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The Condor Liberation struck the quayside at St Peter Port, Guernsey, while attempting to dock on 28 March. No-one was injured.
A report by Condor Ferries said the ship "landed heavily on a cylindrical single steel vertical piling".
The company said it would now work with harbour authorities to improve berth fendering.
The report stated: "The fendering on some of the berths in the Channel Islands, UK and French ports served by Condor is inappropriate for high speed craft."
Strong winds - with gusts of up to 32 knots - made it difficult to berth and the report noted "all pre-service port trials conducted in Guernsey and Jersey had only been conducted in moderate conditions".
The investigation also concluded using manual rather than auto settings on the ship "may have been more effective in completing the berthing manoeuvre".
However the report stated the master's use of auto "was reasonable given his previous experiences" and said the decision to attempt to berth "was reasonable".
The 102m (335ft) long vessel was built by Austal shipbuilders in Australia and can carry up to 880 passengers and 245 vehicles.
The Condor Liberation is the only fast ferry operating between Guernsey, Jersey and the UK.
Capt Fran Collins, executive director of operations at Condor Ferries, said the report showed the ship was "at all times operating within safe limits".
She said: "We will work with the ports to improve fendering and the continual assessment of the ship's manoeuvring system to identify and implement fine tuning to optimise manoeuvrability."
The 26-year-old has made 27 appearances for his national team, scoring 10 goals, and represented his country at both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.
"I am so happy to sign for Chelsea," said Pato. "It is a dream for me, I'm looking forward to getting to know my new team-mates and cannot wait to play.
"I thank Chelsea for their support and hope I can repay this faith."
The Blues, who won the Premier League last season, have had a disappointing campaign and are 13th in the table, although they are still in the Champions League.
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Interim manager Guus Hiddink does not think the signing of Pato is a risk.
"It's not a gamble. Coming on loan makes it possible to view if he can adapt to the league," said Hiddink.
Chelsea are also set to sign New York Red Bulls defender Matt Miazga, 20.
"We're not rushing, but he will be one of the squad members for the future," added Hiddink.
Tim Sturtridge, South American football journalist
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Burns' 1792 song The Slave's Lament can be heard drifting through the rooms of the Palazzo Fontana on the Grand Canal.
The 16th Century palace was once the birthplace of a pope and this summer plays host to Fagen's exhibition for the Scotland + Venice project, an entirely new body of work devised for the rooms of this historic palazzo.
Fagen, whose work combines video, performance, photography, and sculpture with text and music, has been working with the composer Sally Beamish, the classical musicians of the Scottish Ensemble and the Jamaican reggae singer Ghetto Priest to bring new life to Burns' historical work.
He filmed and recorded the musicians at work in Glasgow's City Halls and British reggae producer Adrian Sherwood mixed the music.
Fagan says: "I suppose the essence of the exhibition starts with my own life."
The artist grew up in Irvine in Ayrshire and his Venice exhibition reflects the impact of reggae music on his life as well as his ambivalent feelings about Burns, who was such an important feature of local culture.
The Burns poem is a famous statement against slavery, but when he was young 18th Century Scottish poet had been driven by economic hardship to consider leaving for the West Indies where he would have worked overseeing slave labour on a plantation.
Burns published a volume of poems to try to raise money for his ticket to Jamaica. That book became the famous Kilmarnock edition. The success of his poetry meant he never left Scotland.
When you hear the Slave's Lament sung by Ghetto Priest with such conviction you realise the Burns was capable of great empathy with the character of the slave.
Fagen says that the vocalist "has a very strong affinity with the song".
Sally Beamish says she is "excited" to be collaborating with Fagen at a significant moment in his career.
She says: "Our collaboration highlights the impact Scottish folk songs has had on both of us - and I am honoured to take part in this extraordinary opportunity with so many inspirational artists and musicians."
The exhibition runs from 9 May to 22 November and is funded by Creative Scotland. It is supported British Council Scotland and the National Galleries of Scotland.
It links Venice with a much smaller port in Scotland - Arbroath.
Hospitalfield Arts in the Angus town came up with the proposal to commission Fagen and its Lucy Byatt has curated the exhibition.
The historic Hospitalfield House mansion was bequeathed to a trust by the 19th century painter Patrick Allan-Fraser and is now an arts venue.
The Arbroath connection is maintained in Venice by providing hospitality to the international press in the form of its best known export: the smokie.
Byatt says: "It's an opportunity to give Graham the platform that he needs at this stage and now I am really looking forward to inviting audiences in."
She will bring a version of the exhibition to Edinburgh in Spring 2016.
Byatt says: "When we bring the show back to Edinburgh it will be reworked and will resonate in a different way. Our aim at the moment is to find a space in Leith in the docks in a site that has a specific yet still maritime history and reinstall the show."
La Biennale di Venezia is the largest and most prestigious visual arts exhibition in the world.
This will be the seventh presentation from Scotland + Venice but Scottish artists have long been part of the Venice Biennale.
It was launched in 1895 and Charles Rennie Mackintosh was among a group of artists who exhibited in 1899.
There are 89 official national pavilions and more than 44 associated events. The whole event attracts more than half a million visitors.
Since 2003 the Scotland + Venice exhibition has had a regular presence at the biennale and it is seen by the movers and shakers of the art world as well as tourists and ordinary art lovers.
Artists who have exhibited include Simon Starling (2003) and Martin Boyce (2011) who both went on to win the Turner Prize. Duncan Campbell's film It for Others, commissioned by The Common Guild for Scotland + Venice in 2013, won the Turner Prize last year.
The Scotland + Venice learning team are 28 students and recent graduates who will each spend a month working at the palazzo venue.
Climbing the grand stairs up to the piano nobile, or first floor, of the palazzo this week, Fagen pointed out a little detail I never would have noticed.
Next to the grand entrance were a couple of wooden steps and tiny wooden door that would have served as the servants' entrance.
For all its grand frontage, life behind the public rooms of the Palazzo is more homely.
Staff from the learning team live in an apartment, carved out of these servants quarters.
They will get the chance to meet up with other teams from across the globe who are working at the biennale.
One of the invigilators from the Welsh exhibition has already set up a breakfast club for those staffing venues across the city.
Anna Danielewicz is a 23 year-old Polish student who came to Scotland to study medicine but ended up leaving her course. She now studies art at Edinburgh College of Art and believes Scotland is very supportive of young artists.
She says she is delighted to join the learning team at the Palazzo Fontana.
She says: "It has been a gradual process. But this week we were listening to Graham talking so eloquently about the work. We were all just stunned. I'm definitely happy to be sharing this with visitors."
At the heart of the exhibition is a large bronze tree that is cast from coir rope.
The sculpture reflects the maritime traditions of Venice as well as more ominous associations with slavery and death.
The building faces the Grand Canal and you can hear the boat traffic in the venue.
Like everything in Venice the work had to be delivered to the pink-fronted palace by boat.
The Rope Tree cast was produced by Powderhall Bronze Foundry in Edinburgh and was built to fit the dramatically sloping floor of the historic building.
Fagen said that the team at Powderhall "love a challenge and didn't blink". That might also be said of the artist himself.
Scotland + Venice is at the Palazzo Fontana until 22 November.
A 27-year-old woman was attacked in Dalkeith after being approached by a man at about 03:45 on Sunday 28 June.
She had left a bus on Lauder Road and was forced into a wooded area between Lauder Road and Wester Kippielaw Drive.
Police have launched a fresh appeal for information following a "tremendous response" from the local community.
The appeal comes after officers reviewed CCTV footage and undertook door-to-door inquiries in order to trace the suspect.
He is described as white, aged about 20, approximately 5ft 7in tall, and of a very slim build.
The suspect had short dark hair and was wearing tight-fitted jeans and a shiny black hooded top.
Det Insp Scott Anderson, said: "A month on from this assault I'd like people to think back to the evening of the 27th into the morning of the 28th June and what they were doing.
"Anyone who was in the area might have information that could assist the inquiry and I would encourage you to make contact and speak with the inquiry team.
"What can often seem like a minor piece of detail can often prove to be absolutely crucial so again, anyone who recognises the description or was in the area of Lauder Road on this particular evening is asked to get in touch.
"So far, the response we have received from the local community has been tremendous and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has made contact with us and has assisted with our inquiries so far."
The victim, named as Joseph Pearce, 40, was found by emergency crews following reports of an assault at Churchill Close, in Burnham-on-Sea, on Monday.
Two men, aged 21 and 43, arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody, Avon and Somerset Police said.
A 54-year-old woman has been released while inquiries continue and three others were released without charge.
Det Ch Insp James Riccio said: "We continue to offer support to Joseph's family during what is clearly a difficult time for them.
"We are leaving no stone unturned in our quest to establish the full circumstances behind this horrific crime and are keeping the family updated with the progress of our inquiry."
A cordon remains in place around Churchill Close while officers continue their investigation.
The incident happened at about 16:00 in Oldtown Road in the city's Hilton area.
Police Scotland said officers had increased patrols in the area to reassure the public, and has appealed for information about the attack.
The injured man was taken to Raigmore Hospital for treatment to his head.
In a scoreless first half, Jersey's Jordan Davies came closest to a try but was held up just before the line.
The visitors did go ahead when prop Sean McCarthy went over after a series of pick and goes, and Callum Sheedy crucially kicked the conversion.
Kyle Moyle got to Max Bodilly's chip to touch down for the Pirates, but Will Cargill's kick was caught in the wind.
A losing bonus point keeps fifth-placed Pirates ahead of Jersey in the Championship table, but defeat damages the Cornish side's play-off hopes and ended their seven-game home winning streak.
The teams will meet again in the last eight of the British & Irish Cup at St Peter on Friday night.
Pirates coach Alan Paver told BBC Radio Cornwall:
"They deserved their victory - we couldn't get a grip of the game.
"Our normally potent kicking game didn't function, our line-out just couldn't give us enough possession and when we had possession we just couldn't keep it for long enough.
"It wasn't a spectacle of a game - in fact it was awful - but credit is due to them. They've come here and ground out a victory."
Jersey Reds head coach Harvey Biljon:
"Let's be honest, the rugby you saw is not what you want to see from the Pirates or Jersey.
"Anything could've happened, and it was difficult for rugby players out there.
"Around the 60-minute mark we probably had a sustained period of pressure and I think we should've come away with more, but ultimately we'll take the win on what was a very difficult day."
Cornish Pirates: May, O'Meara, Bodilly, Hendrickson, Moyle, May, Day, Walker, Innard, Andrew, Parker, Caulfield, Cheesman, Stevens, Duncan (capt).
Replacements: Andrew, Chapman, Lee, Bartlett, Pope, Cargill, De Battista.
Jersey Reds: Cuthbert; Adair, Davies, Ma'afu, Scott, Sheedy, Hardy; McCarthy, Buckle, Tampin, Phillips, Voss, Freeman (capt), Graham, Haining.
Replacements: Macfarlane, Woolmore, Armstrong, Kolo'ofa'i, Argyle, Dudley, Robling.
Referee: Simon Harding.
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The tree was sown by a girl called Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809 in the Nottinghamshire town of Southwell.
It has been neglected since the death of owner Nancy Harrison almost two years ago.
Bio-scientist Prof Ted Cocking, who has cloned the tree, said the people of Southwell should care for the Bramley.
Prof Cocking, from Nottingham University, has studied the tree for many years and used tissue cultures to micro-propagate the tree and create clones of the original Bramley.
"It looks as though it is going to die - although we can never be 100% certain with a tree.
"It is a great shame. Ms Harrison devoted most of her life looking after the tree and entertaining people who came from all over the world to visit the tree.
"Since her death, nobody has looked after the tree. The people of Southwell should club together to care for the tree and the garden - it wouldn't cost much.
"Even if it is dying - we all want to die with dignity. It needs to be nursed in its terminal years."
Prof Cocking said the fungal infection gets into the water transport system of the tree and slowly kills it off - similar to a human's arteries getting clogged up.
Any extra stresses - such as a long hot summer - could hasten its death.
Clones taken by Prof Cocking and his team have now reached maturity and are sold commercially.
He said the fruit has a higher concentration of vitamin C and more flavour than that of the 200-year-old specimen and its descendants.
Sir John Starkey, who sells the fruit, said he asked Prof Cocking to clone the original tree as an experiment to "see how they behaved in commercial conditions."
"They looked more like tomato plants, little thin spindly things. I thought they are not going to survive in the wild but how wrong I was because in a few years they were outgrowing in dimensions and vigour the trees which I had from my nursery men," said.
The Bramley became popular because the apple stores well and keeps its flavour when cooked. About 83,000 tonnes of them are now grown in Britain annually.
According to the The Bramley Apple Information Service, it is not well known outside the UK except in Japan where it is revered.
One Japanese apple farmer said he "nearly cried" when he visited Southwell.
Lee Wilson suffered a gaping wound to his head after Kyle Jenkins and Joseph Townhill forced their way into his home in Lincoln.
Lincoln Crown Court heard both men kicked and punched Mr Wilson and struck him with a Playstation console and the karaoke machine.
They were each handed a 20 month sentence.
The court heard the pair had gone to Mr Wilson's home in Ripon Street on 28 June to confront him for allegedly assaulting Jenkins' sister.
Gurdial Singh, prosecuting, said Mr Wilson was pushed into an armchair and set about by both.
"He describes being kicked and punched to the back, face and anywhere they could get to," he said.
Mr Wilson heard Jenkins swear and shout "you hit my sister".
Mr Singh added: "Jenkins used a PlayStation console to hit his head and back.
"Townhill picked up a karaoke machine with both hands and thrust it towards the right side of his forehead."
Mr Wilson eventually escaped and locked himself in the hall, but the disturbance woke his partner, their two children and one of their friends who was staying over.
He was later treated in hospital for a "gaping wound" caused by being struck by the karaoke machine.
Jenkins, 24, of Broughton Gardens, Lincoln, and Townhill, 23, of Renfrew Road, Lincoln, both admitted a charge of burglary.
David Eager, defending Jenkins, said he could start a new job on Monday and pay compensation to his victim.
Giles Beddloe, for Townhill, told the court he was also a hard working family man.
Sentencing the pair, Judge Simon Hirst said he accepted both men were unlikely to reoffend, but told them they had "acted as a team."
The men's team beat Guernsey 4-3 after a dramatic injury-time winner in Fardhem while the women's side beat the Isle of Wight 4-2 at Stenkyrka.
The men will now play Greenland who knocked out Menorca on penalties while the women's side will play hosts Gotland after they defeated Jersey 2-1.
The Isle of Man topped the medal table after four days of competition.
Phra Dhammajayo is accused of money laundering and embezzling funds from the huge Dhammakaya temple in Bangkok.
But his supporters blocked officers from searching parts of the compound.
The 72-year-old abbot has stayed inside the temple for months, saying he is too ill to face officials. He denies the allegations and says they are politically motivated.
In a statement, the devotees of the temple said Phra Dhammajayo was severely ill and would enter the judicial process only when the country returned to democracy.
Thailand has been run by the military since a coup in 2014.
Police say they have paused an operation to arrest Phra Dhammajayo after devotees blocked their way.
A temple spokesman said monks were co-operating with police, but could not stop some followers from acting.
However, Suriya Singhakamol, deputy chief of the police department of special investigations, said: "Our operation has not ended. The [arrest] warrant is still valid so we will have authority to carry out the operation. According to our information, he is still inside."
One 58-year-old female supporter told Reuters: "Arresting him is uncalled for. It's not like he killed someone."
The raid is the latest flashpoint between secular authorities and Buddhists in Thailand, and follows a raid on the controversial Tiger Temple.
Analysts say police do not want to appear confrontational towards Buddhist monks or enter a temple by force, given their revered status in Thailand.
Police said they had delayed Thursday's raid against the Dhammakaya temple in northern Bangkok until the monks had finished their lunch - their only meal of the day.
Founded in the 1970s, the temple contrasts starkly with the informal, tradition-bound character of most Thai temples, which are often integrated into the local community.
It has more of the character of a charismatic cult, offering tightly choreographed mass meditations at its bizarre, flying saucer-like central chedi, and encouraging intense loyalty from its followers.
Partly it is due to its size, the devotion of its followers, and its unusual interpretation of Buddhist practice.
It has proved very attractive in a fast-changing society, and become wealthy on the back of generous donations. Critics have accused it of distorting the traditional teachings of Buddhism, and taking followers away from local temples.
Wat Dhammakaya is controversial for another reason too - its alleged close links to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and the red shirt movement which supports him.
They deny the Thaksin links. They say the temple attracts Thais from all walks of life and all political persuasions.
But in Thailand's polarised political climate, such a powerful religious sect has inevitably been drawn in, with opponents of Mr Thaksin and his party making the loudest calls for action against the temple's abbot.
The potential for huge numbers of the temple's followers to be mobilised in mass protests must also weigh on the minds of a military government obsessed with maintaining tight control of the country as it navigates a difficult political transition.
Sabbir Sedoo, 28, was racing his brother Suleiman, 24, on the M5 in Gloucestershire in June last year.
Sedoo had previously admitted three charges of death by dangerous driving.
Judge Jamie Tabor QC told him: "Your behaviour was grossly irresponsible. There was in my judgment a period of showing off."
He added: "It was a recipe for disaster.
"I have no doubt that you are a very hard-working and responsible man but on that day you drove and behaved like an idiot."
The court heard Suleiman Sedoo was driving a Mercedes hire car which smashed into the back of a stationary Ginsters lorry in the early hours of 2 June 2016.
He died alongside passengers Ekbal Miah, 23, and Jarrod Campbell, 23. Front seat passenger Majid Malik survived.
Shopkeeper Sedoo avoided his brother's car but his black Mazda hit a crash barrier. His two passengers were slightly injured.
The brothers were driving back to Gloucester having celebrated Mr Campbell's birthday in Birmingham the night before.
Blood tests found the defendant had 7.5mg of cannabis per litre of blood in his body. The legal limit is 2mg per litre.
George Threlfall, defending, said: "What the court does not know is that this man's brother died in his arms on the M5 motorway.
"Mrs Sedoo has lost her son and will lose another son to a term of imprisonment.
"He has not been able to forgive himself and he is never going to be able to forgive himself."
Sedoo, of Falkner Street, Tredworth, Gloucester, was sentenced to five years and four months' imprisonment and banned him from driving for the same period.
Lauri Love, 31, who has Asperger's syndrome, is appealing against an extradition order signed last year by the home secretary.
Mr Love, from Stradishall, Suffolk, faces trial accused of hacking into the FBI, the US central bank and Nasa.
An appeal against his extradition is expected to be heard at the High Court.
Speaking to BBC Inside Out, Mr Love said: "It is very hard for me to imagine not being able to access information using computers - that's the way I have interfaced with the world since I was able to.
"It would be like losing my sight if I was locked away from technology and only able to use a telephone to call my family once a week.
"If there are no other options and it is a choice between being subject to the US justice system and being turned into an example or deterrent or choosing to end my own life as an alternative then I do reserve the right to do so."
Mr Love said the Pentagon currently offered "bounties" to approved US citizens to find vulnerabilities.
He said if the US authorities were interested in "actionable intelligence on vulnerabilities" then "I would want to work with them".
"I am not accused to any sort of criminal gain or of attempting to make money or cause damage, I am accused of using the internet in only 'non-naughty ways'," he said.
World champion Peaty lost out on 50m breaststroke gold by a 100th of a second to Slovenia's Damir Dugonjic.
Commonwealth champion Miley won silver in the 400m individual medley, with Hungary's Katinka Hosszu taking gold.
The tournament, in Netanya, runs until Sunday, 6 December and features Britons Liam Tancock, Jazz Carlin and Georgia Coates.
The Chelsea loanee's neat turn and low finish in the first half was enough to send the visitors into round two.
The hosts thought they had levelled but Adebayo Akinfenwa was ruled offside.
Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth, missing players through injury, had named himself on the bench but was an unused substitute as his side suffered defeat.
Match ends, Wycombe Wanderers 0, Bristol City 1.
Second Half ends, Wycombe Wanderers 0, Bristol City 1.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Michael Harriman.
Derrick Williams (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Luke Freeman (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Lee Tomlin (Bristol City).
Sido Jombati (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sam Wood (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Garry Thompson (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Arnold Garita (Bristol City).
Stephen McGinn (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers).
Joe Bryan (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Joe Bryan.
Attempt missed. Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Aden Flint (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Luke Freeman (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Arnold Garita (Bristol City).
Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Aaron Pierre replaces Will De Havilland.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Dayle Southwell.
Substitution, Bristol City. Arnold Garita replaces Tammy Abraham.
Substitution, Bristol City. Mark Little replaces Aaron Wilbraham.
Substitution, Bristol City. Joe Bryan replaces Adam Matthews.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Will De Havilland.
Attempt saved. Bobby Reid (Bristol City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Stephen McGinn.
Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Anthony Stewart.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Will De Havilland.
Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Gusts of up to 70mph are expected from about 00:05 on Wednesday and forecast to last for most of the day.
The Met Office said there was likely to be only a "brief lull" before wintry showers moved in during the afternoon.
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The pair drove in a pedestrianised zone in the Puerto Banus area of Marbella, running down three people.
Police said the men, aged 28 and 29, left the scene and crashed their car into two other vehicles, injuring five more people, and then tried to run off.
The local force said the men were under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
None of those involved in the incident on Sunday evening suffered life-threatening injuries, but some received hospital treatment.
In a news conference, the local police chief, Javier Martin, said one of the British men had been treated at the Costa del Sol hospital, but had been discharged.
Both men tested positive for alcohol, he said. One also tested positive for cocaine and the other for cannabis.
He said that both men had been involved in an altercation in a nightclub in Puerto Banus but had then left in the car.
Dashcam footage from a nearby driver shows a black Audi Q7 driving in the wrong direction on a dual-carriageway, before crashing head-on with another vehicle.
The two Britons, one of whom police say is a Marbella resident, are currently being questioned by police in southern Spain.
The mayor of Marbella, Jose Bernal, described the events as "exceptional" and said "Marbella is a safe city".
Wokingham Borough Council says it will resubmit applications for Elms Field and Peach Place "in the near future".
The council added it remains "committed" to the £95m regeneration process and achieving a development of excellent design quality.
Opponents welcomed the decision to take more time to look at the plans.
Council leader David Lee stressed it was important to get the design of "a development for the next generation" right.
He said: "We need to give a little more thought to making sure the design is of the highest possible quality.
"We're not ruling this idea out and waiting for another one, nothing is changing in the overall concept.
Councillor Prue Bray, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition, said: "The council appear to have seen sense and now maybe there's an opportunity to listen to what people are saying in Wokingham."
The Elms Field park development was discussed at an extraordinary council meeting earlier this month.
Campaigners collected more than 2,000 signatures to trigger a three-hour debate.
But Alastair Hamilton has said more will need to be spent promoting the region as an investment location.
He was speaking on the BBC's Inside Business programme
"Things are starting to look like we might finally get a positive answer," he said.
"If, once we deliver corporation tax, our business changes much more into a promotion agency overseas, rather than a grant giving body."
A decision on whether Northern Ireland gets the power to reduce the tax to 12.5%, as in the Republic of Ireland, is due to be made by Prime Minister David Cameron in the coming weeks.
If it happens, Mr Hamilton said his "plea" to politicians would be to spend on promoting the new rate.
"You only have to look at the Irish Development Agency's budget for advertising and marketing to see the scale that they have to go to to promote the tool," he said.
"We would be competing with 300 other agencies internationally to promote our message and we will have a new message, hopefully, that we need to get out there."
Invest NI is expected to make savings as part of the wider public sector finance squeeze.
But at the same time, the executive is committed to paying £250m in grants to companies to deliver on their jobs pledges over the next five years.
Mr Hamilton said these were "legally-binding commitments" to firms which had already announced investment projects.
The film will be Fiennes third feature as a director, after 2011's Coriolanus and 2013's The Invisible Woman, in which he played Charles Dickens.
Unlike those, though, the biographical drama - scripted by Sir David Hare - will not see Fiennes play the lead.
Philomena's Gabrielle Tana will produce the film, set to shoot in late 2016.
Financed in part by BBC Films, the film will be based on Julie Kavanagh's celebrated biography of the Soviet-born dancer who defected to the west in 1961.
He went on to dance with the Royal Ballet and act in films - among them a biopic of silent star Rudolph Valentino - before dying of Aids in 1993 at the age of 54.
Fiennes' previous collaborations with Sir David include 2008 film The Reader, which Hare scripted, and the TV films Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield.
He has also written a new version of Ibsen's play The Master Builder, in which Fiennes will star at the Old Vic in London next year.
Fiennes recently appeared in Man and Superman at the National Theatre and will be seen later this year as M in the next James Bond film Spectre.
He is best known for his Oscar-nominated roles in Schindler's List and The English Patient and for playing Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
German news weekly Der Spiegel says documents suggest the NSA and the British GCHQ made joint efforts to gather intelligence.
Teams looked at each phone to crack its privacy codes, Der Spiegel said.
Saturday saw thousands of demonstrators in Berlin demand that the NSA stop monitoring internet users.
The documents Spiegel has seen do not show whether or not there has been mass surveillance of phone use.
Once the intelligence teams had unlocked the codes, agencies could read a user's contacts and lists of who had been called.
The BBC's Steve Evans in Berlin says the reports do seem to indicate that the British and American security agencies have the ability to read private communications beyond what might have previously been thought possible - or desirable by those who fear the intrusion of the state.
The magazine did not explain how it had obtained the documents.
But one of the authors of the article, Laura Poitras, is an American filmmaker with close contacts to the NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
According to the documents seen by Der Spiegel, the Canadian manufacturer of Blackberry phones began using a new method to compress the data in May 2009.
Intelligence agents were unable to access some information on BlackBerry phones for about a year afterwards, the Associated Press news agency said.
Der Spiegel's article said that GCHQ then cracked the problem, too - and analysts celebrated their achievement with the word "Champagne".
A stream of recent revelations about international data surveillance has ignited a heated debate in Germany about the country's co-operation with the United States in intelligence matters.
All of the managerial movements for February will appear below, followed by the full list of each club, league-by-league.
To read the list for January, visit the ins and outs page.
Djerassem Le Bemadjiel said the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) was to blame for an oil spill in several sites near a forest.
He said the situation was "intolerable" but did not make it clear how long the suspension would last.
The company also runs an oil refinery in the capital, N'Djamena.
Chad became an oil-producing nation in 2003 with the completion of a $4bn (£2.6bn) pipeline linking its oilfields to terminals on the Atlantic coast.
The oil minister took the decision after officials visited Koudalwa, some 200km (125 miles) south of N'Djamena, where CNPC was exploring for oil, the AFP news agency reports.
"It's a very serious situation, it's intolerable," Mr Le Bemadjiel told the BBC French Service, describing how trees had been destroyed.
He said such violations were a crime, adding: "In the oil sector you don't do this."
The minister told AFP that the Chinese exploration unit had dug huge trenches and let oil flow into them, and then had it removed by local workers without protective gear.
Managers at the company would be held responsible for the violations, he told AFP.
The BBC's former Chad correspondent Celeste Hicks says the CNPC refinery, Djermaya, deals with about 15,000 barrels of oil a day from its operations in Koudalwa, producing fuel for the local market.
It has been closed twice before in disputes between the government and CNPC over pricing, she says.
The union said 85% of station workers had voted to walk out in a dispute over staffing and safety.
Drivers on the Piccadilly line also backed action over a "wholesale breakdown" in industrial relations.
London Underground (LU) said the RMT should "work with us constructively... rather than threaten strikes".
About 3,400 workers are involved in the two disputes which could affect services in the run-up to Christmas.
General secretary Mick Cash said a "toxic impact of the job cuts programme" had made working on the Tube "horrific".
"Our dispute is about taking action to haul back the cuts machine and put safety back at the top of the agenda," he said.
The RMT executive is to consider the ballot results before deciding the next move.
Transport for London (TfL) said both ballots had low turnouts, with 33% voting in the ballot over staffing and safety and 49% voting in the Piccadilly line dispute.
Steve Griffiths, LU's chief operating officer, said "an independent review was being conducted" into the closure of ticket offices and talks had been planned "to discuss the RMT's concerns on the Piccadilly line".
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) union has also announced it will ballot hundreds of members for strikes over the closure of ticket offices.
The meeting was brought to a halt after Frankie Dettori's mount Magillen came down just after the winning line when finishing runner-up to Rodaini in a six-furlong maiden race (14:30 BST).
"Following an inquiry, the jockeys felt it was unsafe to continue," said clerk of the course Jimmy Stevenson.
"Thankfully, both horse and rider were fine."
Stevenson said the late rain had made the top of the ground greasy.
Dettori is expected to be fine to ride at Epsom this weekend, where he will partner joint favourite Wings Of Desire in the Derby on Saturday.
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The £330m investment by AstraZeneca to set up a global HQ in Cambridge is expected to create 2,000 jobs.
Research work will stop at Alderley Park, Cheshire, where 2,900 people work. A majority will go to Cambridge, where London staff will also move.
Unions said moving the jobs would be a massive blow to north-west England.
Unite national officer Linda McCulloch, said: "AstraZeneca's decision to relocate over a thousand jobs to Cambridge is... creating a skills crisis for the [north-west] economy.
"After 40 years of success and hundreds of millions of pounds of investment, we are at a loss as to why AstraZeneca is now pulling out of Alderley Park."
Pascal Soriot, the firm's chief executive officer, said Cambridge was picked because of its scientific workforce and institutions.
"This is a major investment in the future of this company that will enable us to accelerate innovation by improving collaboration, reducing complexity and speeding up decision-making," he said.
"The strategic centres will also allow us to tap into important bioscience hotspots, providing more of our people with easy access to leading-edge academic and industry networks, scientific talent and valuable partnering opportunities."
"Approximately 1,600 roles will relocate from Alderley Park over the next three years, with a significant majority going to the new centre in Cambridge and the remainder to the company's nearby Macclesfield facility or sites overseas."
At least 700 non-R&D roles are expected to remain at Alderley Park.
The firm said that Cambridge University, local hospitals and biotech companies offered a talent pool and opportunities for collaboration.
"Cambridge, which boasts strong links with London-based research institutions, is a world-renowned bioscience hotspot that rivals the likes of San Francisco and Boston," Mr Soriot said.
"I believe that the investment greatly increases the chances that the next generation of innovative medicines will be invented and manufactured in Britain."
AstraZeneca currently employs about 6,700 people in the UK.
"I recognise that our plans will have a significant impact on many of our people at our sites in Cheshire and London and the surrounding communities," Mr Soriot said.
"We are fully committed to treating all our employees with respect and fairness as we navigate this period of change."
The blaze was reported shortly after 01:00 and police were called to Rochdale Way, Colchester, by the fire service.
Police said a neighbour had twice tried to to get into the flat to rescue the man but was unsuccessful.
A 42-year-old woman has been arrested in Colchester and was being questioned by detectives.
Det Ch Insp Stephen Jennings, leading the police investigation, said: "This tragic incident is now being treated as a murder inquiry.
"We are looking to establish the exact cause of the blaze and how it started.
"The victim and the suspect are known to each other."
The cause of the fire has yet to be established.
The neighbour was treated for the effects of breathing in smoke.
The 78-year-old, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials say floods, which follow a crippling drought, have swept through villages, destroying roads, crops and livestock in the south of the country.
The air force has transported some marooned villagers to safety.
Last week the cash-strapped government was criticised for reportedly spending up to $2m to celebrate President Robert Mugabe's 93rd birthday.
Mr Mugabe has declared the floods a national disaster.
Around 2,000 people have been left homeless by the flooding, with a further 1,500 described as "marooned", in an official government briefing, with communities cut off by the damage to roads.
Five bridges on major highways have been swept away, Transport Minister Joram Gumbo told local media.
The deadly floods have compounded the problems facing many Zimbabweans, who are still reeling from the affects of a crippling drought.
More than four million people are estimated to be in need of food aid after rains failed last year.
In what the government calls "an astounding shift from a drought condition to an excessively wet situation," it lists 10 provinces, mainly in the south and west of the country, which have been worst affected by the recent flooding.
Public infrastructure has been badly hit with 74 schools damaged, Minister for Local Government Saviour Kasukuwere said.
Seventy dams had burst and 85% of the country's dams were full, meaning that "even low amounts of rainfall will cause flooding," he added.
Mr O'Brien, 33, was reported missing from his Dublin home on 15 January.
His torso was found the following day in the canal near Ardclough in Kildare and other remains were later found in other locations in Kildare and Dublin.
Paul Wells, 48, of Barnamore Park in Finglas, was charged with his murder at Dublin District Court on Friday night.
A sergeant told the court that he had arrested Mr Wells and charged him with murder at Naas police (Garda) station in County Kildare at about 17:15 local time on Friday.
The judge remanded the accused in custody until 18 February.
The Duke of Cambridge presented troops from the 1st Battalion Irish Guards with shamrocks when he visited the Cavalry Barracks in Hounslow.
The parade was the first time the full battalion has been able to celebrate St Patrick's Day in five years.
It was also the first time a male Royal Family member has presented the Irish Guards with the traditional shamrocks.
The Duchess of Cambridge broke with the 115-year tradition by staying at home with her children.
It was the first time she had missed the annual event since taking over the role from the Princess Royal in 2012.
The Duke, who is Colonel of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, greeted 450 serving soldiers at the ceremony along with 150 association members and Army cadets from Northern Ireland.
He also present a sprig of shamrock to the regiment's mascot, a four-year-old Irish wolfhound named Domhnall, which is Gaelic for "world leader".
Formed in April 1900 by Queen Victoria to recognise the services of Irish soldiers during the Second Boer War in South Africa, the 1st Battalion Irish Guards served major roles in both world wars and has been awarded six Victoria Crosses over the last century.
Receiving shamrock on St Patrick's Day is a battalion tradition dating back to 1901, when Princess Alexandra became the first member of the Royal Family to attend the ceremony.
With 100 days until the tournament starts, chief executive Jonathan Ford said safety is of the "utmost importance".
Thousands of fans are set to make trips to watch Wales play in their first major tournament since 1958.
They face Slovakia in Bordeaux, England in Lens and Russia in Toulouse.
If they qualify from Group B, they will reach the knock-out stages.
Security is expected to be stepped up following the Paris attacks last November, which included three explosions outside the Stade de France.
"One thing it does do is it ensures the appropriate plans will be put in place," Mr Ford told BBC Wales.
"I'm sure the security of the players, the staff and of course all of the fans is of the utmost importance.
"They'll be making sure people get to the stadiums early, they'll be making sure they've got pre-ticket checks so that anybody who's going to get near a stadium or near a fan zone is going to be appropriate, secure and going to enjoy the festival atmosphere."
Officers came across the injured 27-year-old woman in Main St, Kildysart, at about 19:30 local time on Wednesday and called for emergency medical help.
Police also became aware there was an injured man at a house in the street.
The pair later died at the scene. Police said they are not looking for anyone else over the double fatality.
The dead man, who was 44, had been found in a "serious condition" in the house.
Police tried to help both of the injured but they were pronounced dead by a local doctor and their bodies remain at scene.
A Garda (police) spokesman said the area has been sealed off for a technical examination and the state pathologist has been contacted.
"Gardai at this stage can confirm that they are not looking for a third party in relation to this incident," the spokesman added.
He appealed to anyone who had been in Kildysart village, particularly Main St between 18:00 and 19:30 local time, to contact officers.
The genetic study could help reconnect indigenous families with ancestral communities, according to the University of Adelaide-led study.
It shows the first Australians spread rapidly before largely spending continuous time in distinct areas.
The research is an important step in learning more about ancestry prior to European settlement, the authors said.
It again confirmed that Aboriginal Australians descended from a single population that arrived 50,000 years ago from New Guinea, when it was joined to Australia.
The research, published in the journal Nature, analysed 111 hair samples taken by anthropologists from across Australia in the early 20th Century.
The DNA allowed researchers to trace maternal ancestry through unique genetic material.
"What we've found is that we can see right the way back to the first colonisation of Australia by Aboriginal people," said lead author Prof Alan Cooper.
The first population spread rapidly. Within 2,000 years people had circled the east and west coasts before meeting somewhere in South Australia, the study said.
"The amazing bit is that they don't seem to move again once they've done that," Prof Cooper said.
"There's small movements into the desert interior but that basic pattern has held for 50,000 years."
The findings offered another compelling reason for the strong indigenous connection to the land, he said.
One of the study's co-authors, geneticist Dr Ray Tobler, said he traced his own family history to a small Queensland settlement.
"My great-grandmother worked in the area around Cherbourg," he told the BBC, referring to area 260km (160 miles) north of Brisbane.
"My grandad was born not too far from there."
His grandfather never spoke about his heritage because, like more than 100,000 Aboriginal children, he was forcibly removed from his family at a young age.
"This project can help provide lost history to some families," Dr Tobler said.
Reporting by the BBC's Greg Dunlop
France and the UK have traded accusations about the children's treatment.
Two large fires broke out on Friday morning at the camp, from which almost 6,000 people have been evacuated.
The evacuation is due to be completed on Friday and people refusing to leave would be arrested, Calais police said.
Migrants fleeing war and poverty had used the sprawling site as a staging post to try and reach the UK.
It had been seen as a key symbol of Europe's failure to deal with the worst migrant crisis since the second world war.
At least 1,500 minors have been staying at a special container camp at the site, but it has been full and many children have also reportedly been sleeping rough.
The British government said it had told the French authorities that they must "properly protect" children.
But French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement that the best way to protect the children was for the UK to "quickly execute its responsibilities to take in these minors".
The UK has agreed to take in nearly 250 of the children.
Save the Children said dozens of children have been exposed to "serious amounts of danger" during the clearance process. Some might have run away on their own, the charity warned.
"We may never know where they've gone," aid worker Dorothy Sang said.
The rest of those evacuated have been taken to reception centres around France, where they are being processed and will be able to apply for asylum.
But aid workers believe that hundreds, or perhaps even thousands of migrants might have fled the area before the clearance operation began on Monday.
Demolition work is continuing and the local authorities say the clearance will be completed by Monday.
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Hanad Mohamed, 23, is due to appear in court on Friday on a murder charge.
He is accused of killing Anthony Smith, 21, seen posing with Mr Ford in a photo reported to have been provided to news media by the people who have the video.
Mr Ford has denied the video exists, accusing the media of stoking a scandal that has roiled city politics.
Journalists from the Toronto Star and US website Gawker say they have seen - but not obtained - a video that appeared to show Mr Ford smoking the drug.
In a photograph they say was provided to them by the people who showed them the video, Mr Ford can be seen posing with his arm around Smith.
Mr Mohamed was arrested on Wednesday in Alberta and is charged with murder.
In April, 23-year-old Nisar Hashimi turned himself in over the killing and also faces a murder charge.
The video has not been released publicly and has not been verified.
Gawker used a crowd-funding campaign to raise $200,000 (£140,000) to buy the video, but the website said it lost contact with the people in possession of the footage.
Mr Ford has said he does not smoke crack cocaine and is not an addict.
"I cannot comment on a video that I've never seen or that does not exist," he said last week.
The mayor has come under mounting pressure to resolve the issue as city councillors have called openly for him to step aside or seek help.
Two departures from the Toronto mayor's office on Thursday joined a stream of defections and sackings in recent days.
Brian Johnston, a policy adviser, told Canadian media he had resigned. Kia Nejatian, the mayor's executive assistant, has also left.
Earlier in May, Mr Ford sacked his chief of staff Mark Towhey. His office has denied reports that it ordered emails and phone records to be destroyed after other city hall aides were fired or quit in recent days.
Last year the club left its former Colliers' Park training ground at Gresford, opened ten years ago at a cost of £750,000.
The facility was taken over by Glyndwr University in 2011 and Wrexham were unable to reach a deal to stay.
The club is now preparing to lease Wrexham Council's Nine Acres site.
The Wrexham players have been training at the Stansty Park ground of Welsh National League side Lex Glyndwr, less than a mile from Wrexham's Racecourse stadium, this season.
Now the club is preparing to lease Wrexham Council's Nine Acres - and the move has divided supporters.
Television reporter Bryn Law, who resigned earlier this year as president of Wrexham Supporters' Trust, said he recognised the club's situation, but "lamented" the loss of the Colliers' Park training ground. "It's a first class facility - the envy of many bigger clubs," he wrote on social media.
"From owning this to asking permission to use a field in Wrexham? I'm angry right now. I think we're at the jumpers for goalposts stage now, sadly."
However, club director Spencer Harris said he hoped the club would be able to lease the council site for a nominal rent. "We realise that the Colliers Park facility was dear to many people's hearts, but we haven't owned the site for seven years," he told the Wrexham leader.
"We've now got to make the best of the situation and move forward. We're happy that Nine Acres is a good site and we will be developing the pitches there to a high standard suitable for a professional football club."
And you'd be forgiven for thinking the same about UK airport expansion. We always seem to have been here before.
Ever since Gatwick and Heathrow airports opened for business in the Thirties and Forties, arguments have raged over how best to cater for Britain's burgeoning demand for air travel.
The debates seem endless and progress has been bedevilled by politics.
Recent history is littered with inquiries, commissions, consultations, studies and reports resulting in very little, but costing taxpayers millions.
Here's a reminder of UK aviation's chequered history.
The Wilson government sets up the Roskill Commission to look into the pros, cons and costs of a third London airport. Two years and many hundreds of pages later, the Commission recommends Cublington in rural Buckinghamshire as the best location for a new airport. The burghers of Bucks are not best pleased: beacons burn on hilltops and church bells peal across the county in protest. Ironically, Roskill dismisses Stansted as a location.
The recommendation is roundly dismissed by the new Heath government, which instead plumps for another Roskill option, Maplin Sands, Foulness - mudflats in the Thames Estuary near Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The idea was to build on the reclaimed land, but it was the most expensive of Roskill's four recommendations.
The Maplin Sands idea slides into the sea. The previous year's embargo by Arab oil producers - known as the 1973 oil crisis - sends shockwaves through the global economy and fuel costs rocketing. The need to reduce costs becomes a priority. Good news for wading birds; bad news for ousted prime minister Ted Heath. Meanwhile, France opens its shiny new Charles-de-Gaulle four-runway airport near Paris. Sacre bleu.
The Callaghan government's aviation white paper identifies Heathrow capacity as "restricted", and the following year the incoming Thatcher government decides against building a new international airport, despite acknowledging that "Heathrow capacity is virtually exhausted…" Instead, it envisages developing regional airports and expanding Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted "as the traffic develops". Heathrow Terminal 4 opens in 1986.
The government commissions a new study into airports called the Runway Capacity in the South East Study. Three long years later it concludes that expanding Heathrow "would afford the greatest benefits" and British Airways backs the idea of an extra runway. No extra runway materialises.
Secretary of State for Transport Brian Mawhinney rejects proposed new runways for Gatwick and Heathrow but says the government will explore how to squeeze more capacity out of the existing runways.
New Blair government, new aviation policy. A Transport White Paper says the government will "prepare a UK airports policy looking some 30 years ahead". This inevitably entails another time-consuming inquiry - the South East of England Regional Air Services Study - exploring how increasing demand for air travel will affect airport capacity. The Department for Transport begins a three-year consultation on The Future of Aviation.
This results in the government's Future of Air Transport White Paper which recommends a third runway at Heathrow - sound familiar? - greater use of Heathrow's existing two runways and possibly an extra three runways at Stansted. Oh, and the previous Tory government's aspiration to expand regional airports. As the UK chases its tail, Amsterdam's Schiphol airport opens its fifth runway.
"Heathrow expansion plans unveiled" the BBC reports on 22 November 2007. Guess what? They include a third runway and a sixth terminal at Heathrow. With Terminal 5 due to open the following year, it seems we're better at building terminals than runways. Announcing the consultation, the government says any expansion would have to conform to noise and pollution limits - the perennial sticks with which to beat the developers.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson proposes a new airport far out in the Thames Estuary at Shivering Sands, subsequently nicknamed Boris Island. Will it fare any better than the other Estuary proposals, normally rejected on cost and environmental grounds?
Gordon Brown's Labour government backs a third runway at Heathrow, but this is opposed by the Conservatives, despite the fact that the first Thatcher government originally supported the idea.
Politics intervenes once again as the new Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government puts Gordon Brown out to grass. It immediately rules out new runways at Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted. Back to square one.
What happens when there's a new government? A new consultation, this time called a "scoping document" on how to develop a "sustainable framework for UK aviation". Meanwhile, Heathrow is full to bursting, operating at 99.2% capacity. Frankfurt airport opens its fourth runway.
The government launches yet another consultation on the "draft aviation policy framework", and sets up the Airports Commission chaired by economist Sir Howard Davies. The Commission is tasked with assessing what extra capacity UK airports will need and inevitably publishes consultation documents. It's like Groundhog Day.
The Airports Commission shortlists three options to increase capacity, and we're back to the Gatwick and Heathrow new or extended runways idea. The next year, the Boris Island idea is sunk.
Sir Howard publishes his final recommendations. Will the new Conservative government finally grasp the nettle and make a decision or, as history suggests, kick the can further down the road?
As Yogi Berra had it: "The future ain't what it used to be."
Investigations show the fires were caused by overheating in some parts of the engine which led to oil leaks, said Ford SA chief executive Jeff Nemeth.
The recall affects the 1.6 litre model, built in Spain between 2012 and 2014.
The firm has been under pressure to act since motorist Reshall Jimmy, 33, burnt to death in his Kuga in 2015.
A total of 48 of the vehicles have so far caught fire in South Africa‚ 11 of them this month, the local TimesLive newspaper reported.
South Africa's motor industry ombudsman Johan van Vreden demanded that "Ford must act - now."
"One or two vehicles in the same model range catching fire is not unusual‚ but almost 50… it's crazy‚ especially in a small market like ours," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
Mr Nemeth said he could confirm 39 vehicles burning, but there may be other cases which had not been reported to the firm.
He understood the concerns of owners and the firm would "work with dealers to ensure each case is treated fairly".
Recalled vehicles would be subjected to a software update and a check on the cylinder head‚ Mr Nemeth added.
He said that an investigation which led to Mr Jimmy's vehicle burning while he was on holiday had not been concluded, but it appeared to be unrelated to the engine catching fire.
"We are not aware of any injuries that have resulted from our engine compartment fires," Mr Nemeth added, while offering condolences to Mr Jimmy's family.
Mr Nemeth spoke at a joint news conference with representatives of the family and the National Consumer Commission, which had been putting pressure on the firm to act.
"This issue has dragged on for too long‚" said commissioner Ibrahim Mohammad.
Mr Jimmy's brother, Kaveen, said his family was planning legal action against the car giant for a "very senseless death".
The commission, a regulatory body, has given Ford until 28 February to complete its investigation and report back.
In 2014, Ford recalled about 850,000 cars in North America over a "potential issue" with airbags.
Earlier this year, signs for the Clifton Village residents' parking zone appeared but some were fixed to railings which are Grade II* listed.
It prompted complaints that the signs were spoiling a conservation area.
The council said it used railings as much as possible to minimise posts in the pavement.
It said it "met regularly" with English Heritage to talk about listed building work and legislation.
The council said when signs were put up in the Kingsdown conservation area it was advised as long as it was not making "significant or permanent changes to a building, which would alter its character, it was acceptable".
English Heritage's letter, seen by the BBC, raised the "potential cumulative impact" of the signs in West Mall and Caledonia Place, which contains listed buildings.
"We would suggest that taken together such work might fall within Section 7 of the [Planning and Listed Buildings and Conservation 1990] Act," it said.
"In our view, it would be prudent to seek a listed building consent... to allow for a careful consideration of the impact of the works on the special interest of the terrace, of the number of signs and the consideration of alternative locations."
Numbers one to 31 Caledonia Place and their attached basement railings are Grade II* listed by English Heritage for their "special architectural or historic interest".
After rising at first, the FTSE 100 index fell 21.17 points to 6,273.99.
Anglo American was down 5.4% and other mining shares were lower after metals prices dropped, with copper near a six-year low.
Shares in credit data company Experian rose 6.5% after the company said it was increasing its half-year dividend and extending a share buyback by $200m.
National Grid shares rose 2.2% after it said it would sell a majority stake in its gas distribution business and posted a 15% rise in half-year profits.
Shares in Vodafone climbed 4.4% after it said revenue growth had picked up in the second quarter.
The latest update from broadcaster ITV helped to push its shares up 0.9%. It reported a 13% rise in revenues for the nine months to the end of September, helped by strong advertising sales during the Rugby World Cup.
On the currency markets, the pound slipped 0.1% against the dollar to $1.5101, and was flat against the euro at €1.4059.
A court ruled on Tuesday there was "excessive" use of a Taser after James McCarthy, 25, was struck twice in Liverpool in 2012.
His lawyer Sophie Khan said he had lost his memory after suffering a brain injury due to the cardiac arrest.
She called for a limit on how the stun guns were used by police.
"In my view, Tasers are not in their infancy, they are fully part of policing so what we need to look at is how to curb that use now."
Officers were called to a hotel at the Albert Dock in September 2012, when a group of men were fighting.
Mr McCarthy was 23 when he was struck twice with a Taser in the chest.
Two years ago, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Merseyside Police used "reasonable force".
On Tuesday, the County Court in Manchester ruled against the force, saying the second Taser discharge - which lasted for 11 seconds - was "excessive and disproportionate".
Richard Taylor, a solicitor who has been campaigning against the roll-out of the stun guns, said: "The problem with the Taser is the level of violence which comes from just pushing the button."
The court judgement also found the force to be negligent because of delays in getting Mr McCarthy treated.
Ms Khan said: "His life has totally changed - he has lost his memory.
"His father is now his part-time carer."
She added it was the first case in the UK where police were held liable for negligence concerning care after the use of a Taser and that Mr McCarthy could win a "substantial" payment.
Merseyside Police said it was considering a possible appeal against Tuesday's ruling.
New Zealand thrashed Wales 92-27 in Tuesday's first Test but led 15-12 after a tight first quarter.
The Silver Ferns extended their advantage to 31-21 at half-time.
The visitors pulled further ahead as they finished the third quarter 51-30 up and, despite a valiant Welsh effort, New Zealand were comfortable winners.
The Silver Ferns' Grace Rasmussen was named player of the series.
Wales captain Suzy Drane told BBC Wales: "It was a good margin to come back to from yesterday's game.
"We will be pleased but we won't be settling for that scoreline.
"We have 14 months until the Commonwealth Games and we will look forward to that.
"Our team have had one weekend together and we then come up against the second best team in the world.
"Who knows what we can do with 14 months together? It's about the journey and sticking together."
Wales squad: Sara Bell, Fern Davies, Suzy Drane (capt), Bethan Dyke, Chloe James, Kyra Jones, Nia Jones, Lateisha Kidner, Chelsea Lewis, Kelly Morgan (vice-capt), Georgia Rowe, Amanda Varey.
The 27-year-old student has the distinction of publishing the very first science paper to come out of the Alma radio telescope.
This huge facility, going up in Chile's Atacama Desert, is set to revolutionise our understanding of the cosmos.
Ms Herrera's efforts will be followed by thousands more publications.
"I was really excited to be told my work was the first refereed paper accepted for publication based on Alma observations, but also I was extremely proud because Alma is in Chile," the young astronomer told BBC News.
Ms Herrera has been describing her studies here in Manchester at theUK National Astronomy Meeting (NAM).
Her investigations involved looking for star forming clusters resulting from the merger of a pair of spiral galaxies.
This collision, known as "The Antennae", lies about 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow).
It produces very turbulent regions of gas that must dissipate their energy if they are to condense and form new stars.
"With Alma and its wonderful resolution, we were able to trace the molecular mass of the gas and the structures that will form stars; and using another telescope run by the European Southern Observatory, we were able to trace the energy dissipation," Ms Herrera explained.
"The tracers we observe to do this are carbon monoxide in the case of Alma and molecular hydrogen in the case of the second telescope - the Very Large Telescope, also in the Atacama."
Details of the work haveappeared in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
The data was acquired in the so-called science verification phase of Alma (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array).
The co-operative venture that includes the scientific and engineering inputs of Europe, East Asia, North America, and the host nation, Chile, is still only half-built.
Week by week, new radio antennas are being added to the observing network sited 5,000m above sea level on Atacama's Chajnantor plateau.
Right now, there are 22 of its 12m dishes in place with another seven 7m dishes also observing the sky.
It is planned there should be a total of 66 antennas when Alma becomes fully operational in the next couple of years.
The observatory's capabilities are keenly awaited by astronomers.
The unprecedented resolution it will achieve at longer wavelengths of light will allow scientists to study extremely cold objects in space - such as the dense clouds of cosmic dust and gas from which stars and planets form.
It is expected also to see very distant objects in the early Universe, including some of the very first structures to form more than 13 billion years ago.
Ms Herrera is currently studying in Paris, France, at the Institute of Space Astrophysics (IAS), but her intention is to return home to work on all the telescopes that take advantage of the great observing conditions in the high, dry Atacama.
"For the next few decades, I think Alma will be one of the greatest telescopes on Earth," she told the BBC.
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Charlotte Bevan vanished from Bristol's St Michael's Hospital with Zaani Tiana Bevan Malbrouck on 2 December.
Alison Woozley said she had a "sense of foreboding" when she met Ms Bevan weeks before and had warned the hospital.
Ms Bevan suffered from depression and schizophrenia but had stopped taking medication in order to breastfeed.
On Thursday the inquest heard evidence from midwives who cared for Ms Bevan, 30, before and after she gave birth.
Her care plan stated that Ms Bevan was to continue taking the anti-psychotic drug risperidone while Zaani was to be formula-fed, to prevent the drug being passed to her through breast milk.
But community midwife Ms Woozley said when she visited Ms Bevan 10 days before the birth, she realised her patient had stopped taking medication and expressed her concerns to the expectant mother.
"The plan was clear that Charlotte was to be on 5mg of risperidone once a day.
"She became very, very angry. She was right in my face, saying 'I know my rights as a woman, how dare you tell me what to do'.
"I was extremely concerned for Charlotte's well-being but also for the well-being of the baby. My anxiety was how she could look after a baby," she said.
"I had a sense of foreboding."
She said that on 29 November, after hearing Ms Bevan had given birth, she called the hospital to speak to the midwife on duty, to advise her to look for Ms Bevan's care plan and warn her she had "grave concerns".
Hospital midwife Sarah Grey told the inquest Ms Bevan "behaved like a normal mum of a newborn baby", after Zaani's birth on 28 November.
"She obviously fell in love immediately with her baby, she responded beautifully to her. She expressed no concerns at all."
But midwife Kerry Lee said Ms Bevan's behaviour had changed by 1 December and she appeared "agitated". Her mother also called to raise concerns.
Avon Coroner's Court heard Ms Bevan told her partner Pascal Malbrouck she had very little sleep since giving birth.
Ms Lee asked a mental health team to assess Ms Bevan within four hours but did not believe Zaani was at risk and so did not contact safeguarding teams.
The midwife said: "I was quite worried. I knew the psychiatry team were on their way."
The team attended and told the midwife Ms Bevan was worried one of them would harm her child and this was "preventing Charlotte from wanting to sleep".
They advised her to take the medication.
Later she was examined by a consultant obstetrician, who arranged for her to be moved to a quiet side room.
"I offered to look after the baby for her but she refused, probably because she thought someone would harm the baby," Ms Lee added.
The inquest has heard that Ms Bevan was seen on CCTV leaving the hospital in slippers, with her baby wrapped in a blanket at 20:36 GMT on 2 December.
Search teams located the bodies of Ms Bevan and four-day-old Zaani, who both suffered fatal injuries consistent with a fall, on 3 and 4 December.
The inquest was adjourned until Friday.
The preferred option would see student numbers in the city increase by more than 5,000 over the next 10 years.
In August, Mr Farry said plans to expand the Londonderry site were "off the table" due to budget cuts.
The business case was presented to the city's strategy board last week.
The consultants were commissioned by Derry City Council, the Ulster University, the urban regeneration company Ilex and the lobby group U4D in March.
The report sets out the need for increased student numbers, the potential benefits and the obstacles it might face.
It said the plan would cost £20m a year to implement but that it would bring double that amount to the Northern Ireland economy.
It also said that it would create 260 jobs across Northern Ireland, including 170 in the north west.
The report weighed up a number of options but recommended one that would see the number of full time undergraduates at Magee almost double to 6,000 by 2021.
It would also see 750 more students at the North West Regional College over a similar time frame.
Whether the Northern Ireland Executive can find the initial investment to adopt the plan remains to be seen.
Since taking over on 1 April, the company has been plagued by delays with numerous patients missing appointments.
Coperforma apologised and on Thursday evening confirmed that one of the senior managers was leaving his post.
It had previously said the problems were due to "inaccurate data" being transferred to the company.
Gary Palmer, from the GMB union, said the blame rests with the High Weald, Lewes and Havens Clinical Commissioning Group.
"The service was successful, it had 90% satisfaction levels," he said.
"If their aim was to seek to improve that somewhat, they've certainly done as much as they possibly could to actually destroy service provision within Sussex."
Dialysis and cancer patient Lois Wood said she had missed five hospital appointments.
"I was frightened as well as cross," she said.
"I have been left at the [dialysis] unit at 10 at night four or five times. Brighton Hospital has had to get emergency taxis for us."
It was revealed on Thursday that Stephen Payne, the business manager at Coperforma, will leave his post at the end of the month.
The High Weald, Lewes and Havens CCG said the process of hiring Coperforma was being investigated independently.
They said the report is expected in June and the group will not comment until then.
For the world number 772 to be playing Roger Federer, arguably the best male player ever, on Centre Court at Wimbledon is amazing.
It's just a great story that's happened to a really good fun guy, and it's nice that the public seem to have taken to him. If he was an absolute prat I'm sure some people would just think, 'He's an idiot, I'm not interested', but he's definitely the kind of person who deserves this moment.
I haven't seen Marcus much over the last four or five years but whenever I've spent any time with him, he just makes you smile and laugh. I don't know anyone that doesn't like him.
So I hope he enjoys the experience on Wednesday but also that he keeps on playing beyond Wimbledon.
He's proved over the last 10 days that if he can maintain this motivation and concentration over a whole season, there's no reason he can't be playing at this level a little bit more often.
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There are plenty of stories about Marcus on the tour - he's quite a character.
My physio told me that a few years ago he was at a tournament where Marcus was playing, and every time Marcus hit a ball, rather than grunting he was shouting "Djokovic!" or "Federer!" or "Nadal!" depending on which shot he was playing. For a whole match!
Another time, my fitness trainer went on a trip to Livorno in Italy when Marcus was 14 and he'd been called for his doubles match, but his partner had no idea where he was.
The place was right next to the sea and Marcus eventually turned up late, and totally drenched.
His partner said, 'Where have you been?' and Marcus explained that some of the guys had dared him to swim out to one of the buoys in the sea, so obviously he did it - in his kit - and turned up completely soaked.
I'm sure there are plenty more Marcus stories I don't know about as well!
It's great that so many people enjoy Wimbledon, and that the British players are providing a feelgood factor so far, but the way the country is run is more important than any sporting event.
There's obviously a lot going on right now and I'm checking the news every night before I go to bed, then first thing when I wake up in the morning.
And as well as catching up on the news, I am also still trying to watch the football wherever I can fit it in.
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The media attention is the thing that I remember most from my first Wimbledon in 2005, because it was full-on and it was so new.
I was getting followed, there were photographers everywhere, at all of my practices, I couldn't get anywhere without people wanting to talk to me. I was seeing myself on TV or reading about myself in the papers.
That's hard when you're very young and not used to it, it can take you a little bit by surprise.
Hopefully Marcus is coping with it all - I get the feeling he'll deal with that stuff absolutely fine.
I was saying to my wife after he won his first-round match, 'You've got to listen to his interviews because he's just so funny.' I heard his press conference was awesome.
I'm practising in the morning, so one thing is for sure, I'll be heading home to watch the match like everyone else.
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The 33-year-old batsman suffered the problem in the first one-day international against South Africa earlier this month.
Pace bowler Ryan Harris is also included for the first time since March after knee surgery.
The first of four Tests begins in Brisbane on 4 December.
The third instance of Clarke injuring his left hamstring in the space of six weeks caused him to miss the remaining four ODIs against South Africa in a series that Australia won 4-1.
Clarke, who has scored 8,297 runs in 107 Tests, will play for a Cricket Australia XI against the tourists in a two-day match beginning on 28 November if he continues to respond to daily treatment.
Ten of the 12-man squad played in every match of Australia's 5-0 Ashes whitewash last winter, with batsman Mitchell Marsh and uncapped seamer Josh Hazlewood also included.
In the absence of regular captain MS Dhoni, India will be led by batsman Virat Kohli at the Gabba.
Australia squad: Michael Clarke (captain), Chris Rogers, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wicketkeeper), Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle, Ryan Harris.
He was 0.449secs quicker than Ferrari's Vettel despite using the slowest 'soft' tyre and Vettel the faster super-soft.
The German was fourth fastest, behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen and the second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas.
Vettel is 14 points ahead of Hamilton as F1 resumes two weeks after their controversial collision in Baku.
The four-time world champion has apologised for deliberately driving into Hamilton and said he regretted the incident, while the Briton has made it clear without saying so that he still believes his rival should have been disqualified from the race.
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There was an encouraging performance from McLaren, with Stoffel Vandoorne seventh and Fernando Alonso ninth.
McLaren's engine partner Honda has struggled with reliability and poor performance this year but has introduced an upgraded engine for this race, which Alonso said would provide "a small step, a small different version of what we had until now, but there are not big changes in it".
Insiders suggest the engine improvement is in the region of 25bhp - the Honda was reputed to be just over 90bhp down on the Mercedes before this weekend.
Vettel's margin to Hamilton was 0.449secs, a significant amount on a very short lap that is just over a minute long.
It is only Friday practice, but it is one more small piece of evidence to add to a growing suggestion that Mercedes have made a performance step since their difficult weekend in Monaco and Ferrari are perhaps beginning to struggle to keep up.
Daniel Ricciardo was fifth quickest on the track owned by his Red Bull team's parent company, just ahead of the second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, who was one of a number of drivers to spin on the slippery surface.
Vettel also rotated at the Red Bull Ring's first corner, a few minutes after Raikkonen did, while Verstappen had a spin at Turn Three shortly after setting the fastest first sector time of all towards the end of the session.
The Dutchman's session was truncated by an off-track moment at Turn Seven, after which he had to return to the pits for repairs.
Williams drivers Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll, 11th and 15th fastest, were among the other drivers to spin.
The 25-year-old is out for at least six months after he was injured in Sunday's Premiership defeat by Saracens.
He has made just 23 appearances for Tigers since the start of the 2013-14 season because of a string of injuries.
Only one of his 26 England caps has been under Eddie Jones, who was named head coach in November 2015.
The Samoa-born player was forced to pull out of a two-day training camp with the national team after suffering his latest setback.
As well as missing the Six Nations, which starts on 4 February, he will not be available for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in the summer.
"It's devastating for him," Tigers head coach Aaron Mauger said.
"He's got himself into such a good position, I think he's really matured as a person over the last 12 months and that's probably helped him get back to the space that he's been in.
"He'll have everything he needs to come back a better player and a stronger person and I'm sure he will."
Tuilagi last started an England game in June 2014, before sustaining a groin injury in September of that year which kept him sidelined for 15 months.
He had previously missed two games of the 2012 Six Nations campaign with a hamstring problem, and all but one game of the 2014 tournament after tearing a pectoral muscle.
A further recurrence of his groin injury in Tigers' opening game of the current Premiership season on 2 September then forced him to miss almost three months of action, making his return in a win over Bristol on 25 November.
He made the plea during a speech to the Scottish Labour conference in Perth.
Mr Corbyn also said it was right that decisions about the party north of the border should be taken by members and activists in Scotland.
He has signed an agreement with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale pledging a more autonomous structure.
In a direct message to voters in Scotland, Mr Corbyn said that those who were not happy with rising inequality, rising child poverty and widening health inequalities should vote Labour.
The audience seemed unconcerned at the economic dog that declined to bark in Mr Corbyn's speech.
They loved his insistence that the Scottish party will have relative autonomy over their own affairs, while remaining in the wider Labour family. To be clear, his speech went down very well in the hall.
In which respect, there was another interesting development today. Members were asked to select topics to debate on Sunday. They voted to give top billing to the issue of Trident.
It is plainly the expectation that the conference will vote to oppose Trident's renewal. Both Kezia Dugdale and Jeremy Corbyn emphasised that any money saved from scrapping Trident would be used to help redeploy workers on the Clyde.
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The electorate in Scotland goes to the polls on 5 May next year to choose their MSPs. Labour currently has 38 of the 129 elected representatives at Holyrood.
Mr Corbyn said: "Friends, if you want socialist change, if you want a left wing alternative, you have to vote for it.
"If you're satisfied that nearly a million people in Scotland are in fuel poverty or that half of all housing in Scotland falls short of official quality standards, then Labour isn't for you.
"But if you're not content, if you won't walk by on the other side, then vote for a party next May that is a democratic socialist party in both our words and our deeds. Vote Labour."
The MP admitted that his party had not always kept up with the changing politics of the UK.
Mr Corbyn said: "When the Scotland Bill goes through the House of Commons, the UK will become one of the most devolved nations in the world.
"The Labour Party needs to change to respond to that, and respond to the way we now do politics.
"That is why it is right that decisions about Scottish Labour will be taken by the members and activists of the Scottish Labour Party."
Mr Corbyn set out his vision for Scotland and the UK as he called for the "sunshine of socialism" to break through against the "narrow, nasty" politics of David Cameron's Conservatives.
And he said the "radical tradition that has always been alive in Scotland" had inspired him throughout his political career.
Mr Corbyn also criticised the record of the SNP government in Edinburgh on education and the NHS - both areas which are devolved to Scotland.
He condemned an "education system where 6,000 children a year leave primary school unable to read properly and there are 4,000 fewer teachers in Scotland's classrooms".
And he said public spending watchdogs at Audit Scotland had "warned only last week of the pressure there is on our cherished NHS", with "seven out of nine targets missed and a real-terms budget cut" in Scotland.
Mr Corbyn added: "(Keir) Hardie's 'sunshine of socialism' was about allowing human freedom to break forth. But under this Scottish government it is breaking down."
He arrived in the rain, but preached the "sunshine of socialism".
There was an air of curiosity as much as excitement as Jeremy Corbyn arrived at Perth Concert Hall for the Scottish Labour conference.
In keeping with the spirit of cooperation and unity which dominated his speech, he held an umbrella for Kezia Dugdale and paused to buy a Big Issue from a man outside.
And there was a sense of Scottish Labour welcoming Mr Corbyn with open arms when members voted overwhelmingly to put Trident on the conference agenda - an issue over which he has run into more trouble with the UK-wide party.
He was given a standing ovation as he took to the stage, and the "Jez and Kez" badges being dished out to delegates were much in evidence.
The biggest cheers were for shots at the Conservative government at Westminster - over the Trade Union bill and the Convention on Human Rights, in particular - but Mr Corbyn also took aim at the SNP, attacking the Scottish government's record on education, health and employment.
Mr Corbyn made a pitch to people "alienated" from politics, and much of Labour's message at the conference so far has been directed at former supporters, urging voters to "take a fresh look" at the party.
The delegates assembled in Perth seem enthused - but in truth the real importance for Scottish Labour is how their message is going down with those who are not present.
The Braid Group found it had won contracts which breached the Bribery Act.
The act was introduced more than five years ago and forbids companies based in the UK from paying bribes to gain business anywhere in the world.
The logistics firm became suspicious of two contracts in 2012.
After an investigation, it found that one of its staff had set up an account which was used by an employee of a customer to buy holidays, hotels and cash.
In the second case, a profit-sharing arrangement was set up which rewarded the director of a company for placing orders with Braid.
The company reported itself to the Crown Office and has agreed to pay a penalty of £2.2m. It said it was implementing new policies to stop bribery happening again.
Friday's winning numbers were 01, 21, 26, 40 and 50 and the winning Lucky Star numbers were 02 and 04.
The winner matched all seven numbers to scoop £61,102,443 - the fourth, and biggest, jackpot win in the UK in 2016.
Euromillions began in 2004 and the biggest prize in UK history is the £161m won by North Ayrshire couple Chris and Colin Weir in 2011.
UK ticket-holders won jackpots of £24.6m and £24m in February this year, and £51.8m in April.
Tickets for Euromillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, Austria, Belgium, France, the Irish Republic, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all those countries trying to win a share of the same jackpot each week.
National Lottery operator Camelot runs Euromillions in the UK.
Police discovered 23-year-old Damon Searson with a chest wound at Stud Farm Park in August. He was taken to Royal Lancaster Infirmary but later died.
Terri-Marie Palmer, 23, of Warton Avenue, Heysham, appeared at Preston Crown Court earlier and was remanded in custody.
A trial date has been set for 8 February.
The judge requested a further plea and case management hearing also be held on 18 December.
Sammy Almahri, 44, pleaded guilty to murdering Nadine Aburas, 28, at the Future Inn on New Year's Eve 2014.
He initially admitted manslaughter but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but changed his plea at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday.
The court heard he killed her because the "voice of God" told him to.
Almahri's trial heard the hotel door was locked with a "do not disturb" sign on the handle before Ms Aburas's body was discovered in room 203.
He left in her car and travelled to Heathrow airport before flying to Qatar - he was eventually found in Tanzania and arrested.
A post mortem examination found Ms Aburas's body and face had 17 marks, abrasions and bruises, including a bite mark on her forearm. Pressure had been applied to her neck and face.
Roger Thomas QC, prosecuting, told the court: "He deliberately strangled her, fled the scene and left the country to avoid the consequences of his own actions."
Ms Aburas met Almahri on internet dating site, MuslimMatch.com, in 2012.
Because he lived in the United States, their relationship developed through phone calls and Skype and he visited Cardiff two or three times in 2013.
The court heard Almahri became "besotted" by Ms Aburas, showering her with money and expensive presents.
"He paid for mobile phones and a car. She was living off jobseekers allowance," said Mr Thomas.
"There's no doubt the financial benefits were attractive to her."
In the summer of 2014, Ms Aburas visited him in New York and the friendship developed into an intimate relationship.
However, things soured when Almahri discovered she had been seeing another man, the court heard.
Jurors were told when Ms Aburas returned from a visit to New York she had an injured lip and it appeared she had been attacked.
She told police Almahri raped her while she was in America and feared he was going to show topless photos of her to her family.
He sent her abusive texts and messages with Ms Aburas's brothers warning him off and one telling him to "stay away from my sister".
One voice message said: "I have been calling you a lot. I will never ever stop now or give up. I will harm you."
The jury was told Almahri had a dissocial personality disorder which meant he had "low tolerance to frustration and a discharge of aggression, including violence".
He jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge in August 2009 and was put on an alcohol treatment programme as a result.
The court heard the pair were seen shouting and arguing at the Lilo Grill House on City Road before they went to the Future Inn, where Almahri was staying, on the night before Ms Aburas's death.
She was captured on CCTV at about 23:15 BST - the last time she was seen alive.
The prosecution said Almahri drank a bottle of gin and 12 shots of tequila before luring her to the hotel.
He strangled her, washed her body, placed her hands together and faked a suicide note pretending to be from her which read: "Sorry we came to an end."
Following the plea, Ms Aburas's mother Andrea said: "Justice has been done for Nadine, the right verdict has been returned.
"We wish to thank everyone who has assisted us throughout this tragic period in our lives. We ask now that we are given time to grieve and remember our beautiful girl."
Almahri will be sentenced on 3 November.
The striker scored 43 goals in less than two seasons during McClaren's first spell in charge of the Rams.
But under Nigel Pearson the 28-year-old failed to earn a regular place and joined Fulham in August, where he has scored six goals in 16 games.
When asked if he felt letting Martin go was strange, McClaren told BBC Radio Derby he "thought it was at the time".
The former England boss added: "I wasn't the manager and managers have to make decisions."
The terms of the loan mean Scotland international Martin, who has a Derby contract until the summer of 2018, cannot feature against the Rams when the teams meet on Saturday.
"He doesn't play - thank goodness," McClaren said. "He is a goalscorer. I have the highest regard for Chris as everybody knows.
"He's doing a good job for Fulham and they are very pleased with him - I know that. We are just monitoring the situation to see what happens."
Derby are fifth in the Championship table, three points ahead of Fulham, who are in 10th place prior to Saturday's match at Craven Cottage.
David Lyness, of Toberhewney Hall in Lurgan, appeared in the dock wearing a grey sweater and tracksuit bottoms.
He spoke only to confirm he understood the charges.
He was remanded in custody, to appear again by video link in Craigavon 10 February .
The body of Ms Anita Downey, 51, was discovered in a house in the Toberhewney Hall area at about 02:50 GMT on Friday.
PSNI Inspector David McGrory said enquiries into the murder were continuing and asked the public for their assistance in locating a mobile phone which he believed "has been missing somewhere in the Lurgan area since around 9pm on the evening of Thursday 19 January".
He asked anyone who found a phone in the Lurgan area to contact detectives at the incident room in Mahon Road station.
Melanie Hartshorn has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) which causes her skull to sink into her spine.
After well-wishers raised £100,000, surgeons in Barcelona operated for nine hours to fuse her skull to her spine.
The 27-year-old posted a picture of herself sitting up in a wheelchair on her Facebook page on Monday.
Miss Hartshorn, from Cramlington, Northumberland, wrote on Facebook: "So this happened tonight... and with no seizures!"
She added: "I was terrified, it was like running a marathon... but it was 100% worth it!!"
The surgery cost £80,000 and £20,000 was also raised to pay for the air ambulance flight to Spain.
It involved fixing her cranium to her vertebrae to allow her to sit up and prevent brain damage.
Miss Hartshorn's condition is degenerative and she has needed multiple operations because her joints dislocate and cannot hold her body together.
It is so severe she had to take her Newcastle University exams lying down.
Her mother Molly Hartshorn said doctors told her "they have never seen anyone with such extreme problems".
The 26-year-old, who reached the Olympic 5,000m final in Rio, has been added to the Olympic world-class performance programme (WCPP).
British Athletics performance director Neil Black said she had presented a "very strong case for her inclusion".
"Obviously I'm really happy that my appeal was successful," said McColgan.
The Scot also had her funding cut for the 2015-16 season, and switched events from the steeplechase to 3,000m and 5,000m after breaking her ankle in January 2015.
"I felt I did everything I could this year after injury and hit all the necessary criteria," she said. "It's nice for that to have been recognised.
"I look forward to being a part of the programme and hope to continue improving in the 5,000m, which is still a new event for me, throughout the next year looking towards the London 2017 World Athletics Championships and beyond."
British Athletics has now selected 15 athletes for its Olympic podium programme, and 30 for the Olympic podium potential programme.
A further 26 athletes are included across the various Olympic WCPP relay squads.
Funded by The National Lottery through UK Sport, WCPP selection is based on the potential to win medals at an Olympic or Paralympic Games, with special consideration given to the IAAF World Athletics Championships at London 2017.
It is split into two levels: podium (for athletes with the potential to win medals at London 2017 and Tokyo 2020) and podium potential (for athletes developing towards the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games).
They are a common feature in ceremonies such as weddings and even funerals.
Many also love the convenience of it - it can be a quick fix for a bad hair day.
And young South African women are embracing the doek (as it is known in Afrikaans).
One of the most popular forms of headscarves across Africa is the gele from West Africa. It can be incredibly elaborate and is usually starched so the material becomes stiff to hold its shape.
In Nigerian how a Yoruba woman wears her headscarf can be a sign of her marital status - if worn with the ends facing down its means a woman is married and if worn with the ends up, she is single.
Here in South Africa, there is a necessary debate about the doek in the corporate world.
A news reporter for ENCA, an independent news channel trended on social media after it emerged that her story had been taken off air because she filmed it wearing a doek.
Cue social media storm.
The hashtags #RespekTheDoek and #DoekTheNewsroom trended for a number of days here last week with many people - including men and even women from all racial groups - wearing a doek to show their support for the young journalist.
The channel, while explaining that its dress code does not allow on-air journalists to wear headgear to work, has said it is now reviewing that policy.
But many believe the channel's reaction showed how the workplace has not changed with the times.
Some say it shows an intolerance to black culture.
"We are, after all, in South Africa where we have to be sensitive to everyone's culture and not just of those that don't wear doeks," says former entertainment writer Itumeleng Motuba.
"But don't forget that the workplace also insinuates that black natural hair is unprofessional. It seems looking African is unprofessional, which is rather ludicrous."
Kgothatso Maditse, a poet, agrees.
"It just goes to show just how far we are from accepting anything African if it doesn't have the 'right' stamp of approval. The longer we keep avoiding these topics, the longer we prolong and pacify an obviously stale way of thinking," she says.
In Xhosa culture, my culture, a married woman must wear iqhiya, which is what we call it, around her in-laws. This is seen as a sign of respect.
The in-laws will often show their makoti (daughter-in-law) how they'd like her to wear her scarf. In my case, mine needs to always cover my hair and ears.
My mother-in-law, who has been married for more than 40-years, wears it the same way.
For a while I had a love-hate relationship with the doek - it felt like a throwback to the past. It seemed like yet another way society was controlling how black women should look.
But a new generation of young women have now reclaimed the look - sporting a range of prints from all around Africa, they see the doek as an expression of what it is to be African.
And so I've grown to appreciate the delicate balance between ancient symbolism and modern identity - and made it my personal mission to celebrate its new-found power.
Kamogelo Seekoei, a Johannesburg writer, describes her headscarf as "a crown".
"Only a matriarch will know that a covered head means queen. We as black girls are out here celebrating our existence like never before," she says simply.
She says headscarves are a sign of "Queening" - a term used to refer to a social movement of black women from around the world who are embracing black beauty and power.
A selection of names for headscarves around Africa:
A number of high-profile African women are often pictured in elaborate headscarves, such as Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, African Union (AU) head Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
But the doek here is also rooted in racial politics.
In South Africa, black domestic workers have worn it as part of their cleaning uniform for decades and it has served as a not-so-subtle reminder of that person's social standing.
It is a way of exerting control - an outward symbol of the gulf between servant and master.
This perhaps explains my reservations about headscarves at first.
Some say it is beginning to shed that image.
"Africans are going through a state of being woke [awakened]. Africans are coming back to themselves," says Tumi Ndaba, the owner of Tuku Affair, a Pretoria-based company that sells headscarves from materials bought all over Africa.
"The doek never left, it was just worn in a way that wasn't really appealing us, but the more we fall in love with ourselves, the more we work harder at perfecting and beautifying everything that belongs to us," she tells me.
South Africa, whose constitution is rooted in celebrating cultural diversity, is growing up and its people are now more than ever using their voice and asserting their identity.
And so on days when I wear a doek (which is admittedly sometimes on bad hair days), I feel regal.
Like many young people here, I now wear it as a statement, to celebrate Africa - with all its flaws and beauty and its journey to finding itself.
Read Pumza's article about the politics of African hair
A police source told the BBC that the militants targeted officers in the central Zuhur district, and then opened fire randomly at civilians nearby.
At least two of them detonated suicide belts during clashes with police, which could still be heard after sunrise.
The assault comes as government forces continue an offensive to retake Mosul, the last major IS stronghold in Iraq.
Tikrit is 185km (115 miles) to the south, but the jihadist group has launched a number of surprise counter-attacks across the country since the operation began almost six months ago.
Police Colonel Khalid Mahmoud told Reuters news agency that about 10 militants dressed in police uniforms were involved in Tuesday night's attack.
Col Mahmoud said the militants initially targeted a police checkpoint and the home of a senior officer nearby, killing him and members of his family.
Two of the militants blew themselves up when surrounded by police, and three others were killed in separate clashes, he added.
Col Mahmoud said five other militants were thought to be hiding and that the local authorities had declared a curfew until they were apprehended.
The IS news agency Amaq reported that seven "commando" fighters had attacked a base of the federal police's Rapid Response Force and one of its patrols, and then broken into the house of Tikrit's head of counter-terrorism. The militants then battled security forces for two hours before blowing themselves up, Amaq added.
A doctor at the city's hospital told the BBC that 34 people had been killed and 46 others wounded, many of them civilians.
Tikrit, a predominantly Sunni Arab city, was captured by IS militants when they overran much of northern and western Iraq in June 2014.
Troops and Iranian-backed Shia paramilitary fighters retook the city in April 2015, but IS has since managed to mount occasional attacks there.
Mr Modi received a "warm welcome" in Dhaka over the weekend as the two countries signed several deals.
The deals include a historic agreement to simplify their border by exchanging more than 150 enclaves of land. Mr Modi ratified the deal with his counterpart Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka.
Papers see the deal as a "great achievement", saying it will pave the way for "better understanding between the two nations".
The Hindu newspaper praises Mr Modi's efforts in making all political players in India understand the "geopolitical importance" of Bangladesh.
"The consensus-building across India did not go unnoticed in Bangladesh, where Mr Modi is now being referred to as 'a genuine friend'. Thus, it is not coincidental that most of the mainstream media have had only favourable reportage and comments on the deals," it says in an editorial.
Most papers have described Mr Modi's decision to take the chief minister of West Bengal state, Mamata Banerjee, on his trip as a "political masterstroke".
The Hindu adds that Mr Modi's team made Ms Banerjee "understand the geostrategic significance of Bangladesh and how she may indeed expedite her own fall by working against its interest".
But The Indian Express gives equal credit to Mr Modi's counterpart in Dhaka.
"Of course, that India has had a determined partner in the Sheikh Hasina regime has made it possible. The Bangladesh PM's unreserved cooperation on terrorism and a readiness to think out of the box have been key to constructing a genuine partnership between Delhi and Dhaka," it says in an editorial.
Some papers have also highlighted Bangladesh's pledge of not allowing militants to use its soil for "anti-India activities".
The Asian Age says the Hasina government "is friendly to India and has been solicitous to this country as regards a variety of its concerns, including those relating to terrorism and the sheltering of north-eastern Indian insurgent groups".
Indian papers' praise for the landmark boundary agreement and business deals is in no short supply.
But others have gone beyond the main headlines to highlight the "geographical importance" of Bangladesh.
The Times of India says "India has been embroiled in a difficult relationship on its western border with Pakistan", but there are "multiple opportunities in the east waiting to be utilised".
"If Bangladesh can become India's land bridge to Southeast Asia, moribund economies of India's eastern and northeastern states can be revitalised," it says.
The two countries also started a new bus service that will be mutually beneficial, papers say.
The two PMs jointly flagged off buses from Dhaka to Guwahati and Agartala in India's northeast region.
"Transit through Bangladesh will help India bring its northeast closer and resolve some of the problems of that region even as Bangladesh gains access through India to markets in Bhutan and Nepal," The Times of India concludes.
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John Stevenson was sacked from Humberside Police in 2015 following a complaint about his treatment of the boy at Hull Fair in October 2014.
His appeal against the outcome of the misconduct hearing was refused by a Police Appeal Tribunal.
Humberside Police Federation said it was "disappointed" with the decision.
According to reports Mr Stevenson kicked the 16-year-old boy while arresting him on suspicion of stealing a moped.
Det Ch Con Garry Forsyth said the tribunal's ruling meant Mr Stevenson would not be reinstated.
Paul Yeomans, chair of the Humberside Police Federation said: "It's been a very difficult time for everybody involved, including Mr Stevenson and his family, friends and colleagues.
"We've got a decision here today that's not the decision we would have wanted and Mr Stevenson is naturally disappointed."
He said the Federation would await the panel's written ruling before making a decision on whether to continue with Mr Stevenson's appeal.
It plans to offer what it describes as "ultra-fast" broadband to 12 million premises by 2020, as well as improving coverage of faster 4G mobile services.
However, Sky said the plan had "limited ambition" and called for BT to invest in the UK's broadband fibre network.
Sky repeated its call for Openreach, which operates the broadband and phone network, to be split from BT.
Under BT's investment plan, a minimum of 10 million homes and businesses will receive access to BT's ultrafast broadband service by 2020, and the company has an "ambition" to reach 12 million.
Most will receive that via BT's G.fast technology, which is currently capable of speeds of 300Mbps (megabits-per-second), but will be capable of speeds of up to 500Mbps, BT says.
On average UK households received speeds of 29Mbps last year, according to regulator Ofcom.
That would make the new service more than enough for households who want fast broadband to stream movies and play online games.
"Customers want their broadband to be affordable as well as fast and we will be able to do that using G.fast," said BT chief executive Gavin Patterson.
BT also plans to invest in its mobile phone network EE, so it can offer fast 4G coverage to 95% of the country by 2020.
BT's rivals were not impressed by the investment plan.
Sky complained that the G.fast technology used old copper wires and said BT should be investing in the faster fibre network.
"Despite BT's claims, it is clearer than ever that their plans for fibre to the premise (FTTP) broadband will bypass almost every existing UK home," said Andrew Griffith, chief financial officer at Sky.
"This limited ambition has been dragged out of BT by the threat of regulatory action, demonstrating once again why an independent Openreach, free to raise its own long-term capital, is the best way for the UK to get the fibre network it needs."
TalkTalk said the investment plan was an effort "to buy protection against competition" and said BT "has shown itself perfectly willing to use national infrastructure as a cash cow for its other corporate activities, whilst the experience customers receive gets worse and worse".
The eyecatching part of these results are the investment plans and the intended audience is Ofcom - in fact BT said that its £6bn investment plan is "subject to regulatory certainty".
BT is indicating that it can only make big investments in infrastructure if it knows that its business can operate without major interference from its regulator Ofcom.
That includes remaining in charge of Openreach, which operates the fibres, wires and cables that connect the country.
Sky and TalkTalk complain that BT has underinvested in the Openreach network, which has held back the rollout of superfast broadband while making excessive profits.
In a recent review, Ofcom had some sympathy with this position and put BT on warning that unless it improves investment and service, it could force BT to hive off Openreach - currently BT's biggest source of cash flow.
Today's announcement is the response. Ofcom has ordered BT to make its ducts and pole accessible to rivals to lay competing fibre - but so far Sky and
TalkTalk seem reluctant and are certainly not mollified by today's gesture.
Satisfying them will be less important to BT than getting the Ofcom seal of approval.
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BT reported a 15% rise in annual profits to £3.03bn, helped by stronger demand for broadband and TV services.
Total sales rose 6% to almost £19bn, which included a £1.06bn contribution from mobile operator EE.
BT's results were boosted by a strong year for BT Consumer, which supplies broadband, telephone and TV services. Sales were up 7% to £4.6bn for the year.
The number of customers for its TV service jumped by 28% to 1.5 million.
BT said audiences for its sports coverage - where it has made massive investment - were up 45%, which it attributed to its live coverage of Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches.
The first leg match between Liverpool and Manchester United in the last 16 of the Europa League was watched by a peak of 2 million viewers, BT said.
BT also shares coverage of the FA Cup with the BBC and has a package of Premier League matches.
While BT is unlikely to recoup the investment in football simply in terms of subscriptions to its TV service and through advertising, analysts say that by offering live sport BT can make its broadband and phone services more attractive in a competitive market place.
"If TV enables BT to achieve a market share in telecoms services significantly higher than it would otherwise have been, the high cost of its TV investments may well prove justified," said Ian Watt, principal consultant at Ovum.
The deal to buy the EE mobile network was cleared in January and BT said the integration of EE was "going well".
"We now see the opportunity to deliver more synergies than we originally expected, and at a lower cost," said Mr Patterson.
Analysts said the deal could boost sales, as BT will be able to target EE's 30 million customers with broadband and TV offers.
BT plans to hire 1,000 new engineers this year as part of an effort to improve customer service.
It will continue to return customer services to the UK and by March 2017 says it will handle 90% of calls by UK-based staff.
His arrest followed that of a 30-year-old woman in connection with the attack at North Walkden Primary School on Friday afternoon.
Both were being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder, Greater Manchester Police said.
The victim was stabbed in the chest as parents waited to collect their children in Whittle Drive, Walkden.
DCC Neil Richardson told the justice committee that Det Supt David Donaldson had "misinterpreted" a 22-day old code.
He said the "aggressive" pace of change in rules had contributed to the error.
A watchdog said Police Scotland's "failures" while trying to obtain details of journalist's sources could "properly be viewed as reckless".
Mr Richardson was given a detailed questioning by MSPs over the case, understood to relate to the investigation into the murder of Emma Caldwell in 2005.
The Interception of Communications Commissioner Sir Stanley Burton ruled that officers had failed to get judicial approval when obtaining communications data on five occasions.
He said it was "evident" that Police Scotland's applications "failed to satisfy the requirements of necessity and proportionality" or to give due consideration to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Mr Richardson said police had a "very rigorous and very robust set of arrangements", but said Mr Donaldson - an "extremely experienced officer" had "misinterpreted" a code of conduct which had been in place for just 22 days.
He said "the pace the new guidance came into being was very aggressive", which may have been a factor in the "error" subsequently made.
The policeman also hit out at some press coverage of the case, saying he had been portrayed as an "archetypal villain" and saying police had been unable to respond to many stories due to the live murder inquiry.
He then clashed with MSPs Christine Grahame and Elaine Murray over the definition of the word "reckless", which was used in Sir Stanley's report.
Mr Richardson said he had been given a definition of "reckless" in a confidential paper, which he was unable to hand over to the committee.
Police Scotland has said it has taken "robust and rigorous steps" to comply with requirements in future.
Justice secretary Michael Matheson was called upon to defend Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority when he gave evidence.
He said that while the deficiencies identified by the watchdog at Police Scotland must be addressed, he said the issue was caused by an officer making a mistake "no doubt while trying to do his best".
MSP and former policeman John Finnie said there was a "serious issue" over the Scottish Police Authority "effectively making themselves redundant".
He said: "Once again the Police Authority look like bystanders, on-lookers to a process, always having to play catch-up."
Mr Matheson said there was "room for improvement" but defended the role of the SPA, saying oversight on the matter discussed lay with the Information of Communications Commissioner's Office (IOCCO).
Convener Ms Grahame had earlier asked John Foley from the Police Authority if the body had "just sat on its hands".
Mr Foley also stressed that the SPA had to allow IOCCO to do its job, and does not have investigative powers of its own.
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Concentrix apologised for failures that have left some people with no benefits for up to two months.
The US firm has been accused of incorrectly withdrawing tax credits from many hundreds of claimants.
It was told in September that its HMRC contract would not be renewed.
Officials from HM Revenue and Customs told a committee of MPs that a breakdown in customer services at Concentrix, had resulted in only 10% of calls being answered on some days.
Thousands of people have had their tax credits stopped after Concentrix said they were making fraudulent claims - one woman was told she was in a relationship with a chain of newsagents, another with the philanthropist Joseph Rowntree, who died in 1925.
Claimants, in what was sometimes an emotional testimony, told the committee they had been forced to borrow money and go to food banks as a result of the problems.
The Work and Pensions Select Committee was told that of the 45,000 payments stopped, nearly 15,000 had appealed so far and that "90% - 95%" had been successful in overturning the decision.
HMRC officials said they first became concerned of problems at Concentrix in August when they started receiving reports that only 10% of calls were being answered within five minutes - the target was 90%.
Jon Thompson, chief executive of HMRC, said "a collapse in basic customer service" had occurred caused by too few staff being on hand, and that he'd personally taken the decision not to renew Concentrix's contract.
The firm was working with HMRC to reduce fraud and error in the tax credit system.
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The 19-year-old left-back agreed a deal last year until 2019 but this extension takes him to summer 2021.
Tierney made his debut in May 2015 and went on to make 34 appearances in the last campaign, also winning his first Scotland cap in March.
"I'm obviously delighted to be here, my future is only here," he said.
"Last year was my breakthrough season so I need to prove myself again this season and hold down my place.
"But it's been crazy. I only signed a four-year deal 10 or 11 months ago, so getting a new deal already is great."
The Isle of Man-born teenager, a product of Celtic's youth system, was voted Scottish Premiership young player of the year.
And he admits new manager Brendan Rodgers had an impact on his decision to commit his long-term future to the club.
"He had a big influence," said Tierney. "He spoke to me after the first day's training and I've signed it [the contract] now. It's happened so quick and I'm delighted.
"He didn't really need to sell it to me as I wasn't really thinking about leaving at all.
"Everybody's expectations will be really high this year, but as a football player at Celtic you need to deal with that and I hope I can."
Tierney has been regularly linked with many of the top club's in the English Premier League, describing the speculation as "weird and unexpected".
With Scotland having missed out on the finals of Euro 2016, the full-back, who made his international breakthrough in a 1-0 win over Denmark, hopes he can help the country to future finals.
"Everybody wants to be playing in competitions like that so we need to just focus on the next competition now," said Tierney.
"You see any team can qualify, any team can do it and I believe Scotland has the talent."
Chelsea have made a second bid of around £3.5m for the 34-year-old, who is in discussions about a new contract.
"You know more than me," manager Rodgers replied when asked about the Premier League leaders' new offer.
"So we want to keep him here. I have no intention of losing him and we look to arrange a new deal with him."
Celtic play Aberdeen on Wednesday - the day after the closure of the January transfer window - and Rodgers insisted: "He will be in the team.
"I think I made it clear, we're very strong on what we're doing here, what we're trying to build.
"I repeat - we don't want to sell him.
"My job here is very simple to look after Celtic, help the club develop on and off the field and part of that is not to give away your best players."
Rodgers, who said he believes Gordon wishes to remain with Celtic, stressed that "him and I have a great relationship" despite having dropped the Scotland goalkeeper earlier this season.
The Northern Irishman pointed out that Gordon had taken his advice on board, seen off the challenge of new signing Dorus de Vries and gone on to win his first Scotland cap for seven years.
"If I treated him that badly, I am sure there would be others who would want to be treated like that as well," said Rodgers.
"So it is no different to what happened to the likes of Stuart Armstrong and Dedryck Boyata.
"I am always open and honest with players and, if they are not playing how I expect them to play, I will tell them."
Thibaut Courtois is Chelsea's first-choice goalkeeper, but manager Antonio Conte is prepared to let the current understudy, Asmir Begovic, leave Stamford Bridge if he can sign a replacement.
If he was to leave for Chelsea, it would be Gordon's second spell in England's top flight, having joined Sunderland from Hearts in a £9m transfer in 2007.
He spent five years with the Black Cats, but injuries kept him out of action for more than two seasons before he earned a contract with Celtic in July 2014.
Chelsea's initial bid for Gordon was rejected last week by Celtic, with the club insisting that they do not want to sell and Rodgers saying it was well short of Celtic's valuation.
"He is a great guy, hence the reason I want to continue the relationship to work with him," added Rodgers.
"But also because I think he is a fantastic goalkeeper and how he has developed from a player who was nervous with the ball at his feet.
"He made saves for sure, but this has made him better in other aspects of his game and it is clear to see the levels to which he has improved to."
Meanwhile, Rodgers confirmed that he does not expect any players to join the Scottish champions before the end of the transfer window.
However, one or two younger players could possibly leave on loan.
Rodgers also expects Kris Commons, the midfielder who has returned after a loan spell with Hibernian, to remain at Celtic for the rest of the season.
Labour MP Rosie Cooper called for a public inquiry after the report found "an oppressive culture" at Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust since 2011.
Health Minister Ben Gummer said NHS Improvement would examine the case.
The trust said it had acted on all the report's recommendations.
The report, published in March, found an "oppressive" culture at the trust led to poor services, bullying of staff and may even have contributed to some deaths.
One man who was suffering from lung cancer was not diagnosed for four months, it revealed.
The review was conducted by the law firm Capsticks at the request of the trust.
At Westminster Ms Cooper asked for "assurances" that "preferably a public inquiry" or "at least an independent review that includes a clinical review into patient harm associated with the leadership failings at Liverpool Community Trust between 2010 and 14" would be conducted "without further delay."
Mr Gummer said he had commissioned NHS Improvement to do a review "or at least to ensure a review happens."
He said he would ensure it was "as robust as it needs to be".
The Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust delivers community health services to about 750,000 people in Liverpool and Sefton, either in their homes or at health centres.
A trust spokesperson, said the Capsticks report found the "problems of the past" were down to a series of "poor decisions" and an "unsafe drive for savings" but it had "acted on all the report's recommendations."
They said it "turned an important corner" since changing direction two years ago.
The trust was by no means complacent about the challenges that lie ahead and the work still to do, they added.
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The 24-year-old midfielder becomes the first Algerian to win the award, which is decided for by football fans.
Brahimi told BBC Sport: "It's a big honour for me to receive this wonderful trophy. I owe it to my country, Algeria, and to all the people who voted for me."
BBC Focus on Africa presenter Peter Okwoche presented the Porto player with the award.
Before Mashego's strike, the tie was level at 1-1 and was heading towards a penalty shoot-out after Wayne Arendse's first half goal for the hosts.
Arsendse's effort had cancelled out Chicken Inn's shock first-leg 1-0 lead from two weeks ago.
Mashego slotted in the dramatic penalty after the lively Khama Billiat was brought down in the box.
Sundowns will next face Congolese side AC Leopards.
Elsewhere, Two times African champions Enyimba of Nigeria also avoided a shock exit, beating SC Vipers of Uganda 2-0 at home to go through 2-1 overall.
Two goals from Mfon Udoh - one in each half - proved enough to give Enyimba the win.
Ethiopia's St George were held to a 1-1 draw in Seychelles by St Michel United but still advanced 4-1 on aggregate.
St George took the lead through Ramkel Lok in the first-half with the hosts equalising after the break.
The overall win for the Ethiopians means they advance to play current African champions TP Mazembe of DR Congo in the next round.
Morocco's Olympique Khouribga beat Gamtel of The Gambia 4-2 on aggregate after a 2-1 win in Bakau.
Olympique Khouribga opened the scoring after 26 minutes when Najib Koumya headed home a corner for the visitors.
Gamtel equalised with 18 minutes left to play as Modou Sarr also scored with a header but an injury-time winner from Ibrahim Bezghoudi sealed the win for Khouribga.
The Moroccan victory sets up a tie against former African champions Etoile du Sahel in the next round.
Earlier on Saturday Kenya's Gor Mahia were beaten 1-0 by hosts CNaPS of Madagascar, who won the tie 3-1 overall.
Tanzania's Young Africans beat visiting Cercle de Joachim of Mauritius 2-0 on Saturday to complete a 3-0 aggregate victory.
Burundian Amissi Tambwe scored the opening goal of the second leg for the Tanzanians after just three minutes with Zimbabwean Thabani Kamusoko adding the second shortly after half-time.
Next up for Young Africans will be APR from neighbouring Rwanda who easily beat Mbabane Swallows 4-1 to wrap up a 4-2 overall win.
Central defender Abdul Rwatubyaye was the hero for APR as he scored a hat-trick before Patrick Sibomana completed the goalscoring
Sanele Mkhweli had given Swallows some hope with an away goal that made it 2-2 on aggregate but the goals in the second half saw APR win the tie
Former African champions Club Africain of Tunisia advanced in this year's tournament with a 2-0 aggregate win over Tanda of Ivory Coast.
The second leg on Friday in Abidjan ended goalless but victory two weeks ago at home was enough for Club Africain to progress.
Al Ahly Tripoli also played out a 0-0 draw against visiting Onze Createurs of Mali with the Libyan side advancing thanks to a 2-1 victory in the first leg.
The Libyan side will now face Al Hilal of Sudan, who were given a bye, in the next round.
The only goal in Friday's Champions League ties was scored by Zambia's Zesco United who beat hosts Al Ghazala of South Sudan 1-0 to complete a 3-0 win overall.
Substitute John Ching'andu headed home the only goal of the game in injury time at the end of the match.
Nigeria's Warri Wolves and Ferravario Maputo from Mozambique have already qualified for the first round after they enjoyed walkovers.
Defending champions TP Mazembe, Etoile du Sahel from Tunisia as well as Egyptian giants Al Ahly and Zamalek will all feature in the first round of the competition between March 11-20 after they were handed byes.
Thanet District Council has a dog ban on part of the beach in Walpole Bay for the duration of the summer.
The error, spotted by a couple of regular dog walkers on Wednesday, was made by the contractors who painted it on the ground, the council said.
It confirmed the mistake had now been corrected.
Dog walker Sally Waterfall said: "I was with a friend at the time and walked down to use the dog bin, and that's when I saw the sign. We just thought it was funny.
"It's been done in the past couple of days."
The original beach signs painted last August were starting to fade, and at least two were repainted with the incorrect date.
It caused a stir when Miss Waterfall uploaded a picture to the local Thanet Animal Lovers Chat Facebook group, and others soon commented, laughed and added snaps of their own.
"People initially asked me if it was Photoshopped because it actually looks fake," she added.
Director general Tony Hall said the BBC had "parted company" with the Radio 2 DJ after he failed to fully co-operate with Dame Janet Smith's inquiry.
The veteran DJ said the report included an accusation he was among celebrities who "seduced" a 15-year-old girl.
Mr Blackburn, 73, denies the allegation and says he was cleared of wrongdoing.
One of Britain's best known DJs, his Saturday afternoon Radio 2 show Pick of the Pops attracted several million listeners every week. He was the first DJ to broadcast on Radio 1 when it launched in 1967.
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In his latest statement, he accused the inquiry of being a "whitewash" and said he had been "scapegoated for giving my honest account and best recollections of those events 45 years ago".
Dame Janet's report said it had rejected the evidence given by Mr Blackburn that he had not been questioned at the time about the allegation involving the teenage girl.
In an earlier statement, Mr Blackburn said the allegation made in 1971 was quickly withdrawn.
The girl at the centre of the allegation took her own life later that year.
Mr Blackburn said that neither Dame Janet's report into Savile, nor the BBC, made any suggestion he was guilty of misconduct with the girl, nor did a coroner's inquest or a subsequent police inquiry.
Who is Tony Blackburn?
Tony Blackburn, the son of a doctor from Guildford, was the first DJ to broadcast on Radio 1 when it launched in September 1967.
He spent 17 years at the station and also presented Top of the Pops and was a weekly fixture on Noel's House Party. Prior to all that, he had broadcast on Radio Caroline South and then Radio London.
After Radio 1, he was one of the launch presenters on Capital Gold. He has also hosted Radio 2's Pick of the Pops as well as regular bank holiday specials for the stations.
He has also had shows on BBC London 94.9, BBC Radio Berkshire, the Magic network, BBC3CR and KMFM. In 2002 he won the ITV reality TV programme I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!
Tony Blackburn profiled
After the publication of Dame Janet's report - which looked into abuse by the late DJ Jimmy Savile and broadcaster Stuart Hall - Lord Hall said: "My interpretation is that Tony Blackburn fell short of the standards of evidence that such an inquiry demanded."
He said it was "one of the most important inquiries in the BBC's history and that has put an even greater responsibility on everyone who took part in that inquiry to co-operate fully and to be open".
"So many survivors and witnesses have honestly and openly co-operated fully - and at great personal cost to themselves.
"As Dame Janet has said, she's rejected his evidence and she's explained very clearly why. I have to take that extremely seriously."
Speaking to the BBC News Channel, Dame Janet said both senior BBC executive Bill Cotton and a senior lawyer said they had had conversations with the DJ.
"[He] told me that no such conversation had taken place and this was not a lapse of memory on his part. They simply had not taken place and I rejected that evidence," she said.
Her report into DJ Jimmy Savile and broadcaster Stuart Hall had found the BBC repeatedly failed to stop the pair's "monstrous" abuse because of a "culture of fear".
Mr Blackburn referred to this conclusion in his own statement, saying: "Given Dame Janet Smith's concerns of a culture of fear in coming forward at the BBC, what whistle-blower at the BBC would ever come forward when they see the way they have hung me out to dry?
"Sadly, today's news agenda should have been about the survivors of abuse carried out within the BBC but, by sacking me, they have managed to take the focus off those who have suffered so much," he added.
"My lawyers are now considering all statements made by the BBC about me today and we will be taking action."
Fellow TV and radio broadcasters, including Piers Morgan and Eamonn Holmes, have been sending supportive tweets to the DJ throughout the day.
Broadcaster Nina Myskow told Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2: "It should be a black day for the BBC because of the revelations about the whole Savile episode, but in fact that's been buried very cleverly by the BBC as usual by sacking Tony Blackburn."
The English figures cover 81 local education authorities outside London and the six big metropolitan areas.
They were obtained through a Freedom of Information request by the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT).
The government said an extra ??10m was being made available for rural community transport.
The CBT inquiry was prompted by reports of school buses being axed across England.
Local authorities are obliged to provide free school transport for pupils aged between five and 16 years old if their nearest school is more than three miles away. This goes down to two miles for under-eights.
Children will special educational needs and some from low-income families also get some statutory assistance.
But councils also provide school transport on a discretionary basis, which is especially valued in rural areas.
Most of this is provided in the form of a school bus, but some children are offered subsidised rail fares.
The CBT said 38% of councils were reviewing or cutting transport to faith schools and 46% were reviewing or cutting transport to schools other than faith schools.
Meanwhile, 51% were reviewing or cutting post-16 transport.
In total, 72% were reviewing or cutting one or more areas of school transport.
CBT bus campaigner Sophie Allen said: "School buses are vital to reduce congestion and pollution, especially at peak times. In some areas, parents could have to walk almost three miles each way, twice a day, just to get their children to school.
"Parents able to drive instead will add to traffic problems, but for the quarter of households who do not have a car this will not be an option."
The campaign pointed to councils reducing their transport services back to the statutory minimum in areas such as Surrey and Durham.
The CBT said it was calling on the government to give councils extra funding to ensure that children could get to school safely and working parents were not unfairly forced to give up work.
Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said: "The scale of cuts to local bus services has left many parents struggling to afford the extra costs of driving their children to school or to juggle work with doing the school run.
"The risk with these bus cuts is that many parents who cannot afford to drive are being forced to let their children walk along routes to school that are far too dangerous, compromising child safety."
In September, a group of charities and teaching unions wrote an open letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove expressing concerns about the cuts to school transport.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Local authorities already have a legal duty to provide free school transport for pupils to attend their nearest suitable school, provided the school is beyond the statutory walking distances.
"We recently announced funding of ??85m to fund extended rights to school travel for pupils from low-income families.
"The Department for Transport has also protected the concessionary travel scheme in full and provided ??10m extra funding for community transport in rural areas."
It was announced earlier this month that the fee was changing from £1 to £2, with the airport increasing the length of stay in the drop-off zone from 10 to 15 minutes.
It led to social media criticism, and now a petition calling for a re-think.
Aberdeen Airport said the concern of some councillors had come to its attention, and it aimed to hold talks.
A spokesman added: "The drop-off charge was introduced to ease congestion and manage the traffic flow in what is a restricted area.
"Over the coming weeks and as part of our £20m investment programme, there will be a significant increase in construction traffic using our lower forecourt.
"This will significantly reduce capacity in this area and as a result, we will be encouraging passengers to use the car park.
"These measures will allow us to continue to provide a safe environment for passengers and all our customers during this time and beyond."
Rovers had lost their last two league matches and could have gone behind when Woking forward Gozie Ugwu had two great chances in the first half, but he was denied by visiting goalkeeper Scott Davies on both occasions.
Andy Cook was also close to getting on the scoresheet for Rovers in a goalless first half.
The deadlock was broken six minutes after the restart when a mazy run by James Wallace took him away from two defenders before his cross found Cook in the penalty area, and he steered home from close range.
Tollitt doubled the lead two minutes later with a powerful drive from 25 yards before the 22-year-old sealed victory with a fantastic individual goal, running from his own half before finding the bottom corner from the edge of the area.
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Match ends, Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 3.
Second Half ends, Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 3.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Cole Stockton replaces Andy Cook.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jake Kirby replaces James Norwood.
Goal! Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 3. Ben Tollitt (Tranmere Rovers).
Substitution, Woking. Chris Arthur replaces Macauley Bonne.
Substitution, Woking. Connor Hall replaces Keiran Murtagh.
Fabio Saraiva (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Woking. Max Kretzschmar replaces Charlie Carter.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jay Harris replaces James Wallace.
Goal! Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 2. Ben Tollitt (Tranmere Rovers).
Goal! Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 1. Andy Cook (Tranmere Rovers).
Second Half begins Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
First Half ends, Woking 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Ismail Yakubu (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Lee Vaughan (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The practice of "widow cleansing", when a widow must have sex after her husband dies, was outlawed a few years ago.
Eric Aniva, a sex worker known in Malawi as a "hyena", admitted in a BBC interview to having sex with more than 100 women and underage girls and not disclosing his HIV status.
This led to the president ordering his arrest in July.
President Peter Mutharika had wanted Aniva tried for defiling young girls, but none came forward to testify against him.
Instead Aniva was tried for "harmful cultural practice" under section five of Malawi's Gender Equality Act for having sex with new widows.
Two women testified against him.
He will be sentenced on 22 November 2016.
The BBC's southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen says the case has attracted international media attention and sharply divided opinion as to how widespread the practice remains.
Aniva was the subject of a BBC feature into various sexual cleansing practices in Malawi.
In some remote southern regions of the country it is traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a man after their first menstruation.
Last year Malawi banned child marriage, raising the legal age of marriage from 15 to 18 - something activists hoped would put an end to early sexual initiations.
English world number 405 Shinkwin, 24, took six shots when needing a par five at the final hole for a first European Tour title, but qualifies for the Open.
Cabrera-Bello carded an eight-under course record 64 to finish the regulation 72 holes in 13 under.
Ian Poulter, the 41-year-old seeking a first title since 2012, had five bogeys in a 74 and shared ninth.
Shinkwin, from Watford, had been at the top of the leaderboard since the second round and did not drop a shot in the first 17 holes on the final day at the Dundonald Links in Ayrshire.
But he took four to get down from level with the green at the par-five 18th, leaving a seven-foot putt short. Then at the same hole in the play-off, he saw a putt from a similar spot also fail to reach the cup.
It was a third European title for world number 31 Cabrera-Bello, 33, and his first since 2012.
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Shinkwin, who beat Matthew Fitzpatrick to win the 2013 English Amateur Championship, played in last year's Open at Royal Troon but missed the cut.
Former US Open champion Graeme McDowell had hoped a first top-10 of the season would earn him a place at Royal Birkdale next week but he carded a 72 to finish on five under in a share of 19th.
The 37-year-old world number 102 has played in the Championship every year since making his debut in 2004.
France's Matthieu Pavon secured a major debut at Birkdale with a closing 66 to finish third, with Australia's Andrew Dodt claiming the last place ahead of England's Anthony Wall by virtue of his higher world ranking.
Dodt, the world number 193, had been scheduled to fly to New York on Monday for a holiday with his wife, but finished on eight under par alongside Wall, Padraig Harrington, Matt Kuchar and Ryan Fox.
Three-time major winner Harrington, who shared the lead after day two, fell away with a third-round 79 but closed with a 66.
Both players arrive on free transfers after contracts at their previous clubs were cancelled by mutual consent.
Former Wales Under-19 player James, 20, played in one Bluebirds game, as a late substitute in a 2014 top-flight match.
Goodship, 22, spent the second half of last season on loan at Huish Park, before a loan spell at non-league Braintree Town earlier this term.
He did not make a senior first-team appearance for the Cherries, but did previously score once in 10 league matches for Yeovil.
The Glovers are 16th in the table, nine points below the play-off places and nine points above the relegation zone.
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One, an American on a business trip was short of exercise as he'd just arrived on the Eurostar from Paris - but revealed he normally covered at least six miles a day. The other moaned about a crippling back problem that meant his usual daily goal - as measured by a Nike Fuelband - was far out of sight.
The first man was James Park, founder of fitness tracking firm Fitbit, the other was the author of this blog, who combines an interest in the latest gadgets with a middle-aged man's concerns about keeping his weight down and fitness levels up. The question is whether my behaviour is typical enough for Park to be on the verge of something huge - or is this just a small and unprofitable niche?
Wearable technology - from Google Glass to every kind of smart watch - is certainly hot right now, and health and activity monitoring is a key area sparking interest.
Fitbit, founded in San Francisco six years ago, claims to be the leader of the pack, with a bigger range of products and better distribution than the likes of the Jawbone Up or Nike's Fuelband.
Park, a Harvard-trained computer scientist now on his third start-up, says when he started looking at the fitness market he took his inspiration from Nintendo's Wii, which combined exercise and technology in an an entertaining way. "What was out there was either targeted at serious runners - high-end Garmin watches - or cheap pedometers," he says. "There was nothing that took sophisticated technology and made it available to the mass market."
The company started with a clip-on monitor that connected via a wireless dongle to your computer, measuring how far you walked, how many stairs you climbed and the calories expended. But it was only with the adoption of smartphones and the ability of low-power devices to sync their data via Bluetooth that Fitbit began to reach beyond a very specialist audience.
All of this is something of a gamble on human behaviour and how much information we can absorb - even when it comes to as fascinating a subject as ourselves. Park thinks the data can make a difference: "A lot of times people are shocked when they see the evidence of how much they're not exercising or sleeping," he says. "It's all about making the invisible visible and using that data to motivate people to change their behaviour."
The big question, though, is not whether we are going to buy and wear smart devices - that is happening - but just how much we want them to do. I've tried a number of fitness monitors and found that many offer too much data. The Nike Fuelband, however, puts a simple readout on your wrist of how much "fuel" you've consumed and that makes it a good motivator. If I'm short of my 3,000 fuel points - and yes, it's a rather meaningless currency - I will take the dog for a walk around the block.
There now seems to be growing convergence between smart watches and activity monitors. Fitbit's latest model, yet to appear in the UK, is the Force, a tracker worn on the wrist which gives you the time and some limited smartphone applications. It looks neat, but the display is so tiny that it won't really be able to rival more sophisticated devices.
Mr Park naturally thinks his company has got the balance just right compared with the smart watches. "You can't do too much, if you cram too much in it makes them bulky and expensive," he says. But his other competition is from smartphone apps that measure your movement. While they drain a battery pretty rapidly they are mostly free and may do enough for many people.
But Park says a device that you leave on a coffee table when you go home won't do the job properly. He says Fitbit customers, who typically are slightly overweight, are upping their activity levels by 30% to 40% after three months of using their device.
Big names, including Qualcomm, Softbank and SAP, have backed the company - among many bets now being placed on wearable technology. Much of that money will be wasted - after all there isn't room on our bodies for all of these devices. But Park is confident there are enough slightly overweight, health and statistic obsessed gadget-lovers out there to give Fitbit a good chance of surviving and thriving.
The European Court of Auditors said there were errors in allocating about 5bn euros (£4bn) from the 2011 budget.
Critics said it showed the EU's wastefulness, at a time when it was arguing for a budget increase.
Court President Vitor Caldeira said: "With Europe's public finances under severe pressure, there remains scope to spend EU money more efficiently."
He added: "Member states must agree on better rules for how EU money is spent, and member states and the commission must enforce them properly."
The court's report said most errors arose from "misapplication or misunderstanding" of the EU's complex rules, though there were some suspected cases of fraud.
It also said the failures were often down to the national and local governments responsible for overseeing the distribution of funds, rather than just the European Commission.
"A little more effort by member states to control projects properly and retrieve misused funds could go a long way, particularly in this time of economic difficulty," said the EU's Audit Commissioner Algirdas Semeta.
However, critics said the commission itself must also accept some of the blame.
"The European Commission is ultimately responsible for all EU monies spent and it falls to them to take responsibility for this report," said Martin Callanan MEP, of Britain's Conservative Party.
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"It is risible that the commission wants a 5% increase in the EU budget, yet nearly 4% of spending is affected by error. Before asking for more taxpayers' money, perhaps the commission should prioritise better spending of the money it already has."
National leaders will meet for a summit in two weeks' time to try to hammer out the next seven-year budget.
Britain has been leading demands for a freeze, saying proposals for an increase are incompatible with a time of austerity.
A number of countries which are net contributors to the budget are also arguing for restraint.
But net-recipient countries argue that the EU's spending on agriculture and regional development are valuable ways of stimulating the economy.
The first half was closely contested, but the Daggers' Corey Whitely put his side in front with a vicious cross-shot that deceived Scott Davies in the home goal.
At the other end, Andy Cook fed James Wallace, who threatened to equalise, but his shot was well saved by Elliot Justham.
After the interval, Dagenham extended their lead inside two minutes. Oli Hawkins cemented his position in the top three of the goalscorer charts when he beat Davies at the end of a fine solo run - his 17th of a productive season so far.
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Match ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2.
Second Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Scott Doe replaces Jake Sheppard.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Jordan Maguire-Drew replaces Fejiri Okenabirhie.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Cole Stockton replaces Andy Mangan.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Luke Howell replaces Corey Whitely.
Shaun Donnellan (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Craig Robson (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. James Norwood replaces Steven Jennings.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2. Oliver Hawkins (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Ben Tollitt replaces Jake Kirby.
Second Half begins Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
First Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Corey Whitely (Dagenham and Redbridge).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Paterson was injured in Tuesday's 4-0 win over Kilmarnock at Tynecastle.
The 22-year-old was taken off on a stretcher after 15 minutes, shortly after scoring his side's opening goal.
Paterson, who is out of contract this summer, said on Twitter: "Absolutely gutted with the scan results. But these things happen in life. I will be back."
The defender, capped five times for Scotland, looked certain to move to England either in January or at the end of the season.
Hearts director of football Craig Levein said earlier this month the club would only consider selling Paterson for a "seven-figure sum".
Should the Scotland international leave Tynecastle in the summer, Hearts would be due a development fee of around £450,000.
But that fee will not apply to any cross-border move after Paterson turns 23 in October.
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Hearts head coach Ian Cathro told the club's website: "It's a bad one for Callum and everyone here is gutted for him.
"There was real concern for him last night and unfortunately that concern has been compounded with the news that he could be out for up to 10 months.
"Callum's a top-class player and we'll miss him in the first team, but we now have to look to those within the squad to step up and fill the void.
"We'll help Callum as much as we can though this difficult time."
The loss of Paterson, who is Hearts' joint top scorer this season with 10 goals, will also be felt by Scotland head coach Gordon Strachan.
Aston Villa's Alan Hutton retired from international football in October soon after being displaced as Strachan's first choice.
Head coach Ian Cathro, speaking before he learned the results of the scan, said: "He has been here since he was 16 and has grown into a good level footballer.
"He has grown into a strong man, a strong character and an important personality for everybody here. I couldn't speak more positively of him in the short period of time I have worked with him."
It is not the first time Paterson has had injury problems to contend with.
He suffered a shoulder ligament injury in a win over Kilmarnock in February that kept him out of action for nearly two months.
Paterson required surgery to repair medial ligament damage in his left knee, sustained in a Challenge Cup win over Annan Athletic in July 2014, that also ruled him out for two months.
In February 2013, he tore a ligament in his foot during training that kept him out for the remainder of the season.
Cathro said Paterson will recover from his latest setback and continue to progress his career.
"Callum will be able to achieve what he wants to achieve in the game," he said. "Irrespective of whether there is good or bad news, he will be able to go to those places.
"If there is a road bump, he will deal with that and have support to deal with that."
Head coach Cathro said he "expects to do some business" in January as he bids to "evolve the squad in how it is balanced and find players that can improve us".
That is likely to include some players who have not featured in the first four games of his tenure leaving Tynecastle.
"We would be supportive of players looking at opportunities which involved them being able to play, if the opportunities are limited here," he added.
There was better news for Hearts on midfielder Don Cowie, who was carried off with a neck injury and taken to hospital during a 3-2 defeat by Dundee last Friday.
However, he could face Aberdeen on Friday having recovered from the injury and a subsequent illness.
More than 30,000 fans have travelled to Sydney to cheer on the visitors.
Four-time former Lions head coach Sir Ian McGeechan has described the meeting at ANZ Stadium as the Lions' "biggest match" in nearly two decades.
1910: Lions lost 5-21 v South Africa
1989: Lions won 19-18 v Australia
1993: Lions lost 13-30 v New Zealand
2001: Lions lost 23-29 v Australia
Build-up to the game has been dominated by head coach Warren Gatland's call to drop veteran centre Brian O'Driscoll.
After spending part of the week relaxing in the warmer climes of Noosa in Queensland, the Lions will take to the field with the temperature set at a milder 15C.
The Test series is currently tied at one apiece after the hosts replied with a 16-15 second Test victory following the Lions' 23-21 win in the opener.
O'Driscoll had been favourite to be named captain in the absence of Sam Warburton after the flanker picked up a hamstring injury in the defeat at Melbourne's Etihad Stadium.
Instead, the 34-year-old was one of six players to make way as Gatland looked to prevent a repeat of the toothless display in which his side failed to make a single line break last weekend.
"When I go back to the UK and say 'Did I make the decision because I believed it was right, or did I make it because it was the right political decision?', I can put my hand on my heart and say I think it is the right rugby decision," Gatland said.
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In O'Driscoll's absence, Jamie Roberts - one of a record-equalling 10 Welshmen selected - will be reunited with international team-mate Jonathan Davies in the centres after he recovered from the hamstring injury that kept him out of the first two Tests.
For Australia, head coach Robbie Deans has made only one change by bringing in flanker George Smith for his 111th international appearance.
The 32-year-old - who made his last Test appearance in 2009 and retired from international rugby the following year - played in the 2001 Sydney meeting between the sides.
He will be hoping for history to repeat itself, as 12 years ago, the Aussies recovered from an opening Test loss to claim their first ever series win over the Lions with a thrilling 29-23 final victory at the same ground - then called Stadium Australia.
"To have achieved what George has throughout his career, and return to play at the highest level, after such a long break, is a testament to the quality of the man," Deans said.
The Lions last won a Test series in 1997, when they triumphed 2-1 in South Africa.
Chris Boardman has been designing Boardman Performance Series bicycles for Halfords since 2007.
Halfords would not disclose the value of the deal, but it's thought to be worth around £15m ($25m).
Chris Boardman, who won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, will remain as chairman and design director.
Boardman Bikes and Boardman International were set up ten years ago.
"This step will take the brand to the next level and their backing will allow us to further develop our research & development and extend our award-winning cycling ranges," he said.
Bicycle sales have sharply increased in recent years, thanks to the success of a number of British cyclists, including Sir Chris Hoy, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Victoria Pendleton.
Models in the Boardman Performance Series sell for up to £1,800. More expensive bicycles in the Boardman Elite Series are sold at independent retailers in the UK and US.
Worcestershire-based Halfords said it has no plans to sell the higher priced models in its stores.
The chief executive of Halfords, Matt Davies, said: "We have worked with Chris and his team since 2007; they have created one of the most important, fastest-growing and successful brands in UK cycling. We look forward to a continuation of the growth that both Boardman and Halfords have enjoyed with such a strong brand."
Halfords said the deal would not change the guidance on its finances for its current fiscal year.
Phillips, 33, has announced his international retirement after a 12-year career in which he won 99 caps.
He told BBC Radio Cymru he would not rule out a return to a Welsh team.
"My agent is trying to look for a club at the minute," the scrum-half added on BBC Radio Wales. "I guess over the next month or two it will sort itself out.
"At the minute there's a bit of uncertainty, but at the same time I'm looking forward to the future as well."
But Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy has ruled out Phillips returning to the region for next season.
Phillips made 60 appearances in four seasons for the Swansea-based side.
"No, I think Mike at the age he is at he's been an outstanding international and represented the Ospreys really well," said Tandy.
"We have got our nine's that we are really comfortable with so those spots are filled for us,
"But Mike is experienced and was a British Lion but we are pretty comfortable with our 9's at the moment."
Phillips, who was the British and Irish Lions first choice half-back in both 2009 and 2013, began his career at Scarlets before winning his first Wales cap against Romania in 2003.
He joined Cardiff Blues in 2005 and left for Ospreys in 2007, before moving to French side Bayonne in 2011.
His time there ended over allegations of turning up for training drunk, and he signed for Paris-based Racing 92 in December 2013.
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Newport Gwent Dragons are the only Welsh region Phillips has not played for.
"It would be nice maybe to finish my career in Wales," Phillips told the BBC's Welsh language station Radio Cymru. "But we'll see what happens over the next few weeks.
"At the moment I'm just concentrating on playing for Racing - that's hard enough as it is."
Some of Welsh rugby's legends joined Phillips' former international team-mates in paying tribute to him.
Gareth Edwards - widely regarded as the greatest scrum-half to have played the sport - said: "He was a main cog of a very proficient Welsh side for a number of years.
"He was certainly one of the best players in the world at his time; a huge contributor to Welsh rugby over the last decade or so."
Clermont Auvergne, Wales and Lions centre Jonathan Davies hails from the same Carmarthenshire village of Bancyfelin.
He said: "He's pretty much won games by himself. I loved playing with him. I've got a lot of great memories with him, especially on the 2013 Lions tour to Australia.
"We're both very proud of where we come from and I think he's represented himself and the area with huge pride. What he's done on the field has been spectacular."
Davies' thoughts were echoed on social media by Gloucester's former Ospreys fly-half James Hook.
"Loved the last 10 years playing alongside one of my best mates @mikephillips009, one of the top 9s in the world for so long, 99 international caps an unbelievable achievement," Hook said.
Northampton's Wales and Lions wing George North tweeted: "Massive respect for the man that is @mikephillips009. What a great international career. Been a massive part of mine."
The victim, who is in his 30s, was taken to hospital after sustaining multiple rib fractures and a broken shoulder.
Police received a report about the incident on Monday at about 18:00 BST.
The man's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Lib Dem Baroness Hamwee had asked if the £1 pay rate "for people who have committed no crime" was "something that as a society we can be proud of".
Baroness Williams of Trafford told the Lords the work by inmates was voluntary and was a way to "relieve boredom".
She said it helped meet "recreational and intellectual" needs - and was not a scheme designed to save money.
Baroness Williams, who faced jeers as she answered questions in the House of Lords, argued that any rights detainees had to work were curtailed, so their pay rights were "not the same as people who are not subject to immigration detention".
Labour frontbencher Lord Rosser argued that a Freedom of Information request in May 2014 suggested that hundreds of detainees had been paid £45,438 for 44,832 hours work.
"The saving of using detainees for £1 an hour, compared to paying employed staff on minimum wage, would be in the region of £300,000 a month.
"Who gets the benefit of this apparently considerable saving each month by using detainees at immigration centres on just £1 an hour to do necessary work, as opposed to using employed staff on the minimum wage? Is it the government or is the firm running the centre who reap treat financial benefit?"
Baroness Williams insisted the work at immigration removal centres was not about supplementing contractors, who she said were obliged to provide a minimum number of opportunities for detainees to participate voluntarily in paid activities.
But after Lib Dem Lord Paddick received a similar reply, former Commons Speaker Lady Boothroyd pressed the minister: "The question that's being asked is who benefits? That was the original question and that's the question we're all waiting to hear the answer."
Lady Williams replied: "Who benefits is the detainee."
She said that "this money is not wages as the ordinary working population would see it", adding that the rate is "being reviewed" and a report is expected at the end of the year.
Stacey Gleeson grabbed her iPhone and ran to the child's room to help her but dropped it as she turned on the light.
She shouted at the handset to activate Siri and told it to get the emergency services on speakerphone as she began CPR.
Ms Gleeson told the BBC she feels it may have saved her daughter's life.
She instructed Siri to call an ambulance on speakerphone and was able to communicate with the emergency services while resuscitating Giana.
Giana, who had been battling a chest infection and bronchiolitis, was breathing again when the ambulance arrived,
The child made a full recovery and doctors have told Ms Gleeson there was no lasting damage, but that every second had been vital.
It happened in March but the story has now gone viral after Ms Gleeson contacted Apple, who alerted Australian news outlet 7 News.
"As cheesy as it sounds I wanted to say thank you," she told the BBC.
"I've only had the phone since the start of the year.
"I had played around with Siri, I thought it was a fun feature. Now I have that feature turned on all the time and it will never be turned off again."
She had previously used it to call her husband Nic, who is in the Navy, on loudspeaker while getting the children ready for bed.
The function doesn't work on all iPhone models but Ms Gleeson has an iPhone 6S.
She said that even if she hadn't dropped the phone, she may have struggled to dial the number in the heat of the moment.
"Saving me the trouble of having to physically dial emergency services was a godsend."
Created in 2006, the work depicts a group of armed officers about to be tricked by a boy on one side and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz on the other.
The "imposing object" has remained unseen since its only showing at Banksy's debut US exhibition.
Estimated to fetch between £200,000 and £300,000, it was sold for £218,500.
Described by the auctioneers as "one of his most important and arresting pieces", the "household gloss and spray paint on van" was sold along with a certificate of authenticity.
A spokesman for Bonhams, said the work had been "acquired directly from the artist" by the vendor after it appeared as the "centrepiece" in Banksy's debut solo exhibition in America.
"It was shown for the first - and only time - in an industrial warehouse in downtown Los Angeles," he said.
He added that Banksy's stencilling technique had been "artfully employed" on the SWAT van.
"His characteristic stencilling technique was inspired by an incident in which the artist was hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry, he noticed the stencilled serial number," he said.
"Stencilling has since allowed him to carry out complicated graffiti pieces extremely quickly, before he melts away into the night."
The Public and Commercial Services union says a "staff crisis" in Liverpool means Holyhead will sometimes cover from mid Wales to Scotland.
The UK government is closing eight coastguard stations, including Liverpool, by 2015.
It says changes are necessary to create a 21st Century service.
But the PCS union argues that resources are stretched as talented and experienced staff are becoming disillusioned with the job, and leaving the service.
Keith Roberts, PCS branch secretary at Holyhead Coastguard, warned that lives could be put at risk.
He said that staff levels in Liverpool would be reduced to eight by the summer. It should be 23.
It means Holyhead Coastguard - which has been "paired" with Liverpool under the changes - will be called on to cover an area from Cardigan Bay to the south west coast of Scotland.
"There will be eight watchkeepers [in Liverpool] available, which is the normal minimum to cover a 24 hours period during the summer months," he said.
"So there will be long periods when Holyhead Coastguard will be responsible to cover the UK Irish Sea coast from the the middle of Cardigan Bay to the Mull of Galloway on the southwest Scottish coast plus waters around the Isle of Man."
He said Holyhead too was short staffed, with 18 watchkeepers, when there should be 23.
The union said the Maritime and Coastguard Agency needed to put urgent measures in place to address the "staffing crisis," including honouring its promises on upgrading jobs to improve pay.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "We and others have warned time and again that these closures would put lives at risk. The government must act immediately to address this dangerous decline."
Eight UK coastguard centres will be closed, with a loss of 159 jobs, under changes which the UK government has said are necessary.
The Swansea, Liverpool, Clyde, Portland, Yarmouth, Brixham and Thames coastguard stations will close.
Forth coastguard station in Scotland has already closed as a consequence of the plans.
The UK government has said the current system comprised "dispersed centres with no network of national integration" and therefore had "very limited resilience in the event of high demand or technical problems".
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said where coastguard stations were experiencing reduced staffing levels, it was bringing in existing "pairing" arrangements and other support measures as necessary to maintain operations.
"One of the key outcomes from the modernisation of HM Coastguard will be more rewarding coastguard jobs, with additional responsibilities and the appropriate pay to match; the Government remains fully committed to achieving this," it added in a statement.
"These are new roles that attract a different rate of pay, and staff will need to apply for these."
A report last December by a committee of MPs said that coastguards have been left "confused and disillusioned" by the changes to their service.
The Transport Committee said that too many coastguards were "drifting out" with "a risk that talent and expertise will haemorrhage".
Amaury Leveaux, who won gold in the 100m relay at the 2012 London Olympics, makes his allegation in an autobiography published on Wednesday.
Entitled Sex, Drugs and Swimming, it purports to offer an unsavoury behind-the-scenes glimpse at the world of competitive swimming.
In a chapter dealing with drug use, Leveaux says that top French swimming stars regularly snort cocaine, mainly - but not only - for fun.
"Some of us wouldn't spit at a little line of coke from time to time. For others it's not just a little line, it's a complete motorway covered in white powder which they zoom down at top speed," he writes.
"And then let's not be coy - cocaine is a doping agent. It is the kind of happy drug which gives you the feeling of being invincible and never tired - pushing back your limits and transforming you into a warrior ready for anything."
He says on one occasion during the Olympics a trainer came to their rooms and warned them that an anti-doping test would take place the next day.
"He specifically mentioned cocaine as one to avoid. I found that strange."
Leveaux also describes an incident at the London Games, where one of the French swimmers - he does not give the name - left a nightclub in the company of the establishment's female press officer.
"Later that night he sent me a text saying I should come round to the girl's flat - and that's where I found him lying on top of her and sniffing a line of coke from between her breasts," he writes.
The French Swimming Federation (FNF) has reacted with outrage to Leveaux's claims, with vice-president Lucien Gastaldello saying the swimmer had "shot himself in the foot" and should now repay his debts to the federation.
"Everyone is disgusted by his attitude," said Gastaldello. "He was going to do television commentaries on some forthcoming events. He can forget that. Who would speak to him now?"
Leveaux - who comes from a modest background in the eastern city of Belfort - reserves some of his strongest criticism for members of the elite Marseille Swimming Club, who have dominated the sport in France in recent years . They are, he writes, "pretty boys with big heads".
He also lays into the sport's governing body, describing the FNF as "dinosaurs" who have brought "Nothing with a capital N" to swimming.
"They squeeze swimmers like lemons and then chuck them into the rubbish bin when they are through."
Le Monde's sports correspondent Henri Seckel said the book's sensational title was a bit of an oversell and that he wanted more on what really would have "broken the code of silence in swimming" - i.e. the facts on performance-enhancing drug use.
Leveaux makes some allusions to this, but never directly.
He mentions a Russian female swimmer who he says "went back home from time to time to get testosterone injections."
He says this Russian swimmer explained to him how her team escaped anti-doping inspections.
"Every swimmer had a 'double' who had the same name on his or her passport. It was this double, who was based in the same hotel room…. that was tested after the event - without the officials ever noticing," he writes.
Leveaux, who retired in 2013, has four Olympic medals in all, and still holds the world record for 100m freestyle (short course). In the 2008 Olympics he was pipped to gold in the 50m freestyle by Brazil's Cesar Cielo, who in 2011 failed a doping test.
In the book he compares Cielo to Lance Armstrong, and in a pre-launch interview with L'Equipe magazine adds: "For cheats and paedophiles, it's the same: a bullet in the head."
While on the national team, Leveaux enjoyed a mildly 'bad boy' reputation, but he denied the book is motivated by jealousy of his more glamorous team-mates, such as Alain Bernard or Yannick Agnel.
An artist called Christo will be opening a big art project on Lake Iseo, in northern Italy, made from 220,000 plastic floating cubes.
The cubes will make a two mile-long path across the lake, and will be covered in a special yellow fabric which changes colour in the light.
The project is called 'The Floating Piers' and the the artist said it should feel like people are "walking on the back of a whale".
It took a lot of work to put the bridge together - 190 huge concrete anchors were flown in by hot air balloon then dropped into the lake to help hold the bridge together.
The 80-year-old artist who designed the bridge has created lots a famous art sculptures in the past, in Berlin and New York.
When it officially opens, 150 volunteers and lifeguards will help out along the bridge to make sure everyone stays safe.
Sheffield Wednesday's consultant engineer Dr Wilfred Eastwood said restricted entry at the Leppings Lane end led to a build-up of fans.
In a 1990 statement read to the inquests into 96 Liverpool fans' deaths, Dr Eastwood said 12 turnstiles on Penistone Road were shut.
It led to 6,000 more fans using the Leppings Lane entry.
The inquest hearing in Warrington is looking into the deaths of 96 Liverpool football fans following a crush at the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final at the stadium on 15 April 1989.
Dr Eastwood said the extra spectators "had to be catered for which was a factor in the build-up of the crowd".
"The police argument will no doubt be that they considered it important to avoid confrontation between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest fans."
He added it would have been possible to separate the fans by closing other turnstiles on Penistone Road, and keeping those for the North Stand open.
He said he was "completely unaware" of the closure of the North Stand turnstiles until he read about it in the newspapers on 17 April 1989.
"This was a decision with which my firm was in no way involved and about which we were not consulted or informed," he added.
Legal representatives at the new inquests in Warrington are reading out transcripts of Dr Eastwood's evidence as he is too ill to attend the inquests.
The hearing continues.
The Falcons trailed 22-10 in the final 10 minutes, but forwards Mark Wilson and Ben Harris both bundled over after relentless pressure.
Vereniki Goneva's early score had given Newcastle a 7-3 half-time advantage.
Second-half tries from George Ford and two from Semesa Rokoduguni built a lead for Bath before the late drama.
The much-improved Falcons have now won six Premiership matches this season, one more than the whole of last campaign, and move up to sixth, while Bath stay fourth.
Bath looked edgy once again following back-to-back league defeats against fellow play-off chasers Exeter and leaders Wasps.
A torrid first half started with Fiji wing Goneva being given too much space to race in under the posts, followed by England fly-half Ford missing two relatively simple penalties.
Ford, who failed to land another crucial penalty and conversion after the break, did start a clinical first 20 minutes of the second half when he strolled in to score as Bath were camped in front of the try-line.
Wing Rokoduguni produced two pieces of individual brilliance to help stretch Bath's lead to 12 points - first dotting down while being tackled by Goneva and then showing his pace after latching onto the returning Anthony Watson's pass.
But the visitors could not hold onto the advantage as big flanker Wilson was pushed over and replacement prop Harris touched down in almost identical circumstances, with Joel Hodgson coolly converting both.
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards: "The boys had belief and really stuck at it.
"We went 12 points down and just went for it. They showed a lot of courage to do that and come back against a side like Bath.
"The crowd were outstanding, especially that last five minutes, the players came in afterwards and said the crowd carried them through."
Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder: "I'm very disappointed that we couldn't close out the game.
"We had a terrible first half. We were lucky we came away with anything at half-time.
"We didn't do the basics very well under pressure and that's not acceptable. The last two games we've had control and let it slip and it's just not good enough."
Newcastle Falcons: Tait; Agulla, Waldouck, Socino, Goneva; Hodgson, Takulua; Vickers, Lawson, Welsh, Green, Olmstead, Wilson, Welch (captain), Fonua
Replacements: Sowrey, Harris, Ryan, Witty, Robinson, Young, Willis, Burdon.
Bath: Watson; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Tapuai, Brew; Ford, Allinson; Catt, Dunn, Lahiff, Stooke, Charteris, Ellis, Louw, Mercer.
Replacements: Walker, Obano, Knight, Garvey, Grant, Cook, Priestland, Fruean.
Referee: Greg Garner.
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The 35-year-old beat Rafael Nadal in Miami on Sunday, to win his third title since January.
Federer, who sat out the second half of 2016 to recover from a knee injury, says rest will help him prepare for the French Open, which starts on 28 May.
"When I am healthy and feeling good, I can produce tennis like this," he said.
"When I am not feeling this good there is no chance I will be in the finals competing with Rafa," the 18-time Grand Slam winner told ESPN on court after the win.
"That is why this break is coming in the clay court season, focusing everything on the French, the grass and then the hard courts after that.
"I'm not 24 anymore so things have changed in a big way and I probably won't play any clay court event except the French."
Federer has won the Roland Garros tournament once in 2009. If he sticks to his plan, he would sit out clay events such as the Monte Carlo Masters, Barcelona Open, Hungarian Open, Madrid Open and Istanbul Open - the last clay tournament he won in 2015.
The break in Federer's season arrives during his best start to a campaign since 2006. Back then he won 33 of his first 34 matches of the year, compared to his current run of 19 wins and one defeat.
Victory over Nadal sealed a third Miami Open title and added to wins at the Australian Open and Indian Wells this term.
"The dream continues," Federer said after the win. "It's been a fabulous couple of weeks. What a start to the year, thank you to my team and all who have supported me, especially in my more difficult challenging times last year."
In his on-court interview, Federer backed Nadal, who has himself been hampered by injury, for clay success.
"I know everybody is working very hard on your team to get you back in shape, and keep going," said Federer. "The clay-courts are around, so I'm sure you are going to tear it into pieces over there."
Worldpay's prototype automatically takes a photo of a shop customer's face the first time they use it and then references the image to verify their identity on subsequent transactions.
The firm says the innovation could help reduce payment card fraud.
But one campaign group has raised privacy concerns.
At present, the test device is only being trialled internally at Worldpay. But a spokesman said that it could be deployed within five years if retailers showed interest.
The firm's existing machines are already used at about 400,000 stores across the world.
The prototype - dubbed a Pin Entry Device Camera (PED cam) - features an upward-facing image sensor.
The firm says it would store the captured images in a "secure" central database.
"Biometrics has attracted a lot of attention," said Worldpay's director of technology innovation, Nick Telford-Reed.
"But people don't want the admin hassle of registering their details. With this prototype, we would remove that hassle.
"Card users could be automatically enrolled in the system when they use their card.
"The design also means retailers would not have to find space for another device on their already busy sales counters."
Because facial recognition tech is not foolproof, Worldpay is not suggesting that shoppers be blocked from making payments if its computer system failed to make a match.
Rather, it suggests that tills would display an "authorisation needed" alert, prompting shop staff to request an additional ID, such as a driving licence.
Although chip-and-pin technology has helped reduce card fraud in stores, it has not eliminated the problem.
In the UK, thieves can still make tap-and-go payments of up to £30 without entering a Pin, and criminals have been known to spy on victims entering their codes before stealing their cards.
According to the UK Cards Association, losses from fraudulent face-to-face card transactions in shops totalled £49.2m last year.
Worldpay is not the only financial company looking into the technology to tackle card fraud.
Facial recognition's major advantage over fingerprints is that it is harder to use the information to fool people if hackers steal the biometric details.
The danger of this was highlighted by a US government breach in April that resulted in the loss of up to 5.6 million employees' prints.
Even so, privacy activists at Big Brother Watch have raised concerns.
"Whenever a company thinks of introducing such invasive technology, they must ensure the highest levels of protection are in place to safeguard people from misuse," said the organisation's research director, Daniel Nesbitt.
"It is important that a level-headed and wide-ranging debate takes place on whether facial recognition should become mainstream.
"Our privacy must not be forgotten in the rush to introduce new and potentially innovative ideas."
John Riley, 28, of Caernarfon was convicted by a jury on "overwhelming evidence" of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a 47-year-old man outside a pub in the town.
Judge Huw Rees at Caernarfon Crown Court told him he could have killed the man as a result of his anger.
As well as a broken skull, the victim suffered a bleed on the brain.
He will also now need a hearing aid following the attack.
North Wales Police Det Sgt Andy Davies said Riley was a "prolific offender" and his imprisonment would "bring a degree of relief and satisfaction to the whole community".
Judge Rees added there was a "complete lack of police presence" at the Maes on the night of the assault.
He called for the licensing authorities to be shown the CCTV footage and consider the suitability of the Morgan Lloyd pub having extended opening hours.
The doctor told Dorothy Williams, from the Conwy Valley, that he took it "as a personal offence".
Commissioner Meri Huws said it set a precedent for all health boards and she would "keep an eye on the situation".
Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board has accepted the ruling.
Mrs Williams, from Dolwyddelan, said she was "very relieved" at the decision.
She told BBC Radio Cymru she hoped the health board had "learned lessons, and do what they say... time will tell".
Mrs Williams, reported the incident at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire, at the start of May.
In her submission, she said: "My child started speaking to me in Welsh, as it is [the child's] first language. I responded in Welsh and it was clear that the doctor wasn't pleased.
"[The doctor] told us, 'I know you are Welsh but please stop talking in Welsh as I am taking it as a personal offence'."
The health board said the doctor was so concerned about the patient's safety in a clinically urgent situation that they asked her to stop speaking Welsh.
"[The doctor] took this as a personal offence because unless [the doctor] was able to communicate with [the child] directly, [the doctor] would be unable to give [the child] the urgent help [that the child] needed," the board explained.
The doctor apologised at the time and had realised that the choice of words "was clumsy and could cause offence". The family also had a written apology.
Commissioner Ms Huws said the doctor had sought to prevent the pair from communicating in Welsh and there was no legal or medical justification for it.
"That's been accepted by the health board in its statement that this situation is not acceptable or reasonable for the parent or child," she said.
"They as health service providers need to be planning and securing it where that communication can occur through the medium of Welsh."
Betsi Cadwaladr health board said it had already taken action on the matter.
"We recognise and fully accept that on this occasion there was interference by the doctor with the patient's freedom to use the Welsh language," a spokesperson said.
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The result was a right royal launch for the latest West End production of 42nd Street, with Kate as guest of honour.
Hollywood star Morgan Freeman, DJ Sara Cox and Dame Esther Rantzen were also among the audience at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Tuesday.
Based on the 1933 film, the show tells of a young performer in Depression-era New York who gets a shot at stardom.
Dressed in a maroon Marchesa gown, the Duchess attended in her role as Royal Patron of East Anglia's Children's Hospices.
She left with a golden pair of tap shoes, presented to her on stage after the curtain call by Mark Bramble, the show's director and co-author.
Tap is in abundance during the musical itself, which dramatises the painstaking coming-together of a Broadway stage spectacular.
Scottish-born singer Sheena Easton heads its cast, making her West End debut as a temperamental star whose indisposition allows an unknown chorine, played by Clare Halse, to take centre stage.
According to co-producer Michael Grade, the musical - which features such familiar songs as Lullaby of Broadway, Keep Young and Beautiful and We're In The Money - is "the right show at the right time".
"I think the public are ready for just some pure entertainment," said the former BBC chairman. "You're guaranteed to come out feeling better than when you went in."
"In times of trouble we look for things that bring us joy," agreed the choreographer Arlene Phillips. "It's a great story, a big, old-fashioned musical, and it just gets right inside you."
What did the critics make of it though? Here's a breakdown of what the Telegraph, the Mail, the Mirror, The Times and The Guardian have been saying.
The West End opening of 42nd Street comes only a few weeks after that of An American in Paris, another old-school mix of classic songs, tireless hoofing and glamorous spectacle.
London's theatrical nostalgia boom will continue next month when the Open Air theatre in Regent's Park launches its summer revival of On the Town.
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They were arrested on Tuesday two days after the boy was taken to hospital with cardiac arrest.
The pair, from Wolverhampton, appeared before magistrates on Thursday.
They are charged with causing grievous bodily harm, engaging in sexual activity with a child under 13 and causing or allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.
The baby is in New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton and remains in a critical condition, police said.
The man, aged 22, was remanded in custody to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on January 21.
The 18-year-old woman has been released on bail to appear alongside her co-accused.
Two other women, aged 46 and 32, have been arrested and released on bail.
The 23-year-old joined the Hatters from West Ham during their Conference-winning season in 2013-14 and follows Justin James in penning a new deal.
"I can't wait to get started again and hopefully we can get promotion this season," Mpanzu said.
"Last year was a bit of a disappointment at the end, but we know we can turn it around."
Luton lost in the League Two play-offs to Blackpool last season and start the new campaign at home against Yeovil Town.
It follows a Royal British Legion (RBL) campaign highlighting that some awards to veterans injured in service were being reduced to cover care costs.
It is hoped the move will benefit more than 6,000 veterans.
The money will be given to local authorities to make those pensions exempt from financial assessment.
The RBL welcomed the move, saying it addressed a "historic discrepancy".
Social Services Minister Rebecca Evans said: "We owe our armed forces veterans a significant debt of gratitude, which is why they deserve a fairer deal when it comes to social care.
"Pensions are an important source of compensation for many veterans and ensuring they receive the full amount they are rightfully entitled to will make their life that little bit easier."
Appointed successor to Charlotte Edwards, Knight took 5-26 to dismiss the tourists for 165 in 45.4 overs.
Opener Tammy Beaumont hit 70, adding 96 with Knight as England cruised home with 18.1 overs to spare at Grace Road.
Knight is the first player to take five wickets and make a fifty in an ODI.
New Road hosts the second game of the three-match series on Wednesday.
The final ODI will be held at Taunton on Monday, before the sides play three Twenty20s.
Katherine Brunt needed only 19 balls to claim her 100th ODI wicket as Pakistan's innings began poorly after England won the toss.
But it was off-spinner Knight who starred, sparking Pakistan's slide from 93-3 by having Iram Javed caught by Lauren Winfield at first slip with only her second delivery.
Sidra Ameen was caught and bowled by the skipper for 52 off 79 balls, with captain Sana Mir following in the same fashion two balls later.
Number nine Asmavia Iqbal made 22 off 34 balls but Knight wrapped up the innings by having her caught at long-on two deliveries after removing Sania Khan.
Lauren Winfield perished to the first ball of England's reply and Georgia Elwiss was bowled for 12 to leave the hosts 33-2.
But Beaumont looked completely at ease and seized her opportunity at the top of the order, hitting four fours off five balls as she showed her early intent.
Iqbal removed Beaumont for 70 - her first ODI half-century - but by that time England required only 37 to win.
Sciver made an aggressive run-a-ball 27, completing a comfortable victory moments after Knight brought up her 70-ball fifty.
England captain Heather Knight: "I had some nerves this morning - it was a big day for me - but they settled quite quickly.
"I was dreaming of a hundred on debut. Getting a five-for never crossed my mind but it was great to start well.
"When I took the job I said I wasn't going to try and be another Charlotte Edwards and I'd do it my own way.
"Laura Marsh was outstanding in the middle and a few of my wickets were down to her."
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There are no words to describe how heartbroken I am to be told the saddest news, that my dear friend Sir Bruce Forsyth has passed away.
From the moment we met, Bruce and I did nothing but laugh our way through a decade of working together on Strictly Come Dancing and I will never forget his generosity, his brilliant sense of humour and his drive to entertain the audiences he so loved.
He has been there for me as a co-host, a mentor, but most importantly as a friend, and I'm extremely fortunate to have worked alongside the man who defined Saturday night entertainment for so many decades.
He was a gentleman and a true legend and I will miss him deeply. My heart goes out to Winnie, his wife, and his beautiful family at this sad time.
He loved being a star. He loved making people laugh. He loved entertaining people. All those cliches of that kind of era and that kind of life were true in his case. There wasn't a phoney part of him. He was through and through vaudeville like a stick of rock.
The training he went through - that's all gone now. He's the last remaining survivor of it all. There was no-one quite like him. Never was, never will be.
What made him great was his impeccable workrate and his determination not to ease into anything, to approach every show as if it were his first. I remember watching him thinking, you crafty old sod, you make it look so easy.
And yet of course he was working away to get it right. You can't be as good as that and take it for granted. He took it seriously, and that's why he lasted so long and became so good at it.
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To me, he was an indestructible titan tap dancing his way through life.
I've known Bruce since the 70s when we judged a disco dance competition together and the rest is history.
Working with him on Strictly was personally a joy. His endless teasing of my judging style, particularly with strong sportsmen, was an ongoing joke. His enormous support after I was let go from the Strictly panel meant so much.
Bruce was a true legend, to watch him warming up the audience before filming was a masterclass in entertainment. His quick use of comedy to avoid disaster on a live show was beyond compare.
Above all, his phenomenal tap dancing skills will always remain with me. Bruce was the best of the best. He was a true national treasure and there will never be another like him. He will be missed by many generations.
As long as I can remember there has always been Bruce on our TV. He was a part of my telly viewing from my teens.
So you can imagine my excitement on being asked to be on Strictly and have Bruce one of my heroes on the same show. He was so kind and encouraging to me, the other judges and all those involved in the show.
I used to pop round to his dressing room and chat about stars he met. The truth is there was no one I mentioned he hadn't met. His work ethic, professionalism and charm will be with me forever.
One of his catchphrases was you're my favourite. Well, you were one of mine and the nation's favourites. Bruce, it was nice to see you, to see you, NICE.
I was devoted to him. He was a lovely man. He had great charm, great humour - he was an all-round performer.
He was one of the country's most talented players - a great dancer, great singer and a comedian and also very good actor.
The way he ran a game show was exceptional - a unique talent. He was a lovely man.
He was one of the most talented men this country of ours has ever produced. He could do it all.
He was the best push and shove quiz master - that's an old line. He was magnificent and he was a great entertainer.
He could dance, he was a very nice pianist, he was good at sketches, he was the greatest moaner in the world on the golf course, and he was a unique friend to me.
He was an all round good guy to be with… except when he was playing bad on the golf course, and then he would moan like you can't believe.
Showbusiness will be sad tonight. The public and the showbusiness fraternity have lost one of the real greats of our business. He was great, and he was a national hero.
Today we've lost one of the greatest entertainers our country has ever known.
Bruce was a friend to many of our teams. He's been part of our lives for years - and we'll miss him dearly.
He invented, and then re-invented, Saturday night entertainment across the decades with shows from The Generation Game to Strictly. And, of course, his catchphrases were part of the national conversation.
I saw him perform and marvelled at the chemistry between him and his audience right from the moment he took to the stage - and, by the way, that was always well before any cameras were rolling.
Bruce was such a special part of the BBC. There'll be time to celebrate his amazing contribution later, but for now I just wanted to mark his extraordinary life.
Bruce was so very special, he had such warmth and humour and he was such a superb talent. He will be irreplaceable in peoples' hearts.
I have known him a lifetime. I toured with him in the early days. He was brilliant right from the start. This is such a sad time - the nation will be heartbroken.
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The 'Parklife' project will build 30 new all-purpose facilities by 2020 in a partnership between the FA, the Department for Culture Media and Sport, the Premier League and Sport England.
One project, the SGP Sheffield Graves centre, opened on Wednesday.
"We will benefit for decades," said interim England manager Gareth Southgate.
"When talking about player development, you're always thinking about short, medium and long-term strategies. It can't always be about what's right for the next 12 months.
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"But the investment isn't always about producing that elite player. It's for kids and communities too.
"I know grassroots clubs give kids somewhere to go where they feel safe, where they get a strong positive influence around them and there's a huge amount of social responsibility."
On Monday, the FA announced a new overseas broadcast rights deal for the FA Cup - reportedly worth £820m - for six seasons from 2018-19.
The value of the overseas deal was undisclosed but chief executive Martin Glenn has said it will allow more investment in pitches, facilities and participation programmes.
"We want people have the opportunity to play on great-quality pitches with top-class dressing rooms and classrooms where coaches can learn," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"If you compare our country to others on the same latitude, they have a lot more artificial pitches.
"Muddy pitches favour the strong children not necessarily the skilful child and we want to improve that situation.
"Too many kids go to matches getting changed in their car because the changing rooms are not of standard. That factor has restricted the take-up of the women's game."
Asked if this investment was coming too late for English football to catch up with its rivals, Glenn said: "We start where we start from, don't we?
"Football is felt about so strongly in England with millions of people playing.
"We've got money in the game to invest in these things so it's never too late.
"This is an acceleration of a good start but I think there's still a long way to go."
Former England full-back Danny Mills, who was part of the FA Commission that reported on how to strengthen the national game in 2014, said the new facilities are just one of the changes that need to be made.
"You have to start somewhere," he said. "Back in 2014, we had just under 700 full-size 3G pitches. In contrast, Germany had nearly 4,000.
"These hubs will be the focal point. It is not perfect, we are far behind. But it is a start.
"I am a massive advocate of switching to a summer league for kids when the weather is warmer and the pitches are in better condition.
"In the commission report, we talked about capping wages for players to keep them from earning too much too soon, and clubs are starting to take that on themselves.
"We talked about clubs playing younger players in lower league and cup competitions and that is starting to happen."
Premier League academy sides are part of the EFL Trophy this season, while Liverpool, Tottenham and Southampton are among the clubs to have limited how much they pay their young prospects.
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The Cheltenham Gold Cup winner beat rivals Seventh Sky and Southfield Theatre on Sunday to claim his first win since taking steeplechasing's blue riband prize in March.
Jockey Nico de Boinville guided the eight-year-old to a 25-length triumph.
Coneygree, who is unbeaten over fences, will ride in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday, 28 November.
"He felt great. We were in tight a couple of times and he shortened up well. He's just the same old Coneygree," said De Boinville.
Gas supplies are expected to be "comfortable", while electricity margins, at 5.1%, are "manageable", the grid said in its Winter Outlook.
This means supply is expected to exceed peak demand by 5.1%.
The Grid may have to secure extra supplies to keep this margin, such as paying plants to remain on standby.
Without these measures, the margin would be 1.2%. With the additional measures, margins are at their lowest for seven years, and have deteriorated year on year. Over last winter, they were 6.1%.
"Our analysis suggests that electricity margins will continue to be tight but manageable throughout the winter period," said Cordi O'Hara, director of UK Market Operations.
"We have taken appropriate steps to support security of supply through the procurement of additional balancing services."
The Grid made similar provisions last winter.
Gas supplies are far more abundant. The Grid forecasts peak demand of 465 million cubic metres a day, with a potential supply of up to 613 million cubic metres.
"Keeping the lights on is non-negotiable," said Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd. "National Grid has the right tools in place to manage the system this winter and we will ensure that they continue to do so in future."
Keeping the lights on: John Moylan, BBC industry correspondent
The government has announced new measures to ensure the lights stay on in the future.
It's making changes to the Capacity Market, a mechanism which pays owners of power plants a subsidy to guarantee having the plants available from 2018 onwards.
The changes will increase the "incentives and penalties" on firms which agree to build new power plants, but then fail to do so.
It follows reports this week that the only company to win a subsidy to build a new gas power plant as part of the Capacity Market is struggling to find investors.
Carlton Power, which is proposing to build a power station at Trafford in Manchester, has confirmed that the project will be delayed by at least a year.
A number of power stations have closed down in recent years as they come to the end of their natural life. This has led to fears of blackouts in some quarters, with concerns that margins are getting too tight for comfort.
The GMB union accused the Grid of "complacency" and criticised as "bonkers" its policy of paying power stations to be on standby.
"That and bringing unused inefficient power production back into operation are the special measures National Grid is being forced to rely on to keep the lights on and the cost is added to consumers' bills," said national officer Brian Strutton.
But many experts believe fears of the lights going out have been exaggerated.
"The fact is that generation-related electricity outages are vanishingly rare - just one in the last 10 years," said Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.
"Almost all power cuts are down to problems with local distribution of electricity, caused by bad weather and other issues.
"Ten years of crying wolf on power cuts has probably served only to confuse the public, who will be entirely aware that their lights have stayed on."
Education charity Ark will take over Oldknow Academy from September.
The school, in Small Heath, was rated "inadequate" by the education watchdog, which accused governors of promoting a "narrow, faith-based" ideology.
Ark said Oldknow will "remain a local, non-selective, non-denominational, mixed school".
The charity, which runs 31 schools nationwide, including four in Birmingham, said it will consult with parents, staff and pupils over its plans.
It said Rebecca Garratt, head of Ark Tindal Primary in Balsall Heath, would lead Oldknow's transition.
Ms Garratt acknowledged Oldknow, which was previously rated "outstanding", had been through a "difficult period".
"Our energy will be focussed on the future and ensuring the best possible education for students," she said.
Chair of governors, Councillor Barry Henley, said the school would "work closely" with Ark "to ensure standards of education are what they should be, and there is effective oversight of what is happening in school".
Headteacher Bhupinder Kondal, who was reinstated in August will stay in charge at Oldknow.
National Association of Head Teachers general secretary Russell Hobby said the union was pleased Oldknow had found "proper help from a strong sponsor".
"The school has been through a difficult time but has a talented principal who will be able to build it back up given patience and support," he said.
The academy was one of 21 schools in Birmingham investigated and it was subsequently found that a small group of governors had tried to "make significant changes to the ethos and culture of the academy without full consultation".
Last month, chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw said Oldknow and four other "inadequate" schools had not improved.
He criticised Oldknow's process for recruiting parent governors, despite concerns highlighted in the earlier inspection.
The bird, which occupied a site at Riggindale Valley, near Haweswater in the Lake District, has not been seen since before the turn of the year.
It is believed to be about 20 years old but has been without a mate for around a decade.
An RSPB spokesman said it was "incredibly sad" and added there was "a real sense of loss" among colleagues.
Haweswater site manager Lee Schofield, said: "By this time of year you would have expected to have seen him on display to attract a mate.
"As the last golden eagle in England, it's an element of wildness that has gone.
"There's no real way of knowing for sure. It's a single bird in a huge landscape and he was of an age we couldn't rule out death by natural causes."
"We've not given up hope," Mr Schofield added. "It may be that he has found an alternative food source."
Golden eagle facts
Source: RSPB
In previous years the bird had been seen "sky dancing" - a series of dives and rises intended to attract a female partner.
The male is believed to have been the third to take possession of the Haweswater territory.
The previous one disappeared in late 2001 when it was at least 30 years old - and then, the oldest known British eagle.
Perhaps so, but David Swift's journey to the 2016 Skeleton World Championships in Innsbruck is hardly a conventional story.
He was brought up in the Devon town of Newton Abbot, which is better known for its race course and mainline train station than for being a centre of alpine sport.
But, after getting a leaflet thrust in his hand while studying at the University of Bath, he gave the sport a go and has never looked back.
"It was right place, right time really," the 31-year-old British number two told BBC Sport.
"I was studying Sport and Exercise Science 10 years ago and the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association is based up there."
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Having been part of the university's athletics team as a sprinter, the 5'8" Swift had the physical gifts to excel in the sport of skeleton with his fast start and compact frame, and showed his talents on the dedicated push track on campus.
At first it all went well, winning the British title and a silver medal at the World Junior Championships in 2008.
But his progression since then has been slightly slower, missing out on selection for the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and only being selected for the World Championships for the first time in 2015.
"There's been a lot of disappointment along the way," he said. "I narrowly missed out on Sochi last time around, and that sort of thing enables you to learn a lot about yourself and how to move forward.
"I went back to the drawing board and figured out what I needed to do to move forward.
"Last year I got my first call for the World Championships, this is the second one, and now we're two years out from the PyeongChang Olympics it feels like momentum's building, which is a good place to be."
Swift revels in the pun of calling this season a "rollercoaster", but it has seen him win his first-ever international race in the lower-tier Europa Cup, having raced on the World Cup and Intercontinental Cup circuits.
"I moved down to the Europa Cup just to fill the time, entered a race and won it," he said.
"That was the first race internationally that I'd won in eight or nine years, so in terms of momentum and confidence I'm buzzing and raring to go with the World Championships."
Great Britain's women have enjoyed much of the limelight when it comes to skeleton, with Lizzy Yarnold and Amy Williams winning gold at the last two Olympics and Shelly Rudman and Alex Coomber also making the podium.
British skeleton was dominated for many years by Kristan Bromley, who won the World Cup in 2008, but the men have never won an Olympic medal.
GB's number one racer Dominic Parsons was fifth in this year's World Cup, while Swift was down in 29th place, two spots ahead of team-mate Ed Smith and 10 spots in front of fellow Briton Kenny Howard.
It all means that there is a fight on for the country's second berth at the 2018 Olympics, with Swift getting his chance to shine first in Austria this week.
"Historically we've won a lot of medals female-wise, so it'd be nice for the males to start evening the score up a little bit," he said.
"In terms of the competition we have internally, there's a lot of good guys coming through.
"The internal competition is what we need to drive forward, because it's not enough just to turn up at the Games - we want to be competitive.
"Having that internal competition means we're going to be in a place where hopefully in two years' time we'll all be champing for that medal place."
Fr Patrick Conway found Michael Clune hiding in a room in his home in Ennis on 7 December.
The burglar initially denied breaking into Fr Conway's house and stealing 20 euros.
It was only after he gave the money back that the priest drove him into Ennis.
Fr Conway, an assistant priest in Ennis parish, had just returned from a doctor's appointment when he noticed a downstairs window had been broken.
When he went into his study to call the police, he found Clune hiding in a wardrobe.
He said it came as a shock when he realised it was someone he had known for a number of years.
"I had known Michael since he was a young lad and knew his family well," he said.
The priest confronted Clune about the concrete block that had been thrown through the window but he denied any involvement in the break-in.
Fr Conway then realised 20 euros that he had left out was missing. Again, Clune continued to deny taking the money.
"I had left 20 euros on the floor to remind myself to give it back to someone who had given it to me," he said.
"I said, 'why did you take my money? Give it back' and he said 'I didn't take your money'.
"I was absolutely certain the money was there, so I said 'either you give back my money or we go to the Garda (Irish police)'."
When that failed to work, Fr Conway offered to give him a lift into town.
"I said 'you give me back my money and I'll take you down town'. 'I won't take you to the gardai'. 'I'll bring you over to the cathedral' where another priest had been helping him.
"So he found the money somewhere then and gave it back to me."
On the drive into town, the burglar asked the priest to buy him methadone, which he refused.
When he brought Clune into town, the priest was not at the cathedral so Clune got out of the car.
After consulting with a fellow priest, Fr Conway reported what had happened to police.
Clune pleaded guilty to the burglary and was given an eight-month suspended jail term consecutive to the eight months in jail he is currently serving.
Fr Conway said he had had no contact with the man since the incident, but hoped he was receiving treatment for his addiction in jail.
Robson ended the day on 175 out of 317-4, a large share of it coming in a 180-run opening stand with Nick Gubbins.
Chris Wright then came on to claim the wickets of Gubbins (68) and Nick Compton in successive balls.
But John Simpson and Robson helped restore Middlesex's domination.
After Keith Barker had whittled out two more wickets, including home captain Adam Voges, to leave the hosts on 263-4, wicketkeeper Simpson (31) has so far helped put on 54 with the redoubtable Robson.
Middlesex have not beaten Warwickshire in 19 meetings since June 2001 - and the Bears' away record against them is even better, having not lost in 16 trips to the north side of the capital since losing at Uxbridge in 1988. But the hosts can now a feel bit more hopeful of their chances of ending that miserable record.
It was the second Sunday running that Bears captain Bell had invited the home team to bat without a toss taking place - but Warwickshire's attack did not match the success they had a week ago against Hampshire at Southampton.
Missing the injured Chris Woakes (knee) and Boyd Rankin (side), they went wicketless in the first session - in contrast to a week earlier when Hampshire were seven down by lunch.
Instead, Australia-born Robson cut and drove beautifully to look far more the player England had in mind when they gave him the first of his seven Test caps two summers ago.
On the first day of the Lord's cricketing summer, he punished too many loose balls on a sluggish surface to reach his first hundred since May 2015.
Middlesex centurion Sam Robson told BBC London 94.9:
"We were going to bowl too. It was still tough work but, once you were in and playing the ball on merit, you just put the bad ball away.
"It was a very pleasing day. I felt good. The sun was out and, when you get sent in, you want to try to get off to a good start and get to lunch.
"To kick on was very satisfying and we are in a great position. I'm in a good place and it's great to start well.
"I've been expecting to bat first for four months. I've worked on a few little things with my game."
Warwickshire captain Ian Bell told BBC WM 95.6:
"We didn't bowl well this morning. To go for 130 in the session wasn't us at our best. But for the next two sessions we've gone for about 80-90.
"It was a tough decision. I probably would have tossed in hindsight but that's a wonderful thing. You get here and there's been ice and rain over the last two days.
"We just didn't know. And, when your gut doesn't know, the best option is probably to bowl. But Robbo played fantastically well, to score 170 out of 300.
"It was disappointing to lose Boyd this morning. He would have played. That was frustrating, but it's a test of our squad. Fingers crossed Woakesie will be fit to face Yorkshire.
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But now he has announced a farewell tour.
Wilko has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has refused chemotherapy.
In an interview to be broadcast on Friday's Front Row, Wilko Johnson talked to the programme's presenter John Wilson.
The full interview will be broadcast on 25 February at 19:15 on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
A communique at the end of the summit reiterated a joint call to secure "vulnerable nuclear material".
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said nuclear terrorism remained a "grave threat", while US President Barack Obama said action was key.
The meeting was dominated by North Korea's plan to launch a rocket.
North Korea says the long-range rocket will carry a satellite when it goes up in April. The US says any launch would violate UN resolutions and constitute a missile test.
Iran's nuclear programme was also on the minds of the summit participants, with Mr Obama pledging to meet the leaders of Russia and China on the sidelines to work towards a resolution.
At the meeting, world leaders discussed measures to fight the threat of nuclear terrorism, including the protection of nuclear materials and facilities, as well as the prevention of trafficking of nuclear materials.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC Diplomatic Correspondent
The communique describes nuclear terrorism as one of the most challenging threats to international security. But the responsibility to maintain security over nuclear materials lies firmly with states rather than international bodies. And any effort to try to establish or impose common international standards inevitably raises concerns in some quarters that the world's major powers are seeking to intrude into the nuclear affairs of other countries.
That's why this communique reaffirms that measures to strengthen nuclear security will not hamper the rights of states to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The summit urges states to minimise the use of highly enriched uranium - one of the building blocks for a nuclear bomb.
The summit highlights the threat from radioactive materials more generally. But again all the summit can do is urge states to take measures to secure these materials and work towards ratifying international conventions on nuclear security. It is hardly a resounding outcome from a gathering over-shadowed by the more immediate wrangling over North Korea's and Iran's nuclear activities.
A joint communique reaffirmed their commitment to nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
"Nuclear terrorism continues to be one of the most challenging threats to international security," it said.
"Defeating this threat requires strong national measures and international co-operation given its potential global, political, economic, social and psychological consequences."
But it omitted a reference made in a draft communique last Thursday on the need for "concrete steps" towards a world without nuclear weapons, AFP news agency reports.
There are currently no binding international agreements on how to protect nuclear material stored peacefully inside its home country, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul. An amendment seeking to do that is still unratified after seven years.
Addressing the summit, Mr Obama warned there were still "too many bad actors'' who were threatening to stockpile and use ''dangerous'' nuclear material.
"It would not take much, just a handful or so of these materials, to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people and that's not an exaggeration, that's the reality that we face," he said.
"The security of the world depends on the actions that we take."
Mr Hu called for "an international environment conducive to boosting nuclear security" to be created and Mr Lee called for concrete action to tackle a threat that posed "a grave challenge" to peace.
The summit was attended by almost 60 leaders from around the world.
Meetings on Monday were overshadowed by North Korea's planned launch, scheduled to take place between 12 and 16 April.
Pyongyang says it is intended to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il-sung.
Source: Federation of American Scientists
Nuclear weapons: Who has what?
On Tuesday, a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said that the launch would go ahead as planned and criticised Mr Obama's stance as ''confrontational''.
North Korea "will never give up the launch of a satellite for peaceful purposes", the spokesman said in a statement in the official KCNA news agency.
A KCNA report also described the ''weather satellite'' Pyongyang planned to launch as useful for ''the study of weather forecast needed for agriculture and other economic fields''.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, speaking at the summit, called on Pyongyang to cancel the rocket launch, saying that it would violate UN Security Council resolutions.
"As such, the international community strongly urges North Korea to exercise restraint and cancel the launch," he said.
The resolutions were passed after a similar launch in April 2009. Japan is particularly concerned as that rocket was launched over the country three years ago.
The US and Chinese presidents met on Monday on the sidelines of the summit and agreed to co-ordinate their response to any "potential provocation" if Pyongyang went ahead with the launch.
South Korea and the US say North Korea risks further sanctions and isolation if it does not cancel its plans. Seoul has also warned it will shoot down the rocket if it strays over South Korean territory.
Now they think they've figured out why it is - it could be down to fish giving out gas. A US team from the University of California, San Diego, listened to the buzz through microphones dropped down as far as 3,300 feet underwater.
They found out that the noise was particularly strong at sunset and dawn.
Scientists think the buzz comes from large groups of small fish and crustaceans that hide in the deep water during the day, and rise up nearer the surface to feed at night.
Simone Baumann-Pickering , a marine expert who worked on the study, says "it's known that some fish are considered to be farting, that they emit gas as they change depths in the water column.
"We're just scratching the surface in terms of understanding how important sound is."
The fish could be making the noise when they let off gas from their bladders to keep them bouncy. Or it could be that they are communicating with each other using the buzzing.
Indian troops returned fire from the camp in the garrison town of Baramulla, 50km (30 miles) north-west of Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir.
The camp is the local headquarters of a counter-insurgency military unit.
Sunday night's attack came three days after India's army said it had carried out a "surgical strike" in the region.
The army said it had destroyed "terrorist launching pads" used by militants with support from Pakistan, but the Pakistani military disputed this.
The Indian assault followed the deadliest attack on one of its bases in Kashmir in years. On 18 September, militants entered an army base in the town of Uri and killed 18 soldiers.
India 'launches Kashmir border strikes'
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training insurgents fighting for Kashmir's independence from India or its merger with Pakistan, a claim Pakistan denies.
Disputed Muslim-majority Kashmir has been a flashpoint for decades and has sparked two wars between India and Pakistan, which both control parts of the disputed territory but claim it in full.
Relations between India and Pakistan have sharply deteriorated since the attack in Uri earlier this month.
Pakistan says India's stance is a "blatant attempt" to deflect attention from human rights abuses in the region.
More than 80 people, nearly all anti-government protesters, have died in more than two months of violence against Indian rule.
The noted arranger died at his home in Malibu, California on Friday following a long period of ill-health.
Lindsey was musical director for Garland's performances at New York's Carnegie Hall that led to the Grammy-winning album Judy At Carnegie Hall.
An Emmy followed for Streisand's TV concert A Happening In Central Park.
Judy At Carnegie Hall, a live recording of the Wizard of Oz star's concert on 23 April 1961, spent 12 weeks at the top of the Billboard chart and went on to win four Grammy awards.
Lindsey went on to work with Liza Minnelli, Garland's daughter, on her televised Liza With A Z concert.
The New Jersey native spent 25 years as musical director for The Merv Griffin Show, earning two Emmy nominations in the process.
As a composer, his credits include Garland's 1963 film I Could Go on Singing and Albert Brooks' 1979 comedy Real Life.
Details of what caused the service to be unusable for millions of users prior to Christmas have been posted on the firm's blog.
The two events combined to create a cascade of problems that managed to knock out much of the network underpinning the phone service.
Skype is assessing how its network is built to stop the problem recurring.
Writing on the Skype blog, Lars Rabbe, chief information officer at the company, said the problems started on 22 December, when some of its servers that handle instant messaging started getting overloaded.
This meant that the responses they sent to Windows machines running Skype were slightly delayed. Unfortunately, a bug in one version of Skype for Windows meant this delay caused the program to crash.
About 50% of all Skype users ran the buggy 5.0.0.152 version of the software, said Mr Rabbe.
This caused problems for Skype because of the way the network supporting it is organised. Some of the data travelling round Skype's network are passed through all those machines logged on to the service.
Skye video calls on test
Those participating machines act as what Skype calls "supernodes" and carry out some of the administrative tasks of the global network and help to ensure calls get through.
With a huge number of these machines offline because of the crash, the rest of the network quickly became overloaded.
Mr Rabbe wrote that the disappearance of the supernodes meant the remaining ones were swamped by traffic.
"The initial crashes happened just before our usual daily peak-hour and very shortly after the initial crash," wrote Mr Rabbe, "which resulted in traffic to the supernodes that was about 100 times what would normally be expected at that time of day."
Traffic levels were so high that they blew through the safe operating specifications supernodes usually use. As a result, more supernodes shut down.
The "confluence of events", said Mr Rabbe, led to Skype being offline for about 24 hours as engineers put in place hundreds of dedicated supernodes and gradually brought the service back to life.
To ensure the outage does not happen again, Mr Rabbe said Skype would look at its update policy, to see if it should automatically move users to newer versions of its software.
A version of Skype for Windows that is free of the bug already exists, but is not automatically given to users.
It said it would also look at its network to improve capacity and get on with an investment programme that would boost this resilience.
Mr Rabbe apologised again on behalf of the company and added: "We know that we fell short in both fulfilling your expectations and communicating with you during this incident."
Skype has offered compensation to customers in the form of vouchers for pre-pay users and a free week of service for subscribers.
Wing Josaia Raisuqe was sent-off after receiving a second yellow card with 28 minutes remaining.
But quick tries by Raphael Lakafia and Julien Aria saw the French team open an 11-point lead.
Tyler Ardron's touchdown four-minutes from time gave Ospreys hope, but Stade survived a tense finish in Cardiff.
The French side had led at half-time after prop Zurabi Zhvania's try had come during Raisuge's time in the sin-bin.
Josh Matavesi's try early in the second half and a second Dan Biggar penalty after the Fijian wing's second yellow card offence saw Ospreys briefly in the lead by 14-11.
But a lack of composure and abject failure to exploit the extra man was the Welsh region's undoing.
Raisuqe was fortunate to be on the pitch long enough to receive a second yellow card, after being sent to the sin-bin for a stamp on his opposite number Keelan Giles in the first half.
But within two minutes of his eventual dismissal for the lesser crime of being offside at a ruck, Stade were ahead.
Jules Plisson's cross-field kick found Lakafia unmarked wide on the left wing to gather and touch down.
And when second row Hugh Pyle intercepted Sam Davies' pass he found Arias on his shoulder to score at the posts and the French side were 11 points to the good.
Ospreys will reflect on a try by Biggar early in the first half which was ruled out for a forward pass, but a creaking scrummage and cool-headed performances from Stade's Sergio Parisse and Will Genia saw them come up short.
It was Stade's first win away from home this season.
Ospreys' defeat means there are no Welsh teams left in either of Europe's knockout tournaments, while Bath face a tricky trip to France for their semi-final.
Ospreys coach Steve Tandy: "I think we probably deserved to win the game in large aspects but ultimately we've paid for some inaccuracies, not finishing off opportunities and a little bit of ill-discipline in the first half,
"At the back end I think there was enough time and opportunities to chase the game down but ultimately we weren't accurate enough and probably forced one or two things that we probably didn't need to."
Ospreys: Sam Davies; Keelan Giles, Ashley Beck, Josh Matavesi, Dan Evans; Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb; Nicky Smith, Scott Baldwin, Brian Mujati, Lloyd Ashley, Rory Thornton, Sam Underhill, Justin Tipuric, Dan Baker.
Replacements: Scott Otten, Paul James, Ma'afu Fia, Tyler Ardron, James King, Olly Cracknell, Kieron Fonotia, Tom Habberfield
Stade Francais: Hugo Bonneval; Julien Arias, Geoffrey Doumayrou, Jonathan Danty Josaia Raisuqe; Jules Plisson, Will Genia; Zurabi Zhvania, Laurent Sempéré, Rabah Slimani, Hugh Pyle, Paul Gabrillagues, Antoine Burban, Sylvain Nicolas, Serge Parisse.
Replacements: Laurent Panis, Aled De Malmanche, Paul Alo Emile, Pascal Papé, Raphael Lakafia, Julien Dupuy, Morné Steyn, Herman Meyer Bosman.
Referee: Matthew Carley (England)
Touch Judges: Tim Wigglesworth (England) and Peter Allan (England)
TMO: Sean Davey (England)
Citing Commissioner: Alberto Recaldini (Italy)
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.
The idea of a Muslim database arose in November 2015, when Mr Trump told a reporter he would "certainly implement that. Absolutely".
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, said: "If one day Muslim Americans will be forced to register their identities, then that is the day that this proud Jew will register as a Muslim".
His comments came at the group's Never Is Now conference on anti-Semitism, held in New York.
"We must stand with our fellow Americans who may be singled out for how they look, where they're from, who they love or how they pray," Mr Greenblatt said.
The ADL chief, who previously served in the White House as special assistant to President Barack Obama, told BBC News: "The bottom line here is - we in the Jewish community know what it is when you apply a litmus test based on faith - when you identify people and tag them based on faith...
"When you take one group and make all of them suspect. I feel we have more obligations to speak out."
Mr Trump's position on the proposed Muslim register is presently unclear.
In a statement on Thursday, a spokesman for the Trump transition team appeared to row back from his comments last year, saying Mr Trump had "never advocated for any registry or system that tracks individuals based on their religion, and to imply otherwise is completely false".
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Jason Miller was responding to new reports that Mr Trump's team was considering a database for US immigrants from Muslim countries.
Mr Greenblatt's pledge to register as Muslim struck a chord with many people on social media, who took up the hashtag #NeverIsNow.
Cornell W Brooks, president of African-American civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was among those to second the pledge.
"As a proud Christian & a card-carrying member of the @NAACP, I'll also register as a Muslim right behind @JGreenblattADL," he wrote.
"Never is now" refers to the "never again" vow made by Jews after World War Two, when they promised never to stay silent in the face of persecution.
According to an FBI report released this week, hate crimes on the basis of religion increased 23% between 2014 and 2015. This included a rise in reported anti-Jewish crimes, and a significant increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit group based in Alabama, reported 437 separate incidents of intimidation between the election on 8 November and 14 November, targeting ethnic minorities, Muslims, immigrants, women, and the LGBT community.
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the justice department was investigating whether recent reports of harassment, for instance at schools and churches, violated federal hate crime and other civil rights laws.
"Many Americans are concerned by a spate of recent news reports about alleged hate crimes and harassment," Ms Lynch said.
She urged the public to keep reporting such incidents, "so that our career investigators and prosecutors can take action to defend your rights".
The health minister has announced an amendment to a bill currently going through the assembly.
This would make it illegal to smoke when children are present in a vehicle.
A similar ban came into force in England and Wales in October and Scotland plans to legislate next year.
The Republic of Ireland has already approved a ban, but it has not been implemented yet.
Health Minister Simon Hamilton said he had taken note of the bans in other UK regions and he believes Northern Ireland should follow suit.
"I have listened carefully to the arguments made by many that Northern Ireland should follow the example of other parts of the United Kingdom, and I confirm to the house today that it is my intention to bring forward an amendment at consideration stage (of the legislation) to ban smoking in cars with children," he said.
The idea is to protect children from the harmful effects of second hand smoke which can increase the risk of asthma, meningitis and cot death.
According to the Department of Health, children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of second-hand smoke as they breathe more rapidly and inhale more pollutants per pound of body weight than adults.
Campaigners say the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland are in favour of introducing the measure.
In 2014, an opinion poll commissioned by NI Chest, Heart and Stroke showed 82% of those polled said the assembly should ban smoking in cars carrying children.
But some fear this is the state going too far, invading people's privacy and curtailing people's freedom.
The department said protecting the health of children in Northern Ireland must be a priority.
In England and Wales, drivers and passengers face a fine of £50 for breaking the law introduced two months ago.
However, police are operating a light touch approach when it comes to enforcement - issuing mainly fines as public awareness increases.
Former world champions Dave 'Boy' McAuley, Barry McGuigan and Wayne McCullough, three of Ireland's biggest boxing names, have all been involved in high-profile rematches with mixed results.
So will Frampton's gamble pay off in Las Vegas and propel 'The Jackal' to bigger and better things? Or will the Belfast fighter live to regret the decision after suffering his first career defeat?
McAuley's first professional fight would influence the rest of his career.
Before he fought Tanzania's John Mwaimu, he decided that if he lost, he would never fight again.
It finished in a draw and he continued to fight, although he carried the result around with him for the next few years.
"Down the line, after four or five fights, I thought I wanted to have a second crack at this guy because I thought I could beat him and the second time I fought him I beat him quite handy," said McAuley.
In his 14th professional fight, McAuley got a shot at the WBA world flyweight title.
Unbeaten until then, he faced a big step up by fighting one of the era's greatest flyweights, Colombia's Fidel Bassa.
"I was still very green behind the ears. I was tense the whole time and inexperience was the main reason that I lost," said McAuley.
The bout was named the 1987 'Fight of the Year' and many people thought he was crazy when he signed up for a rematch, although McAuley says he would have gone for a third fight if given the chance.
"I fought a title eliminator and got the chance to face him again. I had improved my fight game dramatically, but it wasn't enough," said McAuley.
"But I think if I had fought him a third time, I would have had the measure of him."
Frampton's manager McGuigan lost to Peter Eubanks on points in 1981. He then came back and beat him by TKO in December of the same year.
The 'Cyclone' said he simply wanted the blemish of defeat off his record and he was never tempted into a third fight.
Meanwhile, McCullough had two bouts with Oscar Larios in 2005. The 'Pocket Rocket' had lost on a unanimous decision in the first fight that February in California, only to get a rematch in July in Las Vegas.
"People had me winning that first fight. I thought I won it clearly, so I wanted to go back and prove myself in front of fair, commissioned judges in Vegas," he said.
However, McCullough lost out with the fight stopped controversially in the 10th round.
"I had been in the wars with Naseem Hamed and Erik Morales and been busted up but those fights weren't stopped, but here it was and there wasn't a mark on me."
Lose or draw, getting back in the ring is a chance to vindicate yourself as soon as possible. But what happens when you win the first fight and decide to take a rematch?
Faced with the same situation as Frampton is now, McAuley chose to have a rematch with Rodolfo Blanco in 1992, two years after beating him.
"The first fight could have gone either way. It was a tough, tough fight. I wanted to win the second fight because I wanted to prove that winning the first fight wasn't a fluke."
But this time Blanco came out as the victor. McAuley added: "I wanted to put all that negative stuff behind me. And I think I won the second fight pretty clearly, but not on the judges' scorecards unfortunately."
With Frampton's fight on Saturday night one of the year's most eagerly awaited, McAuley thinks the WBA world featherweight champion should win, citing Santa Cruz's possible negative mental state.
He also believes that Santa Cruz should have turned down the first fight with Frampton.
"It will be in the back of Santa Cruz's mind that he was beaten. And he'll be thinking 'what if it happens again?'.
"A voluntary defence means you fight someone you are more than capable of beating. I would have said no - you only fight the likes of Carl Frampton if you have to and they only realised that when they lost."
McCullough thinks Frampton is taking a calculated risk because of his ability to adapt.
"Coming off a win in the last one, Carl will win easier. He now knows what to expect and he will be smarter and have the measure of him this time."
On the possibility of a third meeting in Windsor Park, McAuley says there isn't much hope either way.
"They'll have to honour the first contract. If Carl Frampton wins, there could be a third ... probably not though. And if Santa Cruz wins he'll probably go elsewhere because his boys have drawn the contract up."
With that in mind, it might be unwise to hope for a trilogy, especially if Frampton wins again. Because if you beat someone twice, would it be worth going back for a third time?
The red Mercedes C-class could be seen with both rear wheels in the air off the side of the Victoria Road near Bready at about 15:00 BST.
The car's female driver was taken to hospital for a check-up. Her injuries were not thought to be serious.
Three fire engines were called to the scene, as well as the police and ambulance service.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash.
Few would disagree with the foreign secretary when he says that Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaging in proxy wars in the Middle East.
Not everyone would use his language, accusing both countries of "puppeteering", but it is well known that both Riyadh and Tehran support opposing sides in several conflicts.
In Syria, the Saudis are providing arms to opposition rebels and Iran is supporting some of the many militias fighting alongside the Syrian army.
In Yemen, the Saudis lead a coalition of forces fighting the Houthi rebels who ousted the government and are being backed by Iran.
Across the region, the Sunni-Shia divide is one that sucks in outside nations like Saudi Arabia and Iran into a regional power play that many analysts fear could one day escalate.
Nor is the Foreign Secretary's wider analysis too controversial, that there is a lack of leadership and vision in the Middle East which creates conflicts and opportunities for outside powers to flex their muscles.
In foreign ministries across the world, for example, much thought is being given to how Iran may in the future want to use Hezbollah, the leading Lebanese Shia militia supporting President Assad's forces in Syria.
Where do they take their new-found experience and expertise in warfighting when the Syrian civil war subsides into an insurgency?
Nor is the foreign secretary saying anything that the Saudis have not heard before in private.
Foreign Office sources make clear that this is exactly what Mr Johnson has been telling his Saudi counterpart in their regular phone calls, the last of which was at the weekend.
Nor would Mr Johnson's predecessors, they say, have disagreed with much of his analysis, at least behind closed doors.
No, Mr Johnson's mistake was to say something in public that is normally said in private.
Officially, the British government does not regard the conflict in Yemen as a proxy war.
The UK sees it as a conflict of aggression by Houthi rebels that threatens the security of the Saudi people.
The Saudis are close allies; therefore the UK backs them in their campaign to protect their borders.
There is also a wider strategic interest in Yemen not becoming a failed state that ends up as a bolthole for al Qaeda and so-called Islamic State fighters.
But what has really stoked Downing Street's ire is the way Mr Johnson's faintly disobliging remarks about Saudi Arabia have undermined several days of hard work and diplomacy.
The prime minister has just come back from the Gulf where she has been promoting Britain's engagement with a part of the world whose trade will be hugely important after Brexit.
She has dined with the Saudi king, praised the kingdom for its reforms and given thanks for the vital intelligence the Saudi security services have provided Britain over the years.
And then Theresa May returned to hear her foreign secretary had dismissed the Saudis as "puppeteers" playing at "proxy wars".
It is little wonder that her official spokeswoman came down on Mr Johnson like a tonne of black-edged Downing Street bricks, saying that the foreign secretary was not expressing the government's position and he will have the opportunity to set out the correct government position when he visits Saudi Arabia at the weekend.
To his critics, Boris Johnson is this government's Shakespearean fool, an errant jester who wanders the globe telling jokes that insult as often as they amuse the Queen's allies.
But remember: the Bard often used his clowns to tell a wider truth, one that the players did not always want to hear.
The foreign secretary's problem is that truth is not always good diplomacy.
The teenager appears to have been bitten by an infected flea.
The authorities have sought to calm fears of an epidemic and have quarantined more than 100 people.
Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death when it killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages, is now rare.
World Health Organisation epidemic disease expert Eric Bertherat told the BBC there were about 400 cases of bubonic plague reported in 2012.
He said Africa accounted for more than 90% of cases worldwide - especially Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dr Bertherat said that bubonic plague in Central Asia was usually transmitted by fleas attached to small wild mammals, which meant that only those who lived in rural areas and worked outside for long hours were in danger of being affected.
"Because bubonic plague is such a rare event, local medical staff are not prepared to diagnose the disease and treat it appropriately," he said, "which means the first patient usually dies without even a diagnostic.
"If secondary cases occur, medical staff are aware and better able to treat patients with antibiotics."
The teenager, named as Temir Issakunov, came from a mountain village in the north-east of the country, close to the border with Kazakhstan.
"We suspect that the patient was infected with the plague through the bite of a flea," health ministry official Tolo Isakov said.
The BBC's Rayhan Demytrie says that doctors failed to correctly diagnose his illness until tests were made after his death last week.
Teams have been sent to the area to get rid of rodents, which host the fleas that can carry the deadly bacterium.
Reports suggest that the infected flea could have come from a marmot - a type of mountain squirrel sometimes hunted for food.
Kyrgyz authorities say that the availability of antibiotics means that there is no danger of an epidemic.
More than 2,000 people are being tested for bubonic plague in the Issik-Kul region.
Checkpoints have been set up and travel and livestock transport restricted.
Neighbouring Kazakhstan is reported to have tightened border controls to prevent the disease entering its territory.
There are three human plagues caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis of which bubonic plague is the most common.
The other two conditions are linked to bacteria in the blood - septicaemia - and bacteria in the respiratory system - pneumonia, which can be transmitted between humans by respiratory droplets.
During the last 20 years, at least three countries experienced outbreaks of human plague after dormant periods of about 30-50 years, experts say.
These areas were India in 1994 and 2002, Indonesia in 1997 and Algeria in 2003.
According to the World Health Organization, the last significant outbreak of bubonic plague was in Peru in 2010 when 12 people were found to have been infected.
The results mean that DR Congo sit top of Group B on six points while Angola are eliminated after two defeats.
Cameroon know a draw in their final match against DR Congo on Monday will be enough for them to go through.
Only a big win for Ethiopia against Angola coupled with a Cameroon loss gives them any chance of progressing.
Cameroon had the better of the first half, which was held-up for 10 minutes because of floodlight failure, while Ethiopia improved after the break.
However it was a dull encounter in Huye after the earlier game when DR Congo raced into a 3-0 lead by half-time against neighbours Angola.
Nelson Munganga (pictured), Elia Meschak and Jonathan Bolingi all found the target for the inaugural CHAN winners (in 2009).
Gelson and Yano hit back for Angola but in between those goals Merveille Bope struck DR Congo's fourth.
DR Congo have now scored 7 goals at the tournament after their 3-0 win over Ethiopia, who are yet to score in Rwanda.
Cameroon won their opening match 1-0 against Angola
US oil production has increased to a record high in recent years as high prices made investment worthwhile.
Prices halved over the past year as demand fell in line with slower economic growth.
Meanwhile, Opec producers, particularly Saudi Arabia, have maintained high levels of production.
US crude oil was trading at more than $90 a barrel a year ago, but now costs around $45. The UK's Brent crude has also halved in price from a year ago and is currently trading at about $48 a barrel.
Techniques such as fracking have helped US producers offset the falling oil price by lowering investment and production costs.
Slowing economic demand and high production have created a glut of oil that outstrips the world's current needs.
The IEA said the resulting lower oil prices would boost demand to a five-year high this year, a trend that the IEA said would help Opec countries.
Opec controls more than a third of the world's oil output. It typically cuts production when prices fall to attempt to push prices higher.
Its recent strategy has been to keep the taps turned on fully in an attempt to curb US output, which is uneconomical at lower prices.
The IEA said: "Oil's price collapse is closing down high-cost production from Eagle Ford in Texas to Russia and the North Sea, which may result in the loss next year of half a million barrels a day, the biggest decline in 24 years."
Non-Opec supply contracted by one million barrels a day in 1992 from the previous year after the Soviet Union broke apart.
The IEA expects US oil production to drop by 0.4 million barrels a day in 2016. It grew by 1.7 million barrels a day in 2014.
A window in the Wetherspoon Rodborough Buildings in Guildford was broken in two places in the attack on Wednesday.
"People were pretty frightened and were hiding under the tables and running down the stairs," said BBC Surrey reporter Adrian Harms.
Surrey Police said it was believed stones were thrown at the window.
"I did see people standing on the roof of the Friary Centre opposite who looked as though they were throwing objects in the direction of the pub," said Harms, who was in the pub at the time.
Police officers searched the area with the help of the National Police Air Service but no culprits were found.
Nobody was injured.
The town centre was closed for 45 minutes after the attack at 21:00 GMT.
Richard Potts, operations manager at The Friary, said: "We are aware of an incident that took place yesterday evening close to The Friary and have liaised with Surrey Police.
"The incident did not take place in The Friary, which was closed at the time, and The Friary opened this morning as usual."
Plants and drugs to the value of £30,000 were seized following a police raid on a remote property at Whisgills Farm near Newcastleton last July.
Mattias Berry, 45, Shelby Gilligan, 22, and Wayne Chadwick, 42, all from Manchester and Peter Leicester, 68, of Bury, had denied producing the drug.
Procurator Fiscal Graham Fraser said the Crown was deserting the case.
The four had also denied being concerned in the supply of cannabis and stealing a quantity of electricity.
Mr Leicester pled not guilty to knowingly permitting premises to be used for producing a controlled drug.
They were due to stand trial by jury at Jedburgh Sheriff Court next week.
However, it was confirmed at an intermediate hearing that the case against all of them was being deserted.
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Addicks striker Simon Makienok missed the two best chances of the first half, heading crosses from Morgan Fox and Cristian Ceballos over while unmarked.
Forest's David Vaughan shot just over the bar from 20 yards after the break.
Goalkeeper Dorus de Vries then kept Charlton at bay, tipping Makienok's header onto the post and saving Patrick Bauer's close-range effort.
Charlton, who started the season with a 2-0 win over QPR, have drawn their past two games but could consider themselves unlucky not to come away from the City Ground with all three points.
The hosts started the brighter before Charlton's giant Danish forward Makienok, on loan from Palermo, twice nodded off target in the space of four minutes.
After De Vries' two outstanding saves in the second half, Forest pushed for a winner but were restricted to half-chances as Henri Lansbury went close with a curling 25-yard strike and Jorge Grant blazed over from six yards.
Forest winger Michail Antonio was not included in his side's matchday squad and manager Dougie Freedman confirmed after the match that a bid from Derby had been rejected.
Nottingham Forest boss Dougie Freedman on teenagers Tyler Walker, Jorge Grant and Oliver Burke playing:
"They can see what we are trying to do. They had spirit, they had energy and there were loads of positives.
"These senior players are leading by example, and the young players are following in their footsteps.
"These young players are only going to get better with his experience.
"If Forest fans see their young players, their own players running around, they will love it. These players are only going to get better."
Charlton boss Guy Luzon:
"Their keeper is the man of the match without question. His saves showed how much we dominated; how well we played.
"I do feel that we should have won. We are disappointed because we had some great chances to score. We came to a tough place and played some very positive football.
"Our organisation was good, we pressed well and we generally did well. We had the chances to win the game and we are upset that we didn't take them."
It has emerged that they included the foetus of her unborn child.
Sylvia Fleming's dismembered remains were discovered under the flooring of a house at Mullaghmore in County Tyrone.
The 17-year-old care worker's former boyfriend Stephen Scott, was jailed for life for the 1998 murder.
Josie Fleming says the family only found out that her sister's body parts were retained when they received a visit from a PSNI Liaison Officer.
She said: "I thought they were here to talk about Stephen Scott's release, but then they started to talk about body parts that were retained.
"I was here on my own. I was very shocked and I just broke down. At first I couldn't put together what they were trying to tell me, it was only after they left and I sat and thought about everything I realised what they were actually here for.
"I rang my sister Kathleen and broke the news to her. She reacted the same way as me, very shocked, very upset, the past three months have been a complete nightmare to get through."
Josie Fleming said the family want answers
"I don't think we will ever get closure until these questions are answered. We want to know how this all happened in the first place. It has taken until now for it all to come to light.
"Why have they held Sylvia's body parts and organs this past 14 years when Stephen Scott was convicted and sentenced in 2000? We are very angry that the whole thing has happened in the first place."
Mark Mason, 48, from Rhyl, died in the car park of the town's Home Bargains store on 27 October 2016.
Mark Ennis, 30, from Liverpool, denies murder and malicious wounding with intent, as does Anthony Baines, 31 and James Davies, 21.
A fourth Liverpool man Jake Melia, 21, has admitted all charges.
Prosecutors say father-of-two Mr Mason died in a drugs turf war, suffering 21 stab wounds as he sat in the passenger seat of a white van.
Mr Ennis was working for Mr Baines - described as a "self-confessed drugs supply gang boss" - and he said Mr Mason was a customer they never had a problem with.
He told the court ten months before Mr Mason's death he was chased by two men with knives while dealing at an area of Rhyl known as The Cob.
Then on the day of the incident, Mr Ennis travelled to the town with Mr Baines to pick up Mr Davies and Mr Melia who had been dealing drugs.
Mr Ennis told the court the pair had been chased at The Cob, so they followed the vehicle Mr Mason was in as "we wanted to know why this had happened earlier in the day".
He told the jury "there was no plan to attack the people in the white van".
The trial continues.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the collision, near Tyrebagger, at about 19:10 on Friday.
The man was driving a blue Hyundai i30 car, while the 61-year-old woman was driving a red Mini Cooper.
The woman was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with serious injuries. Police have appealed for any witnesses to the crash to contact them.
Sgt Rob Warnock said: "Sadly, I can confirm that an 87-year-old man has died as a result of this collision and my thoughts are with his friends and family at this tragic time.
