, the amount of CO2 absorbed by the Earth's oceans, plants and vegetation has doubled and these carbon sinks now account for about 45% of the gas emitted each year because of human activities.
Researchers now report that since the start of the 21st century there has been a significant change in the amount of carbon dioxide taken up by the plants and trees. The new analysis suggests that between 2002 and 2014 the amount of human caused CO2 remaining in the atmosphere declined by around 20%.
Reports earlier this year indicated that there has been an increase in the number of trees and plants growing on the Earth, the so-called greening of the planet. But the authors of this new study believe that this isn't the main cause of the slowdown in the rise of CO2.
"There have been reports of the greening of the land surface but what we found was that was of secondary importance to the direct effect of CO2 fertilisation on the plants that are already there," lead author Dr Trevor Keenan told BBC News.
"We have a huge amount of vegetation on the Earth and that was being fertilised by CO2 and taking in more CO2 as a result."
Another important element in the story is the impact of a hiatus in global temperature increases on the behaviour of plants. Between 1998 and 2012 temperatures went up by less than in previous decades. This has impacted the respiration of vegetation.
"The soils and ecosystem are respiring so as temperatures increase they respire more, releasing more CO2 into the atmosphere," said Dr Keenan.
"In the past decade or so there hasn't been much of an increase in global temperatures, so that meant there wasn't much of an increase in respiration and carbon release so that was fundamentally different in the past decade or so compared to previous periods."
One consequence of a warming world that has been expected to increase was the number of droughts around the world. However, this new study suggests that, on a global scale, there has been little or no change in the prevalence of drought over recent decades.
Overall though the slowdown caused by vegetation hasn't stemmed the total rise of carbon which has now passed the symbolically important level of 400 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere.
"This study highlights just how sensitive the natural environment is to a changing climate and how important it is to protect natural vegetation so it continues to absorb part of our carbon emissions," said Prof Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia, who wasn't involved in the study.
"Fundamentally, though, the carbon sinks help but their help is not enough to stop the planet getting warmer - far from that - carbon emissions have to drop to almost zero to stop global warming."
One of the big lessons from the new report is that land carbon sinks are not set in stone and do have the potential to change over time. If they could be managed properly, it might help some countries to cut their emissions and limit climate change.
The authors of the study say that the pause in the growth of atmospheric carbon will almost certainly be a temporary phenomenon. As temperatures rise, these green sinks could in fact become sources of CO2.
"Now we are seeing plants slow down the rate of climate change," said Dr Keenan.
"But if we are not careful and we don't do anything about climate change all that CO2 could be put back in the atmosphere later and that would really accelerate the rate of warming.
"It may be hitting the brakes right now but it can really punch the accelerator later."
The study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
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The owners of the Bicester Village shopping outlet will fund the £3m car park, with almost 600 spaces, on land close to the complex off the A41.
It will serve both the site and drivers heading into Bicester itself, and regular buses will also run into central Oxford.
The aim is to have the facility up and running before Christmas.
Traders in Bicester have welcomed the scheme which they say should help reduce traffic congestion which has been a problem at peak times.
Bicester shopkeeper Rob Douglas previously said it would be "a good thing as long as it feeds the town as well as Bicester Village".
The park and ride scheme is part of £11m plans to combat congestion in the area, which includes new junctions, a roundabout and extra lanes.
NI Screen, which helps fund the series, estimates it has brought almost £150m into the local economy since production began in 2010.
The worldwide hit fantasy drama receives generous tax breaks to film in Northern Ireland.
However, NI Screen insists the returns are high.
Chief Executive Richard Williams said: "In terms of jobs and services here, we're just creeping up to £150 million across the six seasons.
"To be very clear about that, that is spent on people who live here and on services that are provided by people here."
Tourism NI also believes the industry is getting a boost from Game of Thrones visitors who want to see landmarks from the show in reality.
The marketing body is currently collating figures to establish just how much fans of the show spend in Northern Ireland.
Judith Webb, Tourism NI's Experience Development Officer, said: "We can see already that businesses are growing on the back of the Game of Thrones series.
"Two years ago, there were three operators promoting Game of Thrones experiences and now we've over 25 with more in the pipeline.
"Those businesses are also reporting that business has doubled each year upon year which is just tremendous.
"People come for Game of Thrones and stay for Northern Ireland."
Like every TV show, Game of Thrones will eventually come to an end.
So what happens when it wraps up?
Richard Williams said: "There are people in China who don't know where Northern Ireland is, but they know Titanic and they know Game of Thrones, and we need to capitalise on that.
"Game of Thrones will leave us with two really substantial legacies.
"From my point of view, the most substantial one is the infrastructure - the film studios.
"On the other side of it, there is a huge legacy piece in terms of the awareness Game of Thrones has driven for Northern Ireland and importantly right across the globe."
Bridcutt made 27 appearances for Leeds last season after joining the Championship club on loan in November.
The 27-year-old signed for Sunderland from Brighton for a £3m fee in January 2014, but played in only 30 Premier League games for the Black Cats.
He made his Scotland debut against Serbia in 2013, and won his second cap in a 1-0 win over Denmark in March.
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Provan, who can also play as a winger, left Notts' fellow Women's Super League One club Reading at the end of the 2016 WSL season.
She said: "I'm very excited to join such an experienced squad."
Manager Rick Passmoor added: "Shelly adds a wealth of knowledge. She gives us a different option on the left-hand side, in an attacking sense as well."
The Spring Series sees teams play each other once in a one-off, six-week transitional competition before the WSL's switch to a winter calendar.
For top-flight teams, the Spring Series runs over six weeks, from 23 April until Saturday, 3 June.
She said she was not the only journalist who had been offered gifts, saying this was "one of the untold stories of the 2016 campaign".
The claims are in her memoir, to be released on Tuesday.
Ms Kelly and Mr Trump clashed after a debate she moderated in August last year.
Her first question to him asked about him calling women "fat pigs, slobs and disgusting animals".
After that debate, Mr Trump tweeted that she had "bombed" and he later said: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever..."
This year, she said publicly that she did not want "any sort of war" with him, and the pair had a one-on-one interview, which aired in May.
In her memoir, Ms Kelly alleges that Mr Trump offered to fly her and her husband to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, or let her and her friends stay at his New York City hotel for free for the weekend. She said she did not accept his offers.
She said Mr Trump had attempted to influence journalists by praising them.
"This is smart," she writes, "because the media is full of people whose egos need stroking."
Publication of Ms Kelly's memoir was originally planned for November 2015, but it was delayed. It is called Settle for More.
CWM, which is based in London, initially sponsored the Carl Frampton fight in Belfast in September 2014.
Subsequently Mr McGuigan's promotions firm was rebranded as CWM Cyclone.
The sponsorship is continuing and there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing connected with the deal between CWM and Cyclone.
City of London Police raided CWM's offices earlier this month, arresting 10 men and three women.
The police said they are investigating suspected fraud by false representation, conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
Computers and other documentary evidence has been taken away.
The 13 suspects were questioned and then released on bail until September.
Det Supt Maria Woodall, who is overseeing the investigation for the City of London Police, said: "The primary objective of the arrest phase of this investigation was to stop what we believe was ongoing criminality and prevent people putting their money into CWM's managed funds offering 5% interest per month.
"Now we need anyone who thinks they have invested in this specific enterprise to get in contact and help us clarify exactly how this company has been using the funds given to them in good faith by citizens living in both the UK and abroad."
In a statement a CWM spokesman said: "There is no sustainable basis for these allegations."
The statement added: "CWM believe that they have been the victim of an orchestrated campaign initiated by individuals motivated by personal animosity.
"Despite requests made of the police, they have thus far failed to provide the name of a single investor who has raised concerns with them."
CWM has a number of other sports sponsorships including the Wigan Warriors rugby league team.
On Thursday Chelsea Football Club removed CWM from its sponsors page.
In an interview on CWM's Youtube channel in January Mr McGuigan said the company had "come on board at a crucial time."
The girl group - who topped the chart with their X Factor winner's single Cannonball in 2011 and Wings in 2012 - said they were "super-duper excited".
Years and Years, who outsold the rest of the top five albums combined, called it "the best day of our lives".
Last week the chart moved from Sunday to Friday to mark Global Release Day.
All new singles and albums now come out on a Friday around the world, while BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James reveals the official chart during his show from 18:00 BST.
Black Magic, the first single from Little Mix's forthcoming third album Get Weird, topped this week's chart with sales of 113,000, including 1.19 million streams.
"We're super-duper excited to be number one with Black Magic - we never thought we'd see the day again," the band told the Official Charts Company.
"Thank you so much to the fans... you did this."
Years and Years - who topped the BBC's Sound of 2015 list in January added: "We're so, so, so excited! Having a number one album is a dream come true.
"Thank you everybody and everything, this is the best day of our lives. Our fans are the best and we are very, very happy today."
Their single Shine is at number two in the singles chart for a second week, while Lost Frequencies' Are You With Me is at three and DJ Sam Feldt is at number four with his rework of Robin S's 90s club classic Show Me Love.
Last week's number one, David Zowie's House Every Weekend, is at five.
In the album chart, Ed Sheeran's x dropped from number one to two, following last weekend's huge shows at Wembley Stadium.
James Bay's Chaos and the Calm was at three, with Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour at four and Taylor Swift's 1989 at number five.
They were found guilty of causing the baby's death unintentionally.
The baby, Lucas, weighed just 4.3kg (9.5lb) when he died aged seven months, dehydrated and malnourished.
The parents, from Beveren near Antwerp, ran a health food shop and fed him for four months with milk made from oats, buckwheat, rice and quinoa.
The mother did not produce breast milk and the baby had refused infant formula.
Lucas died on the way to hospital in Hasselt in June 2014, after a homeopathic doctor had advised the couple to call an ambulance.
Vegetable milk lacks the nutrients essential for infants in their first year. The parents said they had resorted to it because they believed Lucas was lactose- or gluten-intolerant.
The parents' lawyer told the court that the mother had been getting up several times a night to feed Lucas - evidence that she had tried to look after him.
Matthew Jones, 34, was found dead at his flat in Rhyl in April.
He had been treated for alcoholism and depression at the Ablett Unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital. The cause of his death has not yet been established.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) said it would be carrying out a review of Mr Jones' care.
Mandy Williams said there had been problems with her son's treatment on the unit and that she was speaking out to help other families.
She claimed he had to sleep on a sofa when no beds were available and conditions were sometimes dirty.
"My son was unwell and he was in hospital to have help but he was sleeping on the sofa," she said.
"He told me someone had wet themselves on it and they'd just dried it with a cloth, they hadn't scrubbed it."
Mrs Williams said Matthew was at one stage discharged into accommodation above a pub in Rhyl.
"He never stopped drinking that week," she said. "Why did they put him above a pub, someone with a problem with alcohol?" she told BBC Wales Today.
"On the Friday night, I had a phone call saying he'd tried to take his own life. I met him in the hospital and he was drunk and had taken an overdose."
Mr Jones was readmitted to the Ablett Unit, to be released a few days later.
His mother said the day before his final release, he had been under observations every 15 minutes because of concerns about self-harm.
"I knew he wasn't ready to come out. Everyone who knew Matthew knew he wasn't ready," Mrs Williams added.
"He was crying out for help and they let him down."
Mr Jones died around three weeks after being released from hospital.
The Ablett Unit was home to the Tawel Fan ward which closed in 2013. A report found some patients were treated "like animals".
On Tuesday, it was revealed that the quality of care on the scandal-hit ward for dementia patients may have contributed to at least seven deaths.
A spokesman for the health board, which was placed in special measures in 2015, said it would be carrying out a review of the care provided to Mr Jones "as is routine following the sudden death of any of our service users".
"We fully consult with service users on the care they receive in times of crisis, and always look to act in their best interest to provide a safe, appropriate location in which to receive care and support."
He added that Mrs Williams had been invited to contribute to the review and asked to contact the health board so a meeting with senior staff could be arranged.
A spokesman for Denbighshire council said Mr Jones had been put in accommodation above a pub because it was the "only available room in the county at the time" and that a risk assessment had been carried
The cash offer of 145p per share valued Thorntons at around £112m, and represented a premium of around 43% on the closing price on Friday.
Thorntons saw sales and profits fall in the half year to 10 January, and issued a profit warning in December.
Ferrero is known for Nutella spread, Ferrero Rocher chocolates, Kinder Eggs and Tic Tac sweets.
Thorntons has urged shareholders to back the offer. Chairman Paul Wilkinson said: "Ferrero is a successful global confectionery business with a strong family heritage and as such represents a good cultural fit for Thorntons.
"The board of Thorntons therefore has given its unanimous recommendation for the offer from Ferrero."
Ferrero chief executive Giovanni Ferrero said: "We delivered our best ever results in the UK in 2014, giving us confidence that now is the right time to broaden our roots in this important market."
In March, Thorntons said its half-year profits were "disappointing" after pre-tax profit fell 8.8% to £6.5m, with sales down 8.2% to £128.2m in the 28 weeks to 10 January.
It said it was hit by a drop in orders by two major supermarkets and supply problems at its new centralised Derbyshire warehouse.
The firm issued a profit warning in December due to poor sales of its products in some supermarkets.
Thorntons was established by Joseph William Thornton in Sheffield in 1911, and has 242 of its own shops and cafes in the UK and Ireland, It also has 158 franchise outlets.
It employs around 3,500 staff, and about 3% of its revenues are generated overseas.
Family chocolate firm Ferrero posted sales of €8.4bn in the year to the end of last August, and employs around 27,000 staff.
Billionaire Michele Ferrero, whose chocolate empire made him Italy's richest man, died aged 89 in February.
His ministerial return, as secretary of state for the environment, food and rural affairs, has prompted a wave of claims that Mr Gove tried to remove the teaching of climate change when he was in charge of the education department.
"This is a man who tried to stop young people in our schools learning about climate change, who tried to take it out of the geography curriculum," said Caroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party.
On social media, these claims about climate change have been linked with pictures of Mr Gove's visit to the newly elected President Trump, as though their awkward thumbs up were evidence of some kind of global compact.
But is there any substance to the claims?
Anyone taking geography GCSEs or A-levels this summer will wonder what the row is about, because pupils will have been grilled - probably the wrong word - about climate change and global warming.
And there are plenty of references to climate change in the national curriculum for younger years.
But the row about "climate change denial" goes back to a controversial rewriting of the geography curriculum when Mr Gove was education secretary.
In a draft version, climate change was conspicuous by its absence, prompting a wave of petitions and lobbying demands for its re-inclusion.
And when the final version was produced, climate change had been reinstated.
But instead of ending the argument, there was still a lingering fog of claims about political attempts to stifle the subject.
And the Department for Education had to publish a statement denying that climate change had been removed.
But what really happened?
People who were close to Mr Gove during this time say that the climate change allegations have taken on a life of their own, a Westminster version of an urban myth, without any foundation.
They say it's a complete misreading of what happened - and that rather than downplaying the teaching of climate change, it was to be bolstered by moving it to science.
And in the end, after a consultation, Mr Gove took the decision to keep teaching it as part of geography.
Another source said that climate change ended up being taught in geography and in science, so it hadn't been cut - so it was a meaningless row.
But there are also different versions of events.
Another very senior figure, close to the curriculum reforms, said that shifting climate change into science might have been the "formal" argument.
But they suggest that there was also an "instinctive" distrust of the topic, with lessons about climate change seen as having an underlying, politically driven agenda.
This became a political "tussle", it's claimed.
Another person involved in the rewriting of the geography curriculum remembers ministerial interventions and political horse-trading.
They describe attempts not to "stress the human causes" of climate change as an attempt to placate the "right wing of the Conservative party".
This was the era of the coalition government - and it is claimed that the row was resolved behind the scenes after the intervention of the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
It was also suggested that "Nick Clegg was deployed" - as the deputy prime minister was sometimes involved with such departmental disagreements.
Although Mr Gove might have become the lightning rod in this row, it's worth noting that much of the controversial coverage about cutting climate change from geography was not about Mr Gove at all.
Tim Oates, who chaired the panel reviewing the national curriculum, argued it should be about core scientific knowledge, rather than issues, such as climate change, that might stem from that.
Such topics should be left to teachers to decide to teach rather than be prescribed, he said.
This had prompted reports that climate change "propaganda" was going to be dropped.
In a statement on Monday, Mr Oates said there had been "a lot of knee-jerk reaction and misunderstanding in media reports at the time".
"The debate the national curriculum panel had was not over whether children should understand climate science - I believe that they should.
"The debate was about what fundamental concepts they needed to learn at an early age in order to understand climate science."
"I am not a 'climate change denier' and I never have been," said Mr Oates.
There are other arguments underlying all this. Should ministers, political figures moving in and out of departments, really get involved in the detail of what pupils are taught? Or should this be the domain of subject specialists and education professionals?
And the school climate has changed too. Academies do not have to follow the national curriculum - so for most secondary schools, such requirements no longer even apply.
A spokesman for Mr Gove's new department, Defra, said: "The secretary of state wanted to enhance climate change in the national curriculum when he was education secretary. It was never his intention to remove it."
The show was created by Baz Luhrmann, who also directed a film version in 1992.
Drew McOnie will direct and choreograph the production, which opens at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in November.
Strictly Ballroom tells the story of a championship ballroom dancer who risks his career by performing unusual routines in his own maverick style.
The stage version has already toured extensively around Luhrmann's home country Australia, with residencies in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
It earned a mixed bag of reviews when it opened in 2014, with some critics claiming it "sparkles but falls short".
Songs included in the musical's score include Love is in the Air, Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps and Time After Time.
But the updated production also features new songs by Sia, David Foster and Australian singer-songwriter Eddie Perfect.
Baz Luhrmann said: "One of the great joys for us was to take a story that began as a play when I was at drama school and return to our homeland in Australia to birth the musical stage version with all our original collaborators. Now that it's been born, Strictly Ballroom must go on."
Drew McOnie, who has previously choreographed Hairspray and In The Heights, described the opportunity to direct and choreograph the show as a "dream come true".
"The film Strictly Ballroom has had such a huge impact on me. It inspired me as an 8-year-old dancer to follow my choreographic instinct," she said.
Luhrmann devised the play with a group of students in 1984, but Strictly Ballroom found its biggest success in 1992, when a film version was widely praised at the Cannes Film Festival.
The movie went on to win three Baftas and became a huge box office hit.
George Cameron, who had convictions for causing death by reckless driving, attempted murder and rape, died on Sunday.
Darrell Smith, who was convicted of shoplifting in May, died the day before.
The SPS said next of kin had been informed and fatal accident inquiries "may be held in due course."
Cameron had appeared in court on Friday on petition, where he was fully committed and remanded in custody. He was alleged to have breached a sexual offences prevention order.
A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said: "George McCallum Cameron, 37, a prisoner at HMP Perth has died. He was untried.
"Darrell Kerr Smith, 39, a prisoner at HMP Perth has died. He was convicted at Dundee Sherriff Court on 6 May 2016."
Police Scotland have been advised in both cases and reports sent to the procurator fiscal.
Sandwell Council has started removing aluminium panelling from blocks in Oldbury and West Bromwich.
Experts say the panels failed buildings regulations' combustion tests, but the council insisted residents were safe.
Fire safety in tower blocks is being tested across the country in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, in which 79 people died.