"We would also like to speak to any drivers who may have seen the incident or the immediate aftermath, including a lorry driver who passed the scene."
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After a 0-0 draw in the original tie, the visitors led when Harry Bunn's shot went through Claudio Bravo's legs.
But tap-ins from Leroy Sane and Pablo Zabaleta, with Sergio Aguero's clinical penalty in between, turned the replay in City's favour before half-time.
Aguero swept in Raheem Sterling's cross at the near post for City's fourth, before substitute Kelechi Iheanacho poked in with the last kick of the game.
City's reward is a quarter-final trip to Premier League rivals Middlesbrough on Saturday, 11 March (12:15 GMT).
Follow the post-match reaction from Etihad Stadium
Pep Guardiola arrived at Manchester City last summer with the clear remit from owner Sheikh Mansour to take the club to "a new level".
While that demand is largely thought to mean success in the Champions League, the City hierarchy will also want to see the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach deliver domestic trophies.
Winning the Premier League looks to be a uphill task with Chelsea 11 points clear, while Manchester United took the season's first silverware by claiming the EFL Cup.
But they have moved into the last eight of the FA Cup for the first time in four seasons after overcoming an early scare against Huddersfield.
"Seeing their biggest rivals United bag the first trophy of the season means City will be thinking 'we want a piece of that'," said Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer.
"I think this is their best chance of silverware this season."
Despite the relative ease of extending their unbeaten run to eight matches, there were still some concerning sights for Guardiola. Namely more uncertain goalkeeping from the returning Bravo.
Guardiola reiterated his confidence in the former Barcelona keeper before the replay, despite trusting Willy Caballero instead in City's past four Premier League matches and the Champions League last-16 win against Monaco.
However, he watched the Chilean make another error to gift the opening goal to former City youngster Bunn.
The 33-year-old stopper, who was dropped after conceding 16 goals from the previous 24 shots on target he had faced in the Premier League, let Bunn's low strike through his legs in Huddersfield's first effort on target.
That led to ironic applause from the home fans when Bravo blocked Huddersfield's second shot at goal shortly before half-time.
Guardiola did not appear pleased, turning around to glare at the supporters behind him.
Afterwards the Spaniard described Bravo's performance as "top", adding "his performance with the foot helped us build up".
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Huddersfield had lost only one of their previous 18 games in all competitions, putting them third in the Championship and in the thick of the promotion race.
Playing in the Premier League for the first time is clearly their priority.
Head coach David Wagner, sat in the stands after being given a two-match touchline ban, made nine changes to his regular team - but it hardly showed in the opening 20 minutes.
Bunn's opener sent the 7,200 travelling fans into delirium and, although the Terriers could not sustain the same level as the game wore on, credit must be given for the way they continued to try to attack after the break.
Joe Lolley wasted an excellent chance for Town to get back in the game when he headed over the bar from close range, while away fans hopefully demanded a penalty when Collin Quaner fell in the box under the lightest of challenges from John Stones.
While the scoreline ended heavily in favour of their opponents, Huddersfield will return to their promotion challenge full of heart before what could be a memorable run-in.
Aguero's future has been subject to much speculation after he was dropped by Guardiola last month, with leading European clubs said to be expected to bid for the Argentina international this summer.
Here he showed the City boss exactly what he can offer: movement, energy, tenacity - and goals. Guardiola was suitably impressed, praising the striker's performance as "the best I've seen from him".
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola:
"Even in the moment (when we conceded) we were playing quite good, we made good things against a good team.
"We are happy because we're in the quarter-finals. I was impressed with Huddersfield in both halves - they have good quality players. We missed a lot of the last passes. But OK - we knew how tough it could be and we play in a good performance.
"It's the best Sergio Aguero ever. Today the performance was amazing. The runs were at the right moment and the right tempo. His performance was top - the same with Claudio Bravo, his performance with the foot helped us build up."
Both sides go back to the pursuit of the top two in their respective leagues.
City travel to relegation-threatened Sunderland on Sunday (16:00 GMT), while Huddersfield host leaders Newcastle in a promotion clash on Saturday (17:30 GMT).
Match ends, Manchester City 5, Huddersfield Town 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 5, Huddersfield Town 1.
Goal! Manchester City 5, Huddersfield Town 1. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jesús Navas with a cross.
Foul by Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City).
Tareiq Holmes-Dennis (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match (Manchester City).
Attempt missed. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by John Stones.
Attempt blocked. Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Collin Quaner.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Martin Cranie (Huddersfield Town) because of an injury.
Offside, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.
Substitution, Manchester City. Jesús Navas replaces Leroy Sané.
Substitution, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces Sergio Agüero.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Tareiq Holmes-Dennis (Huddersfield Town).
Substitution, Manchester City. Fabian Delph replaces Kevin De Bruyne.
Goal! Manchester City 4, Huddersfield Town 1. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.
Offside, Huddersfield Town. Jon Gorenc Stankovic tries a through ball, but Collin Quaner is caught offside.
Foul by Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).
Jon Gorenc Stankovic (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aleix García (Manchester City).
Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Jonathan Hogg replaces Philip Billing.
Gaël Clichy (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town).
Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Joel Coleman.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Hudson (Huddersfield Town).
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Tommy Smith replaces Joe Lolley.
Offside, Manchester City. Leroy Sané tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Joe Lolley (Huddersfield Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Rajiv van La Parra with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Rajiv van La Parra replaces Harry Bunn.
Corner, Huddersfield Town. Conceded by John Stones.
Attempt blocked. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by John Stones (Manchester City).
Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Leroy Sané (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
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A solid performance in China from 18-26 March will secure a place for a British women's curling team at Pyeongchang, South Korea, in 2018.
"Qualifying Great Britain for the Olympic spot is one of our main goals," Muirhead told BBC Scotland.
"The space is pretty open but we need to finish off well to secure the spot."
Ten nations will be represented in women's curling at the Winter Olympics, and having finished fifth at the 2016 World Championship, Scotland are well on their way to ensuring Team GB's place is sealed.
Team Muirhead is made up of skip Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams, Lauren Gray and alternate Kelly Schafer. All except Schafer were involved when Great Britain's women won curling bronze at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
"I'm very competitive and I'll never give up until I know I can't do well and can't win," said Muirhead
"I guess there are a few stones unturned and one of them being getting further up the podium at the Olympic Games. Having come away with the bronze medal, you always want to do slightly better and strive for more.
"I've got lots of goals and I know it's the same with the rest of the girls and that's what makes it a great team, knowing we're all striving for the same."
Their 2017 World Championship campaign begins against the USA in the round-robin stage at 05:00 GMT on Saturday.
"We want to take each part of the championship at a time," said Muirhead, whose rink won bronze at the 2016 European Curling Championship in Glasgow.
"First of all, we've got the round robin which we want to finish strong in and get a top-four spot. From then it's a different competition. Play-offs are always different - you've got to step up your game when it comes to them.
"Switzerland have dominated, Canada are always tough, the Russians are tough - every game's going to be tough. We've got to be on top form out there.
"We've got lots of targets when we go out there. And yes, we want to go in there and hit the podium - we know we've got the potential to do that."
Muirhead led Scotland to World Championship gold in 2013 but Switzerland have triumphed in each of the three years since, while Russia are the current European champions.
"We know that if we bring our solid game and be consistent over the week, then we'll be there or thereabouts at the end," Sloan added.
"Switzerland and Russia are the ones that have medalled recently but the field is massive this year with a really high calibre, so we just need to concentrate on ourselves and do what we can do.
"We're always trying to strive for that perfection. So it does always mean tweaking things, but we know each other so well and we're comfortable in the environment, which is really important out there."
The victim was assaulted in the early hours of Saturday morning in Talavera Close, in the St Philips area of Bristol.
He was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police said his condition is not life-threatening.
The 17-year-old is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
He has also been charged with a public order offence.
I stumbled on three themes.
One was the fury of Ed Miliband and his close circle with the prime minister - at what they saw as a cynical and short-termist attempt to turn English unease at the fiscal privileges going to Scotland into new voting procedures in the Commons that would favour the Tories.
A senior Labour official told me he didn't see how Ed Miliband could now negotiate the detail of Scotland's new budgetary arrangements with David Cameron, given the collapse of trust between the two.
All of which will increase the unease of Scottish nationalists that they may have been sold a hobbled pup of putative enhanced devolution by the main unionist parties in the closing days of the battle over whether Scotland would break free of the UK.
That said, if Cameron, Miliband and Clegg can swallow their personal animosities and sit round a table, what Labour would propose, or so I am told, would be a new federal structure for income tax.
This would divide income tax into a portion set by the UK chancellor of the exchequer, to cover the imputed proportional costs of UK-wide responsibilities, such as defence and diplomacy.
And then there would be a chunk reserved for Scottish responsibilities, including health, education and proposed additional elements of welfare.
The divide would be a bit spurious, in the sense that income tax - as opposed to other taxes, such as VAT - pays for only a chunk of total public services.
But this federal tax structure would give the Scottish parliament the wherewithal to expand or shrink the public sector according to the perceived needs of Scotland, and irrespective of what was happening in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
And if Wales and Northern Ireland wanted similar partial control over taxes, this federal model would presumably be workable for them.
But possibly Scots would feel short-changed by Labour's proposal, when the Tories have offered to hand stewardship of all income tax to them.
Also, would handing this power to Scotland be seen by English people as equitable, in view of the other element of what the unionist parties offered Scotland, namely more generous funding in perpetuity of public services from Westminster, via the Barnett formula?
Which brings me to my third Labour conference theme on all this, namely that MPs did in fact queue up to tell me how unhappy their constituents were that the Scots were getting more money than them from the UK kitty for public services, plus the right to set their own taxes.
The perception is that the Scots' public services are significantly better funded than England's. And at the level of the whole of England and the whole of Scotland, that is true.
But it isn't the whole story. Poorer English regions, such as the North East, receive more public funding per head than England as a whole - though they still don't do as well as Scotland.
So total public spending on services is £8,529 per head in England, £10,152 in Scotland, and £9,419 in north-east England.
As it happens, in the important provision of healthcare, the North East is actually a bit more generously financed than Scotland, receiving £2,066 per head, compared with £2,051 north of the border - though just £1,662 in the South East.
So is the bellyaching I heard from Labour's northern MPs about Scotland receiving special favours unfounded?
Probably not, for two reasons.
The first is that the North East is much poorer than Scotland as a whole, and has a disproportionate number of people out of work and in poor health. So it has been the convention since World War Two that there should be an element of correcting these regional social and economic inequalities in the allocation of public funds.
Using gross disposable household income as a proxy for inequality, folk in the north east are 12% poorer than Scots, and yet they receive 7% less money for all public services.
It is perhaps not unreasonable for north-easterners to argue that is unfair.
There is of course a school of thought that says public services should be earned, as it were, by the people who use them.
So there are Tory MPs in the South who say that the relatively small sums spent on health for their hardworking - and relatively prosperous - constituents is the true political crime.
Perhaps what these tensions and contradictory claims highlight more than anything is how there is no consensus about the regional distribution of taxpayers' money for public services.
And Scotland's new fiscal settlement has lit the touch paper on a potentially explosive national debate on all this.
One Labour MP, Nick Brown, told me he wanted a Barnett-style formula for all nations and regions - or a formula that allocates funding based on regional needs, such as the relative health of local people.
Or to put it another way, he wants to reduce the scope of governments to reallocate funds to constituencies and areas where a bit of de facto bribery might win precious votes at election time.
But assessing public service need is not hard science. There will always be an element of ideology and dirty politics in how public service funds are shared out.
That said, can anyone compellingly say why it is right to give comfort and confidence to the Scots that their public services will be generously resourced for years and years, while withholding that comfort from the people of the more deprived North East?
The extension of the military campaign from Iraq to embattled Syria underscores the essential need to combat the organisation in both countries. IS has in any case made their mutual border largely meaningless.
The fact too that according to the Americans a number of Arab states were involved in the mission underscores that this is not like the last US foray into Iraq.
In some senses it resembles much more the coalition that came together to liberate Kuwait, though the challenge is very different, and the campaign is likely to last much, much longer.
The US and its allies have been collecting intelligence data on IS targets for some time. The Syrian leg of this campaign was always going to begin in high gear and high tempo.
The fact that they involved aircraft, armed drones and sea-launched cruise missiles indicates this was the most intensive night of the US-led air campaign so far.
This is not, though, a knock-out blow but the strategic aim is clearly to push IS off balance by striking at its leadership and support apparatus and hopefully - the Pentagon would say - to keep it there.
So far this campaign both in Iraq and Syria has rolled out as most analysts and the White House itself would have predicted.
The question now is not so much what comes next - air strikes are likely to settle down into a regular pattern with bursts of more intense activity related to developments on the ground.
The real questions are: can the other elements of the US strategy be rolled out equally effectively? Can the conditions for an IS defeat be established on the ground? And to what extent can IS itself fight back?
For the US and its allies may well have acted, as they see it, out of necessity but they have embarked upon an unpredictable and uncertain course. This is because the external military element in this campaign - air power - is only part of a much broader range of forces that need to be coordinated.
Take the case of Iraq. Here US air power does seem to have halted the advance of IS, especially into Kurdish-held areas of the north. But the US air activity has not yet really begun to evict IS from Iraqi soil. That is crucially going to depend upon two factors.
Firstly, the availability of a well-trained and motivated force on the ground to fight IS toe to toe and gain territory. Kurdish Peshmerga forces are being equipped and trained. The US is attempting to restore the credibility of at least some of the Iraqi military, which originally crumbled in the face of the IS onslaught. But all this will take time.
The second crucial factor is political. That is why the US refused help to Iraq until a more inclusive government was in place, though establishing better governance in the country so that all groups feel part of the Iraqi state - whatever that means - is again going to take considerable time.
But this in a sense is the key. A versatile formation like IS can in a sense be defeated militarily but the likelihood is that it will simply morph into another phenomenon and reappear at a later date.
Conditions need to be created so that Sunni tribes turn away from it due to its brutality and constricted vision - in other words military factors are employed to help to defeat IS from within. The political battle is every bit as important as the military.
And this is where the policy of the US and its allies begins to look on softer ground. Even if this joint political-military struggle can be won in Iraq - where there is at least a recognised government - applying the same methods in Syria are an altogether different prospect.
Here it is going to take months to train up effective local forces amongst the moderate opposition and many analysts wonder even then if they will be a match for the zealots of the jihadist movement. There is no government in Syria accepted by the West, and, worse, there is no real political plan for the country's future.
Circumstances also change. IS has a role in this fight. It has so far shown itself to be adaptable and capable of pursuing strategic thinking of its own. So how might it respond to the US-led campaign?
It can do a number of things. By shifting its offensive against the Kurds from Iraq to Syria, it underscored the disruption that it can cause, sending a huge wave of refugees flooding across the Syria-Turkish frontier.
It is calling upon a kind of confederacy of Islamist extremists to attack Westerners both abroad and in their own capitals. The seizure of a French national in Algeria seems to be the first fruit of this policy. So IS has options in this battle which will make the task of the US and its allies harder.
But above all it should be remembered that, as many analysts are noting, this struggle is all part of a wider civil war within the Muslim and Arab world that pits to some extent cross-cutting coalitions of Sunni states against Shia; Iran against the Arab states; and those seeking to maintain the status quo against those who would shatter it. And whatever the outcome, in civil wars, some would say, there are no clear victors.
The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway - the UK's longest heritage line - completed the £1.3m redevelopment of Porthmadog Harbour Station in 2014.
Work on the new station, which it is hoped will increase visitor numbers by 5,000, could begin in winter 2016-2017.
The railway said the hunt for funding was "now happening".
Since the railway opened in Caernarfon in 1997 - initially running just 3 m (5km) to Dinas, before extending to Porthmadog in 2011- its station has been a temporary structure.
Dafydd Thomas, chairman of the Welsh Highland Railway Society, said: "The plans for a new Caernarfon station building continue to make progress and the detailed process of gaining the necessary funding is now happening."
The development will use land already occupied by the railway's temporary station and car parks.
It will create extra jobs and safeguard existing ones, the railway said.
Leaders Feyenoord started four points ahead of nearest challengers Ajax.
But Feyenoord lost 3-0, while Ajax crushed Go Ahead Eagles 4-0.
Thousands of Feyenoord fans had gathered in the city centre hoping to celebrate their club's first Dutch league title since 1999.
Ajax are one point behind Feyenoord going into the final day next Sunday.
Feyenoord will win their 14th Dutch league crown if they beat mid-table Heracles at home.
But Ajax can finish top if they win away to Willem II and the leaders slip up.
Match ends, Excelsior 3, Feyenoord 0.
Second Half ends, Excelsior 3, Feyenoord 0.
Terence Kongolo (Feyenoord) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fredy Ribeiro (Excelsior) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Terence Kongolo (Feyenoord).
Jeffry Fortes (Excelsior) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord).
Offside, Feyenoord. Tonny Vilhena tries a through ball, but Dirk Kuyt is caught offside.
Substitution, Excelsior. Anouar Hadouir replaces Stanley Elbers because of an injury.
Foul by Nigel Hasselbaink (Excelsior).
Tonny Vilhena (Feyenoord) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Karim El Ahmadi (Feyenoord) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bart Nieuwkoop.
Attempt blocked. Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eric Botteghin.
Warner Hahn (Excelsior) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eric Botteghin (Feyenoord).
Corner, Feyenoord. Conceded by Warner Hahn.
Attempt saved. Karim El Ahmadi (Feyenoord) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Jeffry Fortes (Excelsior) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord).
Substitution, Feyenoord. Bart Nieuwkoop replaces Rick Karsdorp.
Corner, Excelsior. Conceded by Jan-Arie van der Heijden.
Corner, Excelsior. Conceded by Terence Kongolo.
Attempt saved. Nicolai Jørgensen (Feyenoord) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Tonny Vilhena (Feyenoord) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luigi Bruins (Excelsior) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tonny Vilhena (Feyenoord).
Hand ball by Karim El Ahmadi (Feyenoord).
Jeffry Fortes (Excelsior) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eljero Elia (Feyenoord).
Stanley Elbers (Excelsior) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Terence Kongolo (Feyenoord).
Attempt blocked. Eljero Elia (Feyenoord) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Karim El Ahmadi.
Corner, Feyenoord. Conceded by Milan Massop.
Substitution, Excelsior. Luigi Bruins replaces Ryan Koolwijk.
Attempt saved. Fredy Ribeiro (Excelsior) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mike van Duinen.
Corner, Excelsior. Conceded by Eric Botteghin.
Goal! Excelsior 3, Feyenoord 0. Ryan Koolwijk (Excelsior) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Mike van Duinen (Excelsior) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eric Botteghin (Feyenoord).
Substitution, Feyenoord. Dirk Kuyt replaces Steven Berghuis.
Authorities will now consider whether Johnny Small, 43, should face a second trial in the 1988 murder of Pam Dreher.
Judge W Douglas Parsons ruled that there was not enough evidence to convict Small.
He also found that during the 1989 trial witnesses lied and police withheld key evidence.
On his first night in nearly 30 years outside of prison, Small slept on a cousin's sofa.
After years of sleeping in cell, he preferred sleeping in the open living room, rather than a smaller private bedroom.
"There's a lot I've got to adapt to," said Small who was first jailed when he was 16 years old.
"I don't know how to function. I mean, when I came into it (prison) I was still a kid and in a way I still got a kid's state of mind."
Small will be under electronic house arrest until prosecutors either press for a new trial, or drop the charges.
Judge Parsons' decision came after a friend of Small recanted the testimony he gave against him during the 1989 murder trial.
David Bollinger claimed that he has been pressured by a homicide investigator and family member to lie about driving Small to the scene of the murder.
Dreher was found dead in her tropical fish store. Police had said that Small shot and killed Dreher during a robbery. Small has always maintained his innocence.
Another witness account was also proven inaccurate.
Nina Raiford claimed to have been walking past Dreher's shop and witnessed Small leaving the store.
However her work timecards showed she was elsewhere.
She also had not come forward with her claim until after a cash reward had been offered, and she learned about the crime through news reports.
Robert Jones was jailed for life when the real killer had already been convicted.
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The recipients, who include British viola player Rosemary Nalden and pianist Ricardo Castro, will be given an honorary membership.
The society, which has only given out 131 memberships in the past 187 years, said the musicians had all made a "profound difference" with their work.
They will receive the awards on 14 May.
Former pilot Armand Diangienda, who founded a symphony orchestra in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is among those to be honoured.
Rosemary Nalden will be recognised for her work in a stringed instrument school in Soweto, South Africa. Ricardo Castro founded a youth music programme in Brazil.
Dr Ahmad Sarmast, who set up the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, and violinist Aaron P Dworkin, will also receive honorary memberships.
RPS chairman John Gilhooly said the musicians were chosen because they "understand the fundamental importance of culture in society and its potential to change lives".
"Each has shown tenacity and vision, and each is driven by a 'love of their art' which is very much in keeping with the founding principles of the RPS," he added.
The RPS was formed in 1813 and the first honorary membership was awarded in 1826.
The society's annual Music Awards, which honour musicians, composers, writers and arts organisations, are described by organisers as "the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK".
This year sees the young musicians who performed at the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony competing for the learning and participation prize.
Welsh opera star Bryn Terfel is among the big names nominated in the singer category, alongside the English mezzo-sopranos Alice Coote and Sarah Connolly and the US tenor Bryan Hymel.
BBC Radio 3's Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Sean Rafferty will host the ceremony, which will be broadcast on the station on 19 May.
Map: Who's making the most out of parking?
Are these councils being more sympathetic to motorists, or missing the opportunity to offer improved services to businesses and residents?
According to the RAC Foundation report, English councils had a total surplus of £565m from parking operations in 2011-12, up £54m on the previous year.
Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, describes the revenue from parking charges as "a nice little earner" for councils.
Topping the list of authorities is Westminster, where officials, as well as disputing some of the figures behind its reported £41.6m surplus, say the revenue helps pay for a range of vital transport and highways services that help the High Street prosper.
Bottom of the table are Essex County Council, which lost £1.8m, and Surrey County Council which lost £1.3m.
Councillor Rodney Bass, Essex cabinet member for highways and transportation, said: "The boroughs and districts have their own off-street car parking, but we don't have a tradition of on-street parking charges and it works very well.
"It is called 'localism'. We decide what happens here and [Westminster] decides there.
"We run a park-and-ride system, Essex has one of the best here in Chelmsford.
"Our car parks are still off-street. I don't think there is a single parking meter in Essex - we are a parking meter-free county and we are proud of it."
Similar park-and-ride schemes run by other authorities are often paid for by money brought in through parking charges.
Guildford Borough Council, which generates more money from its parking than all the other Surrey boroughs and districts combined, is set to launch its fourth park-and-ride service in the town.
"In Guildford we make around a million a year in surplus and use that to subsidise the park-and-ride scheme into town, a scheme that has proven popular with traders and residents alike," says Councillor David Goodwin, who sits as an opposition member on both Surrey County and Guildford Borough Councils.
He was also a member of Surrey's parking task group.
"The park-and-ride is there to alleviate parking and traffic problems in the town. If you just look at the park-and-ride they wouldn't be able to operate at the level they do without the parking income," he says.
"For the traders in town and the workers in town, park-and-ride helps them. It keeps traffic out of the town centre which is a massive benefit to the residents who live there.
"As an opposition member I would love to say it's 'money-grabbing' but I just can't, and I don't get that at all from residents."
As well as accusations of "money-grabbing', authorities are accused of using parking charges and fines as "stealth taxes", but officials at the biggest earner highlight the use of funds for area improvements.
Westminster service development manager Kieran Fitsall says: "The actual surplus was £36.3m last year and the money generated goes on transport and infrastructure, this includes bridge repairs and all sorts of schemes from the Freedom Pass and concessionary fares for the elderly and disabled.
"It all goes back into transport."
He adds: "One misconception is that Westminster generates money from issuing parking tickets. We don't actually generate money from issuing parking tickets, it practically costs us the same to operate that as we take in."
A Controlled Parking Zone permit in Westminster costs £130, while daily and hourly charges vary depending on where you park from £1.20 per hour to £4.40.
"Charges for the permits were set some years back and are reviewed every two years, normally it is just an inflationary increase," says Mr Fitsall.
"Money that is generated is from people paying to park legally. Last year we took in £38.3m from people paying legally to park.
"That has been increasing as more people have been parking legally. The number of tickets being given out has gone down and there have been no cutbacks of enforcement officers.
"These charges are important as it benefits everyone in terms of those who live and work in Westminster."
The growth in pay-by-phone parking has seen revenues rise and tickets issued fall, while the council also has a smartphone app in the works that will let people know the location of available spaces.
The app, called "park right", tells users in real time which parking spots are free and which are taken.
The council is currently at the procurement stage so will not confirm the cost of the project, which will involve installing small sensors in the road to relay information to the app displaying free spaces as green dots and occupied ones in red.
"We are looking at anything we can do to cut down on congestion and make it easier to get around," says Mr Mr Fitsall. "It is better for the High Street as people spend less time looking for parking and more time in the shops."
The full list of councils operating parking services at a loss are: Ashfield, Babergh, Barnet, Basildon, Blaby, Breckland, Brentwood, Broadland, Broxtowe, Corby, Crawley, Cumbria, Daventry, East Cambridgeshire ,East Northamptonshire, Essex, Fenland, Forest of Dean, Gedling, Halton UA, Hertsmere, Hyndburn, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, North East Derbyshire, North Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Norwich, Oadby & Wigston, Pendle, Redditch, Rossendale, Sandwell, South Cambridgeshire, South Derbyshire, South Gloucestershire UA, South Norfolk, South Northamptonshire, South Ribble, South Staffordshire, Sunderland, Surrey, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Telford and the Wrekin UA, Three Rivers, Walsall, Warrington UA, Wealden, Wellingborough, West Lindsey, West Oxfordshire.
Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann had been banned from celebrating mass by Pope John Paul II for defying a church ban on priests holding government jobs.
Fr D'Escoto served as Nicaragua's foreign minister from 1979-1990.
He welcomed the news and said his punishment had been unfair.
Fr D'Escoto, 81, had written to Pope Francis asking to be allowed to celebrate mass before he dies.
On Monday, the Vatican announced that the Pope had agreed to the request and asked Fr D'Escoto's superior in the missionary Maryknoll order to help reintroduce him into the priestly ministry.
Fr D'Escoto said he was "happy to be able to celebrate mass again, I'm really pleased".
He also said that while he believed his suspension had been unfair, he had accepted it because from the perspective of those who punished him, it had been done "with justice and legality".
Pope John Paul II suspended Fr D'Escoto and three other priests in 1984 arguing that their political work was incompatible with their priestly duties.
Their suspension was seen as part of a wider Vatican push against liberation theology, the movement to involve the Church in social activism.
Fr D'Escoto was appointed foreign minister in 1979 after the Sandinista's successful revolution against the dictatorship of the Somoza family, which ruled Nicaragua for four decades.
No To Named Persons (NO2NP) argued the policy breached data protection and human rights laws.
But a panel of three judges at the Court of Session dismissed the campaigners' arguments as "hyperbole".
NO2NP has said it will now appeal to the Supreme Court in London.
The named person measure, contained in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act, will assign a single point of contact, such as a teacher or health visitor, to look out for the welfare of children under 18.
The Scottish government says the service will act as a safety net to help families and children if they need it, to speed things up and avoid families having to speak to numerous different services.
Lord Pentland refused an initial petition for the judicial review of the legislation at the Court of Session in January but campaigners appealed against the decision.
A panel of three judges who reconsidered the case in June has now refused that appeal, stating that the legislation does not breach human rights or European Union law.
The newly issued judgment said: "The mere creation of a named person, available to assist a child or parent, no more confuses or diminishes the legal role, duties and responsibilities of parents in relation to their children than the provision of social services or education generally.
"It has no effect whatsoever on the legal, moral or social relationships within the family. The assertion to the contrary, without any supporting basis, has the appearance of hyperbole."
Children's Minister Aileen Campbell welcomed the decision, and said she hoped the petitioners would take comfort from the findings.
She said: "As the ruling states, this policy was informed by experts in child welfare, health and education with the intention of putting the best interests of the child at the heart of decision-making."
NO2NP spokesman Simon Calvert said: "There is no question that we will be appealing this ruling.
"We do not believe that the judges engaged properly with the arguments we put forward, so we will take them to the Supreme Court.
"Ultimately we may even have to go to Europe. If the nature of the named person scheme was as the court described, then we would not have brought this action in the first place."
Among those involved in the legal challenge were the Christian Institute, the Christian charity Care and the Family Education Trust as well as individual academics and parents.
The named person policy has already been rolled out out in parts of Scotland including Highland, Edinburgh, Fife, Angus and South Ayrshire.
After an inconsistent group stage, England bowled out semi-final opponents South Africa for 175 on their way to a dominant seven-wicket victory.
"I hope we are peaking," the 32-year-old batsman said. "There's a lot of cricket left this summer, and I hope it will be a great one for England."
Played: 86
India wins: 46
England wins: 35
Ties: 2
No-result: 3
The Ashes series starts on 10 July.
England began their Champions Trophy campaign with an impressive 48-run win against upcoming Test opponents Australia, before a seven-wicket defeat by a Kumar Sangakkara-inspired Sri Lanka put their knockout stage qualification hopes in the balance.
A tense rain-affected 10-run win against New Zealand followed in their final Group A fixture, with South Africa then being comprehensively beaten in the last four.
"It's been a fantastic tournament [for England], with regards to coming back from a loss against Sri Lanka," Trott reflected.
"We had the high of beating Australia first up, and then the game against New Zealand - a tight one in the end, but I thought we played really well - and to beat South Africa at The Oval was a great performance."
With the first of two back-to-back Ashes Test series against Australia beginning at Trent Bridge in less than a month, Warwickshire batsman Trott said a win in the Champions Trophy decider at Edgbaston - his home ground - would be the ideal preparation.
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He told BBC Radio 5 live: "It would be sort of having your cake and eating it. It is an amazing opportunity to play five games and win a Champions Trophy.
"We deserve to be in the final. We have played some good cricket, under pressure as well. India are a fantastic team, so we have to play our A-game."
England toured India in the winter, sealing their first Test series victory there in 27 years.
But in the last two one-day series between the sides, both in India, the hosts have won 5-0 and 3-2.
In September 2011, England won the last one-day international series played in England against India 3-0.
There are four contenders vying for votes in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale and Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk.
However, Dumfries and Galloway will be a five-way fight with one independent standing against Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and SNP candidates.
Voting takes place on 8 June.
Standing in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk are:
Seeking election in Dumfries and Galloway are:
The four candidates in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale are:
One third of the people questioned said it was their main concern in the run-up to polling day in May.
Just under a fifth put jobs at the top of their list, while 14% said immigration was their priority.
Despite the priority given to health, 29% of respondents mistakenly thought it was run by the UK government.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) knew the Welsh government was responsible for the NHS.
The economy (11%), education (10%), Europe (4%) and crime (2%) were the other priorities of voters.
These were the findings of BBC Wales' annual St David's Day poll, carried out by ICM.
Laura McAllister, professor of governance at Liverpool University, said: "I think it's interesting that we've now seen a slight increase at least in understanding that the Welsh government makes the key critical decisions around health in Wales.
"I suspect that's actually as a result of some of the quite vitriolic attacks on the performance and the governance of the NHS in Wales that have come from the UK government.
"Also, there's been some policy differentials around junior doctors strikes that haven't happened in Wales because of a different approach.
"So I think that a majority of people understand the NHS is run by the Welsh government has increased is a good thing.
"But I think, on the other hand, there hasn't been any great rise in understanding that the Welsh government can do things differently."
On immigration, just under half of respondents (47%) thought the numbers moving from outside of the UK into Wales was too high, while 37% thought it was just about right and 8% thought it was too low.
Plans to give income tax powers to Wales were supported by just over half of those questioned (54%), with 42% saying only the UK government should have control.
On powers for the Welsh assembly, 43% said it should have more while 30% thought its current powers were sufficient.
At the other ends of the scale, 13% wanted to see the assembly abolished and Wales governed directly from Westminster, while 6% supported independence.
The survey had sobering news for police and crime commissioners (PCCs) due to be elected on the same day as AMs.
Nearly nine out of 10 people (89%) failed to name any of Wales' current PCCs - one in ten could name one commissioner, while only 1% could name two.
Wales has four PCCs: Winston Roddick (North Wales), Alun Michael (South Wales), Christopher Salmon (Dyfed-Powys) and Ian Johnston (Gwent).
Colin Rogers, professor of police sciences at the University of South Wales, said: "The previous election was really dogged by the fact that there was no significant debate, there was no significant awareness-raising of the role of commissioners.
"I think that needs to be embraced now to make people aware of what exactly commissioners do now and what their function can be in the future."
The last PCC elections in November 2012 saw a voter turnout in Wales of just under 15%.
ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,000 adults across Wales by telephone from 16 to 22 February 2016.
Pacemen Ben Cotton (4-28) and Tony Palladino (4-30) shared most of the wickets as the visitors were bowled out for 164, before making 24-1 second time around for the loss of Daryl Mitchell.
Resuming on 319-3, Derbyshire finally declared on 467-5 after home skipper Billy Godleman's maiden double century.
His 204 was backed by New Zealand batsman Neil Broom, who made 93.
It was the second time in a month that Broom has been out in the nineties on this ground but, despite the loss of the entire first day, he and skipper Godleman have helped put Derbyshire in a potentially winning position.
The Derby wicket suddenly looked a different proposition when the visitors batted after lunch under the floodlights as they slumped to 18-5, Cotton taking 3-0 in six balls, before a stand of 66 between Ben Cox (40) and Tom Kohler-Cadmore (29).
Ninth-wicket pair Matt Henry (31) and Ed Barnard (28) held up Worcestershire's expected follow-on with a stand of 55.
When they did bat again, Cotton quickly struck to remove out-of-form captain Mitchell for the second time in successive sessions, caught in the gully, as his side ended the day needing 279 runs to avoid a final-day innings defeat.
Derbyshire fast bowler Ben Cotton:
"It was great to see Billy get 200. We knew we had a good platform and it was our job to make early inroads.
"The early wickets set us up and we just kept going from there. We were relentless with the ball. There was just a fraction of movement off the wicket.
"When the lights are on the ball seems to go through a little bit more and that's why we got a little bit more bounce but we don't scientifically know why.
"That wicket before the close sets us up for tomorrow. We only have to take nine wickets to win the game."
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"We had one of those days where we didn't apply ourselves. If that happens, you lose your wickets.
"But I don't want to be too critical because they've played really well this year and scored plenty of runs and everyone is entitled to a bad day.
"When you have fielded for that length of time while you are probably not physically feeling tired you are mentally not as sharp as you could be. I call that batting tired.
"But take nothing away from the Derby bowlers. They bowled really well. They were nice and fresh and had a new ball in their hand and a big score under their belts so you tend to run in with a real zest."
The Department for Communities and Local Government said about 37,080 new homes were started in the last quarter of 2015, up 23% on the previous year.
Completions were up by 22% to 37,230.
Ministers said they had "got the country building again" but housing charity Shelter said the increase was "not good enough".
In the year up to December, 143,560 new homes were started, which was up by 6% on 2014 - 22% below 2007's peak but 91% up on the slump recorded in 2009.
Homes built by private developers were up by 8% but those built by housing associations down by 1%.
The report said the highest completion rates were found in a band starting to the north of the London green belt, running through Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, with strong completion levels also around Devon and Gloucestershire in the South West.
Areas with the lowest completion rates include Kingston upon Thames, Southend-on-Sea and Gravesham, it said.
Housing Minister Brandon Lewis said the amount of new homes completed had hit a "seven-year high", adding: "However we're not complacent.
"That's why we've set out the most ambitious housing vision for more than a generation, doubling the housing budget so we can meet our ambition of delivering a million new homes."
But Labour's housing spokesman John Healey said the total was "still falling far short of what the country needs".
"Ministers have talked up the economic recovery, but these figures show that there were more than 20% fewer new homes started last year than before the global financial crisis," he said.
Shelter's chief executive Campbell Robb said only half the number of homes needed were being built.
In a letter, the firm rejected the minister's concerns about media plurality and broadcasting standards.
It also said she had based her view on "seriously flawed" evidence.
But it welcomed "a thorough" review and said it would work with regulators.
"21st Century Fox is confident that the transaction will be approved based on an objective assessment of the facts," said Jeffrey Palker, executive vice president at the firm.
Ms Bradley has been weighing up whether to refer the deal to Ofcom after warning it could pose "public interest considerations" that warranted further investigation.
One concern is that the merger would give businessman Rupert Murdoch too much control over the British media landscape.
This is because both Sky and Fox are controlled by Mr Murdoch, who also owns News UK, publisher of the Times and the Sun newspapers.
But in the letter, Mr Palker said the minister had not fully taken into account 21st Century Fox's decision to spin off News Corp in 2011.
He also said her "provisional view" of the deal was based on a flawed report about media plurality, prepared by campaign group Avaaz and the Media Reform Coalition.
He said: "These flaws include the misattribution of consumption of news on commercial radio to Sky... the erroneous characterisation of News Corp as the 'largest newspaper provider' and inaccurate claims that rising online readership has 'eclipsed' the dramatic decline in circulation of News Corp titles."
Ms Bradley also questioned whether the proposed deal threatened broadcasting standards, singling out "corporate governance failures" at News Corp during the phone-hacking scandal of 2011 as a cause for concern.
But Mr Palker said 21st Century Fox had transformed its corporate governance since that time.
"In fact, the level of scrutiny and controls we have imposed around the world were informed by the lessons learned in 2011," he said.
A decision to intervene would not block the deal, but trigger an Ofcom assessment as well as a Competition and Markets Authority report to be considered by Ms Bradley.
The European Commission could also choose to examine the deal if it has competition concerns.
21st Century Fox is offering £11.7bn for the 61% stake in Sky it does not already own, valuing the entire company at £18.5bn.
His 7,000-mile journey to meet some of the descendants of the first settlers can be seen in a special programme.
It shows Edwards playing a hymn on the harmonium that arrived in Patagonia in 1865 with the Welsh pioneers.
It also explore the prospects for the Welsh language in the colony.
The founding fathers dreamed of building a new Wales across the ocean as a safe haven for the Welsh language.
But by the early years of the last century, the Welsh were being outnumbered and felt they had become second-class citizens.
Patagonia with Huw Edwards can be seen on BBC One Wales at 21:00 BST on 1 June. In addition, Patagonia Huw Edwards can be seen on S4C at 20:00 on 31 May.
Fell, 22, was diagnosed at the end of last summer and missed the start of this season after undergoing chemotherapy treatment.
He has now returned to action and is playing in Worcestershire's 2nd XI.
"We very much want him back," Rhodes told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
Fell was the youngest batsman in the country to pass 1,000 runs in 2015 as he hit three centuries and averaged 41.69, despite Worcestershire's relegation from Division One.
"He's a quality cricketer and one of our best bats," Rhodes added. "He's recovered from a serious illness and we're all delighted to have him back playing.
"I spoke to him the other day and he's desperate to get back into the first team, so he'll be pushing and making sure everyone else is on their toes."
Fell is not the only player in the Second XI trying to nudge Rhodes for a crack at first-team cricket.
Rhodes' son George made his debut in Worcestershire's One-Day Cup win at Yorkshire, with the all-rounder taking 2-34 from 10 overs.
Batsman Alex Hepburn was also in the squad for that game, after playing two matches in the competition last season.
Opening batsman Ollie Westbury and middle-order player Zen Malik have also struck second-team hundreds and Rhodes is delighted with the progress they are making.
"Our academy is showing there's another crop coming through," Rhodes said.
"George gets it tough because you don't want to be seen to be giving your son favouritism, but he's very professional and I was very pleased to see him start so well."
Worcestershire continue their One-Day Cup campaign against Leicestershire at New Road on Wednesday.
Mr Newton was criticised by MLAs after he allowed his party leader, First Minister Arlene Foster, to make a statement on the cash-for-ash scandal.
She addressed MLAs without approval of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, from Sinn Féin.
Mr Newton has faced calls to step down as speaker from the UUP and SDLP.
Opposition politicians staged a walk-out protest on Monday when Mrs Foster began to make her statement on the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
They complained that the speaker had undermined the principles of power-sharing by permitting the first minister to make a formal statement to the chamber without the agreement of the deputy first minister.
On Thursday, Sinn Féin met the Alliance Party to seek their support for an Assembly motion that will call on Mrs Foster to step down temporarily while the RHI scheme is investigated.
After the meeting, former Sinn Féin minister Carál Ní Chuilín said: "We also discussed the position of the Speaker following Monday's shambolic and partisan proceedings in the Assembly.
"He has undermined the integrity and the impartiality of the Speaker's office and Sinn Féin believes his position is untenable."
Earlier this week, Mr Newton released a letter he had sent to MLAs acknowledging what he said were genuine frustrations and concerns over the nature of Monday's proceedings.
In response to calls for him to step down, Mr Newton said he would reply in writing to opposition MLAs in January.
His party leader set up the RHI scheme in 2012 when she was minister for enterprise, trade and investment, and she has faced intense criticism for not imposing cost controls.
As a result, the scheme has gone vastly over budget and has landed the public purse with an unexpected £400m bill, which may have to come out of Stormont's block grant.
Mrs Foster last week apologised for the lack of cost controls and said she was working on a plan to reduce the overspend.
Mr Santos said Colombia was on track to meet a deadline set for 23 March next year for ending the conflict.
The deal offers an amnesty for all but the most serious crimes.
An estimated 220,000 people have been killed as a result of the five-decades long war.
The Colombian leader said the two sides had tackled "one of the most sensitive and complex points of the peace talks" in the latest agreement.
Under the deal, special tribunals will be created to try former combatants, once a final peace deal is signed.
"2016 will be the year that Colombia sees a new dawn," said Mr Santos.
"The dawning of a country without war, in hopefully a united country that can move towards its maximum potential... The hour of peace has arrived in Colombia."
Chief Farc negotiator Ivan Marquez said the agreement showed reconciliation was possible.
"If you don't put adverse obstructions in the way of common sense, we can get closer to our higher purpose of reconciliation," he said.
Over the past 18 months, 60 victims of the conflict travelled to the talks in the Cuban capital Havana to give testimony.
Ten attended Tuesday's ceremony. Jineth Bedoya, spokesperson for the victims, said they were "celebrating that after so many decades of impunity a way has been found to recognise" what they went through.
Tuesday's agreement fleshed out the details of the transitional justice system which had been agreed by both sides in September.
In a joint statement, the two sides said that they hoped that "the implementation of these and all of the accords will ensure dignity for the victims, do justice, and lay the foundation for ending the violence of the conflict in our country once and for all".
Official peace negotiations between the Farc and government have been going on for more than three years.
The two sides have now reached agreement on four key issues that they had laid out in an agenda at the start of the process: victims' rights, land rights, the political participation of the rebels, and how to deal with the problem of drug trafficking.
They have yet to agree on how the rebels will disarm once a final agreement is signed.
The Farc is the largest of Colombia's left-wing rebel groups, founded in 1964 to overthrow the government and install a Marxist regime.
Special courts and a peace tribunal will be set up to deal with alleged crimes related to the conflict and will try all participants in the conflict, including members of the security forces.
Yes and no. Combatants will be covered by an amnesty, but war crimes and crimes against humanity will not fall under it.
That depends. Those who confess to the most serious crimes will see their "freedom restricted" and be confined, but not in ordinary jails. It is not yet clear where they would serve their sentence instead. Those who confess past a certain deadline or refuse to admit their crimes altogether will go to prison for up to 20 years.
Even those who are not sent to prison will have to carry out work aimed at repairing some of the damage caused in more than 50 years of conflict, such as helping to clear landmines and plant alternative crops where coca was grown.
The idea is based on The Cube in Brisbane, Australia, which has 48 multi-touch screens across two storeys.
Dinosaurs, physics and data relevant to the local area are among the subjects visitors can interactively explore.
A Swansea version would go on the civic centre site and form part of the city centre's £500m regeneration.
It is being explored between Swansea council, Swansea University and site developers Trebor.
This site would also include a national public aquarium, an aquatic science research facility and a science gallery.
"The Cube at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane has been phenomenally successful, bringing science to life by using 21st Century interactive, unlimited multi-touch technology for the benefit of local schools, communities and visitors," said council leader Rob Stewart.
"We're exploring the potential to introduce something similar on the seafront in Swansea.
"This proposal would attract many thousands of visitors, open up jobs, benefit Swansea residents of all ages, and help keep talented Swansea University graduates in Swansea."
Swansea University's Prof Chris Allton said: "The university's fascinating research into marine life, climate change, computer technology and a host of other activities could be explored by using innovative, ground-breaking technology like that developed in The Cube. The opportunities are endless."
The other part of the city centre regeneration has gone out to public consultation.
Residents are being asked to give their views on the St David's site which has been renamed Swansea Central.
It will include a digital arena, cinema, cafes, restaurants, shops, a hotel and apartments.
A public exhibition took place in the city centre at the weekend.
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McIntyre cited his own side's run of nine wins from their last 16 games last season to retain their top-flight spot.
"I think they have a chance," he told BBC Scotland. You just have to look at ourselves for that from last season. They have definitely got a chance.
"They just need that bit of luck and to put their chances away when they come."
The clubs meet in Dingwall with Mixu Paatelainen's basement side looking to build momentum after beating Hearts last time out.
"They have certainly added to their squad," McIntyre noted. "They have a lot of strength and height in their team now and are a major threat at set-plays.
"They have added that since Mixu has come in and still have some good young players there, so we have to be wary of that.
"They had a great result last time and we were that team last year - fighting and scratching for everything.
"United will look to keep charging on to get as many points as possible to try to get out of it."
With only eight points separating County, in fourth, and Kilmarnock - their next opponents on Tuesday - in 11th, McIntyre admits it is a "big week" for the Highland outfit's hopes of maintaining their top-six status.
"When you have been in the top six most of the season, it would be a natural reaction to consider it a massive disappointment if we didn't make it at this late stage," he added.
"But we have got to earn that. We don't have any given right to be in there.
"We have been fighting relegation for the last three years, so we have it all to do. We have got to prove it."
The 62-year-old is the long-term replacement for Christian Gourcuff who stood down from the position in April.
Rajevac is best known in Africa for coaching Ghana's national team, guiding them to within a penalty kick of the 2010 World Cup semi-finals in South Africa.
The Serbian coach also previously managed Qatar's national team.
The Algerian Federation confirmed Rajevac had signed a contract on Sunday.
The Federation also stated he would be in Algeria in mid-July, when he is set to be officially introduced to the world's press.
No details of Rajevac's contract were revealed but he is likely to be in charge of Algeria's qualifying campaign for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Algeria were drawn in a challenging group for the World Cup qualifiers on Friday, featuring alongside Nigeria, Cameroon and Zambia in Group B. The group matches kick off in October.
Rajevac will also guide Algeria at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Gabon next year.
Mings has become a regular in the Cherries defence since Nathan Ake returned to Chelsea in January.
The 23-year-old missed almost all of last season because of injury and is yet to taste victory in any of his six starts this term.
"At the moment the losing feeling is not great and it is not nice," he said.
"Once the results come then I can start saying I am enjoying my run," Mings told BBC Radio Solent. "Personally, I am getting fitter, stronger and learning more as each game passes."
Bournemouth have conceded 23 goals in their last eight matches and are winless in 2017.
Defeat by West Bromwich Albion at the weekend was their third in a row, and they next face League Cup winners Manchester United at old Trafford on Saturday.
"If we keep conceding two goals a game, it is going to be difficult," the former Ipswich Town full-back added.
"You can be as good as you want attacking-wise but we need to start conceding less goals."
The 22-year-old joined Forest from Chesterfield in January but has so far failed to make a first-team appearance for the Championship club.
Former United States Under-23 international Ariyibi featured 96 times for the Spireites, scoring four times.
"I want to be playing, plus the gaffer really wanted me to come here and that gives me a lot of belief," he said.
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Officials said Cecafa had sought Kenya's approval after original hosts Sudan withdrew from staging the annual tournament earlier this year, citing financial constraints.
"Kenya have told us that they are not ready to host the championships which was scheduled to kick-off in late November to early December," Cecafa secretary Nicolas Musonye said.
"We are now back to negotiating with Sudan again to see if they can agree to have the event back in Khartoum.
"Hopefully we should be able to get a conclusive reply by Friday."
Uganda are the reigning champions after winning the trophy for a record 14th time in Addis Ababa last December.
Musonye said Kenya, Challenge Cup hosts in 2013, have accepted to take over as hosts of the 2016 Kagame Club Cup instead.
Tanzania, pulled out of staging the event last August due to their congested league programme.
Kenya is also preparing to stage the African Nations Championships (Chan) in two years time.
The new president and his flurry of executive orders and swift-moving, substantive changes to US policy and procedure seemed to leave little oxygen for any other headlines.
But even President Trump lacks the star power of Queen Bee.
Prior to the inauguration, some fans joked that Beyonce should drop an album as Trump was being sworn in, and in doing so steal the spotlight from the new commander in chief.
Beyonce did one better: she announced, via a resplendent photo on Instagram, that she would be dropping something else - two something elses, in fact.
That's right - Beyonce is having twins.
"I literally tripped and fell at a formal Fulbright dinner because I found out Beyonce was pregnant with twins," wrote one woman on Twitter.
Other social media users were less articulate, relying on gifs and emojis to showcase their elation.
The photo showed Beyonce kneeling in front of a giant hedge of roses, wearing blue satin knickers and a maroon bra. She is covered with a long green veil, and is already heavily pregnant.
"This pic is a powerful statement on bodies, maternity & the sacred. Beyonce continues to push us to reimagine womanhood. A feminist icon," gushed writer Laura Rankin.
It's fitting that Beyonce used Instagram to relay her news.
Twitter has become an all-out war zone between alt-right egg accounts and the professional left.
Facebook is full of posts from friends and relatives begging people to call their Senators, sign a petition, or attend the next march.
Instagram has remained a social media Switzerland: there, it's nothing but home-decorating photos, artfully staged food and cute babies - an apolitical oasis in these troubled times.
Beyonce's news was powerful enough to bring some of the Insta-tranquility over to the rest of social media, and for a brief hour or so political Twitter was tempered with jokes about Beyonce's baby shower and several plays on "Betwice".
Possible name suggestions included Yellow and Red Ivy - her five-year-old daughter with Jay Z is Blue Ivy Carter.
It was almost like 2016 again.
That's not to say her announcement was strictly apolitical.
As one comedian on Twitter noted, "there are more black people in Beyonce right now, than in Trumps entire cabinet team."
Some also saw a hint of politics in the timing: the news came on 1 February, the first day of Black History Month.
"BEYONCE WAITED UNTIL BLACK HISTORY MONTH BECAUSE SHE LOVES US SO" wrote New York Magazine writer Rembert Brown, who is not usually given to all caps.
It was a more fitting kick off for many than the address given by President Trump earlier in the day, in which he called Frederick Douglass, America's most significant abolitionist, "someone who has done a terrific job that is being recognised by more and more people".
That had some wondering if he even knew who Douglass was.
When a reporter asked Mr Trump's press secretary for more clarity, it only got worse, and as a result Douglass was trending on Twitter today, too.
"Beyonce would commemorate the first day of Black History Month by letting us all know she's bringing more black person magic into the world," wrote one Twitter user.
In an era when many activists are concerned that Donald Trump's policies and his pick for attorney General, Jeff Sessions, will be detrimental to American civil rights, a supersized Beyonce pregnancy was a welcome distraction - and a reminder, however slight, that time marches on.
The work was produced by the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre for the Department of Finance.
It cautions that the costs of division are difficult to disentangle from other factors.
It also warns that it should not be concluded the costs represent potential achievable savings.
It says that in some cases there may be potential savings, but some costs are "unavoidable or would require significant investment to ameliorate."
As an example, as a legacy of the Troubles, Northern Ireland pays out more in police pensions than other comparable parts of the UK.
That is a cost which could not easily be reduced.
The last major report on the economic impact of division in Northern Ireland was produced in 2007 and put the cost at £1.5bn.
The new report uses a different methodology which focuses on recurring costs.
It says the most significant cost area is linked to policing and justice with a range of between £312m and £550m.
Other areas where significant extra costs are incurred are in mental health treatment and community relations.
However, the potential additional costs of division in housing and education are assessed as being modest.
Additional costs in housing are put at just £2.5m, while in education it is in the range of £16.5m - £95m.
The man was taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital with a head injury following a disturbance in Nelson Street at about 00:50.
His condition has been described as serious.
Two other men were also taken to hospital. A 20-year-old is being treated for face and arm injuries and a 42-year-old for a head injury.
Their conditions have been described as stable.
Det Sgt Alex Allardyce, of Police Scotland, said: "At this time, extensive inquiries are ongoing to establish more details on the circumstances surrounding the disturbance.
"Officers are following a number of lines of inquiry and I would urge any witnesses, or anyone with information that may assist the police investigation to contact Greenock Police Office through 101."
The scheme was temporarily closed last month, while officials awaited EU approval for a new version of JGW.
On Wednesday, ministers said the scheme would receive £25m from the European Social Fund over the next three years.
JGW gives unemployed 16 to 24 year-olds six month job opportunities. £17.5m will be spent on the scheme this year.
When JGW was launched in 2012 it received total average funding of around £25m a year for three years.
Nearly 15,000 young people have been given placements, out of around 49,000 applicants.
Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology Julie James said the scheme was a "huge success" that had "given thousands of young people across the whole of Wales the support they need to get their first foot on the ladder of a new career".
But the Liberal Democrats said they were "utterly baffled" by the decision to continue funding JGW, when a review for Welsh ministers had suggested 73% most of those taking up placements did not need them.
Welsh Lib Dem economy spokeswoman Eluned Parrott said: "The fact that the Welsh Labour government has renewed this scheme seemingly without making any changes is nothing short of absurd."
Conservative shadow business minister William Graham said: "Worries over continued reliance on public money for simple six-month placements must now be urgently addressed."
Plaid Cymru economy spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth added: "Plaid Cymru has voiced our concerns about Jobs Growth Wales after we found that fewer than half of those enrolled have found employment, and fewer than a third were employed by the same employer that took them on under the Jobs Growth Wales scheme."
In a report, the Bellingcat team links personnel from the 2nd Battalion of the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade to the tragedy in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
A Dutch report last year said the plane was hit by a Russian-made Buk missile.
The West and Ukraine say pro-Russian rebels brought down Flight MH17, but Moscow blames Ukrainian forces.
All 298 people people on board the Boeing 777 - which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur - died in the disaster on 17 July 2014. The majority of the victims were Dutch nationals.
The Bellingcat team published its 115-page report entitled "MH17 - Potential Suspects and Witnesses from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade" on Tuesday.
The UK-based investigation says it used open source data - such as social media sites and forums - to identify dozens of Russian soldiers and officers from the 53rd Brigade (based in the city of Kursk) who could have had knowledge of or been personally involved in shooting down the plane.
By comparing and analysing the data, Bellingcat concludes it is very likely that personnel from the brigade's 2nd Battalion were sent from Russia to eastern Ukraine.
It identifies a number of soldiers only by their first names and initials, saying also that the 2nd Battalion commander was Dmitry T.
However, it gives the full name of the brigade's overall chief, identifying him as Sergey Muchkayev.
The report says that "the decision to send military equipment to the Russia-Ukraine border and to Ukraine was made at an even higher level - the level of the ministry of defence of Russia".
"Consistent with the probable conclusion that the Russian Buk missile launcher... downed MH17, the ministry of defence (of Russia) bears the main responsibility... shared with the military commanders and leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics", the document adds.
Bellingcat says it submitted all uncensored names and supporting evidence to the Dutch-led investigators, who are continuing their criminal inquiry into the disaster.
Bellingcat says it "brings together contributors who specialise in open source and social media investigation" to cover a "variety of subjects".
It was founded by British journalist Eliot Higgins.
Russia has not publicly commented on Bellingcat's findings.
Moscow has previously repeatedly denied any involvement in the MH17 crash, suggesting instead that Ukraine's armed forces were responsible.
In July, Russia vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council to set up an international tribunal into the MH17 air disaster.
President Vladimir Putin said at the time that such a tribunal would be "premature" and "counterproductive".
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The announcement came a day after Chad said it would "actively support" its neighbour against the militants.
No detail was given about how many troops would be sent, or when.
On Tuesday, Cameroon said it had killed 143 Boko Haram militants who attacked one of its army bases at Kolofata near the Nigerian border.
It said one soldier had died during the assault, which led to a gun battle lasting five hours.
It was the first major attack on Cameroon since Boko Haram threatened the country's leader in a video posted online earlier this month.
The militant Islamist group has seized control of towns and villages in north-east Nigeria in a six-year insurgency.
A French-led initiative has called for Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad to contribute 700 troops each to a multinational force against Boko Haram, but no country has taken steps to implement the plan.
Chad previously had some troops based in Baga, a Nigerian town seized by Boko Haram earlier this month, but they had been withdrawn before the attack.
Niger and Cameroon have both criticised Nigeria for failing to do more to confront Boko Haram.
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The decision by Chad to send troops is a sign of progress in a region where there has been little cooperation in the battle against Boko Haram.
Under French pressure, the countries immediately threatened by the militants agreed last year to strengthen the multinational force in Baga.
But just months later Chad and Niger instead withdrew their troops entirely.
It appears that Nigeria's neighbours are suspicious of its inability to defeat Boko Haram.
Some believe that Chad is only now waking up to the reality that unless it takes action, Boko Haram may consume it too.
Correspondents say Nigerian politicians appear more focused on campaigning for elections next month than on security issues, and senior figures rarely comment on the insurgency in the north-east.
On Thursday, President Goodluck Jonathan made an unannounced visit to the area, his first for nearly two years.
He told displaced people in the biggest city of Borno state, Maiduguri, that he was "working very hard" to help them return to their homes.
Mr Jonathan's visit came as the human rights group Amnesty International released satellite images of towns attacked by Boko Haram, suggesting widespread destruction and a high death toll.
The pictures showed about 3,700 structures damaged or destroyed in Baga and neighbouring Doron Baga last week, the rights group said.
Amnesty's before-and-after satellite images were taken on 2 and 7 January.
Nigeria's government has disputed reports that as many as 2,000 people were killed in and around Baga, putting the number of dead at no more than 150.
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Mollie Robinson followed Lena Clarke as she walked home from her church in Inverness before attacking her in a street at about 21:45 on 25 January.
The mother-of-two, formerly of Aviemore and living in Inverness at the time, was seen by witnesses and on CCTV.
She was jailed at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood told Robinson: "You quite deliberately targeted a 79-year-old lady late at night on her way home, to satisfy your need for drugs."
Check In will involve celebrity comedians from the country travelling to the UK before visiting various places by minivan.
In Scotland, the show will be filmed at Loch Ness and in Edinburgh. Before heading north, the programme will be filmed at Stonehenge and in Liverpool.
One of the show's co-creators, Arnaldo Santiago Rivera, was due to visit the places this week ahead of filming.
Mr Santiago Rivera, president and founder of online marketing agency Digital Lab, and Sixto George, executive producer of media enterprise SBS Puerto Rico, created the show.
They said the show would seek to "immerse Puerto Rican celebrities in the host country's culture".
It will also show "interactions between different cultures, interesting facts about the people, history and gastronomy".
Puerto Rican comedians Jorge Pabon and Robert Ferran have been lined up for the show.
Mr Santiago Rivera said: "The UK is an exciting and vibrant country with such a diverse population.
"I thought that it would be a fantastic opportunity for Jorge and Robert to see the country not from a tourist's perception but to be fully immersed in its culture and experience things that they wouldn't necessarily experience if they were to come the UK on holiday."
Craig Peacock put Belfast ahead before Paul Phillips levelled for Manchester prior to the end of the first period.
Mitch Ganzak restored Belfast's lead only for Vinny Scarsella to level.
However, goals from David Rutherford, Colin Shields, Kris Beech and Michael Forney ensured Belfast's win.
The victory sets up a semi-final against either Dundee Stars or Cardiff Devils.
The Giants return to Elite League action at the weekend when they face Fife on Saturday away before a home game against Nottingham Panthers on Sunday.
Vilanova had a tumour removed from his throat in November 2011 before suffering a relapse in December 2012.
He stepped down as Barca boss last July to continue his treatment, with Gerardo Martino taking charge.
"FC Barcelona is in immense mourning. Tito Vilanova has died at the age of 45. May he rest in peace," said a statement from the Spanish club.
"The club wishes to express its most heartfelt sympathy to his family, who are being joined in these moments of mourning by FC Barcelona members and fans all around the world, as well as the rest of the footballing and sporting world.
"The Vilanova family has asked for respect for their desire for the strictest intimacy in the moments after his death."
The club added that a "space for condolence" would be opened in the main grandstand at their Nou Camp stadium on Friday.
The ex-Barca youth-team player was Pep Guardiola's assistant before stepping up to replace the now-Bayern Munich boss when he decided to take a sabbatical from football in June 2012.
Vilanova had surgery in December 2012 and spent 10 weeks in New York having chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but he returned in March 2013 to see his side take the Spanish title in his sole season in charge.
Barcelona won La Liga with a league record of 100 points from a possible 114, equalling the total achieved by Real Madrid in 2011-12.
In addition, his side set a new scoring record of 115 goals in 38 matches. His overall La Liga record stands at 32 wins, four draws and two defeats, as Barca finished 15 points clear of runners-up Real Madrid.
His team were knocked out of last season's Champions League after a 7-0 aggregate semi-final defeat by Bayern Munich.
Tributes have been paid from many football coaches, players and clubs, with Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho saying Vilanova's death was "a sad day for football".
Ex-Real Madrid coach Mourinho had several run-ins with Vilanova during his time in Spain, most notably at the end of the 2011 Spanish Super Cup.
"Tito Vilanova was a greatly admired and respected figure, not just at Barcelona but throughout Spanish football, and his death will cast a sad shadow over the remainder of the season.
"He will be forever remembered as the manager who led Barca to a La Liga record points tally (100) during his solitary season in charge, and also as the man who helped Pep Guardiola revolutionise football during four previous years as assistant, advisor and soundboard to his long-standing friend.
"And more than that, he should also be recalled as a deeply honourable human being who met adversity and triumph alike with humility and dignity."
"Tito Vilanova's passing is a sad day for football, for Barcelona and most importantly for his family and friends," said Mourinho on Chelsea's Twitter account.
"On behalf of everybody at Chelsea Football Club I send my deepest condolences at this most difficult time."
Lionel Messi, the star of Vilanova's Barcelona team, said on his Facebook page: "A person difficult to forget. I will always remember you. All my love to the family of Tito."
Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas said "there are very few" people like Vilanova, who the 26-year-old first met when he joined Barca's La Masia youth academy as a teenager.
"Tito, thanks for all you have given to football and Barca. All fans love you and are eternally grateful," said the Spain international on his Facebook page.
"I met you 14 years ago and I can say that there are very few people like you. Thank you for always trusting me to help me improve and overcome personal and professional obstacles."
Meanwhile, Barca goalkeeper Victor Valdes, 31, described Vilanova as one of the best coaches he had worked with in his career.
Atletico Madrid's former Barcelona striker David Villa, who played under Vilanova at the Nou Camp, added: "My condolences to the family and friends of Tito Vilanova. He has always been an example during his struggle. We will never forget."
"Lots of support to all of Tito's family and friends. An example of fighting and strength for all of us. RIP," tweeted Real Madrid and Spain defender Sergio Ramos.
The Spanish Football Federation added Vilanova would "always be linked to a unique generation of players".
Cavaleiro became Wolves' record signing when he joined from Monaco for a reported £7m fee in August.
The 23-year-old has made 22 league appearances for the Championship side, but has started in only 12 games.
Wolves are 18th in the Championship table, seven points above the relegation zone.
The teenager was walking along St Winning's Road in Kilwinning at about 22:30 on Saturday when he was confronted by the men near St Winning's Primary School and assaulted.
Det Sgt John Deans said the boy was badly injured in the attack.
"It's imperative we find those involved - they clearly have no qualms about attacking children," he said.
The first man was aged 30-40, about 5ft 3in tall, of slim build. He was bald and wearing glasses.
The second man was aged 20-30, about 6ft 2in tall and was well built. He was wearing a black beanie hat and tracksuit top.
The third man was about 5ft 9in tall, of slim build and was wearing a dark hooded top.
Det Sgt Deans, of Police Scotland, said: "I'm appealing to anyone who may have been in the area around the time of the incident to contact us. You may know who the men are, or you may have heard some information about the incident, please do get in touch."
A win would have ensured Connacht's progress but Toulouse go through along with pool winner Wasps.
Tries from Gael Fickou, Arthur Bonneval and Joe Tekori helped a dominant Toulouse to a commanding 19-3 lead.
Connacht fought back and John Muldoon's converted try left the visitors just short of a losing bonus point which would have also taken them through.
The Irish side started the day top of Pool 2 but second-placed Wasps, as expected, picked up a bonus-point win over Zebre.
That left Connacht needing a win while a losing bonus point would be enough if Toulouse did not earn a winning bonus point.
It looked bleak for Pat Lam's team midway through the first half as Toulouse powered their way to a 14-0 advantage at the Stade Ernest Wallon.
Fickou touched down after sustained pressure before Bonneval burst down the line to score a second converted try for the hosts.
Craig Ronaldson's penalty put Connacht on the scoreboard but lock Quinn Roux was shown a yellow card for a deliberate foul four minutes before the break.
Jean-Marc Doussain missed the resulting penalty as Toulouse went in 14-3 ahead at half-time.
Toulouse extended their lead to 16 points when Tekori rumbled over for an unconverted try seven minutes into the second half.
Connacht showed their resilience and determination with a fightback which came close to clinching a place in the last eight.
Skipper Muldoon charged over on 54 minutes and Ronaldson added the extras to leave Connacht within a penalty of securing a losing bonus point.
Connacht were now the team with the momentum but their attacks were thwarted by infringements, poor handling and excellent Toulouse defending.
Toulouse survived to make the quarter-finals while Connacht ended their campaign in third place.
Toulouse: Huget, Bonneval, David, Fickou, Perez, Doussain, Bezy, Baille, C. Tolofua, Johnston, R. Gray, Maestri, J. Tekori, Dusautoir, Cros.
Replacements: Kakovin for Baille (65), Ghiraldini for C. Tolofua (67), Galan for J. Tekori (67), Faasalele for Cros (70). Not Used: van Dyk, T. Gray, Flood, Palisson.
Connacht: O'Halloran, Adeolokun, Robb, Ronaldson, Healy, Carty, Marmion, Buckley, McCartney, Bealham, Roux, Cannon, Fox-Matamua, Heenan, Muldoon.
Replacements: Poolman for Adeolokun (62), J. Cooney for Marmion (74), Heffernan for McCartney (64), Andress for Bealham (74), O'Brien for Fox-Matamua (62). Not Used: J. Cooney, Dawai, Farrell.
Sin Bin: Roux (36).
Ref: Wayne Barnes (England).
As it stands, Donald Trump is all but certain to become the Republican party's official candidate, while Hillary Clinton has a substantial lead over her Democratic Party rival Bernie Sanders.
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and consumer group Which? have jointly launched a new tariff, spelling out mortgage fees in a standardised format.
The move comes after Which? warned last year that people could be "paying over the odds" due to complex charges.
Which? also said there were 40 different names for fees and charges in use, often for the same service.
For example an application fee - a charge for assessing and processing an application - could also be named a booking fee or a reservation fee.
The CML and Which? were asked by Chancellor George Osborne to work together on the new tariff.
It has standard terminology, so lenders will in future use the same names for fees.
It will also have a common format, so that each lender will list fees in the same order, with the same descriptions.
Lenders representing 85% of the market have agreed to introduce the tariff and place it on their website by the end of the year.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said: "This new approach should make it much easier for people to compare mortgage fees. We hope that all mortgage providers will make these changes as soon as possible."
CML director general Paul Smee said: "Lenders have successfully pulled together to put in place some sensible measures to help consumer understanding.
"We very much hope that the new tariff and standard terminology will make it demonstrably easier to understand and compare mortgage costs."
The 36-year-old hit a 47-ball ton in his side's first game, against England.
The opener has batted just once since, scoring four against South Africa as the West Indies topped Group 1 to set up the last-four clash with the hosts.
"This is a perfect opportunity to try and pick up where I left off, get a big one for the team and put them in a winning position," said Gayle.
West Indies tarnished their record in the Super 10 stage by losing to Afghanistan by six runs in their final match, after having followed the win over England with victories against Sri Lanka and South Africa.
Thursday's opponents India have also lost once in the competition - their opening game against New Zealand - but have followed that up with three successive victories.
"The only positive you can look from the Afghanistan game is the motive,'' said Gayle.
"We saw India bounce back from losing games as well, so it can put us in a strong position as well to actually lift our game and do better on Thursday."
Virat Kohli has been key in guiding India into the semi-finals with 55 against arch-rival Pakistan and an unbeaten 82 off 51 balls in the must-win last group match against Australia.
Gayle is not surprised by the form of India's master middle-order batsman, who has scored 184 runs at an impressive average of 92.
"No surprise there," he added. "I have said it over the years he is going to be the world beater he is today.
"He has been fantastic right through the year. He has been in a great form. He can still get runs but in a losing cause. We'll be happy with that as well."
The Czech, 26, was stabbed at her home by an intruder on Tuesday and needed four hours of surgery on her hand.
"While what happened to me was very scary, I do not see myself as a victim, I do not feel sorry for myself and I will not look backwards," said Kvitova.
"I will do everything to return to the sport I love as soon as possible."
Kvitova, who won the Wimbledon singles title in 2011 and 2014, is expected to be unable to compete for at least six months.
The world number 11 wore a substantial bandage when she spoke to the media for the first time since the attack, and revealed movement had returned to her fingers during a session with her doctor on Thursday morning.
Tendons in all four of her fingers and her thumb were damaged, as well as two nerves.
"I'm happy to tell you I'm feeling well," she added. "The medical staff, the police, my family and my team have all provided me with amazing support in this difficult situation.
"I want to thank each and every one of them for the important part they have played in the past four days.
"I have been overwhelmed by the flood of messages and love I have received from the tennis family, fans and the public - thank you."
Kvitova's attacker gained access to her apartment block in Prostejov by posing as a utilities man before pulling out a knife and putting it to her throat, and she sustained injuries while pulling the knife away.
Police released an identikit image of the attacker on Thursday.
In November, consumers owed a total of £178.2bn on credit cards and loans, figures from the Bank of England show.
The monthly increase was the largest since February 2008 and compares with a rise of £1.2bn in October.
The rise in consumer credit follows signs of increased spending on the High Street.
Retail sales volumes rose by 5% in November compared with the same month in 2014, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The Bank of England figures mean that the average person in the UK now has borrowings of £2,759, even before mortgages are taken into account.
The Money Advice Trust, the charity which runs National Debtline, said it was concerned by the figures, and expected an increase in personal debt in the months ahead.
"These figures confirm that we do need to keep a watchful eye on the huge growth in consumer credit we are now seeing," said Joanna Elson, chief executive of the Money Advice Trust.
"Increased borrowing is to be expected in an economy that is recovering - but such steep rises in borrowing in recent months are a cause for concern."
£1.5bn
extra consumer credit
£0.4bn on credit cards
£1.1bn loans and overdrafts
It also comes at a time when consumers are saving less.
In the last quarter of 2015, the ONS said households saved 4.4% of their income, the equal lowest ratio for 50 years.
"This will fuel concern that consumers are borrowing more and saving less to finance their spending, which is likely a consequence of relatively high consumer confidence and extended low interest rates," said Howard Archer, the chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight.
However, other experts said that increased consumer borrowing provided a useful boost to economic growth.
"Credit flows are continuing to strengthen gradually, providing much-needed support to the economy as growth is hindered by slowing real income gains, the fiscal squeeze and the strong pound," said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Mr Abe said he was accepting a court-mediated settlement reached after a long stand-off between the central government and local authorities.
The government wants to move the US Futenma airbase from its densely populated site to a more remote area.
But local officials and residents want the base removed entirely.
Japan has already began land reclamation work off the shore of Camp Schwab, the US base in Henoko, south of Nago city.
Mr Abe said he would now be ordering that work to stop, but that the government's plan was still to eventually relocate the base to Henoko.
The US has about 26,000 US troops and several bases in Okinawa as part of a long-standing security alliance forged with Japan after World War Two.
Resentment at the US presence has been growing among Okinawans, particularly since the 1995 gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl by US troops.
Residents have also complained about the environmental impact of land reclamation.
Kevin McCarra, a former football correspondent for the Guardian, was seen coming out of a hotel in Avignon on Thursday evening and last sighted on local CCTV.
His family had appealed on social media for information on his whereabouts.
Later messages on Twitter said he had been located.
His wife, Susan Stewart, had urged people to get in touch stating that they had planned to watch the Iceland v Hungary game at the Stade Velodrome on Saturday evening.
His brother-in-law Hugh Stewart also appealed for information.
In a post on Facebook, he said: "My brother in law, Kevin McCarra, the former football correspondent with the Guardian and Times has gone missing while on holiday in Avignon, France. Kevin and my sister Susan Stewart were going to some Euro games so can anyone who is in France for the games please keep a look out for Kevin."
Mr McCarra, who is from Glasgow, also previously worked at the Scotland on Sunday, The Sunday Times and The Times.
He also rounded on the organisers' decision to draw the pools that pitted England, Wales and Australia against each other.
England's 33-13 defeat by Australia means Wales reached the quarter-finals with a Pool A match against the Wallabies to come on Saturday.
"We don't have the burden of needing to win the game to qualify," said Gatland.
"It was the group of hell, we can take the shackles off now," he added.
Gatland's side face Michael Cheika's men at Twickenham in a game that will decide who tops the pool - and which opponents they face in the quarter-finals.
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South Africa, Scotland or Japan lie in wait from Pool B in which each of those teams have won two of their three games to date.
Australia's triumph at Twickenham ended hosts England's hopes and Gatland says also having Wales in the group as well as Fiji was "ridiculous".
"We knew how tough this group was going to be right from the start, and not just with England, Australia and ourselves, because Fiji are a tough proposition as well," he said.
"I think if Fiji had been in a couple of other groups, they would have qualified for the quarter-finals as well.
"It has been not just the group of death, but the group of hell, basically, for all of us.
"Everyone is making a thing about the first home country to hold a World Cup to miss out on the quarter-finals, but the stupid thing, as we all know, is why was the World Cup draw done three years ago?
"That's just ridiculous as far as I am concerned. If they had followed the football model, then we wouldn't be in this position."
Gatland said Australia did Wales "a massive favour".
He added: "It's great that we have qualified, but you have got to feel for other people involved in other teams because there is a huge amount at stake.
"It's families and livelihoods and all that sort of stuff."
The New Zealander said he sympathised with England boss Stuart Lancaster, whose position is under scrutiny.
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"I have a huge amount of respect for what he has done - when he took over the job, in terms of the discipline he has instilled in that side and how his players conduct themselves," added Gatland.
Wales must end a 10-match losing streak against Australia if they are to win Pool A.
Wales beat Uruguay in their opener before stunning England 28-25, then saw off Fiji's stern challenge before Australia helped ensure their progress
"A lot of people have written us off, and we have demonstrated that character when we are under pressure," said Gatland.
The assault began when three car bombs exploded at the gate of the plant in Taji, north of the capital.
Six men wearing explosive belts rushed in and blew up gas tanks, before security forces won back the facility.
IS, which controls large parts of western and northern Iraq, has stepped up attacks in Baghdad recently.
It has claimed the latest incident, which began after dawn at the Taji facility, 20km (12 miles) north of Baghdad.
A fireball shot up into the air as the three gas tanks were blown up by the militants who stormed the plant.
Those killed in the blasts are reported to include workers as well as members of the security forces.
11 May 2016: Car bombs in Baghdad kill 93 people, including 64 in market in Shia district of Sadr City
1 May 2016: Two car bombs kill at least 33 people in southern city of Samawa
26 March 2016: Suicide attack targets football match in central city of Iskandariya, killing at least 32
6 March 2016: Fuel tanker blown up at checkpoint near central city of Hilla, killing 47
28 February 2016: Twin suicide bomb attacks hit market in Sadr City, killing 70
BBC Arab affairs analyst Sebastian Usher says that although IS has suffered recent setbacks in both Iraq and Syria, such an elaborate attack close to Baghdad underlines the threat the group still poses.
It comes four days after car bomb attacks by IS killed 93 people in Baghdad on Wednesday - the deadliest day of violence in the capital so far this year,
Meanwhile, Iraq remains in political crisis.
Divisions among political factions has prevented the formation of a new cabinet. The deadlock has raised concerns about the government's ability to fight IS.
Great Britain is "written with real verve" by playwright Richard Bean and is "blessedly funny", according to The Guardian's four-star review.
The Daily Telegraph gave the same star rating to a "bold, topical" work.
Billie Piper stars in the play as a tabloid news editor who sanctions the tapping of celebrities' phones.
MPs' expenses, police corruption and cheque-book journalism also figure in the play, tickets for which only went on sale last week.
Rehearsals took place in secret for the production, which opened without previews on Monday.
Sir Tom Stoppard, Zoe Wanamaker and Piper's former Doctor Who co-star David Tennant were among the first night audience.
According to the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts, Bean's "quick-response" play is "coarse, scatter-gun [and] politically incorrect".
Bean, he continues, "catches a sense of careering chaos, of compromised politicians and a political/media/celebrity/legal elite who bribe and blunder and chisel and cheat".
The result, writes Paul Taylor in The Independent, is "a farce with fangs [that] puts the whole incestuous culture in the dock and subjects it to merciless ridicule".
"Though it feels scattershot in its targets and sometimes mistakes boorish vulgarity for daring satire," writes Stephen Dalton in the Hollywood Reporter, "it nevertheless puts an agreeably lurid and highly amusing slant on current events".
Speaking last week, the National's outgoing director Sir Nicholas Hytner denied that any of the characters in Great Britain were based on "any specific individuals".
According to the Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish, however, the play contains a "sneakily fictionalised" version of Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor who was cleared of phone hacking charges last week.
Another character, played by Robert Glenister, "bears uncanny similarities" to Andy Coulson, the former tabloid editor and Downing Street director of communications who was found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones.
The play features projected headlines that mirror the typefaces of familiar newspapers, while mock news bulletins echo the presentation styles of Sky News and the BBC News channel.
There is also a video clip inspired by the much-viewed internet spoof that turned deputy prime minister Nick Clegg's public apology over tuition fees into a music video parody.
According to the Evening Standard's Henry Hitchings, such "cartoonish" elements are "richly enjoyable" in a show that is "barbed, dense and very funny".
Great Britain runs until 23 August in the National's Lyttelton Theatre.
That's a 5% rise compared with the A$8.7bn reported in the previous year.
Shares in the country's biggest bank went into a trading halt as it announced a A$5bn capital-raising in order to meet stricter regulatory requirements.
The money raised comes in the wake of similar moves by many of the country's other big lenders.
The banks have been raising cash in response to demands from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority that they bolster their books to be better protected against future financial crises.
"Maintaining a flexible and strong balance sheet, including a strong capital position, continues to be a strategic focus for the group," chief executive Ian Narev said in a statement.
Earlier in August, ANZ bank raised A$3bn while Westpac raised A$1.25bn. In May, the National Australia Bank raised A$5.5bn.
Market analyst Michael McCarthy, of CMC, told the BBC that while the overall profit figures were solid, there were still concerns about a slowing growth trend and that need for additional capital.
"The big question for the bank and for shareholders generally is - where will the growth come from in the future?" he said.
CBA's results were in line with previous estimates, and the bank said it it had a "positive view" of the country's economy.
"The Australian economy has some good foundations," Mr Narev added, pointing out that the central bank's decision to cut interest rates to a record low of 2% was stimulating housebuilding in the country.
However, Mr Narev cautioned about risks in the short-term from global economic volatility.
The news comes as frustrated Berkshire residents hit by the 2014 floods say "not a lot has happened" so far to stop the river from overflowing again.
The section from Datchet in Berkshire to Teddington in London needs £300m for a flood channel and weir improvements.
The Environment Agency said a lot of work had been done since last year.
East Berkshire was one of the areas worst hit in the UK by the flooding in February 2014.
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead councillor for Wraysbury, Colin Rayner, said in 18 months "not a lot has happened apart from lots of talk, paperwork and lots of schemes".
He said: "I believe not one bit of the River Thames has been dredged since the floods, and no improvements made to the weirs.
"My fear is that we might be in the same place again if we have heavy rains again."
David Murphy, who heads up the flood alleviation project at the Environment Agency, said the scheme was actually "progressing really well".
He said, as well as repairing all the affected flood defences, the agency had "carried out site and ground investigation works along the proposed route of the flood channel".
He said funding had been found for the first phase of the scheme, which looks at development and design of the flood channel.
But he added that another "£45m to £50m" was needed for the construction phase of the scheme.
"We're looking at a number of sources from European funds to local levies," he said.
The River Thames scheme includes work to construct a flood channel and improve three of the existing Thames weirs.
Construction of the flood channel is expected to start in 2020 and is expected to take about five years to complete.
Mr Fillon is now seen as the favourite to win Sunday's run-off, after securing 44.1% of votes in the first round a week ago. Mr Juppe had 28.5%.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy was knocked out of the race.
The Republican candidate is widely expected to take on far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen next spring.
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Polls across France are due to open at 07:00 GMT and close at 18:00 GMT.
Self-declared supporters of the centre-right values are choosing between the two former prime ministers.
It is the party's first such primary vote, modelled on the US system.
Both Mr Fillon, 62, and Mr Juppe, 71, want economic reforms - but they differ widely on how far and how fast to take them.
Mr Fillon says France is angry and wants radical change. He is planning to slash 500,000 public jobs.
Mr Juppe is proposing to sack just over half that number of people, and is focusing on a message of harmony and diversity.
Earlier this week, the two contenders clashed over the level of change they were promising to bring in a TV debate.
A poll of 908 debate viewers by Elabe suggested 71% of conservative respondents found Mr Fillon more convincing, as did 57% of viewers of all political stripes.
Mr Juppe - who was once the favourite to win this primary - has spent the past week highlighting Mr Fillon's personal views on abortion and gay marriage - widely seen as a bid to mobilise centrist and perhaps even left-wing voters, the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris reports.
Mr Juppe also said his rival was close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid growing tensions between the West and Moscow over the crises in Syria and Ukraine.
"This must be the first presidential election in which the Russian president chooses his candidate," Mr Juppe said.
Mr Fillon has argued that the EU and the US "provoked" Russia by expanding in Eastern Europe, calling for an alliance with Russia to fight Islamic State militants in Syria.
Mr Fillon, a Roman Catholic, has also complained of being portrayed as a "medieval conservative", describing his opponent as a "man of the system" with no real plans for change.
After losing last Sunday's first round, Mr Sarkozy endorsed Mr Fillon.
The building is to close for a two-year refurbishment after being taken over by the Willow Tea Rooms Trust in 2014.
The Willow Tea Rooms inside, however, is a separate business and will not re-open there when the revamp is complete.
Its owner, Anne Mulhern, confirmed she would be recreating the Tea Rooms, which she has run since 1983, inside the nearby Watt Brothers store.
The Sauchiehall Street building and interiors were designed by Rennie Mackintosh and built in 1903 for Kate Cranston, who ran several tearooms in the city.
Ms Mulhern transformed the Tea Rooms back to their original use in 1983 after the building had been used as a retail unit.
She did not own the building, however, which was acquired by the Willow Tea Rooms Trust in 2014.
The trust now aims to close the building on 22 June for a two-year refurbishment which aims to restore the structure to its former glory.
Ms Mulhern, who also operates the Willow Tea Rooms on Buchanan Street, said it was necessary to move to secure her business.
"When we found out that the repairs to our existing building meant that we would have to close for two years, we were devastated," she said.
"We still have the Willow Tea Rooms in Buchanan Street but were keen to open near Sauchiehall Street and secure the jobs of our fantastic staff.
"It's great that we can remain open with the same staff, same menu, same interiors and same great waitress service - just a few blocks down the street."
Ms Mulhern said the Sauchiehall Street Willow Tea Rooms would be recreated on the third-floor of the nearby Watt Brothers department store.
It is hoped that the new premises will be ready for customers in July.
Watt Brothers, which has operated as a family-run business in Glasgow since 1915, is located at the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Hope Street.
Managing director Willie Watt said the addition of the Willow Tea Rooms to the Glasgow store would work for both businesses.
He said: "We are a company proud of its history and we're particularly pleased to be working with Anne and her team in including a high-quality, prestige tea room which will complement both our business and the Willow Team Rooms' business which pays tribute to one of our city's great architects.
"What could be more appealing for shoppers than a stop-off in our store where they can enjoy a cuppa and some fine food?"
Mr Elumelu said the entrepreneurs were Africa's "hope for the future".
The 1,000 come from 52 African states and territories and were chosen from some 20,000 applicants.
Forbes magazine listed Mr Elumelu last year as the 26th richest African, worth $1bn.
The BBC's Lerato Mbele reports from South Africa's main city, Johannesburg, that his donation is the largest by a businessman towards the development of small businesses in Africa.
"The selection of these 1,000 entrepreneurs brings us closer to our ultimate goal - to drive Africa's economic and social transformation from within and to radically intensify job creation in Africa," Mr Elumelu said in a statement.
He plans to spend $100m to support 10,000 entrepreneurs over the next decade, and to create one million jobs through the initiative, the statement said.
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The retailer has sold Trump-branded clothes since 2004 and Mr Trump has appeared in the company's commercials.
Macy's is the latest company to distance itself from the businessman.
TV networks NBC and Univision said they would not air the Miss USA pageant, which is co-owned by Mr Trump.
"We have no tolerance for discrimination in any form," Macy's said in a statement. "We welcome all customers, and respect for the dignity of all people is a cornerstone of our culture."
In response, Mr Trump said his principles were more valuable than the clothing line, which he called a "small business in terms of dollar volume".
On Wednesday, Macy's began selling Trump products at a steep discount on its website.
Mr Trump made the comments about immigrants when he launched his campaign for president and has stood by the remark amid the backlash.
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Recent polls show he is performing well in Iowa, one of the first US states to hold a Republican primary contest. One poll put him in second place after former Florida Governor Jeb Bush amid a crowded field of candidates.
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Eligible voters have until 23:59 BST to register online through the official website.
More than two million people have joined the register in the month since Theresa May revealed there would be a snap election on 8 June.
The highest number of applications so far was on 18 April, the day the prime minister made her announcement.
The latest official figures published in March show that 45.7 million people were registered to vote in a general election as of 1 December 2016.
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The Electoral Commission has warned that about seven million people across Britain who are eligible to vote are not registered.
This includes 30% of under 34s while only 28% of home movers in the past year have registered.
Anyone wanting to vote on 8 June who is not already on the electoral register needs to sign up or they will miss out.
There is expected to be a spike of applications in the run-up to the cut off time.
Both Instagram and Snapchat will be carrying prominent reminders of the deadline on Monday in order to encourage their users to sign up.
The Fundao dam-burst disaster caused a huge mudslide which killed 19 people and polluted a river.
The technical report, commissioned by Samarco's joint owners BHP Billiton and Vale, did not assign blame for the disaster.
A separate police investigation has accused iron miner Samarco of wilful misconduct, which the firm denies.
Dams holding mining waste, known as "tailings", commonly have walls made of a mixture of sand-like particles and clay-like silt.
The report said that a change in the Fundao dam's design between 2011 and 2012 led to less efficient water drainage, and ultimately to the dam's collapse in November 2015.
Sand in the dam walls became saturated, and abruptly started to behave more like a liquid, in a process known as "liquefaction".
"There was a fundamental change in the design concept whereby more widespread saturation was allowed and accepted," the report said, adding "this increase in the extent of saturation introduced the potential for sand liquefaction."
There was increased weight on the tailings as the height of the dam was raised to more than 100m.
This weight pushed clay-like silt in one part of the dam outwards "like toothpaste from a tube," ultimately causing the dam to collapse.
"The tailings that had been solid ground just minutes before transformed into a roiling river, overtopping but not breaching the downstream Santarem Dam, then entering the town of Bento Rodriguez shortly thereafter en route to its ultimate destination in the sea," the report said.
A small earthquake on the day of the dam burst may also have "accelerated" the failure, the report added.
Carlos Eduardo Pinto, a prosecutor in the case against Samarco, said: "Samarco has long claimed it performs good practice but the report did not demonstrate this. Quite the opposite, it showed the company altered the project in a way that would not have been permitted."
In a statement, Dean Dalla Valle, BHP Billiton's chief commercial officer, said the dam failure had "a devastating impact."
"In November 2015, BHP Billiton committed to making the findings of this investigation public, and we are determined to learn from this tragedy," Mr Dalla Valle said.
BHP Billiton said it had reviewed 10 of its biggest tailings dams and found they were stable, but was taking steps to improve risk management.
The disaster has already cost BHP Billiton about $2.2bn, including a total write-off of its investment in Samarco, due to uncertainty over when the mine will reopen.
The figure also includes funds for its share of agreed compensation and damages.
Sumaya Rajab said that more than 20 police vehicles had been sent to detain him.
The activist has served several prison sentences since setting up the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights in 2002.
Human Rights First said the arrest was an "alarming setback" to hopes for easing the nation's political crisis.
Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers forcibly quelled a 2011 uprising which had been triggered in large part by unrest among the Shia Muslim majority.
Sumaya Rajab said her husband was arrested at 14:15 local time (15:16 GMT).
She said: "There were a lot of police, many more than needed to arrest one man. My relatives counted more than 20 police vehicles.
"Nabeel was sleeping and my daughter woke him to say the police had come. I went to the gate and asked what they were doing. They showed me an arrest warrant that said he was being arrested for tweets he had made about torture in Jaw prison."
Mr Rajab has already been charged over another tweet he sent in September in which suggested that security institutions in Bahrain served as what he called an "ideological incubator" for jihadists.
He was released on bail and his next court appearance on that charge is schedule for 14 April.
Human Rights First said Thursday's arrest was "the latest in a string of actions that should give Washington pause as it considers whether to lift restrictions on sending arms to the kingdom".
A 17-year-old girl was assaulted in Sherrington Road Park at about 22:00 BST on 17 June.
Dara Abdullah, of Surrey Road, Ipswich, has been charged with one count of rape and two counts of assault by penetration.
The 39-year-old will appear before South East Suffolk Magistrates' Court later.
Jonathan Simpson was shot in the living room of his house in the Brandywell Road area at about 23:00 GMT on Monday.
He sustained gunshot wounds to his thighs and has been transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. Two men were involved in the incident.
Ch Insp Tony Callaghan said the attack was "callous". The police have blamed dissident republicans.
Louise Simpson Jonathan's mother said: "I got a phone call to say my son was shot.
"They shot him in the living room and dragged him to the hall and then outside the front door.
"I can't even explain it. I never seen blood like it.
"How can anybody do that to another person? They have no conscience.
"He was in a lot of pain. I thought he was dead."
She added: "He was taking drugs and I was giving him money for drugs. He was not selling drugs.
"He received threats before. I don't know who is behind them.
"How could anybody put a mother through this."
Ch Insp Tony Callaghan told the BBC: "We think dissident republicans might be behind this attack.
"Even by the brutal standards of previous similar incidents, this was a particularly savage attack.
"Early indications are that this man has sustained particularly severe wounds with potentially life-changing injuries.
"This was not what some people call a kneecapping. This young man has sustained gunshot wounds to his femurs [thigh bones].
"There can be little doubt that these injuries could have killed."
He said the suspected gunmen "made their getaway on foot".
Appealing for information, he said: "In particular we would like to trace the movements of the gunmen before and after the incident."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness tweeted that the attack was "unacceptable".
"There is no place for this in a city looking to the future."
Sinn Féin councillor Kevin Campbell said: "The people of this city do not want these actions taking place on our streets and those behind them need to stop.
"I would urge anyone with any information to bring it forward to the PSNI straight away."
The import of foods containing animal lungs is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Lord McColl of Dulwich told peers that 24 million American Scots were being denied "this wholesome food".
He claimed haggis "satisfied hunger very much more than the junk food which Americans consume".
The surgeon and former shadow health minister, who was also a parliamentary aide to former Prime Minister Sir John Major, claimed that haggis consumption would help deal with the "obesity epidemic" in the US.
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But the Labour peer and professor, Lord Winston, disagreed and said he was "surprised" by Lord McColl's remarks "given the questionable issue about haggis" - which he said he found "revolting".
Lord Winston also suggested that if haggis could deal with obesity then "maybe we should be promoting it a little bit in Glasgow".
The comments come as Prime Minister David Cameron begins two days of talks with President Obama in Washington. Peers urged the prime minister to put haggis on the menu for discussion.
The Liberal Democrat Lord Purvis described the ban as "ridiculous" and urged Mr Cameron to have "a private word with the president to make sure this ban is now lifted".
The food minister, Lord de Mauley, said he could not guarantee a rapid resolution, but said the EU and UK government were working to get import bans lifted by the US.
Tory peer Lord Forsyth suggested that the UK government could send a special envoy to the US - and joked that the former First Minister Alex Salmond was looking for a job.
Authentic Scottish haggis has been banned in the US since 1971, when the US Department of Agriculture first took a dim view of one of its key ingredients - sheep's lung.
The ban means those in the US who want to celebrate Scotland's national bard Robert Burns in the traditional manner on 25 January are compelled to improvise.
Meanwhile a vision of the future of medicine has emerged, with scientists growing miniature organs -including brains - and performing the first steps of human cloning.
BBC health and science reporter James Gallagher reviews the year in medical science.
One of the most remarkable stories of the year was a baby girl in the US seemingly being "cured" of HIV.
Her mother had an uncontrolled HIV infection and doctors suspected the baby would be infected too, so they decided to give antiretroviral drugs at birth.
Normally the drugs hold the virus in check, but the very early treatment seems to have prevented HIV taking hold.
The baby is now three, has been off drugs for more than a year and has no sign of infection.
However, as this analysis explains, a cure for HIV is still a distant prospect. Yet there have been other developments - two patients have been taken off their HIV drugs after bone-marrow transplants seemed to clear the virus.
HIV was once thought to be impossible to cure; now there is real optimism in the field.
Going through an early-menopause used to be seen as the end of a woman's reproductive life.
But this year a baby was born after doctors, in the US and Japan, developed a technique to "reawaken" the ovaries of women who had a very early menopause.
They removed a woman's ovaries, activated them in the laboratory and re-implanted fragments of ovarian tissue.
Any eggs produced were then taken and used during normal IVF.
Fertility experts described the findings as a "potential game-changer".
However, things will not change for women going through the menopause at a normal age as poor egg quality will still be a major obstacle.
The cult of celebrity catapulted two diseases into the public eye this year - breast cancer and strokes.
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after her doctors said she had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer during her lifetime.
She has a mutation in her DNA, called BRCA1, which greatly increases the odds of both breast and ovarian cancer.
In a newspaper article she said: "I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity...for any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options."
BBC presenter Andrew Marr had a stroke after an intensive rowing machine session and a year of "heavily overworking".
It put a spotlight on the standard of care for stroke patients and raised the question why do healthy people have strokes?
He says he's "lucky to be alive" and is back presenting, although the stroke has affected "the whole left hand side of my body".
This purple and green image is of a very special human brain which was grown from skin cells entirely in a laboratory.
The pea-sized "cerebral organoid" is similar to the brain of a nine-week-old foetus.
It has distinct brain regions such as the cerebral cortex, the retina, and an early hippocampus, which would be heavily involved in memory in a fully developed adult brain.
Scientists hope the organoids, which are not capable of thought, will transform the understanding of the development of the brain and neurological disorders.
And it's not just brains. Japanese researchers said they were "gobsmacked" at making tiny functioning livers in the same way.
They think transplanting thousands of these liver buds could help to reverse liver failure.
On a larger scale, researchers have made full-sized kidneys for rats which were able to make urine.
Their vision is to take a donor kidney and strip it of all its old cells to leave a honeycomb-like scaffold, which would then be used to build a new kidney out of a patient's own cells.
Expect more from the "grow-your-own organs" field in the coming years.
Understanding the billions of neurons which make up the human brain, one of the most complex structures in the universe, is one of the greatest challenges in medical science.
This year marked a major breakthrough in defeating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
A team of UK Medical Research Council scientists used a chemical to stop the death of brain cells, in a living brain, that would have otherwise died due to a neurodegenerative disease.
This is a first and a significant discovery. One prominent scientist said this moment would "be judged by history as a turning point in the search for medicines to control and prevent Alzheimer's disease".
Dementia has also become a major global priority in 2013 amid fears it is rapidly becoming the health and social care problem of a generation.
The G8 group of nations have pledge to fund research aimed at curing the disease by 2025.
It is just one aspect of a flood of money entering brain research.
President Obama has dedicated millions of dollars for mapping the connections in the brain and in Europe the billion pound Human Brain Project to simulate the organ using computers is now under way.
Human cloning was used to produce early embryos which a group of US scientists described as a "significant step" for medicine.
It has been a long struggle to reach this stage, the same technique was used to produce Dolly the sheep way back in 1996.
No-one is considering attempting to let a cloned embryo develop.
Instead the cloned embryos were used as a source of stem cells, which can make new heart muscle, bone, brain tissue or any other type of cell in the body.
However, it is an ethically charged field of research and there have been calls for a ban.
Meanwhile, the first trial of stem cells produced from a patient's own body has been approved by the Japanese government.
Scientists will use the cells to attempt to treat a form of blindness - age-related macular degeneration.
And a new era of regenerative medicine could be opened up by transforming tissue inside a living animal back to an embryonic state.
It's an inherently dangerous thing to do; the tissues became cancerous in the experiments, but if it was controlled then it could be used to heal the body.
Scientists have found a new explanation for why we sleep - for a spot of housework.
As well as being involved in fixing memories and learning, it seems the brain uses sleep to wash away the waste toxins built up during a hard day's thinking.
They think failing to clear some toxic proteins may play a role in brain disorders such as Alzheimer's diseases.
Meanwhile, a separate group of researchers think it may be possible to slow the decline in memory and learning as we age by tackling poor sleep.
And there is no doubt about the impact a poor night's sleep has on the whole body. The activity of hundreds of genes was altered when people's sleep was cut to less than six hours a day for a week.
Of course you could blame the moon after a "lunar influence" on sleeping patterns was discovered. It showed that the extra light from a full moon makes it harder to sleep.
There may be good news on the horizon for shift workers and jet setters who will be intimately familiar with the pains of having a body clock out of sync with the world around them.
A team at Kyoto University has found the body clock's "reset button" inside the brain.
They tested a drug which let the body clock rapidly adjust to new timezones, instead of taking days. It brings the prospect of drugs to avoid jet lag much closer.
Two new viruses have attracted global attention and concern this year.
A new bird flu, H7N9, emerged in China infecting more than 130 people and causing 45 deaths.
However, most were confined to the beginning of the year when the virus first emerged. Closing live poultry markets in affected areas has largely cut the spread of the virus.
And Saudi Arabia is at the centre of an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. The animal source of the virus has not yet been confirmed, although camels are a likely culprit.
Meanwhile, polio has returned to war-torn Syria for the first time in 14 years.
And in the UK, an outbreak of measles infected 1,200 people - as a result of a drop in vaccination during the completely unfounded MMR-autism scare a decade earlier. The World Health Organization warned Europe risked failing to meet its pledge to eliminate measles by 2015.
There were many interesting one-off stories this year too - some serious, some not...
A modified smartphone is being tested in Kenya to see if it can prevent blindness in some of the poorest parts of the world.
Doctors warned that antibiotics were running out and could lead to an "antibiotic apocalypse".
Scientists claimed a milestone moment for cancer after finding 21 major mutations behind that accounted for 97% of the most common cancers.
There was a shift in understanding psychiatric disorders when it was shown autism, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia all shared several genetic risk factors.
A surgical knife which can sniff out tumours was developed to improve cancer surgery.
New teeth have been grown out of the most unlikely of sources, human urine.
A treatment to banish bald spots is a step closer after human hair was grown in the laboratory, however, there are still engineering challenges to get the hairs the same shape, size and as long as before.
Another thing to blame your parents and grandparents for...behaviour can be affected by events in previous generations which have been passed on through a form of genetic memory.
A wheelchair was controlled with a pierced tongue.
The UK's first hand transplant took place in Leeds while in China a severed hand was kept alive on an ankle.
Brain scans showed babies could decipher speech as early as three months before birth.
Lullabies may help sick children by reducing pain and improving their wellbeing.
And finally... James Bond's sexual prowess was seriously questioned with doctors describing him as an "impotent drunk".
The 25-year-old winger completed his move following a medical with the Athens-based club.
Panathinaikos confirmed that Wakaso would be at the club until the "summer of 2019".
Wakaso had been with Rubin Kazan since 2013 but spent periods on loan at both Celtic and Las Palmas during that time.
He played a key role in helping Ghana reach the Africa Cup of Nations final in Gabon next year, as well as the group phase of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Praesa, or Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa, was rewarded for having "the joy of reading as its compass point".
The award is named after Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the creator of the Pippi Longstocking book series.
Praesa director Carole Bloch said winning was "a dream coming true".
The judges said the organisation, founded in Cape Town in 1992, showed the "crucial role of books and stories in creating rich, full lives for children and young people".
The prize, now in its 15th year, is the world's largest children's literature award and is worth five million Swedish kronor (£391,000).
"This will make an incredible difference to the reading work we do for huge numbers of children across Africa," said Bloch.
"Having this award come to the African continent gives great acknowledgement to the importance of... reading to all children irrespective of the language and background."
Six British authors - including Michael Morpurgo, Michael Rosen and Allan Ahlberg - were among this year's 197 candidates, nominated from 61 countries.
Judges praised Praesa for bringing people together with its "innovative reading and storytelling projects".
"For more than 20 years, Praesa has made powerful, innovative moves to highlight literature as a key component of both personal and societal development, always grounded in the specific conditions of South African society and culture," said the panel.
The organisation has produced a series of books in different African languages and formed a network of reading clubs to encourage children to read and inspire parents, grandparents and teachers to read with them.
Last year's prize was won by Swedish author Barbro Lindgren, whose books, including Loranga and Masarin, have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster told the BBC he "never felt a whiff of sexuality about Ted Heath, whether it was in relation to women, men or children".
Police are investigating historical child sexual abuse claims against Sir Edward who died in 2005 aged 89.
The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation has said it is confident he would be cleared of any wrongdoing.
Lord Armstrong was principle private secretary at Number 10 during Sir Edward's time as Conservative prime minister between 1970 and 1974.
He said the allegations were "so totally uncharacteristic and unlikely" that he did not believe them to be true.
"My incredulity is based on the way of life of a man and about his character and his personality," he told Radio 4's Today Programme.
"When he was at home he had two policemen on the gate, he had the personal protection officer from Scotland Yard in the house, he never drove a car himself, he always had an official driver.
"It just seems to me highly unlikely that he could have escaped all that to do the kind of thing that is described."
He added: "I knew him for 35 years, I worked very closely with him while he was prime minister, and we remained friends for the rest of his life.
"You usually detect some sense of sexuality when you are friends or work closely with them. I think he was completely asexual. There are some people like that and I think he was one of them."
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At least seven police forces are carrying out investigations linked to abuse claims involving Sir Edward.
Operation Hydrant, a national operation co-ordinating inquiries into historical abuse, has been liaising with forces which received information concerning him.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said it would look at whether officers at Wiltshire Police failed to pursue allegations made against him.
A retired detective has alleged that claims were made in the 1990s but not followed up.
Sir Edward lived in Salisbury, Wiltshire, for many years and died at his home there.
Navi Pillay said the figure was "probably an underestimate" and criticised what she called "international paralysis" on the issue.
The figure is more than double the UN estimate given a year ago.
Opposition groups in Syria have been fighting President Bashar al-Assad for over three years, but have lost ground in recent months.
The UN report was based on data from four different monitoring groups and the Syrian government which was then cross-checked.
"Tragically it is probably an underestimate of the real total number of people killed during the first three years of this murderous conflict", Mrs Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said.
"The killers, destroyers and torturers in Syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis" she added.
The highest number of killings was recorded in Damascus province, with 39,393 deaths, followed by Aleppo, with 31,932.
Both the Syrian government and Syrian rebel groups have been accused of war crimes by the UN.
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The 34-year-old assumed the lead on the first lap and held off the challenge of Ducati-mounted Shane Byrne to secure his ninth career win in the series.
Laverty was sixth in race two and lies second overall, behind leader Byrne.
Andy Reid won the British Supersport 600 race and Josh Elliott was second in the British Superstock 1000cc event.
Fermanagh rider Elliott, who is defending the title he won last season, overtook fellow Tyco BMW rider Ian Hutchinson on the final lap to clinch runner-up spot.
The race was won by Scotsman Taylor Mackenzie, with another former champion, Clogher's Keith Farmer, in sixth position.
Jordanstown man Reid was making his first appearance for the Quattro Plant Kawasaki team and competing for the first time since suffering a fractured wrist at Oulton Park last August.
Another Northern Ireland competitor, Andrew Irwin, led during the early stages of the Supersport outing but retired on the fifth lap of 12.
Laverty has finished in fourth place in the British Superbike standings in 2010, 2011 and 2015 and is in his second season with his Moneymore-based team, run by Hector and Philip Neill.
"It is difficult to just run out front and look at your lap timer. I only looked at my pitboard once as I just wanted to concentrate on being as smooth as I could and not making any mistakes and the toughest thing was mid-race as my hands went a bit numb," said Laverty following his race win.
"I didn't feel as comfortable as I wanted to be and I was losing time in a few areas and then I pushed on and it was enough to bring it home."
Laverty was battling for the lead with eventual race two winner Peter Hickman, but fell back to sixth, and has 35 points, with series leader Byrne on 40, thanks to two runner-up positions.
Laverty's Tyco BMW team-mate Christian Iddon was third in both events, while Glenn Irwin was 14th and 13th, with his fellow Carrickfergus man Alastair Seeley 14th in the second outing after failing to finish the first.
The next round of the championships will be held at Oulton Park on 2 May.
The Snowman 2 - described as "a brand new adventure" featuring Raymond Briggs's character and "a new set of friends" - will air next Christmas.
London-based animation company Lupus Films told The Guardian it would be "new and fresh [and] not identical".
The original film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1983.
"The Snowman is an entrancing animation that has stood the test of time," said Jay Hunt, Channel 4's chief creative officer.
"I'm thrilled that Raymond will be giving us this sequel which I'm sure will be as delightful and unforgettable as the original."
Briggs will not be writing the script himself, which will be penned by two of the animators who worked on the first film.
But a Channel 4 spokeswoman said the pair were "close to Raymond and consulted with him throughout development".
"He has an official role as consultant on the film and will be fully involved with all stages of the creative process," she told the BBC News website.
The new version will reportedly not include Walking in the Air, the haunting song used to accompany scenes of the Snowman, and the boy who made him, flying over England.
It is also said to involve a new boy, a "snow dog" and such modern landmarks as the London Eye.
The governing body has launched a 'Clean Athletics' brand, a year after its 14-point manifesto that aimed to create a new era of clean athletics.
The sport has been dogged by damaging headlines and reports highlighting Russian state-sponsored doping.
Warner noted a "seismic change" in athletics' response to doping in 2016, but said "too much denial" remained.
He said the "pace of change remains too slow".
Warner said the stances taken by athletics' governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) could be seen as a "turning point".
Russians have been banned by the IAAF from competing since November 2015, while the IPC banned Russia from taking part in the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) left decisions on whether Russians could compete at the Rio Olympics to individual sporting federations.
"There is still much to do," Warner added.
"There remains too much denial in too many quarters, but we will continue to work to make progress in the areas we can."
Last year, Warner said it was time for "radical reform".
Among UK Athletics' (UKA) proposals were plans to reset world records, introduce longer bans for drug cheats and a public register of tested athletes.
UKA highlighted steps that have since been taken:
As part of its rebrand, UKA's anti-doping department will be renamed 'Clean Athletics' and the sport's governing body suggests other anti-doping agencies should do the same to "emphasise the ultimate purpose of their activities".
Warner added Clean Athletics "would urge other sports to follow suit to remain focused on what they want to achieve".
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At the time of UKA's proposals last year, authorities were already aware of alleged widespread doping in Russia with the country provisionally suspended from international competition.
Since then, in an investigation commissioned by Wada, reports from Professor Richard McLaren found more than 1,000 Russians - including Olympic medallists - benefited from a state-sponsored doping programme between 2011 and 2015.
As a result, Wada recommended all Russian athletes be banned from competing from the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics.
On Tuesday, leaders of 19 national anti-doping organisations said Russia should be banned from both competing in and hosting international sporting events.
The IOC has set up two commissions looking into the McLaren report findings and is awaiting the findings of these before deciding what steps it will take next.
Meanwhile, head of world athletics Lord Coe will be recalled by the Culture, Media and Sport select committee after MPs heard evidence that "undermined" his comments in 2015 regarding specific cases of corruption.
The announcement follows a "mistaken comment" in a letter - seen by BBC News - to a claimant with depression.
Atos incorrectly told the claimant that assessors were not required to be specifically trained in mental health.
The private firm said it would ensure that its letters were "clear and easy to understand" in future.
Atos carried out nearly three quarters of a million face-to-face assessments last year on people claiming the new sickness benefit, Employment and Support Allowance.
One of the claimants, Claire Whitwell, from Stockton on Tees, prompted Atos's review.
Ms Whitwell has social anxiety disorder and depression, but was declared fit to work following a medical assessment last year. The decision was later overturned by an appeals tribunal.
In June, she was asked to attend another assessment to see whether her condition had changed.
Ms Whitwell said she had a panic attack, in part because she said the assessor did not know anything about depression, and complained to Atos over the incident earlier this month.
In the reply on 13 August, seen by BBC News, an Atos customer relations manager explained there was no requirement for assessors to be specifically trained in mental health.
However, an Atos spokeswoman has now said this comment was "mistaken", insisting that all assessors do have specific mental health training.
"We have improved the way we assess those with fluctuating and mental health conditions," the spokeswoman said.
"All our doctors, nurses and physiotherapists have received specific training in mental health and there are now mental function champions in place across our centres to offer.
But Ms Whitwell said Atos had made a terrible mistake and was now trying desperately to backtrack.
"The person who did my last two medicals was stated as a registered nurse. She clearly didn't have any mental health training," she said.
"The [Department for Work and Pensions] may as well have got a decision from a dentist."
Paul Farmer, chief executive of mental health charity Mind, said her case raised the broader issue of how people with mental illnesses are assessed.
He said: "Over a third of people apply for Employment and Support Allowance because they have mental health problems. We know that many are wrongly declared fit for work.
"We want the government to make sure that the health professionals assessing people with mental health problems have an appropriate level of mental health expertise."
In statements, the Department for Work and Pensions and Atos said they were working with disability groups to improve the medical tests, known as the Work Capability Assessment, and had recruited 60 "mental function champions" to give advice to the doctors and nurses carrying out the tests.
Addressing an audience of diplomats in Geneva, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton called for the rights of gay people to be respected.
"Gay people are born into and belong to every society in the world," Mrs Clinton said.
"Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality."
Mrs Clinton did not outline sanctions for countries that fail to reform same-sex laws, but an official memorandum directs US government agencies to consider gay rights when making aid and asylum decisions.
Her comments follow a warning by UK Prime Minister David Cameron last month that the UK would reduce some aid to countries that refuse to recognise gay rights.
Homosexual acts are illegal in most African countries, including key Western allies such as Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Botswana.
Reacting angrily to Mrs Clinton's speech, Ugandan presidential adviser John Nagenda told the BBC: "That fellow [Mr Cameron] said the same thing. Now this woman [Clinton] is interfering.
"If the Americans think they can tell us what to do, they can go to hell."
Uganda is a staunch ally of the US, receiving military assistance to fight a local rebel group - the Lord's Resistance Army - and has sent troops to Somalia to fight the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.
Mr Nagenda said Uganda would continue to co-operate with the US on security and other issues, but added: "If they are childish enough to take away aid, we'll see what we do [in response]."
UK-based Justice for Gay Africans campaign group co-ordinator, Godwyns Onwuchekwa, told the BBC that with US Christian evangelical groups increasingly active in Africa, hostility toward gay people has worsened on the continent.
"The evangelical lobby is very powerful and we know that they lobbied Uganda's parliament in 2009 to introduce anti-gay legislation," he said, referring to a private member's bill - which was shelved after a local and international outcry - which called for the death penalty to be imposed for some homosexual acts.
"I won't be surprised if they are also involved in Nigeria, where the Anglican Archbishop [Peter Akinola] has the support of US churches opposed to the ordination of gay bishops."
The Nigerian Senate - dominated by conservative Christian and Muslim MPs - last week approved a bill to further criminalise homosexuality, using Mr Cameron's threat to cut aid to rally public support and to accuse the UK - the former colonial power - of interfering.
The bill, which still has to be passed by the lower house before becoming law, says same-sex couples entering into either marriage or cohabitation would face jail terms of up to 14 years, and those "witnessing" or "abetting" such relationships would also face custodial sentences.
"The only thing that unites Christians and Muslims in Nigeria [where thousands of people have been killed in sectarian conflict] is the oppression of gay people," Mr Onwuchekwa said.
In Egypt, the BBC's Ranyah Sabry says that UK and US calls for homosexuality to be decriminalised will be rejected by all political parties in the North African state - one of the first to be hit by a popular uprising for democratic reforms in the Arab world.
"Their timing couldn't be worse, with the Islamists on the rise [following their victory in first stage of parliamentary elections], but gay rights are totally unacceptable to all political forces - liberals, secularists and Islamists," she says.
"They all respect religion and in Islam it is a well-ingrained belief that homosexuality is not allowed."
A female blogger, 20-year-old Aliaa Elmahdy posted nude pictures of herself on her blog, a Rebel's Diary, and Facebook page in October to argue for reforms that would respect personal choices.
"The Islamists said she should be killed and when she tried to go to Tahrir Square [the focal point of pro-democracy protests] last week, she was beaten and thrown out."
Ms Sabry says she does not expect Washington to jeopardise relations with Egypt - a key regional ally and the biggest recipient of US aid after Israel - over gay rights.
"Nobody is going to support the US on this issue - not even non-governmental organisations. They'll just have to drop it."
Some analysts believe that Mrs Clinton's emphasis on gay rights is directed at a liberal domestic constituency ahead of elections next year, and is also intended to counter the growing influence of right-wing evangelical groups in Africa - some of whom have also opposed the use of condoms on a continent with high rates of HIV/Aids.
But Mr Onwuchekwa believes that President Barack Obama's government has little moral authority to promote gay rights in Africa.
"In the US, gay marriages are not recognised in some states. So how does it expect other countries to listen to it?" he said.
Mr Nagenda dismisses suggestions that the US evangelical movement has stiffened Ugandan opposition to gay rights.
"We've had our religions, customs and traditions since time immemorial. This [homosexuality] is taboo."
Mr Onwuchekwa says that while diplomatic pressure can be effective, Western governments would be wrong to cut aid if there was no reform of same-sex laws.
"It will just make it more difficult for gay people who will face a backlash. And poor people will suffer if aid is cut," he says.
"Governments will still be corrupt and politicians will still be rich."
Mr Onwuchekwa said Western governments should instead focus on strengthening human rights groups in Africa.
"It is usually better if people fight for themselves," he says.
Michael Cole-Schwartz from Human Rights Campaign - the largest organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the US - said he doubted that the Obama administration intended to be "punitive" against countries that refused to change same-sex laws.
"I believe that this is sending a strong statement that pro-LGBT [lesbian, gay and bisexual and transgender] policies are those that should be pursued," he said.
"It does not mean that aid is going to be stripped from countries, but it certainly means that the US government is going to promote programmes and promote organisations that are trying to improve the lives of LGBT people."
Fe ymosododd Lauren Jeska, 42 o Fachynlleth, ar bennaeth adnoddau dynol corff UK Athletics, Ralph Knibbs, 52 oed, gyda chyllell.
Digwyddodd yr ymosodiad yn stadiwm Alexander, Birmingham fis Mawrth llynedd.
Roedd yr athletwraig drawsryweddol mewn dadl gyda'r corff llywodraethol ynglŷn â phrofion hormonau, wedi i ganlyniadau ei ras gael eu diddymu.
Clywodd Llys y Goron Birmingham fod Jeska wedi trywanu Mr Knibbs yn ei ben a'i wddf, gan greu twll 2cm, a bod gwaed yn llifo ohono.
Cafodd dau gydweithiwr i Mr Knibbs eu trywanu gan Jeska wrth iddyn nhw geisio ymyrryd.
Dywedodd y barnwr y byddai Jeska yn wynebu pum mlynedd ychwanegol ar drwydded ar ôl iddi gael ei rhyddhau o'r carchar.
Developers have submitted initial plans for the 5MW project to Scottish Borders Council.
Green Energy UK is exploring the possibility of constructing the panels about a mile south-east of the centre of Kelso.
The firm, which is based in Cheshire, has told planners it would cover an area of 30.6 acres (12 hectares) of land at Wooden Farm.
In a pre-application "screening request" to the council, they claim most of the site will remain vegetated as only 30% of the site will be covered by solar panels.
The developers said the farm could be built in 12 weeks and it is likely to be in place for 25 years.
The panels will be no more than 2.3m (7.5ft) in height.
The International Boxing Federation has told BBC Wales Sport the fight will go to purse bids on 13 April, with no agreement reached.
Selby and Barros were due to fight on the undercard of Frampton v Leo Santa Cruz II, but the bout was called off.
The Barros fight must be staged within 90 days after the purse bids.
Selby, whose last title defence was against Eric Hunter in April 2016, was given dispensation by the IBF to fight Andoni Gago in a non-title fight on the undercard of Tony Bellew's victory over David Haye.
However, the IBF now expects Barros to be given his opportunity after confusion surrounding the boxer's health was cleared up.
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The Nevada Athletic Commission did not give an explanation for calling off the contest with Selby less than 24 hours before they were due to fight, other than saying the Argentine had not "met fight requirements".
However, the IBF is satisfied Barros is ready and able to fight.
The IBF ruling completes a miserable week for Northern Ireland's Frampton, after the news that Leo Santa Cruz will defend his WBA title against Abner Mares.
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Frampton beat Santa Cruz to claim the WBA belt in New York last summer but lost the January rematch in Las Vegas.
The WBA ended speculation of a third fight between the pair in Belfast by ordering Santa Cruz to defend his belt against his fellow Mexican.
Selby is now without a promoter in the UK, but has a management agreement with Al Haymon.
Haymon, who also manages Mares and Santa Cruz, might favour the undercard of that contest for the Selby defence against Barros, should he win the purse bid.
Barros' camp have stated they would like to stage the fight in Mendoza, Argentina.
Andrew Scott, 27, was last seen leaving his home in Winterborne Whitechurch to go fishing at Ringstead Bay on Monday.
A coastguard-led search was stood down on Tuesday evening.
A Dorset Police spokesperson said a body believed to be Mr Scott was found off the coast of the White Nothe in Weymouth.
A formal identification has not yet taken place, but Mr Scott's family and the coroner have been informed of the discovery, police said.
In a statement released on Wednesday his family said: "We are desperate to have Andrew home safe and well with us."
Lifeboats, coastguard teams and the coastguard helicopter were initially dispatched at about 21:00 BST on Monday.
Rescue teams found his bright-orange dry bag containing his car keys, mobile phone and clothing at the White Nothe headland, while his car was discovered parked at nearby Ringstead Bay.
Under a law that came into force on 1 August, four tourists have been given €1,000 (£920; $1180) fines while trying take sand, stones or seashells home.
They were caught by X-rays as they left Elmas airport in the capital Cagliari.
It might seem heavy-handed, but for years islanders have complained about the theft of their natural assets.
In 1994, access to the renowned pink beach on the Budelli island to the north-east of Sardinia was banned amid concerns about its future.
In three summer months in 2015 alone, as much as five tonnes of sand was seized at Elmas airport, local reports say. Sand was also seized at the island's other airports in Alghero and Olbia.
A Facebook page was set up, called "Sardinia robbed and plundered", on which people shared pictures of plastic bottles and bags filled with beach souvenirs. Stealing sand was a crime, the group declared, pressing local mayors and politicians to respond to what they saw as an environmental emergency.
Now, the law says "whoever takes, keeps or sells small quantities without permission" faces fines ranging from €500 to €3,000.
Customs officials are on the look out for stolen samples of quartz sand from beaches at Mari Ermi, Is Arutas and Maimoni, white sand from Cala Luna, or the yellow sand from Piscinas.
And local media are actively shaming tourists caught in the act. One local news website, La Nuova Sardegna, posted a video of a couple it described as "probably foreigners", apparently filling a bottle with white sand from the beach at Arutas on the west coast, "possibly as a souvenir of beautiful Sardinia".
The anti-theft activists believe they still have considerable work to do to tackle the thefts and have posted photos of Sardinian sand being sold on eBay.
The island's forestry corps says Sardinia's beaches were created over millions of years. "Taking away a little bottle may not seem a big deal. But if all the millions of tourists did it, tonnes and tonnes would disappear every year," they say.
IS launched a surprise assault on the long-contested town on Thursday, reportedly massacring civilians, including women and children.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 206 bodies were found, most with bullet wounds.
Kurdish forces broke an IS siege of Kobane only in January.
Meanwhile, fighting is reportedly continuing in the Syrian city of Hassakeh, about 270km (180 miles) further east, which was also attacked by IS on Thursday.
Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and their allies are tackling the militants after fighting which, according to UN figures, saw some 60,000 people flee.
Overall, in four years of armed conflict in Syria, more than 200,000 people have lost their lives and more than 11 million others - nearly half the population - have been forced from their homes.
Smoke could still be seen rising over Kobane on Saturday.
Redur Xelil, spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, told Reuters news agency that around eight IS members had escaped north towards the Turkish border.
"There are still search operations in neighbourhoods where they might be hiding," he added. "The town is quiet now."
An activist in Kobane, Mustafa Bali, told AP news agency by telephone that Kobane had been "completely cleared".
"Kurdish forces are now combing the town looking for fighters who may have gone into hiding," he added.
As the civilian death toll rose during searches on Saturday, local journalist Rudi Mohammad Amin told AFP news agency more people were still unaccounted for.
The militants, he said, had made their last stand in an apparently unoccupied boys' secondary school.
"The YPG detonated explosives outside of the school, then stormed it," he said. "This military operation was carried out after ensuring that there were no civilians left in the school."
Unconfirmed reports say Kurdish civilians began returning to the town from across the border in Turkey on Saturday.
IS launched its two-pronged offensive after the YPG cut off one of its major supply routes near the city of Raqqa.
The city is the de facto capital of the IS "caliphate", declared a year ago after the group captured large swathes of northern and western Iraq and parts of Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pledged never to allow Kurds to establish their own state in northern Syria.
"I say to the international community that whatever price must be paid, we will never allow the establishment of a new state on our southern frontier in the north of Syria," he said at a dinner on Friday night.
The Turkish leader also rejected accusations that Turkey had colluded with IS in its attack on Kobane this week. "It is a big lie to accuse Turkey of having link with a terrorist organisation," he said.
The two sides meet on 22 March, a year after the Three Lions came from two goals down to win 3-2 in Berlin.
The fixture comes four days before England's 2018 World Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley.
England also have friendly matches lined up at home against Spain in November and away to Euro 2016 runners-up France in June 2017.
Gareth Southgate is two games into his four-match interim spell in charge, with a World Cup qualifier against Scotland at Wembley on 11 November and a home friendly against Spain four days later to come.
The trip to Germany could be the first match for a new manager.
Sarah Ferguson visited the orphanage near Ankara while making a film for the ITV Tonight programme in 2008.
The court plans to accuse her of going "against the law in acquiring footage and violating privacy" of five children.
The duchess's spokesman said the development was "news to us all".
BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt said a source close to the duchess had said she had just been trying to run a humanitarian trip and was surprised she was being brought to task when it was ITV that filmed the documentary.
Turkish officials made a formal request to the Home Office for help as they tried to bring a case against her in the past.
The duchess's spokesman said: "The Duchess of York has fully co-operated with both the Turkish and British authorities at all times on this issue.
"British ministers refused to accede to the further request for legal assistance from Turkey so from a UK perspective we have been told by the Home Office the case is closed.
"We were told the reasons for refusal were that the minister considered that to provide the assistance requested would have been likely to prejudice the sovereignty, security, ordre public [public order] or other essential interests of the United Kingdom.
"The action today reported by the Turkish authorities is news to all."
The duchess would face a maximum term of more than 22 years in prison if convicted.
The duchess wore a disguise to enter the institution and filmed scenes of children tied to their beds and left in cots all day.
At the time, the Turkish government accused her of being involved in a "smudge campaign" when Turkey was trying to achieve membership of the European Union.
But the duchess, who also filmed orphanages in Romania for the programme, said she was "apolitical" and had gone purely as a mother, and she was "happy with courage to stand by the film".
It is unclear why it has taken over three years for charges to be laid, and no trial date has yet been set.
It is also unknown whether Turkey have made a formal extradition request for the duchess to face charges.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "It is not general UK government practice to comment on individual judicial processes, although we expect high legal and judicial standards to be observed.
"It would be premature and inappropriate to speculate on possible outcomes at this stage."
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the lorry involved in the crash was carrying 3,000 gallons of whisky. The lorry driver was uninjured.
It is understood the accident happened on the southbound carriageway at about 02:30.
The A9 was closed for several hours following the accident but has now been reopened.
The haunting picture of two young children hugging each other, the little girl clinging to her brother as if to look for shelter from the outside world, the boy's scared eyes…
It creates a truly heart-wrenching image.
In less than a week, this photo has gone viral on Facebook and Twitter, credited as "Two-year-old sister protected by four-year-old brother in Nepal".
There have been attempts to look for the brother and sister among the earthquake's victims, even calls for donations.
Only, the photo was taken nearly a decade ago in northern Vietnam.
Its real author, Vietnamese photographer Na Son Nguyen, told the BBC: "I took this picture in October 2007 in Can Ty, a remote village in Ha Giang province".
"I was passing through the village but was stopped by the scene of two Hmong children playing in front of their house while their parents were away working in the field."
"The little girl, probably two years old, cried in the presence of a stranger so the boy, who was maybe three years old or so, hugged his sister to comfort her."
"It was both moving and cute, so I quickly made a shot."
Na Son published the photo on his personal blog and was surprised to discover three years ago that it had been shared among Vietnamese Facebook users as a photo of "abandoned orphans".
"Some people even weaved intricate tales about the kids," he said, "like their mother had died and their father left them".
It didn't stop there. He later found the photo with credits such as "two Burmese orphans" and even "victims of the civil war in Syria".
Na Son said he made efforts to clarify and to claim copyright of the photo but with little success.
"This is perhaps my most shared photo but unfortunately in the wrong context."
The SNP leader unveiled the pledge ahead of a hustings event with the other main party leaders in Edinburgh.
Labour, the Conservatives, Lib Dems and Scottish Greens also back greater rights and support for LGBTI people.
Campaigners welcomed the plans, which they said could allow young people to legally change their gender.
They also said it could mean the law would recognise that some people have a non-binary gender and are neither men nor women.
Scottish Labour said its manifesto would pledge to remove the psychiatric diagnosis requirement from legal gender recognition.
The Scottish Conservatives, Scottish Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens have called for teachers to be better equipped to deal with LGBTI issues.
Scotland was last year rated the best country in Europe in terms of legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people.
But Ms Sturgeon said more work still needed to be done, and the SNP would look to create "refreshed, age-appropriate strategies and resources" for children to promote tolerance and respect, and prevent prejudice about healthy relationships if it wins the election on 5 May.
Under her plans, all new guidance and promoted teachers would also undertake training on equality so they could tackle prejudice-based bullying in schools.
Ms Sturgeon said young people should be supported to make informed choices about their gender and sexual identity.
In addition, she said an SNP government would work towards every professional working with children being trained on equality and tackling prejudice-based bullying.
And it would aim for all police officers to receive appropriate training on the investigation of hate crime.
Ms Sturgeon said she was proud that Scotland had made "significant progress" on LGBTI equality in recent years, with the country having legalised gay marriage in February 2014.
She added: "Tolerance, respect, inclusion - these are attitudes and principles we want to encourage and foster in a modern, fairer Scotland.
"Enabling young people to make informed choices about their gender and sexual identity is about supporting them to be themselves so that they might fulfil their potential.
"I am hopeful that in the next Scottish Parliament we can build as much consensus on LGBTI issues as we did in this session - and take another leap forward for equality."
James Morton, manager of the Scottish Transgender Alliance, welcomed the pledges, which he said were in line with international best practice.
He added: "That would mean enabling people to change the gender on their birth certificate without intrusive medical diagnosis, recognising trans people as the experts on their own identities.
"It would allow young people to legally change their gender, with parents' support if under 16.
"It would also mean the law recognising that some people have a non-binary gender, that is they are neither men nor women."
But the Free Church of Scotland moderator, Rev David Robertson, warned against "destroying the traditional idea of gender".
He added: "We believe that this will result in confusion and brokenness amongst our children rather than fulfilled potential."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said her party's manifesto would commit to legislating to remove the psychiatric diagnosis requirement from legal gender recognition.
She also pledged to reduce to 16 the age at which people can get legal recognition of the gender they live as, and ensure legal protection for people who do not identify as either men or women.
On the education proposals, she added: "We've got to give teachers the confidence to teach LGBT issues whether that's in social education or elsewhere in the curriculum."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: "I want to get to a stage where absolutely every teacher in every school in Scotland feels equipped to be able to deal with these issues because every child needs to be able to trust the people in their schools."
She called for relationship, sexual health and parenthood education to be updated much more often "to be able to keep up with the kind of evolving relationship that young people have with sexuality and gender and the way in which it is expressed in their schools."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "I think we should be making more progress on education. I don't think we should just be training a small number of teachers I think we should be training all teachers.
"We should be getting gender recognition right, we need to remove the archaic system that we have just now. People should have the right to choose for themselves."
Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie highlighted the "unspoken issue" of faith schools.
He said: "If we're talking about all teachers then we're also talking about all schools.
"And although there is good and bad practice on both sides of the denominational divide, we still aren't acknowledging that a great many young people are being educated in an ethos which says a lot of us in this room are and believe it or not they use this phrase - inherently morally defective."
Dohoon Kim, 36, was found dead on the bedroom floor after meeting friend Kevin Adams, 52, at Mr Adams' home in Swindon for sex in June 2015.
Bristol Crown Court heard the pair had taken drugs before engaging in "extreme" sexual activity.
Adams was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter.
The court heard Mr Adams, of Exmouth Street, Swindon, met Mr Kim on a dating website two years earlier.
In the early hours of 12 June, Mr Adams called 999 saying Mr Kim, from Slough, Berkshire, was unresponsive and not breathing.
When paramedics arrived, they found Mr Kim had been dead for some time with a gas mask to one side of him and a pile of ropes and restraints nearby.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Kim had an "excessive" level of mephedrone - sometimes known as M-Cat - in his body.
It was concluded he died from a combination of the restriction of his airways and the effect of the drugs both he and Adams had taken.
The jury decided Adams had failed to remove the gas mask or restraints or check the condition of Mr Kim, who was left lying on the floor, before he went to sleep.
Adams will be sentenced on Monday.
The 36 players, from the Testlands Support Project, a Southampton charity, played on until 00:30 BST on Friday to break the previous record, of 101 hours.
The players took turns to take breaks to eat, get physiotherapy and sleep.
They began the 11-a-side match at 18:30 on Sunday, scoring over 1,600 goals.
The Reds went on to beat the Whites 910-725.
Organiser Luke Newman, who was also one of the 36 who took part, said: "The last time I slept was the night before last night and that was probably about an hour.
"Monday night was so bad - I think it must have rained from about eight or nine o'clock in the evening, through to about 11 o'clock in the morning - it was just solid rain.
"We had to play for a 12-hour stint so we couldn't change our clothes.
"The tents all got absolutely soaking wet. The clothes inside and the sleeping bags were just drenched."
After reading about their plight on Facebook, supporters arrived with dry sleeping bags and supplies.
Each squad was allowed 18 players, but if the number on the pitch at any one time fell below eight, their successful attempt to set the new official world record would have failed.
Sports massage therapist Julie Monteiro said: "The ground is quite hard so they've been having a lot of knee issues from the impact of the ground. Monday was the worst day."
Player and event manager Ryan Ship said: "It's been one of those challenges where you just think, you're only going to do it once, so you've got to just live it."
The match was organised to raise money for Testlands Support Project's summer activities for the city's underprivileged children.
It is believed the event has raised funds in the region of £20-25,000.
It came from the Judith River rock formation in the state of Montana and that's how it got the nickname.
Its official name is a tongue-twisting Spiclypeus shipporum.
Dinosaur experts think Judith was about 4.5m long, had big horns sticking out to the side over its eyes and spikes at the back of its head pointing in different directions.
The other dinosaur discovered was the Machairoceratops, which was almost twice as long.
Scientists say it had two large spikes coming out of the back of its head, horns over its eyes and possibly a horn over its nose.
Both dinosaurs were relatives of the Triceratops and were four-legged, plant-munching beasts that are thought to have lived more than 75 million years ago!
The shrine was established in 1879 when 15 villagers reported an apparition of the mother of Jesus and other saints.
The Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, is leading about 180 people on the eight-day pilgrimage.
The chartered flight was the first transatlantic air service to Ireland West Airport, Knock, in eight years.
It is also the first time that Irish airline Aer Lingus has flown from the US to Knock and the pilgrims were greeted at the airport by Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny and Aer Lingus chief executive, Stephen Kavanagh.
The visit was arranged as the result of a conversation two years ago between the archbishop of New York and Knock's parish priest, Fr Richard Gibbons.
The priest said he hoped Sunday's pilgrimage would be the first of many from New York.
"This is a very important and historic day for the promotion of Knock, Ireland's national Marian shrine, at home and abroad.
"It is hugely significant that the Archdiocese of New York, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, is deepening its relationship with Knock shrine and highlighting the spiritual heritage of Irish Americans, especially in New York," Fr Gibbons added.
The small Irish village first came to prominence in August 1879 when 15 local residents, who ranged in age from 74 to a child of five, reported the apparition on the gable wall of their parish church.
The witnesses said the Virgin Mary, St Joseph and St John the Evangelist appeared before them in pouring rain for about two hours. The apparition included a cross on an altar and a lamb - a Catholic symbol of Christ.
Two months later, the Catholic Church set up an inquiry into the claims, during which nine local clergymen interviewed each witness and asked them to give a written account of what they had seen.
The 1879 inquiry concluded that: "The testimony of the witnesses, taken as a whole, was trustworthy and satisfactory."
The site became an important landmark for the Irish Catholic Church and for religious tourism. Previous pilgrims to Knock have included the late Pope John Paul II.
He marked the shrine's centenary in 1979 by including Knock as one of his destinations in the first papal visit to Ireland.
Knock has not only hosted a papal visit, but in the years that followed it also became an unlikely site for an international airport, when the Catholic Church expanded its influence to aviation in 1980s Ireland.
Knock airport, now known as Ireland West Airport, was the brainchild of the village's energetic parish priest, the late Monsignor James Horan.
Known as 'the builder of Knock', Fr Horan led the multi-million pound construction project during a time of economic stagnation and mass emigration.
His current successor, Fr Gibbons, said Ireland West Airport Knock was "built specifically to welcome pilgrims to Knock shrine as well as to develop the economic life of the west [of Ireland]".
Fr Gibbons added that the pilgrimage was primarily about renewing interest in the shrine and the Catholic faith in general, but church staff would be lobbying Aer Lingus to schedule more commercial flights to and from Knock.
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Raith Rovers and Arbroath remain unbeaten, two points behind, with Raith beating Stranraer 3-0 and Arbroath drawing 1-1 at Airdrieonians.
East Fife claimed a narrow 1-0 win against visitors Alloa Athletic.
And Queen's Park remain bottom of the division following their 5-2 defeat at Hampden by Albion Rovers.
At Somerset Park, Ayrbuilt on last week's 5-1 win away to Albion Rovers with another handsome scoreline.
Craig Moore and Declan McDaid both scored first-half goals and Robbie Crawford wrapped up the points with a third nine minutes from the end.
Lewis Vaughan scored twice and set up the other for Greig Spence in Raith'svictory at Stark's Park.
Arbroath were ahead against hosts Airdrie through Omar Kader's first-half strike but Andy Ryan replied in the second period.
Greg Hurst got the only goal 11 minutes into the second half as East Fife claimed their first league win of the season.
And, at the national stadium, Alan Trouten and Connor Shields each scored twice after Jason Marr had netted in Albion Rovers' big win, with one of Trouten's coming from the penalty spot.
Sean Burns had fired Queen's Park ahead and the Spiders also got the final goal of the game through Thomas Orr's header.
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It was only in November that Equatorial Guinea took over as hosts from Morocco, whose plea to postpone the finals over fears about the spread of Ebola was rejected by the Confederation of African Football (Caf).
With concerns over the short time for Equatorial Guinea to prepare, worries about potentially poor attendances at matches in remote parts of the country and doubts about the infrastructure and facilities, football itself has taken a back seat in the build-up to the 16-team, 17 January to 8 February event.
BBC Sport looks at the on main issues surrounding the continent's football showpiece.
It is not the first time the small, oil-rich central African state of Equatorial Guinea, with a population of just 740,000, has hosted the tournament - they did so jointly with Gabon in 2012. However, the extra burden of going it alone, and at such late notice, is weighing heavily.
Matches will be hosted in four cities; Bata and Malabo - as they were three years ago - and in Mongomo and Ebebiyin. The new venues will be relatively basic because there has been insufficient time to build better facilities in those towns.
The stadium in Ebebiyin has a reported capacity of only 5,000. Even so, there is a real chance of it not being filled - one of the 2012 Nations Cup matches hosted by the country was attended by a tiny crowd of 200 people.
It is that kind of statistic which has moved the country's president Teodoro Obiang Nguema to personally pay for 40,000 tickets for fans to attend matches.
"We have to buy tickets to fill stadiums," said Nguema. "Let those who have the means help the poor."
Additionally, the hotel capacity in the new host cities is minimal, making it a struggle for both media and fans to find accommodation and follow the tournament.
On the pitch, little is expected of the team, who were eliminated from the qualifiers when they were penalised for fielding an ineligible player - Cameroon-born Thierry Fidieu Tazemeta - in a match against Mauritania, only to be reinstated when they stepped in as hosts.
It would be the biggest shock in the history of the tournament if the "National Thunder" became the 12th hosts to lift the trophy.
Their chances of making any impact have not been helped by the fact their new coach, Argentine Esteban Becker, was appointed 11 days before the opening game of the finals.
The deadly virus, which broke out in West Africa in March 2014 and has claimed the lives of 8,386 people in six countries according to World Health Organisation figures up to 12 January, has cast a dark shadow over the tournament.
However, there are no reported cases in Equatorial Guinea and the country's government has taken measures to prevent Ebola from reaching their soil, including hiring the expertise of a team of Cuban doctors.
All players and visitors entering Equatorial Guinea will be tested for Ebola.
Julia Nchama Abeso Avomo, the administrative attache at the country's embassy in London, said everyone entering Equatorial Guinea will go through a short medical check upon arrival as a precautionary measure.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are the countries worst affected by Ebola. Guinea are the only qualifiers for the finals - and their achievement is remarkable given the circumstances.
The team were unable to play any matchers at home and also suffered because of the stigma of the disease.
Borussia Monchengladbach winger Ibrahima Traore says the players were tested for Ebola in the dressing room, just before a vital match against Togo.
"We felt disrespected in other countries; to us it was like some people were seeing us Guineans not as human beings but as a disease," Traore told BBC Sport.
"Now we have to forget all that and we have to perform well in Equatorial Guinea. It's something really important for our country and all the people who are suffering due to this disease.
"We want to show everyone a great image of Guinea.
"We got a $30,000 (£19,700) bonus for qualifying and I gave that money directly to charities fighting the disease. At the Africa Cup of Nations we want to fight for the people who are struggling due to Ebola."
Algeria are the best team in Africa, according to Fifa's global rankings, and go into the tournament as many people's favourites.
After an outstanding World Cup in Brazil last summer, when they reached the last 16 for the first time, the Desert Foxes won five of their six Nations Cup qualifying matches to top their group with ease.
Algeria play a fast, counter-attacking style utilising their so-called "golden trio" of Porto playmaker Yacine Brahimi, Valencia's Sofiane Feghouli and Islam Slimani of Sporting Lisbon to great effect.
However, they have probably the toughest draw at the finals, alongside Ghana, Senegal and South Africa in Group C.
And French coach Christian Gourcuff is wary of their favourites tag.
"There is quality in the team, but there are also conditions that we must get used to," he said. "We disregard the judgments of others. We must guard ourselves from any excess of confidence. It would be a major mistake to listen to such predictions."
Gourcuff is wise to be cautious, as few tournaments are as difficult to predict as the Nations Cup.
Burkina Faso, with no previous impressive Afcon history, made the 2013 final. Zambia won the title in 2012, beating Yaya Toure, Didier Drogba, Gervinho and Ivory Coast's other big names in the final.
Ivory Coast and Ghana have long been regarded as Africa's two most talented teams, but Ivory Coast have not won the title in more than 20 years and Ghana's misery stretches to more than 30 years.
Two sides enjoying a resurgence are South Africa and Cameroon - both putting recent difficult spells behind them to find form and unity at the right time to go through qualifying unbeaten.
"I have told the players not to fear anybody because we have no reason to feel inferior," said South Africa coach Ephraim Mashaba.
Four of the nominees for the 2014 BBC African Footballer of the Year award will be on show: the winner of that title, Yacine Brahimi, will be instrumental in Algeria's bid for glory, Ivory Coast boast Yaya Toure and Gervinho, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will spearhead Gabon's attack.
Porto playmaker Brahimi was Algeria's top scorer in qualifying and will be a goal threat, while he is also likely to provide assists thanks to his quick feet and eye for a pass.
Manchester City powerhouse Toure will be the driving force for the Elephants, who will also look to the skilful Roma forward Gervinho to shine as brightly as he did on the World Cup stage last summer.
The Ivorian ranks also contain striker Wilfried Bony, who has just become one of the most expensive African players in history after signing for Manchester City from Swansea for £28m. Fans will hope for pace, power and clinical finishing from Bony.
Borussia Dortmund striker Aubameyang scored twice and provided four assists as Gabon finished top of Group C in qualifying. With blistering pace, strong aerial ability and clinical finishing, he will be a potent threat.
One lesser-known name to watch out for is Fabrice Ondoa, the teenage goalkeeper of Cameroon. The 19-year-old plays for Barcelona B and only made his debut for the Indomitable Lions during the Nations Cup qualifiers. He conceded just one goal in six games.
Algeria's Brahimi will be hoping to celebrate his birthday in style by lifting the trophy on the day he turns 25.
There will be no successful defence of the trophy for Nigeria after the Super Eagles failed to book their place at the finals. It was a big shock - and some would say a massive loss for the tournament.
Record seven-time champions Egypt also missed out - for the third time in a row.
And for the first time in over a decade, two of Africa's biggest names and greatest strikers will be missing from the tournament.
Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o and Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba retired from internationals after the 2014 World Cup.
Eto'o scored a record 18 goals at Nations Cup finals and hit 56 goals in total from 118 appearances for his country, while Drogba struck 65 in 104 matches for the Elephants.
South Africa midfielder Dean Furman says the team will be trying to win the trophy to honour their goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, who was killed in October.
Meyiwa, the team captain, was shot after burglars entered his girlfriend's house near Johannesburg.
Furman has now taken over the captaincy and will lead the team in Equatorial Guinea.
"Senzo was close to a lot of people, he was such a great character, always smiling, always lifting other people around him," Furman told BBC Sport.
"When the news filtered through about the murder it was really just complete and utter shock. I remember talking to the boys, especially his team-mates at Orlando Pirates, and they were in utter devastation."
"The first South Africa game after Senzo's death was in his home town of Durban. It gave us a chance to pay our respects. We all went to the grave site and we visited Senzo's family."
"It is an incredible honour to be Bafana Bafana captain. Obviously it was in the worst circumstances but I'm hoping to continue in the footsteps that Senzo set us off in during the qualification campaign.
"We want to win it for Senzo."
Frenchman Claude Le Roy will coach at the Africa Cup of Nations for a record eighth time. This time the 66-year-old is in charge of Congo, the fifth country he has led at the finals.
He won the tournament with Cameroon in 1988, having finished runners-up with them two years previously, he came third with Ghana in 2008 and was a semi-finalist with Senegal in 1990.
Only once - in the last edition of the tournament, as coach of DR Congo - has he failed to reach the quarter-finals.
His chances of success this time are limited, as Le Roy himself acknowledges.
"We are the only team who does not have a single player who has taken part in the Cup of Nations before," he said. "They were all children the last time, But we are lucky to be able to take part in the opening game."
Congo face hosts Equatorial Guinea in the first match on Saturday, and will also face Burkina Faso and Gabon in Group A.
In Guinea, young supporters marched in the capital Conakry and erected barricades on the streets in protest after one of their favourite players, midfielder Sadio Diallo, was left out of the squad. But their efforts went in vain as the midfielder, who plays for French club L'Orient on loan from Rennes, will not participate at the finals.
Crowds in Equatorial Guinea are likely to be small but expect many of the fans who do attend to wear colourful dress and painted faces, give vocal support and revel in what is, for many, the only chance they get to see their team have a chance at international glory.
Additional reporting by BBC World Service Sport's John Bennett.
Even harder than that is when those mental health issues affect you.
Jayne-Anne Gadhia, chief executive of the bank Virgin Money and one of the UK's most successful businesswomen, has told the BBC of her own efforts to tackle mental health issues.
In a wide-ranging interview, she said that she had suffered post-natal depression after the birth of her daughter and had "suicidal thoughts" because of the intense pressure as Virgin Money was preparing for a stock market flotation.
She said that it was time for businesses to speak more openly about mental health issues and that her own battles with mental health problems had made her stronger.
Ms Gadhia was speaking to mark the publication of her autobiography, The Virgin Banker.
In it, she describes how many business leaders still act like "dinosaurs" towards women.
On one occasion when Ms Gadhia was finding an issue at work difficult, a senior male colleague asked her "if she was going through the menopause".
"I was at a dinner with some of the [banking] regulators last year and there was a very senior City man there and the conversation turned to gender equality," Ms Gadhia told me.
"And he said, I am all for gender equality, but what happens if I employ a woman and the next week she tells me: 'I'm pregnant?'
"And there was a gasp around the table to think that people were still thinking like that.
"I remember going back to the office and saying: 'You know what, the dinosaurs are still out there.'
"It is undoubtedly the case. I see it from time to time.
"But equally I see the opposite, I also see that senior men in the City are talking to me about how they can help.
"So I don't want to portray a picture of bleakness - there are definitely pockets that haven't improved, but there are definitely very influential men and women who want to make it [greater gender equality] work."
Ms Gadhia revealed that one of her toughest periods in work was following the birth of her daughter, Amy, in 2003.
With her husband, Ash, she had been through many cycles of IVF which had not worked.
They had tried one final time and Ms Gadhia had become pregnant, which had made her feel "thrilled".
But depression struck after the birth.
"Ash had given up his job and we had only me earning, a new mouth to feed and I remember feeling completely out of control because what I wanted to achieve - that is, packing up work and staying with my child - was unachievable," Ms Gadhia said, speaking publicly about how she was affected for the first time.
"How on earth was I going to manage that?
"It was the first time that I'd ever, ever experienced what people described as depression.
"I had always thought, despite the fact that my mum had suffered over the years with her own issues, that depression is something that was a bit weak-minded or something.
"And when it hit me, I realised nothing could be further from the truth.
"And when I read the Harry Potter books and saw the Dementors, that is how depression felt to me - that sort of a thing that comes into your life and sucks all of your energy out of it - and I just felt hopeless.
"I didn't know where to go, I didn't know what to do do, who to talk to and at that point, everybody expects you to be happy and thrilled."
After many months of suffering - at one point, Ms Gadhia was convinced her baby daughter was dead - she eventually went to the doctor for help.
The clinical tests showed that her depression was serious.
"It was knowing what I was dealing with that helped me to deal with it," she said.
"I think if I'd have just gone on and not realised that I had a clinical problem and that depression wasn't something that you can just sort of push through, it would have been very different."
Ms Gadhia started working shorter hours, took exercise and put her life back into "balance".
She says that a healthier work-life balance wasn't just good for her and her family, it was also good for work.
The first year she changed the way she worked, Ms Gadhia received the highest bonus of her career.
She said that it was important that businesses had an open attitude to mental health, which can affect up to one in four adults.
More than 15 million working days a year are lost to problems of depression, anxiety or stress, costing businesses up to £70bn annually.
Yesterday, Prince Harry received widespread praise after talking to the Telegraph's Bryony Gordon about his mental health problems, following the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
Prince Harry revealed that he had "shut down all his emotions" for 16 years before seeking help.
"I think we still have a culture of not talking about it," Ms Gadhia said.
"I don't want to get to a place where we we've got everybody crying on each other's shoulders.
"But I think finding a way for organisations to support staff that want to talk about the issues that they're going through and having maturity of line management to know when that's required - to know where help can come - is really important.
"If someone turns up to work on crutches with a broken leg, it is easier to sympathise or empathise or help.
"But when you can't see it, I think that's much harder. It is easier to dismiss and the dismissal, the putdown if you like, makes the problem worse.
"I think that's part of the reason why both raising the issue - and in a sensible and controlled way, discussing it - means it can be remediated in some way, whatever the right way is for the individual. It's super-important."
The Killers and Nine Inch Nails, part of the Chicago festival's first line-up in 1991, will also perform, founder Perry Farrell has said.
Phoenix, Thievery Corporation, Tegan and Sara, Cat Power, Lana Del Rey and Vampire Weekend are also confirmed.
More than 130 acts have been booked to play the festival on 2-4 August.
"It is so exciting to have The Cure at Lollapalooza for the first time because I love The Cure and we've never had them," said Farrell, lead singer for Jane's Addiction.
"It's always frustrated me and made me feel incomplete and now I can feel complete and die."
Meanwhile, Mumford and Sons are returning as headliners just three years after their last performance at Lollapalooza in 2010, when they played during the day.
Mumford and Sons' latest album, Babel, has sold more than one million copies.
The line-up reflects a mix of genres - indie bands, singer-songwriters, country, hip-hop, rock and electronic acts.
The musicians will be travelling to the festival from all over the world.
"We don't look to stylise our line-up so much as we just stay away from pop garbage," Farrell said, adding that he considers himself a curator in his role arranging the festival line-up.
"Sometimes it's not what I'm going to do. It's what I'm not going to do that sets your trend."
The festival will take place at Chicago's Grant Park for the ninth year, and three-day passes for the festival have already sold out.
Some one-day passes are still available.
Previous headliners included Lady Gaga, Green Day, Eminem and Coldplay.
Despite a career that also embraced directing, writing and photography, he never managed to escape the character that came to define him.
At times it seemed the actor and character were becoming one and the same person and Nimoy battled with alcohol abuse as a result.
But he eventually derived great satisfaction from the role that dominated his life.
Leonard Simon Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 26 March 1931.
His parents were Orthodox Jews who had emigrated from an area of the Soviet Union which is now part of Ukraine.
He began acting as a child and quickly developed an ambition to pursue the stage as a career, much to the dismay of his parents.
Nimoy began attending a local drama school but gave up his studies, moved to Los Angeles and made his first, and uncredited, film appearance in 1951
A year later he was given the title role in Kid Monk Baroni, where he played a boxer.
It was, said Nimoy, the type of film that "made unknowns out of celebrities".
A complete flop at the box office, it was instrumental in condemning him to a decade of bit parts.
Such were his meagre earnings from acting that he began delivering newspapers to make ends meet.
He was drafted into the US Army in 1953 where he reached the rank of sergeant, returning to acting after his discharge.
While serving, he married his first wife, Sandy. It was she who persuaded him to stick with acting when his thoughts turned to more secure employment.
He appeared in a variety of films and TV series, always in small roles, and it seemed it would be his lot to remain as one of acting's many also-rans.
In 1964 he played the villain in an episode of the TV spy series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. where, for the first time, he worked with William Shatner.
At the same time, Gene Roddenberry was attempting to pitch his idea for a new science-fiction series to US TV networks.
Called Star Trek, it drew heavily for inspiration on the Hornblower novels of CS Forester.
Roddenberry eventually persuaded Desilu Productions to take on the project and the US TV network NBC agreed to screen a pilot entitled The Cage.
Nimoy, then known as a capable character actor, was approached to play Spock, the ship's science officer who has a human mother and Vulcan father.
At the time he had also been offered the role of Steven Cord in the US TV soap Peyton Place. He decided to ignore small-town America and reach for the stars.
It fell to Nimoy to speak the first lines in a Star Trek episode. "Check the circuit!", followed by "Can't be the screen, then."
Unfortunately, NBC decided the plot was too intellectual and too slow - but was enamoured enough to commission a second pilot.
Spock was the only character kept from The Cage and Nimoy appeared in the second pilot, which NBC decided was good enough to risk commissioning a series.
This second pilot introduced many members of the familiar Star Trek cast, including William Shatner as Captain Kirk and James Doohan as Scott, the engineer.
"For the first time," Nimoy later recalled, "I had a job that lasted longer than two weeks and a dressing room with my name painted on the door and not chalked on."
It was Nimoy who created the famous Vulcan salute that first appeared in 1967. He based it on his childhood memories of Jewish priests giving the blessing.
It was usually combined with the Vulcan greeting: "Live long and prosper."
Nimoy's portrayal of Spock in the pilots was far removed from later characterisations.
The early Spock was quite carefree and not at all like the much more serious, and usually emotionless, character that he later became.
Nimoy found that the intensity of the role was such that it was becoming difficult to separate himself from the character.
He described how he would go home at weekends and it would take him until Sunday afternoons to finally shake off the role, only to have to begin all over again on Monday mornings.
He began to take solace in drink - "just one after a show and then more" - and eventually had to go into rehab.
NBC dropped Star Trek in 1969 and Nimoy was hired for the cast of Mission: Impossible, whose producers needed to replace the lead character originally played by Martin Landau.
When that role ended, he went back to playing a variety of roles in various films and TV series and made a large number of stage appearances in plays as varied as Caligula and My Fair Lady.
But he was unable to shake off Spock and he voiced the character in Star Trek: The Animated Series, which aired in 1973.
Two years later he published the first volume of his autobiography, entitled I Am Not Spock, in which he conducted imaginary conversations with his character.
"The question was whether to embrace Mr Spock or to fight the onslaught of public interest. I realise now that I really had no choice in the matter."
In the end he decided to embrace him; the second volume of autobiography was called I Am Spock.
In 1979 he was back on the Enterprise in the first feature film in the franchise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Nimoy directed two of the subsequent films, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home, as well as contributing to the screenplays.
He also made two appearances in character when the franchise returned to television in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Away from the Enterprise, he directed the 1987 film comedy Three Men and a Baby, one of the top-grossing films of that year.
He announced his retirement in 2010 but was coaxed back a year later to reprise his role as Dr William Bell in the US TV science-fiction series Fringe.
He continued to make regular appearances at Star Trek conventions but admitted he didn't always share the encyclopaedic knowledge of the show.
"Star Trek fans," Nimoy confided, "can be scary. If you don't get this right you're going to hear about it."
Police said the driver crashed in Maidstone Road, Rochester, on Saturday after he failed to stop for officers in nearby Delce Road.
The road was closed for several hours following the accident shortly before 19:00 BST.
Kent Police said officers from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) attended the scene.
It is not yet known whether the IPCC will lead the investigation into the crash.
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has risen to national prominence as one the country's leading conservatives.
Mr Wall has become a frequent foil of Prime Minster Justin Trudeau and his recently elected Liberal government.
The largely rural province is seen as one of last conservative strongholds in Canada.
The Saskatchewan Party won a clear election, with victories in 48 out of 61 constituencies confirmed, according to the CBC. The party is on track win three more.
The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Cam Broten has won 10 seats, a slight improvement after the party suffered major losses in the 2011 elections.
During the campaign, Mr Broten criticised Mr Wall's government for running a deficit.
Mr Wall campaigned on his record and promised bring more jobs to the province.
In a surprising upset, neighbouring province Alberta elected the left-leaning NDP last year, ousting the conservatives after years in power.
Failing oil prices and a strong US dollar have hurt the Canadian economy. Alberta - a hub of the Canadian oil industry - has been hard hit.
However, with strong agriculture and mining sectors, Saskatchewan weathered the downturn better than Alberta.
Mr Wall remains popular and the province's unemployment rate is low, compared to the rest of the country.
Barbie was bitten on Monday night by Falco, a German shepherd, on a private lane, and was put down due to the extent of her injuries.
Falco's operational licence has been removed while the incident is investigated, Lincolnshire Police said.
The suspension was "normal practice" and was "not a pre-judgement of the circumstances", it said.
No action has been taken against Falco's handler Mick Judge, who the force said was "very upset" by the incident.
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Barbie's owner Charles Giermak described Monday's attack, near Fishtoft, Boston, as a "horrible sight".
He said the other dog came out of the darkness and shook three-year-old Barbie "like a rag doll".
Mr Giermak, who was out walking with Barbie and her daughter Candy, said: "There was no barking, no growling - nothing - it just attacked."
He said the attack could have been prevented if the police dog had been wearing a muzzle.
In what can only be described as a back-handed compliment, the NYT declared in a recent style article that its neighbour to the north was no longer a "frozen cultural wasteland populated with hopelessly unstylish citizens".
The reason for Canada's sudden cultural cache? The Times mentions film and music idols, fashion designers and YouTubers, but the star of the show seems to be new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The "6-foot-2 self-described feminist... has assumed the role of world leader with a heart," reckons the paper.
But the Times is not exactly thought of as being at the cutting edge of popular culture. The Grey Lady, as the paper is affectionately known, is even mocked by a dedicated spoof Twitter account for arriving consistently late to the zeitgeist.
And Canadians who tweet (those left who haven't moved on to more hip social networks, presumably) have been sending the paper (and themselves) up over its ever-so-slightly patronising article.
Some pointed out Canada's hip cultural icons...
Some had a dig at the NYT in return...
Some pointed out notable omissions...
Some boasted about Canada's, er, hip credentials...
And some simply feared the worst...
Sadiq Khan claimed the top job after beating Conservative Zac Goldsmith, winning 57% of the votes once first and second preferences were counted.
On the Assembly, 12 seats went to Labour, while the Tories now have eight having lost one to Labour.
The Green Party had the third most votes and have two seats in the Assembly, as do UKIP.
The Lib Dems claimed the last remaining seat.
Mr Khan, who becomes the city's first Muslim mayor, led Mr Goldsmith by 44.2% to 35.6% after first votes were counted.
After second votes were counted, he had 1,310,143 votes compared with Mr Goldsmith's 994,614. His tally gave him the largest personal mandate of any politician in UK history.
His victory ended eight years of Conservative control of City Hall.
The boroughs taken by Labour are Barnet and Camden, Brent and Harrow, City and East, Ealing and Hillingdon, Enfield and Haringey, Greenwich and Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark, Merton and Wandsworth and North East.
The Conservatives held Bexley and Bromley, Croydon and Sutton, Havering and Redbridge, South West and West Central.
44%
First preference votes for Sadiq Khan
35% First preference votes for Zac Goldsmith
43% Of voters chose Labour for London Assembly members
45% Voter turnout, an increase of 7% on 2012
9 Constituencies which went to Labour
Labour's Leonie Cooper, who gained Merton and Wandsworth from the Tories, said: "It's been a long campaign but we finally won, and we're absolutely delighted as you can imagine."
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Voters were asked to choose first and second preferences for mayor, and two types of London Assembly member - one for their area and one for the city.
Of the votes for the city, UKIP gained two seats while both the Conservatives and Lib Dems lost one each.
The 11 members voted in are:
The best performing of the smaller parties was the Women's Equality Party.
Party leader Sophie Walker said Mr Khan would have to focus on the gender pay gap in London.
"We opened our doors to membership 10 months ago and look where we are now. We are here for good.
"We set ourselves up to make real change, and to force the other parties to make real change."
The mayor has control over four major policy areas in London - transport, policing, environment and housing and planning.
Along with the mayor, the London Assembly make up the Greater London Authority.
The London Assembly scrutinises the mayor's policies and it must be consulted over the Greater London Authority budget.
It can reject mayoral policies or amend the draft budget if two-thirds of its members agree to do so.
Find out more about who stood in the London elections.
But for seven politicians it was a chance to convince the nation that they were worthy of their vote come May's general election.
ITV's The Leaders Debate was a two-hour marathon - that if the broadcasters were to be believed - promised even more drama than the channel's usual 8pm hosts, Emmerdale.
So what did we learn and did it live up to the hype?
The seven fluorescent blue podiums left some viewers wondering if they were witnessing the return of one of our most iconic quiz shows.
And seemingly acutely aware of her set dressings, host and chief moderator Julie Etchingham did her best to channel her inner Anne Robinson.
Donning a sharp suit 17-year-old baby-faced assassin Jonny Tudor was arguably the real winner of the night.
The politics student asked the first of four questions from the audience and was then constantly name checked by the panel of leaders.
"I initially felt quite taken aback about being on first name terms with the prime minister, and that was quite exciting for me," he said.
But despite Jonny's obvious charms, the lady to his side left many wondering whether they were actually witnessing the most unromantic date in history.
Not to be outdone by Jonny - Victoria Prosser interrupted Prime Minister David Cameron as he tried to answer a question on prospects for young people.
The psychology graduate, who was asked to leave after her verbal salvo, told reporters: "My cause is speaking the truth and making sure as many people as possible start questioning people at the top, the 1%, who are not working in our best interests."
While we were promised drama on stage, it was audience that kept on giving.
In 2010 Nick Clegg took the political world by storm by addressing audience members by their first name.
This time round Labour party leader Ed Miliband made a habit of eyeballing the camera….to mixed reviews.
Despite wall-to-wall pre-debate build-up, overnight figures suggest coverage hadn't reached saturation point.
The programme averaged around 7m viewers, peaking at 7.4m.
That's somewhat down on the 9.4m that watched Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron lock horns in 2010, but a decent return for the seven-way verbal joust.
It also accounted for over 90% of all TV-related chat on Twitter, with around 1.5m tweets sent.
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Lawro's opponent for this week's Premier League fixtures is actor James McAvoy, star of new film 'Split'.
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McAvoy is a Celtic fan and says he grew up supporting them for many reasons.
"I think your choice of football club quite often is not your choice," he told BBC Sport. "It is thrust upon you by your family, wherever you grew up, or sometimes even your religion, so it is a kind of environmental thing that you just soak up.
"That is why I am a Celtic fan but why I enjoy being a Celtic fan is different and I have much more power over that.
"In London, I keep an eye on Arsenal but I am not really an Arsenal fan. I am more of a plastic Gooner just because I used to live two doors away from the East Stand when they played at Highbury.
"That was amazing. When I couldn't get tickets, which was quite often, I would be able to watch the game on TV, open the windows and turn the sound down, and just have the roar of the crowd in the background."
You can make your Premier League predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last week, Lawro got four correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 70 points.
He beat UFC star Michael Bisping, who got three correct results, with no perfect scores, for a total of 30 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Liverpool v Swansea (12:30 GMT)
Liverpool have lost some of their attacking lustre in recent weeks so it is important for them to have Philippe Coutinho back in action, and getting sharper with each game he plays.
I just wonder if the Reds' form has tailed off a bit because Jurgen Klopp has been changing his team around for various cup games - it might help if he sticks with a team that is going to play regularly for the next couple of weeks.
Swansea have made a couple of signings since Paul Clement's first game in charge - Saturday's 4-0 home defeat by Arsenal.
Norwich left-back Martin Olsson and Tottenham midfielder Tom Carroll have both come in but Clement will need to do more than that to solve his side's defensive issues.
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
James McAvoy's prediction: 1-0
Bournemouth v Watford
Watford have not won any of their last six league games, and they have not signed anyone in the transfer window yet to try to arrest their slump in form.
Bournemouth's recent form is better than the Hornets, but they are an inconsistent side. Hull beat them last time out and their defence is not exactly reliable.
This is a hard one to call but Watford are struggling at the moment, and the Cherries will create chances against them.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 2-1
Crystal Palace v Everton
Everton have got energy and enthusiasm in their team with youngsters like Mason Holgate and Tom Davies in their line-up, and they have been getting stuck into teams.
Sam Allardyce is yet to win a league game as Crystal Palace boss after three attempts and I don't think it will be easy for him here either.
Allardyce signed Jeffrey Schlupp from Leicester this week and it is safe to say he will not be the last new face to arrive at Selhurst Park before the January transfer window closes.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 0-0
Middlesbrough v West Ham
Middlesbrough have bolstered their attacking options by signing Patrick Bamford. They are in more danger of being dragged into the relegation dog-fight than West Ham, but both clubs have a bit of breathing space over the bottom four.
A point would probably suit them and the Hammers because it will keep them ticking over.
Even if West Ham lose Dimitri Payet, as looks likely now they are saying he can leave for the right price, I think they will be fine.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 0-2
Stoke v Man Utd
I don't see the issue with Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho going a little bit route one as his side came back to earn a point against Liverpool last weekend.
If you have got Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marouane Fellaini, who are both really good in the air, then you use them to get your team a goal.
Mourinho is the manager, and too often managers are criticised for not having a 'Plan B'. He had one, and he used it because 'Plan A' was not working.
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This is another tough game for United, though.
Stoke were one of the teams to frustrate them at Old Trafford before Christmas when they were drawing a lot of home games, and I can see them sharing the points again on Saturday.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 1-1
West Brom v Sunderland
I watched Sunderland lose to Burnley in the FA Cup on Tuesday and it is clear that Black Cats boss David Moyes lacks quantity and quality in his squad - injuries have left him very short.
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I actually think Sunderland are almost at the point where the manager has a conversation with the chairman about whether he wants him to start preparing for next season in the Championship.
That sounds a bit defeatist because there are still loads of points to play for but with all those injuries, and the fact Moyes has not been given any money to bring in new players, I do not see them getting out of trouble.
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West Brom are always tough opponents and carry a threat from set-pieces. Having watched what Sunderland are like at the back, I cannot see them holding out.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
James McAvoy's prediction: 2-1
Man City v Tottenham (17:30 GMT)
Tottenham are flying right now and I don't think Jan Vertonghen's injury will affect them because in Kevin Wimmer and Ben Davies they have got a couple of potential replacements at the back.
I like their 3-5-2 formation because it really suits their players and you could argue that, at the moment, they are the best team in the league.
I would expect some improvement from Manchester City after last week's heavy defeat against Everton but they are struggling defensively and this Spurs team will definitely create chances against them too.
Put it this way, I can see there being a few goals at both ends.
There has been a lot of debate about City's £50m defender John Stones of late.
Stones is a really good footballer who is a bit unlucky that Nicolas Otamendi is his centre-back partner, and City's full-backs are not good enough.
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But Stones has got to start making good defensive decisions himself. He needs to become a defender who can manage the game, because City do not have one at the moment.
Lawro's prediction: 2-2
James McAvoy's prediction: I am looking for a thriller. 3-3
Southampton v Leicester (12:00 GMT)
Both of these teams are in the bottom eight when they would expect to be a lot higher up the table.
Southampton have lost their last four league games, and it seems their manager Claude Puel swaps his side around more than anyone. His rotation policy is not working.
Meanwhile, Leicester's form remains completely up and down.
The Foxes still have not won away from home, and do not look anything like the team they were last season. I do not see that changing here.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
James McAvoy's prediction: 2-1
Arsenal v Burnley (14:15 GMT)
Burnley are 10th despite taking only one point from nine away league games this season.
They gave Arsenal a good game at Turf Moor and the Gunners only grabbed a winner in injury time.
I do not see this game being anything like as close, such is the difference between Burnley at home and Burnley away.
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The Clarets have not really been ripped apart since West Brom beat them 4-0 in November.
They will be competitive and difficult to play against at Emirates Stadium, but they just don't make enough chances to win games on the road.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
James McAvoy's prediction: I still keep an eye on Arsenal, and they just surprise you every now and again with the most ridiculous result. I am going to be positive here, though, and say they will take Burnley apart. 3-0
Chelsea v Hull City (16:30 GMT)
Hull have a battle on their hands to keep their best players as well as stay up - Jake Livermore and Robert Snodgrass are both being linked with moves away.
It appears new manager Marco Silva will get any money he raises from sales to spend on new players, but who is he going to attract to Hull in their predicament?
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By the looks of things, Diego Costa will be back in the team on Sunday and I think Blues boss Antonio Conte has done quite well with the way he has handled him, because it has taken him more than six months to have his first bust-up.
The Tigers have won two of their last three games but it is a step too far to think they can challenge the leaders at Stamford Bridge.
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
James McAvoy's prediction: 2-0
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 130 points (week 13 v Tim Vine)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
Marcell Seeley, 34, was found dead in his ground floor flat at Dingwell Park in Taghnaven, at about lunchtime on Tuesday.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Craigavon on Wednesday.
It is understood Mr Seeley's body had been in the flat for a number of days and that his mother discovered him.
Police have appealed for anyone who saw anything unusual in the Dingwell Park area in recent days to contact them.
MP Damien Collins says British Cycling have been unable to deliver the relevant paperwork, though all parties deny any wrongdoing.
Sir Dave Brailsford told the committee the package contained asthma medicine.
"The apparent lack of knowledge of so many in the support staff did not chime with my own experiences," Cooke said.
Wiggins announced his retirement on Wednesday but the contents of the package given to him at the end of a race in France in 2011 are the subject of a UKAD probe into alleged "wrongdoing".
Team Sky principal Brailsford told a Department of Culture, Media and Sport select committee last week that the package contained fluimucil, an over-the-counter decongestant available relatively cheaply in France.
Writing in the Guardian, 2008 Olympic road race gold medal winner Cooke says the explanations offered do not adequately explain why Team Sky went to such expense to have the drug delivered by British women's coach Simon Cope.
"At the end of the three hours we were informed by Brailsford that the mysterious content of the jiffy bag was a £10 'decongestant' that was available over the counter in any of eight pharmacies located within 5km of where the team bus was parked in France," Cooke said.
"It was an answer that raised even more questions than we had before, especially now we know Simon Cope spent two days travelling to deliver it."
Cooke, who has spoken out about alleged sexism at British Cycling, also raised concerns about why Cope, a former women's coach at the governing body, was used to transport the package.
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"Why did the top management deem it acceptable to use the publicly funded national women's team road manager, Simon Cope, in the role of a basic courier?" she said.
"As the saga developed this year, Cope came up with information entirely new and disturbing to me. In an interview he said that in 2011 he had 'been working with Sky a lot' and been running training camps with Brad.
"Throughout early 2011 I was attempting to get Cope to run a single training camp for the women riders he was meant to be managing.
"Eventually I got Cope to agree to a camp to prepare for the world championships in Copenhagen and we both proposed it to Brailsford and (former technical director Shane) Sutton - the same pair who apparently think it fine to fly a courier with a £10 med 1,000 miles across Europe.
"I have the email and Sutton's response turning down the training camp suggestion. Nothing was put in its place and so the women went to another world championships without having conducted a single team camp.
Needless to say our team preparation was insufficient."
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Devon and Cornwall Police said officers and the Royal Navy Bomb Disposal team were called to the beach in Dawlish Warren at about 09:10 GMT.
A 200m (655ft) cordon was put in place to keep people away from the area.
Petty Officer Mark Cocking from the Royal Navy Bomb Disposal team said it was better to be safe than sorry.
He said: "We always work along the lines 'Don't touch an item if you suspect it, contact police or coastguard'."
Analysis by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) found there has been a sharp drop in confidence in the third sector.
It called on the Scottish government and councils to help the sector by awarding fairer funding packages.
The Scottish government wants a three-year funding cycle to give charities greater stability.
However, councils have said that until their income is guaranteed three years in advance, they cannot plan ahead.
The SCVO report found that almost half (47%) of charities saw a reduced turnover last year.
Most of those which did record growth were large organisations with an annual turnover of more than £500,000.
It highlighted concerns that many organisations are unable to plan ahead because funding is allocated on a short-term basis.
Yet almost three quarters of charities (72%) expect demand for their services to increase in 2017.
John Downie, director of public affairs at SCVO, said: "Our research clearly shows that Scotland's third sector has given up on the idea of growth and has gone into survival mode.
"Organisations feel they will have to do more with less as demand for services increases at a time where funding streams are squeezed.
"There is a strong expectation of growing competition to secure unstable hand-to-mouth funding and this is hampering the sector's ability to develop."
The main findings of the report include:
Mr Downie added: "Given the relatively small amounts of money the sector relies on, an increase in funding is not necessarily required to improve things.
"We know it's possible to provide more stability and security to third sector bodies with more straightforward funding processes and three or five year awards.
"SCVO has been calling for funders to commit to long-term funding for decades. It's time to move on from empty promises to actual solutions."
A spokesman for the Scottish government said it was supporting Scotland's "strong and dynamic third sector".
He said: "We have protected core funding for the sector of £24.5m next year, an investment in prosperity and social cohesion across the country.
"We will continue to work in partnership with the sector to ensure our support continues to be effective. We will continue to work in partnership with the sector to ensure our support continues to be effective.
"Last week, for the first time, we announced three year rolling funding from our Equalities budget. That will give organisations more financial security and enable better planning for the longer term."
Mazembe were held to a 0-0 draw by visiting Confederation Cup holders Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia on Sunday in the second leg of their semi-final to make it 1-1 on aggregate.
The 2015 African Champions League winners progress thanks to the goal scored in the first leg by Ivorian Roger Assale in Tunisia.
Mouloudia Bejaia progressed after they earned a 1-1 draw in Morocco against FUS Rabat after a goalless first leg.
Defender Mohammed Nahiri scored his fifth of the goal the campaign for Rabat after 73 minutes when he scrambled the ball home from close range.
Rabat were on the verge qualifying for the finals when they failed to deal with a free-kick into their area and Faouzi Rahal bundled the ball over the line for the crucial away goal.
The final will be held over two legs in October and November.
"We won't stop! We know everything about you," read one tweet, along with the names and phone numbers of military staff.
Another social media post shows people in uniform in an office, with the picture apparently taken by webcam.
Central Command is part of the US military responsible for regions of the world where combat operations may take place - in this case 20 countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
"In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the CyberCaliphate continues its CyberJihad," says another tweet.
Some of the documents published appear to relate to foreign policy for China and North Korea.
They also say that Islamic State, which also goes by the name ISIS, has infiltrated "networks and personal devices".
It also appears that a YouTube site associated with Central Command was also hijacked - with a picture of a man wearing a scarf and the phrase "I love you Isis" appearing at the top of the page.
A Pentagon official has said the hacking of the U.S. Central Command Twitter feed was an embarrassment but did not appear to be a security threat.
Both the Twitter and YouTube accounts have now been suspended.
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Speaking to reporters he reiterated Moscow's view that the opposition may have carried out last month's deadly attack in the Damascus suburbs.
President Bashar al-Assad has warned it could take about a year to destroy Syria's chemical stockpiles.
The disarmament plan was unveiled by the US and Russia last weekend.
The West wants the deal enshrined in a UN resolution backed by the threat of military force, but Russia - Syria's ally - objects.
Addressing a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Russia's north-western Novgorod region, Mr Putin pointed out that Syria had already made steps to join the international Chemical Weapons Convention.
"These are practical steps which the Syrian government has already made," he said.
"Whether we will manage to see everything through, I cannot say 100%. But everything that we have seen up to now, in recent days, inspires confidence that this is possible and that it will be done."
President Putin insisted it was not proven that the Syrian government was behind the chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta that killed hundreds of people in August.
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"It is clear that (chemical) arms were used... it's just not clear who did it," he said, adding: "We have every reason to believe that it was a provocation."
Damascus - backed by Moscow - has insisted that rebel forces carried out last month's attack.
In an earlier interview with Fox News, Mr Assad said the issue of destroying Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons was "a very complicated operation, technically".
"And it needs a lot of money, some estimates (say) about a billion [dollars].
"So it depends, you have to ask the experts what they mean by quickly. It has a certain schedule. It needs a year, or maybe a little bit more."
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that President Assad was "very serious" about the disarmament plan.
After talks in Syria, he said Damascus would fulfil its commitment to eliminate its chemical weapons by mid-2014.
By Paul WoodBBC News, Turkish-Syrian border
The fighting over Azaz seems to have evolved accidentally, rather than having been part of a long-planned offensive. Still, there is a long record of skirmishing between jihadi militias and FSA brigades for control of the border crossings into Turkey (along with all the lucrative income from smuggling and stealing from aid shipments). Tensions between the two groups have been steadily escalating.
What does this mean for the Syrian revolution? In the long term, the United States and other Western governments might be more willing to support the Free Syrian Army if they see real distance between it and the jihadis. In the short term, if the rebels are fighting each other, they are not fighting the regime.
Clash exposes Syria rebel rifts
Meanwhile, members of the world's chemical weapons watchdog are due to meet on Sunday to discuss the first steps in securing and destroying the Syrian arsenal, AP news agency reported.
Michael Luhan, spokesman for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said the group's executive council would debate the US-Russian plan.
In another development, evidence has emerged of further infighting among rebel groups in Syria.
In the town of Azaz, near the Turkish border, jihadists from the al-Qaeda-linked group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), reportedly clashed with fighters from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Activists said that Isis fighters had overrun the town in what is believed to be one of the biggest confrontations so far between the jihadists and the FSA.
The UK-based pro-opposition group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes erupted after a failed attempt to kidnap a German doctor working in the area.
Turkey closed one of its border gates near Azaz in response to the fighting, Reuters reported.
More than 100,000 people have been killed since Syria's civil war began in early 2011, according to the UN.
Millions have fled the country and millions more have been left homeless.
Weir, who earned 61 caps, announced his diagnosis to raise awareness of the condition for Global MND Awareness Day.
Speaking during a family holiday in New Zealand, Weir, 46, revealed plans to create a charitable foundation to help tackle the debilitating disease.
"I will devote my time towards assisting research... to help my fellow sufferers," he said.
MND - also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's Disease - is a progressive disease. It occurs when specialised nerve cells called motor neurons break down.
Former British & Irish Lion Weir, now an after-dinner speaker, said his health had become a source of concern.
''Over the past few months a number of friends and family have raised concerns surrounding my health," he said.
"I think then, that on this day set to help raise awareness of the condition, I should confirm that I too have Motor Neurone Disease. I should like to take this opportunity to thank the National Health Service in recognising then diagnosing this, as yet, incurable disease.
"I am currently on holiday in New Zealand with Kathy and the boys and when we return, I will devote my time towards assisting research and raising awareness and funds to help support fellow sufferers.
"There are plans in place to create a charitable foundation to help in any way we can and we will share these details with you after our family trip."
Scottish Rugby said in a statement: "Doddie gave distinguished service to the national team for 10 years and has been a terrific ambassador for the sport.
"He is a larger-than-life character and Scottish Rugby will look to support him and the charity initiative he has described."
His former Scotland team-mate Scott Hastings, whose mother-in-law died from the illness in recent years, said he was "in tears" when Weir phoned to tell him about his condition a few weeks ago.
"It is an awful, cruel disease," Hastings told BBC Radio Scotland. "But Doddie, like the rest of his life, has approached everything with a real relish to challenge the disease.
"He's one of the great characters of Scottish rugby."
Craig Stockton, chief executive of MND Scotland, spoke of his sadness at learning of Weir's condition.
"This is devastating news for anyone but especially for someone with a young family and for whom physical fitness has been such an important part of his life," he said.
"It is very brave of him to come forward publicly to share his diagnosis and raise awareness of the illness. MND Scotland will be here to support him and his family and all those affected by MND in Scotland."
Wilfred Isaacs died at Chubbards Cross caravan site in Ilton following a shooting incident.
Charlie Broadway, 23, and William (Billy) Broadway, 18, from Ilton, were charged with murder, attempted murder and possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Both men remain in custody and are due before Yeovil magistrates on Monday.
Five others arrested in connection with the shooting are being questioned by police.
Det Supt Andy Bevan said: "This has been a fast-paced and wide-ranging investigation and I would like to again thank the local communities affected for their patience and support.
"We will continue to have a visible police presence at Chubbards Cross caravan site as this ongoing, complex investigation continues."
He added that forensics teams remained on site and that it would remain closed for the next few days.
Police are still looking for the firearm used in the death, which they believe is a shotgun.
The solar flare - a sudden release of radiation - peaked at 1705 BST on Monday, and was associated with a huge burst of matter.
When these eruptions reach Earth, they can interfere with electronic systems in satellites and those on the ground.
Nasa said this solar explosion - known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) - was not directed at Earth, but it could pass several US spacecraft.
The event on Monday was classified as an "X-class" flare - the most intense type - with a designation of X2.8 (higher numbers denote a stronger flare). It surpassed an X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 hours earlier.
They are the first X-class events to occur this year.
When intense enough, a flare can disturb the Earth's atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing - the radio blackout associated with this flare has since subsided.
CMEs can be even more disruptive because they can send billions of tonnes of solar particles into space. In those cases when very strong eruptions do reach Earth, the charged matter can blow out transformers in power grids.
The so-called Carrington Event of 1-2 September 1859 shorted telegraph wires, starting fires in North America and Europe, and caused bright aurorae (northern and southern lights) to be seen in Cuba and Hawaii.
The CME associated with this flare may pass the Stereo-B and Spitzer spacecraft. The operators of those science missions can choose to put their spacecraft into a "safe mode" to protect the electronics in onboard instruments from being tripped.
Increased numbers of flares are expected at the moment because the Sun's normal 11-year activity cycle is approaching a "high" of activity - known as a solar maximum.
Goode cited injury problems when calling time on his career soon after joining Irish from Wasps in the summer.
But, the 35-year-old signed a three-month contract with fellow Premiership strugglers Newcastle last week.
"Andy's motivation for joining Newcastle is certainly his own," Irish coach Glenn Delaney told BBC Sport.
Bottom-of-the-table Irish host Newcastle on Sunday in the Premiership and Goode could make his Falcons debut.
The former Leicester, Saracens and England three-quarter took advice from Irish's medical staff and his own physician before initially retiring.
"Andy has explained his position pretty clearly in that Dean Richards (Newcastle director of rugby) is the only coach he would come out of retirement for," added Delaney, head of the London Irish's rugby operations.
"They've got a great affinity to each other that goes back a long time. I think Dean has probably leant on that relationship to get him to come (to Newcastle)."
Irish returned to the bottom of the Premiership on Saturday after letting a 14-6 half-time lead slip at Gloucester.
Delaney says Goode's possible Newcastle bow next weekend will not be a distraction.
"It's not something we're particularly concerning ourselves with," he said. "All we can worry about is what we're doing."
Newcastle moved above the Exiles at the weekend after picking up their first win of the season against Bath.
Former Fifa and Interpol adviser Chris Eaton says only "naive or careless players" will be caught.
The BBC obtained the figures from the Gambling Commission's Sports Betting Intelligence Unit (SBIU).
It comes as former Sutton goalkeeper Wayne Shaw is investigated.
Shaw, who resigned from the club on Tuesday, was seen to eat a pie on the bench during Monday's FA Cup defeat by Arsenal, after a bookmaker offered odds of 8-1 that he would do so on camera.
The Gambling Commission and Football Association are now investigating if there was a breach of betting regulations.
Following a Freedom of Information request, the SBIU said it received 53 alerts between 1 August 2014 and 23 December 2016, alleging footballers placed bets on matches.
That figure relates to uncorroborated reports, rather than confirmed instances of rule breaches.
But the Commission also told the BBC that it was looking into more alleged breaches it had identified through its own intelligence work.
The rule came into force on 1 August 2014 as an anti-corruption measure. It applies to anyone involved in football at that level - not just players.
Just a handful of players and officials have been sanctioned to date, but the figures obtained by BBC Sport reveal many more could face punishment.
Eaton said the SBIU alerts primarily concern players that use their own name and account.
They did not include:
"It is the best the Commission can do within its regulatory embrace," Eaton told the BBC. "But it is the tip of an iceberg that stretches well beyond the horizons of the Commission.
"In the absence of a global regulatory model, only naive or careless players will be caught in a tiny national net that is swamped in the massive global web that is sport betting."
The SBIU was established in 2012 under the umbrella of the Gambling Commission. The Commission, which regulates commercial gambling in Great Britain, said the 53 alleged offences relate to betting on any football matches, and are not necessarily specific to a player betting on their own team or a match they were involved in.
However, it refused to divulge any more information on these cases, arguing that to do so could impede its investigations.
Between October and December 2016, 38% of reports on betting activity in sport received by the Commission were football related - the largest percentage - with tennis second on 37%.
The unit worked on the case concerning Burnley midfielder Joey Barton, who received a one-match suspension for breaking Scottish Football Association rules on gambling.
The 34-year-old has also been charged with misconduct, with the Football Association alleging that the midfielder placed 1,260 bets in the past 10 years. He has admitted the charge and is awaiting a personal hearing.
It says it also supported the case involving Frome Town manager Nick Bunyard, who was given a three-year ban and fined £3,000 on 9 November, after placing 45 bets against his own teams.
Aside from the cases involving Barton, other high-profile players have also been found guilty, including:
Scottish League Two club Cowdenbeath have suspended defender Dean Brett after he admitted gambling on football matches, including betting against his own team. The 24-year-old is being investigated by the Scottish Football Association over the alleged 2,787 bets he placed.
Non-league players have also fallen foul of the rules. In March 2016, East Thurrock forward Lewis Smith was given a £23,000 fine and 17-month ban. In July, Ashton United striker Martin Pilkington was suspended for four years for a betting breach.
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Former Frome Town boss Bunyard told BBC Points West last November that the temptation to gamble on football was too great for some footballers.
He said: "Because betting culture in football is so rife, you get dragged along because everyone is doing it. You think: 'No-one else is getting caught, so why would I?'"
The previous rules outlined that participants were prohibited from betting on a match or competition in which they were involved that season, or could influence.
Under new guidelines, gambling on any worldwide football activity was prohibited, including betting on manager appointments and player transfers.
Darren Bailey, the FA's director of football governance and regulation, said: "This betting rule change to encompass all aspects of world football provides a simple, clear and straightforward message to all participants concerned, on where the line is drawn."
Former FA general secretary Alex Horne said at the time: "We are really proud of the integrity of the game in this country and it is really important people trust... what is happening on the pitch.
"We want to keep our message as simple as possible - and it cannot be more simple that, as a player, you cannot bet at all on football."
Many people expressed alarm on social media when the "Breaking News" logo flashed up 11 times during the show.
BBC News at Six and Ten editor Paul Royall said a "technical systems crash" caused the four-minute delay.
Edwards later tweeted a photo of a can of beer, saying he was "going to enjoy this little beauty" after the bulletin.
Some viewers used the #bbcnewsten Twitter hashtag to make light of the glitch.
Royall explained that the delay was due to a technical systems crash that happened seconds before the News at Ten was due to air, adding that "hats off" were due to Edwards.
"Director had to switch to back-up system ASAP", he said.
Viewers on BBC One were played saxophone music for part of the delay, while on iPlayer an announcer apologised for the glitch.
The BBC News Channel continued to broadcast Edwards live in the TV studio.
At 22:04 BST, Edwards wished viewers a good evening and said: "A few technical problems tonight for which we apologise".
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The Public Service Pensions Bill aims to move pensions to a model based on average earnings with the public sector pension age linked to the state pension age.
It may affect teachers, civil servants and health, fire and police employees.
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the state retirement age would go up to 68 sometime in the mid-2030s.
The further consideration stage passed following a lengthy debate on 20 amendments put forward by the SDLP, Sinn Féin, the Green Party and the TUV.
Sinn Féin amendments aimed at giving the assembly flexibility in relation to any further changes made at Westminster concerning pension age were not voted through.
North Antrim MLA Daithi McKay explained why his party was calling for this.
"It is crucial that we have a devolutionary role in terms of the accountability of the age for pensions and we should not hand that over en masse to Westminster," he said.
"The main issue for me, and for our party, is that you're almost giving a blank cheque to the Westminster government by ensuring that any future increases in the state pension (age) automatically becomes the norm here."
The DUP East Antrim MLA Sammy Wilson disagreed.
"If we deviate from the legislation and from the provisions in the rest of the UK, we will pay for it out of the public purse and out of the block grant," he said.
Judith Cochrane of the Alliance Party said the Sinn Féin amendments would essentially delete the linkage of scheme pension age to state pension age and in doing so, would "move the bill away from its intended outcome".
Ulster Unionist Leslie Cree said he too would be voting against these amendments.
The Green Party leader Steven Agnew was more supportive. He said special considerations needed to be taken into account for certain professions such as prison officers and paramedics.
"We do have to weigh up the costs but we do have to, through devolution, make our own choices in Northern Ireland," he said.
Finance Minister Simon Hamilton said he had yet to hear any strong argument why particular employees should be treated more generously.
He also raised concerns over cost and said his department would not pay to make up any shortfall if the amendments seeking flexibility were passed.
"HM Treasury will not, or indeed why should they, foot the financial bill for more generous public service pension provision in Northern Ireland compared to the rest of the UK," he said.
Amendments proposed by the TUV leader Jim Allister which sought to address the "inequality" in regard to widows of police officers retaining lifelong benefits were voted through.
Mr Allister explained that under a new scheme, passed in 2009, the widowed spouse or partner of a police officer could remarry and retain their pension.
However, before this was introduced, a police widow who remarried lost their pension.
He said his amendment would "apply the same rights" for all police widows as it "makes no distinction or discrimination".
A joint SDLP and Green Party amendment which called for representation from a recognised trade union on pension boards did not pass.
Mossack Fonseca is also to close offices in the Isle of Man and Gibraltar, it said.
More than ten million documents from the firm have shed light on how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth.
The company said the leak was partly behind its decision to quit the island.
Jersey, where the company has had a small office for 20 years, was mentioned many times in the leaked documents.
The outpost acted as a go-between for customers and Mossack Fonseca's Panamanian HQ.
Three of the biggest banks involved were based in the Channel Islands. One Jersey-based private bank, Coutts and Trustees, had over 900 listings in the papers.
The company thanked staff at the three affected offices for their "loyal and sterling" service.
Officially this is being described as part of a consolidation of its branch network.
The firm admits that the change is connected with what it calls its 'head office data intrusion'. It describes having to close the offices as a matter of 'great regret'.
At its peak, Mossack Fonseca's global network extended to more than 40 countries.
The services offered by include incorporating and administering companies in offshore jurisdictions, and wealth management.
The Tories claim 94% of working households are better off under the tax and benefit changes coming into effect.
Labour's Ed Balls claimed average families were £1,100 a year worse off since 2010, including Monday's changes.
Both parties say their rivals have secret plans to raise taxes if they win the general election.
The Lib Dems, meanwhile, are angry with the Conservatives for claiming credit for an increase in the personal income tax allowance, which they say they had to force Tory ministers to accept.
The personal allowance - the amount someone can earn before they are taxed - has gone up from £10,000 to £10,600.
The Tories and Lib Dems have both said they want it to go up to £12,500 by 2020, but senior Lib Dem David Laws said his party would implement this "far faster".
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Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, speaking in Leeds, said Britain could not afford five more years of the Tories.
"Families are £1,100 a year worse off on average - that is the true cost of a Tory chancellor," he said, citing independent figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies which he said supported his case.
He said the IFS figures took into account all of the changes David Cameron and his government had introduced since May 2010 up until Monday, including the change to the personal allowance. The IFS "also exposes how families with children have been hit hardest", he added.
"Their damning conclusion is that low-income households with children lose the most as a percentage of their income from changes implemented by the coalition.
"While millions are paying more, we know that millionaires are paying less."
He repeated Labour's claim that a Conservative government would increase VAT to make their sums add up - something denied last month by David Cameron.
The Conservatives claim Labour would be forced to increase National Insurance contributions to pay for their spending plans.
By Carole Walker, BBC Conservative Campaign Correspondent
David Cameron and George Osborne will both be out campaigning in the South West on the day tax changes affecting millions of voters take effect.
Mr Cameron will be meeting some carefully selected voters who will benefit from the changes. The opposing parties are already hurling conflicting statistics over how many of us have gained or lost under the outgoing government.
The apparent contradictions reflect the fact that the opposing parties are choosing different figures. So Mr Cameron will point out that more than 90% of working households will be better off under the changes which come in today, largely due to the rise in the amount we can earn before we pay tax.
Labour has countered that families are on average £1,100 a year worse off because of the tax and welfare changes since 2010; much of this is due to benefit cuts.
David Cameron will say there is not just an economic case but a moral case for low taxes, saying this goes to the heart of what he believes in as a Conservative.
But in an apparent acknowledgement that many people do not yet feel they are benefitting from the upturn in the economy, he will say: "I don't just want people to see Britain's recovery on the TV or hear it on the radio, I want them to feel it in their lives."
He'll claim that today's changes will help that to happen.
Few of us want to hand over more of our earnings in taxes, but as we saw in last week's television debate, some of his political rivals are mounting strong arguments that taxes should be raised for higher earners.
There is another flipside to the commitment to low taxes. The Tories need to save £30bn to eliminate the deficit by 2017/18 and if they won't put up taxes, all the money will have to come from spending cuts.
They have said they will save £5bn by cracking down on tax avoidance, £13bn from departmental spending and £12bn from welfare. But there remain big unanswered questions on which benefits and which government projects will have to be axed.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg blasted Labour's policies as "economically illiterate", but also warned that Chancellor George Osborne was "a very dangerous man" because of his plan to balance the books by spending cuts alone.
One of the biggest changes coming into force on Monday is the relaxation of pension rules, so that those with a defined contribution pension "pot" can take out as much as they like when they reach the age of 55.
Liberal Democrat Pensions Minister Steve Webb said the principle was to trust people with their own money - but he urged people to seek advice and not rush into any decisions.
This election issue includes income tax and national insurance levies and business taxes.
Labour's pensions spokesman Gregg McClymont welcomed the "flexibility" in the new system but voiced concerns the pensions industry was "finding it difficult to adapt so quickly to such a big change".
Other changes coming into effect include a higher limit on ISA savings, the Marriage Tax Allowance, a 2.5% increase in the state pension, the abolition of employer National Insurance on under 21-year-olds and the scrapping of the 10p tax band on savings. Working age benefit increases have also been capped at 1%.
The Conservatives have produced Treasury figures suggesting 94% of households will be better off under the changes, with 92% of pensioner households also gaining. The figures do not include workless households.
In his speech, Prime Minister David Cameron will say: "Today is a big day for our country. It's 'money-back Monday' - a day when, quite simply, hardworking taxpayers get to keep more of their own cash."
He will add that as a result of Conservative action - including raising the personal allowance - "our country becomes a better and fairer place to live… where those who put in, get out; where hard work is rewarded; and people are trusted."
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The first minister has written to Prime Minister David Cameron and the five candidates bidding to replace him following last week's vote for Brexit.
Ms Sturgeon said it was "imperative" the UK government respected the rights of Scotland's 173,000 EU citizens.
The UK backed leaving the EU, but in Scotland 62% voted to remain.
Ms Sturgeon has held a series of meetings with senior EU officials after pledging to do all she can to protect Scotland's position in Europe.
Her demands for guarantees on EU nationals comes ahead of a meeting with consuls-general of EU member states and diplomats at her official residence, Bute House in Edinburgh, on Tuesday.
Ms Sturgeon said: "Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay in Europe, yet citizens of EU countries who live, work and contribute to our country are understandably anxious and uncertain about what the UK referendum result means for them and their families.
"People from EU countries are an important part of Scotland's future. I am therefore seeking immediate guarantees from the prime minister, and all Conservative leadership candidates, that the residency status and the other existing rights of the 173,000 EU nationals living in Scotland will remain unchanged, now or in the future.
"This is a commitment that can and should be made and enforced now.
"It is imperative that the UK government respects those who have exercised their treaty rights and chosen to make a life in Scotland.
"Scotland is still firmly in the EU and we are pursuing all options to maintain our EU status - something that I underlined in my meetings in Brussels in the last few days."
She added: "Through the consular network I want to get the message out as far and as wide that we are an inclusive and outward-looking society that recognises the immense contribution EU citizens make to Scotland's economy, society and culture."
Ms Sturgeon said she would listen to suggestions on how the Scottish government could provide further reassurance to EU citizens in Scotland.
Those studying or starting a course this year have already been told they will receive free tuition in Scotland for the duration of their studies despite the Brexit vote.
David Cameron already moved to reassure European citizens living in the UK that there will be no immediate changes in their circumstances.
But he said final clarification would be a matter for the complex Brexit negotiations which lie ahead.
Meanwhile, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has called for a joint EU, UK and Scottish government statement to reassure universities and research institutions about the future of EU funding.
He said: "Research can be years in the planning. Already there has been speculation that researchers from the UK will be sidelined or excluded from taking part in new projects.
"To maintain confidence and avoid any confusion we need a joint statement from the EU, UK and Scottish governments to be issued immediately to all funding bodies, research institutions and universities.
"This would provide immediate and valuable reassurance."
It unwraps the visible parts of the sphere on to a flat projection, giving another view of the features that have started to emerge in recent days.
Evident are the light and dark patches at the equator, including one long dark band being dubbed "the whale".
The US space agency's (Nasa) New Horizons probe is now less than seven days away from its historic flyby.
It is due to pass over the surface of the dwarf planet at a distance of less than 13,000km, grabbing a mass of images and other kinds of scientific data.
The pictures at that point will be pin sharp, showing targets on the surface of the 2,300km-wide body at a resolution of better than 100m per pixel.
In the map on this page, the features are much less resolved. The images from which it was made were acquired between 27 June and 3 July.
They are a combination of shots from the probe's high-resolution, "black and white" camera, Lorri, and its lower-resolution, colour imager known as Ralph.
The whitish area in the centre covers the face of the dwarf planet that will present itself to New Horizons at closest approach.
To the east is the spotty terrain that has generated most discussion so far. Quite what these blobs represent is unclear. Each one is a few hundred km across.
Cradled in the whale's "tail", on the far left of the map, is something that looks like a doughnut. It could be a impact crater or a volcano, although at this resolution any interpretation remains pure speculation.
New Horizons has recovered from its weekend hiccup, in which the probe tripped itself into a protective safe mode and dropped communications with Earth for over an hour.
Engineers say they understand the cause of the computer glitch. This particular type of error, they stress, has now been ruled out for the probe's next few historic days.
As of Wednesday, New Horizons was less that 7.5 million km from Pluto.
It is moving at nearly 14km/s - far too fast to go into orbit on 14 July. Instead, it must gather as much information as it can while it sweeps past not just Pluto, but its five moons as well: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.
The flyby occurs on the 50th anniversary of the first successful American pass of Mars by the Mariner 4 spacecraft.
By way of comparison, New Horizons will gather 5,000 times as much data at Pluto than Mariner did at the Red Planet.
New Horizons' difficulty is getting all that information back to Earth. The distance to Pluto is vast - more than 4.5 billion km - and this makes for very low bit rates.
It is likely to take 16 months to play back every piece of science acquired over the next week.
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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Francis hosted a lunch for the poor in the town of Assisi, the birthplace of his namesake, a 13th Century saint.
"Many of you have been stripped by this savage world," he said. "[It] does not give employment [and it] does not care if there are children dying of hunger."
The pontiff has been in talks about a programme of reform for the Vatican.
He has said he wants today's Catholic Church to resemble Francis of Assisi's "Church of the poor".
The Pope arrived to cheering crowds and later spoke to guests at a lunch in the Caritas reception centre.
Francis was visibly moved when he heard the stories of some of the poor people in the room.
"[The world] does not care if so many families have nothing to eat," he said.
Thousands of people gathered for Mass in front of the Basilica of Saint Francis.
"Today is a day for crying," Francis said, referring to the hundreds of deaths feared in the sinking of a migrant boat off the island of Lampedusa.
He said the world "did not care about those fleeing poverty and hunger, who seek freedom but instead find death".
One of those in the congregation, Irene Lunghi, described it as "a serious ceremony, simple and also a bit humble, like St Francis himself".
Another member of the audience, Father Dionysus Mintov, said the sinking off Lampedusa was a "terrible tragedy". "The Mediterranean has become a big cemetery," he said. "Men like us, who suffer, they are poor."
The Pope has suggested empty buildings of monastic orders could be used as accommodation for migrants and refugees.
Speaking in a hall where St Francis was said to have thrown off his robes in a gesture of humility, the Pope called on the Catholic Church and its followers to rid themselves of earthly concerns.
"The Church, all of us should divest ourselves of worldliness. Worldliness is a murderer because it kills souls, kills people, kills the Church."
"Without divesting ourselves, we would become pastry-shop Christians, like beautiful cakes and sweet things but not real Christians," he said.
Two days ago Pope Francis told Italian newspaper La Repubblica his namesake had "longed for a poor Church that looked after others, accepted monetary help and used it to help others with no thought of itself".
"Eight hundred years have passed and times have changed, but the ideal of a missionary and poor Church is still more than valid," he said.
Known in Italian as Il Poverello, or the Poor One, St Francis was the son of a wealthy local cloth merchant who scandalised his family when he reached the age of 25 by dumping his expensive clothing and living in sackcloth, ministering to the poor for the rest of his life.
Pope Francis has become known for his candid views - unlike anything heard coming out of the Vatican during recent papacies, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
He wants to see an overhaul of the Church, bringing it closer to ordinary people.
Floods minister Dan Rogerson has admitted "some minor inconsistencies" in figures provided, adding that they have now been "rectified".
The amount of flood spending will reach a new high - but that is only if the government counts partnership funding from local councils.
Labour called the government's clarification "humiliating".
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has been under pressure on the issue after he repeatedly insisted that the coalition was spending money at a record level, a claim also made by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Mr Paterson's deputy Mr Rogerson has published a clarification, saying: "Floods funding is complex, with a number of different income streams including government funding, local levies, and other contributions towards schemes.
"Further analysis has identified some minor inconsistencies in figures previously provided. I regret this was not presented in a consistent way, something I have now rectified."
The clarified figures confirm that, without the partnership funding, the government is spending £2.341 billion in the current spending review (2011-15), compared with £2.371 billion spent in 2007-11.
Only if ministers include a further £148m in partnership funding can the government claim it is spending more than Labour on floods.
Shadow environment secretary Maria Eagle said: "It is humiliating for David Cameron and Owen Paterson that they have finally been forced to reveal that spending on flood protection was not protected when cuts to the Environment Department's budget were made.
"The prime minister must now stop repeating his misleading claim that more is being spent when these new figures reveal that is simply not true."
The disparity was pointed out by Friends of the Earth's Climate Campaigner Guy Shrubsole.
He said the corrected figures were "humiliating for both Paterson and Cameron who have been trumpeting how the government has increased spending on flood defences when the reality is that the budget's been cut".
Mr Shrubsole added: "The new figures raise difficult questions about the misleading information that the prime minister and environment secretary have provided to soothe both Parliament and the public.
"With millions of homes and business at risk from flooding they need to increase the budget and tackle the causes of climate change, which will increase the likelihood of more flooding."
A spokesman for Mr Paterson said: "The corrections do not change the headline figure which is that we are currently spending £2.3bn and that along with the £148m of contributions from partners this is more than was spent in the previous spending review period."
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The hosts, who are unbeaten in the championship and remain on course for a Grand Slam, had James Haskell and Danny Care sin-binned in the second half.
"The boss believes we left some opportunities out there and I fully agree," hooker Hartley said.
"I'm sure there's plenty to work on, discipline being top of the list."
England head coach Eddie Jones said the victory over the defending Six Nations champions showed his side are an improving force, however.
"Our performances have stepped up," the Australian said after his first match in charge of England at Twickenham.
"We probably left 10 to 15 points out there as we couldn't always convert our attacking pressure."
England completely dominated the visitors in the first half but went into the break with a slender 6-3 advantage before breaking loose in the second half.
Two tries in five minutes from Anthony Watson and Mike Brown put the hosts on course for victory against an Ireland team shorn of key players through injury.
With Wales next to visit Twickenham in a fortnight, talk will turn to a possible Grand Slam for the men in white and the chance to end four successive years of finishing as runners-up.
Holders Ireland, on the other hand, have now failed to win any of their opening three matches and are second from bottom of the table with a single point.
The former Australia and Japan boss had riled Ireland in the build-up by suggesting the parents of fly-half Jonathan Sexton, who has a history of concussion problems, should be concerned for his welfare.
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But with England's next opponents Wales, whose coach Warren Gatland is renowned for pre-match mind games, Jones said: "I'm putting a self-imposed media ban on myself before the Wales game.
"I will leave that to Warren Gatland, he's pretty good at it."
When asked if he regretted mentioning Sexton's parents, Jones replied: "I don't regret anything. Why would I regret it? Ireland said he had whiplash injuries, not me.
"It's a sideshow - it's finished. The main event is over."
Number eight Billy Vunipola was a destructive force, his barnstorming bursts punching holes in Ireland's defence and creating space for his team-mates.
Of the Saracens player, Jones said: "Vunipola was great. He just loves playing rugby. He loves the team environment and loves playing for England."
Former England captain Chris Robshaw also praised Vunipola's impact.
"Over the last year he has really stepped his game up," said Robshaw. "Before that he was a great player. Now he has gone to another level.
"If he keeps playing like that he is going to be pretty special."
The 41-year-old victim was attacked by a group in Castlebay Street, in the Milton area, at about 19:30 on Tuesday.
Police said the attackers then made off in three cars which were seen being driven erratically from the scene.
Detectives have appealed for information over the attack which they described as "completely unprovoked". They have not ruled out that the victim was targeted for some reason.
Det Con Geraldine Josey said: "It may well be that this man was targeted for some reason, however, it does seem to have been a completely unprovoked attack.
"I am keen to hear from anyone who may have been in Castlebay Street around this time and who can help us trace those involved in this attack."
It is not known how many people were involved in the attack.
Many Hindus believe cows are sacred and killing them is banned in some states.
Hours after Mr Modi's comments, a Muslim man was reportedly killed by a mob who accused him of transporting beef in his car.
On Wednesday, thousands of Indians took part in protests against rising attacks on Muslims and Dalits (formerly untouchables) by vigilante groups.
The latest victim, a 45-year-old man, was reportedly attacked by more than 100 people in the eastern state of Jharkhand.
Pictures on social media showed him being beaten as meat lay strewn on the road and his car was enveloped by flames. He died in hospital.
Nearly a dozen people have been killed in similar attacks. Targets are often picked based on rumours and Muslims have been attacked for even transporting cows for milk.
On Wednesday, protests under the banner #NotInMyName were held in several Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Allahabad, as well as in London. Gatherings are also planned for later in the week in Chennai city as well as in Toronto in Canada, Boston in the US, and Karachi in Pakistan.
Critics of the government say that ever since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014, cow protection vigilantes have carried out numerous attacks on Muslims and lower caste Indians known as Dalits, for whom beef is a staple.
They have also criticised Mr Modi for not doing enough to condemn the attacks.
On Thursday, Mr Modi told a gathering in his home state Gujarat that killing people in the name of cow protection was "not in keeping with the principles of India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi".
"As a society, there is no place for violence," Mr Modi said, adding that "no person has the right to take the law in his or her own hands".
This is not the first time Mr Modi has commented on the cow vigilante groups.
He had made similar comments in August, but mob lynchings of Muslims accused of eating beef or killing cattle have continued.
A blog post written by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler detailed a litany of instances during her time at the firm.
"What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in,” Uber boss Travis Kalanick said in a statement.
“Anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.”
The controversy is just the latest to surround the company, particularly on issues around the treatment of women at the firm.
Ms Fowler wrote that shortly after joining the San Francisco-based company, her new manager made sexual advances towards her.
She wrote: "He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with.”
After reporting the incident to Human Resources, Ms Fowler said she was told no further action would be taken as it was a “first offense”. She said she was told she should try and join an alternative team at the company.
From here, she goes on to list several instances where she felt poorly treated. She cites data - which the BBC has been unable to verify - that the number of female engineers at the company has plummeted over the past year.
Unlike Google, Apple, Facebook and others, Uber chooses not to disclose figures about diversity at the company.
On Sunday evening, Mr Kalanick responded to the allegations.
"I have just read Susan Fowler's blog.
"It's the first time this has come to my attention so I have instructed Liane Hornsey, our new Chief Human Resources Officer, to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegations.
"We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behaviour at Uber.”
The BBC has attempted to contact several high-profile Uber investors for comment.
Posting on Twitter, Jason Calacanis - an early investor in the firm - wrote: "What she [Ms Fowler] describes is obviously not acceptable. Trust management will take swift action."
The row is bringing concerns over sexism in Silicon Valley once again to the fore - with Ms Fowler's blog post provoking a sense of deja vu for many in the industry.
While Ms Fowler's post was about Uber, several noted on Sunday that her experiences were instantly recognisable to other women working for firms in Silicon Valley and the wider technology industry.
That said, some of the anecdotes detailed in Ms Fowler's 3,000-word post range from the shocking to the farcical.
After making the initial complaint about her manager, she said she was threatened with getting negative performance review scores - making it harder to gain promotions or transfers within the company.
She said she was chastised for keeping email evidence of her complaints.
One of the more bizarre instances involved leather jackets. Ms Fowler described how the team she was on had been promised leather jackets as a thank you for their work, and the team was measured up for the right sizes.
Ms Fowler wrote: "One day, all of the women (there were, I believe, six of us left in the org) received an email saying that no leather jackets were being ordered for the women because there were not enough women in the organisation to justify placing an order.
"I replied and said that I was sure Uber could find room in their budget to buy leather jackets for the, what, six women if it could afford to buy them for over a hundred and twenty men.
"The director replied back, saying that if we women really wanted equality, then we should realise we were getting equality by not getting the leather jackets."
Since being founded in 2009, Uber has gained a reputation as a company that espouses Silicon Valley's so-called "bro" culture of male-dominated, macho work environments.
That view was exacerbated three years ago when Mr Kalanick quipped, in an interview with GQ Magazine, that an on-demand service for women might be called "Boober".
In 2014, Buzzfeed reported that Uber executive Emil Michael had suggested the firm would spend money on digging up dirt on Sarah Lacy, a technology journalist who accused the firm of being misogynistic.
This latest, most detailed critique of the company's working culture is perhaps the most damaging yet.
"When I joined Uber, the organisation I was part of was over 25% women," Ms Fowler wrote.
"By the time I was trying to transfer to another [engineering] organisation, this number had dropped down to less than 6%.
"Women were transferring out of the organisation, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit."
She now works at payments company Stripe, also based in San Francisco.
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The driver circled around the 78-year-old in what officers described as a "sickening twist", before driving off.
The victim was knocked down as he crossed Beacon Lane, in Sedgley, at about 15:30 BST on Thursday.
Officers are appealing for help to track down the driver of a white van and his passenger.
They said a number of witnesses had come forward and the incident was captured on CCTV.
PC Leon Whitmore said the victim was well-known in the area and local people had been left "left very angry, stunned and sickened".
"If the driver didn't have the courage to stop at the scene, he or his passenger need to find some now and call police," he said
"This is their chance to come forward and explain what happened."
Both men are described as being in their 20s and were wearing high-visibility jackets. They left the scene in what is believed to be a white, Renault Kangoo van, police said.
The vehicle was missing two wheel trims and had a large custom-fitted lock on the rear doors.
The unofficial event was organised by rebel cheese rollers, after plans for an official contest were axed in 2010.
Several thousand spectators turned out to watch thrill-seekers chase an 8lb (3.5kg) wheel of double Gloucester cheese down the 1:2 gradient hill.
All four races were won by cheese-chasers from the Brockworth area, who once again chased real cheese.
In 2013, in a bid to make the race safer, revellers had to chase a foam imitation of a double Gloucester 656ft (200m) down the hill at Brockworth.
The fake fromage was then binned again in favour of a real wheel of cheese.
In total, four 8lb (3.5kg) and three smaller 3lb (1.5kg) cheeses were used - made by Smarts Cheese, which has been producing them for the event for more than 25 years.
The winner of the first race was Chris Anderson, from Brockworth, who won a second double Gloucester cheese bringing his tally to 15 cheeses in ten years.
The second men's race was won for the third year running by local veteran cheese chaser, Ryan Fairley, 25, from Brockworth.
"I took a bit of a tumble... I had a plan where I was going to go but it didn't happen."
The women's race was won by first timer Keavy Morgan, 16, also from Brockworth.
Cheese rolling dates back to at least the early 19th Century.
In 2009, the official event was scrapped 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.
The change was agreed by swimming's world body Fina last week, prompting Vitaly Mutko, Russia's former sports minister, to ask: "What is the point?"
He also suggested that the Russian Swimming Federation will still refer to the sport by the previous name.
An online petition also had nearly 9,000 signatures on Thursday morning.
Mutko added: "To keep the name synchronised swimming is our right, and if the [Russian Swimming] Federation itself, the coaches will want it, we will do it."
But Fina's executive chairman Cornel Marculescu said the decision will stand.
"Nothing changes, only the name, I don't see any great difficulty with that," he said. "I understand the commentary of Mr Mutko but it's no problem, we talk about the same sport anyhow."
Fina's congress voted to change the name to attract a wider audience to a sport that has recently expanded to include male competitors, and Marculescu says it will give the sport "another dimension".
However, an online petition on Change.org states that "the name change will be more of a deterrent to males than a calling card".
Those behind the idea describe it as a "What's Where" and "Who's Who" website which brings the region's creative industry together in one place.
Website users will be able to search it to find individuals, organisations, businesses and places to visit.
They will also be able to find local listings and news websites.
The map was commissioned and funded by Dumfries and Galloway Council, Creative Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway's Leader programme.
The 28-year-old joined Movistar in 2013 after two years with Team Sky and broke the world hour record in 2015.
He won an individual time trial stage at the 2013 Giro d'Italia but only rode one other Grand Tour, the 2015 Tour de France, with the Spanish team.
"It's so exciting for me to join this team," said Dowsett.
"I had five amazing seasons with Movistar but it is time for a change - Katusha-Alpecin will not regret this transfer."
Dowsett, who won the most recent of his record five British time trial titles in 2016, said he hoped to be part of the lead-out train for German sprinter Marcel Kittel, who will also join Katusha next season after leaving Quick-Step Floors.
"I will continue to focus on my time trial but also all other races, especially stage races, including the Grand Tours, are important for me," said Dowsett, whose hour record was subsequently broken by Bradley Wiggins.
"In my period with Team Sky, I was one of the riders to protect Mark Cavendish and bring him to the last kilometre - I hope to do the same now with Marcel Kittel."
Katusha have also signed American Ian Boswell from Team Sky and Australian Nathan Haas from Team Dimension Data for the 2018 season, while Norwegian sprinter Alexander Kristoff will depart for Team UAE Emirates.
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Chasing an improbable 474, the home side were bowled out for 133, as only Alastair Cook (42) offered any prolonged resistance.
Vernon Philander and Keshav Maharaj took three wickets, while Chris Morris and Duanne Olivier claimed two apiece.
The four-match series is level at 1-1, with the third Test at The Oval beginning on 27 July.
England and new captain Joe Root have much to ponder for that game, specifically the make-up of their top order and whether or not to retain left-arm spinner Liam Dawson.
For South Africa, who have not lost a series in this country since 1998, this is a first win at Trent Bridge for 52 years, in the process becoming the first touring side to win a Test on this ground for a decade.
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A seventh defeat in 10 Tests is a horrible statistic for England, although the mitigating circumstance is that seven of those matches were played in unfamiliar subcontinental surroundings.
However, a problem going further back is a weakness when batting second. In the past 10 matches when England have fielded first, they have won only once, a run going back to 2015.
In that time, they have been unable to settle on a top-order line-up and batting was once again their undoing in this match.
Realistically, the game was lost when they were bowled out for 205 in the first innings, but the second-innings capitulation, in less than two sessions under warm sunshine, was feeble.
Though the Trent Bridge surface was showing signs of wear, perhaps only Gary Ballance can say the conditions contributed to his demise.
Keaton Jennings was bowled by Philander, leaving a huge gap between bat and pad, while Ballance's stride back towards the stumps left him exposed when the same bowler got one to keep low.
The ugliest dismissal belonged to Jonny Bairstow, who tried to hit left-arm spinner Maharaj over the top and was held at mid-on.
The strokes of Moeen Ali and Stuart Broad were nearly as poor, with both men caught playing sweep shots.
The last five wickets went down for 11 runs, the last three without an addition to the score.
Paceman Olivier got numbers 10 and 11 - Mark Wood and James Anderson - in successive balls. England lost all 10 wickets in the space of 38.4 overs.
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South Africa were humbled by 221 runs in the first Test, but looked galvanised by the return of captain Faf du Plessis, who was absent at Lord's following the birth of his child.
Their batting showed greater discipline than the home side, while their bowling was relentless and penetrative.
Philander was a menace with the new ball, relying on accuracy and movement rather than pace, but the most impressive moments of the day were conjured by Morris.
Bowling with extreme pace, he first uprooted Root's off stump with a searing away-swinging yorker, then produced a vicious bouncer to remove the usually unflappable Cook.
All of this was achieved without suspended paceman Kagiso Rabada, who will return at The Oval to strengthen a Proteas side that has been vastly superior in Nottingham.
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Ex-England batsman James Taylor: "For Joe Root there are two ways to go about it. You either give them an absolute roasting, give them a right telling off, or let the dust settle and gather them tomorrow.
"It will be quite an awkward dressing room. They have let themselves down and a lot of people down."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "Last week Joe Root couldn't do anything wrong but here there have been questions asked tactically and the team hasn't responded. The pressure is always on the captain but the team have to look at themselves.
"I am speechless. I didn't expect England to get anything out of the game after the first innings but I did expect them to fight today and be batting tomorrow. Don't just fall in a heap."
Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith: "There is talk about changes but are there better players? Do they need another batter?
"The top order have been found wanting and Ballance and Jennings look technically like they will continue to be found wanting. Root has decisions to make."
England captain Joe Root: "It is disappointing. The most important thing is we learn from it. The other day in the first innings the conditions suited bowling. We didn't act quickly enough and were always behind in the game.
"The plan was to go and make big runs and to be in a position where we were still in with a chance of winning at the end of the day. It is very disappointing that we lost the wickets as we did. We have to move on and learn quickly."
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South Africa captain Faf du Plessis: "We did our basics a lot better and put England under pressure for longer periods in the game.
"We played well in periods of the first Test but let England dominate us.
"This Test, we haven't lost that momentum, which is exactly what we wanted to do in this game."
He told ITV's Peston on Sunday that his successor Paul Nuttall was "doing fine" and said UKIP was still needed, to prevent any "back sliding" on Brexit.
Neil Hamilton, UKIP leader in the Welsh Assembly, told the BBC "cosmic forces", not Mr Nuttall were to blame.
Mr Nuttall says UKIP voters who backed the Tories will come back to his party.
UKIP won 3.8 million votes at the last general election in 2015 but, after the UK voted to leave the EU in last year's referendum, many believe that its vote will be badly squeezed on 8 June, with the Conservatives being the main beneficiary.
All the 145 UKIP councillors defending their seats in local elections last week were beaten, although the party did pick up one seat in Burnley.
In Lincolnshire, where Mr Nuttall is standing in the general election in Boston and Skegness, UKIP went from being the official opposition to having no seats at all as the Tories gained 23 seats.
The results prompted the party's former donor Arron Banks - who is no longer a party member - to say it was "finished as an electoral force" under its current leadership.
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But former leader Mr Farage told the ITV show that while Prime Minister Theresa May had adopted many of the arguments he had been making for years - she had failed to deliver on immigration targets in her previous job as home secretary.
"UKIP is going to survive, it has to survive, " he said.
"It's all well and good for Mrs May who gives wonderful speeches and sounds very reassuring, but... UKIP needs to be there in case there is back sliding on Brexit.
"If, in two and a half years' time Mrs May has delivered the kind of Brexit that voters wanted, then I think you can ask the question: What is UKIP's future, where does it go from here?
He said Mr Nuttall, who was elected party leader in November 2016, had been "strong and reassuring" after a "tough" 24 hours following last week's local elections.
"It's difficult for him... because the Conservative Party have taken our agenda, for now. It's also difficult because when you follow on from someone - and I was a dominant, some of my critics would say domineering leader of UKIP - it's always difficult to step into someone else's shoes - he's doing fine."
On BBC One's Sunday Politics, Mr Hamilton said the prime minister was a "very acute tactician" by calling the election now, but said once Brexit negotiations had been concluded "the focus will be on bread and butter issues" and UKIP had domestic policies which "will be popular with ordinary working people".
He said "cosmic forces beyond the control of any individual" were to blame and it was "certainly" not Mr Nuttall's fault: "I think our prospects in the future will be very rosy because I don't believe the Tories will deliver on many of the promises they are now making."
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The Rosetta probe that has been tracking a comet for the past two years is going to deliberately crash itself into the 4km-wide ball of ice and dust.
European Space Agency scientists say the satellite has come to the end of its useful life and they want to get some final, ultra-close measurements.
Rosetta is not expected to survive the impact with Comet 67P.
But even if some of its systems remain functional, pre-loaded software on board will ensure everything is shut down on contact.
Controllers here at Esa's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, commanded Rosetta to change course late on Thursday.
The manoeuvre altered its wide orbit around the duck-shaped icy wanderer and put it on a direct collision course.
It is a 19km descent that should lead to the probe hitting the comet's "head" at roughly walking pace at about 11:20 GMT (12:20 BST/1320 CEST) on Friday.
The crash velocity will be low, less than a metre per second, but Rosetta was never designed to land and so various components will almost certainly be crushed as it dumps down.
"Just to give you an example, if the high-gain antenna is off-pointing by more than half a degree then there is no communication possible anymore," said Esa spacecraft operations manager Sylvain Lodiot.
Goodbye Rosetta: Watch the Sky at Night special this coming Sunday, BBC Four at 2200 BST
Rosetta arrived at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - to give the comet its full name - in August 2014, after a 10-year journey from Earth.
In the 25 months the probe has lived alongside the mountainous object it has acquired more than 100,000 images and instrument readings.
These have provided an unprecedented insight into the behaviour of the comet, its structure and chemistry.
Rosetta even dropped a small robot called Philae on to the surface in November 2014 to gather additional information - a historic first in space exploration.
Comets are thought to be the near-pristine leftovers from the formation of the Solar System, and so all the data sent back from 67P will give scientists a remarkable glimpse into the conditions that existed four and a half billion years ago.
"We're now entering the final stage of the space segment of the mission, if you like. But Rosetta's data will be exploited for decades to come," said Rosetta flight director Andrea Accomazzo.
With 67P currently 573 million km from the Sun, and moving further away daily, there is now precious little solar power to operate the probe's systems.
Not only that - the data rates associated with that separation have become painfully slow: just 40kbps, akin to dial-up internet speeds.
Rather than put the probe into hibernation or simply let it slowly fade into inactivity, the mission team has determined that the venture should try to go out in style - as bittersweet as that may be.
"We've taken the world on a thrilling scientific journey to the heart of a comet and, in turn, we've seen the world take Rosetta and Philae's amazing adventure into their hearts," Mark McCaughrean, the senior science advisor at Esa, told BBC News.
As the probe heads towards its destructive finale, it will train its cameras on some deep sink holes to try to see inside 67P.
It is in the walls of these pits that the scientists expect to get the highest-resolution images yet of one of Rosetta's key discoveries - the observation that the comet appears to be made up of lumps of material of very similar scale.
"There's a kind of bumpy texture that some people have called 'goose-bumps' and some others have called 'dinosaur eggs'," explained Mark Bentley from the Graz Institute for Space Research, Austria.
"These are features that are about three-ish metres in size. And whilst it's possible that they're produced by some weird and whacky erosion process, it could also be evidence of the sort of building blocks from which the comet has been formed."
It is unclear how many pictures Rosetta will be able to send back to Earth before it crashes. The desire is to despatch images taken from as little as perhaps 15m or 20m from the surface.
All the information will be routed through big radio dishes operated by the US space agency, which has been a partner on the project.
Esa project scientist Matt Taylor said the team had discussed the idea of putting Rosetta to sleep for a few years and then trying to wake it up again when 67P next visited the inner Solar System. But there was no confidence Rosetta would still be working: "It's like one of those 60s rock bands; we don't want to have a rubbish comeback tour. We'd rather go out now in true rock'n'roll style."
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A Santiago Cordero try put the Pumas in front, but Julian Savea, Ben Smith and Beauden Barrett went over to give the hosts a narrow 24-19 lead at the break.
New Zealand dominated the second half with further tries from Smith, Charlie Faumuiana, Luke Romano and two from Ryan Crotty.
The All Blacks are now unbeaten in 14 games stretching back to August 2015.
With their third win out of three, the victory kept the world champions on track to win the southern hemisphere championship for the fourth time in five years.
The Pumas have never beaten their illustrious hosts but they made a statement of intent as Cordero dived under the posts in the opening passage of play at the Waikato Stadium.
Their lead was short-lived, however, with wing Savea equalling Australian David Campese's record of nine tries against Argentina when he also went under the posts.
The visitors continued to ask questions, and two penalties from Nicolas Sanchez handed them a 13-7 lead before Smith broke away to restore some order.
Barrett then took advantage of a kind bounce from a Smith kick to go over the line as the home side got their noses in front at half-time.
The All Blacks were a different proposition after the break and took the game away from the Pumas with four tries and 28 points in a devastating 13-minute spell.
They used their strong bench to good effect with replacements Faumuiana and Romano among those scoring tries.
New Zealand host South Africa and Argentina travel to Australia in next Saturday's Rugby Championship fixtures.
New Zealand: B Smith, Dagg, Fekitoa, Crotty, J Savea, Barrett, A Smith, Moody, Coles, Franks, Retallick, Whitelock, Kaino, Cane, Read (c).
Replacements: Taylor, Crockett, Faumuiana, Romano, A Savea, Peranana, Cruden, Lienert-Brown.
Argentina: Tuculet, Moroni, Orlando, Hernandez, Cordero, Sanchez, Landajo, Tetaz, Creevy (c), Herrera, Petti, Alemanno, Matera, Orgeta Desio, Isa.
Replacements: Montoya, Noguera, Pieretto, Kremer, Senatore, Cubelli, Gonzalez, Moyana.
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council have given planning permission for Royal Victoria Place to be extended by about 173, 000 sq ft.
It will see the corner of Calverley Road and Camden Road redeveloped and the refurbishment of the historic former Friendly Societies building.
Developers hope to make the centre a major "retail and leisure destination".
Three buildings in the conservation area on Calverley Road and Camden Road will be demolished to make way for the extension.
The M23 rebel commander told a crowd in Goma they were ready to topple President Joseph Kabila.
The rebels have also taken a small town near Goma, which is on the road to the region's other main city, Bukavu.
Meanwhile, Mr Kabila is holding crisis talks with his Rwanda and Ugandan counterparts.
In a joint statement, the three - Mr Kabila, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda - called on the M23 to "immediately stop [its] offensive and pull out of Goma".
In Bukavu, the city about 230km (143 miles) south of Goma which the rebels say they also intend to capture, there have been protests about the government's - and the UN's - perceived military failings.
The rebel threat has renewed fears that the 1997-2003 war in DR Congo, during which some five million people died, could reignite.
Last month, a UN panel of experts accused Uganda and Rwanda, both neighbours of DR Congo, which is the size of western Europe, of backing the M23 rebel group.
When the rebels entered Goma on Tuesday, they apparently faced little resistance from government and UN troops.
On Wednesday the UN defended its actions in preceding days, saying it had fired hundreds of rockets at the rebels in an effort to block their advance on Goma, the main city in eastern DR Congo with a population of about a million.
In Goma, M23 spokesman Lt Col Vianney Kazarama addressed a crowd at a football stadium in the city.
"Do you want us to march to Kinshasa?" he said, and the crowd shouted back: "Yes!"
The M23 rebel group, which was formed in April following an army mutiny, said it had added 2,000 fighters to its ranks from former Congolese soldiers who came to the stadium, as well as 700 policemen.
Lt Col Kazarama said that "the journey to liberate [DR] Congo has started now".
He said they were "going to move on to Bukavu and then to Kinshasa", which is about 1,600km from Goma.
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Simone Schlindwein, a reporter for the German newspaper TAZ, who is now in Sake - the town 27km outside Goma which has also fallen to the rebels - says she saw the bodies of several Congolese soldiers on the way there, an abandoned tank and bombs and grenades lying around.
In Bukavu, the offices of the ruling party have been burnt down by protesters angered by the government's and UN's inability to protect them.
Jean-Christophe Pegon, of the European Commission's humanitarian department (Echo) based in Bukavu, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme it reached a point when "police forces had to use live ammunition against demonstrators" to disperse them.
"It was both against the M23 and the regime of Kabila - it seems they were parading with a dead dog wearing the hat of the ruling party and chanting: 'Dead dog Kabila'," Mr Pegon said.
The UN, which has about 19,000 troops in DR Congo, says it has received reports that the rebels have abducted women and children from Goma. Killings and looting have also been reported.
The UN Security Council has adopted unanimously a resolution condemning the rebel seizure of Goma and calling for sanctions against M23 leaders.
In its resolution, the Security Council demanded an end to foreign support - seen as a reference to Rwanda and Uganda - for the rebels.
However, both countries have denied that they are arming the rebels whose rebellion has displaced some 500,000 people since April.
President Kabila has urged the Congolese nation to "resist" the rebels and said "war had been imposed" on the country.
President Kabila took power following the assassination of his father, Laurent, in 2001.
About four years earlier, Laurent Kabila had taken power in Kinshasa after marching from the east with rebel forces backed by Rwanda and Uganda.
Mr Kabila later fell out with his regional allies.
The 23-year-old Sengalese forward has joined a Sangrounders side that are bottom of the table.
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Coly is available for the league game against fellow strugglers Torquay United on Saturday.
Mr David is one of seven Welsh Labour MPs who attended the launch of Owen Smith's campaign to challenge Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday.
The former UK government minister said Mr Smith had more support in the parliamentary party than Ms Eagle.
He said it would be "better" if only one candidate ran against Mr Corbyn.
Mr Smith said he believed only one challenger to Mr Corbyn should appear on the final leadership ballot, decided by "whoever is the person who commands the largest degree of support in the PLP".
But Ms Eagle told the Andrew Marr show she thought she was most likely to beat Mr Corbyn, adding: "We're not going to do a deal here on your sofa."
She has said she can provide the leadership "in dark times for Labour" that Mr Corbyn cannot.
As well as Mr David, Labour MPs Nick Smith, Gerald Jones, Carolyn Harris, Nick Thomas-Symonds, Christina Rees and Chris Elmore were at the Pontypridd MP's event at Coleg y Cymoedd in Nantgarw.
Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens, who had been loyal to Mr Corbyn's leadership, has also backed Mr Smith.
Brendan Toomey, Merthyr Tydfil council leader, has also offered his support, as has Lee Waters, AM for Llanelli, and former Rhondda AM Leighton Andrews.
"It would be better if there was only one candidate against Jeremy," Mr David told BBC Wales.
"I believe that Owen has more support amongst the Parliamentary Labour Party and it is growing by the hour.
"But I very much hope that Angela will step aside... as soon as possible."
Mr David said he thought Mr Smith's message "offered a unifying way forward for the Labour party".
"Everything he said people could relate to and understand. It is tapping into people's own experiences," he added.
At the launch, Mr Smith vowed to rewrite part of Labour's constitution to put tackling inequality at its heart.
He said Labour must strive to reduce the gap between "haves and have-nots", with all policies tested against that benchmark.
Mr Jones, MP for Merthyr Tydfil, said: "Owen's got the passion, the drive, the determination, the appeal to be the leader of our party and the leader for our country as well - somebody who can bring unity back into the party."
Nick Smith said winning his own seat of Blaenau Gwent was important "but we've also go to win Cardiff North, the Vale of Glamorgan - we've got to win all those seats going up the M4 from Swindon to Reading and all the rest of it.
"We've got to have a majority to win the UK government. I think Owen Smith can do that."
There is currently some disagreement over whether Article 50 would need to come before Parliament.
But former journalist Baroness Wheatcroft said if it did, "the Lords might actually delay things".
The government has previously stated that Article 50 could be triggered through use of the royal prerogative.
Speaking to The Times, the former editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Sunday Telegraph said that she hoped delays in the Lords of any potential Brexit legislation would lead to a second referendum.
A legal challenge on whether the government can trigger Article 50 without the authorisation of Parliament will be heard in the High Court in the autumn.
Lady Wheatcroft said that she did not want the Lords to stand in the way of the UK leaving the EU at the moment, but added: "However, if it comes to a bill, I think the Lords might actually delay things. I think there's a majority in the Lords for remaining."
Asked whether she would support peers delaying Brexit legislation she said: "Yes I would.
"And I would hope, while we delayed things, that there would be sufficient movement in the EU to justify putting it to the electorate, either through a general election or a second referendum."
Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted that "Brexit means Brexit" and that her focus is on securing the best possible deal for the UK outside the EU.
Lord Bridges of Headley, Minister for Exiting the EU, told peers in July: "The government's position is that there is no legal obligation to consult Parliament on triggering Article 50", since "it affects the position in international law and not in domestic law".
Constitutional historian and Conservative Lord Norton of Louth told the BBC that even if the courts find that it is not a prerogative power, "it would be wholly inappropriate for either House to try to prevent the government from implementing the result of the referendum".
Ben Butler, 36, inflicted catastrophic head injuries upon Ellie while looking after her at their home in Sutton, south-west London, in October 2013.
He was also found guilty of child cruelty over a shoulder injury, as was Ellie's mother Jennie Gray.
He was jailed for a minimum of 23 years. Gray was jailed for 42 months.
Gray, a graphic designer, had admitted perverting the course of justice.
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Following the guilty verdict at the Old Bailey, Butler shouted out: "I'll fight for the rest of my life - unbelievable," before adding: "I want to be sentenced now so I can fight in the Appeal Court."
He added: "I will fight forever to prove this wrong. My daughter was jumping in the house. I'm 100% not guilty."
Gray said: "Big mistake. Spend another 10 years proving you wrong."
Butler was convicted in 2009 for shaking Ellie as a baby, although this was later quashed on appeal.
The couple then won a High Court judgement to have Ellie returned to their care in 2012.
Mrs Justice Hogg had sided with Butler despite objections from police, social services and Ellie's maternal grandfather, Neal Gray.
At the time, Mr Gray - who had cared for Ellie since she was a baby - had allegedly warned the judge she would have "blood on your hands".
A serious case review found Sutton Children Services felt "powerless to act" following the High Court's ruling.
It found Mrs Justice Hogg's ruling in the Family Court went much further than simply quashing Butler's previous conviction and had exonerated him, as, in her eyes, he was a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
That had the effect of telling social services to "back off" - despite social workers' concerns about returning Ellie to her parents, the review concluded.
A spokesman for the Judiciary said: "If a judge errs in law or on the facts, the remedy is to appeal."
To refer a judge's decision to an extra-judicial body would be incompatible with the principle of judicial independence."
Alex Clark, headteacher of Avenue Primary Academy in Sutton which Ellie attended for 10 months before she died, said school staff had concerns about the family and had offered the parents help which they did not accept.
He said Butler and Gray would not meet teachers to discuss why Ellie had missed periods from school.
"Generally, they were very difficult to work with. When we asked questions they sometimes became angry and defensive and on two occasions Jennie Gray made reference to her solicitor.
In sentencing Butler, Judge Mr Justice Wilkie told him: "You are a self-absorbed, ill-tempered, violent and domineering man who... regarded your children and your partner as trophies, having no role other than to fit in with your infantile and sentimentalised fantasy of family life with you as the patriarch whose every whim was to be responded to."
Jurors were told Butler battered his daughter to death in a volcanic loss of temper.
He did not call 999 for two hours and instead called Jennie Gray back from work in the City of London.
They then concocted an elaborate plot to destroy evidence and stage the scene of an accidental fall before alerting the ambulance service.
The couple even involved Ellie's younger sibling by sending the child into a room on the pretext of fetching Ellie for cake, jurors were told.
The child can be heard on the 999 call saying Ellie "won't wake up".
Mr Justice Wilkie told a sobbing Gray that she may have been "exceptionally naive and stupid" to believe Butler and take part in the cover-up.
He added: "You played your full part in the grotesque charade that was the 999 call whilst subjecting your dead daughter to the indignity of pointless CPR when you knew full well she had been dead for two hours."
Ellie's grandmother Linda Gray died on 19 April - the first day of the murder trial - but the news was kept from Jennie Gray until sentencing at her father's request.
In a joint statement, written ahead of the trial, Ellie's grandparents said they had struggled to come to terms with the "shock and horror" of her death.
"Ellie was a very beautiful, bubbly and intelligent little girl who always had a smile on her face and even at such a young age she was nobody's fool. She was our life and she gave so much pleasure to us and our family too. How we all miss her."
Without referring directly to their daughter or Butler throughout the statement, they said: "We did not realise that some people could be so wicked."
The court heard harrowing evidence of a toxic family life dominated by a man described in court as "angry, overbearing and manipulative".
Butler had a "volatile temper" which could "explode at any time".
In the months leading up to Ellie's death he sent hundreds of abusive and threatening texts to Gray containing the most obscene and vile language, often directed at Ellie and a younger sibling.
Jurors heard how he frequently beat Gray up and threw her out onto the streets.
A video clip played in court also showed him swearing aggressively on a phone call in the family kitchen in front of Ellie.
Malcolm McHaffie, deputy chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, said: "Ellie Butler was murdered in her home, where she should have felt safe, by her violent father who should have loved and protected her.
"We may never know exactly what happened in the last few hours of Ellie's life, but the CPS built a strong case to show that her death was the result of deliberate violence by Butler."
Born into a well-off family with links to the business and oil sector, Lopez, now 44, was educated in the United States and has a master's degree from Harvard University.
He came to prominence when he was elected mayor of Caracas's Chacao district, a position he held from 2000 to 2008.
While he was barred from running for re-election in the 2008 polls for allegedly misusing public funds, he did not retire from public life.
His supporters say the charges were politically motivated as he was neither convicted nor put on trial over the allegations.
But the BBC's Irene Caselli says Lopez has long been seen as a "problem" - not only by the government but also by some outside observers.
In a 2009 classified cable published by Wikileaks, the political counsellor of the US embassy in Caracas, Robin D Meyer, wrote that Lopez had become a "divisive figure within the opposition".
"He is often described as arrogant, vindictive, and power-hungry - but party officials also concede his enduring popularity, charisma, and talent as an organiser," the US diplomat wrote.
During the protests in 2014, Lopez used social media to found a movement with the hashtag #lasalida, which in Spanish means both "the exit" and "the solution".
The Venezuelan government has indeed been quick in reminding citizens of the part Lopez played in past unrest.
In 2002, parts of the opposition, backed by elite businessmen and some military leaders, briefly removed then President Hugo Chavez - Nicolas Maduro's late predecessor - from power.
The coup came after street protests, in which Lopez took an active role, prompting the government to label him a "coup leader".
But a large sector of Venezuela's middle class identify with Lopez and his strategy, our correspondent says.
"If Leopoldo [Lopez] is attacked by the government, the people will defend him," student leader Daniel Alvarez said last year.
David Smilde, a Caracas-based senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, said Lopez was an appealing figure for people to rally around.
"He is visible, attractive and talks well," he said.
But even if anger at Lopez's conviction manages to unify Venezuela's middle class behind him, he will still be faced with the government's wide base of popular support.
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England were excellent with the ball in Southampton, restricting the Proteas to 142-3 despite a stand of 110 between AB de Villiers and Farhaan Behardien.
Jonny Bairstow made 60 not out off 35 balls and Alex Hales an unbeaten 47 to complete the chase with 5.3 overs left.
The second match of the series is in Taunton on Friday.
Victory would give England a series win to follow a 2-1 success in the one-day internationals that came before the Champions Trophy, where they were beaten in the semi-finals by Pakistan.
Four Tests against South Africa follow the T20s.
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On choosing to bat, South Africa captain De Villiers predicted that the Southampton surface could be on the slow side, but the Proteas' struggle to score was down to the skill of the home attack.
David Willey bowled JJ Smuts with the first ball of the match and the pacy Mark Wood accounted for both Reeza Hendricks and David Miller to leave the visitors 32-3.
Behardien joined De Villiers one delivery into the fifth over and, although they remained together for the rest of the innings, they struggled to accelerate to a total that would test England.
Hampshire leg-spinner Mason Crane, making his international debut, was impressive in the middle overs, squeezing with county colleague and slow left-armer Liam Dawson. Between them they conceded 41 runs from eight overs.
With the bowling backed up by some committed fielding, South Africa were restricted to three fours and four sixes after the six-over powerplay at the beginning of the innings.
Though De Villiers slog-swept two wonderful maximums at the death, he struggled for timing in his 58-ball unbeaten 65 and was outscored by Behardien, who made 64 not out from 52 balls.
If South Africa failed to get to grips with the conditions, England made Southampton look ideal for batting and cantered the chase.
Jason Roy, dropped for the Champions Trophy semi-final after a barren run, got the hosts off to an electric start, taking three fours and a six from one Wayne Parnell over.
Though he was lbw to an unnecessary reverse sweep off Andile Phehlukwayo, Hales and Bairstow pummelled the Proteas' bowling in an unbroken stand of 98 that came in only 10.2 overs.
Hales favoured the leg side, whacking two sixes off Imran Tahir, who received some brutal treatment to concede 37 from three overs, while Bairstow crashed the ball through the off side and hit two sixes down the ground.
As England sprinted towards victory, South Africa fell apart. Behardien's drop at long-on to reprieve Hales was the chaos in microcosm.
A Bairstow ramp for four off Phehlukwayo was a perfect example of England's dominance. Two balls later, a drop-and-run for a single ended what was barely a contest.
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England captain Eoin Morgan: "We were excellent. We took early wickets and they came back hard but we contained them.
"Our spinners were impressive and never let AB and Farhaan get away from us. They managed to tie down one of the best players of our generation and a very good international cricketer."
Man of the match Jonny Bairstow: "I'm trying to progress all the time and I played a few shots I didn't have a few months ago.
"The lads bowled outstandingly well. To take wickets up front is what we wanted and then our spinners tied them down."
South Africa captain AB de Villiers: "It is difficult to sum up the performance. The result doesn't look good for us.
"We lost our way at the start, had to rebuild and we were 20 to 30 runs short in the end, which probably cost us.
"I can't explain why it was so difficult to hit through the line - maybe they got the better of the conditions."
The dead man, who was in his 20s, was treated for serious injuries in the car park in Margate Road, Broadstairs, at about 22:15 BST on Tuesday, but died at the scene.
Two men, aged 20 and 27, were arrested by Kent Police and remain in custody.
A section of the car park remains closed while inquiries continue, a police spokesman said.
Correction 5 October 2016: An earlier version of this story, based on information supplied by Kent Police, reported the incident took place in a Westwood Cross shopping centre car park. We have since been informed this was inaccurate.
Payday loan rates will be capped at 0.8% per day of the amount borrowed, and no-one will have to pay back more than twice the amount they borrowed.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said those unable to repay should be prevented from taking out such loans.
Many payday lenders have already closed down, in anticipation of the new rules, a trade body has said.
And the amount of money being lent by the industry has halved in the past year.
Christopher Woolard, of the FCA, said the regulator had taken action because it was clear that payday loans had been pushing some people into unmanageable debt.
"For those people taking out payday loans, they should be able to borrow more cheaply from today, but also we make sure that people who should not be taking out those loans don't actually get them," he said.
The changes mean that if a borrower defaults, the interest on the debt will still build up, but he or she will never have to pay back interest of more than 100% of the amount borrowed.
There is also a £15 cap on a one-off default fee.
Russell Hamblin-Boone, of the Consumer Finance Association, a trade body for payday lenders, said the landscape of payday lending had changed.
"There will be fewer people getting loans from fewer lenders and the loans they get will no longer be the single payment loans for less than 30 days," he said.
"The loans that are available now will be for three months or more and they will be at slightly higher values as well. Very few loans will be rolled over."
The FCA's research suggests that 70,000 people who were able to secure a payday loan under the previous regulations would be unable to do so under the new, stricter rules.
They represent about 7% of current borrowers.
Mr Woolard argued that only a very small number would seek credit from unregulated loan sharks instead.
He added that the regulator would be monitoring the situation carefully.
He also said that the reforms needed time to bed down before their effect was assessed. There has been some criticism that the initial review is scheduled in two years.
Richard Lloyd, executive director of Which?, said that the changes came "not a moment too soon".
"The regulator has clearly shown it's prepared to take tough action to stamp out unscrupulous practices, and they must keep the new price cap under close review," he said.
"It is now time to turn the spotlight on unfair practices in the wider credit market. We want to see an end to excessive fees that also make it hard to compare different loans, including those charged for unauthorised overdrafts and credit cards."
He said he had dreamed of being the president that cured cancer and believed it was possible.
He is now leading the US "cancer moonshot" programme to cure cancer.
He told scientists their success could "literally change the world" but criticised the barriers to getting on clinical trials.
In a speech to American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting he said: "[When] we were worried about Ebola we were able to aggregate tens of millions of dollars and the entire US military because the World Health Organization couldn't handle it.
"That's the kind of urgency we need with regard to cancer."
In January, President Barack Obama announced the $1bn (£710m) "moonshot" and that Joe Biden would lead it.
The vice-president said: "If I could have done anything I would have wanted to be the president that ended cancer as we know it because I believe it is now possible."
It is a personal mission for Mr Biden, who lost his son Beau to brain cancer at the age of 46 last year.
He told the meeting of 30,000 of the world's leading cancer scientists and doctors that his son had been able to take part in pioneering clinical trials.
But "what about the 96% of people" who miss out, he asked, and called for new measures to help the poorest patients take part.
"Nobody should have to forgo a critical clinical trial because they cannot afford the gas to get there or a baby sitter at home," he said.
His speech referenced many of the major themes that have emerged at the meeting in Chicago including the transformative power of immunotherapy and the unparalleled understanding of the genetics of cancer.
"[They are] offering profound promise that wasn't there five years ago," he said.
But Mr Biden said the progress could be much faster if only scientists worked closely together.
He said: "Imagine if we all worked together... shared the data behind breakthroughs so that the field as a whole can move forward faster and avoid unnecessary redundancy.
"The whole world is looking to you, your success can literally change the world. We need you now more than we ever have."
Dr Deborah Mayer, one of the expert advisers to the moonshot, said there had been terrific progress in cancer science and the field was now at a "tipping point".
Huge breakthroughs in harnessing the power of the immune system to attack tumours or in tailoring drugs to the weak spot in individual patients' tumours are already helping patients.
In the US, five-year cancer survival has increased from 30% in 1950 to 48% in 1975 and 68% in 2010.
Dr Mayer told the BBC News website that the moonshot would act as a catalyst to bring breakthroughs to patients faster.
"Hopefully it will close that 17-year gap between what we know and what we do.
"The benefit to patients of this moonshot is we will move forward to enhanced treatments, we're going to find cancers earlier when they're more curable and we're going to figure out how to prevent them."
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has recommended four key areas the moonshot needs to deal with.
The organisation's president Dr Julie Vose said: "The Moonshot Initiative can be a vehicle for major new progress against cancer."
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The family of Irene Simister, 83, had agreed she would not be moved from her room at Harrogate District Hospital.
Her son David said her death was "traumatic and cruel".
The hospital trust apologised for moving Mrs Simister "at such a late stage" on Friday.
According to Mr Simister, half an hour before his mother's death the hospital's bed manager ordered she be moved from a single-bed side room, where she had been for a week, to accommodate a newly-arrived patient.
He said Mrs Simister, who had cancer, was wheeled into a six-bed ward while nursing staff, knowing her death was imminent, rushed to clean another side room where she died a few minutes later.
Mr Simister, a North Yorkshire County Councillor, said he and his brother Andrew agreed with the hospital earlier that week it was not in Mrs Simister's best interests to move her from the room, which contained her belongings and cards, and a photograph of her wedding.
"The decision to move our mother was incomprehensible and inhumane," he said.
"Our mother was not days or hours from death, she was just minutes. The nursing staff who had looked after her with such care, devotion and tenderness protested, but were overruled.
"This was not end of life care as we expected it. It was end of life cruelty for our mother and her family and friends who had gathered around her bed to say their goodbyes.
"Within minutes of being wheeled from her room into a main ward it was clear her life was very near its end."
Dr Ros Tolcher, Chief Executive of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, said: "I am very sorry that Irene Simister was moved at such a late stage.
"I apologise sincerely to those affected by this situation and would like to reassure people that we will continue to do everything possible to provide care which is compassionate and dignified, particularly for people at the end of their lives," she said.
"Financial matters played no part in the decision making in what was a very difficult set of circumstances."
The family said the nursing team were "absolutely superb" and the care Mrs Simister received at the hospital for almost a month was "second to none".
Chun, the 2015 US Women's Open champion, made eight birdies to set the early pace, before Park sank a birdie at the last to match her compatriot.
England's Charley Hull dropped four strokes in the final three holes to end day one at level par.
Hull, 20, did not drop a shot until a triple-bogey six at the 16th.
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Laura Davies shot a 69 to end the opening day on two under par, while New Zealand's world number one and defending champion Lydia Ko began with a one-under-par 70.
Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn closed with a triple-bogey seven on the 18th to fall back to two over par, alongside Scotland's Catriona Matthew.
Chun, 22, told the Ladies European Tour: "Before the round I felt really nervous today and it was windy and there was a thunderstorm this morning, so I tried to focus more on my game.
"I could see the putting lines very well and I was so good rolling the ball on those lines."
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The unidentified man was carrying several firearms when he stormed the family house in Campinas, some 100km (60 miles) from Sao Paulo, police said.
Another three people were wounded. The man killed himself afterwards.
The murder occurred just before midnight, police said. Neighbours had heard blasts but thought they were fireworks.
They were alerted after one of those injured escaped to a neighbour's house to plead for help.
"When we opened the gate to go into the street to see the fireworks, the celebrations, a wounded person came into our yard. He entered, asking for help,'' the neighbour, Christiano Machado, said.
This topic goes back a long way, possibly starting shortly after the 22 councils were put in place in 1996.
Questions including whether they are too small to deliver services like education and social services have being asked about local authorities in Wales.
The size of public organisations is an important issue.
Bigger organisations do not necessarily deliver better services than smaller ones. No one size fits all.
Some of the biggest authorities in terms of population have above the Wales average performance in many areas.
It is also the case that, on average, the best performers are the smaller, more rural authorities.
Apart from structures, there may also be a range of other factors supporting and promoting effective services and these will also include leadership, expertise and the demand for the service.
The most effective authorities might be those with excellent leaders who can operate in a range of contexts.
At this point in 2016, finances are really stretched like never before and ministers might look back and wonder why structural reorganisation has not happened.
For now, a full scale re-organisation is off the agenda. It is too expensive and too much of a distraction. The public want the focus to be on services and not structures.
Instead, and building on existing good practice, local authorities will do what they have been doing for some time - building up effective joint working around service delivery.
It is reduced budgets, cuts in funding and a desire on behalf of local politicians and officers to keep up services that have been a big driver of this change rather than politicians in Welsh Government.
There are many joint arrangements in place and shared officers across a number of authorities - and this pattern is incrementally changing local government as we know it.
The Welsh Government is now keen for this joint working to go much further.
Local Government Secretary Mark Drakeford laid out his vision for the future of local government in Wales on Tuesday and said the current 22 councils will remain in place unless there were cases where authorities wanted to merge voluntarily.
The minister is keen on an approach where cities and regions are responsible for services, including strategic transport, and economic development, with organisations similar to health boards in Wales delivering other services, including education and social services.
Local authorities will be strongly encouraged to deliver services jointly and work even more closely with other bodies including health, police and the ambulance service.
Clearly, then the agenda is much more regional for the delivery of key services.
Over the next five years I think that a new pattern of local government will emerge and there will be joint heads of service across two or three councils in some areas of delivery and maybe even a shared chief executive or two.
A few councils are likely to merge voluntarily.
It might look like there are 20-22 authorities but behind this, there will be a complex web of shared leadership and service delivery.
Structure will not be important.
In the new more developed world of collaboration, a big issue will be the integration with other services and not just local government - police, fire and rescue, ambulance, housing, health and so on.
Joint working arrangements to deliver services will become the norm and these will be different across different parts of Wales.
The citizens of Wales have a right to the best services. It is these services, with on-time delivery, of the highest quality, which interest citizens more than structures.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development review of 34 countries found the UK was behind in key areas such as stroke and cancer.
It also found spending was lower per head and there was less equipment.
The Department of Health said there was room for improvement and money was being targeted in those areas.
The report found the UK has 8.2 nurses per 1,000 people compared with an OECD average of 9.1, while it has 2.8 doctors per 1,000 compared with 3.3.
Experts said 26,500 more doctors and 47,700 nurses would be needed to match the OECD average.
In terms of equipment, the number of MRI and CT scanners was well below average.
Spending, it said, had seen "zero growth" per person in real terms between 2009 and 2013.
Countries such as France, Canada, Belgium, Germany, New Zealand and Denmark were all spending more.
The report, which also took into account the private sector for some measures, highlighted lower rates for survival for cervical, breast and colorectal cancer.
Levels of hospital admission for stroke and respiratory illness were also higher.
But the report also found evidence that Britons were leading unhealthy lives.
Obesity rates were among the highest, while alcohol consumption and smoking rates were also above average.
But the UK did perform well in terms of waiting times for key treatments and ensuring everybody had access to services.
Mark Pearson of the OECD said: "The UK is world leader in developing innovative approaches to healthcare but often does not do the basic things very well.
"While access to care in the UK is good, the quality of care is uneven and continues to lag behind that in many other OECD countries."
Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said: "For the UK, the message seems to be that where healthcare is concerned, you get what you pay for.
"Our lower-than-average level of public investment in healthcare is mirrored by our somewhat mediocre performance across the board."
A Department of Health spokeswoman said the extra investment being made in the NHS this Parliament would help improve services.
"We know there are areas where the NHS can improve which is why we have prioritised investment in the front line."
But she added: "The OECD report shows there are many indicators where the NHS continues to be the envy of the world."
Committee members penned a report calling for a Scottish solution to be included in Article 50, the starting point of the Brexit process.
Convener Joan McAlpine said Scotland's majority vote to remain inside the EU and the single market should be reflected in the coming negotiations.
However, Conservative members of the committee dissented over some points.
Prime Minister Theresa May told the Scottish Tory conference in Glasgow that the UK government would be aiming for "a deal which works for all parts of the UK - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - and for the United Kingdom as a whole".
The Determining Scotland's Future report is the latest in a series from Holyrood's culture, tourism, Europe and external affairs committee, which has previously called for a separate deal for Scotland over immigration.
It claims that with Mrs May's government indicating it will not pursue membership of the single market or the European Economic Area, the UK has "lost the only opportunity for an easier Brexit".
It warns of "profound consequences for Scotland's economy and future prosperity", noting that the UK government aims to "start from scratch in establishing free trade agreements...in a period when there are signs of the world becoming more mercantilist and protectionist".
The committee report says moving from full EU membership to EEA membership "would be an easier transition for Scottish businesses than leaving the EU completely".
It also calls for powers not currently reserved to Westminster which are exercised at a European level, such as those over fishing and farming, to be "fully devolved" after Brexit.
Mrs May told Conservative delegates in Glasgow that devolution frameworks were drawn up "without any thought of a potential Brexit", adding that her government would "ensure that the right powers sit at the right level to ensure our United Kingdom can operate effectively and in the interests of all of its citizens".
The paper also demands a response from the UK government to the Scotland's Place in Europe paper of Scottish government Brexit proposals before Article 50 is triggered.
In the foreword, Ms McAlpine said: "Article 50 will be triggered by the UK government within days and the process will begin of negotiating withdrawal from the European Union.
"As a country of the UK which voted 62% to remain in the EU, Scotland has particular interests and concerns that must be heard.
"Our report concludes that a bespoke solution for Scotland must be considered before and after Article 50 is triggered.
"There is still scope to try to deliver the Scottish Parliament's desire that we remain in the single market and while there is no direct precedent for this, the committee agreed that a variety of differentiated arrangements already exist and a bespoke solution for Scotland could be found.
Tory committee members Jackson Carlaw and Rachel Hamilton dissented from some conclusions in the report, with their "minority view" included as an annexe.
They said the UK government had "developed an ambitious proposal to maintain a close trading relationship with the EU and to develop and deepen the UK's trade with other countries in the world".
They added: "The prime minister's commitment to pursuing a 'new, comprehensive, bold and ambitious free trade agreement' with the EU will ensure that Scotland and the UK can continue to trade in goods and services with the EU without tariffs or non-tariff barriers being imposed, thus reflecting the key interests of businesses in Scotland."
They also noted the UK government's goal of "agreeing a frictionless comprehensive free trade agreement" within two years, and said that Scotland could benefit from the UK's network of offices in over 100 countries when developing trading links.
Knockaert's opener was cancelled out by Lewis Dunk's own goal before half-time.
The key moment came at 1-1, when the Seagulls had Glenn Murray sent off for handling Glenn Loovens' powerful shot.
David Stockdale saved Fernando Forestieri's penalty, before Knockaert poked home and Wednesday had Steven Fletcher and Sam Hutchinson sent off.
Newcastle, now two points off the lead, will return to top spot if they beat Rotherham on Saturday, while the Owls stay sixth.
There was little warning of the second-half drama that would follow during a tepid first period, when Knockaert looked by far the most likely to create scoring opportunities.
His cool finish, having rounded Wednesday goalkeeper Keiren Westwood, put Brighton ahead before the Owls levelled in bizarre circumstances.
Forestieri's left-wing cross was diverted towards goal by Brighton midfielder Oliver Norwood and Dunk, captain in the absence of injured full-back Bruno, glanced a header past Stockdale.
Wednesday's best spell of the match culminated in the incident which led to the penalty and Murray's dismissal, Brighton's leading scorer raising his hands to protect his face from Loovens' shot.
Stockdale's stop and subsequent follow-up save from Forestieri helped Brighton avoid consecutive Championship defeats, before Knockaert converted Sebastien Pocognoli's cross at the far post with five minutes remaining.
As tensions grew, substitute Fletcher was sent off for clashing with Dale Stephens and referee Stuart Attwell produced his red card for a third time to dismiss Hutchinson for a second yellow card.
Match ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second Half ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Second yellow card to Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday).
Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Callum McManaman (Sheffield Wednesday).
Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Lewis Dunk.
Attempt missed. Callum McManaman (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Glenn Loovens (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Offside, Sheffield Wednesday. Liam Palmer tries a through ball, but Sam Hutchinson is caught offside.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Jiri Skalak replaces Anthony Knockaert.
Attempt blocked. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Reach.
David Stockdale (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Foul by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday).
Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Hutchinson with a headed pass.
Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday).
Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 2, Sheffield Wednesday 1. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Sébastien Pocognoli with a cross.
Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Anthony Knockaert tries a through ball, but Lewis Dunk is caught offside.
Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tom Lees (Sheffield Wednesday).
Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Steve Sidwell replaces Oliver Norwood.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Solly March replaces Jamie Murphy.
Attempt missed. Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday).
Connor Goldson (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Liam Palmer with a through ball.
Foul by Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday).
Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Lewis Dunk.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Connor Goldson.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Callum McManaman replaces Daniel Pudil.
Attempt missed. Glenn Loovens (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ross Wallace with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by David Stockdale.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in July in northern Punjab.
The Pakistani chief investigator also told the BBC Ms Shahid's father and former husband carried out her murder.
He added he was seeking to have her mother and sister returned to Pakistan to be questioned about their role in the murder.
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Two men have already appeared in court in Pakistan in connection with Ms Shahid's death.
Her former husband, Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel, is accused of murder and is reported to have confessed to strangling her with her scarf, according to local police.
Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid, her father, is being held as an accessory to her murder.
Both have been remanded until 5 September.
Ms Shahid had been visiting family in the village of Pandori when she died and her relatives initially claimed she had suffered a heart attack.
Her second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, believes she was the victim of a so-called honour killing as her family did not approve of their marriage.
A post-mortem examination confirmed she died as a result of being strangled.
The Black Cats had 22 shots - their most in a league game this season - but only six on target as they failed to score for the 10th time this campaign.
"I need to go back to church and start praying," Allardyce told BBC Newcastle.
"I can't ever imagine in my long career dominating a game for so long, creating so many chances and not winning it."
The 61-year-old added: "In normal circumstances it would have been two or three-nil - if we had not had the unbelievable Ben Foster in the opposition's goal."
Baggies goalkeeper Foster pulled off a string of fine saves, including three from Jermaine Defoe.
"There had to be four or five outstanding saves from Foster - not just one or two," ex-West Ham manager Allardyce added.
"Of course we could have been a bit more clinical with our finishing as well - but that's being very nit-picky.
"It's a cruel blow on the basis of the position that we're in - in such desperate need that we are for points.
"It's the best performance we've had since I've been here, but it was one point again not three and Norwich get that little bit farther away."
The draw leaves Sunderland in 18th position, four points adrift of 17th-placed Norwich and safety.
However, they have one game in hand on the Canaries and face them at Carrow Road on 16 April.
Next up for Sunderland are league leaders Leicester at the Stadium of Light on Sunday.
"We look very good at dealing with the pressure at the moment and I hope we can turn great performances into victories very shortly," Allardyce added.
"I want us to beat Leicester next week. Let's go and upset the apple cart, hopefully play like this and beat them."
The Jamaican sprinter, 31, took the banned stimulant oxilofrine at last year's national championships but the suspension has been backdated and will end on 20 December, 2014.
Powell called the ruling "unfair and unjust", and said a legal supplement he took, Epiphany D1, was contaminated.
Age: 31
Nationality: Jamaica
Personal bests: 100m - 9.72 secs, 200m - 19.90 secs (world record, 9.74secs, 2007)
Medals: Olympics: 4x100m relay - gold (2008); World Championships: 100m - bronze (2004, 2008), 4x100m relay - gold (2009), silver (2007)
He plans to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
On Tuesday, fellow sprinter Sherone Simpson was also banned by the Jamaican anti-doping disciplinary panel
Simpson, an Olympic 4x100m relay gold and silver medallist, is a training partner of Powell and took the same substance at the same event.
Another Jamaican, Olympic discus thrower Allison Randall, was also handed a two-year ban on Tuesday for using a prohibited diuretic.
Powell and Simpson, who provided their samples on 21 June, 2013, will miss the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July.
The three-member disciplinary panel that ruled on Powell said he had been "negligent".
Powell, the biggest name in Jamaican sprinting before the rise of double world and Olympic champion Usain Bolt, missed last year's World Championships as a result of his failed test.
In January, he testified that Canadian physical trainer Chris Xuereb provided him with nine supplements, including Epiphany D1.
Xuereb has denied providing performance-enhancing drugs.
Prior to the verdict and in the wake of the Veronica Campbell-Brown case, Powell's coach, Stephen Francis, called on the Jamaican Prime Minister to disband the country's anti-doping organisation and sub-contract the testing procedures to a credible overseas testing agency.
Earlier this year, the Court of Arbitration for Sport cleared Campbell-Brown, a two-time Olympic 200m champion, of a doping violation.
Francis said: "After the Veronica Campbell incident, after the whole issue of not testing people, I think we need to get rid of these people.
"They need to sub-contract it to England or Germany or whoever it is who can carry it out properly because obviously we in Jamaica can't do this thing properly. It is embarrassment after embarrassment after embarrassment."
IAAF spokesman Chris Turner said there would be no comment from athletics' world governing body while the case was still open.
But for those dependent on its cancer and other treatments to stay alive, for example, it would not stop supplying them - though now for free. It could not and would not pass a death sentence by withholding medicines.
But whether any new cancer sufferers - those not diagnosed till today - would be able to obtain these treatments, now that's another question. I asked and my answer was a shrug and sheepish look.
That brings home to me the magnitude of what is happening in Greece.
We simply haven't seen since the 1930s a rich developed country collapse as Greece is doing right now - millions of people threatened with losing their life savings, companies on the point of collapse, cancer sufferers unsure what treatments, if any, will be available to them.
Now to most outsiders, this demarche is in part the consequence of the incompetence and greed of a succession of Greek governments, and the negligence, incompetence and political insensitivity of the rest of the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.
In other words, debtor and creditors are both to blame, arguably in equal measure.
So what is particularly horrifying to dispassionate observers is the perception that most of the eurozone, and especially Germany, is hell-bent on making an example of Athens, humiliating the government of Alexis Tsipras, as the price of a financial rescue that - in a best case - will continue to make Greeks poorer, though not as poor as leaving the euro would do.
The unappealing facts are these.
On Friday, Mr Tsipras capitulated - and accepted tax rises, pension cuts and economic reforms that his creditors had been demanding and which the Greek people overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum a few days earlier.
But rather than using Mr Tsipras's personally painful climbdown - which involved forming an entente with hated opposition parties and splitting his own party - as a basis for consensual discussions on a sustainable bailout, Eurogroup finance ministers, led by Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble, denigrated it as too little, too late.
Instead, Mr Schaeuble tried to bundle Athens towards a door no one thought existed, since the euro is supposed to be forever - the one marked "temporary exit".
This so terrified Mr Tsipras that he has since, in the Eurogroup meeting and an all-night meeting of eurozone government heads - which at the time of writing is still continuing - allowed himself into negotiations that, if successful, would rob Greece of all meaningful economic sovereignty.
Tax, spending, privatisations and the structure of industries - the stuff that shapes lives - would be determined by emergency legislation rushed through the Greek parliament by Wednesday, with no opportunity for serious debate.
Is that democracy?
Only if an entire parliament demonstrably surrenders by the middle of this week would the rest of the eurozone start talks on possibly extending the additional €86bn of finance Greece needs to prevent future default and the total collapse of its banking system.
And for what it's worth, the presumption among other eurozone leaders that Mr Tsipras is willing and able to deliver the abject obeisance of Athens lawmakers may turn out to be naive.
Here in Athens, all I detect from government members, bankers and others is fatalism that they're ruined, more or less whatever happens - which makes their behaviour unpredictable.
There would in effect be a takeover, for years, of Greece by Berlin, Brussels and the IMF in Washington.
Monitors, from the IMF, would be permanently stationed in Athens, to prevent backsliding by the administration.
Privatisation proceeds would be put into some kind of escrow account, possibly in Luxembourg.
Athens would be deprived of even a figleaf of national economic autonomy.
Now it is perfectly plausible to argue that Mr Tsipras and his colleagues have brought this upon themselves by their incompetence - especially in their negotiations with the rest of the eurozone - since being elected at the turn of the year.
But if the eurozone and EU stands for anything, it is solidarity between member nations.
The widespread perception that Berlin and Brussels have put fiscal rectitude, the importance of a country paying its debts, above humanitarian concern for a nation's plight, or even the long-term sustainability of the euro itself, will reap a bitter future harvest for eurozone and the wider EU.
Will the eurozone's marginalisation of Greece make it harder or easier for David Cameron to sell continued membership of the EU to the people of the UK?
Will the offer by Mr Schaeuble of temporary leave of absence for Greece from the euro make it harder or easier for Brussels, Berlin and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt to quell the growing doubts of investors - who fund all important economic activity - that the euro is the permanent enterprise it claims to be?
Will the rise and rise of populist anti-EU parties all over Europe be staunched or encouraged by reports that an EU official described Mr Tsipras's treatment by other EU leaders as the equivalent of "waterboarding"?
The eurozone crisis began in Greece in 2010. It threatens to degenerate into an existential crisis for the wider EU.
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The two left-handers have struggled for runs in England's opening two Tests of the summer.
Vaughan, however, believes England are doing Ballance a "disservice" by batting him at three.
"He can have a Test career, but it should be at number five," Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 live.
"They're doing the lad a disservice. It's unfair on a player who struggled the last time he was batting at number three.
"He goes back to Yorkshire and scores a barrel of runs at four and five, plays for the Lions at number four, then at the first Test he is thrown back in at three. It's wrong."
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England suffered yet another collapse against South Africa at Trent Bridge - falling from 72-3 to 133 all out in their second innings to conclude a 340-run defeat.
There were a number of failures, leading to calls for changes in England's batting line-up.
Opener Jennings, like Ballance, enjoyed almost instant success in Test cricket when he scored a century on his debut in India.
Since then, however, he averages just 36 in the County Championship for second division Durham while he has made only one double-figure score in four Test innings against South Africa.
"I certainly don't want to see a young kid who has only played four Test matches put on to the scrap heap," said Vaughan.
"Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel are the best combination to face at the moment in Test cricket, so it's not easy.
"I think he's got talent; it's now a mental challenge - how does he go from getting some praise in India to people now questioning whether he should be in the side?"
Vaughan believes England should strengthen their batting by dropping Hampshire's Liam Dawson, who was picked as England's number one spinner for the second Test, despite Moeen Ali taking 10 wickets in the series opener at Lord's.
Dawson has struggled with the bat against the Proteas - making scores of 0, 0, 13 and 5 not out - while his bowling is yet to fully convince.
"They got it wrong with Liam Dawson," said Vaughan. "He looks a real good kid with a lot of character, but his game doesn't look quite suited to Test match cricket.
"It's silly he is bowling before Moeen, who is a better bowler.
"I'd like to see Ballance move to five, Bairstow at six, Stokes at seven and Moeen at eight. I want to see a long batting line-up with different styles of batting at different positions.
"Ballance at five breaks up the crack-a-jack stroke players. If you need an extra bit of spin then Root would have to bowl a bit."
If England do as Vaughan believes they should and drop Dawson while shuffling everyone down a spot, it creates a vacancy in the batting line-up.
But who from county cricket should get the nod?
BBC Sport asked those in the know - our local radio commentators - to pick out who they consider worthy of an England call-up.
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
BBC Radio London's Mark Church: "If they were to change it, I would ask Jonny Bairstow to bat at three and give the gloves to Ben Foakes.
"After Root, Bairstow is England's best batsman and should be batting three.
"Foakes is a quality keeper and he would certainly not be worried about batting seven in a Test match. He is the sort of player that gets better the higher the standard he plays and I think he would thrive in the Test match environment."
Sam Northeast (Kent)
BBC Radio Kent's Matt Cole: "The Kent skipper has scored more than 2,000 runs in all competitions for the last two seasons, including three scores of 150+ in 2016.
"Although he's not hit those heights yet this campaign, he's already hit one 'daddy' hundred in the Championship.
"He's comfortable batting anywhere in the top six, hit a ton in the North v South series and has the tactical nous to be the perfect sounding board for Joe Root's fledgling captaincy."
Sam Robson (Middlesex)
BBC London's Kevin Hand: "Last season marked a return to form for Robson, who in 2015 looked like he was suffering a hangover from being dropped by England.
"The right-handed opener has started this season in great form again with an average of 60 and two centuries and two fifties in nine innings, resulting in a Lions call-up.
"His initial selection was in part to see off the advances of the country of his birth Australia and maybe came too soon.
"Robson looks in the form of his life and will have developed as a player and a person since his Test debut in 2014. He could also offer a right-hand/left-hand partnership with Cook if Jennings is dropped to three."
Mark Stoneman (Surrey)
BBC Newcastle's Martin Emmerson: "Mark Stoneman left Durham at the end of last season because he wanted to try to improve his chances of playing for England by joining Surrey.
"He's certainly had a good season so far and could end up replacing Keaton Jennings, the man he used to open the batting with at Durham. Many were surprised to see Jennings have such a phenomenal season last year, having been dropped by Durham midway through the previous season.
"Stoneman was the player people thought of as a possible England candidate well ahead of Jennings."
Tom Westley (Essex)
BBC Essex's Glenn Speller: "Westley has scored runs consistently over the past three years.
"The accusation was he hadn't done it in Division One. Well he did it for the Second Division champions last season and is scoring runs for the Championship leaders this year.
"A century for the Lions earlier this summer should also strengthen his hand."
Remember this fella? Lancashire's Haseeb Hameed has struggled for runs this season, after making his Test debut in India last winter, but he's still at the forefront of our readers' minds.
We asked readers of our live text commentary who should bat at number three for England at The Oval.
He polled 30% of the vote, ahead of Stoneman (23%), Middlesex's Dawid Malan (12%) and current incumbent Ballance (12%).
Cyril Barthelme, 26, of Patisserie Maxime on Queensferry Street, has been making sponges from scorpion flour, brownies with ground up crickets and mealworms and tarantula cakes.
Mr Barthelme said he wanted to raise awareness of alternatives to meat.
He believes incorporating bugs into cakes could help change attitudes.
Mr Barthelme told the BBC Scotland news website that by disguising the insects into more edible creations he would encourage more people to try a nutritious alternative to meat.
He said: "I've been reading and watching documentaries about how meat supplies and quality are falling all over the world and that eating insects might be a way forward.
"For example the volume of water needed to feed animals is far higher than for insects.
"However, there is still the perception in the western world that eating insects is not very appealing so I thought if I ground them up into flour first before making cakes then they could be perceived as nice to eat.
"It has been challenging to turn the flour into cakes as the flour is much finer than wheat flour but by blending the two I have managed to create many different types of cakes.
"It is a matter of education. In the west we are brought up to see insects as disgusting but that's not true. Insects are very nutritious."
He said insects contain more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach and more protein than beef.
He added that insect flour was 100 times more expensive than plain flour so he was not making profit from the insect cakes.
He has also sprinkled insects onto some of the cakes for customers who want to see what they are eating.
Louise Gray, author of The Ethical Carnivore, told the BBC Scotland news website: "I don't think we will ever get over the yuck factor of eating insects so this is a great idea to disguise them in cakes.
"It is a really good way of getting protein into a snack in a delicious way.
"Eating insects has a low impact on the environment so any way of taking advantage of this resource has to be welcomed."
Last year's League One champions led through Scott Pittman's 30th-minute opener after a dominant first half.
The Pars' Joe Cardle cleared Craig Halkett's header off the line, before winning a penalty which Kallum Higginbotham netted to level.
With five minutes to play, Danny Mullen won Livi a spot kick, but saw his effort brilliant saved by Murdoch.
Match ends, Livingston 1, Dunfermline Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, Livingston 1, Dunfermline Athletic 1.
Substitution, Livingston. Nikolay Todorov replaces Daniel Mullen.
Jackson Longridge (Livingston) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jackson Longridge (Livingston).
Dean Shiels (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Livingston. Conceded by Jean-Yves Mvoto.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Mullen (Livingston) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Penalty saved! Daniel Mullen (Livingston) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
Penalty Livingston. Daniel Mullen draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jean-Yves Mvoto (Dunfermline Athletic) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt saved. Daniel Mullen (Livingston) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Livingston. Nicky Cadden replaces Josh Mullin.
Foul by Alan Lithgow (Livingston).
Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Livingston. Conceded by Jean-Yves Mvoto.
Foul by Raffaele De Vita (Livingston).
Jean-Yves Mvoto (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Josh Mullin (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Paton (Dunfermline Athletic).
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Declan Gallagher.
Declan Gallagher (Livingston) is shown the yellow card.
Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Jean-Yves Mvoto (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Mullen (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jean-Yves Mvoto (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt missed. Raffaele De Vita (Livingston) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Mullen (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Jackson Longridge (Livingston).
Nathaniel Wedderburn (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jackson Longridge (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Livingston. Raffaele De Vita replaces Dale Carrick.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Dean Shiels replaces Calum Smith.
Goal! Livingston 1, Dunfermline Athletic 1. Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Craig Halkett (Livingston) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Dunfermline Athletic. Joe Cardle draws a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Scott Pittman.
Attempt blocked. Craig Halkett (Livingston) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Livingston. Conceded by Lewis Martin.
Foul by Alan Lithgow (Livingston).
Dundee United v Queen of the South goes ahead as planned in the Championship, with match officials examining the playing surface at 11:45 GMT.
However, in League One, Livingston v Albion Rovers and Brechin City v Queen's Park are off.
In League Two, Clyde v Montrose and Cowdenbeath v Edinburgh City have also fallen victim to the cold weather.
He replaces Martin Lauchlan, who left at the end of last season, along with his assistants Carlo Girasoli and Paul Roberts, following the League Two play-off final defeat by Cowdenbeath.
"For us to secure Billy as our new manager is a real coup for East Kilbride," said chairman Mark Horner.
"Everyone in Scottish football is aware of his pedigree."
Stark was assistant to Tommy Burns at Celtic in the mid-1990s before becoming Morton manager from 1997-2000.
He then had spells at St Johnstone and Queen's Park before becoming Scotland Under-21s manager for six years from 2008.
For the past two seasons he has been assistant manager at Albion Rovers.
He told the East Kilbride website: "I am delighted to be joining such an ambitious club with a clear vision of where it wants to go.
"I would like to thank the board at East Kilbride for the opportunity that I believe offers a great step forward.
"I am inheriting a strong core of players from last season who came very close to SPFL promotion, and it is obvious there has been great work done at the club in the past by previous managers.
"The town of East Kilbride deserves a senior side in the SPFL, and I will do everything possible to help make the vision a reality."
The sport involves athletes standing on a board and using a long paddle to move - a cross between kayaking and surfing.
The International Surfing Association (ISA) says it has organised competitions for years in the sport.
But the International Canoe Federation (ICF) says the use of the paddle makes it part of its organisation.
The sport has enjoyed huge growth in recent years and it could join both canoeing and surfing as an Olympic sport in the future.
"Up until last year there was no interest from the ICF," said ISA president Fernando Aguerre. "The interest arose when we were to bring the sport to the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires."
But ICF secretary general Simon Toulson rejected Aguerre's comment about his organisation's recent arrival to the sport.
"The ICF has been involved in the sport for a number of years and did not start last year," he said.
"Many of our federations have the sport recognised by their National Olympic Committees running national and international competitions."
The two federations met with the International Olympic Committee a few months ago to sort out the issue but a solution has yet to be found.
"ICF statutes state clearly that a person using a paddle as a main form of propulsion whilst on a craft in water is canoeing/paddling," added Toulson.
"The issue is really which organisation is responsible at Olympic level."
The research was carried out by the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (Wiserd) and Aberystwyth University.
Researchers visited schools across Wales and interviewed young people at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Pencoed.
They found many young people under voting age also felt frustrated they had not had a voice in the referendum.
The results of the study will be presented in a paper at a conference in London on Thursday.
Dyfan Powel, of Wiserd, and Dr Elin Royles, from the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society at Aberystwyth University, who carried out the research, spoke to 40 school children and conducted further interviews at the Urdd Eisteddfod.
They found young people broadly accepted the result of the referendum.
However, they remained unsure about its potential impact and were worried that, as the referendum was decided by older voters, it may have damaging consequences to their education and career prospects.
This has led to more political engagement of young people, the study suggested.
"We don't want to overplay it but there's a clear sense from young people of frustration amongst those under 18 that did not have a chance to vote and the sense that, had they voted, the result would have been different," Dr Royles said.
But other young people questioned were far more positive about the future, seeing Brexit as an opportunity to expand Britain's links with other parts of the world, with the nation strong enough to stand alone outside the EU.
"There seems to be a unified pragmatism in how to move forward," said Dr Royles.
"And a sense that, whatever the result was, let's make the most of what is to ensue and let's try and maximise the opportunities for young people from what the post-Brexit arrangements will be."
Almost a year since the vote, some young people also said they feel the result has raised questions about identity and Welsh society, with the referendum interpreted as a vote against immigrants.
Mr Powel said: "There was a perception that this was...a vote by older people, really, against immigration and not anything else about the European Union. That was something young people could not indentify with."
The role of the youth vote in the UK has been widely debated since the general election.
After the initial claims more than 70% of 18 to 12-year-olds voted across the UK, a YouGov poll has since suggested it was closer to about 60%.
A hundred years ago during World War One, Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare and started targeting hundreds of ships without warning.
The submarines shown were surrendered by Germany at the end of the war and sank off the coast of Cornwall.
The images from 1921 have been donated to Historic England.
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The German submarines - known as U-boats - wrecked on the Cornish coast in Falmouth and some remains can still be seen.
German forces surrendered the submarines in 1918 and having been stripped of their engines, they became difficult to tow and occasionally sank or wrecked on British beaches.
In the year before unrestricted submarine warfare was declared by Germany, 431 ships were sunk by U-boats worldwide.
The following year, that number reached 1,263.
Roger Bowdler, from Historic England, said the declaration was "a decisive moment" in World War One.
He said: "It was seen as uncivilised, ungentlemanly and ultimately brought the might of the United States into the war."
The pictures were taken by naval officer Jack Casement and donated to the Historic England Archive by his family.
One third of the Submarine Service's total personnel died during World War One, the highest proportion of any branch of the armed services.
To commemorate their lives, the National Submarine War Memorial was unveiled in 1922, at Temple Pier on the Thames in London.
The memorial has now been upgraded to Grade II* listed status, which means it has an "above-average level of special interest".
The 24-year-old, who moved to Lord's from Glamorgan at the end of 2012, took 9-34 in the second innings to finish with match figures of 13-103.
"I've had two very lean years which has hurt me," he told BBC London 94.9.
"I came here as a fairly big signing and expected to be doing these sort of things from the off. I am there to perform and I wasn't doing it."
The right-arm seamer added: "I came on a decent contract and wasn't performing so I was getting some criticism, and rightly so."
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Harris took 21 wickets at an average of 38.33 in his first season at Middlesex but his second year in north London was more difficult, following a change in his action.
He took just 12 wickets at 55.50 in his seven appearances and returned to Glamorgan on loan in order to find form.
"We changed last year to be better - you want to be better and you want to improve," he said.
"Many things have been said that if I was half a yard quicker I'd be that much closer to hopefully getting an England call-up. That's what we went searching for.
"You could argue that we probably found it, but it was at the detriment to what I did naturally.
"I lost my height, I wasn't hitting the seam and I wasn't causing problems."
Harris has now re-modified his bowling action over the winter, culminating in his best bowling figures since his second first-class match for Glamorgan in 2007, aged just 17.
"We made a choice to go back. This is the type of bowler I have always been," he said.
"I was never going to be express but I'm hopefully bowling at a decent enough pace and doing a bit with it.
"I said all the way through the summer so far that I had been bowling quite nicely but there was still something to click.
"I got in a nice rhythm and I'm thrilled. It has been a long wait to get another 10-for."
He has been taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd after the incident at the Britannia, Stryd Waterloo, in Bangor. The van driver was not hurt.
The crash happened at around 11:00 BST on Tuesday.
The building society has been temporarily closed and North Wales Police has appealed for witnesses to contact them on 101.
Thistle say that, if not, the two clubs and Hamilton would be due compensation for having fewer guaranteed games with Celtic and Rangers next season.
"That means an expected loss in revenues for the club of £120,000," Thistle suggested in a statement.
The Scottish Professional Football League has yet to comment.
Since the top flight was expanded to 12 clubs in 2013, the league has split into two sections of six teams for the final five fixtures.
"In previous seasons, where both Rangers and Celtic were in the Premiership, pre-split fixtures have been organised to ensure that every club plays three home games against the Old Firm," said Thistle.
"Without any notification from the SPFL to the contrary, we had expected that this practice would continue this season and that is the basis on which we and other clubs have budgeted.
"Having had no communication from the SPFL explaining these changes prior to this morning's announcement, Partick Thistle intends to seek compensation from the SPFL for all clubs concerned, or that they reconsider the fixture list to ensure a level playing field for all."
Thistle point out that Dundee, Hearts and Inverness Caledonian Thistle will have four home games each against the Old Firm before the split.
Expressing "anger and frustration", the Glasgow club say this will hand each of those clubs "an unexpected bonus" of around £120,000 each for the coming season.
Thistle, who had been looking forward to extra city derbies following Rangers' return to the top flight after a gap of four years, argue that this will also hamper them, Accies and Well in their quest for league points.
"Financial implications aside, we believe there is a significant sporting disadvantage created by the fixture list as it stands," they state.
"Pre-split, we will make four trips away to the two biggest clubs in the country while some clubs will only make two."
Thistle's statement was followed by Motherwell's board expressing its "extreme anger", saying it was a situation that had never occurred under the former Scottish Premier League or the present SPFL.
"This has a serious financial impact on our club and we cannot and will not accept it," they said.
"It creates a significant financial advantage for some clubs over others and, in our view, just as important, compromises the integrity of the competition, both in terms of the potential/need for adjusting respective player budgets up or down and the amount of games teams have to play at what has historically been the most challenging venues.
"We expect this unacceptable position to be reversed immediately."
Motherwell also complain that having two midweek matches in the Highlands away to Caley Thistle, three days after Christmas, and Ross County was also unfair on their fans.
Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data" from at least 141 organisations around the world.
The White House said it has taken its concerns about cyber-theft to the highest levels of China's government.
China has denied hacking and questioned Mandiant's report.
"Hacking attacks are transnational and anonymous," said foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei.
"Determining their origins are extremely difficult. We don't know how the evidence in this so-called report can be tenable.
Mr Hong added that Beijing "firmly opposes hacking", has taken steps to prevent it and is also a victim of cyber attacks.
In an indication of the military sensitivity around the Shanghai site pinpointed by the report as home to the hacking group, the BBC's John Sudworth and his camera crew were briefly detained by soldiers when they went to film the facility. They were only released once they had handed over their footage.
In its unusually detailed report, US-based computer security company Mandiant said it had investigated hundreds of data breaches since 2004, most of which it attributed to what it termed "Advanced Persistent Threat" actors.
By Jonathan MarcusBBC Diplomatic Correspondent
The scale of the Chinese hacking alleged by the computer security firm Mandiant is striking. Until now the bulk of this hacking has been a digital version of old-fashioned industrial espionage - stealing designs and company secrets.
But there is a more sinister side to this activity as well. Chinese hackers are alleged to have a growing interest in gaining access to key parts of the US infrastructure - gas lines, power grids and waterworks. President Barack Obama himself warned during his recent State of the Union address that the nature of the cyber threat was changing.
Gaining access to critical systems is the key. Once inside the digital perimeter - especially if the intrusion is not identified, there is the possibility of causing real physical damage to the infrastructure that the computers control.
The details it had uncovered, it said, "convince us that the groups conducting these activities are based primarily in China and that the Chinese government is aware of them".
The most prolific of these actors is APT1, which Mandiant says is "a single organisation of operators that has conducted a cyber espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006".
"From our observations, it is one of the most prolific cyber espionage groups in terms of the sheer quantity of information stolen," it said, adding that it was "likely government-sponsored and one of the most persistent of China's cyber threat actors".
"We believe that APT1 is able to wage such a long-running and extensive cyber espionage campaign in large part because it receives direct government support," said Mandiant.
The firm said it had traced the hacking activities of APT1 to the site of 12-storey building in the Pudong area of Shanghai. It said that Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army "is also located in precisely the same area" and that the actors had similar "missions, capabilities and resources".
Among the findings about APT1 in the report were that it:
Unit 61398 has for some time been suspected by the US of being central to China's cyber espionage programme, the New York Times reports.
Mandiant admitted there could be one alternative explanation for its findings: that "a secret, resourced organisation full of mainland Chinese speakers with direct access to Shanghai-based telecommunications infrastructure is engaged in a multi-year, enterprise scale computer espionage campaign right outside of Unit 61398's gates, performing tasks similar to Unit 61398's known mission".
Several governments, foreign companies and organisations have said in the past they suspect China of carrying out extensive cyber espionage over periods of several years.
On Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that the Obama administration had "repeatedly raised our concerns at the highest levels about cyber theft with senior Chinese officials including in the military and we will continue to do so".
Mr Carney declined to comment specifically on the contents of the report.
Last month, the New York Times said its systems had been infiltrated over a period of four months, after it wrote a report on the alleged wealth of China's outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao.
Mandiant, which the paper hired to investigate, traced the hack to China. However, the paper said its breach had been attributed to a different group. The Wall Street Journal also reported a China-based hack.
At the time, China's foreign ministry dismissed the New York Times accusations as "groundless", saying that to "conclude without hard evidence that China participated in such hacking attacks is totally irresponsible".
Trevor Wright, 67, of Ballingdon Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, was found guilty at Ipswich Crown Court of five charges of rape and seven of sexual assault.
He had already admitted six more sex assaults on the same three victims.
Judge Martyn Levett told Wright he should sign the sex offenders' register indefinitely.
Wright's offending took place between 1977 and 1989, one rape occurred in a car belonging to a customer at his garage in Ballingdon Street.
Other offences took place at a stables where Wright kept a horse.
Giving evidence, Wright said he was "sex obsessed" and admitted rubbing himself against the girls for sexual gratification but denied committing any sexual assaults or rapes.
He told police he had been a heavy drinker and suffered from memory problems.
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Mr Modi, a Hindu nationalist, said such people made him "angry", and any such attacks must be investigated.
He had been criticised for saying nothing about a public flogging last month of low-caste men by vigilantes.
The self-styled cow defenders accused the four men from the Dalit caste of harming cattle.
The victims insisted they were taking a cow's carcass for skinning, as was their tradition.
Also in July, two Muslim women were beaten up by vigilantes over accusations that they had been carrying beef.
Speaking in the capital Delhi on Saturday, Mr Modi said he would ask state governments across India to investigate anyone linked to such vigilante attacks.
He said he believed "70-80% of them will turn out to be people who are involved in anti-social activities and masquerade as cow protectors to save themselves".
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The slaughter of cows is banned in several Indian states.
But the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government has come under increasing pressure from Hindu hardliners to do more to protect cows.
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Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick against an exposed City defence and goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was sent off for handling outside his box after a misplaced pass.
"There will be no change. Until the last day of my career as a coach I will try to play from our keeper," he said.
Barca lead Champions League Group C with nine points, five ahead of City.
City were already a goal down in the early stages of the second half when Bravo intercepted a through ball, but then gifted possession to Luis Suarez.
The Chilean goalkeeper, who was stranded outside his area, then deliberately handled the Uruguayan's lob towards goal.
"Sometimes there are mistakes and sometimes you have to kick the ball out, but most of the time, when we play good, it starts from there," added Guardiola.
"Of course he knows what he did, but he has a lot of experience and he's one of best goalkeepers in last 10 years, so I don't have doubts about him."
City have not won any of their past four matches but are top of the Premier League and Guardiola won his first 10 games after he took charge in the summer.
The 45-year-old said his side needed more time to be capable of challenging at Barcelona's level.
"We lost the game 4-0, but we are a new club, we are getting to know each other," he said. "We are a club that for 35 years was not in Europe.
"We came here and played with huge personality but it is always difficult to play Barcelona with 11. With 10 the game was over. Until then the game was open."
Former Manchester United and Everton defender Phil Neville said City were not of the same standard as their Spanish rivals.
"City are nowhere near where Guardiola wants them to be," Champions League winner Neville told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Barcelona are only at 80% of where they can be and this shows City are nowhere near them and will probably struggle to win the Champions League this year."
This was the first time the Premier League leaders had conceded four times in the competition, which represented another miserable return to the Nou Camp for Guardiola.
The Catalan won 14 trophies during his four-year tenure as Barca boss, but he has now twice lost heavily to the Spaniards - the other occasion a 3-0 first-leg semi-final defeat with Bayern Munich in May 2015.
City are accustomed to losing to the five-time European champions. They were beaten in all four of their encounters under Guardiola's predecessor, Manuel Pellegrini, including elimination in the last 16 in 2014 and 2015.
The Premier League leaders were marginally the better side in the first half this time - they made only 30 fewer passes than the hosts and had an almost identical passing accuracy (78.4% to Barcelona's 78.6%).
Had defender John Stones headed home David Silva's free-kick to level before the break, the second half might have unfolded differently.
Neville, who won the competition with Manchester United in 1999, added: "City have still got a way to go. Their players were giving the ball away, not following the instructions of Guardiola.
"There are better teams in Europe than Barcelona this season but they were far better than Manchester City."
Former Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane on ITV: "Manchester City's approach was very brave, but very stupid."
Former Manchester City defender Richard Dunne on BT Sport: "I don't trust Bravo with the ball at his feet."
Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand on BT Sport: "The personnel aren't up to executing Guardiola's ideas - he needs to change personnel"
Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 live In Short: "Bravo has got massive massive amounts of ability, Pep will want him to continue doing what he's doing, taking risks."
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A crowd of 18,200 at the RDS saw home captain Isa Nacewa kick 14 points as Connacht were denied a first win in Dublin for 14 years.
It gave Leinster revenge for their defeat by the Westerners in last season's Pro12 final.
They are top of the table, level on 26 points with Ospreys and Glasgow.
A fiercely-contested first half ended 9-6 in Leinster's favour, Nacewa's three penalties cancelling out an early brace from Connacht centre Craig Ronaldson.
Those scores from UCD wingers Byrne (49 minutes) and Daly (75) had Leinster out of sight before Connacht's replacement hooker Shane Delahunt took a great line to score a last-minute consolation try.
Off set-piece ball in the Connacht 22, the hosts managed to suck in the Connacht defence and passes from Jamison Gibson-Park and Sean Cronin led to Byrne scooping up a bouncing ball to touch down in the right corner for the opening try.
Leinster's scrum appeared on the verge of winning a penalty try before Daly marked his first Pro12 start with a try, going over wide on the left from a flat Joey Carbery pass.
After Nacewa's conversion, Connacht broke downfield and their efforts were eventually rewarded with Delahunt's seven-pointer by the posts.
Leinster: Nacewa, A Byrne, O'Loughlin, Reid, Daly, Carbery, Gibson-Park, Healy, Cronin, Ross, M Kearney, Nagle, Leavy, O'Brien, Conan.
Replacements: R. Kearney for O'Loughlin (63), Dooley for Healy (58), Tracy for Cronin (58), Bent for Ross (58), McCarthy for M Kearney (45), van der Flier for O'Brien (67).
Not used: L McGrath, R Byrne.
Sin bin: O'Brien (27).
Connacht: O'Halloran, Adeolokun, Robb, Ronaldson, Kelleher, Carty, Marmion, J Cooney, Heffernan, Carey, Roux, Browne, O'Brien, Heenan, Muldoon.
Replacements: Ili for Kelleher (69), Blade for Marmion (76), Delahunt for Heffernan (58), Robertson-McCoy for Carey (53), E McKeon for O'Brien (53).
Not used: Bealham, Cannon, Aki.
The former US vice president is in the UK to launch his latest eco-movie, An Inconvenient Sequel.
It's passionate, dramatic and controversial. And he's hoping it will persuade you that the climate can be saved if we all try hard enough.
The movie delivers a mix of extreme weather and stunningly alarming shots of the melting Arctic.
These scenes are intercut with Gore’s presentations to volunteers willing to be climate ambassadors.
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They're spreading the message that the planet is warming and we need much more urgency in the task of reducing greenhouse gases.
Since his influential first film, An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, two extraordinary things have happened.
First, the cost of renewable energy has plummeted far faster than anyone expected, making the task of stabilising the climate more feasible than before.
The second big change has been the surprise success of the Paris climate summit in 2015 that drew in almost all nations in the world to agree to try harder to cut their emissions.
Gore himself played a crucial role as a go-between, using his VP tag to gain access to world leaders.
This unexpected triumph in Paris is the high point of the new film. But then came President Trump, who is pulling the US out of the Paris agreement.
To Gore's dismay, Trump is now trying to dismantle America's climate policy as fast as he can.
But Gore says he's not unduly worried – the rest of the world has stood firm and sooner or later, he believes, the US will get back on course.
He even suggested the US would meet its climate targets even without a national commitment. Some agree with this - others think it's wishful thinking.
But if it is true, it does call into question whether America's targets were too low in the first place!
Gore has his critics. His southern preacher style doesn't sit easily with scientists communicating in sober, precise terms.
And for some on the American Right, the very fact that he – a leading Democrat - is promoting climate concern is reason enough for them to turn their back on it.
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The victim was waiting for a bus on Thursday on St Clements Street, Oxford, when a car pulled up next to him.
He was approached by the front-seat passenger before running on to Rectory Road where he was followed and attacked, police said.
There were up to six offenders thought to be aged between 18 and 20.
The boy is currently in hospital and officers are appealing for witnesses to what they have described as "an isolated incident".
The front-seat passenger of the dark people carrier - possibly a Volkswagen Touran - is described as Asian, about 6ft 3ins, of a slim build and with short black hair.
He was wearing a grey tracksuit with elasticised ankles and a grey tracksuit top which had darker grey arms.
Jodi Ewart Shadoff and Holly Clyburn recorded a 7&5 victory over Pornanong Phatlum and Porani Chutichai, and Mel Reid and Charley Hull beat Ariya Jutanugarn and Moriya Jutanugarn 3&1.
Hull had missed play on Friday because of asthma and a fever.
Victory saw England advance to Sunday's concluding singles in Illinois.
The country with the highest point total from the four days of competition will win the title of the best golf nation in the world after the end of the 10 singles matches.
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Hart, on loan at Torino in Serie A after becoming surplus to requirements at Manchester City, saved interim manager Gareth Southgate from an embarrassing loss to the team ranked 67th in the world with a succession of outstanding saves.
He twice denied Josip Ilicic when he was played in by poor backpasses from Eric Dier and captain Jordan Henderson - but the highlight was a world-class reflex save when he turned Jasmin Kurtic's header on to the crossbar seconds after half-time.
Kurtic also hit the post in the first half as England's three-year run of wins in qualifiers came to an end.
They deserved no more as Slovenia were the more dangerous side and even the introduction of Wayne Rooney, dropped by Southgate, for the last 18 minutes could not rouse a disappointing England, who at least still top Group F.
Rooney had a shot just wide and Jesse Lingard forced a fine save from Jan Oblak late on - but an England win would have been harsh on the hosts.
Southgate's bold decision to drop captain Rooney and the measured manner in which he handled the pre-match inquisition on his move drew many plaudits.
Once the action started in Slovenia, Southgate was at the centre of England and international football's real world as they struggled to match the pace, verve and energy of the home side.
Southgate has four games to make his case to be Sam Allardyce's full-time successor and after a colourless win against Malta at Wembley, this was a tough night as England struggled desperately for large phases of the game.
He can at least say he has kept England unbeaten and on course in what should ultimately be a comfortable 2018 World Cup qualification from Group F - but there has been nothing impressive yet.
To put Southgate's very brief tenure in context, England's opening win in Slovakia came courtesy of a 95th-minute winner from Adam Lallana at the end of a largely wretched performance under Allardyce after the failures of Euro 2016.
Southgate is working with a squad in transition and recovery after the European Championship - but he will be hoping for much better in his remaining two matches, a qualifier against hapless Scotland at Wembley on 11 November and the subsequent friendly against Spain.
Hart has suffered the most traumatic period of his career after two high-profile errors against Wales and Iceland in England's Euro 2016 debacle and being bundled through the exit at Manchester City by new manager Pep Guardiola.
It was redemption time for Hart, revitalised on loan in Italy, as the 29-year-old produced a magnificent performance to spare England's embarrassment in Ljubljana.
Hart - who was the clear man of the match in this game - looked back to his best, rescuing Dier and Henderson when dreadful backpasses let in Ilicic.
The best moment came seconds after the restart when he produced arguably one of the finest saves of his career to claw Kurtic's header on to the bar before reacting in an instant to clear the ball to safety. It was a world-class moment.
For a player whose cast-iron confidence - and indeed his credibility - had been questioned after his struggles in France this summer, this was compelling evidence that he can still be a high-class keeper.
He was also seen going among his nervous, unsettled colleagues offering encouragement deep into the second half. Is this the night the real Joe Hart returned to England?
England's current standing was put into perspective by a Slovenia side that are alongside Burkina Faso in Fifa's world rankings - and yet for long periods they had Southgate's side on the run.
The errors by Dier and Henderson would have been punished by opposition of a higher calibre and England threatened to crumble in the early moments of the second half - only to be saved by Hart.
Winger Theo Walcott produced his second disappointing England display in succession and was substituted, while striker Daniel Sturridge suffered a similar fate after an off-colour performance.
Defender John Stones was a rare composed figure and forward Marcus Rashford at least showed a spark when he came off the bench.
There were few positive points as a run of 14 straight qualifying wins came to an end with a largely colourless and uninspired England effort.
England manager Gareth Southgate: "The overall objective is to qualify so long term that could be an important point. Everyone can see we could be better but their chances came from our mistakes or set-pieces.
"We owe our goalkeeper really for getting a point. He was fantastic."
England goalkeeper Joe Hart: "They had chances, we dominated the game. They have dug in and Jan Oblak had a fantastic game for them.
"It's my best game for a while, but it was down to a few errors from us. My body is in pieces, I'll struggle to get up tomorrow. I landed on the frame of the goal."
Former England defender Danny Mills on BBC Radio 5 live: "England were outplayed, outmuscled, outthought for most of this game. They should consider themselves very lucky.
"Any positives? 0-0, and it's a clean sheet away from home. Joe Hart's performance was exceptional, he played like a sweeper keeper for one of the saves. Hart was tortured after the Euros, he had a tough time at Manchester City but came back. Don't write top players off too quickly.
"The amount of pressure Slovenia put England under panicked them.
"You need to stop and calm yourself down and play it. The midfield need to slow it down when they get it. The manager said we need to play quickly but senior players need to go against the manager's instructions and kill the tempo of the game."
The 2018 World Cup qualifiers resume next month and England come up against old foes Scotland at Wembley on Friday 11 November (kick-off 19:45 BST).
Match ends, Slovenia 0, England 0.
Second Half ends, Slovenia 0, England 0.
Andros Townsend (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Roman Bezjak (Slovenia).
Andros Townsend (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Roman Bezjak (Slovenia).
Foul by Marcus Rashford (England).
Aljaz Struna (Slovenia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Aljaz Struna (Slovenia) is shown the yellow card.
Jesse Lingard (England) is shown the yellow card.
Gary Cahill (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Cahill (England).
Josip Ilicic (Slovenia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rok Kronaveter (Slovenia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eric Dier (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rok Kronaveter (Slovenia).
Foul by John Stones (England).
Rok Kronaveter (Slovenia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Wayne Rooney (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nik Omladic (Slovenia).
Substitution, Slovenia. Nik Omladic replaces Rene Krhin.
Danny Rose (England) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rok Kronaveter (Slovenia).
Corner, England. Conceded by Jan Oblak.
Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.
Substitution, England. Marcus Rashford replaces Daniel Sturridge.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (England) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Daniel Sturridge (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jesse Lingard with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Danny Rose (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Gary Cahill.
Corner, England. Conceded by Miral Samardzic.
Substitution, England. Wayne Rooney replaces Dele Alli.
Danny Rose (England) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Roman Bezjak (Slovenia).
Attempt missed. Rok Kronaveter (Slovenia) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.
Corner, Slovenia. Conceded by Kyle Walker.
Corner, Slovenia. Conceded by Joe Hart.
Attempt saved. Josip Ilicic (Slovenia) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Hand ball by Rok Kronaveter (Slovenia).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Slovenia. Miha Mevlja replaces Bostjan Cesar because of an injury.
Lisa Keefe, of the Meadows in Nottingham, did not realise her Bengal crossbreed Bobby had climbed inside the appliance for a nap.
She raced to get him out after hearing "a loud thudding noise" from inside the appliance.
A vet at the clinic who treated him said: "In my 15 years as a vet, I've never seen a case like this."
Nine-month-old Bobby was taken to Nottingham Pet Hospital on the verge of collapse and needed IV fluids to treat shock.
His brush with death has seen him nominated for a PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) Pet Survivor award.
Ms Keefe, 47, said Bobby was known to climb in the machine and she had put him outside before putting in a new load.
But she said the curious puss must have snuck back in and hidden under a duvet before she switched on the appliance.
"As soon as I heard the noise I rushed to the machine and could see the colour of his fur mixed in with the quilt. I was petrified and raced to get him out," she said.
The kitten was in the washer "for about two minutes", vet James Kellow said.
"Bobby has learned his lesson the hard way, he doesn't go anywhere near the washer any more", his owner added.
Vet Tamsin Thomas said: "Bobby was on the verge of collapse as his body was soaked through and his temperature was dangerously low.
"We gently dried him out, kept him warm and gave him IV fluids to treat shock."
Mr Kellow, who treated Bobby, said the kitten had sore eyes from the detergent, but within a couple of hours was "as right as rain".
The former Cardiff City, Bolton and Wolves frontman will work with first team manager Sean Wharton and alongside fellow assistant, Eston Chiverton.
The Monmouthshire-based club finished third in Division One last season.
Blake, 45, who earned 29 caps for Wales and scored four international goals, retired from playing in 2006.
The Englishman, ranked 83rd in the world, tied for second at his home club Woburn to qualify alongside Toby Tree and winner Shiv Kapur.
"Going back to Birkdale after what happened in 2008 is special," said 41-year-old Poulter.
The Open will take place from 20-23 July.
Ryder Cup veteran Poulter was in danger of losing his PGA Tour card this year because he failed to earn the required points or prize money in the 10 events covered by his medical exemption following a foot injury.
However, a rule change allowed him to retain it for the remainder of the season.
Five events were held across the UK to fill the final 15 places at the Open.
At Gailes Links in Ayrshire, 21-year-old Scottish amateur Connor Syme on four under par shared top spot with American Julian Suri, with Australia's Ryan McCarthy taking the last place after a four-man play-off.
England's Matthew Southgate booked his ticket for the third time in four years thanks to a second straight victory at Royal Cinque Ports in Kent. Rounds of 71 and 65 saw Southgate finish three shots clear of Robert Dinwiddie, with Canada's Austin Connelly claiming the final place after a four-man play-off.
Haydn McCullen, 20, carded a course record of 64 to lead an English one-two-three at Hillside in Southport ahead of Nicholas McCarthy and Adam Hodkinson.
There were three more English qualifiers at Notts Hollinwell after Mark Foster and Joe Dean tied for first on 10 under par and Laurie Canter emerged from a three-man play-off on seven under.
Aides to Leishemba Sanajaoba say the decision was taken without his consent.
They say it is in violation of a 2006 agreement between the once powerful royal family and the state government.
The authorities say they want to take over the palace and surrounding land to develop it as a heritage site.
King Sanajaoba began his fast on Monday, two days after the Manipur cabinet decided to take over the Sana Konung palace in the state capital, Imphal.
"The king feels betrayed because the government is violating a 2006 memorandum between the two that clearly said no decision would be taken about the palace without his consent," said his adviser Puyam Tomcha.
State officials say they want to renovate the palace and turn it into a tourist attraction.
"The government will arrange for alternative accommodation for King Sanajaoba," a spokesman said.
"We are taking over the palace to turn it around and preserve royal artefacts in it so that the future generations will know about the glorious past of Manipur."
Another big palace in Imphal - the Kangla palace - is being turned into a museum.
The government argues that much of the land around Sana Konung palace has lost its traditional character because it was sold by former King Okendra and used for the construction of high-rise buildings.
"This is why we have appealed to the residents to let the government take over the land around the palace so that we can relive the olden times," the official said.
The Manipur royal family occupied the Kangla palace after the 1891 Anglo-Manipur War and built the Sana Konung for the royals to live in.
Later, it became a military headquarters, housing the paramilitary Assam Rifles after the state joined the Indian federation.
However, the royals, who now have little real power or influence, continue to live in Sana Konung.
In the neighbouring state of Tripura, the royal family has been living in a part of the Ujjyanta palace in the state capital, Agartala, ever since the government acquired most of the building to house the state legislative assembly.
Both Tripura and Manipur became parts of India on 15 October 1949.
But while Tripura's royals have been influential in state politics and are financially much better off, their counterparts in Manipur have struggled to make ends meet.
In recent years they have often been forced to sell land to meet their expenses.
While friends, family and attendants have joined King Sanajaoba's protest over the move, many others in Manipur say the government should have taken the royal family into its confidence before announcing the renovation project.
Manipur has been in the news for another highly publicised hunger strike. For 13 years, Irom Sharmila has refused to eat in protest at the special powers which she, like many Manipuris, feel have been grossly abused by Indian security forces during counter-insurgency operations in the state. She is force-fed through her nose.
Although King Sanajaoba's fast may not continue for that long, it has created ripples in the state where many feel his forefathers were forced to join India.
The Lincolnshire rider rode the machine at last week's Cookstown 100.
"Guy was happy with the bike at Cookstown and it is now fully prepared for him for next week," said Craig.
"It will be great to see him out in my colours once again and I want to thank Mervyn Whyte for giving us the opportunity to race," he added.
Martin last rode for the County Londonderry businessman in 2010.
The 35-year-old has competed at the Tandragee, Scarborough road races and Cookstown events in recent weeks, but the North West will see him make his first appearance at an international event on his return to the sport after an absence of almost two years.
The television personality came off heavily at the 2015 Ulster Grand Prix and opted out of road racing last year to take part in the Tour Divide cycle race in the USA.
He will also race Superbike and Superstock versions of the new 2017 Fireblade with the Honda Racing squad.
Meanwhile Michael Rutter will replace Hudson Kennaugh on Ryan Farquhar's IEG/KMR Kawasaki in the Supertwins races at next week's event.
Kennaugh had been set to ride the ER6 Kawasaki in the two Twins races at Portrush alongside outings on Farquhar's Superstock and Superbike.
The South African withdrew his North West entry this week and veteran Rutter has been recruited to ride alongside Lee Johnston on another NI Air Ambulance liveried KMR Kawasaki for the Dungannon-based team.
"Hudson rang me and said he wasn't racing at the North West," Farquhar explained.
"So we have sorted a deal for Michael Rutter to ride the bike. Michael was on the podium on one of my bikes at the 2012 North West and he rode for me at last year's TT as well."
"I have put a big effort into the bikes for this year."
The pursuit began in the Bear Road area of Brighton at about 22:00 GMT after a Vauxhall Astra failed to stop for officers, Sussex Police said.
It drove towards the city centre before hitting the pedestrian on St James's Street. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
The car was later found abandoned on Madeira Drive near Concorde 2 nightclub.
The force is trying to trace the driver and has appealed for witnesses.
St James's Street remains closed while officers investigate, it added.
The 420,000 sq ft interchange, next to Cardiff Central railway station, will also have private apartments as well as offices and shops.
Cardiff's bus station will be part of a Central Square redevelopment which will include BBC Wales' new headquarters.
"The gateway to our city is being transformed," said council leader Phil Bale.
The planning application was submitted after a 28-day public consultation period and the developers hope to know the outcome by the end of February 2017 after a 16-week scrutiny period by city planners.
Central Square developers Rightacres Property claim the Interchange will have an "airport-lounge" style concourse and a 600-bicycle hub.
Three young people from Brighton were killed fighting in Syria in 2014.
Ch Supt Nev Kemp said the measure was "extreme" and told the Brighton Argus it has sometimes been "very difficult".
However, the mother of one of the teenagers who died in Syria said removing his passport would not have stopped him going.
In April 2014, 18-year-old Abdullah Deghayes from Saltdean was killed in Syria and in October 2014 his brother Jaffar Deghayes, 17, also died in fighting.
Ibrahim Kamara, 19, from Brighton, is believed to have been killed in a US airstrike in September 2014.
His mother, Khadijah Kamara, said preventing extremism should start in primary school and doubted removing passports would work.
She said: "It's two-years exactly this month since my son died - I have not had an answer as to how he would've travelled with a passport that wasn't his.
"He travelled with two other boys... how come they were able to leave just like that, as easy as that?"
Ch Supt Kemp, from Sussex Police, said: "It is an extreme measure and it's one we've all felt a bit uncomfortable with.
"But it's balancing that against the need to protect people and to protect the individual."
He added: "There is a risk those people - if they do come back - come back even more radicalised, and that's a risk for anybody who potentially comes in contact with them."
Bishop Thomas served as the Provincial Assistant Bishop for 12 years, providing care for those opposed to Church in Wales women priests.
He stepped-down in 2008 when the post ceased.
The Bishop of Swansea and Brecon John Davies paid tribute to his colleague's "long and distinguished ministry".
"At heart David was, I believe, a parish priest with great love and care for the people committed to his care and oversight," said Bishop Davies.
The retired priest had only just returned from a holiday to mark his 50th wedding anniversary to his wife Rosemary.
He had celebrated the 20th anniversary of his ordination as a bishop in December at a service in St Mary's Priory Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
Canon Mark Soady, Area Dean of Abergavenny, said: "He shall be sorely missed by the people of Abergavenny who had a great fondness for him.
"Our prayers are with Rosemary and the family at this time."
The 2009 world champion is substituting at McLaren for Fernando Alonso, who is racing in the Indianapolis 500.
Button said: "I am very relaxed. Very excited, actually. It is interesting coming back for one grand prix.
"It being Monaco is very special. I have won here. I lived here for 17 years. It is exciting but I don't feel any pressure."
McLaren have not scored any points this year and are last in the constructors' championship. Monaco represents their best chance of points so far.
Alonso put the car seventh on the grid in Barcelona two weeks ago, and the car should be even better suited to Monaco, where the lack of power from the Honda engine is less important in the overall performance of the car than at any other track this year.
"Everything in life is the same," Briton Button said. "You want to get the best out of yourself and the equipment and team you're working with.
"The car seemed to be working well in Barcelona. Fernando did a good job. It proves the car is good. I drove the car in the simulator, I drove the upgrade and if it all goes well we should be reasonably competitive."
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The cars have changed significantly since Button retired from F1 at the end of last season, with rule changes making them faster and more demanding - and also 20cm wider.
Button's first experience of the McLaren on a race track will be in first practice at Monaco on Thursday. He turned down the chance to test in Bahrain in April because he felt it would not have been productive.
"I thought would be absolutely useless for me to do, completely different circuit," he said.
"Preparation could have been better if I had had the opportunity to test the car at a proper test but that's not the way F1 works.
"Fitness won't be an issue. My neck will be a bit sore after Thursday but we have Friday off and Mikey 'Muscles' (Collier), my physio, is back for one weekend. It's a challenge and that's what we're all here for, isn't it?
"I have every bit of information possible and I have run through it for several days - how the car works, the way the tyres work.
"The tyres have been pretty tricky the last few years, they work differently but you work your way around it. A few things will be tricky but it is about putting the effort in and working around the issues.
"The only thing I am worried about is my neck, but apart from that it should be all right."
The scheme offered free access to a limited number of websites.
However, it was opposed by supporters of net neutrality, who argued data providers should not favour some online services over others.
The free content included selected local news and weather forecasts, the BBC, Wikipedia and some health sites.
"No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content," ruled the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
The body had been investigating whether any online content should be prioritised over others, or offered for free while others were not.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said he would work to make Free Basics legal.
"While we're disappointed with today's decision," he wrote, "I want to personally communicate that we are committed to keep working to break down barriers to connectivity in India and around the world.
"Connecting India is an important goal we won't give up on, because more than a billion people in India don't have access to the internet. We know that connecting them can help lift people out of poverty, create millions of jobs and spread education opportunities."
The World Wide Web Foundation, founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, welcomed the regulator's decision.
"The message is clear: We can't create a two-tier Internet - one for the haves, and one for the have-nots," said programme manager Renata Avila.
"We must connect everyone to the full potential of the open Web.
"We call on companies and the government of India to work with citizens and civil society to explore new approaches to connect everyone as active users, whether through free data allowances, public access schemes or other innovative approaches."
Vikas Pandey, digital producer for the BBC in India, said there had been an intense publicity campaign on both sides of the debate, with Facebook taking out front page advertising in national newspapers to defend the scheme.
"The people who live in cities and are aggressive users of the internet said: 'You can't dictate the terms, give free internet to villagers and then tell them how to use it'," he said.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has maintained that it is "not sustainable to offer the whole internet for free".
The firm previously said it believed the project - which it launched in 2013 as Internet.org and was offered in 36 countries - had brought more than 19 million people online who would not otherwise have been able to afford access.
The teams will play three Tests and five one-day internationals, with the hosts hoping to stage the day-night contest at Auckland's Eden Park.
"We can't confirm it yet, it's something we're extremely interested in and working towards," said New Zealand Cricket's David White.
New Zealand lost to Australia in the first day-night Test in November 2015.
England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves said earlier this month that England would host their own day-night Test, adding "we just have to decide when it is going to happen".
New Zealand drew the Test series 1-1 when they toured England in 2015, with the hosts winning the one-day series 3-2.
England also beat New Zealand to make the final of the World Twenty20 in March.
Amir, 23, received a five-year ban and served three months in prison for his part in a spot-fixing scam in 2010.
New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White described the incident as "inappropriate and disrespectful".
Playing the sound effect had "trivialised one of the biggest issues facing cricket", he added.
"I've contacted the Pakistan team management to apologise and to assure them there will be no repeat."
Veteran announcer Mark McLeod, who is contracted by New Zealand Cricket, played the sound during one of Amir's spells in a Twenty20 international at Wellington's Westpac Stadium on Friday.
Amir was convicted for delivering pre-arranged no balls at Lord's in a plot that also involved Mohammad Asif and captain Salman Butt.
He returned to the Pakistan national side for the first time since his ban in January and, in Friday's game, went wicketless as New Zealand won by 95 runs.
Reaction to his return has been mixed, with some spectators booing him.
The charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) said heavy rain caused untreated sewage to be discharged into the sea through many combined sewer overflows.
Campaigners claim South West Water's systems "aren't coping".
The company said it had made big improvements to bathing water quality.
Andy Cummins, of SAS, said there had been more incidents in Cornwall and Devon over the weekend than in the previous 10 weeks, including at Croyde, Perranporth and Newquay's Fistral beach.
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"The system is at breaking point," he said.
"If there is no rain it should be fine... however as soon as we do get some rain we are seeing these sewer overflows discharge."
Steve England, editor of surf magazine Carve, from St Agnes in Cornwall, said he was shocked on Sunday, and urged the water company to "get its act together".
"I had to take the decision not to go surfing. I could not take my daughter or son in the sea in the knowledge that South West Water had been discharging raw sewage to my local beach," he said.
He had received alerts from Surfers Against Sewage's Safer Seas Service.
A South West Water spokesman said it had spent more than £2bn transforming bathing water in the south west and was planning further work.
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A statement added: "Combined sewer overflows have prevented customers' homes, gardens and businesses flooding with sewage... The discharge is very diluted and the impact is temporary."
The firm said the issues reported over the weekend had been cleared, apart from problems at Readymoney Cove and Par in Cornwall, which were under investigation.
Dylan Archer, 42, and Richard Smith, 26, were killed when a vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed into the busy A27 at about 13:20 BST on 22 August.
The pair had been heading for a cycle trip on the South Downs Way when the crash happened.
The A27 has now partially reopened with a 40mph speed limit imposed, as investigations continue.
Mr Archer, the director of a Brighton IT company, leaves behind his partner Alice and their two sons, aged 15 and 12.
In a statement, his family said his "dry humour and generous nature will be greatly missed by all who knew him".
Mr Smith had worked in a bicycle shop in Cosham, Portsmouth, Hampshire, his family said.
Two years ago he moved to Hove where he worked in marketing and web development.
His family said: "Richard's passions in life were for his family, friends and his beloved bikes. His boundless enthusiasm was infectious.
"He was a truly wonderful, caring and loving person."
Victoria Marie Peck, Mr Smith's girlfriend, posted on Facebook: "I still can't put into words just how much he meant to me. He was the first person I saw in the morning and the last person I saw at night.
"It is hard to feel such pain and not be able to turn to the one person who could always make me feel better. He was my everything."
Earlier Giovanna Chirico, the fiancée of victim Mark Trussler, paid tribute to him.
She said he had taken his motorbike to Shoreham as he wanted to see the last flight of the Vulcan.
"It was a nice day and I texted him when the flight was due," she said.
"He replied saying I should get the kids ready so we could take them out to lunch on his return. I said I loved him and he replied 'I love you too, forever.'
"I didn't hear from him again."
His daughter, Samantha Hollis, said: "My dad was my best friend and the best father anyone could ask for.
"I will painfully miss him every day. I am very proud to be his daughter; he was loved by so many."
Mr Trussler, 54, leaves behind six children - Samantha, Kaitlin, Luke, 12, Mia, 10, Sophia, three, and two-year-old Alicia.
Reverend Ann Waizeneker of St Mary de Haura Church in Shoreham said many people in the town were still in shock.
"We've seen a constant stream of people through the church this week, signing the book of condolence, lighting a candle, and sitting quietly and saying a quiet prayer," she said.
"There's a great sense of love around at the moment."
On Saturday, a minute's silence was held near the site to mark one week since the air show disaster.
Hundreds of mourners gathered on a wooden toll bridge overlooking the crash site on Saturday to hold a minute's silence at the exact time the plane plummeted into traffic one week before.
Later, large crowds gathered for a candlelit vigil on the nearby the Adur Ferry Bridge to create a "bridge of light".
The West Sussex coroner, Penelope Schofield, has said all 11 victims have now been formally identified and their families informed.
Inquests into the deaths of the 11 victims will be opened and adjourned on Wednesday at County Hall North in Horsham, where all the names of those killed will be officially released.
Sussex Police said it has no reason to believe anyone else had died.
Following the crash and resulting fireball, specialists - including forensic archaeologists, anthropologists, odontologists and pathologists - had to examine DNA, teeth and human remains to discover who died.
The wreckage of the plane has been sent to Farnborough in Hampshire where the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) are trying to determine the cause of the disaster.
Their initial findings are expected to be published in the next few days.
Two lanes have been opened on the eastbound carriageway towards Brighton, together with one lane on the westbound carriageway.
A 40mph speed limit has been imposed while investigators continue to work in the area.
The pilot, Andy Hill, remains in a critical but stable condition in an unnamed specialist hospital.
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One of its fighters carried out the suicide attack on the Coptic Christian cathedral, the group said in a statement.
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi had earlier named the attacker as Shafik Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa, 22.
Mr Sisi said the attack caused "pain to all Egyptians".
IS named the attacker as Abu Abdallah al-Masri.
President Sisi used his address at a service for victims on Monday to urge the government to amend the country's terrorism laws, which he said were "restricting the judicial system" in its battle to prevent such attacks.
He also declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the blast.
The Christian minority in Egypt has frequently been targeted by Islamist militants.
Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by militants since 2013, when the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, an elected leader who backed the Muslim Brotherhood, and launched a crackdown against Islamists.
Some of Mr Morsi's supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow.
Instead, it has decided the Chagossians will be offered compensation worth £40m over the next 10 years.
The government also confirmed that the UK would allow the US to keep its military base in the islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Campaigners said they were "disappointed" with the decision.
Families were forced to leave the British overseas territory by the government between 1967 and 1973 when it was leased to the US to build an airbase at Diego Garcia.
Foreign Office minister Baroness Anelay told MPs the government had decided against resettlement on the grounds of "feasibility, defence and security interests and the cost to the British taxpayer".
She said it had "taken care" in coming to its final decision on resettlement and would instead seek to support improvements to the livelihoods of the islanders in their current communities.
The Chagos Refugees Group, which is fighting for the right of the islanders to be allowed to return, said it was "disappointed" with the decision.
Campaigner Sabrina Jean told the BBC: "We will continue our fight any way we can by lobbying here in the UK and the US to see what help and support we can have.
"For me the British government has always done wrong things to the Chagossian community but now it's time to see what we can do to let them correct the wrong they have done to us.
"Everyone has the right to live on their island but why not us?"
There is a 3,000-strong community of Chagossians who live in Crawley, West Sussex, near to Gatwick airport.
The government said in coming to the decision it had considered carefully the practicalities of setting up a small remote community on low-lying islands.
It said the possible challenges were "significant" and included the need to set up modern public services, the limited healthcare and education that would be available and a lack of jobs.
Allen Vincatassin, president of the provisional government of Diego Garcia and Chagos Islands, said he wanted to work with the government regarding the £40m package.
He said: "This money is going to be spent on training and also how to alleviate poverty in certain communities. We will need discuss further how this money will be spent to change the lives of our people.
"This should have been given to us years ago. But in no way will we will be accepting this as an exchange of our right to return."
Television presenter Ben Fogle, who is patron of the UK Chagos Support Association, described the decision as a "dark day" in Britain's history.
In 2015, he insisted he would charter a boat and take exiled islanders back to their homeland if the government refused to support the resettlement.
Reacting to the latest decision, he said: "It's another heartbreaking day for the Chagossian community, who have repeatedly been betrayed and abused by their own government.
"That even now, with so many reasons to support their return, the government has failed to do the right thing, makes this a dark day in our country's history."
The government's decision is the latest in a long legal battle regarding the islanders' right to return back to the islands.
In 2000, the High Court ruled they could return to 65 islands but not to Diego Garcia. The decision was nullified four years later by the government, using royal prerogative.
Then in 2007, the court overturned that order and rejected the government's argument that the royal prerogative was immune from scrutiny.
However, the following year the government won an appeal, with the House of Lords ruling the exiles could not return.
This decision was upheld by the Supreme Court in June.
Pools have won two of the past three games, and moved eight points clear of the relegation places after Tuesday's draw at Newport County.
Hignett, 46, has lost only one of his five matches in charge since replacing Ronnie Moore in mid-February.
"The lads can't have any complaints at the moment," he told BBC Tees.
"They've just got to bide their time, be patient, but make sure when their time comes they're ready."
Form has dictated team selection, although Hignett admits the situation has provided him with welcome quandaries as players look to impress.
"They've all showed me something that I like," the former Middlesbrough, Barnsley and Crewe midfielder added.
"I'm the manager I have to make decisions, we're on a really good run and the lads who have the shirts now, have them and it's up to them to keep them.
"The other lads have to train well and play well when they get the chance."
Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died in hospital on 12 April after becoming unwell.
Police said the tablets were being tested, but are believed to contain dinitrophenol, known as DNP, which is a highly toxic industrial chemical.
Her mother Fiona Parry said there was "no great panic" until a toxicology report revealed "how dire her situation was" because there was "no antidote".
She said her daughter, who was a student at Glyndwr University, had walked into A&E.
"The drug was in her system, there was no antidote, two tablets was a lethal dose - and she had taken eight," she said.
"As the drug kicked in and started to make her metabolism soar, they attempted to cool her down, but they were fighting an uphill battle.
"She had taken so much DNP that the consequences were inevitable."
Ms Parry said her daughter would be "missed by everyone who knew her".
A coroner's report will establish the exact cause of Ms Parry's death and police have warned others about buying diet pills online.
"We are undoubtedly concerned over the origin and sale of these pills and are working with partner agencies to establish where they were bought from and how they were advertised," Ch Insp Jennifer Mattinson said.
"We urge the public to be incredibly careful when purchasing medicine or supplements over the internet.
"Substances from unregistered websites could put your health at risk as they could be extremely harmful, out-of-date or fake," she said.
The Food Standards Agency has previously advised people not to take any tablets or powders containing DNP, which it said was not fit for human consumption.
A delayed annual report on Turkish prospects for EU membership says there have been serious setbacks in the past two years on freedom of expression.
It also says the independence of the judiciary had been undermined and that new laws run against EU standards.
The report's publication comes at a time when the EU needs Turkey's help in trying to control the refugee crisis.
It also follows parliamentary elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained the majority it lost in June.
Responding to the report, Turkey's ministry for EU affairs called the comments "unfair and excessive", adding that they do not "duly reflect Turkey's reforms in these fields".
"Such comments overlook the balance between freedom and security which is a must for democracies where rules of law prevails," it added.
President Erdogan has stressed his support for a constitution centred on a strong presidency - something he says will be achieved in the next four years.
The report had been pushed back by several weeks because sensitive negotiations on the refugee crisis were taking place with leading Turkish officials, including the president, shortly before the 1 November elections.
The BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels says the Commission's report seems to pull few punches.
Although Mr Erdogan himself is not named in the report's key findings, there are fairly direct criticisms of Turkey's powerful president, our correspondent reports.
After several years of progress on freedom of expression, the report warns of "serious backsliding" over the past two years.
"Ongoing and new criminal cases against journalists, writers or social media users, intimidation of journalists and media outlets as well as the authorities' actions curtailing freedom of media are of considerable concern," it says.
Changes to Turkey's internet law, allowing the authorities to block websites without a court order, were a significant step back from European standards, it adds.
The report says there has also been a severe deterioration of its security situation and that it is imperative that peace talks resume with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated a terrorist group by the Turkish government and the EU.
Hundreds have been killed in fighting between Turkish security forces and PKK fighters in the country's east and south-east since a ceasefire collapsed in July.
Since the election, Mr Erdogan has pushed forward with plans to "liquidate" the PKK and to hold a referendum on a new constitution with increased presidential powers.
However, the AKP, with 317 seats in the 550-seat parliament is short of the 330 seats needed to hold a referendum.
The European Commission warns that the escalation in violence has given rise serious concerns over human rights violations, and that anti-terrorism measures taken in that context need to be proportionate.
It also says that the independence of the judiciary and the principle of separation of powers have been undermined since 2014, with judges and prosecutors placed under strong political pressure. The government's active pursuit of shadowy forces known as "deep state" is highlighted.
The influence by the executive in the investigation and prosecution of high-profile corruption cases continues to constitute a major concern for the Commission, which considers Turkey's track record inadequate in the fight against corruption.
Turkey applied for EU membership in 1987 and accession negotiations began in 2005, but only one of the 33 "negotiation chapters" has since been completed.
Duncan Tomlin, 32, from Oxfordshire, was restrained on 26 July 2014 and put in a police van in Ryecroft, Haywards Heath, where he became unresponsive.
He was taken out of the van and given CPR, but died later in hospital.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it had passed files on the sergeant and four PCs to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
It added that there may also be a case to answer for gross misconduct against the five officers.
IPCC commissioner Jennifer Izekor said it would await a CPS decision and would in the meantime "engage in discussions with Sussex Police about the gross misconduct recommendations".
The father of Mr Tomlin, who was living in Burgess Hill at the time, welcomed the decision to refer the case and said the five officers should now be suspended.
"We consider that it is vital for ensuring continuing public trust in the police that these officers are not allowed to remain on any form of active duty whilst the CPS consider if charges should be brought," Paul Tomlin said.
"We call on the chief constable of Sussex Police to now suspend all five officers concerned."
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "This remains an ongoing IPCC investigation and we are unable to comment on the specifics of the incident in Haywards Heath.
"Our thoughts and condolences remain with Mr Tomlin's family and friends.
"We are working closely with the IPCC in support of their investigation and we await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service as to whether any charges will be brought against the officers."
The girl was walking with her mother before she was snatched, at Morrisons in Blackburn, Lancashire, at about 15:00 on Thursday.
The man initially carried her away down a travelator but then put her down and she was able to run back to her mother.
A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction after the incident at the Railway Road store.
Det Insp Tim McDermott, of Lancashire Police, said the incident was "distressing" for the family and the motives for what happened were "unclear".
Some panels landed on the fourth storey of John Lewis and others on Station Street, which police then shut.
No-one was hurt and there was no damage to property on the street below the department store, a West Midlands Fire Service spokeswoman said.
A spokesman for Grand Central said "adverse weather conditions" meant the tiles had become loose.
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Dave Ladkin photographed workers at the top of the building shortly after the panels came off and questioned whether strong winds or poor construction was to blame.
Grand Central shopping centre sits above New Street Station and opened in September, several days after passengers began using the redesigned railway concourse.
It cost about £750m to redesign the railway station and construct the shopping complex in place of the old Pallasades Centre.
In a statement, Grand Central said: "Due to recent adverse weather conditions, a small number of tiles from the roof of Grand Central Birmingham became loose.
"Although no-one was hurt, for precautionary measures, Station Road was temporarily closed while contractors on-site made safe the area to ensure that no further damage occurs."
The 28-year-old, capped six times by his country, made 50 appearances for Darmstadt after joining in 2015.
But the midfielder was unable to stop his side from being relegated from Germany's top flight this season and has moved Norwich on a three-year deal.
He will officially join on Friday, subject to governing bodies' approval.
Norwich head coach Daniel Farke, who himself moved from Germany to Carrow Road in May, told the club website: "I've followed Mario's path for several years.
"He's a really smart technical player with a brilliant left foot. He will bring a lot of quality passing and special creativity to the team.
"In addition to that, he's a really good character and a very nice guy who will fit into Norwich. I'm really looking forward to working with him."
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BBC News looks at some of the highlights along the way and gauges reaction from people along the route.
The first stage on 5 July departs from Leeds Town Hall, a suitably imposing symbol of Victorian civic confidence to send the cyclists on their way.
Keith Wakefield, leader of Leeds City Council, said: "I've never had so many people contact me to say how unbelievable this is for them in their lifetime being able to see one of the biggest sporting events in the world."
From there the cyclists make their way a few miles north to Harewood House, a grand 18th Century country house whose grounds, designed by landscape architect Capability Brown, are now more widely known as the location for ITV's long-running soap Emmerdale.
Tour de France officials were entertained at Harewood during Yorkshire's bid to host the event.
Mike Schafer, chief executive of the Harewood House Trust, said: "We will work hard to help showcase the beautiful county of Yorkshire to the world - this is an opportunity for us all and we look forward to July 2014."
The route then takes in the market town of Ilkley, whose cycling club has more than 1,000 members and claims to be the fastest growing in the UK.
Katherine Church, a member of Ilkley Cycling Club, said the town was an "obvious choice".
"It's just beautiful. The roads are amazing, the climbs are incredible, the scenery is spectacular, there's lots of different challenges. It's just going to be brilliant."
Keighley and Ilkley MP Kris Hopkins said: "I have no doubt that it will also encourage people of all ages to dust off their bikes, pull on their helmets and get pedalling."
Moving into the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the Tour will pass through the villages of Rylstone, home to the Calendar Girls, Kilnsey with its spectacular limestone crag and Aysgarth, close to the stunning Aysgarth Falls.
Councillor John Weighell from North Yorkshire County Council said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to see the Tour take in some of the most stunning scenery in the Yorkshire Dales.
"Just to have the Tour for almost a full day is wonderful news for the economy and for tourism in North Yorkshire."
The first day ends at the spa town of Harrogate where the weary competitors may be tempted to revive their spirits at the refurbished Turkish Baths or with a cuppa at the famous Betty's tea rooms.
Betty's spokeswoman Paula Kaye said: "We are extremely excited about the news that the sprint finale of the first day of Le Grand Depart will be in Harrogate."
Day two of the 101st Tour gets under starters orders at York racecourse.
Clerk of the course William Derby said: "In our history we have hosted the Queen, the Pope, Royal Ascot, The St Leger, the Olympic Torch and now the Tour is coming to the city, it's exciting news.
"We know that a season at York Races generates £58m for the local economy so can understand how an event like the Tour could well generate double that amount for the region over the weekend alone."
On its way south the route then wends its way through the Pennines, taking in Haworth, known worldwide as the home of the Bronte sisters, and Holmfirth, the filming location for BBC sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine.
The Pennine leg includes the challenging ascent of Holme Moss, a moor rising to 524m (1,719ft) just within the Peak District national park.
Matthew Dixon, a member of nearby Bradfield Parish Council, said: "Bradfield and the surrounding areas has stunning countryside that will provide a breathtaking backdrop to the Tour de France. Village folk are already very excited at the prospect."
Stage two will end in Sheffield where Marco Mori, from La Squadra cycling club, said: "It's fantastic news, especially for those who've been involved in cycling all their lives.
"There's a lot to look forward to, and even beforehand the teams will be over here checking out the route - we'll be seeing team riders, team cars."
From Yorkshire the Tour moves to the east of England with the third stage beginning in Cambridge on Monday 7 July.
The city, famous for its university, is also a hub of science and technology and is often referred to as the cycling capital of the UK.
Councillor Martin Curtis, Cambridgeshire's "cycling champion", said: "For me, this news cements Cambridgeshire's reputation as a place which has cycling in its DNA, with thousands of people getting on their bikes every day."
Colin Bedford, who runs March Veteran and Vintage Cycle Club in the city, said: "Our club has been involved in three Tours de Britain and fingers crossed we might be asked to put on a display to entertain the crowd for the Tour de France, which honestly would be the bee's knees."
It is then on to the relative tranquillity of Epping Forest, where Chris Whitbread, leader of Epping Forest District Council, said riders could enjoy "many historic gems" before heading to the capital.
"I would love for them to come to my home town of Epping obviously, but there's the forest, of course and Waltham Abbey," he said.
In London, the route takes in the Olympic Park and a final sprint to The Mall.
The HBO sci-fi series has 22 nominations in total, while comedy show Saturday Night Live also has 22.
Stranger Things and Feud: Bette and Joan are up for 18 each, followed by comedy Veep with 17.
Among the other British nominees, Ewan McGregor, Riz Ahmed and Matthew Rhys have two nominations each.
Other big names on the list include Oscar winner Viola Davis, who is nominated for How To Get Away With Murder, and Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon - both for Big Little Lies.
Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange, who played Bette Davis and Joan Crawford respectively in Feud: Bette and Joan, both get nods.
There's a posthumous nomination for Carrie Fisher for her guest role in Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe.
Benedict Cumberbatch is nominated for Sherlock: The Lying Detective.
His competition for best lead actor in a limited series or movie includes Robert De Niro, who's shortlisted for playing fraudster Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies.
The Crown and The Handmaid's Tale - which had been expected to be among the top drama contenders - both have 13 nominations.
They include nods for their female stars Claire Foy and Elisabeth Moss, both nominated in the best lead actress category.
Thandie Newton is up for best supporting actress in a drama series for playing a robotic brothel madam in Westworld, which is based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film of the same name.
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Best lead actor in a drama series
Best lead actress in a limited series or movie
Best lead actor in a limited series or movie
Best lead actor in a comedy series
Best lead actress in a comedy series
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Five of the seven nominations for best drama series have gone to new shows, including NBC's This Is Us, which is the first show from a major broadcast network to be in that category since 2011.
The new season of HBO's Game of Thrones isn't nominated because it is starting too late to be eligible this year.
Despite that, HBO had the highest overall tally with 110 nominations, followed by Netflix with 91 and NBC with 60.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Stephen Colbert on 17 September.
The full nominations are on the Emmys website.
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Italy is ending its bigger "Mare Nostrum" operation off Libya. It began in 2013 after more than 300 migrants drowned off an Italian island.
Operation Triton, based in Italian waters, will have only one-third the budget of Mare Nostrum.
This year has seen a surge of migrants risking their lives to reach Italy.
Triton's more limited resources may make it harder for the EU to rescue migrants in distress in international waters, some experts warn.
The Secretary General of the European Council on Refugees, Michael Diedring, said it was "deplorable" for the EU to prioritise coastal border controls over search and rescue missions.
Triton, run by the EU border agency Frontex, will have six ships, four planes and one helicopter at its disposal, and a staff of 65. The European Commission says 21 EU member states have pledged to participate.
"Mare Nostrum was conceived as a limited, emergency operation after the Lampedusa [island] tragedy, and it went on longer than expected," Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Friday. "Today we can say Italy did its duty."
At least 3,000 migrants have drowned trying to reach Europe this year. Italy has rescued about 150,000 in its Mare Nostrum operation.
Triton's monthly budget will be 2.9m euros (£2.3m; $3.7m), whereas Italy spent 9.5m a month on Mare Nostrum, Mr Alfano said.
The Commission says any increase in Triton's budget next year will require the approval of the European Parliament and EU governments.
Triton will operate from the isle of Lampedusa and Porto Empedocle, on the Sicilian coast.
With fewer ships there is a risk that Triton will take longer to reach migrants far out to sea, the BBC's James Reynolds reports from Rome.
The Commission says Italy must continue fulfilling its international obligations to rescue people in danger at sea, meaning "continued substantial efforts using national means".
The UK has opted out of migrant rescues in the Mediterranean, saying such operations could encourage more people to risk dangerous voyages to Europe.
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GlenWyvis Distillery Community Benefit Society has proposed building Scotland's first community-owned craft whisky distillery near Dingwall.
One of the 2,600 people who invested in the distillery's crowdfunding appeal suggested that the public access the site by a funicular-style railway.
The ride would take three minutes, the society said.
It has been proposed that the electric-powered inclined elevator, also known as a hillside tram, would form part of a park-and-ride scheme serving the distillery's visitor hub.
An electric bus would take visitors from Dingwall to the elevator's base station.
GlenWyvis Distillery Community Benefit Society said the elevator would only be built if the distillery site is also chosen for the location of its visitor centre.
If the funicular does go ahead it would be the first of its kind in the UK and, at 400m (1,312ft), the longest in Europe, the organisation said.
John Mckenzie, the founder of GlenWyvis and site landowner, said: "We are now exploring this funicular-style solution as a positive response to local concerns about access to the distillery.
"We think this has great potential to attract many more people to Dingwall and the distillery itself.
"It is all aimed at rejuvenating Dingwall as the craft distilling town for Scotland."
The Highlands are already home to Scotland's only funicular railway. CairnGorm Mountain, near Aviemore, runs the railway to the UK's highest restaurant.
Opened in 2001, the funicular connects a base station with the ski centre's restaurant 1,097m (3,599ft) up Cairn Gorm mountain.
The woman, believed to be in her 20s, was discovered just before midnight on Sunday in the grounds of Harlescott Junior School on Featherbed Lane.
Police are carrying out forensic examinations at the school, which will remain closed until Wednesday.
The woman has not yet been formally identified.
Forensics officers also searched a nearby property.
Two men, aged 32 and 39, and a 31-year-old woman, all from Shrewsbury, are being questioned on suspicion of murder, West Mercia Police said.
"Pupils were due to return to school tomorrow following the Christmas holidays but the decision has been taken to keep the school closed while investigations continue," a police spokesperson said on Monday.
The death is not thought to be linked to that of another woman in the area almost two weeks ago, according to the police.
But away from Hove, Yardy may - however unfairly - find himself partly remembered for the matches he missed at the 2011 World Cup, when he returned home from the tournament because he was suffering from depression.
The man himself though has learned to view his mental health issues as an integral part of who he is, and even as something which helped push his career on to greater heights, albeit at a cost.
"I think I've always been one of those people who just teetered on the edge over the last five years," the 34-year-old told BBC Sussex.
"Cricket was a massive part of my life, but I think depression is something that's inside people, whatever profession you do. If you're put in a certain situation it will come out.
"It's been difficult, but living on the edge has allowed me to do things that maybe people with more talent haven't done. I've always pushed myself in everything in my life, but you can push yourself too far, and I did.
"But I wouldn't change anything for the world, it's inside me and I have had to live with it."
Former England boss Peter Moores, who was Yardy's coach at Sussex, said the way the player "fronted up" to his problems was typical of the man.
"He worked it through, came back and carried on and played some great cricket," he said.
"Sometimes walking away from something is a brave decision.
"He has got a lot of character and that came through in games. When it's tough, Mike Yardy stands up. He will look back on what has been a fantastic career."
Yardy, who played every match when England won the World Twenty20 for the first and so far only time in 2010, said his decision to announce his retirement had ultimately come as a relief.
"I just decided my time was up," he explained.
"I'd thought about it since the start of the season and fought it a little bit but it felt like the right time. It was a relief but it's still difficult.
"I've done it [cricket] for 16 years and enjoyed it and I realise now that I was privileged to do something I grew up loving. I'm sure it'll take a bit of time to get used to not playing, but I want to do something else with my life."
That "something else" may well be rooted in matters of the mind, with Yardy set to spend the next two years completing a degree in sport psychology at Chichester University.
"I would love to work in other sports, but would also love to come back to Sussex at some point," he added.
"It's good to get away, but it would be a dream to come back at some point on the coaching side of things."
Interview by BBC Sussex's Adrian Harms
Michael Brown gave the party ??2.4m in the run up to the 2005 election - its biggest ever gift from an individual.
The party was allowed to keep the cash in 2009 after an investigation by the commission.
The Parliamentary Ombudsman said the commission "did not make adequate inquiries of the party".
Conservative MP John Stevenson said he had asked the ombudsman to investigate the Electoral Commission's handling of the affair after a complaint from a constituent.
The Ombudsman reported: "The Commission failed to seek relevant evidence at the outset, failed to give an informed view on the matter and failed to review the position on the receipt of new evidence."
Initial checks "fell significantly short of what was required" about donations in cash and also flights, the Ombudsman said.
"It failed to ask for relevant information without good reason and so failed adequately to discharge its monitoring function," the Ombudsman continued.
"That was maladministration.
"The commission did not follow up the concerns that it had about the robustness of the checks the party had made as it had said it would.
"That was maladministration."
But the commission has refused to agree to the Ombudsman's demand for an apology.
It disputes the findings and has agreed only to set out the lessons that have been learned from the case and to review the adequacy of subsequently-published guidance on what constitutes "carrying on a business" and what checks a party should carry out.
Labour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Michael Dugher called on Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg to "come clean" and pay back the money.
He said: "Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have justified their inaction against the convicted fraudster Michael Brown by hiding behind a report which has now been totally discredited.
"For years Clegg has dodged questions on when the Lib Dems will pay back the donations. Clegg has nowhere now to hide. He should do the decent thing and pay back this money straight away."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who claims his party has been "hounded" by the Electoral Commission "on matters of no substantive basis", called for it to be scrapped and replaced "with an organisation that is fit for purpose".
Brown, 46, donated ??2.4m to the Lib Dems before the 2005 general election, through his company 5th Avenue Partners Ltd.
He was convicted in his absence in November 2008 of stealing $8.5m (??5.2m) after posing as a highly successful bond dealer, who claimed connections with royalty.
Brown went on the run to the Dominican Republic in 2008, sparking an international manhunt, after stealing millions from clients including former Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards. He was arrested and then jailed in 2012.
John Stevenson, the Conservative MP for Carlisle, whose constituent took the case to the Ombudsman, said Electoral Commission bosses should be hauled before MPs to explain why they appeared to approve a donation they knew to be made up of money stolen from investors.
He said: "My constituent is rightly outraged at the conduct of the Commission and I believe that the Chair of the Electoral Commission and Chief Executive have serious questions to answer.
"I will certainly recommend that they explain themselves to the Public Administration Select Committee. I will be writing to the Chair of the Committee to make this recommendation.
"Now that the Liberal Democrats know from the Parliamentary Ombudsman's report that they inadvertently benefited from the proceeds of crime, I call on them to voluntarily surrender the money and not be seen to be benefiting from crime."
Images on social media showed the gravestones in Sarre-Union daubed with swastikas and Nazi slogans.
On his Twitter feed, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said every effort would be made to catch the perpetrators of an "ignoble and anti-Semitic act, an insult to memory".
Anti-Semitic attacks have risen sharply in France in recent years.
A kosher supermarket in Paris was one of the sites targeted by Islamist gunmen in a series of attacks last month which left 17 people dead.
A special investigative team is at the cemetery in Sarre-Union, the French news agency AFP reports, quoting Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
His family's Stellar International Art Foundation owns more than 600 rare works of art by artists including Picasso, Renoir and Andy Warhol.
He has been photographed receiving a business award from Theresa May and his family has given more than £1.6m to the Liberal Democrats. The 67-year-old is now an adviser to Lib Dem party leader Tim Farron.
Mr Choudhrie and his family run a global business empire that includes hotels, healthcare and aviation.
But an investigation by BBC Panorama and The Guardian suggests he is also one of the world's biggest arms dealers.
Leaked documents from the Choudhries' Swiss bank show that the family's companies were paid almost 100m euros by Russian arms firms in one 12-month period alone.
One company owned by the Choudhrie family, Belinea Services Ltd, received 39.2m euros between October 2007 and October 2008. Another company, Cottage Consultants Ltd, was paid 32.8m euros in the same period, while a third company - Carter Consultants Inc - was paid 23m euros.
Panorama: How Rolls-Royce Bribed Its Way Around The World is on BBC One at 20.30 and available on the BBC iPlayer afterwards.
The leaked documents say one of the Russian arms firms paying the Choudhries "makes cruise missiles".
Some of the payments were viewed as suspicious at the time by the Swiss bank Clariden Leu. Its compliance office in Singapore raised anti-money laundering alerts and the Choudhrie family accounts were reviewed by the bank's risk management team.
It's not clear what action - if any - the bank eventually took. But the leaked report describes the payments from the arms companies as "incoming funds from clients offset business".
Offset payments are sometimes paid by arms companies to provide investment in the country that is buying the weapons. But anti-corruption campaigners say offset payments can be used as a way of funnelling bribes to middlemen and officials.
In the leaked documents, Clariden Leu describes the Choudhrie family as being "very wealthy with an overall fortune of approx $2bn".
Sudhir Choudhrie declined to comment, but lawyers acting for Bhanu Choudhrie have said he had no knowledge of the Clariden Leu documents.
"The report to which you refer appears to be a confidential bank document. Mr Choudhrie has not broken any money-laundering rules in any of his business dealings at any stage."
The lawyers said our questions about offset payments by Russian arms companies were too vague.
"You have not given the dates or amounts of the alleged payments or the basis on which you say they were 'suspicious' or made in relation to Russian arms deals. The business of Cottage Consultants was conducted in a lawful and proper manner."
In 2014, Sudhir Choudhrie and his son Bhanu were arrested as part of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into Rolls-Royce. Both were released without charge.
He was speaking during a visit to the city earlier in the week to launch the Féile festival programme.
Bafta-winning actor Rea, is also an ambassador for UNICEF Ireland.
He told the BBC's Sunday News programme he did not think the UK was doing enough to help migrants and refugees coming from war-torn countries such as Syria and Lebanon.
"We're not doing enough because nobody wants to do enough," said the actor.
"This is why you've got Brexit, Trump - America's built on people and immigration. Britain is a mix of races and people have to understand how much we've taken from the countries these people are fleeing.
"We have to get a little bit angry about it and do something."
Rea said the UK and Ireland were "very fortunate", in contrast to a lot of countries in the Middle East and said privilege needed to be shared.
"We're privileged, but these people are not privileged and we need to offer them some of the privileges we have," he said.
"They're not just coming with their hands out, they bring a lot to the country, a lot of talent; new thought; new ways of looking at things and we have to welcome them."
You can hear more on The Sunday News on BBC Radio Ulster at 13:00 GMT and afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.
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The Germans missed three spot-kicks - more in one shootout than in their history - before Jonas Hector converted for a 6-5 win.
Hummels, who scored his penalty, told BBC World Service: "We didn't shoot like a German team.
"I saw Gary Lineker posted about it already and of course he's right."
Thomas Muller, Mesut Ozil and Bastian Schweinsteiger failed to score from the spot, with Muller's miss Germany's first in a shootout since 1982.
They have been involved in six penalty contests, losing only once in the final of the 1976 European Championship against Czechoslovakia.
Saturday's failures, albeit in victory, prompted Match of the Day presenter Lineker - who was part of the England team beaten on penalties by West Germany in the 1990 World Cup semi-finals - to jokingly tweet: "Germany are useless at penalties these days."
Hummels, who has just moved from Borussia Dortmund to German champions Bayern Munich, added: "You won't believe it, but yes we [practised penalties] in training a few times.
"I was very happy that I did because I worked out which shot would work well for me today - because it worked well yesterday.
"It's hard to simulate the real situation."
Italy missed four penalties during the shootout, including one from Leonardo Bonucci who had scored from the spot in normal time to earn his side a 1-1 draw and extra time.
Bale, 27, came off with a calf injury after 39 minutes in Real's 3-2 El Clasico defeat by Barcelona in April.
Real beat city rivals Atletico Madrid on aggregate on Wednesday to reach the Champions League final for a second successive season.
"He's recovering and there's time for him to be ready for the final," Zidane told the Real Madrid website.
"I hope he's ready before and I hope he can be with us more than anything. We're a better team when he plays."
It is the second injury Bale has sustained this season after he was ruled out for four months when he hurt his ankle in Real's 2-1 Champions League win at Sporting Lisbon in November.
Swansea City boss Paul Clement says Real will be desperate for Bale to be fit for the final.
Clement was Carlo Ancelotti's assistant when Real Madrid won the Champions League in 2014, with Bale scoring the decisive second goal in a 4-1 final win over city rivals Atletico Madrid.
"I know he's fighting to be fit for that and I hope he is," Clement said.
"It would be great for him to come back, he's one of their best players.
"He's done fantastically well over the last couple of years. He's won it twice already,
"It would be an amazing achievement to be at a club for four years and win three Champions Leagues. That would be outstanding.
"It's great for Wales. You've got two great teams and a great event coming to this country."
NessCon at Eden Court on 8 and 9 July has been organised by three graduates of an events management course at Inverness College UHI.
Darrel-John Paterson, Abbygail Sutherland and Lewis MacKenzie's event will celebrate comics, graphic novels, film, TV shows and gaming.
They have lined up guest appearances and a cosplay costume competition.
The three hope the explosion in the superhero, fantasy and science fiction genres in literature, movies and television will boost interest in NessCon.
Since the last Hi-Ex seven years ago, there has been the release of DC Comics' Suicide Squad, Marvel TV shows such as Jessica Jones and the re-launch of the Star Wars films with 2015's The Force Awakens and last year's Rogue One.
Guest appearances confirmed so far for NessCon include original Power Ranger Jason David Frank and special effects actor Paul Warren.
On Twitter, the NessCon organisers have reached out to Inverness-born actress Karen Gillan in the hope that she can be involved in some way in the festival.
Gillan has appeared in Doctor Who and Disney-Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy movies, its sequel later this year and is expected to appear in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.
Mr Paterson said: "We would love to have Karen Gillan involved because she is a home-grown talent, but we absolutely understand that she is very busy."
Inverness' last comic con, Hi-Ex, was held between 2008 and 2010.
The event's guest speakers included Superman comic book artist Frank Quitely and Judge Dredd comic strip artist Mick McMahon and featured fans dressed as zombies and Star Wars stormtroopers.
Mr Paterson said: "I was working at Eden Court in the heyday of Hi-Ex being held there. It was a great event.
"Like Hi-Ex, we want to offer something that people living in the Highlands would have to travel to Glasgow and Edinburgh to see."
As with Hi-Ex, and the comic cons held in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the new Inverness event will feature cosplay - people dressing up in the costumes of their favourite characters in comics, film, TV or video games.
Mr Paterson said: "We are encouraging cosplay and will be holding a parade and also a competition for the best costume."
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So says Scottish football commentator Archie Macpherson on the 30th anniversary of England's 2-1 defeat.
Macpherson was an eye witness at the Mexico World Cup quarter-final.
"Had he not been able to demonstrate the unique skills that he had, the controversy would have carried on even more ferociously," he says.
"That seemed to obliterate it."
Macpherson was in Mexico primarily to watch Scotland but remained there to cover the tournament after Sir Alex Ferguson's side failed to qualify from the group stage.
He recalled that England, with Terry Butcher at the heart of their defence and with Gary Lineker, the tournament's leading goalscorer, up front, were playing very well against the eventual champions until Maradona struck.
"I was privileged to sit in the Azteca Stadium along with 114,000 others to watch one of the most infamous games, depending on how you look at it, in world football," Macpherson told BBC Scotland.
"I was fortunate enough to be sitting around about level with the 18-yard line, although very high up - the Azteca is an enormous stadium.
"In the 54th minute I think it was, in came Maradona pursuing a ball into the penalty area, the English goalkeeper, Peter Shilton, came out, tried to punch it clear, two hands went up in the air and the ball went past the goalkeeper into the net.
"I took it as a good, clear goal at that time, although it was noticeable the English players were furious, running to the referee with their arms up in the air.
"At first, we thought it might be offside and I was not at a television monitor and could not see what was shown by a slow-motion replay."
Having gone to talk to television producers, Macpherson was told that Maradona had used his hand to deflect the ball past Shilton.
"And then, four minutes later, one of the greatest goals ever scored in a World Cup finals or any football match was when he skinned four English players - he did it twice to Terry Butcher - deceived the goalkeeper - Peter Shilton fell on his backside because of the little dummy that Maradona sold him - and he slipped the ball into the back of the net," he said.
"It was just amazing."
Macpherson thought that, had it not been for that first goal, which Maradona later described as being thanks to the hand of God, England could have gone on to win the game.
"There were times when they took the Argentina defence apart, so they were playing very well," he said.
"That first goal obviously stunned them and I think the resentment as well ate into their play.
"But, four minutes later, everything was obliterated because of the genius of the little man himself.
"The first goal obliterated the image of the second goal particularly because of the English media, who played it up enormously.
"[They said] it was a universal, catastrophic error - that the law of nature had been broken in some kind of way."
A source close to Valdes said Besiktas attempted to change the terms of an agreed deal and the 33-year-old has now backed out of the move.
The Spain international has no future at Old Trafford after falling out with manager Louis van Gaal.
The transfer window in England and Scotland closes on Tuesday, but it is Monday in most European countries.
Ex-Barcelona player Valdes signed an 18-month deal with the Premier League side in January, but was not given a squad number for this season after Van Gaal claimed he refused to play in an Under-21 game.
Meanwhile, there has still been no bid from Spanish giants Real Madrid for David De Gea.
The La Liga club have been heavily linked with a move for the 24-year-old Spain international this summer, but are reluctant to meet United's demand of a world-record fee for a keeper.
Van Gaal says he will not pick the 24-year-old until the transfer window has closed.
The most ever paid for a goalkeeper is the £32.6m Juventus spent to sign Gianluigi Buffon from Parma in 2001.
North East Wales Carers Information Service (NEWCIS) said the money would enable carers to have a break as well as providing them with other assitance.
The money was awarded by a Big Lottery Fund People and Places grant.
Boss Claire Sullivan said the group would be able to support more carers with the money and help them to look after their own health and well-being.
South Africa thrashed Australia by an innings and 80 runs in Hobart on Tuesday to seal the three-Test series.
Captain Steve Smith said he was "embarrassed to be sitting here" at a news briefing after the game, but local observers were even more withering.
"Australian cricket is in crisis like never before," said one review.
"The captain has no answers. The coach has no answers. The men in suits are boarding planes," Peter Lalor wrote in The Australian.
"Heads have to roll, but no matter how many sacrifices are made, it will not satisfy the blood lust of the public, of whose game they are the guardians."
Former wicketkeeper Rod Marsh resigned as Australia's chairman of selectors on Wednesday, saying it was "time for some fresh thinking, just as it is for our Test team to welcome some new faces."
Writing for the ABC, Geoff Lemon said batting collapses had become "endemic" and "the defining factor" of a team which was all out for 85 in the first innings.
"But the point for Australia is the absence of players who can withstand this," he wrote.
"As batting orders have collapsed, so has morale, and there's no repairing a crushed meringue."
"What would Sir David Attenborough think?" asked The Age's Phil Lutton, rating seven current players "endangered" or "critically endangered" of losing their place in the side.
Anthony Sharwood said Australia was "getting towelled up" by a South African team missing its two best players, captain AB de Villiers and fast bowler Dale Steyn.
"There's just not the quality replacements out there. The question is why? Too many players growing up on the Froot Loops diet of T20 rather than the muesli of long form cricket?" he wrote in the Huffington Post.
Nor were the Australian players spared by the general public.
"The Australia cricket team are an embarrassment to Australia you showed no heart or fight," tweeted Joshua Lewis.
Devi Pokhrel wrote: "Make Australia Cricket Team Great Again! Gosh what's happening?"
Figures from the Food Foundation showed fresh produce makes up 7.1% of Welsh consumers' shopping.
It said the amount recommended by health experts was 20%.
Katie Palmer, from Food Cardiff, called for changes "to make a real impact on our nation's health".
The research follows the Food Foundation's launch of its Peas Please initiative in November last year.
It aims to secure commitments from the industry and government to increase vegetable consumption among the public.
Ms Palmer, who is also a member of the Food and Drink Wales industry board, said: "The Peas Please initiative aims to increase veg-consumption in the UK by changing the food environment so that retailers, manufacturers, restaurateurs and farmers are all contributing towards a systemic shift.
"We need representatives from all these areas to come together if we are going to make a real impact on our nation's health."
Djokovic, 28, beat Spanish 18th seed Feliciano Lopez 6-1 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-2) in a sweltering New York night session.
The Serb unleashed an angry tirade towards his player box after the second set but finally prevailed at 01:00 local time.
Croatia's Cilic withstood a Jo-Wilfried Tsonga fightback to win 6-4 6-4 3-6 6-7 (3-7) 6-4.
On a sweltering day at Flushing Meadows, Djokovic and Lopez were still suffering in 27C and 66% humidity as midnight came and went.
Djokovic had dominated the opening set but was then furious at dropping the second, thumping his racquet on his bag at the changeover.
The world number one regained control in a lengthy Lopez service game at the start of the third and took a tight fourth in a tie-break after two hours and 39 minutes.
"He's one of the rare players that actually serves volleys on the first and second serve," Djokovic said.
"I'm just glad to get through in four. Obviously, it was frustrating at times but this is quarter-finals of a Grand Slam, this is what you expect."
Cilic, 26, looked to be on course for a straightforward victory after taking the first two sets, but Frenchman Tsonga was rejuvenated after receiving treatment to his knee.
He fought back to level against the ninth seed, only for Cilic, himself with a strapped-up right ankle, to win in three hours 58 minutes.
The world number nine, who claimed his first Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows last year, had squandered three match points in the fourth set before allowing 19th seed Tsonga to win a tie-break and take it to a decider.
"That was a big mental fight after that fourth set. It got physical towards the end. It was very hot," Cilic said.
Italian Roberta Vinci, 32, reached her first Grand Slam semi-final by beating France's Kristina Mladenovic 6-3 5-7 6-4.
The world number 43 will face Serena Williams in the last four after the top seed won 6-2 1-6 6-3 against older sister Venus.
Mladenovic struggled with the 34C temperatures on Arthur Ashe Stadium and received treatment in the second set.
The 22-year-old world number 40 had just survived two break points to lead 5-4 before needing treatment from her trainer, who used ice to try and cool her down.
She went on to take the second set, but looked exhausted as Vinci responded to close out the match, with the vital break coming in a 10-deuce game at 3-3.
"It's 11:30. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't want to be here. I just want to be in bed right now." Serena Williams reaches her limit when it comes to questions about her sister.
"I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change." Venus Williams can get back to looking out for little sister Serena.
"I was surprised, actually. I don't know. I really don't know why. But, you know, Jo shook my hand, and said, 'Congratulations.' But that was it. I don't know for the rest. If I provoke him or not I have no idea. I hope not." Marin Cilic did not get the warmest of handshakes from Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
"He just hit the ball a little bit more properly than me at the right moment and that was a huge difference at the end, because he just made it. He just made it." So close but so far for Tsonga against Marin Cilic.
"Well, it's nice. I'm 32. I'm not young." Roberta Vinci on reaching her first Grand Slam semi-final.
"I am proud that I managed, even in very big difficulty and struggle, to not listen to me and stay positive and just try to fight till the end." Kristina Mladenovic won the battle with herself, if not Vinci.
The wreckage of the helicopter that disappeared this week while delivering aid near the Chinese border in Nepal was found on Friday morning.
Six US marines and two Nepali soldiers were on board. Three bodies have so far been recovered.
Tuesday's 7.3-magnitude quake killed at least 110 people.
It came as Nepal was reeling from the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake of 25 April which killed more than 8,000 people and injured many more.
The editor of the Nepal Times, Kunda Dixit, said the helicopter wreckage was found 56km (35 miles) from Kathmandu.
Lieutenant General John Wissler, head of the US task force in Nepal, said it was "unlikely" any survivors would be found at the site, which he said was in dense forest near the village of Charikot at an elevation of 3,352m (11,000 feet).
The helicopter went missing in the hours after the second quake.
Although the cause of the crash is not yet known, a nearby Indian helicopter heard radio chatter about a possible fuel problem, said Pentagon spokesman Steve Warren.
The marines had been working in the vicinity of Charikot, a village that was hit hard by the first quake, a spokesman for the US Pacific Command said.
The helicopter had been flying from Kathmandu airport as part of the US Operation Sahayogi Haat, which means "helping hand" in Nepali.
More than a dozen US military aircraft have been deployed to help carry out deliveries to areas cut off by the earthquakes.
Two Nepalese army helicopters were deployed in the search for the missing UH-1Y Huey helicopter, as well as 400 troops on the ground.
From listening to music and running, to colouring a picture and spending time with your family, you have sent us your photos and messages of your personal stories and how you manage day-to-day.
To bring more awareness of mental health issues, Josh recorded a video on YouTube about suffering from depression.
"I wouldn't wish depression on my worst enemy," he says.
"You shouldn't be ashamed to say you have depression - you are not alone."
"Joining a running club encourages social interaction and builds a support network," says Carolyn.
But she gives a tongue-in-cheek warning. "Running can be addictive," says the 36-year-old.
"Competitiveness can take hold and once you enter races, you are at risk of developing an awesome sense of fun, and a sense of achievement, as well as building camaraderie, determination and resilience."
Megan says her illness is "debilitating".
"There are good and bad periods. It's like there is someone living in your brain constantly telling you how useless you are.
"Colouring and baking have helped me to relax and distract my brain from negative thoughts."
Jennifer Rowland, Crewe: "Make sure you eat at least two meals a day - meals, not junk food. Look out of the window, got outside, remember the world outside your own head. Talk to your friends. Don't tell just one person everything, tell a few people some things that are on your mind. Smile at a stranger."
Laura, London: "At the end of each day, write a list of positive things from the day. Maybe something you've enjoyed, a compliment, something you achieved, or something beautiful you saw. Try to think of three, or more if you can. I write them on my phone - I've downloaded a diary app that reminds me."
Gemma Wilson, Tameside: "I keep a box that holds positive memories like a favourite perfume or body spray, a song or album, maybe even a good book/DVD that helps escape from reality for a little while. The slightest break gives you time to try and readjust enough to maybe think a little clearer."
Nineteen-year-old George Hodgson describes how his anxiety affected him.
"I couldn't leave my bedroom let alone the house, until I became so mentally ill, I had to go and see a specialist.
"Eventually after months and months of seeing a psychiatrist and a cognitive behavioural therapist, there was light at the end of the tunnel and I started my recovery.
"During this period I had the idea of Maison de Choup, my fashion label born out of my anxiety."
Rachel, Sandy, Bedfordshire: "Break things down into small, manageable chunks, with a reward for yourself for each thing you complete, even if that is just getting out of bed."
"I struggle with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder," says Charlotte.
"I am by no means cured but these tips all help me to manage my problems and take control of my life so I can be truly happy; which, right now, I am."
Singer-songwriter Abigail Blake, aged 21, says: "I have been struggling on and off with severe depression and anxiety for the last several years.
"Music has helped me stay positive, calm, and ultimately alive." She wrote Epiphany, a song about her experiences with depression.
Asha, London: "It is not about forcing happiness it's about not letting sadness win."
Compiled by Andree Massiah
Explained: What is mental health and where can I go for help?
Mood assessment: Could I be depressed?
In The Mind: BBC News special report (or follow "Mental health" tag in the BBC News app)
The vote will take place on 2 March 2017.
In Northern Ireland the government must be shared between two different political parties. The First Minister and Deputy First Minister lead the government - one representing each party.
Although they have different job titles, they basically have the same powers and must work together. Up until now the government has been run by the DUP - or Democratic Unionist Party - and Sinn Féin.
The argument between the parties is about whether the First Minister Arlene Foster - the leader of the DUP - ran things badly or not.
The Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, from Sinn Féin, says she did and he left his job because of this disagreement.
His party refused to appoint anyone else to the job and that means new elections have to take place.
The last Northern Ireland Assembly election was in May 2016 - the DUP and Sinn Féin got lots more votes than the other parties.
After the new election, the parties will have talk to each other again and try to work out how they will share power in the future.
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has seen two of its three panel members resign, and has been criticised by survivors groups.
Mr Swinney rejected claims that the government interfered with the inquiry in "the strongest possible terms".
He said he was determined to build on the good work of the inquiry.
Speaking after the meeting with Mr Swinney, one of the abuse survivors, Dave Whelan, said the delays to the inquiry were "upsetting".
"I am emotional about it because we've been doing this for too long," he told BBC Scotland.
"I represent a group of former Quarriers residents where eight people have been convicted. My own abuser was convicted and we're still seeking justice.
"Many, many more people where actually abused in these care homes and in these institutions."
Andrew Lavery, from White Flowers Alba, said people needed to be held to account by the inquiry.
"There needs to be not just recommendations, but societal change," he said.
"[The inquiry must] seek to repair and redress the harm of the past instead of ignoring thousands of people who were abused, which is completely wrong."
Mr Swinney told the BBC he wanted to make sure the inquiry was "entirely independent" from government.
He said: "As we work to overcome the obstacles that we have experienced in the last couple of weeks, there is good work that is being undertaken by the inquiry.
"I'm determined to build on that, to reflect on the views of survivors and to make sure that their thinking and their approach is built in to how we take forward the inquiry."
The inquiry was announced in December 2014, to investigate historical abuse of children in care at institutions, boarding schools, hospitals and in foster care.
It was formally set up in October 2015, with Susan O'Brien QC chairing, alongside psychology professor Michael Lamb and Glenn Houston.
However, Mr Lamb resigned in June 2016, saying the inquiry was "doomed" by government interference.
Ms O'Brien followed one week later, making similar claims, but with Mr Swinney announcing that moves were underway which could have seen her removed over "unacceptable" comments.
Mr Swinney called the meeting to explain to survivors why he took the decision to investigate these comments, which led to Ms O'Brien's resignation.
A child abuse expert had complained that Ms O'Brien had made comments during an inquiry staff training session in February, including that one survivor had described being abused as the "best thing that had ever happened" to them.
Dr Claire Fyvie complained that even if this comment was meant to "lighten the mood", it was "wholly inappropriate" and demonstrated a "shocking level of misjudgement".
However, Ms O'Brien insisted that she had "done nothing wrong", saying she would "never underestimate the gravity of child abuse" and that she had "accurately reported without endorsing, what a survivor had said about their attitude to their own abuse."
She said she would resign because she had "no confidence" that the government would not simply find another reason to sack her.
Mr Swinney said he "absolutely rejects any charges of interference" with the independence of the inquiry.
Officers said they hoped to gain intelligence from interviews with a local 46-year-old man arrested on Tuesday.
April, 5, was with friends near her Machynlleth home when she got into a van at 19:00 BST on Monday.
The man police are questioning has been named locally as Mark Bridger.
He was found walking along a road to the north of Machynlleth by a police patrol.
Dyfed-Powys Police told a news conference on Wednesday they have been "overwhelmed" by the response from volunteers but now urged the public to leave the search to trained teams.
Supt John said more than 40 skilled officers, including dog handlers, searched overnight.
North Wales Police officers assisted Dyfed-Powys Police in the search and the South Wales force sent a team of eight search specialists.
Coastguard teams from Aberystwyth, Borth, Aberdyfi and Harlech as well as RNLI inshore lifeboat teams have assisted.
A spokesman for Milford Haven Coastguard said they expect to continue their searches along the River Dyfi on Wednesday.
Supt John thanked members of the public for their help, but said conditions were "very challenging" and he did not want officers distracted by concerns for the safety of those who wanted to help out.
"I need people to know it is a rural environment, very challenging conditions out there," he added.
"The weather yesterday wasn't great and I don't think the forecast is very good for today.
"The River Dyfi is in flood and we really do need to manage the risk of everybody there, not only the police officers, the mountain rescue team, but we are extremely concerned about large numbers of members of the public going into very challenging conditions.
"So what I am asking really is - notwithstanding the great support and the commitment that people want to show in helping us to find April - can we please leave this now to the trained and skilled people that we have?
"I don't want those officers to be distracted by the well-intentioned and enthusiastic support."
Mr John said experience suggested any breakthrough in the search for April would be at a local level, and the search is still centred on areas around the market town.
"It is likely that we are going to find somebody in the search parameter where she was last seen," he added.
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Hundreds of volunteers from across the country joined the search, and some people arrived at Machynlleth leisure centre before 07:00 BST on Wednesday, but were turned away.
On Tuesday, April's family said they were "shattered" by her disappearance.
A statement, describing April as a "beautiful little girl, said: "Please, please if you have our little girl, let her come home to us."
The 46-year-old arrested man is in custody at Aberystwyth Police Station.
He was arrested at about 16:00 BST on the A487 main road north out of Machynlleth, which remains closed in both directions as far as Cross Foxes, near Dolgellau, 12 miles away.
Officers said they had been looking for him.
Det Supt Reg Bevan described him as a "significant individual", and said a vehicle police had recovered - a Land Rover Discovery - belonged to him, and was "similar to the description given by the children".
He said: "Certainly, we were looking for a vehicle matching that description. The vehicle is of extreme interest to us, as is the gentleman in custody."
April's godmother Mair Raftree, 41, from Aberystwyth, described April as "a quiet girl".
"She would never go with anybody and ask for a lift. We just want her back safely," she added.
Describing April, sweet shop owner Alyson Jones said: "She's a typical little five-year-old.
"She's bright-eyed and polite and loves coming into the shop with her family to choose her sweets.
A further news conference is expected later on Wednesday morning.
On Wednesday, Labour leader Ed Miliband said: "My heart goes out to the family of April Jones and obviously I hope there can be a successful outcome to the search for her."
Dyfed-Powys Police have asked anyone with information to contact a dedicated hotline on 0300 2000 333.
The diversity and racial inequality campaign in America has been ditched after it was criticised as opportunistic and inappropriate.
Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson said the coffee chain's race initiative would carry on without the messages.
The campaign was launched after national protests in the US over several police killings of black men in New York and Ferguson, Missouri.
"While there has been criticism of the initiative - and I know this hasn't been easy for any of you - let me assure you that we didn't expect universal praise," a company memo from CEO Howard Schultz said.
Some customers said they didn't want to talk about race while being served coffee.
The #racetogether hashtag was also hijacked after being promoted on Twitter.
"Most people come to Starbucks for coffee," said Ninette Musili, a 19-year-old African-American student at the University of Michigan.
"Race is an uncomfortable thing to bring up, especially in a Starbucks."
Another customer, Shane Mulholland, 46, said Starbucks wasn't the place to talk about race.
"They're here for coffee. They're not here to push their political agenda," he said.
"I even contemplated not coming here because of it."
He said Starbucks should remain neutral on topics like race because it's an established brand, rather than risk putting customers off.
"There are other ways you can go about doing things to stimulate interest in what you're doing," said Mulholland.
"They must be doing so well they don't have to worry about losing customers over that."
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The news comes just a week after Apple unveiled its very expensive iPad Pro, a tablet aimed at persuading professionals to give up their laptops. Two very different strategies in a market in need of a shot in the arm.
Just a couple of years ago tablets were the future of computing. But now sales appear to have reached a plateau - indeed, figures from IDC showed tablet shipments down 7% in the second quarter of 2015 compared to last year.
It's the waning interest in the iPad which stands out from the statistics, but Amazon has also struggled. At the end of 2014 it was in fifth place in the IDC figures with sales down 70% over the holiday period compared with the previous year.
Today it showed off four tablets, all aggressively priced. The 10" and 8" Fire HD devices were touted as the ultimate entertainment devices, with high quality widescreen displays in a thin and light body. Then there was a Kids' Edition tablet, rugged enough to stand all kinds of battering, with access to plenty of age-appropriate material.
But it is the 7" Fire at £49.99 that is Amazon's key weapon and will have its budget rivals worried. The company says low-end tablets suffer from poor quality components and short battery life and deliver a poor customer experience - and insists the Fire is different. A demonstrator held one up alongside a Samsung tablet costing twice as much and showed that the screen on the Amazon device displayed video better.
At another point in the demo, an Apple iPad Air 2 with a broken screen was produced. This, we were told, had happened after 20 revolutions in a testing machine, while the Fire had survived being spun round 200 times.
Amazon also unveiled the latest version of its Fire TV set-top box. The key novelty here was that it displayed 4K video, the new ultra-high-definition standard, unlike the latest Apple TV unveiled last week. Again, it was about half the price of the Apple product.
Just like the new tablets, the real aim of the set-top box is to give buyers a reason to buy Amazon content, and in particular to sign up to an annual subscription to Prime, which gives them fast delivery and free access to its video service. The margins on the hardware are undoubtedly wafer-thin - Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos told me three years ago that the firm made no profit on its tablets and I suspect little has changed.
But Mr Bezos's hardware ventures have had mixed results. The Fire smartphone he launched with such fanfare a year ago has now been quietly withdrawn. He had made big claims for its unique technology but a high price seemed to deter many from giving it a try.
Now it is back to the bargain basement strategy- there is even a "buy five, get one free" offer on the new Fire. A cut-price tablet will probably not give Apple many sleepless nights - but the likes of Samsung and even Tesco with its Hudl, will be wondering whether it is worth continuing to pour money into a market where the competition seems unconcerned about making a profit.
Chief federal investigator Alexander Bastrykin and two men wanted in the UK for the murder of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko are among them.
The sanctions come amid worsening ties, including claims Russia ran a cyber campaign to influence the US election.
President-elect Donald Trump is seeking to restore closer relations with Russia.
US officials say the sanctions are not related to the hacking but come under a 2012 law designed to punish human rights violators.
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The move could be the last visible act against Russia by the outgoing administration, correspondents say.
Under the act named after Russian tax fraud whistleblower Sergey Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009, people on the list have their US assets blocked and are banned from travelling to the US.
It originally targeted officials implicated in Magnitsky's death but has since been broadened to cover other human rights cases.
The five men to be blacklisted are:
Litvinenko died after drinking tea laced with a rare radioactive substance at a hotel in London.
Both Mr Lugovoi and Mr Kovtun deny any involvement in the killing, and efforts to extradite the men to the UK have failed.
Last month, Washington expelled 35 Russian diplomats following allegations by US intelligence services that Russia had ordered the hacking of Democratic Party emails to damage Mr Trump's Democrat rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton.
Russia denies the allegations and on Monday described them as a witch-hunt, but has so far not responded to the expulsions.
But after the 35 were thrown out Russia declined to respond in kind, with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying his country would not stoop to "irresponsible diplomacy".
Mr Trump, meanwhile, is said to have accepted the findings of the report but has declined to single out Russia as the source of the hacking.
The movie, starring Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard and directed by Atonement director Joe Wright, took $15.5m (£10m) and entered the chart at number three.
It was outshone by space thriller The Martian which held on to the top spot for a second week, taking $37m (£24m).
Hotel Transylvania 2 stayed at number two, making $20.3m (£13m).
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Pan's relative lack of success ranks it alongside The Fantastic Four and Tomorrowland as one of the year's most disappointing big budget achievers. Pan was released over the four-day Columbus Day weekend, which remembers Christopher Columbus' arrival to the Americas in 1492.
"It's a huge misfire," box office analyst Jeff Bock told Variety. "We won't see another Peter Pan film for a while."
The film's story is an invented prequel of JM Barrie's Peter Pan and Captain Hook adventure.
Levi Miller plays Peter Pan alongside Jackman's ruthless pirate and features Rooney Mara and Kathy Burke. It opens in the UK on 16 October.
Ridley Scott's The Martian, in its second week of release, has now notched up $108.7m (£71m) at the US box office.
Hotel Transylvania 2 also showed its staying power. Now in its third week, it has takings to date of $116.8m (£76m).
Workplace comedy The Intern, starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, earned $8.7m (£6m) and finished the weekend at number four, the same spot as last week. It has now made $49.6m (£32m).
Drug war thriller Sicario, starring Emily Blunt, brought in $7.4m (£5m) and came in at number five, dropping from its previous number three position. The film has overall takings to date of $26.7m (£17m).
The incident was reported at the Bekaot checkpoint in the northern West Bank. The soldiers were not injured.
The two Palestinian men, aged 23 and 38, were reported to be from villages south of Jenin.
Tension between Palestinians and Israelis has risen in recent months with a series of violent incidents.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency named those killed as Ali Muhammad Aqqab Abu-Maryam and Said Judah Abu-al-Wafa and said they had been shot "in cold blood".
The Israel Defense Forces said the soldiers had "thwarted the attack and shot the assailants".
Relations between Israelis and Palestinians remain tense amid a wave of attacks on Israelis by Palestinians and some Israeli Arabs which have killed 22 Israelis since the beginning of October.
During that time 149 Palestinians - more than half said by Israel to be attackers - have been shot dead by security forces or their victims. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces.
Overnight, Israeli forces demolished a home in the West Bank belonging to relatives of a Palestinian - Muhannad Halabi - shot dead in October after killing a rabbi in Jerusalem's Old City.
Israel says home demolitions, which have come under international criticism, are a way of discouraging Palestinian attacks.
On Friday, an Israeli Arab wanted for shooting dead three people in Tel Aviv on 1 January was killed by security forces in northern Israel.
Nashat Melhem was followed to a mosque in his home town of Arara and died in a gun battle, police said.
Police said Melhem, 29, was the gunman who killed two Israelis at a bar, then the Israeli Arab driver of a taxi who picked him up after the attack.
Melhem's father, Mohammed, had identified his son as the suspect and reported him to the police. Mohammed Melhem and several relatives have been arrested in connection with the case.
Police have not yet established a motive for the Tel Aviv killings.
Leftover food from 10 of its UK stores will now also be available to local charities through the UK food redistribution charity Fare Share.
Tesco said of the 55,400 tonnes of food it threw away in the last year, 30,000 tonnes could have been eaten.
Most of this is currently used for animal feed.
Tesco has been working with Fare Share to donate surplus food since 2012.
Bakery items, fruit and vegetables, and convenience items such as sandwiches and salads make up most of the shop wastage.
It is trialling an app with UK food redistribution charity Fare Share and Republic of Ireland social enterprise Food Cloud, that will allow store managers to inform charities of the amount of surplus food held at the end of each day.
Beneficiaries will include homeless hostels, women's refuges and the children's clubs.
The scheme is already in place at Tesco stores in the Republic of Ireland.
"No-one wants to throw away food which could otherwise be eaten," said Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis.
"We don't throw away much food in our own operations, but even the 1% we do throw away amounts to 55,400 tonnes.
"This is potentially the biggest single step we've taken to cut food waste, and we hope it marks the start of eliminating the need to throw away edible food in our stores."
In April, Tesco reported the worst results in its history, with a record statutory pre-tax loss of £6.4bn for the year to the end of February.
That compares with annual pre-tax profit of £2.26bn a year earlier.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said such action was needed in the face of growing online crime and abuse.
But, in a speech in London, she said it must be accompanied by stronger safeguards to protect privacy.
Ms Cooper argued that the government "cannot keep burying its head in the sand and hoping these issues go away".
She said: "In the face of growing online crime and abuse, and the use of online communications by criminals and extremists, the police, intelligence and security agencies need to be able to operate more effectively in this digital world.
"But for them to do so, we also need stronger safeguards and limits to protect our privacy and sustain confidence in their vital work.
"The oversight and legal frameworks are now out of date. That means we need major reforms to oversight and a thorough review of the legal framework to keep up with changing technology.
"Above all we need the government to engage in a serious public debate about these new challenges and the reforms that are needed."
Ms Cooper said the issues involved were "too important" to be ignored because they had implications "for our liberty, our security, the growth of our economy and the health of our democracy".
Last year, ministers hoped to include new measures on data monitoring in the Queen's Speech.
The plans, which would have allowed the police and security services to track emails and other online communications, were blocked by the Liberal Democrats.
Critics of the proposals denounced them as a "snooper's charter".
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said his party would not support any extension of existing laws which would end up with a "record kept of every website you visit and who you communicate with on social media sites".
But senior Labour figures said technological advances were presenting new problems that must be addressed.
Ms Cooper said: "Online communication and technology is forcing us to think again about our traditional frameworks for balancing privacy and safety, liberty and security.
"Perhaps most serious of all has been the growth in online child abuse. Last year the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Agency received 18,887 reports of child abuse - an increase of 14% on the year.
"The police and security services have been under pressure to explain why they did not know more about the murderers of Drummer Lee Rigby, and why more is not being done to disrupt the use of the internet by violent extremists looking to radicalise young people.
"And - with perhaps the widest ramifications of all - former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked hundreds of thousands of US intelligence documents and 58,000 British intelligence documents - raising serious concern about the impact on national security and about the scale of activity of intelligence agencies all at the same time."
May Brown was diagnosed with leukaemia in June last year and has had trouble finding a suitable donor.
Ethnic minority sufferers have a 20% chance of finding a match, whereas white patients have a 60% chance, according to blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan.
It said raising awareness was "vital".
The 22-year-old lives in Weymouth and was told she needed a stem cell transplant after a cycle of chemotherapy did not cure her leukaemia.
Originally from Nigeria, Mrs Brown was told a matching donor had been found last December, but they had then "become unavailable".
She said: "I was devastated, I was shocked because it gave me hope and was snatched away from me."
Anthony Nolan head of register development Ann O'Leary, said: "Growing and diversifying the bone marrow register will mean that people like May can have a second chance at life."
Mrs Brown's plea comes a month after mixed-race blood cancer sufferer Lara Casalotti made a similar appeal for ethnic minority stem cell donors last month.
Mrs Brown added: "I want to do whatever it takes to help raise awareness of the stem cell register.
"Please sign up as a donor and save someone's life."
Work on the new teaching block in Londonderry began last year after being given the green light by Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry.
When finished, the building will include a 340-seat lecture theatre, 20 classrooms and a café.
T&A Kernoghan Limited said it was "profoundly disappointed".
The Newtownabbey based company has been operating for more than 25 years but has run into financial problems.
It said that upwards of 50 jobs could be lost.
In a statement, Ulster University said: "The university continues to manage the construction work under way to ensure the continued progress of the development of the new teaching block at our Magee campus."
The steel frame of the building on the Northland Road is in place, some underground pipes have been laid but workers from T&A Kernoghan are no longer on site.
In April 2016, Minister Stephen Farry said the new teaching block would be an essential component of the Magee campus.
BDO Northern Ireland have been appointed as joint administrators over T&A Kernoghan Limited.
They confirmed to the BBC that "due to the extent of the company's financial difficulties, the joint administrators have been required to make all staff redundant and cease operations across the various building sites throughout the UK".
The new teaching block at Magee campus was expected to take two years to complete. It is unclear how long the project will be delayed.
The body of the 42-year-old was found in Gleneagles Street at about 14:30 on Tuesday.
Officers were initially treating his death as unexplained.
But they confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that there were no suspicious circumstances.
As with all sudden deaths, a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
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A typically bullish Springboks outfit led 14-3 at half-time, hooker Adriaan Strauss scoring the only try.
Strauss scored again after the break and while replacement scrum-half Henry Pyrgos crossed for the hosts, South Africa's defence kept Scotland at bay.
Defeat means Scotland will finish the year outside the world's top eight.
The consequence will be an unfavourable 2015 World Cup draw when it is made on 3 December, with two other sides from the top eight in the rankings in their pool.
"It was a better second half from Scotland, but they could not get that final pass. It is a defeat but Scotland cannot afford to have performances like they did in the first half. But there were some good performances and Dave Denton was good for Scotland."
While last weekend Scotland were picked apart by All Blacks guile, this time they were ground into the dust by Springbok brawn before the break.
South Africa were expected to bring intense physicality and directness and they started as expected, Pat Lambie pinning Scotland back with kicks out of hand and forwards and backs running straight and hard, their back row to the fore.
The visitors eschewed an early kick at goal, opting instead to go for the corner, but Lambie did give the Springboks the lead after Scotland were penalised for hands in the ruck.
Greig Laidlaw levelled the scores after South Africa were penalised for not rolling away before Lambie edged his side ahead again after some obstruction.
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And Scotland's defence finally crumbled under the heavy shelling when Strauss went over following a kick to the corner and a powerful South African maul.
Scotland lock Richie Gray left the fray after taking a knee to the head, to be replaced by Al Kellock, and there were more groans from the Murrayfield faithful when Laidlaw hooked a penalty wide.
Shorn of Gray's influence, Scotland's defence was splintered again when Francois Louw went on a charge and Lambie popped over the resulting penalty to increase the lead to 11 points.
The hosts finally entered South Africa's 22 after 32 minutes but some sustained pressure came to naught when Kellock was penalised for holding onto the ball.
Having led 14-3 at half-time, South Africa increased that lead to 18 points when Strauss latched onto a long pass from Scotland scrum-half Mike Blair and sauntered under the posts for his second try.
But Pyrgos, only just on for Blair, gave Scotland hope with a training-ground try, the Glasgow Warrior scything through the middle of the line-out after a tap-back by Kelly Brown.
The introduction of Pyrgos seemed to energise the Scottish forwards and there followed a period of furious pressure.
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However, a combination of sturdy South African defence and the lack of a cutting edge meant they were unable to convert the pressure into points.
First, Ross Ford's line-out throw on the 5m line was adjudged not to be straightm before a Pyrgos offload to Tim Visser, following a break by Brown, was intercepted.
South Africa's scrum disintegrated in the final 15 minutes but despite earning a string of penalties, and with a man advantage after a yellow card for Springbok replacement Flip van der Merwe, Scotland were unable to breach the vistors' line despite a concerted effort.
Heyneke Meyer's side face England next week looking to complete a clean-sweep of victories over northern hemisphere sides, having also beaten Ireland last week.
Andy Robinson, meanwhile, will be seeking the cold comfort of a victory over Tonga, which would still not be enough to get them into the top eight in the all-important rankings.
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Scotland: Hogg; Lamont, De Luca, Scott, Visser; Laidlaw, Blair; Grant, Ford, Murray, Gray, Hamilton, K. Brown, Barclay, Denton.
Replacements: Jackson for Laidlaw (68), Pyrgos for Blair (47), Hall for Ford (68), Cross for Murray (68), Kellock for Gray (22).
Not Used: Traynor, McInally, Murchie.
South Africa: Kirchner; Pietersen, de Jongh, de Villiers, Hougaard; Lambie, Pienaar; Steenkamp, Strauss, J du Plessis, Etzebeth, J Kruger, Louw, Alberts, Vermeulen.
Replacements: M Steyn for Lambie (74), H van der Merwe for Steenkamp (61), Brits for Strauss (76), van der Linde for J du Plessis (52), F van der Merwe for J Kruger (68), Coetzee for Alberts (53).
Not Used: Taute, Mvovo.
Sin Bin: F van der Merwe (76).
Att: 58,893
Ref: George Clancy (IRFU).
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Kaepernick, 28, has been refusing to stand for the anthem in protest against the plight of black people.
The NBA has a rule stating players must stand for the national anthem.
Cleveland Cavaliers' James, 31, said it "doesn't mean I don't respect and don't agree with what Kaepernick is doing".
He added: "Standing for the national anthem is something I will do.
"You have the right to voice your opinion, stand for your opinion and he's [Kaepernick] doing it in the most peaceful way I've ever seen someone do something."
Golden State Warriors' guard Curry, 28, praised Kaepernick's actions, adding: "I respect everybody's voice, everybody's platform. Kaepernick took a bold step to continue the conversation."
Racial tensions are mounting in the US, where a string of recent police killings and subsequent revenge killings have sparked protests across the nation.
Father-of-three James said he feared for the safety of his own children when he watched reports of shootings.
"My son had just started the sixth grade," he added.
"You see these videos that continue to come out, it's a scary situation. If my son calls me and said if he got pulled over I'm not that confident that things are gonna go well and my son is going to return home."
Despite its rule on standing for the national anthem, the NBA has written to players saying it wants to work with them on how to address the issue ahead of the start of the season on 25 October.
A number of other NFL players have joined Kaepernick in protesting when the Star Spangled Banner has been played, including his team-mate Eric Reid.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticised Kaepernick, saying: "I think it's a terrible thing, and you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him."
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Li-fi can deliver internet access 100 times faster than traditional wi-fi, offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second).
It requires a light source, such as a standard LED bulb, an internet connection and a photo detector.
It was tested this week by Estonian start-up Velmenni, in Tallinn.
Velmenni used a li-fi-enabled light bulb to transmit data at speeds of 1Gbps. Laboratory tests have shown theoretical speeds of up to 224Gbps.
It was tested in an office, to allow workers to access the internet and in an industrial space, where it provided a smart lighting solution.
Speaking to the International Business Times, chief executive Deepak Solanki said that the technology could reach consumers "within three to four years".
The term li-fi was first coined by Prof Harald Haas from Edinburgh University, who demonstrated the technology at a Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in 2011.
His talk, which has now been watched nearly two million times, showed an LED lamp streaming video.
Prof Haas described a future when billions of light bulbs could become wireless hotspots.
One of the big advantages of li-fi is the fact that, unlike wi-fi, it does not interfere with other radio signals, so could be utilised on aircraft and in other places where interference is an issue.
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Neither can the technology travel through walls so initial use is likely to be limited to places where it can be used to supplement wi-fi networks, such as in congested urban areas or places where wi-fi is not safe, such as hospitals.
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Discussions took place on Friday between the two clubs and Police Scotland as a result of the extreme weather conditions in the Highlands.
And a final pitch inspection at 07:30 on Saturday confirmed the lunchtime kick-off would not go ahead.
Caley Thistle pointed out there was a forecast of further poor weather.
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Adventure will mean different things to each of us
I'm passionate about sharing adventure with people, as that mindset is more important in today's dynamic times than ever before.
It doesn't have to be world-first expeditions, but any time we step outside of our comfort zone it's an opportunity for us to grow.
I have used Wales to train and prepare for all of my world-first expeditions.
It's the perfect mix of brutality and accessibility. In fact, the Welsh landscape has forged me into the athlete that I am today.
It was important to us that the adventures in the series showcased the rugged beauty of Wales, yet have accessible components for anyone to try.
I have had the privilege of performing in some of the planet's most remote and hostile corners. Also some of the most beautiful too, yet it never fails to amaze me just how magnificent Wales is.
The Elan Valley really rocked me, it's so beautiful. Even when the Welsh weather came in, it only made it feel more ethereal.
That was in the cycling show, but to be honest every episode opened my eyes and heart to something wonderful.
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The Ogof Ffynnon Ddu cave system was spectacular.
It was the production company's idea to go underground. I'm not the biggest fan to be honest!
But stepping outside of my comfort zone opened my eyes to the wonder down there and I hope it provokes the same emotions with the audience as they climb with me.
Since my crevasse fall on Denali as part of my 737 Challenge in 2011, I've not been a fan of confined spaces.
Imagine trying to contort and drag your body through a 15-metre tunnel so small that every part of your body - chest, shoulders and back - are touching the inside of the tunnel. All this whilst being soaking wet, tired, hundreds of metres underground, and after 10 hours of climbing!
Every part of my mind was focused on not thinking about the millions of tonnes of earth and rock collapsing above me!
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Learning to kayak on the Teifi river was the most challenging of the episodes, but the most rewarding too. Life's wonderful like that!
It's enriched my life as I am now planning more adventures on the water.
But seeing how the Teifi itself has enriched so many communities and people was truly heart-warming and wonderful.
Adventure will mean different things to each of us, yet at its core it's about stepping outside of our comfort zone and beginning a journey of discovery.
Even the smallest adventure can be life-changing.
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Football's rule-makers want video referees in place as soon as possible and Fifa president Gianni Infantino wants the system ready for the 2018 World Cup.
But is it conclusive? Does it actually work?
Take a look at this decision in the Uruguay v Venezuela semi-final on Wednesday and let us know what you think.
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Tottenham winger Josh Onomah was given an odd red card in England's quarter-final victory over Mexico when attempting to dribble past an opponent, for which the video referee was not used.
Earlier in the tournament, an Italian player was dismissed after the video assistant referee intervened, while in the opening game, Argentina forward Lautaro Martinez was sent off for elbowing an England player, which the referee initially missed.
Driving this transformation is an unprecedented explosion in the human population, accompanied by a remarkable surge in economic growth and wealth creation.
The consequences for the natural world that supports us all are both serious and, in some cases, potentially irreversible.
Indeed, the numbers, many of which are outlined below, are as alarming as they are revealing.
On the one side we have what academics refer to as the Great Acceleration - for example, a massive upswing in demand for food and water, energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, fertiliser consumption and ocean acidification.
On the other, a plundering of Earth's finite natural resources and a destruction of its natural habitats - from deforestation and soil degradation to collapsing fish stocks and species extinction - that cannot be sustained.
But there is a growing realisation that these largely unintended consequences of our species' success cannot be left unchecked, for the very simple reason that they will ultimately impact severely on our ability to prosper.
Action is needed, and it falls to business, along with society at large and the political establishment, to drive this change.
And change is already afoot. A growing number of businesses, both big and small, new economy and old, are embracing the sustainable agenda.
If nothing else, the economic cost of inaction is simply too great. Indeed, a recent study backed by the United Nations put the cost to the global economy of the damage done to the natural world by humans at between $2tn-$4.5tn a year.
And these costs will increasingly fall to companies, and of course their customers, as they are forced to pay to protect or replace the natural resources upon which their business depends.
As Polly Courtice, director of Cambridge University's Institute for Sustainability Leadership, says: "For a long time companies separated out sustainability issues from their core [activity], but they are now realising [these issues] are central to their ability to function as a growing business".
Trailblazers such as consumer goods giant Unilever and retailer Kingfisher were driven by visionary bosses, in this case Paul Polman and Ian Cheshire, who believed embracing sustainability was not just the right thing to do but was in the best long-term interests of the company.
Reducing costs is an obvious start, such as implementing energy efficiencies. Many have gone a step further, with established giants such BMW, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Google, H&M, Ikea, Nike and Walmart among many others that have committed to 100% renewable energy.