The cladding on the flats is not made from the same material as the panelling and will not need to be removed.
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The blocks affected are Astbury Court and Lawrence Court in Oldbury and Neale House and Macauley House in West Bromwich.
Works to remove the panelling will be completed by the end of next week will have "no impact on residents", Sandwell Council leader Steve Ealing has said.
The authority are required to test all aluminium or ACM panels or cladding in the borough but said it was not testing all tower blocks.
Jan Britton, chief executive of Sandwell Council, said: "While the panels comply with current building regulations, in light of the test results and recent events we are taking this action because the safety of our residents always comes first."
Councillor Kerrie Carmichael, Sandwell's cabinet member for housing, reassured residents they are "safe to remain in their buildings while we carry out work to remove the panels in question".
She added: "The main cladding on these four blocks is not the same as that used at Grenfell Tower nor is it made of aluminium composite like the panelling we're having to remove."
Arthur Rennie, 20, from Port Glasgow, targeted Cowden's News and Fast Food Shop in Greenock, on 16 March 2015.
He waved the sword and pushed 23-year-old Julie Crighton and demanded cash. She refused, pushed him back and chased him while clutching the plastic fork.
Rennie was caught when a bag containing the sword and clothing, which had his DNA on them, was found near the shop.
Jailing Rennie at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Lady Rae told him: "I appreciate you don't accept the jury's verdict, but the evidence showed that you went into the shop - along with another - with your face covered and with a large sword.
"That young woman was extremely brave to tackle you and you then ran away."
The court heard that Rennie went into the shop, pushed Ms Crighton and repeatedly asked for money while waving the sword about.
When she pushed him back, Rennie then fled with Ms Crighton giving chase while clutching a plastic fork.
Lady Rae added: "This was a large sword and the incident must have been very frightening. She is an extremely brave young woman that tackled Mr Rennie despite the fact he had that sword."
In evidence Ms Crighton said:: "He was brandishing what I thought was a machete and made his way to the side of the counter.
"He came towards me and pushed me and I pushed him back. I think he realised I wasn't going to give him anything. He went out and I went out the shop after him.
"I wasn't thinking of catching him. Just seeing where he was going."
In court Ms Crighton was shown a sword and identified it as the weapon she saw in the shop.
Rennie, was convicted, while acting with another, of attempting to rob the shop.
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He thinks greater communication will improve relationships and the overall standard of officiating.
"It will be to the detriment of the quality of the game if the referees are not up to the mark.
"Young referees need established first-grade players to give them feedback," he told the BBC Super League Show.
"It's game sense they [officials] need to be provided with, the rules are easy, they're black and white, but learning game sense is important in situations and I feel that's where we're missing the point.
"After coming back from Australia and the National Rugby League to here, I've found there is a real animosity from coaches toward the lack of and quality of feedback. I think that's a bridge we need to bring closer together."
Clubs receive a visit from Rugby Football League representatives each season regarding rule changes, and are aware the referees are available to come into clubs at anytime to discuss themes and referee practice sessions if requested
Australia's NRL has appointed a prominent former coach in Daniel Anderson to undertake the guidance of its referees after Bill Harrigan and Stuart Raper stood down following some high-profile errors from officials in 2012.
Among the most critical was an incident where Manly were awarded a try in the play-off preliminary final against North Queensland last season despite video analysis at the time that failed to spot a knock-on in the build-up.
Anderson, who coached at St Helens between 2005 and 2008 and the Exiles against England in 2012, met with the member clubs prior to the new campaign to address several issues.
The Rugby Football League has recently lost its figurehead in that role as Stuart Cummings, who was the match officials director and a conduit between coaches and officials, has departed, prompting a reshuffle of staff.
Technical assistant Jon Sharp and match officials coach Ian Smith have absorbed the responsibilities of that post, including discussions with coaches and liaison with clubs, an area former Saints and Wigan coach Millward is keen to develop in the future.
"We like to have reports so we can get some good feedback about our team and areas we need to improve," the 52-year-old Australian continued.
"We also want to give some feedback from our players to referees on areas that our players have thought about.
"For example, [Castleford second-row] Lee Gilmour, who is 34 years of age and has played international football, recently said the referee [in one game] was really quiet and it was hard to hear his calls in the tackle, and from that we conceded penalties."
Cas have been penalised by the RFL on several occasions this season, notably . Team-mates Weller Hauraki and Justin Carney have also faced disciplinary measures.
The Picture House, on the the banks of Campbeltown Loch, celebrated its centenary in May 2013.
Campbeltown Community Business, which owns and runs the A-listed art deco cinema, said the amount of improvement work needed meant it was unsustainable.
Efforts will continue to raise cash for the restoration of the building, which the company hopes to reopen in 2016.
In a statement, Campbeltown Community Business said: "Despite having had its best season for ticket sales in many years, and receiving extremely positive comments from the community following the recent changes in the operation, the Picture House is in need of substantial improvement before it can become a sustainable modern cinema.
"The volunteer board will focus their time and endeavours to secure a current shortfall in the £3m funding required to redevelop the facilities and create a modernised and refurbished cinema to better serve the local community in a sustainable manner."
The Picture House - known locally as the Wee Pictures - was one of the first purpose-built cinemas in Scotland when it opened in 1913.
It has been open continuously since then, except for a hiatus in the late 1980s.
Earlier this year, the cinema started showing live events such as operas and plays and improved the range of films available each week.
Jane Mayo, who chairs Campbeltown Community Business, said: "Having fought long and hard to secure the future of the Picture House, with regret we have been left with no option other than to cease trading in our current form for the short-term future.
"There have been recent successes, for example streaming live events from Andre Rieu and Monty Python and live theatre from Mull Theatre, but the building requires a significant refurbishment to meet the needs of all members of the community."
Mrs Mayo added: "Campbeltown Community Business will continue to fundraise to reach our development target of £3m in funding, which will see The Picture House re-open in 2016 with a brand new second screen, a new foyer and cafe bar.
"We have developed a business plan which clearly demonstrates that a redeveloped Picture House will be able to perform much better financially and be a sustainable community enterprise.
"The two screen operation will allow a much expanded range of films, as well as event cinema performances and even heritage related activities."
Rob Arthur, the interim manager of Campbeltown Picture House, is also managing director of the Thurso Cinema.
He said: "We are fully committed to supporting Campbeltown Community Business over the next two years as they aim to secure funding to re-develop and re-open The Picture House.
"The business needs to focus on providing a cinema for the people of Campbeltown and Kintyre which maintains the heritage of the current building and engages with all ages and all parts of the community using the latest digital technology.
"After re-development the cinema will be a significant local employer and we look forward to welcoming customers back to the Picture House on completion of re-development works."
East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton believes the type of aircraft allowed to carry out aerobatics needs to be looked at.
He led a debate on the crash and its implications for future air displays at Westminster Hall on Tuesday.
Eleven people died when a vintage jet crashed in to the A27 in West Sussex.
The Conservative MP said although a lot of work went into making air shows as safe as possible, the implications of the crash in Shoreham must be discussed.
"I think there will have to be some changes. We need to know exactly why the pilot was flying where he was, at that height, so close to the road.
"Do we just need to change the [flight] pattern, do we need not to have certain types of very powerful and also quite old vintage aircraft?
"Is it not suitable for those type of aircraft? I don't know."
He added: "People are keen not to rush to judgement. The Shoreham Airshow is a very popular part of the Shoreham calendar, it's been going very safely for the past 26 years and I hope we can retain it in some form."
Two days after the crash on 22 August, the Civil Aviation Authority banned vintage jets from performing high-energy aerobatics over land at air shows, limiting them to flypasts only.
It also grounded all Hawker Hunter jets until further notice.
An initial Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report found the Hawker Hunter jet showed "no abnormal indications" during its flight.
It also said pilot Andy Hill was thrown clear of the aircraft during the later part of the crash but it was not clear whether he initiated his ejection.
The Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA), which organises Shoreham Airshow, said it continued to "provide the authorities with our full cooperation and support in their endeavours to find all the answers" to the "tragedy at Shoreham".
The organisation was set up in 2009.
So what was it charged to do, and how has it fared?
What is the CQC?
The commission took over the work of three previous regulators: the Healthcare Commission, which inspected the NHS as well as private and voluntary healthcare providers; the Commission for Social Care Inspection; and the Mental Health Act Commission.
That means it has responsibility for ensuring hospitals, care homes, dentists, GPs and care homes are safe and that they offer high-quality compassionate care.
Health and social care providers also have to register with the organisation to operate.
It has an annual budget of around £160m.
It employs around 2,100 staff, around half of whom are front-line inspectors and assessors.
It can go in unannounced to carry out an investigation, or after concerns are raised about poor care.
However, much of its system relies on self-assessment by trusts - a political decision.
The CQC carried out 15,408 inspections in 2009-10 and 7,271 in 2010-11.
There were 18,858 inspections in 2011-12, a figure the regulator is set to significantly exceed this year.
Inspection teams are made up of people from these different backgrounds: some from the health and social care service, others from the police or fire service who have experience of carrying out inspections.
How has it fared?
There have been difficulties.
At the outset, the CQC had to introduce new monitoring systems and it also found it hard to recruit enough staff.
A series of reports from the Commons Select Health Committee and the National Audit Office in 2010 and 2011 highlighted problems including too much focus on registering providers rather than inspecting them.
A new management team, led by the current chief executive David Behan, came in last summer.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he has confidence in the current team.
What happened at Furness General Hospital?
Concerns first came to light in 2008 after the deaths of a number of babies and mothers in the hospital's maternity unit.
But it was given a clean bill of health by the CQC at its next inspection in 2010.
The following year, police began an inquiry into a number of deaths. Also in 2011, the CQC commissioned an internal review of its investigation of the hospital.
What are the allegations against the CQC?
A whistle-blower raised concerns with senior CQC managers in March last year about the organisation's regulation of the Cumbrian trust.
Mr Behan ordered external consultants Grant Thornton to investigate.
It found the 2011 internal CQC report was not made public because it was decided it was too critical.
Grant Thompson highlighted a meeting of senior managers in March last year at which that decision is said to have taken place.
Its report said this "might well have constituted a deliberate cover-up", though the allegations have been denied.
The CQC initially refused to name those at the meeting because of data protection concerns.
However, it came under pressure to put the names in the public domain, and finally did so on Thursday.
The CQC revealed that the people present were Cynthia Bower, then CQC chief executive, her deputy Jill Finney, Anna Jefferson, head of press, and Louise Dineley, CQC head of regulatory risk and quality, who had written the report.
Ms Bower and Ms Jefferson have denied being involved in a cover-up.
Ms Finney has had her employment terminated at her new job, chief commercial officer at Nominet, which controls the .co.uk web domain. She has not commented.
The current bosses of the CQC are set to be questioned by MPs on the Commons health committee.
Are things going to change?
Mr Hunt has said he has faith in the new team at the head of the CQC,
He has also announced there will be chief inspectors of hospitals, GPs and social care.
Mr Hunt has also said he wants NHS inspection to be more like Ofsted, which investigates schools.
There have similar budgets, while the CQC has more staff.
Health think-tank the Nuffield Trust recently said Ofsted-style inspections were a good idea.
But hospitals are typically much bigger and more complex organisations which carry out a wider array of tasks than schools.
The Nuffield Trust said to make such a system work the CQC would need extra resources, political support and time to develop it.
Khawaja hit 13 fours and three sixes as the Thunder chased 160 to win with 14 balls to spare in Adelaide.
Adelaide's 159-7 featured Alex Ross's 47 not out, while England's Adil Rashid made 14 not out from only three balls.
Melbourne Stars meet Perth Scorchers at 08:40 GMT on Friday for a place in Sunday's final.
Four current or past England players could be involved.
Kevin Pietersen and Luke Wright are in the Stars squad, while Michael Carberry and David Willey may feature for the Scorchers.
Before the men's semi-final, Sydney Thunder beat Perth Scorchers by eight runs at the same venue to reach the final of the inaugural Women's Big Bash League.
An investigation was launched after masonry fell during a funeral.
No-one was injured in the incident, but a Cardiff council environmental health officer went to the cathedral and inspected the area.
A council spokesman said: "The officer visited immediately and we are satisfied with the actions that are being taken to ensure public safety.
"Debris isn't falling from the outside of the building to endanger the public, but we will continue to monitor the situation."
The Dean of Llandaff, the Very Reverend Gerwyn Huw Capon, said it came as one of the challenges of running a fifth century building.
He said: "Like any custodian of a public building we have people such as architects and masons in hand to check for problems when they occur.
"We are always having work done, investigations and repairs to stonework.
"The architect did notice two small areas of stone with hairline cracks in a non structural pillar towards the east end of the building.
"These need a different type of access arrangement, so an access hoist is being brought into the cathedral on Friday to enable this to happen.
"These areas have been cordoned off until Friday."
HIV was resistant to the drug Tenofovir in 60% of selected cases in some African countries, according to the study, which covered a 17-year period.
The research, led by University College London, looked at 1,920 HIV patients worldwide who had treatment failure.
Lead author Dr Ravi Gupta said the results were "extremely concerning".
The work, which took four years to complete, started in 2012 and compared certain patients with HIV in Africa with those in Europe using data from 1998 to 2015.
Splitting the sample size roughly into two groups the study found that in Africa 60% of patients were resistant to Tenofovir, whereas in Europe the figure was only 20%.
The paper, which has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, said poor administration of the drug, in terms of regularly taking the right levels of Tenofovir could be explanation for the discrepancy.
"If the right levels of the drug are not taken, as in they are too low or not regularly maintained, the virus can overcome the drug and become resistant," Dr Gupta told the BBC News website.
"Tenofovir is a critical part of our armamentarium against HIV, so it is extremely concerning to see such a high level of resistance to this drug," he added.
The paper also suggested that Tenofovir-resistant strains of HIV could be passed on from person to person.
"We certainly cannot dismiss the possibility that resistant strains can spread between people and should not be complacent. We are now conducting further studies to get a more detailed picture of how Tenofovir-resistant viruses develop and spread," Dr Gupta said.
HIV is the world's most deadly infectious disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr Gupta said a global effort and an cash investment would be needed to provide better facilities and monitoring in poorer African countries and that it was in everyone's interests to make this happen.
A record 668 rhinos were killed for their horns in 2012, up almost 50% on the number for 2011.
The majority of the animals were killed in the Kruger national park, the country's biggest wildlife reserve.
Experts say that growing demand for rhino horn in Asia is driving the slaughter.
South Africa is home to around three quarters of the world's rhinoceros population of around 28,000 animals. In 2007 a mere 13 animals were lost to poachers.
But since then the killing has increased substantially. It is being fuelled by the belief in countries like China and Vietnam that powdered rhino horn has medicinal powers and can impact diseases like cancer. Horns can sell for around $65,000 a kg.
The rich rewards have attracted criminal gangs who deploy a range of sophisticated technologies in their efforts to capture and dehorn the animals.
The South African government have attempted to fight back using soldiers and surveillance aircraft, but the numbers indicate they are losing the fight.
According to a recent report from the wildlife monitoring network, TRAFFIC, South Africa's rhinos are now facing a poaching crisis that will lead to a population decline.
"Rhinos are being illegally killed, their horns hacked off and the animals left to bleed to death," says Traffic's director of advocacy Sabri Zain, "all for the frivolous use of their horns as a hangover cure."
Five more rhinos have been killed since the start of this year according to the South African government.
But the country is not alone in facing a threat to its rare rhino population.
India is home to more that 2,200 rhinoceros which are found in the well-protected Kaziranga reserve.
However even the use of around 900 armed rangers and guards hasn't been able to stop the poachers. Last year across India, 18 animals were killed, up from ten in 2011.
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The midfielder struck with six minutes to go, producing an astute finish from 18 yards when a corner was cleared to settle an encounter that was low in quality.
United went close early on, Tom Lapslie's deflected shot claimed by Christian Walton, with Owen Garvan's wonderful volley inches wide.
Danny Hylton's 10th-minute effort was easy for Sam Walker, while Colchester almost broke the deadlock only for Denny Johnstone to scuff straight at Walton.
In the second period Hylton fluffed a great chance as he failed to get enough power on his attempt after Frankie Kent made a mess of dealing with a hopeful ball forward.
Garvan then completely missed his kick when well placed while Alex Gilliead's effort straight at Walker and Johnstone not far away either.
Johnny Mullins missed a golden chance, blazing woefully over from inside the box with 20 minutes to go, before Colchester won it late on thanks to Slater.
Hylton looked to have had his shirt pulled as he tried to net a late leveller, but Kurtis Guthrie could have made the outcome even more comfortable, denied by some valiant James Justin defending.
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Match ends, Luton Town 0, Colchester United 1.
Second Half ends, Luton Town 0, Colchester United 1.
Attempt missed. Chris Porter (Colchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Colchester United. Kane Vincent-Young replaces Richard Brindley.
Foul by Danny Hylton (Luton Town).
Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Colchester United. Drey Wright replaces Craig Slater.
Substitution, Luton Town. Jordan Cook replaces Olly Lee.
Scott Cuthbert (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United).
Attempt saved. Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Stephen O'Donnell (Luton Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Luton Town 0, Colchester United 1. Craig Slater (Colchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by John Mullins.
Substitution, Colchester United. Chris Porter replaces Denny Johnstone.
Substitution, Luton Town. Pelly Ruddock replaces Alex Gilliead.
Attempt missed. Richard Brindley (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
James Justin (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James Justin (Luton Town).
Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Dangerous play by Alex Gilliead (Luton Town).
Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Scott Cuthbert.
Foul by John Mullins (Luton Town).
Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Brennan Dickenson.
Attempt missed. John Mullins (Luton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high following a set piece situation.
Owen Garvan (Colchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by George Elokobi.
Attempt blocked. Craig Slater (Colchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Luton Town. Isaac Vassell replaces Jack Marriott.
Foul by Danny Hylton (Luton Town).
Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Tom Eastman.
Attempt blocked. Jack Marriott (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Frankie Kent.
Tom Eastman (Colchester United) is shown the yellow card.
James Justin (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Tom Eastman (Colchester United).
The fire swept through a nursing home inside the hospital in Tainan City that housed elderly and mostly bed-ridden patients.
A hospital official said the victims died of smoke inhalation. Injured residents were being treated at several different hospitals.
Police say they have arrested a man on suspicion of starting the fire.
Local reports say the man is a patient at the nursing home.
The nursing home housed more than 100 people, many of whom were on respirators and unable to move on their own.
"It was pitch black and the heavy smoke was unbearable, it's really horrifying," a person who escaped the fire told Taiwan's Central News Agency.
One 94-year-old woman had to use her wheelchair to escape the blaze, hiding on the second floor until rescuers found her, local media reported.
Thirty fire engines were sent to the blaze, which was extinguished by 04:16 local time (20:16 GMT), just over 45 minutes after it was reported, officials said.
Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te said the hospital's remote location and the fact that most of the patients were unable to move on their own made the situation worse.
Firefighters arrived at the scene 10 minutes after the fire broke out, but because of the large number of patients nearby residents had to pitch in to help transport some of them to other hospitals, says the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei.
The fire is believed to be one of deadliest at a Taiwanese hospital and one of the most serious on the island in recent years, says our correspondent.
Premier Sean Chen said in a statement that he had sent condolences to the victims' families.
British Cycling's Shane Sutton said the decision not to renew her contract "was based on a projection of medal competitiveness at Olympic level".
Varnish, 25, missed out on Rio after she and Katy Marchant finished fifth at last month's World Championships.
Afterwards she strongly criticised decisions made by British Cycling.
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"I feel sick," Varnish told BBC Sport at the time.
"We have been basically playing catch-up for two years after decisions that were [made] above us, and bad luck."
But British Cycling's technical director Sutton insisted the decision to drop Varnish had been made purely on performance grounds.
"Since her gold medal at the London World Cup in 2012, Jess had not made the necessary gains in performance compared to the rest of the world," he said.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, he added: "There is no point carrying on and wasting UK Sport's money on someone who is not going to medal going forward."
Britain's two places in the individual sprint at the Rio Olympics are now likely to be filled by Marchant and Becky James.
Varnish raced in the team sprint with Victoria Pendleton at London 2012, breaking the world record in qualifying before being disqualified in the semi-finals.
Varnish subsequently won a bronze alongside James at the 2014 World Championships, as well as two individual bronzes for England at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow that year.
International artists such as Joe Locke, Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis and Kamasi Washington will perform at venues across the city from 22 June.
The four-day festival will also feature Scottish and UK talent such as Carol Kidd, Ryan Quigley and Hamish Stuart.
To tie-in with the anniversary theme, up-and-coming musicians within the Scottish Jazz scene will also perform as part of the "30 Under 30" programme.
Glasgow Jazz festival director Jill Rodger said the organising team was "very excited to be launching the 30th" programme.
"I can't wait to introduce the array of exciting big name artists to the Glasgow Jazz Festival stage, to welcome back old friends and showcase some fantastic new, one-off collaborations," she said.
"I am especially looking forward to celebrating the "30 Under 30" musicians - the collection of young Scottish Jazz musicians making a big impression on the international Jazz scene today.
"It is vitally important to recognise the next generation of musicians and one of the key themes of this year's festival is looking forward to the exciting next 30 years that the Glasgow Jazz scene has to offer."
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The players released a joint statement saying that they were not responsible for leaking the video of a "private act involving fully consenting adults".
The pair were dropped for Eibar's friendly against fellow La Liga side Leganes on Wednesday.
Luna joined Villa from Sevilla in 2013, playing 17 times for the English side.
The statement, signed by both players, added: "We hope this incident won't degrade the image of the club or of our team-mates."
They added they were sorry if the video "offended our fans and the city of Eibar in general'.'
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Stephen Chapman said more victims of modern slavery from Albania end up in the UK than from any other country.
An Albania government official said it was combining efforts with UK agencies.
They have been looking at how the Welsh Government and the Crown Prosecution Service deal with the problem.
They took part in a conference in Cardiff and visited a safe house where victims are being protected.
A CPS spokesperson said that in 2015, 600 Albanian adult slavery victims were identified in the UK, 17% of all cases.
In 2015-16, prosecutions for human trafficking nationwide were their "highest ever, with the number of convictions also increasing".
The spokesperson said the CPS was a key member of Wales' Anti-Slavery Leadership Group which "works to improve the investigation and prosecution of modern slavery offences, whilst supporting those who are subjected to this crime".
Albania's deputy anti-trafficking coordinator, Dr Elona Gjebrea, who is also the deputy minister of the interior, said she was pleased to be in Cardiff working with "key UK partners combining efforts in the fight against human trafficking".
Gen Ilker Basbug was among dozens of people convicted of involvement in the so-called Ergenekon plot.
Critics of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have accused him of staging show trials to eliminate his enemies.
His supporters say the trials have pushed the military out of politics.
Gen Basbug, who led the military between 2008 and 2010, was among at least five generals to be jailed for life on Monday at a specially constructed courtroom west of Istanbul.
After the verdict, he wrote on his Twitter page: "Those on the side of the truth and righteous, that is on the side of justice, have a clear conscience. That is how I am."
By James ReynoldsBBC Turkey correspondent
The Ergenekon trials are based on a belief that there is a lingering "deep state", said to be a network of army officers, business leaders, secularists and arch-nationalists who seek to undermine and even overthrow elected governments.
In the Ergenekon case, the administration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the "deep state" of conspiring to cause social unrest which would then provoke a military coup. The court in Silivri has now largely agreed with the government's argument.
The heavy sentences given to retired military officers are another sign that the Erdogan administration has changed the nature of the relationship between civilian governments and the military. For decades the military was the final arbiter in Turkish politics. Between 1960 and 1997, the armed forces removed four civilian governments. But Mr Erdogan has asserted civilian supremacy over the military.
The prime minister's critics argue that he has overestimated the threat posed by the deep state - and used it as a pretext to suppress valid opposition.
At least 21 people were acquitted, but dozens of others received lengthy sentences:
The plot allegedly aimed to topple the government led by Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The defendants faced charges ranging from membership of Ergenekon, an alleged underground terrorist network, to illegally possessing weapons and instigating an armed uprising against the AKP.
Prosecutors had demanded life imprisonment for Gen Basbug and 63 others, including nine other generals.
The court is sitting at the high-security Silivri prison complex, west of Istanbul, where the general is being held.
Hundreds of riot police fired tear gas to disperse some 1,000 protesters who were marching outside the court.
Akif Hamzacebi, an MP with the Republican People's Party, said the nation would not accept Gen Basbug's conviction.
"If you are trying someone who has been the commander of the Turkish armed forces for being a member of a terrorist organisation, that means you are targeting and trying the army of the Republic of Turkey," he said.
The case is being seen as a key test in Mr Erdogan's showdown with secularist and military opponents.
Since he came to power in 2002, hundreds of military officers - serving or retired - have been arrested.
Critics say there is little evidence for the charges and accuse the government of trying to silence its secularist opponents.
Mr Erdogan has denied any political interference in the case.
By Guney YildizBBC Turkish
The court case that changed Turkey
Monday's sentencing hearing is the culmination of a number of trials that began in 2008.
As the investigation widened, dozens more suspects were held, and their cases were eventually folded into the main trial.
Some of the suspects have been in custody awaiting verdicts for five years.
Rights groups have raised concerns over the conduct of the trials.
Turkey's military has long seen itself as the guarantor of the secular constitution.
It staged three coups between 1960 and 1980 and has a history of tension with the AKP.
The AKP is considered a successor to the Welfare Party, an Islamist party that led a government forced to resign by an army-led campaign in 1997.
The 24-year-old Briton and world-record holder Browne have dominated the T44 100m event for the past five years.
Their rivalry has been heated at times, but Browne, who retired before Rio 2016 but returned to the track earlier this year, looks unlikely to compete.
"He's the defending champion I want him in the race," Peacock told BBC Sport.
Peacock won the pair's first major contest by taking gold at the London 2012 Paralympics, in the same London Stadium that will host this year's World Para-Athletics Championships.
He has gone on to claim titles at the 2013 World Championships and Rio 2016, with 25-year-old Browne's only major championship in the 100m coming at the 2015 Worlds, where Peacock was absent through injury.
Browne has yet to register a time below 11.48 seconds in 2017, with his world record mark at 10.61 secs and Peacock's leading time this season at 10.76 secs, but he insisted last month he was still "the man to beat", despite not competing in May's Manchester Games.
"I don't think he will be there. I hope he is," said Peacock.
"But seeing he didn't turn up to Manchester was a big red flag.
"He seems to have deleted his Twitter and Instagram accounts, he didn't turn up to US trials and hasn't even given an answer as to at why he wasn't in Manchester."
It seems Peacock's closest rivals in London will be South African Amu Fourie, German Felix Strong and American Jarryd Wallace, who Peacock describes as "literally one of the nicest guys I know".
He is, however, unlikely to say the same about Browne, who once tweeted that Peacock was a "great athlete not so great person".
Peacock says he had no issue with his competitor until an incident at the 2013 Anniversary Games in London, a few weeks after the Briton's victory in the World Championships.
"Apparently all warm-up, every time I walked past Richard he would grab his hamstring. And about 10 minutes before we went into the call room he stops, gets on the floor and holds his hamstring like he's just broken it," said Peacock.
"I checked he was OK and asked the British Athletics doctor to see him.
"They call for the race and he's not coming so I let my guard down. Next thing I know he runs in at the last second and I even said to an official 'he'll probably stop at 10m'.
"He broke the world record. That was when I realised I couldn't be nice with the guy anymore. It's good fun though and I love racing him."
The 205-million-year-old reptile was discovered in a drawer of fossils at the University of Bristol by student Catherine Klein.
Measuring just 11cm (4in) from snout to tail, Clevosaurus sectumsemper is the smallest of the "Gloucester lizards".
Ms Klein said the name was "a nod" to the sectumsempra curse cast by Severus Snape in Harry Potter.
The previously unstudied "drawer full of rocks" was found in Woodleaze Quarry, near Bristol, in the 1980s.
As part of a summer project, 21-year-old undergraduate Ms Klein extracted thousands of fossils from the rocks and was able to show "enough differences" from known clevosaurs to call it a new species.
"The new species probably lived in a relatively hostile environment because there is a relatively high occurrence of healed fractures," she said.
"Possibly the animals were fighting each other due to a limited food source, or perhaps they preyed on each other and bones were broken, but some individuals survived and their broken bones healed."
It was able to "self-sharpen" its "blade-like teeth" with each bite.
"The species name sectumsemper means 'always cut', and was chosen to reflect this," Ms Klein said.
"It is also a nod to the Harry Potter character Severus Snape, who made a spell called sectumsempra."
In J.K. Rowling's novels, Professor Snape invents the curse while studying at Hogwart's, where Harry later discovers the incantation inside one of the teacher's old textbooks.
He unwittingly uses the spell - which acts on its victim like an "invisible sword" - against nemesis Draco Malfoy, and gravely injures him.
The 56-year old said: "I've always regarded Mr Bean as an ageless, timeless figure.
"I don't want him to particularly grow old, and if I carry on playing him then he's going to get older, whether we like it or not.
"I would like to remember Mr Bean how he was five or 10 years ago."
The TV series came out in the 1980s and 1990s, with the final episode being screened in 2006.
Rowan Atkinson developed the Mr Bean character while studying at university.
The actor's latest film Johnny English Reborn is out in the UK now.
It's the sequel to his 2003 hit Johnny English in which he plays a spoof James Bond type character.
In the film Rowan Atkinson drives a fast car and carries out a few of the stunts.
"There is a sequence in Hong Kong where I had to step over a 25-storey building drop, but I said 'no' to that as I do have a problem with vertigo," he revealed.
"I'll do an occasional stunt, but the problem is the insurance people want you to turn up the next day and be OK to film."
In a statement IS said that "caliphate soldiers" carried out the assaults using "light weapons".
The IS-linked Amaq "news agency" also reported the claim.
Jogeswar Roy, 45, was attacked by two assailants armed with pistols and cleavers at his home in the temple on Sunday, police say.
While the Bangladeshi government insists that IS is not active in the country, the jihadists in November said they carried out an attack on a Shia mosque in the north-western town of Bogra in which at least one person was killed.
The militant group also claimed an October grenade attack on a Shia shrine Dhaka, which killed one and injured 80 - although their claim was dismissed by the government.
IS has in addition said it was behind the murders of an Italian aid worker in September and a Japanese citizen in October.
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In the latest violence, police said that assailants on a motorbike attacked the priest in the remote northern district of Panchagarh with a sharp weapon, injuring two devotees who tried to help him.
"The priest was preparing for morning prayers when they pounced on him and decapitated him on the veranda of his home inside the temple," government administrator Shafiqul Islam told the AFP news agency.
"We recovered a blood-stained cleaver from the spot."
There have been a series of recent attacks on bloggers and religious minorities including Shias, Sufis, Christians and Ahmadis by hard line Islamist militant groups.
While attacks on foreigners remain rare, extremists have carried out a series of high-profile attacks on secular writers, hacking to death five bloggers - one a US citizen - in 2015.
Another militant Islamist group, the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is believed to be responsible for an assault on an Italian Catholic priest in the northern district of Dinajpur late last year.
Hindus comprise the Muslim-majority country's largest minority - about 10% of its 160 million population.
The EU has set provisional duties on Chinese imports of reinforced bar or rebar of between 9.2% and 13%.
Industry body UK Steel says its shows: "the scale of the crisis affecting the European steel sector has not yet fully registered with Brussels bureaucrats".
It says the decision is "a slap in the face for UK manufacturers of rebar".
UK Steel says that Chinese companies have taken more than 45% of the UK rebar market, having had none of it four years ago.
"Unless these provisional duties are increased, then we will see further job losses in the rebar sector in the future, as China shows no sign of stemming this tidal wave of rebar exports, with ever increasing tonnage reaching our shores," it added.
The main maker of rebar in the UK is Celsa Steel, the Spanish owned steelmaker, which is based in Cardiff.
Celsa Steel UK managing director Luis Sanz said: "The Commission must now focus on achieving higher and more appropriate levels for the final duties, as quickly as possible.
"In the meantime, we hope the construction sector will recognise their responsibility to support sustainable British steel in the supply chain, and avoid these unfairly traded products."
Commenting on the decision by the EU to impose low-level duties on the imports of Chinese rebar, Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community, the steelworkers' union said: "British steelworkers could be forgiven for thinking the EU hasn't noticed the global steel crisis crippling our industry.
"The decision to impose such a low duty on imported Chinese rebar clearly demonstrates that EU politicians just don't get it.
"Having already taken far too long to act, it only adds insult to injury to effectively give China a slap on the wrist.
The Commission launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of HFP rebar from China in April following a complaint from European steel association Eurofer.
The 28-year-old was appointed as Alastair Cook's replacement on Saturday, following England's recent 5-2 series defeat against Sri Lanka.
The Middlesex batsman said: "I thought I better give him a ring and he said 'we'd like to offer you the captaincy'.
"I was delighted to be asked. Being offered the captaincy is awesome."
He continued: "It's a huge honour to lead an extremely talented group of guys during a really exciting period."
Dublin-born Morgan made his one-day international debut for his native Ireland in 2006, but switched to represent England three years later.
Morgan has captained England in eight one-day international matches, most recently in the fourth one-day international in Colombo on 7 December, which ended in defeat for England.
The then stand-in captain was fined 20% of his match fee for a slow over-rate.
The left-hander averages 71.16 with the bat as captain and has led the side to three victories, four defeats and one no-result.
England face Australia and India in a World Cup warm-up one-day series before the start of the 2015 tournament which is being jointly held by Australia and New Zealand.
England begin their World Cup campaign against Australia on 14 February at the MCG in Melbourne.
Comic Enterprises had argued that 20th Century Fox's production had breached its trademark rights to the phrase The Glee Club.
A High Court judge ruled in the UK company's favour but said it had not been damaged.
The owner of the comedy and music venue chain, Mark Tughan, said he felt vindicated by the ruling.
Speaking after the hearing, he said: "It's a relief because you can't get any more David and Goliath than this.
"I always knew it would be a career-defining situation but I did not take it on for the fun of it - I took it on to win."
After the verdict was announced a spokesman for The Glee Club said in a statement: "The TV show could now be taken off air in the UK, Glee merchandise and DVDs removed from UK shops and music downloads halted."
A 20th Century Fox Television spokesperson stated: "We intend to appeal and are confident that, as the case plays out, we will ultimately prevail. We remain committed to delivering Glee to all of its fans in the UK."
The television show, about a singing club at a fictional US high school, first aired in 2009 on the Fox Channel - part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
Mr Tughan said the trademark was registered in 1999 and launched legal proceedings against 20th Century Fox in September 2011, which was contested.
He said: "Smaller independent businesses should take heart from today's decision.
"It clearly shows that trademark infringements by large multi-national companies can be effectively challenged in British courts.
"Trademark law does not exclusively exist for the world's largest companies, able to spend millions of pounds to protect their intellectual property, whilst simultaneously infringing the trademarks of others."
Deputy High Court Judge Roger Wyand QC made no mention of compensation in his written ruling but did state subsequent issues would be studied at another hearing.
He said album compilations of songs performed on the show had been sold in the UK, two world concert tours had included performances in Manchester and London and Glee merchandise had been sold.
"Comic Enterprises says that all these activities, when carried out the United Kingdom, infringe the [trademark] and pass off 20th Century Fox's show, and associated products, as being associated in the course of trade with Comic Enterprises.
"20th Century Fox denies infringement and passing off."
The judge concluded Comic Enterprises' claim on infringement succeeded and said: "I believe that evidence taken as a whole shows that there is a likelihood of confusion.
"20th Century Fox's use causes dilution and tarnishing. Continued use in such circumstances cannot be in accordance with honest practices in industrial or commercial matters."
But, he added: "I am not convinced that such confusion is sufficiently likely to be said to cause damage. The passing off case fails."
The Glee Club opened in Birmingham in 1994 and now has branches in Cardiff, Nottingham and Oxford.
The move will make the popular area for tourists and young people into the largest hotspot on the island.
Only about 5% of Cubans enjoy web access at home and the government still heavily restricts content, although many social media sites are available.
Since last year the government has installed dozens of wi-fi hotspots in public areas, charging $2 an hour.
Although the price of wi-fi access in public places has recently dropped, it is still prohibitive for the vast majority of Cubans. The average state salary remains about $25 (£19) a month.
But for better off Cubans, the move has proved popular.
The government said last year it had 65 wi-fi hotspots in service and expected 80 more to open before the end of 2016.
The hotspots enable Cubans to enjoy much better internet access and a higher-speed connection than most have been used to.
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Entire families and crowds of young people armed with smart phones, tablets and laptops can be seen at all hours of the day and night hovering around the wi-fi hotspots to get in touch with family and friends in Florida and other parts of the world.
Internet services are provided by state-owned telecoms company Etecsa.
Access to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter is available at the hotspots - but opposition sites are blocked.
Yet despite the recent improvements, the island still has some of the world's worst connectivity.
That's why the vast majority of Cubans rely on their weekly dose of "Paquete Semanal", an offline selection of material compiled by unidentified curators and delivered every week to subscribers via an unofficial network of distributors using portable hard drives.
Dissidents accuse the government of not providing affordable home internet access for political reasons.
The Cuban government blames the US for the poor state of telecoms infrastructure, which it says is caused by the American economic embargo imposed in the 1960s.
It emerged last week that Carter was one of three Racing players who tested positive for corticosteroids prior to last season's Top 14 final.
The fly-half has failed to recover from a calf injury sustained last month.
Wing Joe Rokocoko and fellow back Juan Imhoff, the other players to test positive, are both in the Racing team for Sunday's game.
The trio were interviewed on Wednesday by French Rugby anti-doping chiefs, who will decide whether the players and Racing have broken any rules.
Racing said the players did not have therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for "anomalous" drugs tests but insist the players have not done wrong.
Carter and Rokocoko scored 20 of Racing's points in the 29-21 Top 14 final win over Toulon last June.
With Carter missing a third straight game, South African Johannes Goosen will start at number 10, fresh from turning out for the Springboks in the Rugby Championship.
Centre Henry Chavancy returns for last season's beaten European finalists with Camille Chat replacing injured skipper Dimitri Szarzewski at hooker.
Other big names in the Racing team include France internationals Eddy Ben Arous and Maxime Machenaud, who captains the team, plus ex-Glasgow star Leone Nakarawa.