Equally, relying on finite and dwindling resources that will inevitably become more expensive is no recipe for long-term success. Identifying these risks in the supply chain early is key to securing the long-term sustainability of the business itself.
Some companies, such as sportswear group Puma and its owner Kering, are pioneering so-called environmental profit and loss accounting, where the business's environmental impact is costed precisely throughout its entire supply chain.
Increasing regulation is also forcing change, as governments use instruments such as pollution taxes and a meaningful carbon price, which is inevitable given the need to cut emissions from fossil fuels, to help achieve ambitious climate-change targets.
But it's not just about avoiding business risks, it's about embracing opportunity - the benefits of enhancing brand reputation in a world where consumers are becoming increasingly environmentally aware may be harder to quantify, but are no less rewarding long term.
In this way, more and more companies are finding that sustainability can be a key driver of revenue growth.
13 million
hectares of forest - the size of Greece - lost per year 2000-2010
10 million
hectares of farming land lost every year through erosion and degradation
33% of farming land lost since 1960 due to erosion and degradation
1 billion employed in farming around the world
30% of global forests cleared
1.6 billion people rely on forests for food, water, clothing and shelter
Indeed, many are engaging increasingly with both the sharing economy, where swapping, renting and sharing replace ownership of goods and services, and the so-called circular economy, where one company's waste is another's resource and where products are designed to be repurposed once their natural life comes to an end.
The financial community is also waking up to the sustainable agenda, with an increasing number of fund managers and pension funds engaging with companies to highlight the risks of inaction.
The stranded assets campaign, which identifies the dangers of over-valuing fossil fuel reserves that will have to stay in the ground if dangerous climate change is to be avoided, has been particularly successful, with more than 500 global institutions so far divesting almost $3.5tn from energy companies around the world.
There remain, however, significant obstacles to change.
"Most companies are still focused on the relatively short term, on the next quarter's numbers," says David Symons, director of consultancy WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff.
As long as company boards focus on short-term profit and shareholder returns, the longer-term demands of a more sustainable business will suffer.
And despite widespread change in public attitudes, consumer inertia remains an issue, as value understandably remains a key priority in times of economic stress.
This is why, argues Ms Courtice, the burden of driving change falls largely on the corporate sector.
"Companies have to lead... they can make decisions quickly that the political system can't," she says.
The long-term health of their businesses, and the health of the planet that ultimately sustains us all, depends upon it.
This article is the first in a series looking at sustainable business.
Treasury Minister, Senator Philip Ozouf, said it was the island's first bond issue.
He said the bond would be paid back over the next 40 years, at an interest rate of 3.75%.
In May, the island was awarded an AA+ credit rating by agency Standard and Poor's.
Senator Ozouf said: "The right thing to do has been discussed on a number of occasions and social housing is capital hungry but it also repays itself because the States receives a rental from that investment.
"We can go to bond markets, secure very low interest rates for a very long period of time and we can invest more in social housing than otherwise would have been the case."
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She has now beaten Queen Victoria's record of 63 years, seven months and two days.
Her Majesty was just 25 when she first took the throne back in 1952 and lots has changed since then.
Watch Jenny's report to find out more about the Queen's reign through the ages.
Jay Carney said the president was "actively supportive" of a Democratic senator's plan to introduce a bill on the first day of the next Congress.
There could also be moves on ammunition and gun-sale loopholes, Mr Carney said.
In its first statement since Friday, the National Rifle Association said it was "heartbroken" by the attack.
The gun lobby group said it was "made up of four million moms and dads, sons and daughters - and we were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in Newtown.
"The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again," the statement said, announcing a "major news conference" to be held on Friday.
Gun sales, including those of assault rifles, have risen since Friday, a sign that enthusiasts fear that new legislation is coming, the BBC's Paul Adams in Washington reports.
At the same time, share prices of several gun manufacturers have fallen and a private equity firm has sold its stake in the company that makes the assault rifle used at Newtown, after pressure from one of its biggest investors, a California teachers retirement fund.
Gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults in last Friday's attack.
Students in the rest of the Newtown district returned to school on Tuesday, but Sandy Hook Elementary, where the shooting took place, is still designated a crime scene.
The US president has previously stated his support for the reintroduction of an assault weapons ban, which lapsed in 2004.
But he has not backed a specific move to do so before now.
"He is actively supportive of, for example, Senator [Dianne] Feinstein's stated intent to revive a piece of legislation that would reinstate the assault weapons ban," Mr Carney said on Tuesday.
The White House press secretary added that Mr Obama was also supportive of other gun legislation, including on high-capacity ammunition clips and against a loophole that allows for gun purchases at gun shows without a background check.
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Senator Feinstein told reporters she would introduce the legislation when the new Congress met for the first time in January.
On Monday, the White House spokesman said that tighter gun control laws were only part of the answer to violence in the US, and that "no single action will fully address the problem".
But correspondents say that Democrats are now less reluctant to pursue gun control legislation than before, after two pro-gun senators said they supported action in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Mr Carney said the president had spoken on Tuesday to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat and avid hunter who made comments the day before about preventing gun violence.
During the presidential campaign, Mr Obama expressed support for the ban on assault weapons during one of three televised debates against Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
"I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theatres don't belong on our streets," Mr Obama said in the second debate on 16 October.
"And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally. Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced."
Newtown's schools began their day two hours late, with grief counsellors and police present, but students said they were not expecting to get very much work done.
Rate per 100,000 people
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports
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"Our collective strength and resilience will serve as an example to the rest of the world," Charles Dumais, Newtown High School's head teacher wrote in a blog post, entitled "The Beginning".
One of the school's students, 17-year-old PJ Hickey, said: "We're going to be able to comfort each other and try and help each other get through this, because that's the only way we're going to do it," the Associated Press reported.
But he added: "There's going to be no joy in school. It really doesn't feel like Christmas anymore."
It was unclear how many of the town's 4,700 students would attend classes.
Funerals for the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School continued on Tuesday, after the first victims were buried on Monday.
Services were held for James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos, both six-year-olds.
Meanwhile, investigators continue to piece together a picture of the gunman.
Police said they were working to recover information from a damaged computer found at Lanza's home, ABC News reported.
And Connecticut's chief medical examiner has said tests are under way to see whether the gunman had taken medicines at the time of the shooting.
Before trading began on Wall Street on Tuesday a US private equity firm said it would sell its stake in the maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the weapon used in the Newtown school shootings.
Dick's Sporting Goods, a US chain, also announced it would suspend sales of modern sporting rifles in all stores, and remove all guns from a display at its store closest to Newtown.
Also on Tuesday, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder vetoed a bill passed on Thursday that would have allowed concealed weapons in schools, bars, places of worship and hospitals with additional training.
A group of residents who have come together as Newtown United met gun control advocates as well as families affected by other mass shootings in Washington, DC on Tuesday.
And an 11-year-old was arrested near Salt Lake City, Utah for bringing an unloaded handgun and bullets to school, saying he brought it to protect himself and his friends, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
The ex-jockey, now a trainer in Ireland, triumphed by one-and-a-quarter lengths on 7-1 shot Phosphorescence, trained by George Scott.
Peter Buchanan was second on Janaab, with 69-year-old George Duffield third aboard Red Charmer.
Former champion jockey Richard Hughes was fourth on favourite Bluff Crag in the race won last year by AP McCoy.
Hughes was one place ahead of BBC 5 live racing reporter Luke Harvey, who rode Gun Case on day one of the St Leger meeting.
O'Brien, who is about 6ft tall, retired due to weight issues earlier this year but agreed to ride in the race, which raises money for the Injured Jockeys' Fund.
He was fined £500 by the stewards at Doncaster for using his whip above the permitted level. A British Horseracing Authority spokesman said it was highly likely the fine would be donated to charity.
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It is expected to cause some disruption as roads will close to allow cyclists to pass through the two routes.
The event starts and finishes in Belfast's Titanic quarter - one route heads towards Strangford Lough and the main race heads to the Mournes.
Closures will be in place across various parts of NI with controlled gateway crossings in operation.
Full details, route maps and road closures are available on the Gran Fondo wesbite.
The mass participation cycling event for amateurs and professionals was held for the first time in June 2015 as a legacy to the Giro d'Italia, one of world cycling's major races, which started in Northern Ireland the previous year.
Police are advising anyone travelling to the event to get there before the road closures take effect, and all other travellers to allow extra time for their journey.
Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said: "Police are working hard to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum on Sunday.
"We have invested significant effort in planning, alongside organisers and partner agencies, to ensure that events like this pass off successfully and with as little disruption to normal everyday life as is possible.
"For the safety of riders and spectators it is essential that all roads are clear from vehicles and that no one parks on any of the planned routes."
Only cyclists involved in the race, official support vehicles and emergency services will be allowed on the planned route.
Access to the George Best Belfast City Airport and Belfast Port will not be affected, but a significant policing operation will be in place.
Belfast City Council has special arrangements in place for anyone wishing to visit Roselawn Cemetery on Sunday.
The former Ospreys number eight, from Newport, who retired last year, got a MSc (Master of Science) degree.
He follows Rugby World Cup referee Nigel Owens who got an honorary LLD (Doctor of Laws) from the College of Law on Monday.
Mr Jones said he was "delighted" to received the honour.
The Oxford- and Stanford-educated, trained air force pilot took the oath as the country's seventh king in a ceremony in parliament.
To warm applause, King Philippe, 53, promised to uphold the constitution.
Belgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role.
One of the duties the monarch does have is trying to resolve constitutional crises.
In his final address before signing a legislative act to step down, 79-year-old King Albert said his country must remain a "source of inspiration" to Europe.
His resignation on the grounds of ill-health came after nearly 20 years on the throne and was timed to coincide with Belgium's national day.
He stressed his wish that Belgium - split between the Dutch-speaking north and the French south - remained united.
In a colourful ceremony topped off by trumpet fanfare and cannon-fire, Philippe took his oath in the country's three official languages - Dutch, French and German.
By Chris MorrisBBC News, Brussels
Along with the national football team, the monarchy is often regarded as one of the few institutions that actually holds Belgium together.
Even so, opinion polls suggest French-speaking Wallonia is now a good deal more royalist than Dutch-speaking Flanders, and the new king will have to convince some citizens of his credentials.
His big challenge will come next year when national elections are due to be held, and separatist parties in Flanders are expected to do well.
After the last election it took more than 500 days to form a national government, because of the deep divisions between Flanders and Wallonia.
As king, Philippe (or Filip in Dutch) has an important constitutional role to play, and he will need to prove that he has the political skills to mediate between very different visions of his country's future.
This was a reminder of the delicate political task that awaits him - trying to mediate across the divide between French-speaking Wallonia and Dutch-speaking Flanders, where support for independence has been rising fast, says BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris.
Flag-waving supporters gathered in the midday sun waiting for their new king and his wife, Mathilde, to greet them from the balcony of the nearby royal palace.
"The new king is a bit of history," said Xavier De Graef, draped in the red, yellow and black of the Belgian tricolour.
"That doesn't happen very often so we wanted to be here," Mr De Graef, from French-speaking Liege, told Reuters news agency.
But not everyone was celebrating.
The far-right separatist Vlaams Belang party boycotted the swearing-in ceremony.
Meanwhile, Jan Jambon, parliamentary head of the N-VA party that wants Dutch-speaking Flanders to break away from Belgium and favours a republic, said the occasion "leaves me cold".
In the abdication ceremony at the royal palace in Brussels, the former monarch told his son: "You have all the emotional and intellectual qualities to serve our country well."
He thanked an audience of some 250 dignitaries and political leaders "for all that you have achieved during my reign".
Ex-king Albert also thanked his wife, Paola, for the support she had given him during his reign, and was in turn thanked by Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo for his service to his country.
Mr Di Rupo holds the political power in the 183-year-old parliamentary democracy.
Albert II then embraced his son and signed the official abdication papers, ending his reign.
King Albert exercised his authority in mediating between political leaders on the formation of a government during the 2010-2011 parliamentary stalemate, when Belgium was left without a government for 541 days after elections failed to find a clear winner.
Tensions between the Dutch-speaking and French communities sometimes run high, and the issue has brought down several governments, creating frequent political instability.
Respect for the royal family, though, is one of the few factors that crosses the communal divide.
King Albert's abdication comes only three months after Queen Beatrix of the neighbouring Netherlands vacated the Dutch throne in favour of her son Willem-Alexander.
The benchmark index closed up 7.71% at 18,770.51 points. A day earlier, the index saw all the gains it had made this year wiped out.
Remarks by newly re-elected prime minister Abe suggesting company tax cuts were on the way helped the mood.
Also positive were Tuesday's rebound for US shares and an improving Chinese share market.
Investor sentiment was up across the rest of Asia.
Tuesday's weak economic data from China has also raised hopes of more stimulus for that economy and its markets.
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index finished up 4.1% at 22,131.31 - marking its biggest one-day percentage gain in almost four years.
The Chinese government said on Wednesday that it would strengthen fiscal policy, boost infrastructure spending and speed up reform of its tax system to support the economy.
On the mainland, the Shanghai Composite closed up 2.3% at 3,243.09 - moving into positive territory for the year.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 closed up 2.07% at 5,221.10, taking its lead from US markets.
Analysts said resource and commodity shares, together with some of the big bank stocks, had buoyed the Australian index.
Numbers out on Wednesday showed consumer confidence slid in September which led to revived hopes of another rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
South Korea's Kospi benchmark index also closed up 2.96% at 1,934.20 points. Official data released on Wednesday showed the country's latest unemployment figures for August sitting at their lowest since January this year.
Chris Weston from IG Markets said it would be a good news day for markets and that there was a "sea of green on screen in risk associated assets".
"This pick-up in sentiment once again started from a nice move higher in S&P futures during Asia, helped on by some really bullish flow in the Chinese markets," he said in a note.
"Specifically, the H-shares (Chinese dual-listed companies trading in Hong Kong) had its best day [on Tuesday] in months," he added.
"In the Chinese mainland, there has been some focus on headlines on a 50% reduction in personal income tax dividends for larger shareholders, with the idea being to move the market away from short-term and focus on the longer-term."
Doug Paulley, 36, from Wetherby, was denied access to a First bus to Leeds when a woman with a pushchair refused to move.
He won his claim the company had breached the Equality Act in a hearing at Leeds County Court in September.
First said its drivers needed to know "what they are legally required to do".
The case is expected to last three days at the Court of Appeal.
Mr Paulley attempted to board the bus to visit his parents in Leeds in February 2012.
But he was told to wait for another when the woman with the pushchair refused to move because her baby was asleep.
A judge at Leeds County Court said First's policy of "requesting but not requiring" non-disabled travellers, including those with babies and pushchairs, to vacate the space if it is needed by a wheelchair user was in breach of the Equality Act 2010.
Mr Paulley was awarded £5,500 damages.
At the Appeal Court in London, Martin Chamberlain QC for First Group said it was an example of a long-running problem on public transport that had "produced conflicting court decisions".
He said bus operators were now seeking legal clarity.
Mr Paulley said: "Public transport should be for everybody, including parents with pushchairs, but ultimately it is a wheelchair space.
"Without that space ,wheelchair users are unable to travel on the bus."
Sebastian Zuchlinski was found injured in Davenport Street, Bolton, on 6 February and died at the scene.
He was dragged from a car and attacked by three men with machetes and knives as he lay on the floor, police said.
Tomasz Bubrowski, 39, was ordered to serve a minimum of 31 years in prison after being found guilty of murder at Bolton Crown Court.
Police said Mr Zuchlinski, known as Seba, was with his girlfriend's sister who was going to drive him home to change his footwear when their car was blocked by a Honda Civic.
Bubrowski, of Cavendish Gardens, Bolton, and two other armed men jumped out of the Honda and dragged him from the vehicle, the court heard.
Mr Zuchlinski endured a "sustained attack" which would have continued if it had not been for the bravery and intervention of a passing witness, police said.
A fourth man drove the trio away from the scene.
Det Insp John Mulvihill said it was "a savage and unprovoked attack that took the life of an unarmed man, who had made plans for a fun evening out with his girlfriend and her sister".
"The loss of Seba was one that his loved ones felt deeply and they still feel the impact of his death and miss him dearly," he added.
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said officers were still seeking the other men involved in the attack.
The 27-year-old, who has signed a five-year contract, is Palace's third summer signing, after midfielder Andros Townsend and goalkeeper Steve Mandanda.
Tomkins joined West Ham's academy aged seven and went on to make 243 first-team appearances, scoring 11 goals.
Palace chairman Steve Parish said Tomkins was a player that manager Alan Pardew had "always wanted to sign".
Tomkins said on the club's website: "I am really excited to be joining Crystal Palace, a massive club and a manager in Alan Pardew that I know well.
"I will always be thankful for how he helped me develop in my younger days at Upton Park."
The 24-year-old dislocated his thumb against Lancashire in September, just hours after he had received his first Test call-up for England.
Left-arm spinner Ansari required surgery and also missed England Lions' winter tour.
He is set to play against Sussex's second team in a two-day match later this week.
Ansari has made one appearance for England, which came in the rain-affected one-day international against Ireland last May.
He scored 771 Championship runs at an average of 36.71 last season, and took 44 wickets at 30.97 as Surrey won the Division Two title.
The pound has dropped by more than 2% against the dollar, sterling's biggest one-day fall since the Brexit referendum vote last June.
So far there has not been much in the way of global contagion in the currency or stock markets.
But in Asia, where shares were trading as results drifted in, some companies heavily exposed to the UK saw their share prices fall.
Asian firms with big investments in Britain were under pressure over concerns political uncertainty will complicate Brexit negotiations.
They include infrastructure firm CKI, Power Assets and CK Hutchison, which are all owned by Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing. Shares in those businesses are down nearly 2%.
Malaysian property conglomerate YTL, Singapore-based transport firm Comfortdelgro and property firm City Developments also have investments in Britain.
"Without question, there is volatility ahead. The market is desperate for any indication of what a Brexit deal might look like," Lee Hardman, an analyst at MUFG said.
For financial firms in the UK, one looming question about Brexit is whether they would have to move their operations if they lost access to the single market - an issue over so-called European passporting rights.
Shares in British lenders Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC slipped by about 1% on Asian markets as the prospect of a hung parliament became clearer.
Fund manager Janus Henderson, which is also heavily exposed to the UK market for revenues, fell by about 1.5% in Sydney trading.
The Australia-listed CYBG, which owns the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks, fell as much as 1.4% before recovering. The firm, which was spun from National Australia Bank last year, gets all of its revenues from the UK.
Overall Asian stock markets have largely shrugged off the election upset - as well as digesting possible implications from former FBI director James Comey's testimony to a US Senate committee.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index closed 0.5% higher and South Korea's Kospi cended the day up 0.8%.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was flat, the Shanghai composite end 0.1% higher and Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.3%,
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Peter Atilla, 46, from Northampton, denies raping a woman in Merthyr Tydfil in 2013, but has no recollection because of the disorder.
Dr Chris Idzikowski, a consultant psychiatrist, said he could have been suffering from parasomnia - unwanted behaviour during sleep.
He told Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court the evidence supporting this was "weak".
A jury heard the former Royal Logistics Corps officer may have been in "action mode" the night after arriving back in the UK.
Dr Idzikowski said: "I've experience of other soldiers coming back off tour and experiencing things such as untoward behaviour (while asleep). I know of soldiers marching in their sleep even."
He told the court one of the symptoms of parasomnia was sexsomnia, "a type of arousal" which can lead to sexual behaviour from a person while in deep sleep.
Dr Idzikowski said Mr Atilla, who served "with distinction" in the first Gulf War, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, may have been triggered by something as simple as a sound.
He admitted the evidence the disorder led to Mr Atilla having sex with the woman while asleep was "weak" but said he could not exclude it from being possible.
Another psychiatrist, Dr Chandan Seghal, said he too "could not exclude" the attack relating to a sleep disorder, but agreed the evidence was "weak."
Dyfed Thomas, prosecuting, told the court Mr Atilla had no recollections of him showing signs of sexsomnia in the past or since the incident.
He said the woman awoke to find Mr Atilla naked on top of her and jurors were told her mother heard Mr Atilla later admit he had raped her daughter.
The Orkney Roastery is the brainchild of Sara Tait and Euan Smith in Kirkwall.
They are already supplying small batches of freshly roasted whole beans and ground coffee to local shops, cafes, restaurants and hotels.
They hope to develop relationships with coffee growers and ultimately sell to businesses outside of Orkney.
The business is based at the Hatston industrial estate.
Their roaster takes green beans from coffee growers round the world - including Colombia - and produces freshly roasted coffee.
Mr Smith told BBC Scotland: "I always had the dream of a roastery.
"I think the best thing for anybody interested in coffee drinking is try a few different varieties and explore."
His business partner said: "Once you have tasted fresh ground coffee you understand the difference."
The pair believe they have "nailed" the taste of a secret blend.
A house in the Burnholme area of York was searched following the arrest of a 59-year-old man from York on 13 May.
The man, arrested on suspicion of the murder of Miss Lawrence, was released on conditional bail the following day.
A second property in North Shields, Tyneside, was also searched by officers.
North Yorkshire Police said investigations were continuing but searches at both properties had been concluded.
Miss Lawrence, 35, who lived in Heworth, had worked as a chef at the University of York.
She was due to start a 06:00 shift on 19 March 2009 but failed to turn up.
Extensive searches of the area were made but she was not found and police have since treated her disappearance as murder.
The arrest on 13 May followed a review of the case in 2013.
London 2012 Olympic bronze medallists Liam Heath and Jon Schofield, both 31, return in the men's K2 200m, with Heath also competing in the K1 200m.
Rachel Cawthorn will go in the women's K1 500m, plus the K4 500m team with Louisa Gurski, Hungarian-born 19-year-old Rebeka Simon and Jess Walker.
It will be the third Games for Walker, 25, who will also race in the K1 200m.
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Fuller made an unbeaten 84 and Harris 69 not out at Taunton to take the visitors to 361-8, a lead of 125.
Somerset made early inroads, reducing Middlesex from 51-1 to 133-6.
But the day turned when George Bailey was dropped on 43 - he went on to make 71 - and Middlesex added another 228 to day two on 361-8, 125 runs ahead.
Wicketkeeper Alex Barrow was the culprit, failing to cling on to a regulation edge off the bowling of James Allenby.
Medium-pacer Allenby had already played his part in running through the Middlesex middle order on a green surface, starting by removing Nick Gubbins, who was caught at second slip for 67.
After John Simpson was caught behind second ball and James Franklin bowled offering no stroke, it looked like Somerset would earn a healthy lead.
But the reprieved Bailey found support from Ollie Rayner, then Harris.
And after Bailey edged to first slip to give Allenby his fourth wicket, Harris combined with Fuller for the partnership that changed the complexion of the match.
Somerset could point to the loss of pace bowler Jamie Overton with a back injury and a very close lbw shout against Fuller by Peter Trego that was declined, but they also wasted the second new ball and ran increasingly short of ideas as the pitch flattened and the partnership progressed.
Harris was watchful, while Fuller danced to loft Craig Overton over extra cover and out of the ground for six.
By the close, Fuller had his highest first-class score and the pair had set a new Middlesex record for the ninth-wicket against Somerset, beating the 93 added by Evan Nepean and George Thornton in 1895.
Bake A Cake Catering in Halesowen ceased trading on Monday and cannot refund or fulfil orders, from cakes to table decorations.
Action Fraud and Dudley Council's trading standards department have received complaints.
Company owner Lisa Holt said a "hate campaign" of burglary and arson ruined her business.
Facebook group 'Bake A Cake Catering customers looking for replacement suppliers' has more than 2,500 members.
Dozens of caterers, florists and events companies posted offers of help on the page.
Laura Nolan, of the Nuthouse Bakery in Brierley Hill, used the page to offer five brides free wedding cakes and home made chocolates.
She said: "It's heartbreaking for the brides. I just wanted to help. The brides are just flabbergasted when I tell them.
"One lady couldn't stop crying - you could see the relief."
Katie Battle, of Kits Green Birmingham, is marrying partner of 10 years Richard Washbourne on 26 September.
The couple paid Bake A Cake £600 for a cake, catering, a photo booth, room and table decorations and a sweet cart.
She said: "I was absolutely gutted. This wedding was a stretch for us anyway - we have saved for years to get married and this has now put me into debt.
"It's awful when this is supposed to be the happiest time of my life.
"This lovely lady rang me and said she could do the cake for me. There are just some amazing people out there."
West Midlands Police is investigating a burglary and an arson at Bake A Cake headquarters in Albert Street, Halesowen.
A spokesman for Action Fraud said reports had been sent to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
And Dudley Council said anyone affected should call the Citizen's Advice Bureau on 03454 040506.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has published its assessment of the Smith Commission's plans, saying that "big issues have yet to be resolved".
Its main concern is with the calculation of the UK Treasury's block grant to the Scottish Parliament.
As more powers are devolved to Holyrood, it means the grant funding formula will have to be adjusted.
The IFS calculates the share of taxation under Holyrood control or assigned to it as a share of UK tax take would rise from 13% to more than 50% under the plans.
It says the changes to the block grant should be "relatively easy" in the first year. But in subsequent years it becomes more difficult to calculate what should happen if Westminster raises tax to pay for shared provision, such as UK debt reduction, but Scotland does not.
"Inflation and economic growth mean that the amount raised from a tax or spent on a particular area tends to grow over time," according to David Phillips, author of the IFS report.
"The Smith Commission recognises this, by stating that these block grant reductions or additions should be 'indexed appropriately'. But what does this rather cryptic phrase mean?"
One challenge it identifies is to find a balance between giving Scottish ministers the autonomy to adjust tax rates and benefit from growth in the tax base, while also providing UK protection against sudden shocks.
Another problem the IFS sees with the Smith Commission plans, published last month, is that there is supposed to be compensation between Westminster and Holyrood when a taxation decision has an impact on each other. This could be to compensate for loss to each other's treasuries, or as a penalty for harming one another.
But this is seen as very hard to calculate, and also hard to get to a common understanding of how this should be calculated.
"The Smith Commission has provided a set of proposals for further devolution of taxes and spending, agreed by the five main Scottish parties. This is a significant achievement," reports the Institute.
"But many difficult issues remain to be addressed - not least, how the block grant will be adjusted to account for the additional revenues and spending areas that will come under Holyrood's control.
"No system will be perfect. There is an inherent trade-off between providing incentives to the Scottish government, and the degree of risk-sharing between Scotland and the rest of the UK.
"And it will not be practical to devise a system where the UK and Scottish governments compensate each other for all the knock-on effects of their policies as the Smith Commission recommends."
The IFS analysis goes on to say that there is a problem where income tax powers are devolved, but not tax on savings and dividends. That could give an incentive, if there are different tax rates in Scotland and south of the border, for high earners to move earnings to dividends to reduce their tax bills.
The Smith Commission was set up after the referendum in September, chaired by businessman Lord Smith of Kelvin, and including two representatives from each of the five main parties.
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Experts at a zoo in Bedfordshire realised something was wrong with Lucha when she wasn't eating her food.
A human dentist was called in to help and removed the rotten tooth.
Lucha was asleep while the operation was carried out and she's now doing much better.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) called for an "urgent review" into how officers deal with vulnerable people.
The release of the IPCC report comes after an inquest into the death of Robert Cox - who was stabbed by Derek Hancock in 2013 - earlier this month.
The force said it now worked "side by side with mental health professionals".
Hancock pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 24-year-old Robert Cox on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The 42-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of four years and nine months in December 2014.
Described as "deluded and psychotic" in court, Hancock had repeatedly made false allegations that Mr Cox and other residents at supported accommodation at Egerton Road had made sexual advances towards him.
The inquest found Mr Cox was unlawfully killed and led to the publication of the IPCC's recommendations, which include:
Two police officers and two call handlers were cleared of any wrongdoing by an IPCC investigation.
A third call handler who told Hancock, who was threatening to take the law into his own hands minutes before killing Mr Cox, that it was "entirely up to you" was sacked by the force.
IPCC associate commissioner Guido Liguori said: "These are tragic circumstances and I offer my sincere condolences to the family and friends of Robert Cox.
"The training and support provided to staff to engage and support people with mental health issues was inadequate, and it is concerning that the calls made by Mr Hancock from Egerton Road in the months leading up to the incident were neither linked nor marked as being made from a home with vulnerable residents."
An Avon and Somerset police spokesman said: "We've already established a mental health triage system within our call centre, which sees call handlers working side by side with mental health care professionals.
"Since this was introduced in September, hundreds of people have benefitted from this service."
Soliman quit after a 1-0 win over Al Masry in the Egyptian league on Friday.
Despite the victory Mansour had expressed his anger at his side's performance insisting the team did not deserve the three points.
Zamalek, who were runners-up in this year's African Champions League, have already had five coaches this season.
Soliman has been in charge of Zamalek since August and first of all guided the club to victory in the Egypt Cup.
He then offered to step down as they lost to Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa in last month's African Champions League final.
However Mansour also rejected that offer and had backed Soliman, saying he would stay in his role "until the end of the season".
Ricky Hall, who goes by Mya, was shot by police on Monday when she crashed a stolen car into a police vehicle.
The vehicle belonged to a 60-year-old man who had brought Ms Hall and one other person to a nearby hotel.
A passenger in the car and a police officer were wounded in the encounter.
The 60-year-old man picked the pair up in Baltimore and drove them to a hotel near the National Security Agency (NSA) in Howard County.
Police would not say whether alcohol, drugs or sex were part of their short stay at the hotel.
Police said Ms Hall and her friend stole the man's car while he used the bathroom.
The NSA is a clandestine intelligence agency, charged with collecting and analysing electronic signals for US intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. Located on a sprawling military base, the NSA is extremely well protected.
Kayla Brooks, who works at a transgender outreach programme in Baltimore, was a friend of Ms Hall and said she last saw her on Sunday.
Ms Hall "seemed high and was looking for a date," while walking in an area known for being a popular spot for sex workers, Ms Brooks said.
Court documents reveal that Ms Hall had a criminal record that included assault and robbery charges.
FBI, which was handling the investigation, said there was no connection to terrorism and called it a "local criminal matter".
The 61-year-old, of Newton Abbot, Devon, is alleged to have committed the offences between 1973 and 1998.
He is due to appear before Newcastle Magistrates' Court on 9 June, Northumbria Police said.
The charges followed an investigation into "non-recent child sexual abuse in the sporting community", the force added.
Ormond is the first person to be charged as part of Operation Tide, which was set up late last year to look into allegations of child sex abuse at football clubs in the North East.
In November, Newcastle United said it would co-operate fully with the investigation.
Assistant Chief Constable Darren Best said inquiries were continuing.
He added: "We urge anyone who may have been a victim of abuse or has any information about suspected abuse within any sporting community to come forward and report it to us."
In her first top-flight campaign, the 20-year-old netted 12 league goals and was named Players' Player of the Year.
She earned her first England call-up in October and is "hungry" for more international recognition.
"I want to prove a point that I'm no one-trick pony," Mead told BBC Sport.
"I was on cloud nine when it all happened for me last season, it was surreal - the best season I've had so far.
"I'd like to go back-to-back as top goalscorer. That would be an achievement that no one else has done so far. That, and I'd maybe go for goal of the season as well - pull a worldy out of somewhere."
Mead, who has represented England at every age-group level, hopes another prolific season will convince Lionesses boss Mark Sampson that she is capable of performing with the senior team.
She was part of the England squad that played two friendlies in China in October, but did not make it onto the pitch.
"I'd have liked to have played a part in China, but you have to stay level-headed with it," Mead said.
"As soon as it gets to you, then that is when your downfall happens. I just want to keep improving and give myself the best chance to be in the squad.
"To get that taste and not to get back in the team makes me want it more. Having that taste makes you more hungry."
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Mead was overlooked for the recent SheBelieves Cup in the United States, with Eniola Aluko one of four Chelsea forwards in the squad alongside Manchester City's Toni Duggan and Portland Thorns' Jodie Taylor.
"I've tried to do my best for him [Sampson] not to ignore me," Mead said.
"He has a strong group of strikers in there at the moment and I have to push one of them out.
"I try my hardest, watch how they play and I watched England's games in America. I need to replicate that and better it. I hope I can, eventually."
Mead, the youngest player to finish as WSL 1's top scorer, anticipates plenty of attention from opposition defences after her efforts in 2015.
She helped newly-promoted Sunderland to the top of the table in July, but the Lady Black Cats eventually finished fourth.
"It's going to be quite tough to top it," she said.
"People are going to know a lot more about what I'm about and the team. There will be more pressure on all of us, because we didn't have any pressure coming up last year.
"It's going to be a real test, but I'm just like the rest of the team and am excited about what's in store for us."
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1 December 2014 Last updated at 15:43 GMT
He said the money would be spent on completing dual carriageway on sections west of Norwich and between King's Lynn and Peterborough.
Under government spending plans, the A428 would also be improved to create "an expressway" between Cambridge, Bedford and Milton Keynes, he said.
Arlene Foster used the word to describe Sinn Féin's northern leader during a word-association game in an interview with the Sunday Independent,.
Speaking to BBC's Inside Politics, Mrs O'Neill said the DUP leader's comments were "totally unbefitting of a leader".
She said Mrs Foster "knew rightly" that her words were sexist, as she referred to that in her original interview.
She said her daughter Saoirse did not check with her first before criticising Mrs Foster over social media.
Mrs O'Neill said her daughter is "a political activist in her own right" who felt "very aggrieved" by the comments.
Despite the strength of Sinn Féin's response to the "blonde" comment, Mrs O'Neill said no-one should conclude that she can not have a working relationship with Mrs Foster in the future.
On Thursday, the DUP leader told the BBC's The View programme that Sinn Féin's insistence they cannot share power with her until she is cleared of responsibility for the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme scandal is "an absolute outrage".
Mrs O'Neill told Inside Politics that her party's position remains unchanged and if the DUP wants to go back into the executive "there are ways and means for them to put forward someone who can go into an Executive" but there must also be progress on other issues in the talks.
Asked if she would continue to insist the DUP nominee should be someone other than Arlene Foster even after a deal is achieved on issues like the Irish language and legacy, Mrs O'Neill said: "yes I have said that consistently."
She added that "the DUP can find a mechanism to deal with the issue".
Mrs O'Neill denied putting issues like the Irish language and legacy ahead of those people worried that the lack of an Executive might negatively impact on health care.
The former health minister insisted she shares people's concerns and remains committed to restoring devolution.
She defended Sinn Féin's abstentionist approach, claiming that local anti-Brexit MPs who have taken their seats in Westminister been ineffective.
She argued that even the SNP, which had 54 MPs in the last parliament, have "not been able to impact on the Tory government".
Mrs O'Neill also said a Sinn Féin councillor who called People Before Profit's Gerry Carroll a "Brit" was "right to withdraw the comment".
The comment referred to Mr Carroll's willingness to take a seat at Westminster.
She said all her members should be very careful in their language.
The People Before Profit (PBP) MLA has said he is not looking for an apology from the councillor.
Speaking to the BBC's Inside Politics, Mr Carroll said there is nothing wrong with being British but the comment was not about his nationality but intended as an insult.
He said that if Sinn Féin is really committed to a respect agenda it should not be engaging in such comments.
He rejected the argument that an isolated MP from Northern Ireland can make little difference taking a seat in the House of Commons
Instead, he believes it is important that alternative socialist voices are heard inside Westminster.
Mr Carroll also denied that backing the UK's exit from the European Union (EU) was a strategic error.
He claimed his party's position on the EU had been misrepresented by Sinn Féin.
Mr Carroll said PBP is opposed to the "Tory vision of Brexit" and in favour of a "different kind of Europe with open borders and solidarity between people".
Properties were searched in the Townsend Street area on Saturday morning.
The PSNI said recent policing operations had disrupted dissident republican activity in Strabane.
They have asked the public to remain vigilant and "report any suspicious activity".
A report on Foremost School near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, said: "Leaders, managers and governors have failed to get the school established."
North Yorkshire County Council said work was under way "to bring about fundamental change at the school".
It opened a year ago after the merger of two different schools.
The Ofted inspection took place during March and rated the school as inadequate.
The school at Forest Moor, Darley, currently has 26 students and serves the western half of the county.
It was judged inadequate by Ofsted in five criteria - achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils, leadership and management, overall effectiveness of the residential experience.
The report said students showed "very little respect for staff or each other" and the use of "unacceptable language" was commonplace.
It also stated there were "too many instances where physical restraint is considered necessary".
However, the report found the school had "a small core of dedicated staff" and the local authority "fully understands the problems facing the school".
North Yorkshire County Council said moving students with complex difficulties into a new school was always going to prove challenging.
In a statement, the council said signs of improvement included the appointment of Andrew Dawson, as head teacher, in October.
Mr Dawson is drawing up an action plan designed to bring the school out of special measures by September 2014, at the latest, it added.
The new school came about after the transfer of Baliol School from Cumbria and the closure of Netherside Hall, a local authority residential special school in Skipton, North Yorkshire.
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The move brings Islamophobia in line with anti-Semitic attacks targeting Jewish people, which have been recorded separately for some time.
It comes ahead of the publication of yearly hate crime statistics, which are expected to show further rises.
The Metropolitan Police already records Islamophobic crime.
The government said creating a separate category across the board would "enable police, prosecutors, councils and the communities they serve to have a better understanding of the prevalence of anti-Muslim hate crime and allocate resources accordingly".
"It will provide the first accurate picture of the extent of anti-Muslim hate crime in England and Wales," Downing Street said.
At the first meeting of a new community engagement forum later on Tuesday, Mr Cameron will also announce new funding for the security of all faith establishments, including mosques.
The forum, which was announced in July, will discuss the objectives of the government's upcoming counter-extremism strategy, which is due for publication later this month.
Speaking ahead of the meeting, Mr Cameron said: "We all have a role to play in confronting extremism. That's why I have invited important Muslim and non-Muslim figures to join the new community engagement forum so I can hear directly about their work in our communities, the challenges they face and so that they can be part of our one nation strategy to defeat it.
"I want to build a national coalition to challenge and speak out against extremists and the poison they peddle. I want British Muslims to know we will back them to stand against those who spread hate and to counter the narrative which says Muslims do not feel British.
"And I want police to take more action against those who persecute others simply because of their religion."
Home Secretary Theresa May said hate crime had "no place in Britain".
"Working with police to provide a breakdown in religious-based hate crime data will help forces to build community trust, target their resources and enable the public to hold them to account," she added.
Police recorded 44,480 hate crimes in England and Wales during 2013-14. That was up 5% on the previous year across race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender - the five key measures that feature in national figures.
But a further breakdown indicates there was a 45% jump in religiously motivated incidents to 2,273 - which an official report at the time said was partly down to more anti-Muslim incidents following the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby by Islamic extremists in south-east London in May 2013.
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Anti-Muslim hate crimes will be recorded as a separate category by all police forces in England and Wales, the prime minister has said.
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O'Sullivan has talked in a robotic voice and sung an Oasis song in protest at being the subject of disciplinary hearings for several previous comments.
Hearn described the five-time world champion's antics as "hilarious" but added: "I'm not sure he's doing himself any favours.
"There's a players' contract and Ronnie O'Sullivan's breaking no rules at all."
O'Sullivan, 41, publicly criticised a referee and a photographer at the Masters in January, when he won a record seventh title, but his explanation was accepted and no action was taken.
"Ronnie never upsets me with what he says," Hearn said. "Sometimes he goes too far, and when he goes too far, he's reported to the disciplinary.
"There is no singling out of Ronnie O'Sullivan, for sure, because we need him in the game.
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"Will I talk to him? I talk to him all the time. I am very happy to have a cup of tea, and I told him I think it's hilarious.
"He's operating under exactly the same rules as every other player. And he has every right to make any comment through the appropriate channels and they will be listened to. But the appropriate channels are not in the public media."
O'Sullivan was beaten 5-3 by eventual champion Judd Trump in the quarter-finals of last week's Players Championship.
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World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn says Ronnie O'Sullivan is doing nothing wrong with his unorthodox interviews.
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Pre-tax profits jumped by 35% to £624m in the 24 weeks to 4 March, with revenues up by 19% to £7.3bn.
ABF said profit growth in the second half would be "tempered" by the weaker pound pushing up the cost of imports.
However, it added the outlook for full-year profits had improved.
Chairman Charles Sinclair said: "The growth in earnings achieved in the first half has been excellent. We expect the underlying revenue momentum in all of our businesses to continue in the second half.
"However, profit growth in the second half will, at current exchange rates, be tempered primarily by a smaller translation benefit and the full effect of the devaluation of sterling against the US dollar on Primark's margin."
AB Sugar had benefited from a rise in sugar prices and "significant savings" achieved as a result of performance improvements, the company said in a statement, leading to a "more acceptable return on investment".
Mr Sinclair also pointed to the "major contribution" to profits growth made by "substantial increases" in its grocery and ingredients businesses, whose brands include Twinings, Ovaltine, Kingsmill bread, Jordans, Dorset Cereals, Patak's and Blue Dragon.
It also owns Silver Spoon sugar, whose profit margins declined because of the "competitive" retail sugar market. However, it said the rate of decline in Ryvita crispbread volumes slowed, following the launch of new pack sizes and flavours.
Over the six months, ABF sold two businesses, US herbs and spices and its south China cane sugar operations. When the proceeds of these disposals are taken into account, unadjusted pre-tax profits rose by 92% to £867m.
It opened 16 new Primark stores in eight countries. It said Primark "performed well in the highly competitive UK market" and saw a "strong" increase in market share.
"The impact of the US dollar's strength on Primark's input costs have been well flagged and our commitment to price leadership in clothing retail has seen, as forecast, a decline in its operating margin," added Mr Sinclair.
ABF's share price rose by 3.6% following the release of the results.
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Food-to-fashion group Associated British Foods (ABF) has reported a leap in first-half profits, driven by a recovery at its sugar businesses and continued growth at its Primark chain.
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Michael O'Kane was suspended from his post in September while an internal investigation was carried out.
The tabloid published pictures of the duchess and Prince William sunbathing on a private holiday in France.
Media tycoon Richard Desmond, whose Northern and Shell group co-owns the paper, had threatened to shut it down.
The Dublin-based Irish Daily Star said in a statement: "As a result of the publication on 15 September 2012, issues arose with the shareholders of Independent Star Limited.
"Having considered those issues in tandem with Mr O'Kane, it is Mr O'Kane's decision to resign as editor of the Irish Daily Star, effective immediately."
Northern and Shell group co-owns the newspaper with the Irish-based Independent News and Media.
Independent News and Media said Mr O'Kane acted at all times in a highly professional and appropriate manner and in the best interests of the newspaper.
He followed all editorial policies and guidelines, it added.
Both co-owners had criticised the decision of Mr O'Kane to publish the pictures, although Independent News and Media said closing down the title would be disproportionate.
The Irish Daily Star re-published the photographs in September after they appeared in French celebrity gossip magazine Closer.
The pictures were used by publications in France, Italy, the Irish Republic, Sweden and Denmark. No British newspaper has printed them.
They did not feature in the Northern Ireland edition of the Irish Daily Star.
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CCTV footage circulating on social media shows the 23-year-old England player being hit in the face by a man.
Barkley was not seriously injured in the incident, which came hours after he played the full match for the Toffees in their win over Leicester on Sunday.
Everton have not commented and no complaint has been made to police, who are viewing the footage.
"Ross was the victim of an unprovoked attack by a stranger who approached him on Sunday evening," said Matt Himsworth, managing director of Himsworths Legal.
Barkley, who trained as normal with his team-mates on Monday, has played 22 times for England and was part of Gareth Southgate's most recent Three Lions squad.
The Liverpool-born player joined Everton as an 11-year-old and has made 173 first-team appearances.
After Sunday's match, manager Ronald Koeman said Barkley should be sold if he does not sign a new contract.
The breakdown on Sunday affected stores throughout the UK, most of which have now closed for the day.
Shoppers used social media to criticise the firm and ask for more information as they waited at checkouts.
The company earlier tweeted that the majority of its stores were "back up and working" but advised customers to check if this applied to their branch.
All of the chain's stores were affected by the fault at some point on Sunday but the issue has been resolved at some branches more quickly than others, a spokeswoman said.
Becky White had an extra 45 minutes added to her shop in Norwich because of the broken system.
"The doors are shut and people were shouting outside," she told the BBC. "The car park is rammed."
Josh Williams was also stuck at the tills at his local Asda in Reading, Berkshire.
"We were waiting for about 50 minutes," he said. "People weren't too pleased! Now we have been told to leave because they can't fix the system."
Others went on to social media to vent their frustration.
Jim Bentley tweeted: "No backup, no redundancy system. We're just stood here like cattle waiting for your systems to start working again. On Sunday."
Shopper Carey Luke said there were issues with telling customers about the problems, tweeting: "I understand these things happen but no one can hear announcements so your in a queue for a till (30 deep) for baskets and then being told."
A spokeswoman for Asda said: "We are in the process of resolving a technical issue with our card payment system in stores.
"We're continuing to process payments as quickly as we can but apologise to our customers for the inconvenience this has caused."
She told Bristol Crown Court how Gary Davies walked past several passengers to get to her in a busy carriage before rubbing up against her.
His defence team said the touching, on a train between Taunton and Bristol, happened due to overcrowded carriages.
Mr Davies, 54, of Shoreditch Road, Taunton, denies five counts of sexual assault against three women.
A former chief superintendent, Mr Davies left Avon and Somerset force in 2012. He then started to work for the council, leading a team that supports troubled families in the city.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between December 2015 and May 2016.
The court heard the allegations came to light after the witness, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, took photographs of Mr Davies close to another woman and informed British Transport Police.
She also told the court he touched her thigh while she was sitting down.
The trial continues.
It continues the Egyptian theme for the mission - being an island in the Nile.
Philae will be ejected towards Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by its carrier spacecraft, Rosetta, on the morning of 12 November.
If successful, it will be a historic first - no probe has ever soft-landed on one of these icy bodies before.
Controllers at the European Space Agency's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, hope to get a positive signal from the robot at just after 1600 GMT (1700 CET).
Until now, the chosen landing zone on the "head" of duck-shaped 67P has been known simply as "J" - a reference to its position on a list of possible destinations in the landing site selection process.
The new name - Agilkia - refers to a patch of high ground in the Nile River south of Egypt.
It is the place where ancient Egyptian buildings, including the famous Temple of Isis, were moved when their previous home, the island of Philae, was flooded during the building of the Aswan dams last century.
Philae also refers to the obelisk taken from the drowned island which, along with the Rosetta Stone, was used to crack the meaning of ancient hieroglyphs.
One hundred and fifty people suggested the name Agilkia in the competition, with a committee nominating Alexandre Brouste from France as the overall winner.
Everyone who entered had to write an accompanying short essay, and his impressed the judges most.
Mr Brouste will now be invited to Darmstadt's "mission control" to follow the landing event in person.
Rosetta will be some 580 million km from Earth when it drops the piggybacked Philae over the comet.
The descent is expected to take about seven hours.
If the robot manages to latch on to the surface with screws and harpoons, it will begin a series of experiments to analyse the composition and structure of 67P.
Its data, along with pictures, will be beamed up to Rosetta for onward transmission to Earth.
Scientists believe comets to contain pristine materials left over from the formation of the Solar System more than 4.5 billion years ago.
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A special exhibition for schoolchildren took place at the Naval base, telling the story of the battle.
The ship was caught when a torpedo from one of the Squadron's Swordfish planes hit her and damaged the rudder.
Commissioned in August 1940, The Bismarck was one of the most famous warships of the Second World War.
Hannah Quigley from 820 Squadron explained: "We managed to get the line open again for the ships to come across from America and get supplies back into Britain which was good when we were struggling with rations, so it was really good that we managed to get rid of the Bismarck."
At 45,000 tons, the Bismarck, was the largest battleship in the Kriegsmarine (German navy) and contravened the Anglo-German Naval Treaty of 1935 which limited German battleships to a maximum of 35,000 tons.
On the morning of 27 May 1941 the HMS King George V, HMS Rodney, HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Norfolk caught up with the incapacitated Bismarck where it was heavily attacked for almost two hours before sinking.
One of the children at the exhibition, Georgia Higgs, said: "I learnt that it was quite a big factor in Britain's victory in the war."
Alistair Fitt, vice chancellor of Oxford Brookes, was giving evidence to the Education Select Committee, holding a special away-day session at the University of Oxford.
With the elegant panorama of Pembroke College behind them, the MPs wanted to find out what would be the impact of Brexit on the UK's university sector.
You would be hard-pressed to find any sector in the country more opposed to Brexit than higher education.
So it was probably no surprise that the MPs heard an unrelenting message that leaving the EU was a grim prospect for higher education and research.
University organisations, which usually put much effort and ingenuity into not really being for or against anything in public, took to open campaigning for a Remain vote.
Universities, bastions of liberal thinking, intensely international in their outlook and staffing, seemed culturally allergic to Brexit.
And the referendum result hangs over them like they've fought and lost a civil war.
Professor Catherine Barnard from the University of Cambridge told MPs that her own university had seen a 14% drop in applications this year from EU students.
The university had asked why potential students had turned down a chance to study at Cambridge - and she said among the reasons were fears over an "anti-immigrant sentiment" and uncertainty over the future of the UK's involvement in international research.
Prof Barnard warned that talented mathematicians at Cambridge from countries such as Hungary, Poland and Romania would take their sought-after skills elsewhere.
The committee of MPs heard warnings that in some elite research institutions in the UK, vital to the national infrastructure, as many as two thirds of the staff were EU nationals from outside the UK.
Would they hang around and see if they were still wanted after Brexit? Or would research rivals in Germany or China snap them up to the detriment of the UK economy?
Showing how seriously they take this, Oxford University has appointed its own head of Brexit strategy.
So you could say that at least Brexit has already created one extra job.
But this new postholder, Professor Alistair Buchan, saw leaving the EU as threatening to relegate the UK's universities behind their global competition.
Oxford has been ranked as the world's top university, but Prof Buchan said that in 1970s the UK's universities did not have that top status. This had been built through the EU years and growing networks of international partnerships.
He described Brexit for universities as the "Manchester United problem".
Why would any football team with international ambitions deliberately want to restrict its access both to better talent and to bigger markets?
There were warnings about the financial impact of losing European research funding.
The UK's universities are among the biggest winners from Horizon 2020 research network, bringing more than £2bn into the higher education sector.
This is no small-bière, with some individual universities worrying about the loss of hundreds of millions.
If the UK is to stay ahead in research, Dr Anne Corbett of the LSE said the UK government had to be ready for some "serious funding".
Professor Stephanie Haywood, president of the Engineering Professors' Council, warned that losing access to EU students would make skills shortages in engineering even worse.
But could there be an upside in higher tuition fees?
If EU students are designated as overseas students after Brexit, UK universities could charge them much higher fees.
But such a tuition fee windfall depends on those students not staying at home or going somewhere else.
Prof Barnard raised the example of those talented eastern European mathematicians.
Would they really be able to pay £17,000 or so a year? Or would it mean that universities in the UK would have pay for scholarships rather than see them go elsewhere?
Committee chairman Neil Carmichael pushed his witnesses for more evidence and facts.
But what came back most often was even more questions. What's going to happen to the EU staff in UK universities? What will be the visa system for students?
What will happen to the intricate networks of European research? How much will the UK government be willing to cover for any lost income?
And of course, so far, these are unknowns being piled up on unknowables.
But as another European refugee scientist, Albert Einstein, once said: "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research."
Daly, 24, is one of three players from title hopefuls Wasps on the list, along with Christian Wade and Jimmy Gopperth.
Saracens playmaker Farrell, 25, has helped his club to a third consecutive European Champions Cup final.
French back-rower Louis Picamoles, 31, has been selected after an impressive first season at Northampton Saints.
Wasps have had a magnificent season in the Premiership, winning 16 of their 21 games so far to head the table and secure their top-four spot.
Winger Wade is the league's top try-scorer with 16, with four from Daly, while versatile centre Gopperth is the overall leading points scorer with 256.
Farrell has made a major impact for club and country, helping England win the Six Nations and making Sarries, who are third in the Premiership, a major force in both domestic and European rugby.
Picamoles has been a key performer for Saints, and tops the offloads list with 40 passes in the tackle in the Premiership this season.
Eric Schneiderman says Mr Tillerson used an account named "Wayne Tracker" for at least seven years.
Wayne is Mr Tillerson's middle name.
Mr Schneiderman is investigating whether Exxon misled investors and the public about climate change.
In a letter to a New York state judge overseeing the investigation, the attorney general said the company had not previously disclosed the account, which was also used to discuss other issues.
The attorney general also said Exxon had produced some 60 documents bearing the "Wayne Tracker" account but never said it was used by Mr Tillerson.
Mr Schneiderman said Exxon had failed to give his office all documents covered by a court order in response to the investigation.
The state department declined to comment.
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Alan Jeffers, a spokesman for Exxon Mobil, said the account was created for "secure and expedited communications" between Mr Tillerson and senior executives over a range of "business-related topics".
He added: "The very fact the attorney general's office has these emails is because they were produced in response to the subpoena."
Exxon has been accused of trying to cover up the risks of climate change and lying to the public.
Mr Tillerson resigned as chairman and chief executive of the company last year after his appointment as secretary of state in President Donald Trump's administration.
They said such a move was "essential" to their decision to provide more resources to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help the region.
Earlier this month, eurozone leaders set up a permanent bailout fund of 500bn euro ($673bn; £420bn).
There are concerns the fund may not be able to rescue a deeply indebted state.
"We have to see the colour of the eurozone's money first - and quite frankly, that hasn't happened," the British chancellor George Osborne said.
"Until it does, there's no question of extra IMF money from Britain or probably anyone else."
Any move to boost the eurozone rescue fund is likely to put more pressure on the leading eurozone economies, especially Germany.
The eurozone's biggest economy has so far resisted calls to increase the size of the bailout fund and sent mixed signals regarding whether it was prepared to change its stance.
On the eve of the G20 meeting, German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble wrote in an article published in the Mexican newspaper El Universal that he was against such a move.
"Should we increase even more the firewalls? The response is a resounding no," he wrote.
"This would not only not solve the problems of debt and competitiveness that brought the affected countries to their current state of affairs, it would also discourage their governments from carrying out consolidation and reform."
However, after the meeting, Mr Schauble said that eurozone leaders would look into the matter and take a decision as early as next month.
Meanwhile, Olli Rehn, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs urged the region's leaders to solve the issue as soon as possible.
"One of the crucial lessons of this crisis has been that... the longer we wait the more costly it tends to get," he said.
The eurozone debt crisis has seen growth slowing down in the region's economies.
Italy and the Netherlands both slipped into a recession in the last quarter of 2011. They saw their economies shrink by 0.7% during the three months to the end of December, the second consecutive quarter of economic contraction.
Germany had its first negative quarter since 2009 with a decline of 0.2% in the October to December quarter, compared with the previous three months.
The fear is that if not controlled and solved in time, the region's debt crisis may start to hurt global economic growth.
The eurozone is a key market for Asia exports. As growth slows down in the region, consumer demand is likely to fall and hurt Asia's export-dependent economies.
The G20 finance ministers warned that risks to global economic growth continue to remain high.
"The international economic environment has continued to be characterized by an uneven performance, with weak growth in advanced economies and a stronger, albeit slowing, expansion in emerging markets," the ministerssaid in a joint statementissued after the meeting in Mexico.
A visitor to Merrivale Model Village in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, contacted the charity after seeing dozens of frogs "climbing on top of each other" in an apparent bid to flee the pond.
But the inspector found "no welfare issues" when he visited the site.
The frogs "were simply expressing natural behaviour", the charity said.
Peter Williamson, who owns the model village, said there had been "over 100 pairs of cuddling frogs" in the pond and the site had "never seen so much frogspawn".
"The first I knew was when the red-faced RSPCA man came to us," he said.
"This poor chap had to describe to me how the member of the public thought the frogs were climbing on top of each other to escape the pond.
"He said, 'I'm sorry, I had to come and have a look, but actually it was the pairs of frogs getting friendly'."
Mr Williamson said the model village was a "haven for wildlife on the seafront", and he was always happy to address visitors' concerns.
It follows a pre-season training camp in Spain during which England lost 1-0 to Norway and drew 0-0 with Sweden.
"Some players on this camp have really put their hand up", Sampson told BBC Sport. "Competition is fierce and I want the players to push each other."
England will face the three top-ranked teams in the world - USA, Germany and France - at the SheBelieves Cup.
They now have a five-week break before their first match in the US, against France, on 1 March.
Sampson took a squad of 29 players to Spain, with 23 used across the two matches.
With several other regular players missing out because of injuries, Sampson says his next selection will be a challenging one.
"The players have come in, shown their mindset and shown they're ready to compete at the highest level," Sampson said.
"If you asked every player on the back of this camp how do they feel, they'd say far more knowledgeable about where we're at as a group and where they're at as individuals.
"And very clear about where they need to go to between now and SheBelieves."
One player who impressed with her performances in Spain was Liverpool goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain.
Deputising for the injured Karen Bardsley, Chamberlain made a string of impressive saves across the two games and saved a penalty against Sweden.
"We're lucky, we've got two of the best goalkeepers in the world and over the course of the two games, Shiv has shown that," Sampson added.
After their SheBelieves opener France, England take on the hosts on 4 March and European champions Germany on 7 March.
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Steve Robinson lost his arm in an accident but was determined to realise his dream of becoming a pilot.
He said two previous prosthetic arms had not worked properly, so he made his own.
"I thought, 'Am I going to give in? No way - I'll make my own prosthetic arm'," he said.
Cambridge University's Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics Martin Rees believes planets like Earth may be found in the next two to three years.
But it may take 20 more years before an image of one is captured, he said.
He also believes the need for manned space exploration is diminished by new technologies and advances in robotics.
Future manned space exploration will be the province of adventurers rather than state-backed missions, he believes.
"Those walking on the surface of planets like Mars are likely to be adventurers of the sort who conquered Everest," he said.
His biggest wish is to have answers to the questions about how life began in the first place.
He said: "I'm sure that in two or three years we'll know from Kepler (Nasa's observatory) there are many other planets like the earth orbiting other stars.
"But I think it may be 20 years before we get an image of a planet.
"As to whether they will have life on them, I would not take any bets at all.
"Biology is a much harder subject than astronomy and we don't know how life began on earth.
"The moon landings were an important impetus to technology but you have to ask the question what is the case for sending people back into space?
"I think that the practical case gets weaker and weaker with every advance in robotics and miniaturisation.
"I hope that some people living today will walk on Mars, but I think they will do this not for any practical purpose but with the same motive as those who climb Everest or the pioneer explorers.
"I think the future for manned space exploration will be a cut-price, high-risk programme, perhaps even partly privately funded which would be an adventure, more than anything practical.
"The scientific question I'd most like to have the answer to is whether there is life out in space and how life began.
"This is a question that would have fascinated Darwin and Galileo, 400 years after he made his telescopes and looked at craters on the moon."
The new inquests are focusing on the final moments of Sarah Hicks, 19, and her 15-year-old sister Vicki.
Witnesses said they saw Vicki crying and "in distress" on the terraces.
A fan who tried to pull Sarah out of the pen recalled she shouted for people to help her younger sister and there was "total terror" on her face.
The sisters were among 96 fans who died following a crush at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.
They had travelled to the stadium in Sheffield with their parents, Trevor and Jenni Hicks.
Trevor was in a less crowded pen on the Leppings Lane end terraces while their mother had a seat in the North Stand.
The jury saw CCTV images of the girls and their father going through the turnstiles at 13:53.
Sarah and Vicki were also seen standing together in pen three, behind the goal, from 14:38.
In a statement, Shaun Fortune, a Liverpool fan who stood near them, said: "The dark-haired girl [Vicki] was crying and seemed in distress.
"There were a few police standing just in front of the pen and the crowd were trying to attract their attention to tell them that this girl was in trouble, but they didn't seem to hear."
Jeffrey Rex, a friend of Mr Fortune, told the jury he was standing behind the girls.
He said a fan next to them in the crowd turned around and shouted to those behind them: "Push back, push back, [the two girls] are in trouble.
"He did this for several minutes and there's no doubt his intention was to try to protect the two girls. The crush had got to such a level where there's nothing anybody could do."
Mr Rex recalled seeing Sarah holding Vicki up by her arms and could see the younger of the two girls "was deteriorating" and "affected very badly by the crush".
He said Vicki "may have been unconscious" and her head was tilted to one side.
Alan Brookes told how he was immediately behind the girls on the terrace and "very shortly before kick-off" they were "sweating profusely", their "faces were very flushed" and "were obviously in trouble ."
He said at one stage the gate leading out of the pen was opened and some people spilled out on to the pitch before it was closed again.
"We had been surging backwards and forwards and you were just trying to fight for your life," he said.
"One minute [the girls were] there, we went forward again in another surge and they weren't there."
Another supporter, Brian Doyle, managed to escape the terraces and then tried to rescue people from the pens.
The jury saw images of him on top of the fence separating the crowd from the pitch between 15:06 and 15:08, just after the match was stopped.
He reached into the pen and tried to grab one of the girls - believed to be Sarah - who he said was still conscious.
Mr Doyle said: "I couldn't get her off the floor. I just had hold of her hand and she was crying for someone to help her sister.
"She shouted 'can someone help my sister?' then she was just crying, sobbing and her face showed "total terror".
He said: "Then people were grabbing my hand and I just lost her."
Liverpool fan Paul Taylor briefly tried to give Vicki mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but said her body was "limp" and "lifeless" and he "naturally assumed that she had already died".
The jury saw footage showing her being lifted from pen three into pen two at 15:27.
Mr Hicks has previously said that he saw Vicki being passed out of the pen and rushed to her side on the pitch. Sarah was eventually laid down next to her sister.
A police officer who rode with Vicki and her father in an ambulance said that they were "optimistic of the best outcome for Vicki".
Peter McGuinness said medics at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital worked on her for "three to five minutes" before telling him that she was dead.
He continued: "I recall that the treatment didn't appear to be particularly intensive... it was more general sorts of checks, is my recollection of what they were doing."
The jury heard how he then told Mr Hicks his youngest daughter had died.
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The inquests, sitting in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume on Tuesday.
Gilbert Corette, 45, admitted the manslaughter of his mother, 81-year-old Florise Corette, last month.
He also admitted causing grievous bodily harm to his sister on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The judge said it was a "terribly sad and tragic case".
Corette, of Manor Avenue, Brockley, south London, was given a hospital order and restriction order with no time limit to protect the public.
The Old Bailey heard he was diagnosed with a depressive condition and Asperger's syndrome in 2010.
The court was told the supermarket shelf-stacker was sectioned in March 2015 and admitted to Ladywell Unit located at Lewisham Hospital.
The specialist unit for patients with mental health disorders is managed by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
In July his condition and behaviour was judged to have become more stable and he was allowed to go unescorted to his mother's home in Lochaber Road on day release.
Later that day he refused to return to hospital and said he feared his life was in danger.
The court heard he picked up a champagne bottle and hit his sister, saying he "had to do it".
He then went downstairs and attacked his mother, who was frightened of him and had padlocked some of the rooms.
A post-mortem examination found she died of head injuries.
Judge Wide said he was satisfied the defendant was suffering from a mental disorder.
A family statement said: "The last nine months have been an incredibly difficult time for all of us, but we welcome the sentence of the court so that now Gilbert can get the full care and treatment he deserves.
"We have serious concerns and questions about how he came to be released when clearly unwell, on the day he killed our mother, and will await the forthcoming NHS investigation with interest.
"We sincerely hope that it makes a real difference, so that tragedies like this can never happen to any other family in London ever again."
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust said: "We offer our full condolences to the family in this tragic case. We have carried out a thorough internal investigation into the care and treatment of Mr Gilbert Corette and shared this with his family."
It said it was also involved with an ongoing domestic homicide review into the death and would not comment further until the review was published.
Now he's one of the stars of the England wheelchair rugby league side, determined to lift the sport's World Cup that kicks off in France this week.
And he says the sport is unique, bringing together those who, like him, have undergone amputation after injury or illness but also able-bodied athletes all competing together in the high-speed, big-collision world of wheelchair rugby league.
"It's a disability sport but it's an all-inclusive sport. We welcome people who really just enjoy rugby league - you don't have to be disabled," Simpson tells 5 live Rugby League.
"The game started with people playing because it was a disability sport. But in the five years I've been playing, the sport has evolved to more rugby league fans playing.
"Our England captain Jack Brown is able-bodied, his brother Harry also plays and has had his legs amputated because of meningitis. It's the only sport they can play together.
"We have people who run around during the week playing rugby league and then join us at the weekend. There's no gender barrier, no age barrier."
Simpson, 31, a rugby league fan who had not played the sport competitively before, discovered it after he was forced to leave the Army as a result of his injuries. He was a lance corporal in the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment when he was badly injured on patrol.
"I was in Afghanistan in 2009 and on a normal patrol and I triggered an improvised explosive device that was buried in the ground," he said.
"It detonated underneath me and took both my legs off above the knee, instantaneously.
"I was lucky to be alive. The guys around me were amazing.
"I was evacuated back to the main hospital in Afghanistan and then back to the UK. From there I had two or three years' rehabilitation to get used to my prosthetics and get walking again.
"I didn't really struggle mentally. I guess it's just my attitude or the way I've been raised. I treated it as life-changing not life-ending.
"I treated it just as another hurdle to get over. So once I'd overcome it and I was walking again I just carried on with my life like I did before but a bit different.
"It's really weird to explain but you do get put in those make-or-break situations and you've just got to make it."
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After returning to his home city of Leeds, he hooked up with the Leeds Rhinos wheelchair team for a couple of training sessions, and was soon a regular in the side.
A full-back, he has now made 12 appearances for England and is looking forward to representing his country at the World Cup after he was confirmed in the 12-man squad last week.
And he admits that the sport can be brutal at times, with some bone-crunching tackles when wheelchairs collide at high speed. "It's as close to the running game as we can make it. The tackle is pulling tags off your opponent's shoulders." he explains.
"But there's no rule to say how hard you can go in to make that tackle, so you tend to go in as hard as you can and essentially try to flip them out on to the floor.
"If you do get flipped and you hit the ground the wrong way it can knock the wind out of you."
England's World Cup campaign begins on Thursday, 20 July in Toulouse against hosts and holders France. Other nations competing include Australia, Scotland, Wales, Italy and Spain. The final will be in Perpignan on 28 July.
"France won the World Cup four years ago, but we beat them in the European Championship two years ago, so we're expected to perform at that top level," says Simpson.
"There's quite a bit of pressure on us to win that trophy, but we're relishing it. We're ready to bring that trophy home."
But the sport is also gearing up for what it hopes will be a huge boost to its profile when the Wheelchair World Cup tournament will run alongside the men's and women's Rugby League World Cup to be hosted in England in 2021.
"I think that's going to be huge," says Simpson.
"It's going to be an amazing opportunity, it's really going to push it out there. Over the next four years there is going to be such a push in creating new clubs, especially associated to Super League clubs.
"They've only been playing the sport for three years in Australia, yet already every NRL team has a wheelchair side. So far, only three Super League teams - Hull, St Helens and Leeds - have sides. We do have Championship sides too, such as Keighley and Rochdale.
"But by 2021 everyone is going to want to get on board, and by the time that World Cup happens we're going to have a whole new talent pool from the new clubs so that we can make a really, really good England team.
"The legacy it's going to leave will be amazing as well, it's going to be brilliant."
The founder of private equity firm Terra Firma had sought damages of £1.5bn alleging that the US investment bank misled him over the deal.
Citigroup denied the allegations.
Terra Firma bought the record company, whose roster included the Beatles, for £2.4bn shortly before the financial crisis hit.
The private equity firm has also agreed to pay all the US investment bank's costs.
Citigroup said it had always maintained Terra Firma's case "was entirely baseless".
It added in a statement: "We are pleased that Terra Firma has unreservedly withdrawn the allegations, agreed to the dismissal of the proceeding and will pay Citi's costs in relation to this matter."
Mr Hands said that while his claims were "brought in good faith" it had "become evident that our documentation of the fast-moving and complex events, and memories of these events after nine years, are no longer sufficient to meet the high demands of proof required for a fraud claim in court".
"The matter is now closed. Terra Firma is looking to the future. We have an exciting portfolio of companies, a talented and experienced team, supportive and loyal investors and one billion euros of capital to invest," he added.
An intriguing email arrived at the BBC around lunchtime - in effect telling us to get the High Court for 2pm. "It'll be worth your while", I was told.
When we arrived, a mini-legion of suited and booted lawyers representing Citi were in a huddle in a nearby room - looking very relaxed and pleased.
As well they might. They knew that once the judge entered courtroom 26, the £1.5bn lawsuit against their client was to be withdrawn and all costs were to be borne by Terra Firma.
That's also not insignificant. I counted 16 people on the Citi side of the court and just two representing Terra Firma. The legal bill could end up costing the company millions of pounds as well as unquantifiable reputational damage.
And at the heart of this some of the 'memory loss' experienced by Terra Firma chairman Guy Hands in the witness stand. In an exchange with Mr Justice Burton, Mr Hands admitted on more than one occasion that he didn't have 'that memory anymore'.
Citigroup had acted as an adviser to EMI, which was then listed on the stock market in the 2007 deal.
But the bank also provided about £2.5bn of debt to Terra Firma for the takeover, helping it earn tens of millions of pounds in fees.
After its sales began to slump following Mr Hands' takeover, the bank ended up taking control of the record label in 2011.
Mr Hands tried to sue Citigroup in the US, but the case ended in 2014 when a jury found that the bank had not misled Terra Firma.
Mr Hands had argued that Citi led him to believe other parties were interested in EMI.
Connacht's Paul Bunce will replace Bennett at Bristol in the summer.
Bunce has worked alongside the Pro12 club's current boss Pat Lam - who will join Bristol as their new head coach from June - for the past three seasons.
Bennett has been with Premiership strugglers Bristol since 2014, helping them win promotion last season.
Reporting to the RFU's professional rugby director Nigel Melville, Bennett will manage all performance staff and services for the governing body, leading on aspects such as anti-doping and nutrition.
Bennett played for Swansea, Cardiff and before moving into fitness work that has involved stints with Scarlets, Celtic Warriors, Wales, Ospreys and Bristol.
He was on Wales' fitness staff when they won Grand Slams in 2005 and 2008.
Bunce was previously head of strength and conditioning at Bath and Welsh region Newport Gwent Dragons.
Bristol's interim head coach Mark Tainton told the club website: "Paul has a wealth of knowledge in his field and a proven track record of driving the physical preparation standards of professional teams.
"The style of rugby that Pat wants his team to play is high-tempo and full of energy. Paul - with his background and experience - is well equipped to deliver those goals."
Property developer Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring painted the candy stripes on the building in Kensington in 2015.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said it was out of keeping with the look of the area and had served her with a notice to repaint it white.
Mr Justice Gilbart ruled the stripy decoration was "entirely lawful".
The council had served the notice under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 claiming the "stripes on the front elevation, is incongruous with... the local area."
Ms Lisle-Mainwaring, 71, launched a judicial review at the High Court after failed appeals to magistrates and Isleworth Crown Court in 2016.
Explaining his ruling earlier, Mr Justice Gilbart said: "In my judgment, to allow a local planning authority (LPA) to use section 215 to deal with questions of aesthetics, as opposed to disrepair or dilapidation, falls outside the intention and spirit of the Planning Code," he said.
"I am therefore of the view that it is an improper use of Section 215 to use it to alter a lawful painting scheme," he ruled.
Ms Lisle-Mainwaring has previously denied she had painted the stripes to spite neighbours who objected to her plans to demolish the property and replace it with a new dwelling and two-storey basement.
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He played a leading role in the winning bid and carried the Olympic flame by speedboat to Friday's opening ceremony.
"The excitement building throughout the city is incredible," said Beckham, 37.
"To have an Olympic Games in London is amazing but to have it in an area where I grew up, I'm very proud to have been part of that for the last eight years."
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Beckham, England's most-capped outfield player with 115 appearances, added: "I think we are all ready now."
His hopes of competing at the Games were ended when Stuart Pearce did not select him for Great Britain's football team, although he insists the pain of his omission will not stop him enjoying the Olympics.
"I made it very clear that I'm very disappointed and people around me like my family and friends know how hard it was not being involved," he explained.
"But I've always been a fan of the Olympics and I always said before it was announced that if I wasn't in the team that I would be here as a fan, I would be here to watch the rest of the athletes perform and that's where I'll be."
GB drew their opening game of the Olympics 1-1 with Senegal and will face UAE in their next game on Sunday.
"I haven't spoken to anyone [after the game on Thursday]," Beckham said.
"It's just one of those things where they have got a big game on Sunday and I'm sure the players will be ready but there are quite a few things happening before that."
Former England captain Beckham will return to play for his club side LA Galaxy during the Olympics but will be back in England before London 2012 is over.
He added: "Our season continues throughout the Games and the summer.
"I go back next week and then come back just before the closing ceremony. Hopefully, I am going to be able to get to as many events as possible."
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said a ban on overtime would also continue.
It comes days after a 24-hour strike brought disruption to commuters.
Conciliation service Acas has said fresh talks will be held between LU and the RMT on Monday.
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) will also join the talks.
The unions are campaigning to have jobs reinstated and ticket offices reopened, saying cuts agreed by former London mayor Boris Johnson have gone too far.
Monday's walkout led to the closure of most central London Tube stations, but TfL managed to provide some services on 10 of its 11 Tube lines.
Current London mayor Sadiq Khan called the strike "completely unnecessary".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also waded into the dispute on Thursday, calling on the mayor to reopen ticket offices in some Tube stations.
Speaking to BBC London's political editor Tim Donovan, he said: "I do think there's a need to have a ticket office, particularly in the big interchange stations.
"That surely can be discussed and negotiated."
Mr Corbyn also refused to condemn union members and refused to say whether he would be prepared to join striking underground workers on a picket line.
He said: "I will urge them to get around the table as quickly as possible, and TfL to do the same."
TfL said 200 new jobs are being created and more may be created over time.
Steve Griffiths, LU's chief operating officer, said: "We look forward to resuming talks at ACAS on Monday in order to make progress towards resolving this dispute."
Kieron Pritchard, 40, from Wolverhampton, was charged with causing a child to engage in sexual activity and possession of indecent images, West Mercica Police said.
Mr Pritchard, who worked in Worcestershire, was suspended from duty on 23 April, the force said.
A 47-year-old woman from Bristol also faces three child sex abuse charges.
Police said Mr Pritchard had been remanded in custody to appear at Worcester Crown Court on 29 May.
The woman has been charged with the sexual assault of a child, causing a child to engage in sexual activity and distribution of indecent images.
She has been released on conditional bail to appear at Worcester Crown Court on the same date.
Bu April McMahon yn Is-Ganghellor ar Brifysgol Aberystwyth am bum mlynedd rhwng 2011 a 2016.
Ond yn ystod ei chyfnod wrth y llyw fe ddisgynnodd y brifysgol yn y tablau perfformiad, gyda niferoedd y myfyrwyr hefyd yn gostwng, a honiadau o forâl isel ymysg staff.
Dywed y brifysgol eu bod wedi dilyn "cyfraith cyflogaeth" wrth osod bonws gadael yr Athro McMahon, ac nad oedd "taliadau o'r fath yn anghyffredin" yn y sector addysg uwch.
Cafodd yr Athro McMahon gyflog o £247,000 gan gynnwys cyfraniadau pensiwn yn 2014/15, cynnydd o £4,000 ar y flwyddyn gynt.
Ond bu pryderon ynglŷn â chwymp Aberystwyth yn y tablau prifysgol, honiadau o fwlio staff a gwahardd gweithwyr, a phrotestiadau dros gau Neuadd Pantycelyn yn ystod ei chyfnod wrth y llyw.
Llynedd fe wnaeth y cyn Is-Ganghellor Derec Llwyd Morgan feirniadu penderfyniad y brifysgol i wario arian ar agor campws ym Mauritius, wedi iddi ddod i'r amlwg mai dim ond 40 o fyfyrwyr oedd wedi cofrestru yno.
Cyhoeddodd yr Athro McMahon ym mis Rhagfyr 2015 y byddai hi'n camu o'r neilltu ar ddiwedd ei chyfnod o bum mlynedd, ac fe gafodd yr Athro John Grattan ei benodi i'r rôl dros dro.
Ym mis Rhagfyr 2016 fe gyhoeddodd y brifysgol bod yr Athro Elizabeth Treasure wedi ei phenodi fel yr Is-Ganghellor newydd.
Mynnodd y brifysgol eu bod wedi "gweithredu ar sail tryloywder" ac y byddai gwybodaeth am gyflogau staff yn cael ei gyhoeddi'n flynyddol.
"Er nad ydym yn trafod manylion achosion unigol yn gyhoeddus, nid yw taliadau o'r fath yn anghyffredin yn y sector ar adeg ymadawiad Is-Ganghellor, ac mae unrhyw daliadau ynghlwm ag ymadawiad Is-Ganghellor yn cyd-fynd â gofynion cyfraith cyflogaeth," meddai llefarydd.
Ond dywedodd Llywydd Undeb Myfyrwyr Cymraeg Aberystwyth, Rhun Dafydd fod y bonws o £102,489 gafodd ei dalu i'r Athro McMahon ar ddiwedd ei chyfnod yn "anfoesol".
"Mewn cyfnod lle mae llawer o brosiectau a datblygiadau sydd er budd y myfyrwyr yn y fantol oherwydd arbedion ariannol y brifysgol, dyw hi ddim yn gwneud llawer o synnwyr gwario swm anferthol ar fonws unigolyn sydd bellach wedi gadael," meddai.
"Mae'n fy siomi gan feddwl lle all y brifysgol fod wedi buddsoddi'r arian yma mewn agweddau fyddai wedi bod er lles y myfyrwyr ar gymuned leol."
Four fire engines and 21 firefighters were called to an industrial park in Peterwood Way, near Purley Way, at 08:46 BST after crews received almost 50 calls to the incident.
London Fire Brigade says the blaze was under control by about 10:00 BST.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
An initial stage of 16 groups of three teams will precede a knockout stage for the remaining 32 when the change is made for the 2026 tournament.
The sport's world governing body voted unanimously in favour of the change at a meeting in Zurich on Tuesday.
The number of tournament matches will rise to 80, from 64, but the eventual winners will still play only seven games.
It will make a mockery of the qualification process for most confederations
The tournament will be completed within 32 days - a measure to appease powerful European clubs, who objected to reform because of a crowded international schedule.
The changes mark the first World Cup expansion since 1998.
New Fifa Now, a campaign group that says the governing body needs to reform, labelled the expansion "a money grab and power grab".
"It will dilute the competitiveness of the tournament and, therefore, the enjoyment of fans," it said in a statement.
"It will not help development of the game or provide improved competitive opportunities for lower-ranked nations. Instead, it will make a mockery of the qualification process for most confederations."
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has been behind the move, saying the World Cup has to be "more inclusive".
Speaking at a sports conference in Dubai in December, Infantino said expansion will also benefit "the development of football all over the world".
He added: "There is nothing bigger in terms of boosting football in a country than participating in a World Cup."
Despite saying "the decision should not just be financially driven", Infantino did highlight the possible financial upsides.
According to Fifa's own research, revenue is predicted to increase to £5.29bn for a 48-team tournament, giving a potential profit rise of £521m.
Polish-born people represent Wales' largest migrant group during the decade up to 2011.
The figures from Oxford University's Migration Observatory showed the number of migrants living in Wales has soared in recent years.
The population of Wales in 2011 was 3,063,456, with about 167,871 of those born outside the UK.
Merthyr Tydfil saw its migrant population rocket by 227% during the 10 years to 2011 - from just 807 non-UK residents in 2001 to 2,641 by 2011.
Senior researcher Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva said: "The biggest change has been the increase in the Polish-born population, which increased more than twenty-fold, becoming the biggest migrant group in Wales.
"This has been particularly apparent in Merthyr Tydfil which saw the second largest percentage increase in its migrant population of anywhere in Great Britain."
Wrexham, Swansea and Newport saw their migrant populations more than double in the same period.
Cardiff had Wales' highest migrant population at 45,967 - an increase of 99% during the 10 years under scrutiny, while Blaenau Gwent had Wales' smallest foreign-born population at just 1,502.
According to the report 95% of Polish-born migrants in Wales have arrived since 2001. By 2011 there were 18,023 Polish-born residents, while 10 years previously there were 1,427.
Jolanta Atkinson, chair of the Anglo-Polish Society for Chester and North Wales, has lived in Wales for 40 years.
She said: "When I first came to Bangor, all those years ago, I was the only Polish person. Now it's a very big community.
"I can see the difference over the last 10 years, where people can speak English now and they send their children to the local school, and they are helping the economy by working and paying taxes.
"The majority are young people who are willing to work hard and bring up their families in Wales."
She said the chance of greater opportunities for work was the main reason for people wanting to live in Wales.
She added: "Wales is very welcoming and I know people who have praised it as a fabulous country, and they really mean it.
"I'm Polish, my husband is English, but my two children are definitely Welsh."
The number of Welsh residents born in Ireland was 12,175 in 2011, while 11,874 were born in India.
While Wales saw its migrant population increase more than England and Northern Ireland it still had the smallest proportion of migrants of all the UK nations.
The proportion of foreign-born people in Wales was 5.5%, making it smaller than England (13.8%), Scotland (7%) and Northern Ireland (6.6%).
Hinchingbrooke Hospital, in Cambridgeshire, has now returned to NHS management after Circle pulled out of its 10-year contract in January.
The hospital was placed in special measures after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report.
Chairman Alan Burns said he would be looking at the "viability of services".
But he said his immediate priorities were to oversee "a smooth transition" from Circle back to NHS management and to get the hospital out of special measures.
Mr Burns, a retired NHS chief executive, was appointed to chair the new NHS board running Hinchingbrooke, by the NHS Trust Development Authority.
He said there was a "a very good sustainable future" for the hospital.
But he added: "It's not rocket science to know there are some things the population of Huntingdonshire only just makes viable.
"Doctors and nurses need a volume of cases to retain the quality of the work they do - there are only so many accident and emergency, orthopaedic and maternity cases in Huntingdonshire in any one year.
"So when that number is close to the guidelines for the viability of services, it's right that you look at it."
Circle took on Hinchingbrooke in early 2012, as it was facing closure.
Three years into its contract, the company announced the franchise was "no longer viable under current terms".
At the same time, the CQC rated Hinchingbrooke "inadequate", highlighting particular concerns over accident and emergency and medical care, although Circle disputed its findings.
The 28-year-old will appear before a Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel on Tuesday, ahead of his side's final against Saracens on Saturday.
Exeter booked their spot at Twickenham with a 34-23 victory over Wasps.
The Chiefs are competing in the top-flight play-offs for the first time in their history.
The two sides signed a historic peace accord in the Cuban capital Havana on Wednesday after 52 years of conflict.
Farc fighters will gather in mid-September for a "conference" to ratify the accord.
A Colombian referendum on the agreement will follow on 2 October.
The Farc's conference will be its tenth since 1965, and will be held in a remote region of southern Colombia between 13 and 19 September.
Hundreds of Colombians celebrated on the streets of Bogota after the signing was broadcast live from Havana, Cuba, where peace talks have been held for almost four years.
The conflict has killed an estimated 260,000 people and displaced millions.
President Juan Manuel Santos called the deal "the beginning of the end to the suffering, pain and tragedy of war".
At one end of the main table, occupying a place he has filled for more than four years, was a slender, bald man with a well-groomed moustache. He listened respectfully to the anthem without singing along although by now he probably knows the words.
But it is not his country's song. He is Dag Nylander, head of the Norwegian diplomatic team which - along with the hosts, Cuba - acted as guarantors for the Colombian peace process.
For long-standing observers of Colombia's negotiations, Mr Nylander is a familiar sight. He has been a ubiquitous presence at every key moment over the past few years, reading out the details of the accords in his flawless but accented Spanish. At points of high tension or finger-pointing, he seemed to bring a calming presence to the proceedings, an external voice and a Norwegian sense of order to an entangled and bitter dispute.
I caught up with him after the heady sense of elation of that night had subsided a little.
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The two sides had signed a bilateral ceasefire in June, paving the way for a final agreement.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Farc will give up its armed struggle and join the legal political process.
The left-wing rebels have been fighting the government since 1964.
It is the longest-running conflict in Latin America.
The boost it seems to have given to anti-EU populists in other countries is also drawing press attention to the likely impact on an upcoming series of important referendums and elections.
In Germany, Sueddeutsche Zeitung's economics editor Bjoern Finke sees trouble ahead for British Prime Minister Theresa May.
He says she is trapped between a "growing realisation" that Britain depends on continued access to the EU internal market and popular pressure at home to limit freedom of movement.
"May has promised not to cede sovereignty over Britain's borders during the negotiations with Brussels," he says. "If she sticks to that, the British economy will pay a high price for this principled approach."
The paper's world affairs editor, Stefan Kornelius, looks to the rest of the EU, saying Brexit will allow it to tackle projects at the forthcoming Bratislava informal summit that would not have been possible with Britain still on board.
But he also warns against "Schadenfreude" towards Britain, arguing that its political and economic weight means it cannot just be "cut off to bob around somewhere far out in the Atlantic".
It interviews Polish diplomats and commentators, among whom the consensus emerges that "these promise to be tough negotiations between London and Brussels. Nobody on the continent wants to grant the British any special privileges."
Marco Bresolin, the Brussels correspondent of the Italian newspaper La Stampa, highlights European Commission concerns over the rise of populist anti-EU movements "rattling the chancelleries of Europe" since the Brexit vote.
From the strong showing of the populist right in German regional elections to the poll lead of the Freedom Party in Austria's presidential election, senior EU officials think "migration and the quality of national leadership" are to blame.
They fear that anti-EU gains in the autumn referendums and the French and German general elections next year could derail the European project "beyond the point of no-return".
In the Netherlands, NRC Handelsblad's Stephane Alonso also looks ahead to the autumn votes and the Bratislava meeting.
Apart from the likelihood that the "uncertainty over Brexit threatens to drag on for months, which is not good news for Europe", he highlights the need to address concerns over migration and terrorism if Europe is to regain a sense of unity and purpose.
Not surprisingly, Polish papers mainly focus on recent xenophobic attacks on their compatriots in Britain.
Pundit Pawel Moczydlowski tells Wprost weekly that "Brexit was a kind of a symbol that strengthened Nazi-racist craziness and made it more confident. It meant that British Nazis and racists are not isolated and alone, but enjoy some social support."
In Gazeta Wyborcza, philosopher Magdalena Sroda looks at the wider European rise of what she calls "this tribal mentality".
She says it is not about reviving the nation-state, as populists claim, but rather a matter of "political parties and movements strengthening their own power, such as in Germany, Austria, France, and in Poland".
She warns that this kind of rhetoric is an easy and effective political weapon to use - "just like a machete".
The British migration rules debate piques the interest of Romanian commentators in particular.
"Britain will try to control migration through an innovative system, and Romanians will be affected," says Gabriel Mihai in the Evenimentul Zilei daily.
He thinks a system prioritising skills is the most likely outcome.
Pundit Ovidiu Maican in Romania Libera is not convinced that Britain will leave the European Union at all, but has no doubt that a departure would prompt the "disintegration of the EU".
He places the blame squarely on the "incompetence, cowardice and rigidity of some European leaders" in addressing the concerns of voters across the union, comparing them unfavourably to the leaders of the 1980s - 1990s.
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The programmes, presumed lost, were recorded by Everett for early commercial station, Radio Victory.
They feature his trademark homemade sound effects and jingles.
Former presenter Andy Ferris who discovered the reels said they showed Everett was "relentless in his pursuit of entertainment".
They include his creations Sing-along-with-the-Beatles, The Backward Contest and sci-fi hero Captain Kremmen.
Mr Ferris recently rediscovered the programmes in a collection of reels he purchased from the station when it lost its licence in 1986.
"At the time Everett was a household name with a very popular television show. He sent us a tape every week of one of his put-together programmes - it was great," Mr Ferris said.
"It was Kenny being funny and taking the mick and playing the music he liked at the time - he'd be very amusing and dropping in lots of sound effects."
Everett's wife at the time, Lee Everett Alkin, remembers him recording shows at their home in Cowfield, Sussex, using multi-track recorders to achieve what were ground-breaking effects for the time.
"I'd be having tea with someone and all of sudden you'd hear all these sound effects - horrendous bloodcurdling screams - from down the corridor. So in the end we sound-proofed him!"
The Victory programmes - along with remastered versions of earlier BBC Radio Solent programmes - are due to feature in a BBC documentary about Everett's life.
Producer Richard Latto, said: "It's remarkable how fresh the shows sound after all these years.
"The techniques Kenny used 45 years ago are still staggeringly impressive, but that's why he's hailed a genius by so many in the industry."
The tapes sold for £720 at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
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Jimmy Aspinall "could only watch from the side pen" near the crush, a family statement said.
The inquest jury in Warrington heard James Aspinall, 18, was one of 96 people to die in the tragedy.
The statement, written by his mother Margaret Aspinall, said a "darkness fell" on the family in 1989.
Mrs Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, had her statement read out by her son David.
He told the coroner: "A darkness fell over our family on April 15, 1989. It's only being here now, being allowed to describe what a decent human being James was, that it's finally given our family a shard of light in to that darkness."
James, who worked as a clerk at a shipping firm on Merseyside, travelled to the game by coach with a friend, Graham John Wright, who also died. His father travelled separately.
Jurors have been listening to background statements about how the Hillsborough disaster affected individual families.
A statement about Michael Kelly, 39, was read by his brother Steve.
He said: "In death he became body number 72, also the last to be claimed by his family, yet another statistic. His name was Michael David Kelly.
"I want to remove that sequence of numbers from him. I'm here today to reclaim my brother."
He told the jury his brother was "a real man, a father, son, brother and friend".
Sue Roberts, sister of Graham, 24, paid tribute to the "family, friends and survivors" of Hillsborough who have died since 1989.
She said Graham was planning to marry his fiancée in 1990, they had chosen a house to buy and were due to sign a contract.
Ms Roberts, secretary of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, said: "Both my parents are now reunited with their son which, sadly since his death, was all they ever wanted."
Peter Harrison, a 15-year-old schoolboy from Liverpool, was described by his mother Patricia Harrison.
In a statement read by a lawyer, she said her son received a Liverpool season ticket for Christmas, which was buried with him.
She said: "What happened was terrible. But we all try to remember the good times we had with Peter. I often go to this room which still has his bed and bedside table."
Karen Staniford read a statement about her brother Gary Church, 19. He was a joiner who lived with his family in Seaforth.
She described him as "typical little boy" who enjoyed football and a "hard worker" who often did 14-hour days.
Profiles of all those who died
Ms Staniford said: "To this day I live just a few doors from the home my family and I shared with Gary as we were growing up and each day I look out of my window expecting Gary to come home".
In a further statement, Tracey Phelan spoke about the effect of losing her brother Paul Hewitson, 26, from Liverpool.
She said: "Each year as April 15 drew near we would see our mum and dad's sadness increase and the grief that was so clearly etched on to our mum's face became more apparent.
"Her heart was broken and remained broken for the rest of her life. Paul was the apple of his mother's eye. He was the light of her life."
Paul Murray got tickets for the game for his 14th birthday - just three days before the disaster.
When they came in the post he leapt into the air shouting "This is the best day of my life", his mother Edna told the inquest.
The church choirboy from Stoke-on-Trent supported the Reds because his grandfather was a Liverpudlian. His old schools have named their football competitions after him.
Kevin Tyrrell, 15, from Runcorn was a "football mad" teenager, his father Frank Tyrrell said in a statement read by the boy's uncle.
He was having trials for Tranmere Rovers and played in their youth team.
His father added: "In the early hours of 16th April 1989, after identifying Kevin, as I went to touch my son I was told that I couldn't as he now belonged to the coroner.
"He didn't. He belonged to me and my wife and he was Gary and Donna's brother and to his aunties, uncles, cousins and friends he was Tizzer."
The daughter of Henry Burke, 47, told the jury how she wished she could have held his hand when he was lying on the pitch, "like he had held my hand through my life".
Christine Burke said the father of three, a builder from Liverpool, was "old school" and they were brought up to have manners and respect for others.
She added: "He was always there for us to protect us, guide us and advise us".
Philip Steele, 15, from Southport, had gone to the match with his father Les.
His mother Dolores said her husband, who has since died, never came to terms with the fact that he was at Hillsborough but was not able to save his son.
She added: "My first thought each morning is of Philip as well as the last thought at night. When I think of our lovely son his laughter rings in my ears."
Peter Burkett, 24, from Birkenhead, was a kind and gentle young man, his sister Lesley Roberts said.
Her brother, who worked as an insurance clerk in Liverpool, had walked her down the aisle on her wedding day five months before he died.
She added: "When he smiled it warmed your body through to your soul."
A statement from David Benson's mother was read out to the jury. The 22-year-old from Warrington was working as a rep for a timber company when he died.
Mr Benson was a young father at the time of his death and if he had lived "would now be a grandfather".
Gloria Benson added: "To this day David is sorely missed."
At the end of today's hearing the coroner, Lord Justice Goldring, addressing the jury said: "It's been both very upsetting and yet an uplifting day, has it not?"
The inquests, set to last a year, were ordered after new evidence revealed by the Hillsborough Independent Panel led to the original inquest verdicts being quashed.
The hearing was adjourned until Monday.
Wales dominated the first quarter with tries from Shaun Evans, Keelan Giles and Reuben Morgan-Williams.
But Ireland stormed back with touchdowns from Adam McBurney and Jacob Stockdale to make it 17-15 at the break.
Bill Johnston's boot and Stockdale's second on 67 minutes meant that Giles' late corner touchdown was not enough.
Ireland's goal-kicking was the crucial factor with Johnston's extra accuracy crucial, while number eight Max Deegan was man-of-the match.
Wales take two losing bonus points from the encounter but will have to defeat top seeds New Zealand as well as Georgia to have any chance of reaching the semi-finals.
Wales captain Tom Phillips told BBC Wales Sport: "I think discipline is where we need to improve, there were far too many penalties and they fed off our mistakes.
"Going up in the first 20 minutes doesn't make any difference when you lose a match, there was definitely some good in that but you've got to win the game.
"There were going to be handling mistakes because we were behind, trying to get the points but mistakes happen and that's just part of rugby.
"We've tasted victory [in the Six Nations] and how we respond to defeat is going to be the measure of the team. We've got four games left [in the group and play-offs] and how we bounce back is the measure of us as a squad."
Wales U20: Rhun Williams (Cardiff Blues); Tom Williams (Ospreys), Joe Thomas (Ospreys), Harri Millard (Cardiff Blues), Keelan Giles (Ospreys); Daniel Jones (Scarlets), Reuben Morgan-Williams (Ospreys); Corey Domachowski (Cardiff Blues), Dafydd Hughes (Scarlets), Dillon Lewis (Cardiff Blues), Shane Lewis-Hughes (Cardiff Blues), Adam Beard (Ospreys), Tom Phillips (Scarlets, capt), Shaun Evans (Scarlets), Harrison Keddie (Newport Gwent Dragons).
Replacements: Liam Belcher (Cardiff Blues), Rhys Fawcett (Scarlets), Leon Brown (Newport Gwent Dragons), Seb Davies (Cardiff Blues), Josh Macleod (Scarlets), Declan Smith (Scarlets), Jarrod Evans (Cardiff Blues), Billy McBryde (Scarlets).
Ireland U20: Jacob Stockdale (Belfast Harlequins / Ulster); Matthew Byrne (Terenure / Leinster), Shane Daly (Cork Con / Munster), Conor O'Brien, (Clontarf / Leinster), Hugo Keenan (UCD / Leinster); Bill Johnston (Garryowen / Munster), Stephen Kerins (Sligo / Connacht); Andrew Porter (UCD / Leinster), Adam McBurney (Ballymena / Ulster), Conor Kenny (Buccaneers / Connacht), Cillian Gallagher (Sligo / Connacht), James Ryan, (Lansdowne / Leinster; capt), Greg Jones (UCD / Leinster), David Aspil (St.Mary's RFC / Leinster, Max Deegan (Lansdowne / Leinster).
Replacements: Vincent O'Brien (Cork Con / Munster), Vakh Abdaladze (Clontarf / Leinster), Ben Betts (Young Munster / Munster), Sean O'Connor (Cashel / Munster), Kelvin Brown (Shannon / Munster), Niall Saunders (Harlequins), Johnny McPhillips (Queens University / Ulster), Jimmy O'Brien (UCD / Leinster).
Referee: Paul Williams (New Zealan)
Assistants: Cwengile Jadezweni (SA), Philip Watters (Eng)
TMO: Trevor Fisher (Eng)
Coffee pods were a "distinct and growing product", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) declared.
The pods are used to make a cup which tastes like real coffee, but can be made in a matter of seconds.
However, nightclub entry fees and re-writeable DVDs are among the costs removed from the calculations.
Microwave rice, in either a pouch or a tray, has been added as it reflects a long-term trend towards prepared foods.
Other items to be added include a large chocolate bar. Although the inflation basket already includes a small chocolate bar, the ONS said this was an underrepresented category.
Cream liqueur, meat-based party snacks, nail varnish and women's leggings have also been included for the first time.
"Women's clothing is an under-covered area of the basket," said the ONS.
In
Women's leggings, coffee pods, cream liqueur
In
Microwave rice, nail varnish, large chocolate bars
Out Nightclub entry,Re-writeable DVDs, CD Roms,prescription lenses
Items being dropped from the list include rewriteable DVDs, which were " a declining technology", and CD-Roms.
Consumers tend to use them much less, as software can be downloaded directly.
The price of getting into a nightclub has also been removed from the list, as the number of clubs is declining, the ONS said.
New entries last year included e-cigarettes, music streaming subscriptions, and craft beer.
Among the items dropping out in 2015 were satellite navigation, as drivers switched to traffic apps on phones, or bought cars with sat navs already built in.
Some of the changes represent new consumer trends, but other changes have been made for technical reasons, to reflect price changes more accurately.
Each party set forth a pitch to voters for the coming council vote, clashing over local issues as well as constitutional ones.
Nicola Sturgeon campaigned alongside SNP candidates for both the council and general elections in Leith.
She said "council elections should be about local services", urging people to back her party to protect local services.
She said: "One of the key pledges at the heart of our manifesto is community empowerment. We want to see at least 1% of all council budgets devolved right down to community level, so that through participatory budgeting local people get the opportunity to say how that money is spent.
"I think it speaks volumes that you've got the Tories and Labour going around the country saying that local elections are all about independence - they haven't put forward a single positive policy."
Ruth Davidson gave a speech in Edinburgh, declaring her Scottish Conservatives to be "ready to serve" right across Scotland.
She said her party would prioritise devolution to local areas, criticising an "SNP power grab which has sucked power out of local communities".
She said: "We say at this election: let's restore energy, vitality and power to those cities, towns and villages.
"Because that's where Scotland's powerbase really lies - not in Holyrood or Nicola Sturgeon's first ministerial office. It's in our communities, in the lives and actions of people across our country."
Labour's Kezia Dugdale also gave a speech in Edinburgh, telling voters to "send the SNP and the Tories a message" in Thursday's elections.
She said each Labour councillor would act as "a local champion" who would protect local services against both the Edinburgh and London administrations.
She said: "On Thursday, send the Tories a message - tell them that Scotland does not want their austerity.
"And send Nicola Sturgeon a message as well. Tell her to abandon her plan for another divisive referendum and get on with the day job.
"You can protest against the Tories and protest against plans for a second referendum on Thursday with one vote. By voting Labour."
The Scottish Greens urged teenage voters to turn out on polling day.
Ross Greer, who was elected as an MSP aged 21 in 2016, said: "Young people lose out because too few of us turn out on polling day. This is the first local election where 16 and 17-year-olds can vote and it's an opportunity to change things.
"Our councillors make decisions about local schools, housing, public transport and a whole range of areas which have a huge effect on young people's lives. Green councillors would stand up, not just to defend these services but to improve and invest in them.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie hit the streets in Leven in Fife, telling voters about his party's "unique" position on the UK and the EU.
He said the momentum was with the Lib Dems heading into Thursday's elections.
He said: "We're growing in support and we're going to gain more seats, because people want a local champion for their community, not a cheerleader for independence.
"We're standing up for Scotland's place in the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom's place in Europe - we've got a unique position, and that's why more and more people are coming to the Liberal Democrats."
Fe fydd gwylwyr Y Salon ar S4C wedi synnu o glywed acen de Lloegr Kirsty wrth iddi droi o Gymraeg i Saesneg i egluro mai un o Chatham yng Nghaint ydi hi go iawn.
Mae hi'n teimlo'n gartrefol iawn yng Nghaernarfon ac yn defnyddio Cymraeg yn ei gwaith bob dydd erbyn hyn yn un o siopau barbwr prysuraf y dre.
"Oni'n dod yma ar gwyliau ac oni bob tro'n lyfio fo. Oedd petha'n newid yn Kent, oedd na ddim lot o waith so nes i deseidio symud i fama achos oni'n lyfio fo.
"Mae Nain yn dod o Nebo ond oedd hi di byw yn Kent am flynyddoedd. Mae ochr Taid yn Saesneg i gyd, ma ochr Dad yn Saesneg i gyd - dydi Mam a Dad ddim yn siarad Cymraeg o gwbl.
"Mae pobl yn deud mod i'n swnio fatha Only Way is Essex. Nadw dwi ddim!"
Fe fu Kirsty yn byw yn yr ardal am gyfnod byr pan oedd hi'n blentyn gan fynd i Ysgol Baladeulyn, Dyffryn Nantlle, am ychydig flynyddoedd.
Ond symudodd y teulu nôl i Gaint ac anghofiodd yr iaith heblaw am ambell 'nos da' a 'sut wyt ti'.
Pan symudodd nôl roedd hi'n benderfynol o'i siarad eto ac mae wedi gwneud hynny ar ei liwt ei hun heb unrhyw wersi ffurfiol.
"Pan nes i symud yma oni'n gorfod fforsio fy hun i ddysgu fo eto," meddai.
"Oedd pawb yn cymryd y mic. Ond os ma rywun yn cymryd y mic ma'n neud i chdi isho neud o mwy yndi?
"So bob yn ail air o'n i'n gofyn 'sut ti'n deud hyn?' a 'sut ti'n deud hynna?' ac yn sgwennu bob dim i lawr ar y ffôn."
Roedd llawer o bobl yn ei hannog, ond nid pawb: "Oedd rhai o nheulu Cymraeg i'n deud 'Stopia trio siarad Cymraeg, ti'n swnio'n sili, jyst siarad Saesneg, 's'na neb yn meindio.'
"Oeddan nhw'n rybish, oeddan nhw'n deud wrtha' i am jyst stopio siarad Cymraeg ac os oedd o'n rwbath pwysig, siarad Saesneg. Ond wedyn ti byth yn mynd i ddysgu nagwyt?"
Roedd un o'i chwsmeriaid yn y siop hefyd o Gaint ac mi fyddai o a Kirsty bob amser yn siarad Cymraeg efo'i gilydd er mawr syndod i bawb arall oedd yno: "Oedd pawb yn gofyn pam ydach chi'n siarad Cymraeg efo'ch gilydd, mae'n haws ichi siarad Saesnag yndi?
"Ac o'n i'n deud 'Ydi, ond dani'n byw ar eich territory chi felly dani'n siarad eich iaith chi'.
"Dwi jyst yn lyfio'r iaith a mae'n bechod nad ydan ni ddim i gyd yn siarad o.
"Os tisho byw yn rwla, ti'n siarad yr iaith - os ti'n symud i Sbaen ti'n siarad Spanish, o ti'n symud i Italy, ti'n dysgu Italian, so pam mae'n wahanol fama?
"A dwi ddim yn dallt, os ti'n mynd o dre [Caernarfon] i rywle fel Bangor, hyd yn oed, mae pawb yn siarad Saesneg!
"Dwi ddim yn gweld y pwynt o fyw yng Nghymru os ti ddim yn siarad Cymraeg - i fi dyna ydi part of the attraction.
"Os fyswn i'n cael fy ffordd fy hun fyswn i'n cael pawb i siarad Cymraeg - pawb!"
Mae brawd Kirsty yn byw yn Yr Alban a ddim yn deall gair o Gymraeg erbyn hyn.
Ond i Kirsty mae ochr Gymreig y teulu wedi bod yn ddylanwad mawr.
"Pan oni'n byw yn Kent oedd gen i ddim ffrindia Cymraeg so Saesneg oedd bob dim," meddai.
"Oedd pobl yn cymryd y mic allan ohona fi ac yn galw 'Taffy' arna fi pan o'n i'n tyfu i fyny. Oni'n embarassed.
"Ond wedyn yr hyna' oni'n mynd, ac yn arfer dod i fama ar wylia, oni fatha 'Ia, a be?'
"Wedyn oedd rhai ohonyn nhw'n deud wrtha fi 'Os ti'n licio nhw hynna faint pam ti ddim yn symud yn ôl yna?'
"Ac oni fel 'Iawn, 'na i!"
Roedd lot o ffrindiau Kirsty nôl yng Nghaint yn meddwl ei bod yn tynnu coes wrth sôn am siarad Cymraeg a ddim yn gwybod am fodolaeth yr iaith.
"Pan nathon nhw dod yma ar wyliau a clywed fi'n siarad oeddan nhw'n shocked a fatha, oh my god.
"Mae lot ohonyn nhw di bod yn trio watsiad Y Salon ar teli a ddim yn gallu cael y subtitles so ma nhw'n gorfod watsiad yr holl beth heb ddallt gair ohono fo!
"Yr unig beth oeddan nhw'n ddallt oedd Mam yn deud 'Get out of my pub!'"
Mae hi'n dal yn gorfod gofyn i gwsmeriaid beidio â siarad Saesneg efo hi ac yn cyfaddef bod gallu deall y sgyrsiau difyr a'r cyfrinachau sy'n cael eu datgelu yn y siop yn rheswm arall dros fod eisiau siarad Cymraeg.
"Dwi'n rhy fusneslyd i beidio dysgu - dwisho dallt!"
Mae hi'n teimlo bod gogledd Cymru yn lle gwell i fyw wrth i waith brinhau yng Nghaint a hithau ddim yn teimlo ei bod yn ddiogel i gerdded y stryd yno chwaith.
Mae pobl yma'n llawer mwy ffeind hefyd yn ôl Kirsty ac yn codi llaw a dweud helo ar y stryd - roedd pawb yn rhy brysur yn Chatham meddai.
"Does neb yn stopio i ddeud helo a dwi'n licio hynna - dwi'n berson chatty!"
Y Salon, S4C, Nos Wener, 08:25
Sion Davies, 25, died after being shot with the weapon and falling from a third-floor balcony.
Anthony Munkley, 54, and Lee Roberts, 34, were each handed life terms at Mold Crown Court in June 2015 after being convicted of his murder.
An appeal court judge has now ruled their 28-year minimum jail terms reflected their "appalling" crimes.
The pair were found guilty of the "punishment murder" of Mr Davies, who was killed in Caia Park over a drugs debt.
Munkley lured Mr Davies to his home where he set in train an "orgy of violence", firing bolts from a crossbow, London's Appeal Court heard on Friday.
Roberts - Munkley's "muscle" - joined in the attack, repeatedly slashing at Mr Davies with a knife and inflicting seven deep wounds.
Mr Davies was pinned back to the balcony of the flat before toppling to the ground below, said Lord Justice Lloyd Jones.
He managed to crawl away from the scene but later died from head injuries he had suffered.
Lawyers for Munkley and Roberts argued their minimum jail terms were "unduly harsh".
They pointed out no firearms were used, also citing Roberts's fragile mental state, including paranoid personality traits.
But Lord Justice Lloyd Jones, who was sitting with Mr Justice Stewart, noted how Roberts had stopped taking his related medication around the time of the killing.
He also highlighted the violent nature of Roberts's knife assault, although Munkley had "instigated" the attack.
"The (sentencing) judge was entitled to treat the extreme ferocity and the sustained nature of the attack as aggravating factors," said Lord Justice Lloyd Jones.
"We have concluded that these severe sentences were no more severe than was necessary to reflect the appalling nature of these crimes."
The transfer concludes a lengthy process in which Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been given more of these tasks.
Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada have started lawsuits, saying the decision needs Congressional approval.
The handover is scheduled for today.
Icann keeps an eye on the core addressing system of the internet, known as DNS, via a subsidiary called the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
DNS translates the names that humans use to navigate the web into the numbers computers use.
Since the early days of the internet, a division of the US Commerce Department, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has been involved in approving changes to the core DNS servers.
The NTIA's involvement in this process is due to come to an end on 30 September.
Attorneys general in the four states have challenged the transfer, claiming that it cannot go ahead because US politicians have not formally approved it.
In addition, says the lawsuit, the NTIA does not have the power to broker such a deal and it has not consulted the American public about the decision.
The lawsuit also alleges that the transfer does not put in place sufficient protections for the .gov and .mil domains that serve the US government and its military.
The NTIA said it would not comment on the legal challenge.
A judge is due to make a decision on the lawsuit today.
If the judge dismisses it, Icann will assume sole control of DNS.
The plan to stop US involvement in the administration of DNS has won attention from the US Senator Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Both claimed the handover would dent the freedom of speech online and give Russia and China more control over the net.
Icann has dismissed these claims, saying: "The US government has no decreased role. Other governments have no increased role."
Maris, 20, was released by Barnsley this summer after playing four first-team games, and has had loan spells at Nuneaton, Guiseley and Lincoln.
Gregory, 21, came through the Crystal Palace academy and spent part of last season on loan at Leyton Orient before being released by the Eagles in May.
The pair join following the signing of winger Piero Mingoia on Thursday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Police, paramedics, the fire service and air ambulance were called to an area off Duke Street in Hadleigh on Saturday morning.
As reported in the Ipswich Star, he was pulled from the water and attempts were made to resuscitate him. He was taken by ambulance to Ipswich Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Police are not treating the incident as suspicious.
Two people are in custody after the row on the corner of Saunders Road, Penarth Road and St Mary Street at 15:00 BST.
A 27-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of affray and a 19-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of using threatening behaviour.
There were no injuries and police said it was not linked to Justin Bieber's concert at the Principality Stadium.
The arrests were made about 400 metres (1312ft) from the stadium, where about 40,000 people are expected for the Canadian singer's Purpose World Tour.
Chf Insp Justin Evans tweeted: "Man arrested in Cardiff in possession of a machete. To be clear - a dispute between 2 people and is not linked to the Justin Bieber concert."
South Wales Police said it was an isolated incident that had been resolved.
The Islands instalment of Sir David Attenborough's series has received 3.83m requests on the catch-up service.
The first episode of BBC Three's drama series Thirteen is the second most-requested show of the year to date, having notched up 3.22m requests.
England's Euro 2016 clash against Wales is the third most-requested programme at present, with 2.84m requests.
The opening instalment of BBC One drama The Night Manager occupies fourth place in a list of the 10 most requested individual episodes on BBC iPlayer in 2016 released on Thursday.
It is followed by the second episode of Planet Earth II - Mountains - which has received 2.71m requests to view since its initial broadcast on BBC One on 13 November.
The BBC's figures reveal 2016 has been the biggest year yet for the BBC iPlayer, which received 243m monthly requests on average.
October and November saw the highest number of daily requests the service has ever seen, with each month recording an average of 11.7m.
Charlotte Moore, director of BBC content, said 2016 had been a "record-breaking year" for the corporation's in-house on-demand portal.
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The 2m-high (6ft 6ins) human figure will be at Clavell Tower, Kimmeridge, from May for a year.
The statue will be one of five around the UK to mark the 50th anniversary of the Landmark Trust in 2015.
Historian Caroline Stanford said it will be Gormley's only solo exhibition in the UK next year and other locations were still to be announced.
Ms Stanford, who is head of engagement at the Landmark Trust, said the statue would be a "wonderful" and "thoughtful" presence at Kimmeridge and said: "It is a fantastic project to be working on with one of the generation's greatest artists.
"Everyone will be able to make up their own minds. We hope they will really enjoy everything about it."
Peter Wharf, Purbeck District Council's planning committee chairman, said it had divided opinion and added: "There was pleasure to have something so potentially attractive to tourists coming into town, but there was also concern about the potential for destabilising the cliff."
The artwork was approved by the council's planning committee on condition the foundations were dug by hand to avoid disturbing the cliff.
Mr Wharf said: "A robotic Angel of the North is how one person described it."
The temporary planning permission will expire in May 2016.
The Landmark Trust is a charity that restores at-risk buildings and lets them out for holidays.
It has rescued 200 buildings in the past 50 years.
Jann Mardenborough crashed his Nissan GTR Nismo in the first race of the season at the Nurburgring Nordschleife.
The team said the 23-year-old was upset by what had happened.
He has been released from hospital, along with two injured spectators, and Nissan Nismo said it is co-operating with the investigation.
"Everyone at Nissan would like to again extend their deepest sympathies to the family of the deceased and to the spectators who were hurt," the team said in a statement.
"Nissan would also like to thank everyone for the support they have shown for the fans involved, the team and for Jann Mardenborough."
Mardenborough's car flipped and left the track at high speed as it negotiated the Flugplatz section of the circuit on Saturday.
After crashing through the trackside fencing, it landed on its roof in a spectator area.
Mardenborough, whose father Steve played football for Wolves, Coventry, Cardiff and Swansea, began racing in 2011 when he beat 90,000 entrants to win the GT Academy, a video game competition.
He has since competed in the British GT Championship, Le Mans 24-Hours and the 2014 GP3 series.
Joan Smith, 44, admitted a charge of attempted plagium after she tried to steal the eight-month-old infant from a pram on a bus in Holburn Road in November.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard the child's mother reported the incident and that she had been frightened.
Sheriff Graeme Buchanan deferred sentence for background reports until later this year.
The court heard the child's mother saw Smith place both her hands on the infant's arms and tried to lift the baby out of the pram.
The pram straps prevented the child from being removed. Smith then left the bus.
The child's mother told officers that she strongly believed that the woman would have taken her baby if the child had not been strapped in.
Scottish Power says no new framework has been created for wind farms for when subsidies come to an end in April.
The company is involved in a "wind-rush" to build turbines before the Renewables Obligation is scrapped.
UK ministers said their position on the issue remains unchanged.
Under the Renewables Obligation scheme - due to come to an end for all onshore wind projects in April 2017 - UK electricity suppliers get a subsidy for agreeing to source an increasing proportion of the electricity they supply from renewable sources.
It is funded by levies added to household fuel bills.
Scottish Power Renewables said it wanted agreements - known as Contracts for Difference - to be issued so firms have some security for future investments.
The UK government said a commitment was made at the General Election to scrap onshore wind subsidies.
But Keith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power Renewables, said the "support" he was urging did not mean "subsidy".
He told BBC Scotland: "What we are asking for for onshore wind is a level playing field.
"There's a new mechanism in place for offshore wind, called contracts for difference. For gas investment the government have created a capacity mechanism.
"We're asking for a contract to help underpin some of the risk of making these big, long term investments. We're not asking for a subsidy."
Scottish Power said it was employing thousands of people in construction jobs as it builds its largest ever number of wind farms.
A total of 221 new turbines will go online in the year to March 2017, taking the total amount of electricity it creates rising to 2,000 Megawatts.
With 400 offshore turbines, it said wind would then create the equivalent amount of energy to Longannet Power Station at its peak.
The Scottish government is committed to delivering the equivalent of 100% of electricity demand through renewables by 2020.
Scottish Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse told BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that the policy had the potential to "disrupt" that aim.
He added: "We've made great progress. We've achieved 56% of that figure by 2015, which was ahead of schedule, but we're now seeing changes since the 2015 UK general election where the UK government is derailing potentially a very important industry, not just in Scotland but other parts of the UK as well and that's of great concerns to us."
Ministers at Holyrood are due to publish a draft energy strategy in January next year.
The UK government's stance is being supported by the campaign group Scotland Against Spin.
Spokeswoman Linda Holt said: "I think we're saturated. You talk to people who live in the countryside who are surrounded by wind farms, they think we've got enough turbines.
"We're already producing too much wind electricity in Scotland for us to be able to use ourselves so it's either being exported or when it's windy it's being constrained off."
Contracts for Difference are used to stimulate emerging green energy developers by guaranteeing a minimum price for what they generate.
Such a contract for Hinkley Point C nuclear power station was signed in September.
Although big players like Scottish Power will probably continue to build wind turbines, some fear smaller firms will suffer.
Lindsay Roberts, from the industry body Scottish Renewables, said: "Onshore wind is already one the cheapest and most popular forms of power generation. However the UK government has locked future development out of the energy market.
"Their own advisors say if we are to stand any chance of meeting our climate change targets we need to at least double our renewable energy capacity.
"So it's vital that the UK government tells us what the future of onshore wind is going to be and that they allow it to compete in that energy market."
A UK government spokesman said: "We are fully committed to providing secure, affordable and clean energy for the UK's homes and businesses.
"The renewables industry has been a strong success in Scotland thanks to UK Government support. Last year we invested a record £13bn in renewables across the UK, with Scotland continuing to benefit significantly from that support."
The storm brought winds of more than 85mph (140km/h) to North Carolina and a quarter of a million people have been told to evacuate New York city.
British Airways has cancelled all its flights between London and New York for the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday.
The Foreign Office has advised Britons caught up in the hurricane to follow the advice of the local authorities.
British nationals should leave the area if advised, it added.
British Airways said it was keeping the progress of Hurricane Irene under "constant review".
A spokeswoman said: "Due to the predicted impact of the storm, we have taken the decision to cancel a significant number of services to the eastern seaboard.
"Flights to and from New York JFK and Newark will be particularly badly affected after the local authorities made a decision to completely close the airports for much of the weekend."
A statement on the BA website said: "As Hurricane Irene moves towards the east coast of the USA we are starting to cancel flights to and from a number of US cities.
"Please check the status of your flight before leaving for the airport."
BA axed flights to the Bahamas earlier this week as a result of the hurricane.
Virgin Atlantic has cancelled flights to and from New York as well as some Boston services over the weekend.
The airline warned that some people might have to wait more than three to four days to return home from the US.
"We are focusing all our energy on a recovery plan to bring people back home. Because flights are already very full it will be a little while before everybody is accommodated," it said.
The Foreign Office said travellers could monitor the progress of the hurricane on the US National Hurricane Center website, the Met Office's StormTracker, and local and international weather reports.
The overall level of travel advice to the US had not changed and there were no restrictions in place, it added.
The Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) said up to 10,000 British holidaymakers could currently be in New York.
New York was the single most popular long-haul destination in the world for Britons, the organisation said.
An Abta spokesman said: "If anyone can't get back on their original flight and they're booked with a European airline, the airline will make sure they're looked after with nights in hotels and day-to-day expenses so people won't be out of pocket.
"People on package tours will be in the same position."
Irish airline Aer Lingus said all flights scheduled to operate between the Republic of Ireland and New York and Boston on Sunday had been cancelled.
The carrier said passengers, who are being kept informed by text and email, could change their travel dates on its website.
In total, more than two million people in the US have been ordered to leave their homes ahead of the massive category one storm.
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that Irene remained a "large and dangerous" storm.
A first death caused by the hurricane has been reported in North Carolina.
States of emergency have been declared in North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
Doctors are trying to save the baby of a 36-year-old expectant mother who was killed by a snow plough in New York.
A sheriff in Georgia has "cancelled" Valentine's Day celebrations because of the bad weather.
The winter has left the Great Lakes of the US Midwest almost completely frozen for the first time in two decades.
More than 440,000 households were still without electricity by Friday morning, mainly in Georgia and South Carolina, down from 1.2 million.
The weather system is predicted to taper off as it crawls farther north from New England.
A milder storm is expected to dump up to 3in (7cm) of snow on the East Coast over the weekend, reports the National Weather Service.
Road conditions in some areas were still treacherous. Thirty people were injured, five severely, in a multiple vehicle pile-up near Philadelphia on Friday morning.
Officials said it would take many hours to clear damaged vehicles, including lorries. The crash spawned a traffic jam stretching for five miles (8km).
Many schools remained closed in eight states from Virginia to Maine, while the federal government in Washington DC opened two hours late after shutting down completely on Thursday.
Almost 1,500 flights were cancelled on Friday, compared with 6,500 a day earlier. All flights were grounded at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday.
The storm dumped around a foot of snow across the region, though some areas, such as upstate New York, saw up to 27in of the white stuff.
The weather system, nicknamed Pax by meteorologists, has been blamed for at least 25 deaths, according to an Associated Press tally, mainly from road accidents.
Pregnant Min Lin, 36, died after being struck on Thursday by a snow plough as it reversed outside a shopping centre in Brooklyn, New York City.
She was taken to a hospital, where her nearly full-term baby, weighing 6lb 6oz, was delivered by caesarean section.
The child is in a critical condition in a neonatal intensive care unit, a hospital spokeswoman said.
No immediate charges were brought against the driver.
The fresh spasm of foul weather has delayed tens of thousands of deliveries of Valentine's Day flowers.
"It's a godawful thing," Mike Flood, owner of Falls Church Florist in Virginia, told the Associated Press news agency. "We're going to lose money. There's no doubt about it."
A sheriff in north-eastern Georgia, meanwhile, said he was cancelling Valentine's Day because of the bad weather.
In an apparently tongue-in-cheek Facebook post, Sheriff Scott Berry declared the Oconee County region a "No Valentines [sic] Day Zone".
He said all men in the area were exempt from having to buy chocolate or other gifts for their partners until next Tuesday.
It has been a particularly icy winter in the US, with almost back-to-back bitter cold snaps.
The Great Lakes - which hold nearly a fifth of the freshwater on the world's surface - are currently 88% covered with ice.
The last time they came this close was in 1994, when 94% of the lakes' surface was frozen, said the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.
North Yorkshire Police confirmed that a 73-year-old man was arrested in Kingston upon Thames on 26 April.
The entertainer and quiz show host - who has an OBE for services to showbusiness and charity - was released on bail pending further enquiries.
A police statement said he was questioned about an alleged assault on a young boy in the late 1970s.
Mr Tarbuck's arrest came after information was passed on by Metropolitan Police officers working on Operation Yewtree, North Yorkshire Police said.
The force stressed that this arrest "is not part of Yewtree, but a separate investigation" by North Yorkshire Police.
Operation Yewtree was set up following the death of Jimmy Savile in 2011, when hundreds of sex abuse allegations came to light about the former DJ.
A spokesman for the police force said: "North Yorkshire Police can confirm that a 73-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a historic child sex abuse investigation in Harrogate.
"The man was arrested in Kingston upon Thames on Friday 26 April 2013.
"Following questioning, he was released on police bail pending further inquiries.
"The complaint relates to an incident that occurred in the late 1970s when the victim was a young boy."
Liverpool-born Mr Tarbuck has spent more than 50 years in the entertainment industry, beginning his television career in 1964 with the show It's Tarbuck 65!
He went on to be a regular feature of prime time television in the 1970s and 1980s, hosting a number of quiz shows, including Winner Takes All and Full Swing.
Last November he performed in The Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London to celebrate the show's 100th anniversary.
On Tuesday, Mr Tarbuck cancelled a solo appearance at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, East Sussex, scheduled for 18 June, citing ill health.
Mr Tarbuck's daughter is the actress and television and radio presenter Liza Tarbuck.
The 120 soldiers from the 5th Battalion The Rifles will set up a UK headquarters in the country before the remaining troops arrive in April.
The defence secretary said they would deter "Russian aggression".
The UK is taking a leading role in Nato's "enhanced forward presence" operation, aimed at reinforcing the alliance's eastern border.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon told the BBC it was the biggest UK military deployment in Europe since the end of the Cold War and formed part of a long-term, open-ended commitment to deter Russia.
He said deploying troops was necessary "because of the increased Russian aggression that we've seen and the need to reassure our allies on the eastern side of Nato".
But Sir Michael insisted it was a "defensive deployment" and was not "designed to provoke or escalate".
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the troops say they are well prepared for a range of threats, and the UK government is aware that Russia might use misinformation, fake news and other provocations during their deployment.
The first wave of soldiers flew from RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, on Friday, and were met at Amari air base in Estonia by the country's defence minister, Margus Tsahkna.
British Challenger 2 tanks, AS90 self-propelled guns, and armoured vehicles are also en route to Estonia, having been loaded on to a ferry in Germany and will arrive next week.
The UK-led Estonia battlegroup is one of four Nato multinational deployments to eastern Europe.
Other Nato armies are sending forces to Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, where 150 UK personnel will also be sent as part of a rotating deployment.
Separately, the Royal Air Force has committed to providing Typhoon jets to bolster air defences in Romania for four months, as part of Nato's southern air policing mission.
Russia has already described the positioning of Nato forces near its border as a threat.
Each December, meteors appear to radiate from a point near the star Castor, in the constellation Gemini.
In early morning hours, that is located westward and overhead in the northern hemisphere and nearer the horizon in the southern hemisphere.
Many sky watchers saw dozens of "shooting stars" per hour, made easier to see by darkness provided by the "new moon" phase of the lunar cycle.
The shower comes about each year as the Earth passes through the path of an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon.
The asteroid leaves behind a trail of rocky debris that the Earth ploughs into - debris moving at 35km per second through the atmosphere, burning up in what have been described as spectacular displays.
"The sky was completely clear here," reported Ivan Hawick in the Shetland Islands.
"I could see eight meteors in one minute at times. One I saw was burning so bright - it was a lovely blue colour."
According to the International Meteor Organization, the "radiant" - the apparent point from which the meteors seem to come - was visible from sunset in far north of the equator; the constellation rose above the horizon at about midnight local time in the southern hemisphere.
The Geminids are less well-known relative to other annual meteoric performances such as the Perseids, in part because December weather often threatens a clear view of the show.
The 7.8 magnitude quake caused casualties in India, Bangladesh, and Tibet as well as in Nepal.
Those affected ranged from local people to the region's many tourists and climbers on Mount Everest.
Some of those affected told the BBC what they had witnessed on this devastating day.
Kathmandu has been very badly affected by the earthquake. Some areas are completely destroyed.
I am in the Thamel area and the Hotel Budget has been completely demolished with more than 50 guests inside.
I have been helping to pull people and bodies out of the rubble, along with my friend. We pulled a child out with its grandmother earlier. They did not survive.
I am most sad. It has been a very bad experience and a terrible and very difficult day.
I was at home when it happened and I was so frightened. I went out on to the street and saw people on the ground and buildings collapsed.
I went to help as much as I could. There are not enough rescue teams here. The hospitals are out of control. We need help.
I was sitting in my house watching TV when the quake struck.
It was terrifying. Everything in the house started falling down. I quickly ran outside, as did all my neighbours.
We have been standing outside on the street since. My neighbours and I have been holding hands thanking God we are ok.
Many houses have collapsed and people are injured. There is also water everywhere from burst pipes and it is leaking out of the houses in the area.
Many ambulances have passed by to help the injured.
We may have to sleep out here tonight. The weather has improved, thankfully, but we're still too afraid to go back into our houses.
There are still mild tremors every 15 minutes.
When we felt the earthquake, we jumped in the doorway of our hotel. We knew what to do, coming from California.
There were people running out of our hotel. They just fell to the ground.
A wall about 8ft (2.5m) high came down over the road - thankfully no one was crushed.
Within 15 minutes there were four aftershocks. There were power lines across cars.
We headed down the main street where a school's entire facade had come off.
There were military and workers unearthing rubble and pulling out bodies.
There was a triage set up in the middle of the street. The non-seriously injured were wrapped up and put aside for later treatment.
It was the biggest earthquake I've ever been in. It felt like it went on for two minutes.
Everyone here is just super-confused.
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The employee was arrested at the law firm's Geneva offices after the company provided information to prosecutors.
The employee is accused by the firm of theft of data, unauthorised access and breach of trust.
Thousands of documents were leaked from Mossack Fonseca in April, revealing systematic offshore tax evasion.
Mossack Fonseca says it has not broken any laws or destroyed any documents, and says all its operations were legal.
It is not known at this stage whether the alleged data theft cited by prosecutors this week is linked to the leak in April, dubbed the "Panama Papers".
The Panama Papers were investigated for months by hundreds of investigative journalists, including staff from the BBC.
The Geneva prosecutor's office began a criminal inquiry in April into the Panama revelations.
The anonymous source behind the Panama Papers spoke out in May, offering to help law authorities make prosecutions in return for immunity.
In a 1,800-word statement, "John Doe" said he had never worked for a spy agency or a government and cited "income equality" as a motive for the leak.
It is not known whether the source had any contact with law enforcement officials after his statement.
Eleven million documents held by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca were passed to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which then shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. BBC Panorama and UK newspaper The Guardian were among 107 media organisations in 76 countries which analysed the documents. The BBC does not know the identity of the source
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He put a note on Twitter to say ' Thanks for all your phone calls and your invitations to your TV talent show. Sorry if my first answer wasn't clear enough but I don't want to be in this competition.'
Contestants in talent shows can apply directly to be on them but sometimes people are approached by the TV company and encouraged to take part.
Britain's Got Talent said:
'We travel the length and breadth of the country to find the best talent to make them aware of the show and auditions. We do then encourage acts to apply but any such acts will be required to audition on the same basis as any other applicant and normal programme rules apply.
So why did Tom turn down the chance to go on BGT? He's been telling Jenny.
Noel Lee, whose firm Monster helped launch Beats by Dre in 2008, says his company was betrayed and its technology "pirated".
He alleges he "lost millions" after Dre and Iovine "improperly took control" of Beats through a "sham" transaction.
After severing ties with Monster, Beats was purchased by Apple for $3 billion (£1.9 billion).
In legal papers filed in California, Lee alleges rap producer Dr Dre was barely involved in creating the headphones that carried his name.
But the range quickly became a highly desirable brand with celebrities and music fans, and Dre's endorsement was key to its success.
When the firm was sold to mobile phone manufacturer HTC in 2012, Dre and Iovine made $100m (£66m) each, Forbes estimated.
But Lee claims the deal forced him to cut his share in the company from 5% to 1.25%. He says he then had no other option but to sell his remaining stake for $5.5m (£3.6m) near the end of 2013.
His legal case describes the HTC deal as "fraudulent" and "a sham" intended to shift ownership of Beats to Dre and Iovine.
HTC later sold its shares back to the Beats.
Lee says if he'd still had his 1.25% stake, he would have received more than $30m (£19.8m) in the Apple deal.
His original 5% stake would have been worth around $150m (£99m).
A statement from Monster's law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy says that Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine "made millions off the work of Monster and Lee, while the plaintiffs lost millions".
There's been no response yet from Dr Dre's lawyer - or from Beats.
It's the second lawsuit against the firm since Apple bought it last year.
The first was brought by the Bose Corporation over patented technology for cancelling noise in earphones.
That case was settled under undisclosed terms in October.
Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine are also being sued by David Hyman, who sold his music streaming service MOG to Beats in 2012.
That court case, filed shortly before the Apple deal was sealed, is taking place now in Los Angeles.
Jimmy Iovine is the co-founder of Interscope Records, a rap music pioneer that branched out to include acts like Lady Gaga and U2.
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Defending champions England face New Zealand in Belfast on Saturday.
The 32-year-old, a World Cup winner in 2014, left the field in the first half of England's 20-3 semi-final victory over France on Tuesday for a head-injury assessment but did not return.
"Danielle has delivered outstanding performances throughout," said head coach Simon Middleton.
"It's disappointing to lose her for the final but we have a number of strong options available to us as we begin preparing."
Waterman, who made her Test debut in 2003 and has won 74 caps, does not have enough time to complete the game's 'return to play' protocols after failing her HIA on Tuesday.
She is the only England player to have started every match at the World Cup but misses out on playing in a fourth World Cup final.
Emily Scott, who represented Britain at the 2016 Olympics and was part of England's Grand Slam winning campaign earlier in the year, has been called up as a replacement.
She was originally named in England's 28-strong squad but to withdraw with injury.
"Emily can cover both fly-half and full-back positions and has invaluable experience playing in major tournaments," said Middleton.
"It was disappointing for Emily to miss out initially but she has successfully completed her rehab and is fit and ready to go."
England: Emily Scarratt; Lydia Thompson, Megan Jones, Rachel Burford, Kay Wilson; Katy Mclean, Natasha Hunt; Vickii Cornborough, Amy Cokayne, Sarah Bern, Abbie Scott, Tamara Taylor, Alex Matthews, Marlie Packer, Sarah Hunter (capt).
Replacements: Vicky Fleetwood, Rochelle Clark, Justine Lucas, Harriet Millar-Mills, Izzy Noel-Smith, La Toya Mason, Amber Reed, Amy Wilson Hardy
New Zealand: Selica Winiata; Portia Woodman, Stacey Waaka, Kelly Brazier, Renee Wickliffe; Victoria Subritzky-Nafatali, Kendra Cocksedge; Toka Natua, Fiao'o Faamausili (capt), Aldora Itunu, Eloise Blackwell, Charmaine Smith, Charmaine McMenamin, Sarah Goss, Aroha Savage,
Replacements: Te Kura Ngata-Aerengamate, Sosoli Talawadua, Aleisha Nelson, Rebecca Wood, Lesley Ketu,Kristina Sue, Theresa Fitzpatrick, Carla Hohepa
This is the additional sum needed to finish building the European Space Agency's much-delayed ExoMars robot.
A technical review has just concluded that the project is running true to its latest schedule, but it can only go forward with full funding.
Ministers will decide ExoMars' fate at a council in Lucerne, Switzerland.
The British-assembled rover would launch on a Russian rocket in August 2020 and land on the Red Planet eight months later.
It is being designed with the ability to drill up to 2m below Mars' dusty terrain to look for evidence of microbial activity.
Dr David Parker is Esa's director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration. He said member-state delegations to the agency had been expressing strong support for the project in the run-up to the Lucerne gathering.
"The rover remains scientifically compelling because there is no other mission planned to go below the surface of Mars which is damaged by radiation and which would destroy any past or present life," he told BBC News.
The six-wheeled robot is the second mission in a two-step venture that Europe is conducting with the Russians.
The first phase has just seen a satellite to study Mars' atmosphere go into orbit around the planet, and a disc-shaped probe called Schiaparelli try to make a demonstration landing on its surface.
Schiaparelli crashed but engineers say they learned important lessons that can now be applied to the rover's touch-down bid in four years' time.
But to be in such a position, the six-wheeled vehicle will need the nod of ministers in Lucerne.
Ahead of this council, Esa and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, have conducted a thorough review of the project's technical status, to establish that all the mission's hardware can be made ready in time.
It was fears that some elements would be late that saw the mission slip earlier this year from its intended 2018 launch.
The required equipment goes beyond just the rover and a suite of scientific instruments. It includes also a "cruise ship" to carry the vehicle to Mars (this will come from Germany) and the mechanism to land the robot on the surface (a major Russian contribution).
"There has been intense technical work by the project members, including the industrial team led by Lavochkin (Russia) and Thales Alenia Space (Italy), which has now established an adequate schedule margin for launch at the overall system level and within the pieces of the system; so, the rover and the carrier, and so on," explained Dr Parker.
It has been recommended that in order to shorten the timeline on what had previously been proposed, all the different elements will now be sent to an experienced facility in Toulouse, France, for final integration and testing - and only afterwards go to the launch site at Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
Originally, final integration and testing was to be done at the spaceport.
It is on the basis of the positive status report delivered this week to member state delegations that the funding request will now go forward to ministers.
The little over €400m includes more than €300m for industry with the rest to cover Esa's internal costs.
These include preparing the mission control centre that will command the rover on the surface of Mars.
But additional to all this money, member states will have to provide at some future point the funds to support the surface operation of the vehicle - assuming it gets down safely.
The expectation is that the robot will explore the Red Planet for at least 218 Martian days; hopefully much longer.
The two leading Esa countries in the ExoMars rover project are Italy and the UK. Both have indicated they will be offering substantial financial support at the Lucerne meeting.
But it will require others in the 22-nation organisation to dig deep as well.
Ministers will be discussing a great swathe of programmes in Switzerland, including continued participation in the space station and the development of future Earth observation satellites.
For some nations, these alternative projects will be more important to them. Full commitment to ExoMars is not guaranteed, therefore.
And even if all the funds are forthcoming, some issues of contention will no doubt persist.
For example, there is currently an ongoing argument centred around the rover's use of autonomous navigation - the ability of the vehicle itself to plot the best path across the surface of Mars once instructed to go to a particular location.
This feature - a UK development - was long considered an integral part of the mission, but has now been removed from the current design on the grounds of cost.
Researchers though are likely to continue to press for its reinstatement because a robot that drives quickly and efficiently can do much more science in the time available - never mind the clear industrial spin-out potential from such technology.
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Pat Perez shot a four-under par 67 in Sunday's final round to finish 21 under to win, with overnight leader American Gary Woodland two strokes back.
Knox, 31, carded a final-day five-under-par 66 on the Greg Norman-designed El Camaleon course.
"I wasn't all that comfortable out there. This course kind of makes you put the steer on sometimes," he said.
"But I made seven birdies. A couple of mistakes, but overall starting the day I would have taken 66."
Compatriot Martin Laird tied for 13th at 13 under par, while Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell finished two shots further back in tied 24th.
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We will be reporting the length and breath of the country after polls close at 22:00 on 5 May.
There will then be analysis, background, reaction and debate as we find out the outcome of each of Scotland's 73 Holyrood constituencies.
Who wins seats from the eight regional lists will also be revealed following the through-the-night counts.
Based on the 2011 Holyrood election results, here is an estimate of the declaration times of Scotland's 73 constituency seats and eight regional lists.
Former Belle Vue Aces chief executive David Gordon has claimed the council did not pass on the information to the club, who are tenants of the venue.
It was one of seven meetings lost because of track problems.
The council rejects the claims.
The National Speedway Stadium was due to open on 19 March 2016 before a crowd of 5,000, most of whom were in their seats when the meeting was postponed during the warm-up, minutes before the first heat.
It was another 54 days before the Aces finally made their bow at the stadium when, after five postponements, they faced Swindon in May.
A second document, which has also been seen by the BBC, appears to show the authority held back payment of £696,782 from the builders of the stadium because of track defects.
Gordon claims the issues with the track cost the Aces a similar sum in rider salaries and administrative costs, and that the money was not passed on to the club.
He stood down as CEO at Belle Vue before the club had their licence revoked and the tenancy was cancelled because of financial issues.
However, the council insist the Aces were evicted after paying no rent, and with 'significant debt'.
In a statement to BBC Radio Manchester, the council said: "We reject Mr Gordon's version of events.
"The support given to his Belle Vue Group of companies and the events which led to their collapse and liquidation are set out in detail in a public report to the Council's Executive which meets on Wednesday, 8 March."
The new Belle Vue Aces were cleared to use the stadium after a takeover was completed last month, with a new licence granted by the British Speedway Promoters Association.
Knowing her brother's heart still beats inside another chest helps Shivaun Deacon deal with the grief that followed his death in a road accident five years ago.
It also makes her one of a surprisingly small group of Australians whose loved ones donate their organs after they die.
In 2010, Ms Deacon's family were travelling to a family reunion. Still on her way from Sydney, she talked briefly on the phone to her father, who offered to put her 40-year-old brother Ivahn Leis on the line.
"I said, 'No, I'll just say hi when I get there," she recalls.
A few hours later, Ivahn went for a walk and was hit by a truck. He never regained consciousness.
The family understood the urgent need for organ donations for transplant patients but it was still a difficult decision: the doctors had declared Ivahn 'brain dead' but he remained on a ventilator to keep his blood circulating to the organs for transplant.
"His chest was still moving, his joints were still mobile, there was no rigor mortis setting in. So, it was very hard to reconcile in my head that he was actually gone," Ms Deacon told the BBC.
What made the experience ultimately uplifting was the care her family received from specialist hospital staff.
"They were there for my brother, first and foremost, and then for us, and the dignity and compassion they showed my brother in the end was just beautiful," she says.
"Knowing Ivahn was an organ donor and his heart is still beating inside someone else, it gave us something to hold on to and take some comfort in."
Organ donation basics
•Organs that can be transplanted include the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, intestine, and pancreas
•Tissues that can be transplanted include heart valves and other heart tissue, bone, tendons, ligaments, skin and parts of the eye
Ivahn was one of about six million Australians, or 30% of the adult population, who are registered as would-be donors.
Australia has one of the highest rates of registered donors per capita in the world and is a world leader in transplant surgery. But that does not translate into a high level of actual organ donation.
In recent years, a A$250m ($194m, £122m) government investment to boost organ donation numbers has helped push the country's world ranking to 20th place from 32nd.
But Australia is still way behind world leader Spain and momentum slipped last year, prompting the federal government to order a review.
Currently Australians can register if they want to donate organs but only about 1% of hospital deaths each year are suitable.
Announcing the review, Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash said many families were "failing to uphold the wishes of the deceased" by not allowing donation to proceed.
Some advocates are calling for "opt out" organ registration - where adults are deemed to be consenting donors unless they formally oppose it.
Others want to follow the practice adopted in some United States jurisdictions where families cannot overrule a person's decision to donate.
The Organ and Tissue Authority, whose performance is being questioned by the review, says the overall upward trend in donations is the key indicator of success.
It says Spain had annual fluctuations in its early days too and that getting systems right across Australia is a "10-year process of change in clinical practice".
But ShareLife Australia, an organ donation lobby group, says the current rate is "shamefully low" and argues the system has failed both to identify all potential donors, and to support all families through the traumatic process of death and donation.
For Leanne Campbell, there was no question her family would consent to donate her son Brett's organs, after the 22-year-old died in an accident in 2009.
But she says she felt "ambushed and confronted" by the reality at the time.
Mrs Campbell and her husband were exhausted, forgotten by staff in key moments, left with unanswered questions, and had to "tick off" which organs they were prepared to donate in the presence of their distraught teenage children.
"The process itself can be quite destroying to families," she says.
"You're absolutely stressed, the grief hits ... and they're telling you to enter into this contract, to make these decisions, with so little knowledge and at the worst time of your life, and they want you to be happy with it."
Families need time, care, expertise and information, explains Assistant Professor Holly Northam, a board member of ShareLife and Donor Families Australia.
Prof. Northam says her research shows people need to "know the process, to be able to say goodbye, to know their loved one is not suffering, and to assure themselves that (his or her) needs were addressed before and after death".
She says one of the reasons Spain leads the world is not that it has an 'opt out' system - in fact, families there still get the final say - but that organ donation is "normalised".
"In every death, they talk to the family about it, even if it's to discuss why it wouldn't be suitable in that case, and that spreads into every aspect of the health care system," she explains.
"We haven't got anywhere near there yet."
Marie McInerney is a Melbourne-based writer specialising in health issues.
Thanet Council has advised people not to enter the sea between Walpole Bay and Dumpton Gap.
Hotel owner Jane Bishop said she was worried visitors would leave the area.
Southern Water said it had done nothing wrong by releasing storm water from its stations at Foreness Point and Broadstairs.
Signs have been erected on beaches telling swimmers not to enter parts of the beach which are below the high water mark.
Labour councillor for Thanet, Richard Nicholson, called the closures "a real kick in the teeth" for tourists, residents and local businesses.
Jane Bishop, who runs the Walpole Bay Hotel, said she was concerned the numbers of visitors would now fall in the area as "our whole industry down here depends mainly on tourism at the moment."
She said her guests would "probably be really upset and they'll probably check out and go somewhere else".
"Southern water has to get their act together and design a system where this doesn't happen", Ms Bishop said.
Geoff Loader, director of communications at Southern Water, said: "The plant has done what it should. We have operated within the environmental guidelines.
"The plant has successfully stopped flooding in the area."
He said screened storm water had been "heavily diluted" and released "a long way off the shoreline".
"If we want to improve on the system in years to come then there's an engineering cost and we have to consider if that's appropriate," Mr Loader said.
The Met Office had warned of heavy rain in the Thanet area on Monday afternoon and evening.
An Environment Agency spokesman said: "In response to the overnight reports of discharges of sewage from Southern Water Services pumping stations we are supporting Thanet District Council with ongoing environmental assessments.
"Our staff have also been providing updates to members of public and businesses whilst conducting water quality monitoring at a number of Thanet's bathing waters."
The council previously warned swimmers about entering the sea in the area in May following a discharge of raw sewage.
Thanet District Council said officers were working with the Environment Agency to reduce the impact of the discharges while Southern Water contractors were working to clear the waterline.
It added that beach areas above the waterline were still open to the public.
But Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi reiterated that he was not stepping down because of any specific illness.
His last public appearance will be his final mass in Saint Peter's Square on 27 February, Fr Lombardi said.
The pontiff would have no role in the running of the church after his resignation, he added.
The unexpected development - the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years - surprised governments, Vatican-watchers and even the Pope's closest aides.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 after John Paul II's death.
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says that in theory there has never been anything stopping Pope Benedict or any of his predecessors from stepping aside.
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Under the Catholic Church's governing code, Canon Law, the only conditions for the validity of such a resignation are that it be made freely and be properly published.
But resignation is extremely rare: the last pontiff to step aside was Pope Gregory XII, who resigned in 1415 amid a schism within the Church.
According to a report in Italy's Il Sole 24 newspaper, the Pope had surgery to replace a pacemaker just under three months ago.
At a news conference at the Vatican, Father Lombardi confirmed that the batteries in the pacemaker, which had been fitted several years ago, had been replaced in the routine operation.
"That hasn't affected his decision [to resign] in any way and simply he felt that his strength was diminishing with the advancement of age," Father Lombardi said.
Earlier the pontiff's brother, Georg Ratzinger, said the Pope had been advised by his doctor not to take any more transatlantic trips and had been considering stepping down for months.
"When he got to the second half of his 80s, he felt that his age was showing and that he was gradually losing the abilities he may have had and that it takes to fulfil this office properly," he told the BBC from his home in Regensburg, Germany.
He said the resignation therefore was part of a "natural process".
The Vatican now says it expects a new pontiff to be elected before Easter.
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Father Lombardi said the Pope would not intervene in the election of a successor, who will be chosen by members of a 117-strong conclave held in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.
"`He will not interfere in any way,'' AP news agency quotes the Vatican spokesman as saying.
Analysts say Europeans are still among the favourites, including the current Archbishop of Milan, Angelo Scola, and Christoph Schoenborn, a former Austrian student of the current Pope.
But strong candidates could emerge from Africa and Latin America, which both have very large Catholic populations. Among the names being mentioned are Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson and Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria.
Father Lombardi said the Pope would continue with his diary as usual until the day he officially retires on 28 February.
He is due to officiate at an Ash Wednesday service at the Vatican.
"The last general audience [on 27 February] will be held in the square since a lot of people will come," AFP news agency quotes Father Lombardi as saying.
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After that the Vatican has said he will retire to the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo before moving into a renovated monastery used by cloistered nuns for "a period of prayer and reflection".
"He'll stay in Rome and will certainly have some duties and of course will continue to educate himself intellectually and theologically," Georg Ratzinger told the BBC.
"Where he's needed he will make himself available, but he will not want to want to intervene in the affairs of his successor," he said.
At 78, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was one of the oldest popes in history at his election.
He took the helm as one of the fiercest storms the Catholic Church has faced in decades - the scandal of child sex abuse by priests - was breaking.
The pontiff said in his Monday's statement: "After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry."
A theological conservative before and during his time as pontiff, he has taken traditional positions on homosexuality and women priests, while urging abstinence and continuing opposition to the use of contraceptives.
His attempts at inter-faith relations were mixed, with Muslims, Jews and Protestants all taking offence at various times, despite his efforts to reach out and make visits to key holy sites, including those in Jerusalem.
The Paralympic champion beat the world number four Gustavo Fernandez 6-1 6-2.
There were also victories for British trio Alfie Hewett, Lucy Shuker and Andy Lapthorne.
However, Grand Slam doubles winner Jordanne Whiley will miss the rest of the tournament with a wrist injury.
Following his opening three-set win over Sweden's Stefan Olsson on Wednesday, Reid, the world number two, was too strong for Fernandez and will face Dutchman Maikel Scheffers in his final group game on Friday.
"It was some of the best tennis I've played," he said. "I was aggressive and served well."
Teenager Hewitt claimed his first Masters win with a 6-0 6-3 success over France's Nicolas Peifer and a win over world number one Stephane Houdet on Friday will secure a semi-final berth.
Shuker, the British women's number two, battled hard against 2015 beaten finalist Sabine Ellebrock of Germany before coming through 1-6 6-3 6-4 and will face Jiske Griffioen, the world number one, with the winner advancing to the last four.
Lapthorne easily secured his spot in Saturday's quad semi-finals, beating Korea's Kyu-Seung Kim 6-2 6-2.
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Only 19 teams have qualified for the regional southwest league, with the German FA (DFB) inviting China to enter a team and create an even fixture list.
League executive Felix Wiedmann told German paper Bild "all 19 clubs" were in favour, adding: "I therefore believe the project is on a good path."
China has set out its desire to become a "world football superpower" by 2050 and challenge for the World Cup.
DFB vice president Ronny Zimmermann told Kicker magazine teams would receive 15,000 euros each for the two matches against the Chinese youngsters.
"They see this idea positively," said Zimmermann. "The planned cooperation with China is known and for that we need good content."
The plan is part of a five-year cooperation agreement signed between the two countries in November, which will allow China to boost its level of football and the German FA to have a facilitated access to the vast Asian market.
"We have to see if this idea can be realised," added Zimmermann.
"The managers of the regional southwest league will meet soon. A decision must be taken by then as the match plan will be drawn up."
China has explored similar ventures in other sports, with ice hockey side Kunlun Red Star joining the Canadian Women's Hockey League in the build-up to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
The singer has stormed into the number one spot, as the featured artist on rap star Eminem's new track The Monster.
The pair held off a challenge from boyband One Direction, who were tipped to have their fourth number one with Story Of My Life.
The Monster is Eminem's first number one hit since 2006.
A previous collaboration with Rihanna, Love the Way You Lie, made it to number two in the UK charts in 2010.
The track is taken from his latest album Marshall Mathers LP 2, which also features this month's top 10 hits Berzerk and Rap God. It will be released on 5 November.
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New Zealand singer Lorde, whose track Royals debuted at number one last week, fell one place to number two.
Fat Boy Slim's Eat Sleep Rave Repeat entered the chart at number three, giving the DJ his first top 10 hit in 12 years.
Former number one Counting Stars, by OneRepublic, rounds off the top five.
In the albums chart, Arcade Fire's fourth album Reflektor knocked Katy Perry's Prism off the top spot, outselling the US singer by nearly two to one over the past week, according to the Official Charts Company.
James Blunt's Moon Landing is at three, while Lorde's album Pure Heroine debuts at four.
James Blake enjoyed the fruits of his Mercury Prize success, with his album Overgrown soaring up the charts to number 23, having been previously outside the top 200.
There was also a re-entry into the top 40 for Lou Reed's album Transformer following the singer's death last weekend.
In a letter to parents with children at schools and nurseries, Public Health England urged them to ensure children had received both MMR vaccinations.
It said other pupils at King Edward VI Community College in Totnes, Devon, may also have come into contact with the virus.
The Conservative MP for Totnes and a former GP, Sarah Wollaston, has added her supported to the initiative.
She said "relatively low" levels of immunisation in Totnes increased the risk of it spreading.
"It means that many more children are at risk within our community", she said and described it as a "serious and really distressing illness".
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Ms Wollaston has previously appealed for parents in Totnes to vaccinate their children against the virus, saying she believed many parents had rejected the MMR vaccine despite its now discredited links to autism and bowel disease.
"I hope that parents will look carefully at the letter that they've received and have their children immunised," Ms Wollaston said.
The authority previously had no overall control, with a power struggle between the Tories and Independents.
The Tories retained control of Hampshire, winning 56 of the 78 seats with a turnout of 36 per cent.
UKIP failed to win a single seat across the region, losing two seats on the Isle of Wight and 10 in Hampshire compared to the last election in 2013.
Councillors across all parties on the Isle of Wight said the majority result would be good for the island.
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Conservative council leader Dave Stewart said: "I'm very pleased.
"The problem with a no overall control council is you're always trying to please everybody and you can't always do that. This shows democracy in action."
In the 2013 election Independents won 20 seats and the Tories 15, while UKIP took two seats, the Liberal Democrats one and Labour two.
Independents now hold 11 seats with Jonathan Bacon - a former leader of the council who resigned in January - among those to miss out.
He said: "Obviously I'm disappointed. Our problem with the previous council was that it was run largely as a no overall control council and the majority of the councillors on the other side eventually chose to abuse that and stop work being done, so a majority council will be a good thing."
In Hampshire, Liberal Democrats won 19 seats, while Labour won two and the Community Campaign group took one seat.
UKIP lost all representation on the authority.
The fall is the fourth in consecutive years and comes as the estimated number of deaths continues to rise, at just under 1.3 million last year.
Some estimates say that by 2050 the population could be as low as 97 million - 30 million lower than now.
Experts warn the impact of the decline will harm Japan in various ways.
A lowering of the number of people aged between 15 to 64 is predicted to lower potential growth and shrink Japan's GDP.
That in turn is expected to harm the pension system and other elements of social welfare. The impact in rural areas is predicted to be especially damaging, putting the very existence of some communities in danger.
Another decline in the number of children is inevitable as "the number of reproductive-age women is on the decline", an official at the health ministry was quoted by Kyodo News as saying.
Government figures in April revealed that Japan's population shrank for the third year running, with the elderly comprising 25% of the total for the first time.
The proportion of people aged 65 or over is predicted to reach nearly 40% of the population in 2060, the government has warned.
Various reasons have been cited for the population decline, including:
Thousands of people had gathered for a water fight in Hyde Park which descended into violence.
The six images are from the nearby McDonald's at Marble Arch on the evening of Tuesday, 19 July.
Three people, including a police officer, were stabbed. Eight teenagers have been arrested and bailed.
Anyone who knows the identity of those pictured is asked to call the Met Police Investigation Team or Crimestoppers.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the petition on Tuesday.
At the annual festival held in January, thousands of men chase the bulls to grab prizes tied to their horns.
The Supreme Court imposed the ban in 2014 following objections from animal rights activists.
In its order, the Supreme Court had said that use of bulls in the sport "severely harmed" the animals and was an offence under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, but last Friday the government issued an order lifting the ban.
The sport is due to resume this month, after no events were held last year.
But on Monday, the Animal Welfare Board of India, animal rights groups and activists filed six petitions in the court, challenging the "cruel sport".
"We have petitioned the Supreme Court to immediately quash the government order," one of the petitioners, Gauri Maulekhi of People for Animals, told the BBC.
"The government order is against every law and ethic, it is a politically-motivated, people-pleasing exercise," she said.
In Jallikattu, bulls are released from pens, with bullfighters supposed to hold on to the animals hump for about 15-20 metres or three jumps of the bull to win the prize.
The ban had been criticised by political parties and cultural organisations in the state who had argued that Jallikattu was a part of their cultural tradition.
Jallikattu is more than 2,000 years old and considered to be one of the oldest sports still practised in the modern era.
Over the years, scores of people have been gored or trampled to death in the contests.
Hundreds, including spectators, have been mauled or injured.
After 20 years in opposition, he came to power in 2000 when military leader Robert Guei's attempts to rig elections were defeated by street protests in the main city, Abidjan.
In April 2011, Mr Gbagbo was himself forced from office - captured in a bunker at the presidential palace by UN and French-backed forces supporting his rival Alassane Ouattara, internationally regarded as the winner of elections five month earlier.
Mr Gbagbo was transferred to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, where he becomes the first head of state to be tried there.
The conflict killed some 3,000 people.
Mr Gbagbo faces four charges of crimes against humanity - murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, persecution and "other inhuman acts". He denies the charges, saying he is the victim of a French plot.
Mr Gbagbo has suffered from post-traumatic stress in prison, but judges in 2015 rejected his request to be temporarily released on health grounds.
Mr Gbagbo cut his political teeth in the trade union movement and he played heavily on his reputation as the main opposition figure to former President Felix Houphouet-Boigny's one-party state.
He started out on the political left, but since the 1980s has taken a strongly nationalist, even xenophobic, stance.
Mr Gbagbo said the dispute over Ivory Coast's presidency was a fight for Ivorian (and indeed African) sovereignty and he accused the French and Americans of having it in for him.
Ivory Coast, he said, was a nation blessed by God, and neo-colonialists wanted to control it for its cocoa and oil fields.
However, this argument did not prevail and the African Union backed the UN's finding that Mr Gbagbo lost the election and should stand down.
Mr Gbagbo was accused of surfing on the wave of xenophobia that swept Ivory Coast during the rule of President Henri Konan Bedie.
Mr Bedie introduced the concept of "Ivoirite" (Ivorianness) to prevent Mr Ouattara, a Muslim with family ties to neighbouring Burkina Faso, from standing in presidential elections in the 1990s.
Mr Gbagbo denied allegations of opportunism. "I have not changed," he said at the time. "Change your glasses."
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When a civil war two broke out in 2002, Mr Gbagbo's supporters were accused of carrying out xenophobic attacks in areas they controlled - against those from the mainly Muslim north, immigrants from neighbouring African countries and Westerners.
They accused former colonial power France and the UN of not doing enough to put down the rebellion which had split Ivory Coast into two, with rebels allied with Mr Ouattara seizing the north.
Mr Gbagbo's forces never regained control of the north, and the rebels went on to help Mr Ouattara force him out of power in 2011.
Mr Gbagbo was born into a Catholic family near Gagnoa, in the cocoa-growing central-west of the country, on 31 May 1945.
"Cicero", as he was nicknamed because of his taste for Latin during his school days, has a PhD in history.
Beginning his career as a university lecturer, Mr Gbagbo was jailed for two years in 1971 for "subversive" teaching. His nom de guerre was "little brother".
In the 1980s he was involved in trade union activity among academics.
He was one of the first to challenge Ivory Coast's founding President Houphouet-Boigny in the 1980s - as soon as the long-serving independence leader permitted multi-party politics.
In 1982 he sought exile in Paris, returning six years later to attend the founding congress of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI).
His time as an opposition leader led to spells in jail and brushes with the authorities.
His wife, Simone, was a politician in her own right and some saw her as the real hardline power behind the throne, preventing her husband from giving up office.
She, too, is in prison. A court in Ivory Coast sentenced her to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the 2010 poll.
The ICC had issued an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo as well, but this was dismissed by the Ivorian government.
After his election in 2000, Mr Gbagbo said he would break with the personality cult tradition, saying it was no longer necessary to put up portraits of the president in public places and offices.
He also said that the national media would no longer be obliged to mention the president in all news programmes.
But while he was in power, most news broadcasts highlighted Mr Gbagbo's daily activities.
He has a reputation for being short-tempered, in particular against "arrogant" journalists, but he is also known for his contagious laughs and vigorous handshakes.
In person he has a broad smile and an easy laugh, and is a born communicator, frequently making use of metaphors from Ivorian daily life.
He is said to have a passion for music, guitar and good food.
"It is a pleasure to have him round for dinner," one of his friends was quoted as saying in Jeune Afrique-L'Intelligent magazine.
Still, the man who campaigned under the slogan "we win or we win", can be a stubborn political player and, his opponents claim, had links to violent militia groups like the students' union, the Fesci, the Young Patriots, and death squads, despite his reputation as a peaceful, Sorbonne-educated socialist.
The UN blames his militias for the worst violence against civilians.
He has also earned himself the nickname "the baker" for his ability to "roll his opponents in the flour", after showing an uncanny knack of coming out on top in any political tussle.
But it appears he has now met his match.
The Zouk superclub, a local institution, has said the incident was "a misunderstanding", but it has triggered a flood of angry comments online, with many siding with Egyptian trance DJ Fadi Wassef Naguib, who accused the club of favouritism.
It also underscored unease in the city-state about a possible spill over of the political scandal engulfing its neighbour.
The row began after DJ Fila, one half of trance music duo Aly and Fila, ended his headline set at Zouk on Saturday night by saying he had been told to make way for "the son of a prime minister".
He told the crowd he was "insulted" and would never play the club again.
Zouk has not confirmed that Norashman Najib was on the decks, but three people who were at the club told the BBC they saw him perform.
They said the club emptied out when he took over the decks.
An aide to the family of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was quoted as saying Mr Norashman was invited to play, and did not force DJ Fila to stop performing.
"Taking into account that it was an acknowledgment of his talent and hobby, Ashman agreed to do the performance," the aide was quoted as saying by news portal Malaysiakini., using his nickname.
Zouk said on Monday it was a "misunderstanding" and DJ Fila was "not at any point of time asked to end his set prematurely before the contracted set end time of 3.30am".
But that has not stopped Singaporean club-goers and his fans from flooding Zouk's Facebook page with complaints.
"Music is an escape, something that unites people, a zone where it should be politics free," said one user.
Singaporean Henry Soh, who attended the gig, told the BBC: "This is Singapore, not Malaysia... In Singapore we do not abuse our power or authority, whether or not one is a local or not a local."
Part of the unhappiness has to do with the complicated relationship Singapore has with Malaysia, and how Singaporeans view the political scandals that sporadically erupt across the border.
Singapore prides itself on its squeaky clean and stable image, a contrast with the image of its neighbour, even as it maintains close ties with Mr Najib and his government.
Though he has officially been cleared of wrongdoing, Mr Najib is facing mounting opposition at home amid accusations of corruption connected to the 1MDB state fund, and links to Singapore have emerged.
Singapore authorities have seized 1MDB-linked bank accounts in a money laundering investigation, while a local banker has emerged as a key figure in the probe.
The Zouk case appears to have reinforced worries that Singapore is not immune from Malaysian-style politics.
Some fans have noted that Zouk was recently purchased by an arm of Malaysian conglomerate Genting.
Genting is one of several companies named by Swiss prosecutors in connection with a criminal investigation into two former officials of 1MDB suspected of bribery.
"Zouk is now under Genting group... Of course now their PR and management... is 'Malaysia Boleh'," said one Facebook user, using a popular pro-Malaysia slogan.
Said another person: "This is Singapore! Not Najib-sia, we don't have to be subservient to the royal Najib family."
11 March 2016 Correction: A previous version of this article wrongly stated that Genting was a state-linked company and that it had been accused of criminal conduct by Swiss prosecutors.
It is the first such admission he has made since becoming president in June, but echoes comments he made in 2015.
He ran the southern city for two decades, earning a reputation for cutting crime, and criticism for allegedly supporting death squads.
Mr Duterte was speaking to business leaders at the presidential palace on Monday, before an overseas trip.
It is the latest in a series of controversial and sometimes contradictory comments by Mr Duterte.
"In Davao I used to do it personally. Just to show to the guys [police] that if I can do it why can't you," he said.
"And I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill."
In 2015, he admitted killing at least three men suspected of kidnapping and rape in Davao.
The comments have been condemned by human rights group Amnesty International, which has called on him to put an immediate end to the killings.
"The climate of impunity in the Philippines has intensified even further since President Duterte began his brutal crackdown on suspected drug users and dealers in July, with a wave of unlawful killings claiming more than 5,000 lives across the country," said Rafendi Djamin, the group's director for South East Asia and the Pacific.
"By boasting about the blood on his own hands, President Duterte will further embolden police and vigilantes to blatantly violate laws and carry out more extrajudicial executions without fear of being held to account."
But just hours before Mr Duterte's latest remarks, he insisted "I am not a killer", in a speech for The Outstanding Filipino Awards 2016. He has also previously both acknowledged and denied being involved with death squads.
In September a Senate inquiry heard testimony from a self-confessed former death squad member that Mr Duterte had, while serving as Davao mayor, shot dead a justice department agent with an Uzi submachine gun.
Nearly 6,000 people are said to have been killed by police, vigilantes and mercenaries since Mr Duterte launched his drug war after being elected in May. He has expressed few regrets about the policy, once saying: "Hitler massacred three million Jews... There's three million drug addicts. I'd be happy to slaughter them."
Mr Duterte has repeatedly said he does not care about human rights and has suggested that lawyers defending drug suspects might also be targeted in his campaign, says the BBC's Jonathan Head.
Some human rights lawyers believe the outspoken president's open support for a shoot-to-kill policy by the police could make him vulnerable to prosecution for crimes against humanity at the international court.
The robbery took place at the supermarket in Edinburgh Square, Daventry, at about 1350 GMT on Monday.
Police said a man walked into the shop and threatened the shopkeeper with a knife, demanding money, before making off with a significant amount of money.
He was described as white, aged in his 20s, about 6ft (1.83m) tall, of slim build, with a pock marked face and high cheek bones.
He wore a baseball cap, dark coloured hooded top and grey tracksuit bottoms.
Police would like to speak to anyone who may have witnessed the incident or who may have any information regarding it.
Artillery fire could be heard in the distance, reports the BBC's Quentin Sommerville, who is embedded with government troops.
Launching the operation on Sunday, the army seized several villages.
The eastern part of the city was liberated from IS last month after heavy fighting.
Thousands of troops are involved in the assault, backed by artillery and air power.
Their progress has been slowed down by huge improvised explosive devices planted by IS along the route of the offensive, our correspondent says.
Bomb disposal teams are being used to clear them.
In their assault, Iraqi soldiers have been using heavy weapons, including rocket missile launchers, our correspondent adds.
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville is embedded with Iraqi forces as they advance on Mosul. He is tweeting updates as his convoy attempts to move forward:
04:15 GMT: Convoy halted by suspected roadside bomb - IS have planted huge improvised explosives devices along the route.
04:19 GMT: The EOD, or bomb disposal, team are attempting to safely detonate the device.
04:36 GMT: Bomb disposal team heading back to the suspected roadside bomb for a second time. It seems their controlled explosion hasn't worked.
04:36 GMT: No bang. And we can proceed.
04:36 GMT: EOD team checking for secondary bombs.
04:36 GMT: This will be slow progress if it continues.
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Iraqi forces have now all but surrounded the western part of Mosul.
Concern has been voiced by the UN about the welfare of civilians trapped in Mosul, amid reports that they could number up to 650,000.
Leaflets warning residents of an imminent offensive were earlier dropped over the west of the city.
Military officials say the western side of the city, with its narrow, winding streets, may prove a bigger challenge than the east.
They say that western Mosul, although slightly smaller than the east, is more densely populated and includes districts that are seen as pro-IS.
All bridges from there to the west of the city, across the Tigris river, were destroyed.
The offensive against the eastern part of the city was launched on 17 October, more than two years after jihadists overran Mosul before seizing control of much of northern and western Iraq.
The UN said in late January that almost half of all the casualties in Mosul were civilians.
At least 1,096 have been killed and 694 injured across Nineveh province since the start of October.
Victoria Wasteney, 37, a senior occupational therapist, told Victoria Derbyshire a ruling that she bullied the colleague was "far from the truth".
In January she lost a tribunal in which she argued the disciplinary action was due to religious discrimination.
East London Foundation NHS Trust denies it discriminated against her.
Miss Wasteney is now appealing against this judgement with support from campaigning group Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre.
She had worked at the trust for seven years when in June 2013 she was suspended and investigated for gross misconduct over allegations of bullying and harassment.
Her colleague had written an eight-page letter of complaint containing allegations Miss Wasteney was trying to convert her by routinely asking her to pray and giving her a book about a Muslim woman converting to Christianity.
She also alleged an incident when Miss Wasteney put her hand on her knee in a prayer that lasted for 10 minutes, asking God to come to her. The colleague said she felt like she was being groomed.
In an exclusive interview with Victoria Derbyshire, Miss Wasteney said she was surprised by the allegations as she thought she and her colleague had become friends over 18 months.
"I obviously felt as though I'd been painted as a bit crazy and someone who bullies someone and someone who harasses someone and who goes out of their way to manipulate and groom someone, which is far from my truth," she said.
She said there were "aspects of truths", as she admits she did put her hand on the woman's knee and offered a "very quick prayer" after her colleague had approached her for some personal support.
"It was sad to hear later it was described as 10 minutes long. It made it sound like it was an exorcism thing that was going on and it was very hurtful. It wasn't, in my heart it wasn't the intention. I genuinely cared about her and I still do and I really hope that she is well," she said.
Miss Wasteney's suspension lasted for nine months, before a hearing found her behaviour constituted bullying and harassment. She was given a final written warning, "boundary training" and monthly supervision.
She then took the trust to a tribunal, but lost. The judgement found the hospital had not acted with any prejudice or religious discrimination.
Miss Wasteney, who is back at work but not at the same hospital, said she took the trust to the tribunal as she had felt she had suffered injustice, as she knew she was not a bully, "and that was grievous to me".
"I felt... there was some injustice to what had happened and I felt that this was an avenue where I could stand and say, I would like it to be heard that this doesn't seem to be as it ought to be in a country where we are supposed to be able to be free with each other," she said.
In a statement after the tribunal decision, Dr Robert Dolan, chief executive of the trust said: "We have a strong reputation of positively supporting staff and patients from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are an inclusive trust that values and respects diversity.
"We would like to emphasise that as a trust our concerns have always been about the behaviour and actions of a senior manager employed by the trust and not about the faith or religion of any individual."
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Both tested positive for methylhexanamine with A and B samples.
Sachenbacher-Stehle, who won gold in 2002 and 2010, was fourth in two Sochi events but has now been disqualified.
Police officer Frullani will be replaced in Saturday's four-man event by Samuele Romanini.
The IOC confirmed on Saturday that its disciplinary commission had decided to amend the results of the women's 12.5km mass start and mixed relay events because of Sachenbacher-Stehle.
She crossed the line fourth in the 12.5km mass start and was part of the German team which has also now been disqualified.
Frullani, 34, is a former international decathlete who competed at the 2006 European Championships.
Sochi 2014 has the "most stringent anti-doping programme" seen at a Winter Olympics, with 2,453 tests, according to the International Olympic Committee before the Games
But it is Sachenbacher-Stehle's drugs test which is the bigger news, having won gold in the team sprint in the last Olympics in Vancouver and in the 4x5km in Salt Lake City.
"This is the worst nightmare you could imagine. I can't explain how the doping test could be positive," the 33-year-old said.
German Olympic Committee secretary general Michael Vesper said: "We stand for a doping-free sport and a zero tolerance.
"We only want clean performances. Every doping case is initially a disappointment but also proof that the system works."
Before the Games, Russian biathlete Irina Starykh, who was a medal hope for the hosts, withdrew after failing a drugs test.
Germany have been the third most successful team in Russia, with eight gold medals, four silvers and four bronzes. Italy are 21st with two silvers and six bronze medals.
The report said 67 people died from the condition in Wales in 2012-13, and 3,571 were hospitalised.
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said sufferers and medics must be better at recognising the danger signs.
The Welsh government said it launched a respiratory illness plan last week.
Asthma is a long-term condition that affects the airways that carry air in and out of the lungs.
In Wales, 59,000 children and 256,000 adults are receiving treatment for asthma, according to Asthma UK.
The National Review of Asthma Deaths examined 195 asthma deaths in the UK, including 28 children. It claimed asthma patients are dying needlessly as a result of poor care and said sufferers and medics must be better at recognising the danger signs.
The review highlighted prescribing errors in 47% of UK deaths and room for improvement in the care received by 83% of those who died.
Researchers found that in nearly half of the cases they looked at, asthma sufferers did not receive any medical help during their final asthma attack.
Asthma UK described the figures as "horrifying" and said it would be an "absolute scandal" if they were not acted upon.
"This confidential inquiry has identified prescribing errors of a frankly horrifying scale and is a damning indictment of current routine practice," said Asthma UK chief executive Kay Boycott.
"Tragically, we hear far too often from families who've lost a loved one to an asthma attack, with three people killed by asthma every day in the UK.
"Asthma UK's own research shows that too often the 1 in 10 people in Wales who have asthma are short-changed by the system."
GP Dr Mark Levy, RCP's clinical lead for the report, said: "It is very sad that people are not aware that asthma can kill.
"Doctors, patients and their families failed to recognise life-threatening danger signs of asthma.
"We identified major avoidable factors in two-thirds of the people who died."
Sufferers of respiratory illnesses were urged by the Welsh government last week to take personal responsibility for their lifestyle choices in a bid to cut diseases that affect the lungs.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "We recognise the need to provide high quality care in the NHS for Asthma.
"This is set out in our Respiratory Health Delivery Plan, which we published last week and aims to reduce the number of unscheduled hospital admissions for asthma. The plan will be supported by a separate children and young peoples' section, which will be published this summer."
Masarova, who lost to Britain's Gabriella Taylor in the quarter-finals of the girl's singles at Wimbledon, beat 31-year-old Jankovic 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 at the Gstaad tournament.
The Swiss is playing as a wildcard in her home country.
The French Open junior champion will face Anett Kontaveit of Estonia in the next round.
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Samoa international Stanley, 27, joined Quins from Highlanders last summer but injury restricted him to just eight appearances last season.
Walker, 23, has scored 23 tries in 52 appearances for the Premiership club since making his senior debut in 2011.
"These two talented and valued backs have major roles to play," director of rugby John Kingston said.
Harlequins have not disclosed the length of the duo's new deals at the Twickenham Stoop.
The association said it would do so over historical investigations where breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights are alleged.
It follows a report into a 1988 IRA bomb attack in Londonderry that killed three people.
The ombudsman criticised the police for failing to warn people about the bomb.
The Northern Ireland Retired Police Officers Association (NIRPOA) has written to Justice Minister David Ford complaining about the report.
In August 1988, a booby-trap device exploded at 38 Kildrum Gardens in the Creggan area of Derry.
Two people - Eugene Dalton, 55, and Sheila Lewis, 60, - died in the explosion. A third, Gerard Curran, was injured and died seven months later.
They had gone to the flat to check on the occupant, who had been kidnapped by the IRA as part of the bomb plot.
Six years later the relatives of Mr Dalton claimed the police had been negligent in allowing civilians to approach the flat, alleging the police were aware that it had been booby-trapped.
This led to a number of complaints being lodged with the Police Ombudsman, one of which was that under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights the police failed in their responsibilities to uphold Mr Dalton's right to life.
On 10 July, 2013, Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire published a 'Section 62' public statement that there was a failure by the police to uphold the right to life of Mr Dalton.
Former Assistant Chief Constable Raymond White of the NIRPOA said: "In the view of the association, the lack of investigative rigour in the eight-year long (ombudsman) inquiry resulted in facts, which were not relevant to the process, becoming an integral part of the alleged evidential package considered by the ombudsman.
"The outcome of this was a failure on the part of the ombudsman to apply the evidential test to the relevant facts, ie those known to the police before the fatal incident or which reasonably should have been known to them.
"An allegation that Article 2 of the ECHR has been breached is a very grave and complex issue to be addressed.
"We have published a 30-page detailed rebuttal of the Police Ombudsman's findings and demand the Section 62 statement be rescinded."
The association wants all such Section 62 public statements halted until an independent legal mechanism for assessing evidence is put in place and also wants an independent appeals and complaints mechanism in relation to the ombudsman.
It said until these conditions were met "this association regrettably, can no longer encourage its members to engage with the Police Ombudsman in the investigation of historical incidents, where breaches of the European Convention on Human rights are alleged".
In response, the ombudsman's office said: "The findings of our report stand and it will not be withdrawn
"The Police Ombudsman's Office is the lawful mechanism for investigating criminality and misconduct of police officers.
"It is extraordinary that the Retired Police Officers Association will not encourage their members to participate as witnesses in investigations into the most serious of crimes
"This reinforces the need for the office to be able to compel officers to assist its investigations and to produce all documentation in their possession."
The right-back has agreed a contract until June 2019 on his 17th birthday, having impressed in three EFL Trophy appearances this season.
Davies has been with Cambridge since he was eight years old.
"Our long-term vision for the success of our club is to create pathways for our best young players into the first team," said chief executive Jez George.
"That is why Shaun (Derry, Cambridge manager) deserves credit in being so invested in the progress of our young players and willing to give them an opportunity in the first team."
George added: "We know that our players are coveted by other clubs.
"Therefore, it is extremely important that we are proactive in securing their futures and that we create an environment in which they recognise their best route into professional football is with Cambridge United."
Gubbins made 114 from 117 deliveries, but no other batsman was able to reach 50 as Middlesex were all out for 295.
Toby Roland-Jones (4-10) took the first four Hampshire wickets as they slumped to 34-4 in reply.
The hosts reached 146-7 in the 31st over when rain stopped play, leaving them 89 runs short on the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Middlesex's victory was their first in their opening three games of this year's competition, though they will have concerns over an apparent hamstring injury suffered by batsman Sam Robson.
Robson retired hurt on 12 before returning to bat after the ninth wicket fell, but was caught out off the bowling of Reece Topley on his first delivery back at the crease.
Hampshire have now lost two of their first three games.
Hampshire director of cricket Giles White told BBC Radio Solent:
"Gubbins was exceptional and struck the ball very well. But maybe we weren't our best with the ball early on.
"Then we got back into the game through the spinners, who have been good throughout the tournament.
"The score was gettable but Ronald-Jones bowled well. He hit good lengths and made it hard to score."
Middlesex bowler Toby Roland-Jones told BBC Radio London:
"It is always nice to get wickets up top and a few went my way. I felt good running in and found a nice bit of rhythm.
"The lads set it up well. Gubbo played a classy innings up top. He seemed to time it really nicely. He set us up for a score.
"Winning was the only thing missing from our one-day cricket. We had played well in patches but hadn't managed to get over the line whether through the weather or losing key battles."
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All 30 volunteers were told that bell-ringing activity had "ceased with immediate effect".
A spokesperson for York Minster said their "agreements were terminated" for a fully trained professional team led by a new head bell ringer.
Health committee chair Dai Lloyd said he would "ideally" have liked to see Vaughan Gething earlier because "we're talking winter preparedness".
Tory Angela Burns said the delay would result in an "ineffectual" report.
The Welsh Government said it was not possible to get an earlier date.
The inquiry, by the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, was launched to seek "assurance that the Welsh NHS is equipped to deal with pressures on unscheduled care services during the coming winter".
Since the end of September three evidence sessions have been held with relevant bodies such as local health boards, the British Medical Association and Care Forum Wales.
The last meeting was on Wednesday, four weeks before Mr Gething's scheduled appearance.
Plaid Cymru AM Dr Lloyd said: "I was slightly disappointed and the committee was slightly disappointed that the health secretary couldn't turn up as part of the review until 17 November.
"It was an issue of works pressure on his part and really we have no choice but to accept that.
Asked if he would liked to have seen the minister earlier, he said: "Ideally, yes, because we're talking winter preparedness and mid-November is already in winter."
Dr Lloyd added that most evidence suggested the pressure on the NHS was all year round and only in certain circumstances were there particular winter issues.
Conservative health spokeswoman Ms Burns said the committee was "beginning to form a view, we've taken all of our witnesses, our interviews, and it would be nice now to go back to the minister with what we've found".
"This enormous delay does mean that any report we produce is going to be pretty ineffectual for this time around, I think it's deeply regrettable," she said.
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said it was not possible to get a date which suited both timetables, but the cabinet secretary was keen to appear in person rather than send a senior health official.
"He would be happy to meet with opposition spokespeople at an earlier date to brief them," she said.
The party was beaten into third place, despite leading in six of 13 regions in the first round of voting a week ago.
The centre-right Republicans finished ahead of President Francois Hollande's governing Socialist Party.
FN leader Marine Le Pen said that mainstream parties had colluded to keep it from power and vowed to keep on fighting.
"Nothing can stop us now," she told supporters. "By tripling our number of councillors, we will be the main opposition force in most of the regions of France."
Ms Le Pen said the party had been "disenfranchised in the most indecent of ways by a campaign of lies and disinformation".
She had stood as a regional presidential candidate in the northern region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, while her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen was the FN's candidate in the race in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, in the south.
After both led with more than 40% of the vote in the first round on 6 December, the Socialist candidates in those regions pulled out so their voters could support Republican candidates in the second round.
The FN actually increased its votes in the second round to more than 6.8 million, from 6.02 million on 6 December as more people voted, according to the ministry of the interior (In French). But the FN share of the vote went down slightly from 27.73% to 27.36%.
There can be no hiding that the results of the elections are a big personal blow to Marine Le Pen.
She has lost the chance to govern a region and show the world that her party is serious. She has been reminded that however strongly the FN performs, the gates of power remain tightly closed.
But in a way that suits her fine.
Because what it all means is that nothing in France has changed. The two main parties continue sharing out the goodies (in this case deliberately conniving to keep hers as well).
Meanwhile unemployment rises; terror stalks; the grim insurrectionary mood continues to spread.
Ms Le Pen's prospects for power may be limited, but her appeal is as strong as ever for France's growing numbers of disgruntled and disaffected.
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The Republicans increased their share from 26.65% to 40.63% and the Socialists from 23.12% to 29.14%.
The overall turnout increased from 22.6 million on 6 December to 26.2 million on Sunday. Sunday's figures are based on a count of 98% of votes so far.
In her election, Marine Le Pen secured 42.2% of the vote in the second round in her region against the centre-right's 57.8%.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen took 45.2%, compared with 54.8% for her Republican rival.
Despite the defeat, the 26-year-old urged FN supporters to "redouble our efforts".
"There are some victories that shame the winners," she said.
Xavier Bertrand, Republican regional presidential candidate in Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, said the French had given "a lesson of rallying together, courage. Here we stopped the progression of the National Front".
But Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls was less upbeat. He warned the "danger posed by the far right has not gone away, far from it".
The Socialists suffered a major defeat in the Paris region, Ile-de-France, which shifted to the Republicans for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Republican leader Nicolas Sarkozy said now was the time "for in-depth debates about what worries the French", noting security concerns, unemployment and frustration with the European Union.
These elections were to vote for councils and presidents of the 13 French regions, which have wide powers over local transport, education and economic development.
The Republicans won seven mainland French regions and the Socialists five, with nationalists taking Corsica.
The first round of voting gave the FN the best election results in its history.
It was the first electoral test since the 13 November Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed - an attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State group.
In the lead-up to the first round, opinion polls suggested that the popularity of the anti-immigration, anti-EU FN had increased since the deadly attacks.
The FN had been hoping a strong performance would boost Marine Le Pen's chances in the 2017 presidential election.
Mr McAuley is charged with assaulting and threatening to kill his wife.
Pauline McAuley, a former Sinn Féin councillor, was injured at a house at Keelderry, Kilnaleck.
Her husband appeared at a special sitting of Cavan District Court. He is also accused of threatening two other people.
A detective told the court that the defendant, with an address at Canal Bank Walk, Castleforde, Ballyconnell, County Cavan, made no response to the charge of assault causing harm.
In response to the charge of threatening to kill his wife, the detective said he replied: "I didn't say I was going to do it. I didn't set out to kill or harm Pauline McAuley."
He was remanded in custody to Castlerea Prison.
He will appear again before Harristown Distict Court in County Roscommon on 2 January.
City were reduced to 10 men in the 32nd minute when referee Lee Mason sent off midfielder Fernandinho.
Sagna has deleted the post in question, but the FA has contacted the full-back to ask for his observations.
The Frenchman has until 17:00 GMT on Friday to respond.
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The 23-year-old, who mostly played for the second XI in 2016, featured in two first-team T20 Blast matches.
The seamer has played in 15 T20 internationals and two one-day games for the Netherlands.
"He's shown he offers something a bit different," director of cricket Matt Maynard told Somerset's website.
"We look forward to having him here with us for at least the next two seasons."
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The 20-year-old came into the first red-ball game in a month under pressure after failing to score a half-century in his last 12 Championship innings.
However, Hameed's troubles with the bat continued as he was caught at second slip off Fidel Edwards as Lancashire were bowled out for 149.
James Vince's 40 helped Hampshire close on 147-5, trailing by just two runs.
England assistant coach Paul Farbrace had said England would be 'keeping a close eye' on Hameed ahead of the three-Test series against the West Indies, but the opener has now scored just 220 runs in 13 innings in 2017.
Lancashire won the toss and opted to bat to give Hameed - who has a first-class high score of just 47 this season - an opportunity to stake his claim for a recall to the national side.
After scratching his way to six off 38 balls, the right-handed batsman was caught by Jimmy Adams as he attempted an expansive drive off Edwards.
The hosts' bowlers made the most of being asked to bowl, as England spinner Liam Dawson had Alex Davies caught in the slips before Dane Vilas was caught behind off all-rounder Ian Holland.
After falling to 114-7, Jordan Clark and Stephen Parry shared a 27-run eighth-wicket partnership but Mason Crane's 3-27 wrapped up the visitors' innings.
Despite falling to 27-2 in reply after losing Adams and Lewis McManus cheaply, Hampshire recovered as captain Vince scored quickly before being caught at mid-wicket off Kyle Jarvis.
An unbeaten 26-run sixth-wicket stand between Dawson and Holland took the hosts within two runs of parity at the close of play.
Around the UK many attempts are being made to deliver care in different ways and here are three different approaches to community-based care.
Kathryn Humpston, a local area co-ordinator for Derby City Council, says: "I try to help people help themselves."
One of the people she visits is John, an alcoholic who was in and out of hospital because of his condition. He often spent all his money on alcohol rather than food and Kathryn has to check what is in his larder.
As he only has two tins of beans and some powdered soup in stock, she tops up his supplies, gathered by an informal community food bank operating in the Boulton area of Derby.
Local area co-ordinators were introduced into Derby five years ago, copied from an existing scheme in Western Australia.
The idea is that vulnerable older people could find a lot of the support they need from within their own communities, rather than from council services, their GPs or from hospitals.
Just over half the £500,000 annual costs of the scheme are paid for by the NHS to reduce demand on those services,
The co-ordinators tap into an often hidden network of support from neighbours, friends, family, voluntary groups and churches, who all seem willing to help improve the communities they live in by looking out for people who need help.
"All this costs nothing," says Kathryn.
The 10 co-ordinators working in Derby's inner city have helped about 700 people, all of whom have very complex needs. Only 17 of them have actually gone on to need a taxpayer-funded package of support from social services.
"If those 700 people had just one episode of social care fewer in their lifetime that would be a system saving of some £600,000," explains Mick Burrows of the NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
Jessy has nothing but praise for her carer after coming home from hospital following a hip replacement operation.
"I wouldn't be here at all if it wasn't for her. I'd probably be still in hospital waiting to get home," she says.
A few years ago she would have been stuck in hospital because there was no provision of social care in the rural area she lives in, south of Loch Ness.
Boleskine Community Care was set up by the local community, who recognised that their older people were having to move away to get help if family members could not help.
It is run by local women who work for Highland Home Carers, an employee-owned company in Inverness. The carers manage themselves and do their own assessments of old people's needs.
In the Scottish Highlands, spending on health and social care is fully integrated, meaning the NHS, rather than local councils, is responsible for providing care at home.
"The way we're funded helps us to give you what you want and gives you more choices," explains carer Julie Russell. "You can choose how you use your hours."
This is because of the Scottish system of Self Directed Support, or personal budgets. Once a person's needs are assessed, they can decide how their care budget is spent. It can lead to some surprising choices.
"We've cleared snow, chopped firewood, helped in the garden, as well as taken people to the GP and all the usual personal care," says Julie.
Angela is very clear about why she agreed to live with Gill.
"When I first saw her I thought she was very nice and I liked even more because she had a horse," Angela explains.
Gill, and her partner Pete, became Shared Lives carers for Angela about six years ago. It is a much greater commitment than the usual caring duties.
Gill and Pete share their home with her and also with Adrian, who moved in with them 14 years ago. Both Adrian and Angela have learning disabilities.
"At first I was a bit scared," says Angela. "But I thought I'll meet her and get to know her. I think it's a great idea. It's nice for families to take people like us in."
Angela and Adrian are among almost 400 people, most of them with learning disabilities, who live with their Shared Lives carers across Lancashire.
"It's the best thing I've ever done," says Gill. "We get more out of it than Adrian and Angela probably."
Carers are paid about £400 a week for each person they look after, which is a saving for the local authority compared to the alternative. For people with learning disabilities who are unable to look after themselves, the alternative would be supported living or a residential care home.
Shared Lives Plus, which oversees the Shared Lives schemes around the country, estimates it saves about £25,000 per person per year. The NHS is currently establishing five Shared Lives schemes to cater for people leaving hospital.
It estimates savings of £130m over the next five years by speeding up hospital discharges using the service.
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German scientists took the heads to perform experiments seeking to prove the racial superiority of white Europeans over black Africans.
The skulls were uncovered three years ago in medical archive exhibits.
A ceremony was held in the German capital to return the remains as a gesture of reconciliation.
But chaotic scenes accompanied the speeches, particularly an address by German Deputy Foreign Minister Cornelia Pieper.
A handful of demonstrators shouted "reparations", "apology" and "genocide".
By Richard HamiltonBBC News
In the 1880s, Germany acquired present-day Namibia, calling it German South-West Africa. In 1904 the Herero, the largest of about 200 ethnic groups, rose up against colonial rule killing more than a 120 civilians.
The German response was ruthless. Gen Lothar von Trotha signed a notorious extermination order against the Herero, defeated them in battle and drove them into the desert, where most died of thirst. Of an estimated 65,000 Herero, only 15,000 survived. It is thought about 10,000 Nama people also died.
In 1985, a UN report classified the events as an attempt to exterminate the Herero and Nama peoples of South-West Africa, and therefore the earliest attempted genocide in the 20th Century. In 2004, Germany's ambassador to Namibia expressed regret for what happened.
Germany has consistently refused to pay reparations to its former colony, arguing that it has given much development aid to Namibia. But Namibians at the ceremony said the aid had not reached them.
Earlier, Ueriuka Festus Tjikuua, a member of the Namibian delegation, told reporters: "We have come first and foremost to receive the mortal human remains of our forefathers and mothers and to return them to the land of their ancestors."
The skulls belong to 20 people who died after an uprising against their German colonial rulers more than 100 years ago.
They were among hundreds who starved to death after being rounded up in camps.
Some of the dead had their heads removed and of these, about 300 were taken to Germany, arriving between 1909 and 1914.
The skulls gathered dust in German archives until three years ago when a German reporter uncovered them at the Medical History Museum of the Charite hospital in Berlin, and at Freiburg University in the south-west.
German researchers believe the skulls belong to 11 people from the Nama ethnic group and nine from the Herero.
They were four women, 15 men and a boy.
Mr Tjikuua said the mission intended to "extend a hand of friendship" to Germans.
Namibians, he said, wished to encourage a dialogue "with the full participation and involvement of the representatives of the descendants of those that suffered heavily under dreadful and atrocious German colonial rule".
Charite spokeswoman Claudia Peter said the purported research on the skulls performed by German scientists had been rooted in perverse racial theories that later planted the seeds for the Nazis' genocidal ideology.
"They thought that they could prove that certain peoples were worth less than they were," she told AFP news agency.
"What these anthropologists did to these people was wrong and their descendants are still suffering for it."
Nearly £45m was allocated to a learning hub, north west Dumfries campus and an upgrade of St Joseph's College.
However, it has now emerged that "due to a range of factors" they could actually cost more than £66m.
Councillors will be told they can try to reduce funding to other schemes, use additional borrowing or reassess the schools project itself.
The Dumfries Learning Town project was formulated after plans for a "super school" for all the town's S4 to S6 pupils were dropped.
It will see new schools built at Maxwelltown High and Dumfries High and the refurbishment of St Joseph's College and Dumfries Academy.
It also involves the creation of a "learning hub" offering specialist higher academic and vocational studies.
The costs of its first phase have now been revealed to have risen significantly over previously agreed budgets.
A report to councillors shows the anticipated costs of the "learning hub" have actually dropped slightly.
However, the north west Dumfries campus and St Joseph's College plans have seen forecast spending rise by around £11m each.
Council leader Ronnie Nicholson said that following consultation it had been clear aspects planned for phase two of the project should be brought forward.
"The sheer scale of what we now want to achieve requires more investment but it is still modest given that in phase one alone we are replacing three schools and transforming another," he said.
"In the long term, the number of school sites will be reduced as primary schools move onto shared campuses.
"This will provide significant savings. More importantly we will see schools fit for the 21st century in Dumfries and beyond."
The Tannadice outfit, level on points with Championship leaders Hibernian, are keen to secure the 30-year-old before Saturday's game with St Mirren.
If the two clubs and Sammon can reach agreement, he may stay at United until the end of the season on a loan basis when the January transfer window opens.
But Hearts boss Ian Cathro insists Sammon remains part of his plans.
Head coach Cathro says the Republic of Ireland cap has not been affected by Hearts fans booing his appearance as a substitute in Saturday's 1-1 draw with Partick Thistle.
Sammon joined Hearts in the summer on a three-year contract but has scored just twice in 19 appearances.
The former Derry City player first came to Scotland's top flight by moving to Kilmarnock in 2008 and subsequently had spells with Wigan, Derby and Sheffield United, among others. He has scored 76 goals in his 372 senior club appearances and has nine international caps.
"There's nothing there," Cathro said of the speculation. "I can understand it from their point of view, if that's the type of player they're looking for.
"From our side, no, and [he'll be in Friday's squad to face Dundee]. He's a strong player, a very focused guy, a top professional.
"His work every day has been exemplary, so there's no call for him to need support [after the booing]. Trust me, he's fine and he's an important player."
Hearts face Dundee, Kilmarnock and Aberdeen before the January transfer window opens.
"Business is something which is going to happen, but what's important is that I'm at a point of trying to do a lot of things very quickly but we've also got to stay focused on the most important thing, the game on Friday, the game on Tuesday and the game on the following Friday," added Cathro, who replaced Robbie Neilson earlier this month.
"We don't have a massive number of players and we need everybody pushing and fighting to give each other the absolute best shot they have at what we have ahead of ourselves in the next 10 days.
"Whilst that's going on, I have a job to do in assessing how things are and to have an idea of where I would like to move the squad when we can do business in January.
"We will begin work on that but we're not in a position where we can take even 1% off the focus on the next 10 days."
24 December 2015 Last updated at 10:05 GMT
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Motorist Paul Jansen, who filmed the koala said the animal drank from the gutter for more than 15 minutes.
"It didn't mind the attention or the road noise, it was just focused on the drink."
He tweeted: "Man utd ... LOL" shortly after Leicester scored their fifth goal in a 5-3 win over Manchester United.
The Liverpool striker's message has been retweeted more than 185,000 times and received around 100,000 favourites.
Merseyside police say there has been no formal complaint from Liverpool or the player but they are "making enquiries".
It's not the first time the Italian, who was adopted after being born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, has found himself the subject centre of racial abuse, particularly in Italy.
Last year, the former AC Milan striker said he would walk off the pitch if he received further racial abuse. That was after the referee temporarily halted play because of racist chanting in the AC Milan v Roma match.
The vice-president of AC Milan was also accused of using racist language to describe Balotelli a week after he'd signed for the club.
In an interview with GQ magazine earlier this year, the 24-year-old talked about the abuse he suffered whilst playing in Italy.
He also said: "There are racists in England but I think they hide it more.
"People are fighting this thing, and it's important. But in the media every time I have talked about this subject people talk about it for three or four days but then everything goes back to normal.
"So, either there is something really strong for all of us to do, some real movement or real action, and in that case I will be the first guy to participate, but if it's just talk, I'd rather not.
"We can talk about it as much as we want but things don't change that way."
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Donal Rocks put La Salle ahead in the 10th minute with Declan Dunne doubling their lead four minutes later.
Nathan Fox extended the advantage three minutes into the second half before Paddy Burns pulled a goal back for St Malachy's at New Grosvenor.
Man of the match Fox was sent off late on after getting a second booking.
The first suspects will start appearing in court on Wednesday, Dar es Salaam's deputy police commissioner told the BBC, confirming the arrests.
Rights groups have condemned the arrests, which started a week ago, urging police not to hold suspects beyond the legal 48-hour limit.
Prostitution is illegal in Tanzania.
Tanzania's new President John Magufuli, who came to power on an anti-corruption platform, has previously criticised prostitution in the country.
President Magufuli, known as the Bulldozer, has vowed to uphold law and order since taking power in November.
Deputy police commissioner Simon Siro told BBC Swahili that the suspects were being held in three prisons around the city.
He said the sex trade was linked to both drugs and violent crime in Tanzania.
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They've now won nine medals after Jazz Carlin took bronze in the women's 800 metres freestyle.
Britain now stand third in the overall medals table behind the United States and Australia with five gold, one silver and three bronze medals going into Sunday's final day.
Former Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton has been watching all the action for BBC Sport and popped into Newsround to talk us through it.
Her mother said Eliana, from north London, had been transformed by the operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
Surgeons said the growth had reached the size of a small football.
The tumour was benign, but it would have been deadly had it continued to grow.
In the summer of 2009, Eliana was not growing properly. Her feet had not grown for a couple of years, she was not eating properly and was tired all the time.
Her father, Paul, thought her stomach felt quite hard. Her doctor agreed and Eliana was sent to hospital for testing.
The results showed she had a massive benign tumour growing in her abdomen.
As it was so large, doctors first tried to shrink it with chemotherapy. However, after a year and a half of therapy the tumour was still growing.
In July 2011, the decision was made to remove the tumour.
Eliana's mother, Tara, said the tumour was "absolutely enormous" and "took up 50% of her abdomen".
She told the BBC: "If she didn't have the tumour removed it would end up just growing and growing and growing and it would kill her just by its size.
"We didn't really have much option - it was a lifesaving operation."
Surgeon Edward Kiely said: "This type of tumour in this location is very rare - fewer than one per year at Great Ormond Street Hospital."
Success was not guaranteed; there was a one in 10 chance of not being able to remove the tumour.
The operation took nine hours. Several pieces of tumour were removed - the largest weighed in at more than 3kg.
Tara said: "By September when Eliana went back to school she was like a new child. She's grown, she's put on loads of weight, she's got loads of energy, she does boxing, netball, she goes swimming."
Eliana still needs scans every three months to see if the tumour returns.
Eliana's story is featured in the BBC2 documentary series Great Ormond Street on Tuesday, May 15 at 2100 BST.
Self-confessed "computer geek" Paul Dixon, from County Durham, disrupted BA's site and others, including Durham Police, in October 2014.
Newcastle Crown Court was told the 24-year-old was caught after he boasted about his crimes on social media.
The court heard disruption to BA's site cost the airline an estimated £100,000.
Unemployed Dixon, from Seaham, was given a suspended two-year jail sentence and ordered to pay £200 after previously admitting five counts of unauthorised modification of computer material.
Sarah Wood, prosecuting, told the court Dixon used Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which swamp a target website with an overwhelming stream of requests for access, causing the site to work very slowly or to shut down completely.
The origin of such attacks is normally hard to trace, Recorder John Aitken was told, but Dixon gave the game away by tweeting about his exploits.
Ms Wood said: "He could not resist boasting about his activities online on his Twitter account.
"Indeed, this appears to be the sole motivation behind his actions."