Munster make only one change from last weekend's Pro12 defeat by Leinster with Jaco Taute replacing injured Keith Earls at centre.
Ireland international Earls is following return to play protocols after picking up a knock last weekend.
Fly-half Tyler Bleyendaal and wing Darren Sweetnam will both make their European debuts for the Irish province.
TEAMS
Racing 92: B Dulin; J Rokocoko, H Chavancy, A Tuitavke, J Imhoff; J Goosen, M Machenaud; E Ben Arous, C Chat, B Tameifuna; L Nakarawa, M Carizza; W Lauret, Y Nyanga, C Masoe.
Replacements: V Lacombe, V Afatia, C Gomes Sa, F van der Merwe, T Dubarry, J Hart, R Tales, A Vulivuli.
Munster: S Zebo; D Sweetnam, J Taute, R Scannell, R O'Mahony; T Bleyendaal, C Murray; D Kilcoyne, N Scannell, J Ryan; D Ryan, B Holland; P O'Mahony (capt), T O'Donnell, CJ Stander.
Replacements: D Casey, B Scott, S Archer, R Copeland, J O'Donoghue, D Williams, I Keatley, D Goggin.
A try by 19-year-old Jack Maunder in front of England head coach Eddie Jones gave the hosts an interval lead.
The visitors scored 10 points after the break, including a try by Baptiste Serin, before a controversial finish.
Exeter's James Short had a 70th-minute try ruled out when he was adjudged to have lost control of the ball.
Exeter have two points from three games, their hopes of progressing in the competition all but over.
They enjoyed plenty of possession but paid the price for too many handling errors and failing to convert chances into points.
Exeter started well, Lachlan Turner's slicing through the visitors' defence before his marauding run was brought to an end three metres from the line.
The home side took the lead in the 32nd minute after Maunder latched on to a break by Ollie Devoto.
Fog reduced visibility and the greasy conditions did little to help reduce Exeter's errors.
Bordeaux, 7-3 down at the interval, edged in front through Serin's 57th-minute try and dug deep to secure a vital win.
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter: "We had more opportunities to score but just didn't take them.
"Our frustration at not scoring got the better of us. In the end we gave Bordeaux the chance to go and score their try.
"Mathematically we're not dead but realistically it is going to be hard for us to progress.
Exeter Chiefs are back in action next Saturday when they travel to France for the return fixture (13:00 GMT).
Exeter Chiefs: Turner, Nowell, Devoto, Slade, Short, Steenson, Maunder, Moon, Yeandle, Francis, Parling, J Hill, Ewers, Armand, Dennis.
Replacements: S Hill for Slade, 62; Chudley for Maunder, 55; Rimmer for Moon, 55; G Holmes for Francis, 55; Atkins for Parling, 43; Horstmann for Dennis, 62.
Not used: Malton, Campagnaro.
Bordeaux-Begles: Buttin, Ducuing, Lonca, Rey, Connor, Madigan, Serin, S Kitshoff, Avei, Clerc, Palmer, Botha, Goujon, Edwards, Tauleigne.
Replacements: Vakacegu for Ducuing, 66; Beauxis for Madigan, 60; Lesgourgues for Serin, 57; Taofifenua for S Kitshoff, 51; Maynadier for Avei, 51; Poux for Clerc, 51; Jones for Palmer, 41; Chalmers for Edwards, 51.
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales).
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.
Mike Hookem acknowledged he and his colleague had a "scuffle" in the European Parliament but insisted that he did not hit him.
"I am innocent," he told the BBC. "I never threw a punch. I never assaulted him. I will stand my corner."
UKIP's Steven Woolfe will be kept in hospital for a further 48 hours.
Thursday's incident is being investigated by UKIP and the European Parliament, where it has been announced the inquiry will be led by Conservative MEP Sajjad Karim.
There have been varying descriptions of what happened during what UKIP called an "altercation" and Mr Hookem told BBC Radio Humberside only he and Mr Woolfe knew precisely what went on.
Mr Woolfe, among the favourites to be the party's next leader, collapsed after their exchange and was taken to hospital.
The 49-year old had a precautionary scan which revealed there was no blood clot on his brain although he is to remain under observation for a further 48 hours in Strasbourg "as a precaution".
Mr Hookem said he was "shocked" by the MEP's hospitalisation in the hours following the incident but insisted it had been "blown out of all proportion" by the media.
He said the fracas took place in an "ante room" in the European Parliament following a "heated debate" among a wider group of MEPs as they questioned Mr Woolfe about reports he had had discussions about joining the Conservatives in recent days.
He said Mr Woolfe had objected to remarks which he made. "He then stood up in front of everybody and said 'if it's that, let's take it outside of the room', I think his words were 'mano a mano'."
"When I walked in he approached me to attack me. He came at me, I defended myself. There were no punches thrown, there was no face slapping, there were no digs, there was nothing," he said.
"It's (what) people in Hull would term 'handbags at dawn'. A bit of a scuffle."
By BBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth
This row illustrates the deep-rooted divisions that have taken hold in UKIP since the general election.
In the broadest sense, they are between those who are loyal to Nigel Farage and his vision for the party - who credit him and his plain speaking, anti-establishment message for its success - and those who think that he asserted too much control as leader.
This group, among them some UKIP members who were former Conservatives, want broader policies.
That's the backdrop to this argument, MEPs were said to be angered that Steven Woolfe had considered defecting to the Tories.
UKIP is a party that has enjoyed enormous success in a short time but now it is wrestling with what it stands for, where it sits on the political spectrum and at the same time it is looking for a new leader.
Whoever that may be, their first great challenge will be to stop UKIP looking in at itself and concentrate on reaching out to voters.
Analysis: Where did it all go wrong for UKIP?
He suggested Mr Woolfe's hospitalisation did not result from anything that he had done.
"I didn't push him. He fell back into that room onto an MEP that was stood just inside that room.
"Some of the MEPs helped him up. He stood straight up, there was no indication of him hitting his head on metal windows or anything else, he fell back onto an MEP."
When asked if he was worried if he would be suspended from the party, he said that if this happened Mr Woolfe would have to disciplined too and he hoped this would not happen.
He said Mr Woolfe has contacted him "to extend the hand of friendship" to him and he was now prepared "to shake Mr Woolfe's hand" if he wanted to.
While Mr Woolfe has not spoken publicly about the episode, the Daily Mail quoting him as saying Mr Hookem "came at me and landed a blow" after they left the meeting room.
He insisted he was not "bruising for a scrap" and that Mr Hookem had read his suggestion that they should deal with the matter outside "totally the wrong way".
Speaking outside the hospital on Friday, another UKIP MEP, Nathan Gill insisted his colleague was in "good form" and there was no danger to his health even though "it was at one stage touch and go".
Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, wished Mr Woolfe a speedy recovery but suggested the episode would have consequences for the party.
He said: "The reported facts are extremely serious," and had been referred to the Parliament's advisory committee to be dealt with "as a matter of urgency" next week.
"It goes without saying that disrespectful and violent behaviour does not have a place in the European Parliament," he added.
Several leading UKIP figures have questioned whether Mr Woolfe can take part in a new leadership contest - triggered by the resignation of Diane James after only 18 days - following the episode.
But UKIP donor Arron Banks, an influential figure in the party and ally of Nigel Farage - who is interim leader after Ms James' exit - has expressed his continued support for Mr Woolfe.
"Of course he can," he tweeted, adding the public wanted "real people" not "phoney career politicians".
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The Falcon 9 rocket had successfully helped to launch a capsule which was carrying supplies to the International Space Station.
Elon Musk runs the company SpaceX, which makes and launches rockets and spacecraft.
Correction: a factual error in an earlier version of this story was corrected on 18 January 2015.
Cherie Madge, 42, was found guilty of posting drugs to her internet "soul mate" Shaun Bowmer in Penrith, Cumbria.
She continued over a period of months despite pleas from Mr Bowmer's partner to stop. He died in February 2016.
Jailing her for four-and-a-half years at Carlisle Crown Court, Judge Peter Davies said Mr Bowmer "may be alive today" but for Madge.
The court heard the pair met in an online chat room "perhaps as along as 10 years ago".
Though they spoke to each other over the internet and phone, they never physically met.
Jurors were told Madge sent Mr Bowmer patient-returned drugs she sourced from her place of work between August 2015 and February 2016.
High levels of tramadol and morphine were found in Mr Bowmer's system after his death.
Madge, of Harlow in Essex, admitted sending Mr Bowmer tramadol, but denied illegally supplying him with four other controlled drugs - morphine-based Class A Zomorph and Sevredol and Class C diazepam and lorazepam.
Jurors found her guilty of all offences.
Judge Davies said Mr Bowmer's death was a "seriously aggravating feature" of Madge's offending.
He told her: "It is not an exaggeration to say but for you, he may be alive today."
During a meeting at Trump Tower, Bill de Blasio said he warned the Republican he would aim to shield undocumented immigrants from deportation.
He said Mr Trump's plans would not work in "the ultimate city of immigrants".
Mr Trump wants to deport or jail up to three million undocumented immigrants who he says have criminal records.
This figure is much disputed. The Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, estimates there are actually about 820,000 undocumented immigrants with criminal records, including many whose only conviction is for crossing the border illegally.
Mr de Blasio is not the only city leader to oppose the incoming US president's immigration policies.
The mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington DC have also vowed to protect their immigrant residents from deportation.
In other developments:
Mr De Blasio vowed after Mr Trump's election victory to delete the names of undocumented workers from a city database to prevent them from being rounded up.
The New York mayor, a liberal Democrat, told reporters his hour-long meeting with Mr Trump had been "respectful" and "candid".
"I reiterated to him that this city and so many cities around the country will do all we can to protect our residents and to make sure that families are not torn apart," he told reporters.
He added that New York - home to nearly three times the national average of foreign born citizens - "has succeeded because it was open for everyone, the place built of generation after generation of immigrants".
But Mr de Blasio also said Mr Trump "loves" his hometown, which voted by a large margin for the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.
As they met, Mr Trump's name was being removed from three buildings in New York City following a petition by residents who opposed his election.
Workers on an elevated platform took down his moniker, one gold letter at a time, from the apartment blocks on the west side.
But his flagship Manhattan tower, where the Republican has been holed up preparing for his January inauguration as the nation's 45th president, was not affected.
On Wednesday, he criticised claims of disarray in his transition, singling out the New York Times for reporting that world leaders have had trouble contacting him.
The property mogul tweeted that he had taken calls from many foreign leaders, adding: "@nytimes is just upset that they looked like fools in their coverage of me."
Mr Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence have spoken with 29 world leaders since the election, according to a statement from the transition team.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the first foreign leader to meet the new US president-elect, in New York on Thursday.
Meanwhile, current US President Barack Obama continued his farewell foreign trip, acknowledging in Greece that he and Mr Trump "could not be more different".
As he toured Athens, birthplace of democracy, Mr Obama added: "As long as we retain our faith in the people, as long as we don't waver from those central principles that ensure a lively, open debate, then our future will be ok."
Guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke wrote on Facebook: "My dear friend and brother passed away last night... He was one hell of a character."
Taylor, from Chesterfield, played in the British heavy metal band for 14 years with Clarke and frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister.
He features on all the band's hits, including Ace of Spades and Overkill.
"Fortunately we made some fantastic music together and I have many, many fond memories of our time together," Clarke said.
He said Taylor had been ill for some time "but that does not make it any easier when the time finally comes".
Taylor played with Motorhead from 1975 to 1984 and 1987 to 1992 - dubbing the interim period "a holiday".
In 1975, bassist, singer, and songwriter Lemmy formed Motorhead, which was to become one of the defining British metal bands of the 1980s.
According to the band's website, Taylor quit in February 1984 after the band recorded a version of Ace of Spades for the television series The Young Ones.
But he rejoined three years later and was present on all the band's major albums, including Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, and live recording No Sleep 'til Hammersmith.
He was fired in 1992 during the recording of the March or Die album after he failed to learn the drum tracks on the song, I Ain't No Nice Guy.
His last gig with the group was at Irvine Meadows in California in March 1992.
He did return for a brief Motorhead reunion gig in Birmingham last November, but only appeared on stage, not behind the drums.
A post on the band's official Facebook page said: "Lil' Philthy...he who fuelled many a young boy's punk/metal hairstyles...he who played the drums with fury and intent...friend, Roman, Derbyshireman...rest in peace...with much love."
The inquest into Josh Clayton's death was halted after new claims emerged of a row at a party on the privately-owned Tresco in the Isles of Scilly.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the new claims would need to be stood up.
But the family had "no confidence" in Devon and Cornwall Police to conduct "an effective investigation".
More from the inquest, and other news
The body of Mr Clayton, 23, from Taunton, was found on rocks near Tresco on 23 September 2015, 10 days after he went missing from the party on the privately-owned island.
The staff bash at The Shed venue was organised by Tristan Dorrien-Smith, son of island landlord Robert.
Partygoer Leroy Thomas said Mr Clayton had been arguing with a group of foreign workers at the party.
Tom Leeper, barrister for the Clayton family, said "erroneous assumptions" that Mr Clayton had not been involved in an altercation at the party, "have resulted in an inadequate investigation to date".
Police barrister Andrew Waters said everyone who attended the party had been spoken to by officers and nobody had mentioned the altercation.
He said officers had spoken to Mr Thomas twice and the new account would have to be corroborated.
Devon and Cornwall Police said in a statement it was the "first time" it had been made aware of the new claims and "further investigations will be carried out as a result".
Painter and decorator Mr Thomas told the hearing in Plymouth he saw Mr Clayton "ranting and raving" outside the party.
He also claimed Mr Clayton, who worked at the island's Ruin beach cafe, said he was going to kill himself.
Mr Thomas said he heard Mr Clayton say he had "had enough" and his bike was thrown into a hedge by the workers.
A bloodstained T-shirt Mr Clayton was wearing had been disposed of on the advice of police, pathologist Dr Russell Delaney told the inquest.
He said there were no signs of Mr Clayton drowning and the cause of death was "unascertained".
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Alexis Sanchez's hat-trick helped the Gunners go second in the table with victory at London Stadium.
Andy Carroll, returning from injury for his first game since 18 August, scored West Ham's consolation with a header.
"I don't want to feel like this. I apologise to the fans and anyone to do with West Ham," Bilic told BBC Sport.
"It was bad. I feel disappointed. I feel humiliated and it's my responsibility.
"I feel under pressure. I put the pressure on myself. But the pressure is not a problem. Things have to change."
Arsenal profited from an error by Angelo Ogbonna for their opening goal, scored by Mesut Ozil after Hammers centre-back James Collins came off injured.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain also netted for the Gunners - between Sanchez's second and third goals.
West Ham, beaten 4-1 by Manchester United in the EFL Cup on Wednesday, have not won in the league since a home victory over Sunderland on 22 October.
They are one point above the relegation zone, and will drop into the bottom three if Hull win at Middlesbrough on Monday.
"I am not looking for excuses. Yes we had injuries and mistakes, but we were not good enough," Bilic said on BT Sport.
"I have to be honest and say we don't have the intensity. We don't have it the same as last season, even in training.
"We were in a serious situation before this game, which we don't like. The players know that, but it's not only about knowing. It's about sacrificing and dedication for the game."
Match of the Day pundit Chris Sutton said Bilic's criticism of his players is a concern.
"When your manager is questioning your commitment and intensity there should be alarm bells ringing," said the former Blackburn striker. "I can't see them getting anything out of Liverpool in their next game and then they have Burnley, Hull, Swansea and Leicester. They are huge games for West Ham."
The Hammers finished seventh in the league last season but have won only three games since leaving Upton Park for London Stadium.
"Of course we are in a relegation fight and of course the players know that. It's not that they don't care," Bilic added.
"Am I positive I can turn this around? Yes I am. Did I do enough last season to get some credit? I think I did.
"We can do it because these players have done it, but the dedication to the cause is missing."
Ex-QPR striker Bradley Allen at London Stadium for BBC Radio London
Arsenal were at their brilliant best and, once they got themselves in front, it was just a matter of time before they built on their lead.
West Ham have to thank their keeper for keeping the scoreline down.
It was a thumping victory for the Gunners and they are genuine challengers for the league title.
Charles Zentai, 90, was alleged to have tortured and murdered a Jewish teenager in Budapest in 1944.
But the Australian High Court backed an earlier ruling that he could not be extradited because there was no offence of "war crime" in Hungary in 1944.
Mr Zentai has been fighting extradition since 2009.
He has also denied the allegations that he committed the crime.
He is accused of carrying out the crime with two other soldiers when he was a warrant officer in the Hungarian army, which was allied with Nazi Germany.
The Hungarian government alleged that Mr Zentai took part in the fatal beating of Peter Balazs for not wearing a Star of David to identify him as Jewish. Mr Zentai said he was not in Budapest at that time.
Hungarian authorities requested to question Mr Zentai in 2005. He moved to Australia after World War II and was living in the western city of Perth.
In November 2009, an Australian court ruled that he could be extradited, but a federal court overturned the ruling.
The government appealed against the federal court's decision, but the High Court rejected their case.
Mr Zentai is an Australian citizen. His family members say he will agree to answer questions from Hungarian authorities, but will not leave Australia.
Only hours before the Security Council approved the latest measures, Western diplomats were saying that this sanctions resolution would not be the last.
This suggests many more months of waiting to see what Iran does, more monitoring and reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and more negotiations over yet more sanctions.
It also implies that the option of an attack on Iranian nuclear plants is not an active one, though diplomats do accept that at some stage it will not be realistic to hope for any diplomatic solution.
The choice then will be between accepting whatever Iran has developed (which might be short of making an actual bomb) or taking military action.
There is disappointment, though not surprise, in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin that, in this resolution, Russia and China blocked any move to act against Iran's oil and gas industries.
There was never any chance that they would agree. They both have oil and gas interests in Iran and do not see Iran as a strategic threat.
Which is why the US Congress is now expected to pass its own legislation banning companies that invest significantly in Iranian oil and gas from operating in the US.
The British government will also be pressing the EU to take measures restricting investment in the Iranian energy field.
It appears that Western governments hope that energy might be a future target. They are pointing out that, in the latest resolution, it is mentioned that Iranian revenues for its "proliferation-sensitive" activities come mainly from the energy sector. They hope that this can be built on.
All this amounts to an acceptance that, while the old and new sanctions might be slowing down Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile work, they have not stopped them nor have they led to any softening of the Iranian position.
Iran has rejected the Security Council demands as illegal and has said that it will press on with uranium enrichment, but will not build a nuclear weapons.
There are two reasons why sanctions have failed.
The first is that they are not targeted against Iran's vital economic interests, and Iran has developed systems of evasion in any case.
The second is that the Iranian government is more than willing to absorb the limited economic effect they have in favour of the greater political benefit it gets from continuing with its nuclear activities.
Indeed, sanctions are another flag around which to rally its supporters.
The new resolution aims to add to the previous attempts to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear or ballistic missile technology. It aims to
The problem is that the really hard-hitting sanctions have been avoided. The most damaging measures would be to stop the sale to Iran of finished petroleum products and to ban investment in its oil and gas industries. Despite its wealth of oil deposits, Iran cannot refine enough products for its own use.
Iran has also managed to work round the systems already in place.