Dixon did not make any money from the premeditated hacks, the court heard.
He went on hackers' forums and appealed for friends to name targets for him.
The attack on British Airways happened on 26 October and lasted 68 minutes.
Ms Wood added: "While the website was not brought down, the traffic to the website was so great that legitimate customers would not have been able to access it either to make a booking or to check in."
The airline said disruption to the website would have cost it approximately £100,000.
Durham Police investigated and traced Dixon after searching Twitter for messages about the attacks.
Sam Faulks, defending, said Dixon was "not living in the real world" and was at the time "self-obsessed", "puerile" and "fairly isolated".
Recorder Aitken told Dixon his offending was "simply to boost your own ego".
"At half-time, County looked like the team fighting for their lives, which was a real disappointment," Clark said.
"You should have so much fire in your belly that I'm struggling to keep you on the pitch in terms of your controlled aggression.
"It shouldn't be letting people have free headers in the penalty area."
Clark was not just unhappy at his players' defending for both Ross goals, but their failure to create any clear chances as they slipped to an eighth Premiership home defeat of the season.
"[We were] not good enough in both boxes," he added. "[It was] two awful goals we've given away. The situations we created didn't work the goalkeeper enough. So I'm really disappointed."
Ross County scored with their first attack, when Alex Schalk was left unmarked to head home Michael Gardyne's cross.
The substitute Brian Graham sealed the victory with a second late on, after Kilmarnock failed to clear their lines.
"We're concerned because of the position we're in and the result," added Clark. "This was a great opportunity, albeit against a good Ross County team, where we had a chance to get three points.
"[We need to] change the mentality of the players. That's three games without a goal, and take away the Motherwell game [a 2-0 win] it's five or six without a goal. Goals win you games and we need to win games, but we need to be able to defend better than we have tonight."
Victory was only the second in five league games for Ross County since they reached the final of the Scottish League Cup.
But manager Jim McIntyre does not believe the prospect of the game against Hibernian at Hampden has had a psychological effect on his players.
"Over the last two or three months it's been that way where we'd win a couple and lose a couple," McIntyre said.
"But we set out our team to attack, we knew the importance of three points. We were dominant from minute one, should have been two or three goals up at half-time, and showed the character to dig in when Killie put us under a bit of pressure.
"The disappointing thing was not to score further goals, which our play deserved. We got into some great areas and had some dangerous set-plays also, but I was delighted to get that killer second goal late on in the match. We managed the game really well."
The 29-year-old man was driving a BMW 3 Series car which crashed off the A339 in Newbury shortly before 08:00 GMT.
Thames Valley Police said he was pronounced dead at the scene. His next-of-kin has been informed.
The road has reopened, having been closed in both directions while police investigation work was carried out. Police have appealed for information.
In the first game following the winter break, Freiburg led early on when Janik Haberer steered the ball home.
Lewandowski equalised when he volleyed in Douglas Costa's corner.
And he scored a dramatic late winner when he chested Franck Ribery's cross, took a touch with his right foot and volleyed home with his left.
Champions Bayern are now six points clear of RB Leipzig, who host Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday (17:30 GMT).
Match ends, Sport-Club Freiburg 1, FC Bayern München 2.
Second Half ends, Sport-Club Freiburg 1, FC Bayern München 2.
Attempt missed. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from long range on the left misses to the right. Assisted by Franck Ribéry following a fast break.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Lukas Kübler (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Dangerous play by Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München).
Manuel Gulde (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Sport-Club Freiburg 1, FC Bayern München 2. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Franck Ribéry with a cross.
Attempt saved. Nils Petersen (Sport-Club Freiburg) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Onur Bulut.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Javi Martínez tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Maximilian Philipp (Sport-Club Freiburg) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Onur Bulut.
Alexander Schwolow (Sport-Club Freiburg) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Substitution, Sport-Club Freiburg. Lukas Kübler replaces Pascal Stenzel because of an injury.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Maximilian Philipp.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Pascal Stenzel (Sport-Club Freiburg) because of an injury.
Substitution, Sport-Club Freiburg. Onur Bulut replaces Janik Haberer.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Maximilian Philipp (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Janik Haberer (Sport-Club Freiburg) is shown the yellow card.
Janik Haberer (Sport-Club Freiburg) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Attempt missed. Maximilian Philipp (Sport-Club Freiburg) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Janik Haberer.
Attempt missed. Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Mats Hummels following a corner.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Nicolas Höfler.
Attempt blocked. Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Juan Bernat replaces David Alaba.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Franck Ribéry replaces Douglas Costa.
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mike Frantz (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Substitution, Sport-Club Freiburg. Nils Petersen replaces Florian Niederlechner.
Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Pascal Stenzel (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Offside, FC Bayern München. Mats Hummels tries a through ball, but Arjen Robben is caught offside.
Offside, Sport-Club Freiburg. Pascal Stenzel tries a through ball, but Vincenzo Grifo is caught offside.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Nicolas Höfler.
Attempt saved. Mats Hummels (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Arjen Robben.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Christian Günter.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Alexander Schwolow.
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
The question is, how much closer? Well, the indications from the final pre-season test are that it might just be enough for Ferrari to make a fight of this year.
The concern among neutrals after two dominant championships from Mercedes and an imposing performance at the first test last week was that Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg et al were simply going to pick up where they left off at the end of 2015.
But the picture has shifted during this week's second test and Ferrari now look much more credible contenders.
This was underlined when Rosberg said at the end of the test: "We know Ferrari are very close - but we're not sure if we're ahead or behind."
Logic alone suggests that Ferrari ought to pose a bigger threat to Mercedes this year.
In 2015, they were on average 0.6secs down in qualifying. Vettel took three wins - to Hamilton's 10 and Rosberg's six. But two of them came about because Mercedes were compromised in one way or another, and the final one on a bizarre off-weekend for the champions in Singapore.
However, rivals believe Ferrari have benefited in the design of their 2016 car by exploiting a loophole in the limits on wind-tunnel time and computer-aided design research that existed as a result of their new partnership with Haas. It has now been closed.
And Ferrari's engine last year had some layout compromises compared to the Mercedes, which have been addressed for this season.
At the same time, as the Mercedes was by definition more optimised last year, in theory there is less room for improvement.
Having said that, it became clear in a media briefing at Mercedes' engine HQ recently that significant gains are still being made in terms of thermal efficiency - and therefore performance.
And the Mercedes chassis has some very interesting innovations on it aimed at improving aerodynamic downforce.
In short, Mercedes have improved on an already formidable package.
The teams spent eight days over two weeks preparing at Spain's Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
But how to divine the truth from the thousands of laps in the face of so many variables - tyres, fuel load, track conditions, engine mode, etc?
As Vettel put it: "Before it was always a question of how much - or little - fuel everybody was running. Today there are 10 other things that have to be considered when looking at the time sheets.
"So in the end it is all guesswork when making statements about who is where in the pecking order. The feeling is good - and that is what is important for me."
The teams have ways of eliminating many of these variables. But they are always reluctant to give too much away. Partly this is because even the teams, with their mountains of data, cannot be absolutely sure where everyone stands.
From the outside, though, it is possible to have a stab at it.
We know the tyres the time was set on. And we can eliminate the effect of fuel weight to a certain degree by looking at how long was the run on which the time was set.
In other words, you might not know the exact fuel load, but you know the minimum the car must have been carrying and can off-set the lap time against that.
It is far from an exact science and any attempt to "correct" the lap times is inherently flawed.
Nevertheless, apply these "corrections" to the list of times and quite often it turns out that a driver's best lap was not the headline fastest at all.
The best lap of the winter, for example, appears to have been one done by Rosberg on the medium tyre on an eight-lap run on Thursday. Hamilton did an almost identical time on Friday morning
So, take each driver's fastest time on each type of tyre throughout the second test and apply these factors corrected to a soft-tyre time, and you end up with a list of the fastest lap for each team that looks like this:
Mercedes (Rosberg) 1:22.6
Ferrari (Raikkonen) 1:22.9
Williams (Massa) 1:23.4
Red Bull (Ricciardo) 1:23.7
Toro Rosso (Verstappen) 1:23.7
Force India (Hulkenberg) 1:24.0
Renault (Magnussen) 1:24.4
McLaren (Alonso) 1:24.6
Sauber (Nasr) 1:24.8
Haas (Grosjean) 1:24.9
Manor (Wehrlein) 1:25.6
That's just single lap times. But Ferrari and Mercedes also did race-simulation runs, albeit on different days. And the average lap times for those are:
Hamilton 1:29.1
Rosberg 1:29.3
Raikkonen 1:29.4
Vettel 1:29.5
If those figures are right - and it's a big "if", with all the caveats and so on - then that suggests Ferrari have about halved the gap to Mercedes over the winter.
At that sort of margin, the difference between the two cars could be small enough to ensure that the typical vagaries of an F1 season were enough to make a proper championship battle between two teams.
Hamilton v Rosberg v Vettel and maybe Kimi Raikkonen, too, if he can get his act together. Sounds pretty enticing, doesn't it?
A small deficit, but one marginal enough to enable a world-class driver to mount a title assault in a car that is not as good as the best, are exactly the circumstances in which Fernando Alonso came agonisingly close to winning the title with Ferrari in 2010 and 2012.
A penny for the the thoughts of the final member of F1's "big three", then, if it turns out this way in 2016, because Alonso could have been driving this Ferrari.
The 34-year-old, as he reminded the world in a Spanish radio interview ahead of the final test, negotiated a way out of his Ferrari contract two years early at the end of 2014 because he lost faith that the team would ever be title contenders.
Ferrari were trying to convince him to sign a new contract until 2019, he said (although senior insiders say the team were beginning to feel they, too, needed a change).
Alonso said driving for Ferrari was a "wonderful experience" but that the stress of all those near-misses had got too much and he was not interested in "staying at Ferrari until 2019 to be third".
"I think I would never been world champion there," he said. "Now I enjoy Formula 1 more 10 positions further behind. I wanted a new project and McLaren-Honda was the most convincing."
Well, it is not that convincing yet, judging by pre-season testing.
Honda has undoubtedly made some serious steps with its engine - hybrid energy deployment, a major shortcoming last year that left the engine as much as 250bhp down on the straights, has improved "massively", according to Alonso's team-mate Jenson Button.
But the engine is still a long way off the pace. Even Alonso allows it may be 80bhp down. Some say it could be as much as 100bhp.
There have been flashes of pace from McLaren, and the team have new parts to fit at the first race that were not ready in time for testing. But the best evidence is that they will be mixing it towards the back of the midfield with the likes of Renault and the new US-based Haas team.
Between McLaren and the front is still the best part of two seconds - and the Williams, Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Force India teams.
On the positive side, Honda's new F1 boss Yusuka Hasegawa has made a good first impression at McLaren and this has renewed confidence within the team that the engine can make the promised significant steps forward this year.
The final days of testing were overshadowed by a series of off-track controversies - about the introduction of a new-style qualifying system and the new "halo" head protection system.
The elimination-style qualifying format will be used in Australia after a week of to-ing and fro-ing that many felt made the sport look ridiculous.
The big problem was Bernie Ecclestone's decision to reveal that his FOM company had told him they could not sort out the timing software and on-screen graphics in time, something one senior insider described as "pathetic".
Had Ecclestone kept his mouth shut, the suggestion from the teams to run the last part of qualifying without the elimination system would have been seen as what it was - them doing what they had been asked to do and pointing out any potential flaws.
Now, FOM has apparently decided it can do the necessary after all and the new format has been adopted wholesale. Despite concerns that in the final shoot-out the action will all be at the beginning, followed by a whole load of nothing because no-one has any fresh tyres left to improve his time.
The drivers are not keen. As Hamilton said: "I've generally enjoyed the qualifying we had for the last few years so that's why the changes we've made don't make sense to me in my head right now. But don't knock it until you've tried it and then immediately we'll get comments from the fans."
As for the halo, yes, some drivers don't like it, especially the world champion; yes, aesthetically it leaves a fair bit to be desired; and, yes, seeing it is a shock to the system.
But one wonders if F1 would not already be using such a device if, for example, Alonso's head had been hit by Romain Grosjean's flying Lotus at the start of the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix - a tragedy that was avoided by centimetres.
Alonso was close to Jules Bianchi, who died last July of head injuries sustained in a crash in the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, so it is no surprise to see that he is one of the majority of drivers who back the system, calling it "a step in the right direction".
It was Vettel, though, who arguably put it best, as he referenced the deaths of two drivers in other categories from head injuries in recent years.
"In principle, I agree it doesn't look very nice," the Ferrari driver said. "It's not the picture of Formula 1 you are used to for a long time.
"But equally if it helps increase safety and saves lives… There would be at least two drivers in the last four years that I remember would still be around, Henry Surtees and Justin Wilson, if we had this type of system.
"It can be as ugly as possible - nothing justifies not having these guys around any more."
Fastest times at final pre-season test
Mr Kohl felt under-appreciated until the end and even those Germans who respected him never found a place in their hearts for him.
"Germany has much to thank him for," Chancellor Angela Merkel said in 2014, when her predecessor turned 85.
She clearly felt an ungenerous country needed reminding.
Helmut Kohl was a man of the moment, a brilliant tactician, ready to grasp what was coming.
Only a few months after the Berlin Wall had collapsed in 1989 - which he too had not anticipated - Mr Kohl went to Dresden, in what was then East Germany.
His brief speech, again and again interrupted by shouts of "Helmut! Helmut!" marked a turning point. In that cold night, in front of the Frauenkirche, an emotional bond was forged between Mr Kohl and East Germans that sped the country towards unification.
Politics is all about presence, and Mr Kohl, a big man, was an expert in corporeal politics.
He always sought to draw people near, because then he was at his best. He spent hours cajoling the party ranks on the phone, and he enjoyed serving his beloved Saumagen - or stuffed pig's stomach - to foreign dignitaries, whether they liked it or not.
He held French leader Francois Mitterrand's hand over graves at the World War One battlefield of Verdun.
In the photographs the French president will forever look conspicuously small next to the German chancellor.
It was a form of physical politics that worked well with men like then US President Bill Clinton or Russia's Boris Yeltsin, who invited Mr Kohl to join him in the sauna. Not surprisingly, it did not sit well with then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
To a Germany that had ceased to be politically ambitious, Helmut Kohl was, for the longest time, the perfect chancellor. He looked like a man in control, while managing to make the power in his hands seem harmless.
He talked reforms, without bothering the country with too many of them.
His aura was that of a trustworthy stalwart, and his success helped him shrug off the elites' view of him as a provincial buffoon. It embittered him nevertheless.
Helmut Kohl defined Germany's politics for a generation through the sheer force of his persona and his political genius.
Yet after he was forced out of office in 1998, the country rarely looked back.
The Christian Democrats stripped him of the party's honorary chairmanship because of his role in a party slush fund scandal and the difficulties of the euro - devised by Mr Kohl as Germany's ultimate commitment to European integration.
These setbacks have overshadowed what he considered his greatest achievement.
His European Union, like much of his politics, was not really meant to work without him. And it didn't. Soon the global threats of terror and financial crises made him look to many Germans like a man from a different era.
Moreover, a debilitating fall in 2008 had robbed Mr Kohl of the chance to defend his political legacy.
He remained silent too when his sons wrote bestsellers disassociating themselves from their bullying father.
As his first wife Hannelore - with whom he had once authored a cookbook - had killed herself, he was now looked after by his much younger second wife in his old bungalow home in Oggersheim, in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
In the end, Mr Kohl - whose politics were formed so much around relationships - had run out of friends and foes alike.
In 2014 Helmut Kohl visited the Frankfurt Book Fair once more to present a book on his own account of the events of 1989-90.
Despite being close to incoherent, he spoke a few words.
Seeing their once mighty chancellor reduced to a frail figure in a wheelchair made most Germans feel uncomfortable.
A Dutch journalist witnessing the scene saw something else: a historical figure. "How moving," he said.
People in Stanford near Folkestone have been sent letters telling them Asian tiger mosquito eggs had been discovered nearby.
Public Health England said no further evidence of the insect had been detected.
It said there was "currently no risk to public health in the UK".
Jolyon Medlock, head of medical entomology at Public Health England (PHE), said: "We regularly monitor mosquito species and look for any which are new to the UK.
"Enhanced monitoring of the area was implemented and no further evidence of this mosquito has so far been found.
"As a precaution we advised the local authority to use insecticide as a means of control."
PHE confirmed the spraying of insecticide had been fully completed at the site.
The Zika infection has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
Public Health England said it would continue to monitor the situation closely.
Two years ago Public Health England set up traps at motorway service stations to monitor this species of mosquito over fears the insects could enter the UK on lorries from Europe. None was found.
But who is right? Well both can be.
It was famously the American billionaire, Leona Hemsley who was alleged to have said "Only the little people pay taxes", a claim she strongly denied but which helped to convict her of tax evasion.
It can sometimes feel as though she was right, having just completed my annual tax return and sent my cheque off to HMRC I would just like to put on the record that I too would like to cut a deal with the taxman.
The problem is that if I or any of the other tens of millions of PAYE taxpayers try to do that, the authorities come knocking. That is why, when many of us look at the likes of Google and, to be fair, many other wealthy companies, it can look like for them paying tax is an optional extra.
However, with giant companies it is a bit more complicated than that. They are taking part in perfectly legal tax avoidance schemes, have a small army of consultants and lawyers to advise them, and a war chest for court cases that rivals that of many governments.
They are also normally multinationals, which gives them one great advantage that most of us will never have, they can play one country and its tax system off against other countries and their tax rules.
But even multinationals are not immune to the attentions of the tax collectors, and they are certainly not immune to the bad publicity that tends to result when the media discover just how little they are paying in tax and how some of the schemes they use actually work.
That helps explain why Google has decided to negotiate a deal with the British government and pay £130m in tax.
But while nearly everyone will welcome the idea that huge firms should pay tax, not everyone thinks that cutting deals is the best way of going about it.
Google's payment of £130m covers the past 10 years and means it has effectively paid £13m a year in tax. But many critics believe that this is a very low tax rate overall, "in the low single digits" according to Prem Sikka, Professor of Accountancy at Essex University, given the huge amount of business that Google does in the UK.
It might, they believe, have a deterrent effect if instead HMRC took on some of these companies in the courts and won a victory that would bring in more money not just from them but from every other company that was thinking of using a similar scheme.
But Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, says if HMRC thought they could have "won a quick victory they would have done it" and that they will have done a "cost-benefit thing. They will have done the sums they might get in a court case... they probably think this is a good deal."
For HMRC this is an appallingly difficult call. Court cases involving international tax law are very complicated, very long and very, very expensive. And after all that time and expense HMRC might well lose, having spent a small fortune of taxpayers' money and deterred no-one.
This is why many believe negotiating tax payments from big companies makes sense. After all sometimes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
The £42m MV Loch Seaforth had previously done berthing trials at the two harbours.
The ferry has capacity for 700 passengers, 143 cars or 20 commercial vehicles.
It was named after a mail boat that sailed between Lewis and the Scottish mainland from the 1940s until the 1970s.
Mr Cushnahan, a prominent businessman, served on Nama's NI advisory committee from 2010 to 2013.
The Sunday Times has reported that Nama contacted the two police forces in the wake of a BBC NI Spotlight programme.
It broadcast a recording in which Mr Cushnahan took a £40,000 cash payment from Nama client, John Miskelly.
According to what Mr Cushnahan says on the recording, which was made in 2012, he was going to help Mr Miskelly with a refinancing deal which would get his assets out of Nama.
Mr Cushnahan also claimed he could influence a senior Nama official, Ronnie Hanna.
There is no direct evidence of wrongdoing by Mr Hanna and he firmly denies that he had any improper dealings with Mr Cushnahan.
Mr Cushnahan has denied any wrongdoing and told the BBC he would not be providing any further responses because of the ongoing NCA investigation.
Mr Miskelly said "payments made by me to any persons have been lawful".
The Sunday Times reported that Nama's head of legal wrote to the Garda fraud unit citing section 19 of the Republic's Criminal Justice Act which obliges public bodies to inform gardaí (Irish police) when they may be able to assist in securing a prosecution.
On Saturday, The Irish Times reported that the Republic's spending watchdog had reportedly concluded that the £1.2bn sale of Nama's Northern Ireland loan portfolio had "irregularities" and "shortcomings".
Nama sold its entire Northern Ireland portfolio to Cerberus, a US investment fund, in 2014.
The paper reported that the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) will say that failings in the sales process could have resulted in "hundred of millions of euro" not being realised.
The C&AG report will be published this week.
Speaking on RTÉ's The Week in Politics, the Irish government's Chief Whip, Regina Doherty, said that the report will be brought to cabinet on Wednesday and will be published later that day or on Thursday.
Braehmer was pulled out by his corner at the start of the seventh round with a dislocated right elbow.
Cleverly, 29, is the first Welshman to lose and regain a world title at the same weight, although he only holds the WBA's secondary belt.
Russia's Sergey Kovalev, who took the WBO title from Cleverly in 2013, is the WBA's so-called 'super' champion.
Braehmer, 37, was stopped for the first time in a 51-fight career and defeated for only the third time, while Cleverly now has 30 wins from 33 professional fights.
The pair set a frantic pace in the first six rounds in Neubrandenburg, with Cleverly showing discipline and a solid chin as he absorbed some powerful shots from the champion.
However, Cleverly enjoyed some success with body shots and was throwing a far greater number of punches, culminating in a strong sixth round that left Braehmer unable to continue.
"If Braehmer wants a rematch he can have one, but I broke him up. The younger lion won," said Cleverly.
Cleverly had originally been scheduled to face Braehmer in 2011 but the German suffered an eye injury in training.
The world champion was 0.393 seconds quicker than team-mate Nico Rosberg, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel 0.938secs off the pace in third place.
Mercedes seem to have a huge advantage over Ferrari, who have a smaller but clear edge over Williams and Red Bull.
Williams' Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa were next, ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen.
Hamilton, fresh from his superb effort in finishing third from the back of the grid in Belgium last weekend, was in crushing form throughout the final hour of practice in warm sunshine at F1's most historic circuit.
He was just under 0.2secs clear of Rosberg in second practice on Friday and doubled that margin on Saturday morning.
Even at this early stage, the race victory looks likely to be a private battle between Hamilton and Rosberg, with Ferrari nowhere near the world champions despite introducing their final engine development upgrade of the season in an attempt to close the gap.
Hamilton is nine points clear of Rosberg heading into the grand prix, with eight races remaining this season.
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Ferrari are also said to have some concerns about the reliability of the new engine, having rushed it through to introduce it in time for their home race.
Force India's Sergio Perez was ninth, ahead of Haas' Esteban Gutierrez, whose team-mate Romain Grosjean had a spin early in the session and was beached in the gravel trap at the Ascari chicane.
McLaren's fears that they will struggle to be in the top 10 on the grid on this power circuit are coming true - Jenson Button was 12th fastest behind the second Force India of Nico Hulkenberg and Fernando Alonso was down in 17th after not putting together a lap on his qualifying simulation run on the super-soft tyres.
Qualifying is live on the BBC Sport website from 12:00 BST and on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra from 12:55.
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The man was the driver of a Volkswagen car which was involved in the collision in Fortview Park about 17:00 BST on Monday.
The Tattymacall Road was closed after the crash, but has since reopened.
The visitors dominated in front of nearly 2,000 Bantams fans and should have won the game comfortably as Chesterfield rarely threatened.
Bradford finally made their possession count in the 26th minute when a short corner was picked up by Clarke, who drove a shot from the left-hand edge of the area into the roof of the net.
Chesterfield were denied an equaliser in the 31st minute when Colin Doyle made a superb save to turn over a 25-yard free-kick from Kristian Dennis.
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Bradford went close to a second in the 42nd minute after Jordy Hiwula broke through on the left but Ryan Fulton blocked his low shot.
Fulton rescued Chesterfield again in the 47th minute with a brilliant reaction save from a Hiwula flick, and the visitors had another chance when Timothee Dieng put James Meredith in but he dragged his shot wide.
Mark Marshall fired wide from a good position and Meredith had another chance in stoppage time.
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Match ends, Chesterfield 0, Bradford City 1.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 0, Bradford City 1.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Gboly Ariyibi.
Attempt missed. James Meredith (Bradford City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Tom Anderson.
Attempt blocked. Haris Vuckic (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Mark Marshall (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Filipe Morais (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricky German (Chesterfield).
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Liam Graham.
Foul by Ricky German (Chesterfield).
Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Liddle (Chesterfield).
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bradford City. Filipe Morais replaces Nicky Law.
Substitution, Bradford City. Haris Vuckic replaces Billy Clarke.
Attempt saved. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Ricky German replaces Jon Nolan.
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jon Nolan (Chesterfield).
Nicky Law (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Graham (Chesterfield).
Nicky Law (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. James Meredith (Bradford City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Sam Hird (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Hird (Chesterfield).
Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Conor Wilkinson (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Connor Dimaio replaces Kristian Dennis.
Attempt missed. Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Conor Wilkinson (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Attempt saved. Sam Hird (Chesterfield) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Timothee Dieng (Bradford City).
Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jon Nolan (Chesterfield).
Foul by Josh Cullen (Bradford City).
Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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O'Connor, 20, finished 0.3 seconds behind Hungarian world champion Katinka Hosszu, who set an Olympic record.
GB's men's relay team of Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace and James Guy were second to a dominant USA.
It takes Britain's medal tally at the Rio Games to six.
Four of those medals have come in the pool, after Adam Peaty's 100m breaststroke gold and Jazz Carlin's 400m freestyle silver.
O'Connor, from Somerset, swam a British record two minutes 06.88 seconds and nearly caused a huge surprise as she closed in on Hosszu, who has now won three gold medals in Rio and has dominated the medley for the past two World Championships.
But silver remains an incredible achievement for O'Connor, who suffers from ulcerative colitis [chronic bowel disease], as she became the first British woman to win an Olympic medal in the 200m medley.
"I was really confident coming into it because sometimes I can have disruptions. I felt in a really good place," said O'Connor, who finished almost two seconds ahead of the USA's Madeline Dirado in third.
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"It feels pretty unreal. I am trying not to cry but it is the best feeling in the world.
"It doesn't seem real but seeing my family, I was getting choked up. It means everything. It has been tough but it is so, so worth it.
"Sometimes you think 'is it my time?' It just shows what determination can do and all the hard work has paid off, but I would not have been able to do it without my amazing team."
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Britain's relay team had come to Rio as world champions, but were not expected to challenge a USA team that included Michael Phelps, who now has 21 Olympic gold medals.
And even a silver medal looked unlikely for the British quartet in the early stages of the final, before Wallace's penultimate leg brought them past Australia to move into the medal positions and Guy overhauled Japan's Takeshi Matsuda on the final leg to secure second by 0.37secs.
Guy, who has missed out on medals in the 200m and 400m freestyle events, said: "The first few days were tough for me.
"I've got faster and faster the more I've been racing. The team is young and we'll be ready for the title at Tokyo 2020."
Milne added: "I can't believe it. These guys were amazing and it was a real honour to swim with them."
Born and raised in Somerset, O'Connor made her mark on the international stage aged 15 in 2011, winning 200m individual medley gold at the ASA National Championships.
She missed her school prom to attend the the 2012 British National Championships, where she won 100m breaststroke gold and booked her place as the youngest swimmer on the London 2012 Olympic team.
She failed to make it through her heat, but gained the experience of swimming in the medley relay final in front of 17,500 people.
O'Connor went on to win six medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, including 200 medley gold, before taking bronze in the same event a year later at the World Championships.
In July this year, she displayed her all-round ability by breaking the British 100m breaststroke record.
Double Olympic gold-medal winner Rebecca Adlington: "I think this is the best we have done for a very long time and we still have some big races to come.
"I am thrilled for James Guy, especially because this is extra special after the week he has had."
Former freestyle world champion Mark Foster: "As a country we have improved so much. We have strength in depth and there's character in the team. The future is bright."
BBC Sport chief sports writer Tom Fordyce: "A second special night in the pool for Britain's swimmers. After Adam Peaty and Jazz Carlin two nights ago, this was another story of personal bests produced when it mattered most, of the best possible result being taken on the biggest stage of all.
"No-one was going to catch Katinka Hosszu, just as no-one was going to catch a US men's relay team featuring Ryan Lochte and Phelps; in taking silvers behind both, O'Connor and the quartet of Milne, Scott, Wallace and Guy have put British swimming wonderfully back on course."
Any spending reductions will be reflected in the Welsh government's budget, under a spending formula.
Commenting on Twitter, Welsh government Finance Minister Jane Hutt said this was "more bad news for Wales".
But the UK government said Wales was "thriving" under "our long-term plan" and must contribute to the savings.
Chancellor George Osborne is exempting spending on health and schools in England, which limits the impact of any cuts on Wales.
Defence and overseas aid budgets are also being protected from the cuts, of up to £20bn, to be announced when Mr Osborne unveils his spending review in November.
Ms Hutt said: "The late timing of the spending review makes the challenge of managing the impact of further austerity even greater.
"£20bn cuts to public spending on top of £12bn of welfare cuts set out earlier this month."
"Cuts on the back of successive reductions to our Budget over the last five years have seen £1.3bn taken out of vital public services in Wales," Ms Hutt added.
The UK Treasury has said it wants unprotected departments to draw up two separate models, to plan for cuts of 25% and 40%.
Responding to Ms Hutt's criticism, a UK government spokesperson said: "Our long-term plan has created the conditions under which Wales is thriving.
"This spending review is the next step in our plans to eliminate the deficit, run a surplus and ensure Britain lives within its means.
"All parts of Britain will need to play their part in making us more secure through finding efficiency savings whilst ensuring that spending is targeted at frontline services."
Sir Michael Fallon said the sale of the sites - part of a review of Ministry of Defence land - was in addition to the sale of 35 MoD sites that had previously been announced.
Unions called the plans "brutal" and promised to fight the closures.
But Sir Michael said it would deliver better value for money and release enough land to build 55,000 homes.
It is estimated that about £140m will be saved over the next decade by selling off the sites, which Sir Michael said would be reinvested in creating "areas of military expertise" in locations across the country.
More than 32,000 acres of defence land will be released, including 10 surplus airfields and five golf courses.
"By putting money where it is needed, we will provide better facilities to train our armed forces and deliver more stability for military families," he said, adding that the moves are part of a package of more than £4bn of investment in the services.
The majority of sites will be in England, including parts of Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire - the Army's largest garrison - the Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, near Grantham, and Imphal Barracks in York.
A further eight sites in Scotland will close, including the Redford Calvary and Infantry Baracks in Edinburgh, and Fort George, near Ardersier.
Then Wales and Northern Ireland will each have three bases closed, including Brecon Barracks.
New sites and bases will be moved to locations which are selected based on employment opportunities in the community, enabling military families to buy their own homes and reducing disruption to children's education, Sir Michael said.
These include new regional hubs for light infantry battalions in London, Edinburgh, Lisburn, St Athan, Blackpool and Cottesmore, as well as air assault forces in Colchester and a specialised infantry group in Aldershot.
Nia Griffith, shadow defence secretary, said Labour recognised there was "a need to modernise" the defence estate, but wanted reassurance families would be taken care of.
She said: "The government is right to seek to restructure the estate to ensure that we optimise our military capability and deliver value for money for the British taxpayer.
"The changes proposed in this report are very considerable in scale and there is a real need to ensure they are delivered in a way that does not cause undue challenges to our forces and their families."
Ms Griffith also asked Sir Michael to confirm that all of the money raised would go back into defence and not into the Treasury.
In reply, he said: "All of the receipts, not some of them but all of the receipts, will come back in to the defence budget."
But unions have said the cuts will severely hit the support for armed forces and damage morale.
Mark Serwotka, general secretary for the Public and Commercial Services union, said: "We are opposed to these closure plans that throw the future into doubt for thousands of staff.
"The MoD has a poor track record on selling off land for homes and this again exposes how the Tories are simply paying lip service to the urgent need to address the housing crisis."
Mike McCartney, national officer for Unite, echoed the criticism, calling the closures "brutal".
"In many instances the bases earmarked for closure are at the heart of their local communities providing a source of decent and secure employment," he said.
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Ms Pilley, 38, disappeared on her way to work in central Edinburgh in May 2010 but her body has never been found.
Gilroy asked for his case to be considered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, claiming he had suffered a miscarriage of justice.
The commission said it has now completed its review and the case has been closed.
Gilroy could ask for a subsequent review of the case by the commission but only if, for example, new evidence came to light.
He was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of her murder in March 2012, but he continued to protest his innocence.
Ms Pilley, who had previously had an affair with married Gilroy, had set off on her usual journey to work in Edinburgh city centre but never arrived.
The jury in Gilroy's trial heard he was driven by jealousy, maintained a front of normality and embarked on a series of acts to cover up his crime.
He took Ms Pilley's body to a secret grave, believed to be in remote Argyll.
When Gilroy later appealed his conviction it was rejected and he failed in a bid to have his case looked at by the UK Supreme Court.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission announced its review of the case in January 2015.
It was set up to investigate possible miscarriages of justice. Only a small number are referred back to the High Court.
The Irish Football Association (IFA) had said it was "inundated" with calls from angry Northern Ireland fans unable to purchase tickets.
Some fans who said they ranked near the top of the IFA's 'priority list' missed out on tickets for the Poland game.
UEFA is allocating extra tickets for the Poland match.
Northern Ireland is due to play Poland, Ukraine and Germany in France in June.
More than 29,000 tickets have been allocated to Northern Ireland for the three games.
Earlier, Gary McAllister from the Amalgamation of Official NI Supporters Clubs said his phone had been "red hot" with messages from disappointed fans.
The question was over a points system which was meant to establish a priority list, favouring fans who had attended the most matches at home and abroad.
Mr McAllister and other fans were now asking whether the loyalty scheme has been implemented correctly.
He missed out on a ticket to the Poland game, despite having 27 loyalty points out of a possible 29.
"We have been swamped with messages from supporters, people who have travelled faithfully for many, many years to support Northern Ireland," he told Radio Ulster's Talkback.
"I am not glad that I haven't received a ticket, but people will know how many games I've attended."
The appeared to be a particular problem with the Poland match and fans said they wanted to know how the points system was used.
One caller to Talkback, Ian, said: "I have been to four away games in the last year and all the home games. That means not quite maximum points, but getting there.
"I have friends who have zero points in the same category and they got tickets.
"But I had 23 or 24 out of 29 points. The points did not mean anything."
Patrick Nelson, chief executive of the IFA, said: "We've been working for three months on a priority scheme with UEFA around the tickets that we've got for 2016 and obviously our priority is to our fans who follow us home and away."
He said the IFA ticketing team was working "to connect with UEFA at their level to make sure that the priority scheme is very well understood and we know exactly what UEFA have done".
"I got on to UEFA at the most senior level this morning to say that we were surprised and disappointed at the application of the priority scheme and that we needed them to look at this instantly and come back to me," he said.
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Three schools in the Sandwell area were evacuated and lessons halted at a school in Halesowen after the hoax calls were made on Tuesday.
Calls were made to four schools in the Bristol area during the same morning, Avon and Somerset Police said.
West Midlands Police said officers are working to see if the calls are linked.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said the force was "thoroughly investigating" each of the threats, which are being treated as hoax calls.
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Redland High School in Bristol confirmed it evacuated pupils while another school reportedly did the same.
All of the schools opened as normal on Wednesday.
Thousands of children were sent home from the schools in Sandwell while lessons resumed at Leasowes School in Halesowen, angering some parents who had come to collect their children.
One parent, Anthony Mytton, said he did not know how the school and its grounds could have been declared safe in just a couple of hours.
"How can they check everywhere in that time? Other schools were evacuated - why not this one?" he said.
Head teacher Neil Shaw said police did a careful search of the school while students stayed outside the building before being allowed into the sports hall.
"At all times during the day, looking after the safety of students was of paramount importance and I feel that this was achieved," he said.
The evacuated schools, Bristnall Hall Academy, Holly Lodge Foundation High School College of Science and Oldbury Academy, are all in the Sandwell Council area.
Council leader Darren Cooper said the schools had "done the right thing" in evacuating pupils.
He said: "We evacuated the schools on the basis of safety... we erred on the side of caution."
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The man, in his 40s, was shot as police responded to a firearms incident off Hereford Close, Rubery on Wednesday.
Police said on Friday he remains in a stable condition in hospital.
A man, 21, held over firearms offences has been bailed. Two males, 17 and 20, and a woman 53, held on suspicion of drugs offences were released under investigation.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.
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Abdelkader Ait-Ouarabi, known as Gen Hassan, was convicted at a closed-door military tribunal on Thursday.
His lawyers described him as the victim of a ferocious clan war at the top of Algerian politics.
Gen Hassan played a leading role for two decades in Algeria's civil war.
Following the military's annulment of an election win by Islamists in 1992, Algeria's Intelligence and Security Directorate (DRS) was heavily involved in the conflict in which it is estimated that more than 150,000 people died.
Gen Hassan's imprisonment follows the sacking in September of Mohamed Mediene, who had led the DRS for 25 years.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has led a gradual purge in the country's security elite over the past two years, correspondents say.
Full-back Tomkins, 27, has a foot injury that requires surgery to see the extent of the damage, while captain O'Loughlin, 33, has a calf problem.
Both players will miss Friday's play-off semi-final with Hull FC and then a potential Grand Final on 8 October.
England host the Four Nations tournament starting in late October.
Forward O'Loughlin suffered his latest injury setback on Friday, hurting his calf in the warm-up before the win against Catalans Dragons that secured a home semi-final against Hull FC.
"Wigan have only 20 players available from a squad of 35 but there is a tremendous spirit and confidence amongst this group that thrives in adversity," said chairman Ian Lenagan.
"Despite all of the challenges that the club have faced this year I, head coach Shaun Wane and the squad believe that we can defy the odds to make this an excellent season end."
The Four Nations, in which England face Scotland, New Zealand and Australia over a three-week period, starts on 28 October.
Gwynfor Thomas, who was chairman of the council's scrutiny committee at the time but later resigned, began a four-week suspension on Wednesday.
Aled Davies, leader of the council's Conservative group, began a two-week suspension on 11 April.
A third councillor, Gary Price, has appealed a five-month suspension and it was recommended it be reduced to three.
This amendment would need to be approved by the council's standards committee after May's local elections.
Powys council has arranged for neighbouring councillors to cover for Mr Thomas, who represents Llansanffraid, and Mr Davies, who represents Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llansilin, during the suspension period.
It follows prosecutions by Powys' trading standards under different sections of the Cattle Identification (Wales) Regulations 2007 and Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (Wales) Regulations, over charges relating to the tagging of cattle on farms, and found guilty.
The suspensions relate to code of conduct breaches, bringing the council into disrepute, as a result of the prosecutions.
Subduing angry bulls has long been practised in the state as a sport and a ritual that forms part of the local harvest festival.
The Indian Supreme Court banned the sport in 2014, under an Indian law aimed at preventing cruelty to animals.
But an executive order has now taken bulls out of the law's purview.
The move comes after days of escalating tension in Tamil Nadu, with angry protesters insisting that the ban disrespected Tamil culture and should be overturned.
Tamil Nadu Governor Vidyasagar Rao has approved the executive order, allowing the tradition, known as "Jallikattu", to resume on Sunday.
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On Thursday, Tamil Nadu chief minister, O Panneerselva met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his help to tackle the crisis.
Following Mr Modi's assurance, the federal home minister cleared the state government's proposal for the executive order.
A day later, the Supreme Court agreed to a federal government request to withhold judgment on whether to reverse its ban.
A government official in Tamil Nadu said the executive order was prepared with a view to ensuring "survival and well-being of the native breed of bulls and preserving cultural traditions".
In the last few days, a number of Tamil celebrities have lent support to the protesters.
They include five-time world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand and Oscar-winning music composer A R Rahman. Both have tweeted in support of the demonstrations.
An exhibition of open-air inflatable sculptures has been unveiled in the grounds of a historic Borders house.
XXX is the work of Steve Messam and comprises three large-scale installations.
They have gone on display at 18th Century Mellerstain House north of Kelso.
Mr Messam said the artworks had to be directly experienced in the environment to be fully appreciated and he hoped they would bring people to Mellerstain.
The 23-year-old victim from Brighton was hit by a Tesco lorry when the fight spilled on to Western Road.
He was found lying in the road by emergency services at 02:40 BST and died at the scene.
A 27-year-old Hove man arrested on suspicion of murder is in police custody, Sussex Police said.
Western Road from Montpelier Road to Norfolk Square was closed for investigations but has since reopened.
Det Ch Insp Tanya Jones from Sussex Police said: "This has been a fast-moving investigation and we have arrested a man on suspicion of murder.
"However, we are still appealing for witnesses who may have seen the fight which spilled into Western Road and then the victim being hit by a lorry."
In a statement, Tesco said: "We were deeply shocked to hear about this incident and our thoughts go out to this young man's family.
"We are co-operating fully with the police in their investigation.
"Clearly, this is a very difficult time for our colleague but we will provide him and his family with all the support they need."
A Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) report found "multiple failings in care and treatment" at Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital.
The baby's mother complained about his care, after a medical device that relieves pressure on the brain was fitted shortly after he was born.
NHS Grampian said it apologised unreservedly.
The baby was born in October 2014, and was fitted with the device to drain excess fluid the following month.
The child was readmitted in August 2015 due to concern about his condition.
He was then transferred for specialist treatment in another health board area, but died on 12 August.
The SPSO said: "Our investigation determined that there was a lack of clarity regarding the roles of each medical team, and that there was a lack of communication between consultants when Baby A's condition was not improving.
"We also found that the neurosurgical team had not kept reasonable records, nor had they appropriately assessed Baby A before and after operations.
"We identified significant delays in Baby A being reviewed after he under went operations, and a delay in clinicians contacting the specialist centre for advice on the management of Baby A.
"Finally, we considered there to have been a lack of communication from the neurosurgical team and Baby A's parents."
NHS Grampian said in a statement: "It is clear we failed Baby A and therefore failed his family.
"The distress of the family was further compounded by the extremely poor standard of our communication with them.
"There can be no excuses for our conduct in this case and we apologise unreservedly.
"We accept all of the recommendations put forward by the Ombudsman in this case."
Everyday appliances, all of a sudden transformed into intelligent, thinking and analytical machines.
And then think - how much would you pay to own the technology behind those devices?
That might help to explain why Softbank's eccentric chief executive Masayoshi Son is paying close to a 50% premium for the UK's ARM Holdings.
ARM doesn't make the chips that will eventually go into some of these devices, but it does design many of the chips used in smartphone devices (Apple and Samsung for instance) and other sensory devices today. ARM makes its money from charging a small royalty on its intellectual property.
"Softbank's acquisition is a huge bet on the future," says Marc Einstein of Frost & Sullivan in Tokyo.
"Masayoshi Son has a vision of the future of the telecoms and IT industry which will be designed around artificial intelligence, robots and the Internet of Things."
It's a big gamble, but then the Japanese technology entrepreneur has always been known to take big risks.
In a recent interview with Fortune, Nikesh Arora - the previous number two at Softbank - said this of his former boss: "Masa has an idea per minute. Recently he presented his views of 'The Singularity' to the Softbank board. He's also building a robot with a heart."
AI taking over?
The Singularity, if you didn't know already, is when artificial intelligence will overtake human intelligence. And Mr Son is a believer.
In an interview last month with the Nikkei, Mr Son said: "The Singularity is coming. Artificial intelligence will overtake human beings not just in terms of knowledge, but in terms of intelligence."
Crazy talk? Perhaps not, but the question is... how long will that vision of the future take to materialise?
And if you're going to spend $30bn (£22.7bn) on an investment, it had better start to pay off soon.
Industry experts tell me that that Mr Son has made a lot more money than anyone else in Japan - but he's also probably lost more money than anyone else in Japan too.
Softbank is currently in debt to the tune of around $100bn. The chief executive financed many of his acquisitions by borrowing heavily, but has recently been selling stakes in some of those purchases to help pay down this debt.
"Look at Softbank's investment activity in the first dotcom boom," says Harminder Singh, university lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology. "Some very ambitious plans that didn't work out."
"The departure of the previous heir-apparent Nikesh Arora may be an indicator of the tension this decision may have caused," Mr Singh explains.
"While the departure was publicly amicable, it's a fair bet that a decision to buy ARM, especially at such a high price, was not something Mr Arora was comfortable with."
It's probably helped that the sterling has weakened by more than 10% since Brexit - and conversely the Japanese yen has strengthened, making the ARM acquisition much cheaper for Softbank.
But cheaper doesn't mean cheap - and many Softbank investors will be wondering how long it will take for Mr Son to turn this gamble into returns for shareholders.
"It's really about the investment horizon," says Mr Einstein. "Is the Internet of Things going to happen in the next year? No. But the next 10, 20 or 30? Much more likely."
Mr Son is known to have an eye for potentially transformative industries and trends. He was an early investor in Alibaba and saw the potential in e-commerce before anyone else did. Shareholders in Softbank will be hoping that this pricey punt will pay off.
The four-time Olympic gold medallist won two of the three races with his Land Rover BAR team to finish top of the leaderboard with 26 points.
Groupama Team France are level on points but trail by one race win to the British boat's two.
Ainslie hopes to skipper Britain to a first America's Cup win in 165 years.
Portsmouth is the seventh stage of a lengthy qualification process that will count towards the 2017 America's Cup Challenger Series, the winner of which will take on Oracle in the 2017 America's Cup in Bermuda.
Ainslie said: "I was pleased with the way we regrouped for the final two races. We fought hard and kept going to come away with two wins.
"It was a day to keep your eyes open and keep fighting all the way because there were always opportunities to gain and lose."
Defending America's Cup champions Oracle Team USA are three points back on 23 alongside Softbank Team Japan.
Imre Marton, from Oxford, received threats and hundreds of Facebook messages from 22-year-old Charlie Howells, from Wantage in Oxfordshire.
She was jailed for two years in April but is due to be released in August.
Mr Marton said Howells told him: "I will make you ugly so no one else will want to be with you."
He said: "Everybody was laughing about it, it was just a joke. They thought I should feel lucky because I had a girl following me around in love. But this is just a terrible feeling.
"She knew where I worked, what I did in my free time, where I lived, she went to my house a couple of times. All the time, I had to look over my shoulders because she could be there."
Howells bombarded Mr Marton with love notes and rode his route for hours on end after learning his timetable off by heart.
She was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court to two months in jail for harassment and for two years for breaching a restraining order.
Mr Marton said: "She's locked up but she'll be out soon. The police are fitting my house with panic buttons. It's so crazy, I just want to run away.
"But if I press the panic button and there's a knife in my stomach, what good is that? I'm not bulletproof.
"It is difficult to prove and speak out, slowly it's killing you but you have to make some moves. You can't give up, that's my message to other victims."
Det Insp Ivan Reaney said victims of stalking are "strongly advised" to report it to the police.
He added: " In many cases, the conduct of the stalker might appear innocent, but, when carried out repeatedly and is unwanted, it may cause significant alarm, harassment or distress to the victim."
Prisoners serving determinate sentences are released automatically halfway through their terms, and some can qualify for earlier release depending on their behaviour in prison.
Posh were counting the cost of last Saturday's defeat at Walsall which deprived manager Grant McCann of three of his first-choice midfielders to injury and suspension.
Lively front men Craig Mackail-Smith and Junior Morais toiled for the hosts but found Southend's defenders in miserly mood.
Yet the match between the two play-off hopefuls soon followed the pattern of the respective clubs' progress of recent weeks, with Southend slowly turning the screw on their faltering opponents.
Ryan Inniss had just hit a Posh post after a smart turn and shot when Jason Demetriou broke the deadlock on the stroke of half-time.
The Cyprus international full-back glanced home Marc-Antoine Fortune's deflected cross to bag his first goal for the Shrimpers.
Phil Brown's men came on even stronger after the break and Fortune slotted home a through ball from Anthony Wordsworth on the hour.
The points were all but sealed four minutes later when Wordsworth took advantage of Posh's dithering defenders to crash in Southend's third goal from 18 yards.
Peterborough substitute Tom Nichols hit a classy consolation from Marcus Maddison's pass, but Michael Timlin fired in a fourth for the visitors in time added on.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Peterborough United 1, Southend United 4.
Second Half ends, Peterborough United 1, Southend United 4.
Goal! Peterborough United 1, Southend United 4. Michael Timlin (Southend United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nile Ranger.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ted Smith.
Attempt saved. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Luke O'Neill (Southend United).
Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luke O'Neill (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Hughes (Peterborough United).
Hand ball by Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United).
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Michael Timlin.
Substitution, Southend United. Luke O'Neill replaces Marc-Antoine Fortuné.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Jack Baldwin.
Attempt blocked. Theo Robinson (Southend United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Goal! Peterborough United 1, Southend United 3. Tom Nichols (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Marcus Maddison.
Delay in match Ryan Inniss (Southend United) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Nile Ranger (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United).
Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Southend United. Nile Ranger replaces Simon Cox.
Foul by Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United).
Adam Thompson (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United).
Attempt saved. Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Southend United. Theo Robinson replaces Jermaine McGlashan.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Paul Taylor replaces Martin Samuelsen.
Goal! Peterborough United 0, Southend United 3. Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jason Demetriou.
Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Martin Samuelsen (Peterborough United).
Goal! Peterborough United 0, Southend United 2. Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Simon Cox.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Ryan Tafazolli.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Tom Nichols replaces Junior Morias.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Morgan, 20, has been out since suffering a shoulder injury in Wales' World Cup quarter-final defeat by South Africa in October.
He is set to return in the Pro12 against Edinburgh in Newport on Sunday.
Asked if Morgan is good enough to challenge British and Irish Lion Davies, Jones replied: "Yes."
Former Wales flanker Jones told BBC Radio Wales: "Jonathan is a very good player, experienced and has different strengths to Tyler.
"But I think Tyler has something as a player that can add to a team at the 13 position.
"So he has a long way to go yet. He's still very young and we don't want to paint people to be something they're not quite at the moment.
"The potential is there, but potential doesn't earn you a living."
Davies, the 27-year-old Clermont Auvergne centre, was absent from the World Cup because of a knee injury.
Morgan benefited with a tournament call-up to take his caps tally to three.
"Well we've all seen the potential with Tyler," added Jones.
"His last game of rugby was against South Africa and he did really well that day."
Jones hopes Morgan can thrive in the latter stages of the Dragons' season to earn a place on Wales' three-Test tour to New Zealand in June.
"I think it's important for him - he's 50 games away from becoming the standard of player he wants to be.
"And in those 50 games he's got a lot of errors to make and a lot of rugby to play.
"How nice would it be that he could go down to New Zealand and to challenge Jonathan Davies for that 13 shirt.
"And that's what the national selectors will be looking for.
"Tyler is desperate for a run of games and we sincerely hope that he can start that on Sunday against Edinburgh."
28 April 2017 Last updated at 08:27 BST
But it's also a sport that has been growing in popularity in the UK for many years.
So is it all about pom-poms, fancy costumes and rhyming chants?
Watch Whitney's report to find out about all the hard work that goes into being a cheerleader.
Iain O'Hara was at Keepers Pond, Blaenavon, at 12:30 BST on 5 June, when fire lighters were pushed into the back wheel and set alight.
He filmed the blaze and put footage on Facebook in order to try and catch the culprit.
Gwent Police has appealed for information about the incident.
Mr O'Hara from Nantyglo, Blaenau Gwent, said he was warned by customers that the van was on fire and managed to escape unharmed.
While he is still able to use it, Mr O'Hara said paintwork has been damaged and he must buy new parts for machinery.
"If a compressor had gone up, myself and whoever I was serving could have been seriously injured or killed," he said.
Sussex raced to 87-2 in what was scheduled to be a nine-over contest.
Captain Ross Taylor (40 not out off 19 balls) and young North Walian Phil Salt (28 not out) had set up a challenging Sussex total.
Paceman Marchant de Lange claimed the early wickets of Luke Wright and Chris Nash in his first over.
Glamorgan have revealed that batsman David Lloyd will be out for two to four weeks with an arm strain, while Sussex did not field fast bowler Tymal Mills who made his comeback from injury against Hampshire the previous night.
Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport:
"It wasn't ideal, the umpires did a good job getting us onto the field and if you look at the scorecard of just over ten runs an over, we would have backed ourselves to give a good opportunity to win this game.
"A bit hit and miss (with the ball), but Salt played really well. He ran at Marchant who bowls quickly and hit him nicely, so credit to them.
"Overall we've been playing some good cricket and there's a good spirit in our environment, so it would be nice to get in a full game on Sunday (at home to Essex)."
Sussex batsman Phil Salt told BBC Sussex:
"It was a stopping wicket, but they bowled quite well- I got off to a flier but didn't kick on as I would have liked.
"It was quite a big learner for me watching how Ross played his innings, it's important for me to see how top international players play that sort of situation.
"I started playing at St Asaph in North Wales, around seven or eight, but my parents moved to the Caribbean for work and that's where I started playing properly. I'm not your normal English batsman, I like to be exciting and T20's my favourite format."
The staff at Community Safety Glasgow (CSG), an arms-length council body, want better pay for shift work.
The union Unison said 18 of its members - more than 90% of the staff - would take part in the action from 19:00 until 19:00 on Sunday.
CSG said it had "business continuity plans in place" to ensure monitoring of Glasgow's CCTV network.
Unison Glasgow branch secretary Brian Smith said: "These members work 12-hour shift patterns, providing a 24-hour service every day of the year.
"Other workers in CSG and Glasgow City Council on similar shift patterns receive an additional annual payment of £7,500. It is just a question of equality and fairness.
"We have given the employer years to sort this out through a promised job evaluation scheme which has now been shelved. Our members have been left with no option but to take strike action."
Another 48-hour strike has also been planned for Thursday 17 March until Saturday 19 March.
A spokesman for CSG said: "Public safety is paramount and we have business continuity plans in place to enable us to continue to monitor the city's CCTV network."
The 20-1 shot, ridden by Daniel Tudhope and trained by David O'Meara, denied Ryan Moore a fourth win of the day.
The jockey had earlier secured a 575-1 treble - on Ballet Concerto in the Spring Mile Handicap, Tupi in the Cammidge Trophy Stakes and Kool Kompany in the Doncaster Mile Stakes.
Donncha was third, with Gabrial fourth.
"He was held up slightly on the far side of the field, so to get that win was a real result," O'Meara told ITV.
"It means an awful lot. You like to hit the ground running - sometimes you come here and loads of bubbles are burst, but it's nice to win. It tells you you've probably done the right thing over the winter."
BBC Sport horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
The relief from the betting industry as Bravery's last-gasp success defied a Ryan Moore four-timer was palpable.
They could have done without a massive pay-out on combination bets on Moore's mounts a week before the potential uncertainties of the Grand National.
There was not so much relief as delight from the winning team, which has endured near-misses in this most competitive of races in the past, but finally nailed it.
And what a way to start the new season: David O'Meara admits to taking time to find his feet after a move of stables within Yorkshire, but things are well on track again now.
The 31-year-old appeared at Bucharest municipal court in Romania, charged with producing and distributing indecent images of children as well as blackmail.
He was remanded in custody.
Ronan Hughes, a 17-year-old from Coalisland, took his own life in June 2015 having been the victim of what the police call webcam blackmail.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it had been liaising with a number of agencies in a variety of jurisdictions as part of the investigation, including the Romanian Police, Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism, the National Crime Agency, and Europol.
PSNI's Detective Superintendent Gary Reid said PSNI detectives are currently in Romania assisting with the investigation.
"This has been complex and protracted and we are grateful to our colleagues in our partner agencies for their assistance to date," he said.
Det Supt Reid confirmed the man would be tried in Romania with the assistance of the PSNI.
"We'll be taking over our information that led to today's arrest," he said.
Calling on anyone else who finds themselves in a similar position to Ronan Hughes to contact police, he added: "We understand people might be embarrassed by it but we would say please, set that aside.
"If you don't feel comfortable speaking to us, speak to a third party because we don't want any more deaths."
This is potentially a huge success for the PSNI.
At the time of Ronan Hughes' death, few expected any arrests to be made.
The police warned at the time that catching anyone involved would be extremely difficult because they were based "on the other side of the world".
Ronan's parents said they believed their son had been targeted by a gang based in Nigeria.
The PSNI publicly agreed that the blackmailers were probably based somewhere in Africa.
But privately their investigations led them in a different direction.
The PSNI's specialist cyber-crime unit was able to trace the computer used to blackmail the teenager.
They then worked closely with police in Romania.
A number of PSNI officers then flew to Romania to arrest the suspect.
The police will hope this arrest will send a strong message that distance doesn't protect from detection and prosecution of suspected internet crimes.
Ronan was tricked into sharing intimate images of himself online, and some of them were then sent to his friends when he failed to pay a ransom.
Just hours later, the teenager, who was a pupil of St Joseph's Grammar in Donaghmore, took his own life.
Earlier this month, the PSNI said that 100 webcam blackmails had been reported to them this year.
They said people of all ages have been targeted, adding that cyber-stalking was becoming a "prevalent issue" in Northern Ireland.
Webcam blackmail involves overseas criminals scouring the web for people they can build a rapport with, before deceiving them into performing a sexual act on video.
The footage is recorded and then used to blackmail victims for money.
TNS, who won their 11th title in 2016-17, play the first leg at home on 27 June, with the return leg on 4 July.
In the Europa League, Bala Town face FC Vaduz (Liechtenstein), Connah's Quay Nomads have HJK Helsinki (Finland) and Bangor City play Lyngby BK (Denmark).
The first legs are scheduled for 29 June, with the return on 6 July.
Bala and the Nomads will have home advantage in the first leg, while Bangor will start away in Denmark.
If TNS beat Europa, they will face Croatian side HNK Rijeka in the Champions League second qualifying round.
But Saints interim manager Scott Ruscoe says they are keeping their minds on beating Europa FC first.
"It's not a bad draw logistically for us because it's going to be close with direct flights, things like that," said Ruscoe, who is in charge following Craig Harrison's departure to take over Hartlepool.
"I'm just pleased we didn't pick out the Armenian side or had to go to Kosovo, because that would have been difficult going into the unknown.
"We've seen enough of Europa FC, they're a decent side and... beat Lincoln to the title who were always thereabouts in [qualifying for] Europe."
Ruscoe revealed that the away leg on 4 July will be played in Portugal, possibly in Faro, as the pitch at the multi-sport Victoria Stadium in Gibraltar failed a Uefa inspection.
"A week Tuesday we'll be at Park Hall and after that in Portugal," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"We're very happy to be at home first, you can put your stamp on the tie early on.
"We're good at home. Touch wood, we can get off to a good start, we can suss them out... but our clear message will be to play our normal way."
Hammond's treble, plus tries from Val Rapava Ruskin and Sam Betty, gave Warriors a 35-7 half-time lead.
Further scores followed through Ben Howard, a penalty try which saw Enisei wing Igor Kurashov sent off, Sam Ripper-Smith and Max Stelling.
Mikhail Gachechiladze and Valeri Morozov scored the Russians' tries.
Kurashov was shown the red card 12 minutes from the end for illegally knocking the ball out of Hammond's hands as the Worcester wing threatened a fourth try.
Worcester's victory means they climb above Enisei to finish third in Pool Three.
Warriors: Howard; Humphreys, Braid, Te'o, Hammond; Shillcock, Baldwin; Rapava Ruskin, Taufete'e, Alo, O'Callaghan (capt), Spencer, Taylor, Betty, Cox.
Replacements: Singleton, Bower, Daniels, Kitchener, Ripper-Smith, de Cothi, Eden, Stelling.
Enisei-STM: Gaisin; Kurashov, Baranovs, Gerasimov, Simplikevich; Kushnarev, Shcherban; Morozov, Gasanov, Pronenko, Saulite, Gargalic, Gachechiladze, Temnov, Rudoi.
Replacements: Magomedov, Polivalov, Grey, Elgin, Budychenko, Uzunov, Mikhaltsov, Orlov.
Sin-bin: Kurashov (30)
Sent-off: Kurashov (68)
Ref: Daniel Jones
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A brace from Marc Richards and another from Matt Taylor saw the hosts seemingly cruising at 3-0 up with 16 minutes to go, but they were made to sweat in the end as goals from George Miller and Zeli Ismail set up a grandstand finish.
Both sides had early chances, Sam Hoskins denied by Ben Williams and Marc Richards heading over for the Cobblers while Tom Walker fired over for the visitors.
Neil Danns also saw his effort saved by Adam Smith before Danny Mayor shot wide from the edge of the box as Bury pushed for the opener.
Chances continued to fall at both ends and in between efforts from the lively Hoskins and Paul Anderson for Northampton, Bury defender Antony Kay should have done better with a close-range header which he could not keep on target.
The deadlock was broken in the 36th minute when Taylor's free-kick was fired into the bottom corner of the net by Richards.
It was almost 2-0 before the break when Hoskins raced through but he was denied by Williams, who also thwarted JJ Hooper.
After the restart Taylor was just off target from a free-kick and Hoskins fired over before again denied by Williams as Town looked to build on their lead.
That second goal arrived in the 64th minute, when Hoskins earned a penalty which Richards converted for his second goal of the afternoon.
Hooper fired wide before the Cobblers made it 3-0 in the 71st minute with another trademark Taylor free-kick, the midfielder finding the top corner of the net.
That goal looked to have killed off Bury, but they reduced the arrears in the 74th minute when Miller headed home after being set up by Danns following a free-kick.
The visitors then pulled another goal back in the 82nd minute when Ismail netted from the edge of the box.
Bury pushed for an equaliser and they almost got it in stoppage time when Kay saw his shot saved by Smith.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Northampton Town 3, Bury 2.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 3, Bury 2.
Hand ball by Neil Danns (Bury).
Hallam Hope (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury).
Substitution, Northampton Town. Lewin Nyatanga replaces Marc Richards.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Zander Diamond.
Neil Danns (Bury) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Neil Danns (Bury).
Attempt saved. Antony Kay (Bury) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Adam Smith.
Foul by Zander Diamond (Northampton Town).
George Miller (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Antony Kay (Bury).
Attempt blocked. Danny Mayor (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Jacob Mellis (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Northampton Town. John-Joe O'Toole replaces Jak McCourt.
Attempt missed. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Goal! Northampton Town 3, Bury 2. Zeli Ismail (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Hallam Hope with a cross.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Alfie Potter replaces Paul Anderson.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by George Miller.
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hallam Hope (Bury).
Goal! Northampton Town 3, Bury 1. George Miller (Bury) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Neil Danns.
Foul by Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town).
Hallam Hope (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. JJ Hooper (Northampton Town) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Marc Richards (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Niall Maher (Bury).
Goal! Northampton Town 3, Bury 0. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Danny Mayor (Bury) is shown the yellow card.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Danny Mayor (Bury).
Attempt missed. JJ Hooper (Northampton Town) header from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Goal! Northampton Town 2, Bury 0. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Penalty Northampton Town. Sam Hoskins draws a foul in the penalty area.
The Jamaican, who has been struggling for fitness, won both his heat and the final in 9.87 seconds in wet conditions at the Olympic Stadium.
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"I really wanted to run faster," said Bolt, 28, who defends his world title next month. "But it's getting there."
Meanwhile, Britain's double Olympic champion Mo Farah received a great reception as he won the 3,000m.
Farah, 32, was competing in England for the first time since allegations of doping were made against coach Alberto Salazar, claims which Salazar and Farah both deny.
Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, returning to the scene of her greatest triumph, ran 12.79 in a world-class 100m hurdles - just 0.25secs off the personal best she set on this track three years ago.
On the weekend when she will decide whether to compete at next month's World Championships in Beijing, the 29-year-old looks like she is finding her best form in her first season back since giving birth to her son, Reggie.
Besides Farah, other British winners on the night were 20-year-old Anguilla-born sprinter Zharnel Hughes, a member of Bolt's training group in Jamaica, in the 200m, and Laura Weightman, who triumphed in the 1500m.
Bolt had only raced once over 100m in 2015 before Friday, recording a time of 10.12 in April, because of a pelvic problem.
But his times on Friday were season's bests and equal sixth-fastest times of the year over the distance, although they are still behind American Justin Gatlin's world-leading time of 9.74.
Competing on the track where he won three gold medals at London 2012, Bolt started poorly in the final but overpowered his rivals in the last 10m.
America's Michael Rodgers was 0.03secs behind in second, while Bolt's compatriot Kemar Bailey-Cole was third in a personal best 9.92.
Significantly, British 100m champion CJ Ujah ran under 10 seconds for the second time in his career, equalling his personal best 9.96 on a chilly London evening.
Bolt promised to put on a show for the fans who endured a rain-soaked evening in east London to watch him compete in the first of a two-day Diamond League meeting.
As is always the way with the sport's principal showman his performance was more than a dash to the line: there was a lap around the track in a classic convertible to open the night and the habitual fooling around at the start line before he got down to business.
There are those who question whether we will see the Jamaican, who has run the three fastest times in history, at his best again, because of age and injury.
But he won his heat effortlessly - running into a headwind - and while winning the final was more of a challenge, he still clocked a world-class time.
Thousands roared his every stride, flags waving and flashbulbs popping, simply pleased to see an athlete who transcends his sport back on the track.
The Jamaican said in his press conference on Thursday he was not intending to lose in Beijing, where he won the first of his three Olympic titles.
Importantly, he has time to improve ahead of the Worlds and is closer to the heels of Gatlin than many had previously thought.
Gatlin, a two-time drugs cheat, has run under 9.8 secs in the blue riband event four times this year - 9.74, 9.75, 9.75, 9.78 - while Bolt has now run just three 100m races.
While the year's top three 100m sprinters, Gatlin, Asafa Powell and Trayvon Bromell, were not competing in London, Bolt's times in the Olympic Stadium were a loud and clear message that a successful defence of his 100m and 200m world titles is not fanciful talk.
The knee injury which hindered him last season has healed, while the pelvic problem which forced the Jamaican to withdraw from Diamond League meetings in Paris and Lausanne this month doesn't, on Friday night's evidence, seem to be serious.
And his form will be a relief to those who regard Bolt as the saviour of an event clouded by doping and feared Gatlin would easily win a sprint double next month.
With less than a month until the World Championships, it was a night full of promise for 21-year-old CJ Ujah, which suggests he can compete with the best in Beijing.
He finished ahead of Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the fourth-fastest man this season, and compatriot James Dasaolu, who was ninth in a disappointing 10.19.
"It's crazy to run in front of my home crowd. I just want to build on this ahead of Beijing," said Ujah, one of five men to go under 10 seconds on the night.
"This is my first time running in the stadium, so this is all quite new to me - the atmosphere was just electric."
Zharnel Hughes produced a stunning personal best of 20.05 to win the men's 200m in a time that only two Britons - John Regis and Adam Gemili - have bettered.
"I didn't expect the PB because last week I had a niggle in my hamstring. I was just thinking relax and get to the line," said Hughes, who earned his British passport last month.
So dreadful were the conditions on occasion, the men's pole vault was suspended until Saturday, with world record holder Renaud Lavillenie apologising to the crowd afterwards.
When the women's 400m runners opened the racing the rain had abated and defending world champion Christine Ohuruogu went on to finish fourth, 0.18secs adrift of the season's best 50.82 she set in Monaco last week.
There was a personal best 51.48 for Welsh athlete Seren Bundy-Davies in the same race, while in the men's 110m hurdles her compatriot David Omeregie set a personal best 13.50 in the heats.
With British Athletics selecting their squad for the Worlds on 27 July, Laura Weightman made a statement of intent by winning the women's 1500m.
"I've had a tricky few races recently and that made me lose a bit of confidence, so this has really brought it back and told me that I am in the right place."
Mr Megraw was one of the 16 murder victims who became known as the Disappeared.
His remains were found in a drainage ditch on Oristown bog, near Kells, by contractors called in to prepare the site for forensic excavations.
DNA tests have positively identified the remains as those of Mr Megraw.
The coroner for the city of Dublin has accepted this as evidence of identification and will shortly authorise the release of the remains to the family.
In a statement, Brendan Megraw's brother, Kieran, said the family are relieved that he has been found.
"He has been alone for nearly 40 years and now we can bring him home and lay him to rest with our mum and dad," he said.
"We want to thank all those who have supported us over the years."
He added: "Brendan was found because more information came in to refine the search area and we are hugely grateful for whoever provided it.
"We hope and pray that the suffering of those still waiting for the return of their loved ones will soon be brought to an end".
Mr Megraw was 23 when he was abducted from Twinbrook in Belfast in 1978, and murdered by the IRA.
He had recently been married and was awaiting the birth of his daughter.
His kidnappers had drugged his wife, Marie, in their home as they waited for his return, and as they took him away they warned her not to worry or contact police.
The Megraw family were only told by the IRA in 1999 that he was one of the Disappeared and his body had been dumped on the bogland near the town of Kells in County Meath.
Three previous searches for Mr Megraw, the most recent in 2010, were unsuccessful.
The Disappeared were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the Troubles.
Separate searches have also taken place on bogland a few miles away from where Mr Megraw was buried in County Meath for the remains of Kevin McKee and Seamus Wright, both of whom were abducted by the IRA in October 1972.
It is also suspected Joseph Lynskey, a former Cistercian monk taken from the Beechmount area of west Belfast in the summer of 1972, was also buried somewhere in the region.
This ranking of online searches is very different from the traditional map of the global powerhouses of higher education.
There is a strong interest in online courses, rather than traditional campus-based universities, says Google.
And there are five Indian institutions in the top 20 of most searched-for universities.
The top search worldwide is for the University of Phoenix, a US-based, for-profit university, with many online courses and a sometimes controversial record on recruitment.
The University of Phoenix, founded in the 1970s, comes ahead of famous US academic institutions such as Harvard, Stanford and Columbia.
In second place in this league table of university searches is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - last week ranked as the world's best university and also an institution with a strong record for pioneering online courses.
The top European university is not some ancient institution, but the UK's distance learning pioneer, the Open University.
It has been developing online courses, including for the US, and is in third place in the Google most-searched rankings.
University College London and the London School of Economics are both ahead of Oxford and Cambridge among UK universities.
The University of Calicut, in Kerala, India, is fourth in this ranking of online searches. And Anna University in Chennai is the second Indian university in the top 10.
Liberty University, an evangelical Christian university based in Virginia in the US, with many online students, appears in the top 20.
The internet has become a key marketplace for universities to reach potential students, says Google's analysis.
It is also increasingly the medium for delivering courses, including massive open online courses or "Moocs". In 2013, searches for online universities overtook traditional universities.
Taking the UK higher education system as an example, Google's search patterns show a globalised and fast-changing market.
Among searches worldwide for UK universities, 40% are from outside the UK. The biggest international regions for searching for UK universities are Asia Pacific and western Europe.
This has helped to put five UK universities in the top 20 - but Google's report on search data shows the volatility and pace of change.
In 2011, the most searched-for universities in the UK, apart from the Open University, were conventional campus-based institutions, headed by Oxford and Cambridge.
By 2014, all of these UK campus universities had been overtaken by Coursera, the US-based provider of online courses. Other Mooc providers, such as edX and FutureLearn, had also emerged as bigger than many traditional UK universities.
"The growth that they've experienced has been phenomenal," says the Google analysis. "Higher education institutions must decide whether to embrace and adapt or risk getting left behind."
The Khan Academy, which has been providing online teaching material since 2006, has more search activity than Cambridge University, teaching since the 13th Century.
Universities are acutely aware of the importance of their online presence, says Ronald Ehrenberg, director of Cornell University's Higher Education Research Institute in New York.
The internet is the "primary way" that universities market themselves to potential students and to alumni, says Prof Ehrenberg.
"We update our web page multiple times a week to broadcast all the news that is going on at the university and all of the achievements, including research, of our faculty and students, and showcase all the visitors to the university.
"But this is only the tip of the iceberg in the way that the internet has changed how we behave.
"Many institutions are heavily into online instruction as a way of expanding enrolments... many institutions are moving to expand revenues by growing professional masters programmes in a wide range of areas."
Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute in London, says the impact of Moocs has been "over-sold".
But he says university websites have an important role in recruiting, particularly for overseas students.
The Google data suggests that academics, accustomed to university terms, will also need to pay attention to search terms.
"The internet is playing an ever increasing role in the decision making. Students are online searching and consuming content in all forms when they are deciding whether or not to go to university and deciding which universities to apply for," said Harry Walker, education industry head at Google.
Connor Jennings came closest to breaking the deadlock in a tight first half, heading against a post for the away side from Adam Buxton's neat cross.
In the second half, Rovers rued a miss from James Norwood, as Williamson went up the other end and found the top corner at the near post with precision and calmness.
Richard Hill's side were always in control, as emphasised in the latter stages when McAllister and Sam Matthews came off the bench, with the latter crossing for the former to head in off the underside of the bar.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Eastleigh 2, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Eastleigh 2, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Substitution, Eastleigh. James Constable replaces Ben Williamson.
Goal! Eastleigh 2, Tranmere Rovers 0. Craig McAllister (Eastleigh).
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. James Alabi replaces Connor Jennings.
Goal! Eastleigh 1, Tranmere Rovers 0. Ben Williamson (Eastleigh).
Substitution, Eastleigh. Sam Matthews replaces Ross Stearn.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jack Dunn replaces Jay Harris.
Second Half begins Eastleigh 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Craig McAllister replaces Chris Zebroski.
First Half ends, Eastleigh 0, Tranmere Rovers 0.
Andy Cook (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Zebroski (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Norbert Hofer's new slogan translates as "So help me God" which his party says reflects "a strong anchorage in Christian and Western values".
But leaders from Protestant churches said God was the defender of the weak, "who today include refugees".
Mr Hofer's Freedom Party has campaigned against immigration.
The Christian leaders - not including the country's dominant Catholic Church - also said God was not Western, but universal.
"God cannot be manipulated for personal intentions or political purposes," Bishop Michael Buenker said in a joint statement with other Protestant leaders (in German).
"We consider that mentioning God for one's own political interests and using him along with reference to the Christian West to indirectly attack other religions and cultures amounts to an abuse of his name and of religion in general.
"We reject the use of God for political campaigning."
In response, Mr Hofer tweeted the lyrics to the Austrian national anthem (in German), which mention God, a picture of a US dollar note bearing the slogan "In God we trust" and a picture of the cover of a book about German Chancellor Angela Merkel, entitled So wahr mir Gott helfe.
Mrs Merkel used the optional phrase at her swearing-in ceremony. It is the exact same slogan as Mr Hofer used, and translates to "So help me God".
Mr Hofer is facing an independent Green-backed candidate, Alexander van der Bellen, in an election which is being rerun because of procedural irregularities. If he wins, he will become the first far-right head of state in Europe since the EU was founded.
In May, he lost by 31,000 votes to Mr van der Bellen, but the Freedom Party's claim of procedural irregularities was upheld in court and the election will be re-run in December. The re-run had to be postponed after an October attempt was curtailed due to postal vote envelopes not being sticky enough.
The Freedom Party said Mr Hofer's slogan had come directly from his heart.
Party official Herbert Kickl said the phrase was "in no way a misuse of the concept of God" and that mentioning God was "deeply rooted in our tradition and culture".
His other slogans included "Norbert Hofer: for Austria with heart and soul".
Mr Hofer was born into a Roman Catholic family but has since become a Protestant. His wife and children are Catholic.
Philippe Lamberts said MEPs could move from the French city to their other building in Brussels, Belgium.
His suggestion came as new proposals to redistribute 160,000 migrants were announced.
An influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees has sparked a crisis in the 28-nation EU.
"This parliament where we are gathered today, well we use it only 50 days of the year," Mr Lamberts said as lawmakers debated an address by European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker.
"For the other 300 days, the 750 MEP offices, all heated, all with their own shower cubicle, remain empty and useless.
"We propose that this... perfectly equipped building be used as a temporary home for the migrants and refugees while we do our work in Brussels."
Migrants have been pouring into western EU countries, particularly Austria and Germany, where they are being cared for in registration centres. But officials say they are struggling to cope with the numbers.
The Green Party has been a fierce critic of the European Parliament's monthly move between Brussels and Strasbourg, branding it expensive and damaging to the environment.
The city stands on the Rhine facing Germany, and France insists it is a symbol of post-war unity and friendship.
Strasbourg hotels, restaurants and other services also benefit from the regular visits by MEPs, parliament staff, journalists and lobbyists.
The Strasbourg parliament building was inaugurated in 1999 by then French President Jacques Chirac.
In 2008, part of the ceiling in the plenary chamber collapsed. Fortunately, the room was empty at the time and no-one was hurt.
The Airlander 10 - which is part plane and part airship - took off from Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire.
Its original test flight on Sunday was postponed, but it finally left the ground at 19:40 BST.
The £25m aircraft measures 302ft (92m) long and is about 50ft (15m) longer than the biggest passenger jets.
Live: Latest updates on the maiden flight of Airlander 10
In pictures: The Airlander 10 on the day of its maiden flight
Sunday's attempt was dropped because of a "technical issue" which could not be resolved in time for a daylight flight.
The airship is not allowed to fly at night during the test stage.
Christened the Martha Gwyn, the aircraft was first developed for the US government as a surveillance aircraft but the project was shelved amid defence cutbacks.
British firm Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) launched a campaign to return the Airlander 10 to the skies in May 2015.
The huge aircraft will be able to stay airborne for around five days during manned flights.
HAV claims it could be used for a variety of functions such as surveillance, communications, delivering aid and even passenger travel.
The company hopes to be building 10 Airlanders a year by 2021.
The Airlander 10 was launched from Cardington Sheds, a Grade II-listed relic of World War One which housed airships in the 1920s.
The body of Oliver Gobat, 38, was found in a burnt-out car on the Caribbean island in April last year.
He was reportedly shot and then set alight.
After the inquest in Woking delivered its verdict, The Foreign Office said it had been agreed in principle UK police could assist investigators in St Lucia.
Surrey Police said no request for assistance had yet been made.
Mr Gobat, known as Ollie, was born on the island but grew up in Surrey, where he played junior cricket at county level.
He and his two older brothers ran a five-star boutique hotel at an exclusive resort in St Lucia.
The Foreign Office said any assistance from UK forces would have to be funded by Caribbean authorities.
But, it said, no decision had been made to deploy police to St Lucia and it could not comment on cost details.
Surrey Police said it was aware of Mrs May's decision and would "carefully" consider any requests from St Lucia.
The report, Mapping the Social Business Sector in Wales, identified 1,698 organisations operating in the social business sector in Wales.
This includes co-operatives, mutuals, social enterprises and employee-owned businesses.
It is based on a survey of 810 organisations - 48% of the sector.
Other key findings of the report were:
Glenn Bowen, director of enterprise at the Wales Co-operative Centre, said the report suggested there had been "real growth" in the sector in the last two years.
He said: "Social businesses are often formed as a result of issues identified at a grassroots level by a local community.
"They plug gaps in provision and, in some cases, grow through innovative delivery and defining services in direct response to their community's needs."
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said the Welsh Government was "committed to working closely with social businesses to help them to thrive and grow".
The research was commissioned by Social Business Wales and conducted by Wavehill Ltd.
Santosh Benjamin-Muthiah died in November 2010 after he was overcome by smoke at his home in Wealdstone, north London.
The 36-year-old helped his two daughters to safety through a window.
His daughters - one aged three and the other three months - survived, but he did not escape the house himself.
Coroner Andrew Walker has accepted recommendations put forward by Hertfordshire Trading Standards and London Fire Brigade about the way safety problems are recorded and how irresponsible manufacturers should be punished.
He will now urge the government to reform safety standards.
Lawyers representing Mr Benjamin-Muthiah's family said the changes "would stop manufacturers keeping safety issues secret" and force them to take action.
Mr Walker recorded a narrative verdict at North London Coroner's Court, which blamed a defrost timer on the family's Beko fridge-freezer for the blaze.
The inquest previously heard that Beko, one of Europe's largest white goods brands, had been aware of a possible safety issue with components as far back as 2003 but failed to rectify it.
Mr Walker said he could not be sure what caused the defrost timer to fail and said a product recall to fix the problematic component might not have prevented the blaze.
The family's lawyer, Jill Patterson, said the inquest had highlighted problems with regulating products and product recall.
"The changes could potentially overhaul consumer product safety regulation," she said.
"They put the power back in to the hands of consumers and stop manufacturers from keeping their problems secret."
After the inquest, Mr Benjamin-Muthiah's wife Jennifer said: "Manufacturers, producers and their retailers should be held more accountable for their actions, or their lack of response to consumer safety concerns.
"The value of a human life is priceless."
Palmer, who has died at the age of 87, was the first sportsman to use his fame to build a business empire, through an array of commercial ventures.
He put his name to products and services, including United Airlines, Cadillac cars, Rolex watches, Hertz car rental and Callaway golfing products.
The effects of his vision spilled over into other sports including tennis.
"He had the good looks, and affable persona and smile, as well as golfing ability, to become the template for what every successful sports endorser should be," says sports sponsorship expert Nigel Currie.
"He had all the attributes you need to maximise your earnings through commercial activities.
"Before then sportsmen made all their money from hitting a ball in a sporting arena."
Indeed, the man nicknamed The King, was the first golf player to make $1m from playing the sport.
He was Mark McCormack's - the undisputed king of sports marketing - first client at agency IMG, and together they invented a way of making more money off the golf course than on it.
In the first two years of his agreement with Mr McCormack, the golfer's endorsement earnings leapt from $6,000 a year to more than $500,000.
Palmer put his name to a variety of products and services, including United Airlines, Cadillac cars, Rolex watches, Hertz car rental, Pennzoil engine fluid, Callaway golfing products and E-Z-Go golf carts.
And he founded Arnold Palmer Enterprises to handle his endorsements and other ventures.
"Palmer was such a huge golfing icon in America, he was hugely popular with the public, and he and McCormack were able to make money from using his personality in conjunction with different brands," says Mr Currie.
"And it was not just endorsements during his playing career, nor indeed just golf brands.
"He also made a huge amount of money after he stopped playing."
The golfer was loved as an everyman superstar, and even had a drink named after him - the Arnold Palmer cocktail, made from one part iced tea and one part lemonade.
He also gave his name to a professional tournament - The Arnold Palmer Invitational, held each March at his private golf resort in Bay Hill, Florida.
He also leaves behind nearly 300 signature-designed courses.
"Whether he was able to physically oversee and have total control over the development of all of these courses is arguable," says Mr Currie.
"But he will have worked with top people in bringing them to fruition, and certainly will have had a huge involvement in each design."
As well as endorsements and course designs, Palmer is also credited with helping to make golf a popular TV sport during the late 1950s.
Palmer attracted thousands of diehard fans known as "Arnie's army" and helped to promote the game into the television age.
Mr Currie says that the power of Palmer's personality in securing such a powerful commercial position for himself should not be underrated, given that he was not the most global successful player ever.
"Jack Nicklaus was the more successful player, and won more titles," he says.
Nicklaus won 18 majors, and Tiger Woods has won 14, while Palmer secured an impressive seven majors between 1958 and 1964, as part of his overall haul of 90 tournaments worldwide.
"Palmer had a short career at the very top, and did not win a major title after the early 1960s."
But he had shown he was already thinking ahead to a career off the course, shrewdly signing that IMG deal with McCormack as early as 1960.
Nowadays it is commonplace for sports stars to put their names to commercial products.
But half a century ago such as association between sport and brands was unheard of.
Palmer has left a legacy for which today's high earning stars, earning astronomical sums from their own deals, should be eternally grateful.
The likes of Tiger Woods, who signed lucrative deals with global firms such as Nike, American Express and GM, Nick Faldo and Greg Norman, who launched a number of commercial ventures, from sports clothing to wines, as well as tennis stars such as Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova all followed in the path created by Palmer.
"He was the prototype for all of today's high earning sports men and women, and one of the few people you can truly say changed the world of sports business," says Mr Currie.
"As well as being as a highly significant business figure, he was also an American and golfing icon."
Of more than 90 trusts that responded to FOI requests, half are making at least £1m a year, the news agency Press Association (PA) found.
The Patients Association said the charges were "morally wrong".
But many trusts defended their revenues, saying some or all of the money was put back into patient care.
The investigation showed hospitals were making increasing amounts of money from staff, patients and visitors - including those who are disabled - who used their car parks.
It also found hospitals were giving millions of pounds to private firms to run their car parks for them, with some receiving money from parking fines.
Others are tied into private finance initiative contracts, where all the money charged from car parks goes to companies under the terms of the scheme.
Seven NHS trusts earned more than £3m in 2014-15 from charges, another eight made more than £2m a year and a further 33 earned more than £1m a year.
Almost half of all trusts also charged disabled people for parking in some or all of their disabled spaces.
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: "The money is never reinvested in frontline services. Hospital car parks are often managed by private contractors who take a huge percentage of the profits.
"This is morally wrong - and charging disabled people is a disgrace."
Laura Keely, from charity Macmillan Cancer Support, told the BBC: "You shouldn't necessarily penalise cancer patients and other people with long-term conditions who are having to attend hospital to receive life saving treatment, that just isn't fair.
"There could be concessionary schemes. There could be barrier schemes, people proving that they are there for a hospital appointment, to weed out people who should not be using the hospital [car park] to do their Christmas shopping."
Shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said the figures were "worrying".
Josie Irwin, head of employment relations at the Royal College of Nursing, said the charges were having a "real impact" on nurses' pay.
Hospital car parking charges in Scotland and Wales were abolished in 2008.
Three car parks in Scotland, operated under Private Finance Initiative contracts, still have car parking fees. The Scottish government said there are no plans to abolish charges at these hospitals.
Three hospitals in Wales also continue to charge, but have been told to stop doing so once their contracts with private parking firms end in 2018.
A spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety said hospital parking charges are permitted "where they are set to recover the cost of investment in and maintenance of car park provision including associated security costs".
Patients receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy treatment, patients receiving renal dialysis and next of kin visiting patients in critical care or a high dependency unit are eligible for free car parking in Northern Ireland.
The London North West Healthcare NHS Trust paid £1.8m in 2014 went to the company Apcoa, which manages the Northwick Park multi-storey under a PFI contract.
The company, which pays the trust about £40,000 a month on a lease basis, also kept £34,052 in parking fines in 2014.
Some NHS trusts also raised a significant amount from charging staff for parking.
Of the £3,876,314 the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust raised from parking charges in 2014-15, £1,206,836 was from staff.
Many trusts said the money was put back into patient care or was spent on maintaining car parks or grounds.
Others said their size and the fact that they served busy neighbourhoods meant they took more in revenue.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "We expect all NHS organisations to follow our guidelines on car parking, including offering discounts to disabled people.
"Patients and families shouldn't have to deal with the added stress of unfair parking charges and our guidance rightly helps the public hold the NHS to account for any unfair charges or practices."
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The new qualifications - mostly studied for by fourth year students - represent the biggest shake-up to the exam system for a generation.
They are among 140,000 students across Scotland receiving their results.
Meanwhile, the number of Higher passes has reached a record level, although the pass rate itself fell slightly.
While all candidates receive their results by post, about a quarter of them also asked to get a text message or email.
The National 5 qualification is broadly equivalent to a Credit pass in a Standard Grade or a good pass in an old O Grade. The National 4 is the equivalent of a General level Standard Grade.
The Scottish government, unions and education authorities are all cautioning against direct comparisons between the National 4 and 5 results and Standard Grade results in previous years.
One key difference is the courses are only a year long, while there have also been changes to content.
Another big change is that it is possible to fail a National 5 exam or National 4 course - in practice, only a tiny minority failed Standard Grades completely even if they did not get the level of award they hoped for.
The pass rate for National 4 courses was 93%, while the pass rate for the more academically advanced National 5 courses was 81.1%. National 5 candidates who pass will receive an A, B or C grade while National 4 candidates simply pass or fail.
Generally speaking, fourth year students were studying for fewer qualifications than before - perhaps six or seven Nationals rather than seven or eight Standard Grades - although the numbers vary across the country.
Learning minister Dr Alasdair Allan said: "Our education system has taken another significant step forward today.
"The new National qualifications represent a shift towards deeper learning and a greater emphasis on analysis, engagement and understanding.
"These are the qualities on which we continue to strengthen our education system."
Some teachers say the introduction of the National 4 and 5 qualifications was one of the most challenging of their careers.
There were widespread claims of excessive workload, bureaucracy and stress.
There is likely to be relief in the profession that the exams, marking and distribution of results appear to have all gone smoothly.
Larry Flanagan, EIS general secretary said: "Scotland's pupils and teachers deserve high praise for a strong set of exam results which have been achieved during a very significant period of change for Scottish education.
"It is of great credit to the work of our schools, pupils and teachers that the diet has been so successful, at a time when budgets have been declining and workload pressures increasing.
"Pupils, parents and teachers should be extremely proud of this strong set of results and the EIS sends its congratulations to all pupils who have been successful in their exams this year."
Alan Mackenzie, acting general secretary of the SSTA, added: "It will be difficult to make comparison on the basis of no like-for-like comparison with the new qualifications. Only after schools and teachers have been able to get behind the statistics to examine real cases can assessment be made. That will take time."
Candidates for other qualifications - including Highers, Advanced Highers and Intermediates - are also receiving their results.
In total, 191,850 Highers were taken this year - up more than 9,000 on last year. However the pass rate slipped slightly from 77.4% to 77.1%.
Candidates who failed their National 5 courses face different scenarios. Some will have already completed a special unit - an Added Value Unit - which means they will get a National 4 award instead. Others will be able to complete this unit in the coming school year.
A special helpline has been set up for any candidate who did not get the results they had hoped for. Trained advisors are able to offer advice on the university clearance system, college courses, modern apprenticeships and other options. The number is 0808 100 8000.
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The man died at the Gunmakers Arms, in Aston, Birmingham, on 10 December.
He had been drinking heavily and was sprayed with water to sober up and then placed on the floor, unconscious, before the manager left to get food.
A coroner's inquest later ruled the customer died from acute ethyl alcohol intoxication and a pre-existing heart condition.
The inquest heard the customer, who has not been named, had been in the pub since about 18:00 GMT on 9 December, drinking cider and spirits.
At about 23:30 GMT he fell asleep in a chair. He was still asleep at 00:30 GMT when the manager and another customer decided to get some food.
When they returned, the man was cold and was moved next to a radiator and an ambulance was called when he did not come round.
Reviewing the pub's licence, Birmingham City Council's Licensing Committee said he had consumed "an excessive amount of alcohol, directly from a bottle of Jack Daniels in one go, in circumstances when there had been a clear management failing in prohibiting any such action from arising in the first place".
A number of non-duty paid bottles of spirits were also on display and there was evidence spirits had been decanted from some bottles to others on display on the optics, the committee said.
Councillor Lynda Clinton, chair of the committee, said it was "entirely appropriate" to revoke the premises' licence given concerns raised by West Midlands Police and Birmingham Trading Standards.
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The body of 60-year-old Elizabeth Mackay, or Muir, was discovered at a house in the city's Hilton area on Thursday by two of her friends.
Ms Mackay, who was originally from Nairn and had been living in Inverness for eight years, had a number of injuries.
Police said she had been described as "a loner" and a "private person".
Det Ch Insp Keith Hardie, who has arrived in Inverness with a team of detectives from Edinburgh, said murder was a "rare crime" in the Highland capital.
He told BBC Scotland: "It is quite apparent from a number of injuries that this has been a fairly sustained and brutal attack in the safety of her home."
Ms Mackay was last seen on Tuesday afternoon and her body was discovered at about 16:45 on Thursday.
Det Ch Insp Hardie appealed for other sightings of her and also for help from the public in "building a picture" of her life.
He said: "We know she was a bit of a loner, kept herself to herself. As far as we are aware she never had any enemies in the community or elsewhere.
"She has been described by family and friends as a gentle person who wouldn't hurt a fly, making this horrible crime even harder to comprehend."
Police have appealed to the community in Hilton for help with their investigation into her death.
Det Ch Insp Hardie said the local community would have been "shaken" by the murder.
But he added that it was "best placed" to have noticed anything suspicious or out of the ordinary at the time.
The senior detective said: "Neighbours and the wider community of Hilton will be understandably shaken and upset by this tragic event and officers will continue to carry out patrols.
"Local communities are best placed to pick up on things that are out of place or events out of the ordinary, so we would appeal to anyone who heard or saw anything unusual or suspicious, even if its appears insignificant."
The house in Kintail Court is the same terraced bungalow where the body of hairdresser Ilene O'Connor, 39, was found in 2006.
Brian Grant, 50, was jailed in 2007 for beating Ms O'Connor to death and burying her body in the garden.
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Ards moved into second place by beating Glentoran 2-0, while Linfield kept up their pursuit of the leaders with a 4-1 victory over Portadown at Windsor Park.
Tony Kane netted two penalties in Ballymena's 3-2 win over Cliftonville.
Adam Lecky's injury-time penalty gave Ballinamallard a 1-0 win at Glenavon while Coleraine defeated Carrick 2-0.
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Crusaders suffered a setback when Seanan Clucas fired into the bottom right-hand corner on the half hour but Gavin Whyte, returning from Northern Ireland Under-21 duty, levelled from the penalty spot two minutes later.
Heatley grabbed his first with a close-range finish in the 79th minute and the winger's well-struck shot with one minute remaining secured maximum points for Stephen Baxter's defending champions.
Ards continued their impressive early-season form by seeing off troubled Glentoran, with Director of Football Roy Coyle in temporary charge, at Clandeboye Park.
Central defender Johnny Taylor gave Niall Currie's side the lead with a sixth-minute header from an Emmett Friars corner, with substitute Ross Arthurs flicking home the second in the 55th minute, 10 minutes after his introduction.
Glenavon squandered numerous chances, before Lecky's fourth goal of the season two minutes into added time ensured a first win of the Premiership campaign for Gavin Dykes' Ballinamallard.
The Lurgan Blues drop four places into sixth position in the table.
Ross Gaynor's strike gave Linfield a 1-0 advantage at half-time against Portadown and the Blues went further ahead thanks to Mark Stafford's headed effort on 46 and Paul Smyth's cool finish after 72.
Robert Garrett's outstanding strike on 85 was a mere consolation for the Ports, as Aaron Burns restored the Blues' three-goal cushion two minutes later with a simple header from Kirk Millar's assist.
David McDaid's close-range finish midway through the first half put Cliftonville in front at the Showgrounds but Tony Kane equalised on the hour with his first penalty of the game after Eamon Seydak had pushed Conor McCloskey.
Cathair Friel's shot from the edge of the area took a wicked deflection over Jason Mooney with 10 minutes left and five minutes later Kane was on target from the spot again after Seydak handled Johnny McMurray's cross.
Ross Lavery's low left-foot shot into the bottom corner in the 88th minute reduced the Reds' deficit.
Coleraine made it three wins in a row and moved up to fourth in the standings as goals by James McLaughlin on 70 minutes and Darren McCauley in the final minute saw them overcome struggling Carrick Rangers.
The sale smashes the previous record for a sale of The Hobbit, set in 2008 when a first edition sold for £60,000.
Tolkien gave the book to Katherine "Kitty" Kilbride, one of his students at Leeds University in the 1920s.
The Elvish verse is an extract from Tolkien's The Lost Road, part of his 12-volume History of Middle-earth.
The Hobbit introduced the character of Bilbo Baggins and the "one ring" that would feature again in his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Sotheby's had expected the first edition to fetch up to £70,000 at Thursday's auction of children's books and illustrated works.
West's headline booking had caused some controversy and his performance divided opinion among the crowd on site.
He opened with number one hit Stronger and performed on a largely bare stage with a bank of white lights above.
But his set was briefly interrupted by a stage invasion by British comedian and prankster Lee Nelson.
The prankster, real name Simon Brodkin, wrote on Twitter: "Some people were saying Kanye shouldn't headline Glastonbury so I thought I'd give him a hand."
But he was swiftly bundled off stage by a security guard and West resumed his song Black Skinhead.
At one point, he left the stage to travel above the heads of the crowd in the cradle of a cherry picker for the songs Touch the Sky and All of the Lights.
His performance came after more than 134,000 people signed a petition objecting to his booking, and Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis had death threats on Twitter from a disgruntled fan.
Kanye West's appearance was one of the weekend's biggest talking points.
He is one of the biggest names in popular music, with 21 Grammy Awards under his belt and 11 million albums sold in the US alone.
However he is notoriously erratic and uncompromising, comparing himself to figures including Jesus and Leonardo Da Vinci, and occasionally launching into long mid-set rants.
But he kept his mid-song chat relatively short at Glastonbury.
He did not directly address the pre-show debate, simply telling fans: "Thank you for coming out tonight."
The online petition had called for him to be dropped from the Glastonbury bill and be replaced by a rock band. But the rapper has labelled the petition "an insult to music fans all over the world".
At one stage West was joined on stage by Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to perform their song Lost In The World.
And afterwards, the rap star revealed that the song had been inspired by his wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, who was watching the show.
He said: "This song was extra special for me. I was trying to explain to a girl I loved so much how much I loved her. She brought this poetry out in me that became the lyrics and she ended up becoming my wife and she's here tonight."
But he put the focus firmly back on himself when, before introducing one of his biggest hits, Gold Digger, he said: "I'm going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight... You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet."
Kanye West followed hitmaker Pharrell Williams, who played crowd-pleasing tunes including Happy, Blurred Lines and Get Lucky on the Pyramid Stage.
He was joined by a group of children on stage to dance to Happy.
Other acts performing on Saturday included Burt Bacharach, George Ezra and Paloma Faith.
Celebrities spotted at the festival included Adele, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, Lewis Hamilton, Stella McCartney and James Corden.
The weather on the Somerset site brightened up on Saturday following Friday's rain, but showers scattered the site on Sunday morning.
Rock veterans The Who will close the festival on Sunday, Lionel Richie will perform in the festival's now-established Sunday afternoon legends slot and Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama will visit the festival's Green Fields.
The options may include chemotherapy and radiation, his doctors said. The 80-year-old politician is in "good spirits" recovering at home.
The tumour was discovered during a surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye last week.
A Vietnam veteran, Mr McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war.
The six-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate underwent surgery at a clinic in Phoenix, in the state of Arizona, last Friday.
Tissue analysis revealed that a primary brain tumour known as glioblastoma was associated with the clot, a statement from the Mayo Clinic said.
"The senator's doctors say he is recovering from his surgery 'amazingly well' and his underlying health is excellent," it added.
"Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation."
By James Cook, BBC North America correspondent
John McCain is known in Washington as a tough, independent-minded senator - a warrior who is now facing another battle against cancer.
He earned his reputation the hard way, being shot down as a US Navy pilot over Vietnam where he was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, including two in solitary confinement.
Repeatedly beaten and tortured, Mr McCain was never again able to raise his arms above his head.
During the most recent presidential election campaign, Donald Trump belittled the senator as "not a war hero" saying "I like people who weren't captured".
Many Americans were horrified.
Mr McCain may have annoyed many Republicans by arguing for reforms to campaign finance and immigration laws.
He may have irritated opponents of America's many wars with his forceful arguments in favour of the projection of US military might.
But this country reveres its veterans. The attacks on John McCain's personal sacrifice were roundly condemned then - and millions of Americans will be praying for his recovery now.
Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive brain tumour, and increases in frequency with age, affecting more men than women.
Mr McCain, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, was in "good spirits as he continues to recover at home with his family", his office said.
His family reacted with "shock" to the news, his 32-year-old daughter Meghan said.
"It won't surprise you to learn that in all of this, the one of us who is most confident and calm is my father," she said on Twitter.
"So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has."
President Donald Trump said Mr McCain has "always been a fighter" and, in a statement, said: "Get well soon".
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Mr McCain was a "hero to our country".
"He has never shied from a fight, and I know that he will face this challenge with the same extraordinary courage that has characterized his life," he said on Twitter.
Former President Barack Obama tweeted: "John McCain is an American hero and one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John."
The fine is the largest of its type imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
As many as 93,000 customers may be entitled to refunds or additional compensation, the FCA announced.
The Clydesdale apologised, and said it had now changed its procedures.
The fine relates to a policy change in May 2011, which meant complaint handlers did not take all relevant documents into account when assessing whether customers had been wrongly sold PPI.
The bank - which has 2.5 million customers in the UK - also provided false information to the Financial Ombudsman Service between May 2012 and 2013.
In a small number of cases, bank employees "altered certain system print outs" to make it look as though Clydesdale held no relevant documents.
"The fact that Clydesdale misled the Financial Ombudsman by providing false information about the information it held is particularly serious," said Georgina Philippou, acting director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA.
Staff also deleted information about PPI sales from customer records, the authority said.
It added that the practices had not been authorised by managers.
The Clydesdale, which is headquartered in Glasgow, said 180,000 files were now being reviewed to see if customers may be due compensation.
After apologising for the mistake, it said it had already made changes.
"As soon as this issue was discovered, we took immediate steps to stop it; we made the regulator aware and rapidly introduced strict new monitoring procedures to prevent any recurrence," said acting chief executive Debbie Crosbie.
The Clydesdale, together with its sister brand Yorkshire Bank, has set aside £806m to deal with PPI mis-selling.
In total, £18.5bn has now been paid out to customers of all banks and credit card firms who were wrongly sold PPI since January 2011.
The insurance was supposed to cover mortgage or loan repayments in the event of redundancy, but for many people the insurance was not necessary.
The bank was previously fined £8.9m in September 2013 after miscalculating the mortgage repayments of more than 42,000 customers.
A 24-year-old pedestrian died after he was struck by a lorry at Drumquill, on the Castleblayney to Annyalla Road in County Monaghan.
Later on Friday morning, a 36-year-old man died following a two-car collision at Tully Esker on the Drogheda to Monasterboice Road in County Louth.
A man and a woman in their 30s were taken to hospital.
They were travelling in the other vehicle.
Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Lorraine Barwell, 54, was assaulted on Monday as she escorted a prisoner from Blackfriars Crown Court to a van.
Humphrey Burke, 22, appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on Wednesday charged with grievous bodily harm over an alleged assault.
The Ministry of Justice and Serco believe she is the first prisoner custody officer to die while on duty.
A post-mortem examination will take place later and officers from the homicide and major crime command are investigating the case, the Met Police said.
BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said there would be three investigations into the incident, carried out by the Ministry of Justice, the Met Police and Serco.
The Serco security guard was working with other team members preparing to escort a prisoner to a van parked inside the courtyard.
She was treated at the scene by London's Air Ambulance and had been in a critical condition in hospital since the attack.
Justice Secretary Mr Gove said he was shocked to hear of her death.
He added: "No words can express the devastating effect this will have on her family and friends and my deepest sympathies are with them at this difficult time.
"Lorraine Barwell was a courageous and dedicated prisoner custody officer who delivered a vital public service for more than a decade."
He said the Ministry of Justice would provide assistance to the police investigation.
My understanding was that Lorraine Barwell's family agreed with doctors that she would not recover from her injuries so they switched off her life support system.
The one comfort for her family is that she was an organ donor so her organs will be used to benefit others.
We have been looking back through the records and as far as we are aware there has been no reported incident of a custody officer working for Serco or any other private firm dying as a result of injuries sustained in their duties.
In terms of prison officers and custody staff in England and Wales the last recorded death was in 1991 - a skills instructor at Norwich prison, but of course there are incidents in Northern Ireland of prison officers who have died in the line of duty as well.
Reports of violence in prisons have been increasing and there have been some very serious incidents of staff in prisons being assaulted.
This was a fear prison officers had that one day they would get the call that one of their colleagues had died as a result of injuries sustained in duty.
Serco group chief executive Rupert Soames said the company was "shocked and desperately sad" about Ms Barwell's death and there would be a major review into how the incident occurred.
He said: "Lorraine has been with the company for over 10 years doing this and she was a consummate professional, really good at her job and much respected.
"There are very detailed procedures for handling people because on a daily basis we are handling murderers, rapists and people accused of vile crimes.
"This has all come as a huge shock to us, in part because it has has never happened before because our procedures and government's procedures have been proved very safe until now."
Ms Barwell was a grandmother and had two children.
The POA, the Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers, said members were thinking of Ms Barwell's family and friends.
Glyn Travis, from the POA, said: "It's a sad day for the criminal justice system, the prison service, and of course the family.
"This is not about public or private, this is about someone who is just doing their job.
"No-one expects their mum, wife, sister or daughter to go to work and never come home."
He is due to appear at the Old Bailey for a preliminary hearing on 15 July.
Source: Ministry of Justice
The instrument is marked "1944" inside and was crafted at High Garret in Braintree, which held German and Italian prisoners during World War Two.
Russell Stowe, of Woodbridge Violins in Suffolk, said it was so well made it had to be the work of a professional.
"I've seen many violins in the past 25 years, but stringing this up was quite amazing," he said.
It is understood the craftsman was unable to take the violin back to Germany after the war, so he handed it to a British officer as a thank you for allowing him to make the instrument.
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Inside is inscribed "Hergestellt in Englischer fangenschaft" (Made in English captivity).
The violin is now owned by David Powell, of Woodbridge, whose parents lived in Braintree and were given the instrument by an officer in 1945.
He is due to hear it played for the first time later on Thursday.
"It was always in and around the house, but I don't think it had any strings back then," he said.
"We have no idea where he got the wood from but he even boiled up his own glue.
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"It's a labour of love."
Mr Stowe, who first saw the violin on Tuesday, said it only required minor repair work to make it playable.
"It's very, very well made and I've known amateur makers in proper workshops who do not make violins as good as this.
"The thing is very unusual because it was not made from the usual pine or maple - and that will influence how it sounds."
He said it was possible the violin body was made from a type of mahogany, with a packing material similar to a tea chest also used.
"This has got the touch of somebody who knows what they were doing and may have been a violin maker before the war started," he said.
"There were many violin-making families in Germany in the 1880s and 1890s."
Sutton was found to have used the word "bitches" to Varnish, but claims he used other offensive and discriminatory language were not upheld.
That included Varnish's key complaint that Australian Sutton told her to "go and have a baby".
Sutton was also cleared of any bullying allegations, including claims he made comments about the cyclist's body weight.
Despite the findings revealed in a letter obtained by BBC Sport, Sutton, 59, was ruled to have used "inappropriate and discriminatory language" following the British Cycling investigation.
Its board said it "put on record its sincere regret that this happened".
Last month, Sutton said he would appeal, adding: "I will produce the evidence. Everything comes out in the dirty washing."
He added: "I can categorically state I never made those comments I was originally alleged to have made."
Reacting to the letter, Varnish, 25, told BBC Sport on Wednesday: "I am shocked and upset by this latest news and have instructed my solicitor to appeal against the findings of the internal investigation on my behalf.
"Having provided substantial evidence to back up my complaints, to now learn that the majority were not upheld is heartbreaking. I know what was said, and I know I've told the truth.
"I have requested from British Cycling the full investigation report to understand why the weight of evidence provided by me and others wasn't sufficient for the board to uphold my complaints."
Varnish's lawyer, Simon Fenton, said: "Jess Varnish is demanding to see the report produced by British Cycling which they are releasing in dribs and drabs.
"They have managed to satisfy neither Jess nor Shane Sutton and to embarrass themselves in the process.
"Everyone needs to see the full report to understand how they came to their conclusions and to challenge them if appropriate."
Sutton declined to comment when contacted by the BBC. British Cycling has also declined to comment.
Last month's decision to uphold Varnish's complaint looked to have effectively ended any chance Sutton had of returning to his former post. But British Cycling may now face legal action from both sides.
Varnish was dropped from the Great Britain squad in April after finishing fifth in the team sprint at the World Championships. She then said she had been the victim of sexist remarks.
Sutton, who was part of the team that won seven track gold medals at both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, resigned in April, having been suspended pending the investigation.
Former European team sprint champion Varnish had previously said she was "relieved" by the ruling.
The report will inform the ongoing independent UK Sport review into the culture of British Cycling's world-class performance programme.
Among other issues, that review is considering claims Sutton used derogatory words like "wobblies" and "gimps" to describe Para-cyclists. Sutton has rejected that claim.
Senior members of British Cycling are preparing to face the Commons Select Committee on 19 December to answer questions about therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) and concerns about transparency.
British Cycling is also the subject of a UK Anti-Doping investigation into allegations of wrongdoing.
It says the British Cycling board considered the investigation and report to decide on nine specific allegations:
Discriminatory conduct
Bullying
The 20-year-old's score of 76.483 saw her finish ahead of compatriot and world champion Yana Kudryavtseva (75.608) and Ukraine's Ganna Rizatdinova (73.583).
Russia have won every gold medal in the sport since Sydney 2000.
The team final takes place at 15:00 BST on Sunday.
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Around 3,000 people attended the shows on the street that the singer immortalised in song.
Fans travelled from across the world to attend the gigs, which are the climax of the EastSide Arts Festival.
Morrison played hits such as Moondance and Brown Eyed Girl for the crowd, which included celebrities such as actors Robert Pattinson and Kim Cattrall.
Arts correspondent Robbie Meredith reports.
Norwich are currently 17th, but, without a game this weekend, may drop below Sunderland and Newcastle by Sunday if results go against them.
"I said a few weeks ago that I didn't think we'd go down, and I don't think we will," Holt told BBC Radio Norfolk.
"I still think we've got enough in the squad to stay up. You'd rather have points in the bag than chase."
Alex Neil's side were defeated 3-0 by the Black Cats on Saturday, which left the north east team one point behind the Canaries.
Sunderland host Arsenal on Sunday, while Newcastle travel to Anfield to face Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool on Saturday.
Holt, part of Norwich's Premier League squad for three seasons, continued: "Some of the decisions you see last week and some of the errors of the players and referee don't help you - I thought they got the tactics right, but an individual error cost them in the end.
"But that's football, they've got to stop the errors and keep together as a group like we did a few years ago."
One player that has drawn criticism has been forward Steven Naismith, who since scoring on his debut against Liverpool after his January move from Everton, has failed to find the net in nine matches.
"Everton play a completely different style of play to what Norwich do. He came in straight away and set the world on fire with the goal against Liverpool," said Holt, who now plays for League One side Rochdale.
"It's been tough for all the forward lads. I wouldn't attribute it just down to him. I think it's the team in general, when they aren't performing it's very difficult for your nines and 10s.
"I go back to Chris Hughton times when it was all about defensive shape and it was difficult up front at times. I bet there were some performances I played that year that were really, really bad.
"It's difficult for him, but he's a player who's come in and I'm sure he'll find his form. When you need someone to score on the pitch, he's certainly one."
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Tuesday's 1-0 win over Ukraine, coupled with France's 2-0 defeat by Sweden, meant England won their group and now face Italy in the quarter-finals.
"Getting out of the group partly exceeded my expectations," Hodgson told BBC Radio 5 live.
"For us to get seven points with two victories and a draw probably exceeds everyone's expectations."
The 64-year-old continued: "We're very pleased to have won the group. It wasn't an easy group to win.
"Ukraine have very good players, France were undefeated in 23 games, and then there's Sweden who ended that run. But we deserve it."
A second-half header from the returning Wayne Rooney sealed England's passage to the last eight as group winners following a hard-fought win over the co-hosts in a Donbass Arena in Donetsk dominated by home support.
"It was always going to be a tough game," said Hodgson.
"We kept getting updates from the Sweden game and we knew France were losing, plus the fans were all behind Ukraine. It took a great effort from us to keep our shape and discipline.
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"We thank the supporters, both the brave 4,000 here plus the people back home. All the vibes have been extremely positive, having a good feel-good factor. That rubs off on the team."
Hodgson praised goalscorer Rooney, who was playing his first game in the tournament after serving a two-match ban for his sending off in the final qualifying game against Montenegro.
"You know what Rooney can do, you know his qualities," said the England boss. "He gave an extremely disciplined performance, I think he and [strike-partner Danny] Welbeck worked extremely well together.
"I've played this down, but it was his first game in a while and the fact he's had 80 minutes in this match will fill him with confidence."
"In the main, throughout these three group games, we have had defensive stability. That has been our strength. We haven't dominated any of the three games we've played in.
"In tournament football you need good fortune, and England have had that. If we hadn't, another team would have. Ukraine were so much in control of the game, but they didn't have an end product."
Hodgson also paid testimony to captain Steven Gerrard, who set up Rooney's goal and was voted man of the match.
"You've got to single Steven out. I think to some extent he's been our man of the match in every match, it was a captain's performance," insisted Hodgson.
Hodgson admitted England enjoyed a slice of luck on Tuesday.
Ukraine not only dominated for long periods but were denied a perfectly good equaliser when Marko Devic's shot was several inches over the line before being hooked away by John Terry, but the goal was not given by the officials.
It evoked memories of the World Cup in 2010 when a similar decision went against England during the last-16 defeat by Germany.
"We don't have goal-line technology, and even with slow-motion we can't be 100% certain. I'm led to believe the ball crossed the line, and that was a slice of luck," admitted Hodgson.
"But England have suffered in the past, and if there was a slice of luck, we got it."
By winning Group D, England avoided world and European champions Spain in the quarter-finals and will play Group C runners-up Italy instead in Kiev on Sunday.
"I'd have been quite happy to play the Spanish, but I'd rather miss them because they are the favourites alongside Germany," added Hodgson. "I think this team of ours would have given Spain a pretty good run for their money.
"The good thing is that we're there and we're not travelling home. There was not one person in our group who wanted to be on that plane tomorrow."
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is quoted as saying Mr Ahmadinejad should refrain "for his own and the country's good".
Mr Ahmadinejad, a vocal critic of the West, served two terms as president between 2005 and 2013.
He has not announced plans to run again but his recent speeches have prompted speculation of a comeback.
His last win, in 2009, led to big street protests with hundreds of people arrested.
Mr Ahmadinejad was limited to two terms, under the Iranian constitution. He was succeeded by Hassan Rouhani.
Commentators have suggested that he would give Iran's conservatives their best chance of regaining power from the more moderate Mr Rouhani, who last year agreed to curb Iran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of Western sanctions.
Ayatollah Khamenei's opposition to a bid by Mr Ahmadinejad, if confirmed, would eliminate him as a candidate, correspondents say.
In an audio clip posted on his website, Ayatollah Khamenei said: "Someone, a man, came to me. I told him not to take part in that certain issue [the elections] both for his own and the country's good."
The cryptic remarks were made during a lecture for seminary students.
"I did not tell him not to participate. I said I do not find it advisable that you participate," he said.
"It will create bipolar opposites and divisions in the country, which I believe is harmful."
The state-run Irna news agency and other Iranian media later said that the Ayatollah was clearly referring to Mr Ahmadinejad.
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Al Fayed installed the statue in 2011 but new owner Shahid Khan had it taken down in September.
Fulham were relegated at the weekend and the statue has been donated to the National Football Museum in Manchester.
"When the new owner decided to move it I said 'Fine, it is a lucky thing, you will regret it later'," Al Fayed said.
"Now the new owner will regret it because I warned him. I said 'You will pay with blood for that' because it was something loved by people.
"It was a big mistake but he paid for it now. He's been relegated and if he wakes up he'll ask for Michael Jackson again and I'll say 'No way'."
Al Fayed believes manager Felix Magath is not the right man to get Fulham promoted from the Championship.
During the summer months there most certainly will be many changes within the club
The Cottagers were relegated after 13 years in the Premier League with Saturday's 4-1 defeat at Stoke.
Magath wants to stay on but Al Fayed does not believe the German can help the Cottagers bounce back.
"You need a manager who will deliver and I don't think this guy has got the charm or the personality," he said.
Al Fayed, who sold Fulham to Khan in July last year, added: "Players need someone very close. You saw me with the players in the changing room and when they're eating lunch, it was a very close relationship for the players to feel they want to sacrifice, play hard and want to deliver.
"They miss that now and I hope [Khan] wakes up. I tried to help him and advise him and put him on the right way.
"If he's lost hope and he offers it to me half price, fine I'm going to buy it back."
Magath has apologised for the defeat at the Britannia Stadium that sealed the club's relegation from the Premier League.
The former Bayern Munich boss, 60, joined Fulham in February, but picked up just three wins in 11 league games.
In an open letter to fans, Magath also vowed to stay on as manager and build a team able to return to the top flight.
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"We as a team, and I include myself and management, would like to apologise for our bad performance," the German wrote.
"The reality is that we have been relegated, but my commitment and desire to Fulham remains.
"It certainly was not what you as fans were expecting and should rightfully demand of us, but we were unable to perform on the day, resulting in our downfall.
"During the summer months there most certainly will be many changes within the club. We obviously need to improve and redefine our playing staff. We have in our academy team, talented, young and hungry players."
Fulham's final game in the Premier League this season is a dead rubber against Crystal Palace at Craven Cottage on Sunday.
The 42-year-old, who won the Grand National in 1999 on Bobbyjo, trained by his father Tommy, had not ridden competitively since September because of a leg injury.
He rode his first winner in 1990 and was associated with top horses like Dorans Pride, Harchibald, Solwhit and Florida Pearl.
He was advised to stop by his surgeon.
"My leg's not strong enough. I feel gutted," he said.
Carberry was renowned as a gifted rider, and a colourful character.
He swung from the rafters at Aintree after his triumph on Bobbyjo, and narrowly escaped jail in 2006 for setting fire to a newspaper on board a flight from Spain to Ireland.
But he was regarded as one of the top jump jockeys of his generation, famed for his horsemanship and patient riding tactics.
Carberry, from County Meath, comes from a family steeped in racing - sister Nina and brother Peter have enjoyed successful racing careers
Fellow jockey Barry Geraghty paid tribute on social media: "End of an era and a big loss to the weighroom. Wishing Paul Carberry a very happy retirement - one of the bravest and most natural jockeys ever."
Frank Keogh, BBC Sport: "Despite coming from rich racing stock, he was known by colleagues and punters alike simply as 'Carberry'.
"Mere mention of the name could illicit a wry smile, whether for his feats in the saddle or his antics out of it.
"Carberry was a go-to rider for top trainers, and enjoyed a successful link with Noel Meade.
"He will be remembered for many great victories, and also an agonising defeat on Harchibald in the 2005 Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, when his mount appeared destined to win after being delivered with a late charge, but did not find enough to pass Hardy Eustace."
The park will form part of the North Bay Sands development and could be open by late 2013.
The scheme had been put on hold by developers Benchmark Leisure in 2009 due to the economic downturn.
Borough councillors approved the plan on Thursday. The complex will also feature a family restaurant, 29 holiday lodges and 124 holiday homes.
The Conservative-controlled council's planning committee was told the scheme should become a focal point for tourism and leisure for the town.
The water park will include indoor and outdoor swimming pools, water rides and flumes, a spa, changing facilities and a car park.
The developers said the park could attract up to 300,000 visitors a year.
Noren carded a two-under-par 70 to finish on 14 under, while Hatton, who went round in 69, earned a place at next week's Open Championship.
Nicolas Colsaerts, Matteo Manassero and Danny Lee tied for third on 12 under.
Scotland's Richie Ramsay, whose closing round of 67 earned him a share of sixth with England's Andy Sullivan, will also compete at Royal Troon.
Compatriot Russell Knox also shot a 67 to finish 10th on nine under.
Four Open spots were available for players who had not yet qualified.
Noren, who turns 34 on Tuesday, led the field by two shots going into the final round and a birdie at the 15th hole on Sunday proved decisive.
Hatton birdied the last to put pressure on a short Noren putt, but he held his nerve to clinch his fifth European Tour title.
For the Swede, it erased bad memories of Castle Stuart.
"I had a really sour finish in 2012," he recalled. "I missed out from four feet to get in a play-off.
"Now it feels just so happy it is over. It feels amazing. It is by far the biggest win in my career against a great field of players. I probably can't believe it still.
"It was pretty tough out there to see those guys making a few birdies, so many players just behind me that is always tough.
"I doubted myself so many times through this round and, when you get on top, it doesn't feel real. Hopefully soon it does."
A brilliant 66 secured Belgian Colsaerts' Open place along with Italy's Manassero.
"It's a big deal for everyone, it's the Open," said Colsaerts. "I knew coming down the stretch, it was kind of looking like I needed a four on the last to make sure.
"I was able to do it today, which feels really, really good."
US-based Knox said: "I battled as hard as I could. This was really the only good putting round I had.
"Today was a great day, building confidence into next week."
Ramsay said: "I played to win today, which is a great feeling when you're in that position - home pride, great golf course, striking it well.
"I putted well, which helped, but to be honest I had a sea of chances out there.
"I feel like I could have been five under on the back nine."
One of the men can be seen calmly putting his seatbelt on as his accomplice diligently flicks on his right indicator before driving off.
One viewer commented on Facebook: "They don't look very fit! Shouldn't have much trouble catching them."
It happened at Nationwide in Wigston, Leicestershire, on 11 May.
Leicestershire Police said they were called to the branch in Leicester Road at 11:15 BST after a report of an attempted robbery.
The two men had entered the building and threatened staff, and one of them was brandishing what has been described as a knife.
The footage was captured by a quick-thinking member of the public.
Det Con Eliot Burgess said: "We hope by releasing the footage someone may remember seeing something of significance.
"Did you see two people acting suspiciously around the premises or do you recognise the vehicle?"
The raiders left the scene in a dark silvery grey Ford MPV-type vehicle that was displaying false registration plates.
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The chef from York, North Yorkshire, went missing in March 2009 at the age of 35.
It was recently revealed that four men held as part of the police investigation would not face charges.
Speaking to BBC Look North, Joan Lawrence said: "I have no instinct whatsoever that she isn't alive".
With stable stars Thistlecrack, Cue Card, Native River and Finian's Oscar all hitting jump racing's high spots, not a great deal has gone wrong of late for trainer of the moment Colin Tizzard.
Practically the only blot on an otherwise dreamy season was when expensive French purchase Alary was well beaten in Haydock's Peter Marsh Chase.
Subsequent to being pulled up by his rider, vets' tests on the seven-year-old found he wasn't 100%, and Tizzard and his team have taken no chances.
The trainer, based in deepest Dorset, said: "Alary coughed a couple of times after the race, and he was [stabled] quite close to Thistlecrack and Cue Card and Native River so almost before he was pulled up he was being moved to the other end of the yard.
"We joked: 'We don't want you anywhere near them.'"
All of Tizzard's big names are due to race during late January and February before going for the most glittering prizes at jump racing's Cheltenham Festival in March.
Most immediately, Thistlecrack takes in Saturday's BetBright Cotswold Chase, on Cheltenham's Festival Trials Day, as his final stepping stone towards the Gold Cup, for which he's hot favourite just ahead of, intriguingly, Native River and Cue Card.
The breathtaking, big-jumping winner of Kempton's King George VI Chase, on only his fourth time in a steeplechase, is said by Tizzard to be in "brilliant" and "beautiful" form.
A champion over hurdles, the horse's switch to the chasing big time has been so impressively smooth he's become an almost instant standard-bearer for the sport, and his capture of the public imagination is striking.
Dad's in awe of Thistlecrack; he'd have loved to have ridden him
On board in the Cotswold Chase, wearing the orange silks of owners John and Heather Snook, will be jockey Tom Scudamore, back in the position he's been in for the nine-year-old's past 11 starts. That's every one since April 2015, and all but one a success.
The 34-year-old, the third-generation top jump jockey in his family after father Peter and grandfather Michael, told BBC Sport: "To have a horse like Thistlecrack come along is obviously great, and it's a great position to be in, and one I'm very grateful for.
"A lot of successful jockeys are at one point associated with particular horses - Jonjo O'Neill with Dawn Run; Richard Dunwoody with Desert Orchid; Ruby [Walsh] with Master Minded through Kauto Star to Hurricane Fly - and that's very nice for a jockey, very special.
"Dad rode lots of winners but isn't necessarily associated with one horse, and he's in awe of Thistlecrack; he'd have loved to have ridden him.
"We talk about him a lot, and when I hear the buzz of excitement that he, like so many other people, gets from Thistlecrack, that's gives me great pride too."
Scudamore is famously unflappable in the saddle - "steady as a rock", according to Tizzard - but this horse is gathering fans, and consequently expectations, as quickly as any I can recall.
While acknowledging the clamour around him, the jockey is determinedly keeping his feet on the ground.
He said: "I suppose one thing that has put me in good stead for riding him, which I was brought up on, is that you take every day as it comes.
"You just keep on concentrating and not getting too carried away.
"You're not going out on Thistlecrack and thinking, 'God, I can't wait to ride him in the Gold Cup', because that would be thinking too far ahead down the line.
"It's like a fighter in his prelims going for the world championship; if you take your eye off the ball, you're not going to get to the world championships.
"So, you've got to keep on concentrating, and take every day as it comes, and the rest will follow from there."
The Cotswold Chase, which brings £57,000 to the winner, is the centrepiece of what's now - following the transfer of two races originally called off because of bad weather - a nine-race programme.
Thistlecrack is due to face opponents including the race's past two winners, Smad Place and Many Clouds, the latter a real favourite since success in the 2015 Grand National.
All agree that Thistlecrack, the odds-on favourite, may well be home and hosed, but Oliver Sherwood, trainer of Many Clouds, believes in the old racing adage that you should never be frightened of one horse.
He said: "I don't expect to beat Thistlecrack - he's been enormous this season - but racing is there to have good horses take each other on.
"The Grand National is again our target, and there's no point sitting at home when we need some match practice.
"Prize money for second - £21,370 - is damn good as well. We all want winners but to finish second to Thistlecrack with that prize money is probably better than winning a smaller race somewhere else."
A plastic water bottle was also thrown, while St Etienne coach Christophe Galtier urged supporters to calm down.
The controversy occurred in the 72nd minute when striker Ibrahimovic chested the ball over the line.
St Etienne argued the ball had not crossed the line but the goal stood.
It was enough to send Paris St-Germain into the semi-finals of the League Cup.
PSG had gone into the game on the back of a 4-2 league defeat by Bastia last Saturday.
They have slipped to fourth in Ligue 1 after failing to win their last three league games.
Anneka Sherratt, 31, was discovered at her Plymouth home on Monday, where it is thought she may have died on Friday.
Contributions to a fund to support her son aged three and pay for the funeral have reached more than £6,200.
Flowers with messages of sympathy have been left at the door of Ms Sherratt's flat in Savage Road.
"We would like to thank you all for your donations so far," said Emma Louise Fowler who created the fundraising page.
Ms Fowler described how Ms Sherratt had died on Friday, leaving her son behind.
"Anneka was very kind and friendly who would help anyone out," she said.
Ms Sherratt's death is not being treated as suspicious and the cause is yet to be established, police said.
Officers were called to the flat at 13.15 GMT on Monday.
One of the messages left at Ms Sherratt's' door said: "I always cherish and carry you in my heart. I feel so blessed and lucky for our time together."
Another said: "Life will be so hard without you but your memory will live on in me."
Plymouth Coroners' Court confirmed an investigation was opened into Ms Sherratt's death on 25 February.
Exxon Mobil closed down 1.5% and Chevron was 1.6% lower, following a sharp drop in crude oil prices.
That weighed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which ended the day flat at 21,478.17. The S&P 500 was up 0.15% at 2,432.54, while the Nasdaq was 0.67% higher at 6,150.86.
Technology shares provided some support for those indexes.
Microsoft finished 1.3% higher, Facebook gained 1.3% and Google was up 1.4%.
Two hours before the markets closed the minutes of the Federal Reserve's most recent meeting were released, but had little impact on the share indexes.
The minutes revealed that the Fed's policymakers were split on the outlook for inflation and how it might affect the future pace of interest rate rises
Investors had been hoping for insight on the central bank's plans for interest rate hikes or possible balance sheet reduction.
"I see a murky, opaque message," Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco, said.
"We've gotten a little bit of weaker economic data of late and we seem to have deflation starting to set in, said Robert Phipps, director at Per Stirling Capital Management.
"That does call into question whether or not we are going to see as aggressive a Fed as they are telling us to expect," he added.
The Federal Police, which usually issue passports within six working days, said it would not accept any new applications made after Tuesday.
One of Brazil's prosecutors blamed President Michel Temer's budget cuts. Brazil is suffering its worst recession in decades.
The government said emergency funds for passports would be debated this week.
In a statement late on Tuesday, the federal police said the decision to stop issuing new passports "stems from a dearth of funds earmarked to the activities of migratory control and the issuance of travel documents".
Passport application charges range from 260 reais ($79; £61) for a 10-year passport to 350 reais ($106; £83) for express processing.
Brazil's corruption probe
President Temer's first year
One of Brazil's top prosecutors, Carlos Lima, accused the government of trying to stifle the police by cutting their funding.
Federal police are investigating the involvement of the country's business and political elite in a corruption scheme centred on the state oil company, Petrobras.
"Who wins with this? The investigative team has been reduced," Mr Lima said.
The announcement comes as President Temer's government tries to rein in spending as part of an effort to address a deep fiscal deficit.
Brazil's budget ministry has proposed extra funds to help ease the strain on passport issuance and has urged the Congress, who have to approve the measure, to vote as early as next week.
Brazil is currently approaching the winter holiday season - a peak travel period.
Nemley junior had been seized by poachers in West Africa and offered for sale but was then rescued following a BBC News investigation.
Despite dedicated care in the past few weeks, he succumbed to a series of illnesses including malaria.
A leading vet who helped care for him said that, without his mother, Nemley suffered from a "failure to thrive".
In the wild, baby chimps usually live with their mothers for at least four to five years.
During his capture, Nemley would have witnessed the killing of his mother during a poaching raid that would have seen as many as 10 adults in his family shot. The two men who were found guilty of his trafficking were released from jail 10 days ago.
Sarah Crawford, an American NGO worker who had been caring for Nemley full-time for the past three weeks, said: ''He died in my arms. He did not die alone in a cage. He really fought to stay alive. He was taking fluids until 30 minutes before he died. I am still in shock. None of us can quite believe what has happened.''
Nemley was 15 months old when he died. His body will be autopsied. ''This will give us useful information, which will be helpful to others caring for baby orphans,'' said Samouka Kane, director of the National Zoo of Abidjan, and a vet.
Infant chimpanzees are in demand as pets in wealthy homes in Asia and the Gulf states. A BBC reporter working undercover was quoted a price of $12,500 (£9,700) for Nemley.
Conservationists say that if baby chimps are rescued from traffickers, they have a poor chance of survival unless they are given intensive care right from the moment that they are liberated.
After the police operation in Ivory Coast that freed Nemley last December, based on undercover information provided by the BBC, detectives handed Nemley to wildlife officials from the Ivorian Ministry of Water and Forests.
The officials transferred him to the zoo in Ivory Coast's largest city, Abidjan, where initially he was placed in quarantine which meant that he was left alone at night.
When I saw him again last March, he seemed to have gained weight and some confidence and was evidently bonding with one of his keepers.
He was a popular addition to the zoo and when the UK's Africa minister visited the country, he was shown Nemley to highlight an example of a successful operation against animal traffickers.
But soon afterwards Nemley was placed in a cage with other chimpanzees in the hope that an older female, Kiki, would "adopt" him as she had with other young chimps.
But in the event she showed no interest in Nemley, and although a much younger female did pay him some attention, this did not amount to a proper family bonding.
While in the cage, Nemley also suffered during rough play with a slightly older male, and was injured during what might have been bullying.
One visitor spotted Nemley sitting alone and rocking backwards and forwards, a typical symptom of stress among chimpanzees.
At this stage he became ill, losing weight, becoming dehydrated and suffering from a series of illnesses.
He was removed from the cage to be given more dedicated support, including infant formula, and showed signs of recovery with a better diet and the attention of volunteers.
Video taken earlier this month showed him sitting upright but also looking far older than his one year of age and far more sluggish in his movements than is normal.
In the past few weeks, however, his decline continued.
A vet specializing in chimpanzees, Jimmy Desmond, visited Nemley. He and his wife Jenny care for rescued and abandoned chimpanzees in Liberia.
Jenny Desmond said of Nemley that "he simply never had enough good days in a row to recover and turn a corner."
"Among all Nemley's physical ailments, to me this is a 'failure to thrive' situation. He never got the intensive nurturing he needed after his confiscation."
A secret network of wildlife traffickers selling baby chimpanzees was exposed by a year-long BBC News investigation.
The plight of Nemley junior highlights not only the cruel and secret trade in infant chimpanzees but also the challenge of caring for animals that are rescued.
Ivory Coast does not have a dedicated sanctuary for chimpanzees seized from traffickers where specialist care can be given.
When Nemley was rescued, the BBC was contacted by several sanctuaries in other countries in Africa including Liberia, Uganda and Kenya offering to take him.
When we passed these offers to officials at Ivory Coast's Ministry of Water and Forests, they were declined. We were told that not only had Nemley been seized in Ivory Coast - and therefore "belonged to Ivory Coast" - but also that Abidjan zoo had the capacity and skills to care for him.
But it is evident from my visits to the zoo, and from the testimony of others familiar with it, that the institution is seriously underfunded, that its keepers resent their low pay, and that more animals are being sent to the zoo than can be properly handled.
Repairs to a large chimp enclosure have dragged on for years so that adult chimps have to be kept in cages.
Offers to help construct a specialist facility for young chimpanzees have been made repeatedly but are never acted on.
One hope among conservationists is that the death of Nemley junior will highlight the plight of infant chimps caught up in a brutal trade and that it will create new impetus for specialist care.
"Nemley's story has touched all our hearts", said one conservation worker who said she hopes that there will be a positive legacy.
At the very least, the operation to free Nemley led to the first convictions for wildlife crime in the history of Ivory Coast. Earlier this month, Ibrahima and Mohamed Traore were given six-month jail sentences and fines equivalent to $500. However after being held in prison waiting trial since last December, they have now been released.
And the international crime agency Interpol, which until now has had no funding for tackling chimp trafficking, has started to bring together detectives and officials from half a dozen countries to coordinate action in future.
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Mr Hunt said a teacher not "on a pathway" to a formal qualification would "not deserve to be in the classroom".
Speaking in a BBC Daily Politics Debate, he said the policy was a "sign of respect for teachers".
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said only 3% of teachers were not qualified.
Lib Dem education spokesman David Laws said he believed all teachers should be qualified but that former Education Secretary Michael Gove had changed the rules "without agreement" from his party.
A vow to ensure all teachers are qualified is a key part of Labour's education policy.
While the number of unqualified teachers in academies - which are independent of local authority control - has increased, overall numbers are similar to under the previous Labour government.
In November 2013, there were 17,100 teachers working in state schools in England who did not have qualified teacher status.
This election issue includes funding for schools, university tuition fees and early years education.
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Mr Hunt said the "crucial difference" was that under Labour, they had been working towards qualification.
"If over the course of the parliament you're not either qualified or working towards qualified teacher status we don't think you should be in the classroom," he said.
Asked if that meant such teachers would be fired, Mr Hunt replied: "Yes."
He added: "We don't think, unlike the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, that anyone can just turn up and be a teacher - actually you need training, you need qualifications, you need to get the best out of young people."
Ms Morgan said: "We absolutely respect professional, hard-working, dedicated teachers."
She said one million more children were being taught in good or outstanding schools since 2010, and, referring to Mr Hunt, added: "Is the first thing he would do as education secretary tell 17,000 people they cannot teach in this country?"
Also on the panel were UKIP spokesman Jonathan Arnott, who said his party would equip children with the skills to "make Britain a modern world leader", and James Humphreys of the Green Party, who said his party would withdraw charitable status from private schools.
Last week, Tata Steel said it was in joint venture talks with Germany's Thyssenkrupp.
Koushik Chatterjee, group executive for Tata Steel in Europe, said Tata was looking at alternatives for its European operations.
In March, Tata Steel said it intended to sell all or part of its UK business.
It employs more than 4,000 workers at its plant in Port Talbot in Wales, and over 2,000 more at its speciality businesses in Hartlepool, Rotherham and Stocksbridge.
On Friday, Tata Steel said the sale of its UK business was on hold as the company considered a European tie-up.
"Today we are looking at more options," Mr Chatterjee told the BBC.
"If there are better options for the business, I think we will go for that, if there aren't we will have to review the current bids that have come in and take a final view."
He said competitiveness would determine whether plants managed to survive, and that dealing with the company's pension liabilities would be important in deciding whether the UK's operations would be part of the business in future.
He added that agreements with the UK and Welsh governments, and with employees, management and the board of Tata Steel in the UK, were key to the future of Port Talbot.
However, Mr Chatterjee warned that the current political uncertainty could be a problem.
"Political uncertainty has its impact, especially if it's regulatory change that we're looking at," he said. "I hope that the situation will lead to a stable formation of the government."
The man was identified by federal prosecutors only as Ali E.H.A. aged 31.
He was arrested on suspicion of "terrorist murders" during a search of a house in the Schaerbeek area of the Belgian capital on Thursday.
Three suicide bombers killed 32 people at Brussels international airport and the Maelbeek metro station.
The prosecutors' statement said: "The Belgian national Ali E.H.A., born on 23rd September 1984, was arrested and later put in detention by the investigating judge for participation in the activities of a terrorist group, terrorist murders and attempted terrorist murders, as a perpetrator, co-perpetrator or accomplice."
The prosecutors gave no further information, although Belgian media said the man was being held at Nivelles prison. He is believed to be the 10th suspect arrested. Several have been charged.
La Derniere Heure quoted sources as saying the man was suspected of playing a role in the hideouts of those who carried out the attacks.
A statement from prosecutors on Thursday, the last prior to the arrest, said that six people suspected of involvement in the Belgian attacks had now had their detention extended.
One of them is Mohamed Abrini, who police say has confessed to being the "man in the hat" - the third airport bomber who fled without detonating his device.
Four others arrested in Belgium and suspected of links to those who carried out attacks in Paris last November also had their custody extended, the Belgian prosecutors said. The gun and bomb attacks in the French capital killed 130 people.
Belgian prosecutors say Abrini has told them that the original plan had been to target France but it was switched to Brussels when fellow Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam was arrested in the Belgian capital on 18 March.
The Brussels airport bombings were carried out by Ibrahim el-Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui, while the metro bomber was Khalid el-Bakraoui, Ibrahim's brother.
Abdeslam has been extradited to France.
Michael Gurney, of Croft near Skegness, was given a transfusion on Wednesday at Boston Pilgrim Hospital but the tube, called a canula, was left in his arm.
His wife Cynthia called the hospital but was told to contact her GP to remove it.
A hospital spokesman apologised and said an investigation was under way.
Mr Gurney, who has prostate cancer, has to have blood transfusions every two weeks.
His wife said: "He arrived home at 9.40 in a taxi and he was very weak and distressed. He said 'I have a job for you to do - can you take this tube out of my arm?'"
The tube was removed on Thursday.
Mrs Gurney said she was "horrified" by the mistake and described the hospital's response as "pathetic".
Boston Pilgrim Hospital said in a statement: "We offer our sincere apologies to Mr Gurney however we cannot comment on individual patient cases
"We are looking into what happened during the process of Mr Gurney's care and will contact him directly to discuss this."
In 2011, Boston Pilgrim Hospital was the subject of an investigation by the Care Quality Commission which raised concerns about the quality of patient care.
A report published in November outlined 21 separate recommendations.
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The Northern Irishman, who has won the cup four times as a player, expects an announcement on the new captain to be made next Wednesday, 18 February.
Clarke, 46, is favourite for the coveted role, ahead of Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez.
"If it's Miguel, I would be delighted for him, but I would love to do the job," Clarke told BBC Northern Ireland.
"To be the captain is huge, but he is only there to steer the players. It's not about the captain, it's about the team."
A five-man European Tour selection panel, including 2014-winning captain Paul McGinley, will make the decision.
Europe retained the trophy at the 40th Ryder Cup 16½-11½ against the United States at Gleneagles in September.
It was the eighth win in 10 meetings for Europe.
Clarke added: "I've got very, very special memories of the event and I'm fortunate to have played in many winning teams. Those memories I will cherish for ever."
The United States will host the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine between 30 September and 2 October.
The two bodies' commercial functions may combine under a new umbrella body called Historic Wales, ministers said.
NMW said it was "actively seeking clarification" of the plans, which had "significant implications".
Any potential changes should be "carefully considered", NMW said.
The creation of Historic Wales was a commitment in Labour's 2016 assembly election manifesto, written by the then culture minister Ken Skates.
Now promoted to economy secretary, he has established a working group to consider the best way to maximise the commercial potential of Wales' heritage bodies and organisations.
The committee will also examine whether to include other organisations, such as the National Library of Wales.
Chaired by National Trust in Wales director Justin Albert, the committee will publish a business case by January 2017.
But, in a strongly worded statement on Wednesday, NMW said the announcement had "significant implications" and "any potential changes will need to be carefully considered before being widely consulted on with the public and the cultural sector in Wales and beyond".
"We are actively seeking clarification from the Welsh Government on its proposals for the creation of Historic Wales including its role and purpose.," it said.
"Any outcome needs to respect the independence, individual identity, integrity and core purpose of Amgueddfa Cymru [National Museum Wales] as a National Museum, a registered charity and limited company, operating under a Royal Charter."
The statement concluded: "As an emerging nation, Wales needs strong national institutions to develop a deeper understanding by its citizens of their identity and their place in the world, and to inspire the creativity of current and future generations.
"For over 100 years we have been caring for the nation's collections - a role which we will continue to fulfil on behalf of the people of Wales."
The heritage sector in Wales supports nearly 40,000 jobs and generates £749m - 2.6% of the Welsh economy - and is twice the size of the agricultural sector.
Plaid Cymru's culture spokesman Dai Lloyd called for an assembly debate on the plan for Historic Wales, claiming it threatened the museum's independence from government.
He said he was also concerned about "the lack of engagement and discussion" with the heritage sector on the matter.
"We are talking here of key national institutions and I would have expected far greater dialogue prior to any policy announcement," Dr Lloyd said.
Viola Davis also made history by becoming the first black woman to win the best lead actress prize for her role in How To Get Away With Murder.
Jon Hamm finally won a best actor award for Mad Men in the show's last year. He had been nominated seven times before.
Political comedy Veep was the winner in the best comedy series category.
And Inside Amy Schumer was named best variety sketch series.
It was the first time since it began in 2011 that Game of Thrones had won the best drama series award. Its other accolades included best writing, best direction and best supporting actor for Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister.
Amazon's comedy-drama Transparent won awards for best director in a comedy and for its lead actor, Jeffrey Tambor, who plays a transgender college professor.
The show also picked up best guest actor in a comedy for former West Wing star Bradley Whitford.
Viola Davis won her Emmy for lead actress in a drama thanks to her role as a tough criminal defence lawyer in ABC's How to Get Away With Murder.
Accepting her award, she said: "The only thing that separates women of colour from anyone else is opportunity.
Jon Hamm, who played Don Draper in the drama Mad Men, set in an advertising agency primarily in the 1960s, said: "It's incredible and impossible for me personally to be standing here."
Julia Louis-Dreyfus won best comedy actress for the fourth time for playing Selina Meyer on Veep, while Tony Hale, who plays her bag man, was again named best comedy supporting actor.
Veep, which is set in the office of the fictional vice-president and subsequent president of the United States, Selina Meyer, also won the comedy writing statuette.
The show's win for best comedy ended a fiver-year winning streak for sitcom Modern Family - dashing the cast's hopes of beating Frasier, which also has five wins in the category.
Uzo Aduba, who plays Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren in Netflix prison series Orange is the New Black, was named best supporting actress in a drama.
The TV Academy awarded only four prizes to the main US broadcast networks. But while the pre-awards talk had revolved around streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon, it was cable channel HBO that swept the board, with shows like Veep, Game of Thrones and Olive Kitteridge performing well.
The latter picked up six awards, including best mini-series, best lead actor in a mini-series or movie (Richard Jenkins), lead actress (Frances McDormand) and supporting actor (Bill Murray).
Andy Samberg hosted the show, his first time at the helm of a major awards ceremony.
Variety's Brian Lowry wasn't overly impressed with Samberg's debut: "What mostly came across, gradually, was that Samberg's approach just didn't wear especially well. He plays better in bite-sized bits, and his sprightly setup/joke rhythms yielded diminishing returns over the course of the evening."
But USA Today reviewer Robert Bianco was a little more effusive.
"For most viewers, the show only works if the host works, and Samberg did just fine. Like all modern awards show hosts, he did throw a few jabs at some of the folks in the room, but they were generally mild, which is what the job requires."
The Britain and his Brazilian partner, who are seeded second, beat Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi 6-4 7-5 at the O2 Arena.
The match ended on a disputed line call with Scotland's Murray challenging after a Mirnyi mis-hit was called in - replays showed the ball was out.
"I was not going to get bad, having maybe lost the match and not challenged that call," said Murray.
Earlier on Sunday, the Bryan brothers Bob and Mike defeated Marcelo Melo and Ivan Dodig 7-6 (7-3) 6-0.
The Americans will play Murray and Soares on Tuesday in their second matches in the Edberg/Jarryd group.
Murray and Soares are in contention to end 2016 as the number one doubles team in the world, but must overhaul French duo Nicolas Mahout and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.
"Our goal is just to try to win when we step on the court this week," said Murray.
"If it ends up that we're the number one team, that will be a huge achievement for us.
"If it doesn't work out that way, we'll still have had a great year, lots to be proud of, lots to look forward to going into 2017."
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Unesco warned in July that the 22-storey building for 1,085 students could damage Liverpool's reputation.
But the planning committee, which voted by five to two in favour, denied the plans would be detrimental to the city.
Save Britain's Heritage (SBH) claims Unesco might now strip Liverpool of its status but Historic England disagreed.
SBH director Henrietta Billings said: "This planning approval deliberately flies in the face of serious international heritage concerns.
"Liverpool's World Heritage status is a badge of honour which is slipping through its fingers because of short-sighted planning decisions."
But Liverpool City Council pointed to the support of Historic England - the government's statutory advisor on the historic environment - which found the development would not have a "harmful impact".
The Skelhorne Street site is next to the Grade II-listed Lime Street station and is surrounded by other listed buildings and the Unesco site which includes the iconic waterfront and Albert Dock.
A council spokesman said: "Historic England have concluded that this scheme would not have a harmful impact on the outstanding universal value of the World Heritage Site.
"We do not consider it appropriate to delay decisions on applications for major developments in the site once they have been fully assessed and are ready to be determined as this would unreasonably stifle the regeneration of the city centre."
Liverpool was awarded World Heritage status in 2004, ranking the city alongside the Taj Mahal and Stonehenge.
There are currently 29 Unesco World Heritage Status sites in the United Kingdom - the Lake District hopes to join the list next year.
Starring Julie Walters, the Channel 4 series takes us back to the summer of 1932, to tell the explosive story of the decline of the British Raj and the birth of modern India.
At a time when India is dreaming of independence, but the British are clinging to power, the 10-part period saga exposes the cracks that emerge as India moves to establish its own identity.
The series is set in Shimla - the capital of the Himachel Pradesh state, in the north of the country. During the hottest months of the year, a burgeoning community of Brits would descend and govern from the foothills of the Himalayas, where it was cooler.
Swapping Sussex for Shimla, Walters didn't think twice about travelling halfway around the globe, to take on the lead role of widow Cynthia Coffin.
"I never get location work. It's usually Liverpool or Manchester," jokes the award-winning actress.
In fact, the entire drama was filmed on the Malaysian island of Penang, after today's tourist-fuelled Shimla threw up too many contemporary obstacles.
But it wasn't just the prospect of sunshine and great food that attracted the 64-year-old actress to the role.
"I loved the script... The story wasn't romanticised or nostalgic, there was a real edgy, gritty feel to it, and I'd never seen this subject treated like this before."
Walters confesses she knew very little about British-run India before signing up and was "ignorant" about that period in history.
Her character, Cynthia, is the owner of the Royal Club - a hub for gossip and entertainment among the British elite. Yet the fact that she is an East End girl came as something of a surprise to the actress.
"I didn't know people like that went out there, so the whole thing was new to me," she says.
"I was completely ignorant and ill-informed. When it [this period] has been portrayed in the past, it hasn't been balanced.
"It is about the Indian population, and the Brits, and how they dealt with the fall of the Raj
"It's just very real."
With a budget of £14m, Indian Summers is Channel 4's most expensive commission to date.
The plot centres on the personal experiences of two sets of very different siblings.
Henry Lloyd Hughes plays Ralph Whelan - British private secretary to the viceroy of India.
The Inbetweeners actor spent time at the Treasury "meeting and shadowing Ralph Whelans - young, very smart, well-read people, who understood how to use their knowledge to influence a government minister."
"Why would someone want to spend their life doing that?"
Jemima West, known for her role in TV's The Borgias, takes on the role of his sister Alice, who returns to Shimla with her son following a marriage break-up.
"I think she's a woman who listens to her instincts," says West, adding that the character was "ahead of her time".
"But she will pay the consequences. There will be an adventure," she adds.
Representing 'real India', Nikesh Patel plays Aafrin Dalal, a young Parsi who works in the lower rungs of the Indian Civil Service.
"He wants to support his family - so although he can't help but be aware of the growing cause for independence, to pay too much attention to that would be at odds with his job," says Patel.
"As the story unfolds, that sense of duty gets tested - time and time again."
In contrast, Aafrin's sister Sooni, played by Aysha Kala, is fiercely political from the outset and resents her brother's job in the civil service.
"She is a hothead who risks the full weight of the law when she paints pro-independence graffiti on a monument - you both admire and worry about her."
The idea for Indian Summers came to creator Paul Rutman after a stay in a Darjeeling hotel.
"I was shown these photographs that were a story of a world that's gone," he says.
"They were of British people from all walks of life, sitting about, dancing and drinking.
'Contradictions'
"It wasn't so long ago, and it struck me how something so central to how British people felt about themselves as a nation has been swept under the carpet.
Rutman, who has also written shows like Vera and Lewis, did a lot of research to get "under the skin" of those living in that period of history - which he believes is often misunderstood.
"I tried not to take sides and to understand what it would have felt like, whether a young Parsi family or a British man living the life you dreamt of as a child."
Unlike 1984 drama The Jewel in the Crown, Rutman wanted Indian Summers to shift the focus away from the aristocracy and on to the ordinary people, who made the administration tick.
"Empire is still something that many on the right are quietly proud of, but a source of deep shame and self-castigation to the left.
"I want to ride those contradictions."
Indian Summers begins on Channel 4 on 15 February.
At least 3,300 people have been confirmed killed in the country's worst earthquake in more than 80 years.
The quake had a magnitude of 7.8 and tremors were felt in nearby Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
Many countries and charities from around the world have offered help to Nepal to deal with the disaster.
Cities of tents have popped up in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu.
People who are too afraid to return to their homes, or have nowhere to go, are being sheltered there.
"We don't have a choice, our house is shaky," said shopkeeper Rabi Shrestha in an interview with AFP news agency.
Rescue helicopters are heading out to Mount Everest to help 210 stranded climbers down.
The UK is sending a team of experts to help Nepal deal with what has happened.
Their priority is to reach people who are trapped and injured, and provide shelter and protection to those who have lost their homes.
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Many countries, including America, Pakistan, China and India, have promised aid like food supplies, tents, doctors and search and rescue helicopters.
The search continues to find survivors from the earthquake, but rescue efforts have been made harder because many mountain roads are cracked or blocked by landslides and rubble.
It's also meant access to remote areas is difficult.
A limit of 12 books per cell has been removed, while relatives and friends can now send books to inmates directly.
The rule changes, affecting more than 80,000 inmates in England and Wales, are meant to help prepare inmates for work when released.
Mr Gove said those "languishing in prison" were "potential assets" who could be "productive and contribute".
The scrapping of the rules from 1 September is one of Mr Gove's first key changes to prison policy since being appointed as justice secretary.
The restriction on receiving books directly came as a result of the Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme, introduced in November 2013 under Mr Gove's predecessor, Chris Grayling.
It prevented prisoners from receiving direct parcels unless there were "exceptional circumstances", such as a medical condition.
Although inmates were still allowed to use prison libraries, critics claimed they were often inadequately stocked and could be hard to access because of staff shortages.
That scheme was relaxed after a High Court ruling in December found that restricting prisoners' access to books was unlawful.
Subsequently, people were allowed to buy new books for prisoners through four approved retailers - Blackwell's, Foyles, Waterstones or WH Smith - who would send them to prisoners directly.
Mr Gove's changes will remove the limit of 12 books to a cell, as long as prisoners observe overall limits on the volume of personal possessions.
They will also allow people to send parcels of books directly to inmates without having to buy them through approved sources.
Governors will still be able to withhold any books which they deem "inappropriate, not conducive to rehabilitation, or contrary to the safe running of the prison".
And rules on receiving parcels other than book-only packages will remain.
Mr Gove said the most important thing that could be done for people in prison was ensure they were usefully employed, and received skills needed for employment, such as literacy and numeracy.
He cited Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute as a "big influence" on this thinking.
"He believes that we should see all human beings as assets, not liabilities," he said.
"I agree. Every individual has something to offer, every one of us can earn respect. People who are currently languishing in prison are potential assets to society. They could be productive and contribute.
"If we look at them only as problems to be contained we miss the opportunity to transform their lives and to save ourselves and our society both money and pain."
Chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Frances Cook, who had fiercely criticised the book restrictions, said the move was a "fantastic final coda" to its Books For Prisoners campaign.
In Cocke County on Wednesday, Chancellor Telford Forgety ruled a child support magistrate had acted unconstitutionally.
Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew had ordered seven-month old Messiah DeShawn Martin's given name changed to Martin.
She said Jesus Christ was the only true messiah and the name might offend.
Last year more than 700 babies were named Messiah in the US, according to the Social Security Administration.
Christianity sees Jesus as the Messiah, while Judaism uses the term to mean an anticipated saviour of the Jews.
Dictionary definitions say the word can mean anyone seen as a saviour or a liberator.
Messiah's parents had appeared before Ms Ballew in a dispute over the boy's surname - his mother Jaleesa Martin wanted him to take hers, while father Jawaan McCullough wanted him to take his.
Ms Ballew surprised them by ordering his name be changed to Martin, ruling, "Labelling this child Messiah places an undue burden on him that as a human being, he cannot fulfil.''
A Wisconsin-based organisation called Freedom From Religion filed a complaint against Ms Ballew.
At an appeal hearing on Wednesday, Mr Forgety ruled there were no legal grounds for changing the baby's given name when the parents were in agreement on it.
He also ruled Ms Ballew's decision violated the US Constitution's guarantee of the separation of church and state.
He ordered that the boy's name be changed to Messiah Deshawn McCullough.
He coached the national side from 1979 to 1990, taking charge of 96 matches.
Born in Newcastle, Reagan played as a winger for York, Hull, Middlesbrough, Shrewsbury Town, Portsmouth and Norwich before taking up coaching.
England's assistant coach Marieanne Spacey said on Twitter: "Martin Reagan, my first England Women's coach. A gentleman who everyone that came into contact with him walked away smiling."
During his tenure, Reagan handed debuts to former striker Spacey as well as Hope Powell - who went on to manage England.
Reality Check verdict: About 80% of self-employed workers will pay less National Insurance from April 2018, with the rest seeing no change after the government abandoned changes announced in the Budget.
Class 2 National Insurance contributions will still be abolished from April next year. They are paid at a flat rate of £2.80 a week by anyone making profits of more than £5,965 a year.
Figures prepared for the BBC by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that about 20% of self-employed people earn less than £5,965. They do not pay any National Insurance and will still not pay any - that is about one million people.
The remaining 80%, approximately 3.6 million people, will now get the cut to NI that they had been expecting since George Osborne announced the abolition of Class 2 contributions in 2016.
These figures are not precise because they are based on an ONS survey, which estimates the distribution of earnings for the self-employed.
In an interview the morning after last week's Budget, the chancellor said that 60% of self-employed workers would pay less NI as a result of the abolition of Class 2 contributions combined with the increase in Class 4 contributions.
He said: "Of the 15% of people who are self-employed, 60% will see a reduction in their National Insurance charge. Anyone earning less than £16,250 a year will see a reduction in the National Insurance contributions they pay."
That was clearly not the case - those earning less than £5,965 a year would not have paid any National Insurance either before or after the changes.
The ONS survey estimates that 40% would have paid less NI, while 20% would see no change.
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A photo shows Mr Michel reacting as Princess Astrid fires the blank.
He underwent further medical tests on Tuesday and skipped an appearance in parliament.
His spokesman said he was also suffering from tinnitus, sometimes described as ringing in the ears.
But Frederic Cauderlier told AFP news agency he would not give further details, in order to protect the prime minister's privacy.
The French-speaking Mr Michel hosted US President Donald Trump last week as he visited Brussels.
Princess Astrid, 54, is the younger sister of Belgium's King Philippe. The 20km (12.4 mile) road race on Sunday is an annual event and the princess took part alongside 40,000 other runners after pulling the trigger.
The Hampshire Senior Cup Final between Eastleigh FC and AFC Totton on 16 May will test Hawk-Eye's camera-based system.
Calls for goal-line technology have increased with dubious decisions marring a number of high profile games.
Field tests. These will take place in a football stadium chosen by the technology system provider. Testers will conduct a greater volume of shots on an empty goal, shots against an impact wall, shots on a goalkeeper, and the sled test, also used on Phase 1 testing, where a ball is placed on a sledge and moved along the goal-line.
Training sessions. A series of simulated scenarios on the field using players will assess the systems with an increased number of players in and around the goalmouth.
Laboratory tests. Both systems will be tested against a variety of conditions. This will include simulating different climatic conditions (including rain, smoke/fog and heat/humidity), testing against the impact of proximity to mobile phone transmitters or other magnetic field distortions (eg TV cameras, LED advertising boards) and tests on the watches which would be worn by the match officials.
Real 'live' matches. To ensure that every eventuality has been considered in the two testing phases, each company is also required to have its system tested in two separate 'live' matches.
Chelsea's Juan Mata was awarded a goal that had not crossed the line in his side's 5-1 FA Cup semi-final win over Tottenham on 15 April.
And QPR defender Clint Hill's header was clawed back into play via the crossbar from two feet behind the line by Bolton goalkeeper Adam Bogdan during the London club's 2-1 defeat at the Reebok Stadium on 10 March.
Southampton's St Mary's Stadium is the venue for the non-league final in which Hawk-Eye will be used as Fifa continues its testing programme into the system's viability.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter recently revealed that at least two goal-line technology systems have proved themselves fast and accurate.
"There are now systems that combine precision, speed and are uncomplicated," said Blatter in December.
In March, football's law-makers the International Football Association Board (IFAB) approved two companies - Hawk-Eye and GoalRef - to take part in the second phase of Goal Line Technology (GLT) testing.
Between May 10 and the beginning of June, EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) will rigorously assess the reliability and accuracy of each system, as well as how robust the technology is.
The German-Danish-owned GoalRef will be tested in two separate matches likely to be in the Danish Superligaen or possibly when Denmark play Australia in a pre-Euro 2012 friendly on 2 June at Copenhagen's Parken Stadion.
During the test matches only Fifa's independent testing agency will have access to the system readings and the system will not be available to the match officials.
Refereeing decisions will therefore be unaffected.
Approval for goal-line technology could arrive when IFAB reconvenes in Kiev on 2 July to analyse the second phase test results.
Subject to one or both systems passing the tests the expectation is that the technology will become available to any league or competition wishing to utilise it.
Shannon Conley, 19, was arrested in April while trying to board a flight to Turkey en route to Syria.
Before her arrest, the FBI had repeatedly tried to discourage Conley from involvement with IS militants.
Under a plea deal, prosecutors will ask for a reduced sentence if she gives information about other Americans looking to help IS in Iraq and Syria.
The teenager could face up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 (£154,000) fine, after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist group.
"The fact that she was arrested may very well have saved her life," Conley's public defender, Robert Pepin, said.
It is not known why Conley, who is a nurse's assistant, became interested in militant jihad when she converted to Islam.
She told her parents she planned to marry a suitor whom she met online and believed to be a Tunisian IS fighter.
The FBI became interested in Conley after she alarmed employees of a church in Denver by taking notes on the layout of the building.
Over the course of eight months, FBI agents repeatedly tried to discourage her from travelling abroad, suggesting she explore humanitarian work instead.
But her father, who had refused to let her marry her Tunisian suitor, discovered a one-way ticket to Turkey with Conley's name on it.
When she was arrested, authorities say they found CDs by US radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki among her belongings.
Authorities say they are still investigating Conley's suitor.
Second-placed Arbroath were winners away to Edinburgh City while Elgin City, who are third, triumphed at Montrose.
Clyde dropped out of the top four after losing away to Stirling Albion and Berwick Rangers moved off bottom place and sent opponents Cowdenbeath to the foot of the table.
At Galabank, Annan went ahead with Max Wright winning and converting a penalty but Jim Lister headed Forfar level before the break and Callum Home's own goal gave the Loons a 2-1 victory.
A trialist gave Arbroath an early lead against Edinburgh and Omar Kader's strike ensured a 2-0 win for the visitors.
Shane Sutherland struck either side of half-time to complete a 3-0 win for Elgin at Links Park, Chris Dodd having given City the lead.
Though Annan lost, they moved above Clyde into third on goal difference after the Bully Wee suffered a 3-0 loss at Forthbank Stadium.
Ross Kavanagh headed Stirling ahead in the first half and Dylan Nguene Bikey struck twice after the break.
It was goalless at Central Park until the 84th minute, when Steven Thomson headed Berwick ahead to allow them to leapfrog both Cowdenbeath and Montrose.
Gwent Police was called to a car parked by Friars Walk, as well as a second suspicious item near the George Street bridge on Thursday afternoon.
The shopping centre was evacuated and roads closed while specialist officers used a robot to inspect the car.
Cordons were lifted shortly after 20:00 BST and all city centre roads reopened after several hours.
A force spokeswoman said both incidents were "now under control and are not believed to be terror-related at this time".
Eyewitness Ryan Hiscott said he heard loud bangs coming from a bomb disposal robot as it approached the vehicle.
He said the robot removed a number items from the vehicle, including two rucksacks and a smaller bag, before exploring its interior.
But, he said, there was "no major fear factor".
The A4042, the main road past Friars Walk, was closed in both directions for nearly five hours and there were long traffic jams while police carried out their investigations.
Officers said a window on the vehicle had been smashed, but no controlled explosions had taken place.
Newport council worked with Newport Transport to arrange buses for those people who had been evacuated.
Newport Bus said its network was "still severely disrupted" and delays would go on into the night.
Elsewhere, all classes and activities at Newport Centre and The Riverfront Theatre and Arts Centre were cancelled and the buildings were closed.
The Friars Walk car park has since reopened and the company said there would be no charge to customers when they exit.
Danny Collins rose above the home defence to head Grimsby into a 1-0 lead just before half time.
Argyle failed to effectively clear a corner from the left and when James Berrett looped a cross to the far post, Collins was first to the ball.
It was a similar story as central defender Collins' looped header enabled striker Omar Bogle to head in Grimsby's second goal in the 62nd minute.
Town top scorer Bogle doubled his tally, sliding in to score Grimsby's third in the 86th minute as torrential rain hammered down.
Argyle's on-loan Reading winger Craig Tanner beat the offside trap midway through the first half but was forced wide by a combination of Town keeper James McKeown and skipper Josh Gosling.
Gosling blocked a goal-bound Tanner strike in the 28th minute while Tanner's next effort - after an exquisite looped pass from playmaker Graham Carey - was deflected over by Grimsby's former Argyle midfielder Luke Summerfield.
Gosling - impressive throughout - made a superb block to deny Carey a minute before Grimsby went down the other end and made it 2-0.
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Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 0, Grimsby Town 3.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 0, Grimsby Town 3.
Foul by Louis Rooney (Plymouth Argyle).
Zak Mills (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. James Berrett (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. David Goodwillie (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Scott Vernon replaces Omar Bogle.
Foul by Ryan Donaldson (Plymouth Argyle).
Luke Summerfield (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle).
Kayden Jackson (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Tom Bolarinwa.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Craig Disley replaces Brandon Comley.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 0, Grimsby Town 3. Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Bolarinwa.
Attempt saved. Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Delay in match Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) because of an injury.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Danny Andrew.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by James McKeown.
Attempt saved. Louis Rooney (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Tom Bolarinwa.
Foul by Ben Purrington (Plymouth Argyle).
Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Louis Rooney replaces Paul Garita.
Attempt saved. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Danny Andrew.
Attempt saved. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Paul Garita (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town).
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Tom Bolarinwa replaces Ashley Chambers.
Foul by Paul Garita (Plymouth Argyle).
Josh Gowling (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Fox (Plymouth Argyle).
Brandon Comley (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Gary Miller (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Chambers (Grimsby Town).
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces Craig Tanner.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 0, Grimsby Town 2. Omar Bogle (Grimsby Town) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Danny Collins following a set piece situation.
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He was dazed and confused, but had taken those bruising contacts before - they were all part of the job for the 20-stone prop.
This time, however, it was not a routine bump or knock, the 27-year-old had suffered a life-changing spinal injury and could not move.
It was not until a specialist later confirmed his fate that it truly sank in.
"He said 'You pretty much have to stop'," Vea told BBC Look North.
"'It's such a high risk of re-injuring, we can't guarantee you would come back.' I was pretty blown away."
Vea, who moved to Falcons for the 2015-16 season, was making only his 22nd appearance for Dean Richards' side and was at peak fitness after a full summer of preparation.
The second half was just 10 minutes old against Sale when disaster struck, bringing his professional career to an end.
He's someone who came to the club with potential of being one of the best players in the Premiership, sadly it's been taken away from him
"I was falling toward the ground, trying to brace myself, do something, but that will wasn't working and I landed pretty much face down on the deck," Vea recalled.
"I was trying to breathe, waiting for something to happen, I could hear everyone talking and telling me to be calm, but I just couldn't do anything, I was quite shocked.
"I closed my eyes for a couple of seconds, I prayed a little. The biggest thing was I was asking someone to squeeze my arms and hands, I couldn't feel it, but I looked and could see them being squeezed.
"I went quiet, didn't know what to do and that was probably the toughest part."
The scars of the week-to-week game never quite subside, and players can take for granted the aches and pains after matches.
It was the same for Vea, but his optimism was quickly checked as his condition deteriorated.
"After that game, I asked if we'd won and I said I felt good," he added.
"My body was sore and there was some stinging, but I thought it was just from the game and everything was coming back.
"I thought I was fine and it was a stringer I didn't think anything of it, the sort of thing that happens. Eventually, the pain just came on and it got worse and worse."
Having been a player for 16 years before his switch to the coaching ranks, Falcons director of rugby Richards knows all about the rigours of the rugby field.
The England back-rower was the man who brought Vea to the North East, and had earmarked him as a key figure in the Falcons plans.
"It was terrible news," Richards said. "He's someone who came to the club with potential of being one of the best players in the Premiership, sadly it's been taken away from him.
"He's a lovely guy, he's thrown his lot into the club, everyone gets on very well and it's devastating. I'm glad the club has supported him."
From a 12-year-old rugby-mad Auckland boy playing for the first time with a friend's team to Tonga international honours and playing in the Premiership, Vea's journey had been a rewarding one before this recent setback.
With friends such as Bill Tupou and Ukuma Ta'ai playing rugby league in England, other former colleagues throughout the Premiership and the comradeship of his Falcons team-mates, there is a support network.
As for the future, there are plans to stay in the UK over Christmas and then explore Europe before returning to the southern hemisphere to see family.
"It's a tough one to take, knowing a couple of months ago I was out there," Vea said.
"I miss it already, knowing there's no longer a future for me in the game in terms of playing.
"I'm hanging around here a bit to do a bit of training, I need to get my body back in motion and the club have been great with that.
"I'm positive I can still be around the boys, I'm happy for them and pleased I got to know them."
Sheikh Ali Mohammad Hussain Albyati grew up in a village close to the famed archaeological site of Nimrud in northern Iraq.
The remains of the ancient Assyrian city, which 3,000 years ago was the capital of what is thought to have been the world's first empire, formed the backdrop to his childhood.
On Tuesday, he returned to the site for the first time since IS were finally pushed out by the Iraqi army, having held it for more than two years.
We stood next to a pile of smashed statues and the rubble of the King's Palace, dynamited and bulldozed by the militants.
"Ninety-five per cent of the site has been destroyed," he said. "I spent my childhood here and I'm very sad about what I've seen. Sometimes we feel that the ruins are more important to us than our own lives, our souls and our children."
In almost every direction we looked there was destruction.
A few hundred metres from the entrance to the palace lay a strangely tidy mound of earth.
It was all that was left of a tower, or Ziggurat, which had overlooked the ancient city ruins.
"It used to be 50 metres high, now it is just 10 metres or even less," he said.
According to Sheikh Ali and villagers we had spoken to earlier, IS militants used bulldozers to demolish the tower last month.
When we made a closer inspection of the smashed pile of statues, we found intricate cuneiform writing carved into the stone as well as depictions of animals.
These were the precious winged bulls which had guarded the palace entrance and stood as symbols of the strength and culture of the Assyrian empire when it was at the height of its powers.
The human head, body of a bull and wings of an eagle represented wisdom, strength and sight.
Sheikh Ali is involved in the battles to regain control of Nimrud district from IS after recently becoming a commander in the tribal forces fighting alongside the Iraqi army in the current offensive targeting the militants' last strongholds in the country.
One of his motivations for joining up was to try to save the archaeological site, but to no avail.
"We should have arrived in the first six months [after IS took control]," he said, "but the political facts and lack of military means, led us to arrive so late. However, better late than never."
The site lies on a hill with a magnificent view overlooking the local villages and dry, dusty plains not far from the eastern bank of the river Tigris.
To stand there is to sense the power of the ancient Assyrian city, the heart of an empire which stretched across the Middle East from Turkey to Egypt.
But IS wanted to eradicate it, to erase Iraq's history, and they have gone a very long way towards achieving that goal.
But already there are calls for teams of experts to travel to the area once it is safe enough, to assess what can be done to save a precious part of the region's ancient history.
Something will still be salvaged from the destruction, not everything is lost.
He held the 110m hurdles record for nearly 13 years and still holds the the 60m indoor hurdles record, set in 1994.
All athletics world records set before 2005 could be rewritten under a "revolutionary" new proposal from European Athletics.
"They are making excuses why they are doing it, but they are wrong," Jackson told BBC Sport.
The credibility of records was examined following the sport's doping scandal.
Svein Arne Hansen, president of European Athletics, said world records "are meaningless if people don't really believe them".
European Athletics set up a taskforce to look into the credibility of world records in January. Its ruling council has now ratified the proposals put forward by the taskforce, and it wants the sport's world governing body, the IAAF, to adopt the changes it sets out.
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British athletes such as Paula Radcliffe, Jonathan Edwards and Jackson are among "collateral damage" according to European Athletics taskforce chair Pierce O'Callaghan.
However, Jackson believes it is entirely unfair to look to rewrite the past.
"All athletes set out to achieve and when we achieve [winning] medals, that is fantastic, that is our primary objective," he said.
"When you break records, it is the icing on the cake.
"So for them to now say all of a sudden, 'we aren't sure if your record was done in a legal fashion, so we don't want you having the record… but you can keep all your medals', it is clearly quite ridiculous in my mind.
"I don't think that should be the case. World records are world records."
The proposals still need to be accepted by the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) and Jackson has urged president Lord Coe to act with caution before "stealing dreams".
He said: "My message to Seb Coe would be to think very carefully about what you are trying to do and what you are trying to achieve.
"People want to see a new era of the sport, but we always compare performance and look at history. That is what statistics are all about.
"We are always comparing, that is why what they are trying to do, in my opinion, they won't achieve [it]. They are trying to rob memories and make people cast doubt on athletes from the past.
"I came in as a fan. With that in mind, are you trying to steal my dreams from me? What about all the athletes I looked up to as a kid?"
Jackson believes the proposals are unfair to clean athletes, but does not believe the matter will be disputed legally should the IAAF ratify the plans.
"You can't punish the clean athletes and in my opinion, clean athletes are still in the majority, and should not be getting caught up in this," he said.
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"I am up for banning drugs cheats for life and there should be massive financial punishments.
"I still hold the world indoor record, I can't see legal challenges if it is taken away, but I think we will all be very upset and frustrated."
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The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were among those at the wedding in Canongate Kirk on a sunny Royal Mile.
Hundreds of well-wishers lined the streets for Scotland's first royal wedding in almost 20 years.
Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine, and Prince Harry were also attending the ceremony and reception at Holyroodhouse.
The Reverend Neil Gardner welcomed guests up the Royal Mile, including the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.
The bride's dress, an ivory silk and satin gown, was designed by Stewart Parvin, one of the Queen's favourite couturiers. This was accompanied by a veil, tiara and Jimmy Choo shoes.
The doors of the Canongate Kirk were closed to the press and public, but hundreds of well-wishers gathered in Edinburgh's Old Town to watch the arrival and departure of the Royal Family.
After the ceremony the couple emerged arm-in-arm, stood on the steps to the entrance to the 17 Century kirk and shared a kiss.
The newlyweds arrived back at the palace as the Royal Scots Association pipe band played.
Among the crowds who turned out for the day was Jackie Rushton, 48, from Yorkshire, who told BBC Scotland: "I just love anything to do with the Royal Family, I'm a big fan, I have great respect for them."
Another well-wisher, Margaret Kittle, 76, travelled from Winona in Canada to see the wedding.
She said: "I've come to all the royal weddings since Princess Anne and Mark Phillips' wedding.
"I like to come to the weddings and all the royal occasions that I can, because the Queen is queen of Canada."
Zara Phillips is believed to be setting a royal precedent by not taking the surname of Mike Tindall.
Even when they marry commoners, Royal brides have always adopted the family name of their partners.
When Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, daughter of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, wed Daniel Chatto in 1994 she took on his name.
Zara's decision appears to be based on the fact she wants to preserve her sporting persona and business interests.
The former equestrian world champion is known throughout the sport as Zara Phillips and she has signed a number of deals which help fund her sporting interests.
Other guests included Prince Andrew and his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
The private afternoon ceremony will be followed by a reception at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
The couple hosted a pre-wedding party on the royal yacht Britannia, which is moored in Leith, on Friday night.
They had previously attended a rehearsal for the ceremony at the kirk with the bride's parents, Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips.
Princess Anne's second marriage, to Timothy Laurence, was the last Scottish royal wedding in 1992.
Zara, 30, will keep her maiden name when she marries. It is understood this is because of her sporting career in equestrianism.
Mr Tindall, from Otley in Yorkshire, plays for club side Gloucester and has been capped more than 60 times for his country.
He invited some of England's best-known rugby players to the wedding.
He and best man Iain Balshaw were part of England's winning 2003 rugby World Cup squad in Australia, where the couple were introduced by Zara's cousin Prince Harry.
Lothian and Borders Police said they had been working with the Palace and Edinburgh City Council to ensure the event's smooth running.
Supt Ivor Marshall, who is the Silver Commander responsible for overseeing security arrangements, said the kirk's location, close to both the Scottish Parliament and the Palace of Holyroodhouse, yet set on the busy tourist hub of the Royal Mile, presented unique challenges.
In a statement, the court service said two magistrates' courts scheduled to sit on Thursday would be relocated to Antrim to facilitate the cleaning.
They said the action was a precautionary measure following an infestation at Musgrave police station.
The condom packets show the Warlingham Rugby Club logo with the slogan "join the family".
Club chairman Peter Mattison boasted the move was "bold" and "quirky" and described it as "a bit on the edge".
Players and members will give out the free condoms while socialising in local bars and clubs.
"In the past we've used posters and other advertising campaigns to recruit players," Mr Mattison said.
"But we really wanted to get the Warlingham RFC name out there and what better way than to use our brand to promote both the club and a socially-responsible attitude?"
He said as long as young men and women who may want to play rugby saw it as an amusing way to catch their attention - and join the Warlingham family - then "job done".
The club, which is in its 95th year, is training throughout the summer on Wednesday evenings and has said all are welcome to revive their playing or give the game a try.
Giggs, 40, made a club record 963 appearances for United and played 64 times for Wales.
He is the most decorated player in the English game, having won 13 league titles, four FA Cups and two Champions Leagues, among 34 trophies.
My dream was always to play for Manchester United
He said: "Today is a new chapter filled with many emotions - immense pride, sadness, but most of all, excitement."
Giggs never managed to reach a major international tournament with Wales. But he did skipper Team GB at London 2012, only to lose in the quarter-finals to South Korea on penalties.
He made his last appearance in the 3-1 win over Hull on 6 May, when he replaced youngster Tom Lawrence for the last 20 minutes of the game.
"My dream was always to play for Manchester United," he said.
"Although it saddens me to know I won't be pulling on a United jersey again as a player, I have been lucky enough to have fulfilled that dream playing with some of the best players in the world, working under an incredible manager in Sir Alex Ferguson and, most of all, playing for the greatest fans in world football.
"I am immensely proud, honoured and fortunate to have represented the biggest club in the world 963 times and Wales 64 times.
"United fans, I hope, will share and echo my belief that the club, the management and owners, are doing everything they can to return this great club to where it belongs. I hope to be there every step of the way."
Executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward added: "Ryan Giggs has been one of the greatest players ever to wear the red shirt of Manchester United. What he has achieved will never be equalled in the English game."
Appearances: 963
Goals: 168
Trophies:
13 Premier League titles, 2 Champions League, 4 FA Cup, 4 League Cup, 1 Uefa Super Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup, 1 Fifa Club World Cup, 8 Charity/Community Shields
Long-time team-mate Rio Ferdinand added on Twitter that Giggs had "so many gold medals he puts B.A. Baracus to shame".
Ferdinand, whose own United career ended last week, added that "no player" had adapted their game as well and as effectively "as Giggsy".
From making a goalscoring debut against Everton in 1991, the Cardiff-born player has remained at the very top of English football.
In addition to the huge number of medals, Giggs also has a host of personal accolades to his name.
His sensational goal against Arsenal in the 1999 semi-final replay has been voted the greatest FA Cup goal of all time.
He was voted the number one player in the Premier League era and, in 2009, was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Failing to reach the finals of a major tournament with Wales was a source of regret - the nearest he got was the 1994 World Cup.
His international retirement in 2007 was aimed at winning more honours at club level and he went on to collect a further four titles and the European Cup, when United defeated Chelsea on penalties in 2008.
Giggs, who was interim United boss for four matches following the sacking of former manager David Moyes, said: "Today is a fantastic day for Manchester United.
"Louis van Gaal is a great appointment and I am delighted to be working with someone of his calibre.
"His credentials are second to none and I'm positive the club will thrive under his leadership over the coming years."
After the downturn this season, when United failed to secure European football of any description, slumping to their lowest league finish in 24 years, Woodward will be hoping for a swift return to the style Giggs is so famous for.
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"In the way he played, he was the embodiment of a Manchester United player - fast, skilful, entertaining and determined to win by playing exciting football," said Woodward.
"His progress from the ranks of the famous Class of '92 to the most decorated player in this or any club's history is down to his hard work, ability and attitude.
"He is at the start of an exciting new chapter in his and the club's life but now is the right moment to reflect on the achievements of the finest British player of the last 25 years."
While Giggs's retirement marks the end of an era given he is the only player to have appeared in all 21 seasons of the Premier League, it does seem to pave the way towards taking the manager's seat himself at some point in the future.
Giggs has never made any secret of his managerial ambitions and former United assistant boss Mike Phelan feels he has the right credentials.
"He definitely has experience on his side and he has the name and the clout behind him because of who he is and what he has achieved," Phelan told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I think [Premier League management] is the natural progression for Ryan, and I think it will happen in the next two or three years."
The Exiles were 11 points adrift when they sacked boss Graham Westley but followed up a win over Crewe thanks to Ryan Bird's second half penalty.
County are now seven points from League Two safety and off the bottom of the table after Bird converted after Alex Whitmore fouled Alex Samuel.
Morecambe remain 15th.
Newport County boss Michael Flynn told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "It is not easy, but the boys were outstanding.
"We had enough chances to wrap up the game earlier, but the boys showed great character.
"We kept a clean sheet. I was very nervous, but tried not to show it.
"It's a brilliant win. We will keep fighting and we will keep scraping."
Match ends, Morecambe 0, Newport County 1.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 0, Newport County 1.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
(Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Bird (Newport County).
Andrew Fleming (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County).
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Ryan Bird (Newport County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Alex Whitmore (Morecambe) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Rhys Turner (Morecambe) header from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Aaron Williams (Newport County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Newport County. Aaron Williams replaces Alex Samuel because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Jazzi Barnum-Bobb (Newport County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Michael Rose (Morecambe) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Newport County. Jazzi Barnum-Bobb replaces Mark O'Brien.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Joss Labadie.
Substitution, Morecambe. Peter Murphy replaces Antony Evans because of an injury.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Sid Nelson.
Mark O'Brien (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Tom Owen-Evans.
Michael Rose (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark O'Brien (Newport County).
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Morecambe).
Scot Bennett (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Sid Nelson.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Antony Evans (Morecambe) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Newport County. Mickey Demetriou replaces Sean Rigg.
Delay in match Alex Samuel (Newport County) because of an injury.
Substitution, Morecambe. Lee Molyneux replaces Kevin Ellison.
Goal! Morecambe 0, Newport County 1. Ryan Bird (Newport County) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Alex Whitmore (Morecambe) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Newport County. Alex Samuel draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Antony Evans (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Sean Rigg (Newport County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Joss Labadie (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Ryan Edwards (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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The 2013 finalist was made to scrap from 11-8 down in the final session.
Four-time champion John Higgins was knocked out after losing 13-9 to China's Ding Junhui while Graeme Dott lost 13-5 to Essex's Stuart Bingham.
And favourite Ronnie O'Sullivan came back from 2-0 down to take the first session 5-3 against Matthew Stevens.
O'Sullivan, looking for his sixth Crucible title, showed his frustration by banging his cue on the table after missing an easy red in the third frame.
But he soon found his form. Breaks of 100, 63 and 61 gave him the advantage, before he pinched the seventh frame after Stevens had made 55.
The Welshman avoided losing six on the bounce by taking the final frame of the session with a 71.
Meanwhile, 2010 champion Neil Robertson produced some exceptional snooker to take a 6-2 lead over two-time runner-up Ali Carter.
The Australian knocked in three breaks over 50, two tons and potted a superb red from the top cushion in the final frame of the session to take a commanding lead.
Englishman Hawkins, a semi-finalist last year, was thrilled with his comeback win.
"I have done it again and I don't know where it came from. I seem to do that quite a lot," he said.
"I am delighted to still be in the tournament and beat somebody of Mark's calibre. That gives me great confidence for the next round.
"He's a gentleman. It was played in good spirit. I dug in and felt I was getting stronger towards the end."
Northern Irishman Allen, who reached the last four in 2009, added: "The last session was frustrating. Barry did a good job and froze me out.
"Any chances I had were half-chances and the balls were awkward."
Ding, the world number three, started the day 9-7 up on the Scot before taking three of the first four frames. Higgins tried to come back into it, but the Chinese player held his nerve to advance.
The 28-year-old believes he is playing a level of snooker that could help him win his first world title.
"I hope I'm going to win the tournament. I believe I can - I have the form to win any tournament," said the former Masters and UK champion, who reached the semi-finals in Sheffield in 2011.
"I think I can play better."
Higgins, who had led early in the match, said that Ding is a real challenger.
"Ding's cue ball control reminds you of Steve Davis in his prime - he makes everything look ridiculously easy. He made a couple of pressure clearances which mean he is probably ready to win the world title," the 39-year-old told BBC Sport.
"He has grown up and is more at ease within himself and seems ready to tough it out."
Bingham, who reached the last eight in 2013, needed only two frames to seal victory, finishing with a break of 104.
"It is a fantastic feeling to beat someone of Graeme's level 13-5," said the 38-year-old.
"I made a 64 in the first frame and that settled me down. (That) calmness stayed me with throughout the match."
Dott, who won the title in 2006, said: "I never really felt it was a 13-5 game. Last night, I could have won the last two frames, but losing the second-to-last frame killed me.
"It's not nice to lose like that."
It is a flippant point and one bound to anger the horde of increasingly tech-savvy over-60s but it remains the case that older people are the ones most likely to be disengaged from technology.
It is something that Matthew Adam sees a lot.
"We hear all the time about how someone in the family has bought an older person a computer or an iPad and then aren't around to show them how to use it," he said
He runs Silver Training, a tutoring service aimed at older consumers. There are 31 tutors around the UK helping people with a range of tasks, from basic training in how to use a mouse and keyboard, to setting up email, sending attachments and saving documents.
At 80 my mum is actually pretty tech-savvy. She has a computer, albeit an old one, and can Skype, send emails, search the net, print off photos and even do a bit of internet shopping.
Last week she had a tutorial with Silver Training tutor Pat Cunningham.
She enjoyed the lesson and learned some useful shortcuts for closing windows etc, as well as tips on how to send attachments.
It was, she told me afterwards, a lot more useful than the course she had been on which "taught me things about Word that I just didn't need to know".
She hasn't yet progressed to a smartphone and says she has no need for one. But at least she always has her phone turned on - unlike my mother-in-law.
However I'm not sure even an e-book reader under the Christmas tree would go down well. Nothing will beat a real book in her eyes.
As the proportion of people aged 65 and over climbs to record highs in many countries, technology companies that fail to take account of the older consumer will be missing a trick, thinks Chris Millington.
He is the UK managing director for Doro, a Swedish telecoms firm that designs mobiles specifically for the older consumer.
It has just launched a smartphone which he hopes gets away from the image of an oversimplified handset.
"Just because a person is older doesn't mean they are all the same or that they just want a big-buttoned phone," he said.
"We know that while many just want ease of use and simplicity, most want a stylish and modern device with many more interested in features such as a camera, email and the internet too."
The main thing is not to assume knowledge, he said.
In a recent focus group conducted by Doro, 40 older consumers were challenged to add a contact to an Android handset - 38 failed to complete the task.
And iPhones are also ill-adapted to an older generation, says Mr Millington.
"The average response time for the icons on the screen is 0.7 seconds but the average response time of someone aged 65 or over is one second. Every single touch activates the wobble, so Apple is excluding a whole audience."
Annika Small is chief executive of Nominet Trust, a charity that funds socially useful technology projects. She thinks industry needs to do more.
"We need to ensure that the technology sector places more emphasis on co-design, involving and engaging older people in the design of the services which they might want to use," she said.
Some argue that the next generation of older people will be more tech-savvy because they will have worked with technology but this won't eliminate the need for specially adapted devices, says Mr Millington.
"There are things that you can't change, such as eyesight, hearing, circulation and memory loss," he said.
But persuading older people to use gadgets is only half the battle. Then they need to be persuaded to use the internet.
According to Ofcom, more than 7.5 million adults have never used the internet. Many of these are older - two-fifths are over 75.
For Ms Small the key lies in persuading older people about the human face of technology.
"It is critical that we find ways to motivate older people to get online by demonstrating how the internet can strengthen vital social ties that will help them to remain active and engaged," she said.
Crowd-sourced services are offering to do just that and heal one of the biggest threats facing older people - loneliness.
Casserole, for example, is a web service that promises to pair up people who like to cook with others in their area who might not always be able to cook for themselves. Funded by FutureGov, it is currently being run by councils in Surrey.
It also runs a secondary service, Pair Up, that supports regular meal-sharing. All of the diners currently in the scheme are over the age of 80.
Meanwhile The Amazings is a website keen to dispel the myth that the older generation need help.
The site aims to put older people back at the centre of their communities and reignite the long-lost tradition that saw elders regarded as the most important members of a society.
It currently has more than 200 people on its books, from journalists to wood turners. Each offers a real-life class on their chosen skill, either as a one-off or as a course.
The most popular courses are those that feed into the current love of nostalgia. said spokesman Liam Fay-Fright.
"Knitting does well, so does crochet, curtain-making and anything that is about making do," he said.
Tapping into the knowledge of an older generation has huge potential for benefiting the whole of society, he thinks.
In return, perhaps we shouldn't begrudge our older relatives a little bit of tech support.
Anyone wanting to know more about the web can visit the BBC WebWise page
It means Welsh ministers could control £3bn of taxes a year by 2020.
Mr Osborne also promised that spending per head on devolved services in Wales would not fall below 115 percent of spending per head in England.
Welsh ministers said their budget would fall in real terms and they needed more details on the minimum funding pledge.
Key points of the Spending Review
Announcing plans for £20bn worth of cuts in the Commons on Wednesday, Mr Osborne told MPs Britain had to tackle its national debt but put its economic and national security first, saying they provided "the foundations for everything we want to support".
However, the chancellor said he had dropped plans to cut tax credits, paid to 238,000 families in Wales, after the House of Lords effectively blocked them.
He also ruled out any reductions to police funding in England and Wales, after the Home Office had previously urged forces to prepare for cuts of 25% or 40%.
Dyfed-Powys police and crime commissioner Christopher Salmon said it was "encouraging news".
Mr Osborne confirmed that block grants to the Welsh government would rise to just under £15bn by 2019/20.
The Welsh government's total budget for 2015/16 is £15.3bn, including £14.4bn of block grants, plus around £950m from the proceeds of business rates.
The chancellor said he would also help fund a "city deal" backing infrastructure projects for Cardiff and the surrounding areas, to which the Welsh government and local authorities have already pledged £580m.
S4C is set to see the money it receives from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport cut from £6.7m to £5m by 2019.
While this represents 10% of its funding, - the rest comes through the licence fee - chairman of the S4C Authority Huw Jones called the reduction "disappointing".
Labour Welsh Finance Minister Jane Hutt described it as "another smoke and mirrors" Spending Review.
"The reality looks like an overall real terms cut to our budget," she said, predicting it would fall by 3.6% between 2015/16 and 2019/20.
Ms Hutt added that there was "nothing to relieve the ongoing and significant pressures on public services in Wales"'.
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb hailed it as a "landmark" settlement for Wales.
"By removing the need for a referendum on income tax, the Welsh Assembly will finally take its place alongside other mature legislatures by being accountable to the people it serves," he said.
Although First Minister Carwyn Jones told BBC Wales he was in favour of devolving some income tax powers "in principle", the Welsh government needed more details on the plans and timescale involved, he said.
Mr Jones said Mr Osborne's minimum funding pledge for Wales, the so called "funding floor", offered no long term guarantees.
"One of the problems we have, of course, is that the UK government has said we will put a funding floor in place, to keep Welsh funding at a constant level, but only for the length of this Parliament," he said.
"That's not a permanent solution - we need to have full reform of the Barnett formula to see that."
Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards welcomed the tax changes, saying: "A referendum would have been a complete waste of time and resources, and we are pleased that the UK government has finally seen sense on this matter."
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams also welcomed the dropping of the referendum requirement, saying: "Tax varying powers will bring much-needed accountability to Wales' political system.
"For too long, successive Welsh Governments have been able to spend money without having the responsibility for raising it."
However, UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill said: "It's frankly outrageous that Osborne has opened the door to devolve tax raising powers to Wales without a referendum for the people."
Rachel Banner from True Wales, the group which campaigned against further devolution in the 2011 referendum, claimed that introducing income tax powers for Wales without a referendum was "illegitimate and brings the devolution settlement into disrepute".
Meanwhile, shadow chancellor John McDonnell was branded "a clown" by a Welsh party colleague.
Alun Davies, the AM for Blaenau Gwent, said John McDonnell was "out of his depth" on Twitter.
He made the claim after Mr McDonnell produced Mao Zedong's Little Red Book in the House of Commons while saying Mr Osborne was selling off £5b worth of UK assets, in particular to China.
Mr Davies tweeted: "McDonnell is a clown. Way out of his depth.
"We needed leadership, strength and substance today. We got Mao".
Mr McDonnell said the reference was "a bit of a joke".
Analysis by Sarah Dickins, BBC Wales economics correspondent
For the 238,000 families in Wales on tax credits, there may be relief that the chancellor has walked away from bringing in the tax credits he proposed in the Summer Budget but it is in effect just a delay. The savings will still be made and will be factored into Universal Credit when it is fully rolled out across the UK. At the moment it is in all but three local authorities in Wales, not Cardiff, RCT nor the Vale of Glamorgan, but not all areas within those authorities.
The decision by the chancellor that Wales will have the powers to raise and vary income tax are part of his policies of bringing decision making about economic development closer to home. For example, in England local authorities will be financed by council tax and business rates rather than grants.
But Scotland has had powers to raise or lower income tax by 1p in the pound for many years and not used them. In Wales there are very few people, only 4,000 in 2014/15, paying higher rate tax of 45%. The vast majority pay basic rate tax and a 1p increase or decrease is estimated to only raise an extra £180m on 2012 estimates. A Welsh government that raised income tax by 1p would have to decide whether that was worth the potential political pain.
The ten local authorities behind the Cardiff City Deal, a request for around £500m from the Treasury as part of a £1.2 billion project, will be pleased that the chancellor confirmed support in principle. The team behind the City Deal now have to develop detailed plans for projects, involving the public and private sectors, that will make the economy of south-east Wales stronger. That may not be as straight forward as it seems.
If you recognise that lyric, you're not alone... because The Killers' Mr Brightside, has become one of the UK's most popular songs.
The 2004 single was streamed 26 million times last year, beating any other song released before 2010, according to music industry body the BPI.
That's worth $150,000 (£115,000) in royalties. So it's fair to say The Killers are making a killing on streaming.
However, the most-streamed song overall last year was Drake's One Dance, which his fans played 141 million times.
It was the only song to break the 100 million barrier, but 35 other tracks, including Sia's Cheap Thrills and Justin Bieber's Love Yourself, were streamed more than 50 million times.
According to the BPI, classic songs accounted for more than half of all the streams served by Spotify, Apple Music and their competitors last year.
Christmas songs, in particular, attracted a huge number of plays.
The figures were revealed in the BPI's annual All About The Music report.
Other discoveries included in its analysis of the UK music market included:
Britain is now the third-biggest music market in the world; but the BPI warned that Brexit could pose challenges for the industry in the coming years.
"Brexit risks new EU barriers for UK acts, who also face stiff competition from overseas artists on global streaming platforms," said chief executive Geoff Taylor.
"Our business will only reach its full potential if the government makes the creative sector a high priority in trade negotiations and offers the same kind of support to investment into music, such as through tax credits, as it has to the film and games industries."
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The Millers have paid an undisclosed fee for the 22-year-old who made 21 appearances for Celtic in three years.
Playing mainly as a right-back, Fisher began his career at Farnborough before moving to the Glasgow club in 2013.
He made 23 appearances while on loan at St Johnstone last season, as they finished fourth in the Premiership.
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Police said a 36-year-old man was in his home in Glebe Road, Whitburn, West Lothian, at about 08:00 when he was attacked by two men and a woman.
The victim suffered a number of cuts and puncture wounds to his head and neck and was taken to St John's Hospital for treatment.
The three suspects drove off in a black Mitsubishi Shogun car.
The first suspect was described as being white, male, 5ft 6in tall, of heavy build, with short, dark hair.
The second suspect was white, male, about 5ft 5in tall, of skinny build, with short, dark hair. He was wearing a black jacket with white Adidas stripes on the shoulders.
The third suspect was white, female, 5ft 6in tall with shoulder-length black hair.
Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Det Insp Paul Batten, of Police Scotland, said: "The victim has been extremely lucky not to have suffered any life-threatening injuries and we are pursuing various lines of inquiry within the local area to trace those responsible.
"I would ask that anyone who saw any suspicious activity around Glebe Road on Saturday morning, or who has any other information that can assist with this investigation, contacts police immediately."
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Sean Longstaff gave the visitors an early lead as Killie dominated for much of the first half.
However, Accies equalised with two minutes of the first half remaining through Eamonn Brophy.
Both sides created chances in the second half, Kris Boyd going close for Killie and Danny Seaborne for Accies, but neither side could find a winner.
Kilmarnock started the game brightly and took the lead on seven minutes when Longstaff picked up the ball 22 yards out and drilled a low shot past Gary Woods for his second goal in two matches.
The visitors were passing superbly from the back with Celtic loanee Kristoffer Ajer outstanding in central defence, but his mood was in contrast to that of Boyd up front. The former Scotland striker was increasingly frustrated by the lack of a killer pass to capitalise on the early ascendancy.
That failure was compounded as Accies got into the game more, and substitute Brophy, who had come on for Alex D'Acol, should have done better from a good Danny Redmond pass.
But Brophy more than made up for that with two minutes to go to the interval, a sublime turn and shot from 20 yards flowing past Freddie Woodman for the youngster's second goal of the season.
The second period did not bring as many chances, especially as Accies got closer to their men and did not give Killie the same space in which to play.
Rory McKenzie did set up Boyd two minutes after the break but the striker hooked his shot wide before Redmond caused all sorts of confusion in the home defence from a corner.
The visitors brought on January loanee Conor Sammon for Boyd, but it was McKenzie who had the last chance to win the game in injury time, with his header saved by Woods.
Hamilton Academical manager Martin Canning: "I think a point was just about right. Kilmarnock started better than we did but we changed it and I was pleased with our second-half performance.
"I will take a point, it is four out of six and while I would have wanted six out of six, this is still valuable.
"This league is so tight, it only takes two or three wins in a row for people to push themselves into the top six. I have not spoken about totals or targets to stay in the division, but we are looking up the way rather than down and it has been a good few days."
Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark: "It was frustrating in the end because I thought we were outstanding in the first half-hour and so dominant. But we had to scrap and fight for a result all the same.
"We have had four games against Hamilton this season and they have all been extremely tight which shows you how close we all are. These are the games, though, it would be good to take points from.
"We shot ourselves in the foot a bit, but we are really young and I'm excited about the future, especially when you see the quality on the bench today.
"I want to find a way of getting two strikers on the pitch and Conor Sammon will play a big part in that.
"I am looking upwards and that is why I am frustrated. It is not arrogance, but we have to have that belief that we can get in their further up the table."
Match ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Kilmarnock 1.
Second Half ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Kilmarnock 1.
Attempt saved. Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical).
Attempt missed. Dean Hawkshaw (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Rakish Bingham.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Darian MacKinnon.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Steven Boyd replaces Daniel Redmond.
Conor Sammon (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical).
Foul by Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical).
Dean Hawkshaw (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Ronan Hughes replaces Massimo Donati.
Attempt missed. Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Kristoffer Ajer (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical).
Foul by Josh Umerah (Kilmarnock).
Blair Adams (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Josh Umerah (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Josh Umerah (Kilmarnock).
(Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Conor Sammon replaces Kris Boyd.
Foul by Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock).
Rakish Bingham (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sean Longstaff (Kilmarnock).
Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Iain Wilson (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Iain Wilson (Kilmarnock).
Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical).
Attempt missed. Kris Boyd (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Josh Umerah replaces Jordan Jones.
Foul by Sean Longstaff (Kilmarnock).
Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rory McKenzie (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical).
Foul by Greg Taylor (Kilmarnock).
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Hamilton Academical and Kilmarnock shared the points from a hard-fought draw at New Douglas Park.
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The crowds mingle in the sunshine, kids queue for ice-cream, adults for fish and chips; young Asian women in saris or headscarves enjoy the fairground rides and shirtless men with dogs on chains watch performers on temporary stages.