In April, a Washington-based monitoring group, Iran Watch, reported that the Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) had undertaken "a large-scale re-labeling of its ships, giving them new names, new managers, new 'owners' - in short, new identities".
"The US blacklist has not kept up with these changes, so it is being circumvented by Iran with relatively little effort," Iran Watch said.
The New York Times followed this up with a detailed account of how it has been done.
The result of all this is that Security Council sanctions have tended to be the lowest common denominator in which the important thing is to preserve the unity of the council.
Yet the more unity there is, the fewer the sanctions.
This is why the US Congress has prepared measures of its own, in addition to the blanket trade ban the US imposed in 1995.
It may well be that pressure by the US and the EU, under which individual companies simply stop trading with Iran, might have more economic effect than the UN.
But, again, will Iran budge?
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Lucic, 21, has made only two Championship appearances for the Robins since arriving from German champions Bayern Munich in July.
Bristol City recently signed Schalke keeper Fabian Giefer, with Frank Fielding also vying to be first-choice.
Lee Johnson's side are 21st in the Championship following a club-record eight successive league defeats.
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Villagers in Clovelly said about 2in of rain had fallen in an hour earlier.
The worst of the flooding was said to be in the main part of the village - a popular tourist destination - where one villager described the scene as a "brown river".
Devon and Somerset fire service was expected to be in the village late into the evening.
Gary Hanger, who lives in Clovelly, said: "People who have lived here all their lives, 50 years or more, have never seen anything like this.
"It's about 2in deep. It's just pouring into some houses, in one door and out the other."
Resident Sally Stevens said: "The water swept down the street and a few houses are flooded. The heavy rain has gone now, but the damage has been done."
Paula Cook, another resident in the privately owned village, said: "It was like the high street had been turned into a river. I have never seen anything like it."
Residents and volunteers are expected to spend much of the night helping those whose properties have been damaged.
Bysha Beani, from Clovelly Lifeboat Station, said: "We have been making an effort along with everyone else in Clovelly to help those most in need.
"The floodwater has caused a lot of damage, mostly to people's homes, and it seems the whole village is trying to do what it can to clean up."
The fishing village is traffic-free and popular with tourists for its tranquillity and its donkeys, which traditionally carry goods up the hill in the centre.
Clovelly has been privately owned by the same family since 1738. About 1,600 people live in the village and Clovelly Bay.
Other parts of Devon have also been affected by the heavy rain.
The A39 at Parracombe in Devon was shut both ways in the late afternoon due to flooding at Broadoak Hill.
Low-lying parts of Tiverton have been flooded, with the river Lowman bursting its banks.
Kevin Martin, who runs the Inn on the Green pub, said: "We can't open the front door at all. People are having to come in around the back."
The county council said the A388 outside Southcott Garage, Holsworthy, had flooded.
The A3072 between Bude in north Cornwall and Holsworthy was blocked in places.
David Quance, who lives at Sutcombe Mill, between Holsworthy and Bradworthy, said: "The water has come over a wall our neighbour had built.
"It's coming out of the entrance to their drive at tremendous force."
Ireland duo Seaton and McGovern were in danger of missing out on the final race at the Olympics after finishing 20th and 19th in Tuesday's first two races.
However, a win in race 12 saw the Irish pair move back into the top 10 boats who will race on Thursday.
Seaton, 26, and McGovern, 28, were in sixth spot going into Tuesday's races.
Overnight, the Team Ireland duo were upgraded from 13th to 12th spot in Monday's first race which led to them moving from seventh to sixth overall.
Carrickfergus man Seaton and McGovern, from Bangor, missed on the medal race in London four years ago when they finished 14th overall.
The pair had been in fourth position at the halfway point of the competition, thanks partly to a win on Saturday.
New Zealand's pre-event favourites Peter Burling and Blair Tuke look set to secure the gold medal, but the other medal positions remain up for grabs between the German, Australian and British boats.
The New Zealand pair lead the competition on 33 points with Germany (67) battling for the other medals with Australia (70) and British duo Dylan Fletcher and Alain Sign (80).
Powys and Ceredigion will be among the first UK areas to benefit from the UK government's plan to end mobile black spots at 60,000 homes and businesses.
Montgomeryshire AM Russell George and MP Glyn Davies said it would help communities and local economies.
The first of the new sites could "go live" by the end of this year.
A total of £150m has been set aside for the Mobile Infrastructure Project (MIP), which was first announced in October 2011.
The UK government has given more details, including naming which parts of the country will share the cash and in what order.
Mr Davies said the announcement that mid Wales would be among the first areas to benefit from the scheme was "good news".
"This project will see mobile phone coverage extended to areas of rural Powys where currently none exists," he said.
"It will also provide a significant boost to local economies across the region and allow people to do business in a much easier way."
Mr George, chair of the National Assembly's cross party group on digital communication, said: "Wales has tended to be well behind the UK curve when it comes to the development of digital communications infrastructure and we continue to play catch-up, which certainly hasn't helped our general economic performance.
"We desperately need to strengthen and enhance our digital infrastructure if we are going to ensure our rural communities are viable places to live and work in the future."
The government funding will be used to buy the right to erect masts on properties and pay for the infrastructure.
The equipment will then be used by network operators Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three.
The scheme has been divided into five phases, the first two of which are already under way.
The UK government said efforts to identify sites for new masts are already under way in much of Wales, Lancashire and Aberdeenshire.
The Scottish Highlands are among areas where the work will be completed last.
A map showing which areas are being given priority by communications infrastructure company Arqiva - which is running the project - has been published by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS).
The Royal London Hospital has been told by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that "lax" checking of name bands left babies and families at risk.
A total of 4,645 babies were born at the Whitechapel hospital last year.
Inspectors, who visited the hospital in July, also found there were not enough midwives on the delivery suite to provide safe cover for all women.
Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, has been told to "urgently" improve security in maternity after rating the service "inadequate".
The CQC report said some babies born at the hospital had no name tags - creating a "risk that a baby might receive medication intended for another baby, and mother might leave the unit with the wrong baby".
Professor Sir Mike Richards, chief inspector of hospitals, said a number of issues had been raised with the trust, "as a matter for their urgent attention".
Issues included:
Sir Mike added: "We were most concerned about the standard of care around maternity and gynaecology services.
"Staffing on maternity wards was sometimes inadequately covered - but most worrying of all was the lack of a safe and secure environment for new born babies."
Barts Health NHS Trust said it had already taken steps to address baby safety concerns, including the introduction of new baby ID tags.
A spokeswoman said: "We acted immediately to improve the security of babies at The Royal London Hospital.
"It's important to stress that these reports are based on observations from five months ago - since then we have subjected our processes and procedures to forensic scrutiny.
Other key findings during the inspection were nine "never events" - wholly preventable errors that occur in medical care - between August 2015 and July 2016.
These errors included a surgeon leaving an object inside a patient after finishing an operation, a wrong tooth extraction and incorrect medication being given to a patient.
National Union of Teachers members will walk out first on Tuesday 5 July, after 91% of those who voted backed the action. The turnout was 25%.
NUT deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney said teachers could not go on without seeing significant change.
The government said it was disappointed and was committed to formal talks.
The action is the next step in the union's long-running dispute with the government and will affect in schools in England and Wales.
Mr Courtney said: "The NUT is not taking action lightly.
"In light of the huge funding cuts to schools, worsening terms and conditions, and unmanageable and exhausting workloads, teachers cannot be expected to go on without significant change.
"The effects on children's education are also real and damaging.
"As a result of school funding cuts, class sizes in primary and secondary schools are increasing, subject choices are being cut, and children are getting less individual attention as teachers and support staff are made redundant or not replaced when they leave."
"There is worse to come, with the Institute of Fiscal Studies predicting that the biggest real terms cuts to per pupil funding in a generation are on the way.
"There is already a teacher recruitment and retention crisis in our schools.
"Without significant change to the pay and working condition of teachers, this will simply deepen.
"We know that many parents share our concerns."
The union is calling for an increase in funding to schools and education, and to resume negotiations on teacher contracts to allow workload to be addressed.
Teaching unions have complained that schools have not been fully funded to meet extra costs of pay, pension and National Insurance costs passed on by the government.
The Department for Education said: "It is disappointing the National Union of Teachers has chosen to take unnecessary and damaging strike action, which less than a quarter of its members voted for.
"It is even more disappointing when we have offered and committed to formal talks between ministers and the unions to address their concerns about pay.
"Industrial action causes disruption to children's education and parents who have to take time out of work to arrange childcare, we urge the NUT not to proceed with this strike and to resolve pay disputes at the negotiating table rather than playing politics with children's futures."
Montanier, 51, left his job as boss of French side Rennes in January having previously had stints at Real Sociedad, Boulogne and Valenciennes.
A former goalkeeper, the Frenchman's playing career included spells with Toulouse, Nantes and St Etienne.
Forest sacked Dougie Freedman in March and ended last season with Paul Williams as temporary manager.
The East Midlands club finished 16th in the Championship table and Williams left soon afterwards.
Montanier had been linked with the coach's job at Lens, but has instead taken the opportunity to manage in England.
He took over at Real Sociedad in 2011 and guided them to a fourth-placed finish and a spot in the Champions League in 2013.
However, his contract was not renewed and he then spent three years at Rennes, who reached the Coupe de France final in 2014.
BBC Radio Nottingham's Robin Chipperfield:
"It's a time of great intrigue at the City Ground. Montanier becomes the first non-British manager appointed by the Reds - an appointment that has taken a long time to announce. Remember, Dougie Freedman was sacked on 13 March.
"One of the most interesting aspects of Montanier's tenure could be how well he works with Pedro Perreira, who was recently appointed as the club's new director of football.
"If they can forge a strong partnership, and their views on the style of football, and potential new signings dovetail, then a prosperous future is more likely.
"The success achieved by Watford and Sheffield Wednesday under Slavisa Jokanovic and Carlos Carvalhal respectively have to be the models for Forest to follow.
"There is still plenty of work to be done at Forest, but this feels like a very significant step."
Recruits to Tilbury station in Essex were singled out and endured physical and indecent abuse in the late 80s and early 90s, Basildon Crown Court heard.
Anthony Benham, 50, of Stanford-le Hope, and Ian Maguire, 55, of Benfleet, pleaded not guilty to indecent assault.
They also denied 10 counts of false imprisonment between 1988 and 1997.
Firefighters have claimed they were tied to a stretcher and hung up in the air, locked in a small room which was filled with water and then urinated upon through a skylight window.
One firefighter alleges he was cling-filmed to a lamppost and had ice blocks attached to his private parts.
In another "extreme prank", a man claims he had a muscle relaxant rubbed over his private parts.
The court was told what happened at the station "went beyond any acceptable practical joke".
Prosecutor Stephen Rose said: "Both of these defendants took advantage of that culture of practical jokes and intimidation to engage and indulge in acts of indecent degradation to new recruits.
"This occurred in a climate of fear in which none of these young recruits felt able to challenge the senior firefighters.
"It would be obvious to both defendants throughout that none of these young men were consenting to any of these incidents of restraint or indecency."
Both defendants no longer work for the fire service, but Mr Maguire later joined the police and Mr Benham retired from ill health, the court heard.
Tilbury fire station closed in 1997.
The trial continues.
Barry McClung died after an accident as he was driving his car on the Coast Road near Larne on Thursday night at about 21:00 BST.
No other vehicle was involved. Linfield Football Club have been paying tribute to him.
On the club's website they said Mr McClung had just recently retired as their scout.
The tribute posted on their website said his death was a sad loss.
"He used to work in Nortel in Newtownabbey with Linfield Assistant Manager Bryan McLoughlin and tributes from both Bryan and David Jeffrey will be posted on this website tomorrow," the statement read.
"The deepest sympathy and most sincere condolences of everyone connected with Linfield Football Club are conveyed to the friends and family circle of Barry McClung at this sad time."
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The shell-rich dune grasslands are found on the Hebrides and parts of Orkney, Shetland and the north west Highland coast.
The map has been made for Scottish Natural Heritage's Habitat Map of Scotland project.
Machair provides important habitats for seabirds and grazing for crofters' livestock.
Scotland has a total of about 32,123 acres (13,000 ha) of machair.
Some of the largest areas of the coastal meadows are found on Coll, Tiree and Harris.
Eight appliances have been sent to the scene, understood to be at Craigie Woods, including a water bowser.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the fire was reported at 15:30.
International anti-spam company Spamhaus approached the States after it found a VisitGuernsey email in a "spam trap" address.
Spamhaus has asked the Channel Islands Data Commissioner to investigate.
New Approach Media, which is responsible for VisitGuernsey's digital marketing, is yet to comment.
Richard Cox, chief information officer for Spamhaus, said the emails had "hit our spam traps" and "without the slightest doubt the lists being mailed were not compiled on an opt-in basis".
"As I am receiving the mailings - and I have not opted in - the law is being broken, regardless of which of the email addresses on their list is reaching me," he said.
A spokesman from Guernsey's marketing and tourism unit said: "VisitGuernsey takes the matter of data protection extremely seriously and has suspended all future electronic direct mailings to purchased lists.
"Our media agency has confirmed that all third party mailing houses used are compliant with Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) guidelines, and that they strictly adhere to the data protection laws.
"VisitGuernsey will not commence its electronic direct emailing activity to purchased lists until we can be fully confident that mailings carried out on our behalf will not breach ICO guidelines and data protection legislation."
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Across Scotland, only three patches of snow survive in Scotland's mountains - one on Aonach Beag in Lochaber and two on Braeriach in the Cairngorms.
Snow expert Iain Cameron believes that these patches could also vanish, the first time this has also happened since 2006.
A lack of snow last winter has been a major factor, he said.
In 2015, 73 patches of snow were found to have survived on Scotland's hills from the previous winter - the most for 21 years.
Mr Cameron, who surveys snow patches in Scotland's hills and writes annual reports on the white stuff for the Met Office, said: "The situation this year is mainly down to a lack of snow last winter.
"The summer is not a main factor. The ambient temperature over the summer was not much different than it has been before."
He said a cool, dry spell would be needed soon for the surviving patches to cling on.
But he said: "My belief is that all the snow will be gone before the middle of September."
The earliest time all Scotland's snow patches disappeared previously was in 2003 when all had melted away by 24 August.
Derbyshire Constabulary said people living within 100m of Belvoir Crescent in Newhall had been moved to temporary accommodation.
Supt Paul Markham said the substance was discovered at a flat during a search of the premises.
A 55-year-old man has been arrested.
Mr Markham said: "We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this matter and we are hoping that people will not be inconvenienced for too long.
"The evacuation is purely a precaution to ensure everybody's safety and residents will be allowed back home as soon as possible."
Newspaper L'Equipe said on Thursday that the Racing Metro fly-half had been banned from playing until 14 February by French Rugby's medical commission.
Sexton has yet to recover from a bang to the head he suffered in Ireland's win over Australia last month.
"He will not play a match until he's 100%," said Racing coach Laurent Labit.
Sexton has not played since Ireland's Australia game on 22 November and has again been left out of the Racing squad for Saturday's Top 14 game against La Rochelle.
The Irish Rugby Football Union's medical staff are expected to assess Sexton's fitness either later this month or early in the New Year.
Ireland's second Six Nations match will see them taking on France at Dublin's Aviva Stadium on 14 February.
If the reports are accurate, Sexton would be available for Ireland's France game but would be in danger of being ruled out of the Rome contest a week earlier.
Sexton's exceptional performances during Ireland's impressive autumn series emphasised his importance to coach Joe Schmidt's plans ahead of next year's World Cup.
The fly-half is in his second year with the French club but will rejoin Leinster at the end of this season.
Sexton will be replaced at Racing Metro by New Zealand star Dan Carter who will join the club on a three-year contract and become the sport's highest-paid player.
Jacques Gounon said last week's vote gave migrants a clear signal the border would become "almost impossible to overcome".
The firm has unveiled two new drones to boost security on the French side.
Mr Gounon said he feared increased migrant pressure this summer.
"I'm afraid that any Brexit consequences could give a threat to migrants that they could be prevented from going to the UK - definitively going to the UK - in the years to come," he said.
"This could generate an additional new migrant pressure, in order for such people, desperately, to reach the UK before Brexit is enforced.
"So I do think and I'm afraid that we could have an increased migrant pressure during this summer, as a Brexit consequence."
Mr Gounon said Eurotunnel did not support the idea of moving the UK border from the current locations.
Eurotunnel and cross-Channel ferry services operate at different sites, and the rights for British Border Force officials to carry out checks at Coquelles and the Port of Calais were established under different treaties.
He said Eurotunnel had worked very efficiently with the UK Border Force to protect the site for 25 years and added: "I don't see what could be done more."
He said the new drones would increase the speed of response, but added: "There is no interest at all, from the shuttle point of view, to have an additional border control in Folkestone, at the end of the tunnel."
After Thursday's referendum, the mayor of Calais called for changes to how the Anglo-French border is run.
Currently, Britain can carry out checks in Calais to stop migrants trying to reach the UK, but Ms Bouchart said the French were in a strong position to request a review.
The French authorities had warned before the referendum that a vote for leaving the EU could see a camp with thousands of migrants being moved from Calais to British soil.
But many residents are concerned it could create too much pressure on the town's infrastructure and lead to major traffic problems.
The town, which has a population of 31,000, was previously notable for the former US Air Force base in nearby Upper Heyford but in recent years it has grown rapidly.
Commuters are attracted by its location just off junction nine of the M40 and good train links to London, Birmingham and Oxford.
Bicester Village - a retail outlet - is also a major draw and last week police warned motorists to avoid the area as its roads had become gridlocked with Black Friday shoppers.
Carla Thomas, who lives in the town, said: "Providing they build the infrastructure first and get the new shopping facilities in, the new schools, they sort the roads out around Bicester, if they do that first I have absolutely no problem.
"But if they don't, it's already chaos - look at what happened on Black Friday with Bicester Village. That isn't a singular occurrence, it was just the worst day.
"That happens every weekend, and if you go and shove 13,000 new homes here you just make it worse.
"People have got to live somewhere, I don't want to see people without homes. It's a nice place to live, but I don't want it to reach the point where we can't get out."
Helen Bramley, who was born in Bicester, said she was also concerned about more traffic.
"Before they consider this, they've got to improve the infrastructure because the roads at the moment can't even cope with the current traffic.
"It was a small market town with a lot of character.
"It's growing too fast, but I like the prospect of bringing more employment into the town."
The garden city planning concept, by Sir Ebenezer Howard, was first used to create Letchworth Garden City at the start of the 20th century and Welwyn Garden City in the 1920s.
The concept was adopted again when the New Towns Act resulted in the development of new communities following World War Two.
The new communities were created to deal with an accommodation shortage caused by bomb damage, stagnation in the construction industry, returning service personnel and a baby boom.
They were called Garden Cities because their layouts included large amounts of green space.
Two years ago the government commissioned a report on the possibility of using Garden Cities to help deal with the housing shortage.
Chancellor George Osborne announced funding earlier this year to create Ebbsfleet Garden City in Kent.
Helen Marshall, of the Oxfordshire branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said many people in the area would have mixed feelings.
"It may bring relief for some of the infrastructure problems and it might be good for the local economy but, at the same time, they don't want to lose the character of the town as it stands or the fact that it is in a rural setting surrounded by very lovely rural villages - so it's going to be a balance," she said.