It is a tradition that dates back to Oldham's days of industrial greatness. Before World War One, the town produced more cotton than France and Germany combined. By the 1960s and 70s, more than 300 cotton mills working day and night had pulled in immigrant workers from across the Asian sub-continent.
"This was a brilliant place for a young immigrant in the 1970s," Riaz Ahmad told me. He came here from Pakistan in 1974 at the age of 21, and has been a Labour councillor for much of the last 25 years.
"The town was full of noise and smoke from the chimneys. The mayoress's chain of office has 365 diamonds - one for each of the cotton mills that operated here."
When the world was buying cotton, Oldham thrived, a genuine beneficiary of a global market. But then the world started making cotton, and much more cheaply; Oldham's decline was as sudden as it was dramatic. The tide of globalisation had turned. This year Oldham was named, by the Office for National Statistics, the most deprived town in England.
The townscape is still dominated by those famous old mills. But many are derelict, their windows smashed, their roofs stripped of copper and lead, water leaking into what was their immense production halls.
Throughout, Oldham remained a Labour fortress. Though Winston Churchill was once the town's Liberal MP, Labour have been winning elections here hands down for as long as anyone can remember. But in June, Oldham, like most of post-industrial England, voted decisively to leave the EU, in defiance of Labour's pro-Remain stance.
"I'd always voted Labour," Marlene Nurse, a retired schoolteacher told me. "But then we got a leaflet through the door from UKIP. We didn't know anything about that party so we went along to their public meeting. [My husband Ian and I] met Paul Nuttall [UKIP deputy leader] there. It was an eye-opener. He was talking common sense.
"We'd never heard anything like it from the Labour Party or the Conservatives. I thought - this is what we want. From then on we were committed."
In 2005, UKIP polled less than 3% in Oldham; in a parliamentary by-election this year in Oldham West and Royton, it polled 23% - propelling the party into second place.
Oldham has drawn a new wave of migrants since EU enlargement in 2004.
"Lots of east Europeans have been sent here because the housing is cheap and the rents are low," Marlene Nurse told me. "The media try to say UKIP supporters are racist, but it's not true. We are ordinary, decent, honourable people.
"Nigel Farage gets a terrible time in the media, he's barely allowed to finish his sentence before the interviewers cut him off. But if you actually listen to what he says, he makes sense - common sense."
"I am not complacent about this threat," says Riaz Ahmad. "We will not sleepwalk into that. We are working in the estates to hold onto our support. But UKIP are a one-agenda party, and that issue is now resolved [by the EU referendum].
"So what has UKIP got to offer? They'll have to reinvent themselves, so we'll see what they come up with."
The EU referendum result revealed a profound divide in British society. It is not the traditional divide, between Conservative and Labour, but one that cuts through both major UK parties.
It is as though the Britain that thrived under globalisation and open markets, the Britain that voted to stay in the EU, failed to notice that another Britain had been incubating for decades in the dereliction to which the once proud industrial heartlands have been reduced since the 1970s.
An entrenched hostility to the EU has been building in that second Britain in direct proportion to the decline of its industrial base.
The vote on 23 June was, in Oldham and towns like it, a revolt against globalisation and a revolt against open markets. But how much was it also a revolt by people who have always voted Labour?
Real votes in real elections are still going Labour's way in Oldham. But the EU referendum has shifted something in the alignment of political loyalties in the old industrial heartlands.
Anti-EU and anti-Westminster sentiment emerges from it emboldened. Labour still has the numbers; but UKIP has the energy, the momentum, and a renewed sense of its own legitimacy as the authentic voice of those left behind in a globalised economy,
"If I were a Labour MP or councillor here in Oldham, should I be scared?" I asked Marlene Nurse. "Oh I hope so," she said, and laughed. "I certainly hope so!"
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Mark Keary, head of Bethnal Green Academy, told MPs it was still not clear how they had been radicalised.
GCSE pupils Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum left in February to join the so-called Islamic State group.
Mr Keary said efforts to prevent radicalisation had to keep pace as militants' recruitment tactics changed.
Giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Mr Keary said the school had come under "huge scrutiny from counter-terrorism, the police... in a long-running inquiry" into the girls' radicalisation.
He said the inquiry had concluded the investigations would be moving elsewhere but "further down the line we are still no clearer what the agents of that change [the radicalisation] were."
He said the school had been fully engaged with the Prevent strategy from the summer of 2014, adding that what had happened had taken "many agencies by surprise".
"We are hugely concerned. We have looked into every aspect of our work, we have looked closely at what we as a school could or should have done that would have been different."
Both Mr Keary and former deputy head Alison Brannick said Prevent training for teachers had focused on "the stereotype of the angry young man", which none of the girls had fitted.
He added: "We were quite focused through the Prevent strategy on looking for symptoms of radicalisation that on this occasion simply had not materialised."
Mr Keary said Prevent had already changed since February and must continue to evolve.
"Any legislative response or any strategy is in danger of becoming outmoded almost instantly because tactics for recruitment and radicalisation appear to shift and change in response...
"It needs to be very regularly reviewed across the board.
"We cannot be caught in the same situation when we imagine that the radicalisation process and those who represent a threat to our young people will simply stand still.
"What we've got to learn how to do is to adapt and be for once proactive in relation to this.
"The Prevent strategy, if it had one original flaw that perhaps lingers at this point is that it is predominantly reactive."
Mr Keary said the strategy would need commitment from school communities and staff, with work across the curriculum to educate young people to become more critical in their thinking.
The committee also heard evidence from Sara Khan, of the organisation Inspire, about the group's work within the Muslim community to challenge radical preachers, and from the advocacy group Cage.
Scottish Borders Council said it was designed to help it advance plans for the scheme in Duns.
The survey on the £1.65m project is available via the local authority's website.
Plans were lodged for the museum last week but the council said it now wanted public feedback.
Councillor Vicky Davidson said: "I am delighted that the planning application has now been lodged and we've reached another milestone towards providing a bigger and better Jim Clark museum.
"As part of developing the wider museum we would like to hear ideas from both local people and visitors about what they think about the current memorial room and what new exhibits, fixtures or events they would like to see featured in the new museum in future.
"I would encourage anyone with an interest to take this short survey and help shape the proposals for a museum that will not only attract even more visitors to the area but which will also do justice to Jim Clark's incredible achievements."
The firm already employs about 1,500 staff at its office in the Titanic Quarter.
The office support jobs will pay salaries of about £35,000.
First Minister Peter Robinson said: "This announcement by one of the most prestigious financial companies in the world reflects the firm's confidence in its Belfast operations."
He added: "The financial services sector is at the heart of the economy and the decisions and transactions that take place in Belfast will impact across the globe."
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: "Citi's presence here over the past 10 years has played a major role in developing the financial services sector, both in providing jobs and training.
"This reinvestment will create much needed highly-skilled jobs, and also increase the skills base of the financial services sector by introducing specialist investment banking functions."
Invest NI is offering grants of about £6m.
The firm first invested in Northern Ireland in 2004.
Its Belfast operation provides support such as legal and technology services to company operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
James Bardrick of Citi said: "The success of our current operations in Belfast was an important factor behind this latest decision to create another 600 jobs.
"The supply of talent in Northern Ireland, particularly at graduate level, is impressive and, coupled with the support from Invest NI and the Department of Employment and Learning, it makes this region highly attractive to a global company like Citi seeking the best location for growth."
Labour won seven Scottish seats in last week's election - six more than in 2015 - and narrowly lost out in several more.
The party had held 41 Scottish seats before its collapse two years ago, when the SNP won 56 of the 59 seats.
As he welcomed the new Scottish Labour MPs to Westminster, Mr Corbyn said they would "soon be joined by a lot more".
Labour won 56 fewer seats than the Conservatives across the UK but did considerably better than expected as it denied Theresa May a majority in the House of Commons.
With Mrs May attempting to secure a controversial arrangement with Northern Ireland's DUP that would see its MPs back her minority government, Mr Corbyn has said he believes a second election could be held later this year or early next.
As he congratulated his Scottish MPs on their "fantastic result", Mr Corbyn predicted they would "soon be joined by a lot more Labour MPs from Scotland".
He added: "Scotland has elected Labour MPs in good numbers and has voted Labour in good numbers and I am very enthusiastic and very optimistic about the future.
"Our campaigning hasn't stopped, it carries on and as soon as this government finally recognises that it cannot govern then there will be another election and we will be back in bigger numbers still."
Some senior figures within the Scottish party - including leader Kezia Dugdale and Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray - had openly criticised Mr Corbyn's leadership ahead of the election.
Ms Dugdale backed Owen Smith when he challenged Mr Corbyn for the party leadership, with the Scottish Labour leader arguing that her UK counterpart was unable to "unite our party and lead us into government".
And Mr Murray - who resigned as shadow Scottish secretary in protest at Mr Corbyn's leadership - tweeted earlier this year that Mr Corbyn was "destroying the party".
Mr Murray, who had been the party's only MP in Scotland - joked that he was "no longer Lonely Murray" as he appeared alongside Mr Corbyn and his six new colleagues.
Insisting that Scottish Labour was "back", Mr Murray said the party's new contingent of MPs would "take the fight" to both the Conservatives and the SNP.
Mr Corbyn has still to announce his new shadow cabinet, so it is not yet known which - if any - of his Scottish MPs will be appointed as shadow Scottish secretary.
The post had been filled by English MP Dave Anderson after Mr Murray's resignation, but Mr Anderson stood down as an MP ahead of the election.
The authority will freeze council tax next year, but will cut 300 jobs and many services to balance the books.
They include closing Splott pool, selling Flat Holm Island in the Bristol Channel and ending the Big Weekend event.
There will be more money for schools and social services.
The Labour-led cabinet said cuts of £22m had to be found in the next budget and it needed to find £110m of savings during the lifetime of the current council.
It outlined some of its proposals in a full council meeting on Thursday evening.
Russell Goodway, who holds the finance portfolio in the Cardiff cabinet, told colleagues: The picture is far from rosy. I am not looking to put a gloss on it or spin. There is no escaping the pain."
Delivering proposals for the 2013-2014 budget, he said some service areas will see budgets cut by 90% by 2021.
He added that there would be "serious collateral damage", with jobs hit - including 300 post closures in the next year.
Savings that will be made include:
Mr Goodway said that the council did not intend to close the city's riding school, which had been feared.
Instead, it was working to find an alternative operator to run the riding school on its 30-acre site in Pontcanna.
Staff at the riding centre - who protested outside the meeting - claimed they were sent letters telling them that the school would close on 1 April.
But Mr Goodway told councillors that the school would remain open until a new partner was found.
He also said that there would be an increase in spending for schools - but it would mean they would have to buy some of the services the authority currently provides for them.
Social services would also get an increase in their total budget, he added.
The council did have the option of increasing council tax to bring in more money, but Labour in Cardiff pledged to freeze council tax during last year's elections.
Both Conservative and Liberal Democrat opposition councillors said they would wait to see "the devil in the detail" before coming to any firm decisions on the budget proposals.
But the Plaid Cymru group leader, Neil McEvoy, said the proposals were being delivered by a "right-wing Labour council" who were nothing more than "red Tories".
The budget will be put to a full council meeting at the end of February.
Tope Obadeyi scored with a looping shot which evaded the Hamilton goalkeeper Michael McGovern.
Dougie Imrie had earlier seen a close-range shot cleared off the line by Conrad Balatoni, while Josh Magennis had gone close for Kilmarnock.
The result will ease some of the pressure which has been building on the Kilmarnock manager Gary Locke.
Hamilton's poor run of form continues - they have only managed one win from their last 10 matches.
Right from the kick-off Hamilton opted to test the Kilmarnock defence, Ali Crawford with the attempt from the centre-circle. It was on target but Jamie MacDonald saved comfortably.
Obadeyi then loped forward for Kilmarnock, but his shot from the edge of the box was well off target.
The much-maligned Killie defence then held up fairly well to some sustained Hamilton pressure.
There was a soft claim from Lucas Tagliapietra for a penalty after a corner. The giant defender appeared to be manhandled in the box, but nothing was given.
There were signs of life from Kilmarnock in the attacking third as Magennis fired over the bar, and McHattie shot wide of the post.
Magennis then jinked into the box but his near-post shot was batted away by McGovern in the Accies goal. Obadeyi did similar shortly after.
At the other end Darian Mackinnon cut a dangerous ball across the penalty area, but unfortunately for Hamilton there were no takers.
Conrad Balatoni then made the clearance of the season off the goal-line. Dougie Imrie fired in a fierce shot from eight yards which had MacDonald beaten, but there was Balatoni on the line to repel the ball with a superb clearing header.
Five minutes into the second-half it looked like Magennis would give Kilmarnock the lead as his volley from McHattie's cross seemed destined to nestle in the top corner. Somehow McGovern managed to get a glove to it and tip the shot over the bar.
There then followed a lengthy delay as Tagliapietra was stretchered from the field after picking up an injury at a corner. He was replaced by Jamie Sendles-White.
There was a real sense that either side could win the match, and the game became increasingly stretched in the second-half.
And it was Kilmarnock who made the breakthrough. The ball found Obadeyi in the box and his shot into the turn looped up and over McGovern and into the net.
The freaky effort was scored right in front of the Kilmarnock fans and they celebrated with gusto.
Hamilton tried to respond with a free-kick into the box which found the head of Ziggy Gordon, but his effort was turned around the post by MacDonald.
Kilmarnock almost took a two goal advantage after neat play involving talented youngster Greg Kiltie on the edge of the box. Kiltie angled a shot towards the corner of the net but it was well saved by McGovern.
Match ends, Hamilton Academical 0, Kilmarnock 1.
Second Half ends, Hamilton Academical 0, Kilmarnock 1.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Dale Carrick replaces Greg Kiltie.
Mark O'Hara (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card.
Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock).
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Aaron Splaine replaces Adam Frizzell.
Attempt saved. Ziggy Gordon (Hamilton Academical) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Kevin McHattie.
Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock).
Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kevin McHattie (Kilmarnock).
Attempt saved. Greg Kiltie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Smith (Kilmarnock).
Attempt saved. Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Jamie Sendles-White (Hamilton Academical).
Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Michael McGovern.
Attempt saved. Greg Kiltie (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Steven Smith (Kilmarnock).
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Daniel Redmond replaces Dougie Imrie.
Corner, Kilmarnock. Conceded by Jesus Garcia Tena.
Jesus Garcia Tena (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jesus Garcia Tena (Hamilton Academical).
Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Jamie MacDonald.
Attempt saved. Ziggy Gordon (Hamilton Academical) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Steven Smith (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ali Crawford (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Smith (Kilmarnock).
Attempt missed. Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Eamonn Brophy replaces Louis Longridge.
Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Slater (Kilmarnock).
Goal! Hamilton Academical 0, Kilmarnock 1. Tope Obadeyi (Kilmarnock) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Josh Magennis.
Under the legislation, the Palestinian landowners will be given financial compensation or alternative land.
The Palestinian president called the law "an aggression against our people".
Israel's attorney-general has said it is unconstitutional and that he will not defend it in the Supreme Court.
The legislation's passage comes amid an escalation in settlement activity since the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president.
Emboldened by a new administration it sees as a more sympathetic, Israel's government has advanced plans for thousands of new settler homes.
More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land the Palestinians claim for a future state. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
There are also 97 settler outposts - built without official authorisation from the Israeli government - across the West Bank, according to the Israeli anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now.
However, the largest, Amona, was evacuated by police last week after the Supreme Court ordered that it be dismantled because it was built on private Palestinian land.
The so-called "Regularisation Bill" was passed by 60 votes to 52 in the 120-member Knesset.
It says settlement construction in the West Bank that was carried out in good faith, without knowledge that the land was privately owned, can be recognised by the government if settlers show they received some kind of state support in establishing themselves at the site.
It allows the government to expropriate land for its own use if the Palestinian owners are unknown. If the owners are known, they will be compensated with money or an alternative plot.
Peace Now says this will allow for the retroactive legalisation of 3,921 homes in 72 settlements and 55 outposts built on approximately 818 hectares (2,020 acres) of private Palestinian land.
The outposts could become official settlements and would most likely be expanded, the watchdog adds.
Administrative proceedings against homes at 16 outposts will be immediately frozen for 12 months, pending a decision on whether to expropriate the land.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on a visit to the UK, missed the vote, but a minister from his Likud party said the law was a demonstration of "the connection between the Jewish people and its land". "This whole land is ours. All of it," Ofir Akuni said.
Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog denounced the measure as "an acute danger to Israel" that could lead to prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.
Palestinian officials said the law was an attempt to legalise land theft.
President Mahmoud Abbas described it as "an aggression against our people that we will be opposing in international organisations".
"What we want is peace... but what Israel does is to work toward one state based on apartheid," he told reporters in Paris after talks with French President Francois Hollande, who called on Israel's government to "reconsider this law".
UN Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov warned the law would "have far reaching legal consequences for Israel and greatly diminish the prospects for Arab-Israeli peace".
The immediate response of the White House was to refer to a statement it issued last week, which said that while the construction of new settlements "might not be helpful", it did not regard settlements as an impediment to peace.
Officials later said the Trump administration would "withhold comment on the legislation until the relevant [Israeli] court ruling".
Peace Now says the law is almost certain to face a Supreme Court challenge.
Legal experts argue that the legislation is unconstitutional because it violates land ownership provisions in the Basic Laws of Israel.
Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit warned Mr Netanyahu before the vote that he was not prepared to defend it in court.
"The bill allows the expropriation of private property contrary to Israeli law, and in a manner that is consistent with Israel's obligations under international law," he warned in November.
Peace Now says the law is also undemocratic, because the Palestinians who will be affected do not have the right to vote in the Israeli parliamentary elections.
It adds that the Knesset (Israeli parliament) does not have legal authority to legislate in the West Bank, which is under Israeli military rule.
Kate Hardcastle has achieved many things in her life but could she be the person to propel Bradford Bulls into the future?
A little under a year ago, the four-time Super League champions were on the brink of extinction and were forced to appeal to fans to raise £1m to keep the club afloat.
In June they went into administration and were hanging on to their future in the Super League.
A life-long fan, Hardcastle admits that she thought her team might cease to exist.
She says: "I rushed my daughter there last year, actually thinking 'my goodness me, I've got to take her because this genuinely might be it, this might be the end' - and that filled me with dread."
Hardcastle explains that she was first taken to Odsal as a two-year-old, by her father, Martin, and her grandfather.
"I was taken in at half time because it was free then so there was no concern that if I didn't enjoy it they would have wasted the money," she says.
"But I did enjoy it. I loved the buzz of it."
And so her love affair with the club began - a love which has seen her step in to become a non-executive director on the board, alongside owner Omar Khan, who bought the club in August to secure its future.
She says her father will be keeping a close eye on the job she is doing.
"He said "don't mess it up"," she says.
"I have got a guy, with Bradford Bulls running through him, who will be sat with me at Sunday dinner poking me saying 'right what are you doing next? What are you going to do about this?'
"I get emails at three o clock in the morning from him. I'm like 'dad for goodness sake, we are going as fast as we can'."
Hardcastle, 36, was the lead singer in a successful band The Fabulous BB Kings, and still sings semi-professionally. She has her own company - "Insight with Passion" - which helps revive businesses and she has also set-up Charity Dreamgirls, which helps promote smaller charities across the UK. This woman of many talents has also recently been named Tesco Mum of the Year for 2013.
She explains her main roles at Bradford Bulls will include looking at the branding of the club, attracting more families and appealing to women to get involved in the sport.
She says: "I am trying to understand what the future of rugby league actually is and it's about inclusivity for me.
"We have a 40% female fan base, the biggest in the Super League, so I thought there was huge potential to understand how we could get more female fans, and make sure that the female fans we have are enjoying it.
"We want to make sure that all of the fans understand the brand and are getting excited about the brand again and that we were taking that message through to grassroots, because those are the children who are going to be the fans of the future."
A BBC Inside Out report in January revealed that Super League clubs are facing combined debts of £68.5m, and - like the Bulls - Salford City Reds were battling financial problems until they were bought out on the eve of the new season.
But is this a sport which can be saved?
She says: "It's only going to happen if it understands that the future is about evolution.
"It's got to understand that the future isn't just about doing what we've always done, and cross our fingers and tighten our belts a bit and it's going to be OK.
"And I think the Bradford Bulls are starting to show some indication and some signs that that's going to be the case."
She explains some of her ideas to bring about her vision of a real family day out to see the Bulls - something which she has seen is possible whilst working in Australia and attending cricket matches and rugby matches in the country.
She says the club will offer childcare facilities on match days so families with young children can still attend the game, she will look at food options ("not just Bovril and a pie") and she has already asked the fans about what merchandise they would like to see available.
On the subject of evolution, Hardcastle says that it is "crazy" that she is the only woman on a Super League board.
"Karren Brady is on the same speaking circuit as me, we both do seminars and speeches, and it was actually very different for her.
"I find the comparison quite challenging sometimes because she was brought in at a very young age to a football club, without having gone and proven herself as a business person and then went on to prove herself brilliantly. I have gone out and been a business woman and I'm being brought in to help a board with my expertise.
"So what the comparison basically is, is that we are business women in sport and that's really sad actually because that's about as far as it goes. I think that just proves there are not enough women in there and we've got to make a change there. "
She says: "If those teams are going to start to attract a different audience - and women are a fantastic audience to attract because they are not necessarily being appealed to through the other sports as well - then you need to understand women.
"You need that balance on the board.
"The right person has to do the job, regardless of sex, but if women never actually get the chance to get through, because something is deemed to be male dominated or a man's job, how are you going to be able to prove that you are the right person to do the job anyway?"
Although Hardcastle is not the first woman to grace a Super League boardroom - Kath Hetherington was chairperson of Hull FC for 12 years between 1999 and 2011 - she knows it will be a challenge.
"The fans have been very supportive in the main so far, as have the players and of course the board," she says.
"I imagine, if you go digging for it, there would be the odd comment on a forum or whatever about the fact that I'm a woman or the fact that I look a certain way - I don't know.
"No one is going to push me out of this sport.
"It's been my sport since I was two so I will be delivering on my job and when I feel I've succeeded at that job, and I've had the time to do that, then we can have a discussion about how I've got on."
Standard Life Opening Event: Bloom is the third in a series of digital commissions celebrating the beginning of the 2017 festival season.
It will see colour, texture and sounds mapped across St Andrew Square over two nights.
The free to the public installation has been created by Leo Warner.
Mr Warner said: "We decided to place audiences inside the event, encompassing them within nearly half a linear kilometre of projection-mapped architecture and bespoke lighting fixtures, and use music, sound and light to tell a story celebrating the 70-year history of the International Festival and the associated Edinburgh festivals, and the immeasurable impact that it has had on the cultural world."
The piece charts the transformation of Edinburgh from the post-war years to today's festival city.
It draws upon the city's architecture, cultural heritage and technological innovation.
A newly commissioned musical score from award winning composer Nick Powell will also feature.
The work follows on from The Harmonium Project in 2015 and 2016's Deep Time.
Sir John Falconer, former Lord Provost of Edinburgh and the International Festival's first chairman, spoke of his ambition 70 years ago that the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival should "provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit".
Edinburgh's Lord Provost Frank Ross, said: "In 1947, my predecessor Lord Provost Falconer championed the inception of the International Festival.
"Today, I am as determined as ever to see the event bring people together from all over Scotland and the world.
"The Standard Life Opening Event: Bloom will provide a beautiful and fitting celebration of our festivals and our city, and of course, the continued flowering of the human spirit.
"We are delighted to have supported our city's festivals for 70 years."
The opening event will take place on two nights for the first time, on Friday 4 August and 5 Saturday.
It runs from 22:00 to midnight on a 20 minute loop, with tickets available from 10:00 on Monday 3 July.
Ticket holders can access the event arena from 21:00. Non-ticket holders can also attend and will be admitted from 22:30 on a first come first served basis.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "I never tire of championing Scotland's outlook as a welcoming and progressive nation and this is particularly demonstrated in the arts.
"In 1947, the Edinburgh International Festival boldly invited artists from across Europe to perform in the capital. 70 years on, we're revered as a festival nation that welcomes performers and audiences from every corner of the globe."
The Metso board said it had reached the "unanimous conclusion" it was not in the best interests of its shareholders.
Weir had proposed an all-share merger, under which Metso shareholders would own about 37% of the combined company.
Glasgow-based Weir said it continued to believe there was a "compelling strategic rationale" for a merger.
The proposed deal, which was announced two weeks ago by Helsinki-listed Metso, has been reported to be worth more than £3.3bn.
In a statement, Metso said it had "carefully evaluated" Weir's proposal before reaching its conclusion.
It added: "The Metso Board remains extremely positive and confident in Metso's standalone growth and value creation prospects by pursuing its current strategy.
"As a consequence, the board has rejected Weir's proposal and sees no reason to commence discussions regarding a potential combination."
Responding to the announcement, Weir said: "In keeping with the spirit of the merger proposal, Weir had proposed that the combined company would have a significant presence in, and a long term commitment to, Finland as well as the UK and would be listed in both Finland and the UK with full index inclusion in both countries, alongside shared management and board responsibilities.
"Weir continues to believe that there is a compelling strategic rationale for bringing the two companies together in a merger structure.
It added: "The board of Weir believes that it has made an attractive merger proposal and there is no certainty that it will revise the terms of its proposal.
"Further announcements will be made if and when appropriate."
The three-times 3,000m steeplechase world champion and coach alleges many athletes use performance-enhancing drugs as a shortcut to wealth.
"The information shows that there are a good number of athletes out there who are using drugs," said Kiptanui.
Kiptanui is regarded as the greatest steeplechaser in history after his success in the 1990s. He was the first man to break the eight-minute barrier for the 3,000m steeplechase
But David Okeyo, secretary-general of Athletics Kenya, said Kiptanui should provide evidence to back up his claims.
Okeyo also called on the 1991, 1993 and 1995 world champion to name names.
In a BBC interview, Kiptanui, 42, said: "They want to get money by all means. Either by a genuine way or another way.
"We have put rules in place. If we don't use these rules then athletes will still use these drugs."
Kiptanui also alleges widespread corruption around the world.
"If you can bribe somebody today or tomorrow, then it [a test result] is gone," he added. "All over the world there is corruption in sport.
"It is not only a matter in Kenya."
Last September, Kenya's athletics authorities revealed they were investigating allegations of widespread doping.
The investigation was launched after media allegations that doctors had given banned substances to runners at a high-altitude training facility.
More than 40 leading Kenyan athletes were subjected to out-of-competition blood tests after a team of overseas drug-testers paid an unannounced visit to the Rift Valley base.
It followed reports in November that the World Anti-Doping Agency expressed frustration at a lack of communication from sporting authorities.
In June, distance runner Mathew Kisorio failed a drugs test at Kenya's national championships and claimed doping was commonplace.
Athletics Kenya head Isaiah Kiplagat said at the time that most athletes were "clean", but that he took the claims seriously.
"We are carrying out an investigation," he said. "We are working with other authorities to ensure that... if this true, [we can] then take action appropriately on the culprits."
American Mayweather, 40, posted a video on Twitter confirming the bout will take place in Las Vegas on 26 August, with the message: "It's official."
He will go after Floyd Mayweather and he will try to knock him out
Irish UFC lightweight champion McGregor, 28, said: "The fight is on."
UFC president Dana White told ESPN: "The impossible deal is now done."
The fight - at light-middleweight - will be one of the richest in boxing history.
Mayweather, a former five-weight world champion and widely considered the best boxer of his generation, retired unbeaten in 2015 after 49 bouts.
That followed a successful defence of his WBC and WBA welterweight titles, a victory that meant he equalled Rocky Marciano's career record of 49-0.
Mayweather retired for the first time in 2008 after 39 fights.
McGregor, who has never boxed professionally, became the UFC's first dual-division champion in November 2016 and has previously challenged Mayweather to a fight under mixed martial arts rules.
His boxing licence was granted by the California State Athletic Commission in December, allowing him to box in the US state.
White, who took part in negotiations on behalf of McGregor, said: "We have been in talks for a while.
"They went smoothly. Floyd Mayweather surrounds himself with smart people and we got the deal done.
"The reason Conor McGregor's as big as he is is he'll fight anybody, anywhere, any time. He will go after Floyd Mayweather and he will try to knock him out."
White said the fight would take place at the T-Mobile Arena and would be at 154lbs, one category up from Mayweather's last bout in September 2015, when he gained a wide points win over compatriot Andre Berto.
When Mayweather defeated Filipino Manny Pacquiao on points in May 2015, the fight set a new American pay-per-view record of 4.6 million buys, and White expects that figure to be beaten.
"It's definitely going to be the biggest fight ever in combat sports history and probably going to be the biggest pay day ever - all sides involved are pretty happy with their deals," he said.
Leonard Ellerbe, chief executive of Mayweather Promotions, added: "There is a different feel from the Pacquiao fight. It is the unknown factor.
"There is not one place I go to with Floyd where he doesn't get asked the question: 'Floyd, are you going to fight Conor McGregor?' All Floyd thinks about is fighting Conor McGregor."
McGregor has won 21 and lost three of his 24 MMA contests, and White said his style would cause problems for Mayweather.
"Floyd Mayweather is 40 years old, he's always had problems with southpaws," added White.
"Conor McGregor is 28 and he is a southpaw. Whenever Conor hits people, they fall. He is 100% positive that he wins this fight, and I stopped doubting him a long time ago."
Speaking last month, boxing legend Oscar de la Hoya said the contest was "a farce" and "a circus" and feared the impact it would have on the sport.
"My interest is in the health of boxing as a whole," said De la Hoya, who won world titles in six different weight categories, in an open letter posted on Facebook.
"Floyd's and Conor's motivation is clear. It's money. In fact, they don't even pretend it's not.
"When the fight ends up being the disaster that is predicted, afterwards neither of them will need [boxing] any more. Floyd will go back to retirement and Conor will go back to the UFC. It's a win-win for them. It's a lose-lose for us.
"If you thought Mayweather/Pacquiao was a black eye for our sport - a match-up between two of the best pound-for-pound fighters that simply didn't deliver - just wait until the best boxer of a generation dismantles someone who has never boxed competitively at any level - amateur or professional.
"Our sport might not ever recover."
Mike Costello, BBC Radio 5 live boxing correspondent
One of boxing's all-time greats will take on a man who hasn't had a single professional boxing contest and it'll become one of the most talked-about sporting events of 2017.
Mayweather is coming out of retirement at the age of 40 for a fight some have dismissed as a farce and a mismatch. McGregor is 12 years younger and the biggest draw in UFC, the most successful and popular brand in mixed martial arts. Insults have been traded for two years - when they first started, nobody believed for a moment this fight would happen.
They both draw huge audiences on pay-per-view TV and the showdown is likely to generate tens of millions of dollars for each man.
It's likely to be televised in the United States by Showtime, a cable network and one of the biggest investors in boxing in recent years. Executives there are saying their digital traffic in the past few weeks is leading them to believe this will be nothing short of a monster event and it's been built by the hype generated by these two masters of the art of hype.
Steve Bunce, BBC Radio 5 live boxing pundit
This will be an absolute mismatch. McGregor is a terrific mixed martial artist, a sensational grappler, sensational at all of these things in five-minute rounds - but what he's absolutely hopeless at - and every now and again we see glimpses of it - is boxing.
That's when you have two feet on the ground, one of your hands is up somewhere near your chin and you are using your other hand as a jab. When he boxes, when he tries to box, whether that's in a gymnasium or a little break in a mixed martial arts fight, he is hopeless.
Ards Borough Council failed to appoint a contractor to undertake the work at the attraction in Portaferry, County Down, earlier this year.
As a result, £214,000 promised by the Department of the Environment to secure the centre's future has been lost.
The aquarium will now be closed until at least the end of the year.
It is not clear when it will open again.
Elaine Roddy, from Friends of Exploris, said the attraction should reopen its doors to the public, at least for the summer period.
"We don't believe there is any reason why it can't be reopened," she said.
"Most of the tanks are still operational. There are seals in the sanctuary at the moment.
"We are embarrassed living in Portaferry and we don't know what is happening."
Portaferry SDLP councillor Joe Boyle said the process had been a "total mess" and was "very disappointing".
"While we thought the biggest battle was getting the awarding of the funding, it now transpires the biggest battle to get Exploris open is actually finding somebody to do the work," he said.
Last year, Environment Minister Mark H Durkan committed £914,000 to refurbish and save the aquarium.
But since £214,000 was not claimed by Ards Borough Council, it is no longer available, leaving £700,000 for the refurbishment work if its carried out by the end of this year.
The new Ards and North Down Borough Council is trying to get the £214,000 reinstated.
A council spokesperson said the council "remains committed to the Exploris facility".
"[The council] has both written to and met with Minster Durkan and asked him to consider reinstating the amount to match the £914,000 offered in September 2014," the spokesperson added.
Portaferry café owner Patricia Donaldson said the local economy was being hit by the continued closure of Exploris.
"I don't think we have felt the full impact of this," she said.
"People come here from as far away as Dublin. They come through Strangford. They get the ferry across. It's all part of the experience.
"I think it is affecting everywhere. It is places on the way here, too. They are all suffering."
Ms Roddy said people often turned up in the town unaware that the attraction was closed.
"We think the communication has not been in place properly," she added.
Ron O'Connor, from Boston in the United States, is one tourist who was left disappointed to find Exploris was closed.
He said: "I'm a little bit sad. We've come a long way, it would've been very nice to see it. It's unusual to have an aquarium that works the way it did."
But the council spokesperson rejected Ms Roddy criticism and said the closure of Exploris was "well publicised in the media".
"The council has undertaken significant social media activity to reinforce the message over the past few months. Signage about the closure has been put up.
"The council remains committed to completing the refurbishment of Exploris and ensuring it has a sustainable future."
The council spokesperson added that a further update would be provided when the minister responds with regard to the capital funding offer.
The seal sanctuary at the aquarium will remain open, but there will be no access to the general public.
This is the first summer since the facility was opened by Ards Borough Council in 1987 that the aquarium has been closed to the public.
The number waiting more than 14 weeks has soared in the past year.
Ongoing problems with mental health services in Wales were previously highlighted in a report last year.
The Welsh government said cutting waiting times was a priority, and extra funding of £250,000 had been announced recently.
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said: "Sadly the Welsh Labour government is determined to bury its head in the sand and ignore the catalogue of concerns and warnings that young people in Wales are being put at risk.
"This complacency is astounding and the Welsh Labour government should hang its head in shame."
The number of children in Wales waiting more than 14 weeks for psychiatric services rose from 199 to 736 in the 12 months up to January 2014.
Problems with the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) were raised in a report last December despite some progress being recognised since a previous study in 2009.
The joint review by Health Inspectorate Wales and the Wales Audit Office said children were being put at risk because of inappropriate admissions to adult mental health wards.
The assembly's children's committee is currently holding an inquiry into the service.
In its evidence to the committee, the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales said there was "significant variation in access" around Wales.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "Waiting times are a priority in our CAMHS improvement plan.
"We have seen an increase in demand in recent years in part because of changes in 2012 for services to care for young people until their 18th birthday.
"The Mental Health (Wales) Measure, which came into force in 2012, enables more patients be seen by local mental health services, which means that CAMHS can concentrate on treating the most complex patients.
"The health minister [Mark Drakeford] recently announced an extra £250,000 a year for CAMHS services, which will ensure more young people are cared for in Wales, reducing the need for costly out-of-area placements."
The Education Authority (EA) said the department had instructed them to cut the amount spent on school uniform grants by £3m.
That would mean £1.9m is available in 2017/18, compared to £4.9m in 2016/17.
The department said that it faced "major financial pressures in 2017-18 if it is to operate within its budget".
"Consequently options to reduce spending across all programme areas are being explored, including the clothing allowance (uniform grants), extended schools and the entitlement framework," it said.
About 98,000 pupils in Northern Ireland received a grant this year.
The most that any individual pupil can receive is £78 which helps pay for uniform and PE kit for post-primary pupils.
The instruction by the department to make the proposed cut was discussed at the most recent board meeting of the EA.
An EA spokesperson told the BBC: "In its recent Resource Budget Allocation letter, the Department of Education has instructed the Education Authority to make certain spending cuts to achieve budget savings.
"These include a reduction of £3m for school uniform grants."
The BBC understands that, if implemented, the reduction in funding of about 60% would not reduce the number of applicants, but would reduce the amount of support each would receive.
The school clothing allowance scheme helps pupils from low income families in primary, post-primary and special schools. Primary school pupils can receive £35.75 towards uniform costs.
Post-primary and special school pupils can receive £51 towards their uniform if they are under 15 years old and £56 if they are over 15.
Post-primary and special school pupils can also receive £22 towards paying for school PE kit.
However, if the cut were implemented, each pupil would receive a reduced amount towards their school uniform.
The department also confirmed that extended schools funding is being reduced by about £1.5m.
Just over £10.6m was provided to around 400 schools in 2016-17 and this is being cut to £9.1m in 2017/18.
The extended schools scheme gives schools in relatively disadvantaged areas some extra money.
They use this to provide breakfast and homework clubs, summer schemes and parenting support.
Jonathan Catchpole survived a gunshot wound to the chest but needed surgery following the attack in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in August 2015.
Colin Deferia, 60, of Barking, Suffolk, who commissioned the "hit" due to a "grudge" against the victim, was jailed for 26 years.
Simon Webber, Frank Warren and Andrew Seaton were each jailed for 23 years and Paul Baker for 17 years.
All five had denied conspiracy to murder, but were found guilty at Ipswich Crown Court following an eight-week trial.
Webber, 32, of Bridgwater, Somerset; Warren, 52, of Dorchester, Dorset; and Seaton, 40, of Maiden Newton, Dorset; were also convicted of possessing a prohibited firearm.
Baker, 35, of Maiden Newton, had acted as a go-between between Deferia and the others, the court heard.
Police found Mr Catchpole with a "significant" gunshot wound to his chest at a flat in Forum Court, Bury St Edmunds, on 4 August 2015.
Shortly afterwards, a burnt-out car was discovered on the edge of the town. It contained a sawn-off shotgun found to have been used in the crime.
Deferia was identified as a suspect due to an ongoing dispute with Mr Catchpole and was arrested the next day.
Analysis of his mobile phone established he had been in contact with some of the other suspects. All four were arrested over the following days.
Mobile phone data, automatic number plate recognition and CCTV footage helped prove Webber, Warren and Seaton had travelled to the town from the south-west of England on the day of the attack.
Forensic evidence linked Webber to the shooting. Warren and Seaton assisted him in carrying out the attack, with Seaton driving the stolen getaway car.
The court heard since the attack, Mr Catchpole, who is in his 30s, needed life-saving surgery to remove multiple pellets.
A victim impact statement read to the court said he was now afraid to open the door and did not feel safe in his home.
Judge David Goodin said he had been shot at point-blank range and it was a "miracle" he had survived.
He described Deferia as a wealthy, successful, self-made businessman but behind his good nature was "vicious remorselessness".
Mark Milliken-Smith, for Deferia, said his client had been law-abiding until this crime, with no previous convictions, and suffered from a depressive disorder.
After the hearing, Ch Insp Caroline Millar, said: "This was a pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to murder an innocent man, all because of a grudge held against him by Colin Deferia.
"Deferia hired the other four men to carry out this attack and between them they thought they had planned the perfect crime."
Conrad de Souza, 57, of Fulham, admitted he lied about his qualifications again.
He was sentenced to 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to six charges of fraud in December 2016.
De Souza, who never completed medical school, was previously jailed in 2011 for claiming he was a doctor to get clinical strategy roles.
He was caught for the second time following a special investigation by the fraud team at NHS Protect.
He admitted falsifying his employment history and qualifications in an attempt to secure senior health roles with a variety of public bodies between 2013 and 2014.
Arslan Khan, specialist prosecutor from the CPS Specialist Fraud Division, said: "The prosecution built a case which showed how Conrad de Souza lied time and again in order to attempt to secure a number of senior health roles.
"De Souza carried on telling these lies despite a previous conviction and prison sentence for similar fraudulent behaviour. Faced with the evidence against him, he pleaded guilty."
His previous conviction related to his employment with Lewisham Primary Care Trust between 2001 and 2010, during which he received more than £329,000 of NHS money in fraudulently obtained earnings.
He had enrolled at the University of London medical school in 1980 but never graduated.
De Souza was jailed for more than two-and-a-half years in 2011.
Karl McCartney, Conservative MP for Lincoln, told one official they were a "pedantic SOAB".
The jibes emerged as Mr McCartney claimed he was a victim of "bullying" by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa).
Speaking in the House of Commons, he admitted his comments were inappropriate and apologised.
During Business Questions earlier, Mr McCartney said Ipsa chief executive Andrew McDonald had used "bullying tactics and threats" to silence him regarding concerns he had raised over their spiralling costs.
He then accused senior management of using "false innuendo and subterfuge" to smear the name of politicians.
In a letter later sent to the MP, Mr McDonald denied the bullying allegations and insisted Ipsa was providing good value to the taxpayer.
He wrote: "Some of the notes written by you, and attached to your claims, were recently brought to my attention.
"Having reviewed those notes, I was taken aback by the content, which ranged from abusive through to the offensive and condescending.
"We will do all that is reasonable to shield our team from such treatment. Ipsa's team deserves to be treated in a courteous manner.
"I ask that you desist from correspondence which falls below this standard."
In a statement, Mr McCartney admitted his messages had been "inappropriate" and said he regretted having made the comments.
"I accept that such comments have given cause for offence," he said.
"You will not see me making similar remarks in the future in respect of Ipsa, which has a difficult and important job to do."
BBC Scotland is hosting a series of TV and radio debates ahead of the Holyrood election on 5 May.
Two hustings will take place in the south of Scotland - the first in Dumfries on 26 April and the second on 28 April in Selkirk.
The debates will focus on a number of issues including economic growth, transport and council services.
It happened 20 minutes into the match between Barry Athletic FC and FC Pumas in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, at about 14:15 BST on Saturday.
The referee was unable to continue.
A spokesman for Barry Athletic FC said: "They came over and stood on the side of the pitch and one of them just had the ref from behind and the ref's legs went right up behind him."
South Wales Police said a report of assault at Barry Athletic Club had been made and the matter was being investigated.
The Barry Athletic spokesman added: "We were playing the game and these two guys entered the ground through some gate not used by anyone in the club.
"The ref squealed understandably and the guy just ran off to the side of the pitch."
Teams decided at the season-opening race in Australia to ditch the new elimination system and revert to the one that had been in place for 2015.
But when they met on Thursday to discuss possible options, returning to the old format was not one of them.
F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone says there will be more talks early next month.
The new format, which saw drivers eliminated every 90 seconds through three sessions of qualifying, came in for criticism in Melbourne last weekend.
That's because it led to an empty track for the last four minutes of the top-eight shootout as teams saved their tyres rather than do another lap.
At an emergency meeting on Sunday, teams agreed unanimously to revert to the 2015 format.
This consisted of three knockout sessions, with the slowest cars only eliminated after each session had finished..
However, this option was not on the table when the F1 Commission finally met on Thursday.
Instead, teams were presented with two options:
As neither had been discussed by the teams in advance, agreement was not reached.
The F1 Commission features Ecclestone and representatives of all the teams, governing body the FIA, tyre supplier Pirelli, sponsors and circuits.
To be able to make a rule change during a World Championship, unanimity is needed. In this case, that did not happen.
The year started with the 2015 qualifying format in place, only for Ecclestone to decide he wanted a change in an effort to spice up the racing weekend.
He gave the teams two options:
They went for the elimination format, something Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff described as the "least worst option".
It remains to be seen what changes will be adopted - if any - after the Bahrain race, which takes place on 3 April.
In the latest outcry over "killer robots", the letter warns that "a military AI [artificial intelligence] arms race is a bad idea".
Among the signatories are scientist Stephen Hawking, entrepreneur Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
The letter will be presented at an international AI conference today.
"Killer robots" are currently the subject of much debate and have recently been discussed by committees at the United Nations, which is considering the potential for a ban on certain types of autonomous weapons.
Now, the experts have called for a specific ban on the use of artificial intelligence to manage weapons that would be "beyond meaningful human control".
"Just as most chemists and biologists have no interest in building chemical or biological weapons, most AI researchers have no interest in building AI weapons - and do not want others to tarnish their field by doing so," they add.
MIT professor Noam Chomsky, Google AI chief Demis Hassabis, and consciousness expert Daniel Dennett are among others to have endorsed the letter.
The text, which has been published online by the Future of Life Institute (FLI), will be presented to delegates of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires.
Prof Hawking, a signatory to the letter, is currently taking part in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit, in which he is collecting questions about "making the future of technology more human".
He will respond to selected questions throughout the week, but has not yet posted his first reply.
In December, in an exclusive interview with the BBC, the professor raised his concern that AI could spell the end of mankind.
"Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete [with artificial intelligence], and would be superseded," he said.
But Eric Horvitz - a Microsoft Research chief who signed the autonomous weapons letter - has also appeared in a video posted online by his firm's PR team in which he defends other AI research.
"You look at how much computation has done for our society, for socio-economics, in applications like healthcare - it's been incredible. AI will change so many things," he said.
"With that comes a lot of hope, a lot of possible benefits and also some concerns.
"Will the machines become so powerful and smart that they can't be turned off and they come to outwit man?
"I think there are very interesting questions that need to be solved along the way, but I expect largely positive beneficial results coming out of this research largely because we guide it."
The UK's Ministry of Defence said in a statement that all UK forces currently operate, "in accordance with International Humanitarian Law."
"The UK's clearly defined Rules of Engagement are formulated on this basis.
"As such, there is always a 'man in the loop' controlling the system.
"UK military personnel are and will always be involved in the decision to employ and in the act of releasing weapons," it said.
A spokesman for BAE System, the UK's biggest defence contractor, added: "We are designing systems that will always be required to comply with the rules of engagement and legal and regulatory requirements. We support the UK MoD stance that there should be military personnel involved in the decision to employ weapons."
Watch Rory Cellan-Jones' interview with Prof Hawking from December
Charter flights have arrived in Glasgow, London Stansted and Belfast, and another is expected later.
The prime minister said he had met his pledge to bring the first 1,000 people to the UK by Christmas.
The UK government has promised to accept 20,000 Syrians over five years.
These will be drawn from established refugee camps, initially as part of the Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme.
More than 50 local authorities have taken a share those who have already arrived.
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Alongside the VPR scheme, the UK has also granted asylum or other forms of protection to 1,868 Syrians in the year ending September 2015.
An additional 216 Syrian refugees were resettled under the government's VPR scheme between January 2014 and mid-2015.
At Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron told the Commons: "I said that Britain would do its duty and with these thousand we have made a very good start."
He said the government was providing funding so the refugees get access to housing, healthcare and education.
The Refugee Council's head of advocacy Lisa Doyle welcomed the news, and said the refugees would have their lives "transformed, if not saved" by the UK resettlement programme.
However, she called on the government to also help resettle those who had risked the trip from Syria to Europe.
Under EU rules, refugees are meant to claim asylum in the first European state they enter.
"What we now need to see is the same eagerness to welcome refugees shown by communities across the country reflected by Government policies," Ms Doyle said.
"Resettling Syrian refugees is a great first step but Britain also needs to come forward and offer to help refugees arriving in Europe a route to safety too."
David Cameron has argued that accepting people only from camps in Syria, Turkey and Jordan will provide a "direct and safe" route to safety - instead of encouraging them to make the journey across the Mediterranean by boat.
In response to questioning from MPs, Home Secretary Theresa May said all refugees would be subject to rigorous security checks to make sure Islamic State militants were not among them.
There have been criticisms from some high profile figures who believe the UK's response to the refugee crisis has not been enough.
Lord Phillips, former UK Supreme Court head, and Lord Macdonald, ex-director of public prosecutions, were among 300 who signed an open letter on the issue. One retired judge said the UK could cope with taking in 75,000 refugees a year.
20,000
more refugees will be resettled in the UK by 2020
4,980
Syrian asylum seekers have been allowed to stay since 2011
25,771 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to end June 2015
2,204 were from Syria
87% of Syrian requests for asylum were granted
145 Syrian asylum seekers have been removed from the UK since 2011
Syria has been embroiled in a bloody armed conflict for nearly five years. More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed, and 11 million displaced from their homes - more than four million have already left the country.
Earlier this month, MPs voted in favour of UK military action in Syria, targeting so-called Islamic State, and a British bombing campaign began shortly after.
Updating the Commons on the situation in Syria, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said there had been "no reports of civilian casualties" from RAF air strikes.
However, Russia - which is not part of the US-led coalition against IS, and is an ally of Syrian President Bashar al Assad - continued to target Syrian opposition forces rather than IS targets, he said.
His answers were interesting, funny, occasionally enlightening and frequently very silly.
Here's what he had to say for himself.
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Jonathan Dixon: Who's the toughest batsman you've ever played against?
MW: I thought New Zealand's Kane Williamson was a hell of a player. And Australia's Steve Smith is awkward to bowl at.
Harry Ridley: What's your favourite ground in the world?
MW: Trent Bridge. It was my favourite ground before I took the wicket that sealed the Ashes there, but even more so after that.
Gareth Jones: What would players think if each session lasted 30 overs. This might hurry the fielding side up if they ended up with 20 minutes for lunch or no tea!
MW: Definitely not for the lunch break. I'd be bowling backwards if I had no energy. I'm a skinny lad as it is! Good idea, but I don't think it's practical.
Duncan Johnson: For young fast bowlers, what one tip or hint would you give them to help them improve and progress?
MW: Strengthen in the right areas, practise, practise, practise, and have plenty of fire in your belly.
Vaust: Why do you take one step backwards at the start of your run-up?
MW: It just feels comfortable. I never used to do it when I had a longer run-up.
Matt Darwood: What one piece of advice would you give my 10-year-old son who plays for Northumberland U11s as he starts his career?
MW: He's obviously already got the talent if he's from Northumberland. Have fun, enjoy it, results don't matter, but take notice of your coaches. They do actually know what they're talking about.
Charlie Godden: Other than cricket, what sports do you love playing?
Mark Wood: Anything going. Squash, badminton, football - I even had a go at rugby, but I tried to tackle a bloke nicknamed Shrek once, and he flattened me. So that was my last game of rugby. I love boxing and Conor McGregor in the UFC.
Maxi Kelly: Who's the worst footballer in the team?
MW: On the coaching staff, it's bowling coach Ottis 'gammy knee' Gibson. As a player, I'm going for Adam Lyth, because he never passes.
Matthew Slight: What's the best dressing room prank you have ever played?
MW: In club cricket, one of my mates put a paving block into a team-mate's bag. He didn't realise and carried it round for three months, thinking his bag was very heavy.
Ben Harmison (Wood's former team-mate, and brother of Steve): Who's the best looking lad in Ashington?
MW: Not you with that massive jaw. You're not even the best looking Harmison.
Lydia Jane: Would you rather have a pet unicorn or a pet dragon?
MW: Dragon. Any day of the week. Especially with weather like this, to blow away the snow and that. Defrost the car, easy peasy, back in the cage.
Libby McCarthy (sitting in a school lesson): If you were a superhero, what would your name be and what would be your power?
MW: What a mint question that is. My name would be Woody Wonka. And I would call upon my Oompah Loompah army made up of little James Taylors.
Freddie Hatchett: Important question here, Woody: Biggie or Tupac?
MW: Tupac. Changes is a song that gets played in the dressing room a lot, so Tupac.
Will Barber: What single crisp could you throw the furthest? My pick is a Twiglet. A Quaver would be useless.
MW: Right. I'm thinking something like a cheese ball. Or a Monster Munch. But you'd have to throw it like a spiral, not with the hole in the middle. Technique is crucial, it's all about the technique. A Hula Hoop is nice and weighty, but if you throw it wrong, the hole will disrupt you. That's why I'm thinking Monster Munch, because it's got those fingers. If you throw it down the fingers, almost like a tyre, so the middle bit goes straight.
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Kenya said sprint coach John Anzrah "presented himself as an athlete" and "even signed the documents" for the doping test.
"We cannot tolerate such behaviour," said Kip Keino, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya.
Anzrah is the second Kenyan official to be sent home over doping issues after track and field manager Michael Rotich.
Rotich was dismissed following allegations that he was prepared to warn coaches about drugs tests in return for £10,000.
Keino said Kenya's Olympic body had not facilitated Anzrah's travel to Brazil, adding: "We don't even know how he came here."
It was not clear which athlete Anzrah was pretending to be.
However, a senior Athletics Kenya source said he had spoken to the athlete, who claims Anzrah used his accreditation purely to obtain free meals from the athletes' village.
"When the anti-doping officials met him, they assumed he was the athlete and that he was lined up for testing," added the source.
"The coach, for fear of being exposed or discovered, did not explain to the anti-doping guy that he is actually not the athlete. Hence he played along and went for the test."
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The men, aged 22 and 25, were assaulted on the Garvaghy Road in the County Armagh town in the early hours of Sunday. Both suffered head injuries.
Francis Patrick McNally of Carnreagh, in Craigavon, appeared before Lisburn Magistrates court.
He is also charged with having an offensive weapon, listed as a crowbar.
Mr McNally faces a further charge of causing grievous bodily injury to one of the men by dangerous driving.
When asked if he understood the charges, he replied: "I do."
The two men were attacked by a gang carrying weapons.
Police said a burned-out car, believed to be related to the assault, was later found on the Drumnagoon Road.
The accused will appear again on 1 September. His defence lawyer said he hoped he would have an address by then so that his client could then apply for bail.
Past fixtures have seen anti-Semitic behaviour by Hammers fans.
Spurs fans traditionally have strong ties with London's Jewish community.
"Any fan acting inappropriately - including racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic behaviour - will be banned from attending future matches," Sullivan and Gold said in a statement.
"It is vitally important that every West Ham United supporter attending the fixture remembers that they are acting as ambassadors for our club and their behaviour should reflect the values and standards that we set," the statement continued.
Gold is of Jewish heritage, and has previously revealed that his great grandfather killed himself after suffering anti-Semitic taunts.
West Ham are currently sixth in the Premier League table, while Spurs are second.
The Office for National Statistics said the population was expected to increase by 4.4 million in the next decade, before reaching 70 million in 2027.
That increase is roughly the size of the Irish Republic.
The population is projected to grow by 9.7 million over the next 25 years, to 74.3 million. Latest figures show there are 64.6 million people in the UK.
The statistics predict an ageing population, with some 29.5% of people aged over 60 by 2039 - up from 23.2% this year.
By then, more than one in 12 UK people are expected to be aged 80 or over.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said its latest projections assume that more people will come to live in the UK than emigrate, accounting for about half of the projected population increase.
The remainder is attributed to births outnumbering deaths.
Projections were also revised upwards in the latest figures. The population estimate for 2024 is now 249,000 more than the previous projection in 2012.
64,596,800
People living in the UK
491,100
more than the previous year
259,700 added from net migration
226,200 from natural growth
25% of all births in 2013 were to mothers born outside the UK
The overall trend is "very similar" to past figures, said Prof Christian Dustmann, director of the Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration at University College London.
"What we see in many European countries, in particular the larger economies such as Germany, is actually a trend in the opposite direction," he said.
"Population is decreasing in Germany, as it is in Italy or Spain. That puts these countries in a very difficult situation.
"[When] populations are decreasing, you're dealing with a shrinking working-age population, which basically has to be confronted with an increasing ageing population which is not productive any more."
In the UK, where migration is contributing to population growth, the challenge was to ensure immigrants paid more in taxes than they cost in public services, he said.
"An increase in population means a larger economic base - part of the GDP growth we have seen is due to immigration," he said.
Prof Dustmann said one reason the ONS produces these figures is to prepare policy makers for "future demands" - and he said they should "clearly be prepared to expand public services".
Dr Jo Michell, of the University of the West of England, said the population rise would increase the pressure on public services.
"It will have an impact on public services such as health and education, services which are already under pressure because of cuts in government services and cuts which are planned for the next five years," he said.
"So the government should consider whether these cuts are appropriate at such a time."
The eight-storey development forms part of an £80m British bid to win the America's Cup for the first in the sailing trophy's 164-year history.
But under new proposals music could now be allowed outside until 23:00.
Alan Richards, 61, who lives nearby, said: "With amplified music you'll get a 'boom-boom' beat all the time."
The Camber Dock development, with top floors arranged as roof terraces, was initially given planning permission as a place of work.
Mr Richards added: "There are some exceptional properties round here.
"Lots of them have balconies of their own and with this kind of proposal they're going to suffer greatly.
"Loud music should be contained inside the building where they can close off doors."
David Higham, from the Camber Action Group, said: "The music's going to be heard from a long way away.
"If the licensing committee wouldn't allow it for an organisation that earns its living from music and liquor licensing, they shouldn't for Ben Ainslie.
"BAR say they want to be good neighbours. Let's hope they will be."
BAR chief operating officer Andy Hindley said he sympathised with objectors and had pared back the plans.
He said: "We'll be mindful of our neighbours and make sure we won't be upsetting anybody.
"We want to share the space, we don't want to take it over.
"People think we're opening a rave here fairly soon, that's absolutely not going to happen."
Portsmouth City Council's licensing department is due to make a decision within 20 days.
They confronted housing minister Alok Sharma MP on why the homeless are not yet rehoused, in tense exchanges on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
The minister told them people would be offered a suitable place to live within three weeks of the fire.
Later, the Prime Minister confirmed 120 tower blocks had now failed fire tests.
And police said 80 people were missing presumed dead, but a true total of those who died may not be known until at least the end of the year.
During the TV programme, residents and survivors set out their problems in the wake of the 14 June inferno.
"I am not moving my child from here, to here, to here, to here - I want permanent accommodation," Oluwaseun Talabi, who escaped the fire with his wife and young daughter, told Mr Sharma.
"I am not going to take any house you give me, it has to be suitable.
"I was happy in my house. I work hard. I want permanent accommodation,"
He and his family have been living in a hotel room after they "lost everything".
Mahad Egal, who escaped the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower during the fire in the early hours of 14 June, described how he had been offered alternative accommodation in a high rise block. He has refused it.
"My first priority is to put suitable accommodation over my children and my wife," he said.
"These people have the right to get back their dignity. Where is the dignity?" asked survivor Sid-Ali Atmani. "I don't want Theresa (May) to go to the TV, I want her to come (here)."
The group described the practical problems they have faced in being rehoused; trying to replace burned documents; accessing funding; being unable to return to work without a permanent base; and their dealings with the authorities.
They also spoke about the psychological impacts.
Many said they had not been able to sleep since the disaster, or were haunted by images of their escape and their friends, family and neighbours who perished.
Omar Alhajali, whose brother Mohammed died in the blaze, said: "When I see (his image), I remember everything. Not only now but every night... I can't sleep."
The group were hugely critical of the local council and the government's emergency response.
Kensington and Chelsea council provided no spokesperson for the programme's debate and they were empty-chaired.
Mr Sharma, the government's housing minister, arrived to answer their questions part-way through the show.
Survivors have themselves begun to compile a list of the victims as the current official number of people who died stands at 79, but it is expected to rise.
They feel it will rise much further and are concerned the number is being downplayed.
Other residents have also voiced concerns - nearby blocks of flats and houses still lack hot water.
Simone Willis, a nurse who helped victims on the night, addressed a panel of politicians on the programme including the local MP Emma Dent Coad and London Assembly member Tony Devenish, saying: "When you're coming to these kinds of scenarios asking, 'what is needed?', think!
"You have a family, a mother, daughter, what would you need?
"This is not going to take a few shows, a few meetings, this is years of work."
Mr Sharma said the government guaranteed "people who have had their homes destroyed will be offered suitable accommodation within three weeks".
That timeframe leaves one week remaining. He initially said that would be "accommodation" and later said "temporary accommodation".
Everybody would have "good quality accommodation" he said, inviting them all to tell him their issues.
During the programme, residents raised the questions about the disaster they want to see answered by an inquiry.
They included:
Afterwards, Mr Sharma said he was going straight to the Westway emergency relief centre to hold a surgery with survivors.
At Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May updated MPs on progress in dealing with the aftermath of the disaster.
She told MPs cladding on blocks across 37 local authority areas in England had failed tests for combustibility.
Given the "100% failure rate" she said local authorities had been told to get on with fire checks and any further necessary action.
She said 282 good quality temporary accommodation units had been identified, 132 families have had their needs assessed and 65 offers of accommodation had been made so far.
She said the lord chief justice would recommend a judge to head the public inquiry soon.
As of Wednesday morning, £1.25m had been paid to those affected and a further £1m would go to local charities and supporting groups, she said.
The tournament, which features 48 men's and 16 women's teams, will run until 16 July.
A temporary arena has been constructed in the city's George Square, with seating for 3,500 spectators.
The opening fixtures of the tournament saw Scotland's men beat Hong Kong 8-4. The women's team beat Norway 11-1.
This is the 14th year of the competition.
Scotland last hosted the tournament in 2005, in Edinburgh. The first took place in Graz, Austria, in 2003.
The aim of the competition is to inspire homeless people to change their lives.
It was set up by the International Network of Street Papers and Mel Young, founder of the Big Issue in Scotland.
The Scotland teams are managed, selected and coached by social enterprise Street Soccer Scotland. They include players from across Scotland picked after a series of selection days throughout the year.
Ally Dawson, manager of Team Scotland, said: "The Homeless World Cup is a very special event for everyone involved and being host nation brings an added honour.
"The men's and women's squads have been training very hard over recent weeks in preparation for the start of the tournament.
"Every year the Scottish teams are determined to do their country proud but this year has an added edge as they look forward to playing in front of what will be a very noisy home support."
About 100,000 spectators are expected to come to watch matches during the week-long tournament. Entry is free and no tickets are required.
The Grade-II listed tower, known as the Belvedere, in Sketty, is believed to have sold for around £130,000.
Built between 1820 and 1830, the folly is all that remains of Sketty Park House, the former home of copper and tin magnates the Morris family.
It was sold by Swansea council as the local authority looks to save more than £80m over the next three years.
The folly, which is in need of renovation, had been owned by the local authority since the 1930s, although the rest of the mansion was demolished in the 1970s.
Local historian Gary Gregor explained: "Sketty Park House was designed by William Jernegan, the architect of Regency Swansea, whose local designs include Stouthall, Kilvrough Manor, Mumbles lighthouse and the Assembly Rooms.
"After varied usage by the Swansea Corporation, including as the Civil Defence Service headquarters, it was demolished in 1975 so that the Sketty Park housing estate could be erected.
"The part which still remains is a ruined gothic belvedere, after a design of Margam Park's Chapter House, on a tree-covered mound in Saunders Way. It was built by Sir John's reclusive grandson Sir John Armine Morris."
The dynasty began in the 1720s when Shropshire entrepreneur Robert Morris started the first mass smelting at the Llangyfelach Copper Works.
However, it was his son Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet of Clasemont, who made the most lasting impact.
In the 1760s, Sir John hired architect William Edwards to create Morris Town - now Morriston - one of Europe's first purpose-built villages, to house his workers.
At its heart was Morris Castle, containing 24 workers' apartments which were palatial by the standards of the day.
While Morriston was good enough for his workers, Mr Gregor explained that it was not entirely to Sir John's own liking, so he moved.
"Built around 1775, Sir John had a Palladian-style mansion called Clasemont at Pengwern, near the present-day DVLA building. Lord Nelson and the Hamiltons dined there in 1802.
"But the spread of fumes from the copper smelting works in the lower Swansea valley rendered it unsuitable, so Clasemont was dismantled in 1805 and much of the materials were transported west of Swansea to construct the new mansion, Sketty Park House."
Sir John never saw the fruits of these labours as he died aged 74 in 1819, a year before work started on Sketty Park House.
But Mr Gregor said he left an "enduring memorial" in the form of Morriston, where you can still see "the workers village laid out in a gridiron pattern, with every cottage having sufficient garden to grow vegetables".
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said there would be an investigation into whether the eight had illegally issued identity papers.
The consulates affected are in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans and New York.
The consuls' suspension comes days after local media alleged that they had issued illegal papers in exchange of payments of up to $50 (??30).
The only ones to remain in their posts were the consuls in Washington DC and San Francisco.
An estimated 700,000 people of Honduran origin resided in the United States in 2011, according to the US Census Bureau.
The case came to light after a group representing Hondurans living in the US said a number of consulates were issuing "consular IDs" - documents that bear the crest and flag of Honduras, but which are not officially recognised forms of identification.
President Hernandez said in a statement that such documents were "false" and that any consular staff issuing them would be penalised.
Jorge Rivera, of the Honduran Unity group in Dallas, Texas, said he knew of at least four consulates that had issued such IDs.
"They're selling them for $50 in a number of places and I don't know how the consulates can be doing that because that document is not an approved document," Mr Rivera said.
"They're just trying to make money," he added.
Expatriate Plinio Rodriguez said that the Honduran consulate in Los Angeles had issued him with a "consular ID", which he said he had found "very useful".
Mr Rodriguez told Honduran newspaper La Prensa that the ID was widely accepted by US authorities and even got him access to the prison in California where his son was serving time.
He said he had not been charged for the ID, but knew of others who had.
Zamalek's board met after a 3-2 loss to El-Gaish on Sunday evening and decided not to complete the competition.
The board are due to meet again on Monday to discuss the matter further.
The Egypt Football Association says it is yet to receive any official communication from Zamalek and has defended the standard of officiating in the league.
Zamalek's request for Mahmoud Al Banna to be replaced as the referee for the match against El-Gaish was rejected in the build up to the game.
Al Banna sent off Zamalek defender Ali Gabr after just four minutes and awarded El-Gaish the first of two penalties, the second came 10 minutes into the second half.
Under the league's regulations Zamalek risk being relegated to the fourth tier of Egyptian league if they do not reverse their decision to withdraw.
Lions boss Gatland is set to call up at least five players before the first Test against New Zealand on 24 June.
The players may well come from Wales and Scotland, who are in Australasia, while England are away in Argentina.
"It's only a 13-hour trip from here to New Zealand," said Jones.
"The [England] boys could be there."
The Lions face Maori All Blacks on Saturday (08:35 BST) and the Chiefs on Tuesday before the first Test in Auckland, with Gatland wanting extra players to ensure none of the Test squad have to play twice in a week.
It is understood Welshmen Kristian Dacey, Tomas Francis, Cory Hill and Gareth Davies are among those set to be called up to the Lions squad.
The quartet all featured last night in Wales' 24-6 victory over Tonga in Auckland on Friday. Scotland, meanwhile, are in Sydney to face Australia on Saturday.
Jones' squad are preparing for the second Test in Argentina, which is in a different time zone and may count against those players.
"The Lions is a prestigious team - when you become a Lion, you're remembered for life," Jones told BBC Radio 5 live.
"My only comment would be I would like to see it picked on merit rather than geographical proximity."
Lions fly-half Owen Farrell is out of Saturday's game and may miss the first Test against the All Blacks after suffering a quadriceps injury in training, while full-back Stuart Hogg has left the tour with a facial injury.
Gatland's Lions have won two and lost two of their four games in New Zealand so far.
More than half of cases related to people that had gone missing at least once before, with one person reported missing 170 times.
The figures were revealed during a two-day conference on missing people, being held at Abertay University in Dundee.
Police Scotland said the figures showed that more support was needed for vulnerable people who go missing.
More than three quarters of missing people are located within 24 hours, according to the figures. However, about 1% are never traced.
Police Scotland said it had recorded about 40,000 missing person "incidents" in the past year, with men accounting for 58% of missing people, while 53% were aged between 13 and 16.
Speaking at the conference, Assistant Chief Constable Andy Cowie, said: "Since April 2016, we have been compiling data on missing persons and the first full year of information provides us with a very clear picture of who goes missing and the locations from which they go missing.
"It is also illustrative of the non-crime related demand on Scotland's police service.
"People go missing for a broad range of reasons and usually voluntarily. But we also know that the majority of people who go missing are vulnerable."
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Mr Cowie said the issue showed the kind of pressure that was being placed on police resources.
He added: "We recognise we simply cannot do that alone. We need our partners and communities to work with us to protect those most at risk of going missing and prevent missing person episodes wherever possible."
The conference features speakers and delegates from across the world.
Dr Penny Woolnough, from Abertay University who works as an adviser to the police on missing people, said the event was the first of its kind to be hosted in Scotland.
She added: "It is the only international conference which sees multi-disciplinary academics, practitioners and policy makers come together to explore and discuss the full range of issues associated with the challenges faced by those who are missed, those who are charged with responding to missing and those who are affected by missing in its broadest sense."
"It reiterates Scotland's commitment to leading development of policy and practice in this area."
The winners of England's second-tier competition will be promoted if they satisfy 'minimum standard criteria' to play in the top-flight.
Promotion this term will again be decided via the four-team play-offs.
Championship clubs also get a funding boost as part of the new agreement between the RFU and Premiership Rugby.
Bristol won promotion via the play-offs last season, having topped the table in five of the seven campaigns in the Championship following relegation at the end of 2008-09.
But not all clubs reaching the play-offs have been eligible to go up, with Cornish Pirates not having a suitable home ground, while Bedford openly state they do not want to move into the Premiership.
The financial boost for clubs in England's second tier, and only other professional level of rugby, comes after London Welsh went out of business and were expunged from the league in January.
Money troubles are widespread in the competition, with a BBC Sport investigation into the health and future of the league discovering that just one of nine clubs with available accounts at Company House reporting a profit in 2015.
The exact figure in the multi-million pound deal has not been disclosed, but distribution will be based on final league positions "to ensure competition among clubs throughout the entirety of the season".
London Irish, relegated from the Premiership last season, are 15 points clear at the top of the Championship after 15 games.
Fourth-placed Ealing are 27 points adrift of the leaders, having played an extra game.
Mark McCafferty, chief executive at Premiership Rugby, said the play-off system "does not always help" sides prepare for a top-flight campaign.
Bristol lost their opening 10 league games on their return to the Premiership after a seven-year absence.
"It's vital that any club being promoted from the Greene King IPA Championship is as prepared as it can be to compete, given the quality and intensity of Premiership Rugby," McCafferty added.
The gadgets were already prohibited on rides but now visitors will be asked not to bring them to the parks at all.
A spokeswoman told the BBC: "Handheld extension poles have become a growing safety concern for both our guests and cast."
The ban comes into effect at Disney parks in the United States on Tuesday.
Paris and Hong Kong will follow suit on Wednesday.
The long arm of a selfie stick helps users take a better self-portrait, but there are fears that they could cause injury if somebody was accidentally struck with one during a photo opportunity.
The gadget also poses a safety risk on rides as its long arm can extend far outside the carriages and could come into contact with a ride's mechanism.
Visitors will now be asked to leave their selfie sticks in lockers at the parks' entrances to collect later.
A number of football clubs, the National Gallery, and the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club in Wimbledon have already banned the sticks over concerns they could cause injury or be a nuisance to other visitors.
Apple banned the device from audiences attending its annual WWDC developers conference, held in the US earlier this month.
A spokesperson for St John Ambulance said the first aid charity had not noticed a surge in selfie stick-related injuries but did offer advice for anybody hurt.
"If you get hit in the head with a selfie stick, sit down and hold a cold compress against the injury," said training officer Clive James.
"Advise the casualty to seek medical help if they develop signs of a worsening head injury - like dizziness or nausea, confusion and loss of memory of events preceding the injury."
Durham police tweeted a picture of the new doors, apologising that "time travel was not an optional extra".
A spokesman said customising the lifts showed the force could be "professional and still have a sense of humour".
Staff moved into the new £14m building next to its old base at Aykley Heads in Durham City last Autumn.
The tweet attracted one complaint saying the doors were a "waste of taxpayers money".
The six lifts were covered with vinyl wraps, not hand painted, and the cost had been "pretty modest", the spokesman for Durham Constabulary said.
Personalising the headquarters was a "bit quirky" and a "talking point" for anyone who came into the building, he added.
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The 25-year-old moves to Eastlands for a reported fee of £7m.
The defender, who joined the Gunners from French club Cannes in 2003, is City boss Roberto Mancini's first signing of the summer.
"I'm really happy to be joining such a great club. I hope I can add to the quality we already have here because we have a fantastic squad," he said.
"I can't wait to get started and I think anything is possible with this team."
The defender, who joined the Gunners from French club Cannes in 2003 and has 10 France caps, will contest the City left-back position with Aleksandar Kolarov.
And the Frenchman immediately directed a jibe at his new side's closest rivals, Manchester United.
"I understand that the people who live in Manchester are the true fans - they are from City," he told the club's official website. "That is a good point. I won't be bothered by United fans."
Clichy reportedly told Arsenal he wanted to leave last month and had also been linked with Liverpool and Roma.
The Frenchman spent the first half of his career with Arsenal as cover for Ashley Cole but became a regular in Arsene Wenger's side over the past five seasons following Cole's move to Chelsea.
Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown believes that selling Clichy represent a "good bit of business" for Arsenal.
"He was making mistakes at key moments and he wouldn't have been especially pleased with what he achieved at the club," said Keown.
"Whether or not Kieran Gibbs is going to be the replacement or not, I still feel that Wenger should buy another left back."
Clichy will be officially unveiled during City's forthcoming tour of the United States and Canada.
His move comes at a tricky time for Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, with playmaker Cesc Fabregas again being linked with Barcelona.
Midfielder Sami Nasri has also been tipped to leave the club and is thought to be a target for both Manchester City and Manchester United.
The body of a girl was found in Shipley on 19 May, 2011 and West Yorkshire Police hopes to identify the baby who was about three days old.
Her remains were discovered by staff at the Associated Waste Management depot last year.
The appeal comes as police talk with the coroner about the the infant's remains being released for a funeral.
Officers have sent 37,000 letters to homes in Bradford and Leeds to appeal for information in the past year.
Scientific work has now provided officers with a DNA profile of the child, although a matching profile of her mother is not on record.
It is believed the baby's delivery did not take place in a hospital and a post-mortem test failed to ascertain a cause of death.
Det Supt Sukhbir Singh, who is leading the investigation, said: "I would again urge the child's mother and family to come forward and help us identify her baby girl as she is laid to rest."
Police believe the mother of the baby is from the West Yorkshire area.
Staff at the waste management depot have taken an interest in supporting the funeral of the baby according to the police.
Anyone with information should contact West Yorkshire Police.
The final communique said members were determined to develop measures to stop firms shifting profits from a home country to pay less tax elsewhere.
The UK, France and Germany were the main movers behind the drive.
The communique also said members would refrain from devaluing their currencies to gain economic advantage, amid fears of a new "currency war".
The fears had been sparked by Japan's recent policies, which have driven down the value of the yen, aiding its exporters.
A recent survey carried out by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that multinational firms could exploit gaps between tax rules in the different countries in which they operate.
The finance ministers of the UK, France and Germany - George Osborne, Pierre Moscovici and Wolfgang Schaeuble - said international action was needed to crack down on companies which transfer profits from their home country to another in order to pay lower taxes.
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"Transfer pricing" rules apply to the cost of parts, the fee payment and the interest on the loan. If CGHMN Corp overcharged for any of these, it would reduce CGHMN UK Ltd's corporation tax bill in the UK, while increasing CGHMN Corp's taxable profits in another country.
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Mr Osborne decried a global taxation system he said had been guided by principles set out by the League of Nations in the 1920s, with few changes since.
He said: "We want businesses to pay the taxes that we set in our countries. And that cannot be achieved by one country alone."
Mr Moscovici said France was "strongly determined to fight against tax fraud, tax avoidance, and tax evasion".
He added: "We must avoid situations in which some companies use international and domestic law to be taxed nowhere."
OECD secretary general Angel Gurria said laws had to be changed: "Avoiding double taxation has become a way of having double non-taxation."
The G20 communique read: "We are determined to develop measures to address base erosion and profit shifting, take the necessary collective action and look forward to the comprehensive action plan the OECD will present to us in July."
A number of companies, including Amazon, Google and Starbucks, have come under the spotlight for their taxation strategies in recent months.
Another giant international company, Facebook, has now been accused of ducking its tax obligations.
Facebook allegedly paid no corporate income tax in the US last year, and instead reclaimed $451m in taxes from the Internal Revenue Service, despite recording profits of over $1bn, US lobby group Citizens for Tax Justice has claimed.
Thanks to tax deductions the social network can claim on shares granted to its executives as part of its recent listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange, the company stands to benefit from a further $2bn of tax deductions in the future, the lobby group alleged.
However, in Facebook's defence, the same employee share scheme that has allowed it to cut its corporate income tax bill has also resulted in it handing over $2.86bn in employee income taxes instead.
The report by the OECD was released earlier this year, and found that:
By Hugh PymChief economics correspondent, BBC News
The tax policies of Amazon, Google and Starbucks have intensified the debate about corporate behaviour and pushed it high up the agenda for policymakers.
Everyone agrees there is a limit to what national governments can do to close loopholes in a world of globalised capital flows, where big companies can easily move profits to low-tax regimes. The G20 developments mark a move towards an international crackdown. George Osborne and his French and German counterparts will be powerful advocates for change at future meetings.
But it is only a start. And, as Mr Osborne has acknowledged, in a low-growth climate governments need to take care not to deter multinationals who might invest in their economies.
The OECD action plan, to be laid before the G20 in July, will be formulated with the help of three committees.
The UK will chair a committee looking at transfer pricing - how international corporate empires calculate the payments passed between their subsidiaries in different countries, which can be used to shift profits from high-tax jurisdictions to lower-tax ones.
Germany will head a panel looking at the ways in which companies have reduced their tax base - their taxable income and assets - while France and the US will jointly consider the problem of identifying the correct tax jurisdiction for business activities, particularly e-commerce.
Meanwhile, the G20 finance ministers avoided singling Japan out for criticism over the recent weakness of its currency.
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But the communique pledged that G20 members would "refrain from competitive devaluation".
It read: "We reiterate that excess volatility of financial flows and disorderly movements in exchange rates have adverse implications for economic and financial stability.
"We will not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes. We will resist all forms of protectionism and keep our markets open."
Mr Osborne said: "Currencies should not be used as a tool of competitive devaluation. The world should not make the mistake that it has made in the past of using currencies as the tools of economic warfare."
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said that global growth was still weak and unemployment "outrageously high" in many countries, and that policies should be directed towards creating jobs and growth.
Fitzpatrick, 59, will take over from Brian Caldwell, who is joining Shrewsbury Town in the same role.
After two spells as a player in Paisley, during one of which the club won the 1987 Scottish Cup, Fitzpatrick moved into management at St Mirren.
He left in 1991 but returned five years later before having a brief spell as Clydebank caretaker boss.
The Scottish Championship club described Fitzpatrick on their website as having "been around the club for over 40 years in various roles".
And he said: "I am absolutely delighted to be back at St Mirren FC and look forward to the challenges ahead."
Chairman Stewart Gilmour added: "The board are delighted that Tony has accepted the position of CEO at the club.
"Tony has a wealth of experience in business as well as in football and we are sure he will be a huge asset to the club, the community and general wellbeing and future of St Mirren FC.
St Mirren also announced that chartered accountant Allan Gallacher will assist Fitzpatrick "in overseeing the financial side of the club".
Gallacher said he was "privileged and honoured" to take on his new role and Gilmour added: "We are also delighted to welcome Allan to the team, his financial expertise will be of great benefit to the club."
He made the remark in a BBC interview marking the publication of his memoirs.
Mr Blair said radical Islamists believed that whatever was done in the name of their cause was justified - including the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
Mr Blair, who led Britain into war in Afghanistan and Iraq, denied that his own policies had fuelled radicalism.
Asked about the argument that Chechens, Kashmiris, Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghans were resisting foreign occupation, he said Western policies were designed to confront radical Islamists because they were "regressive, wicked and backward-looking".
The aim of al-Qaeda in Iraq was "not to get American troops out of Baghdad [but] to destabilise a government the people of Iraq have voted for", he told the BBC's Owen Bennett Jones in a World Service interview.
The former British leader - who now acts as the Middle East envoy for the international Quartet - said that Iran was one of the biggest state sponsors of radical Islam, and it was necessary to prevent it by any means from developing a nuclear weapon.
"We need to give a message to Iran that is very clear - that they cannot have nuclear weapons capability, and we will stop them," he said.
Mr Blair said he was not advocating military action, but simply saying no option could be taken off the table.
Iran denies pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, and insists its atomic work is for civilian purposes.
Mr Blair told the BBC his view of foreign policy had changed as a result of the 9/11 attacks: "After 11 September, rightly or wrongly, I felt the calculus of risk had changed.
"There is the most enormous threat from the combination of this radical extreme movement and the fact that, if they could, they would use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
"You can't take a risk with that happening."
Mr Blair said he agonised over how to respond to radical Islam and still had doubts that he was right.
These are really difficult issues, he said, but added: "This extremism is so deep that in the end they have to know that they're facing a stronger will than theirs."
Mr Blair has also expressed optimism about the prospect of peace in the Middle East. Direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians began in Washington on Thursday.
Speaking in Dublin, on the prime-time entertainment programme The Late Late Show, Mr Blair said he believed the Middle East peace process was similar to Northern Ireland - and would be successful.
He said: "I feel it can be settled. You just have to carry on."
There was a small anti-war protest outside the Dublin studio where the interview took place.
Mr Blair also told The Late Late Show that his successor as prime minister, Gordon Brown, remained a friend.
In his autobiography, Mr Blair said Mr Brown was "maddening", had "zero" emotional intelligence and sought to frustrate key reforms.
However, Mr Blair said there were many things he admired about Mr Brown and would "probably" still go for a drink with him.
That isn't an assertion about today's politics. It was the verdict of the US Central Intelligence Agency on Labour back in 1985, in a memo for the agency's director on the early phase of Neil Kinnock's leadership.
This memo is one of millions of the CIA's historical records which have just been made available online. Previously researchers had to actually visit the US National Archives in Maryland in order to access this database of declassified documents.
The records reveal the deep level of concern inside the CIA about the strength of the Left within Labour in the early 1980s, a political force which the agency regarded as anti-American.
A report written in the run-up to the 1983 general election states that "a Labor majority government would represent the greatest threat to US interests".
The agency was particularly worried by Labour's then policy of opposition to nuclear weapons, which included cancelling plans for the Trident submarine programme.
This report was especially scathing about leading figures on the traditionally pro-nuclear Labour right who had compromised with this stance.
It said that "most disheartening from the viewpoint of US interests" was the position of the party's deputy leader, Denis Healey.
It reported that he still had ambitions to lead the party and as a result "he apparently has decided to appease the left by attacking US arms control policy, denouncing Trident, and denying he ever supported the NATO INF [Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces] program".
The report added that the growing power of the Left meant that "even moderates like Healey have been forced to ape anti-American rhetoric".
Entitled "The British Labor Party: Caught between Ideology and Reality", the document is a detailed account of the balance of power between left and right in the party and trade unions, as seen by the CIA.
It also records that leading Labour politicians had told US officials they did not take all of the party's policy programme seriously.
The CIA was also concerned by what it saw as Europe's large centre-left and socialist parties (including Labour) being too sympathetic to the Soviet Union.
One 1982 report concluded "We have long contended that Moscow's most effective allies in Western Europe are not the Communist Parties, but self-styled Social Democrats who have betrayed the original tenets of social democracy."
Another newly accessible document is a record of a 1981 meeting between delegations led by the US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Margaret Thatcher, who was on a prime ministerial visit to Washington.
The meeting discussed the controversial American plans for an Enhanced Radiation Weapon (ERW), more commonly known as the "neutron bomb", a weapon which was said to be able to kill very large numbers of people while leaving buildings standing.
Also present at the meeting was Mrs Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, who told the Americans that "it is considered unsporting in Europe for a weapon to kill people only".
The database contains just two references to the current Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. One noted his support in 1986 for an El Salvadoran trade union federation, Fenastras, which was linked to Marxist guerrillas during the country's civil war, while the Americans backed the military government.
This is just a small immediate selection from millions of pages covering a wide range of American and international issues which reveal the CIA's analyses and preoccupations in the past. Records relating to more recent events have not yet been declassified.
The CIA's decision to make all these documents searchable and accessible followed a legal case brought by MuckRock, a US organisation that promotes access to public records.
Mr Carswell said Turkey and Iceland had "unrestricted, tariff-free trade" even though they were not in the EU.
There was "no question" the UK, as the world's fifth largest economy, would face worse trade terms, he said.
The Remain side say quitting the EU and its single market would hit the UK economy, and cost jobs.
Meanwhile, Vote Leave pointed to a letter sent by JCB chairman Lord Bamford to all his employees, making the case for a Leave vote and saying the UK can "prosper just as much outside the EU".
He said there was "very little to fear" from a Brexit and that JCB would "continue to trade with Europe, irrespective of whether we remain in or leave the EU".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today, Mr Carswell, UKIP's only MP, also said it was important to "use the right tone" on immigration.
Mr Carswell, who unlike party leader Nigel Farage is part of the official Vote Leave campaign, said it was important to acknowledge concerns about the strain on public services from immigration, but also to recognise it was "eminently admirable" for people to travel around the world to seek a better life.
With his remarks he appeared to distance himself from comments by Mr Farage, who on Tuesday was forced to reject a claim from the Archbishop of Canterbury that he had been "giving legitimisation to racism".
There are just over two weeks to go until the UK decides on its future in the European Union, in an in-out referendum on 23 June.
On the economy - one of the key battlegrounds in the referendum debate - Mr Carswell insisted the UK could get a better trade deal if it was outside the EU.
"If we were to leave the EU we would start from the position of tariff-free unrestricted trade and we could certainly build on that and improve on that, not least by having free trade agreements with the rest of the world," he said.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
Mr Farage has said "no deal" on trade "is better than the rotten deal we have got at the moment". Asked if he agreed, Mr Carswell said there was "no question whatsoever of us facing tariffs" if the UK voted to leave.
He said the UK had a £60bn trade deficit - the gap between UK imports and exports with the EU - and that every European country apart from Belarus enjoyed tariff-free trade with the bloc.
Mr Carswell added: "Turkey and Iceland aren't in the EU. They have unrestricted, tariff-free trade. Do you imagine that as the fifth largest economy in the world we would get worse trade terms outside the EU than Turkey does?
"Of course we wouldn't. I simply don't accept that we would face restraints and tariffs. We wouldn't."
Prime Minister David Cameron, who is campaigning for a Remain vote, has said there is "a growing consensus that leaving the EU would put jobs at risk and shrink the economy".
He has accused the rival Leave campaign of lacking economic credibility and said they have showed "complacency and nonchalance" in their response to economists' warnings about the potential impact of a vote to leave.
Pressed over Mr Farage's warnings about sex attacks of the type seen in Cologne - which the UKIP leader was challenged over during Tuesday's ITV referendum debate - Mr Carswell said: "I believe if you are talking about migration or immigration you need to, as the audience reminded us, use the right tone".
He said people had legitimate concerns about the strain immigration puts on public services but said it was also important to "recognise that people who travel halfway across the planet in search of a better life are doing something that is eminently admirable".
"But we need to control it", he added, and argued this was not possible while being a member of the EU - saying David Cameron had failed to meet his promise to get net migration below 100,000.
This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe.
He said that outside the EU the UK would get back control of its border and be able to introduce an Australian-style points-based system to ensure a "fair" immigration system.
Britain currently has a points-based immigration system for people coming to work in the UK from outside the EU.
Leave campaigners want to extend this system to cover EU migrants, who are currently free to come to the UK and take up jobs, including low-paid manual work - but it would be up to the government of the day to decide whether to adopt this policy.
Asked if such a system would reduce migration of the UK, Mr Carswell said it would be up to the UK Parliament to set the level.
The attorney told a local newspaper he would ask a judge to authorise between $200,000 (£130,000) and $300,000 to cover George Zimmerman's expenses.
Under Florida law, the state must cover the cost as Mr Zimmerman was acquitted, said the defence lawyer, Mark O'Mara.
Mr Zimmerman, 29, was found not guilty in July of Trayvon Martin's death.
The neighbourhood watchman admitted shooting the 17-year-old in an Orlando suburb last year, but said it was an act of self-defence. The case fiercely divided the US.
Mr O'Mara told the Orlando Sentinel that the state of Florida was obliged to pay his client's legal expenses, except for the cost of his lawyer.
He said this would include the costs of expert witnesses, travel, paying for transcripts and an animated video that the defence team used to reconstruct their account of the fatal confrontation in a gated community in the town of Sanford.
The white paper, launched by Carwyn Jones and Leanne Wood in London, demands full single market access.
Ms Wood said on Monday that free movement was "not a problem".
UKIP's Neil Hamilton dismissed the Labour/Plaid white paper as a "white flag of surrender" to the EU.
Last week, Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK should leave the single market as she outlined her 12 principles for Brexit.
Mr Jones said the plan respected the Welsh vote to leave the EU but would give the UK "full and unfettered access" to the single market.
He said freedom of movement rules could require EU migrants to have a job offer before entering the UK, adding UK legislation could be enforced to stop workers being exploited.
"Our plan explains how we can strike a balance between the message the Welsh people gave us with the economic reality that we face," he said.
According to the paper, 79% of EU migrants aged 16-64 in Wales are in employment.
The Welsh Government white paper called for:
It also called for social and environmental protections, and workers' rights to be maintained, and for transition arrangements to be properly considered so the UK does "not fall off" an economic "cliff edge".
Ms Wood said that, in engaging with the process of drawing up a plan, Plaid Cymru had "prioritised the Welsh economy".
"We have done this because two thirds of all of our exports go to the European single market," she said.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Mr Jones said it made "no sense" to place barriers between Wales and its biggest market.
The document follows an agreement between Labour, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats.
UKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton dismissed the proposals, saying: "It's not so much a white paper as a white flag of surrender to the EU before negotiations have actually started.
"If Theresa May were to take this blueprint to Brussels then the EU would get everything they wanted.
"It would mean that we weren't leaving the EU in any meaningful sense at all."
Nathan Gill, UKIP Wales MEP, said the paper proved "just how out of touch the political elite in Cardiff Bay are with the majority of Welsh voters".
"The latest YouGov poll released at the beginning of this month showed that the majority of Welsh voters want full control over immigration," he said.
"The only way to control the quantity and quality of people coming to Britain is to leave the single market."
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said he would have tried to reach a wider cross-party agreement but claimed the first minister had not invited him.
"We have a disorganised message coming from Wales," he said, adding Europe also needed to respond on the issue of immigration.
"When the single market was created and the tenets that underpin the single market, this mass movement of people around Europe wasn't a consideration," he said.
"It is a consideration today."
Mr Davies told BBC Radio Wales that, given Scotland had tabled a paper at the joint ministerial committee on Brexit last Thursday, the Welsh Government plan was "a bit late in the day".
But the first minister has defended the decision to publish the plan a week after Mrs May set out the UK government's objectives, saying the Welsh plan was more detailed and comprehensive.
The leaders' launch comes ahead of the expected decision by the Supreme Court on Tuesday on whether Parliament should have a say before Article 50 is invoked.
The Brazil forward signed a new five-year contract until 2021 in October, with his release clause set to rise with each year of the deal.
Neymar, 25, joined from Santos in 2013.
He scored 13 goals as Barcelona came second, three points behind La Liga champions Real Madrid, last season.
Neymar won a third Copa del Rey with the Catalan club last season, adding to two La Liga titles and a Champions League.
Barcelona forward Neymar, 25, has accepted an offer from Paris St-Germain after the French club triggered his £195m release clause. (Esporte Interativo via Daily Mail)
Barcelona's vice-president, Jordi Mestre, has insisted Brazil international Neymar will not leave the Spanish giants any time soon. (Daily Star)
Neymar frustrated at Barcelona and ready for Paris St-Germain move. (Goal)
South American football expert Tim Vickery
There is clearly something there, and if it doesn't happen in this transfer window the speculation is not going to go away in the next window.
Fifa World Player of the Year is an absolute obsession in Brazil. Between 1994 and 2007, five Brazilians won it on eight different occasions.
That set the bar for the subsequent generations. Neymar had seen the degree of difficulty in European club football was going to be strong. So that was the idea of going to Barcelona and being in Messi's shadow - great, pressure off.
But after a while, that shadow stops being refreshing and starts being cold, because you can't be Fifa World Player of the Year if you're not even the outstanding player in your own team.
I think it's absolutely no coincidence that this speculation has emerged shortly after the news that Messi has signed a new contract with Barcelona.
The police have not yet become involved in the botched scheme, which could cost taxpayers up to £490m.
Simon Hamilton says his plan is to cut the cost of it to "essentially zero".
Members of the Economy Committee heard that while there were concerns about abuse, no case of deliberate intent to deceive had yet been identified.
A Stormont election looms over the scandal after Martin McGuinness stepped down as deputy first minister.
On fraud, Mr Hamilton said his department was working through a PWC report which had identified potential cases of deliberate abuse of the scheme.
He said if fraud was identified it would be treated very seriously and the police would be called in.
The report has identified 14 potential installations where fraud is suspected.
Mr McCormick said they did not yet have a case which showed "prima facie evidence of intent to deceive which is the threshold for fraud".
He said the investigations were ongoing.
The regulations move to the assembly this afternoon when MLAs will vote on their introduction.
Mr Hamilton claimed if the regulations were enacted it would cut the Stormont overspend on the scheme for 2016/17 from £30m to £2m.
The economy minister also said the department intended to tender for a company to carry out audits on all 2,128 installations.
Last week, the existing auditor OFGEM said of the 63 boilers it had examined, payments had been suspended to more than half.
Some boiler owners have indicated that they will go to court if attempts are made to change their contracts.
Under the proposed regulations, they would get a reduced subsidy after a certain amount of heat had been produced, with a cap after which no payments would be made.
That is compared to a generous uncapped payment under the current rules.
The regulations would only run for a year giving time for consultation about a permanent change.
Mr Hamilton said some firms in receipt of the subsidy were getting returns of up to 50%, when the intention of the scheme had been that it would be around 12%.
His departmental permanent secretary Andrew McCormick, who was also at the committee, said that was the case in "quite a large proportion" of cases.
Sinn Fein members of the committee did not attending this morning's meeting.
"Enough is enough", she said, warning that a blind eye was being turned to extremism in too much of the country, reports The Herald.
The papers says the prime minister demanded a global effort to regulate the internet and deny Islamist extremists a "safe space".
The speech signalled a "radical shake-up of the war on terror", according to the Scottish Daily Express.
It also claims to have an exclusive picture of the three men thought to be responsible for the attack - one of them wearing an Arsenal shirt.
The Scottish Daily Mail says the security services are "facing difficult questions" over how at least one of the terrorists "slipped through the intelligence net".
"United and defiant" is the headline on front of The Scotsman, which reports that Ms May made a "robust attack" on the ideology of Islamist extremism in her speech outside 10 Downing Street.
The Courier reports that the so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack.
A one word headline - "Defiant" - leads the front page of The i. It reports that the general election will go ahead, despite the fact that seven people died and 48 were wounded in the attack on Saturday night.
The Scottish edition of the Daily Telegraph reports that counter terrorism officers last month secretly recorded an alleged terror cell discussing how to use You Tube to plot a van and knife attack in London.
The Daily Star describes the revellers who tried to fend off the terrorists and the police who responded to the incident as "heroes" who saved dozens of lives.
The Scottish Sun says one of the men thought to be responsible for the attack was a "home-grown jihadi" who wore an Arsenal shirt. It reports that he was an ex-London Underground and KFC worker who had been radicalised over the last year.
In a special wraparound front page, The Daily Record features the Manchester One Love concert on its front, and the latest on the London terror attack on the back.
Police were called to St Stephens Street subway in Norwich at about 07:00 BST on Wednesday after a man named locally as Sergio was found collapsed.
David Peel, during a vigil for Sergio organised by Class War 2015, said he understood Sergio's sleeping bag may have been taken before his death.
Norfolk Police, which is yet to comment on the theft claim, said the death was not thought suspicious.
Mr Peel, who organised the vigil, said: "There are very few details around at the moment. He was sleeping rough in this awful underpass on very cold nights.
"What is to blame is our system and our society which put Sergio here."
Norfolk Police said the death was being treated as unexplained.
Police began searching for Marcel Hesse after the dead boy was found in his cellar on Monday night. They said he posted images of the body online.
The teenager, 19, was arrested in the western city of Herne on Thursday after identifying himself at a restaurant, German media report.
He then reported a fire in a nearby flat, where another body was found.
Mr Hesse is alleged to have boasted in an online chat-room about also murdering a woman. The body found on Thursday was male, a police spokesman said.
Shocked locals have been gathering outside the apartment in Herne.
The nine-year-old boy died of multiple stab wounds, and the discovery of his body on Monday sparked a huge manhunt.
On Wednesday, with the suspect still at-large, children in Herne were told to play indoors at kindergartens. Police warned the public that the teenager may be armed.
A witness said Marcel Hesse had revealed his attack on the messaging service WhatsApp. He had suggested he had wanted to kill himself but failed and murdered the boy instead.
Police said he shared images on the internet of himself next to the dead child.
The boy's family told German media that the teenager had asked him to help with a ladder. The boy's stepfather went to search for the boy, and found his body in Mr Hesse's cellar.
Investigators in the nearby city of Bochum said the suspect had also spoken online of killing a woman, claiming she "put up more of a fight than the child" and weighed some 120kg (19 stone).
The motive for his alleged attack appeared to have been the woman's bank, computer and phone details.
The multi-million dollar deal gives the Motherwell-based company control of new operations in Michigan, USA, and Rzeszow, Poland.
The move takes the group's headcount to almost 900.
Norbert's Polish business adds 230 staff to MB Aerospace's existing 170 employees in Europe.
MB Aerospace chief executive officer Craig Gallagher said: "With its well-invested manufacturing facilities and deep customer relationships in North America, alongside its highly developed engineering resources in Poland, the Norbert business is an opportunity of vast potential to support the growth ambitions for MB Aerospace as a whole.
"Not only are we acquiring two highly-performing operations which possess attractive manufacturing capabilities and customer-service led management teams but we are also securing significant additional engineering and manufacturing capacity.
He added: "The Norbert acquisition is a further part of our strategy to progressively widen MB Aerospace's capability footprint to address the critical service needs of our aero-engine customers.
"Historically, a typical aero-engine would have more than 400 unique suppliers; on the current and future generations of aero-engines this will be reduced to around 100 with tier one suppliers required to operate across a range of capabilities to serve their customers."
Last year MB Aerospace acquired US-based Delta Industries a few months after US private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners bought a majority stake in the Motherwell firm.
The company, which specialises in machined and fabricated components for global aerospace and defence manufacturers, announced at the time it would embark on a series of acquisitions as part of an expansion drive.
MB Aerospace's key customers include Pratt and Whitney, Rolls-Royce, General Electric, Boeing, United Technologies and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The man, who lives in north London, was a resident at St Francis Boys Home, in Shefford, near Bedford, in the 1960s.
He has told police he was abused at the home, which closed in 1974, by priest Father John Ryan who died in 2008.
He told the BBC that Father Ryan said he could get out of punishment if he allowed the priest to abuse him.
The victim, who is now in his 50s and cannot named for legal reasons, said: "Father Ryan abused me. He used to make up reasons to punish us.
"He (Father Ryan) used to get me up to his office. Then he turned round and said 'If you let me fondle you, I won't hit you'.
"It took place every six months. I was a pet. He ruined those years. It was terrible."
He said he hoped the police investigation uncovered the truth about the abuse and hoped the church would apologise to him and other boys who were abused.
Bedfordshire Police said: "We have received a complaint concerning St Francis Boys Home and are in the early stages of an investigation."
A Northamptonshire diocesan spokesman, who also represents the St Francis Children's Society, said it would be inappropriate to comment as there could be "legal and police implications".
Another ex-resident of the orphanage Gordon McIntosh, 63, of Roehampton, south-west London, said a group of former residents were looking at starting legal action and a reunion was taking place on 22 June.
He recalled regular physical beatings by Father Ryan.
Damian Chittock, 51, of Tower Hamlets, east London, who said he was physically abused by staff at the home, added: "What we want is justice. We want people to stand up and say, 'it is not acceptable'."
He called on the charity which ran the home - now called the St Francis Children's Society - and the church to issue an apology to boys at the home who were allegedly abused.
Mr Chittock previously took the home to court in the 1990s and received a settlement of more than £30,000 over alleged physical abuse by Father Ryan.
Nutts Corner is the venue for a gathering of Elvis impersonators on 25 April.
The organisers need almost 900 Elvis impersonators to break the current Guinness world record.
Fans will be able to enjoy an open microphone event.
Retro jump suits, sunglasses and wigs are the order of the day.
Organiser Julie Robinson said the aim was to raise money for charity.
"Who isn't a fan of Elvis? He was gorgeous, and we want the generation from then, some might be in their 70s and 80s, to come along," she said.
The money raised by the Elvis event will go to charity.
But then not everyone has enjoyed an illustrious career involving working as chief executive of Slow Food UK, a not-for-profit body that promotes and supports local food networks across the world, as well as running food and agricultural programmes for the United Nations.
So when Ms Gazzoli, 39, spotted an opportunity for a Mediterranean-influenced organic baby food brand, she was able to get some big names from the food industry on board.
Her business plan for Piccolo developed on the kitchen table of Green & Blacks co-founder Craig Sams.
Shortly before launching the brand last year, she won seed funding from an impressive list of investors including food campaigner Prue Leith, former Pizza Express chief executive Mark Angela and ex-Duchy Originals boss Andrew Baker.
"It was important for me to have investors who knew the food industry. While I was coming from a non-profit background which involved helping the public eat better, I needed support in creating a company that would be commercial as well as have social values," says Ms Gazzoli, who was born in Geneva to Italian parents and grew up in Rome.
The investment allowed Ms Gazzoli, who left Slow Food UK in 2014 after a six-year stint, to set up a development kitchen for testing recipes. "Sometimes investment gets a bad rap but if it's the right investment it can you help," she says. "The directors involved have helped steer the company and have been extremely important in the initial success."
The funds also helped Ms Gazzoli to attract the right talent. Her recruits included Alice Fotheringham as head of nutrition and product development, who had previously worked with the leading baby food author, Annabel Karmel. And Kane O'Flaherty - a former Itsu and Metcalfe's Food Company's design expert - joined as head of creative.
Ms Gazzoli reveals how she managed to poach Mr O'Flaherty: "I kept making him his favourite dish - a Maltese rabbit stew - which takes 24 hours to make." Whether it was the cooking or her tenacity, Mr O'Flaherty eventually left MetCalfe's to join Piccolo.
Ms Gazzoli's aim was to create nutritious, organic baby food packed with flavour. For this, she turned to her Italian roots. "My family had a grocery store in the north of Italy and I grew up with a room just for making pasta, where ravioli and fresh pesto was made every day," she says. "I wanted to include lots of grains, pulses and herbs to create variety and a healthy balance."
Piccolo started with six products, such as fruit and yogurt blends, and now has 16 offerings including vegetable risotto and sweet tomato and ricotta spaghetti that cost between £1 and £1.60 a pouch. The range - most of which are made in the Mediterranean - will rise to 30 products by the summer.
Since launching in April 2016, the brand has found favour from both retailers and consumers. Piccolo products are available from 750 stores in the UK including Asda, Planet Organic, Whole Foods Market and Abel & Cole, and has just started selling in stores in China too.
Turnover for its first year is expected to reach £2m, but the Covent Garden-based company is yet to turn a profit.
Although the path from idea to production may appear smooth, Ms Gazzoli says the reality was more challenging as she hadn't done any negotiations with supermarkets before.
The slide in the value of the pound following the Brexit vote has also created problems. "We source from all over the Mediterranean, for example, apples from the Dolomites, and there's price fluctuations... prices are all over and it's a difficult time for grocers too. It's a very special time to be learning."
A recent vegetable shortage has been another spanner in the works. "I've had these sourcing issues and trouble getting products on time. I can't change courgettes to peas [in her products], so it's a very complicated scenario."
Like many business owners, Ms Gazzoli has to balance managing a fast-growing firm with childcare, raising her three-year-old daughter Juliet. "During the week there's no separation between my child and the business," she says.
"Juliet is often in the office, and if I'm stuck in a meeting the staff help me with the nursery run. They're both my babies and are both interweaved. Juliet loves Kane and Alice, she's grown up with them. I don't think you can separate when you're a start-up."
Her "very supportive" Italian husband and his parents help out with childminding duties as well.
Piccolo products have arrived on shelves as sales in the baby food sector are now worth about £700m, according to market research firm Mintel.
Daniel Selwood, food and drink editor at trade magazine The Grocer, says that while Ella's Kitchen - the top baby food brand - dominates the market, Piccolo still stands out.
"The focus on Mediterranean variants makes it a bit different to existing players. It offers a good rate of new variants, and also Catherine has got some pulse in the industry from being chief executive of Slow Food UK," he says.
The 34-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest early in the second half of the third-round tie while playing for the French sixth-division side.
The medical services treated him on the pitch but were unable to revive him.
Derme had been capped four times by Burkina Faso and had played in the French lower leagues and in Moldova, as well as in Burkina Faso.
Number 10 Admiral Grove, Toxteth, was sold following the death of "well-respected" tenant Margaret Gorse, its former owners Plus Dane Housing said.
The new owner is Beatles fan Jackie Holmes, who has previously bought properties connected with John Lennon and George Harrison.
She paid £15,000 over the guide price at the auction held at the Cavern Club.
Restrictions on the sale would mean it could not be turned into a tourist attraction or museum, a Plus Dane Housing spokeswoman said.
Starr moved into the terrace from nearby Madryn Street as a small child and lived there before finding fame.
He spent most of his formative years at the property, learning the drums and celebrating his 21st birthday party there.
The home became a regular haunt for the Fab Four as they honed their seminal sound.
Starr paid homage to the house in his 2008 song Liverpool 8, and The Empress pub at the end of Admiral Grove appeared on the front of his first solo album, Sentimental Journey.
Part of the official Beatles Tour, the property still attracts fans daily.
Plus Dane Housing said profits from the sale would be reinvested to improve other properties in the area.
Source: BBC/National Trust
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The NHS South West review into the way health authorities commissioned the private hospital services, is about to be signed off, the BBC understands.
The home was closed six months ago after Panorama filmed abuse of patients with learning disabilities.
The NHS said the claims about the report's contents were "misleading".
"It is premature to speculate on the findings of the NHS review which has not been finalised," a statement said.
The report is expected to raise concerns about the lack of detail in any contracts between primary care trusts and Castlebeck.
According to BBC West health correspondent Matthew Hill, the report said the contracts had no built-in mechanisms to say how quality could be assured.
Owner Castlebeck said it was "committed to learning lessons".
"We haven't had the opportunity to see the report at this stage so are not aware of its content."
They added they would be "acting on those lessons to make improvements to services wherever they are needed".
The programme showed patients at Winterbourne View being pinned down, slapped and taunted.
The report by the NHS will feed into the ongoing serious case review, which is being conducted by South Gloucestershire Council.
That is expected to be published in the New Year.
Thirteen people have been arrested and released on bail until 28 November in connection with the alleged abuse, pending further inquiries.
Winterbourne View's 24 patients were transferred from the hospital when it was closed, in June.
The report is also expected to raise concerns that families were unable to freely visit their relatives, and were restricted to seeing them in the reception area.
Steve Sollars, whose 22-year-old son Sam was in Winterbourne View for two years up to 2010, said he felt what was happening at the home was being "hidden".
"At first they were fine they were good. They would let us go onto the floor where he was and I'd get to know other patients there.
"And then all of a sudden, for no reason, it was stopped. There was no explanation. No reason, they just said you're not allowed on the ward," he said.
Mr Sollars said after he was banned from seeing him in the ward they would meet and he "didn't seem right in himself".
"We didn't know how he was being looked after. We know Sam could be messy but we didn't know what he was going to be like. We didn't know upstairs what was going on.
"So we feel now, after this programme, were things being hidden? Were there things they didn't want us to see?"
Mr Sollars said since Sam had moved he was "absolutely fantastic" - "improved so much that you wouldn't believe".
The low-energy collisions, part of preparations for the next round of experiments, began on Tuesday morning.
Proton beams circled the LHC and collided at an energy of 450 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) per beam.
The aim for this second run of the LHC, following its planned two-year shutdown for repairs and improvements, is to stage collisions at 7,000 GeV per beam.
A key milestone was reached on Easter Sunday when proton beams once again did full circuits of the LHC's 27km subterranean circle.
Now the two beams have been steered into each other - another important step in the gradual restart of the world's biggest particle accelerator.
According to the current schedule, collisions will first take place at those new, historic energies in the week commencing June 1st. Even those will only be used for calibration; "physics collisions" with usable results will start some time after that.
Excitement is building for physicists working at Cern - the European nuclear research campus near Geneva, Switzerland, which houses the LHC.
"These are the first colliding beams in the machine for over two years, and it brings home that physics collisions are close," said Prof Tara Shears from the University of Liverpool, who works on LHCb - one of four big experiments, spaced around the LHC's ring, where the collisions occur.
She said these early collisions are very valuable, even though they are only happening at injection energy, which means the LHC itself isn't adding any acceleration to the protons. They simply circulate and collide with the energy already delivered by the accelerators that feed protons into the main ring.
Instead of getting physics results, Prof Shears and her team use this early data to fine-tune their experiments. "This time, we used the data to make sure subdetectors are time-aligned with each other," she told BBC News.
"We have a shopping list of checks to do; checking the trigger, our luminosity calculation, the performance of each part of our experiment, and we'll work through this with these collision runs."
Some of the experiment teams released images illustrating Tuesday's first collisions. They show the various paths taken by debris from smashed-together protons, pieced together using data from some of the layers of detectors inside the experiments.
The LHC was the scene for the famous discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, towards the end of its first run. In its second tilt, researchers hope that the almost doubled energy levels will yield new insights beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Rice took charge of the London theatre in January but has come in for fierce criticism, including for her use of sound and lighting technology.
Chief executive Neil Constable said the theatre was founded to stage plays in keeping with Shakespearean traditions.
That "should continue to be the central tenet of our work", he said.
In a statement, he said Rice's "mould-breaking work" had brought in "new and diverse audiences, won huge creative and critical acclaim, and achieved exceptionally strong box office returns".
He continued: "In breaking the mould, this latest season has generated productive debate concerning the purpose and theatrical practice of the Globe, in relation to the use of sound and lighting technology within our theatre spaces.
"Following much deliberation and discussion, the Globe board has concluded that from April 2018, the theatre programming should be structured around 'shared light' productions without designed sound and light rigging, which characterised a large body of The Globe's work prior to Emma's appointment."
The Globe, which opened in 1997, is a reconstruction of a Shakespearean theatre on London's Southbank.
Until Rice's arrival, actors have usually performed in "shared light", meaning the performers can see the audience, who feel more involved, as they would have done in Shakespeare's day.
Mr Constable added: "The Globe was reconstructed as a radical experiment to explore the conditions within which Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked, and we believe this should continue to be the central tenet of our work.
"Whilst the realisation of Emma's vision has been a vital part of our continuing experimentation as a theatre, we have now concluded that a predominant use of contemporary sound and lighting technology will not enable us to optimise further experimentation in our unique theatre spaces and the playing conditions which they offer."
In a statement, Rice said: "I have had a wonderful time creatively here at the Globe, but I respect the board's decision for its future direction."
The Times recently published an article headlined: "The Globe has been a success story - and Emma Rice is wrecking it."
In a review of a recent reworking of Cymbeline, set in modern gangland Britain, The Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish wrote: "I can't see what this version is doing at Shakespeare's Globe, or, if this form of hacking about with the canon is to be the new norm under artistic director Emma Rice, what the point of the Globe now is."
In a review of the same show, the Financial Times's Ian Shuttleworth asked: "One wonders - in what has already become a mantra during Emma Rice's first season at its helm - what the hell it's doing at the Globe."
But The Guardian's Lyn Gardner said Rice was "not ignoring tradition but boldly investigating how the theatre can remain relevant for modern audiences".
Rice recently said the way people have talked about her since she took over the theatre has made her "blood boil" because critics did not use the same language about men.
Rice replaced Dominic Dromgoole when she arrived from the innovative and acclaimed theatre company Kneehigh. She will leave the Globe following its 2017/18 winter season.
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Back in 1903, scientists decided that the dinosaur that was known as Brontosaurus was too similar - because of it's long neck -to another species called the Apatosaurus.
So the Brontosaurus was declared extinct because they were both thought to be from the same species.
Now a team of experts from Portugal have decided they did show enough differences to be classed as two different species. So Brontosaurus is back!
The problems began at the end of the 1800s.
The general public were really interested in dinosaurs, and so people in America raced against each other to find new fossils and discover new species.
It was known as 'the bone wars', and fossil hunters were desperate to get their names in the record books by naming new dinosaurs.
On one expedition in the US, Othniel Charles Marsh and his team discovered fossils of what they thought were two long-necked dinosaurs.
They called one Apatosaurus, and one Brontosaurus.
But later, a museum in America decided those two fossils were actually the same species. And so Apatosaurus stuck...and Brontosaurus was no more.
Until today.
But even though it wasn't accurate, the Brontosaurus has been one of the most famous dinos on the planet.
It's one of the first names that comes up when people think of ancient creatures.
But why?
Historians think the name just stuck when there was so much public interest in dinosaurs over a hundred years ago.
About 100 million years ago, the oceans warmed up, polar ice melted and sea levels rose to unprecedented heights.
Scientists say the ichthyosaurs, or "fish lizards", could not adapt to the new conditions, spelling their demise.
The research is the latest twist in the mystery of how and why the predators disappeared.
Evidence suggests their extinction about 100 million years ago was driven by intense climate change and their inability to adapt to the changing world.
"Our results support a growing body of evidence revealing that rising sea levels and sea temperatures profoundly reorganised marine ecosystems about 100 million years ago," said lead researcher Dr Valentin Fischer of the University of Liège, Belgium, and the University of Oxford, UK.
"The ichthyosaurs were unable to adapt. They were evolving very slowly during the last 50 million years of their reign.
"When the environment changed very rapidly they couldn't keep up with this change."
During the age of the dinosaurs, the ocean was home to many types of ichthyosaur.
The marine predators evolved a streamlined body like a dolphin and were built for speed, feeding on fish and squid.
Ichthyosaurs endured for millions of years. They appeared in the Triassic, reached their peak in the Jurassic, then disappeared in the Cretaceous - several million years before the last dinosaurs died out.
Past explanations for their disappearance have focussed on their food supply, which may have dwindled as other marine animals such as sharks and bony fishes appeared.
The researchers - from the UK, Belgium, France and Russia - think this was just one factor in the animal's demise.
After drawing up a detailed family tree of the evolution of ichthyosaurs and analysing the causes of their extinction, they believe many factors were to blame.
"Although the rising temperatures and sea levels evidenced in rock records throughout the world may not directly have affected ichthyosaurs, related factors such as changes in food availability, migratory routes, competitors and birthing places are all potential drivers, probably occurring in conjunction to drive ichthyosaurs to extinction," Dr Fischer added.
Dr David Martill of the University of Portsmouth, who was not involved with the study, said the move to a "super greenhouse world" would have had a huge impact on the habitats of animals on land and in the sea.
Ichthyosaurs shared the ocean with other great groups of large marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, however, which managed to outlive them.
"They [the ichthyosaurs] just disappear while a lot of animals living alongside did alright," Dr Martill told BBC News.
"Some mysterious thing was involved. I think it's still an enigma."
The famous fossil hunter Mary Anning discovered the first complete fossil of an ichthyosaur in the cliffs near Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1810.
Her discovery shook up the scientific world and provided evidence for new ideas about the history of the Earth.
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"Peter has been a central figure in Northern Ireland politics for over four decades.
"In his long and distinguished record of public service, both in the House of Commons and the Assembly, he has championed the interests of Northern Ireland with unparalleled effectiveness, determination and dedication.
"Peter was key to the agreement reached this week and he can be rightly proud of his contribution.
"I have never hated Peter Robinson. I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.
"I think we have developed a good working relationship over the years, albeit we come from different allegiances.
"Despite our political differences, I recognise fully the enormous personal contribution Peter has made, building on the work of his predecessor, Dr Paisley."
"I was very sad to learn this morning of Peter Robinson's intention to retire from politics in the near future.
"From my own direct experience of working closely with Peter, I wish to acknowledge his leading role in bringing stability to the political institutions in Northern Ireland, which was most recently demonstrated in the 'Fresh Start' Agreement of which he was a key architect.
"Mere words cannot convey the enormity of the thanks owed to Peter by the DUP and by everyone who values progress in Northern Ireland.
"Peter has been a towering figure in the DUP since its foundation. He has dedicated his life to the defence of the union and to building a better life for our people. He can be justifiably proud of what he has achieved in helping secure those objectives.
"The DUP, unionism and Northern Ireland owe a huge debt of gratitude to Peter for his 40 years of unstinting public service. He is without equal within unionism for his strategic ability to chart a course through many difficult periods in our province.
"His strategic vision, calm reflection and decisive decision-making, will mark him out as something very special.
"I wish to extend thanks and best wishes to Peter Robinson and his family and good luck for the future.
"Sinn Féin will continue to work with the DUP and Peter's successor and with the other political parties as part of the effort to deliver on the recent agreement and to resolve outstanding issues from other agreements."
"His early career was forged as a right-leaning, hardline unionist so it's unsurprising that we don't have much political common ground.
"But despite our disagreements, on a human level it's clear to see that he has had a very difficult time personally and with his health.
"He has clearly played a very significant part in Northern Ireland politics, some might say in the early years he was quite detrimental.
"In recent years he's been more positive but whether we've really established power sharing as opposed to power carve ups, that's an open question."
"As party leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland he has lead our party and our country through some of the most delicate and difficult phases of the political process.
"There were times when lesser men would have given up and simply walked away, but Peter endured and has worked hard for the people of Northern Ireland. His contribution to Ulster society has been immense.
"He was the strategist in the DUP for many years, so he was masterminding the process of bringing the party into being a centre party in trying to move the 1998 Good Friday Agreement forward.
"Of course he was controversial in the earlier period as far as we were concerned in the Republic, but I would far rather remember the role he has played over the last 15 to 16 years.
"I think in the latter years he has certainly tried to be more inclusive and he's tried to bring things forward, although at various times the messages have been very mixed.
"Looking back at when times were difficult and when Northern Ireland was in very troubled times, I think the role he played at that time was not helpful, to put it mildly.
"His foresight has, without question or contradiction, delivered a Northern Ireland that can move forward confidently, with a sense of pride and purpose; and an overarching resolve never to repeat again.
"He is without doubt a major loss to both our party and unionism but I trust he will be able to enjoy an easier pace of life while still assisting us in the days that lie ahead."
"He probably learnt from his predecessor about not overstaying his welcome. I think he had the wit to go before he was pushed.
"I am saddened for him and for Northern Ireland that his legacy is to confirm IRA/Sinn Féin in government.
"We wish Peter a long and healthy retirement. Meanwhile, he remains First Minister of the Northern Ireland Executive at a time when we share the ambition of seeing Stormont delivering positive outcomes for all our people. We will continue to engage positively with that objective in mind."
"I always found him to be a pragmatic and straightforward politician who was serious about moving Northern Ireland forward.
"In his role as deputy leader to Ian Paisley and then as the leader of his party and Northern Ireland's first minister, there is no doubt that he made a significant contribution to the journey that the island of Ireland has been on.
The Foxes' richly-deserved 3-1 victory in the battle of the top two at Etihad Stadium put them five points clear at the top of the Premier League and installed them as title favourites with every bookmaker.
And it stripped away the last shield keeping Leicester under the radar, despite Ranieri's masterpiece of expectation management this season.
The manner in which Leicester came to Manchester and won so convincingly on their biggest test of the season was designed to make even the doubters believe.
It was an emphatic and mature performance that confirmed the tide of opinion is turning. Leicester are no longer viewed as plucky underdogs but as a club in position to make history.
Leicester can no longer portray themselves as being on a fantasy ride with nothing to lose at the end - there should now be disappointment if they do not win the title.
So how will Leicester handle that potent mixture of pressure and expectation?
Former Norwich City striker Chris Sutton outlined the dangers of underdogs being thrust to the front and feeling the weight of expectation.
He recalled how Norwich City let an unlikely title chance slip in the 1992-93 season when they were a point clear with only six games left.
Sutton told BBC Sport: "The longer you stay up there, and the closer you get to seeing it through, the harder it gets. We got through March and were back on the top of the table and it hit us. All of a sudden we started thinking about whether we could actually do it.
"Everywhere we went in Norwich, people would ask 'can we win it?' We were thinking 'how are we still in the race?' We started to wonder 'what if we do win it?'
"It was a kind of pressure that was new to all of us - the manager Mike Walker and the players - and we faltered at the big moments," he added.
"We had two crunch games before Easter against the two other teams challenging and although we beat Aston Villa we lost at home to Manchester United, who had just gone four games without a win."
United went on to win the title and Norwich City finished third.
Leicester forward Riyad Mahrez said: "We're just going to keep dreaming, We're going to fight for the title and see what we can do."
The pinch points may arrive - but there has not been a trace of evidence yet to suggest Leicester will crack.
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The change in perception of Leicester City was emphasised when the title odds dropped moments after the win at Etihad Stadium and the Foxes were favourites with all major bookies.
Ranieri, playing the game he has perfected this season, was ready with the bucket of iced water, saying: "I don't believe them. They said I was first to be sacked - but I hope one time they are right."
The tag of bookies' favourites is only an outside pressure and Leicester have dealt immaculately with any examination they have been presented with this season.
The questions were asked after the Boxing Day defeat at Liverpool - and yet they responded with a fine performance in a home goalless draw against Manchester City.
The FA Cup third-round loss at home to Spurs was followed by a thunderous 3-0 win at home to Stoke City - and when the biggest question of all was asked by Manuel Pellegrini's expensively assembled squad on Saturday, the response could not have been more convincing.
Ranieri's message was always about reaching 40 points and safety - but such has been the transformation in Leicester's fortunes that he is now fending off title talk.
The 64-year-old Italian is a hugely popular figure, a symbol for every neutral's hope that Leicester can fight off the big-spending superpowers and write the final chapter to the most remarkable tale in Premier League history.
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He has maintained a relaxed air throughout the season, offering his players pizza in exchange for clean sheets and deflecting pressure on to Leicester's rivals.
Ranieri was at it again on Saturday, saying: "I don't want to think about if we win. But we are alive and we want to fight. We know it's a crazy league and we have to try. We enjoy it and we fight without pressure. The fans must continue to dream."
For the man who was sacked by Greece after a home defeat by Faroe Islands in the Euro 2016 qualifiers, Ranieri will have to deal with a different type of stress as Leicester City are locked on course for one of football's most remarkable achievements.
Yes they can - and no matter where they finish there will not be enough humble pie to go around for naysayers such as myself, who predicted relegation back in August after Ranieri replaced sacked Nigel Pearson.
These were some of my words that will be eaten: "Ranieri's appointment is, at best, left field and at worst uninspiring and unwise. A charming man but perhaps one out of time with the Premier League, having last worked there with Chelsea in 2004 and having had a chequered career since."
Well that went well - although I was not alone. Now Leicester City are being carried along on a wave of national goodwill, with just about every neutral willing them on.
Five points clear with 13 games left is a wonderful position to be in and there is no team playing better than Leicester City in the Premier League.
It is not simply "the pinnacle of the iceberg", as Ranieri calls lethal strike pair Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, who are excelling. This is a complete team effort.
Wes Morgan and Robert Huth, who scored two at Etihad Stadium, present a formidable defensive barrier in front of keeper Kasper Schmeichel, while the outstanding midfielder N'Golo Kante is arguably the bargain of the season at £6m from Caen.
If there were any weaknesses in Leicester's armoury they might have surfaced on Saturday against a Manchester City team unbeaten in seven games before kick-off.
And yet they played with drive, conviction and confidence from the moment Huth put them in front, mixing defensive defiance with those lightning counter-attacks that have punctuated their season.
Yes they can with the title - and Leicester City are playing as if they believe they can.
The first answer is simple. Leicester are the Premier League's form team and have a healthy lead. While others such as Manchester City and Arsenal falter, they are standing strong.
Leicester, crucially, have no distractions. They can focus solely on the Premier League, while Arsenal and Manchester City have Champions League and domestic cup commitments.
And what about their fixture list? Seven of their remaining games are at home and they will regard all as eminently winnable.
After Arsenal away next weekend - and who is to say they cannot win there - they have the confidence to pick up points anywhere on their travels, although they face tough trips to Manchester United on Saturday 30 April and then to Chelsea on the final day of the season.
There would be delicious irony in Ranieri standing in front of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, the man who sacked him in 2004, as a Premier League champion.
Who will bet against it? Not, it seems, the bookies.
Free events, organised by the Parkrun group to encourage fitness, attract thousands of runners on 5km courses (3 miles) in parks across the country.
A parish council near Bristol last year proposed charging entrants £1 each, citing the cost of upkeep of paths.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid is to consult on the proposed legislation.
The proposals would make it illegal for local authorities to charge Parkrun or junior Parkrun, which organises 2km runs for children, for the use of a public park.
Ministers will also examine whether the plans should be extended to other organisers of fun runs, and to different users of parks such as professional dog walkers and personal trainers.
The consultation says that "local authorities quite legitimately charge for a variety of different events and specific activities that take place in local parks".
It continues: "However, the government does not consider it appropriate for a local authority to charge a volunteer community seeking to provide a free weekly event for the use of a public park, overturning our long standing convention of free access to parks for their everyday use."
Parkrun, a not-for-profit company which organises free, weekly, timed runs around the world, began life in 2004 with an event in Teddington, south-west London.
Olympic Gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes was among those who condemned the decision by Stoke Gifford Parish Council's to charge Parkrun competitors a fee in April last year.
The council said the three-year-old event had led to "increased wear on the park". But Parkrun closed the event over the decision saying its ethos was to stage it at no financial cost to each entrant.
The government has said it supports the principles behind the runs - community and volunteer led opportunities for people to get involved in healthy exercise.
Mr Javid added: "These sporting events offer a fantastic opportunity to bring people together and improve their fitness too. These new rules will make sure this continues and prevent any council from charging for the everyday use of public parks."
Tom Williams, chief operating officer for Parkrun UK, said not being charged for access was key to sustaining the runs set up by the group.
He added: "It's fantastic to see the government committed to protecting the principle of free community access to public parks.
"However, it's just as important that local authorities receive the support required to ensure these wonderful areas of open space are available for future generations.
"This consultation represents a fantastic opportunity for us all to consider the most appropriate strategy for increasing engagement across our parks whilst protecting their future."
The attack took place near El Arish, the main town in the north of the restive peninsula. Three more died in a shooting in the town itself.
The bomb blast is one of the deadliest attacks in Sinai for months. At least 28 more people were injured.
The army has been fighting a campaign against Sinai-based militants, who have carried out a string of attacks there.
The area has become increasingly lawless since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in 2011.
Militants further stepped up their attacks after Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was ousted by the army last year.
Security forces have been carrying out an offensive in northern Sinai, killing and capturing dozens of suspected members of jihadist groups.
Many of the casualties from the bomb blast were ferried to Cairo by helicopter.
Sources told the Reuters news agency that the bomb attack targeted two armoured vehicles which stopped at a checkpoint near an army installation.
Once again militants have inflicted heavy losses on the army in Sinai. The increasingly lawless - and strategically important - peninsula is a battle ground between the security forces and the militants.
Their attacks have spiralled since the army ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. A large-scale army offensive in Sinai has been unable to contain the violence, which has spread to other parts of Egypt including the capital and the Nile Delta.
Sinai is fertile ground for militant groups - thanks to poverty, official neglect, and discontent among the local Bedouin tribes.
The biggest threat so far is from the insurgents of Ansar Beit al Maqdis, (Champions of Jerusalem) Egypt's deadliest militant group. Like the so-called Islamic State, Ansar has taken to carrying out beheadings on camera.
One Ansar commander has said the Islamic state is advising it on how to operate more effectively.
But security officials gave differing accounts. One said a rocket-propelled grenade hit a truck carrying ammunition, which then exploded.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi convened the National Defence Council for an emergency meeting in response to what his office called "a terrorist attack".
The second attack hit a checkpoint in El Arish. Three soldiers were shot dead, security sources said.
No group has said they carried out the attacks.
In September at least 11 policemen were killed in a bomb attack on a convoy in the peninsula as it travelled through the village of Wefaq, near the Gaza border.
That bombing was claimed by Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the most active militant group in Egypt. It attempted to kill the interior minister in Cairo in 2013 in a car bomb attack and has issued videos of the beheading of captives.
The group professes backing for Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in Iraq and Syria, although it has not formally pledged its support.
Alexander Duncan, 59, was found dead in a property in Primrose Street in the Leith area on 19 April.
At Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Tracey McLean, 32, and Seka Ritchie, 31, were both charged with murder and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
They made no plea or declaration and were remanded in custody.
The case was continued for further examination.
They had appealed for help to identify the woman who fell from Canal Bridge on Slateford Road at about 14:50 on Saturday.
The woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was not carrying any identification.
Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.
A spokesman said no further details would be released just now and thanked the public for their help.
An Israeli parole board ruled on Sunday that Katsav, 71, could walk free next week after serving five of his seven-year term.
Two previous parole requests had been rejected.
Katsav resigned from the largely ceremonial post in 2007 after being charged with rape and sexual harassment.
He has repeatedly professed his innocence.
Katsav's lawyer, Zion Amir, said his client burst into tears on hearing the news.
"It was a very long journey," he told Israeli army radio.
"Today that journey reached its end with a reasoned decision by the parole committee."
In November 2011, Israel's Supreme Court unanimously upheld Katsav's conviction for raping a former employee when he was a cabinet minister in the 1990s, and for sexually harassing two other women while president.
Katsav was born in Iran and became the first Israeli president to come from a Muslim country. He became a Likud party MP in 1977 at the age of 30.
The Justice Select Committee said without support from a lawyer, victims found it difficult to leave abusive partners and were open to intimidation.
Its report criticised the government's legal aid changes and said they had "harmed access to justice" for some.
The Ministry of Justice said legal aid is available where it is needed and the reforms were kept "under close review".
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Laspo) removed legal aid from private family law, but those who can provide evidence of domestic violence are still eligible.
This evidence must be from no more than two years ago.
The committee heard that this requirement "presented problems for victims", as a court case could happen long after a relationship breakdown.
Clare Laxton, public policy officer at charity Women's Aid, told the committee that some of the most common forms of domestic abuse, including emotional and psychological abuse, are difficult to evidence.
The committee said the Ministry of Justice had failed in three of its four objectives for Laspo.
There had been a "significant rise" in litigants in person, the Ministry of Justice had "failed to target legal aid" to those who need it most, and it had failed to prove that it was better overall value for money, the report said - although savings had been made.
Recommendations from the committee included better information from the government on eligibility for legal aid.
Committee chairman Sir Alan Beith said while the Ministry of Justice had successfully made savings, this had "limited access to justice for some of those who need legal aid the most".
He said it was "vitally important" the Ministry of Justice remedied this.
Jenny Beck, co-chairwoman of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, said that it was difficult for people in crisis to obtain legal advice because of "unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles".
"The cuts to the legal aid system have resulted in barriers to justice for ordinary people," she said.
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said abuse victims face "overwhelming challenges" because of restrictions on legal aid.
"It is unacceptable that victims are left to shoulder the burden of obtaining evidence in order to protect their children or separate from their abuser," she said.
"Paying legal aid contributions or meeting evidence requirements that mainly focus on physical abuse create extra barriers to justice for victims of financial abuse."
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said legal aid was a "vital part" of the justice system.
"We protected civil legal aid so it remains available where legal help and advice is most needed," he said.
"It is entirely untrue to allege people who are eligible for legal aid under Laspo did not get it.
"We are keeping these reforms under close review and have already made changes to address issues raised.
"We are also undertaking a comprehensive research programme to better understand why people choose to go court and how they deal with legal problems."
The Royal College of Nursing poll of 6,000 nurses found 17.3% of their hours were spent on tasks such as filing, photocopying and ordering supplies.
Most reported the amount of paperwork was getting worse and was now stopping them providing direct patient care.
The government has said it wants to reduce bureaucracy by a third.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has already announced a review of bureaucracy, which is being carried out by the NHS Confederation and is due to report back in the coming months.
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar said: "We recognise very much the survey and we are concerned about it. I think it's critical that we make sure our staff have got the maximum amount of time to be with our patients.
"We're still doing far too much on paper, far too much duplication and it really is taking away the time nurses could have with patients."
The union said its survey showed a culture of "ticking boxes" had developed.
The survey, which is being released on the eve of the start of the RCN's annual conference on Monday, also found more than a quarter of nurses said their workplace did not have a ward clerk or administrative assistant to help with clerical duties.
RCN general secretary Peter Carter said: "These figures prove what a shocking amount of a nurse's time is being wasted on unnecessary paperwork and bureaucracy.
"Yes, some paperwork is essential and nurses will continue to do this, but patients want their nurses by their bedside, not ticking boxes."
The union's Janet Davies said: "Ordering supplies and ordering food is a terrible waste of a nurse's salary and nursing skills when actually you could have an admin assistant doing that routine work."
District nurse Irene Macpherson, from Inverkip, Renfrewshire, said: "I am sick to the back teeth of demands on my time, and that of my staff, which mean that other staff in the organisation can tick a box to say they are doing their jobs.
"We now have to fill out an assessment page which doesn't reflect the work that the nurses do. For example, we have to draw maps of the number of steps or actions we take to find a piece of equipment and then work out a quicker way of doing it, by better organising our work area."
Labour says the current government should take the blame for the nurses' increased workload.
Shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said: "David Cameron is cutting the NHS front line and wasting billions on a chaotic re-organisation, leaving hospitals to operate without enough staff.
"Now form-filling is taking nurses away from their patients for longer and longer."
Samuelsen, 19, has made two substitute appearances for the Hammers in Europa League fixtures, making his debut in the July 2015 win against Birkirkara.
The ex-Vard Haugesund player signed from Manchester City in June 2015.
He spent much of last season on loan at Peterborough United in League One, scoring two goals in 20 appearances.
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Charteris could play alongside five France squad members for Racing at Grenoble in the Top 14 on Saturday.
Six days later Wales play France as Warren Gatland's team bid for a potential title decider with England.
"They (Racing players) are all coming back full of confidence and very happy with the new regime," said Charteris.
He helped Wales draw with Ireland and beat Scotland in the opening two rounds while France saw off Italy before beating Ireland by a point.
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Charteris says French players' mindset "is a lot more positive than it had been under the previous coaches".
He added: "It will make them a better team and it certainly won't be easy against them."
The former Newport Gwent Dragons captain says while France's tight play will again be a major obstacle, Wales' pack have improved.
"We know that any French team prides itself on their scrum - that doesn't change," said Charteris.
"We know that we have got to step up or keep things up, but I genuinely feel as a pack of forwards we have raised the bar, not only in the scrum, but defensively at line-out time as well.
"We didn't give Scotland any sort of change or platform to work from, which was hugely pleasing."
In the meantime Wales coach Warren Gatland faces an anxious weekend with the players based outside Wales due to play in domestic matches while his Wales-based players will be rested before the game against France.
Apart from Charteris in France, centre Jonathan Davies could also be in action for Clermont Auvergne.
In the Aviva Premiership, Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Rhys Priestland and Dominic Day (Bath), Bradley Davies (Wasps), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester) and Tomas Francis (Exeter) could all be in action this weekend.
It is a basic rule of science, which certainly holds true in the jungles of northern Peru, at the headwaters of the world's greatest river system.
Not for the first time in recent years, locals have been dealing with the aftermath of a huge oil spill after a trans-Amazonian pipeline fractured, emptying some 3,000 barrels of thick black crude into the jungle river system.
For the last month, workers from Peru's state-controlled petrol company have been mopping up and scooping up much of the oil that stuck to the ravines and vegetation in the smaller rivers.
No one really knows how much was swept down the River Chiriaco and then into the River Maranon, one of the biggest Amazon tributaries in Peru.
Nonetheless, officials from PetroPeru were keen to tell us how well the clean up was going.
The man in charge of the operation is Victor Palomino. He is showing us how thousands of sacks loaded with contaminated earth are being collected and removed for disposal.
Mr Palomino denies it was a lack of maintenance that caused the 40-year-old pipeline to break, but he admits its unlikely to be the last such incident.
"Yes, of course there will be accidents, that's inevitable," the site chief tells me as we survey the damaged steel pipeline.
"But our biggest concern here is to restore the environment to how it was before and to minimise the risk to local communities," he adds.
This is the second major spill this year in the northern part of Peru's jungle region, not far from the border with Ecuador.
But, on top of the environmental impact, we came across something equally disturbing: evidence that children from poor, indigenous communities have been involved in the clean-up.
"With just our bare hands, like this," 14-year-old Naith says and shows me how she and her two younger brothers scooped oil with their bare hands into buckets.
She says that they were paid about a dollar for each one by company officials.
Their father, Jaime, says he stopped them once he found out that they and most other children from the village had been gathering oil for the best part of a day.
"They fell ill with fever and diarrhoea after being sent to the river," says the father of four. His middle son, seven-year-old Osman, is still in hospital.
Jaime shows me the boy's oil-stained clothes - not for him the protective white suits worn by the company employees.
In a statement PetroPeru said it explicitly prohibited the employment of children at the operations centre where it did hire local workers to help in the cleanup.
But the company said it would look into the allegations.
Back out on the river, I watched a small army of workers hard at work removing oil-stained vegetation and debris.
The company insists that no expense and no amount of human effort will be spared to clean up this oil spill within a month.
But the effects will last much longer.
There is a state of emergency that means locals cannot use the water or fish in it for four months.
This is a waterway on which their very lives depend.
In the indigenous village of Nazareth, where many locals still live in traditional huts and eke out a subsistence living, one woman shows me her ruined, oil-stained fishing nets.
"It's a disaster for our community," Elemina tells me in her native Achuar language.
With part of their land now contaminated, locals say oil has brought nothing but trouble to the region.
Environmental campaigners who work with Peru's indigenous communities say the combined effect of impunity for the oil companies and a lack of investment in decades-old infrastructure means that the underlying issues are rarely resolved.
The falling price for oil on global markets means that there is not much new oil exploration going on in the Amazon jungle these days, something that many people welcome.
The downside is that the smaller oil companies who still operate here do not have the resources or will to update and maintain their existing networks.
The Maranon and the mighty Amazon it feeds are big enough to cope with a spill of the size we saw in northern Peru but less certain is the future of the small communities which live alongside the riverbanks.
Police said they were alerted to Laura Hewlett-Conway driving erratically along Widney Manor Road in Solihull last month by residents who heard a "loud screeching noise".
She was found on a driveway nearby in her pyjamas and "unsteady on her feet", claiming the wheel had just come off.
The 33-year-old from Solihull was banned from driving for 17 months.
She admitted drink-driving and dangerous driving and received an 18-month supervision order and 180 hours' community service at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.
She must also pass an extended driving test in order to get back her licence.
The hairdresser, of Ravenswood Drive, registered 78 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath, more than twice the legal limit, when she was stopped on 23 January, police said.
Officers said they found a trail of damaged asphalt, caused by her Ford Ka, stretching for about 2.7 miles (4.8km).
Pc Tony Winter from West Midlands Police, said: "The car was making a deafening noise as it scraped its way along the road.
"One person who called police said they thought the car was dragging a wheel clamp with it.
"It's incredible she managed to drive so far without colliding with other vehicles or causing a serious accident.
"It was extremely dangerous driving and beggars belief she couldn't have known there was something seriously wrong with the car."
Mohammed Miah, 37, of Poplar, was told he must serve at least 18 years for killing baby Rifat.
A post-mortem examination of Rifat's body found 38 rib fractures, eight leg fractures and a broken spine.
His wife Rebeka Nazmin, 32, was cleared of murder but found guilty of allowing the death of her baby and causing him suffering.
Nazmin, who was said to be in the "thrall" of her husband, was sentenced to six years in prison.
The trial heard how Rifat was also hit with the cord of a mobile phone charger and burned on a radiator.
Both Miah and Nazmin had tried to blame a young autistic child in the house, who had behavioural problems in the past, for the murder.
The jury heard Rifat was subjected to "systematic" abuse while in the care of his parents, culminating in fatal brain injuries in July last year.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Spencer told Miah only he could know why he abused his son - whether it was an "angry response" to being laid up all day with a bad back or "deliberate cruelty".
He told Nazmin: "But for your failure to protect Rifat from his father he might well still be alive."
Victoria Nuland has apologised after she referred disparagingly to the EU's role during a conversation said to be with the US ambassador to Ukraine.
A recording of the exchange was posted online, with the US hinting at Russia's involvement in bugging and leaking it.
The EU and US are involved in talks to end months of unrest in Ukraine.
By Gavin HewittEurope editor
The conversation between Ms Nuland and Mr Pyatt reveals deeper tensions between America and Europe.
Washington seems to prefer a deal brokered by the UN rather than Brussels. If true, that would bruise the feelings of EU officials. They believe this is their crisis to solve.
Today's comments and accusations are a reminder that this crisis is far from over and that it has the potential to cause division and tension even between allies.
Transcript of leaked US Ukraine call
In Kiev, Ms Nuland - an assistant secretary of state - said she would not make a public statement on the matter.
She described the leak as "pretty impressive tradecraft. [The] audio quality was very good".
The state department said she had apologised in private to EU officials.
Mass anti-government protests erupted in Ukraine in late November after President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign a far-reaching association and trade agreement with the EU - under heavy pressure from Moscow.
Russia has been widely accused of using its economic clout to persuade Mr Yanukovych not to pursue closer ties with Brussels.
Russia has itself accused Washington and the EU of meddling in Ukraine.
German government spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz said Ms Merkel fully supported the work done by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to find a solution to the crisis.
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"The chancellor finds these remarks totally unacceptable and wants to emphasise that Mrs Ashton is doing an outstanding job," Ms Wirtz said.
The alleged conversation between Ms Nuland and the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, appeared on YouTube on Thursday.
The video, which lasts for four minutes and 10 seconds, was entitled "Maidan's puppets" in Russian - a reference to the square in Kiev, where pro-EU protests have been held for months.
A transcript of the whole conversation was also posted in Russian.
At one point, the female speaker mentions the UN and its attempts to find a solution to the Ukraine stand-off.
She says: "So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it and you know. [Expletive deleted] the EU."
21 November 2013: Protests start after Ukraine pulls out of EU deal
17 December: Russia agrees $15bn deal to buy Ukraine government bonds
16 January 2014: Parliament passes law restricting the right to protest
22 January: Two protesters killed in clashes with police in Kiev; protests spread across many cities
28 January: Parliament votes to annul protest law; PM and cabinet resign
29 January: Parliament passes amnesty law for detained protesters
Leaked call shows US hand on Ukraine
Ukraine's protest leaders
Q&A: Stand-off in Ukraine
The male replies: "We've got to do something to make it stick together, because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it."
The two people also discuss their dealings with Ukraine's three main opposition leaders - Vitaly Klitschko, Arseniy Yatseniuk and Oleh Tyahnybok and their attempts to encourage them to work together.
However, the female speaker says that Mr Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxing world champion, should not be in any new government. "I don't think it's a good idea."
She adds: "I think Yats [Arseniy Yatseniuk] is the guy who's got the economic experience."
US officials refused to confirm or deny the tape's authenticity and EU officials refused to comment.
However, state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki suggested that the tape could have been leaked by Moscow, noting that a senior Russian official was one of the first to draw attention to the audio.
"We think this is a new low in Russian tradecraft. This is something they've been actively promoting, posting on, tweeting about," she said.
Russian government aide Dmitry Loskutov, who was one of the first to draw attention to the posting, told the AP news agency that neither he nor the government had leaked the conversation.
Moscow has promised a $15bn (£9.2bn) loan to Ukraine but said it would not be released in full until the formation of a new government in Kiev.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his cabinet resigned last month as President Yanukovych sought to calm street protests.
The 28-year-old former Leeds Rhinos player joined Trinity from Salford in 2016 and has since scored 26 tries in 37 appearances.
"I have enjoyed myself over the two years I have been here so to extend my stay I am very happy about," Jones-Bishop told the club website.
"It is a great bunch of lads and coaches here."
Jones-Bishop has been integral to a side that is currently fourth in the Super League table.
He'll now spend six months on board the ISS carrying out science experiments and trying to get young people more excited about space travel.
Here's how the historic day unfolded.
Speaking from the ISS to officials and family members, he said: "It was a beautiful launch. That first sunrise was absolutely spectacular.
"We also got the benefit of a moon rise which was beautiful to see."
And he gave a thumbs up to his wife, Rebecca, who told him: "It was fantastic to watch that launch today.
"There were quite a few parties down on the ground, so your launch was well celebrated by everybody down here.
"Have a great mission. We love you."
Tim Peake, Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra are all safely on board the International Space Station, where they were greeted by the current ISS astronauts.
The European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed that Tim and the crew have successfully connected to the ISS.
Now there will be two hours of checks and work before the three men can float into the station and meet the rest of the astronauts.
After a few failed attempts to connect automatically Tim and the crew are now controlling the approach to the International Space Station manually.
They've had to reverse a bit and are 25 metres from the docking point.
The Soyuz capsule is within sight of the ISS now. This is actually an image of it taken from the space station.
The spacecraft is now in the middle of its approach to the International Space Station. This will take some time as the craft lines up with the station and relies on gravity to pull it in.
If you're looking to pass the time until Tim arrives at the ISS then why not test your knowledge of all things space with CBBC's International Space Station quiz.
Newsround reporter Naz has been to one of Britain's biggest observatories, Jodrell Bank, to see a group of space fans who watched the launch there.
They've been telling her whether Tim's mission has inspired them.
It doesn't matter how old you get, your parents are always going to be proud of you.
Tim's left his friends and family behind and won't see them for six months now but his mum and dad, Nigel and Angela, were in good spirits after watching the launch.
We've just got this footage through of Tim's two sons, Oliver and Thomas, watching their dad blast off. Watch the clip to see what it meant to them.
Just about three hours until Tim docks at the International Space Station and his thoughts now are no doubt turning to what he'll do when he gets there.
Luckily we caught up with him before he left to ask what he was looking forward to the most.
Newsround reporter Martin watched the launch with some of you, at the World Museum in Liverpool.
He said: "This was one of the best days ever! Some kids came in wearing space helmets, which they'd made themselves.
"The museum erupted with cheers during the countdown and everyone knew at that moment, history was being made.
"Afterwards they told me how inspiring it was for them, some now want to become an astronaut just like Tim Peake."
After a busy morning Tim and his crew mates will need a good feed at some point.
Their craft is loaded up with all kinds of special stuff that they can eat in space. Leah got kids at the Science Museum in London to try some of it out.
The spacecraft will now travel to the International Space station where it's expected to dock at 5.24pm.
So, that gives us time to chat. If you're wondering what effect being in orbit could have on Tim's body then check out this graphic.
Medic and space health expert Kevin Fong explains what space flight can do to you
Technology is amazing. Not long after the launch this video was filed back from onboard the Soyuz showing Tim Peake giving everyone back home a big thumbs up.
You weren't the only one to get excited about watching the launch live on TV.
Prime Minister David Cameron put this picture on Twitter saying: "It was great to watch Tim Peake blast off on his mission to join the International Space Station."
The Soyuz spacecraft has separated from the rocket that powered it up into orbit and is now flying free.
Well who better to ask than one of the world's most famous astronauts. Commander Chris Hadfield was on hand to talk us through the moments just after the launch.
They've got all bases covered when it comes to preparing for the six hour journey to the ISS, including kitting the astronauts out in giant nappies.
Chris Hadfield has been taking Leah through why they are needed, and some of the other cool equipment onboard.
The Soyuz is up, up and away! Cheers around the country as the rocket heads off into orbit.
Live: Tim Peake's launch
This was the moment it took off PLUS some of the reaction from back here on earth.
Leah's at the Science Museum, in London, where she's been getting kids to taste test some of the food Tim will have to eat during his six months in space.
Just minutes away from the launch and Newsround's with kids around the country preparing to take it all in. Ayshah's at Tim Peake's old school in Portsmouth where these kids sent their final good luck messages.
The craft's emergency escape system has been armed and is ready to get Tim and the team out just in case anything goes wrong.
Tim is settled into position on the craft and has already listened to one of the tunes his chose to help him prepare.... it's Lady Gaga if you were wondering.
With the astronauts inside the Soyuz's support structure is lowered to get the rocket ready for launch.
Tim has followed the same traditions as every other person who's taken off from the launch site in Kazakhstan.
The people in charge make sure everything is done the same way as it was for the first space launch back in 1961, when Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
That includes watching the same inspirational video before launch and even stopping at the same place for a pre-launch wee.
Exactly one hour to go until blast off and the launch pad has now been evacuated. Repeat, the launch pad has been evacuated. Don't worry though, it's all part of the plan.
Following the tests to see if radio communications between the spacecraft and mission control everyone else has left the launch area, leaving just the astronauts and the rocket.
If you're new to all this and wondering just what Tim's mission is all about then check out our handy guide.
That's right it's Leah! She's presenting a special Stargazing Live, all about the launch this morning.
It's called Blast Off Live and on BBC1 from 10.30am. She sent this picture of her in a real space suit from behind the scenes.
At just after 9.30 Tim and the team will try to make contact with mission control - the group of scientists and other experts who are in charge of the mission back at base.
The Soyuz spacecraft that Tim will blast off in travels at five miles a second! That means it could go from London to Edinburgh in less than a minute and a half.
One of the aims of Tim's mission is to inspire more young people interested in space travel and technology.
Ayshah is at Tim Peake's old school this morning speaking to kids about what the launch means to them.
If you're feeling inspired then check out our guide on What it takes to be an astronaut?.
The hatch to the Soyuz spacecraft has now been closed with the astronauts sealed inside. There will now be all sorts of safety checks as Tim and the team look to see that everything is working properly.
The BBC's Sarah Rainsford is as close as it's possible to get to the launch site in Kazakhstan and explained what's going on.
Tim and the other crew members boarded the Soyuz spacecraft that will take them into orbit at 8.33.
They'll go up on a special lift and then take stairs to the very top of the rocket.
If you're wondering where this mission sits in the long history of space travel then check out Newsround's guide to the space race.
Tim left the hotel earlier this morning saying his final goodbyes and heading off on a bus to the launch site.
As he left his son asked if he could go with his dad into space. Unfortunately that's not allowed.
He'll be up in space for the next six months and will miss Christmas.
Kids around the UK are getting pretty excited about the launch with all kinds of events and parties planned.
Check out this special countdown, with some cool facts about Tim's mission, that Newsround fans across the country have done for us.
The Soyuz spacecraft that will blast Tim into space has just finished being filled with enough fuel to get it to the International Space Station. Fuelling started at 6.30am and finished at 8am.
It's fair to say Newsround's pretty excited about the launch. Check out Ricky's bulletin from 7.40am this morning with all kinds of cool facts and pictures about the mission.
At 6.43am this morning Tim, and the other two astronauts travelling with him, put on the special pressure suits they have to wear during the launch.
The final go ahead for the launch was given at 5.30am this morning.
There had been worries about whether the weather could delay things but as you can see from this picture from the launch site there is not a cloud in the sky.
Lots of emotions going through Tim's head, no doubt, and lots for him to remember for the launch. But what is he most looking forward to when he eventually reaches the ISS? The man himself has been telling us.
Tim has been training for years to become an astronaut.
The 40-year-old Ryder Cup player was one of 27 players who had to finish their second rounds on Saturday after thunderstorms caused a 90-minute delay to the start of Friday's play.
Donaldson had three holes to complete but dropped a shot and returned a 68.
Charley Hoffman, who finished his round of 70 with a bogey on Friday, leads at 10 under, one clear of Jamie Lovemark.
Donaldson had climbed 29 places up the leaderboard after seven birdies in the 15 holes he was able to play before bad light curtailed Friday's action at the Golf Club of Houston in Humble, Texas.
Scotland's Martin Laird had two holes to finish and also dropped one shot to slip to five under.
World number two Jordan Spieth is six shots back in a share of 21st after a 73.
Players from level par down missed the cut, including Englishman Greg Owen and three-time major winner Padraig Harrington.
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The 24-year-old joined Rovers on trial last summer but ended up scoring four times in 39 National League appearances after earning a contract.
Boss Gary Brabin told the club website: "I'm really pleased to keep Adam. He progressed a lot last season and became an important player for us.
"Hopefully he can continue to develop his game in the coming season."
A 13-year-old boy was attacked in Plant Hill Park in Blackley on 24 June, Greater Manchester Police said.
The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with threatening a person with an offensive weapon in a public place.
He was also charged with racially aggravated assault, two counts of criminal damage and affray.
He has been remanded in custody and will appear at Manchester Youth Court later.
The Welsh side ended on a high by winning just their second game of the season, beating Team Northumbria 52-47 in Ebbw Vale.
"This season all the players have improved," Wilcox said.
"It was great to show everybody how much they've improved and finish on a high note."
Dragons finished last of the 10 sides in the Superleague, three points behind Northumbria.
"It's been a challenging season, we haven't quite got over the line on such small margins," Wilcox said.
"It's been a real growth this year. We've had some young players that have had experience for the first time and they will have learnt so much from this.
"So it bodes well for the future."
Dragons had led 26-21 at half-time against Northumbria on Saturday, only for the visitors to pull back to level 36-36 at the end of the third quarter.
But the Welsh stepped up the pressure in the final quarter to win by five points.
"It was a great win, the girls performed to expectations - this is how we know they can perform," Wilcox added.
"They pulled it out; it was a tight game, an exciting game and they pushed on when they were ahead, which was fantastic.
"I'm so proud of each and every one of them."
The emergency move by the environment secretary follows an investigation into damage caused to the flame shell reef in Loch Carron near Plockton.
An environmental group has described it as "too little, too late".
The inquiry confirmed that the damage was consistent with the impact of scallop dredging.
But Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), which conducted the investigation, said there was a "viable prospect of recovery" because part of the bed had survived.
The Loch Carron reef was dredged twice by scallop fisherman in April.
Marine conservationists said the reef was "devastated" by the dredging and could take decades to recover.
SNH sent divers down to the reef to assess and photograph the damage.
The site has now been designated as a Marine Protected Area which prevents further dredging.
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said: "We take our duty to protect Scotland's rich marine environment extremely seriously and recognise the importance of safeguarding vulnerable habitats like flame shell beds.
"By introducing a Marine Protected Area and putting in place a ban on dredging we hope to ensure the recovery of the flame shell beds in Loch Carron.
"While we recognise there are concerns around scallop dredging in coastal waters, we must balance environmental concerns with the need for legitimate and sustainable fishing."
The dredger which caused the damage was operating legally when the damage was caused.
But conservationists said it represented a "complete failure" of inshore fishery management.
Nick Underdown, from the campaign group Open Seas, said: "Whilst we welcome the move to protect the parts of flame shell reef that remain in Loch Carron, this is clearly too little, too late.
"The Scottish government are glossing over a much broader problem of scallop dredging impact throughout our coastal waters. They haven't even taken steps to protect flame shells in other areas where they remain intact.
"Incredibly this includes places where they exist in the Small Isles Marine Protected Area - the waters around Rum which still have no protection at all.
"The Scottish government's management of our inshore waters is prehistoric, piecemeal and it's hurting our rural economy too."
The group said there were now growing calls for a ban on scallop dredging less than three miles from the shore.
The Scottish government said it would now look at whether other sensitive areas required additional protection.
The Kent-born 27-year-old, who was a free agent after leaving Crewe earlier this summer, has signed a two-year contract with the Gills.
Bingham started his career at Crystal Palace and had a spell at Dagenham & Redbridge before joining Crewe in 2015.
"I'm buzzing to be here. I'm close to home and I'm delighted because it's a big club," he told the Gills' website.
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Her announcement would come ahead of the Democratic National Convention, which is due to begin on Monday in Philadelphia.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a favourite choice among Democrats, has said she was "probably not" the choice.
Virginia Senator Tim Kaine has emerged as a leading contender for the role.
The former secretary of state may reveal her vice-presidential pick on the campaign trail in the key battleground state of Florida.
Mrs Clinton is expected to attend a rally at Florida International University on Saturday, where her newly minted running mate could also make an appearance.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Labour Secretary Tom Perez and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker were also reportedly on the short list for the job.
However, the Clinton campaign has cautioned that the likely nominee has not yet made a final decision.
Mrs Clinton's announcement would come on the heels of Republican rival Donald Trump's address at the party's convention.
Mr Trump formally accepted the nomination while speaking for more than an hour on Thursday, vowing to fight the multiple threats facing the US, including crime, immigration and global terrorism.
Mrs Clinton was swift to respond to the billionaire's remarks, pushing back on his claims that crime was on the rise as well as blasting his play on her slogan.
The Democratic candidate's campaign has frequently used the line "I'm With Her."
Mr Trump told delegates in Cleveland that he chose to recite a different pledge: "I'm With You."
"I am your voice," Mr Trump said. "I'm With You, and I will fight for you, and I will win for you."
Mrs Clinton quickly fired back on Twitter to describe what she believed the phrase really meant.
The announcement of a vice-presidential pick could help build anticipation for the Democratic National Convention, where Mrs Clinton will formally accept the party's nomination.
However, the Clinton campaign has remained tight-lipped about its search for a vice-president.
Senator Kaine, the former governor of Virginia, could be a boon to Mrs Clinton among white male voters and independents.
The 58-year-old was elected to the Senate in 2012 after serving as the governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010.
Mr Kaine is fluent in Spanish and a proponent of free trade, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), which Mr Trump has railed against throughout his campaign.
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack is also considered a top contender for the number two spot.
Mr Vilsack, 65, is a former governor of Iowa and has been President Barack Obama's agriculture secretary since 2009.
Senator Booker, the former mayor of Newark, New Jersey, would be the first African-American vice presidential nominee.
The New Jersey senator, who boasts a massive online following, appeared with other Democrats in Cleveland after the Republican National Convention ended.
"I'm happy to do what the coach asks me to do," said Booker, referring to Mrs Clinton.
Labour Secretary Perez has also supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership but also has criticised Nafta.
He would become the first Hispanic candidate to take on the role for the Democratic party.
He supports capital punishment and says his party would be willing to offer a referendum on its reintroduction.
Asked by the Mail on Sunday if he was prepared to act as executioner, Mr Nuttall replied: "Yes."
The last executions in the UK were by hanging and took place in 1964. UKIP's manifesto does not include a call for the return of the death penalty.
Mr Nuttall told the paper: "I would like to see the death penalty for terrorists and child killers.
"'For people who kill a (British) soldier and harm children, I would not have a problem doing it. I believe in capital punishment for treason. Opinion polls show the vast majority of people agree with me."
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One Love Manchester is raising money for those affected by the suicide bombing at the end of Ariana Grande's performance at the Manchester Arena.
She is returning to the city, joined by stars including Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Take That.
It is not yet known how the unfolding London attack might affect the event.
Grande tweeted after the incident in the capital that she was "praying for London".
The Manchester attack killed 22 people - including children and teenagers who saw the show as well as parents arriving at the arena to pick them up at the end of the night.
The youngest victim was just eight years old.
Ariana Grande is going to be performing, having said she wanted to return to the "incredibly brave city" to spend time with her fans, and to "honour and raise money for the victims and their families".
She's bringing a host of stars with her - Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Usher, Pharrell, Little Mix, Robbie Williams, Black Eyed Peas, Niall Horan and Take That are all on the bill.
The Old Trafford cricket ground has a 50,000 capacity and tickets sold out within 20 minutes when they went on general sale.
Some tickets were set aside for fans at the original concert, who were promised free entry. Ticketmaster said 14,200 tickets were being held for them.
People have been asked not to bring bags, "for speed of entry", and will be searched as they enter the grounds.
Full details are here.
Proceeds will go to the We Love Manchester emergency fund, which has been set up by Manchester City Council, in conjunction with the British Red Cross. Organisers expect at least £2m to be raised from the event.
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Favaro has played 28 times for Warriors in two seasons and was voted the club's player of the season last campaign.
It is understood Glasgow have signed open-side flanker Callum Gibbins from Super Rugby champions, the Hurricanes, as a replacement.
Gibbins, 28, will join next season after his commitments in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, Scotland back-row Josh Strauss is likely to be allowed to leave Glasgow when his contract expires this summer.
The 30-year-old, who started Saturday's Six Nations win over Ireland, has attracted interest from clubs in the Top 14 and Aviva Premiership.
Following Monday's announcement that Stormers and Scotland centre Huw Jones will be joining Glasgow in the summer, Sam Johnson and Nick Grigg have extended their stays at Scotstoun.
They will compete with Jones and Alex Dunbar for starting places, with Mark Bennett's contract expiring.
Australia-born Johnson, 23, has signed a new two-year deal, keeping him in Glasgow until at least May 2019, while Grigg, a year older, will remain with the Warriors for at least another season after extending his contract by a further 12 months until May 2018.
All-action flanker Favaro has featured on nine occasions for Glasgow this season, although shoulder and ankle problems have limited his game time.
The Scotstoun fan favourite is included in Italy's Six Nations squad, but missed the opening-round defeat by Wales through injury.
Gibbins has been a member of the Hurricanes' wider Super Rugby group since 2013, earning his place in the full squad in 2015, and going on to make 25 appearances in the competition.
The New Zealander is reputed to be among the fittest members of the Canes squad, having twice won the team's notorious pre-season surf-to-peak challenge, which comprises a range of flat and climbing runs and cycles, but has found himself beneath All Blacks prodigy Ardie Savea in the pecking order.
Gibbins captains Manawatu Turbos in the provincial Mitre 10 Cup, where Dave Rennie, who takes over as Glasgow boss this summer, gave him his debut in 2009.
His Turbos stint has also seen him play for Scotland attack coach Jason O'Halloran, who will join Rennie's staff at Scotstoun next season, and Scotland head coach Vern Cotter's brother Jeremy.
The flanker will move to Scotland once his southern hemisphere commitments have been fulfilled.
The vehicles, worth an estimated £500,000, were taken from locations across Northern Ireland.
The thefts happened between May 2016 and February 2017.
Algimantas Scipouas, from Dunlade Road in Greysteel, appeared in Newry Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
The charges relate to the theft of a Range Rover, a Mercedes, an Audi Q7 Jeep and 26 Audi cars.
A police officer told the court that technology had been used to clone keys which were then used in the thefts.
Speaking through an interpreter Scipouas confirmed he understood the charges against him.
No application was made for bail.
He was remanded in custody and is due to appear in court again by video-link next month.
Moobs earns its listing as a slang term for a man's prominent breasts, and YOLO is an acronym for "you only live once".
New words and phrases are usually added to the dictionary once editors have enough evidence to demonstrate continued historical use.
Other entries focus on the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth, with additions such as Oompa Loompa and witching hour.
Words related to food, speech, media and retail also feature.
The OED is a historical dictionary and a definitive guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of almost 830,000 past and present words, senses, and compounds from across the English-speaking world.
It differs from the online Oxford dictionary, which lists current definitions of English words, and has a lower threshold for accepting new entries to its list of words.
Some of the words and senses to be added or updated in the OED, along with the dictionary's definitions:
There are also a number of new entries related to Roald Dahl which coincide with centenary celebrations and the publication of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary.
These include the words Oompa Loompa, scrumdiddlyumptious, witching hour, human bean and golden ticket.
"The inclusions reflect both his influence as an author and his vivid and distinctive style," said the chief editor of the OED, Michael Proffitt.
"For many children, Roald Dahl's work is not only one of their first experiences of reading, but also their earliest exposure to the creative power of language."
The pair clashed just before half-time with the game goalless and MacKenzie was shown a straight red card.
He was given his marching orders for a similar incident with Huddersfield's Alan Lee in September.
"I'd like to apologise to my team-mates and my manager and the fans," the 26-year-old told BBC Three Counties Radio.
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"On the incident, firstly I was just doing my job. I made a good clearance and then I was kicked on the ground and when I confronted the player he headbutted me.
"And I retaliated which obviously was wrong.
"I've apologised and I'll apologise again. It was wrong. I should have alerted the referee if he didn't see it - or the linesman who conveniently didn't see it either.
"I find it hard how half a stadium can see it but a referee and linesman can't.
"I need to learn from this. It's not the first time it's happened. Maybe I am a target for players who think they can wind me up. But I need to get that out of my game or it could hamper my career."
Dons boss Karl Robinson said MacKenzie's actions were unacceptable and added the Scot would be punished internally.
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But the MK manager praised the defender, who will be suspended for four games, for facing the media immediately after the game.
"I bet you were all shocked to see the player want to come to speak to you," he said.
"If we make mistakes we stand up as men, hold our hands up and internally we'll deal with everything else.
"The player can't headbutt our player, I'm disappointed they missed that.
"But I can't accept what happened afterwards. I'm so proud of him in a weird way, coming out and accepting his punishment. I'm not proud of what he did but he'll learn from it."
The postponement is a setback for the president who had insisted he would win the numbers to pass it through the lower chamber of Congress on Thursday.
The American Healthcare Act is intended to replace parts of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.
Repealing and replacing so-called Obamacare was a major plank of Mr Trump's election campaign.
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Republicans would still meet on Thursday evening but the plan was for a House vote on Friday.
A White House official said that "the vote will be in the morning to avoid voting at 3AM... We feel this should be done in the light of day, not in the wee hours of the night and we are confident the bill will pass in the morning".
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Mr Trump had made a "rookie's error for bringing this up on a day when clearly you're not ready".
After a tumultuous day on Capitol Hill, it has become apparent that there simply aren't enough votes to pass the healthcare reform law. At the moment, it may not even be close.
Minutes before the announced delay, the president himself was insisting that a vote would happen on Thursday night, so this turn of events signifies an embarrassing setback.
If success was just a vote or two away, the evening would probably have proceeded as planned, with Speaker Paul Ryan and Donald Trump offering whatever threats or entreaties were necessary to edge past the finish line. Instead, the bill remains on the edge of an abyss.
For Republicans, a delay is better than outright defeat, of course, a scenario which would have undermined both the president's claims to be a dealmaking supremo and Mr Ryan's ability to control his party's hardliners.
The White House now has more time to negotiate with the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who represent the best, possible last, chance to salvage the bill. Such support will come with a high price, however, with any move to the right making the legislation all the harder to pass in the more moderate-minded Senate.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has all week insisted the administration would get the numbers and that the bill would pass, saying there was "no plan B".
The bill needs 215 votes to pass but ran into opposition mainly from conservative Republicans who believed it did not roll back enough of Mr Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Obamacare helped 20 million previously uninsured Americans get health insurance but has been plagued by increases in insurance premiums, which were also a problem before the health law.
Mr Trump promised a new law that would cover more people and at a lower cost.
The Republican bill keeps some of the popular elements of Obamacare but limits future federal funding for Medicaid, which covers low-income people.
A new estimate by the Congressional Budget Office released on Thursday evening said recent changes to the bill would make it costlier than previously thought.
The number of uninsured Americans would rise to 24 million by 2026 under the new law, the budget analysis said.
Groups representing doctors, hospitals and the elderly have said they are opposed to the Republican bill.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus met Mr Trump on Thursday and afterwards said there was "no deal".
The failure to go to a vote is a blow for the president, who has projected himself as a master dealmaker and has spent the week visiting the Capitol and calling senators on the phone to win over opponents.
House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows said there were "not enough members to get a yes, but progress is being made".
He played down what he called the "artificial deadline" of Thursday.
Mr Meadows insisted: "We are going to get to the finish line."
David Armitage did not take part, but filmed a live video on Facebook telling viewers "carnage, that's what we do".
The incident saw a large number of motorcyclists tear through streets and pedestrian areas in the city.
Armitage, of Headingley, was one of 13 defendants who appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Monday.
All had admitted causing a public nuisance at a previous court hearing and were given bail until sentencing on Tuesday.
Witnesses likened the scenes on 31 October to the Mel Gibson film Mad Max.
Andrew Horton, prosecuting, told the court: "The motorcyclists were travelling en masse with over 100 riders, some not wearing helmets but wearing Halloween-type face masks of varying descriptions."
He said footage showed the bikers speeding, weaving between traffic and performing wheelies.
"The riders showed little or no regard for the safety of others," he told the court.
Mr Horton added that Armitage "directed and encouraged riders... and was shown cheering and embracing riders".
Police received about 160 calls from the public and were forced to close a section of Kirkstall Road.
The court also heard many of the riders had expressed regret when interviewed by police.
Mr Horton said Nicholas Flaherty told police "he would never normally ride in that manner but it was such a buzz, it was like he was in a film".
Another rider, Dean Fawcett, said in interview that he "thought it was a good idea but quickly realised it was turning into mayhem and that was not his intention".
The court also heard the event raised about £400, which Armitage initially claimed would go to Children in Need, but later said any money raised would go to the family of a local murder victim.
Deborah Smithies, representing Armitage, said he became confused after his arrest about what to do with the funds, which he still holds, "and stands ready to direct them where appropriate".
All 13 defendants pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to "causing a public nuisance by participating in a large-scale procession of motorbikes and similar vehicles that rode around Leeds in a manner that interfered with the comfort, enjoyment and safety of the public".
Omar Ahmed, 24, of Stonegate View, Meanwood
David Armitage, 26, of Brookfield Road, Headingley
Ashley Benson, 26, of Whingate Road, Armley
Michael Clough, 28, of Torre View, Burmantofts
Ben Colley, 26, of Butterbowl Road, Farnley. He also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified and without insurance
Dean Fawcett, 28, of Intake View, Middleton
Nicholas Flaherty, 30, of Prospect Street, Farsley. He also admitted perverting the course of justice
Rachel Taylor, 30, of Grange Park Walk, Leeds
Joshua Hawley, 23, of Mead Grove, Colton
Dylan Lockwood, 23, of Torre Grove, Burmantofts
Adam Nicholson, 27, of Bellmount Close, Leeds
Anton Rojas, 26, of Skelton Avenue, Burmantofts
Jamie Ayres, 26, of Lupton Avenue, Leeds
Hernani Banza, 27, of Shafton View, Leeds, pleaded not guilty to the same charge and is due to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court on 28 November
Mr Meacher, 75, had been MP for Oldham West and Royton since 1970, retaining the seat with a 14,738 majority in May.
The funeral service was held at St Mary's Anglican church in Wimbledon Village, London, for Mr Meacher who died on 21 October.
Mourners included Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former leader Ed Miliband.
In eulogies from family, friends and Reverend Mary Bide he was described as a man of "great integrity" with "huge intellect and learning" and a "wonderfully dry sense of humour".
His son David told mourners his father "approached work and life with boundless enthusiasm.
"He would be moved to real anger and sorrow to hear about people who were suffering from benefit cuts."
Former Labour MP Chris Mullin referred to Mr Meacher as a "serial dissident," who was "razor sharp, had a boyish charm and a naivety that never left him".
"He had been calling for a national living wage since 1970. Almost to the day of his death he was thinking of ways to resist tax credit cuts and making plans.
"He never lost his radical streak or infectious good humour," he said.
A by-election for the Oldham West and Royton constituency takes place on 3 December.
Michael Meacher's life and career
Fruean, 28, has undergone several heart operations in the last decade, chiefly stemming from his rheumatic fever.
He is being subjected to additional medical assessment by club staff before completing a deal with Edinburgh.
The former Crusaders player will become Richard Cockerill's second signing as head coach as the Englishman prepares to succeed Duncan Hodge.
It is understood the former Leicester Tigers boss is eager to bolster his options in the backline.
Fruean's impending move follows that of fellow centre Mark Bennett, who suffered a cruciate ligament injury, which means the Scotland international faces up to a year on the sidelines, after agreeing a switch from Glasgow Warriors.
Injuries have limited New Zealand-born Fruean to just six Bath appearances, since joining the Premiership club from Hawke's Bay.
However, he has expressed a desire to represent Samoa in the 2018-19 Sevens World Series, with a view to playing for the national XV at the 2019 World Cup.
Any such sevens involvement would deprive Edinburgh of the 6ft 2in, 102kg centre for chunks of their Pro12 and European campaigns respectively.
With most results declared, Mr Iohannis, mayor of Sibiu, had 54.5% of the vote to Mr Ponta's 45.5%.
Mr Iohannis, 55 and an ethnic German, vowed to change politics and said "another kind of Romania is beginning".
Romania is one of the most corrupt EU states, something the centre-right Mr Iohannis has vowed to tackle.
Despite the election result, Mr Ponta told a local TV channel that he had "no reason to resign" as prime minister.
He had hoped to become the country's youngest president, replacing the incumbent Traian Basescu who cannot stand for re-election after serving two terms.
Klaus Iohannis - Romania's president-elect
Profile of Klaus Iohannis
Romania's large diaspora of up to four million people played a key role in the election. Many expat voters were said to be disillusioned with Mr Ponta.
After the first round of voting there were protests at polling stations in Paris, London and other cities. In some places voters had to queue for hours - with some unable to vote - leading to the resignation of the foreign minister last week.
The number of expatriate voters on Sunday more than doubled to 379,000 and large queues thronged polling stations at embassies and consulates across Europe, from Milan and Munich to London and Portsmouth.
Police in Paris fired tear gas on Sunday evening to disperse voters angry that they had been unable to cast their ballots. The new foreign minister had suggested that voters in France should travel instead to the eastern city of Nancy.
Romanian media praise election result
Expatriate voters overshadow presidential poll
Mr Ponta had been leading in the opinion polls and had beaten Mr Iohannis, the mayor of Sibiu in Transylvania, in the first round of the presidential election.
"We are a democratic country," Mr Ponta said outside the headquarters of his Social Democratic Party on Sunday. "The people are always right."
Mr Ponta, 42, had promised to reduce the budget deficit, increase pensions and the minimum wage.
As prime minister, he oversaw economic growth and political stability in Romania, the EU's second-poorest state after Bulgaria.
Aside from tackling corruption, Mr Iohannis, 55, promised in his election campaign to strengthen the independence of the judicial system.
Five miles of road from Kincraig to Dalraddy is involved in the first phase of a £3bn project to dual the A9 from Inverness to Perth.
A 40mph speed restriction will be in place on the five-mile section from Monday, Transport Scotland said.
Average speed cameras will be used to enforce the speed limit.
Nicholas Williams' challenge against Andrew Barlow caused the cup match between Cefn Albion and AFC Brynford last October to be abandoned.
Williams claimed it was a freak accident but Recorder Huw Rees called it "shocking violence".
Williams, 26, of Wrexham, was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm at Caernarfon Crown Court.
The court heard Mr Barlow broke his tibia and fibula and is still receiving treatment.
Speaking after the hearing, Det Con Rhodri Ifans of North Wales Police said: "This was a particularly callous assault which has had a huge impact on the victim.
"Anyone who commits acts of violence must realise to potential seriousness of their actions and we will vigorously pursue offenders and bring them to justice."
A large increase of incidents involving e-cigarettes and vitamin D supplements were recorded in recent years.
Contraceptive pills, artificial sweetener and raisins also harm thousands each year, data shows.
Vets reported almost 11,000 UK pet poisonings in 2016, mostly involving dogs, cats and rabbits.
More on pet poisonings and other Devon & Cornwall news here
Gudrun Ravetz, president of the British Veterinary Association said: "E-cigarettes may be harmful if they are ingested by your pet, as e-cigarettes and refills can easily contain sufficient quantities of nicotine to kill a small animal."
Some 113 pets were poisoned by e-cigarettes while 148 cases involved vitamin D tablets, figures from the Veterinary Poisons Information Service (VPIS) show - however they remain a small percentage of the overall total.
Pete Stewart's dog was poisoned after he found and ate "up to four bars of dark chocolate".
Mr Stewart, from London, said: "He seemed completely normal until the next afternoon when he started getting quite hyperactive and shaking, so I took him to the vets immediately.
"It was pretty horrible, they were really worried - they managed to flush his system but the quantity he had was enough to kill a much bigger dog".
1,253
Human painkillers
579 Chocolate
759 Rat poison
253 Artificial sweetener
113 Electronic cigarettes
Elizabeth Mackie's cat, Mr Mistoffelees, died after licking pollen from lilies in what she described as a "traumatic and horrific experience".
The Shropshire pub manager said she had an "overwhelming response" to her story from cat-lovers "right round the globe".
Nicola Brown, from Newquay, also said she had a "massive nightmare" and a "large bill" when her "pride and joy" Shaka the cat was poisoned by lily pollen.
There are no official figures for how many animals die from poisoning, although research into about 1,500 cases by the VPIS shows of those brought to a vet around 8% end in fatality.
Fatal poisoning cases are known to have involved insulin, baby wipes, bleach, morphine pesticides and antifreeze.
Animals' bodies break down certain substances in a different way to humans, which can lead to kidney failure. In chocolate, the problem is a naturally occurring chemical in cocoa beans called theobromine. Symptoms can include vomiting, diarrhoea, hyperactivity, tremors, rapid breathing and fits.
The former Bayern Munich assistant took over in January 2017 with Swansea bottom of the Premier League, but steered them to safety.
"It's a very different situation to when I came in last January," he said.
"We played Crystal Palace on my first day at the club, while three days later there was another fixture. There was no time to get to know the players."
Swansea travelled to America in pre-season, where they played Major League Soccer side Philadelphia Union, and second tier clubs Richmond Kickers and North Carolina.
"This trip has proved a very valuable period for me," Clement told the club website.
"It's nice to go away in that environment where the pressure is lower, there's not so much emphasis on winning games but developing.
"The sessions have been hard and the games competitive. We will certainly benefit from it."
Swansea continue their pre-season with a match at Birmingham City on Saturday, 29 July, and begin the new Premier League campaign on 12 August with a trip to Southampton.
Andrea Aburas told a press conference her "beautiful" daughter, Nadine, would never hurt anyone.
Her body was discovered at the Future Inn in Cardiff Bay on 30 December.
She had been there with Sammy Almahri, 44, from New York, and South Wales Police launched an international manhunt to find him.
Ms Aburas said on Monday: "Nadine was my baby, she was such a beautiful and kind hearted girl. She would never hurt anyone, she just wanted to help people.
"She was a born healer for people... always putting others first. The loss of Nadine has torn my heart in two.
"Her family and friends are absolutely heartbroken by what has happened to her."
Ms Aburas made a direct appeal to Mr Almahri: "I am asking you, as Nadine's mother, please hand yourself into the authorities and please help us find the answers that we need so we can let Nadine rest in peace.
"You told us that you loved Nadine, if that is true, please let the police help you.
"I want the world to know that my Nadine was beautiful inside and out. She will remain our beautiful Nadine forever."
Det Supt Paul Hurley also appealed for Mr Almahri to contact police.
"Sammy, please surrender yourself to the authorities."
South Wales Police is working with counterparts in New York and Tanzania to trace Mr Almahri and Interpol has issued a wanted notice.
Detectives said the pair had known each other for three years and had met up previously in New York city.
On 30 December they checked into the Future Inn within 30 minutes of each other and left shortly before 22:00 GMT but returned at 23:00.
Five hours later, Mr Almahri left the hotel and is believed to have booked and boarded a flight at 10:00 GMT from Heathrow to Doha, Qatar, before flying on to Tanzania.
Ms Aburas, who briefly studied at Cardiff University but left after a few weeks, was found in a hotel room at midday on New Year's Eve.
Holt, 37, has been in the top 32 in the world for most of the last decade, but is yet to win a ranking event and has never quite reached the sport's elite.
He said he had struggled with the mental side of his game in the past, after his 6-4 win over Fraser Patrick in the UK Championship first round.
"Terry knows everything," Holt told BBC Sport.
"It is a big thing that he can do the mindset stuff and put it in context," the Nottingham potter added.
"He knows what it's like out there and until you have been out there you don't know unfortunately.
"Obviously over the years I have created this reputation for being weak, and at times I have been horrendous. But I have not been in the top 32 for more than 10 years because I am rubbish.
"I have felt for a while that I am not that far away. That's where the frustration comes. I know I can play, I have been saying it for years and I sound like a broken record. But all I need to do is keep doing the right things and hopefully it will work."
Holt, a semi-finalist at the Shanghai Masters in 2013 and three-time tournament winner, started working with Griffiths last summer.
Griffiths, 68, has won all of snooker's "Big Three" events of the World Championship, UK Championship and Masters and is seen as one of - if not the - best coach in the game.
"I have known him for a long while but he has always been with a different stable and I have always been a lone ranger," Holt added. "But as soon as he became available he got in touch.
"We talk a lot and I have been to see him in Gloucester. He has been looking at everything and hopefully it will show.
"He knows it all. There were not many people I would go to ask for advice as far as coaching is concerned. It seems to be working. I feel good about it and we will see if it really is going to work in the future."
Engineering firm Beckett Rankine wants to construct a four-runway airport on Goodwin Sands near Deal.
Director Tim Beckett said it was the "most sustainable solution" to aviation expansion in the South East and would have the "least adverse impact".
The plan for the hub airport, the fourth proposed for the South East, is being opposed by environmentalists.
The Goodwin Sands are a series of shifting sandbanks, 11 miles long and six miles wide, that are also the site of historic shipwrecks.
Beckett Rankine said the location could support a 24-hour airport with four runways and did not have the environmental and logistical issues that came with proposals for an airport in the Thames Estuary.
It said the site would be linked to London by the existing HS1 high-speed rail line, the A2 and M20 and to Europe via the Eurostar service.
Mr Beckett said: "If the Davies Commission endorses the long-term requirement for a new, four-runway hub airport for London, then locating it at Goodwin will have the least adverse social and environmental impact of any option. It is certainly the most sustainable solution available.
"Creating a new airport for London presents a major regenerative opportunity. We believe that East Kent is an area that could benefit most from the boost of new jobs and economic uplift."
Daniel Moylan, aviation adviser to Mayor of London Boris Johnson, said: "The mayor has been encouraging proposals for a new airport to the east of London and this proposal is welcome as a contribution to a critical national debate and as a demonstration that a new airport is feasible and deliverable."
But Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) spokesman Jamie Weir said: "Many South East airports such as Manston currently have plenty of runway capacity, so why are new airport proposals being pitched on a daily basis?
"The question of whether we actually need fresh capacity is the one which needs to be answered before we start looking for sites. This proposal, like all of those in the Thames Estuary, fails to even recognise this.
"We believe that the UK government must prove the need for additional capacity before anything like this is contemplated."
The government has asked a commission headed by Sir Howard Davies to advise on future UK airport capacity needs, with a full report due in the summer of 2015 - after the next general election.
Existing proposals for increased airport capacity in the South East have included the expansion of Gatwick and Heathrow and more use of regional airports.
There have also been three different plans to build airports in the Thames Estuary - a floating airport designed by architects Gensier, another plan known as Boris Island after it was backed by London mayor Boris Johnson, and proposals for a hub airport on the Isle of Grain designed by architect Norman Foster.
Willie Walsh, chief of International Airlines Group, which incorporates British Airways, has previously said the cost of building a hub airport off Kent would have to be recouped from charges, deterring operators from moving there.
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The Stafford Tower at Aston University was built in the 1970s.
Engineers said it was one of the most challenging demolition jobs they had ever done, because the next building was just six metres away.
How was the building demolished?
Experts have been working since September to disconnect the building from the water and electricity supply. Then they weakened the structure of the building.
All the windows were covered up to stop anything flying off the building when it was demolished.
Explosives were positioned in carefully selected places so that the building would topple forward with a slight twist.
The demolition was a big success and the old tower fell into the gap between the other buildings without damaging them.
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The BBC has learned that Glasgow Caledonian University has spent £5.6m developing an offshoot in Manhattan.
But its application to the New York authorities for a licence to teach and award degrees has yet to be approved.
Labour said the campus was "a very expensive white elephant".
University bosses insisted it would eventually repay the investment.
University chancellor Prof Muhammad Yunus launched GCU NY in September 2013 when a 15-year lease on premises was agreed.
In April that year, the university announced that it had applied to the New York State education department for a licence.
At that time, it said the application was "progressing well" and anticipated the whole process would take "around 18 months to complete".
That might have made it possible for teaching to start in autumn 2014.
The university's website certainly promises to "offer a range of postgraduate programs" from autumn 2015.
These courses have not gone ahead because the university is still waiting for a licence.
The university's deputy vice-chancellor, Professor James Miller, said he was "confident" degree-awarding status would be granted by New York State.
"We've been told that as far as they're concerned there are no particular issues with our application," he said.
In a statement, the New York state education department said it had several pending requests and "there is no established timeline for the completion of the review and consideration of those applications".
The department said its "first priority" was to register courses run by existing New York colleges and universities.
Labour's public services spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "What we have here is a university's ambition going far ahead of what they can deliver in reality.
"And what we're left with is a very expensive white elephant."
Prof Miller said Labour's criticism was "grossly unfair".
"It's a good investment as far as we're concerned. The business case was robust. We assessed the risks at the time and decided that it was a risk that was worth taking.
"We will generate that money back. I've got no doubt about that," he said.
GCU NY has started earning some income by offering short, non-degree courses to business and by securing its first research grant.
These revenues are understood to be relatively small compared to the £5.6m that has been spent so far setting up and running the campus.
The university insists the project is entirely funded from its own resources and not from public money.
The union convener at GCU, Dr Nick McKerrell, said: "It's worrying in an age of wage restraint and austerity that money's being used in quite a speculative project which the unions have always thought was too high-risk to get involved with."
The campus was formally opened in April 2014 by the then first minister, Alex Salmond, and has attracted a number of high profile speakers and seminars.
When first minister Nicola Sturgeon visited in June 2015, she described the campus as an "absolutely fantastic development" and praised the "foresight" of university leaders.
In a recent staff address, GCU's principal and vice-chancellor, Professor Pamela Gillies, said: "New York is firmly established and beginning to thrive."
The university believes internationalisation is key to its future success.
It already runs a college of engineering in Oman and a college of nursing in Bangladesh in partnership with others.
It has a new campus in London as well as New York and has been invited to teach degree courses in Mauritius.
The principal and her deputy are due to attend a graduation ceremony in South Africa where GCU runs a railway degree programme.
If an education licence is granted in New York, the university hopes to offer specialist courses in fashion and risk management.
Carter was part of the Jamaican quartet that won the 4x100m in Beijing in 2008.
His was one of 454 selected doping samples retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year, and has been found to contain the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine.
Bolt, 30, completed an unprecedented 'triple triple' in Rio last summer.
He won gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay to add to his successes in the same events in 2008 and 2012.
Carter, 31, was also part of the squad that won the event in London five years ago and helped Jamaica win at the World Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015.
He ran the first leg for Jamaica's 4x100m relay team in Beijing, which also included Michael Frater, Asafa Powell and Bolt.
The team won in a then-world record of 37.10 seconds, ahead of Trinidad and Tobago and Japan, who could have their medals upgraded. Brazil would then receive bronze.
Russia's Tatiana Lebedeva has also been stripped of her Beijing long jump and triple jump silver medals after dehydrochlormethyltestosterone was found in one of her samples.
Carter was tested on the evening of the Beijing final in 2008 but that was found at the time to contain no "adverse analytical finding".
More than 4,500 tests were carried out at those Games, with nine athletes caught cheating.
An anomaly was discovered in Carter's submission following the IOC's decision to retest 454 samples from Beijing using the latest scientific analysis methods.
Carter and the Jamaican National Olympic Committee were told of the adverse finding in May - before the Rio Games - and told his B sample would be tested.
It was reported by Reuters in June that Carter's A sample had been found to contain methylhexanamine, which has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) prohibited list since 2004.
It was reclassified in 2011 as a "specified substance", meaning one that is more susceptible to a "credible, non-doping explanation".
Sold as a nasal decongestant in the United States until 1983, methylhexanamine has been used more recently as an ingredient in dietary supplements.
Speaking in June, Bolt said the prospect of having to return the gold was "heartbreaking".
He told the Jamaica Gleaner: "For years you've worked hard to accumulate gold medals and you work hard to be a champion, but it's one of those things.
"I'm more concerned about the athlete and I hope he gets through it."
Britain's two-time Olympic silver medallist Roger Black on BBC Radio 5 live
It takes the shine off Bolt's achievement. Eight doesn't have the same ring - 'double treble, plus two'.
It will be really frustrating for him. You can only account for yourself, you cannot account for your team-mates.
We know it has nothing to do with Usain Bolt - it will not damage his reputation - but it will affect it, take shine off it and he won't be a happy man.
When I hear stories like this, a part of me does celebrate. If athletes think they have got away with it, then with retrospective testing they can never sleep peacefully.
It has to be the strongest deterrent the sport now has. Even when athletes retire they can still have their medals taken away.
Marlon Devonish, 40, was part of the British 4x100m relay team which lost the silver medal at the World Championships in 2003 following Dwain Chambers' failed drugs test. He went on to win Olympic relay gold with Britain at Athens 2004.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he said: "With relays you work together, you build a relationship, but you never know what goes on behind closed doors and clearly Carter was taking drugs.
"Carter has tarnished the team. It's a massively selfish act and I'm sure Bolt and the rest of the team are bitterly disappointed.
"The relationship between me and Dwain, we get on, we are cool. He apologised to me I and accepted it. Dwain has to live with it for the rest of his life, it was a sincere apology.
"I was devastated when I found out, but you have to move on."
Peter and Sylvia Stuart, who were last seen on on 29 May, were reported missing on 3 June.
Mr Stuart, 75, was found dead near their home in Weybread, Suffolk, later that day. He had been stabbed. Mrs Stuart, 69, has not yet been found.
Ali Qazimaj, 42, who was detained on a European Arrest Warrant, will appear at Ipswich Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Talent Works Ltd is owned by an associate of Katrina Percy, the trust's former chief executive.
The training services firm was paid more than £5m over four years for a contract valued at less than £300,000.
Southern Health staff were informed in a letter that Talent Works had served notice it was terminating its contract.
Ms Percy, who stepped down as chief executive of the troubled trust last month, and Talent Works owner, Chris Martin, had worked together in previous posts.
In July, BBC News revealed it was paid nearly £5.4 million over a four year period despite winning a contract valued at less than £300,000 - an overspend approaching 2,000%.
It had been awarded a new £3.5m three-year contract in March 2015.
The trust's interim chief executive announced that Talent Works had served notice that it wanted to terminate its contract in a letter on Friday.
The trust said it was unable to provide further details on when the contract would formally end.
Talent Works has not yet responded to a request for a comment.
At the time of the original revelations, Southern Health said: "We fully accept that the original contract for Talent Works was for a sum far less than the eventual spend," adding it was "not unusual" for Ms Percy to have worked with Chris Martin due to the "specialist services they provide to the NHS".
The trust said it took its financial responsibilities "very seriously".
Southern Health has been under intense scrutiny since an NHS England-commissioned report in December found it failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of hundreds of patients.
A failure of leadership and governance at the trust was blamed for the problems, a conclusion a subsequent CQC report in April agreed with.
2006 - Management consultant Chris Martin and Katrina Percy start working together while she was chief operating officer at Surrey and Sussex Hospitals
2009 - Ms Percy becomes chief executive of Hampshire Community Health Care and Mr Martin follows her, providing coaching and leadership support
2010 - Mr Martin starts a firm of organisational psychologists called Talent Works Ltd, whose website says they are "experts in culture and behaviour change"
2010 - In December, Southern Health advertises for management development support. The tender has a value of £288,000, and the contract is to last three years, with an option for a one year extension
2011 - Ms Percy joins Southern Health as chief executive and the work is awarded to Talent Works Ltd
2014 - The initial three year contract ends and the firm is paid £5.365m. The trust chooses to exercise its option for a one-year extension
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) will pay 30m yen ($265,000; £185,00) for financial losses and poor health.
It is thought to be the first time Tepco has been found liable for people outside the mandatory evacuation area.
In 2011 the plant suffered multiple meltdowns after a quake and tsunami.
After that people who lived within 20km (12 miles) of the plant were ordered to evacuate, but thousands of others voluntarily left their homes and businesses over fears of radiation
Analysts say Thursday's ruling could pave the way for many more compensation claims from such evacuees.
In April 2014 some residents started to return to their homes in the exclusion zone, but many areas remain ghost towns with their former residents in temporary housing.
The sum awarded to the couple, who have not been named but are in their 40s, is also far greater than the 11m yen proposed by a government-established centre to mediate settlements for compensation cases.
According to the written submission, the husband became depressed and developed pleurisy after the evacuation and their children were stigmatised for their association with the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Tepco has already been embroiled in a number of compensation claims. In 2011, the government ordered Tokyo Electric to pay 1m yen to every family within 30km of the plant.
The 31-year-old - Olympic champion at 63kg in 2004, 2008 and 2012 - lost to Mongolian student Orkhon Purevdorj, 21.
The loss, in the final of the 58kg category at the Golden Grand Prix event in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, gives rivals for the 2016 Games hope.
"There's enough time to put things right," said Japan national team director Kazuhito Sakae.
"I'm relieved it wasn't the Olympics. I believe she can win her fourth-straight Olympic title," added Sakae.
Icho did forfeit a match in 2007, but last lost a contest on the mat in 2003.
Facebook did not exist and Twitter was three years away from arriving online when the 10-time world champion last walked away from a bout as a loser.
After the 10-0 technical fall loss to Purevdorj she said she had not been allowed to wrestle her way and wanted to use the defeat as a chance "to grow".
The sides were level four times before a James Doyle hat-trick helped Carlow to a 3-12 to 1-7 half-time lead, with Eoghan Campbell netting for Antrim.
Carlow remained in control with Martin Kavanagh and Doyle netting while Ciaran Clarke (2) and Neil McManus scored the Antrim goals.
The win sees Carlow progress to an All-Ireland qualifier against Laois.
Carlow posed a strong threat to Antrim's rear-guard, and following their opening goal from Doyle after 22 minutes, the Barrowsiders failed to trail in this game.
Doyle pounced for his side's second goal six minutes later, to push his side 2-8 to 0-6 ahead.
Antrim responded from the resulting puck-out, as Campbell finished to the net past Carlow keeper James Carroll, after a goalmouth scramble.
Carlow responded well, and tagged on 1-4 without reply, with Doyle completing his treble in the 34th minute after sending an unstoppable shot past Saffrons keeper Chris O'Connell.
Eleven points ahead at the interval, Carlow pushed 13 clear on the restart, following a brace of John Michael Nolan scores.
Antrim failed to give up with Clarke netting in the 38th minute, but Carlow's fourth goal arrived eight minutes later, with captain Kavanagh firing to the net.
Again the Ulster side responded to a Carlow goal with one of their own, this time McManus ploughed a close-range free past a crowded goalmouth.
Ten points separated the sides at this stage, and while Antrim cut the gap to seven points, with Clarke netting his second goal in the 56th minute, Carlow drove on.
Antrim were outscored by 1-4 to 0-1 over the next 11 minutes, with Doyle firing his fourth goal to help Carlow to a 5-22 to 4-12 lead.
The Saffrons finished strongly with three of the final four points, but it wasn't enough as Kavanagh accepted the cup from GAA president Aogan O Fearghail after the game.
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Saturday
Lory Meagher Cup Final
Warwickshire 0-17 0-11 Leitrim, Croke Park
Nicky Rackard Cup Final
Armagh 2-15 3-23 Derry, Croke Park
Christy Ring Cup Final
Carlow 5-23 4-15 Antrim, Croke Park
Leinster SHC semi-final
Wexford v Kilkenny, Wexford Park, 19:00
They met in Turkey, after "Leen" - Said did not want to use her real name - fled her university in Syria when the war broke out.
They were engaged for a year, married in 2015, then spent only one week together as husband and wife before Said had to return to Virginia on his J-1 visa, a non-immigrant visa commonly given to scholars and doctors.
In the meantime, the couple applied and were approved for a J-2 visa for Leen, which is a permit reserved for spouses and dependents of J-1 holders.
Finally, on Saturday 28 January, Leen boarded a flight in Istanbul bound for Dulles International Airport in Virginia, about 45 minutes outside of Washington DC. It was supposed to be a happy day.
"It was supposed to be, but I don't know what's going to happen," 29-year-old Said said, not long after arriving at Dulles.
Almost exactly 24 hours earlier, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled, "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States". It shut down the US refugee programme for 120 days, indefinitely suspended the resettlement of Syrian refugees, and halted all immigration to the US from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days.
The order led to chaos at airports all over the world. Travellers were prevented from boarding planes abroad and, in some cases, were pulled off flights. They were detained at US airports. And there seemed to have been little instructions given to US Customs and Border Patrol on how to handle refugee and immigrant arrivals under the new rules.
Earlier that morning, Said's friend's wife also attempted to enter the country with a J-2 visa, but he says she was immediately stopped and sent back.
So, instead of flowers, Said brought Rob Robertson to the airport, a tall, burly immigration lawyer. Said had found him just hours earlier after putting out a desperate plea for help on social media.
"They've done everything they need to do. It's already clear she's not a threat," said Mr Robertson.
"It worries me that they're just going to turn around and send them back, pursuant to an executive order that is not law, that does not override the Immigration and Nationality Act," he said, referring to the 1965 law that bans discrimination against immigrants based on "nationality, place of birth, or place of residence".
Mr Robertson was one of roughly 30 volunteer lawyers who showed up to Dulles on Saturday afternoon. They deployed en masse following news that two Iraqi men with valid visas were detained at John F Kennedy Airport, in New York, and faced deportation.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued on their behalf and they were later released. Rumours spread that more were trapped in legal limbo at other airports around the country - including Dulles.
"This is not the country I was born in. This is not the country that I loved," said lawyer Lena Albibi, who was moved to tears. "It's very painful seeing this happen… They're breaking families apart."
Reaching prospective clients was a tricky errand for the lawyers, since anyone who needed legal help - travellers being detained in the "secondary inspection" area of US Customs and Border Patrol at Dulles - had no way to communicate with lawyers waiting outside.
"We cannot get the information that we need so we can figure out how we can assist them," said immigration lawyer Sari Long. "We're trying to do our best to canvas family members."
Dispersed in the waiting area near baggage claim number 15 were people like Elmira Tayary, who had no idea she would need a lawyer to collect her 63-year-old mother, a green-card holder. Just hours earlier, Department of Homeland Security officials had revealed that the executive order would extend to permanent residents of the US coming from the seven banned countries.
Tayary said her mother splits her time between the US and Iran, and has for years.
"I'm very, very sad, but I'm hopeful she may show up any minute," said Elmira. "This is very disappointing."
As hours ticked by, and more and more protesters arrived carrying signs that read "Refugees Are Welcome" and "Love Your Neighbour", it became clear that something like 50 to 60 people, including green-card holders, were being held at customs. Lawyers were still not permitted to speak to them.
However, there were small acts of rebellion. Employees of the airport itself managed to ferry information to family members who were waiting, including Elmira, to tell them that green card holders would soon be on their way.