Lynne Pratt, Mayor of Bicester, said she hoped a larger town would result in more jobs.
"A lot of people commute out of Bicester these days for work," she said.
"Let's try and get some more jobs here, perhaps more high spec jobs, so that people can stay in the town that they live in."
Edward Aimsworth, who lives in the town, echoed the mayor's hopes.
He said: "I've nothing against it as long as they bring employment with it.
"We don't want all the new houses there and nowhere for people to work. They've got to go hand in glove haven't they?"
Bicester resident Manpreet Singh said he thought the homes should go on the Calvert or Fringford side of town.
He said: "I think there's going to be more problems for the traffic. There are international people coming here for Bicester Village, so if they keep extending the town like that it will get worse.
"Garden cities, green cities, they're alright, but extending into the villages makes them more like cities so that's not very good because I like 'old England'.
"It is a booming town. There loads of things happening and people are getting more into entertainment. There are media students here who see it as a happening, lively town."
Source: Oxfordshire County Council
In the dim, starlit courtyard, they make out the figures of a man and a woman lying in two separate charpoy cots, sleeping. About 15 minutes later, they walk out through the main door, leaving the couple in pools of blood.
This description of the scene in Akora Khatak forms the backdrop to allegations of a so-called "honour killing", one of the great unspoken stories of the Pakistan-Afghanistan region where it widely prevails. Nowhere is it pursued as doggedly as in Kohistan, a remote and mountainous region in northern Pakistan.
The code is simple: Any contact, even just communication between a man and a woman outside of customary wedlock is considered a breach of the honour of the woman's family, and gives it the right to seek bloody revenge.
The woman's family must first kill her and then go after the man.
The mere expression of suspicion by the woman's family is enough evidence and the community demands no further proof.
Once such a suspicion has been expressed, local custom prevents the family of the man killed in this way from avenging his death or reporting it to the police.
By their very nature, "honour killings" are particularly difficult to prove or to prosecute. There are frequently no witnesses to the crime and little motivation for the police to pursue any suspects, irrespective of the evidence.
One person who hopes to change that is Rukhsana Bibi, now a widow, who claims that she survived an "honour killing" in a village near Akora Khatak and has taken the unusual step of publicly speaking out, trying to seek justice through the legal system.
Ms Bibi suffered horrific chest and leg injuries when she and husband, Mohammad Yunus, were victims of a brutal attack while they lay sleeping in the courtyard in Akora Khatak. Her husband was murdered, but Ms Bibi survived with seven bullets in her body: two in the chest, three in the left leg and two in the left hip.
She still suffers bouts of weakness because of her injuries. She was so badly hurt that she needs a walking frame to move around.
Ms Bibi was 18, and her lover, Mohammad Yunus, 22 when they decided to elope on 22 May last year. "I had no choice," she explains to me as we sit in a small, cramped room somewhere in northern Pakistan where she is hiding. "I either had to kill myself, or run away."
Ms Bibi tells me that she met Mr Yunus - a student of medical technology - at a village wedding in the summer of 2011. They fell in love with each other at first sight.
Although their meetings were rare, they frequently spoke to each other on their mobile phones.
She describes how their relationship went on like this until April, when her family arranged her marriage to a distant relative, an uneducated cattle tender in her village.
Unhappy and frustrated, she and Mr Yunus decided to run away.
They married in the north-west before going into hiding in the Akora Khatak area.
But Ms Bibi now strongly believes that the brutal attack which killed her husband in August was undertaken by various relatives seeking to avenge the disgrace which they believe she had brought upon her family honour.
She has given her account of the evening when she was attacked to the BBC.
"I must have heard the footsteps in my sleep," she says, recalling the incident.
Tears roll down her cheeks as she narrates her story, but her face is expressionless, and her voice does not tremble.
"I opened my eyes.
"All of them were armed. I knew our end had come, so I shouted to my sleeping husband."
The intruders shot her first, apparently in compliance with the custom, and then turned on her husband, pulling him off the bed and pumping bullets into his body.
"They continued to fire shots at us for a long time. Sparks flew in our house like the flashes from a big explosion. I was screaming at first, but then I pretended I was dead."
Regaining consciousness after the attack, Ms Bibi discovered that she had fallen over and that her left leg was lying limply on the ground.
"It felt so heavy, I couldn't lift it to the bed," she says, her voice steady.
She witnessed her husband dying in a pool of blood on the ground next to her.
She thought she saw him breathe.
"He was alive for a minute or two after they left. I couldn't move, so I called his name. He turned his eyes to look at me for a brief moment. Then his head sank to the ground."
Neighbours who heard the firing and her screams arrived at the scene some 15 minutes later and took her to hospital. Unquestionably they saved her life.
Her determination to stay alive has meant that she was able to identify those who she claimed had carried out the attack. Police have issued arrest warrants for some of those who Ms Bibi has claimed were amongst her attackers.
Whether this was actually an "honour killing" as Ms Bibi claims, and whether any case can be proven in court remains uncertain.
One of those she has named as a suspected attacker has a strong alibi. When contacted by the BBC, he denied that he was one of Ms Bibi's relatives or had any involvement in the attack, stressing that his colleagues had vouched for him on the evening of the attack when he was working many miles away. He also claimed that another of the accused had been falsely implicated by Ms Bibi.
He alleged that Ms Bibi had done so in order to protect herself against those who had sought to kill her and husband. Another of the suspects also denied any involvement in the murder. He claimed that the allegations were a "misunderstanding" and alleged that as Mr Yunus had previously been involved in an unrelated murder allegation, the attack on him and Ms Bibi was likely to be the result of somebody "avenging" a previous incident.
Whether Ms Bibi's case will ever come to court is therefore unclear. Her allegations are unproven, and although arrest warrants have been issued for some of those suspects who she has identified to police, any actual arrests and interviews by the police are not thought to be imminent.
These interviews are necessary before a police investigation can determine whether there is sufficient evidence behind Ms Bibi's allegations to charge any suspects. Until then, the motive for the attack on her and the actual identity of her attackers remains undetermined.
"Fighting such a case in the court is tough, but when I go for hearings, I don't feel any pain in my body," she says.
"I am a dead person anyway, but I have to get justice for myself and my husband. We did no wrong."
For centuries, Kohistan's "honour" killings have remained as little reported as the region itself.
But in recent years there has been greater scrutiny, and deaths have been more frequently reported to the police.
One reason appears to be the growth of mobile telephone technology, which has sparked differences over what constitutes an "honour" killing.
The first big challenge to this unwritten code came in May 2012 when someone in the area circulated a mobile phone video showing some women and men dancing and clapping at a wedding.
It is alleged that some men from the families of the women decided they had been shamed and reportedly killed four women shown in the video, as well as a fifth girl for acting as a messenger. They are also accused of killing three brothers from the men's family.
But a dispute apparently arose when the family of the brothers complained that relatives of the women had the right only to kill the two men who had appeared in the video.
The women's family are said to have argued that since they had killed five of their women, the custom also allowed them to kill five men.
The case was picked up by the Supreme Court and human rights groups, but it was left unresolved due to local complications.
However, the publicity it attracted probably did save some lives and encourage other affected families to report such killings to the police.
Since April, police in Kohistan have registered at least seven reports in which 10 people have been killed, allegedly for "honour", seven of them women.
While these figures suggest that the police have become more active in registering complaints, few people named in them have actually been arrested. That may be because many of those accused wield considerable influence.
There are then the difficulties of the terrain to contend with.
"Each police station covers a 70- to 80-square kilometre area, all of it mountains and deep valleys that take a police team days to reach," says Ali Akbar, Kohistan's district police chief.
"Hours before the police can reach a village, the villagers have advance information of their arrival and send the wanted men into forests and caves to hide."
Furthermore, there appears to be an enigmatic bond between the prospective killers and their likely victims which the police have no clue how to break.
There is considerable evidence that women declared tainted by their families have chosen to die rather than seek outside help, even when this is easily available.
But for Rukhsana Bibi, the mere fact that more people are willing to consider reporting "honour"-related killings to the police is a sign of change.
"I am not alone," she says. "All girls are treated like this in Kohistan, and since most of them are uneducated, they can't fight.
"But the new generation is changing, God willing. They just need a little help from the courts and the government."
The siege began at Ellison Close on Monday morning when police tried to arrest a man on suspicion of burglary.
Cambridgeshire Police said he made threats to harm himself or anybody who tried to enter the house.
Officers confirmed the siege had reached a "peaceful conclusion" at about 18:00 GMT and the man was taken in for questioning.
The National Records of Scotland (NRS) said Olivia became the top girl's name for the first time, replacing Emily - which came a close second this year.
Jack is the most popular boys' name for the ninth consecutive year. James came in at number two.
The births of 26,408 boys and 24,489 girls were registered in the period covered by the NRS figures.
The statistics are based on the births registered up to 3 December 2016.
Source: National Records of Scotland
The NRS figures show that Olivia only just made it to the number one slot with 492 births registered - beating Emily by two places.
Sophie was down from second to third, having previously been the top name from 2005 to 2013. Isla remained fourth, Ava rose one place to fifth and Amelia was up one place to sixth.
Charlotte was the only new entrant to the girls' top 10 and Lily was the only name to drop out.
Sophia was the fastest climber within the girls' top 20, up three places to 16th. There were also three new names in the girls' top 20: Charlotte, Aria and Evie.
Jack remains the most popular boys' name by a long way, with 465 births registered compared to the 402 babies called James.
Oliver was knocked into third place by James, while Lewis remains fourth in the boys' top 10 table. Logan rose three places to fifth, Harry climbed 10 places to sixth and Noah jumped eight places to seventh.
Harry, Noah and Leo were the new names to arrive in the boys' top 10. Lucas, Harris and Daniel all dropped out.
The fastest climbers in the boys' top 20 were Harry, Noah and Leo. Ethan was the only entrant to the top 20, up six places to 17th.
In the top 50 tables these were the biggest climbers of 2016:
According to the NRS, the top 50 boys' first names accounted for 40% of all those registered and the top 50 girls' first names accounted for 38% of registrations.
A full list of all names registered during 2016 will be published in March 2017.
The report, based on more than 300 witness interviews, said IS was using "extreme violence" against civilians.
Men caught smoking have had their fingers amputated, while a female dentist who treated men was publicly beheaded, the report said.
The group has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq since June.
The report by UN human rights investigators, entitled Rule of Terror: Living under Isis in Syria, is the first in which the UN closely examines tactics by IS, which is also known as Isis or Isil.
In addition to interviews with men, women and children who had fled or are living in IS-held areas in Syria, the report also examined photographs and videos distributed by the group.
Public executions by the group were common, with bodies frequently left on public display "as a warning to local residents", the report said.
It added that the international community had underestimated the threat the group posed to regional stability, and that the failure to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis had "left a dangerous vacuum" that was filled by the group.
The report also described:
The report was written by the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.
The commission was established in August 2011 by the UN's Human Rights Council with a mandate to investigate all alleged human rights violations in Syria.
The report said that other parties in the Syrian conflict, including the Syrian government, were also responsible for human rights violations against civilians and captured fighters.
However, it added that those groups were more likely to hide their activity, while IS "actively promotes abuses and crimes" to try to enforce its authority.
Islamic State's brutal tactics have sparked fear and outrage across the world, including from Muslim groups.
In February, al-Qaeda disavowed IS for its actions in Syria.
A US-led military campaign has been attacking IS targets since August.
In Washington on Thursday, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said that "steady and sustainable progress" had been made against IS.
The US-led air strikes had helped in "degrading and destroying Isil's [IS] war fighting capacity and in denying safe haven to its fighters", he said.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Iraqi officials said their forces had driven out IS fighters from the oil refinery town of Baiji, 200km (130 miles) north of Baghdad.
Around 200,000 people live in the town, and the refinery accounts for around a quarter of Iraq's oil production.
The town lies on the main road to Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, which is under the control of IS.
IT services firm Atos was contracted in 2012 to design, build and operate the 'Get me there' scheme.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) said it was "clear that Atos cannot deliver" the system and ended the deal.
Smart ticketing was introduced in October on Metrolink, but only to those with concessionary travel passes.
It was set to be rolled out to tram and bus passengers this year, with hopes to extend it further to rail travel.
In a joint statement, the transport body and Atos said the development and launch of the 'Get me there' system will continue, but with alternative suppliers.
A TfGM spokesman said: "Today's smart card already looks destined to be overtaken by contactless payments and mobile apps on smart phones.
"Given TfGM's commitment to deliver an integrated smart ticketing scheme, and with the opportunities afforded to us by the forthcoming Buses Bill, it is only right that TfGM re-thinks its approach to the 'Get me there' scheme to ensure that it is flexible and fit for the future."
Kevin Fitzpatrick, BBC Radio Manchester political reporter
Atos began developing the Oyster Card-style system in 2012, but there has been criticism of its slow roll-out.
It's currently only available for 500,000 concessionary card holders and TfGM have now said it's clear the company cannot complete the deal.
It's clearly a blow to Chancellor George Osborne's hope of an Oyster Card for the north as part of his northern powerhouse plans.
The travel body insists the existing service will be maintained as it looks for a new partner for the scheme.
The chain owns the European trademark use for the name, which Icelandic officials claim the firm defends "aggressively".
Businesses in the Nordic country say it means they find it difficult to use the term to describe goods and services from their own homeland.
The store said it is sending a team to Iceland this week for talks.
"We registered Iceland as our company name in 1970 and we have coexisted with the country called Iceland very happily ever since," insisted company founder and chief executive Malcolm Walker.
"We have no desire whatsoever to stand in the way of Iceland the country making use of their own name to promote their own products, so long as it does not conflict or cause confusion with our own business.
"I am sure that there is ample scope for an agreement that will allow both parties to continue to live and work amicably alongside each other."
The Icelandic government mounted a legal challenge against the food store at the European Union Intellectual Property Office last week.
It described the current situation as "untenable" and had "caused harm to Icelandic businesses, especially its small and growing companies".
The supermarket chain, which has its head office in Deeside, Flintshire, said the outbreak of "legal and verbal hostilities" last week was regrettable.
The company has has more than 800 stores across the UK and employs more than 23,000 staff.
Officials at the store stated they had "a long history of close and friendly involvement" with the country, including seven years being run by Icelandic investors until a £1.5bn management buyout in 2012.
The store said the relationship with its namesake country continued to be reflected through the ownership of three Iceland stores there, export sales of Iceland products to other retailers throughout the country, and sponsorship of the Icelandic national team in this year's European football championships.
Mr Walker added: "A high level delegation from Iceland - the company - is preparing to fly to Reykjavik this week to begin negotiations, and we very much hope for a positive response and an early resolution of this issue."
The all-night service begins on the Victoria and Central lines on Friday. It will spread to the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines this autumn.
Supt Chris Horton, of British Transport Police (BTP), said about 100 officers would be on patrol.
He added: "There should be no reason why people can't be as safe at night as they are in the day."
The service will run on Friday and Saturday evenings. Tube services usually end at about 00:30 on many lines.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has given £3.4m towards the cost of providing a visible police presence.
Ch Supt Horton said policing the Night Tube would be no different to tackling the weekend rush and the main policing challenge would be dealing with people who were "a bit worse for wear" after drinking alcohol.
He said: "Making sure that we look after people, which is our main purpose, but also making sure that people behave themselves and don't cause other people to fear crime.
"That is the main challenge for us but it's the same issue we have on a Friday and Saturday at the moment."
BTP officers are "determined to make sure it's a safe environment" and will focus on known "hotspots" in central London and at the far ends of the network.
Eight new 24-hour buses will also start service this Friday, the mayor said.
Mr Khan said: "The routes will go hand-in-hand with the Night Tube to help Londoners get to and from their front door throughout the night.
"It's another key step in helping everyone travel quickly and safely at night, and another boost to unlocking the full potential of our night-time economy."
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most died when checkpoints around the city were hit.
It also reported the families of IS leaders had started leaving Raqqa for another of the jihadist group's strongholds, the Iraqi city of Mosul.
An IS-linked news agency has reported no casualties from the air strikes.
The Amaq agency said on Monday and Tuesday that French warplanes had only targeted "empty locations".
The Syrian Observatory, which has a network of informants on the ground, said more than 33 militants were believed to have been killed in the strikes, but their bodies were so severely dismembered that it could not give an exact figure.
The IS installations struck - including ammunition dumps and command centres - had been stripped of personnel apart from guards on the gates, it added.
Some of the air and missile strikes may have been carried out by the Russians as well as the French, who began their bombing campaign on Sunday night, two days after IS claimed responsibility for the killing of 129 people in Paris, reports the BBC's Jim Muir in northern Iraq.
The Syrian Observatory also said that IS members and dozens of the families of senior members had begun leaving Raqqa for Mosul because of security concerns.
However, our correspondent says the journey has been made more difficult by the capture by Kurdish forces last week of the town of Sinjar in north-western Iraq, cutting off the last main direct route.
Former residents of Raqqa told the Associated Press that IS had also been strengthening its defences in the city in anticipation of a ground assault by US-backed Kurdish militia and Syrian rebel fighters advancing from the north and east.
A Turkey-based activist called Khaled said civilians had also been banned from leaving the city, leading to fears that IS intended to use them as human shields.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that he was convinced that in the course of the next few weeks IS would "feel even greater pressure", with the international community stepping up efforts to "hit them at the core".
But on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Western countries that if they wanted to mobilise a "genuinely global coalition" against IS they would have to drop their demand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down.
As Russia intensifies its air campaign in Syria it is similarly stepping up its diplomatic offensive.
In the wake of the downing of its airliner, Russia has belatedly joined the anti-IS struggle. The French, who have similarly suffered IS attacks, seem to have shifted their ground too and are now pushing for greater co-operation with Moscow.
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Western countries that if they wanted to mobilise a "genuinely global coalition" against IS they would have to drop their demand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down.
Sergei Lavrov clearly wants to turn this coincidence of interests into a more formal coalition. Moscow has always insisted that the US-led coalition's demand that President Assad stand down before there can be any practical progress towards peace in Syria is wrong-headed.
Whatever Russia's view about the Syrian President's long-term future such "pre-conditions" are seen as prohibiting progress.
But while Western nations weigh up the priority that should be given to an all-out campaign against IS, it is hard to see how the removal of such "pre-conditions" will encourage Syrian opposition groups to the negotiating table.
After meeting his Lebanese counterpart in Moscow, Mr Lavrov told a news conference that he had detected "a change in position of our Western colleagues" since the Paris attacks and the bombing of a Russian passenger plane flying over Egypt, also claimed by IS.
"In my opinion, there can now be no doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any preconditions in order to unite in the battle against so-called Islamic State terrorists," he added.
Western powers backing Syria's opposition have previously insisted that Mr Assad stand aside as part of any political solution to the conflict in Syria.
Nigel Farage pledged: "You've not heard the last of us," calling the result the most extraordinary for a century.
His party came first in six of the 10 regions to declare, with its strongest performance in the East Midlands.
The electoral "earthquake" Mr Farage had predicted came as radical, anti-EU parties on the right and left topped polls across Europe.
UKIP is on course to win its first seat in Scotland, although the confirmed result is not due until later.
But it finished third in London where it polled almost 10% lower than in the country as a whole.
Mr Farage put the party's success down to voters' "very strong desire" to have a "different relationship with Europe".
He told reporters: "The message is people have had enough of not being told the truth and not being given the opportunity to express their opinion.
"Five years ago the Conservatives won, giving us a cast-iron guarantee of a referendum they didn't deliver."
Giving his victory speech in Southampton the UKIP leader said the party's "people's army" would now move on to Newark where it is locked in a by-election battle with the Conservatives.
Voters in the Nottinghamshire constituency are set to decide who will replace disgraced Tory MP Patrick Mercer on 5 June.
UKIP's candidate in the poll and re-elected MEP Roger Helmer said he had an "excellent chance" of causing an upset.
"It depends on the voters of Newark," said Mr Helmer, who came first in the East Midlands region.
"They have to make their choice but I think we have set out tonight reasons why they should make this statement on behalf of Britain."
Mr Farage admitted the party's hopes were limited but added: "I am not writing it off."
In Thursday's European election his anti-EU party beat the Conservatives into second place in the Newark and Sherwood District Council area.
"We will go on next year to the general election with a targeting strategy," Mr Farage told jubilant supporters at the count in Southampton.
"And I promise you this - you haven't heard the last of us."
In Scotland, where UKIP looks like it will secure the party's first seat, would-be MEP David Coburn said: "With this level of support, UKIP would win significant representation at Holyrood and at Westminster."
People cast their votes across the UK on Thursday to elect 73 MEPs in 12 separate regional constituencies.
UKIP led Labour in some opinion polls ahead of polling day, but by margins too close to call.
The Conservatives topped the poll five years ago and UKIP, with 16.5%, came just ahead of Labour on 15.7%.
But with only Scotland left to declare UKIP is set to go one better this year, topping the poll with a projected 24 MEPs and 28% of the vote.
In other developments:
UKIP gained 161 council seats in the English local elections but its vote share was down on the previous year.
Its spin doctor Patrick O'Flynn, an ex-newspaper correspondent, was elected as an MEP in the Eastern region.
He hit back at the press for its attacks on the party during the campaign.
"We have a right to claim we are somewhat closer to their readers than some of those newspapers," he said.
Gerald Martin McConnell, from Iniscairn Court in Creggan, admitted the assaults in the emergency department on 18 September 2016.
McConnell had been taken to the hospital to be detoxed after a three-day drinking spree.
He was sentenced on 16 June.
The judge described his actions as "nasty, serious and terrible".
The judge said McConnell had carried out a series of assaults on people who were simply trying to help him.
In the hospital, McConnell first assaulted a ward cleaner by splashing an alcohol-based cleaning gel in her face, causing stinging to her eyes.
A ward sister then tried to calm McConnell down but he punched her in the face and on the arm. A psychiatric nurse also tried to calm McConnell down but he swung a punch at her, narrowly missing her.
Two hospital porters came to the assistance of the nursing staff. McConnell punched one of them in the mouth causing a split lip and he then kneed the other porter in the face.
The police were called and McConnell was arrested and taken to Omagh police station. There he admitted the offences and told the police he remembered nothing.
The police then decided to drive McConnell back to his home in Derry but on the journey he punched the police driver in the face and then spat on her.
He bit a second officer on the arm with such force that the officer had to punch McConnell in the face in order to break free from the bite.
The judge said McConnell's hospital victims were public servants who worked sometimes in a difficult environment during which they witnessed some awful things.
"They were treated with contempt by you as they were trying to treat you," said the judge.
"Assaults on public servants while carrying out their duty are totally unacceptable and there are too many of these in Altnagelvin Hospital."
The certificate states the cause of death was "cardiac arrest/deferred."
The "deferred" reference means more investigation is needed by the coroner to find out what caused the cardiac arrest.
Toxicology tests are likely to be carried out, which can take several weeks to complete.
Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd is listed as the notifying party and the certificate lists "writer" as Fisher's main occupation.
Although best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, Fisher wrote several novels and screenplays.
She also worked as a script doctor, revising and polishing screenplays by other writers.
Among the films she is listed as having worked on are Hook, Sister Act and Lethal Weapon 3.
Fisher had been on tour promoting her book The Princess Diarist when she was taken ill on a flight from London to Los Angeles on 23 December.
She never regained consciousness and died on 27 December at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre.
Her mother Debbie Reynolds died the following day.
Fisher, who had been open about her experience of mental health issues, was laid to rest alongside her mother at a private service on Saturday, with her ashes carried in an urn in the shape of a Prozac pill.
Family and friends of the actresses paid their respects to the mother and daughter at a private memorial service the day before the funeral.
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Ospreys won 10-0, but coach Steve Tandy was unhappy the match went ahead.
Dragons share their Rodney Parade ground with Newport County AFC, who have had three games abandoned or postponed this season.
"The referee [was] in a difficult position. I would have respected his decision either way," said Jones.
"I don't think there's ever been a case of a rugby player drowning on a rugby field. I was just glad to get the game on.
"First and foremost is player safety but I don't think there was any danger of anyone getting hurt."
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The match was in doubt until until referee Davies gave the go-ahead an hour before the 17:00 GMT kick-off, however, Tandy was scathing in his criticism of the pitch.
"Conditions were horrific. We had concerns and were pretty unhappy with the state of the field," he said.
"It doesn't make a difference to us if there's water but there were definitely concerns for players' safety. We weren't particularly happy [the game went ahead]."
The pitch at Rodney Parade is used by three teams - the Dragons and Newport RFC rugby teams, and Newport County who play in League Two of the Football League (EFL).
The Exiles have now had two games - against Morecambe and Barnet - abandoned at half-time this season and the League Two encounter with Stevenage was also postponed on 1 October.
The EFL have conducted a survey of the ground with a view to offering advice on improvements.
The ground's owners - Rodney Parade Limited - carried out emergency drainage work in October and plan to install a new drainage system in the summer of 2017.
Prosecutors accuse Ronaldo, reported to be the world's highest paid athlete, of evading €14.7m ($17.3m; £13.1m) in tax.
He had been expected to make a statement after the pre-trial hearing, but left without saying a word.
The Real Madrid star, 32, has previously denied the allegations, saying his "conscience is clear".
Ronaldo is the latest in a string of footballers to be pursued by the Spanish tax authorities.
Argentina's Lionel Messi, who plays for Barcelona, was handed a 21-month prison sentence after being found guilty of the same charge last year.
Earlier this month, the court ruled he could pay €252,000 in place of jail time.
However, Messi was only accused of evading €4.1m in tax, €10.6m less than Ronaldo.
Ronaldo spent an hour-and-a-half giving evidence to judges at a court in the Madrid suburb of Pozuelo de Alarcón on Monday, dodging the media camped outside by arriving and leaving via an underground garage.
The stage was set for Ronaldo, in more ways than one.
Around 40 TV crews and over 100 journalists had gathered at the small court in the Madrid suburb of Pozeulo.
But Ronaldo dodged them on arrival - choosing to enter the court by a side door.
By then, a lectern and a sound system arrived. Ronaldo would, we were told, speak to the world's media once he had finished giving his testimony.
With the crowd of journalists poised to hear from the world's best paid player there was then disappointment. Ronaldo had gone home having decided against saying anything.
His case continues. So too will the huge interest in it and him.
According to prosecutors, Ronaldo allegedly took "advantage of a company structure created in 2010 to hide income generated in Spain from his image rights from tax authorities", which was a "voluntary and conscious breach of his fiscal obligations in Spain".
Ronaldo's management has also denied the allegations.
But if the case is sent to trial and he is found guilty, the Portuguese forward could face a fine of "at least €28m" and a prison sentence of three-and-a-half years, the Gestha union of experts at Spain's Inland Revenue says.
The painted plaster heads, weighing as much as 15kg (33lb), were taken on Monday after the festival had closed.
South-east London-based creators Sam Wyer and Laura Drake Chambers said they were "gutted" and appealed for their return.
Suffolk Police confirmed they were investigating the theft.
The heads, worth about £5,000, were part of a group of 21 installed in the Faraway Forest at the Southwold festival as part of an exhibition entitled "For Richer, For Poorer, For Better, For Worse".
The theft was discovered when the two artists arrived to disassemble the work.
"We worked really hard to create this, and everything was secure and really respected throughout the weekend," Mr Wyer said.
The disappearance happened after the public had left the site, he said.
"Whoever took them methodically removed them with an electric screwdriver.
"They were staked into the ground and screwed and bolted."
He said he and his Brockley-based co-creator "just want to get them back" as they are intended to be displayed elsewhere.
Ms Drake Chambers said: "Latitude looked after our installations brilliantly all the way through the festival and their support was impeccable."
Suffolk Police said they had received a report of a group of people loading heads into a van.
"We've also had witnesses saying they had seen some of our heads being cradled in people's arms on a train from Ipswich to London," Mr Wyer said.
"If that's the case we're hopeful that people took them because they thought they were beautiful and will find it in their hearts to return them to us."
The pair have started a #GoldenHeadHunt campaign on social media to raise awareness of the hunt for the missing heads.
Sir Martin argued that companies such as Google and Starbucks pay tax more out of a sense of corporate social responsibility, than because the law forces them to.
"Doing good is good business," he said.
WPP has just moved its headquarters back to London from Dublin, reversing a move it made for tax reasons in 2008.
Sir Martin moved WPP's tax domicile to Ireland in protest at the potential "double taxation" of corporate profits proposed by the then Labour government.
When the new coalition government dropped the plans, Sir Martin agreed to relocate the group back to London.
Sir Martin's comments, made in an interview with BBC News, come after a public outcry was sparked by revelations that multinational companies such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon paid little or no UK corporation tax.
Starbucks subsequently said it would pay "a significant amount" of extra tax in 2013 and 2014, possibly as much as £20m, "regardless of whether the company is profitable".
In response, HM Revenue and Customs said corporation tax "is not a voluntary tax".
As companies only pay corporation tax on profits made in this country, there were accusations that multinationals moved parts of their operations abroad in order to try to reduce the amount of tax they pay in the UK.
Sir Martin argued that in a globally inter-dependent world, where some companies operate in hundreds of countries, firms interested in building long-term brands would not "do things that will upset consumers".
He pointed out that Starbucks had negotiated the additional corporation tax payment with HMRC. "They didn't do anything underhand at all," he told the BBC.
When asked what the right model should be on corporation tax, he replied, "The right model is you make a contribution.
"All contributions you make to your stakeholders are a question of judgement.
"There are the rules," he said. "If then companies choose... in terms of building their long-term brands to make a contribution to all the stakeholders, all credit to them."
Late last year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said paying tax was an obligation: "It is not something you can just chose to do willy nilly because you think it will please your customers."
In a wide-ranging interview, Sir Martin forecast that WPP would see 2%-3% global growth in 2013, with "significant double-digit growth" coming from China.
But he warned that the environment would remain hostile for businesses everywhere.
"It's been a very gruelling year and next year is going to be more of the same. You're in the trenches and it's hand-to-hand combat. Corporates are not happy bunnies at the moment."
Corporate balance sheets were generally healthy, he said, but bosses were reluctant to invest because of uncertainty over a number of issues, namely:
These "known unknowns" he dubbed "grey swans", in a reference to Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book "The Black Swan", about the nature of unpredictability.
WPP's investment in 2013 would be directed mostly towards high-growth economies, such as Colombia, South Korea, and Vietnam, he said.
"We'll go where the growth is," he said.
On the subject of corporate pay, Sir Martin admitted that consultation over his proposed £6.8m pay deal had been badly handled in 2012, but he argued: "If we want world leaders... we have to be competitive. Pay levels within our company have to be competitive with our competition."
WPP operates in 110 countries, has 163,000 employees and is the largest marketing communications group in the world.
Its well-known brands include Young & Rubicam, Hill & Knowlton, and Ogilvy.
The claim: The increase in women working in their 70s is because some of them can't afford to retire.
Reality Check verdict: Although some women keep working out of choice, it is also likely that others are doing so because increased life expectancy and an inadequate pension pot means they don't have enough money to retire on.
That works out as about 150,000 women still working into their mid-70s.
Although the growth has been strong, there is still a higher proportion of men working into their 70s, at 15.5%.
But are some women continuing to work later in life because they want to, or because they cannot afford to retire?
Life expectancy has been steadily climbing in the UK, and a woman who was 65 in 2015 could expect to live a further 20.9 years, on average, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
A longer life expectancy is, of course, good news, but also means this generation requires a higher level of savings to cover living expenses, not to mention possible care costs.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation puts the minimum income standard for pensioners at £186.77 a week - the equivalent of £9,712 a year.
But a pensioner retiring after April 6 this year and relying purely on their state pension will have an income of £8,300 per year - £1,400 less than the Joseph Rowntree estimate.
This means retirees also need to have built up their own pension pot.
A survey from the pension provider Aegon suggests the average woman has less than half of the retirement savings an average man has.
It also indicated the average woman hoped to retire at 64, compared with 65 for men.
There are a number of factors behind this disparity.
Women have a higher life expectancy than men, and on average earn less over the course of their working lifetimes as they are more likely to have taken time out from work for caring responsibilities.
What's more, one in three women currently earns less than £10,000, which is the threshold at which they are eligible for automatic enrolment into a private pension scheme.
Changes to the state pension age have also played a part.
Until 1995, women expected to draw their state pensions at 60; men at 65.
But changes made by the 1995 Pensions Act meant the pension ages of both men and women would be 65 by 2020.
In 2011, this changed again, meaning some women born between April 1951 and 1960 are now facing a pension age of 66.
The Cridland Report on the state pension age is due out on Thursday.
Action group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) was set up to campaign for transitional arrangements for women born in the 1950s who have been negatively affected by changes in state pension law.
The group says hundreds of thousands of women are suffering from financial hardship as a result of the changes, with not enough time to re-plan for their retirement.
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The 2013 champion plays world number 58 Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan in round one on Tuesday.
And the Scot has been boosted by his first titles on clay in Munich and Madrid, followed by his fourth on the grass of Queen's Club.
"I think in any sport, winning gives you confidence," said the 28-year-old, seeded third.
"This year I've won a lot of matches, more than I ever have in my career to this point in a season."
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Murray fell at the quarter-final stage against Grigor Dimitrov when defending his Wimbledon title last year but is widely tipped to challenge again with 41 match wins already in 2015.
"I'm certainly not getting carried away," he added. "I know how difficult these events are to win.
"I just concentrate on the first match and try my best to get through that one.
"I enjoy playing in the high pressure situations. You know, that's really what I play for now. I enjoy these events. I prepare extremely hard for them.
"I feel like I'm coming into the event as best prepared as I can be."
Two-time champion Rafael Nadal is a potential quarter-final opponent for Murray and the Spaniard feels better placed to challenge than in recent years.
Nadal, 29, has lost in the fourth, first and second round over the last three years, but showed he is in good form this year with victory on grass in Stuttgart two weeks ago.
"I feel good," he said. "Winning a tournament on grass after five years is a good moment for me and a special one.
"I am practising well this week. Let's see if I am able to compete well. I'm just happy to be here healthy, that's the most important thing.
"Last year I was better, in 2012 and 2013 I couldn't play well here. I had too many problems with the knees."
Seven-time champion and second seed Roger Federer is in the same half of the draw, and says he is benefiting from the introduction of an extra week of grass-court tennis between the French Open and Wimbledon.
"It's probably been the best preparation I've ever had for Wimbledon, for obvious reasons, because we have a week more on the grass," said the 33-year-old Swiss, who won the Halle Open in Germany for an eighth time last week.
"I'm sure I'm not the only one saying that this year. I'm sure everybody will say the same.
"Winning Halle has given me the extra confidence I guess it's going to take me to win this title here."
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Independent research says 2.8 million women aged 14 to 40 who recognise the campaign say they have done some or more activity as a result.
And 1.6 million of those women say they have started exercising.
The snapshot survey asked a sample of 1,000 women in November 2015 about the physical activity they did and their awareness of the campaign.
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The initiative aims to inspire women of all ages to participate in physical activity and exercise.
"I'm very encouraged by these new figures," said Sport England chief executive Jennie Price.
"They show This Girl Can is not just being talked about, but is also changing behaviour."
However, she added that there is still work to do.
"With a gender gap of 1.73 million fewer women playing sport compared to men, we need to keep getting the message out there that women come in all shapes and sizes and levels of ability," said Price.
"They should all feel able to exercise and play sport."
The 43-year-old victim, who has not yet been identified, was found seriously injured in Gibb Street, Chapelhall, near Airdrie, at about 17:40 on Thursday.
Emergency services attended but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The arrested man is expected to appear at Airdrie Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
The legislation is designed to give members of the public the right to access information which is held by public authorities.
A government spokesman said it would be phased in, starting with two departments.
Chief Minister Allan Bell said it marked a "significant enhancement of democracy" in the Isle of Man.
FOI requests can only be made by Isle of Man residents and advice on how to do so has been made available on the government's website.
To begin with, only the cabinet office and the department of the environment, food and agriculture will be subject to FOI requests.
Other departments and local authorities will follow over the next two years with the act fully in force by 2018.
A government spokesman said it is being phased in to "manage the impact on public resources".
Initially there will be no charge for requests but this policy will be reviewed periodically, said the government.
The group behind the project is currently adapting the pods for use on the roads.
It has yet to unveil the exact design but confirmed that the adapted vehicles will not run on dedicated tracks.
Greenwich is one of four places in the UK where driverless pods and public reaction to them are being tested.
Trials will also take place in Bristol, Coventry and Milton Keynes. The £8m project is jointly funded by government agency Innovate UK and industry.
The Greenwich Automated Transport Environment project - or Gateway - will see seven driverless pods tested on the pavements around the Greenwich Peninsula, where the O2 Arena is based, from July.
Routes are still being worked out but are likely to include residential areas, the North Greenwich underground station and businesses around the arena.
The so-called UltraPods currently in service at Heathrow carry passengers between the car park and Terminal 5. In the five years they have been in use, they have carried 1.5 million passengers and travelled 1.8 million miles (three million kilometres).
Westfield Sportscars, a British carmaker, will be responsible for manufacturing and testing of the pods. Heathrow Enterprise will design the software while a third British firm, Oxbotica, will provide mapping and other sensors to ensure the vehicles are safe.
The pods will have three months of testing, first with invited users and then with the general public. Each pod can carry six passengers but will require a steward to be present at all times to press the emergency button in the case of a problem.
The trial of the pods will reveal a wealth of data, Prof Nick Reed, academy director at Transport Research Laboratory which is leading the project, told the BBC.
"It will tell us whether people trust and accept these vehicles and how they would work as part of the urban landscape," he said.
"This vehicle has millions of miles under its belt and now we have to take it outside of the track and modify it for use on pavements."
The pods will differ from an earlier demonstration where a shuttle designed by autonomous vehicle firm Phoenix Wings was on display.
"That was perfect for the demonstration and we did consider using it but we had a procurement process and chose the design we have now," Prof Nick Reed said.
Athletes compete in cross-country skiing and periodically shoot targets. They receive time-penalties, dependent on their shooting accuracy.
The 33-year-old from Stockton-on-Tees joined the British Army in 1999, and took up biathlon 18 months later thanks to
He then made his Olympic debut at the Vancouver Games four years ago.
"It's a different feeling because there isn't the same excitement as in 2010. But I'm more experienced, and probably more focused as a result," he said.