Immediately soothed, Elmira bought her mother a red-white-and-blue balloon.
One by one, the permanent residents were released, walking down a corridor now teeming with demonstrators shouting "Welcome home!" and singing "This Land is My Land".
Ali and his wife Yassen wore weary smiles as they pushed their luggage through the gauntlet of well-wishers, their 11- and 7-year-old boys in tow. Someone handed Yassen flowers.
Ali worked for three years as an interpreter for the US Army and gained admittance to the US through a Special Immigrant Visa, reserved for Iraqi and Afghan nationals who face threats of violence for working for Americans during the conflicts there.
He now has a green card, and returned to Iraq for his father's funeral, only to be delayed for hours for questioning at Dulles.
"We are not terrorists. We are not bad people," said Ali. "It's so hard. I hope they will change their minds on this position."
US citizen Alaa was finally able to connect with his wife Jinan, a green-card holder, only after she answered a series of questions about her family and her husband's business.
"That's way over the limit. She's got a green card," Alaa said.
"Are we going to blow up our system because we are afraid? Then, you know, whoever we are afraid from are winning."
Just then, a thin man carrying a sign that read "This Veteran Stands With You" stopped Alaa, told him he is an Iraq veteran, and with little explanation fastened a Purple Heart medal to Alaa's jacket.
"That's a great thing, that's a great thing!" Alaa cried, elated. "This is what America is all about!"
As the green-card holders began to depart, more good news arrived - first a judge in Brooklyn declared that deporting refugees and valid visa holders who'd already arrived in US airports would cause "irreparable harm", thereby blocking the deportations. Next, a judge in Virginia issued a temporary restraining order to stop the expulsion of green card holders.
Each time the news arrived, the lawyers huddled together and then broke out into rowdy cheers.
"We are optimistic that pretty soon all those people back there will be allowed to come through," said lawyer Dan Press.
By the time some detainees made it through, they were so exhausted that several fell weeping into the arms of loved ones - to the frenzied glee of the now-enormous protest group.
It wasn't all good news. Rumours that deportations took place continued to swirl, though it is unclear how many. The Virginia court decision lasts only a week and Trump's executive order still holds for anyone who did not make it to US shores in time for this brief, legal reprieve.
By 11 pm, Said still had no definitive answer about his wife, Leen. She called to say she was being sent back to Turkey, but then later was shuffled off to another room in customs.
"She may come walking out of there for all I know," said Said's lawyer.
So Said leaned against a wall, eyes fixed on the path out of customs, and waited, as patiently as the previous year.
The first phase of year-long leases were offered on an online auction site earlier this year - 21 sold but three failed to reach the reserve price.
The unfurnished buildings, all in pastel shades of blue, green and lilac, are on the promenade at Royal Sands.
The first lease sold online in April for £2,650.
Darren Fairchild said permission was initially granted for 97 huts this year, but it may now change.
"I think the reality is we're always trying to strike a happy balance between the residents' views and the open areas that we like to create," he added.
"I don't think we're going to go for 97 [beach huts]. I think there maybe another phase next year.
"We'll see at the end of the year how popular they are again, how many people want to renew, and how many new applications we'll get."
In March, North Somerset Council granted permission for more than 100 beach huts - 28 at Marine Parade and a further 97 on The Promenade - each with no fixed price.
One man from Bristol, who has already picked up the keys to his hut, said: "When we saw that the beach huts were available it seemed like a great thing - to be on the beach, have the views, and the ability to pop inside when it rains a bit too much."
Beach huts were first introduced in Weston-super-Mare in the 1930s, in exactly the same place as the huts are now, Mr Fairchild said.
Kezia Dugdale said that she, rather than the party's UK leader, was "in charge" of Scottish Labour.
She said Mr Corbyn "doesn't need an invite and did not decline to come".
The UK leaders of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have both addressed their Scottish conference is recent weeks.
Scottish Labour will be holding a one-day conference at the Glasgow Science Centre on Saturday in what will be the party's last major gathering before the Holyrood election on 5 May.
There will be full live coverage of the conference on the BBC Scotland news website, and Ms Dugdale will be answering readers' questions in a webcast ahead of the event.
Neither Mr Corbyn nor Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell will be attending - despite Mr McDonnell having other engagements in Glasgow over the weekend.
Mr Corbyn did address the Scottish Labour conference in October, and the party has said he will be campaigning in Scotland ahead of the election.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Ms Dugdale told presenter Gary Robertson he was "looking for problems that don't exist" when he asked her about Mr Corbyn's non-attendance.
She said: "I lead an autonomous Scottish Labour party - I am in charge. I work very closely with Jeremy Corbyn, we are good friends, but he doesn't need to be there to offer support to me or indeed to the Scottish Labour campaign."
Ms Dugdale said there was a "new age" for the Scottish Labour party which meant "the Scottish Labour leader is in charge of what happens in Scotland", with the party "putting Scotland first".
She added: "I am incredibly supportive of Jeremy Corbyn, very loyal to him. We are a good team and part of being a good team is knowing when to take your place.
"And this weekend I am going to lead the Scottish Labour party towards the Scottish Parliament election. It is really that simple."
Opinion polls have suggested the SNP is on course to secure another majority in the Scottish Parliament, with Labour and the Conservatives battling for second place.
Labour was left with just one MP in Scotland after last year's general election - but Ms Dugdale declined to make any predictions about how many seats it would win at Holyrood, saying only that she was "committed to renewing the Scottish Labour party".
The party has said it will have a "clear 50:50" split between men and women in the 108 candidates it fields in the election.
Ms Dugdale has sought to put clear political ground between her party and the SNP and Conservatives by proposing a 1p increase in income tax rates in Scotland - a position also backed by the Liberal Democrats.
The party - like the SNP - has also said it would not follow George Osborne in raising the threshold for paying the 40p top rate of income tax to £45,000, a measure which the Chancellor announced in his Budget on Wednesday.
The Treasury has said a typical higher rate taxpayer would be about £400 better off under the plans, which will come into force in April next year - when new powers over income tax are due to be handed to Holyrood under the Scotland Bill.
Scottish Labour has also proposed a 50p top rate of income tax for those earning more than £150,000 in Scotland, which Ms Dugdale said would raise "between £70m and £110m a year" towards closing the attainment gap in the country's schools.
But she said a pledge made by previous leader Jim Murphy last year to use money from a proposed UK-wide Mansion Tax to pay for 1,000 extra nurses in Scotland would not be included in its manifesto for the Holyrood election.
Senegalese Walliou Ndoye gave the hosts a ninth-minute lead and Karim Aouadhi converted two penalties before half-time.
Further goals from Alaa Marzouki and Ndoye served notice that Sfaxien are aiming to emulate the title-winning teams of 2007, 2008 and 2013.
Sfaxien are now guided by Argentina 1986 World Cup winner Nestor Clausen (pictured) - who joined the club last November after spells with clubs in his homeland, Bolivia, Switzerland, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Ecuador.
The Tunisian club's last appearance in this tournament was a massive disappointment as they failed to win any of six 2015 group games and lost four.
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Elsewhere in Africa's second tier club competition, JS Kabylie of Algeria, the most decorated of the 32 contenders with six African titles, were grateful to goalkeeper Malek Asselah for a 0-0 away draw at Etoile of Congo Brazzaville.
He saved a second-half penalty and left the "Canaries" in a strong position to reach play-offs next month against the African Champions League last-32 losers.
Vipers of Uganda celebrated opening a new stadium in Kampala by edging Platinum Stars of South Africa 1-0 thanks to a Milton Karisa header just after half-time.
Brazilian Fabricio Simoes bagged a brace as Recreativo Libolo of Angola beat Platinum Ngezi of Zimbabwe 2-1 in Calulo, south of Luanda.
Liberty Chakoroma scored a potentially crucial away goal for African newcomers Platinum, who host the return match next weekend.
Sanga Balende of the Democratic Republic of Congo,Kaloum of Guinea and Onze Createurs of Mali established 1-0 advantages at home in other first legs.
Pedro Kungemena scored for Sanga Balende against Al Hilal Al Obeid of Sudan in Lubumbashi and Aboubacar Sylla was the Kaloum match-winner in Conakry against Ittihad Tanger of Morocco.
On Friday, Smouha of Egypt made a dazzling Confederation Cup debut by trouncing Ulinzi Stars of Kenya 4-0.
Ahmed Raouf scored an early goal in the 85,000-seat Borg El Arab Stadium and Islam Mohareb doubled the lead before half-time.
With the visitors threatening to reduce the deficit, Smouha grabbed a disputed third goal through Mahmoud Abdel Aziz with Ulinzi claiming Saruni was fouled.
Raouf turned creater for the final goal four minutes from time and Mohareb applied the finishing touch via a volley.
Smouha are coached by Moamen Soliman, who guided Cairo club Zamalek to the African Champions League final last season.
Zesco United of Zambia and Mouloudia Alger of Algeria used home advantage to build 2-0 leads in their matches.
Goals from Jackson Mwanza and Kondwani Mtonga brought 2016 Champions League semi-finalists Zesco victory in Ndola over Le Messager Ngozi of Burundi.
Democratic Republic of Congo club Renaissance contained Mouloudia for 57 minutes in Algiers before Sid Ahmed Aouadj scored and Rachid Bouhanna added a second goal.
Several sportswomen have raised the issue, including tennis player Heather Watson who blamed "girl things" on her exit from the 2015 Australian Open.
Dr Richard Burden, senior physiologist at the English Institute of Sport, told the BBC in January that menstrual cycle research in sport was "limited".
The new study has been conducted by two London universities.
The Female Athlete Health Group - a collaborative project between St Mary's University and University College London - worked on two surveys, including one of London Marathon competitors.
Of the 1,862 women surveyed, including 90 who were considered elite level, 41.7% said their menstrual cycle affected their performance.
Nearly 44% met the criteria for heavy menstrual bleeding, but only 22.3% had sought help for period problems.
PhD student Georgie Bruinvels, who is leading the study, told BBC Sport: "We feel like there are many unanswered questions when it comes to periods in sport.
"As a female athlete myself, I can see how much it impacts. So many elite coaches are male and it's hard for them to understand.
"It's this big taboo. I found that awareness is so poor and people don't know anything about it.
"By doing this research, we hope to raise more awareness and to encourage further examination of the subject."
Bruinvels is using crowdfunding to aid the next stage of her research, which will focus on heavy menstrual bleeding and the possible increase of iron deficiency.
During a routine check at the Kiefersfelden border crossing, police found "explosive-like" materials in a Polish-registered car. The discovery triggered a major security operation.
The police detained the Polish driver and his three African passengers, from Ivory Coast and Guinea.
The A93 motorway was later reopened.
Three pipes were found in the car which police suspect were intended for pipe bombs. They also found a large amount of gunpowder in the car, as well as connecting wires and several mobile phones.
The Polish driver's intentions remain a mystery. He is suspected of trafficking the Africans into Germany illegally.
German police have stepped up checks on vehicles entering from Austria since last year's unexpected influx of 1.1 million migrants and refugees.
The security forces raised the alert level after a number of gun, bomb and machete attacks in Germany during the summer, including a mass shooting in Munich.
A coastguard search and rescue helicopter was called out following a report that a man had injured his ankle on the mountain's Tower Ridge at about 14:30 on Wednesday.
Both climbers were eventually winched to safety.
Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team and the Scottish Ambulance Service were also involved in the rescue operation.
The new technology at Welsh Water's plant in Tremorfa will produce electricity for onsite use.
It captures gas from wastewater and will cut the company's reliance on the national grid by 45% and produce 75% of the gas it needs at Tremorfa.
Welsh Water said the anaerobic digestion (AD) unit was one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
It is part of a £75m investment by the company in renewable energy sources at its own facilities to reduce its carbon footprint.
Chairman Robert Ayling said: "We have invested heavily for more than a decade in wastewater treatment to bring widespread environmental benefits, including vastly improved water quality in our rivers and on the coastline of Wales.
"However, the downside is that the water industry is very energy-intensive, which has been reflected in our £30m annual bill."
Welsh Water is investing £30m on a similar AD facility at its Afan Wastewater Works in Port Talbot.
Mr Ayling added: "We will focus on energy efficiency and produce our own sustainable energy where we can, thereby reducing our reliance on power from fossil fuels while also cutting costs and helping to keep down customers' bills.
"The Cardiff Wastewater Works is itself a £220m investment in delivering great benefit by improving coastal waters, and the opening of this AD Facility is a leap forward in our strategy to benefit the environment further."
First Minister Carwyn Jones is at the official opening.
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Nottinghamshire Police said there has been national and global interest since the policy was implemented on 4 April.
One man has been charged with misogyny hate crime so far following an alleged sexually motivated assault.
The force's chief constable, Sue Fish, expects the policy to be implemented nationally by other police forces.
"We've had a huge amount of interest from other parts of the country and I have to say globally, which took us a little by surprise," she said.
"Other places are talking about this and recognising misogyny as a really serious issue."
She said the policy had been misreported and misunderstood.
"It's not criminalising wolf-whistling," she said. "That's absolutely trivialising something that is really far more fundamental than that.
"This is about some gratuitous abuse, both physical and verbal, of women because they are women."
There have been 30 complaints to Nottinghamshire Police since the policy was implemented on 4 April.
The law has not changed, and perpetrators can only be charged with crimes if their offences were already against the law.
Anything which is not a criminal offence is recorded as a hate incident with a misogynistic hate crime qualifier.
Of the 30 complaints so far, 11 have been recorded as hate crimes and the other 19 have been recorded as hate incidents.
The crimes reported include:
The woman who reported being offered money by a taxi driver in exchange for oral sex told police she was so scared she climbed out of the window of the locked vehicle.
Police are treating this as an assault, due to the fear of violence. Nobody has been arrested yet.
While misogynistic behaviour in itself may not be a criminal offence, reporting it means Nottinghamshire Police can investigate and establish whether a crime has taken place.
Even if a criminal offence has not taken place, police have been trained to offer support as they would to any victim of a hate crime.
Other steps can also be taken, such as speaking to the perpetrator about their behaviour, and civil remedies such as injunctions.
Nottingham Women's Centre put forward the case that misogyny was a missing category under current hate crime definitions, and has been helping to train police.
Centre manager Melanie Jeffs said there have been stories about how people are "going to pack their bags and move over to this British county called Nottinghamshire where misogyny has been made illegal".
"Quite a few women I've spoken to have said that just knowing this exists now in Nottingham means that, when they walk through the city, they feel they can walk that little bit taller because they know the police recognise what happens to them and if something serious happens they can report it and they know how to do that."
Club-mate Ross Ford will win his 100th cap at hooker, while Glasgow's Zander Fagerson - on his second international appearance - completes the front row.
Stormers centre Huw Jones also wins his second cap.
Will Genia replaces Nick Phipps at scrum-half in Australia's only change from Saturday's 32-8 win over Wales.
Dean Mumm, Will Skelton and Tom Robertson take up places on the bench with Phipps, while James Slipper, Scott Fardy, Nick Frisby and Sefa Naivalu drop out of the squad.
Only full-back Stuart Hogg, second-row brothers Jonny and Richie Gray and back-row forwards John Barclay and Ryan Wilson featured in Scotland's most recent starting line-up, June's 21-16 win over Japan.
Ford, 32, becomes only the third Scotland player after Chris Paterson and Sean Lamont to reach 100 caps, while South Africa-born 24-year-old Dell qualifies for Scotland through grandparentage.
Saracens wing Maitland switches from left to right to accommodate Harlequins' Tim Visser, with Jones and Glasgow's Alex Dunbar taking over at centre from Matt Scott and Peter Horne, the latter on the bench. Wing Tommy Seymour is not involved, having started in Japan.
Captain Greig Laidlaw and fly-half Finn Russell replace Henry Pyrgos and Ruaridh Jackson in the half-back roles, Russell returning to the side after a serious head injury sustained on club duty this year.
Moray Low drops to the bench, while his front-row partners in Japan, Rory Sutherland and Stuart McInally, are not in the squad.
Scarlet's Barclay moves from open-side to blindside flanker in Josh Strauss' absence and Edinburgh's Watson comes in at seven and Warriors' Wilson remains at eight.
Uncapped Glasgow scrum-half Ali Price could make his debut off the bench.
After Saturday's Test, Scotland host Argentina at the same venue on 19 November and Georgia at Kilmarnock FC's Rugby Park on 26 November.
The Wallabies travel to face France on 19 November, Ireland on 26 November and England on 3 December.
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Scotland: Stuart Hogg, Sean Maitland, Huw Jones, Alex Dunbar, Tim Visser, Finn Russell, Greig Laidlaw (capt); Allan Dell, Ross Ford, Zander Fagerson, Richie Gray, Jonny Gray, John Barclay, Hamish Watson, Ryan Wilson.
Replacements: Fraser Brown, Gordon Reid, Moray Low, Grant Gilchrist, John Hardie, Ali Price, Pete Horne, Rory Hughes.
Australia: Israel Folau, Dane Haylett-Petty, Tevita Kuridrani, Reece Hodge, Henry Speight, Bernard Foley, Will Genia; Scott Sio, Stephen Moore (capt), Sekope Kepu, Rory Arnold, Adam Coleman, David Pocock, Michael Hooper, Lopeti Timani.
Replacements: Tolu Latu, Tom Robertson, Allan Alaalatoa, Rob Simmons, Will Skelton, Dean Mumm, Nick Phipps, Quade Cooper.
The tabloid also scooped the campaign of the year for its coverage of the refugee crisis and war on terror.
Mark Macaskill from The Sunday Times was named journalist of the year and reporter of the year.
The Scottish Newspaper Society's director John McLellan said the awards demonstrated the "excellence of journalism" in Scotland.
The Fife Free Press was named weekly newspaper of the year.
The Sunday Mail landed the scoop of the year for a story about a "forgotten suspect" in the Emma Caldwell murder inquiry.
Austin Lafferty, the chairman of the judges, praised the Daily Record's win.
"A year after the referendum, the Daily Record is engaged by the power brokers, has a mass readership and looks after emerging talent in the industry," he said.
"The Daily Record has survived the decline of the Labour party without falling, and is transcending the Scottish political landscape as well as building an aggressive new media strategy, keen to embrace our digital future."
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For while most of us are at least limited by budgetary constraints, multimillionaires and billionaires, who can buy pretty much anything, are dazzled by unlimited choice.
Thankfully for one very wealthy UK businessman, he knew exactly what he wanted to give his wife for her 50th birthday present a few years ago - a surprise performance by her favourite singer, Annie Lennox.
But instead of having to traipse to a concert hall, he wanted Ms Lennox, who found global fame with Eurythmics, to come to them.
Fast-forward a few months and his wife was very much enjoying her party in the elegant grounds of an English castle, when Ms Lennox suddenly appeared on the stage.
But even if you have got the money, how do you arrange a private performance by your favourite singer or band?
For a growing number of the world's super rich who may face such a dilemma, they are employing the help of something called a lifestyle concierge business.
An industry which has discreetly grown up over the past 15 or so years, such firms can organise everything for you.
Be it arranging pop stars, or the more frequent requirements of buying plane tickets, booking hotels, and reserving tables in upmarket restaurants, representatives from such companies can take control of all this.
One of the first such firms to set up in business was London-based Ten Group, which was established back in 1998 by Essex brothers Alex Cheatle and Andrew Long.
Today it has 2,000 personal users around the world, who it services with 450 members of staff based in 16 offices from New York to Shanghai, and Tokyo to San Francisco.
Ten also has more than 100 corporate clients, such as Coutts Bank, for whom it runs concierge services for their customers.
The company now turns over £25m a year, and says it is continuing to enjoy a big rise in customer numbers.
It is not a bad state of affairs for a firm that the brothers first started from a London bedroom, and who were initially turned down for a business bank account.
When Mr Cheatle and Mr Long set up Ten they were 28 and 22 years old respectively.
Mr Cheatle had come up with the idea while employed as a manager at consumer goods giant Proctor & Gamble, while Mr Long was working in event management.
Deciding to quit their day jobs and give the business a go, they got their first customers via friends of friends.
Mr Cheatle, now 45, says: "Initially it was just Andrew and I, one laptop and a few Nokia mobile phones, wandering round London trying to sort things out for people.
"Obviously we didn't have the global network of staff that we do now, so we didn't promise that we'd be good, just that we would try really hard.
"Thankfully we started to get paying clients, such as investment bankers and recruitment consultants, people who are cash rich and time poor.
"We gave them the chance to delegate things from their to-do list."
But with the first customers on their books, the brothers' bank refused to give them a business account because the manager couldn't properly understand their plans.
Mr Cheatle says: "He wanted us to write a detailed business plan, but we said we couldn't, as we wanted to see how the business developed before we set on the exact best way of doing things.
"The bank manager ultimately wouldn't even let us cash our first cheques."
Thankfully the brothers were able to get investment from friends and family, and some of their first customers, and the business started to grow.
By 2002 they had 100 members of staff, but then near disaster struck, as the firm ran into cash flow difficulties against the backdrop of the bursting of the dotcom bubble.
Mr Cheatle says: "It was a near death experience.
"The problem was that we were investing in the service quality, and we hadn't yet got to the level where the service quality justified the subscription fees that would pay for it.
"It was a race against time for us to get good enough to justify the money that we needed to deliver the service."
Thankfully the business pulled through after everyone, including the two brothers, took big pay cuts, and some staff had to be made redundant.
Since then things have been much smoother, with the firm growing steadily while expanding overseas. Staff at the company now speak more than 22 different languages, including Mandarin and Japanese, and someone is always available 24 hours a day.
Ten also employs staff with specialist knowledge, such as airline or hotel sector experts, or people with connections in the music industry.
The initial cost of joining Ten for private customers is under £1,000, which gives you up to 30 requests over the telephone per year, and access to the firm's website. Prices then rise if a customer wants a more extensive service.
And you obviously have to then pay for whatever Ten has booked or bought on your behalf, although it doesn't take a commission.
As joint chief executives, the brothers divide up their work on a geographical basis.
Mr Cheatle is based at the London headquarters and looks after Europe, Africa and the Americas, while Mr Long is based in Singapore, and has responsibility for the fast-growing Asian market.
Mr Long, now 39, says: "Us working in different time zones is not without challenges, but we make it work with modern technology and trust. And being brothers perhaps makes for quicker decision making than might otherwise have been the case."
On a daily basis the brothers say that Ten's most popular service is restaurant booking, as it can get its customers into exclusive restaurants which for the rest of us are fully booked.
Mr Long says: "The best restaurants around the world are happy to keep tables back for Ten customers. Why? Because Ten customers spend more on food, and a lot more on wine. And they definitely show up.
"We still get lots of weird and wonderful requests though. Someone recently wanted to organise a Spiderman-themed party for their seven year old son, and he got us to arrange for a handler to bring along a real tarantula."
More Syrians are now displaced than any other nationality, says the UNHCR.
France and the US are continuing to push for military action over alleged chemical weapons use by Syrian forces.
There are suggestions that President Barack Obama may be planning much wider action than the limited strikes that have been publicly proposed.
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The reports emerged as senior US politicians were set to speak before a congressional committee, to rally support before a vote expected next week on whether the US should launch military action.
Tensions remain high in Syria and the surrounding region.
Russia said on Tuesday that it had detected two ballistic missiles being launched towards the eastern Mediterranean coastline, sparking speculation of a connection to the Syria crisis.
But Israel later confirmed that it was a joint US-Israel missile test.
The BBC's Richard Galpin in Jerusalem says tests like this are usually planned long in advance, but it is still a sign that the Israeli military is taking very seriously the possibility that US air strikes on Syria, if they do happen, could lead to retaliatory attacks on Israel - either by Syria itself or by its ally, the Shia militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.
( Source UNHCR)
The UNHCR said in a statement on Tuesday: "Syria is haemorrhaging women, children and men who cross borders often with little more than the clothes on their backs."
Around half of those forced to leave are children, UN agencies estimate, with about three-quarters of them under 11.
Just 118,000 refugee children have been able to continue in some sort of education, and only one-fifth have received some sort of counselling, with agencies warning of a "lost generation" of child refugees ill-equipped to help rebuild Syria in the future.
By James ReynoldsBBC correspondent in Hatay, Turkey-Syria border
Hatay, or ancient Antioch, was one of the first outposts of Christianity. It is now an outpost of conflict.
Ten miles (16km) from here, the border with Syria begins. From the Turkish side, you can almost see into the windows of hilltop villages on the Syrian side.
Official refugee camps stand behind walls and fences. The tents, once brand-new white, have been dulled by almost two years of sun and wind.
At the Cilvegozu border crossing, streams of Syrian families make their way past grey gates, towards a line of taxis. Some families squash so many children and bags into the cars that the doors barely shut.
The refugees head towards a society that no longer fully welcomes them. Turkish residents complain that the new arrivals are taking jobs and services away from locals.
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Lebanon has received the highest number of refugees, at 700,000, even though it is the smallest of Syria's neighbours and one of the least able to cope.
There is now thought to be one Syrian refugee in Lebanon to roughly every six Lebanese. Jordan and Turkey have taken in the second and third highest numbers respectively.
As well as those who have left the country, a further 4.25 million have been displaced within Syria, the UNHCR says, meaning that more people from Syria are now forcibly displaced than from other country.
Pointing out that more than 97% of Syria's refugees are being hosted by countries in the surrounding region, the UNHCR said the influx was "placing an overwhelming burden on their infrastructures, economies and societies".
It appealed again for "massive international support" with the crisis.
International aid agencies are struggling to cope, having only 47% of funds required to meet "basic refugee needs", the UNHCR says.
"It took two years to reach the first million refugees. It took six months for the second million to be reached," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, told the BBC.
He said officials could envisage three million refugees by the end of 2013.
One of the biggest single waves of refugees occurred in mid-August, when thousands of people from north-eastern Syria poured over the border into Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iraq has the fourth largest population of Syrian refugees, with over 170,000.
The UN says it is the worst refugee crisis for 20 years, with numbers not seen since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
More than 100,000 people are thought to have died since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011.
The US and French governments are pushing for a military strike in reaction to what they say was a chemical weapons attack carried out by Syrian government forces on the outskirts of Damascus on 21 August.
The US has put the death toll at 1,429, including 426 children, though other countries and organisations have given lower figures.
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, Secretary of State John Kerry and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen Martin Dempsey are due to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee later on Tuesday.
They are trying to muster support for military intervention in Syria in the run-up to a vote in Congress expected next week.
The document seeking congressional backing speaks of sending "a clear signal of American resolve", aiming "to deter, disrupt, prevent and degrade the potential for future uses of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction".
Many analysts had assumed the strikes would be fairly limited in scope.
But Gen Jack Keane - a retired US Army vice-chief of staff who spoke to key Republican senators after a White House briefing on Monday - told the BBC they had been given the indication that strikes would go far beyond targeting Syria's alleged chemical weapons.
"He's going to deter and degrade - and the important word is degrade - significant military capability of Assad's regime," said Gen Keane.
Senators had been encouraged by "the scale and robustness" in President Obama's plans, he said.
Mr Obama already appears to have won the support of two of his fiercest foreign policy critics, Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
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Mr McCain told reporters on Monday that a vote against strike action "would be catastrophic in its consequences" for US credibility abroad.
Qatar, thought to be the main financial backer of the Syrian opposition, has also expressed support for the proposed strike.
Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Mohamed Al Attiyah told the BBC that President Assad would kill every Syrian if he remained in power.
"It is not about regime change. It's about the people who've been killed every day and we would like to see the people protected."
He said he would ideally have preferred to see an Arab intervention, but the Arab League had failed to act.
In France, a report presented to parliament by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Monday said the 21 August attack involved the "massive use of chemical agents" and "could not have been ordered and carried out by anyone but the Syrian government".
But in an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied being behind the attack, saying it would have been "illogical".
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He warned that foreign military action could ignite a wider regional conflict.
Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen also said on Monday that be believed the Assad government was behind the attack.
He did not expect Nato to be involved in any action, but said there must be "a firm international response" to deter any future use of such weapons or else it would send a "dangerous signal to dictators all over the world".
The head of Germany's security service has told MPs there that it, too, believed the Assad regime carried out a chemical attack, and that Sarin was the gas used.
Syria is known to have extensive supplies of chemical weapons.
Mariner Street car park, near the train station, will be cleared and replaced with a 725-bedroom student block, complete with nightclub, gym, office space, bars, restaurants and shops.
The 22 storey tower would be the second tallest building in Swansea, next to Meridian Quay.
Construction is expected to start later this year and finish by summer 2018.
A report before Swansea council's planning committee on Tuesday said the tower "will be a bold addition to the city skyline".
The report added there is a growing need for student accommodation in Swansea, with both Swansea University and Trinity Saint David universities expanding in the city.
Swansea council leader Rob Stewart said the project "will be a major step forward" for High Street's regeneration, and will build on "the great work that's already been done."
Sixty-five lorries are delivering food and medicine to about 120,000 civilians in and around Rastan, in Homs province.
The International Committee of the Red Cross and Syrian Red Crescent convoy is the first to reach Rastan since 2012.
A key aim of the fragile cessation of hostilities that has been in place for nearly two months was to allow aid to be delivered more widely across Syria.
On Wednesday, hundreds of sick and wounded people were evacuated from four besieged rebel- and government-held towns as part of a deal overseen by the Syrian Red Crescent.
However, such aid operations have been jeopardised by escalating fighting in the country's north-west, particularly around the divided city of Aleppo.
ICRC spokesman Pawel Krzysiek said the convoy to Rastan was carrying food parcels, wheat flour and other nutritional items, as well as medicines and equipment to improve the water supply.
"We are hoping that this is one of many humanitarian convoys still to come, not only to Rastan but to other besieged places in Syria," he said in a video posted on Twitter as the convoy arrived.
Mr Krzysiek said ICRC and Red Crescent teams planned to assess the water and waste infrastructure in Rastan, as well as the nutritional and other needs of its population, which has doubled because of an influx of people fleeing fighting.
As the convoy arrived, UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters in Geneva that there had been "modest but real progress" on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the almost 500,000 people living in besieged areas, but "not enough for us to feel comfortable at all".
Rastan, about 20km (12 miles) north of the city of Homs, has reportedly been the target of government air strikes in recent days, as the cessation of hostilities brokered by the US and Russia appeared on the verge of collapse.
The main opposition umbrella group on Tuesday suspended its participation in UN-led peace talks in Geneva in protest at what it said were repeated government violations of the truce, which took effect on 27 February.
Over the past two weeks, the government has accused rebel groups of taking part in assaults around Aleppo carried out by jihadist groups excluded from the cessation of hostilities, while the rebels say they are defending themselves from attacks.
Russia, which launched an air campaign to bolster its ally President Bashar al-Assad in September, warned on Thursday that the opposition's decision to pull out of the Geneva talks could lead to "a return of total armed conflict".
"We have a situation where terrorists are desperately trying to disrupt the political process,'' Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
The US, which backs the opposition to Mr Assad, meanwhile expressed concern about reports that Russia was moving military personnel and equipment back into Syria, five weeks after announcing that most of its forces would be withdrawn.
"We believe that our efforts are best focused on supporting the diplomatic process," US Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters in Riyadh.
He urged Russia to use its influence to ensure the government abided by the truce.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union employed by Servest UK began the industrial action at 06:00 GMT.
The union claims agency workers should be made permanent GWR staff and that there is currently a "two tier" system.
GWR said it was aware of the strike and that rail services were expected to run as scheduled.
The dispute involves almost 200 workers who also walked out on 16 December.
Mick Cash, RMT general secretary, said the cleaners were being "mercilessly exploited by privateers".
He added: "GWR and Servest UK can bring an immediate resolution to this dispute by addressing the issues over pay and other grievances."
The union said 98% of its 189 members who took part in the ballot voted in favour of strike action. Turnout was 58%.
Day, who lost to Barry Hawkins in the World Grand Prix final in February, was the sole Welsh representative at the tournament in Llandudno.
Marco Fu beat Anthony McGill 5-1 to set up a last eight meeting with Selby.
Welsh Open champion Stuart Bingham is also out after a 5-1 defeat by Anthony Hamilton.
Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Liang Wenbo in the opening round.
Shaun Murphy, who won his first ranking title of the season on Sunday with victory over Judd Trump in the final of the Gibraltar Open, faces Ali Carter in round one.
The event, which runs from 6-12 March, features the top 16 players on this season's one-year ranking list.
Quarter-finals
Mark Selby v Marco Fu
Ding Junhui/John Higgins v Anthony Hamilton
Barry Hawkins/Neil Robertson v Ali Carter/Shaun Murphy
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Judd Trump/Mark King
Round one
Stuart Bingham 1-5 Anthony Hamilton
Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-1 Liang Wenbo
Mark Selby 5-4 Ryan Day
Marco Fu 5-1 Anthony McGill
Barry Hawkins v Neil Robertson
Judd Trump v Mark King
Ding Junhui v John Higgins
Ali Carter v Shaun Murphy
Hamilton becomes only the second British driver to win three Formula 1 drivers' titles.
In a dramatic last 10 laps of safety cars, crashes and overtakes, the Brit forced team mate Nico Rosberg into a mistake that cost him the race.
The German tried to fight back late on, but Hamilton, on fresher tyres comfortably held on for the victory.
He then performed doughnut spins for the fans in the stadium section towards the end of his in lap before returning to the pits.
From go-kart sensation to three-time world champ, Lewis Hamilton is now the first British driver to win two world championships in a row.
He first got a taste for a career in motor racing at just six years old, when his dad bought him a remote control car.
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Lewis showed great talent from an early age and it didn't take long before he started racing karts.
But unlike many other racing drivers, Lewis was not from a wealthy family - and so being able to race consistently wasn't easy, or cheap.
His father worked several jobs and the family made a lot of sacrifices in order to keep Lewis' dream of being a Formula One racing driver alive.
15 years ago he became European karting champion, competing alongside his current team mate - and rival - Nico Rosberg.
The two drivers have been friends for a long time and have raced against one another for a great many championships in the past.
Lewis went on to win many titles in the junior ranks before making his debut in F1 in 2007. He won his first world championship title for McLaren in 2008.
At the time he was the youngest ever world champion and he took the title in thrilling style with an overtaking move on the last corner of the last lap of the last race in Brazil.
After 4 years at McLaren he moved to Mercedes to team-up with Rosberg for the 2013 season in search of another world championship title.
And he did just that. The following season - with 11 race wins in 2014 to Rosberg's five, Hamilton won his second title, becoming the most successful British driver of all time in terms of race wins.
Martin met Lewis not long after that victory in Abu Dhabi to ask him for his advice to wannabe F1 drivers.
Lewis Hamilton has dominated from the first race to the last this season. He passed his boyhood hero Ayrton Senna's career tally of 41 wins and has now equalled Senna's three titles. He is the first British driver to win back-to-back Formula One titles - and there seems to be no stopping him.
Not yet, anyway...
The 36-year-old has made 628 Premier League appearances in 21 seasons with Aston Villa, Manchester City and Everton. He needs five more to break Ryan Giggs' all-time record of 632.
Barry, who had four years at Goodison, has signed an initial one-year deal.
"I think his attitude is gauged by the fact Everton offered him a two-year deal," said West Brom boss Tony Pulis.
"He's a fantastic player, really wants to play and I'm really looking forward to working with him."
Barry, who won 53 England caps, is West Brom's fourth signing, after Jay Rodriguez, Zhang Yuning and Ahmed Hegazi.
And Pulis sees him as a replacement for Darren Fletcher, who joined Stoke earlier in the summer.
"I want to come and help the team. That's always been the same for me wherever I have played," Barry said. "I want to help the team improve, work hard and hopefully add quality."
The Baggies won their opening match of the Premier League season, beating Bournemouth 1-0.
But Pulis warned on Monday that without additions to his squad, "it could be a long season".
"We're desperate to bring players in. We've got a squad of 17 and it's a top-age squad as well," said Pulis.
Barry is currently four games short of equalling Ryan Giggs' record for the most Premier League appearances, but the veteran midfielder now looks set to surpass that.
Giggs had played in every Premier League season before his retirement in May 2014, winning 13 league titles with Manchester United and racking up 632 appearances in the process.
Barry, meanwhile, made his debut at the end of the 1997-98 season and has played more than 30 games in all but one season since.
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He was co-opted as a Foyle MLA last October, to replace the former DUP MLA and assembly Speaker Willie Hay, who resigned that month for health reasons.
Mr Devenney said he is leaving his post because he wants to "concentrate on a number of local issues" in Londonderry.
The DUP said it will appoint Mr Devenney's successor "in due course".
In a statement, Mr Devenney said: "I have been deeply honoured to serve as an Assembly Member for the Foyle constituency.
"I was delighted when the party asked me to replace William Hay as the party's Assembly Member for the area.
"However after five months in the assembly, I have decided to step down from this role as I want to be able to concentrate on a number of local issues in the city. This is best achieved by being based in Londonderry."
He said he would continue in his role as a councillor and would "play an active role" in the DUP.
DUP leader Peter Robinson paid tribute to Mr Devenney and thanked him for his service in the assembly.
"I have enjoyed working with him. He has always put the interests of the people he represents to the fore," Mr Robinson said.
Mondula, known as Mondy, has been on her own at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling since neighbour Toto died aged 46 last March.
The park is now in contact with zoos across Europe to find company for the "cheeky and clever" 46-year-old.
Mondy and Toto lived together for almost 20 years.
Blair Drummond Safari Park education officer Katie Macfarlane said that, despite not being the closest of friends, Mondy was affected by Toto's death.
She told the BBC Scotland news website: "For a few days she was quite sad and upset and you could tell she was wondering what had happened.
"In the family groups in the wild it has been seen that they mourn each other, but Toto and Mondy weren't related.
So, there were was a bond in the sense that they are very intelligent animals, but it wasn't a family bond."
The keepers have been working with Mondy every day through training to keep her stimulated following the loss of Toto.
Miss Macfarlane said: "In the first wee while she was a bit upset and she lost a bit of weight but she's doing really well now."
Any potential new companion will need to be an older African elephant which recognises Mondy's dominant nature.
Miss Macfarlane said: "It's her house, she's lived here for 20-odd years, so you've got to make sure that they're going to let her be the boss to a certain extent.
"The keepers would never want her to be on her own for the rest of her retirement, so it was always a thought from day one.
"But it takes time. You can't just throw elephants together and expect them to be friends."
Mondy's new companion will be introduced to her gradually, with the pair initially being kept in separate enclosures.
Miss Macfarlane said the keepers were now trying "really hard" to find a new friend for Mondy.
She said: "The elephant building that we currently have was built in 2013 and was specifically designed as a retirement home almost.
"We work constantly with a lot of zoos through breeding programmes and the park managers are in touch with all the zoos that have African elephants in Europe.
"We said since we lost Toto that it wouldn't be immediate and it wouldn't be healthy for Mondy for it to be immediate.
"We have to give her a bit of time to get used to the new situation."
Milner, 24, has been with the club for four years and has scored 22 tries in 124 games.
He made 17 appearances last season, scoring three tries as the Tigers finished fifth in Super League.
"The ambition of where this club wants to go has significantly improved over the last two years," Milner told the club website.
"This team is developing and growing all the time, and really building Castleford Tigers into a great club."
Castleford, who drew their opening game of the season against Hull KR, will be without captain Michael Shenton for the rest of the season because of a knee injury.
The group was meeting to consider if it should recommend a new referendum on abortion law in the Republic.
Currently abortions are permitted only when the mother's life is in danger.
The Citizens' Assembly is meeting for a weekend-long session in Malahide, County Dublin.
Speaking at the meeting, Dr Brendan O'Shea, a member of the regulatory body for general practitioners, said financial constraints were leading some women to carry on with unwanted pregnancies.
Meanwhile, a speaker from the HSE's Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme, Janice Donlon, said that between 2010 and 2012 an average of 821 women on the island of Ireland were sent abortion pills annually.
Cork obstetrician and gynecologist, Professor John Higgins, said over 2014 and 2015, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act had facilitated 26 terminations.
Most arose from a mother's life-threatening physical illness, with just three involving the threat of suicide.
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Anthony McCarthy, quoted international research on the damaging effects of pressurising women in crisis pregnancies.
The specialist at the National Maternity Hospital said that the surveys consistently found that women who are pressurised to have an abortion, or not to have one, suffer significant mental health problems because of that.
The chair of the assembly, the Supreme Court Judge Mary Laffoy, told members their meetings between now and March will be their most difficult as they debate the issue.
On Saturday morning, the assembly heard an address on the history of the Eighth Amendment.
The amendment, introduced in 1983, essentially gives constitutional protection to an unborn child.
Outside the meeting, a small group of protestors staged a demonstration.
Prof Eoin Carolan of UCD said that although abortion had been illegal in Ireland since 1861, the 1983 amendment made it clear for the first time that the right to life applied to the unborn.
Prof Carolan recalled that in 1992, the Supreme Court ruled in the X case that abortion is allowed where there is a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother and where the risk could only be avoided by the termination of her pregnancy.
He said that the risk could be from either a threat of suicide or because of a physical condition.
His speech was broadcast to supporters in the city of Zawiya, which was taken back from rebels after fierce fighting in the early stages of the revolt.
The remarks came after the US recognised the opposition as Libya's "legitimate governing authority".
Nato air strikes hit Tripoli's outskirts in one of the heaviest nights of bombing for weeks.
Col Gaddafi stressed his intention to remain in power.
"They're asking me to leave," he said. "I will never leave the land of my ancestors or the people who have sacrificed themselves for me."
His speech was broadcast over loudspeakers in Zawiya, a town some 50km (30 miles) west of the capital which was controlled by rebel forces early on in the fighting and only retaken after a bitter battle.
It was the third address by Col Gaddafi in recent days apparently aimed at showing the support he enjoys in towns where his forces are in control.
There was also a rally in Zlitan over the weekend, where up to 40,000 people - some of them bussed in - took over the main square to voice their backing for the colonel.
On Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the US no longer regarded him as the legitimate authority, and would recognise the Transnational Council (TNC), joining some 30 countries to do so.
This means billions of dollars of Libyan assets frozen in US banks could be released to the rebels.
Early on Sunday, Tripoli's eastern suburb of Tajoura came under heavy Nato attack.
Plumes of smoke were seen and rumbling blasts were reported to have continued for at least an hour.
Libyan television said civilian and military targets had been hit, adding that there were casualties, but gave no details.
Nato said the target was a military depot which ostensibily stored a fleet of vehicles for the African Union's peacekeeping duties. But surveillance indicated that Col Gaddafi ahd been using the fleet to sustain the war close to Misrata, Nato said.
RAF aircraft from Britain, which took part in the strikes, dropped 17 precision-guided bombs, causing extensive damage to their targets, officials said.
More than 10 rebels were reported to have been killed as they tried to advance on the key oil port of Brega. It was not known if any government forces had been killed.
The conflict in Libya appears to be in a protracted stalemate. Rebels are holding eastern Libya and pockets in the west.
Col Gaddafi remains entrenched in Tripoli, despite the Nato bombing campaign.
International sanctions have also been imposed and international arrest warrants issued against leading figures in the Libyan regime.
Western and Arab members of the Libya Contact Group are drawing up a plan to end hostilities, which will be presented to Col Gaddafi.
GLD Group has been ranked 20th in the latest Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 league table.
It is among nine companies headquartered in Scotland to make it into the UK's top 200.
Together they have grown their international sales by an average of 42% a year over the last two years.
Blairgowrie-based GLD, which appears in the league table for the first time, saw international sales rise by 112% over two years to £12.3m.
The group licenses or owns the rights to design and distribute fashion and sportswear brands, including Umbro.
It also supplies Italian shoe line Superga and French rain jacket brand K-Way.
Moray-based food producer Baxters is ranked 34th in the table, with overseas sales of £197.6m. The company manufactures in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Poland, and sells to more than 30 countries.
Aberdeenshire-based brewer and bar operator BrewDog features for the third time this year, at 193rd.
The firm, which was founded in 2007 by James Watt and Martin Dickie, now exports to more than 60 countries, with international sales reaching £13.4m in 2016.
Other Scottish firms ranked in top 200:
Amanda Murphy, UK head of commercial banking at HSBC, said: "This year's Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 is testament to the exciting opportunities available to ambitious Scottish businesses with appetite to grow their goods and services abroad.
"The nine companies in Scotland are putting the country firmly on the map as a thriving business hub."
To qualify for the table, UK firms must have recorded total sales of at least £25m and international sales of at least £1m in the latest financial year.
The full list of 200 UK companies can be seen in this weekend's Sunday Times.
The four-storey concrete and glass Imax cinema building in Bournemouth was criticised for blocking out sea views.
It was opened in 2002, nearly three years behind schedule, but closed three years later.
Work continues to remove the remaining rubble and steel girders from the site, which is expected to open as a new outdoor events space in the summer.
As the last section of the building's final wall came down, John and Jean Fellows, who live nearby, told BBC News they were happy their sea views had been restored.
"We can see the whole seafront and across the Purbecks from our 6th floor flat without the view being obscured now - truly wonderful," Mrs Fellows said.
Mr Fellows added: "It was a monstrosity and should never have been built in the first place. A total waste of money."
Theresa Wright, 41, who lives in Poole and works in Bournemouth, said: "I think there's been a lot of hype about it really.
"I don't think the building was as bad as everyone made out. I thought, as a structure, it looked okay but, admittedly, it was perhaps in the wrong setting."
In 2010, the council bought the leasehold for the site and wanted to lower the building's height to reclaim views, but received "no suitable bids" from developers.
Instead, the authority decided to build a new seafront entertainment space on the site and The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Pavilion Dance have already expressed an interest in staging performances there.
Preparation work to dismantle the structure, voted one of the UK's most hated buildings in 2005 on the Channel 4 programme Demolition, began in October.
The demolition has involved the removal of 3,000 tonnes of steel and 8,000 tonnes of concrete.
The council said the demolition team would remain on site to clear the remaining debris.
The 26-year-old was released by Rangers in the summer after six years and 104 appearances for the London club.
He started his career at West Ham and has had loan spells at Leeds, Charlton, Bristol City and Peterborough.
"Hogan is the type of player who can win a game with one moment of magic and I'm really excited to bring him here," said boss Gareth Ainsworth.
"The fact that we've signed a player of Hogan's quality shows that players are looking at Wycombe in a different light now.
"I want to add more goals to his game but the chances he creates will be a massive positive for us."
Ephraim, who can also play in midfield, said: "I want to be in an atmosphere where I can smile when I'm playing and that's when I'm at my best.
"The manager and the chairman have given me the opportunity to do that here and I'm looking forward to it."
Francesca Jones, 15, was born with Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia and faces issues with balance, and gripping her racquet.
Jones lost in round two of Wimbledon's junior tournament this week.
"I know I have the level of a top-five player so I'm just going to go for it," she said.
Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia is caused by a mutated gene, and Jones has had three operations this year alone.
"If I have to do the operations again, I'll do them again," she said. "Everything's mental and everything's work, so if you keep at it then eventually it's going to work out for you."
When Jones started playing tennis, she needed special handles fitted to her racquet.
At the age of nine she decided to move to a tennis academy in Barcelona and was number four in the world at under-14 level.
"I got to the point where I thought with my condition, I could have a massive point that I could prove here to people, that willpower and determination is everything in life," she added.
"I have three toes on my right foot which is obviously my dominant foot, so balance had always been a weakness of mine.
"As I matured, as I got older, I have just worked on that day in, day out."
After a "disappointing" 4-6 7-5 6-1 defeat by fifth seed Kayla Jones in the singles, Jones is competing in the Wimbledon girls' doubles with Ali Collins.
The vehicles crashed south of the New Moor House Crossroads on the A697 at Longframlington with the junction for Rothbury at about 12:18 BST on Wednesday.
Darren Warnes, 46, of Church Street, Lady Bank, Cupar in Fife, Scotland, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the second car, a 45-year-old man, and a woman passenger were taken to hospital for treatment.
After sharing kayaking trips around Sydney harbour in February and late-night summit dinners, the political bromance between the two prime ministers is coming to an end.
John Key's surprise resignation may have caught the Kiwi media off guard, but his opposite number across the Tasman Sea claims to have known what was coming.
"I have to say his announcement didn't come as a complete surprise to me," Malcolm Turnbull told the media.
"He has gone," he said, "when he is on top. He is a class act, none classier."
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The praise heaped on Mr Key by his Canberra counterpart reflects the political, centre-right bond the two men share.
Both have a background in business and finance, and both have sought to bring those deal-making skills to the political arena.
But Mr Turnbull's words may reveal a little envy too.
While Mr Key gets to decide when to draw his eight-year term to an end, Australian politics has a far more frenetic pace, having chewed its way through four prime ministers since 2008.
Mr Turnbull is currently suffering poor approval ratings and holds the slimmest possible parliamentary majority, which means much of his time is spent answering questions about possible leadership challenges.
Conversely, Mr Key's position seemed rock-solid, with his relative longevity in the post making him more popular.
"He has undertaken big reforms in New Zealand," Mr Turnbull noted, "but he has been able to do so and maintain strong popular support".
Very few politicians get to choose the timing of their exit in this way, something Malcolm Turnbull clearly appreciates.
But like many relationships, this one will end with some unfinished business.
John Key was one of the architects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) - a deal which, it was claimed, could bring huge benefits to Australia.
It is significant that one of the biggest trade agreements ever was signed in Auckland, with Mr Key hosting other world leaders.
US President-elect Donald Trump's rejection of the TPP means that part of his legacy has collapsed in the last few weeks.
It will be left to New Zealand's new leader to work out with the other signatories if the TPP can be of any benefit without US involvement.
In his resignation speech, Mr Key said his wife Bronagh had spent many nights and weekends alone without him.
In resigning, he is returning to her side. But he may still get the occasional call from his Canberra "bro", asking for advice on how to hold on to power.
And further silvers from shooter Jen McIntosh and swimmer Dan Wallace and hammer thrower Mark Dry's bronze took the host nation's medal tally to 37.
The haul of 33 at Edinburgh 1986 had been Scotland's previous Games best.
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Team Scotland had already set a new national record of gold medals at a Commonwealth Games on Monday.
Alex Marshall and Paul Foster's bowls win in the men's pairs event and para-athlete Libby Clegg's victory in the T12 100m took the hosts' gold tally to 13 - two more than their previous best at Melbourne 2006.
The male gymnastics team of Dan Keatings, Dan Purvis, Frank Baines, Adam Cox and Liam Davie as well as McIntosh created their own pieces of history.
The score of 257.603 earned Scotland their first ever Commonwealth Games team gymnastics medal. England won gold while Canada were third.
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And McIntosh became Scotland's most successful female in Commonwealth Games history with five medals. Jasmine Ser of Singapore took gold.
Wallace claimed his third medal of the Games, taking silver in the men's 200m individual medley, adding to his gold in the 400m individual medley and silver as part of the second-place 4x200m freestyle relay team.
Dry finished third in the final of the men's hammer throw with a mark of 71.64.
"It has been an incredible effort by everyone involved with Team Scotland to have set a new record for Games medals by only the sixth day of competition," said chair of sportscotland Louise Martin CBE.
"Our men gymnasts will go down in history as the athletes who delivered the record-breaking medal, but it has been a real team effort over many years.
"There is no substitute for hard work and meticulous preparation.
"We have witnessed a record number of medals and numerous personal bests. Thanks to all the Team Scotland athletes who have given us a week to remember - with the promise of more to come."
Retired German midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger, who played in England for Aston Villa, Everton and West Ham, recently revealed his homosexuality.
The 31-year-old told Football Focus it is "difficult to say" if there is a homophobic atmosphere in football.
"Certainly it would not be a problem in the dressing room," Fowler said.
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"I don't think it will be a problem on the terraces."
Hitzlsperger is the most prominent footballer to publicly reveal his homosexuality.
England Under-21 international Justin Fashanu did likewise in 1990 and former United States and Leeds United winger Robbie Rogers followed suit last year.
Earlier this week, former Chelsea and England defender Graeme Le Saux welcomed Hitzlsperger's decision to make his sexuality public.
Because of his desire not to live the archetypal footballer's life, Le Saux suffered abuse from players and fans during the 1990s, even though the 45-year-old is not gay.
Fowler, 38, has apologised after making an offensive gesture towards his former international team-mate in a game between Liverpool and Chelsea in 1999.
"I am genuinely sorry," said Fowler. "It was used as a wind-up but looking back I shouldn't have done it. Looking back, it is embarrassing."
Fowler was speaking while working as a pundit on Football Focus alongside Robbie Savage, who was named in a 2007 book by Le Saux as having also taunted him.
"His book was his version of events, and I genuinely can't remember the incident," said the former Crewe, Leicester, Birmingham, Blackburn and Derby midfielder.
"But what I will say is that they weren't my views then, more importantly, they are certainly not my views now."
Father-of-one Andrew Jenkins, 53, will pedal to Maggie Cancer Care centres in Swansea, London, Cambridge, Inverness, Glasgow and the Wirral.
He wants to raise funds for the centre after being diagnosed with angiosarcoma, a cancer of the inner lining of blood vessels.
Mr Jenkins bought the Dutch-made velomobile, revamping it for the ride.
"You are basically lying flat out with your legs forward. You don't want to get out."
Egypt international Elmohamady joined Hull on an initial loan deal from Sunderland in 2012, before signing for £2m fee the following year.
The 28-year-old made 51 appearances last season to help City earn promotion through the Championship play-offs.
"I took the decision to sign straight away, it wasn't difficult," he told BBC Look North.
"We have a great manager, an experienced manager who's been in this league a long time so he knows how to prepare us for the big games.
"Hopefully we'll get the right people and the right players to go back and do well in the Premier League."
Elmohamady's contract is subject to him being granted a new work permit.
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Murray, the 2013 and 2015 winner, took Olympic gold, claimed his second Wimbledon title and became tennis' world number one in a remarkable 2016.
Triathlete Alistair Brownlee was second and show jumper Nick Skelton third.
"It's been a great year for British sport and I am so proud to have been a part of it," said 29-year-old Murray as he accepted the award from Miami.
In front of a 12,000-strong audience at Birmingham's Genting Arena, Murray accepted the award via video-link from Florida, where he is preparing for the 2017 season.
As he took the prize from former British boxing world champion Lennox Lewis and gathered members of his training team around him, he added: "I'd like to thank everyone who voted - I really appreciate your support."
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Brownlee, 28, became the first man to retain the Olympic triathlon title at Rio 2016, finishing ahead of brother Jonny, who claimed the silver.
The Yorkshireman later made headlines across the world when he selflessly helped his exhausted brother over the line in a dramatic end to the Triathlon World Series in Mexico.
Skelton, 58, claimed individual show jumping gold at Rio 2016, becoming Britain's second oldest Olympic gold medallist, 16 years after initially retiring with a neck broken in two places.
In his acceptance speech, Scot Murray said: "I'd also like to thank my family. I think my mum is in the crowd there [in Birmingham]. I'd like to thank my dad as as well, who just got married 10 days ago. I miss you guys.
"A huge thanks to my wife and my daughter - she won't know what this means yet, but maybe in a few years she will.
"Actually, I've got a bone to pick with my wife because about an hour ago she told me she'd voted for Nick Skelton. Not smart from her with Christmas coming up."
Murray received 247,419 votes, Brownlee 121,665 and Skelton 109,197.
Skelton was asked whether he was aware Murray's wife had voted for him, and responded: "I'm very pleased with her actually. But she didn't vote enough times."
Young Sports Personality of the Year: Ellie Robinson: the Swimmer claimed gold in the S6 50m butterfly final with a Games record at the Rio Paralympics, aged 15.
Team of the Year: Leicester City: the Foxes stunned the world with their shock Premier League triumph last season.
Coach of the Year: Claudio Ranieri: Leicester's Italian manager was named top coach after overseeing the remarkable campaign.
Lifetime Achievement: Michael Phelps: the record-breaking American swimmer, 31, won his 23rd Olympic gold in his final Games in Rio in August.
Overseas Sports Personality of the Year: Simone Biles: the 19-year-old American broke new ground with a series of dazzling routines as she secured four gold medals at the Rio Olympics.
Sport's Unsung Hero: Boxing club founder Marcellus Baz provides free classes to hundreds of young people at his Nottingham School of Boxing, with some even dreaming of reaching the Olympics.
Helen Rollason: Ben Smith: the charity runner completed 401 marathons in 401 days after battling back from injury to pass his fundraising target of £250,000.
Helen Shaw: Well done Andy Murray. Well deserved. As is Alistair Brownlee in second place.
Sideburns Kev: Great to see Nick Skelton and Alistair Brownlee being recognised.
Allan Blair Beaton: Nice waaaaaan @andy_murray! Another #SPOTY for the cupboard. Well done!
Mark Haggan: So many fantastic British sport stars this year who have done incredible things. Amazing to see.
Stu: Well done Andy Murray never thought I'd see the day where we had a British world no1, Wimbledon winner & gold medal winner.
Former British number one Annabel Croft on BBC Radio 5 live:
Andy Murray's never worried what people thought of him and he's become one of the most popular sportsmen in the country.
Andy has continued to strive and something has switched in him. Now he is the hunted, rather than the hunter, defending that number one spot.
The rivalry between Murray and Djokovic is phenomenal and I cannot wait to see how it develops in 2017.
It will be interesting to see how he responds to that but he looks relaxed. I expect a reaction from Djokovic as he will not like this one bit.
But I feel as if Murray can go on and dominate quite significantly in 2017.
Murray began the year by reaching the Australian Open final, but lost to Novak Djokovic in straight sets.
Murray was beaten again by Djokovic at the French Open final in early June, but within two weeks he was crowned Wimbledon champion for a second time, adding to his 2013 title, when he ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's champion.
In August he defended his men's singles Olympic title with victory over Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in an epic final in Brazil.
And another win over Djokovic at the ATP World Tour Finals - Murray's first title at the season-ending event - ensured he would end 2016 as world number one.
Speaking during Sunday's ceremony in Birmingham, before he won the award, Murray said 2016 had been "the best year in my career".
Asked about how becoming a father had affected him, he added: "I have loved it. It was a challenge obviously and it made me realise tennis isn't the most important thing.
"Away from the court I am a lot happier now I'm not thinking about tennis all the time as I used to and that's helped me on the court."
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Murray said the replica trophy he was presented with had been damaged. He will be presented with the actual trophy at a later date.
"The trophy is a bit broken. It's kind of stuck down with tape where the top bit of the camera is," he said.
"They didn't tell me how it got broken, and to hold it close to my body. After the problems me and Lennox had the last time [a botched handover when he was third in 2012], I listened to them."
A review by Action on Hearing Loss Cymru found test waiting times at three of the seven health boards were up.
Meanwhile, patients in two areas did not always get two hearing aids because of restrictions on the number they give out.
The charity said demand would continue to increase given the aging population.
Cwm Taf, Hywel Dda and Powys health boards said patients were waiting longer for hearing tests and reassessments because more people needed help.
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Hywel Dda boards both restrict the number of hearing aids they issue, while Aneurin Bevan and Hwyel Dda said they had reduced follow-up appointments because of pressures.
Hwyel Dda also reported reduced staff numbers and reduced aftercare service, at a time when it is planning to reduce its budget for the next year.
Action on Hearing Loss Cymru, formerly RNID, supports 1,300 hearing aid wearers across Wales.
But the free service, which costs £150,000 a year to run, will be cut in 2016 if funding cannot be found.
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Sharon Hamilton claimed Anton Barkhuysen enticed the animal with doughnuts and ran away in shame when he was spotted.
The neighbours were involved in an eight-year dispute over land in the hamlet of Tregolls, Cornwall.
The 72-year-old has been awarded High Court damages of £32,080 for slander, false imprisonment and harassment.
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The legal costs are estimated to be around £200,000 but the judge has not yet decided who should pay them.
The court heard the pair fell out because she had fenced off part of Tregolls Common, where she kept pigs.
The actress and mother-of-two argued the fence had been in place long before she had moved there.
On New Year's Day 2013, the 54-year-old claimed she had stumbled upon Mr Barkhuysen having sex with one of her pigs.
Following the allegations, he was arrested by police, questioned about his sex life, subjected to intimate sampling and kept on bail for several weeks.
In his ruling, Mr Justice Warby said the allegation was a lie and she had compounded her neighbour's distress by hinting at it to another neighbour.
The judge accepted that some of Mr Barkhuysen's behaviour during the row had been "bullying".
Midfielder Joe Bryan had put the hosts ahead after only 70 seconds.
But Carlton Morris levelled it after the break and Danny Hylton struck late to win it for the U's.
It is the sixth time in seven seasons that League One Bristol City have been eliminated from the competition by a team from a lower division.
Bryan had given the hosts the perfect start when he picked up on Jay Emmanuel-Thomas' blocked shot and sliced in with his right foot.
The early goal did not unsettle Oxford though, and they had the ball in the net before the break, only for Junior Brown's header to be ruled out by a late offside flag.
The U's kept up the pressure and made it 1-1, with Morris planting a powerful header past goalkeeper Frank Fielding, after Joe Riley's ball in.
And summer signing Hylton shocked the home support when he coolly slotted the winner past Fielding.
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Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill told BBC Radio Bristol:
"I'm disappointed with how we played and I thought they were the better team.
"They looked a lot more up for it tonight than we did.
"It was just the type of start that I felt we needed and wanted because it might have given us the momentum to go on.
"But you have to give them credit. They were better than us on the night."
The DR Congo international signed for Everton from Crystal Palace in a £25m deal in August, and has played in every game this season.
Bolasie, 27, injured the right anterior cruciate ligament in the 68th minute of Sunday's 1-1 draw at Goodison.
He now faces a fight to return before the end of the Premier League season.
Bolasie, who spent four seasons with Palace after joining from Bristol City in 2012, will miss his country's Africa Cup of Nations campaign, which starts in Gabon next month.
Before Bolasie's injury, Everton boss Ronald Koeman had previously spoken about his interest in taking Manchester United's Dutch forward Memphis Depay, 22, on loan in January.
Since joining from Newport County in January 2013, 23-year-old Evans has made 67 appearances for Wolves.
The Wales Under-21 international is five months into a new three-and-a-half year deal with the Championship side.
Elder, 22, had loan spells at Brentford and Barnsley last season, but is is yet feature for Leicester's first team.
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Town finished 21st, four points above the relegation zone, in their first season back in the Football League.
Asa Hall, James Jennings, Amari Morgan-Smith and Daniel Parslow will leave the Robins after spending time out on loan.
James Dayton, Jack Munns, Calum Kitscha, Liam Davis, Jack Barthram, James Rowe and Jordan Lymn have also not been offered new contracts.
Harry Pell, Dan Holman, Will Boyle, Carl Winchester and Matt Bower remain under contract, while youngster Josh Thomas recently signed a first professional contract.
Cheltenham manager Gary Johnson is conducting negotiations with the remaining players and a club statement said further announcements are to come.
The micro-processor limbs, known as "bionic legs", will be available to service personnel who have been wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan and will offer them greater stability and mobility.
The move is expected to benefit about 160 members of the armed forces.
The Help for Heroes charity said the money would help "transform lives".
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said it was a top priority to give troops the best possible care and support.
Chancellor George Osborne, who is making the money available from the Treasury's special reserve, added: "Our troops are heroes who have and continue to give absolutely everything for their country and it is only right that we do everything possible to help them, especially when they suffer injury.
"I am delighted, therefore, that we have been able to make funding available for this cutting-edge prosthetic technology, which will go a long way to improving the lives of people who have done so much for the UK."
Experts say the "bionic legs" - the same as those used by Paralympics discus thrower and former soldier Derek Derenalagi - will significantly improve the quality of life and speed of rehabilitation for amputees.
The new technology provides better stability and greater mobility, as well as improvements in the ability to step over obstacles, negotiate stairs and walk backwards safely.
The limbs will be fitted where clinically appropriate at the Headley Court military rehabilitation centre in Surrey.
Paralympic rower Captain Nick Beighton, who lost both legs in an explosion during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2009, welcomed the micro processor limbs as a "big step up in technology".
"To have the opportunity to try it and to use it and get the latest technology is fabulous for us because it just gives us that freedom to get out and do more things and have greater functionality and more independence," said the 31-year-old London 2012 competitor.
Surgeon General Air Marshal Paul Evans said: "The next generation of micro processor knee is a fantastic prosthetic development and now seen to have proven benefits for certain amputees. It will improve the quality of life and rehabilitation for our patients, where it is clinically suitable.
"Not only does it provide better stability and improved mobility but will also help reduce back pain and aid rehabilitation generally."
Bryn Parry, chief executive of the Help for Heroes charity, said: "Our wounded servicemen, women and veterans deserve the best. This announcement will help transform lives.
"We must remember that there is no one-size-fits-all solution and that each individual must be given the best prosthetic for them."
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The self-styled guru, known as Rampal, is wanted in connection with a 2006 murder case and for contempt of court.
His supporters threw stones and opened fire when police tried to raid his ashram in the northern state of Haryana.
The bodies of four women and a child were subsequently found at the site.
A fifth woman, aged 20, died at a local hospital after leaving the ashram.
The causes of their deaths have not been revealed. Police say the bodies did not "bear any injuries".
The guru was led out of the complex in an ambulance late on Wednesday, as dozens of local villagers cheered the police.
He has been taken to the state capital, Chandigarh, a senior police official told the BBC. He is likely to appear in court on Thursday.
A week-long stand-off at the Satlok Ashram - some 170km (105 miles) north-east of Delhi - escalated on Tuesday as police moved in to arrest Rampal.
Police fired tear gas and water cannon, and used bulldozers to try to break into the sprawling complex, while ashram members threw stones and other missiles and opened fire.
Hundreds of people were hurt in the operation.
Police accuse the guru's armed devotees of holding people hostage, and using women and children as human shields.
At least 270 people have been arrested in connection with Tuesday's clashes and charged with rioting, illegal detention, attempt to murder and waging war against the state.
The authorities also cut off power and water supplies to the site.
Mani Ram, a devotee who managed to escape, told the Indian Express newspaper that ashram authorities had prevented them from leaving for two days, insisting police would kill them if they went outside.
Rampal is accused of involvement in a murder case dating from 2006 in which a man died in a clash at another of his ashrams.
He denied the allegations and was released on bail. The authorities ordered his arrest on contempt charges after he repeatedly failed to appear in court.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had set a final deadline for Rampal to appear in court on Monday in the contempt case.
Rampal ignored the summons and his lawyers said he was too ill to make the 250km (155-mile) journey to the court in Chandigarh, which serves as the capital of both states.
The judges criticised the government, saying they "lacked the will" to arrest the guru and said he must be in court by Friday.
Many people visit the guru, believing he can cure illnesses.
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The Football Association announced it will trial what it calls "temporary dismissals" in England's local league football in the 2017-18 season.
Players shown a yellow card for dissent will leave the field for 10 minutes - as they have in rugby union since 2000.
"I think football needs it. It will cut out the dissent, or certainly will help cut it out," said Owens.
The 47-year-old Welshman officiated the 2015 Rugby World Cup final and will take charge of his third successive European Champions Cup final when Saracens play Clermont Auvergne in Murrayfield on 13 May.
Owens believes the sin bin would discourage dissent and encourage managers to improve players' discipline - particularly if it leads to teams conceding goals while they are a man down.
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"In rugby ... on average there are about seven or 10 points scored against the side that has had a player sin-binned," he added.
"A goal in football when someone is off the field and his team is down to 10 men would be a huge difference.
"And it will ensure that the manager instils discipline in his players as well and in the way they conduct themselves on the field as far as respect and dissent goes so it's hugely important I think that they do bring it in."
The FA plans to introduce the rule in England's step seven - six tiers below the National League - and the leagues below.
It will also be tested in Sunday League and male and female youth football.
Step seven is the bottom level of English football's National League System, which feeds into the country's professional leagues.
Charles Kennedy's funeral has taken place in Caol, a village on the northern shore of Loch Linnhe near his home in Fort William.
Mourners arrived in the sunshine for the Mass, which was celebrated at St John's Roman Catholic Church.
Ben Nevis, still with patches of snow on the top, looms large behind the church - but few of those attending paused to take in the view, instead heading inside with heads bowed.
Family and friends, some of the men dressed in kilts, walked in with political figures such as Nick Clegg, Danny Alexander and Alistair Campbell.
A group of children from Lochyside Primary School, who were singing a psalm during the Mass, trooped off a minibus in their shirtsleeves before going inside.
Due to the size of the turnout expected for the service, arrangements were made to pipe the Mass outside to those unable to find a seat in St John's.
Mr Kennedy, a former Lib Dem leader, died suddenly a week ago at the age of 55 after suffering a major haemorrhage as a result of a long battle with alcoholism.
Beyond its impact on his family, friends and colleagues. his death cast a shadow on the local politics of the area he had, until May's general election, represented as an MP for 32 years.
After the election, he returned home to the croft house his grandfather had built near Fort William.
Following his death, a friend recalled how at primary school Mr Kennedy would proudly lead classmates on trips to feed lambs on his grandad's croft.
During the Mass, Father Roddy McAuley said "beautiful tributes" had been paid to Mr Kennedy over the past week.
In his homily, he described the former political leader as a humble man and, when visiting the church, a "backbencher", preferring to sit at the back than take a pew near the front.
He also recalled Mr Kennedy's love of music and quoted him as saying "I hate the sound of silence, the concept I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel".
Businessman Brian McBride recalled his close friend's "smiling eyes", humour and "huge public service ethos".
Mr McBride said: "He was bright, but not overbearing."
He said Mr Kennedy had close bond with his parents and going on to have his family had a big positive effect on his life.
Of Mr Kennedy's alcoholism, Mr McBride said his friend had never lied about it and would have his "ups and downs" and "good and bad days".
Mr McBride's tribute ended with loud applause from those in the church.
The Mass ended with pipe and fiddle music - Mr Kennedy's late mother and father were both musicians and had played at the church for more than 40 years.
Mourners later followed the hearse carrying Mr Kennedy's body in a slow procession from the entrance the church to the road where it would start its journey to Clunes in the hills, on the shores of Loch Lochy.
People leaving the church gathered outside in the warm sunshine and applauded as the hearse passed.
Two flags - a saltire and a lion rampant - on flagpoles in a garden opposite the church fluttered in a cool breeze.
Mr Kennedy was being buried at his family's plot in a graveyard at Clunes - or Cluaineis in Gaelic, which means Place of Pastures.
It seems an appropriate resting place for a man who had revelled in being a boy from a croft.
Having made 255-6 on the first day, Worcestershire batted a lot faster on day two, claiming a fourth bonus point inside the 110-over cut-off, then declaring on 475-7, with Leach on 107.
After adding 157 with Clarke, Leach was only seven shy of his own career-best.
Bottom club Derbyshire reached 15-0, before a weather-hit early finish.
After the players initially went off for rain, play was eventually ended at New Road by bad light.
Left-arm seamer Greg Cork, son of former England Test all-rounder Dominic Cork, sent down 16 overs without reward on his first-class debut.
England Lions batsman Clarke struck a six and 25 fours in his 328-ball knock, while Leach's hundred came off 138 balls - his first since hitting 114 against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in July 2013.
Worcestershire centurion Joe Leach told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"It has been a long time coming. I've got a few 80s and 90s and it has been disappointing not to convert into hundreds but sometimes, batting at number eight, you can't.
"It was nice to have the opportunity to bat with Joe Clarke for a long time and then Ed Barnard and not have to get into a mode where I was batting with the tail.
"Jack Shantry might just have to be a little bit quieter now because he was 2-1 up in terms of hundreds scored. We are 2-2 now thankfully. I can't have him beating me.
Derbyshire skipper Billy Godleman told BBC Radio Derby:
"Worcestershire getting 475 was a lot more than we would have hoped. Once you do a whole day in the field, the first hour the next morning, sometimes runs can leak and that's what happened.
"We could have exploited the conditions in the first session on Tuesday better. We bowled a bit wide and short, but we came back excellently in the last session and a half of the first day to keep us in the game.
"It's a young attack, but it's a great opportunity for the young guys to show what they can do at first class level and gain experience."
Steven Kirkwood, 44, denies stabbing and killing Mr O'Hanlon, 45, in Stevenston, North Ayrshire, in July.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that Mr Kirkwood had messaged Mr O'Hanlon the day he died to suggest they meet up.
Eileen O'Hanlon said her husband-to-be Mr O'Hanlon shook his head when he saw the post. She added: "He was fed up."
She told prosecutor Richard Goddard the Facebook post said: "So you want to be Johnny big baws. Feel free to come to Hammy's and see me. I will be there at 12 today."
The court heard this was a reference to the Autotek garage run by Ian Hamilton.
The jury heard there had been a number of abusive texts and Facebook messages exchanged between Mr Kirkwood, his former partner Ms O'Hanlon and Mr O'Hanlon in the days beforehand.
Mr O'Hanlon and his friend Forbes Cowan, a contestant in the Strongest Man competitions, drove from Irvine to Stevenson to the garage.
Mr Goddard asked Ms O'Hanlon if he had been armed when he left and she replied: "Absolutely not".
When asked if she heard from her partner again, Ms O'Hanlon broke down in tears.
She said she phoned the garage after he failed to respond to her text and phone call, and she drove there after being told something had happened.
Ms O'Hanlon said: "The garage was cordoned off. I ran through it. Michael was on the ground. His friend Forbes was holding him. I tried to get to him and the police told me I couldn't."
She said that she and Mr O'Hanlon were due to be married on 15 August.
Under cross-examination by defence QC Derek Ogg, Ms O'Hanlon admitted writing insulting texts about Mr Kirkwood in July last year, and that he was also posting abusive messages.
Mechanic Lewis McLuckie, 26, who works at Autotek, told the jury the men arrived at the garage and they had "a bit of an argument".
He said he believed he saw Mr Kirkwood pull something out from his waistband and said "that's when I made myself scarce".
Mr McLuckie said: "Steven Kirkwood said something like 'You'd better phone him an ambulance'. That's when I saw the knife."
Prosecutors allege that Kirkwood struggled with Mr O'Hanlon, punched him and repeatedly struck him on the body with a knife or similar item.
Mr Kirkwood also denies separate charges of having a knife in a public place and attempting to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of it.
The trial before judge Lady Rae continues.
Afellay went for reacting to a challenge by Craig Gardner before Adam followed six minutes later after appearing to stamp on Craig Dawson.
West Brom took the lead when club record £12m signing Salomon Rondon headed home Rickie Lambert's cross.
It was enough to earn Baggies boss Tony Pulis victory on his first return to his former club.
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Pulis was given a standing ovation by a sell-out crowd at Stoke, the club he took into the Premier League, and led to the 2011 FA Cup final and a place in the Europa League.
But home fans were not so generous towards referee Michael Oliver as the hosts were left to play with nine men for more than an hour.
Stoke started brightly and were on top when Afellay was shown a red card for slapping Gardner in the 25th minute.
The West Brom player had clearly fouled his opponent, and appeared to flick a hand at Afellay as the latter sat on the ground, but Oliver had no hesitation dismissing Afellay. Gardner was booked for his contribution.
It went from bad to worse for the hosts, Adam sent off after the referee consulted his assistant following a challenge involving Dawson.
Television replays showed Adam's foot made contact with Dawson's knee when the West Brom player was on the ground.
There was much to admire about Stoke after they were reduced to nine men.
They made West Brom work hard for their three points but Mark Hughes's side remain without a win this season and will be without two key players for their next game at Arsenal.
Midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri, the Potters' star summer signing, showed his quality in spells but, whatever their feelings about the refereeing decisions, Stoke's uncertain start to the season continues.
Stoke City manager Mark Hughes: "I'm delighted with the performance of my team under difficult circumstances.
"The first red card, Ibrahim Affelay reacted to being flicked in the face. By the letter of the law, maybe they both should have been sent off.
"With the second one, Charlie Adam ends up standing on the lad's leg after the other player had followed through on him. I think it was harsh."
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West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "We moved the ball too slowly when they went down to nine men.
"We tried to open it up a bit by bringing on Rickie Lambert and Callum McManaman.
"To play Manchester City and Chelsea in our first two home games, it's been a tough start. For us to be sat with four points from four games is not bad. We're happy with that."
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After a tough start against Chelsea and Manchester City, West Brom's season is up and running.
Pulis's team will return from the international break with some winnable fixtures, Southampton the visitors on 12 September.
But will striker Saido Berahino, left out of the this game amid speculation linking him with a move away, still be at the club?
Two points from four games is not the start Stoke were looking for and it does not get any easier for the Potters.
Their next game is at Arsenal on 12 September.
Former Wales striker John Hartson on Afellay's red card on Final Score: "There's nothing in it. Afellay taps him in the face. You can't raise your hands, but come on, it's so soft."
Match ends, Stoke City 0, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Second Half ends, Stoke City 0, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Foul by Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion).
Erik Pieters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation.
Attempt blocked. Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Rickie Lambert (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rickie Lambert (West Bromwich Albion).
Erik Pieters (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Stoke City. Jack Butland tries a through ball, but Marko Arnautovic is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Cristian Gamboa (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion).
Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Joleon Lescott (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City).
Attempt blocked. Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Substitution, Stoke City. Stephen Ireland replaces Mame Biram Diouf.
Attempt missed. Callum McManaman (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by James Morrison.
Attempt blocked. Rickie Lambert (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by James Morrison.
Attempt saved. James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum McManaman.
Attempt saved. Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Geoff Cameron.
Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion).
Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt saved. Erik Pieters (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Glenn Whelan.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Jonas Olsson.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Craig Dawson.
Cristian Gamboa (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Marco Van Ginkel (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cristian Gamboa (West Bromwich Albion).
Substitution, Stoke City. Marko Arnautovic replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Attempt missed. James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Callum McManaman following a set piece situation.
Erik Pieters (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Cristian Gamboa (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Offside, West Bromwich Albion. James Morrison tries a through ball, but Cristian Gamboa is caught offside.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Cristian Gamboa replaces James McClean.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
The body of Kirk Cole, 36, was found in a flat in Cairnhill Drive, Crookston, at about 09:15 on Thursday.
Police Scotland previously said they were treating his death as murder.
A spokesman said the arrested man was in police custody and a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
Alan Pardew's side started brightly and Simon Francis cleared Damien Delaney's goalbound volley off the line.
But Bournemouth recovered well and Matt Ritchie headed wide before Eunan O'Kane's shot was tipped over.
However, they could not break through as Palace extended their unbeaten away run to four matches.
A draw was a fair result in a match in which both teams enjoyed spells of superiority, but in truth this was a disappointing encounter as two of the division's form teams struggled to carve out clear-cut chances.
A point nevertheless sees Crystal Palace climb one place to fifth, while Bournemouth remain 14th.
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Having scored 10 goals in their previous five matches - an unbeaten run - Bournemouth would have had high hopes of continuing their fine attacking form.
But they struggled to get going as Palace made the stronger start - with Delaney close to giving Palace the lead after 10 minutes.
Thereafter Eddie Howe's side grew into the game, but a mere two shots on target - both from outside the area - tells the tale of a frustrating afternoon.
And Howe admitted: "It's not a scoreline you'd associate with us. We had the best chances, but we're disappointed not to have worked their keeper more."
While this was hardly a vintage performance from the Eagles, it did demonstrate many of the qualities that have made them such a formidable proposition on the road.
Scott Dann and Damien Delaney gave a typically commanding performance at the back as they totally snuffed out the threat of former Palace striker Glenn Murray and ensured Palace's tally of goals conceded away - seven - remains the lowest in the league.
And in front of the back four James McArthur was excellent, making a team-high four tackles and winning possession on nine occasions - more than anyone else on the pitch.
That solidity was crucial as Palace earned a 36th away point of 2015 - second only to Arsenal.
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Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "It was a real battle, Palace are a very good side, very physical and we certainly knew we were in a game. But the most pleasing aspect from my perspective was the way we fought and defended set plays, with the aerial threat they've got.
"We're harder to beat now, that's six games unbeaten, confidence is improving and belief is growing. We probably created the best chances but didn't take them. We're now moving into a tough period when we know we'll have to be even better."
Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew: "Physically and mentally, it was a tough game - you have to take your hat off to Bournemouth as they're relentless. I had to bring on Yohan Cabaye [at half-time] to get some of the ball, and in the last six minutes I think it showed, as Bournemouth couldn't raise a leg by then. But I'm full of admiration for what they [Bournemouth] did. We'll take the point, it moves us up a place, the unbeaten run goes on, we go to the next game."
Bournemouth visit Arsenal on Monday, while Palace face Swansea.
Sgt Craig Davenport and Sgt Stephen Suffield took items including body armour, distraction grenades, flares, and night-vision goggles from Stirling Lines Army Camp in Hereford.
Portsmouth Crown Court heard these were then passed to Andrew Stevens, who sold globally through contacts on Ebay.
All three admitted conspiracy to commit theft.
Some of the stolen items were on an official list of items Attractive to Criminal and Terrorist Organisations (ACTO), prosecutor Adam Norris said.
"The significance is our security forces, if dealing with a situation, would not want to be confronted with the sort of equipment they themselves use," he said.
Military gaming business owner Stevens, 41, from Horndean in Hampshire - who was arrested after radioactive material in night-vision goggles set off an alert in Heathrow airport in June 2015 - was sentenced to two years in prison.
Nina Tavakoli, his lawyer, said her client had become "blinded with his obsession with collecting military paraphernalia".
She said: "He no longer wants anything to do with it, he is now collecting Star Wars paraphernalia instead."
Thirty-year-old Afghanistan and Iraq veteran Davenport, from Crewe in Cheshire, was jailed for 22 months.
Judge Claudia Ackner told him: "You have thrown away all you have achieved from your long career."
Suffield, 28, who resigned from the Royal Logistics Corp in Chippenham, was handed an 18-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £2,500 compensation.
His lawyer said he got involved to pay off £16,000 if gambling debts.
Umpires Paul Baldwin and Steve O'Shaughnessy opted to call the day off at 18:30 BST, just before the second interval of the day-night match.
Luke Wright struck 118 on the opening day as Sussex declared on 358-9, before the visitors reached 31-0 at stumps.
Sussex are third in the table, while Gloucestershire are seventh.
The 30-year-old joined the Championship side on loan in January last season and scored seven goals in 18 league games.
Graham netted just once in 42 matches for the Black Cats after joining them from Swansea in January 2013.
The former Watford player also had loan spells with Middlesbrough, Wolves and Hull during his time on Wearside.
Since Owen Coyle was appointed Rovers' new manager in June, Blackburn have added former Celtic striker Anthony Stokes to their squad, while West Ham defender Stephen Hendrie joined on a season long-loan.
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Nicole Sapstead said "football was at risk" and that she would value talks with Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger after he spoke out on the topic.
The FA says it will be seeking a meeting with Ukad over her comments.
It said Sapstead's comments were "speculative" and "unhelpful", adding that they had no "evidential basis".
A statement from Darren Bailey, the FA's director of football governance and administration, added: "Such comments create a misleading impression and I will be taking this up with Ukad at the highest level."
Sapstead said on Wednesday she would like to meet Wenger after he said he believed football had a doping problem, though he stressed he was confident the English game was clean.
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In November, Wenger, 66, told French newspaper L'Equipe he "never injected players to make them better" but there had been teams he had faced not "in that frame of mind".
On Thursday, Wenger said he was happy to meet Sapstead to discuss the issue of doping.
"What is important is that we all try to show we don't accept it," he said.
"It is important to think that when a guy wins it is because he is the best, not because he has taken illegal substances."
Later on Thursday, Bailey confirmed the FA had already spoken to Wenger following his comments to L'Equipe.
He added: "The FA has no current information to suggest the public cannot trust in the measures we have in place, nor should anyone think English football would ever get complacent to the risks of doping.
"We are happy to speak with any manager or player who wishes to discuss with us any issues or concerns relating to anti-doping."
Marcin Porczynski admitted stabbing Nicola Cross, 37, to death in September 2015 in Hemel Hempstead.
Mrs Cross's husband Danny had told St Albans Crown Court he heard his wife's screams over the phone as Porczynski broke into their home and attacked her.
Porczynski, 24, will serve an indefinite spell at a psychiatric unit.
Porczynski, of Claymore Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The court heard he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the attack and had been hearing voices for up to two years before the killing.
He broke into Mrs Cross's home while she was on the telephone to her husband who was working away in Hull. She was stabbed 10 times.
Porczynski arrived in the UK to work in early 2015. He told doctors he believed he had to kill Mrs Cross or his family in Poland would be killed.
Judge Andrew Bright QC ordered that Porczynski should be detained at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire under a hospital order with a restriction without limit of time.
Judge Bright told Porczynski: : "As you were breaking in, Nicola Cross was on the phone to her husband Daniel.
"She told him that she had heard a noise and that he should hold on while she went to investigate.
"By then you had gone to the kitchen and taken one of the knives from a knife block.
"Although Nicola Cross tried to reason with you and heroically did her best to protect herself and her two young children from you, she was completely defenceless against the vicious knife attack you launched upon her."
In a victim statement to the court, Mr Cross said: "I will never forgive myself for not being there to protect her."
Paul Moffat allegedly carried out various sex attacks between January 2014 and April 2015 at an address in Kinloss.
The jury at the High Court in Glasgow heard a recorded interview with the girl, a police officer and a social worker when she described what allegedly happened to her.
Moffat, 30, denies the charges against him.
The child, now six - who cannot be named for legal reasons - said the accused had her carry out sex acts on him and touched her.
The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.
Paul Smith, of Holm Garth Drive, was also given a 12-month community order after pleading guilty at Hull Crown Court to owning explosive substances.
Smith told police it was a "hobby" when they found two pipe bombs in a workshop at his home earlier this year.
The 40-year-old was even given a bomb-shaped birthday cake, police said.
Smith, who also pleaded guilty to one charge of possession of a Class B drug, has been banned from owning flares or fireworks that are not commercially available under the order.
During the search, officers had found bomb-making equipment and a number of "sophisticated" explosives. An Army bomb disposal team had to make his house safe, police said.
Det Ch Insp Steve Hibbit, from Humberside Police, said: "We never found any evidence that Mr Smith had any intent to harm anybody, either as a group or an individual.
"But anybody making devices like that inevitably brings danger to themselves, to others in the immediate vicinity and who's to know how this would've ended up."
Smith told police he had an interest in explosives "in the same way that other people have an interest in collecting stamps".
Det Ch Insp Hibbit said: "What is extraordinary is the fact that he was living at home [with his parents] and he was even given a birthday cake in the shape of a bomb.
"If it wasn't so dangerous it could be comical. He was clearly self-taught using recipes that are readily available to anybody, but it's not a joke. It is a very serious matter."
Ghana international Appiah joined Palace from Margate in January 2012, but made only 10 appearances for the club in all competitions.
The 26-year-old joined Wimbledon on loan in March 2014, scoring three goals in seven league games.
He has also had loan spells with six other clubs during his time with Palace, including Cambridge and Yeovil.
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The 28-year-old scored two goals in 32 appearances for the O's last season, but has not featured for the League Two club in the new campaign.
Moore spent two years with Dover between 2008 and 2010, playing 56 times before joining AFC Wimbledon.
He could make his second debut for the Whites against Barrow on Saturday.
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David Cameron has decided to place awards arising from the London 2012 Games outside the usual system.
There has been no official confirmation of a separate honours list but Whitehall sources have told the BBC it will happen.
They said it would reflect the scale of achievement by British athletes.
The 29 gold medals at the London games and more than 100 medals so far at the Paralympics had raised expectations that champions such as Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah, Sarah Storey and Ellie Simmonds would be recognised.
The prime minister's official spokesman said no official announcement would would be made at this stage.
But he added: "The prime minister is very keen to recognise people who contributed to the very successful Olympics and Paralympics."
Johnnie Peacock who won the T44 100m said he was pleased by the decision.
Mr Peacock said: "That is good news. It's good to hear that he's obviously supporting everything and you know this country really has pushed the Olympics and Paralympics and they really are getting behind everyone so it's great to see the support that even he's given."
Dame Tessa Jowell, the former Labour Olympics minister, has also welcomed the move.
"Like any system, of course it should constantly be kept under review and make sure that its rules and the people who are being honoured are the people who reflect just dessert in the broader country," she said.
There was also general support among spectators attending events at the Olympic Park on Friday for a separate honours list.
Sam Morgan, who is from Australia but now lives in London, said: "I guess the hardest thing is to decide who is going to get the honours.
"Difficult to say whether it should just be the gold medallists or all the people who have put in so much work."
Adrienne Hughes, from Suffolk, said: "I think it's a good idea as long as they have some of the Games Makers in that list.
"They are all so lovely, so helpful and smile and the separate list would be brilliant if they do that."
Speculation that Britain's Olympic heroes would miss out on honours was triggered last month by a senior civil servant, Jonathan Stephens, who told the BBC medals would not mean an "automatic gong".
Honours are awarded for exceptional achievement or service, twice every year - at New Year, and in mid-June - and are decided by a Whitehall committee and not the government.
The sport committee, which is chaired by Olympic chief Lord Coe, is strictly limited as to the number of gongs it can award per year.
Baroness Grey-Thompson - herself an 11 time paralympic gold medallist - and sits on the sporting honours committee previously told the BBC that they were able to award "one or two" knighthoods, a "few more" CBEs, "more" OBEs and "up to 45-50 MBEs".
By giving Olympic and Paralympic athletes their own honours list Downing Street can ensure that there is no limit on the number of awards handed out.
O'Sullivan made just three appearances for Cardiff's first team after coming through the club's academy system.
The 22-year-old had two loan spells with Newport last season, scoring one goal in 22 games.
He is the second Cardiff player to join Colchester this month, following the arrival of striker Eli Phipps.
"I had a chat with the manager at Cardiff and there wasn't a way through for me there," he told BBC Essex.
"I'm here to play first team football as anything else would be a backwards step.
"I was on loan at Newport last season and what is there compared to the facilities here is much better with the training ground and the stadium"
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They include counterfeit Timberland boots, Nike trainers, Adidas hoodies and Ralph Lauren jackets.
The fake labels will be removed and they will be sent along with medical and school supplies to villages in Ghana by National Police Aid Convoys.
Its founder David Scott said they would go to people in "great need".
Duncan Smith, Torfaen council's chief officer for neighbourhoods, planning and public protection, said the items could not be redistributed in the UK as brands were concerned about them ending up back on the black market.
The England Under-19 cap, who has agreed a two-year contract, started his career with Manchester City but moved to the Foxes in summer 2014.
Kennedy said: "I think I have played enough football at development level and it's time to make that step up.
"If I am training well and working hard, hopefully I get a chance, but I know I'll need to be patient."
Kennedy, a central defender who can also play at right-back, joined Motherwell at their Dutch training base and played against both Borussia Monchengladbach and Heerenveen.
"I've been here for over a week after being with the team over in the Netherlands and I've been really impressed with the facilities and the club itself," Kennedy told Motherwell's website.
"I've had such a good time at both Manchester City and Leicester, both great clubs, but I've been lucky enough to get the move up to Scotland and I can't wait to get started."
Kennedy, who becomes manager Ian Baraclough's sixth summer signing, is friendly with Louis Laing, his fellow defender who has joined Motherwell permanently after a loan spell last season from Nottingham Forest.
"I know Louis Laing having played with him for England and, even in the short time I spent with Mick over in the Netherlands, it's clear what good players we have," he added.
Turnbull, who spent 15 years with the early morning show, will take the radio station's mid-morning slot at 10:00 on Saturdays and Sundays.
He said it would be "a real joy to turn from news to music, especially at a more civilised hour".
The 60-year-old, who is also the host of new BBC quiz show Think Tank, will begin broadcasting on 9 April.
The station's managing editor Sam Jackson said Turnbull was "one of those rare presenters who everyone feels like they know".
"His warmth and wit have endeared him to millions of television viewers and now we're thrilled that he's joining Classic FM's weekend team."
Turnbull, who worked as a foreign news correspondent before joining Breakfast in 2001, left the BBC's flagship morning broadcast in February.
He said he wanted to dispel the idea that leaving Breakfast meant he was retiring completely, adding he would be "cluttering up the airwaves in one respect or another for a while yet".
Fellow BBC game show host Alexander Armstrong, who fronts Pointless, will join Turnbull in the station's new weekend schedule, taking over from him at 13:00 on both days.
The changes will also see existing presenters Alan Titchmarsh and Aled Jones move to the breakfast slots on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
Nabila Nanfuka, 22, and Laurene-Danielle Jackson, 19, suffered fatal injuries while trying to leave the Lava and Ignite club in Northampton in 2011.
An inquest jury found 14 announcements in the space of 30 minutes had been the most significant cause of overcrowding.
A narrative verdict was delivered.
During the two-week hearing, the court heard a series of announcement reminding people not to miss their coaches had been made in the early hours of 19 October.
During the inquest, David Osahon, one of the DJs on the night, admitted to making up a series of announcements, including that the driver of a bus going to Luton was angry and waiting to leave, and that local hotel rooms were fully booked.
Around 900 students had travelled to the club from around the country and the DJs called for universities to leave one after the other, often with just a few minutes between them.
One played to the jury said: "Kingston, Roehampton, Kent, your coach is leaving in 20 minutes."
Minutes later they were told: "If you don't get on your coach you'll be left behind."
The jury concluded the second most significant factor was the lack of overall management of the cloakroom.
The foreman added: "We believe the crowd's attitude and behaviour was a significant factor.
"We believe another factor that contributed was the lack of monitoring and overlooking of the evening's events."
The Crown Prosecution Service previously determined there would be no criminal charges brought against anyone following the incident.
However, a spokesman for Northampton Borough Council said the authority will now look at the evidence and "decide whether any enforcement action is appropriate".
He added: "We are keen that any lessons that can be drawn from the deaths should be learned, so that young people visiting pubs and clubs are safer as a result."
But Northampton South MP David Mackintosh, who was leader of the borough council at the time of the incident, said it was "hard to see where the justice is in this outcome".
He said: "I feel very strongly that there must be a clearer understanding of accountability from this tragedy."
A statement on behalf of Ms Jackson's family said they hoped lessons would be learned following their daughter's death.
It said the family believed the jury's decision "rightly identifies that the safe exit of the clubbers was not adequately considered and that the DJ announcements were the most significant factor".
It added: "Danni was a beautiful, bright, outgoing young woman."
Ms Nanfuka, of Neasden, north London, was studying a leisure and tourism degree at the University of Northampton. She died at Northampton General Hospital on 19 October.
Ms Jackson, of Wembley, was studying psychology at Kingston University and died at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital on 6 November.
One is white, and the other is black, but both men are carrying bottles.
In many parts of America, you can legitimately decide not to treat these men equally.
You can ignore the white man and approach the black man and assume he wants to attack you or somebody else with the bottle.
If during your attempts to remonstrate with him or arrest him you fear for your life, as a police officer, you can kill him and you will not be prosecuted.
That in a nutshell, is how racial profiling works in the US, and - as with much pertaining to race in the US - it's a policy that dates back to slavery.
In the late 17th Century, the police in Philadelphia were given the right to stop and detain any black man seen wandering the streets.
Well, slavery may have long gone, but apprehending someone because they could be up to no good, simply because they're black is still police policy in much of the land.
It is through the prism of racism that many black Americans see the deaths of countless black men at the hands of white police officers, and a look at the facts suggests this might be appropriate.
Ferguson, in St Louis in Missouri, is the place where an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer.
By law, Ferguson has to compile every year the number of times police officers make traffic stops to ask drivers for their identification et cetera.
Last year black drivers represented 86% of all traffic stops, despite making up 67% of the city's population.
White drivers by contrast accounted for only 13% of stops, despite making up 29% of the population.
Black drivers accounted for 93% of arrests and whites 7%.
Now you might say: "Well, the police must have had good reason for all this?"
But when the police in Ferguson searched suspects' cars, they found drugs et cetera in more than a third of their white targets but only a fifth of black ones.
So, a higher proportion of white people were criminals, yet more black people were being stopped and arrested.
Almost 3%
of the black male population of the US is in prison, compared with
0.5%
of white males
If this is the reality, how can there be any trust that a black man will be treated fairly at the hands of the police?
So, right on cue, riots broke out after Michael Brown's death, and once again when it was announced there would be no prosecution of the white police officer who had killed him.
On the face of it, the system just seems completely stacked against people of colour.
You have electoral boards across America saying they want to stamp out voter fraud, so they introduce rules that disproportionately affect black Americans and Hispanics - making it difficult for them to vote.
On most socio-economic metrics black Americans are bottom of the pile, with high levels of unemployment, house foreclosures, infant mortality rates, slum housing, poor education and poverty.
And the biggest kick in the teeth of all, is that there is a black man in the White House.
The riots in Ferguson, I believe, were a cry for help from a community that feels downtrodden.
The burning and looting and violence was a scream of anguish, not simply towards white society to wake up, but also to the black head of state.
13%
of the US population is black
28% of suspects arrested in the US in 2010 were black
32% of people killed from 2003 to 2009 in arrest-related incidents were black
42% of inmates on death row in 2012 were black
''What are you doing to help your own people?" was the message.
On Barack Obama's watch, the economic prospects of black Americans have got worse not better, as the economy has struggled to recover after the crash.
But when it comes to law enforcement, the 44th president has tried to level the playing field for black people.
His Attorney General, Eric Holder, who is black, says civil rights is a major priority for the Justice Department, identifying the unfairness of the treatment of minorities in the criminal justice system, especially those convicted of non-violent drug crimes, which he says are overly harsh and disproportionately affect black defendants.
He has launched the Smart on Crime initiative, instructing federal prosecutors to stop charging many non-violent drug defendants with offences that carry mandatory minimum prison sentences.
He has broadened the criteria for inmates seeking clemency, hoping more will be encouraged to apply.
And he has backed changes in federal sentencing guidelines that could see tens of thousands of inmates on drugs offences being eligible for early release.
44%
of New York City's residents are white
but the average proportion of white police officers for large US cities is 56%
In the wake of the Ferguson shooting, he is to issue new guidelines limiting racial profiling.
But, and it's a big but, all these initiatives affect federal law.
Local and state jurisdictions can still carry on as before.
But the hope is, says Mr Holder, that the federal guidelines will set an example.
In the meantime, there are likely to be more Michael Browns, or Trayvon Martins, Darrien Hunts, or Kajieme Powells.
All were black men who, in the eyes of their community, were shot dead because of the colour of their skin.
Mr Holder, who is soon to leave his job, himself has spoken about the times when he was a young man and he was stopped and confronted by the police without cause.
I remember being stopped myself, not in America, but in Paris, by the police, and it was obvious it was simply because I'm black. It's not a nice feeling, believe me.
I've interviewed the Reverend Jesse Jackson many times, and the last occasion was on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Obama as president in 2009.
He said to me that the significance of the moment was that it showed people in other parts of the world that colour did not matter, that it shouldn't define us, that in this regard America was leading the way.
In the midst of the Obama era, oh, what a rude awakening the events of Ferguson have been.
Cordina is one of three Welsh boxers in the British Lionhearts' World Series of Boxing squad along with Sean McGoldrick and Kody Davies.
The 24-year-old lightweight won gold at the 2015 European Championships in Bulgaria and is now targeting qualification for Rio.
"It's great to know that I'm on track to fulfil my dreams," Cordina said.
"I just need to be active so I can get myself prepared and ready for the upcoming qualifiers."
Cardiff-born Cordina has been included in a 30-man Lionhearts squad for the World Series of Boxing, which provides a qualification route to Rio 2016.
Boxers that compete twice across 2015 and 2016 will be eligible for selection by GB Boxing to compete at the Olympic qualifying event in Sofia in May.
The Lionhearts are in Group B of the World Series of Boxing along with Morocco Atlas Lions, Mexico Guerreros and USA Knockouts, their first opponents in Miami later this month.
Cordina, who won Commonwealth bronze at Glasgow 2014, beat Georgia's Otar Eranosyan on points to become European champion in August 2015.
"I'm learning all the time and winning those major medals gives me a massive boost of confidence leading up to these Olympics," he added.
Ninety-six fans were killed as a result of the crush at the football ground in Sheffield in April 1989.
Police released images of men they wanted to speak to last month as part of Operation Resolve.
Senior investigating officer Neil Malkin stressed the men pictured "had done nothing wrong".
He said those seen on CCTV images at about 14:50, at the stadium's Leppings Lane end near Exit Gate C when it opened, "could have vital information".
"The purpose of this appeal is to try and fill in gaps in our evidence and put together the best possible file of evidence for the Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] in order for them to make the most informed decisions," he added.
Officers said they had been given names for a further eight people - in addition to the eight traced - and were in the process of contacting them. Three witnesses have yet to be identified.
Detectives said they closed the appeal to find the remaining three witnesses in order to "stay on track" with passing a file to the CPS at the end of the year.
In April an inquest jury concluded the 96 who died at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed.
It found a number of errors by South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Ambulance Service, as well as stadium defects, contributed to the deaths.
Hillsborough inquests: The 96 who died
Operation Resolve is one of two criminal investigations ordered after the Hillsborough Independent Panel's report in 2012.
A separate criminal investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission is examining police conduct.
The 36-year-old Cardiff Blues loose-head prop missed the 2017 Six Nations campaign after having surgery on a ruptured bicep.
Jenkins captained Wales in three of their four 2016 autumn internationals before suffering the injury.
"It was bad timing," he said. "I've definitely got the hunger to get back that starting spot."
He added: "I was happy with how I performed and the honour of being captain."
Rob Evans was preferred for Wales in the 2016 Six Nations, but Jenkins, who has 129 caps, reclaimed the jersey when the Scarlets player was injured - only for the bicep injury to strike.
Now, with the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand and Wales facing Tests against Samoa and Tonga on their summer tour, it may be a busy summer for Jenkins.
He toured New Zealand with the 2005 Lions and went again in South Africa in 2009, making five Test appearances, but injury meant Jenkins was forced off the 2013 trip to Australia.
Jenkins would not be drawn on any hopes he has of going to New Zealand again in 2017 with the Lions.
He says he "wouldn't turn down the chance" to add to his 129 Wales caps if the call comes, however.
Jenkins' immediate focus is Blues' Judgement Day game against Ospreys at Principality Stadium in the Pro12 on Saturday, 15 April.
Since returning from the bicep injury, he played the full 80 minutes of their European Challenge Cup defeat by Gloucester and 76 more in Friday's 24-24 draw at Ulster.
"I am concentrating on getting fitness under my belt," said Jenkins.
"If in four games time I'm back to where I hope I am, I wouldn't turn down the chance to play [for Wales]."
Jenkins is up for the challenge posed by Evans and Ospreys' loose-head Nicky Smith.
"To come from being captain to being injured for three months makes you experience the highs and lows," said Jenkins.
"There's obviously a progression plan with the boys coming through, but I'll always have the drive to win back that number one jersey."
The Canaries, who surrendered a 3-1 lead to lose at Newcastle on Wednesday, went ahead at Molineux when Cameron Jerome headed past Carl Ikeme.
Robbie Brady doubled the advantage with a fine curling effort, moments after Nouha Dicko spurned a great chance in his first senior match for 13 months.
Dave Edwards headed a late consolation for Wolves, who remain in 12th.
Listen to Norwich boss Alex Neil speaking to BBC Radio Norfolk
Following eye-catching wins over Newcastle and Brentford, Walter Zenga's side have now lost successive matches for the first time this season - and they will rue several missed opportunities when the score was 1-0 against Norwich.
Dicko, only just on as a substitute for his first appearance since suffering a cruciate ligament injury in August 2015, was most guilty, miscontrolling when well placed and then allowing Michael McGovern to make a smart save.
Conor Coady also failed to hit the target from inside the area, shooting over the crossbar as the home team pressed for an equaliser.
But Brady's superbly-taken goal from 25 yards proved decisive, giving Norwich their seventh league win of the season and their fifth in six matches.
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Norwich City 2.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Norwich City 2.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Norwich City. Ryan Bennett replaces Cameron Jerome.
Delay in match Michael McGovern (Norwich City) because of an injury.
Michael McGovern (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt saved. Conor Coady (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro.
Foul by Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City).
Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt blocked. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonny Howson.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Joe Mason replaces Cameron Borthwick-Jackson.
Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Substitution, Norwich City. Nélson Oliveira replaces Wes Hoolahan.
Foul by Cameron Jerome (Norwich City).
Dominic Iorfa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Norwich City 2. David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Matt Doherty with a cross.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Romain Saiss tries a through ball, but David Edwards is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 0, Norwich City 2. Robbie Brady (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Attempt blocked. Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Substitution, Norwich City. Jonny Howson replaces Jacob Murphy.
Attempt missed. Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Conor Coady.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Timm Klose.
Attempt saved. Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro.
Alexander Tettey (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Alexander Tettey (Norwich City).
Hélder Costa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacob Murphy (Norwich City).
Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Nouha Dicko replaces João Teixeira.
Turn and Face the Strange is a live show written by Rupert Creed and Garry Burnett, both of whom are from Hull.
The performance will incorporate film, audio, storytelling and live music.
Ronson grew up in Hull, where he formed the band that went on to become the Spiders From Mars. He died in 1993 aged 46 after developing liver cancer.
A spokesman for the project said Turn and Face the Strange would go "beneath the known narratives of Mick Ronson's partnership with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars".
He added: "It will tell the story of how a working class boy from Greatfield Estate came to challenge the norms and expectations of his time and place of origin, to play a pivotal role in creating a new music and social culture."
As well as working with Bowie, Ronson recorded several solo albums, the most successful of which was Slaughter on 10th Avenue, which reached number nine on the UK album chart.
He also played on, produced or arranged songs for artists including Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and Morrissey.
The performance will be accompanied by an exhibition of photographs and memorabilia at the Freedom Centre.
Creed said: "The project will engage and connect Hull residents from Greatfield Estate and across the city, recording and sharing audio stories and memories, personal photographs and memorabilia.
"We will gather memories of gigs, record his impact as role model and icon on the lives of Hull residents and beyond."
The material gathered from archives as well as contributions from the public will then make up the content of the show, which will be performed in August 2017.
Turn and Face the Strange will be one of 60 projects to take place in neighbourhoods across the city as part of the the Hull 2017 Creative Communities Programme. The 60 projects will share £750,000 funding.
The full City of Culture line-up will be announced on Thursday.
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The notices have been given to residents for issues including overloading refuse bins, since waste collection changes started last July.
They included the roll-out of garden waste bins and smaller black refuse bins to boost recycling rates.
Cardiff council said residents had generally embraced the changes.
A total of 4,058 notices have been issued to households in the past six months warning residents about issues such as putting out the wrong type of bags or placing non-recyclable materials in a green waste bin.
Those who persisted to put out the wrong waste were given £100 fines, which could generate up to £10,900 for the council.
Most fines - 35 - have been handed out in the Adamsdown area of the city, followed by neighbouring Splott, where 28 fines were issued.
A Cardiff council spokesman said: "This city-wide process was always going to take time to implement due to the sheer scale of the operation. But it is essential that the council meets our statutory recycling target of 58% from all waste collected for this current financial year.
"Last October we announced that the "Stay out of the black… move into the green" campaign was working as tonnage of recycling material collected was up by 11% on the same time last year.
"Food waste had also increased by 15%. We'd like to thank residents for embracing the campaign and the need to increase city-wide recycling levels."
All councils in Wales must recycle 58% of their waste by March this year or face hefty fines.
Professor Dean Williams, head of the School of Medical Sciences, said "relatively few extra academic staff would be needed" to establish a doctor training facility in the city.
The Welsh Government will make an announcement on medical training in north Wales in "the coming weeks".
It comes as moves are made to tackle a shortage of doctors in Wales.
In the report, Prof Williams said Wales must expand medical schools to deal with future shortages of doctors, particularly GPs.
He believes an extra 120 medical student training places are needed and a rural campus in north Wales would cater for the area's needs better than building on existing training structures in Wales.
"Selection is key to recruiting GPs for rural areas," he said.
"Bangor University is in an ideal position to foster and recruit students from rural Wales and Welsh-speaking communities.
"Evidence from school pupils suggests that they would be attracted to a medical school in the region."
Prof Williams also believes clinical teachers and research scientists already working in north Wales could provide the training.
The report was commissioned by Plaid Cymru and Arfon AM Sian Gwenllian, who urged the government to act.
She said: "We face a crisis in Wales from a medical perspective, and the idea of a new medical school goes some of the way towards dealing with that crisis."
The Welsh Conservatives said a medical school must be sustainable, while the Liberal Democrats said that the problem of recruitment needs to be addressed.
UKIP did not respond to a request for a comment.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are already looking at the provision of medical education and training in North Wales, including the case for a new medical school.
"We expect to be in a position to announce our decision in the coming weeks."
The university is ready to work with the government to establish a medical school if it is its intention, a spokesman said.
However, he added it is essential it is sustainable "in terms of resources, staffing and finance".
Events on 26 March include a civic procession through the city, an address by the Lord Mayor and a special service at York Minster.
The remains of the king were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. He will be reinterred in the city's cathedral on 26 March.
Descendants of his family lost a legal challenge to have him reburied in York.
Richard III spent much of his youth in Yorkshire and during the reign of his brother, Edward IV, he governed the north of England on behalf of the King.
The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of York Minster, said: "On the evening of the reinterment of King Richard III, it is right that the people of York and Yorkshire will have the opportunity to gather in the Minster to pray and to remember the death of the King at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485."
She said the service would include a prayer composed by the Dean of Leicester.
The events on the 26 March, organised by the Minster, City of York Council, the York Museums Trust and the University of York include:
That is what people will be saying before England's second group game at Euro 2012 and, although it will not be quite as simple as that in Kiev on Friday, Roy Hodgson's side clearly have a much better chance of victory if they do.
I love watching Ibrahimovic.
Yes, he can be infuriating but I don't think you could ever doubt his ability - he is up there with the best all-round strikers in the world.
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What is so good about him? Well, he is big and strong and he scores spectacular goals. He is powerful in the air but he has got a very good touch and also brings other people into the game.
The reason he sometimes gets up people's noses is because of his relaxed-looking playing style, and of course his attitude too.
A big part of his game is confidence, or arrogance even. But I don't think it does him any harm. As a striker, it probably helps if you harness it in the right way.
Besides, he is good enough to back it up.
He is Sweden's star but their problem is getting the best out of him.
There are reports he has fallen out with a couple of his team-mates at this tournament already. I don't know if that is true or not, but sometimes on the pitch you get the feeling they are not really on his wavelength at times.
Getting the ball to him is one thing and he showed what he can do with the right service when he scored in Monday's defeat by Ukraine. But you have to remember he cannot do everything on his own.
That is the problem when you play for an international team that is not as strong as your club side and I am sure Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo would sympathise.
Born: Malmo, Sweden Age: 30
Clubs: Malmo, Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan
Honours: Nine domestic league titles in three countries
Eredivisie with Ajax: 2001-02 & 03-04
Serie A with Juventus: 2004-05 & 05-06 (both revoked)
Serie A with Inter Milan: 2006-07, 07-08 & 08-09
La Liga with Barcelona: 2009-10
Serie A with AC Milan: 2010-11
Ibrahimovic's scoring record for Sweden - 32 goals in 78 games - is still very good, but no matter how well he does it is clearly going to be very difficult for him to win anything with Sweden.
Like Ronaldo, he will always get the accusation that he cannot do it on the international stage, but look at the clubs he has played for and the trophies he has won as proof as to how good he is.
I'm sure Arsenal fans will not have forgotten him destroying their side for AC Milan at the San Siro in February. That was not a surprise, though, because he has been at the very top for so long now.
He will undoubtedly be Sweden's main threat because he is the man with the best record and most ability in their team but, even so, I don't think England's centre-backs John Terry and Joleon Lescott will fear him.
In fact, I'm backing England to beat the Swedes and then overcome Ukraine in their final group game in Donetsk on 19 June.
Playing the hosts is likely to be the toughest part of that.
As we found out in Euro 96, playing at home makes a big difference. By then, Ukraine will have a good feel for the stadium and their situation - and the crowd will be right up for it as well.
Terry will be up against a player he knows well in that game, his former Chelsea team-mate Andriy Shevchenko.
When I was playing, whether it was the opposing centre-halves or the goalkeeper, I studied who I was up against and what had happened against them before. I made sure I knew their strengths and weaknesses, whether it be pace or ability in the air.
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It will be an important battle for Terry and Shevchenko on Friday, but I don't think their knowledge of each other's games will make much difference on this occasion.
None of us saw the best of Shevchenko during his time at Stamford Bridge but he is a different proposition playing for his country.
He is past his best now, of course, and his legs are not what they were but, as he proved with his two goals against Sweden, he is still a force.
Over 20 yards, Terry and Lescott will look after him no problem but Shevchenko still has that sharpness over two or three and he will hurt England if they let him.
We have got our own threat up front too, though.
England will have Wayne Rooney back for the Ukraine game, but before then I am confident Danny Welbeck will impress again against Sweden.
As I said on Match of the Day after England's draw with France, his movement was excellent - he came short to collect the ball and also ran in behind the French defence.
Unlike Ibrahimovic and Shevchenko, Welbeck is yet to score at this tournament but he was our best player on Monday.
There is that old saying that 'strikers are judged on their goals'. But, when you play like Welbeck did, then that shows your value to the team anyway.
Welbeck will have walked off the pitch in Donetsk feeling very good about himself, and so he should. I just hope he has the same feeling after the final whistle in Kiev on Friday.
Alan Shearer was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
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Indian police have arrested a controversial guru a day after pitched battles with his supporters left at least six people dead.
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Christopher Halliwell denies murdering Becky Godden between 1 January 2003 and 3 April 2008.
Jurors were told he led police to her body and asked officers if it was "too late to get help".
They also heard Mr Halliwell, 52, is serving a life sentence for murdering Sian O'Callaghan in 2011.
Miss O'Callaghan went missing after a night out with friends in Swindon.
Her semi-naked body was discovered in undergrowth in Uffington, Oxfordshire, while the remains of Miss Godden were found "hidden in the middle of nowhere" in Eastleach, Gloucestershire in 2011.
The court heard that, while in Uffington, Mr Halliwell told Det Supt Steve Fulcher, who was leading the investigation: "We need to have a chat."
Mr Halliwell allegedly informed Mr Fulcher he would show him the "exact spot" where Miss Godden's body was buried.
The jury was told the accused asked what was wrong with him and said to Mr Fulcher: "Normal people don't go round killing each other."
Bristol Crown Court was told: "This defendant, Christopher Halliwell, confessed to the police that between 2003 and 2005 - he couldn't be sure of the date - he had taken a girl from the streets of Swindon.
"He told the police he had sex with her and then he killed her by strangling her. He told the police he stripped the girl of her clothes and concealed her naked body.
"Not only that but the defendant took the police to the location."
The court was told Miss Godden's skeletal remains were recovered from a field in March 2011 and soil from the area was later matched to dirt found on garden tools found at Mr Halliwell's house.
Prosecutor Nicholas Haggan QC told the jury the "last reliable sighting" of Miss Godden, then aged 20, was in Swindon town centre in January 2003.
"After that nothing more was heard from her. She quite literally disappeared."
The court heard Miss Godden's parents separated when she was aged about six.
"It is right to say Becky had a troubled adolescence," Mr Haggan said.
"She became a heavy user of Class A drugs and, at some point during her early to mid- teens, she began earning a living as a sex worker."
Miss Godden was last seen by her mother on 16 December 2002, and 11 days later a police officer recorded seeing her.
Then, in early January a friend spent time with her outside the Destiny and Desire nightclub in Swindon.
A taxi pulled up and Miss Godden approached it, returning to the car a short while later and arguing with the driver, Mr Haggan said.
"A short time later, Becky told her friends that she was leaving and she went back to the taxi," he told the jury.
"She got into the rear of the vehicle and the vehicle drove away."
"Extensive inquiries by the police indicate that this probably was the last known reliable sighting of Becky."
The case continues.
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Oxfordshire County Council said out of 39 contracts supposed to be completed since 2013, 19 were finished on time.
This led to some schools using temporary classrooms and two had to postpone increases in pupil numbers until the following year.
Contractor Carillion blamed design changes and sub-contractors going bust.
At a recent cabinet meeting, Lorraine Lindsay-Gale, the councillor in charge of property, said: "Council is extremely concerned. We're working really hard with Carillion to try and improve matters".
In a statement the council added it: "Continues to be able to offer around nine out of 10 families in Oxfordshire a place at their first choice school, whether primary or secondary."
A Carillion spokesman said it "recognises the demands placed on schools by increases in pupil numbers" and continues to work "to provide the required additional space in schools".
"Where delays occurred, short term accommodation was provided until the work was completed."
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Moores said batsman Pietersen "isn't on the radar" while they prepare for the three-Test series starting on 13 April.
Incoming England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Colin Graves has spoken to Pietersen about a return to international duty.
The 34-year-old was sacked in February 2014 following the 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia.
Moores was England coach in 2009 when he and the South Africa-born player suffered an "irretrievable breakdown" of their relationship that led to Moores being sacked and Pietersen resigning as captain.
The batsman has said he could work again with the coach, who was reappointed in April 2014.
Speaking ahead of their flight to the Caribbean on Thursday, Moores said: "My focus is to support [Test captain] Alastair Cook as I always would and the 16 players on this tour.
"The frustration for me is that people whose dreams are being made by going on this tour aren't being mentioned.
"They are not getting any air time and it's frustrating. We've got some very, very good players. That's very exciting."
Pietersen, who scored 8,181 runs at an average of 47.28 in 104 Tests, has re-signed for Surrey and will play in the County Championship this year in an attempt to earn an England recall.
Moores added: "I understand Kevin's a huge subject, but I don't think we can be drawn into that."
Meanwhile, Cook said he is feeling "refreshed" after a "fantastic" break, two weeks after criticising the selectors for stripping him of the one-day captaincy before the World Cup.
England were eliminated in the group stages of the tournament but Cook, 30, has challenged the team to replicate the form they showed in the Test series win over India last summer.
"Spending three months at home has been fantastic," he said.
"A lot has gone on since the last win against India at The Oval where we played two outstanding Test matches to come back from 1-0 down in the series.
"To say we can get back there straightaway is a challenge but it's up to the players and the leadership of me and Peter Moores to try and do that."
England won only two of their six group games at the World Cup as they failed to reach the quarter-finals
But Moores rejected the notion that he must win in the West Indies to hold on to his job, with England set to play New Zealand in May before the Ashes series starts in July.
"It doesn't work like that," he said. "We all know we're in a results business.
"It's not about the coach. It's about the players and about winning. It's about England cricket.
"We have a very committed bunch of players, coaches and support staff who are desperate for England to win."
England, who flew out on Thursday, face a St Kitts and Nevis Invitation XI on Monday, the first of two two-day warm-up games before the opening Test in Antigua.
Dr James Kew, 41, died instantly when he ran into the low-hanging cable on a public footpath across a field in Newport, Essex, in 2012.
The fault was reported to UK Power Networks earlier that day, but the company did not cut the power.
It admitted breaching health and safety laws and must pay £153,000 costs.
Dr Kew, of Ashdon, a director of biology at GlaxoSmithKline in Stevenage, was out with members of the Saffron Striders running club on 24 July.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard he ran into the 11,000 volt cable, which at its lowest point was just 4ft 9in (1.5m) above the ground.
It had fallen because a porcelain insulator securing it to a wooden pole had disintegrated, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said.
An inquest into his death in 2014 heard a couple had reported the cable earlier that day and had put a makeshift pile of sticks around it.
The HSE said UK Power Networks was aware of the location and could have immediately "de-energised" the network, but instead sent out an engineer.
Mr Kew was killed 20 minutes before the engineer arrived.
UK Power Networks said it had since changed its policy so that when similar issues are reported, power is turned off before technicians are sent out.
Barry Hatton, the company's director of asset management, said: "Ever since the tragic accident our thoughts have been with Dr Kew's family and friends and [we] are acutely aware of its permanent consequences for them.
"Safety is out top priority... we urge anyone who sees equipment they feel may be dangerous to call us immediately on 0800 316 3105."
The HSE said people who had witnessed Dr Kew's death had suffered severe trauma and stress-related illness.
Dr Kew's father, Jeremy, said his death was a great loss to the family and to medical research.
"I think it's a tremendous pity that the network controller did not think to ask [the caller] to remain on site to warn off any members of the public who were coming down the footpath.
"Sadly, they did not have sufficient protocols in place to deal with the situation that evening."
He urged UK Power Networks to make a generous donation to Action Duchenne, a muscular dystrophy charity which funds research that Dr Kew had been involved in.
The women, aged 18 and 35, were held in the early hours on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Magistrates have granted police extra time - until midday on Friday - to question a 53-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder.
He was arrested at the property in Dickens Avenue on Tuesday.
Police said he is known to the victims, named locally as Natasha Sadler-Ellis and Simon Gorecki, both from Canterbury.
Post-mortem examinations on the 47-year-old man and 40-year-old woman are taking place later. Their next of kin have been informed.
A 17-year-old boy and a man, aged 20, who were also injured, are thought to Ms Sadler-Ellis's sons.
Police said the teenager was now in a stable condition and conscious.
The man was released after treatment.
The Military Reaction Force was the subject of a Panorama programme.
Former members said the unit had shot people who may have been unarmed.
Last month families of people allegedly killed by the unit said they had been told former members who appeared on the programme had admitted no crimes.
However, in a statement on Tuesday, the police said: "The allegations of serious crime made against the MRF and the contents of the Panorama documentary are under investigation.
"Police have informed the PPS (Public Prosecution Service) of the proposed next steps and the Policing Board were briefed on Thursday 5 June."
The world number two started with a double bogey after hitting his opening tee shot out of bounds and found water three times in a three-over-par 75.
Day leads on six under, one clear of five players, including fellow Australian Adam Scott who is bidding for a third successive PGA Tour win.
Englishmen Justin Rose and Paul Casey are in early contention on four under.
They are among 10 players within two shots of PGA Championship winner Day, who only needed one putt on each of his last seven holes as he played the back nine in five-under 31.
The world number three's lead could have been bigger but a wild drive out of bounds on the ninth led to a double bogey, however he was content with his opening round.
"I drove it on a string, and played the par-fives in five under," said Day. "It was one of those days where everything kind of went well."
His compatriot Scott is aiming to become only the third player in 10 years - after McIlroy and Tiger Woods - to win three straight PGA Tour events.
Scott, who has had to change his putting style after anchored putters were outlawed at the start of this year, knocked in four par-saving putts - two from five feet, one from 10 and another from 12 in his 67.
"I didn't play my best golf tee to green, but I chipped and putted really well," he said.
Walton, 19, made four appearances for the Championship club last season, keeping two clean sheets.
"He has superb agility and mobility and is extremely comfortable in possession of the ball," Bury manager David Flitcroft told the club's website.
"Christian shows a great desire to keep the ball out of the net and maintains a strong presence within his area."
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The pair are both available for Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final against 12-times winners Arsenal.
Calder, 21, spent the first half of the season on loan at Doncaster, scoring once in 20 appearances.
Etheridge, 22, started his career at Derby and has made eight appearances for the League Two leaders this season.
They teased out the effects of the blade's sharpness, the tension applied to the ribbon and the speed it moves.
As the ribbon bends around the blade, its outermost side stretches and permanently deforms, producing curls.
Sharper blades and slower movement make tighter curls - but the pulling force has an ideal strength, above which the curls become less pronounced.
The UK-based team will present the study on Wednesday at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore; it also appeared last month in the journal PNAS.
In their experiments, a thin ribbon - made in this case from a transparent PVC film - was draped over a blade and a weight was hung from the end. The ribbon was then wound onto a cylinder in order to drag it across the blade.
The team measured the width of curls produced by different weights and winding speeds - and also created a mathematical model to show that these could be explained by predictable changes in the structure of the ribbon.
Senior author Anne Juel, from the University of Manchester, said it was fairly straightforward to understand why a slower movement produces greater curling:
"It takes a certain amount of time for the stress in the ribbon to relax, and the irreversible deformation to take place."
That relaxation - or "yield" - is what leaves the ribbon curled, because the outer side of the ribbon is permanently stretched compared to the side that was touching the blade.
Similarly, then, a sharper blade increases the stretch and the yield - making tighter curls.
But putting greater tension on the ribbon, with heavier weights, only increased curling up to a point.
This, Prof Juel explained, is because the deformation can spread too far into the ribbon:
"The first part that's going to start to yield is the outermost part of the ribbon, because that's the point where the stress is going to be highest. And then as you apply larger loads, the yield is going to infiltrate deeper and deeper inside the ribbon."
Eventually, with enough pulling power, the distortion of the ribbon's structure will cross the halfway point - which dampens the overall curling effect.
"So the tightest curl will be obtained when you manage to apply a load that will bring yield to exactly half the thickness of the ribbon," Prof Juel said.
And if you're wrapping a swag of presents with a few different kinds of ribbon, she added, that optimum tension will be a moving target.
"It has to be relative to the material properties of the ribbon. So it will be different for different ribbons."
Study co-author Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, of Durham University, presented some data on the same question at a previous APS meeting; Prof Juel said she and her colleagues at Manchester contacted Dr Chakrabarti when they realised they shared an interest in the problem.
Together, they have now published the first complete physical account of ribbon curling.
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The economist Jim O'Neill has been appointed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to head a review on the issue.
In his first recommendations, he says the gap between spending on cancer and antibiotic research needs to be closed.
He has already warned that drug-resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year by 2050.
That is more than currently die from cancer and Mr O'Neill says the global cost will spiral to $100tn (£63tn).
He points to the US where $26bn was spent on cancer research between 2010 and 2014.
In that period $14bn went to HIV, yet just $1.7bn was spend on antimicrobial resistance.
He has published a series of recommendations aimed at tackling resistance.
They are:
Mr O'Neill said: "I am calling on international funders to allocate money to a fund that can support blue sky science and incubate ideas.
"Antibiotics research is the poor relation to studying chronic diseases of the developed world but, without antibiotics, treating those diseases can be compromised too."
Many practices of modern medicine - from chemotherapy to surgery - are only made possible by antibiotics.
Dr Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust medical charity, says: "The review's recommendations for action are steps that governments, funders and the research community can start acting on immediately, but there are also steps that we can take as individuals."
Prof Sir John Savill, the chief executive of the UK's Medical Research Council, said: "Picture a world where a cut finger could kill you, you don't have to look far - only 100 years ago, a quarter of all deaths were due to bacterial infections.
"We know there's no magic bullet to the antimicrobial resistance problem.
"Real change needs proper global investment. We need to act now."
Waberi's stance goes against the Council for East and Central African Football Associations (Cecafa) whose members, at an extraordinary meeting on 4 February in Gabon, agreed to give current President Issa Hayatou their support.
The Caf presidential elections will take place on 16 March in Ethiopia.
"We as Djibouti are in for change at Caf and our vote will go for Ahmad. We voted for change during the Fifa elections to bring in Gianni Infantino and we are also in for change now," Waberi told BBC Sport on Saturday.
When asked about the other 10 members of the Cecafa region, Waberi said he was confident "the majority are also backing a change."
Waberi is also contesting to become a Caf executive member from the Central East Zone.
Last Saturday, the Uganda FA President Moses Magogo - during Fifa President Gianni Infantino's visit to the country - said that his executive committee was yet to meet to pick which candidate to vote for.
Since then, Magogo has said they have met and have decided to keep their vote secret.
The Cecafa region has 11 members; Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Ahmad, the Madagascar FA President, already has support from the Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) and from the Nigeria FA President, Amaju Pinnick, although other Nigerian FA members have criticised Pinnick's revelation.
Issa Hayatou, who has presided over African football since 1988, is seeking an eighth term.
The Cameroonian was re-elected unopposed during the last Caf presidential elections in 2013.
He had previously stated this term would be his last until a change of regulations altered his stance.
In 2015, Caf voted to change the statutes which previously stopped officials serving past the age of 70.
Aberdeen International Airport led the way with a year-on-year increase of 8.2%, to record 289,193 passengers.
Edinburgh saw 730,000 passengers use the airport in March - an increase of almost 5% compared to the same period in 2013.
Glasgow reported an increase of 4.1%, with almost 532,000 people travelling through the airport.
Aberdeen saw strong growth in its fixed-wing operation, which was up by 7.4%, while helicopter passengers increased by 12.9%.
Aberdeen Airport managing director Carol Benzie said: "There are a lot of exciting things happening at the airport at the moment and the energy that these have created is palpable.
"We are pressing ahead with work on the terminal redevelopment, we have seen two new air services take off in the last month alone, and we have been working hard on further route development."
Edinburgh Airport said domestic passenger numbers increased by 5.3% last month, while international passenger traffic was up 4.4%.
Airport chief executive Gordon Dewar said: "We enjoyed a busy March with good performances from domestic and international carriers.
"We also experienced our busiest departure day ever thanks to the thousands of French rugby fans leaving Edinburgh after the Six Nations."
Glasgow, where this week an Airbus A380 "super jumbo" operated by Emirates landed in Scotland for the first time, said its domestic traffic benefited from strong demand for London and regional services.
Its international passenger numbers were lifted by airlines such as KLM, Jet2.com and United, which all reported an increase in demand.
Glasgow's managing director, Amanda McMillan, said: "To be able announce further growth is extremely encouraging and rounds off what has been a historic week for Glasgow Airport and Scottish aviation.
"To have the A380 touch down on our runway was a remarkable and fitting way to celebrate 10 years of Glasgow Airport's successful partnership with Emirates which, yet again, demonstrated its commitment to Scotland."
So her decision to post pictures of herself on her Facebook page smiling and cultivating mushrooms in Thailand has drawn a great deal of comment - the post has already had more than 580,000 likes.
Of course, the photogenic Ms Yingluck attracts attention whatever she is doing. But is she sending a message with this latest post? On her T-shirt in the photo is written "Ordinary Life" in Thai.
A close aide told the BBC that Ms Yingluck now finds herself with little to do, and that she really enjoys growing organic vegetables, exercising and eating healthily.
But it also appears to signify a calm and deliberate retreat from politics, for which there is a strong tradition in Thailand when public figures are immersed in conflict. Her nemesis, Suthep Thuagsuban, who led the street protests that helped bring down her government, went to live in a Buddhist monastery after the coup.
Her controversial brother Thaksin, on the other hand, keeps jetting visibly around the world, and recently broke a long silence by accusing senior palace figures of conspiring to overthrow not just his government in 2006, but also Yingluck's last year.
Yingluck's Facebook post does suggest, though, that she wants to remain in the public eye. In it she thanks her supporters, and teasingly writes that there are "other stories" she will tell them next time.
Scottish comic actors Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill split their successful partnership when hit show Still Game finished its TV run in 2007.
However, they have announced a reunion for a live stage show that will run for four nights at the 12,000 seat arena in September and October 2014.
They say they are talking to the BBC about the show returning to TV screens.
Meetings are planned for next week, the pair said.
The four live shows will take place at the Hydro from 30 September to Friday 3 October next year.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday.
Forty four episodes of Still Game were broadcast over six series from 2002.
In the show, Keirnan and Hemphill played Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade, two foul-mouthed pensioners spending their days disreputably in the fictional Glasgow housing scheme of Craiglang.
They will be reunited with their friend Winston (Paul Riley), local busybody Isa (Jane McCarry), corner shop owner Navid (Sanjeev Kohli) and Boabby the barman at The Clansman (Gavin Mitchell) for their "exciting new venture".
Kiernan and Hemphill, still only 51 and 43, are much younger than the characters they portray, despite a decade having passed since they first donned their flat caps and cardigans.
The pair, who had previously had massive success with their sketch show Chewin the Fat, blamed the pressure of work for bringing their professional relationship and hit sitcom to an end.
Keirnan told BBC Scotland: "We'd done 10 years together. The two of us had been together longer than the Beatles and we were frazzled."
"It's been six long years of answering questions from people - Will you bring it back? Why is it not on telly anymore?"
He said he and Hemphill had both separately looked at the 12,00-seat Hydro and been "taunted" by the possibilities of performing there.
Keirnan said: "They built this place and we thought we'd be missing a trick if we did not have a stab at that big building.
"This volume of place did not exist when we were playing before."
Hemphill added: "We have never had a chance to bring Still Game fans together. We did Chewin the Fat at the Kings Theatre and it was a highlight for us."
The characters of Jack and Victor were created in 1997 and appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as touring theatres around the UK and in Canada, where Hemphill had spent a large part of his childhood.
The characters were said to be based on Kiernan's uncle and Hemphill's grandfather.
The original stage production saw the three friends stranded in Victor's flat, where they discuss a range of topics from death to sex.
When Chewin' The Fat ended in 2002, Kiernan and Hemphill gave the irreverent oldies, who had been used in the sketch show, a new lease of life in their own sitcom.
The show proved so popular that top names such as Robbie Coltrane, Lorraine Kelly, and John McCririck made appearances.
However, the show ended at the top its game and there were report that the comedians had not spoken since their split.
Keirnan said the pair had "bumped into each other" from time to time.
"Our kids are at the same school and we live in the same area and it built gradually without us really noticing," says Keirnan.
"Eventually you come to the conclusion, if so many people are asking for it, why are we not doing it?"
Hemphill said the "reunion" was a new start for the characters and they hoped to do more with them after the shows.
"It would be great to be doing these characters in 10 or 15 years time," Hemphill says.
"There is no reason why we can't continue for years to come.
"The show is unique in the sense that we are young guys growing into our characters."
Keirnan agreed, saying: "It is a bit like Oor Wullie. He's eternally 10 and we are eternally 73, but with a little bit less make-up each year."
Former children's minister, Tory MP Tim Loughton, said the £438m reduction in spending was "disproportionate".
Youth workers warned that the long-term cost of the cuts would be "enormous".
But the Local Government Association said funding cuts meant there were "no easy choices" and spending on things like child protection came first.
The figures, released to BBC Radio 4's World at One after a Freedom of Information request to the Department for Education, outline the amount spent by local authorities on providing services like youth clubs and other out-of-school activities.
The spending also covers education for excluded pupils, teenage pregnancy services and drug and alcohol support programmes.
Figures from s251 budget statements. Some councils may fund youth services from other budgets
They show that, in real terms, the amount spent by councils fell from £1.2bn in 2010-11, to £791m in 2012-13.
The biggest cut in percentage terms was in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea which reduced its budget by 78%, or £5.1m, while Tower Hamlets cut spending by £9.4m - a 65% reduction.
Outside the capital, Tameside, Stoke-on-Trent and Warrington all cut spending by more than 70%.
The amount being spent increased in seven out of 152 areas, including Oldham and Hertfordshire.
Tory MP Tim Loughton, who was children's minister until September 2012, said "councils clearly are cutting youth services disproportionately".
He said a requirement that councils must provide "sufficient leisure-time activities" for teenagers, but only "so far as reasonably practicable", meant youth services were a "soft touch".
"Because they don't have to statutorily provide youth services they have too often been at the top of the queue when cuts come along," he said.
Mr Loughton also described a decision to move responsibility for young people from the Department for Education to the Cabinet Office as a "retrograde step".
He said youth policy "should be back in the Department for Education where you've got that clear interface with what young people do in schools".
Fiona Black, chief executive of the National Youth Agency - the national body for youth work, said the cuts will lead to problems in the long term.
She said: "We're going to see more young people in the criminal justice system, more young people who perhaps aren't engaging in education. The cost of that to taxpayers is enormous compared to the very small investment in youth services."
But David Simmonds, who chairs the Local Government Association's children and young people's board, said councils faced "no easy choices".
Some councils, he said, "have been badly affected by the level of reductions in government funding and that's meant we've seen some areas where the level of funding going into youth services has gone down really quite substantially".
He added that councils had to prioritise some services over others.
Mr Simmonds said: "The government has made some decisions about how to respond to the overall austerity situation.
"Councils are faced with rapidly rising demand, in particular for child protection services. So in order to fund that we need to look at the things that have a less direct and less immediate impact on the lives of children and young people."
Update 2 April 2014: Kensington and Chelsea points out that the reduction in its funding is because youth services have been spun off in a free-standing staff mutual which is funded separately.
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A total of 188 MPs voted to sack Mr Essid, with only three supporting him.
Mr Essid, who has been in office less than two years, has faced criticism for what his opponents say is his failure to push through economic reforms.
President Beji Caid Essebsi last month called for a national unity government to break months of economic turmoil.
Unemployment has worsened since the 2011 revolution, when President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted. More than a third of young people in Tunisia are without work.
Tunisia's uprising was the first of the Arab Spring, and often hailed as the most successful with the country now functioning as a parliamentary democracy.
The confidence vote came after a month of wrangling over the fate of the prime minister, following pressure on him from the country's president to resign. Mr Essid refused to step down, citing respect for the constitutional process and instead called on the Tunisian parliament to decide his fate.
In the end, an overwhelming majority of MPs voted to oust him from office. Most lawmakers accused him of failing to deliver on economic reforms needed to ease the country's high unemployment rates.
In June, the Tunisian president proposed the formation of a new unity government, arguing that the country needed a leadership that could carry out bold reforms.
But some observers believe that the vote is also a consequence of the prime minister's detachment from party politics. Mr Essid recently accused leading parties of trying to pressure him into making changes to the cabinet, which he says he refused to comply with. It is not clear who will succeed him at this time, but parliament will start negotiations over the matter on Monday.
Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League games is actor Ed Skrein, star of Game of Thrones and new superhero movie Deadpool.
Skrein is a Liverpool fan and told BBC Sport: "I should support Arsenal because I grew up in north London but my auntie and my cousins are to blame for me picking Liverpool instead in about 1987.
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"I grew up through the golden years for Arsenal and Manchester United under Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson, which was tough, but I love my team when they're losing as well as when they're winning.
"I am very excited about Jurgen Klopp being Liverpool manager. When he was appointed I spoke to my brother and said 'this is something that is going to be this romantic whirlwind'. It feels like it is all going to end in tears but we will enjoy every minute of it."
You can hear more of Ed's tales of following the Reds on the BBC Sport website.
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Ed's prediction: I went down to Selhurst Park earlier in the season and enjoyed it. They are a great team with a good manager. 2-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-2
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Lawro's best score: 160 points (week 19 v Guy Mowbray)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann & week 23 v Ice Cube and Kevin Hart)
A 21-year-old and a 19-year-old are being held on suspicion of the murder of Marcel Addai in Hoxton.
Marcel was stabbed in the chest on 4 September after being chased through St John's Estate in Pitfield Street. He died at the scene.
Police believe witnesses have yet to come forward. Marcel's family have appealed for help.
"These people must come forward to prevent another family going through the pain we are all now suffering," they said in a statement.
A three-week suspension rules them out of Sunday's quarter-final against Australia and the semi-final and final should the Scots progress.
Both players had denied committing an act of foul play, while a team spokesman said they were "disappointed by the outcome".
The players have 48 hours to appeal.
Scotland say they "will consider carefully the full written judgement before making a decision".
Details of the specific incidents have yet to be made clear publicly. But Australian citing commissioner Scott Nowland had accused hooker Ford of breaching rules on dangerous tackles, while lock Gray was alleged to have committed an illegal tip tackle during the 36-33 win that clinched Scotland's place in the last eight.
In his judgement, judicial officer Christopher Quinlan pointed out that rugby's governing body had highlighted that "tackles involving a player being lifted off the ground and tipped horizontally and were then either forced or dropped to the ground … must be dealt with severely by match officials and all those involved in the disciplinary process".
World Rugby said the English QC had "deemed the act of foul play merited a low-end entry point, namely four weeks" but had added one week in an attempt to deter this type of dangerous foul play.
However, the suspensions had been reduced by two weeks because of the players' expressions of regret at the hearing, their "exemplary characters and excellent disciplinary records".
Hooker Ford and lock Gray will complete their suspensions at their clubs, Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors respectively, should Scotland exit the tournament before the final.
Scotland coach Nathan Hines had said earlier: "I didn't pick up on it. It was only until the citing commissioner picked up on it and issued his report."
The citing commissioner involved in the case is Australian and one journalist asked Hines whether he was concerned at that given Scotland face Australia at the weekend.
"He is neutral isn't he?" he said. "He's very professional. He's there to do a job and he thinks he's seen something.
"World Rugby put him there because they are happy with his neutrality."
Australian flanker David Pocock is clear to play in the last-eight match at Twickenham if he can overcome a calf injury.
He was given a warning for putting his knee into the midriff of Wales hooker Scott Baldwin during Saturday's Pool A decider.
Guildford council refused the scheme for Wisley Airfield with 14 objections including transport, air quality and its impact on the green belt.
Wisley Action Group said the scheme had insoluble problems and it was delighted it had been refused.
Developer Wisley Property Investments said it could resolve the issues.
The plan for the airfield, which has been disused since the 1970s, includes 2,068 homes, a school, care home, shops, eight travellers' pitches and floodlit sports facilities.
Helen Jefferies, of Wisley Action Group, said its classification as a brownfield site was misleading, because only about 24% was previously built on.
Residents also say the development would swamp Ockham village, which has 159 households.
The airfield has been earmarked for housing in the new Guildford local plan but councillor Matt Furnis said this did not mean developers got a free ride.
"They have to work through the issues," he said.
"But we do have to deliver housing in the South East. Guildford is a challenging area and some tough decisions do have to be made."
Mike Murray, for Wisley Property Investments, said it was normal for councils and applicants to take their time to get developments right.
"We haven't decided on our next steps but for sure we think we can resolve the issues in the refusal," he said.
"Thee biggest one is about transport.
"Highways England are also working up a road investment strategy for junction 10 of the M25, so this is all very current."
The body of 47-year-old Senga Closs, of Elmbank Avenue, Viewpark, was found on Saturday.
The arrested man is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday.
Scientists intensely analysed people on controlled diets by inspecting every morsel of food, minute of exercise and breath taken.
Both diets, analysed by the National Institutes of Health, led to fat loss when calories were cut, but people lost more when they reduced fat intake.
Experts say the most effective diet is one people can stick to.
It has been argued that restricting carbs is the best way to get rid of a "spare tyre" as it alters the body's metabolism.
The theory goes that fewer carbohydrates lead to lower levels of insulin, which in turn lead to fat being released from the body's stores.
"All of those things do happen with carb reduction and you do lose body fat, but not as much as when you cut out the fat," said lead researchers Dr Kevin Hall, from the US-based National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
In the study, 19 obese people were initially given 2,700 calories a day.
Then, over a period of two weeks they tried diets which cut their calorie intake by a third, either by reducing carbohydrates or fat.
The team analysed the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide being breathed out and the amount of nitrogen in participants' urine to calculate precisely the chemical processes taking place inside the body.
The results published in Cell Metabolism showed that after six days on each diet, those reducing fat intake lost an average 463g of body fat - 80% more than those cutting down on carbs, whose average loss was 245g.
Dr Hall said there was no "metabolic" reason to chose a low-carb diet.
However, studies suggest that in the real world, where diets are less strictly controlled, people may lose more weight by reducing carbohydrate intake.
Dr Hall told the BBC News website: "If it's easier to stick to one diet than another, and to ideally do it permanently, then you should choose that diet.
"But if a low-fat diet is better for you, then you are not going to be at a metabolic disadvantage."
He is now analysing brain scans of the participants to see how the diets affect how rewarding food is.
Doctors Susan Roberts and Sai Das, from Tufts University, said in a commentary that the debate around diets was a source of "intense controversy".
They said the study had "debunked" many of the claims that low-carbohydrate diets were better, but the long-term impact was still unclear.
They added: "The most important message for now is probably that some carbohydrates are all right, especially the healthy whole-grain low-glycaemic-index variety."
Prof Susan Jebb, from the University of Oxford, said: "The investigators rightly conclude that the best diet for weight loss is the diet you can stick to.
"All diets 'work' if you stick to an eating plan that cuts calories, whether from fat or carbohydrate, but sticking to a diet is easier said than done, especially given the prolonged time it takes to lose weight."
Stevie Coombes dog Tara was given two blood transfusions after being bitten on the face by an adder in Aberfoyle.
Tara's mother Tess is currently being trained by Trossachs Search and Rescue (SAR) in Balfron, Stirlingshire.
Mr Coombes said he feared he would lose Tara after her condition deteriorated following the incident on 13 July.
Tara has accompanied Tess on her training sessions with the aim of being trained in the future.
Mr Coombes, a trainee dog handler and first-responder with Trossachs SAR, said he had earlier let the two dogs out of his truck for ten minutes at a golf course in Aberfoyle.
He said: "She (Tara) was a wee bit lethargic.
"I got her in the house and she started drooling and I could see her face swelling and I knew she'd been bitten by an adder.
"I instantly phoned the vet in Doune and said I'll be there in 20 minutes.
"The vets were brilliant, by the time I got there they already had anti-venom on the way."
After administering anti-venom, the vet recommended transferring Tara to the Vets Now animal hospital in Glasgow.
Mr Coombes said: "That turned out to be the best call. The hospital got her blood pressure sorted and got her stable.
"I went to see her and an hour later they phoned to say she was going downhill.
"They were going to have to start a blood transfusion because the venom affects the clotting of the blood."
Mr Coombes returned later that day to be told Tara needed a second blood transfusion.
He said: "When they told me they were having the second transfusion, I genuinely didn't think it was going to get her back.
"I thought I would lose her, so for myself and the family and the kids, it was quite an emotional few days."
The following day Mr Coombes was told Tara's blood and vital signs had returned to normal.
He said: "Since then she's been absolutely fine, it's remarkable.
"She's really inquisitive, she's into everything, which is probably what caused the problem.
"In the country if you're letting your dogs run off the lead, it's just one of these things.
"The snake is just minding its own business in its own habitat."
In 2012 those tensions erupted into deadly communal violence, and since then there have been sporadic clashes.
The state was again in the spotlight earlier this year when thousands of Rohingya were found stranded on boats in the Andaman Sea trying to leave Rakhine for Malaysia.
As Myanmar looks towards landmark national elections in November, the rising Buddhist nationalism in Rakhine has made it one of the more politically unpredictable regions.
The problems in Rakhine state stem from decades of armed violence, extreme poverty and underdevelopment.
Like other minorities, the Rakhine ethnic group face economic marginalisation and discrimination by the state.
The Rohingya, meanwhile - who make up a third of the population of Rakhine state - are denied full citizenship.
In Myanmar, they are widely referred to as Bengali - they are considered migrants from Bangladesh, though they have been in Myanmar for generations.
The United Nations describes them as a "persecuted religious and linguistic minority".
Tensions spilled over into inter-communal violence in 2012 around the state capital, Sittwe, sparked by the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman.
More than 200 people died and about 140,000 people - mainly Rohingya - were made homeless.
Many now live in camps with no or limited access to food, healthcare or education. Some Rohingya have turned to people smugglers to get them to Malaysia.
After Thailand and Malaysia increased scrutiny of areas where people smugglers operate in 2015, thousands of Rohingya were abandoned at sea by the traffickers.
This brought global attention to the Myanmar government's treatment of the Rohingya.
Earlier this year, the Rohingya were stripped of their right to vote or register as candidates for the elections.
The Arakan National Part (ANP), a party of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists which was formed last year, lobbied hard for that change.
Analysts say both national parties, the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) face an uphill battle in the elections against the ANP in most of the state constituencies.
The NLD is viewed as sympathetic to the Rohingya - even though its leader Aung San Suu Kyi has steered clear of speaking out about the treatment of Rohingya.
Konta, seeded 11th, won 6-3 6-3 and goes on to face Spanish seventh seed Carla Suarez Navarro in round three.
Another victory would see the 25-year-old Briton match last year's run to the quarter-finals in Wuhan, China.
Konta remains on course to face Germany's Angelique Kerber in the last eight after the world number one beat Kristina Mladenovic 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 6-4.
Kerber will play Petra Kvitova in the third round following the Czech 14th seed's 6-3 6-1 win over Elina Svitolina.
"I was trying to find my rhythm because I was not playing my best in the first set," said Kerber, who was playing her first match as number one after receiving a bye in the first round.
Sixth seed Venus Williams and eighth seed Madison Keys also made it through to the last 16.
Konta maintained her bid for a place at the season-ending WTA Finals with a confident performance against Zhang, the world number 38.
The Briton broke twice in each set, hitting eight aces along the way as she repeated her win over the Chinese player in the Australian Open quarter-finals.
Konta began the week lying 10th in the race to qualify for the WTA Finals in Singapore, and now gets the chance to close the gap on Suarez Navarro, who currently occupies the eighth and final place.
"I don't think we actually ever played against each other on the tour yet. That's always fun. Something different, something new," said Konta.
"We've practised together a few times. She's an incredibly talented player, a very good player. I'm really looking forward to being on court with her."
At the Tashkent Open, British number three Naomi Broady beat Switzerland's Amra Sadikovic 6-4 7-5 in the first round.
Broady, seeded eighth, will play Russia's world number 104 Irina Khromacheva next.
Kieran Dorian knew the women from his school days in Dundee and became obsessed with them individually over the course of four years.
In a separate incident, he spat blood at the officer's feet after making sexually offensive remarks towards her.
Dorian, 20, will be sentenced in January.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told he went to one woman's door at 03:00 and stayed there until 07:00 before insisting he walk her to work.
Dorian later put a "rambling, nonsensical" love letter through the woman's door on Christmas Eve.
The court heard he sent another woman a video of himself scrolling through her Twitter feed.
Referring to the police assault, depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson said the officer was working on the Safezone bus parked near Dundee's nightclubs.
Dorian approached the bus with a head wound before jumping up and down and swearing at staff.
Miss Robertson said: "He made offensive remarks to the officer and made sexual comments to her.
"He then threatened to rape her.
"The accused then gathered up spit and blood in his mouth and spat it at the officer's feet.
"He later made further sexual remarks, including about the officer's mother."
Dorian, of Broughty Ferry, Dundee, admitted four stalking charges committed between October 2011 and May 2015.
He also admitted charges of assault and behaving in a threatening and abusive manner.
Dorian also admitted making lewd sexual comments to two 13-year-olds in the queue at a McDonald's restaurant in Dundee on 30 July before sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl on the same date.
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael deferred sentence until January for Dorian to engage with social workers and released him on bail.
He said: "The way you behaved puts you in the territory for a custodial sentence.
"The question is if other options are available or not.
"The way you behave over this next six weeks will influence my final decision."
Senior judge Lord Bonomy will lead the review focusing on whether current laws give enough protection to foxes and other wild mammals.
Written evidence will be accepted from February until the end of March.
Environment minister Aileen McLeod said she was "delighted" that the "very experienced" former High Court judge had agreed to lead the review.
She said: "Scotland led the way in addressing animal welfare concerns with legislation in 2002, and we remain committed to ensuring the highest levels of welfare for our wild animals.
"The aim of this review is to ensure current legislation is providing the necessary level of protection for foxes and other wild mammals, while at the same time allowing effective and humane control of these animals where needed.
"I am sure everyone with an interest in the protection of wild mammals will want to engage with Lord Bonomy, and I would encourage them to do so."
The hunting of foxes with hounds was banned in Scotland under the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act, passed in 2002.
However, hunts are still allowed to use dogs to flush out foxes and chase them toward guns.
Animal charity OneKind said the existing legislation left too many "loopholes" and had done nothing to dent the popularity of hunting in Scotland.
Director Harry Huyton said: "The law which was intended to end this barbaric practice has sadly failed due to a number of loopholes which have rendered it totally ineffective.
"Fox-hunting is supposedly banned in Scotland, yet if you were to attend any meet in Scotland today it would be perfectly clear that little has changed since the law came into force in 2002."
Hunting has also been discussed at Westminster, with UK government sports minister Tracey Crouch describing it as a "pursuit from the past", and saying it should be "consigned to history".
A vote on relaxing hunting laws in England and Wales was shelved earlier in the year after SNP MPs indicated they would vote against it.
A survey for the Countryside Alliance has suggested about 250,000 people will go to a hunt on Boxing Day.
They had been called to Deptford High Street on Friday night after people were spotted entering a disused bank.
Police discovered an unlicensed music event was about to take place and tried to stop it. They said they were "rushed" by a "violent" large crowd.
Five officers were injured, with three taken to hospital for treatment.
Lewisham police tweeted that officers had also been spat at.
Two men and a woman were arrested and taken to a south London police station where they remain in custody, Scotland Yard said.
The directive also bans the use of mobile phones near examination centres.
Cheating cases in secondary schools rose by up to 70% last year, leading to arrests and the cancellation of results for 5,000 students.
More than 1.5 million children will start writing examinations next week.
The BBC's Dickens Olewe says many children use clipboards as a flat base for writing on as desks are often uneven.
But the ministry believes that some pupils cheat by writing notes on them to help them answer questions.
It also says geometry instruments will now have to be carried in a "clear see-through bag".
In July, Education Minister Fred Matiang'i blamed "cheats" for being behind a wave of arson attacks - more than 100 secondary schools were burnt down by pupils.
He said that students who were angry with the government's plans to end cheating were behind the attacks.
Mr Matiang'i has blamed a "cartel", including teachers, for being behind exam cheating.
Earlier this year, the national examinations board was disbanded, some senior managers fired and nearly 200 people, including teachers and police officers, were arrested and charged over exam malpractices.
A education ministry statement says the new rules will "seal loopholes that have previously enabled students to cheat".
Other measure that have been introduced to clamp down on cheating include putting head teachers in charge of exam administration at their schools, "to make them accountable".
Examination papers are being stored at several central locations under 24-hour armed police surveillance where access will be limited to prevent "leakage".
According to Kenya's private Daily Nation newspaper, a total of 577,338 children at primary schools and 952,473 students at secondary schools will be writing examinations from 1 November for about a month.
Only teachers and students involved in examinations are to be allowed on school premises during that time, the education ministry said.
Rangers have won two and drawn two of Caixinha's four games in charge, including an impressive 3-0 win over Aberdeen at Pittdorie last weekend.
The Portuguese has put an emphasis on a more aggressive approach in the attacking third.
"It's a better, quicker, direct style of play which all the forward boys are going to enjoy," Waghorn said.
"I think at times we did try and overplay (under Warburton). The manager wants us, when we play through lines to stay through lines, and attack the box as quickly as we can.
"As a striker it is nice to know we are going to be getting the ball in the box and get chances."
After a blistering start to the season during which he scored five goals in four games, Waghorn's hot streak was halted after he was sidelined with a hamstring problem.
He admits he struggled to rediscover his best form on his return to action, but feels he can find his scoring touch again under Caixinha.
"I was disappointed with how I performed in the first half of the season," the former Wigan striker explained.
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"I think I could have done a lot better when I got my chance. For one reason or other I didn't take it.
"But that's in the past now. I am pleased that I am playing, getting a run of games, and hopefully I can stay in the side for the new manager."
Waghorn says the whole squad has been given a lift by Caixinha's arrival and the players are responding to the new manager's methods.
"It's been challenging in different ways but the boys have bought into it very well," the 27-year-old added.
"The training methods, the style, how he wants to approach games, the analysis of other teams, has been different to what we are used to, but I've loved every minute of it.
"I have enjoyed the hard work and I think it has shown at the weekend how we defend as a team now as well as attacking as a team.
"We have changed a lot, little things that we have worked on the training pitch, but it's for the right reasons and hopefully it's good for a change going forward."
Eight people remain missing in northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas.
The storm, according to the National Weather Service, likely produced a tornado that hit Van Zandt County and the city of Van on Sunday evening.
Officials said on Monday the two people died when a twister hit a trailer park in Nashville, Arkansas.
The storm hit Van - a town of about 2,000 people - only days after a tornado tore through Eastland county, Texas, on Saturday. One person was killed and another was seriously injured.
Chuck Allen, the Van Zandt County fire marshal, said at a news conference on Monday that about 30 percent of the city was damaged in the storm.
"Damages range from completely destroyed homes, damaged homes, to trees and power lines down," Mr. Allen said.
About 50 people were staying in a church shelter on Sunday night and the American Red Cross has set up a shelter in Van.
Utility companies have started restoring power and road and bridge crews began working to open streets and highways to allow for first responder access, he said.
Floods from the storms caused also damage across Texas on Sunday.
A 40-foot-wide sinkhole opened in Granbury, Texas, on Monday morning. The sinkhole consumed the parking lot of a Brookshire's supermarket and damaged water and sewer lines.
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The hosts dominated early on but Ayr went in front when Gary Harkins evaded Falkirk keeper Danny Rogers to smash home from a tight angle.
Myles Hippolyte went close and John Baird missed a penalty before Peter Grant's powerful header levelled it.
Falkirk pressed hard for a winner but Tony Gallacher's header hit the bar.
They remain six points clear in fourth place, but are now three points behind Morton in third.
Falkirk had two early chances to take the lead, Hippolyte blasting over from six yards after good build-up play involving Mark Kerr and Bob McHugh, before Baird's left-foot strike was parried by Greg Fleming and Tom Taiwo's follow-up effort was blocked.
Harkins had a half-chance at the back post for the visitors from a Brian Gilmour free-kick from the right, but his effort from a tight angle was well saved by Danny Rogers.
But after 24 minutes Harkins found a way past the Bairns keeper to give the Honest Men the breakthrough.
Kevin Nisbet's head-flick caused hesitation in the home defence and Harkins pounced to round Rogers and blast home from the angle of the six-yard box.
Baird and McHugh both went close for Falkirk before an equaliser eventually arrived in dramatic circumstances in first-half stoppage time.
Falkirk were awarded a penalty after Scott McKenna bundled McHugh to the ground, but Baird's spot-kick was superbly saved by Greg Fleming, who turned it round his right-hand post.
But from the resultant corner kick, Kerr's delivery found Grant, who rose highest to send a powerful header into the net.
Nisbet twice came close to nudging Ayr back in front after the interval. He was thwarted by Rogers after a powerful run and shot before curling an effort inches wide of the target.
Bairns boss Peter Houston changed his main strikers, bringing on Lee Miller and Scott Shepherd for McHugh and Baird as he searched for a winner.
A late flurry almost produced it as Kerr had a shot cleared off the line before fellow full-back Gallacher watched his header come back off the crossbar.
Falkirk boss Peter Houston: "The frustrating thing for me is we are giving cheap goals away. We should win the first header and then Gary Harkins runs off of Peter Grant and that can't happen. It was the same last week we tippy-tappied about our box and we had to come from behind then.
"We keep shooting ourselves in the foot. We get back into it before half time and then probably upped the tempo and dominated the second half, although Ayr are always dangerous on the counter attack. But it just wouldn't go in for us today. Fleming made a few good saves but that's a game we should be looking to win at home."
Ayr United manager Ian McCall: "Falkirk have aspirations to finish in the top two or three, but I think we fully merited the draw.
"We're a bit disappointed with the goal we conceded. It was a penalty and the goalie made a great save from the penalty but then we switch off. To save a penalty and lose a goal like that we're gutted!
"I think the draw was probably fair and it was a good point for us."
Match ends, Falkirk 1, Ayr United 1.
Second Half ends, Falkirk 1, Ayr United 1.
Foul by David McCracken (Falkirk).
Gary Harkins (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Lee Miller (Falkirk) header from very close range is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Mark Kerr (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Ayr United. Alan Forrest replaces Kevin Nisbet.
Attempt missed. Michael Rose (Ayr United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Tony Gallacher.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Scott McKenna.
Attempt saved. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. James Craigen (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Attempt blocked. Michael Rose (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Patrick Boyle.
Substitution, Ayr United. Michael Rose replaces Brian Gilmour.
Attempt missed. Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Falkirk. Scott Shepherd replaces John Baird.
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Craigen (Falkirk).
Foul by Mark Kerr (Falkirk).
Robbie Crawford (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Falkirk. Lee Miller replaces Robert McHugh.
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Attempt missed. John Baird (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United).
Hand ball by David McCracken (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. James Craigen replaces Tom Taiwo because of an injury.
Foul by Robert McHugh (Falkirk).
Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Conrad Balatoni (Ayr United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Tony Gallacher.
He said it would be as inappropriate as it had been for international firms to visit South Africa during apartheid.
But Cape Town Opera's managing director said the company was reluctant to take the political stand of shunning cultural ties with Israel.
An Israel government spokesman told the BBC such boycotts did not aid peace.
The opera's production of Porgy and Bess will be performed in Tel Aviv next month.
In his letter the archbishop, who retired from public life earlier this month, said it would be wrong for the Cape Town singers to perform "in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity".
He said the tour should be postponed "until both Israeli and Palestinian opera lovers of the region have equal opportunity and unfettered access to attend performances".
"Only the thickest-skinned South Africans would be comfortable performing before an audience that excluded residents living, for example, in an occupied West Bank village 30 minutes from Tel Aviv.
"To perform Porgy and Bess, with its universal message of non-discrimination, in the present state of Israel, is unconscionable."
Israeli government spokesman Andy David said boycotts were not the way forward and cultural tours were the best way to bring peace in the violent region.
"Cultural relations sending messages of peace and co-operation - that's the only way to promote peace," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Mr David also dismissed any comparison between apartheid South Africa and Israel.
"There are no discriminatory laws in Israel, there are no racial issues in Israel - we have Arabs in the government."
The spokesman added that he felt that the archbishop's comments were "one-sided" and were a cause for concern.
"I think that people from the opera who never visited Israel are listening to vicious propaganda against my country."
Cape Town Opera's managing director said he believed in the "transformative power of the arts".
"I am proud that our artists, when travelling abroad, act as ambassadors and exemplars of the free society that has been achieved in democratic South Africa," Michael Williams said in a statement.
He said the company was "reluctant to adopt the essentially political position of disengagement from cultural ties with Israel or with Palestine".
Mr Williams said was aware of the possibility of being seen as partisan, so has ongoing negotiations to perform within the Arab world.
"In particular, Cape Town Opera welcomes the opportunity to perform within Palestine as well," he said.
The production of the Gershwin opera has "much which should provide food for thought for audiences in Israel", he added.
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More than 70 others were injured as the blast hit the San Pablito fireworks market in Tultepec, about 20 miles (32km) outside the city.
Video from the scene showed a large number of fireworks rocketing into the air as they caught fire.
Dozens of paramedics and police attended the scene. The cause of the explosions is not yet known.
Locals have been told to avoid the area and keep roads clear.
Eruviel Avila, governor of the State of Mexico, said some children had suffered burns to more than 90% of their bodies and they were being sent to the US city of Galveston, Texas, for specialised treatment.
Most of those killed are so badly burned their bodies will have to be identified using DNA testing, he added.
Fireworks continued to explode after the initial blast, as smoke billowed from the area in thick black clouds. The market had contained up to 300 tonnes of fireworks, Mexican media reported.
Photos from police and medical personnel at the scene showed several injured people among the destroyed market stalls, with brick buildings scorched by the heat.
"The sound of blasts started to go off and we thought it was a nearby fireworks workshop," local resident Alejandra Pretel told the AFP news agency.
However, she said it soon became clear the entire market was at risk.
"My neighbours said they felt everything shake, but I didn't realise because I was running away," she said.
Angelica Coss, 25, said the explosions sounded "like a plane had crashed, like bombs were being dropped".
"I went up to the roof of my place and others were already there and we saw the market was blowing up. And all the smoke started to cover us," she said.
The president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, tweeted condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.
He also said members of the defence forces were assisting in the emergency.
The San Pablito market was heavily damaged by similar fires in September 2005, when a chain of explosions just before the country's independence day celebrations injured dozens of people.
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It will be the first title offered on the "next-gen" PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles - and if the trailer is anything to go by there's little doubt it will display the game's gruesome attacks in greater detail than ever before, causing fresh fuss.
Even so, it will prove difficult to trigger the scale of outrage that accompanied the original game.
In the summer of 1993, the Nintendo executive Howard Lincoln had come up with a controversial solution to an unavoidable problem.
His company, renowned for creating entertainment that is cherished by children and trusted by parents, was preparing to release Mortal Kombat, considered one of the most violent games ever, on the Super Nintendo console.
It was the equivalent of Disney distributing Reservoir Dogs, American Psycho on Sesame Street.
Mortal Kombat was admired by critics but inevitably better known for its unashamed glorification of murder.
It allowed combatants to rip the heart out of a vanquished foe, or tear the head off a fallen opponent, and hold the appendage up as a trophy.
The game encouraged players to do this with the infamous message "Finish him!" that would repeatedly flash on the screen when a bout was over.
How could a game like this, regardless of how popular it was, be sold on shelves next to Super Mario World?
Months after Mortal Kombat's initial release across arcades in October 1992, and before its port onto the Super Nintendo, Mr Lincoln met Acclaim chief executive Gregory Fischbach to offer a solution.
"Lincoln told us we needed to change the blood from red to green, which I thought was pretty stupid," Mr Fischbach tells the BBC.
Not only that, but the game's fatalities would be edited, and various background details - such as heads impaled on spikes - would be completely removed. Mr Fischbach believes such decisions were rash, but was unable to block them.
"To my mind, Mortal Kombat was comic-book violence, but some people got upset about it. People looked at it as though we were selling it to nine-year-old children."
The wider issue was that Mortal Kombat had arrived during an era of transition for the games industry.
What was considered a child's pursuit had begun to serve the interests of young adults and teenagers. Those audience clashes had naturally begun to manifest.
"It was the beginning of video games coming of age," says Mr Fischbach.
"At one point in time, games were just meant for children, and nobody really took them seriously. But it was with the launch of Mortal Kombat that people who controlled the media began to look at it differently."
Even though games such as Mortal Kombat, Doom and Night Trap were created for mature audiences, crucially there was no law preventing young people from accessing them.
This led to thunderous denunciations from politicians and news media anchors alike.
"Part of the problem at the time was that the biggest distributor of games in the US was Toys R Us. The positioning in the marketplace was that games were designed for children, and not teenagers or young adults."
Nintendo's efforts to censor Mortal Kombat failed to put a lid on the controversy.
Rival company Sega had also published the game on its own system, the Genesis (known as the Mega Drive in the UK), and via a cheat code allowed gamers to enjoy the gore-fuelled glories of the arcade original.
According to Blake Harris, author of Console Wars, Sega's gamble paid off enormously.
"The net result was that the Sega Genesis version of Mortal Kombat outsold the Super Nintendo version five-to-one," he tells the BBC.
It was the Genesis version that also caught the eye of one young Mortal Kombat fan who happened to be the son of a Capitol Hill aide.
According to Mr Harris, this simple connection is what could have triggered the political outrage against violent video games.
"Bill Andresen, a former chief of staff to Senator Joe Lieberman, was asked by his son to buy Mortal Kombat. But when Andresen saw the game, he showed it to Lieberman, who was appalled by it."
On 1 December 1993, Mr Lieberman gathered the Washington press corps to expose what he believed was the corrupting influence of video games on young minds.
He played several VHS tapes, showcasing some of the goriest elements of games such as Mortal Kombat and Night Trap, and announced his intention to introduce a game age-ratings body.
"Few parents would buy these games for their kids if they knew what was in them," he said at the time.
"We're talking about video games that glorify violence and teach children to enjoy inflicting the most gruesome forms of cruelty imaginable."
John Tobias, one of the four developers who created Mortal Kombat, believed the reaction was harsh.
"Their lobbying never felt sincere. To me it always felt like scapegoating an industry they knew nothing about to pander for votes," he tells the BBC.
"Anyone who listened to the testimony or the questioning that went on and who knew anything about games understood that.
"Video games were not and never will be the great destructor of society they were trying to paint them to be."
One week after Mr Lieberman's press conference, the senator chaired a subcommittee on violent video games, insisting that the industry must introduce a system of self-regulation if it wanted to avoid state regulation.
Within five months, the games industry established the pioneering Entertainment Software Rating Board, and one of its first acts was to assign Mortal Kombat a "mature" rating, meaning it was illegal for minors to purchase it.
These events, spurred by moral panic, painted the games industry in its most unflattering light, but nevertheless established a ratings code that is still adhered to today.
Mortal Kombat 10, announced today, is certain to be the next entry in the series designated an M-rating.
On reflection, Mr Fischbach believes the ratings reform "was the right thing to do".
He says: "It allowed game creators and publishers to focus on what they do, and allowed information to be displayed on game packaging that wasn't there before."
But Mr Harris believes that, however beneficial the outcome, the calls for game age ratings was not as driven by the public as often suggested.
"I think the outrage was mostly from the media. I think parents, for the most part, still didn't realise what video games were," he says.
"I could be wrong, but I spent three years researching this, and not once did I get the sense that people were spurred on by angry calls or angry letters from the parents.
"I mean, Lincoln told me that he got numerous angry letters from parents, but it was people complaining about Nintendo censoring their games. They didn't like the green blood. I think that tells you how much this issue was media-driven."
A close ally of former President Blaise Compaore has been named the country's new leader, state television reports.
French President Francois Hollande condemned the coup in the former French colony.
Those killed were shot dead by presidential guard forces in the capital, a civil society group said.
The claim by the influential Balai Citoyen group could not be independently verified.
Other reports said protesters had been assaulted and detained.
The coup leaders have imposed a night-time curfew across the West African state, and have ordered the closure of land and air borders, AFP news agency reports.
The headquarters of Mr Compaore's Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) party were ransacked in Ouagadougou as news of the coup spread, it adds.
Mr Hollande called for the immediate release of interim President Michel Kafando and Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who were detained at a cabinet meeting in the president palace on Wednesday.
Their transitional authority was due to hand power to a new government after elections on 11 October.
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Mr Compaore was ousted in a popular uprising last year after 27 years in power, and is currently in exile.
He was accused of committing widespread abuses, and trying to change the constitution to extend his term in office.
Some of his key allies had been barred from contesting the election.
A statement issued by the coup leaders said the West African state would be led by Gen Gilbert Diendere, Mr Compaore's former chief-of-staff.
An earlier announcement on state television said wide-ranging talks would be held to form a new interim government that would organise "peaceful and inclusive elections".
Transitional parliamentary speaker Cheriff Sy said the move was "clearly a coup".
He said the presidential guard had "sequestrated" the interim government, and he urged people to protest on the streets.
"We are in a resistance situation against adversity," My Sy added.
The elite presidential guard has been trained, in part, by the US. It is the most powerful armed group in Burkina Faso and often disrupted the activities of the transitional government as it tried to cling to the privileges it enjoyed under Mr Compaore's rule.
It is seen to be close to him, and is not popular on the streets. So its seizure of power could be a recipe for serious violence.
The transitional government might have made two mistakes - preventing politicians loyal to Mr Compaore from running in next month's elections and allowing the Reconciliation Commission, formed to heal wounds after the end of his authoritarian rule, to release a report calling for the presidential guard to be disbanded.
Some argue that a newly elected president would have had greater legitimacy to take such action.
They include the Golden Globe-nominated Toni Erdmann from Germany and The Salesman from Iran.
But there is no place for French thriller Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert, who has herself been tipped for a best actress Oscar nomination.
The nine films will be whittled down to five when the Academy Award nominations are announced on 24 January.
Other films in the running include Australia's Tanna, which is set in the South Pacific and filmed in the Navhal and Nafe languages. It won the audience award at the Venice International Film Festival.
Xavier Dolan's Canadian drama It's Only the End of the World, which won the Cannes Grand Prix prize, has also made the list.
Other notable omissions include Chile's Neruda, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, and Julieta, by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.
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The Academy Awards takes place on 26 February at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel as host.
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Seven people had already alleged Jon Styler abused them at Malpas Church in Wales School in the 1970s.
Now a former pupil at a Worcestershire private school where Mr Styler was the head has claimed the teacher sexually assaulted him in his flat.
A third case involved another Newport school, BBC Wales understands.
It has been reported Mr Styler strongly denied any allegations against him before he died.
Two men are calling for an inquiry into what the authorities may have known about the alleged incidents at Malpas Church in Wales School.
Mr Styler was the head teacher at Bowbrook private school in Hartlebury, Worcestershire, in the mid-to-late 1980s when a former pupil in his early 40s, who lives in north Wales, says he was sexually assaulted by Mr Styler in his flat.
The man said the assault happened just after leaving the school, when he was 17.
Bowbrook private school no longer exists. BBC Wales was unable to contact anyone involved with the administration of the school at the time, despite several attempts.
A different institution, with no link to Bowbrook private school or Jon Styler, now occupies the site.
Another institution in Worcestershire, Bowbrook House School, also has no link to Bowbrook private school or Mr Styler.
BBC Wales also understands another man has contacted solicitors alleging he was abused by Mr Styler when he worked at Brynglas Primary School between 1968 and 1971.
Brynglas Primary School does not exist anymore and BBC Wales was unable to contact anyone involved with the administration of the school at the time.
Newport council said it cannot comment further as the matter is subject to a compensation claim.
The Independent Schools Association, a charity that represents hundreds of independent schools, said: "We urge anyone with information surrounding the well-being of children to share this immediately with their local authorities, police and organisations that support children."
Gwent Police has said there is no current investigation into Jon Styler.
The hosts took nine wickets in an extraordinary session after tea to bowl India out for 161 and win the fourth Test by an innings and 54 runs.
For the second match in a row, spinner Moeen Ali was instrumental in the final push, taking 4-39 as England made light of the absence of the injured Stuart Broad, whose nose was broken by a Varun Aaron bouncer at the end of England's first innings.
James Anderson claimed 2-18 and Chris Jordan took the final two wickets in two balls to the delight of a full house at a sun-drenched ground.
The hosts had earlier posted 367 all out, with Joe Root's 77 and Jos Buttler's 70 giving them a lead of 215 runs, with 61 overs left in the day to bowl out India before Sunday's predicted downpours.
In the end they needed only 43, completing an extraordinary turnaround by a team that was heavily beaten in the second Test at Lord's to extend their winless run to 10 Tests.
Even more remarkable is the transformation of Moeen, who took only 10 wickets at an average of 45 in his first four Tests this summer, but now has 12 victims at 14 in his last two.
England will hope to carry their winning momentum into the final Test at The Oval, starting on Friday, where only an India victory can deny them the series.
Chris Woakes, taking the new ball in Broad's absence, got the breakthrough for England with a delivery that nipped back slightly and rapped Murali Vijay's pads in front of leg stump.
But the real havoc was wrought after tea in a breathless period in which five wickets fell for 13 runs in 29 balls.
Gautam Gambhir nicked Anderson down the leg side for 18 and, from the first ball of the next over, Cheteshwar Pujara was given out lbw to Moeen, although TV replays - unavailable to umpires in this series with India refusing to use the Decision Review System - suggested the ball was missing leg stump.
Ajinkya Rahane was superbly caught by Moeen off his own bowling and Anderson continued his hold over Virat Kohli by having the India batsman taken at second slip by Ian Bell.
In the 30 balls he has faced from Anderson in the series, Kohli has scored seven runs and been out four times.
Ravindra Jadeja was out for four in Moeen's next over as he pushed forward and edged to Jordan at slip, Mahendra Dhoni's counter-attacking 27 was ended when he dragged Moeen to Gary Ballance at mid-wicket and Bhuvneshwar Kumar was run out attempting a suicidal second run.
Roaring in from the Brian Statham End with the crowd cheering him on, Jordan then had Varun Aaron caught behind off a short ball and Pankaj Singh bowled off his toes before wheeling away in celebration with his jubilant team-mates in pursuit.
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Pankaj had earlier ended his wait for a maiden Test wicket in his 70th over, but only after England had pushed their lead beyond 150 runs.
As the heavy rain that prevented any play after 14:15 BST on Friday gave way to bright sunshine, Root and Buttler played positively in a partnership of 134.
Buttler mixed good fortune - he was dropped by Kohli in the gully on 34 and badly missed by Dhoni when he should have been run out for 44 - with fine strokeplay to record successive fifties in his first two Test innings.
Root was more cautious as he reached fifty off 103 balls, only to be denied a third Test century of the summer by Pankaj's unlikely intervention.
The Yorkshire batsman could not resist dabbling at a ball down the leg side and walked away cursing himself after the delivery flicked his gloves and was taken by Dhoni.
Having waited 69.2 overs to take his first Test wicket, Pankaj only had to wait two more for his next. Buttler, driving on the up, spooned a slower ball straight to Pujara at mid-off.
The runs continued to flow as Woakes cracked a fluent unbeaten 26 and Broad - the man of the match following his destructive bowling in the first innings - twice cleared the ropes before trying to repeat the shot and top-edging the ball between his helmet and his grille.
He received treatment to his gaping nose wound on the field and was later taken to hospital for X-rays, where the break was confirmed.
But by then, England were well on the way to a comprehensive Test win.
In a statement, the 31-year-old said he knows "few" details about the investigation but it involves his 2011 transfer from Rennes to Newcastle.
The Frenchman, one of four people arrested in the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) case, has now been released.
He made 39 appearances for the Magpies before returning to France last year.
French authorities said secret payments made to players and agents during deals between French and Premier League clubs are the focus of the investigation.
Newcastle and West Ham's grounds were raided on Wednesday, as HMRC deployed 180 officers across the UK and France.
Newcastle's managing director Lee Charnley was also arrested, but later released without charge.
The French Prosecutor's office says 10 searches were carried out in France and four people were placed in police custody.
New Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh has stuck largely with the same squad as predecessor Stephen Keshi.
But there are recalls for UAE-based forward Emmanuel Emenike, Werder Bremen striker Anthony Ujah and midfielders Lukman Haruna and Obiora Nwankwo.
Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi and winger Victor Moses miss out.
Académica de Coimbra's Nwankwo has been overlooked since the country's Nations Cup win in 2013, while Anzhi Makhachkala's Haruna has not played for his country since the 2010 World Cup.
There is no place for Watford striker Odion Ighalo. He was in the squad for Nigeria's first 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier and scored in a 2-0 win over Chad in June.
Captain Vincent Enyeama will lead the 18 foreign-based players to Abuja where they are expected to join up with 23 Nigeria-based players by 31 August.
"Coach Oliseh has fulfilled his promise that only players playing regularly at the top level will be invited," Nigeria Football Federation spokesman Ademola Olajire told BBC Sport.
"This is a new opportunity for some old players as well players who have been on the fringes of the squad.
"The locally-based players are already in Abuja, now the preparations can truly begin for Mr Oliseh and his players."
Nigeria 18-man foreign squad:
Goalkeepers: Vincent Enyeama (Lille, France); Carl Ikeme (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England)
Defenders: Leon Balogun (FSV Mainz 05, Germany); Kingsley Madu (AS Trencin, Slovakia); Godfrey Oboabona (Rizespor, Turkey); William Troost Ekong (FK Haugesund, Norway); Kenneth Omeruo (Kasimpasa, Turkey)
Midfielders: Joel Obi (Torina FC, Italy); Izunna Ernest Uzochukwu (FC Amkar Perm, Russia); Obiora Nwankwo (Coimbra FC, Portugal); Lukman Haruna (Anzhi, Russia); Rabiu Ibrahim (AS Trencin, Slovakia)
Forwards: Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscow, Russia); Emem Eduok (Esperance, Tunisia); Emmanuel Emenike (Al Ain, UAE); Anthony Ujah (Werder Bremen, Germany); Sylvester Igboun (FC UFA, Russia); Moses Simon (KAA Gent, Belgium)
All are suspected of links to the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group said the national police chief.
The 15, including one police officer, were arrested over three days in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, and six other states, said Khalid Abu Bakar.
One hundred and seventy-seven suspected militants have been detained in Malaysia in the past three years.
The authorities said the suspects were trying to obtain chemicals to make bombs and were planning to launch attacks. They were aged between 22 to 49 and included four women who were planning to travel to Syria to join IS, they said.
The police chief said the group also arranged for two foreign terror suspects to sneak out of Malaysia, and had channelled money to militants in the southern Philippines.
Malaysia is on a particularly high terror alert since the capital of neighbouring Jakarta was attacked by militants in January.
On 15 January, Malaysian police said they had arrested a man they claimed was hours from carrying out a suicide attack in Kuala Lumpur.
Thomas Ford, of Stalham, Norfolk, fell unconscious while on a walk with his father and sister in September.
The 15-month-old was given CPR by both parents, an inquest in Norwich heard.
His mother Serena, a nurse, said: "His eyes were fixed and dilated. I knew this meant he was dead." Paramedics later found a pulse but Thomas did not recover and died three days later.
He had suffered a severe brain injury caused by choking, which coroner David Osborne concluded led to his accidental death.
Thomas's father Robert had the toddler in a carrier on his back when he handed him a blackberry picked from a bush near their home on 27 September.
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Seconds later, he heard Thomas coughing and initially struggled to take off the carrier but when he did he patted the toddler's back and carried out the Heimlich manoeuvre [abdominal thrusts].
"I forced his mouth open, checked his tongue, which seemed fine, and couldn't feel for anything down his throat," said Mr Ford in a statement read to Norwich Coroner's Court.
"I pumped his chest six or seven times and gave him mouth-to-mouth."
The court heard he called his wife Serena, who arrived by bicycle from the family home and shouted at him to call an ambulance as she took over CPR.
Mrs Ford, whose evidence was also read out in court, said she carried out mouth-to-mouth but Thomas's chest was not lifting.
"I checked his eyes and they were fixed and dilated and as a nurse I know what this means.
"I know that meant he was dead."
An ambulance and air ambulance were called to the scene, before Thomas was flown to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
He was later transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where he died in his parents' arms on 30 September.
"I miss him and I love him. I would do anything to have him back," said Mrs Ford.
They described Thomas as "fun and mischievous" boy who was nicknamed DJ Thomas because he loved music.
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Mr Ford added: "I hope nothing like this happens to anyone else. I loved him so very much... I miss my little man."
Assistant Norfolk coroner Mr Osborne expressed his condolences to the Ford family.
"I am satisfied Thomas's parents did absolutely everything they could have to done in response as Thomas started to choke," he added.
Researchers at University College London and Newcastle University found listening to two notes played simultaneously makes the brain adapt.
Brain scans revealed highly specific changes in the hippocampus, which governs memory and navigation.
These correlated with the number of years tuners had been doing this job.
The Wellcome Trust researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to compare the brains of 19 professional piano tuners - who play two notes simultaneously to make them pitch-perfect - and 19 other people.
What they saw was highly specific changes in both the grey matter - the nerve cells where information processing takes place - and the white matter - the nerve connections - within the brains of the piano tuners.
Investigator Sundeep Teki said: "We already know that musical training can correlate with structural changes, but our group of professionals offered a rare opportunity to examine the ability of the brain to adapt over time to a very specialised form of listening."
Other researchers have noted similar hippocampal changes in taxi drivers as they build up detailed information needed to find their way around London's labyrinth of streets.
Prof Tim Griffiths, who led the latest study, published in Neuroscience, said: "There has been little work on the role of the hippocampus in auditory analysis.
"Our study is consistent with a form of navigation in pitch space as opposed to the more accepted role in spatial navigation."
Dr Don Hull, a consultant haematologist at Craigavon Area Hospital, said people living with cancer in Northern Ireland should be given the same treatment as patients in England.
There are 38 cancer drugs available to patients elsewhere in the UK that are not readily available to terminally-ill people in Northern Ireland.
Dr Hull has called for "equal access".
He said: "I think local patients deserve equal access to the funding that is being made available to cancer patients in England.
"I would urge the new minister to take counsel and discuss widely with me and colleagues in my profession."
In February, the then-Health Minister Jim Wells proposed the reintroduction of prescription charges to pay for a new specialist drugs fund.
A consultation by the Department of Health (DoH) on how to implement the fund including the possibility of introducing prescription charges to pay for it closed earlier this month.
Cancer charities have said they are awaiting the outcome.
Dr Hull also said that while the number of cancer patients is increasing, so too are advancements in the drugs that can help cure or sustain patients' lives.
He added that while the drugs are not a magic bullet, in some cases they can target the tumour so effectively that all cancer cells are killed.
"I know patients who could avail of these drugs and these drugs are known to be effective," he said.
"They are expensive, but some cancer patients in England and Scotland are accessing them.
"There are many advancements in cancer drugs and there is also a better understanding than ever before of the illness, so we are actually refining our cancer treatments to target particular mutations and abnormalities of the cancer cells that isn't present in normal cells.
"It is good that we can be more specific in our treatment."
Dr Hull was speaking to the BBC against a backdrop of new entertainment stations that have recently been installed in the Macmillan cancer unit at Craigavon Area Hospital.
The Southern Health Trust has spent £200,000 on the bedside entertainment scheme, which provides touch screen systems providing access to TV, radio and internet for patients to use during treatments like chemotherapy or blood transfusions.
Staff can also log onto these terminals to access patient records.
For patients like Audrey Fenton, the new screens help pass the time as she receives her chemotherapy three times a week, with each session lasting six hours.
It is gruelling for the former nurse, who refers to chemotherapy as her friend.
"Oh it's definitely a friend because it is part and parcel of getting me well again. I lean on it to help get me through this time," she said.
Audrey is 57 and was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma eight months ago.
She said: "The first thing that goes through your mind on receiving the diagnosis is how long have I got. No matter what your faith is, your lifestyle - no-one wants to leave their loved ones."
Audrey has no issue with her cancer drugs, but recognises that it is the expertise of her doctors and the advancement of medicine that is keeping her alive.
"There has been a moderate response to the treatment. At the moment the prognosis might be five to seven years, but if the treatment keeps working maybe longer," she said.
"I feel the best I have felt in a long time. I'm staying positive."
She added: "I feel I am living with cancer, I am not dying from cancer. I am living with it and the chemotherapy is all part of it. I will take what they give me to get me well."
With a hearty laugh, Audrey told me that of course she is very scared.
"You couldn't possibly be told you've got a cancer that can't be cured and not be scared," she said.
"I try to look on this time as me time. I have had a busy life and now it's time for me to take time out to get well.
"The chemotherapy is the starting point really of the recovery and I feel you just have to embrace it. The scarier time will be when maybe they tell me it is finished because then you are left on your own, but they will only do that when the results are good enough. "
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Members of the Formartine area committee met in Ellon and approved plans for Menie by nine votes to two.
They were considering 30 conditions for the project laid down by the Scottish government, but more will have to be approved before work can begin.
The Trump Organisation welcomed the vote.
Mr Trump wants to create a championship course as well as a hotel and hundreds of holiday homes.
Scottish ministers earlier approved the application but with many conditions.
Mr Trump last month vowed to cut the ribbon on his golf resort within 18 months.
He said the total cost of the project was likely to be about £750m.
The post has been vacant since Kathryn Stone stepped down last year.
A spokesman for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister said a candidate was "selected and agreed" after interviews were held last week.
The statement was released after victims' groups expressed concern over the delay in replacing Ms Stone.
The chair of the Victims and Survivors Service (VSS) had said it was essential that a new commissioner is appointed soon.
Oliver Wilkinson told the Belfast Telegraph that many of the groups who represent victims were starting to go off "in different directions".
Several people have resigned in recent months from the Victims Forum.
Only a new commissioner can replace them.
The VSS is reportedly dealing with an average of 1,000 calls from victims and survivors of the Troubles every week.
Mr Wilkinson said the longer the period without an appointment, "the more fractured the victims' community is becoming".
"Victims need the opportunity to put their fears, concerns, anxieties and hopes forward and they need a strong champion who can do that and bring their message to politicians," he said.
"Without that, there are groups who are heading off in different directions.
"The difficulty is that she (Kathryn Stone) built up a very good reputation and there were huge expectations among people which fell when she left.
"I can understand there is a process to be gone through and it is important to get the right person.
"But, for example, the Victims Forum has had people leave it and we need a Victims Commissioner to appoint new people to it. Some people have left who cannot be very easily replaced."
Mr Wilkinson said there had been an expectation with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, that the needs and issues of victims would be addressed.
He said many victims were struggling on a daily basis.
"There is no getting away from that," he said
"And they are part of our overall community, we can't avoid them, we can't put them in a box."
A spokesperson for the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister said: " A number of people were interviewed for the Victims Commissioner post last week and a candidate was selected and agreed.
"An official announcement will be made in the coming days when all the relevant people have been informed and the necessary processes complete."
The study, in the European Respiratory Journal, looked at 1.6 million hospital admissions of under-14s from 2001-12.
The law against smoking in indoor public places saw 11,000 fewer children being admitted to hospital with lung infections every year, it found.
Researchers said it showed anti-smoking legislation was improving child health.
The University of Edinburgh study compared the figures for hospital admissions after the ban with mathematical predictions of the number of admissions that would have occurred without the smoking ban.
It estimated that hospital admissions for children with respiratory infections fell by 3.5% immediately after the ban was introduced.
While the biggest effect was seen in the number of children suffering chest infections - which dropped by almost 14% - the number of admissions attributable to nose, throat and sinus infections also went down.
But these effects were more gradual, the study said.
There is a well-established link between second-hand smoke exposure and bronchitis, bronchiolitis, middle ear infections and respiratory tract infections.
Dr Jasper Been, of the University of Edinburgh and Maastricht University, said: "This study is further demonstration of the considerable potential of anti-smoking laws to improve child health.
"Although our results cannot definitively establish a cause and effect, the rigorous analysis clearly shows that the introduction of smoke-free legislation was associated with significant reductions in hospital admissions among children."
Data suggested the ban on smoking in public places had also led to a rise in the number of smoke-free homes, reducing second-hand smoke exposure among children, the study said.
The ban is estimated to have reduced adults smoking in the home from 65% to 55%.
Professor Aziz Sheikh, co-director of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Population Health Sciences, said: "The many countries that are yet to enforce smoke-free legislation should consider the substantial number of hospital admissions from respiratory infections that occur each year that they delay."
Less than one sixth of the world's population is currently protected by anti-smoking laws.
It is estimated that about 40% of children around the world are regularly exposed to second-hand smoke.
Hazel Cheeseman, director of policy at health charity Ash (Action on Smoking and Health), said: "Back in 2007, the opponents of smoke-free legislation claimed that it would lead to more people smoking at home, placing their children at greater risk.
"This research supports evidence from elsewhere that this fear has not been realised.
"Without the ban on smoking in public places the NHS would be seeing more sick children at a significant cost to the public purse."
Police were called to the scene in Jobstown, Dublin, and they deployed a helicopter and their public order unit.
The protesters targeted Deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste) Joan Burton as she was leaving a graduation ceremony.
Officers got her out of the car and transferred her into an unmarked police car, which was able to leave the scene.
State broadcaster RTÉ reported police officers had earlier tried to free her car by pushing it forward "inch by inch".
It said that about 100 protesters were involved in the incident and that eggs were thrown during scuffles.
The protesters chanted "we won't pay" and some chased after the minister as she was driven away in the unmarked police car.
The Irish coalition government has recently faced unprecedented protests over its recent introduction of domestic water charges.
The charges are being imposed in every household in the Republic of Ireland and the bills will begin to arrive early next year.
The new measure was a condition of the international deal struck in 2010, when the state sought a multi-million euros bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union.
Earlier this week, anti-water charges protesters disrupted the Irish government's official announcement of its plans for the 1916 Easter Rising centenary commemorations.
The protesters gathered outside the event at Dublin's General Post Office - the focal point of the original 1916 rebellion - and staged a noisy demonstration.
They banged loudly on the doors and windows, drowning out speeches by Ms Burton and Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny.
One man was removed from the event when he heckled Mr Kenny from the audience.
On 1 November, tens of thousands of people took part in nationwide marches against the introduction of water charges.
Having led 8-0 at half-time, three tries to two after the break sealed it.
Giants are four points adrift of a Super 8s place with three games of the regular season to play, although they need other results to go their way.
Hull stay top, two points clear of Wigan, who play fourth-placed Catalans Dragons on Saturday.
Lee Radford's side were firm favourites to continue their fine form but a Giants side potentially playing under interim head coach Andy Kelly for the final time, showed aggression and hard-running to unsettle the visitors.
Jake Connor, a player bound for the Black and Whites next season, proved a pivotal figure with his running, smart hands and notably his kicking game.
They went ahead when Jamie Ellis screwed a dangerous kick behind the Hull line that Michael Lawrence chased down to score, and Ellis' penalty in the last moments of the half extended their lead.
Seven times Hull had trailed at the break this season, going on to reverse the deficit to win in four of them, and they looked like they might repeat that feat when Danny Washbrook rumbled across on the back of a penalty to get the visitors on the board.
The fightback was snuffed out when Symonds raced onto another Ellis tester to push the Giants' lead out to 14-6, and twice they got the ball wide to McGillvary with smart hands to take his tally of career tries to 150.
Mahe Fonua reduced the deficit when he crossed but Huddersfield held on to record back-to-back league wins for the first time this season.
Huddersfield interim head coach Andy Kelly told BBC Radio Leeds:
"It feels good, it feels good for the players who have copped a lot of flak after the Wakefield defeat.
"We talked about honesty and trust and building respect back for each other and the players were really open minded about what they wanted to do to achieve that.
"They went out there and expressed themselves, the youngsters matched the older guys and worked to fill the gaps and the senior players led from the front."
Hull FC head coach Lee Radford told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"The score flattered us, we spoke about how predictive we were on our shifts.
"After we got back to 8-6 we got schooled in how to play wet weather rugby, absolutely clinical in putting the goal in the in foal and making us make tackle after tackle.
"I have to question the patience we didn't show, their halves' game management was absolutely superb.
"This weather is Grand Final weather and if you're not prepared to show patience at that time of the year there are no rings on anyone's fingers."
Huddersfield: Connor; McGillvary, Cudjoe, S. Wood, Murphy; Ellis, Brierley; Rapira, Leeming, Ta'ai, Symonds, Lawrence, Hinchcliffe.
Replacements: Crabtree, K. Wood, Mason, Roberts.
Hull: Naughton; Michaels, Fonua, Tuimavave, Talanoa; Pryce, Sneyd, Taylor, Houghton, Green, Manu, Minichiello, Pritchard.
Replacements: Thompson, Hadley, Bowden, Washbrook.
Referee: Chris Kendall (RFL)
German investment firm JAB also owns coffee brands Peets and Douwe Egberts, as well as the luxury shoe firm Jimmy Choo and beauty firm Coty.
The deal is expected to close by September, when the 80-year-old doughnut firm will be privately held.
Shares in Krispy Kreme jumped 24% as Wall Street opened.
"For nearly 80 years, our iconic brand has been touching and enhancing lives through the joy that is Krispy Kreme," said Jim Morgan, chairman of Krispy Kreme.
"This transaction puts us in the best possible position to continue to spread that joy to a growing number of people around the world."
That sentiment was echoed by JAB's senior partner Peter Harf.
"We are thrilled to have such an iconic brand as Krispy Kreme joining the JAB portfolio," he said.
"We feel strongly that Krispy Kreme will benefit greatly from our long-term focus and support for management's vision in building on the legacy of this exciting brand as an independent standalone entity."
Krispy Kreme has more than 1,100 shops in more than 26 countries, including self-serve cabinets in about 500 Tesco stores and service stations in the UK.
JAB Holding is the investment vehicle for the billionaire Reimann siblings. In December last year they bought coffee-pod maker Keurig Green Mountain for $13.9bn (£9.6bn).
Flintoff beat Australian Football League player Barry Hall and TV personality Chrissie Swan to the title in the South African jungle.
After winning, Freddie said: "As an Englishman winning something in Australia, it's unheard of."
On the show he ate a rat's tail and was covered in elephant manure.
He also drank fermented milk laced with cockroaches and flies and fell out of a helicopter.
Speaking about his month in the jungle, he said: "I'm shocked. I'm stuck for words a little bit. I never expected to get this far. It's a lot to take in really. I am shocked, surprised, pleased.
"I've got a lot of emotions going round at the minute. I'm humbled."
His win will see 100,000 Australian dollars (£50,635) donated to his chosen charity, the McGrath Foundation.
While on the show the 37-year-old talked about how giving up alcohol had changed his life.
He said: "One, I genuinely thought I'd had enough of it. It catches up with me in the morning.
"And two, I suffer with depression and it doesn't help at all. I just hit rock bottom afterwards. So you're far better without it."
Flintoff retired from professional cricket in September 2010 but came out of retirement last year to play for Lancashire in the T20 Blast.
Before his time in the South African jungle, he'd been in Australia playing for Brisbane Heat in the Twenty20 Big Bash.
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The EC said both passengers and freight services are paying over the odds for using the track through the tunnel, which is operated by Eurotunnel.
Eurotunnel is a private company owned by the investors who paid for and now run the Channel Tunnel.
Eurotunnel said its charges are "transparent and not excessive."
The EC has formally called on the British and French governments to look into the pricing structure and to comply with European Union rules against excessive track access charges.
The European Commission said the high prices Eurotunnel charges the train companies get passed onto passengers.
The EC also said that freight companies are put off using the Channel Tunnel because of the "excessive" charges, preferring to send their goods by road, which causes traffic congestion and pollution.
The Commission claims 43% of the Channel Tunnel's capacity is currently unused.
Vice-President of the European Commission Siim Kallas said: "'The Channel Tunnel is not being used to its full capacity because of these excessive charges.
"As a result, more freight is being carried on lorries instead of by rail, freight operators and their customers are being over-charged, and passengers are paying over the odds for their tickets. The current regime is also stifling growth in the rail sector," he added.
In a statement, Eurotunnel said that it has "always sought the development of cross-Channel traffic and concentrates significant resources on this goal".
The European Commission also said that the regulator which oversees the tunnel, the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) is weak and far from independent.
The Commission said the IGC "does not have the power to adopt decisions on its own initiative without a complaint".
The EC added that the IGC is not an independent body, because it is made up of representatives appointed by the UK and French governments.
In a statement, the European Commission said: "Lack of independence of a rail regulator can lead to failure by the regulator to address complaints by operators in an independent manner or to adopt decisions to force compliance with EU rules and thus can lead to distortions of competition".
Reacting to the assertions of the Commission, a UK Department for Transport spokesman said that "it is not accepted that the UK has failed to implement the relevant EU rules regarding the Channel Tunnel or that the IGC is not independent".
Cafodd 22 o bobl a phlant eu lladd a 64 eu hanafu yn y ffrwydrad a ddigwyddodd am tua 22:30 nos Lun yn Arena Manceinion.
Mae plismyn yn dweud eu bod yn ymchwilio i "rwydwaith" a allai fod yn gysylltiedig â'r digwyddiad.
Yn y cyfamser, mae gŵr dynes o Ben Llŷn a gafodd ei hanafu yn y digwyddiad yn dweud bod ei ffôn wedi achub ei bywyd.
Roedd Lisa Bridgett, sy'n rheoli Iard Gychod Bluewater Marine ym Mhwllheli, wedi teithio i gyngerdd Ariana Grande gyda'i merch, a ffrind ei merch.
Yn ôl ei gŵr Steve mae hi wedi colli bys canol ei llaw chwith wedi iddo gael ei daro gan nyten haearn. Fe aeth y nyten wedyn drwy y ffôn symudol a oedd hi'n ei ddefnyddio ar y pryd gan daro ei boch a stopio wrth ei thrwyn.
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Dywedodd aelod o deulu Ms Bridgett ei bod hi'n ddiolchgar iawn i staff yr ysbyty am eu cymorth, yn ogystal ag ymateb y gwasanaethau brys.