Unless a sponsor provides £50k, biathlon is over in Britain
Jackson finished outside 50th position in his three biathlon disciplines at his debut Olympics.
Since then, he has secured a top-20 placing in three world cup relay events, and an individual high of 49th.
As in Vancouver, at Sochi he will compete in the 20-kilometre race and 10-kilometre sprint.
A top-60 finish in the sprint would also secure a spot in the 12.5-kilometre 'pursuit' event.
"I've had a long, four-year cycle to build and now I feel better ready to cope with the pressures of such a big event," he explained.
"My preparation's been good and I feel I'm in the best physical shape I've ever been in."
After once being incorrectly entered as Lee-Steve Jackson, he is now often in results under that name. Some biathletes now call him 'Stevo'.
Sochi could be the last Winter Olympics in which Team GB has any biathletes as after the 2014 season the event's funding runs out.
Currently, the Army helps fund the British Biathlon Union but it has now withdrawn that support.
"Obviously I'm just concentrating on Sochi and this season, whilst being optimistic about the future," added Jackson.
"But the reality is, unless a sponsor steps in with £50k, we won't be able to continue with the sport in Britain."
A Warriors win would all but guarantee them a first Champions Cup last-eight place while Tigers' loss to Racing 92 last week put them out of contention.
"We were all embarrassed and frustrated by the performance in Paris," said Mauger ahead of Saturday's match.
"Everyone has to look in the mirror and ask if they are giving it everything."
Leicester sit fifth in the Premiership but have lost three of their five matches in Europe this term, including a 42-13 reverse at Glasgow's Scotstoun Stadium.
"If we can put Glasgow under a bit of pressure, hopefully it will be good enough to swing a result," Mauger said.
"We'll be excited about getting back down to Welford Road. We've shown in fits and bursts that we can be a quality side."
Mauger highlighted his team's failure to "front up" in Paris and their sluggishness off the line as key failures in a match in which he felt Tigers "were not at the races".
But the New Zealander told BBC Radio Leicester that there was a determination to make up for it against Gregor Townsend's side, with fly-half Owen Williams and lock Dom Barrow likely to be available for the hosts and his "front row stocks coming back to life".
"The guys care," he added. "It's not through a lack of effort. We can make it easier on ourselves. Once we start executing the details, hopefully our game will click. We owe it to ourselves and to our loyal supporters."
The New Zealander also revealed that, with Matt Toomua and Manu Tuilagi injured, he is looking at France international centre Maxime Mermoz to strengthen his team.
The five-time Ashes winner, 33, who has played 118 Tests, has not scored a century in 23 innings.
Batsmen Nick Compton and Gary Ballance are recalled, uncapped pace bowler Mark Footitt and spinner Samit Patel are included and Adil Rashid is left out.
Bell, 33, said he was "absolutely gutted" to miss out, but is "determined" to win his place back.
The tour begins on 15 December, with the first Test on 26 December.
England, who start with a warm-up game against a South African Invitational XI, will play four Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20s.
South Africa are the top-ranked Test side in the world.
Only two England players in history have won more Test caps than Bell, who is eighth on their all-time run-scoring list.
Although he was the third highest run scorer in the recent 2-0 Test series defeat by Pakistan, he averages 25.95 in 13 matches in 2015, compared to a career average of 42.69.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew said: "Given South Africa's status it's a big call to drop Ian Bell, but he's scored only two hundreds in his last 28 Tests.
"He confirmed to England managing director Andrew Strauss yesterday that he wishes to fight for his place, but at 33 it seems more likely that his career is now over."
Bell said: "I certainly feel I could have contributed out there and have been working tirelessly to get into the best possible condition for the tour.
"I'm going to enjoy a winter break with my family for the first time in 11 years."
National selector James Whitaker said: "It was clearly a difficult decision but he has struggled for runs in recent series and we felt that it was the right time for him to take a break and spend time working on his game out of the spotlight."
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Middlesex's Compton, 32, who scored two centuries in nine Tests before being dropped in 2013, has been named in a 16-man squad alongside Yorkshire left-hander Ballance.
Ballance, 25, averages 47.76 in 15 Tests but was dropped during this summer's Ashes win over Australia.
All-rounder Ben Stokes has been passed fit following a collarbone injury sustained in the final Test against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates this month.
However, pace bowlers Mark Wood and Steven Finn are unavailable with ankle and foot injuries respectively.
New Surrey signing Footitt, 29, who featured in England's Ashes squad this summer, has been called up, while Chris Woakes replaces fellow seamer Liam Plunkett.
"I'm over the moon I've been picked," Footitt told BBC Radio 5 live.
"It's a massive honour to be selected. Hopefully if I do get the nod I can do my country proud."
Uncapped opening batsman Alex Hales, an unused member of the Test squad against Pakistan, keeps his place alongside left-arm spinner Patel.
Patel, 30, is preferred to 27-year-old leg-spinner Rashid, who is instead likely to play in the Big Bash League, Australia's domestic Twenty20 competition.
Whitaker said: "Adil Rashid showed plenty of promise in the UAE but the conditions in South Africa make the likelihood of playing two spinners extremely remote."
England Test squad: Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire, wk), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire, wk), Nick Compton (Middlesex), Mark Footitt (Surrey), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), James Taylor (Nottinghamshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).
The Ogston Music School at St Edward's School includes a 120-capacity hall that will showcase touring musicians and community performances.
The development has 20 practice rooms, seven ensemble rooms, a recording studio and a music library.
Warden Stephen Jones said it had the potential to strongly impact the area.
He added: "With The North Wall Arts Centre just across the road from the new Ogston Music School, we have in South Parade the makings of North Oxford's own cultural quarter."
More than 450 lessons are expected to take place at the new facility each week.
It takes the place of the Ferguson Music School, which opened in 1962.
Alex Tester, director of music, said: "Music at St Edward's has always been at a high level, but the new Ogston Music School gives us the chance to scale even greater heights.
"We now have a real opportunity to gain a national reputation for music."
Upper sixth pupil and cellist Aaron Gruen said having the "fantastic, large new recital room is such a plus".
"The spacious practice rooms also add to the experience because, as a musician, you need space to think and you need the sound you produce to really resonate," he added.
St Edward's School was founded in 1863 and has about 700 pupils.
The school's musical alumni includes indie band Glass Animals.
All-rounder Alex Hughes agreed terms on Tuesday and batsman Slater, 25, has followed suit in signing until 2018.
Slater is the club's 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup Player of the Year after scoring 328 runs at an average of 82, including a top score of 148 not out.
"Ben is a talented lad who is cementing his place at the top of the order," said director of cricket Kim Barnett.
"He continues to work hard on his game and has reaped the rewards, particularly in the one-day competition, and we hope he can continue to produce consistent performances across both red and white-ball cricket."
Two-month-old Daisy Mae Burrill died three days after 31-year-old John Burrill fractured her skull in Fleetwood, Lancashire, on 11 March.
Her injuries were consistent with being gripped by the legs and swung against a hard surface, his trial heard.
Mr Justice James Goss ordered Burrill to serve a minimum of 18 years in jail.
Sentencing, the judge at Preston Crown Court described Daisy Mae's murder as the "grossest breach of trust".
Burrill had "carried out a vicious assault upon a defenceless baby" after smoking cannabis throughout the early hours of the morning while tending to his daughter who would not settle, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Burrill was found guilty by jury on Tuesday.
He had initially told medical staff and police the infant became limp but he could not explain why.
The court heard the child's mother, Ashlee Cox, described her then-partner as "moody" when he got up to feed the baby at their home in Gordon Road on the morning of 11 March.
Burrill, who admitted manslaughter but denied murder, told the court the baby had initially gone back to sleep but began to cry again.
He told jurors during his trial: "I think the tiredness just took over and I really lost my rag and I threw her down on to the couch."
The baby was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital and later transferred to Manchester Children's Hospital, where her life support was switched off on 14 March.
Following sentencing, Ms Cox said: "She was a beautiful baby girl and much loved new addition to the family... who will be forever in their hearts."
She said her family's suffering had been made worse by Burrill's refusal to admit that he alone was responsible for her death.
Ms Cox added: "Although justice has been served it will never bring her back."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Deputy chief executive David Rooke said better waterproofing of homes and improved warning systems would be vital for tackling future weather extremes.
Parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester were flooded after downpours caused river banks to burst.
Prime Minister David Cameron defended government funding for flood defences.
He denied accusations - made by the leader of Leeds City Council - that there was a "north-south divide" in efforts to prevent flooding.
Judith Blake said flooding in Leeds was a "preventable disaster", saying the North had not received "anywhere near the support that we saw going into Somerset" - which flooded in 2014.
She said the government had cut funding for a flood defence project in Leeds in 2011, and there was now a "real anger growing across the North".
However, Mr Cameron - speaking as he visited flood-hit areas - said the UK had spent "more per head of the population on flood defences in the north than we do in the south".
"We are going to spend £2.3bn on flood defences in this parliament but we will look at what's happened here and see what needs to be done," he added.
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The Environment Agency has nine severe flood warnings - meaning danger to life - in place in north-east and north-west England, and more than 100 other flood alerts across England and Wales.
It comes as more heavy rain and wind is forecast for late Tuesday into Wednesday. BBC Weather's Nick Miller says this next bout of bad weather has officially been named Storm Frank.
The Environment Agency's Mr Rooke told the BBC the UK was moving from a period of "known extremes" of weather to one of "unknown extremes".
"I think we will need to have that complete rethink and I think we will need to move from not just providing better defences... but also looking at increasing resilience," he said.
Improvements to flood warning systems and better building design would help, he added, so that "when properties do flood, they have solid floors, waterproof plaster, more electrics up the wall".
Many places in northern England have seen record river levels over the past 24 hours, including the River Aire in Leeds, and the rivers Calder and Ribble, affecting places such as Whalley, Hebden Bridge and Ribchester.
The River Ouse is now thought to have stabilised in York, where hundreds of people had to leave flooded homes following the torrential rain over Christmas, but water levels are still believed to be rising in the town of Selby.
Extra soldiers were deployed on Sunday to aid emergency services, and about 200 unpaid mountain rescue volunteers from Wales, Cornwall and the Lake District have also been helping in the city.
In other developments:
Downing Street said emergency financial assistance would be available to homes and businesses in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
They will have access to the support package announced earlier in the month for people affected by Storm Desmond in Cumbria.
Shadow communities secretary Jon Trickett called for a major programme of public works and an end to cuts to local authorities in order to deal with the flooding.
Meanwhile, the Met Office has issued yellow (be aware) warnings for rain on Wednesday in areas of northern England, Wales and Northern Ireland, bringing the threat of further flooding.
Amber (be prepared) warnings for rain are also in place for parts of Scotland on Wednesday. There are currently no flood warnings in Scotland.
People can access information from council websites and the Environment Agency Floodline.
The agency is also operating a phone line - 0345 988 1188 - which will be staffed rather than offering recorded information.
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Santadevi Meghwal said her family had been ostracised and the village council had ordered them to pay a fine of 1.6m rupees ($25,000; £16,000) if they chose to annul the marriage.
At the time of the wedding, the groom was nine years old, she said.
Activists say child marriages are prohibited in India, but millions of children are still married off.
They must be dissolved if one or both partners wish to opt out, activist Kriti Bharti of non-governmental organisation Saarthi Trust, which is helping Ms Meghwal in her appeal, told BBC Hindi's Abha Sharma in Jaipur.
"If done with mutual consent, the annulment may take place within three days. Otherwise, things may take their own course. An annulment application of a 15-year-old girl married to a 55-year-old man is pending for the past 18 months," she said.
Ms Meghwal, who lives in Rohicha Kalan village in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, said she didn't even remember her "marriage".
A college student who wants to be a teacher after graduation, she told the BBC that her so-called husband had studied only up to 10th standard in school and that she had no intentions of living with him.
Despite being illegal, child marriages are common in many parts of the country, and millions of children, especially in rural and poorer communities, are routinely married off and incidents of young women refusing to accept them are rare.
In a similar case in Rajasthan in 2012, another young woman had her child marriage legally annulled.
According to the figures released by Unicef in 2015, 47% of girls in India were married before they turned 18, the official age for marriage.
Wolsty Banks on the Solway coast is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and home to ground-nesting birds, sand lizards and the rare natterjack toad.
Seven hectares of dune grassland were destroyed in a fire on 20 July caused by a discarded disposable barbecue.
Environmental experts have been assessing the "long-lasting and horrendous" damage to wildlife.
Rose Wolfe, from the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, said: "It is going to take a long time for nature to repair it - up to 10 years in the worst affected areas.
"The heat will have been so severe in some parts of the dunes that the roots of the grasses will have been burnt away and will be unable to re-grow immediately."
She added: "I can't emphasise enough the danger of using barbecues on the dunes.
"I know it's a gorgeous place to sit and picnic, but the risk of fire is just too great."
The fire was likely to have been started by two bare wires touching in a piece of location equipment, the UK Air Accidents Investigations Branch said.
It then spread through the cabin and burnt through the fuselage.
Investigators recommended tighter testing and certification of devices.
The piece of equipment that caught fire - the Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) - was located near the back of the plane, and was made by Honeywell.
The battery-powered transmitter is designed to detect unusual deceleration, such as the force produced by a crash, and to transmit a distress signal.
The device in the 787 had positive and negative cables that were too long to fit into the box housing the device, and so ended up touching one another.
Testing had predicted that the worst reaction from a short circuit would be the batteries running down.
Unfortunately, what actually happened was what investigators called "a thermal runaway" - a fire that spread from one battery cell to the next.
On the ground, the skin of the aircraft was pierced by the heat and the flames.
The drilling rig came ashore at Dalmore, near Carloway on Lewis, during a storm almost two weeks ago. It was being towed from Norway to Malta.
Those involved in the operation to salvage the rig suggested the structure might be refloated over the weekend.
However, they stressed that this would only happen if it was deemed safe to do so.
Over the past few days equipment to improve the buoyancy and stability of Transocean Winner has been brought on board the structure.
More than 12,000 gallons (56,000 litres) of diesel oil were lost from two tanks on the Transocean Winner after it came ashore. The fuel is said to have evaporated and not caused a pollution incident.
Tens of thousands of gallons of the fuel remain in other tanks on the decommissioned rig.
Once refloated Transocean Winner would be towed to a nearby location at sea for further checks for damage.
Wales coach Warren Gatland said James was short on "sharpness" as he named fellow Blues wing Alex Cuthbert in his place for the 19-10 win over France.
Neither player has been released for Blues' game in Glasgow on Sunday, as Wales prepare to face England.
"He [James] is in great nick, he's extremely fit, a very powerful and dynamic runner," said Wilson.
"In our camp, he's been great and stepping up to international rugby is for other people to assess, not for me.
"Around the World Cup he had a small injury to his foot which has needed a little management.
"He's completed the same training as the other boys - the Cuthberts of the world and so on. Maybe he can't put in quite the same miles, so to speak, on our surface.
"We've been really happy with his fitness at Cardiff Blues."
James, 28, started both Wales' opening Six Nations matches against Ireland and Scotland but failed to score in either.
For Friday's victory against France he was replaced by Cuthbert, who had initially lost his place to James after a poor run of form which included a failure to score a try in five matches at the 2015 World Cup.
It appears both could be in contention to face England having not been released for the Blues this weekend.
"It's a good battle. It's one I don't have to make the decision on, which is nice," said Wilson.
"It's just pleasing, first and foremost from our point of view, that we've got two players in the same position who are both in the Wales squad and both challenging.
"They're both guys who've been in form for us this season and a real tough choice, I'd imagine, to pick between them."
With the Blues in Pro12 action against Glasgow on Sunday and Wales at Twickenham six days later, Wilson feels Gatland's decision not to release James - who played in last Sunday's win against Ulster - was precautionary.
"It's probably about making sure we look after their players to reduce the risk of injury going into what is an enormous game for Wales," he added.
"I fully understand that and we're very appreciative to have the two boys [hooker Kristian Dacey and back-rower Josh Turnbull] back to play."
The Scottish government-commissioned survey found 60% of pupils questioned had seen e-cigarettes for sale in shops, shopping centres or stalls.
About a quarter (26%) had seen outdoor poster adverts.
And 23% of the 2,016 11 to 18-year-olds questioned had seen or heard adverts on TV or radio in the past week.
Although 16% had used an e-cigarette, most had only tried them "once or twice", the survey found.
Only 5% of pupils who had never smoked tobacco had tried e-cigarettes. Curiosity was the main driver for use, sometimes motivated by seeing a friend or family member trying them, the report found.
The forthcoming Health Bill proposes a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes to under-18s, "proxy purchase" by adults for minors and restrictions on the marketing of the products.
Public health minister Maureen Watt said: "This is an extremely useful survey, that gives us one of the first good indications of young people's awareness and experience of e-cigarettes.
"Of particular interest is the large number of children who are being exposed to marketing of these products.
"While more research is needed, e-cigarettes are almost certainly less harmful than tobacco and if people are using them as an aid to quit smoking that is a good thing.
"However, the Scottish Government does not believe that children should have access to them. This is the balance we are aiming for in our forthcoming Health Bill.
"We would consult with stakeholders to consider where exemptions might apply, such as at point of sale where adult smokers who might benefit from e-cigarettes and can find out more about the products."
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John Button was found dead at his home on the French Riviera by a friend on Sunday.
He was a strong influence on his son's career, which includes winning the 2009 World Championship.
A statement released by the McLaren driver's agent read: "It is with great sadness I can confirm John has passed away."
"Jenson Button's father John had been a permanent fixture in Formula 1 since his son's debut 14 years ago.
"The perfect 'racing dad' - he was there at his son's wishes for support and advice if required, but never interfered or got in the way.
"A very decent rallycross driver in his time, John Button was a bon viveur and heartily jovial character. Rarely very far from a glass of red wine, he was popular throughout the sport.
"'Papa Smurf', as he was known, was the source of many a great story from behind the scenes. The paddock will be a duller place without him."
It added that "initial signs indicate a suspected heart attack".
The statement continued: "John's children Jenson, Natasha, Samantha and Tanya and the rest of the family are clearly devastated and ask for their privacy to be respected during this extremely difficult time."
Former McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton led the tributes to the 2009 champion's father, tweeting: "Deeply saddened by the passing of John Button. I'm so sorry @jensonbutton John was such a great man and will be missed by so many. God bless."
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh said: "Speaking on behalf of all at McLaren Mercedes, I want to say how very sad I was to hear the news of John's passing.
"In my long Formula 1 career, I've encountered many drivers' fathers, but I think it's safe to say that John was perhaps more devoted to his son than any of them.
"Ever since Jenson was a boy, racing go-karts, his dad has been at his side, helping him, supporting him, finding the money for the next race.
"He was not only a great dad, but also a lovely man, and he'll be enormously missed by Jenson, of course, by all at McLaren, and indeed by the Formula 1 community at large."
Button's new team-mate Kevin Magnussen wrote on Twitter: "I'm very, very sorry for my team-mate, Jenson Button. His dad was a really great guy who will be missed by all in F1."
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso tweeted: "My condolences to all the Button family, especially to Jenson Button. Very sad news. John.... a great man, a friend, we will miss him."
British driver Max Chilton tweeted: "So sad and shocked to hear the sad passing of John Button. One of the greatest characters in the paddock & will miss him dearly."
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