Daeth cadarnhad nos Fawrth bod y Prif Weinidog, Theresa May wedi codi lefel bygythiad terfysgol y DU i'r lefel uchaf, sy'n awgrymu bod yr awdurdodau yn rhagweld bod ymosodiad arall ar fin digwydd.
Fe wnaeth prif weinidog Cymru Carwyn Jones drydar nos Lun yn galw ar i bawb fod yn wyliadwrus.
Bydd aelodau o'r lluoedd arfog i'w gweld ar y strydoedd ym Mhrydain yn ystod y cyfnod hwn fel rhan o 'Ymgyrch Tempora', sy'n gynllun i ddefnyddio milwyr arfog mewn lleoliadau allweddol i gynorthwyo'r heddlu wrth warchod y cyhoedd.
Dywedodd cynghorydd o Gonwy, Ronnie Hughes, fod ei ferch yntau wedi dioddef mân anafiadau yn y digwyddiad ar ôl mynd i'r cyngerdd gyda ffrindiau, ond ei bod bellach "adre'n saff".
Dywedodd y byddai'n cymryd "amser hir i ddod i delerau gyda'r hyn a welson nhw".
Nos Fercher cafodd dynes ei harestio mewn cysylltiad â'r ymosodiad terfysgol. Mae chwech o bobl bellach wedi eu harestio yn ardal Manceinion. Cafodd brawd a thad yr hunanfomiwr, Salman Abedi, eu harestio ym mhrifddinas Lybia, Tripoli yn gynharch brynhawn Mercher.
Yn ystod y dydd mae mwy o fanylion wedi eu cyhoeddi ynglŷn â rhai o'r bobl a laddwyd yn Arena Manceinion ac mae nifer y rhai a anafwyd wedi codi i 64.
Mae lefel bygythiad terfysgol y Deyrnas Unedig ar ei lefel ucha a bron i fil o filwyr yn cynorthwyo'r heddlu mewn ardaloedd allweddol.
Brynhawn Mercher fe gyhoeddwyd y bydd 'na funud o dawelwch ar draws y Deyrnas Unedig am unarddeg o'r gloch bore Iau i gofio am y rhai a laddwyd.
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Roedd Vanessa Brown o Fwcle yn y ddinas yn disgwyl am ei merch Emily a'i nai Benjamin i ddod allan o'r cyngerdd.
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"Eiliad wedyn o ni'n gweld Emily a Ben yn dod rownd y gongl - golwg erchyll ar wyneb Ben ac Emily yn torri ei chalon.
"Dyma fi'n agor y drws: 'Be sydd wedi digwydd?'
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Yn dilyn cadeirio cyfarfod o bwyllgor brys Cobra fore dydd Mawrth, dywedodd y prif weinidog Theresa May mai hwn oedd yr ymosodiad gwaethaf i daro gogledd Lloegr erioed.
Wrth siarad y tu allan i Downing Street fe fynegodd ei sioc, gan ddweud ei fod yn anodd deall pa fath o berson fyddai'n dewis ymosod ar neuadd lawn o bobl ifanc a phlant.
Disgrifiodd yr ymosodiad fel un o "lwfrdra anhygoel".
Dywedodd prif weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones ei fod yn talu "teyrnged i'r heddlu, y gwasanaeth ambiwlans, y Gwasanaeth Iechyd ym Manceinion ac i'r holl bobl eraill yn y ddinas sydd wedi agor eu drysau a chynnig llaw o gymorth pan roedd angen cymorth".
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Fe wnaeth miloedd o bobl ymgynnull nos Fawrth ar gyfer gwylnos yn Sgwâr Albert, Manceinion, a dywedodd prif gwnstabl Heddlu Manceinion, Ian Hopkins ei fod yn galonogol clywed am straeon o garedigrwydd gan swyddogion brys a phobl gyffredin yn ystod y digwyddiadau.
Cafodd gwylnosau hefyd eu cynnal mewn dinasoedd fel Caerdydd ac Abertawe, gyda munud o dawelwch yn cael ei chynnal a chanhwyllau'n cael eu cynnau.
Isabelle Sanders, 51, was stabbed to death by Paul McManus, 20, during a robbery at her home in Crookston.
McManus was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 26 years.
Ms Sanders' brother James Dougall says whole life terms would protect the public from violent criminals.
During a trial at the High Court in Glasgow last year a jury heard that Ms Sanders was stabbed 37 times during the robbery.
McManus was also convicted of attempting to murder her partner, Norman Busby, 86, and two robbery-related stabbings.
After the trial, it emerged McManus had been released from a previous sentence just weeks before the murder.
The judge who sentenced him highlighted his "significant" criminal record, which included convictions for theft, assault and robbery and the use of weapons.
Lord Armstrong pointed out that the 20-year-old had already served seven sentences of detention.
Ms Sanders' family has lodged a petition with Holyrood's petitions committee which they hope will attract widespread public support.
Her brother, Mr Dougall, told BBC Scotland: "It is maybe not applicable for every violent offender, but certainly for violent reoffenders who get the chance of early release and then go on to reoffend and who disregard that chance they have been given and go on to commit violent murder specifically.
"I think (in these cases) the whole of life sentence is an appropriate option for the judiciary and guidance should be given to them that they will be allowed to impose that type of sentence.
"So the petition we have started is 'life means life' - that judges have that option for whole of life sentencing in specific circumstances."
Though not used in Scotland, whole life sentences are used by judges in England.
The Scottish government has highlighted the fact that judges already have the power to impose a sentence which will exceed the rest of a person's life.
A government spokesman said: "Scottish courts have the power to impose the equivalent of a 'whole life tariff' in any given case.
"The independence of Scotland's judiciary is a fundamental part of the Scottish legal system. As such, sentencing is a matter for judges who operate independently of Scottish ministers and it is for our courts to decide what sentence to impose in each case before them.
"The Scottish government has previously announced the creation of a specific Scottish Sentencing Council which will promote consistency and transparency around sentencing and encourage better understanding of sentences across Scotland, as well as producing sentencing guidelines for the judiciary."
The man crossed the eastern section of the border unarmed on Thursday morning, said South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), with no shots fired.
He is now being investigated, said JCS.
The DMZ is fortified with landmines and barbed wire and guarded by tens of thousands of troops on both side. Defections across it are very rare.
In June last year, a teenage recruit from the North surrendered to his Southern counterparts at Hwacheon.
In 2012 a soldier from the North made it through rows of surveillance cameras and electric fencing before eventually managing to hand himself over - an embarrassment that cost three South Korean field commanders their posts.
The border and its fortifications have been in place since the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953.
Seoul says more than 29,000 North Koreans have defected to the South since the end of the Korean War, most of them via China.
They receive some government help integrating, although some still complain of financial difficulties and discrimination.
The latest defection follows media reports that a young North Korean who defected while competing in a maths competition in Hong Kong left the territory for South Korea on the weekend.
The 18-year-old had spent two months living in the South Korean consulate, which was heavily guarded during his stay.
South Korea has not commented on the reports.
Kevin Brady, 32, from Gloucester, who set off on 23 September from Plynlimon, Powys said he could not swim 10 miles a day as he had not trained enough.
He had hoped to complete the 220-mile (350 km) swim on 11 October but said a finish on 18 October was more likely.
Mr Brady is raising money for charity.
After setting off from the river's source in mid-Wales 12 days ago, Mr Brady arrived in Shrewsbury on Saturday.
He said the water was "absolutely freezing" and if he could "keep up the pace and avoid sickness and injury" he hoped to finish about a week later than his original target.
He has now developed an ear infection, delaying the next leg of the journey due to an appointment with a Shrewsbury doctor.
"I want to get to Ironbridge, which is seven miles away, by 6pm today but am seeing the doctor at 11:15 this morning," he said.
He said he was using "two special potions" - one created by him, which he said "took a month to brew".
Ingredients included "apple cider vinegar, garlic, onions, ginger and turmeric" and Mr Brady said it was "just like lava".
"I take a swig after each swim and it kills every bacteria that's got into me. Yesterday I swam past a bloated dead sheep and I am still not sick. The potion must be working," he said.
The swim is to raise money for the Superhero Foundation, a charity which he co-founded with his cousin and fellow endurance athlete Jamie McDonald.
The Wales audit office has sat on the fence, but as ever with reports from the public spending watchdog, it gives a fascinating account of what was going on behind the scenes in the most talked about acquisition by Welsh government ministers in recent years.
In July 2011, the Spanish owners Abertis had asked for £200m when Carwyn Jones flew to Barcelona which strongly suggests it wasn't interested in selling, or as the report puts it, in characteristically dry language: "Officials felt that the price suggested was so unrealistically high as to be a total rebuttal of the Welsh government's approach."
Something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it, and a year later Abertis told Welsh government officials it was prepared to enter into formal negotiations if the price was close to between £56m and £58m. That is, presumably, why the Welsh government made an unbinding offer of up to £55m in December 2012.
It appears to be a remarkable coincidence then that three months later, after numerous projections and valuations, the eventual agreed price was £55m (or £52m plus £3m cash). This is something the assembly's public accounts committee will be exploring in its inquiry in the coming weeks.
In fact the report says: "The Welsh government's prime concern was that Abertis would withdraw from negotiations if a revised offer was made that was significantly lower than the non-binding offer that the Welsh government had made in December 2012."
The key question is whether that price was justified on the commercial terms required for EU state aid purposes?
The striking point is that at the time that the unbinding offer was made in December 2012, there was only one initial valuation on the table from the Welsh government's accountants KPMG, and it was between £25 and £35m.
Not only did government officials ignore that valuation, but instead struck a provisional deal with Abertis which was up to double that amount.
KPMG actually updated its valuation in February 2013 to an even lower figure of between £20m and £30m.
Officials felt KPMG's assessment was too low and put another bid in to Abertis of £41m, which was rejected by the company.
Welsh government officials then asked KPMG to work up a range of new valuations based on a range of scenarios prepared by an aviation consultancy.
The results varied from between £30m to £80m, but crucially KPMG was told to base the valuations on future profits as officials felt this better reflected the potential of the airport than one based mainly on historic under-performance.
It's worth remembering that KPMG's initial valuation of £25 to £35m reflected what the report called the airport's "weak performance relative to historic levels and the low current profitability compared with future profit levels forecast by Abertis."
So it's clear that the focus on the future, rather than the past, made significant differences in the valuations.
The engineering consultancy Arup then were commissioned to follow this up with a review of the valuation evidence, and identified a figure of £55m, which was the eventual price agreed on.
So it's clear that there was an initial disagreement between KPMG and the officials on what the airport was worth, and opposition parties have seized on this as evidence that the Welsh government paid too much.
But this isn't the full story because there are much higher valuations if the airport is considered a public asset, rather than as a straight commercial operation.
It's on this basis that the First Minister is on stronger political ground. He can point to a significant growth in passenger numbers and destinations.
He says he believed the airport would have closed, and in so doing threatening the 1,600 jobs at the British Airways Maintenance Centre on the same site.
He can't prove that but he can point to a lack of investment by the Spanish owners and it's clear to anyone who has gone to the airport recently that it's now in a far better position than it was a few years ago.
And it's those arguments he'll be using to persuade others that in this case the market was failing, and state intervention was required.
The 35-year-old spent 10 years with the Gunners before leaving at the end of his contract this summer after 246 appearances.
He was the Czech Republic captain at Euro 2016.
Rosicky played for Sparta from 1999 until his 2001 move to Borussia Dortmund, where he spent five seasons before his move to Arsenal.
Alexander Sinclair, 66, from Grangemouth, was killed in the accident on the A985 west of the Limekilns junction at about 11:40 on Thursday.
Mr Sinclair was pronounced dead at the scene while his female passenger was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious injuries.
A white Citroen van and red motorbike were involved in the crash and the road was closed at McKane Park, Dunfermline.
A trailer was taken from Burton's Food Ltd on Ty Coch Way in Cwmbran, Torfaen, at about 03:10 BST on 17 June.
The empty trailer was found in Warrington, Cheshire, later that day.
Gwent Police said a 35-year-old man from Liverpool had been arrested on suspicion of theft and other vehicles involved in the theft had been found and seized by officers.
The schoolboy was arrested on Tuesday under the Computer Misuse Act, which covers hacking and unauthorised access to computer material.
The Daily Record newspaper reported that he was questioned by Police Scotland as FBI agents watched on.
The boy has since been released and has been reported to the procurator fiscal.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Following a search of a property in the Glasgow area on Tuesday 16 February, a 15-year-old male was arrested in connection with alleged offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
"He has since been released and is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal."
Police would not confirm if the FBI was involved.
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Stephen Floyd persuaded the women to grant him power of attorney after their husbands died and siphoned the cash from their accounts over 10 years.
He denied two counts of fraud by abuse of position, but was convicted after a trial at Southampton Crown Court.
Police described as "utterly contemptible" his actions, which included selling one victim's house.
Floyd, of Oakfield Gardens in Southampton, who was jailed for six years, met his victims - from Aldershot and Park Gate, Hampshire - when he was delivering food.
Hampshire Police said it led to him becoming increasingly involved in the care of the women, both now aged in their 80s.
He persuaded them to change their wills to make him the main beneficiary and, with power of attorney, used their money for other purposes than their own care.
In the case of the victim from Aldershot, he eventually placed her into nursing care, sold her house and spent £230,000 of her money.
He lost over £50,000 of the money through gambling at bookmakers.
Floyd also groomed his victim from Park Gate into trusting him and went on to take out £32,000 of loans and a £20,000 mortgage in her name.
A police investigation was eventually launched when concerns were raised by the Office of Public Guardian about Floyd's role as the women's attorney.
PC Vicky Cobley said: "Floyd's actions been particularly distressing for both his victims and their families, due to their age and vulnerability.
"In both cases Floyd took advantage of women who had recently been bereaved which is utterly contemptible."
Hampshire police said it was working to whatever money it could for Floyd's victims through the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Phil Robertson appeared to be using the imagined story to claim that atheists would not find rape or murder immoral.
Atheist groups denounced the speech, saying it was unlikely Robertson actually knows any atheists.
In 2013, he was suspended from his TV show and quickly reinstated following derogatory remarks about homosexuality.
Robertson has since become a political figure. He recently spoke at CPAC, a large gathering of American conservatives that included presidential hopefuls such as Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.
"Two guys break into an atheist's home," Robertson said in the speech. "He has a little atheist wife and two little atheist daughters.
"Two guys break into his home and tie him up in a chair and gag him. And then they take his two daughters in front of him and rape both of them and then shoot 'em and they take his wife and then decapitate her head off [sic] in front of him."
He continued: "And they can look at him and say, 'Isn't it great that I don't have to worry about being judged? Isn't it great that there's nothing wrong with this? There's no right or wrong, now is it dude?'"
Duck Dynasty - now in its seventh series - has broken several ratings records on both A&E and cable television as a whole, with the fourth season premiere drawing 11.8 million viewers.
It follows the lives of the Robertson family, a clan with old-fashioned values who live together in Louisiana, running their multi-million dollar family business, Duck Commander - which makes products for duck hunters.
First Half ends, Northampton Town 1, Bradford City 0.
Attempt missed. Haris Vuckic (Bradford City) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. James Meredith (Bradford City) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top right corner.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Josh Cullen (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Bradford City 0. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) header from the left side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by Paul Anderson.
Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Timothee Dieng (Bradford City).
Attempt saved. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Bradford City).
Foul by Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town).
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
James Meredith (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen Darby (Bradford City).
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Anderson (Northampton Town).
Attempt missed. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Nathaniel Knight-Percival.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by John-Joe O'Toole.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Haris Vuckic (Bradford City).
Attempt missed. Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Haris Vuckic (Bradford City).
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Colin Doyle.
Attempt saved. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Haris Vuckic.
Attempt missed. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) left footed shot from long range on the right is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by James Meredith.
James Meredith (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town).
Romain Vincelot (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Romain Vincelot (Bradford City).
Huang Zerong was arrested last year after he wrote a critical essay in his self-published magazine.
Huang's lawyer said the Sichuan court - 1,800 km (1,100 miles) from his home in Beijing - had no jurisdiction.
A supporter outside the court said the trial was "a violation of free speech".
"Obviously, this case doesn't revolve around illegal business activity," Chen Yunfei told Reuters.
The allegations related to his magazine, Small Scars from the Past, which printed stories of political persecution.
Huang's lawyer, Liu Xiaoyuan, told the AFP news agency that case was "inherently flawed".
"If they're going after him for 'conducting an illegal business', everything he's published has been in Beijing. So why is he being tried by a court in Sichuan?"
Huang, also known by his pen-name Tie Liu, spent more than 20 years in prison camps in his youth for being a "rightist" during Mao Zedong's crackdown on liberals.
The Communist Party eventually cleared his name in 1980.
His wife said at the time of his arrest last year that she believed he was targeted because of his article criticising Liu Yunshan for restrictions on media freedom.
He was initially charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" but that was later dropped.
Chinese authorities have mounted a widespread crackdown on dissenters in recent years.
Dozens of activists and government critics are said to have been targeted, with many detained, and some prosecuted on broad public order charges.
Mae 22 o bobl a phlant wedi marw a 59 wedi eu hanafu yn y ffrwydrad.
Dywedodd yr heddlu fod dyn 22 oed, sydd bellach wedi'i enwi fel Salman Abedi, wedi tanio dyfais ffrwydrol, a'i fod ymysg y meirw.
Mae'r digwyddiad yn cael ei drin fel un terfysgol, ac mae dyn 23 oed wedi ei arestio mewn cysylltiad â'r digwyddiad.
Yn dilyn cadeirio cyfarfod o bwyllgor brys Cobra fore dydd Mawrth, dywedodd Theresa May mai hwn oedd yr ymosodiad gwaethaf i daro gogledd Lloegr erioed.
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Fe geisiodd hi helpu merch oedd wedi brifo ei choes a dyna pryd wnaeth hi sylweddoli mawredd y digwyddiad.
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"Ffonio ambiwlans a dyma pryd nes i sylweddoli bod o'n rhywbeth gwaeth. O ni methu mynd trwodd i'r ambiwlansys...
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Mae Sara Vaughan Perry yn byw ym Manceinion ers pum mlynedd. Mae'n dweud y bydd pobl y ddinas yn "tynnu at ei gilydd".
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Yn ôl Martin Morgan o ganolfan glustfeinio'r BBC doedd ymosodiad fel hyn ddim yn annisgwyl.
"Ar gyfrifon cefnogwyr y Wladwriaeth Islamaidd mae pobl wedi bod yn dathlu mae'n ddrwg gen i ddweud - dyw hyn ddim yn sôn bod nhw'n cymryd cyfrifoldeb.
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Dywedodd ei fod wedi cael y tocynnau i ferch ei bartner fel anrheg pen-blwydd, a'i bod "wedi cael noson arbennig" nes y digwyddiadau ar y diwedd.
"Mae llawenydd yn gallu troi'n hunllef mor sydyn mewn gwirionedd. Y panig oedd y peth cyntaf wrth reswm... ond y flaenoriaeth oedd gwarchod y ferch rhag gweld dim byd, a rhag cael unrhyw niwed, a thrio peidio panicio," ychwanegodd.
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Mae'r arbenigwr diogelwch, Lee Doddridge wedi dweud wrth BBC Radio Wales y bydd yr heddlu hyd yn oed yn fwy gwyliadwrus ar gyfer rownd derfynol Cynghrair y Pencampwyr yng Nghaerdydd.
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The condition, acute pulmonary oedema, was caused by "a heart rhythm disorder", post-mortem tests revealed.
Foley, 42, died on Saturday night at the hotel in Paris where Munster were staying before Sunday's scheduled game against Racing 92.
His funeral will be held in Killaloe, County Clare, on Friday at 12:00 BST.
Foley's body will be flown to Shannon Airport on Wednesday before being taken to the family home.
Funeral mass will take place at St Flannan's Church, with burial afterwards at Relig Nua Cemetery.
The death of the former Ireland forward could "be linked to a cardiac problem", a spokeswoman for the Nanterre public prosecutor said on Tuesday.
Other toxicological analysis is under way, with results due in the coming weeks.
Pulmonary oedema means excess fluid collects in numerous air sacks in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe.
Foley's body was found in his room at 12:40 on Sunday by a member of hotel staff and a Munster player.
The European Champions Cup game was postponed.
Foley won 62 Ireland caps and made 201 appearances in the back row for Munster, leading them to their first European Cup triumph in 2006.
Pte James Farrell, 18, had stabbed his knife into the bed of another trainee at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire.
He told a court martial his actions had been prompted by bullying and he had not intended any harm.
Farrell had denied attempted murder but was convicted by a military board at Colchester Garrison, Essex. He will be sentenced on 20 March.
Prosecutors told the board that Farrell had aimed the blow at Rifleman Curtis Horbury's head but he had rolled out of the way on the evening of 13 November.
Farrell said he had just wanted to scare his colleague, who was the "ringleader" of a group of trainees he said were bullying him.
He claimed that after starting his training at Catterick in September 2016 he had been verbally abused and had been struck "a few times".
On the day of the attack, he had been criticised for wearing the wrong uniform on Remembrance Sunday and was asked questions about his family background.
He told the board he had initially intended to punch Rifleman Horbury but "lost it" and stabbed the bed with his knife.
Rifleman Horbury, who was texting on his bed, said he believed the knife would have hit his head had he not moved out of the way.
You know what it's like. You're waiting for the bus on your way to work and inevitably, you're late. Enter Singapore's Smart Nation solution, which aims to merge technology into every aspect of life on the small island.
That includes some bus stops, which under this plan will now have interactive maps and wi-fi connectivity - even e-books and a swing. This is all an attempt to make the journeys of Singapore's commuters more enjoyable and efficient.
If you look at how important the bus system is to public transport here, it makes sense. With almost four million daily rides, the bus network makes up the most significant part of Singapore's transport network.
Nowhere is the scale of the project more evident than at the headquarters of the Land Transport Authority.
Using GPS data, researchers and programmers can tell how fast or slow a bus is going and how many people are on board at any given time.
"With this information we know where are the choke points at different times of the day," said Christopher Hooi Wai Yean, deputy director of the authority's communications and sensors division, as he demonstrated the movement of the buses on their screens. "[This way] we can put in measures to alleviate and dissipate the crowd at choke points across the island. This will ensure that the whole transport system is more well-oiled in that sense."
It is an approach that is being replicated across all sectors - transport, homes, offices and even hospitals.
The KK Women's and Children's Hospital is one of the biggest and busiest in Singapore. On any day, it sees scores of patients - mainly pregnant women or mums with their kids. It began trialling video conferencing for its patients in non-emergency cases in November last year.
Gladys Soo is one such mum. Her five-year old son suffers from eczema and she started treatment for him in February.
"We went to the hospital in person for the first consultation to check for his eczema," she told me. "The follow-up was done via video conferencing."
Mrs Soo said the fact that she is a working mum was a factor in her decision to go for the video-conferencing option.
"It saves you time - I don't have to travel, I don't have to take leave. The doctor can actually view my son's eczema on the video conference. And he can diagnose whether it is getting better - it is like being with him in person."
Speech therapy, lactation consultation services and paediatric home care services are other aspects of medical care that KKH is using video conferencing to address.
Prof Low Cheng Ooi, the chief clinical informatics officer of IHiS, the company that manages the technology infrastructure for the healthcare aspect of Singapore's Smart Nation solutions, says the plan is to phase this programme in gradually.
"We already know that public health services delivered over video and medical consultation via video works well in larger countries with rural areas," he told me. "But in Singapore we are very urban, and our citizens can get healthcare within a very short period of time.
"So we have to rationalise what it is we are trying to do with this platform. We are moving cautiously with discipline so that patients will benefit from this kind of consultation, with no risks."
It's an ambitious goal - trying to merge technology into every aspect of citizens' lives - but this grand plan may have already run into some speed bumps.
"We really are not going as fast as we ought to," said the country's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently.
To deliver results, Singapore has set up a new ministerial committee to push ahead with its Smart Nation dreams.
Vivian Balakrishnan, the minister in charge of the Smart Nation initiative, says that a sense of urgency is vital in ensuring the future success of Singapore.
"If we don't get this right, jobs are at stake," he told the BBC. "Wages are at stake and any government that doesn't prepare its people for the future and offer the potential for good jobs will be in trouble."
But Harminder Singh, a senior lecturer in business information systems at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, says the main issue with Smart Nation is that there may be too much government control over it right now for real innovation to take place.
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"Singapore's way of doing things is that the government leads, then others follow," he told me. "This might be a problem - it is too centralised and so it may take too long for plans to trickle down.
"And ideas from the ground may be neither visible to those on top nor acceptable to them, especially if they are related to the delivery of services that are traditionally handled by the government."
He adds that it is not clear why Singapore's leaders are so keen to move full steam ahead with this plan.
"Smart Nation is about building national technology infrastructure so that the government can offer new services, or do what they do now differently. The government may need to explain more clearly how the Smart Nation project will improve salaries and jobs in Singapore to get the project moving faster."
The authorities here are taking this initiative extremely seriously - it appears to be the big bet Singapore is taking for its next generation. Because of its size, Singapore has always had to stay one step ahead of the curve to survive.
This tiny island nation has always prided itself on persistence and a strong work ethic to succeed. Smart Nation is its plan for its future survival - and the shoots of innovation are beginning to show.
Singapore now has a small but growing start-up culture and home-grown companies are starting to take more risks. But creativity needs to be nurtured - and Singapore may find that its Smart Nation dreams may take time to reach their full potential.
Former Barclays traders Ryan Reich and Stelios Contogoulas are accused of conspiracy to defraud by rigging Libor.
The Libor rate is meant to track how much banks pay to borrow cash from each other.
But the jury at Southwark Crown Court has heard that it could be manipulated.
To arrive at Libor, which stands for London Interbank Offered Rate, banks every day would make submissions stating what interest rate they thought they would have to pay and an average was taken and published.
What is the Libor scandal?
The jury has heard that banks also had large trading positions which would make or lose money according to the movements of the Libor average.
The traders are accused of making inappropriate requests to Barclays' submitters between 2005 and 2007, asking them to put in submissions that were higher or lower to nudge the average up or down.
John Ewan, former Libor manager at the British Bankers Association (BBA), agreed in court that a bank could be "perfectly entitled" to ask for a lower rate as long as it was within a range of interest rates at which the bank might borrow cash.
Mr Ewan was asked about the case of a senior Barclays manager who was told by a Libor submitter that the range of interest rates at which the bank might borrow was between 5.10% and 5.25%.
If it put in a higher rate, the senior manager feared the bank might "get slaughtered in the press".
Asked if the rate would still be accurate if he then asked for the submitter to put in a rate at the lower end of the range, 5.10%, Mr Ewan said: "It is in line with the definition at the time, yes."
Representing Ryan Reich, Adrian Darbishire QC presented Mr Ewan with evidence from 2006, 2007 and 2008 of banks putting in submissions not based purely on the cost of borrowing cash.
In an email cited in court from 3 September 2007, Mr Ewan told BBA colleagues banks were putting in submissions which "ran contrary to the definition of Libor, which insists that rates are based on the interbank market".
"It is a dirty little secret that this is not always the case," he wrote.
The court also heard a transcript of a telephone conversation from 29 November 2007 where Mr Ewan discussed with a senior Barclays executive, Miles Storey, how banks were borrowing at a high interest rate but making submissions that said they could borrow at a lower one.
"The divergence between where people are posting them for whatever reasons and where they are actually trading is beginning to sort of creep out of the woodwork," Mr Storey said.
Later in the conversation, Mr Storey also told Mr Ewan: "Manipulation, for whatever reason, is going to come out."
Mr Darbishire asked Mr Ewan: "If a [bank] can borrow in reasonable market size at any one of a wide range of offered rates, then it is not false or inconsistent with the definition for the bank to base its response, in other words its submission, on the lowest of those rates?"
"No," said Mr Ewan.
"Or the highest one or any other arbitrary selection from among them?"
"That's right."
The case continues.
This decision marks a huge step in the fight against poaching, with some animal conservation charities calling the decision "historic" and a "game-changer" for the future of elephants.
By the time the stores close, almost half of China's authorised ivory factories and shops will have locked their doors for good.
A team of experts from the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) will be on hand to make sure it happens.
The rest of China's legal trade will be gone by the end of the year - a total of 34 factories and 138 shops.
The UK's Prince William, has welcomed the Chinese government's decision as "an important commitment".
China is currently the biggest buyer and seller of ivory in the world - in fact some people think around seven out of every ten pieces of ivory in the world ends up for sale there.
The decision came as part of a big convention called Cites, which took place in 2106 in South Africa.
China's State Council has said that the sale and processing of ivory will stop by 31 March - meaning that registered traders of ivory will be stopped from buying and selling it - aiming to stop the trade of ivory in China by the end of the year.
Poachers hunt animals such as rhino, elephants and tigers to sell their body parts.
Rhino horn and ivory, which is found in elephant tusks, can be illegally sold for huge amounts of money.
They're sold in different countries where they can be carved into ornaments, jewellery and even chopsticks.
Some people buy them to show off how rich they are, and others believe they have magical healing powers and use them as medicines, but scientists say these medicines don't work.
If poaching continues at its current rate, creatures like elephants and rhino may be gone in our lifetime.
Speaking about China's decision, executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Asia, Aili Kang, said: "I am very proud of my country for showing this leadership that will help ensure that elephants have a fighting chance to beat extinction."
They looked at more than 200 studies of the content and associated health gains of organic and non-organic foods.
Overall, there was no discernible difference between the nutritional content, although the organic food was 30% less likely to contain pesticides.
Critics say the work is inconclusive and call for more studies.
The research, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at 17 studies comparing people who ate organic with those who did not and 223 studies that compared the levels of nutrients, bacteria, fungus or pesticides in various foods - including fruits, vegetables, grains, meats, milk and eggs.
None of the human studies ran for longer than two years, making conclusions about long-term outcomes impossible. And all of the available evidence was relatively weak and highly variable - which the authors say is unsurprising because of all the different variables, like weather and soil type, involved.
Fruit and vegetables contained similar amounts of vitamins, and milk the same amount of protein and fat - although a few studies suggested organic milk contained more omega-3.
Organic foods did contain more nitrogen, but the researchers say this is probably due to differences in fertiliser use and ripeness at harvest and is unlikely to provide any health benefit.
Their findings support those of the UK's Food Standards Agency, which commissioned a review a few years ago into organic food claims.
Prof Alan Dangour, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who carried out that work, said: "Consumers select organic foods for a variety of reasons, however this latest review identifies that at present there are no convincing differences between organic and conventional foods in nutrient content or health benefits.
"Hopefully this evidence will be useful to consumers."
Dr Crystal Smith-Spangler, the lead author of the latest review, said there were many reasons why people chose to eat organic, including animal welfare or environmental concerns.
"Some believe that organic food is always healthier and more nutritious. We were a little surprised that we didn't find that.
"There isn't much difference between organic and conventional foods, if you're an adult and making a decision based solely on your health."
But the Soil Association said the study was flawed.
"Studies that treat crop trials as if they were clinical trials of medicines, like this one, exaggerate the variation between studies, and drown out the real differences.
"A UK review paper, using the correct statistical analysis, has found that most of the differences in nutrient levels between organic and non-organic fruit and vegetables seen in this US study are actually highly significant."
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "Evidence has not yet emerged that there are nutritional benefits from eating organically produced foods compared to conventionally produced foods. We will continue to review research on this subject."
The study was funded by Stanford University.
The former Labour leader of Tower Hamlets, standing independently for Tower Hamlets First, received 43.38% of first preference votes.
He addressed supporters outside Troxy theatre in Stepney, east London, after the result at about 02:00 BST.
He said an investigation ordered by the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles had been "politically motivated".
Mr Pickles appointed inspectors to look into allegations of governance failure, poor financial management and fraud following a report by the BBC's Panorama which found Mr Rahman had more than doubled funding recommended by officers for Bengali-run charities.
Inspectors have until 30 June to report their findings.
In the mayoral election, Labour candidate John Biggs received 32.82% of first preference votes.
Mr Rahman said: "The people of this borough have spoken again.
"I want to thank the thousands of people who have been outside in the rain for six or seven hours waiting for a result.
"All we want is an equal playing field. To see obstacles being placed in my way unfairly, I find that quite difficult to accept."
He added: "Judge me on my record. Judge me on what we have done for the people of this borough.
"The only borough in the land who has delivered an educational maintenance allowance. The only borough in the land who has delivered a university grant of £1500 for our students going to university."
He also pointed to his elderly homecare policies and free primary school meals coming in in September.
Meanwhile, the council election count has been suspended. A spokesman said it will resume at 14:00 BST on Sunday when six wards will be recounted.
Turnout: 84,234 (45.9%)
Sear, who is the first solo female artist to represent Wales in Venice, uses large-scale video and stills photography at her venue in the Italian city.
The trees near her home in Monmouthshire form the subject of much of her exhibition.
Sear also draws inspiration from the famous Andrea Mantegna painting of St Sebastian.
The title of her show, The Rest Is Smoke, is taken from an inscription on the painting, which is housed in Venice.
Sear's show is in a former convent.
She told me: "I'm really thrilled - I've been here three weeks installing, which hasn't been without its problems but now the doors are open it looks effortless which is how we wanted it to look."
Sear said there was a different journey there and back through the exhibition.
"What's important to me is how the work affects the audience, so there's not one particular viewing position," she said.
"The camera whether it's a moving image or a still prioritises the eye over all the other senses. What I really wanted to do is bring the whole body back into the act of viewing, so I'm trying to displace a single point perspective so as you move across the work it alters in various ways."
Critics, gallery owners and influential figures in the art world descend on Venice for the Biennale every two years. The event runs from May until November, and features the best art from around the world.
The Arts Council of Wales is responsible for funding and selecting the Welsh exhibition, which costs £400,000 over two years.
As well as the team working with Sear, the project also includes opportunities for Welsh artists and students to travel to Venice to work as invigilators, and to develop their own contacts among the influential crowd.
Cardiff-based artist Rabab Ghazoul is also displaying her work in Venice. She has been selected as one of several artists to be shown at the Iraq pavilion.
Ghazoul, who left Iraq when she was 10, uses video installations featuring members of the public listening to, and analysing, Tony Blair's evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War.
"I've taken elements of the text and footage of that testimony and engaged local residents in Cardiff to respond in different ways," she said.
While press and invited guests are visiting this week, the Biennale officially opens to the public on Saturday 9 May and runs until 22 November.
The 20-year-old's previous deal recently expired and there had been speculation over his future.
Manager Neil Harris told the club website: "Naturally I'm very pleased to have concluded this deal.
"It's no secret that it has taken time. I've always been relaxed about it because Fred has reiterated throughout how happy he is at Millwall and how keen he is to stay."
Onyedinma was a key player for the Lions last season as they won promotion back to the Championship via the play-offs, making 54 appearances and scoring six goals.
The North Korean team is led by Hwang Pyong-so, who is considered to be the second most important official after leader Kim Jong-un.
Mr Hwang is expected to meet South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae and a senior security adviser.
The visit comes as speculation continues about the health of Mr Kim.
He has not been seen in public since 3 September. A recent official documentary showed him limping and being overweight.
The three North Korean officials arrived in the city of Incheon - the venue of the Asian Games.
They will take part in the closing ceremony of the major sporting event later on Saturday.
They are also expected to hold talks over lunch with Mr Ryoo and Defence Minister Kim Kwan-jin before returning home.
Mr Hwang is the top political officer at the Korean People's Army. The other two officials are Choe Ryong-hae and Kim Yang-gon - key members of the ruling Workers' Party.
The BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul says the seniority of the team underlines the importance of the visit.
Despite that harsh rhetoric of recent years, the visit indicates a desire for economically-pressed North Korea to have closer relations with the South, our correspondent adds.
The visit has also caused speculation about Kim Jong-un, who has been absent from public view for a month.
What the closest members of his inner circle tell the South Korean government will be analysed to try to discern the health and views of their leader back in Pyongyang, our correspondent adds.
North Korea has been conducting missile and nuclear tests since six-party talks on its nuclear programme broke down in 2008.
The two Koreas are still technically at war since the 1950-53 war that ended in truce.
Roberto Martinez's side produced a performance full of attacking intent and verve to fully deserve this historic win against firm pre-match favourites City, who had Pablo Zabaleta sent off six minutes from time.
Substitute Watson, who has missed much of the season after breaking his leg in November, sent Wigan's fans into ecstasy with a near-post header from Shaun Maloney's corner at the very moment the board went up to signal three minutes of stoppage time.
"If this FA Cup final was to be the beginning of the end for Roberto Martinez and Roberto Mancini, one was leaving on a magic carpet while the other was being smuggled out of the back door"
The goal was just reward for Wigan, whose drive and intensity was in sharp contrast to the desperately lacklustre display served up by City as last season's Premier League champions end this campaign empty-handed.
It completed a miserable day for manager Roberto Mancini, which began with reports that was about to be sacked and replaced by Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini and ended with a defeat that left City's hierarchy looking on stone-faced from the Royal Box as Wigan celebrated.
Opposite number Martinez is also at the centre of speculation about his future as he has been linked with the forthcoming managerial vacancy at Everton - and his stock will have risen markedly now he has the FA Cup against his name.
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And when this final is remembered, the performance of Wigan's Callum McManaman will be recalled alongside Watson's goal after a magnificent, and close to unplayable, display of wing play which gave City defender Gael Clichy a harrowing afternoon.
It was also a moment of sheer joy for Wigan chairman Dave Whelan, who broke his leg playing for Blackburn Rovers in the 1960 FA Cup final against Wolves at Wembley. He led the team out, then watched in delight as they lifted the treasured trophy.
Once the delight has died down, Wigan must focus on what Martinez insists has always been their main priority, ensuring they stay in the Premier League as they remain in the relegation zone with only two game remaining.
Mancini made one surprise selection decision as he replaced Romanian Costel Pantilimon - City's FA Cup goalkeeper throughout their run to Wembley - with first choice Joe Hart.
It was his opposite number Joel Robles who was into the action first as he saved from Yaya Toure after Carlos Tevez's poor free-kick had been charged down.
After this uncertain start, however, Wigan visibly grew in confidence and produced a first-half display of real composure and enterprise, exemplified by the excellence of McManaman and James McArthur.
McManaman had the opportunity to put Wigan ahead after only nine minutes but chose to cut inside when a first-time shot might have been the better option, curling a left-foot effort wide.
For all Wigan's trademark comfort in possession, it was their keeper Robles who was busier in that first half. He used an outstretched leg to save Wigan as Tevez looked certain to score after he was set up by Samir Nasri and David Silva eight yards out.
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McManaman was a threat once more as he evaded Hart and weaved his way around the area, only to see his goalbound effort blocked by Zabaleta.
City's threat was sporadic but Robles was still being made to work and he saved from Gareth Barry and Nasri as an entertaining first 45 minutes came to a close.
The favourites had more of a spring in their step in the moments after half-time and it took a crucial touch from Latics defender Emmerson Boyce to divert Sergio Aguero's glancing effort at the near post following good work by Tevez.
Mancini was visibly unhappy with some of City's work and he wasted no time in making his first change, sending on James Milner for Nasri after 53 minutes.
"I'm close to the Man City camp and I was shocked when I heard the rumours about Roberto Mancini's future.
"I think there's now more pressure on Mancini because he's lost the trophy today, but I believe he will be there next season. That's what I've heard. But today has put a huge dent in him going forward.
"I think he deserves another year, one more crack, and being able to spend more money on better players. The thing that's cost Mancini is the players bought in the summer. Poor players."
The noise levels among the Wigan support rose every time the exciting McManaman got on the ball and it took a superb block from City captain Vincent Kompany to end another jinking run into the area.
Mancini made another, somewhat surprising, change with 21 minutes left when Jack Rodwell came on for Tevez and swiftly had a header that was clutched by Robles.
Wigan, to their immense credit, were refusing to take a backward step and gave City another anxious moment when Maloney's angled free-kick glanced off the bar.
City, who had struggled for rhythm all afternoon, were reduced to 10 men with six minutes remaining when Zabaleta was dismissed. It was a simple decision for referee Andre Marriner when the Argentine, played into trouble by Barry's careless pass, hauled down McManaman having earlier received a yellow card.
Then came the moment that will be recalled in Wigan forever. Watson escaped from Rodwell at the near post to meet Maloney's corner and history was made.
Full Time The referee blows his whistle to end the game.
Booking Joel Robles is cautioned by the ref for time wasting.
Substitution Gareth Barry leaves the field to be replaced by Edin Dzeko.
Shaun Maloney provided the assist for the goal.
Goal! - Ben Watson - Man City 0 - 1 Wigan Ben Watson scores a headed goal from inside the six-yard box. Man City 0-1 Wigan.
Corner taken by Shaun Maloney,
Foul by Jack Rodwell on Ben Watson, free kick awarded. Paul Scharner restarts play with the free kick.
Shaun Maloney takes a shot. Blocked by Vincent Kompany.
Ben Watson has an effort direct from the free kick.
Booking Booking for Gareth Barry for unsporting behaviour.
Unfair challenge on Shaun Maloney by Gareth Barry results in a free kick.
Sergio Aguero is ruled offside. Antolin Alcaraz takes the free kick.
Direct effort from the free kick comes in from Shaun Maloney.
Dismissal Red card for Pablo Zabaleta.
Pablo Zabaleta concedes a free kick for a foul on Callum McManaman.
Shaun Maloney is penalised for handball and concedes a free kick. Joe Hart restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution Ben Watson comes on in place of Jordi Gomez.
Inswinging corner taken by James Milner, Joel Robles makes a save.
Shot from 25 yards by Yaya Toure. James McCarthy gets a block in.
Jack Rodwell has an effort at goal from 30 yards. Blocked by Antolin Alcaraz.
A cross is delivered by Gael Clichy, Paul Scharner manages to make a clearance.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Shaun Maloney by Jack Rodwell. Shaun Maloney takes the direct free kick.
Free kick crossed right-footed by Shaun Maloney.
Booking Matija Nastasic booked for unsporting behaviour.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Callum McManaman by Matija Nastasic.
The ball is delivered by Callum McManaman, clearance made by James Milner.
James Milner fouled by Roger Espinoza, the ref awards a free kick. James Milner sends in a cross, Jack Rodwell takes a shot. Joel Robles makes a comfortable save.
The ball is delivered by Gael Clichy, Paul Scharner manages to make a clearance.
Foul by Sergio Aguero on James McArthur, free kick awarded. Emmerson Boyce restarts play with the free kick.
Substitution Carlos Tevez goes off and Jack Rodwell comes on.
David Silva sends in a cross, comfortable save by Joel Robles.
Roger Espinoza takes a shot. Matija Nastasic gets a block in. Callum McManaman takes a shot. Vincent Kompany gets a block in.
Shot by Jordi Gomez from outside the box goes over the net.
Carlos Tevez fouled by Jordi Gomez, the ref awards a free kick. Free kick crossed by David Silva.
Gael Clichy fouled by Callum McManaman, the ref awards a free kick. Gareth Barry takes the free kick.
Emmerson Boyce takes the free kick.
Booking Pablo Zabaleta is booked.
Foul by Pablo Zabaleta on Callum McManaman, free kick awarded.
A cross is delivered by David Silva, clearance by Antolin Alcaraz.
David Silva decides to take a short corner.
Jordi Gomez takes a short corner.
Callum McManaman delivers the ball, blocked by Vincent Kompany.
Substitution Samir Nasri leaves the field to be replaced by James Milner.
Foul by Shaun Maloney on Gareth Barry, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Gareth Barry.
Corner from the right by-line taken by David Silva, Vincent Kompany has a header from deep inside the six-yard box and clears the crossbar.
David Silva takes a inswinging corner to the near post, clearance by James McCarthy.
Sergio Aguero takes a shot. Emmerson Boyce gets a block in.
Samir Nasri produces a cross.
Vincent Kompany challenges Arouna Kone unfairly and gives away a free kick. Paul Scharner takes the direct free kick.
Shot from outside the box by James McCarthy misses to the left of the target.
The second half has started.
Half Time The ref blows to signal half-time.
Shot from 20 yards from Samir Nasri. Save made by Joel Robles.
Gael Clichy is caught offside. Joel Robles restarts play with the free kick.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Arouna Kone. Vincent Kompany takes the free kick.
Gareth Barry takes a shot. Comfortable save by Joel Robles.
Arouna Kone takes a shot. Vincent Kompany gets a block in.
Sergio Aguero crosses the ball.
Callum McManaman takes a shot. Pablo Zabaleta gets a block in.
Yaya Toure takes a shot. Antolin Alcaraz gets a block in.
Jordi Gomez takes a shot. Blocked by Vincent Kompany.
Shot on goal by Carlos Tevez from just inside the area goes over the target.
Carlos Tevez takes a shot. Save by Joel Robles. Samir Nasri takes a short corner.
Callum McManaman is flagged offside by the assistant referee. Matija Nastasic restarts play with the free kick.
David Silva gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Roger Espinoza. Paul Scharner restarts play with the free kick.
Matija Nastasic has an effort at goal from a long way out that goes wide of the right-hand upright.
A cross is delivered by Roger Espinoza, Vincent Kompany manages to make a clearance. Effort from outside the penalty area by Shaun Maloney goes wide left of the goal.
David Silva takes a shot. Save by Joel Robles.
Shot by Shaun Maloney. Vincent Kompany gets a block in.
Corner taken right-footed by Shaun Maloney, Paul Scharner has a header from close range and clears the crossbar.
Pablo Zabaleta concedes a free kick for a foul on Roger Espinoza. The free kick is delivered left-footed by Jordi Gomez from left wing.
Foul by Samir Nasri on James McCarthy, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by James McCarthy.
The referee blows for offside against Pablo Zabaleta. Joel Robles takes the free kick.
Effort from deep inside the area by Callum McManaman misses to the left of the goal.
The offside flag is raised against Sergio Aguero. Indirect free kick taken by Antolin Alcaraz.
Foul by Emmerson Boyce on Sergio Aguero, free kick awarded. Carlos Tevez produces a strike on goal direct from the free kick. Yaya Toure takes a shot. Save made by Joel Robles.
David Silva takes a shot. James McArthur gets a block in.
The match gets underway.
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Sheikha Hamda al-Nahyan and her seven daughters hired a floor of rooms at a luxury hotel over eight months in 2008.
They brought with them from the United Arab Emirates a retinue of more than 20 servants whom they are accused of holding in conditions close to slavery.
The plaintiffs say they were prevented from leaving the hotel and forced to eat the princesses' leftovers.
The princesses are being tried in absentia along with an Indian butler.
If found guilty, they could face hundreds of thousands of euros in damages and even a prison sentence - but rights activists say it is highly unlikely that the UAE would extradite them to serve time behind bars.
Nonetheless, it would be "hugely significant" if one of the wealthiest families in the world was publicly linked with trafficking and slavery, says Nicholas McGeehan, an expert on migrant workers in the Gulf for Human Rights Watch.
He argues that despite being abolished in law, domestic slavery continues in Gulf states - "perpetuated by ruling elites for whom it serves an important societal purpose in conferring status".
He added: "It's top-down and tolerated."
The princesses deny the charges, and the BBC has contacted their defence for comment.
The case came to court on Thursday and was hearing from defence lawyers on Friday morning.
The case came to light when one of the servants escaped from the hotel.
One of the alleged victims told Belgian television that the women were detained in hotel rooms with private guards and prevented from going outside.
They had to be available to take orders 24 hours a day, slept on the floor in the princesses' rooms and forced to eat the princesses' leftovers. One who complained is alleged to have been deprived of food and water for three days.
As well as charges of inhumane treatment, the princesses are also accused of failing to procure the correct visas and work permits for their servants as well as failing to pay wages.
Legal challenges to proceedings by the defence have meant the case has taken nine years to get under way. They have challenged, for instance, whether the police had a legal mandate to enter the princesses' hotel suites.
The case was cleared to go to court in 2012, but the case has been stalled by procedural challenges, Stef Janssens told the BBC. He works for Belgian rights organisation Myria which has been supporting the alleged victims.
"The princesses are of course very important people with immense means and prestige, while the victims are very vulnerable," he said.
"The princesses hired three specialist lawyers who twice went to Belgium's highest court to challenge procedure. Not everyone has the means to do that."
The princesses carried out the alleged abuses in the same year that Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed, another member of the UAE's al-Nahyan ruling family, bought Manchester City football club.
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John Clive Richardson, 66, and his son Johnny Riley, 24, are charged with deliberately hunting a fox with hounds at a Borders farm.
They both deny committing the offence near Jedburgh in February 2016.
Mr Richardson told the court they had been doing their job and had done it within the law.
The case centres on a video shot by two investigators from the League Against Cruel Sports on the activities of the Jedforest Hunt members and shows the fox being dug out of a hole and then chased by a pack of hounds.
The fox disappears out of sight of the video into a deep gulley with the hounds in pursuit.
The law states a fox can be flushed by dogs from cover to waiting guns, but the two investigators have already given evidence saying they saw no gunmen or heard any shots.
However, Mr Richardson told a trial at Jedburgh Sheriff Court that there was a gunman in the gulley who wounded the fox with a shot before it was "accounted for" by the hounds.
He said that gunman Malcolm Henderson had been put in position in a deep gulley which was out of sight of the video being secretly filmed.
Mr Richardson also took over a shotgun when another man had to leave and was about 35 yards from Mr Henderson but missed with his shot.
He said: "I heard the shot and I knew he hit it. The hounds then accounted for it.
"If he had not hit it they would not have caught it as foxes can run twice as fast as hounds."
Mr Richardson told the court the hounds had been used to flush out the foxes and "evict them towards the gun".
"We were doing a job and doing it within the legislation we are allowed to work in," he said.
The huntsman - who first got involved in fox control as a teenager - said farmers often witnessed their pest control service to ensure they were working within the law as they would not want to be associated with any illegal activity on their land.
He said that foxes had been prevalent in the area and, with the lambing season coming up, the farmer wanted them controlled.
Mr Richardson said he was "not in the slightest aware of being observed" by the two investigators but even if he had been he would have carried on doing the same regardless.
He said: "It is not the first time we have been monitored before. We just carry on doing our job."
Mr Richardson and Mr Riley, of Abbotrule, Bonchester Bridge, deny breaching the Wild Mammals Protection (Scotland) Act 2002 at Townfoothill near Jedburgh.
The trial continues.
The owner of the Thomson and First Choice brands reported higher bookings for summer holidays.
The FTSE 100 closed down 28.27 points, or 0.5%, at 6,174.90.
In the FTSE 250, shares in AO World rose 3.6% after the online appliance retailer reported a strong fourth quarter performance.
Crude oil prices reversed early losses. North Sea Brent crude was up 0.5% at $40.51 per barrel.
On the currency markets, the pound was flat against the dollar at $1.4375, but fell by half a euro cent against the euro to €1.2631.
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The Commons' Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee's report into the BBC Charter Review recommends there should be no "specific director" for Wales under a new structure.
Elan Closs Stephens is the national trustee for Wales on the BBC's governing body, the BBC Trust.
A senior BBC Wales source said the proposals were "ill-considered".
Ms Stephens's role would be abolished under the committee's plans for a new governance and management structure.
The report recommends abolishing the trust in favour of a unitary board of executive and non-executive directors.
'Marching backwards'
It said "regional and national issues should be dealt with by the board collectively, not via specific director appointments".
A BBC spokesman said: "We support the committee's assertion that the BBC's independence should be protected by taking the BBC out of the political cycle and agree with its proposal for an 11 or 12 year charter.
"Like the committee, we think the BBC should be externally regulated - we believe that a unitary board would be good for the BBC and strengthen accountability."
The BBC Wales source added: "Practically every major development in broadcasting in Wales over the last 50 years has only come about because we've had someone at the very top table of the BBC championing our nation's interests and telling it like it is.
"Under these ill-considered plans, we're in danger of marching backwards."
But the Labour MP for Wrexham, Ian Lucas - a member of the committee - said a board member could not represent the whole of Wales.
He told BBC Radio Wales: "I think that it's really important that the board has a collective, strong, enquiring voice and it's not there at the moment and that doesn't happen simply by having a badge on that you represent a particular nation or a particular region.
"A lot of progress has been made but I don't think the mere fact that there is a trust board member from Wales will make a good accountable body.
"We need someone who is going to represent the whole of the UK but also speak out on behalf of Wales."
He added north east Wales, where his constituency is located, is not heard enough within the BBC.
"Simply to stick a badge on a board member and insist that person can speak for the whole of Wales is not the right approach."
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The role of the Welsh representative should be removed from a reformed BBC board, a committee of MPs has said.
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It is the latest unusual blessing for the Right Reverend Christopher Lowson, who has also blessed church toilets.
"Gritters and toilets are really important parts of our lives," he told BBC Radio Lincolnshire.
All 43 of Lincolnshire's gritters were blessed by various clergy at the county's eight depots earlier.
The Right Reverend Lowson said: "Toilets is probably the strangest thing [I've blessed] but it's actually making the point that God is not just interested in what you might think of as holy stuff, but the whole of life."
Talking about the first time he blessed toilets, he said: "As we finished, the toilet flushed and this rather embarrassed man came out of it with the congregation standing with the bishop in the middle of them.
"So the toilet was blessed in several ways really."
Gritters are not the only vehicle to have been blessed.
Last year, the Bishop of Chelmsford blessed the Queen's Bentley when it failed to start following a Sandringham church service.
The car then burst into life and the Queen said: "Don't let it stop."
An air ambulance was blessed by Exeter Cathedral's Dean, and the Bishop of Plymouth blessed a new lifeboat.
In 2011, the Bishop of Wakefield blessed keen churchgoer Mandy the Yorkshire Terrier.
The vicar of St Anne in the Grove, Southowram, noted that Mandy "seems to know that a different code of behaviour is needed in church".
"One of the reasons we've never had a real live donkey for Palm Sunday services is a worry about what it may deposit on the floor but with Mandy, we've never had a problem," the vicar said.
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Gritters have been blessed by clergy including the Bishop of Lincoln as part of preparations to make Lincolnshire's roads safer this winter.
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Prop Sam Moa scored in between two Jennings efforts as the Australian side dominated the first period.
Wigan battled after half-time and reduced the deficit with a try from Joe Burgess and two from Josh Charnley.
But Jennings crossed for his third try, with Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and Shaun Kenny-Dowall also going over.
The game - an annual fixture played between the Super League champions and the winners of Australia's National Rugby League - was staged down under for the first time since 1994.
Wigan missed out on a record fourth World Club Challenge victory. The Warriors, Sydney Roosters (once as Eastern Suburbs), Leeds Rhinos and Bradford Bulls have all won the competition three times.
On that occasion, Wigan defeated Brisbane Broncos, but despite being comprehensively beaten this time, the Cherry and Whites can take heart from a battling second-half performance at Sydney's Allianz Stadium, as they attempted to win a record fourth World Club Challenge.
Skipper Sean O'Loughlin, who led the side to a Grand Final and Challenge Cup double last season, was declared fit to start but was unable to inspire his young side to victory against a rampant and ruthless Roosters outfit, whose James Maloney converted all six attempts at goal.
It looked like being a long evening for the English side from the off, as Trent Robinson's men went ahead after just four minutes. Aided by poor Wigan defending, Jennings fended off Charnley before waltzing through to touch down.
The Roosters were clearly on top and scored again soon after as former Hull man Moa broke the defensive line to touch down underneath the posts. Captain Anthony Minichiello, who played in his side's last appearance in this match in 2003, could have extended the lead further, but fumbled when attempting to collect a kick.
The Warriors were under constant pressure and were failing to deal with the speed of the Sydney backs, who were working off a tough and bulky forward line which contained Kiwis Sonny Bill Williams and Waerea-Hargreaves.
And when Matt Bowen, signed to replace Sam Tomkins at full-back, failed to deal with Jake Friend's grubber kick into the in-goal area, Jennings reacted quickest to grab his second try of the game.
Eddy Pettybourne was placed on report after catching Kenny-Dowall on the chin with his forearm as the visitors went in at half-time 18-0 down.
Wigan made the perfect start as they attempted to overhaul the deficit in the second half with winger Burgess, who scored four tries in a warm-up game against New Zealand Warriors, finishing off a sweeping move on 43 minutes.
But just when it looked as though they were getting back into the game, a sloppy pass allowed Jennings to pick the loose ball unchallenged and snatch his hat-trick.
Matt Smith's high kick caused confusion in the Sydney defence, allowing Charnley to profit and touch down for Shaun Wane's men.
But Waerea-Hargreaves, who played in New Zealand's World Cup final defeat by Australia in November, barged over before Kenny-Dowall's score ended the contest.
Sydney Roosters captain Anthony Minichiello: "At the end of last season, we spoke about wanting to win the World Club Challenge. It was a bit rusty at stages but we got the job done. We prepared well and we did a lot of video work on Wigan, because they are a great team."
Wigan Warriors captain Sean O'Loughlin: "It was a massive effort. We've come up against a world-class team. We didn't do ourselves justice in the first part of the game but we fought well. We just caused them some trouble but we just didn't do it for long enough."
Sydney Roosters: Minichiello; Tupou, Jennings, Aubusson, Kenny-Dowall; Maloney, Pearce; Waerea-Hargreaves, Friend, Moa, Cordner, Williams, Nuuausala.
Replacements: Mortimer, Guerra, Napa, Casty.
Wigan Warriors: Bowen; Charnley, Goulding, Sarginson, Burgess; Green, Smith; Flower, McIlorum, Dudson, Hughes, Farrell, O'Loughlin.
Replacements: Taylor, Pettybourne, Crosby, Bateman.
Referee: Ben Cummin
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Michael Jennings scored a hat-trick as Sydney Roosters won the World Club Challenge for the third time with a resounding victory over Wigan Warriors.
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Celebrated Japanese plastic surgeon Katsuya Takasu announced his desire to reward the 1996 Olympic football champions, along with $20,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze after hearing about their financial woes.
"I read about the financial problems affecting the team and I felt the need to make a big contribution," Takasu told BBC Sport.
"I am not doing this for media attention but to motivate a team with an indomitable spirit. I fell in love with the Nigerian team because despite all these problems they are in the quarter-finals of the Olympics.
"Whether they win or not, I will still donate something to help alleviate the challenges in paying their bonuses and allowances."
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) were impressed by this gesture but are being careful.
"I have been in direct contact with Mr Takasu and impressed by his gesture," NFF vice-president Seyi Akinwunmi told BBC Sport.
"But we need not get carried away because the integrity of the country is at stake.
"First we must check about this. Significantly, the team has an important game and we need to focus on that."
Before arriving in Rio, the 'Dream Team VI' were held up in Atlanta, USA, because of a problem with the payment for their flight.
The 1996 Olympic champions only landed in Brazil just hours before their opening 5-4 win over Japan.
Nigeria had a troubled build-up to their quarter-final against Denmark in Salvador on Saturday.
The players boycotted a training session in a dispute over pay, and their injured top scorer with four goals - Ogenekaro Etebo - has been ruled out of the match but will return should Nigeria advance to the semi-finals.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Olympic team have now received their camp allowances from the government, according to the team's media officer Timi Ebikagboro.
"The sports ministry has cleared all camp allowances of the team in Brazil.
"Players and officials have now been paid 22 days allowances," said Ebikagboro.
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A benefactor has promised a bonus of $30,000 to each Nigerian player should they win gold at the Rio 2016 men's Olympic football tournament in Brazil.
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Lead singer Carl Barat had invited The High Flying Birds man to help produce their new record, which is out later this year.
He told NME the band could use his "clarity of vision" on the project.
But, before any further excitement could take hold, Noel revealed their need to record abroad meant he wouldn't be able to sign up.
We know what you're thinking. How did this combo even present itself in the first place?
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Yep, the musical powerhouses that are Gallagher and Barat have been bouncing them back and forth recently.
"I'm going to email Noel Gallagher," Carl explained before Noel knocked him back.
"I know he's really busy, but hopefully he's got a bit of time for The Libertines who love him so."
Seemingly not enough time.
Noel told NME: "We've exchanged a few emails but unfortunately they want to do it in Thailand.
"With the best will in the world, I'm on tour and I can't do it. I would genuinely love to be involved but they're going to do it in Thailand and I can't be in Thailand."
So that's, that. The "clarity of vision" will have to wait.
Noel does have some advice for The Libertines though, "as long as they don't over-think it, they'll be alright."
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The five-time world champion had not played a competitive match since losing to Stuart Bingham in the quarter-finals at the Crucible in April.
There were no sign of rustiness, with breaks of 61 and 52 in the first frame.
He returned from a 3-1 interval lead to seal the win with further breaks of 58 and 51 in the next two frames.
O'Sullivan now meets Jamie Cope or Stuart Carrington on Sunday, with the winner to go through to the final stages of the world ranking event in Berlin in February.
The 40-year-old, nicknamed 'the rocket', has confirmed he will play at the UK Masters at Alexandra Palace, London, in January.
Elsewhere at Wigan, Mark Allen enjoyed a 5-2 win over Duane Jones, while Shanghai Masters champion Kyren Wilson beat Jake Nicholson 5-0, including a highest break of 103.
Plus UK Championship finalist Liang Wenbo made a 121 in the deciding frame to beat Eden Sharav 5-4.
Robertson, the 2013 winner, made three centuries and two fifty-plus breaks as he won six frames in a row to beat world number 15 Stephen Maguire 6-1.
In the battle of Maguire's fellow Scots, a nervy Higgins held off Jamie Burnett's comeback to progress 6-4.
World number seven Higgins led 4-1 but lost three frames in a row.
Higgins, who faces Robertson in the last eight, told BBC Sport: "It was a big scare. I thought it was going to 5-5 so I was so pleased to win 6-4.
"If it goes 5-5 it's a toss of a coin. Jamie had a chance at 4-4 but missed a red and he will be kicking himself because I was really struggling.
"If he had gone 5-4 in front I am sure he would have won the game."
Higgins, winner of 28 ranking events including two this season, started impressively enough with three breaks of more than 50 earning a 3-0 lead.
But at 4-1 ahead, he missed numerous simple pots and Burnett grew in confidence.
Higgins settled his nerves with a brilliant 102 to go ahead and settled the match with a break of 71 - his fifth half-century.
Robertson had no such trouble in his win over Maguire.
A superb ton earned the Scot the opening frame, but he barely had a look-in after that.
"He was awesome. If he plays like that then he wins the tournament," Maguire told BBC Sport.
"That was a lesson. If I go back in time I couldn't really doing anything about it. But he can't keep that up, it's impossible. He was potting everything."
Maguire's opening-frame 118 was followed by breaks of 124, 76 and 101 by Cambridge-based Australian Robertson as he established a 3-1 interval lead.
The Scot, UK champion in 2004, was then incredibly unfortunate to go in off when on course to win the fifth frame.
Robertson took full advantage, winning that crucial frame and closing out victory with a break of 113.
Robertson, who had 97% pot success, said: "That was the best I have played all season, without a doubt. I played great but I knew I had to.
"I have to maintain my focus and keep my foot down.
"He looked in really good nick in that first frame and didn't really have a chance up until 3-1 when he was unfortunate to go in off the yellow.
"That was the only obvious mistake he made - even though it was very unlucky."
China's Liang Wenbo joined Robertson in the last eight, beating Englishman Tom Ford 6-5 in a tense final-frame match that lasted more than four hours.
And Londoner Martin Gould was a comfortable winner over Northern Ireland's Joe Swail, earning a 6-3 victory to complete the quarter-final line-up.
Emergency services were called to Port Road in Dalbeattie at about 11:00.
Fire crews from Dalbeattie, Castle Douglas and Dumfries were sent to the scene and helped to remove the man from his Nissan Micra.
He was taken to Dumfries Infirmary for treatment while the van driver received a precautionary check-up.
The credit card provider said it took almost $600m (£370m) in after-tax charges in the fourth quarter of 2012.
The company said that these charges would halve its net profit for the quarter from $1.2bn to $637m.
It said the majority of the job losses would be in its travel business, which is being "fundamentally reinvented as a result of the digital revolution".
American Express said it was having to adapt parts of the business as more customers make payments online or via mobile.
It added that the job losses would be spread proportionally between the US and international markets.
The charges include restructuring costs of $287m mostly related to redundancy payments, $212m for Membership Rewards expenses and $95m for card member reimbursements
In the fourth quarter, spending by card members was 8% higher than a year ago, the company said, "despite a brief dip in late October/early November reflecting the impact of Hurricane Sandy on consumers and businesses in the north-eastern United States".
Total revenues rose 5% on the year to $8.1bn.
"Against the backdrop of an uneven economic recovery, these restructuring initiatives are designed to make American Express more nimble, more efficient and more effective in using our resources to drive growth," said chief executive Kenneth Chenault.
"For the next two years, our aim is to hold annual operating expense increases to less than 3%. The overall restructuring programme will put us in a better position as we seek to deliver strong results for shareholders and to maintain marketing and promotion investments at about 9% of revenues," he said.
Trevor Deely was last seen walking home from a Christmas party in December 2000.
An anonymous donor has offered the reward through Crimestoppers.
Gardaà (Irish police) have also released CCTV footage showing a man acting suspiciously on the night Mr Deely disappeared.
The man, dressed in black, is seen approaching Mr Deeley and talking to him at the rear of the offices where he worked.
Detectives at Pearse Street Garda Station never closed the file on Mr Deely's disappearance and hope technological advances in the examination of CCTV images will lead to a breakthrough in the case.
Numerous appeals for information down the years have failed to establish what happened to Mr Deely.
The 24-year-old former Sheffield Wednesday and Rochdale man made 25 appearances in all competitions during a one-year spell with the Cumbrians.
His contract at Accrington comes with the option of a further 12 months.
"He's hungry and wants to be successful and in that respect he'll fit right in," assistant manager Jimmy Bell said.
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Nicky Law fired the hosts in front after 21 minutes, drilling home from 10 yards after a Filipe Morais shot had been blocked by Abu Ogogo.
It was the midfielder's first goal since joining the Bantams from Rangers in the summer and the ninth game in a row when Shrewsbury have conceded first.
Morais went close to a second in Bradford's next attack but some last-ditch defending from Jack Grimmer managed to deflect the ball over the crossbar.
Bradford were not so effective after the break and Shrewsbury had a strong penalty shout for handball against defender Stephen Darby.
Goalkeeping coach Danny Coyne, in temporary charge of Shrewsbury following manager Micky Mellon's resignation to join Tranmere, saw his team threaten more as the game went on.
But substitute Haris Vuckic secured Bradford's win with a stoppage-time penalty after Antoni Sarcevic brought down Daniel Devine.
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Match ends, Bradford City 2, Shrewsbury Town 0.
Second Half ends, Bradford City 2, Shrewsbury Town 0.
Goal! Bradford City 2, Shrewsbury Town 0. Haris Vuckic (Bradford City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Bradford City. Daniel Devine draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Adam El-Abd (Shrewsbury Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Abu Ogogo (Shrewsbury Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mark Marshall (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Abu Ogogo (Shrewsbury Town).
Attempt missed. George Waring (Shrewsbury Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Andy Mangan replaces Ian Black.
Attempt blocked. George Waring (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Daniel Devine (Bradford City).
Ian Black (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bradford City. Haris Vuckic replaces Billy Clarke.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Jack Grimmer.
Attempt blocked. James Meredith (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Billy Clarke (Bradford City) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt blocked. Nicky Law (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by Joe Riley.
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Antoni Sarcevic (Shrewsbury Town).
Substitution, Bradford City. Marc McNulty replaces Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila.
Attempt blocked. Nicky Law (Bradford City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Jack Grimmer (Shrewsbury Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jack Grimmer (Shrewsbury Town).
Attempt blocked. Joe Riley (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Timothee Dieng (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ian Black (Shrewsbury Town).
Attempt missed. Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Adam El-Abd (Shrewsbury Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Nathaniel Knight-Percival.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Mat Sadler replaces Junior Brown because of an injury.
Foul by Billy Clarke (Bradford City).
Joe Riley (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Antoni Sarcevic (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Bradford City. Daniel Devine replaces Filipe Morais because of an injury.
Mark Marshall (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Antoni Sarcevic (Shrewsbury Town).
Jordy Hiwula-Mayifuila (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Mr Maduro also announced the deployment of an extra 3,000 troops in the area, which he says has been infiltrated by Colombian paramilitaries and gangs.
The main crossings were closed a week ago after Venezuelan soldiers were injured in a shootout with smugglers.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos criticised Mr Maduro's unilateral move.
More than 1,000 Colombians have been deported and about 6,000 have left in fear since the border closures.
Mr Santos said the treatment of "ordinary Colombians" by its South American neighbour was "unacceptable".
But Mr Maduro said the security operation initiated a week ago has unveiled evidence that Colombian right-wing paramilitaries had infiltrated the area.
"To clean up the area from the paramilitaries and drug trafficking I have decide to close the border of another six towns in the state of Tachira: Lobatera, San Juan de Colon, La Fria, Garcia de Hevia, Panamericano and Coloncito," Mr Maduro said in a rally to his supporters in Caracas.
The border crossings will close at 05:00 local time (09:30 GMT).
Mr Maduro said soldiers had dismantled criminal gangs who had kept dozens of men as "economic slaves" and women as "sex slaves".
Smuggling has been a huge problem along the long, porous border area for many years.
Items subsidised by Venezuela's socialist government are sold over the border in Colombia with huge profit margins.
"Almost 80% of the people who enter [Venezuela] through the Colombian border come to take away all our petrol, our shampoo, the food of the Venezuelans, their soap, their meat, their milk and their medication," said Mr Maduro.
Mr Santos called for an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from the regional Unasur bloc to discuss the crisis. It will take place on 3 September in Ecuador.
On Thursday, Mr Santos recalled Colombia's ambassador to Caracas for consultations. The Venezuelan government followed suit later in the day.
But on Friday Mr Maduro said he was willing to have a face-to-face meeting with Mr Santos "wherever he wants, whenever he wants and however he wants".
Sanaa Shahid and her four-year-old son were accosted by solicitor Alexander MacKinnon as they travelled on the Glasgow-bound service from London.
The Virgin Trains guard challenged MacKinnon and eventually removed him from the train.
MacKinnon admitted the racially aggravated offence at Carlisle Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
He was fined £1,154 and ordered to pay Mrs Shahid £50 compensation.
Mrs Shahid, who is also a lawyer, said she was targeted by MacKinnon on the 14:30 train on 29 December after he took exception to her and her son's presence in first class.
After telling her she did not belong, Mrs Shahid told MacKinnon he was a racist and began filming him.
As he prepared to be escorted off the the train, MacKinnon told Mrs Shahid: "You're so wonderful wasting police time, miss", before swearing at her and her son.
Mrs Shahid answered: "You're a disgrace to humanity. Just get off."
Earlier, MacKinnon was also heard speaking on his phone, saying that it was "my word against hers".
The train guard then approached MacKinnon and told him: "It's not just your word against hers, it's mine as well because I heard it all."
The guard added: "We're not going to accept it. You're drunk and racist and you need to get off the train."
Writing on her Twitter page, Mrs Shahid said she could not speak highly enough of the train manager who helped her and her son.
She added: "Sat with us until the guy was taken off by [British Transport Police]".
Mrs Shahid also thanked the BTP and tweeted: "Thank you for the excellent support and reassurance u gave following this incident and for pursuing the matter."
The Exiles are in the third round for the first time since being reformed in 1989 after a 1-0 win over Barnet.
Sheridan appreciates the financial impact a big team can bring, but is more concerned about qualifying for the fourth round.
"Obviously we want to go as far as we can and financially it can help the club - as simple as," he said.
"Listen, the draw takes care of itself.
"The lads are excited - everyone says we want this [team] or we want them, but at the end of the day it's another football match and whoever we get we've got to believe that we can get through to the next round.
"It gives the supporters a bit of excitement - you're in the hat and you don't know who you are going to get."
The draw for the third round will be made in Cardiff at 19:00 GMT on Monday and will be shown live on BBC Two.
The Salesman, up for the best foreign language film award, will be screened in Trafalgar Square on 26 February.
Its director has said he will not go to the Oscars due to President Trump's attempts to bar people from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.
It is not yet known if Asghar Farhadi will attend the event in London.
The director - whose earlier work A Separation won the foreign film Oscar in 2012 - said the free screening had "a great symbolic value".
"The gathering of the audience around The Salesman in this famous London square is a symbol of unity against the division and separation of people," he said.
The afternoon event will include a programme of readings and speeches from actors and directors, including Mike Leigh.
The Salesman, which opens in the UK on 17 March, tells of a couple whose relationship suffers as they rehearse an amateur production Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Last month the organisers of the Oscars said they found it "extremely troubling" that Farhadi could be barred from entering the US.
In a statement, the director said he would not attend the Academy Awards even if he were offered dispensation by the US government.
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Sky withdrew the Colombian, 28, from competition in April over the results of out-of-competition blood tests.
But the UCI, the sport's governing body, said that after examination by independent experts "there was no basis to proceed further".
Henao was also withdrawn by Sky in March 2014 for three months over their monitoring of his biological passport.
Henao's 2016 tests were carried out at altitude and Sky commissioned an independent 10-week research programme to find out if the fact he was born at 2,125m above altitude had any bearing on his blood values.
The results revealed nothing to raise suspicion of any wrongdoing by Henao.
Team Sky's Chris Froome begins the defence of his Tour de France title on 2 July.
Shaun Longstaff, the former Scotland wing turned international rugby agent, might be talking about broiler chickens or beef cattle, livestock and commodities, rather than professional sportsmen.
But this is the ruthless business of modern rugby at the elite end - and the source of Longstaff's alarm.
His agency represents some of the sport's top global talent. Scotland internationals Tommy Seymour and Pete Horne, Ireland duo Conor Murray and Simon Zebo, England's Dan Cole, and Australian Will Genia are among the more illustrious names on his books.
Longstaff, 44, has seen the game change, watched players pump themselves bigger and stronger. He's observed the physical toll - the enforced retirements, the frightening and lingering symptoms of concussion.
He seeks the counsel of surgeons and scientists, and finds himself holding increasingly frank exchanges with his players about their quality of life after rugby.
And he worries about his role in it all, the path his sport is treading, and what might become of those whose careers and well-being he oversees.
Nobody had heard of Leone Nakarawa when the giant Fijian lock first pitched up at Glasgow three years ago.
Such was his astounding skill set, so utterly different to anyone else in his position in this hemisphere, that he left the Warriors this summer a Pro12 winner, World Cup star and rugby phenomenon bound for a lucrative contract with Racing 92, the French champions.
In Paris he joins forces with one of Longstaff's clients, the preposterously proportioned Tongan-New Zealander, Ben Tameifuna, a dump-truck of a prop who tips the scales at almost 150kg (23st 8lb).
There are more Nakarawas and Tameifunas out there to be plundered, hidden gems scattered across Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, and Europe's elite want one of their own.
"Some of the clubs knew we were going on a scouting trip to the islands in April," says Longstaff.
"They weren't looking for a playmaker, or a great kicker, because you can coach a great kicker - they were looking for something they couldn't get over here.
"'Find us a freak'. Someone big and fast and powerful. And they want them cheap, because it is business, and they know if they go to the islands, where poverty is rife, you can pay very little really and get someone over who might come through very quickly."
Amid the myriad analysis tools now used in elite rugby, many sides kit their players out with wearable sensors.
The thirst for more data and enhanced intelligence is a tenet of professional sport, and these gismos measure the G-forces generated when players collide, make a tackle, or hit a ruck.
But Longstaff warns the glorification, and quantification, of the "hit" fuels a dangerous cynicism seeping into some players' psyche.
"There are coaches who openly talk about the G-force on the hits," he says. "Some coaches are now reading and comparing them, in terms of whether they're hitting that ruck hard enough, or carrying hard enough, so effectively they're picking - which kills me - connected to how hard your Gs are on your hits.
"To me, that seems mad, that it's affecting the way you look at the game. If you haven't got the ball, you shouldn't be looking to think, 'there's a dead ruck, so if I hit that really hard, my Gs are going to be really high'.
"But it comes into their heads because they want to get picked, and if they get picked for that game, they might get that new contract. I've definitely seen that taking place, which is a concern."
Some coaches, says Longstaff, go further. The chaotic and perilous 'breakdown' is an environment in which an opponent can be taken out of the game.
"The main theme is violence at the breakdown for certain directors of rugby," he says. "I've played the game, I know it's a tough game, but that is a key focus for some. That's where they think they can get that edge.
"They want guys hurting the opposition at the breakdown because it's the one chance you can really blind-side someone."
Longstaff experienced the surgeon's scalpel almost as often as he donned a Scotland jersey in his own career.
Over a decade after hanging up his boots, he says the changes in the game and the shape of those who play it now make physical damage a constant threat.
"I've had two operations on my right shoulder, one on my left, a serious operation on my right hip, three operations on my knees," says Longstaff.
"If you tell any non-rugby person the amount of operations I've had as a 44-year-old, their eyes pop out of their heads. They think it's absolute madness.
"And then I explain to them I was the wimp on the wing who couldn't tackle a fish supper - I wasn't exactly putting my body into awkward positions very often.
"Fast-forward 20 years to what these guys are doing now. It is a different world, and they're doing it regularly. Is their quality of life going to be affected long-term?
"I always tell them to go into this with your eyes wide open, because they all feel bullet-proof. They're in an environment where everyone's bullet-proof; they're so tough."
With the enhanced physicality comes a vital emphasis on recovery. But Longstaff tells of international players given until minutes before kick-off to prove themselves ready for battle.
"Maybe rugby is on a different level physically because of the way you have to put your body on the line, and the way almost every player is not 100% when he plays," he says.
"I've seen players go into Test matches where the management give them right until the final hour to prove their fitness, which we see more and more often these days.
"Is that the right thing for their bodies, long-term? It is things like that I sometimes find myself saying to players."
If all this plays out at the top end of the sport, a little way below, youngsters graft to make the physical strides necessary to carve out a professional career.
"There's a massive number of players under the age of 21, 22 that were turfed out of academies last season," notes Longstaff.
"Huge numbers of guys just get moved on. And they have been changing the shapes of their bodies for maybe six years. They would actually look quite odd walking around town now.
"You've built this body, but then what do you do with it? You've got to manage it and live with it. That's their choice - they've gone into this to get bigger, but the pressures to get bigger are huge. Because if you can't get bigger, it's such a tough road to get through."
The consensus among leading scientists and doctors is that rugby is gradually addressing the intricate threat of injuries to the brain.
Scottish Rugby's top medic, the immensely-respected James Robson, told BBC Scotland in June that awareness and willingness to take concussion seriously is "massively better" now than in recent years.
Rugby's governing bodies say that is the reason for the increased instance of concussion reported in each of the past five annual injury audits undertaken on England's Aviva Premiership.
But earlier this year, John Beattie's BBC Panorama report investigated chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a form of dementia caused by repeated head trauma. It has been found in the brain tissue of deceased boxers, NFL athletes, and now, rugby and football players.
There is also a study in progress at the University of Glasgow, examining the long-term effects of concussion in former Scottish internationals.
Meanwhile, Scotland's current fly-half Finn Russell has still to return to contact training three months after the severe head injury he incurred on Pro12 duty for Glasgow Warriors.
And just last week, in the first case of its kind, the former Sale scrum-half Cillian Willis is suing the club for alleged clinical negligence over the concussion that ended his career - a development that has some of England's top coaches fearful of the precedent it could set.
Longstaff is deeply troubled by this tumult. He, like Robson, is encouraged by the shift in mind-set, but worries his players are unwittingly part of an experimental generation.
They can't know what they're getting into since the science to tell them does not yet exist. But some are already suffering.
"I think the attitude to concussion is improving," he says. "It's more accepted and far cooler now to say, 'I'm not alright', and get off.
"That's one level. The next level is professionalism, and it's ironic, because I represent money and professionalism in the game really, and money comes into it.
"These guys are thinking, 'if I don't play, I might not get that match payment' - some players will think along those lines - or 'I'm coming out of contract, and if I don't play this game, there's a break for three weeks, and then I'm coming into negotiations, I've got to play, and I've got to play really well'.
"The kids play and have different social pressures, and the professional men play and are concerned about livelihoods.
"I wouldn't consider myself some great mind in terms of changing of the laws - I don't know the way forward, I just know that I'm worried, and have been for ages.
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"I'm not sure there's a lot of knowledge there for players. I find myself sometimes offloading my own conscience a little bit - I talk to every player about their thoughts on where the game's going with regards to the protection for the brain.
"I'm their agent; I've been with some of these guys for 12 years now, so I have witnessed the physicality modern players face in the changing game.
"Have I done enough? Because if they go into their 40s and 50s with head problems - whether it's just headaches, which might be the lesser symptoms, or it's worse than that - it wouldn't sit well with me.
"I don't want to be an old man, and some of these players are 15, 20 years younger than me phoning me and saying, 'did you know about this? Because I can't remember what I did yesterday, and I can't hold down a job'."
Ciaran Williamson suffered two skull fractures and his brain stem separated when he was hit by the headstone in a cemetery in Glasgow.
The inquiry at Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that the stone also caused injuries to his heart and liver.
Ciaran's parents wept as the details of his death were read to the court.
The incident happened in Craigton Cemetery in Cardonald on 26 May 2015.
Details of Ciaran's injuries emerged in a joint minute of agreement of pathology evidence which was read to the court by Dorothy Bain QC.
She said: "The pediment fell striking Ciaran on the top of his head causing him to fall backwards, as a result he sustained several head injuries."
It was heard that the pediment "fell further and progressed down Ciaran's face causing him to sustain several abrasions".
The document also said "the pediment then landed on Ciaran's chest, shoulder and upper abdomen causing him to sustain the blunt force trauma injuries he suffered to his aorta and liver".
Miss Bain told the court: "At the point Ciaran was struck by the pediment his death would have been instantaneous and painless for him."
The inquiry aims to establish if there were any reasonable precautions that could have prevented the tragedy.
It will also consider if there were any defects in the system of work that caused or contributed to Ciaran's death.
Earlier expert stonemason Peter Hayman told the court that "very little force" would have been enough to topple the headstone.
He said a nearby tree's roots forced the memorial to lean forward but concluded "if left without any remedial action it would have eventually failed at some point".
He said the angle of lean on the stone was between eight and eight and a half degrees.
Dorothy Bain QC - representing Ciaran's mother Stephanie Griffin - asked Mr Hayman if he had visited before the incident, what risk he thought the stone would present.
The witness said that if it was leaning at the angle it was recorded at it "would be a definite hazard and danger".
He told the hearing that he would still assess the particular stone as a potential danger if the angle of lean was about six degrees.
Miss Bain asked what he meant by "very little force" and he said: "Perhaps even a strong gust of wind."
He added: "Ground heave, frost and thaw actions."
She asked: "If you had been asked to inspect the Ross memorial before the failure, would you have passed it as safe?" Mr Hayman said "No."
Miss Bain asked: "Would would you have done?" He replied: "I would have immediately fenced it off."
Mr Hayman said he was disappointed at the condition of some of the headstones at Craigton Cemetery.
It was heard that he had contacted the council to suggest an inspection and maintenance programme.
Under cross-examination by Mark Stewart QC, representing Glasgow City Council, Mr Hayman was asked whether he meant that the headstone was "so perilously balanced a gust of wind would knock it over?" He replied that he did not.
The inquiry before sheriff Linda Ruxton continues.
In a joint statement, they "looked forward to the notification as soon as possible by the new British government of the UK's intention to withdraw from the Union".
This would "permit orderly negotiations to begin".
The two men met in Dublin on Thursday.
Both leaders agreed on the importance of maintaining the closest possible partnership between the EU and the UK.
"Ireland and France are the UK's nearest neighbours, with significant and complex economic, human, cultural and historical links. In consequence, both countries have specific and indeed unique concerns to be addressed in future negotiations," the statement said.
Speaking during a press conference afterwards, Mr Hollande said that the UK cannot access the EU market without free movement.
Mr Hollande is also to pay a courtesy visit to President Michael D Higgins on his trip, which was expected to to last little more than five hours.
He is also to attend a special event for the French community in Ireland.
However, his visit has been shortened since last week's incident in Nice in which 84 people lost their lives when a man drove a lorry into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.
During their meeting, President Hollande briefed Mr Kenny on the current security situation and both men agreed "on the urgent need to accelerate ongoing work on a range of EU counter-terrorism and security actions".
President Hollande cancelled a visit to the Islandbridge War Memorial Gardens where he was due to pay tribute to the tens of thousands of Irishmen who died in World War One fighting for French liberty.
The president is also due to meet the Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday evening in Paris.
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The Bayern Munich forward scored his ninth World Cup goal in as many games to give Germany a routine win at a rain-soaked Arena Pernambuco in Recife.
The rate at which Muller is scoring in World Cup games is matched only by Brazil legend Pele, who also found the net nine times in his first nine matches in the tournament.
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The 24-year-old German is now just six goals behind the all-time scoring record, which is jointly held by Muller's team-mate Miroslav Klose and former Brazilian striker Ronaldo.
This was a frustrating afternoon for the United States and their travelling army of fans. They failed to force Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to make a save of note but their qualification was assured by Portugal's 2-1 victory over Ghana in Brasilia.
The US will now travel to Salvador to take on the much-fancied Belgians on Tuesday. Germany will play the runners up of Group H in Porto Alegre on Monday.
Before the game, much had been made of the suggestion that both sides might play for a convenient draw that would take each of them through. But with US coach Jurgen Klinsmann, who previously managed Germany, facing off against his protege Joachim Low, neither team took a backward step from the first whistle.
Germany, playing their familiar passing game at a patient tempo, carved out a series of early chances.
On three occasions Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng found space wide on the right flank and fizzed fierce low crosses into the penalty area, while Arsenal's Mesut Ozil came closest to scoring, stepping away from Matt Besler's challenge to test United States goalkeeper Tim Howard.
Germany had to wait until the 55th minute to make the breakthrough, however, having seen Ozil and substitute Miroslav Klose go close.
It was a cross by the former that created the goal with Arsenal team-mate Per Mertesacker heading powerfully at goal and forcing Howard to push the ball into the path of Muller.
It is an unbelievable day for US soccer. They were not outstanding on the pitch today but they will always give 100% and be organised. The people back home will love this - we've finished above one of the best teams in the world and Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo are going home. The next game is going to be a massive occasion.
The forward struck his shot first time and it flashed beyond Howard before he could react to put Germany ahead.
The United States did show spells that suggest they will not be easy to beat in this tournament. Michael Bradley was at the heart of their best work, setting the tone with his tenacity in the tackle and his ability to keep possession under intense pressure.
The Toronto midfielder created the USA's best chance of the game, finding Kansas City forward Graham Zusi, whose shot curled narrowly over the bar, but Bradley's touch let him down just as a shooting opportunity presented itself moments before half-time.
The midfielder allowed his frustrations to get the better of him as he caught Muller with his studs raised and was fortunate to escape a booking.
After half-time the USA improved. Alejandro Bedoya saw a shot blocked after a fluent move down the USA right, while Clint Dempsey headed just over late on.
And although Germany closed out the game, when the result was confirmed in Brasilia, the United States also had something to celebrate.
USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann: "It's huge for us to reach the last 16. We wanted at least a tie out of the game and maybe at the beginning we had too much respect.
"But overall there was tremendous energy and effort from all of the side. It's huge for us to get out of group - everyone said we had no chance but we took that chance. Now we want to prove a point."
Germany coach Joachim Low: "I knew it would be difficult today and it was. USA defended deep, they were well organised, but I have to say we dominated, denying them good chances in the process.
"Our midfield was great today - they were dynamic and never stopped running.
"It wasn't easy for USA - everyone thought Portugal would qualify, but they've done it. They're tough opponents and they've deserved it."
Germany forward Thomas Muller: "We were dominant. All the Americans did was sit back deep in their own half, and when that happens, it just becomes a patience game.
"But sometimes even I manage to have a bright idea - I spend the whole day training like I'm obsessed anyway."
Match ends, USA 0, Germany 1.
Second Half ends, USA 0, Germany 1.
Attempt missed. Clint Dempsey (USA) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Alejandro Bedoya (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Clint Dempsey.
Attempt blocked. André Schürrle (Germany) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Offside, Germany. Manuel Neuer tries a through ball, but Thomas Müller is caught offside.
Substitution, Germany. André Schürrle replaces Mesut Özil.
Thomas Müller (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by DaMarcus Beasley (USA).
Mario Götze (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Bradley (USA).
Offside, Germany. Mario Götze tries a through ball, but Miroslav Klose is caught offside.
Substitution, USA. DeAndre Yedlin replaces Graham Zusi.
Foul by Benedikt Höwedes (Germany).
Omar González (USA) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Omar González.
Attempt saved. Benedikt Höwedes (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Hand ball by DaMarcus Beasley (USA).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Germany. Mario Götze replaces Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Delay in match Jermaine Jones (USA) because of an injury.
Foul by Philipp Lahm (Germany).
Michael Bradley (USA) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, USA. Conceded by Philipp Lahm.
Foul by Mats Hummels (Germany).
Jermaine Jones (USA) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Miroslav Klose (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kyle Beckerman (USA).
Foul by Mesut Özil (Germany).
Fabian Johnson (USA) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Kyle Beckerman (USA) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Beckerman (USA).
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alejandro Bedoya (USA).
Substitution, USA. Alejandro Bedoya replaces Brad Davis.
Philipp Lahm (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jermaine Jones (USA).
Foul by Miroslav Klose (Germany).
Kyle Beckerman (USA) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
As many as 4,000 reindeer are involved in accidents with cars every year in Lapland, which is a region of Finland.
The Reindeer Herders Association hopes the reflective spray will help drivers see them during the dark months.
The special spray is being tested on the reindeer's fur and antlers to see if it stays on in different weather conditions.
Noshir Gowadia, who helped design the propulsion system for the B-2 bomber, was found guilty on multiple counts - including conspiracy and money laundering.
Indian-born Gowadia, 67, could be sentenced to life in prison.
The case is one of a series of major prosecutions targeting alleged Chinese spying in the US.
According to prosecutors, Gowadia helped China to design a stealth cruise missile.
It involved an exhaust nozzle that would evade infrared radar detection and US heat-seeking missiles.
Gowadia was accused of travelling to China between 2003 and 2005 while designing the missile.
He was said to have been paid $110,000 (£69,000) - money that was used to pay off a mortgage on a luxury home on the island of Maui.
In his defence, lawyers said it was true that Mr Gowadia had designed an exhaust nozzle for China - but that it was "basic stuff" based on unclassified information that was publicly available.
Gowadia, who was born in India, moved to the US in the 1960s and became a citizen about a decade later.
He has been in custody for nearly four years and faces life in prison when he is sentenced in November.
He was found not guilty on three counts of communicating national defence information to help a foreign nation.
The issues at Caia Park, Wrexham, reached their height in 2015, with 55 recorded deliberate fires.
The then North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, Winston Roddick, called the incidents a menace and pledged £10,000 to tackle the issue.
Police will be joined by firefighters and other groups on Prince Charles Road to discuss the problem.
"It's been historically quite a demanding challenge," said Ch Insp Dave Jolly.
"At the moment we are still getting significant amounts of arsons, primarily around the Caia Park area.
"The risk presented by fire is very challenging for my officers and obviously for the fire service."
Last year, a youth centre was targeted, with other incidents affecting homes and cars in the area.
Tim Owen, from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said: "Engaging with the public and the local residents, we are able to find out what is going on, and give them a bit of education on fire safety.
"Unfortunately there are people out there who still want to light fires."
Caia Park resident and community development worker Tracey Byrne said arson on the estate was posing a real risk to people.
"It's become a big issue, to be honest. I don't think people realise the dangers of it," she said.
"I think it is good to have days like this to prevent the dangers on the estate - not just arson - but a lot of things that are going on in the estate."
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The 33-year-old won a unanimous points decision to beat France's Sarah Ourahmoune.
Britain have now won 26 golds in Brazil and 63 medals overall, two short of the record 65 won at London 2012.
It is GB's first gold boxing medal in Rio, though super-heavyweight Joe Joyce could add another (Sunday, 19:15 BST).
"The gold rush continues," Adams told the BBC. "I'm now officially the most accomplished amateur boxer Great Britain has ever had. I can't believe it."
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Adams, from Leeds, has won Olympic, European and Commonwealth golds and is the first Briton to retain her Olympic crown since middleweight Harry Mallin in 1924.
She started strongly against the 15th-ranked Ourahmoune, winning the first of four two-minute rounds on all three judges' scorecard.
She improved further in the second, again winning across the board after pinning back her opponent with speed and accuracy.
Ourahmoune, who won bronze at this year's World Championships, battled back to take the third and also produced a spirited performance in the final round.
Both boxers celebrated at the final bell, but it was Adams whose arm was raised in victory after again impressing all three judges.
Anthony Joshua, 2012 Olympic super-heavyweight gold medallist on BBC TV:
"Nicky was counter punching and being patient, picking her shots wisely.
"No fight in an Olympic final is easy. The margins aren't far apart, they are two elite boxers and it was a very good fight."
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After a goalless first half, Eidur Gudjohnsen fired the Trotters in front from 12 yards before Davies doubled their lead four minutes later.
He then scored his 10th goal of the season with a powerful shot as Bolton did the double over the Bluebirds.
It was the Wanderers' first win away from home in eight league matches.
Cardiff remain 13th in the table, three points above Bolton who are still 16th.
Both sides started the match brightly in an open first half.
Bolton midfielder Barry Bannan blocked Cardiff striker Eoin Doyle's goal-bound shot on the line.
At the other end, Bluebirds defender Sean Morrison headed Dorian Dervite's header clear with goalkeeper David Marshall beaten.
The breakthrough came 10 minutes into the second half. Former Liverpool striker Emile Heskey chested the ball down to Gudjohnsen, who volleyed the ball into the top corner.
Heskey, 37, turned provider again four minutes later, sliding the ball through to Davies who fired a powerful low shot into the corner to make it 2-0.
The 29-year-old then latched onto Bannan's pass inside the area before bending the ball inside Marshall's left-hand post.
Marshall denied Davies a hat-trick, rushing out to block his goal-bound effort with his legs.
Cardiff manager Russell Slade:
"We're hugely disappointed because there haven't been many bad results in recent weeks.
"Even in the first half, many of us didn't see that coming but they were ruthless in the way they took their chances and when we had those windows of opportunity we weren't ruthless.
"They have a wealth of experience and their finishing was clinical which proved to be the difference today.
"We could say things could have been different if we still had Kenwyne Jones [on loan to Bournemouth] because we were getting balls into the box with quality."
Bolton manager Neil Lennon on strike duo Eidur Gudjohnsen and Emile Heskey:
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"You never lose the ability even if the legs start to go. But if you have got legs around them then it's OK.
"They've made a huge contribution to what we are trying to do, on and off the field. Heskey has been a model of consistency and Eidur still has plenty left.
"His motivation is to get back into the Iceland squad, he's done that and scored for his country which is a great story.
"It's a great example to a lot of players in the Championship, there were a few eyebrows raised and a few sniggers behind our backs when we brought these two in, but people aren't laughing now."
His adviser said Mr Trump would not appoint a special prosecutor to look into the former Secretary of State, as he had pledged during campaigning.
Later, Mr Trump said a fresh inquiry was not off the table, but he didn't want to "hurt the Clintons".
The FBI cleared Mrs Clinton, but criticised her private email server.
Mr Trump had threatened during his campaign to "jail" Mrs Clinton, and at rallies his supporters often chanted: "Lock her up!"
Senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC that "when the president-elect... tells you before he's even inaugurated he doesn't wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message - tone and content".
"And I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don't find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing," she added.
Remember crooked Hillary? The most corrupt politician ever, whose email scandal would be as big - if not bigger - than Watergate?
The butt of all those full-throated chants at Trump rallies, "lock her up, lock her up"?
And who could forget the memorable exchange in the second presidential debate, when Donald Trump promised to appoint a special prosecutor.
But now all that is gone, just some overheated campaign rhetoric that is being shelved, if you listen to his spokeswoman, Kellyanne Conway and close confidante, Rudy Giuliani.
This is part reality check: there is so much to do in the first 100 days, do you want to be bogged down in something as controversial as this?
And it's partly that the job's been done - if the language during the campaign was about discrediting Hillary Clinton in the eyes of enough of the electorate to get Mr Trump elected, then - well - it's mission accomplished.
The right-wing Breitbart News Network, one of the Manhattan billionaire's most loyal supporters, swiftly denounced the climb-down as a "broken promise".
Democrats also attacked Mr Trump for even having suggested in the first place that he could pursue charges against Mrs Clinton.
"That's not how this works," US Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut tweeted. "In our democracy, the President doesn't decide who gets prosecuted and who doesn't."
In other developments:
During the second presidential debate in October, Mr Trump pledged that if elected, he would appoint a special prosecutor to look into Mrs Clinton's private email use, suggesting she would be in prison.
His threat raised questions about whether a President Trump might flex his political muscles over the Justice Department.
If Mr Trump had followed through on the pledge, it would have been the first time in recent history that a president ordered his attorney general to prosecute a political rival.
In a call to donors following her shock election defeat, Mrs Clinton blamed her loss on the FBI's last-minute intervention.
The law enforcement agency's director James Comey shook up the presidential race when he announced a new inquiry into her email server 11 days before the election, only to drop the matter two days before Americans voted.
The development revived an investigation that had been declared over in July, when Mr Comey said Mrs Clinton's handling of classified material was "extremely careless", but did not warrant criminal charges.
Mr Trump first signalled he might drop his plan to prosecute Mrs Clinton, in an interview with CBS following the election.
"I'm going to think about it," he told the US network, adding that he wanted to focus on jobs, healthcare and immigration.
He told the programme he did not want to "hurt" the Clintons because they are "good people".
Looking east, the devastation is near complete. Every building, home, shop and street is ruined.
On a wall, above the collapsed lecture theatre of the city's cultural centre, an IS sniper, Abu Tarab, has written in Arabic a promise to the town: "Blood, blood, beheading, destruction."
IS delivered on part of his promise, but not fully. Kobane is broken, but it is not beaten.
The last word goes to the Kurds. Underneath the IS graffiti, a fighter has written: "Kobane is the graveyard of the Islamic State."
A few yards away the corpses of three IS fighters rot beside the crater from a coalition airstrike. The force of the blast tore them to pieces - a skull lies in the gutter.
For months IS and the Kurds faced each other, sometimes just yards apart.
There are still plenty of dangers here. Throughout the town, heavy steel mortars, still live, are rusting in the streets.
Almost comically, a tailfin protrudes from a wall or a pavement. IS may be gone, but it is not safe for people to return yet.
It is the Kurds who are left standing, some with trophies from the fight.
I meet one fighter who proudly unfolds an IS flag from his jacket. He tells me the jihadists used car bombs, packed with explosives to target Kurdish checkpoints.
More than 40 car bombs in total, "that's more than they used in Mosul", says another man.
From the same Iraqi city, the militants brought heavy weaponry, artillery and tanks, for the fight here.
Hundreds of Kurds died in the battles, but more than 1,000 IS fighters perished.
Most of its people fled Kobane. Those who stayed draped curtains across the roads, to hide out of sight of IS snipers.
Throughout the fighting, enduring the cold and the dark, Rahima and her 12 children and grandchildren would not leave.
"We faced difficulties," she said. "We were hungry, we were thirsty but we are no different from the fighters.
"They stayed, and we stayed - we were in the basement, when they had food they shared it with us. It was hard, but thank God, we knew we would win."
Her grand-daughter, Leyla, sits up proudly, when I ask her if she was afraid.
"Those who haven't seen the evil that took place here, will see it now," the 12-year-old said.
"Kurdish officials didn't abandon us. We are going to school now. And we are very happy because we will be able to go back to our villages. They liberated our lands," she added proudly.
There is silence now in the town and what is left of its streets, with only occasional gunfire underlying the fact that Kobane is at peace.
But driving the IS from here came at tremendous cost. Hundreds of coalition airstrikes have flattened most of the town.
And the IS did not go far, they are less than five miles (8km) from here. So while Kobane has been liberated, the fight against the militants goes on.
In the west, between buildings that were once under construction, a graveyard for Kurdish martyrs occupies the mud.
Plastic flowers stand brightly and on the headstones are the names of the dead carefully written in green paint.
Two small girls play nearby. They giggle and laugh, and sing a song, "the fighters are coming, the fighters are coming", over and over again.
I head east, closer to the front lines, Here the Kurdish fighters are young and determined. But still on three sides, they are nearly surrounded by the IS.
"The town has been liberated. It's a big victory. But the bigger win will be to free all the villages around Kobane," a fighter says.
"We will never allow a single IS fighter to survive in Kobane, in any villages and anywhere in our land."
Back at the green gate, by the railway line that separates Syria and Turkey, the sound of coalition aircraft can be heard overhead.
It is dark and there is low cloud, but suddenly, four loud and distant explosions. On the frontline to the west, the war against IS continues.
It is a war for which the battle for Kobane will be remembered. These streets tell, that with foreign help, IS can be defeated - but only at great sacrifice.
Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths is to consult on plans for a 50% reduction on 2006-7 levels.
Though not legally-binding, the food waste target could potentially be one of the world's most ambitious.
The EU recently agreed to halve food waste by 2030 while the USA has a similar goal.
The aim is to encourage more food recycling but also less leftover food in the first place - so reducing the amount of food which ends up in the fridge but is never eaten and fewer leftovers.
Scotland was the first UK nation to introduce a food waste target, a reduction of 33% by 2025.
Promotional campaigns, a doggy bag scheme for restaurants and legislation requiring local authorities to provide food waste recycling points have been introduced.
The Scottish government's Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham will visit Newport on Thursday to meet her Welsh Government counterpart and compare approaches.
Wales is leading the rest of the UK on recycling rates, and would currently place second in European rankings and third in the world.
The announcement comes a week ahead of the release of annual recycling figures, with the Welsh Government indicating that an improvement is expected on last year's rate of 60%.
That compares to 43.9% in England and 44.2% in Scotland.
But Ms Griffiths said food waste remained an area where "improvements can be made".
£210,000 to £188,000 tonnes of avoidable waste reduced 2003-2015
£550m value of avoidable food waste reduction
105,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emmissions avoided
-55,000 five-year change in tonnes of avoidable household food waste
Figures compiled by Wrap Cymru suggest about £550m of edible food was thrown away from homes in Wales in 2015.
However the amount of household food waste reduced compared with the rest of the UK.
It found the amount being thrown out by each person fell by 12% between 2009 and 2015 and is now lower than the rest of the UK by about 9%.
It could be due to lower income levels and better separate waste collections, Wrap Cymru said.
All local authorities now collect food waste in a separate caddy in Wales, compared to just 27% in the UK.
"If just half of all the food and dry recyclables found in Wales' bins were recycled, Wales would reach its 2025 recycling target of 70% nine years early," Ms Griffiths said.
The Scottish and Welsh Environment Secretaries will highlight areas where both devolved governments have set more ambitious targets than the UK government on environmental issues such as waste management.
They will pledge to work together to "resist" any attempt to return powers over devolved matters like the environment to Westminster after Brexit via the proposed EU Withdrawal Bill.
The UK government has said more powers will come to the devolved administrations after UK-wide frameworks on issues such as trade have been agreed.
He spoke at a Catholic shrine dedicated to Christians martyred for their faith in the 19th Century, on the second stage of his three-country Africa tour.
The Mass marks the 50th anniversary of the martyrs' canonisation.
After the mass he addressed thousands of young people, encouraging them to turn to their faith when faced with difficulties.
There were huge cheers as the Pope began the open-air ceremony at Namugongo, near the capital Kampala.
It was where many of the 45 Anglican and Catholic martyrs were burned alive.
Their execution was ordered by a king worried about the spread of Christianity.
Thousands of pilgrims braved rain to spend the night holding a vigil near the martyrs' shrines and there were long lines of pilgrims still trying to access the shrine as Pope Francis addressed the crowds on Saturday morning.
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After the mass more than 150,000 young Ugandans gathered on the outskirts of Kampala for the Pope's other public event of the day.
Pope Francis urged them to use their faith to confront life's difficulties and turn negative experiences into strength.
Uganda is a deeply religious country, with over 14.1 million Catholics - and even adherents of other faiths will be paying close attention to the Pope's words, say correspondents.
He arrives here during the third week of a presidential campaign being fought by the country's ruler for the past 29 years, President Yoweri Museveni.
The Pope's message against corruption, and the need to care for the poor, is being welcomed by ordinary people here, in a place where some say corruption does much to damage the economy, and little to help people out of poverty.
Uganda ranks 142nd out of 175 countries on Transparency International's corruption perception index.
Gay rights activists in Uganda have expressed their disappointment that the Vatican did not respond to their request for a meeting with the Pope.
Openly gay Ugandans face many difficulties in everyday life, with many churches here preaching against homosexuality and encouraging homophobia. A Ugandan law, originally passed when the country was a British colony, still allows the authorities to pass a sentence of life imprisonment for gay people caught having sex.
There have been some critical references to the Pope's visit on Twitter - with some wondering "how many people have HIV today because contraception isn't allowed?" while others accused him of ignoring extreme anti-gay attitudes in Uganda.
On Friday, the Pope addressed an audience of young people in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, urging them to unite and take a stand against the destructive effects of tribalism.
He will travel to the Central African Republic (CAR), which has been hit by serious violence between Christian and Muslim militias in recent years, on Sunday.
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The Knights started the day with a 55-run first-innings deficit but after slipping to 166-6, Shannon's knock enabled the home side to save the game.
Shannon hit three sixes and 17 fours as he and Graeme McCarter (62 no) produced an unbeaten partnership of 162 runs.
Leinster's first-inning lead gave them 10 points as the Knights took nine.
Northern Knights 233 (85.4 overs): J McCollum 119 no, R McKinley 29, E Richardson 4-33, P Chase 3-41; 328-6 (96 overs): J Shannon 140 no, G McCarter 62 no
Leinster Lightning 288 (95.0 overs): J Tector 75, A Balbirnie 56; G Kidd 3-70, G McCarter 2-44.
He has taken over from Angus Robertson who was defeated at last week's general election.
The party also announced that Kirsty Blackman MP has been elected as its new deputy group leader.
Mr Blackford said it was an "honour and a privilege to be elected to lead the SNP's strong and talented team of MPs during such a crucial period".
The new group leader will get to quiz Theresa May every week at Prime Minister's Questions, making it a high-profile role.
Two other SNP MPs, Joanna Cherry and Drew Hendy, contested the Westminster leader position. A fourth candidate, Edinburgh East MP Tommy Sheppard, withdrew from the contest on Tuesday, saying it was clear he did not have enough support to win.
Party leader Nicola Sturgeon said she was "delighted" to see Mr Blackford elected.
She added: "Ian has formidable professional and political experience and has played a key role in the last two years as part of the effective opposition to the Tory government.
"Ian has led our work opposing Tory benefit cuts, and supporting the WASPI women - supporting vulnerable people across the country in the face of callous Tory policies."
A former investment banker, Mr Blackford was the party's treasurer before falling out with then-leader Alex Salmond, which resulted in him being suspended by the party in June 2000.
But it was announced in 2015 that Mr Blackford would be the SNP's candidate in Ross, Skye and Lochaber in that year's general election, which saw him defeat former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy.
He went on to hold the seat in last Thursday's election with a majority of nearly 6,000 over the Conservatives - the second largest enjoyed by any SNP MP.
Mr Robertson, who is also the SNP's deputy leader, had won widespread praise for his performance at PMQs, with many political opponents commending his forensic questioning of the prime minister.
But he became one of the most high-profile SNP casualties in last week's election when he lost his Moray seat to Conservative MSP Douglas Ross.
Up to 13,000 new homes are due to be built on the edge of the town, as part of the coalition's plans to help deal with the UK's housing shortage.
"I can confirm the government is putting its support behind Bicester," a Treasury spokesperson told the BBC.
The measure was announced as part of a National Infrastructure Plan.
"New houses support economic growth and are a crucial element of a fair society, so I've prioritised the investment of almost £2bn to ensure we can build on average 55,000 new homes a year until 2020," the chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, said on Tuesday.
"Combined with the other measures we are announcing today, we will vastly increase supply by providing funding certainty, unlocking capacity in housing associations and kick starting stalled regeneration projects."
Mr Alexander added a government agency could plan, build and sell tens of thousands of homes on public sector land.
He suggested that building projects of this nature could go some way to supplying the 250,000 houses that need to be built every year to meet the current housing shortfall, rather than selling land to private sector house builders who did nothing with the land.
He added: "The message to the house building sector would be simple: if you don't build them, we will."
A pilot project is already under way at Northstowe, a former RAF base in Cambridgeshire, with the capacity for 10,000 houses, That would make it the largest planned town since Milton Keynes.
Bicester is expected to get a new railway station to serve the expanded population as part of rail plans previously detailed by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Earlier this year, the government announced that Ebbsfleet in Kent had been picked to become the first modern garden city, with an initial 15,000 homes.
The government ultimately plans to build three garden cities, each with more than 15,000 homes.
In March, it said funding from an existing £2.4bn pot would be made available for developments being built up to 2020.
Garden cities are large-scale developments in which, according to the government, certain features can be "hardwired into designs from the beginning".
The government has said it does not want to "impose any definition of what garden cities are", but features can include "quality design, gardens, accessible green space near homes, access to employment, and local amenities".
But the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) said there are "mixed feelings" about government plans.
Helen Marshall of the Oxfordshire branch of the CPRE told the BBC: "I think most people in Bicester will have slightly 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."
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.
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It lasted 103 days, and left an estimated 250,000 British soldiers dead or injured with 400,000 dead, wounded or missing on the German side.
It is claimed that of the one million men killed in World War One, a quarter of them lay in the few square miles around the sleepy Belgium backwater of Ypres.
It was here that the Allied forces dug in deep from 1914 onwards, in a bulge of land known by its military term as the Ypres salient.
It means a location surrounded on three sides by the enemy.
It was a stalemate of constant shelling, poison gas attacks, snipers - and most of all mud.
While the German forces occupied the concrete defences on higher ground, the British troops and their allies were forced to make the best of Flanders' fields - cutting trenches into slabs of bog, scurrying, like the rats that shared their makeshift shelters, on duckboards across the mud and shell craters.
The British were determined to break the stalemate, and break out of the Ypres salient.
On 31 July at 03:50, in darkness, the whistles blew and the men of the 38th Division - the Welsh battalions - went over the top.
The first day of the Battle of Passchendaele saw three Welsh soldiers win Victoria Crosses for their actions - one awarded posthumously.
Cpl James Llewellyn Davies, who was originally from Ogmore Vale in Bridgend county, died from wounds sustained during an all out attack on 31 July.
As part of the 13th Battalion, he took part in the Battle for Pilkem Ridge.
His citation in the London Gazette reads: "For most conspicuous bravery during an attack on the enemy's line, this non-commissioned officer pushed through our own barrage and single-handed attacked a machine gun emplacement, after several men had been killed in attempting to take it.
"He bayoneted one of the machine gun crew and brought in another man, together with the captured gun.
"Cpl Davies, although wounded, then led a bombing party to the assault of a defended house, and killed a sniper who was harassing his platoon.
"This gallant non-commissioned officer has since died of wounds received during the attack."
He is buried in Canada Farm Cemetery, which was a first aid dressing station in 1917.
Before his death, the father-of-three wrote to his wife Elizabeth, stating: "We are about going over. Don't vex, as I hope to go through it all right, and if I do not you will know that I died for my wife and children and for my King and country."
His widow and their eldest son were presented with the medal in October that year by King George V. The medal is now held on display at the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum in Caernarfon.
Aged 23 in the summer of 1917, Sgt Ivor Rees from Felinfoel in Carmarthenshire, was already battle hardened when he arrived at the Ypres salient. He had been with the 38th Division at Mametz Wood during the First Battle of the Somme in 1916.
He was with the 11th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, part of the 115th Brigade, which was to form the reserve force in the push to Pilkem Ridge.
By 10:00 they had reached the Steenbeek river, but across the way at a gite the Germans had a reinforced blockhouse and two pillboxes pinning them down.
His citation reads: "For most conspicuous bravery in attack. A hostile machine gun opened fire at close range, inflicting many casualties.
"Leading his platoon forward by short rushes, Sjt Rees gradually worked his way round the right flank to the rear of the gun position. When he was about twenty yards from the machine gun he rushed forward towards the team, shot one, and bayoneted another.
"He then bombed the large concrete emplacement, killing five and capturing thirty."
He was promoted to Company Sergeant Major in September, and survived the war to return home to civilian life in Wales, working for Llanelli Borough Council, dying in 1967, aged 73.
A memorial stone to commemorate his bravery is being unveiled in Llanelli on 31 July.
Sgt Robert Bye was the first of only two VCs ever won by the Welsh Guards. The regiment was only formed in 1915, and the miner from Penrhiwceiber in the Cynon Valley joined in April of that year.
On the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele the Welsh Guards were part of the 3rd Guards Brigade attack on the left flank.
The force encountered heavy fire from a series of blockhouses hidden in wooded areas, and the 27-year-old slipped from shell hole to shell hole to outflank their positions.
He then put three bombs into the pillboxes to silence the guns. It is estimate he was responsible for the death or capture of 70 German soldiers.
His VC citation reads: "For most conspicuous bravery. Sjt Bye displayed the utmost courage and devotion to duty during an attack on the enemy's position.
"Seeing that the leading waves were being troubled by two enemy blockhouses, he, on his own initiative, rushed at one of them and put the garrison out of action.
"He then rejoined his company and went forward to the assault of the second objective. When the troops had gone forward to the attack on the third objective, a party was detailed to clear up a line of blockhouses which had been passed.
"Sjt Bye volunteered to take charge of this party, accomplished his object, and took many prisoners. He subsequently advanced to the third objective, capturing a number of prisoners, thus rendering invaluable assistance to the assaulting companies.
"He displayed throughout the most remarkable initiative."
The soldier survived the war, and later became a Sergeant Major in the Sherwood Foresters, serving in World War Two. He died in 1962.
A memorial service to remember his actions is taking place at the Ynysangharad Memorial Park in Pontypridd, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, at the commemorative paving stone there to his memory.
The Battle of Pilkem Ridge was the opening foray in what became the 3rd Battle of Ypres, or as it is better known - the Battle of Passchendaele.
Within a few short days, the Welsh division had sustained 3,000 casualties and lost hundreds of men.
Among them, the Welsh poet Hedd Wyn - Ellis Humphrey Evans - hit by a shell as the 15th Royal Welsh Fusiliers advanced on a landmark known as Iron Cross.
Back home the newspapers boasted: "No troops, in fact, in all the battle did their job more thoroughly or with greater dash than the Welsh.
"They had a rather trying time in the trenches before the attack, but it only hardened them and made them keener when the attack took place, and the Germans never had a chance."
But the reality was a short lived victory, with a heavy price to pay.
"The British casualties up to noon yesterday were 25,000," General Sir William Robertson told Prime Minister David Lloyd George at the War Cabinet briefing on 2 August.
"We had captured Pilckem Ridge. We had achieved all our objectives and something more on two-thirds of the front, and on the remaining third we had captured the first and second but not the third line."
There were counterattacks to come, and the wettest summer in living memory meant the advance faded away.
On 6 August, the 38th Division was relieved from holding the frontline.
But the 3rd Battle of Ypres still had many more battles to fight - and thousands more lives to claim.
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The collision was on the A923 Coupar Angus Road.
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Footage of the incident shows the bird on the A170 near Helmsley in the early hours of 30 November.
The officer can be seen approaching the owl and gently coaxing it into eventually flying away.
The video has prompted speculation from ornithologists as to the animal's unusual behaviour.
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Dr Tim Mellings, from the RSPB, said: "My first impression is that this is not normal behaviour.
"Any bird which sits in the middle of the road like that and allows somebody to walk right up to it is not behaving normally and is unlikely to live long as it's a target for predators.
"The most likely explanation is that a previous car has clipped the bird and left it stunned.
"If it was a perfectly healthy owl it would not have been sitting in the middle of the road; owls come down to the ground to catch prey and the rest of the time they are off the ground where they are safe."
Laurence Whitaker, of the BBC's Winterwatch, said the bird could have been startled by the vehicle's headlights.
"A lot of barn owls will use these roads to hunt and sadly a lot of them do get run over," he said.
"I think the one in the was probably startled by the headlights, sort of like a rabbit in the headlights, and didn't want to move anywhere."
The government hopes it will provide more accurate information about the number of mistakes being made.
Voluntary reporting by pharmacists shows 10,000 medication errors a year, out of a billion prescriptions issued.
But academic research suggests that a quarter of a million patients are given the wrong medicine every year, with a million more so-called "near misses".
Seven patient deaths have been linked to high street chemists since 2009.
There are 36,750 high street or community pharmacists in the UK. According to support groups, an increasing number of them are feeling stressed due to the pressure of ever-rising numbers of prescriptions.
Under the Medicines' Act, pharmacists face criminal charges if they own up to making a mistake.
But under the system proposed by ministers, if they made a genuine mistake that harmed someone they would not face prosecution.
The Department of Health is currently considering a consultation about the proposed law change.
It said: "Encouraging pharmacists and their teams to come forward when they do make mistakes means that patients get better, safer care.
"Pharmacy professionals will learn from mistakes and prevent them from happening again.
"By decriminalising mistakes we will promote a more open culture of transparency."
Dawn Britton, a 62-year-old from Bristol, died in 2013 after going into a hypoglycaemic coma.
She passed away weeks after her pharmacist wrongly dispensed diabetes drugs, instead of tablets for her Crohn's Disease.
Her daughter Tammy Haskins told the BBC 5 live Investigates programme there was no point changing the law as no one had faced prosecution in her mother's case.
"The CPS looked at it twice, and both times they said it was not in the public's interest to prosecute," she told the programme.
"I feel angry no one's accountable for my mother's death."
The last NHS report into pharmacy dispensing errors, published in 2007 said that, in England and Wales, there were 113,953 "near misses" and 20,361 "dispensing errors."
These figures represent 0.1% (near misses), and 0.02% (dispensing errors) of all prescriptions issued.
But in the same year another study in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice which looked at 11 UK community pharmacies put the error rate for prescriptions dispensed to be as high as 3%.
And voluntary reporting by pharmacists to the NHS under the current system shows only 10,000 medication mistakes a year, out of a billion prescriptions issued.
The Department for Health now wants to encourage candour by introducing a "no-fault" reporting system where blunders could be reported more freely.
But lawyers are sceptical that the changes would bring about significant improvements in safety.
Renu Daly from Neil Hudgell Solicitors represented Dawn Britton's family.
"These proposals will have a very limited impact on the protection of the public, or on ensuring the safe supply of medication is better regulated," she said.
"They will simply protect pharmacists from any kind of external scrutiny and accountability, and that would be a dangerous route to take."
According to the NHS National Reporting and Learning System, the vast majority of mistakes did not hurt anyone, but last year 1,200 people did suffer some harm because of a medication error.
In 2014 there were three deaths linked to community pharmacies. One of them was 83-year-old Edlie Masters.
He died when a pharmacist delivered a blood pressure drug to his house instead of paracetamol.
His son Leon said the government should leave the law alone.
"If you don't have the threat of prosecution in place, it is giving pharmacists a right - 'if I do make a mistake, nothing is going to happen to me'," he explained.
"Accidents do happen, but they have a duty of care as well to you as a customer handing over prescriptions to you."
But Ash Soni, president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, insists the proposed law change will improve patient safety.
"Pharmacists take the responsibility for the safe and correct supply of medicines to patients extremely seriously," he said.
"Sadly, mistakes occasionally happen and, when they do, we must be open with patients and do everything we can to stop them happening again.
"The proposed changes will increase accountability through greater reporting of errors and improve patient safety by sharing the learning from errors across the profession."
Pharmacist Support chief executive Diane Leicester-Hallam said that more and more pharmacists are coming to her organisation for help.
"Around three quarters of all calls to our stress helpline, Listening Friends, relate to work," she told the programme.
"Enquiries include pressures to meet targets, staffing levels and increasing numbers of prescriptions."
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The victim was on his way home from a night shift when he was struck by a small van, reports said.
CCTV footage circulating on the internet shows cars driving by without anyone helping, before one man stops and takes the victim's phone.
The incident has sparked a debate about values and compassion in modern India.
The footage has also been aired by Indian TV networks, including the moment of impact when the victim is struck as he walks on the side of the road at about 5:30 in the morning.
It shows the driver of the van getting out to see what happened before driving away.
Later, a man is seen approaching the victim from a rickshaw and stealing his mobile phone before walking off again.
It took almost 90 minutes before police took the heavily bleeding man to hospital where he was declared dead.
Indian media said the victim, named as Matibool, had been working as a rickshaw driver during the day and as a security guard at night.
Police are trying to identify the hit-and-run driver and the man stealing the phone.
The accident has sparked a debate about what some have called a shocking lack of compassion.
One officer told the Hindustan Times that most people might have ignored the victim thinking he was drunk.
But some social media users have been less forgiving in their comments, one writing, "what a shame to us as a community for such inhuman and awful behaviour".
Commenting on the pictures, news channel NDTV said the incident "crosses all lines of basic decency".
He was nicknamed "Prime Evil" for his role in the killing and maiming of activists fighting white minority rule in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Justice Minister Michael Masutha said De Kock would be released "in the interests of nation-building".
De Kock, 66, was sentenced in 1996 to two life terms in prison and a further 212 years for the crimes he committed.
Mr Masutha said the time and place of De Kock's release would not be made public.
The justice minister stressed that his decision was guided by South Africa's constitution.
Sandra Mama, widow of Glenack Mama who was killed by De Kock in 1992, said she thought the minister was right in granting parole.
"I think it will actually close a chapter in our history because we've come a long way and I think his release will just once again help with the reconciliation process because there's still a lot of things that we need to do as a country," she told the BBC.
The former colonel was head of the notorious Vlakplaas police unit.
He appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) which was established a year after South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994.
De Kock confessed to more than 100 acts of murder, torture and fraud, taking full responsibility for the activities of his undercover unit.
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He was granted amnesty for most offences but the TRC only had the power to grant amnesty to human rights violators whose crimes were linked to a political motive and who made a full confession.
During the TRC hearings, he described the murders of a number of African National Congress (ANC) members, in countries including Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Angola, naming the police commander above him in each case.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who chaired the TRC, said the decision to release him represented a milestone on South Africa's road to reconciliation and healing.
"I pray that those whom he hurt, those from whom he took loved ones, will find the power within them to forgive him. Forgiving is empowering for the forgiver and the forgiven - and for all the people around them. But we can't be glib about it; it's not easy," Archbishop Tutu said.
Ms Mama said that in her opinion, De Kock had been held responsible for the orders of others.
"He got the instructions from the top and they got away with it. They're living, you know... they're amongst us today and one man is taking the fall," she said.
Whilst in prison he did a radio interview in 2007, accusing South Africa's last white ruler FW de Klerk of having hands "soaked in blood" for ordering specific killings.
The former president denied the allegations, saying his conscience was clear.
De Kock also made contact with some of his victims' families while in jail, asking for forgiveness.
Eddie Makue, who worked for the South African Council of Churches when its headquarters was bombed in 1988, said he was ambivalent about the announcement.
"It's mixed feelings, which is something we've gotten used to as South Africans,'' he told the Associated Press news agency.
The justice minister also announced that he was not granting parole on medical grounds to another convict in jail for apartheid-era crimes.
Mr Masutha said former MP Clive Derby-Lewis, who was involved in the assassination in 1993 of Chris Hani - the popular Communist Party politician and leader of the ANC's armed wing - had not shown any real remorse.
The murder sparked riots and fears for the transition to democracy ahead of the 1994 elections.
The 30-year-old Harlequins player aggravated an existing shoulder problem at Worcester last Sunday and has been ruled out of Saturday's Premiership game against Sale.
"I'm seeing a specialist on Monday and will know more after that," he said.
"It's all up in the air at the moment and it's hard to know where I stand."
Eddie Jones' side have a number of injury worries going into the tournament, where their first game is against France on 4 February.
"Chris will see a specialist early next week to determine the best course of action for his recovery; either an extended period of rest and rehabilitation, or an operation," said the club in a statement.
Billy and Mako Vunipola have been ruled out with knee injuries, while Joe Launchbury has a calf problem and will be unavailable for Les Bleus' visit to Twickenham.
James Haskell and George Kruis are doubts with a foot injury and fractured cheekbone respectively.
And current skipper Dylan Hartley will need to prove his fitness after serving a six-week suspension.
Roger Caffrey is charged with three counts of rape and 14 indecent assaults in Nottinghamshire dating between 1978 and 1995.
Sixteen of the 17 charges involve girls under the age of 16 - some thought to be as young as nine.
Mr Caffrey, who taught at 10 schools in the county, denies all the charges.
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Nottingham Crown Court heard Mr Caffrey's teaching career spanned more than three decades from 1966.
He told the court he taught all subjects, and later became a specialist in helping schools through Ofsted inspections.
The 70-year-old, now of Sandesquoy, Tankerness, Orkney, is accused of raping two girls at his then home and touching pupils while they read aloud in class or touching them in a store cupboard in the classroom.
Mr Caffrey admitted that he would put his arms around pupils' waists, or, on some occasions, pat them on the "side of the buttock" to praise them after they read in front of class.
"It just seemed the natural thing to do," he said. "It was encouragement back in those days.
"Obviously it's different today. There was nothing sexual [about it]."
Mr Caffrey said one of his former pupils - who has accused him of raping her - was the kind of person he would have liked his daughter to have been.
"She was very athletic and she'd got a lot of guts, grit and determination," he said.
"I had no sexual feelings [towards her]. I had no sexual feelings towards any of my pupils."
The jury heard Mr Caffrey, who has been married three times, left his first wife while she was pregnant to live with a member of school staff.
He admitted having another "brief affair" with a staff member at a primary school where he worked until 1984.
"I was a womaniser," he said. "I'll plead guilty to that."
The trial continues.
Michael Adebowale said he wanted to kill a soldier and discussed his plans in "the most graphic and emotive manner", according to the UK's Intelligence and Security Committee.
The ISC said the social network did not appear to believe it had an obligation to identify such exchanges.
Facebook said it does tackle extremism.
"Like everyone else, we were horrified by the vicious murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby," said a spokeswoman.
"We don't comment on individual cases but Facebook's policies are clear, we do not allow terrorist content on the site and take steps to prevent people from using our service for these purposes."
The ISC's report said, however, that the company should do more.
"Had MI5 had access to this exchange, their investigation into Adebowale would have become a top priority," it stated.
"It is difficult to speculate on the outcome but there is a significant possibility that MI5 would then have been able to prevent the attack."
The ISC does not identify Facebook as the host service in the edition of its report released to the public, but the BBC understands it does do so in the complete version given to the Prime Minister.
In it, the committee states that the company's failure to notify the authorities about such conversations risked making it a "safe haven for terrorists to communicate within".
It highlights that the UK's security agencies say they face "considerable difficulty" accessing content from Facebook and five other US tech firms: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo.
The companies in question have said in the past that they have a duty to protect their members' privacy.
"If the government believes that it needs additional powers to be able to access communication data it must be clear about exactly what those powers are and consult widely on them before putting proposals before Parliament," said Antony Walker, deputy chief executive at TechUK, a lobbying body that works with Facebook.
The ISC's report identifies a "substantial" online exchange during December 2012 between Adebowale and a foreign-based extremist - referred to as Foxtrot - who had links to the Yemen-based terror group AQAP, but was not known to UK agencies at the time.
Foxtrot is reported to have suggested several possible ways of killing a soldier, including the use of a knife.
After the murder of Lee Rigby an unidentified third-party provided a transcript of the conversation to GCHQ.
The information was also said to have revealed that Facebook had disabled seven of Adebowale's accounts ahead of the killing, five of which had been flagged for links with terrorism.
This had been the result of an automated process, according to GCHQ, and no person at the company ever manually reviewed the contents of the accounts or passed on the material for the authorities to check.
GCHQ notes that the account that contained the phrase "Let's kill a soldier" was not one of those closed by Facebook's software.
The agency added that the social network had not provided a detailed explanation of how its safety system worked.
ISC said that among the information Facebook did disclose was the fact it enabled users to report "offensive or threatening content" and that it prioritised the "most serious reports".
However, the committee reflected that such checks were unlikely to help uncover communications between terrorists.
It acknowledged that in some other cases, Facebook had indeed passed on information to the authorities about accounts closed because of links to terrorism. However, it said the failure to do so after deactivating Adebowale's account had been a missed opportunity to prevent Lee Rigby's death.
"Companies should accept they have a responsibility to notify the relevant authorities when an automatic trigger indicating terrorism is activated and allow the authorities, whether US or UK, to take the next step," its report concluded.
"We further note that several of the companies attributed the lack of monitoring to the need to protect their users' privacy. However, where there is a possibility that a terrorist atrocity is being planned, that argument should not be allowed to prevail."
But one digital rights campaign group has taken issue with these recommendations.
"The government should not use the appalling murder of Fusilier Rigby as an excuse to justify the further surveillance and monitoring of the entire UK population," said Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group.
"The committee is particularly misleading when it implies that US companies do not co-operate, and it is quite extraordinary to demand that companies pro-actively monitor email content for suspicious material.
"Internet companies cannot and must not become an arm of the surveillance state."
Trevor Bolton, 78, from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, targeted his victims over 20 years at the former Carmel College.
Bolton was convicted of 16 counts of indecent assault, six counts of indecency with a child and three other sexual offences.
The sentence was welcomed by police and one of his victims.
Peter Gluckstein, 56, from London, was one of two men who waived anonymity after Bolton's conviction.
"I'm stunned but glad. I feel even more vindicated," he said after the sentencing.
Adrian Foster, chief crown prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said Bolton lived in a flat above the boys' dormitories.
"He abused his position of trust and took advantage of his status to systematically prey on vulnerable or homesick young boys by inviting them to his flat to watch TV and smoke."
Mr Foster praised the courage of victims in exposing Bolton's behaviour.
"The emotional impact, on the victims and their families, of the abhorrent actions of this man is impossible to quantify," he said.
Det Con Trish Coyne, of Oxfordshire child abuse investigation unit, said: "The length of these sentences reflect the severity of Bolton's crimes.
"While the offences took place some time ago, and despite the fact that Bolton's eight victims are successful individuals, every single one of them has admitted the offences have had an impact on them well into their adult lives."
Carmel College was founded in 1948 and closed in 1997
It was originally based at Greenham Common, Berkshire, but moved to Mongewell Park in 1952
During its life the school was attended by about 4,000 students - a third from overseas
A 1973 edition of the Observer described it as "the Jewish Eton"
Source: Carmel College website
HMS Hood was hit by a shell from the German battleship Bismarck in the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941.
Only three of its 1,418 crew survived, making it the worst loss of life from a single British warship.
Dundee's Frigate Unicorn is hosting the exhibition.
It features a nine-foot model of HMS Hood along with contemporary press articles of the sinking.
Duncan Knox from Montrose, whose 18-year-old brother John was lost with the Hood, said the exhibition brought back "sad memories" of the day.
Mr Knox, 92, said: "I was walking along the docks in Montrose and a small patrol of ships went out at that time.
"The bloke said he heard on the radio that the Hood had sunk.
"When I said my brother was on it, he said 'well we hear all things''".
"It wasn't until night that it was official it had been sunk.
"John was full of life and the best friend that I ever had. His memory is always there."
Wilma Barclay from Dundee, whose cousin George Jack was lost with the Hood, said: "I can remember sadness and tears.
"What I remember was what I overheard. I knew that the ship had sunk."
HMS Hood was struck near its ammunition magazines which subsequently exploded.
The sinking took place during a huge Royal Navy pursuit of the Bismarck, which was destroyed three days later. The German death toll was more than 2,000.
A number of commemorative events are taking place on the 75th anniversary of the disaster, including the unveiling in Portsmouth of the Hood's bell, which was recently recovered from the debris field around the wreck.
The Tynecastle side will play FC Infonet of Estonia in the Europa League first qualifying round.
Hearts were drawn to play away in the opening game, but the three other Tallin-based clubs are at home that week so Infonet's tie was switched.
"It's a good draw. Hopefully we can get a result at Tynecastle, then finish it off," said head coach Neilson.
"We knew the five teams we could have got chosen against and it's a good one out of the five. It's going to be a tough game, they're in the middle of their season just now - they've played 17 games - but it's one that we're confident of winning.
"We've got a good squad here, a squad that's a bit more experienced than they were last year. They're ready, they're prepared.
"They had a short close season, four weeks, and have come back in really good condition. They're excited about playing these games and it bodes well for qualifying for the next round."
Hearts returned for pre-season training on Wednesday, 24 days after last season's league campaign ended with the Premiership play-off final second leg between Kilmarnock and Falkirk.
The players ended Monday morning's session early to watch the draw live and Neilson believes that the return to European competition is enhancing the feelgood factor around the club.
He is also confident that he and the coaching staff will gather enough information to form a game plan, with the first leg on 30 June.
"The players watched [the draw] in the meeting room," Neilson said. "There was a bit of a excitement there, to see who we got and where we were going.
"It will be great for the fans, they've been desperate to see European football at Tynecastle again. The players are looking forward to it.
"We'll do our research, so it won't be a problem. We have Wyscout [the football video platform], so we've got all their games from this season and last season.
"We'll be watching that because we're not going to have an opportunity to go out and watch them live because they don't have a game until they play us.
"It's a great challenge for us as a staff. We've already started putting some information together and trying to get things put together so that we're ready.
If Hearts progress, they will face either Birkirkara of Malta or NK Siroki Brijeg of Bosnia.
Neilson was part of the Hearts team that faced the latter side in the Champions League qualifiers in 2006, and he says they would be tough opponents, but his focus is on the first qualifying round tie.
"We got a good result at home [against Siroki Brijeg], at Murrayfield, winning 3-0, which carried us over there to get a 0-0 that took us through," Neilson said.
"We need to take care of the first game, that's the most important one. We've got two games and only 10 days prep before it, so we need to make sure we're ready."
Alexander and Thomas Hunter, of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, were aged 16 when, in 2007, they devised the scheme of the robot, dubbed Marl, say US officials.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said the stocks "picked" were actually firms that paid the twins hefty fees.
The Hunters allegedly snared about 75,000 investors, mostly in the US.
In November, Newcastle Crown Court ordered Alexander Hunter to pay back nearly $1m after he admitted providing unregulated financial advice. He was given a suspended 12-month prison sentence.
According to an affadavit filed
in a New York federal court on Friday, investors paid $47 for newsletters listing Marl's stock picks and $97 for a "home version" of the software.
"The longer Marl is allowed to run on a computer... The More Advanced He Becomes!" one of the brothers' websites said.
The home version was simply a program that grabbed ticker symbols fed in by the Hunters, who reportedly live with their parents in Whitley Bay.
The twins collected an additional $1.9m from companies that paid to appear in the newsletters and in the software program, according to the US court document.
In one example given by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Marl picked stock in 2008 for a music publishing company called UOMO Media, doubling its share price to 69 cents, and then again a year later, driving it to $1.06. UOMO has not traded above a penny since September 2010.
The twins claimed Marl had a track record of detecting cheap stocks whose prices were on the verge of soaring by 200-400%.
Marl was a supposed combination of the names of its phoney creators, Michael Cohen and Carl Williamson. The Hunters claimed that "Michael Cohen" had developed a Goldman Sachs trading algorithm that reaped billions in profits.
Officials are asking the court to block the Hunters, now 20 or 21, from the securities industry and return money to investors. They are also seeking further financial penalties.
Eric Bruce, a lawyer for the Hunters, did not respond to requests for comment on Friday, reports Reuters news agency.
The information came to light during a meeting chaired by the county police and crime commissioner (PCC).
Chief Constable Suzette Davenport told the PCC during the discussion the policing of last year's cull had been "difficult" and "challenging".
The force's Operation Themis took place between September and December 2013.
Monday's scrutiny meeting was not directly open to the public, but it was streamed online for people to follow.
During the discussions, Assistant Chief Constable Richard Berry told PCC Martin Surl the government had approached the force about using Airwave radios, but it refused due to operational independence.
The radios used by the cull operators were purchased by the company carrying out the cull, Mr Berry said.
The revelation follows the conviction of David McIntosh, who crashed a van loaded with badger carcasses into a bus stop in Gloucester, when a radio he had been using to monitor police messages fell under his foot pedals.
During the meeting, it was also revealed 150 police stop and searches took place over 89 days, leading to seven arrests.
Ms Davenport said: "It's unprecedented in policing that we've had to police protest at night with people with firearms.
"That's never ever been done before in British policing, so we were setting new ground."
Ms Davenport said the force had learned lessons which would be used should the second year of the pilot cull go ahead this summer.
"It's been difficult for the communities of Gloucestershire, difficult for our staff, and difficult because of some of the allegations that have been made - about what we have done, should have done, could have done and didn't do.
"[It was] a challenging environment, challenging times. With the range of pressures on the constabulary, not least the budget cuts... there will be more challenges as we go forward this year."
Mr Surl said the cost of the operation had been £2.3m. He said he had been told the money would be paid back to the force by the Home Office by June.
A second year of culling is due to take place in Gloucestershire and Somerset later this year.
No surprise there, as the SNP and pro-independence Greens have a majority at Holyrood.
But the power to call a poll lies with Westminster - so the Holyrood parliament can press only for the start of negotiations about a date.
The parliament has endorsed the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon's preferred timetable suggesting a referendum would "most appropriately be between the autumn of 2018, when there is clarity over the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, and around the point at which the UK leaves the EU in spring 2019".
The timing would have obvious advantages for the SNP - Theresa May would be distracted by Brexit and UK government departments would have little time to work on research designed to dent or destroy the economic case for independence.
The prime minister and her advisers are all too aware of this - so what happens if Theresa May continues to dig her heels in and not only repeats "now is not that time" but suggests 2019 won't be the time either?
Senior SNP sources dismiss the idea that, under these circumstances, Nicola Sturgeon will attempt to organise a 'consultative' referendum without Westminster agreement which would have no constitutional standing.
So they will attempt to maintain pressure for a properly constituted, legally watertight referendum through sophisticated social media campaigning and - they hope - headline grabbing initiatives, such as declaring the economic case for independence is no longer reliant on oil revenues.
According to her public statements, Nicola Sturgeon is suggesting there should only be a little bit of wriggle room on the timing of that referendum - "a bit beyond" Brexit.
The reason for this is that the party's strategists have been conducting focus groups amongst those who firmly voted against independence last time. And they find that the timing argument is particularly resonant with those who voted No in the 2014 referendum and Remain in 2016.
Hence you will hear Nicola Sturgeon use phrases such as having a vote "before it's too late" to appeal to this group…though in reality, there seems little prospect of Scotland straightforwardly staying in the EU whenever a vote is held.
Incidentally, she will also continue to use very warm words to describe the contribution made by EU citizens to Scotland as it is hoped that many of them will change their vote from No - because they had been worried an independent Scotland would have been out of the EU - to Yes.
But privately the party's strategists are a little less concerned if the stated referendum timescale slips. Indeed, some relish the prospect.
They see Theresa May as their not-so-secret weapon.
SNP strategists believe that the longer Theresa May sets her face against a referendum after Brexit the more she will build support for independence.
That's because they think some former No voters will object to her apparent disrespect for Scotland and be more open to the SNP's arguments that Westminster doesn't listen to the devolved Scottish parliament. And they point out they need just one in 20 voters to change their mind.
The SNP manifesto made it clear there should be a second referendum either if there were "a significant and material change in circumstances…such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against our will" or "if there is clear and sustained evidence that independence has become the preferred option for a majority of the Scottish people".
While only the first criterion has been met, it's the view of senior SNP figures that the longer the prime minister delays "Indyref2" the more likely it is that the party can meet both criteria.
But there are dangers.
The biggest fear is that Theresa May tries to push the timescale not just beyond Brexit but beyond the next Scottish parliament elections in 2021.
Of course, this would be denounced by Nationalists as a constitutional outrage.
But their private worry is that the SNP's mandate for a second referendum might run out.
The party currently forms a minority administration despite being more popular than their nearest rivals in Scotland - now the Conservatives, not Labour - by a wide margin. And it would take only a collapse in the vote of their (essential) independence allies, the Greens, in 2021 to put the project in jeopardy.
In part this explains the decision to go hammer and tongs for a referendum in this parliament - and even before some serious questions on the currency and the exact route back to the EU are settled.
But there is another challenge. Again privately, there are concerns about how the party will hold onto Yes voters who backed Brexit.
Any backsliding to appease them - settling for EEA membership, not full EU membership, for example - might in turn alienate the 'No-to-Yes Remainers'.
Nicola Sturgeon will undoubtedly confront these difficulties with boldness.
She has already ignored the advice of senior officials by calling for the second referendum before, and not after, Article 50 is triggered.
She is rather good at making the political weather.
But the polls suggest she hasn't yet changed the climate of Scottish public opinion.
St Johnstone, Dundee and Partick Thistle can all leapfrog 'Well on the final weekend before the split.
A draw at Fir Park in the lunchtime kick-off would lift the fourth-placed side out of range of the latter two.
"I think if we don't take anything on Saturday, we're in trouble," said McGhee.
"You can't trust anybody in this league. Everyone is capable of taking points off everyone else.
"The mentality of the other three teams is good enough that they're all capable of getting wins."
While in-form Motherwell aim for a sixth consecutive league win, Dundee visit Hamilton, Partick Thistle go to Ross County and St Johnstone visit Kilmarnock.
County and Inverness CT also harbour top six hopes in a congested league table but cannot catch Motherwell.
Celtic are five points clear of Aberdeen at the top, with Scotland assistant manager McGhee a former player for both sides.
"I think Celtic will win the title - they'll see it over the line eventually but Aberdeen are genuine contenders," he added.
She has accepted honorary positions with Action on Addiction, East Anglia's Children's Hospices, the Art Room and the National Portrait Gallery.
Kate will also become a volunteer in the Scout Association, mostly working near her North Wales home.
St James's Palace said the choices reflected her interests in the arts, promotion of outdoor activity and supporting people in need of all ages.
"The duchess has chosen to support organisations that complement the charitable work already undertaken by her husband," it added.
Supporting charities is an important role for members of the Royal Family as they can help promote the profile of good causes on to the national stage.
The Art Room, which uses art therapy to help children with issues like low self-esteem and Asperger's syndrome at centres in Oxford and London, said it would make a great difference.
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For the five organisations - selected, in part, from the hundreds who wrote asking for her support - the benefits are obvious. With the duchess on board they can gain nationwide attention for their causes and, where needed, the possibility of extra funding.
For the Royal Family's most high profile new recruit, a role continues to be carved out. She is, like Prince William, still tiptoeing towards her destiny. Time is on her side. She has four patronages, not 400.
With a working husband, and no children to distract, she intends to be a hands-on patron - when she's not building campfires with the beavers and cubs.
The Royal Family have been taking on patronages since the reign of George III. This is a significant step for the former Kate Middleton. But it is just a first step for a future queen.
Founder and director Juli Beattie said: "We're absolutely delighted, we're overwhelmed and thrilled. "This is just fantastic, it will raise the profile of the charity and get people to see the work we are doing."
Kate is already patron of the charitable foundation William founded with his brother Prince Harry, but these are her first external patronages.
She will make private and public visits across the UK to her new organisations over the coming months.
Action on Addiction - which has its headquarters in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and helps people with a range of addictions at its treatment centres across England - welcomed her choice.
In November, Kate privately visited East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) which provides care and support to children with life-threatening conditions and their families across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
There she met Grant and Charlotte Clemence whose daughter Fleur died soon after being born last May from a rare heart condition. The couple were supported by EACH in her final days.
Mr Clemence said: "The Duchess showed genuine interest to all the families and staff she met and it really will be a great boost for EACH."
The duchess has also accepted a role with London's National Portrait Gallery, which said it was looking forward to working with her.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are living in north Wales, near to where William is based at RAF Valley on Anglesey.
Kate, who was a Brownie as a child, will volunteer with younger members of the Scout Association primarily at groups based around her home but also in other areas when opportunities arise.
UK chief scout Bear Grylls said: "The duchess has an incredibly busy life, which makes it all the more inspiring that she has chosen to volunteer alongside us."
India revoked his passport and asked the UK to deport him last month after a court issued a warrant for his arrest.
Mr Jaitley said on Wednesday that the UK had refused to deport Mr Mallya because he had entered the country on a valid passport.
Mr Mallya, who is said to owe banks $1bn (£600m), has denied wrongdoing.
Mr Jaitley said there was "another legal procedure for extradition which will continue".
"Their (UK's) procedures say that if his entry into the country was on a valid passport and later it got cancelled then that doesn't result in an automatic deportation," Mr Jaitley said.
Earlier, India's external affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said the UK "acknowledges the seriousness of the allegations" against Mr Mallya.
"They (the UK) have asked the government of India to consider requesting mutual legal assistance or extradition," he said.
It is alleged Mr Mallya repeatedly failed to appear before investigators looking into financial irregularities at Kingfisher Airlines, which collapsed in 2013.
Mr Mallya said on Twitter in March that he was an international businessman who had to travel and denied that he was "fleeing" from India.
He said he was the victim of a "media witch hunt".
The flamboyant businessman made his fortune selling beer under the Kingfisher brand and branched out into aviation, Formula 1 racing, and Indian cricket.
His debts were incurred by the failure of his airline and he is being pursued by a group of mainly state-run banks who lent him money.
The striker, 27, admitted repeatedly breaching the regulations.
But the charge is not related to match fixing or betting on games he was involved in and he has the right to appeal against the sanction.
"Cameron Jerome has been fined £50,000, subject to any appeal, following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing," the FA said in a statement.
"Jerome, who was also severely warned as to his future conduct, admitted a number of breaches of the FA's Betting Rules and requested a personal hearing which took place on Tuesday 13 August 2013."
Accrington Stanley managing director Robert Heys also admitted breaking betting rules earlier this month and is to have a hearing at the FA.
In June, Tottenham midfielder Andros Townsend missed playing for England Under-21s in the European Championship after he was was fined £18,000 and banned for four months, three of those months suspended, for a breach of betting regulations.
The crash at junction 1 Bonnybridge happened at about 09:00 and involved an Asda lorry.
Pictures from Traffic Scotland's live cameras showed food strewn across the west-bound carriageway.
The lorry was removed but the road remained closed for several hours while debris was cleared. Diversions were in place.
Wales interim coach Rob Howley had anticipated the lay-off by leaving the 18-year-old out of his squad for the tournament in Tuesday's announcement.
Uncapped Giles was tipped to make his Wales debut during the series.
"At this stage we are predicting a recovery period for Keelan of approximately four weeks," said Ospreys medical officer Chris Towers.
The lay-off rules Giles out for the matches against Italy in Rome on 5 February and England in Cardiff on 11 February.
He would also be a doubt for the game against Scotland in Murrayfield on 25 February.
Ospreys also face a spell of up to five weeks without tight-head prop Fia Ma'afu whi suffered an ankle injury in the European Challenge Cup match against Lyon on Sunday, 15 January.
Trains have run from Llanberis to the summit of Wales' highest peak since 1896, except for during World Wars One and Two.
Celebrations will be held with entertainment and local traders will be selling food and drink.
They start on Friday at Llanberis station and will run each day from 10:00 BST.
It is understood the man in his 60s, had suffered a stab wound.
He was found at about 14:00 local time on Friday at the holiday apartment.
The Irish department of foreign affairs is providing consular assistance to his family.
Right after his victory in the Nevada caucuses, Mr Trump was quick to flaunt the support he got from some Hispanic voters. Now he can add Hindus for Trump, American Sikhs for Trump and even American Muslims for Trump to his list.
While these groups in no way reflect the thinking of the wider Hindu, Sikh or Muslim community in the US, they are nevertheless making headlines in the diaspora media.
The Hindus for Trump Facebook page, which has 500 "likes", has gone so far as to place the business tycoon on the same pedestal as some of the most revered Hindu gods.
They have come out with a poster where Mr Trump is seen sitting in a yoga posture on a lotus with the "Om" symbol—an uncanny resemblance to the Hindu Gods Brahma and Vishnu.
In Hindu beliefs, Brahma is the creator of the world and Vishnu the protector and restorer of moral order.
A post on the group's Facebook page appeals to "Trump Haters".
"Donald Trump promises to make America Great again. It means more jobs, less warmongering, protected borders, treasury surplus and a better life for LEGAL Americans. He's going to win and you are on the wrong side of History."
The Hindu American Foundation, a non-profit, says they have received several complaints about the depiction of Mr Trump as a Hindu deity.
"We have tweeted our concerns to this group but haven't heard back from them," says Jay Kansara, director of government relations at the foundation, who notes that they do not endorse any candidate.
It's estimated that there are almost 2.5 million Hindus living in the United States.
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A few New Jersey-based Indian-Americans have launched a political action committee named Indian-Americans For Trump 2016.
One of the group's members, Sudhir Parikh, believes Trump is a "do-er who can negotiate both with Republicans and Democrats".
"He looks unstoppable. Part of our community does support Hillary Clinton, but we have to support the other side too, so that our interests are protected and we have access to the Washington power," says Mr Parikh, who also owns Parikh World Media, which publishes media titles including News India Times and Desi Talk in New York.
Many of those who have migrated to the US from India have traditionally supported Democrats but often it's the candidate and not the party ideology that attracts them.
George W Bush had one of the highest approval ratings amongst Indians because of his strong support for the US-India nuclear deal.
Mr Parikh says his committee does not represent Hindus, but many Hindu organisations have come forward to extend their support. So what's drawing them to Trump?
"Maybe they like what he has said about Muslims but that would be one of the reasons, not the only reason," says Mr Parikh.
Mr Trump has advocated "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
The comment drew worldwide criticism, but the group American Muslims for Trump says it was "highly exaggerated and used out of context".
The group's founder, Sajid Tarar, a Pakistani American, says he fully supports Trump's suggestions on finding a strong vetting mechanism for refugees coming from countries like Syria.
"I am an American myself and I believe it should be about (putting) America first," he says. "I am not in favour of anybody coming here and doing things against America."
Similar sentiments are echoed by Jesse Singh, who has founded the group American Sikhs for Trump.
Mr Singh is the chair of the Maryland Governor's Association on South Asian Affairs. He and Mr Tarar hosted a meeting with a Trump campaign representative recently in Maryland.
He came to the United States from India nearly 30 years ago.
"I don't see that America anymore," says Mr Singh. "So when Trump says make America Great again, I fully agree with him,"
He says Trump has never opposed legal migration and has businesses all over the world, including India.
"I think he understands different cultures and different countries better than any other candidate in the race," says Mr Singh.
Both Mr Singh and Mr Tarar realise the larger Sikh and Muslim communities don't agree with their views.
But they hope that if Mr Trump is the Republican nominee, they may warm up to him.
Tourists carrying US flags, barricades closing off streets and police stationed on every corner. For Lower Manhattan, this was a Sunday morning charged with emotion and tension.
People who could not get close to the World Trade Center because of the security arrangements still wanted to be as near as they could be. "I needed to be here," was a common sentiment.
About a dozen uniformed military police were gathered on Broadway before making their way to the ceremony for the families of those who died.
Lt Moshe Grusscott describes the mood as one of sadness and pride.
"Ten years later, it didn't destroy us, it made us more patriotic, the way the country rallied round. It didn't defeat us."
Further uptown, the scene was very much like any other early Sunday in New York - the city never sleeps, as everyone knows, but there are times when it appears a little drowsy.
In a deserted Times Square, retired postal worker Ron Wasserman, 61, recalls how 10 years ago, the streets were filled with pieces of burnt office paper, falling through the air like confetti.
Three people he knew died that day, he says with a tear in his eye, and the country instantly changed.
"We are so security-conscious now. It's way over the top and yet it's necessary."
The country also feels more vulnerable, he says. He and his wife and have not flown since 9/11.
"The anniversary is just a chronological mark. It should be commemorated and we will never forget it, but I hope we won't dwell on it."
The moment of silence at 08:46 was observed by a couple of hundred people in Times Square, mostly tourists, although the morning traffic on 7th Avenue meant it was anything but quiet.
There were many ways that New Yorkers did something differently, to show it wasn't just another Sunday.
Some wore badges depicting the lost landmarks.
Others put up US flags outside their home or business to show their patriotism was unbowed.
One artist expressed her feelings through an installation composed of all the office papers that landed in her apartment after the towers fell.
For 500 volunteers gathered at Nathan Straus School, the day was all about making something positive come out of the tragedy, whether that be making cards for military overseas or giving a school playground a makeover.
And a charity called Muslims Against Homeless spent the day making and distributing 1,300 meals to homeless people in New Jersey and Manhattan.
A weekend of anniversary events in the city had begun on Saturday morning, when thousands of people in white T-shirts saying "Reflect, Remember, Unite" joined hands in Battery Park, in a community event intended to show unity at the time the North Tower was struck.
Under the watchful eye of the Statue of Liberty from across the Hudson River, and within sight of the soaring new World Trade Center building, the chain of hands was a simple but powerful gesture.
Nearby, 3,000 flags which had been planted in the park as a "field of remembrance" fluttered in the breeze.
For Joe Zammataro, who travelled from Florida to take part, the 10th anniversary marks a new, inspiring beginning.
"Everyone who visited Ground Zero afterwards, prior to the reconstruction, felt a sense of loss and hollowness," he said. "But now sadness is replaced with hope.
"Holding hands, there was a spirit and energy I felt surge through my body. It was a resurrection, an uplifting feeling.
"They can knock us down but they can't knock us out. That's not the American spirit but the human spirit."
There were private expressions of grief too, like the woman who wiped a tear from her face as she looked up at the new tower, or the retired fire fighter who tried to compose himself on the subway platform.
Across the bridge from Lower Manhattan, the borough of Brooklyn may not bear the scars of 9/11 but it feels the pain just as deeply.
Many of the people who died lived in the borough, especially within the firefighting community. Red Hook's Engine 279 lost five men that day, and five fire jackets bearing their names still hang on the wall.
Just a few blocks away, Engine 202 has seven helmets in a glass cabinet, one for each of the men who left the station that day to attend to an emergency in Manhattan and never returned.
"Three companies in this area lost all their men that day, and the loss is still felt today," says Engine 202's chief officer Ed O'Donnell.
"There's a danger with the job, absolutely, and some of the guys feel it. We're like a family so when you lose one, it's like losing a brother."
Heading north from Red Hook and into Carroll Gardens, the sound of a British brass band fills the air. It's not something you hear every Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn.
An annual street party for 9/11 was under way, thrown by the residents of 3rd Street and attended by more than 100 British police officers, including the members of the West Yorkshire Police Band.
They were all due to attend a ceremony on Sunday for the 67 British lives lost in 9/11.
Posters praising the British bobby adorn the Brooklyn brownstones. And the appreciation is mutual.
Stephen Jones, from Humberside Police, says: "A lot of policemen died and no matter what country you're in you have the same shared values, so it's important for us to show that we care.
"It wasn't a crime just against America, it was worldwide."
The repercussions from that day were felt keenly in another Brooklyn neighbourhood, Bay Ridge, which has the largest Arab-American community in the New York area.
The Arab-American association shares its anniversary with 9/11, having been formed in response to the anti-Muslim backlash that followed the attacks.
In the past week, it has experienced a spike in hate mail, says its associate director Jennie Goldstein.
But in a show of unity, and following a plea from President Barack Obama for Americans to use the anniversary to do acts of service, it has thrown open its doors and about 40 volunteers from places as diverse as Scotland, Sudan and Kansas have helped to give the place a makeover.
Back in Lower Manhattan, a 10-minute walk from the World Trade Center site, Minas Polychronakis is sitting out the front of his shoe repair business on Wall Street, warmly greeting passing customers.
He arrived in the US from Crete in 1969 with $138 and no English. After starting life on American soil as a dishwasher, he soon had his own shoe business.
He was one of the first tenants in the World Trade Center in 1976.
Twenty-five years later, along with an estimated 750 other companies, he lost his premises under a pile of rubble, while friends and customers lost their lives.
The district became a ghost town and he nearly lost his business, he says, but he felt a loyalty to the neighbourhood and refused to relocate uptown.
Years later, business is picking up again, but the 70-year-old is determined to be back in the World Trade Center when it reopens in 2013, and won't hear talk of retirement.
"I have to go back there," he says. "I spent 25 years there, so it will feel like going home."
The 72-year-old died on Tuesday morning.
Mr McCullough grew up in Portstewart, County Londonderry. He recorded with a number of very well-known musicians including Sir Paul McCartney and Wings, featuring on the hit James Bond theme, Live and Let Die.
He played with Joe Cocker at the legendary Woodstock concert in 1969, the only Irishman to perform there.
Mr McCullough also toured with rock acts such as Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd.
He had received critical acclaim in recent years for albums such as Belfast to Boston and Poor Man's Moon.
Sir Paul McCartney said he was "very sad" to hear of Mr McCullough's death.
"He was a pleasure to work with, a super talented musician with a lovely sense of humour," he told the BBC.
"The solo he played on My Love was a classic that he made up on the spot in front of a live orchestra. Our deepest sympathies from my family to his."
Singer and musician Sir Van Morrison said he was "very sorry" to hear about Mr McCullough's death.
"I know he had some difficult times recently, but he will be remembered for his long and productive career in music," he said.
"My thoughts are with his friends and family at this time."
Mr McCullough spent 18 months touring and recording with Wings in the 1970s, after being invited to join the band following a number of jamming sessions with Sir Paul McCartney.
He was hailed for his guitar work on the US number one hit, My Love.
Mr McCullough later signed to the Dark Horse record label of another Beatle, George Harrison, for his solo album, Mind Your Own Business.
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I am going to town to buy lots of food and going to the park.
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James Harrison's body was taken to Ely ambulance station in Cambridgeshire but it was moved to a mortuary several hours later.
Mr Harrison, 32, was found dead in the street in Littleport, last September.
An inquest in Chatteris into his death heard that on seven previous occasions crews did not take bodies to hospital.
Coroner William Morris recorded a verdict of accidental death on Mr Harrison as the result of taking a cocktail of prescribed anti-depressants and insomnia medication.
Paramedics David Glenton and Ann-Marie Poole attended the scene of where his body was found at 05:30 BST on 24 September, the inquest in Chatteris heard.
The pair - who were due to finish their night shift at 06:00 BST - said they were happy to transport the body to hospital.
But first responder Dharamendra Narotam suggested to them Mr Harrison's body could be left at the ambulance station and collected by an undertaker later on.
Mr Glenton did not question this decision, and told the inquest: "He made it sound like it was common practice."
The undertaker did not arrive, however, and Mr Harrison's body was not taken to the hospital mortuary until after 08:00 BST.
Paramedic Steve Hibbitt, who investigated the incident, said: "The crew were not familiar with this procedure but were advised it was a normal local practice and several bodies had been left in this way before."
Mr Narotam said he had not seen anything wrong with the approach at the time.
Tracy Nicholls, director of clinical quality at the East of England Ambulance Service, said: "We apologise wholeheartedly to the family for the distress this incident has caused - it should never have happened."
She said the members of staff involved are subject to an ongoing investigation, and an instruction had been sent out to staff to say such a practice was not acceptable.
Umesh Parekh, 34, was stabbed in Waverhill Park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham on 19 June.
Ranjit Singh, 41, of Clarence Road, Handsworth, was arrested on 21 June and detained under the Mental Health Act.
He appeared at Birmingham Crown Court earlier and was remanded back to a secure mental health establishment. No date has been set for his next court appearance.
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Malala, the youngest ever recipient of the prize, survived being shot by the Taliban in 2012 but went on to be a global advocate for educational rights.
Mr Satyarthi has campaigned in various peaceful protests to end the exploitation of children for financial gain.
Here is some of the Twitter reaction from personalities around the world.
Defeat by a solitary wicket on Friday in Johannesburg saw the hosts draw level after England took a 2-0 lead.
England lost five wickets for 21 runs in the fourth test, salvaging 262 all out thanks to Joe Root's century.
"You want to see them in pressure situations, because that's when you learn most about them," he added.
"It's a great chance for them to turn round and play a match-winning innings.
"They've got a great opportunity to go out there and finish the series on a high, as a match-winner."
The majority of the squad are likely to head to India next month for the ICC World Twenty20.
"It's mental strength really," added Thorpe.
"It's an opportunity for them to stand up. Some [of them] might say 'I'm a little bit shy of a few runs in this series so far'."
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Whiley and Japan's Kamiji went a set down as the Dutch second seeds started confidently on court three.
But 25-year-old Whiley and Kamiji, 23, recovered to take the second and did not lose a game in a decisive third to extend their winning run at Wimbledon.
They receive £12,000 in prize money.
Whiley, who spent eight months out with injury since her last Wimbledon title, told BBC Sport: "This is by far the most special for me. I really did try my hardest. I'm so happy.
"Yui's my best friend, I would do anything for Yui, I would try my hardest for Yui and I know she would do the same.
"That's what makes it such a special doubles team."
The Parents Television Council (PTC) issued a complaint against the channel over the 20-year-old's routine, which saw her dance suggestively in a nude bikini with singer Robin Thicke.
It argued the show should not have been rated as suitable for 14 year olds, adding: "Heads should roll at MTV."
Miley's father Billy Ray Cyrus is among those on the PTC's advisory board.
However, he is unlikely to have been party to the complaint, which also criticised MTV for airing a condom advert during the show.
"This much is absolutely clear: MTV marketed adults-only material to children while falsely manipulating the content rating to make parents think the content was safe for their children," Dan Isett, the PTC's director of public policy said.
"MTV continues to sexually exploit young women by promoting acts that incorporate 'twerking' [a sexually-suggestive dance] in a nude-coloured bikini.
"How is this image of former child star Miley Cyrus appropriate for 14-year-olds?"
'Really disturbing'
Advisory board member Paul Porter added: "The Miley Cyrus/Robin Thicke performance simply substituted talent with sex.
He said that MTV's owners Viacom had "obviously broken" its own standards "for financial gain".
The PTC also criticised Lady Gaga's opening act, which she ended in a sea-shell bikini, and another advert for an R-rated film during the first commercial break.
According to its website, the PTC was founded to "ensure that children are not constantly assaulted by sex, violence and profanity on television and in other media".
Cyrus's performance also drew criticism from a number of US media outlets over her performance.
On MSNBC, Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski called it "really, really disturbing", while NBC's Anna Chan called it "embarrassingly raunchy".
However other critics praised the performance, including Billboard's Bill Werde and Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield, who said: "Miley stole the night".
Cyrus appears to be unaffected by the criticism, tweeting: "My VMA performance had 306,000 tweets per minute. That's more than the blackout or Superbowl!"
Music industry sources say the former Disney star can expect a sales boost of between 10 and 20% as a result.
Her new album, Bangerz, is due for release in October but has been climbing the digital charts based on pre-orders alone, while her single We Can't Stop is in the top five in both the UK and North America.
The MTV VMAs has often been a source of controversy. In 2001, Britney Spears gave a raunchy rendition of her hit I'm A Slave 4 U, with a python draped over her shoulders.
Two years later Madonna kissed Spears and Christina Aguilera on stage, and in 2009 Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for best female video, ranting that Beyonce should have won instead.
Part of Castle Street was closed on Wednesday afternoon ahead of the start of the four-day festival on Thursday.
Traffic sensors reported "heavier than normal" traffic on Clare Road during the rush hour which was "not helped by the closure on Castle Street for the UEFA Champions League Festival".
Cardiff Bus said experienced "severe delays across the network".
It had previously been announced that Castle Street would be closed to vehicles between Westgate Street and Cathedral Road from 14:30 BST on Wednesday until 06:00 on 5 June.
People will not be able to walk along the stretch of road until midnight on Wednesday while a temporary footbridge is installed.
Real Madrid face Juventus at the National Stadium of Wales on Saturday at 19:45 and there are several road closures in place before and after the match.
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The Northern Ireland rock guitarist, Henry McCullough, has died.
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A road closure ahead of Saturday's Champions League final in Cardiff has casued major disruption in the city.
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Hope & Glory Festival, headlined by James at Liverpool's St Georges Quarter, was pulled on Sunday.
There were reports of overcrowding, long delays for artists and acts axed at the last minute on Saturday.
Organisers said it was pulled over safety concerns. The city council said there would be an "urgent inquiry".
Anselm Grant, from Blackburn, Lancashire, tweeted he had tried a number of times to get a response from Eventbrite and festival organisers but had had no reply.
He said it had "cost me £600 for tickets and with hotel and travel".
Lynne Carruthers tweeted organisers that she had travelled from Glasgow to the event.
"You've skinned us. Please tell us how to get our money back," she wrote.
Festival organisers told the BBC: "We cancelled the event because we felt parties employed to deliver the festival had not done so to ensure Sunday would be a safe event."
In a statement, they said they "accepted ultimate responsibility" and "profusely apologised" to the public.
They added people who bought tickets for the event should contact the relevant ticketing company for refunds.
A spokesman added: "If tickets were purchased from the festival's official website, the majority were bought through Eventbrite."
Eventbrite said it goes to "great lengths" to ensure all customers are treated fairly when an event is cancelled and will work with organisers "to clarify whether impacted attendees can be refunded".
Police had to help open up another entrance on the first day of the festival - which was attended by 12,500 people - amid long waits and poor access to toilets and food and drink facilities.
James did manage to get on stage but lead singer Tim Booth tweeted afterwards: "Sorry everyone was messed around so badly.
"Hope you managed to find some pleasure amongst the chaos."
Charlotte Church, who was pulled from the line-up on Saturday due to the delays, ended up playing a set at Liquidation Liverpool after making a plea for a venue on social media.
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Likewise, the Lightning Seeds also asked on Twitter for a suitable venue to do a gig on Sunday night.
They played a set along with Clean Cut Kid at Liverpool's Zanzibar.
Other bands on the bill included The Fratellis, Razorlight and Ocean Colour Scene.
Labour-run Liverpool City Council said the weekend festival was a private event which was licensed by the authority to run for three years.
The mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson tweeted: "There will be an urgent inquiry into what went disastrously wrong here."
Councillor Richard Kemp, leader of Liverpool's Liberal Democrats, has asked the city council for a "full report" to be made public on the problems.
The city council said the organisers had 25 years' experience in the live music industry and plans were "robust and independently assessed and approved".
It added: "All efforts will now be made to understand what lessons can be learnt."
It said the perishable items left at the site were taken to the Whitechapel Centre, a Liverpool-based charity for the homeless.
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Train operator Southeastern was forced to remove the advert from 70 sites after it sparked complaints from two Labour politicians.
MPs Teresa Pearce and Sadiq Khan described the use of the image as "appalling" and "ridiculous".
Southeastern said it now recognised how it "may cause offence".
The poster reads: "Good for sitting, squeezing, and shaking, don't bruise it. Please take extra care in wet weather conditions. Love every bit of you."
Tooting MP Mr Khan said the advert had "no place" on London's transport network.
Meanwhile Ms Pearce, who represents Erith and Thamesmead, demanded an investigation into how it was approved.
"Women face sexual abuse and harassment every day on public transport and it was appalling to see that Southeastern think that it is OK to trivialise it in this way," she said.
The firm said the poster was approved by an independent panel, but it had taken "appropriate action" to take it down.
"The poster was used as it was intended to be a harmless, but impactful way of drawing attention to safety issues at stations, particularly trips and falls during wet weather," a spokesman added.
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A safety poster featuring a picture of a woman's bottom has been pulled from railway stations across London amid accusations of "sexism".
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Murphy thrashed Neil Robertson 10-2 in last year's final and faces Mark Allen in the first round on Sunday.
"Everyone wants to beat the world champion and defending champion of an event," Murphy told BBC Sport.
Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan returns to tournament action and faces Mark Williams, while world number one Neil Robertson plays Marco Fu.
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O'Sullivan, who recently compiled the 800th century break of his career, has not taken part in the main draw of a tournament since losing in the quarter-final of the 2015 World Championship.
He did take part in qualifying for the German Masters in December, but suffered a shock defeat by Stuart Carrington.
Murphy became only the 10th player to complete the Triple Crown of World Championship, UK Championship and Masters after his success in London last year.
"I go into all the events now as someone who has won the Triple Crown," he added. "That is a very exclusive club of some very good players. To be in the group and to be the most recent addition is something I am extremely proud of.
"Seeing the trophy everyday and being introduced everywhere as the current Masters champion is a great feeling."
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Shaun Murphy believes he is a marked man as he begins the defence of the Masters crown at Alexandra Palace.
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The 2015 Bank of Scotland Quality of Life survey placed Shetland second and the Western Isles third.
Orkney secured the top spot for the third consecutive year by scoring highly in categories including health, employment, low crime rates and good weather.
It also boasted a low population density.
The survey reported that Orkney had the highest employment rate in Scotland, with 86.3% of adult residents being in work, ahead of Aberdeenshire (81.7%) and Shetland (80.9%).
These were above the Scotland average of 73.8% and the UK average of 72.9%.
Low traffic and low rainfall were also highlighted.
Bank of Scotland economist Nitesh Patel said: "It tends to be the northern parts of Scotland that come out best for quality of life each year, due to the lower population, higher employment rate and low crime rates.
"Orkney rates very positively in many categories, which has helped it secure the number one spot for the third year, although it ranks the best in only two categories - highest employment and lowest burglary rate.
"The Western Isles in particular have seen a marked change in comparison to last year, and have moved up four places to now sit in third.
"It's not so good news for Edinburgh though, as we have seen it drop to 21st place this year, from 15th in 2014."
The sunniest place in Scotland was said to be Aberdeen.
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Orkney has retained its title as the best place in Scotland to live in a new survey.
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He is a winner of the The Battle of the Psychics, a reality TV show, where psychics compete to demonstrate the power of the occult.
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The world number one opens play on Centre Court at 13:00 BST against Britain's James Ward.
Seven-time champion Roger Federer and French Open winner Garbine Muguruza also feature on day one.
Qualifier Marcus Willis, ranked 775, is one of eight Britons in action on Monday, with Andy Murray and Johanna Konta scheduled to start on Tuesday.
Monday's play begins on the outside courts at 11:30, with BBC coverage starting online at 10:00 and on BBC Two and 5 live sports extra at 11:30.
Djokovic arrives at the All England Club as the new French Open champion, holder of all four Grand Slam titles and on course for the first calendar-year Slam since Rod Laver in 1969.
The 29-year-old is a strong favourite to become only the fourth man in the Open era to win a hat-trick of Wimbledon titles.
"The situation this year is quite different because I'm coming in with a Roland Garros title for the first time," said Djokovic. "That gives me a lot of confidence."
Asked about facing a British player in his opening match, Djokovic said: "It's going to be the first match on the untouched grass.
"That's probably one of the most special matches that you get to experience."
Federer, 34, is the number three seed and is expected to face Djokovic in the semi-finals, although the Swiss lacks his usual number of matches after struggling with injuries all year.
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Second seed Murray appears the most likely to threaten Djokovic, having finished runner-up to the Serb at the year's first two Grand Slams in Australia and France.
Defending champion Serena Williams remains the woman to beat as she chases a seventh Wimbledon and 22nd major title, which would draw her level with Steffi Graf in the all-time list.
However, the 34-year-old American has not won a Grand Slam since last year's Wimbledon, with Muguruza beating her in France and rising to two in the world rankings.
Britain has 15 players in the singles draws this year, with seven there by right through their rankings, seven given wildcards and one coming through qualifying.
That is Willis, the 25-year-old who had not played a tournament since January and had to win six matches in pre-qualifying and qualifying to reach the main draw.
According to the ATP World Tour website, Willis' 2016 earnings amount to $64 - his performances so far in Wimbledon qualifying have seen him pocket £30,000.
Another victory over Lithuania's world number 53 Ricardas Berankis could set up a dream second-round match against Federer, as well as taking his pay packet to £50,000, more than half of his career earnings to date.
"I've always believed in myself, believed I could play really good tennis, but I can't really expect to qualify for Wimbledon," said Willis.
"I just took it one match at a time and now in the main draw I'll do the same there."
Six British men are in action on Monday, with Kyle Edmund playing France's Adrian Mannarino, Brydan Klein up against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, Alex Ward facing Belgian David Goffin, and Dan Evans taking on German Jan-Lennard Struff.
In the women's draw, former junior champion Laura Robson plays fourth seed Angelique Kerber and Naomi Broady faces Ukraine's Elena Vesnina.
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There have been only eight championships - the last of them six years ago - without rain interruptions since 1922, and 2016 looks unlikely to add to the list.
The 130th championships will host up to 39,000 spectators on each of the 13 days, with more than 700 players in qualifying and the main draw competing for a record prize fund of £28.1m.
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Both singles champions will take home £2m, while just making the first round guarantees a player £30,000.
Spectators will consume about 28,000kg of strawberries, 7,000 litres of cream and 29,000 bottles of champagne, some of it almost certainly under the Centre Court roof.
The weather forecast suggests rain will feature during the first week of the tournament, but the roof at least guarantees tennis throughout.
"Not a complete washout, but through the first few days I'm expecting some rain," said BBC Weather's John Hammond.
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The BBC will have comprehensive coverage of Wimbledon across TV, radio, online and social media, with 153 hours scheduled across BBC One and BBC Two.
Former world number ones Lleyton Hewitt and Jim Courier, and former British number one Annabel Croft, have joined the BBC TV team, led by Sue Barker, while Radio 5 live will broadcast more than 100 hours of action.
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The sale of surplus property and renegotiation of leases on government buildings helped generate £973m.
Better purchasing of goods saved £1.2bn while lower rates of fraud and error in welfare programmes saved £805m.
Ministers said they were on track to cut government costs by about £30bn over the five years to 2020.
The National Audit Office has said in the past that good progress is being made in saving money in individual areas.
But the public spending watchdog has said a far more "all-embracing" approach to efficiency is needed, rethinking the core functions of government.
The latest estimated savings figures, released on Friday, which relate to 2015-16, are not official but are based on departmental reports and other supporting evidence.
The savings drive has been underpinned by a shrinkage in the size of the government's property estate, with outdated buildings sold off and smaller departments sharing premises with larger ones.
The 2012 sale of the famous Admiralty Arch building in central London, which is being turned into a hotel, yielded capital receipts of £66m this year.
"We have made significant steps forward in tackling fraud, selling off redundant government property such as the former Civil Service College in Sunningdale and making better use of modern digital technology to drive savings," said Cabinet Office Minister Ben Gummer.
Mr Gummer acknowledged that meeting larger, long-term efficiency targets would depend on the "total transformation" of how government worked - requiring more public services to be delivered digitally.
Tackling waste and fraud in the payment of benefits, tax credits and government grants has been a priority, as has the quicker recovery of debts.
Figures released in December showed the amount of benefits not paid to those entitled to them owing to fraud and error rose had risen to a record £1.7bn.
Police say he is being held after the discovery of evidence linking him to a conspiracy to murder the son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party, Khaleda Zia, demanded his unconditional release.
Mr Rehman is the third pro-opposition editor to be detained in recent months.
The editors of the leading Bengali and English newspapers have both recently been accused of similar crimes.
Mahfuz Anam, editor of the respected English-language Daily Star newspaper, faces charges of treason for accusing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of corruption in 2007 when the country was run by a military government.
Freedom of press 'under threat' in Bangladesh
The prime minister's son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, has claimed that the articles were an attempt by Mr Anam and the Daily Star to "support a military dictatorship in an attempt to remove my mother from politics".
Similar allegations are now being levelled against Mr Rehman, 81, who was arrested by plain-clothed policeman on Saturday morning.
He was at one time the speech writer for Khaleda Zia, the prime minister's arch-rival.
"He has been arrested over sedition charges filed by police in Dhaka in August 2015," police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sorder told the AFP news agency.
Mr Rehman was the long-time editor of Jai Jai Din, a mass-circulation Bengali daily. He now edits a popular Bengali monthly magazine called Mouchake Dhil.
In recent months Mr Rehman convened the international affairs committee of the BNP and headed a pro-opposition think-tank called G-9.
BBC South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt reported in February that both The Daily Star and its sister publication Prothom Alo - the most widely read Bengali newspaper in the country - are being subjected to a clandestine attempt to undermine their finances and stifle their operations.
The latest media uncertainty comes amid growing concern about freedom of speech in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, which in recent months has suffered a series of Islamist killings of secular bloggers and publishers.
The difference between the number of people leaving and arriving was 323,000 in the year to September.
David Cameron said the figure was "still too high" but the government was taking action to bring it down.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage says the only way to get immigration under control is to leave the EU in June's referendum.
The government remains committed to getting net migration below 100,000 by the next election in 2020.
The key points from the latest migration statistics include:
Speaking at a question and answer section with BAE employees in Preston, Mr Cameron said the government was taking action "across the board" to bring immigration down.
The prime minister said it was important to "fix the issue of welfare" and his EU deal to limit in-work benefits for new EU migrants would "have an impact".
Home Secretary Theresa May, who is backing the campaign to remain in the EU, said: "Immigration at this level puts pressure on public services, on housing, on infrastructure… it can hold down wages and push British workers out of jobs."
But she said Mr Cameron's reforms would "reduce the pull factor of our welfare system and make it easier for us to deport people who are abusing our generosity".
Mrs May is in Brussels for crisis talks on limiting migration. Asked if the EU's response so far had been a mess, she said: "The EU is indeed dealing with a migration crisis and that would be the same whether the UK was in the EU or outside the EU.
"As members of the EU we are able to work with others to strengthen the external borders."
But Nigel Farage, who is campaigning for Britain to leave the EU, said: "As I've said for years, we cannot control immigration into Britain while we remain inside the EU. The government pledge to reduce net migration to tens of thousands continues to be laughable.
"I am pleased that there are now lots of voices agreeing with me, that we must leave the European Union to control our borders."
Mr Farage told BBC News net migration should be capped at about 30,000 a year, which he said would represent a return to "normality" and prevent immigration being the "hot political potato that it is".
He also questioned the accuracy of the ONS figures, saying: "If as they claim only 260,000 EU nationals arriving, then how is it possible that 650,000 National Insurance numbers have been given to foreign nationals?"
Iain Duncan Smith, who is also campaigning to leave, said Mr Cameron's "emergency brake" on EU migrants accessing in-work benefits for up to four years would do nothing to reduce net migration and could lead to a short-term spike in new arrivals trying to beat the likely April 2017 introduction date.
The work and pensions secretary told the Guardian he had warned Mr Cameron privately that a failure to control immigration could lead to the rise of the far right.
"If you do not control your borders, my observation is that you get parties led by people like Marine Le Pen and others who feed off the back of this, and ordinary decent people feel life is out of control," he said.
The most striking attacks on David Cameron's immigration policies today came not from his political opponents, but from ministers in his own government.
In allowing them a free debate about the European Union he has licensed criticism not only of his desire to stay in the EU, but of his judgements about migration.
The annual net figures were little changed today; for almost two years now they have remained at three times the level promised by the government.
Mr Cameron has insisted that restrictions on welfare payments agreed in his EU renegotiation - sometimes referred to as an emergency brake - will reduce the appeal of the UK to would be migrants from the continent.
His assertion though has been flatly contradicted by his Eurosceptic colleagues.
Come the end of the referendum campaign Mr Cameron and his doubting ministers will face a profound challenge convincing the public that they can in future be united around a single immigration policy.
Employment minister Priti Patel said: "Even the government's own advisors the OBR are saying the emergency brake will not have a big imapct at all deterring people from the EU coming to the UK."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is backing the remain campaign, said: "The solution is to make sure that communities that are affected are properly supported, and that our wage system reflects the going rate for the job, rather than systematic undermining of industry-wide agreements that have been made by some employers."
He also highlighted the "large numbers British people" who lived in other EU countries.
Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said: "Free movement within the EU is not the only driver of recent high levels of net migration, but it has played an important role.
"While EU migration is a defining issue in the referendum debate, the truth is that it's difficult to predict EU migration levels with confidence in either the stay or leave scenario.
"Whether Brexit would reduce migration will depend in part on the treaties and policies that followed, and these cannot be known in advance."
She said the sustained high levels of net migration raised the question "of whether we are experiencing a temporary peak or a 'new normal' in the UK".
The Institute of Directors called the government's target for reducing net migration "futile and nonsensical" because nearly all of the increase could be accounted for by a reduction in the number of people leaving the UK.
"Ironically, if the UK economy tanked and Britons emigrated in large numbers it would make the target more achievable," said spokesman Seamus Nevin.
He added: "If the British people are to make an informed decision on the future of our country, then both sides in the EU debate need to set out a sensible plan for managing inward migration."
The latest ONS figures showed asylum applications increased for the fifth year in a row, although they remain well below their 2002 peak of 103,081.
The largest number of applications came from Eritrean nationals. Asylum claims by Syrian nationals were 2,846, an increase of 493, in addition to the 1,194 Syrian nationals granted humanitarian protection under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
Some 86% of Syrians were granted asylum or other forms of protection, compared with 20% for Pakistan nationals.
Advertising revenue fell 8% to £769m in the first six months of the year. However, that fall was offset by good growth at ITV studios, which makes The Voice and Poldark. Its sales rose 5%.
The success of Love Island helped ITV attract more viewers in the 16-34 age bracket.
ITV's pre-tax profit fell 16% in the first half to £259m.
Executive chairman Peter Bazalgette said the company's performance was "very much as we anticipated".
"ITV is the only channel to deliver a commercial audience over five million and Love Island demonstrates young viewers engage in great TV," he said.
He also said it expects advertising revenue to be down around 4% in the third quarter.
Media expert Mark Oliver said that ITV was following a trend among media companies to produce and sell TV shows, rather than rely on advertising.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today: "They have to find new sources of money in the long-term and also have to deal with the fact that every seven or 10 years, advertising goes into recession.
"When that happened in the past, ITV had to put a hold on everything, and everything stood still for five years.
"Now it has got a sizeable production business - one of the largest format producers in the world - and that continues to motor on the basis of world growth in television."
EasyJet boss Carolyn McCall is taking over as ITV's new chief executive early next year, replacing Adam Crozier.
George Salmon, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that with Ms McCall still to take up her role, the half year results "were never going to contain too much in the way of sharp deviations in strategy".
He added that despite Mr Crozier increasing the size of the company's production studios business "a significant portion of group revenue still comes from selling advertising space".
ITV is the largest independent non-scripted production house in the US, and Mr Salmon said: "Back at home, the phenomenal success of Love Island has provided a shot in the arm, while big names like The Voice and Britain's Got Talent remain essential viewing for millions.
"Investors will be hoping content like this, which gives the group the ability to pull in consistent viewing figures, will help ITV fend off the challenge presented by new rivals such as Netflix and Amazon."
But tests on 16,000 children from seven African countries found that booster doses were of limited use and vaccines in young babies were not effective.
After children aged 5-17 months were given three doses of the vaccine, the immunisation was only 46% effective.
But experts say getting the vaccine this far is a scientific milestone.
Data from the trial published in The Lancet showed that the success rate fell to even lower levels in younger infants.
Scientists have been working on the vaccine for more than 20 years, but observers believe there is still a long way to go.
RTS,S/AS01 is the first malaria vaccine to reach advanced trials and show any sign of working in young children.
There is currently no licensed vaccine against malaria anywhere in the world.
With around 1,300 children dying in sub-Saharan Africa from malaria every day, scientists say they are delighted to have got to this stage in developing a vaccine against a very clever parasite.
Prof Brian Greenwood, study author and professor of clinical tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he was "a little disappointed" by the results of the clinical trials.
"I hoped the vaccine would be more effective, but we were never going to end up with the success seen in measles vaccines with 97% efficacy."
That is because the malaria parasite has a complicated life cycle and it has learnt how to evade the immune system over hundreds of years.
The vaccinations took place at 11 sites across Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
The trials found the vaccine's ability to protect children gradually waned over time.
Scientists tried to bolster this with a booster, but protection never reached the level provided by initial doses.
The clinical trials also found that meningitis occurred more frequently in children given the vaccine.
However, Prof Greenwood said the data was very robust and the vaccine could still reduce attacks of malaria by around 30%.
The European Medicines Agency will now review the data and, if it is satisfied, the vaccine could be licensed.
And the World Health Organization could then recommend its use in October this year.
Prof Adrian Hill, at the University of Oxford, said although the study was "a milestone", he had concerns.
"Because the vaccine's efficacy is so short-lived, as expected a booster dose is shown to be of some value - but it was not as effective at the initial doses.
"More worrying is the new evidence of a rebound in malaria susceptibility: after 20 months, vaccinated children who were not boosted showed an increased risk of severe malaria over the next 27 months compared to non-vaccinated controls."
Overall, he said the vaccine's potential public health benefits were not yet clear.
"It should be possible to make the vaccine more effective in some settings, but that will probably increase delivery costs substantially."
Prof Mike Turner, head of infection at the Wellcome Trust, said it had taken two decades to get to this point.
"While the levels of protection the vaccine offers against clinical malaria may seem relatively low, they are better than any other potential vaccine we currently have.
"The findings are not only important in their own right but also in signposting a road to developing better vaccines in the future."
James Whiting, from the charity Malaria No More UK, said it was a huge achievement to get the vaccine this far.
"There are still a number of considerations and approval processes to be undertaken, but it has the potential to be an important additional tool to fight malaria and save lives from a disease that kills a child every minute."
Other experts warned that funding for a vaccine should not be redirected away from insect nets and other malaria control measures.
Quiet sobs escape among the whispers of the small but ever-changing crowd of people.
They are here paying tribute to the 12 victims of Wednesday's attack on Charlie Hebdo, which has its offices on this street.
People whisper or just stand in silence, reading the messages which plaster the walls or nestle among the candles and heaps of flowers.
Some who arrive stand very still, observing their own personal minute's silence, while police riflemen guard the street as if it houses an eternal flame.
There is so much grief for the slaughtered cartoonists, whose most outrageous caricatures dot the makeshift memorial, refusing to be erased.
As mourners walk away, some of them explain why they are there.
Because they have friends in Paris who are simply "inconsolable", says the genial man who arrived from Lille with his wife. Happy to be photographed, the couple nevertheless decline to give their names.
"And we will go to the demonstration as free men," he says. "Freedom and freedom of speech, which are essential to a democracy, have been put into question by this disaster."
Then he grins as he points out that someone has pasted a new name on the street sign for the alley where we stand at the end of Rue Nicolas Appert.
Passage Sainte-Anne Popincourt has become Freedom of Expression Square.
"These journalists were part of our lives from when we were children," says his wife. "We laughed a lot with them, we thought a lot with them and we are very sad to lose them."
"We are going to the demonstration to show that together we are strong," says the husband.
"We must all be able to live together whatever our convictions, be they Islamic, Jewish, Christian, agnostic or atheist."
Berthe Tereta makes clear he is a proud Muslim before forcefully stating his position that "no religion tolerates barbarity".
"The human being is sacred for Muslims so I have come to bear witness that no-one should surrender to fear before these barbarians," he says, standing alongside his wife Fatoumata.
"They say they are Muslims but they don't even know their own religion. I wouldn't even call them fanatics - they were gangsters pure and simple.
"Nobody should be afraid and nobody should tolerate gangsters.
"All I ask is that you try to know the religion you have chosen, be you Christian, Jew or Muslim. If you know your religion properly, you will not get up one morning and go off to kill your neighbour over a word or a cartoon."
Dominique Secher also came to the vigil to show his support for a magazine he grew up with.
"I didn't always buy it but I knew all the cartoons," he recalls.
Asked if France has changed since the attack, he says the one thing that has impressed him is the strength of the public's reaction, how people have come out to defend press freedom.
"There are other sick people, other idiots, still on the loose," he adds. "I hope the cops will get a move on to stop this happening again in France or anywhere else."
Laurent was in a nearby cafe with friends on the day of the shooting, and noticed how the street suddenly filled with police.
He came to the vigil to "reflect in silence in the night". The cartoonists, he says, can be regarded as heroes who "stood by freedom and press freedom to the end". People will now value their freedoms more, he suggests.
Rayan came with his friends to spare a "thought for the victims and not forget what happened".
Hearing the news at work on Wednesday had been a "shocking, surreal" experience.
He hopes the rally on Sunday will help people to draw something positive from the event.
For businessman Tino Duarte, the main lesson to be drawn is that if society creates "rejects", they can easily fall prey to criminals and fanatics.
"When children do not get a good education, when values are not handed down, when they are not equipped for life, when failure leaves them without prospects, disasters like this happen," he says.
"You need to take children in hand at an early age and stand by them. Without that, anyone can be manipulated and end up committing irreparable acts."
Crew members at Tilbury station in Essex were subjected to degrading "initiations" and "pranks" during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Basildon Crown Court heard.
Anthony Benham, 50, of Stanford-le Hope, and Ian Maguire, 55, of Benfleet, deny indecent assault.
They also deny 10 counts of false imprisonment between 1988 and 1997.
One firefighter, who cannot be named for legal reasons, described to the jury how several of his colleagues assaulted him with a frozen sausage.
"My hands and feet were held to prevent me from kicking and lashing out," he added.
He told the jury he thought it was "intended to humiliate and knock you down a little bit".
"It was just another little prank that I put down to experience," he added.
In another incident he was left tied to a ladder outdoors in winter, naked and soaked in freezing water.
He said: "There was an atmosphere of excitement, people were jeering and shouting. It was quite apparent they were having a great time stitching someone up.
"I didn't want them to do it - I would have been hitting out verbally, but it didn't do any good."
The witness said it was "degrading" and that members of the public could have seen him while he was naked.
He was subjected to other incidents of verbal and physical abuse on a regular basis, the court was told.
"It was a very unpleasant environment to work in - intimidating, demoralising - and it ground me down," he added.
The trial continues.
Negotiators from 195 countries will try to reach a deal within two weeks aimed at reducing global carbon emissions and limiting global warming to 2C (3.6F).
Leaders from 147 nations have been addressing the meeting, known as COP21.
President Obama urged negotiators to deliver a meaningful deal, because the "next generation is watching".
He told delegates: "Climate change could define the contours of this century more than any other (challenge).
"I came here personally to say the United States not only recognises the problem but is committed to do something about it."
He added that recent years had shown that the global economy had grown while emissions had remained flat, breaking the old arguments for inaction "that economic growth and environmental protection were in conflict".
Russian President Vladimir Putin also addressed the conference.
During negotiations for the preceding Kyoto Protocol, Russia was the last industrialised nation to ratify the global agreement, allowing the landmark deal to come into force in 2001.
Echoing President Obama, Mr Putin said: "We have demonstrated we can ensure economic development and take care of our environment at the same time."
In a diplomatic play on semantics, probably to highlight the differing points of view between industrialised and emerging economies, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the conference he did not see the Paris talks as a turning point nor a "finish line, but a new starting point".
He said that climate change went beyond national borders and that it was "a shared mission for all mankind", before reiterating China's pledge to start cutting its emissions from a peak in 2030.
So what can we glean from the warm words and good intentions of the leaders?
There are certainly positive omens. Leader after leader sang the same hymn - climate change is a huge challenge, only co-operation on a global level can solve it, and my country is doing great!
Still, there were obvious divisions.
Progress may or may not happen over the next two weeks.
One negotiator told me the whole idea was for the leaders to come, speak and happily be on their way without toppling this carefully constructed applecart.
Unlike in Copenhagen in 2009.
"The leaders fully understand the political nature, the political difficulties. They are coming here to provide manoeuvring guidance," he said with a hint of irony.
"And we as negotiators will then have to fix it."
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British Prime Minister David Cameron used his address to consider how future generations would respond to the idea that it was "too difficult" for this generation of politicians to reach an agreement in 2015.
"Our grandchildren would ask why it was so difficult," he said, before listing how progress had been made in delivering climate policy, such as financing, carbon budgets and technological research and development.
"Instead of making excuses to our children and grandchildren, we should be taking action," Mr Cameron stated.
Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga made a stark observation in his passionate address: "If we save Tuvalu, we will surely save the world."
"Like other nations in the Pacific, our survival depends on the decisions we take here in Paris," he said, reflecting the concerns of many Small Island States (SISs) around the globe.
"We stand on a cliff edge. Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change, or we all stumble and fall."
Major points of contention include:
Much of the discussion in Paris is expected to centre on an agreement to limit global warming to 2C (3.6F).
However, assessments of the more than 180 national climate action plans submitted by countries to the summit suggest that if they are implemented, the world will see a rise of nearer to 3C.
Christiana Figueres, the head of the UN's climate change negotiations, told delegates that never before had a responsibility so great been in the hands of so few.
"The world is looking to you," she said. "The world is counting on you."
The talks are taking place amid tight security, two weeks after attacks in Paris claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
World leaders are attending the start of the two-week meeting to give impetus to the talks, after the high-profile failure of the Copenhagen summit in 2009.
COP 21 - the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties - will see more than 190 nations gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the threat of dangerous warming due to human activities.
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The ultimate aim is to limit warming to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels, widely seen as a dangerous threshold. Since 1880, the average global temperature has already risen by almost 1C. About 0.6C of this has occurred in the past three decades.
When the Earth warms about 2C above pre-industrial times, scientists say there will be dangerous and unpredictable impacts on our climate system. And we're already half-way to that danger point.
The Chinese dissident artist captioned one photo of a bug on Instagram with "There will always be surprises".
His friend Liu Xiaoyuan confirmed the bugs were found after the artist returned from a trip to Germany.
Xiaoyuan tweeted that they were found when redecoration started on Ai's home and were found in the office and a living room.
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The pictures show the devices were hidden in electric sockets.
The artist also posted a video clip of firecrackers being set off in a metal bucket next to one of the devices. He wrote "Did you hear it?" next to the video.
The artist has retweeted an article saying listening devices had been found at his studio.
His mother Gao Ying told Radio Free Asia that she believed the devices were placed in his studio four years ago when the artist was arrested and his studio was searched by the authorities.
The artist has long been critical of the ruling Communist Party and was held in 2011 for 81 days before being released.
He was arrested during a government crackdown on political activists. He was held over alleged crimes of bigamy and tax evasion, but was released without charge.
He was later given a 15 million yuan (£1.5m) fine for evading taxes, although the artist maintains the charges were politically motivated in retaliation for his criticism of the Chinese Government.
The authorities kept his passport for four years but it was returned earlier this year.
Since then he has visited Germany, where his son lives, and London.
In September he was in London for the launch of a retrospective of his work at the Royal Academy.
Prison officers at HMP Grampian in Peterhead had earlier feared trouble after smelling "hooch" during a patrol.
Six men deny conducting themselves in a "violent, riotous and tumultuous" manner and forming a mob of "evilly disposed persons".
The incident at the jail is alleged to have happened in May 2014.
On trial are Robert Gill, 26, from Newburgh in Aberdeenshire, Stephen Sim, 31, from Stonehaven, Michael Stewart, 31, from Forfar, 30-year-old Dominic Jordan, from Wirral in Merseyside, Sandy Mundie, 30, from Aberdeen, and 33-year-old George Thomson, also from Aberdeen.
They are said to have acted aggressively with their faces masked while brandishing sticks and metal poles.
The men are said to have culpable and recklessly thrown the objects from a height with no consideration of the consequences of where the objects would land or whether they would strike anyone.
Prison officer Jordan Hodge told Aberdeen Sheriff Court that before the alleged riot there had been "general unrest" after some prisoners were placed in isolation following a disturbance.
He said other inmates were aware of the situation and they believed the prisoners had been unfairly treated.
Mr Hodge said he returned to work the following day and initially did not note anything unusual about the mood of the prisoners.
But he told the jury that there was "quite a lot of hilarity" when he entered the C Section at the jail during the recreational period that night.
Fiscal depute David Bernard asked: "I understand you noticed a smell of hooch or homemade alcohol?"
Mr Hodge replied: "Yes, I did."
Mr Bernard asked: "Homemade alcohol or hooch, is that something prisoners are permitted to have?"
Mr Hodge replied: "No."
The prison officer said he noticed that inmates had congregated in the left-hand side of the unit and there was music playing.
The court heard that prison staff were evacuated from C Section of the Ellon Hall unit at 19:45 after another prisoner began shouting and swearing at staff.
The fire alarm was activated and firefighters called in after smoke was detected.
Three CCTV cameras were smashed with a wooden beam from a pool table by a separate prisoner, John Keand, who has since pled guilty to his involvement in the incident. Trained negotiators were then called in.
In a joint minute read out to the jury, it emerged that the incident came to an end after prison officers stormed the cell block in riot gear at about 10:15 the following day.
The document stated: "Each of the 34 cells within Ellon Hall, level 2, C Section was affected in some way.
"A few were minimally affected such as having writing on the walls, whilst other cells were significantly affected including extensive damage to various fixtures and fittings.
"A quantity of homemade alcohol, in a variety of containers, was found in C Section."
The trial continues.
The British number one lost in four sets over three-and-a-half hours, admitting afterwards that Djokovic had been "physically stronger", but for a period in the second set it was the Murray forehand that dominated.
Huge, flat strikes deep into the corners had even the elastic Djokovic scrambling in vain to recover, and Murray finished the match with 20 forehand winners to eight on his backhand side.
However, the exertion of hauling himself level at one set all, after more than two hours, took its toll as Djokovic won the third and fourth in little over an hour.
Murray's Grand Slam season is over and, three weeks short of a year since he underwent back surgery, he remains without a title anywhere and ranked ninth in the world.
"I think physically he's going to get stronger and stronger," said Wilander.
"I think mentally it's a matter of deciding which way is he going to go.
"Is he going to try and protect what he has and try and get back in the top four, top five in the world, possibly winning another Grand Slam?
"Or is he going to do what he did against Djokovic and play more aggressively, and maybe have to take a loss or two, but also then feel like he can raise his game and threaten the best players.
"He's still playing a little bit like he did before he won his first Grand Slam, which is maybe a little too far back and too defensively. Apart from last night against Djokovic."
Darren Cahill, former coach to Andre Agassi and a regular confidante of Murray's in recent years, also saw signs of the player who won Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold.
"You have to cast your mind back to 14, 15 months ago when he won Wimbledon and he was playing power tennis, he was moving beautifully, it felt like he could play for five hours," said the Australian.
"I thought he was coming to the net extremely well. At the moment he's sort of drifting in and out of that tennis. It's just not sustained for long periods of time like it was 15 months ago.
"It's much better than it was in January, and I'm sure in November it's going to be better than it is now."
Murray's most successful period came under the guidance of Ivan Lendl, but it is Amelie Mauresmo who must now help the Scot find a way back to winning titles.
He spoke earlier in the summer about employing more variety in his game, although on the US hard courts it has often appeared more like the "drifting" that Cahill describes.
A serve that averaged a mighty 125mph proved too much for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the early stages of their fourth-round match, yet for the tournament as a whole his first serves were at 109mph, and his second serve a very tame 83mph.
"He hits a serve 125mph and suddenly hits a 90-95mph first serve, so it was pretty unpredictable," said Djokovic after Wednesday's match.
Only Roger Federer and Milos Raonic have been to the net more than Murray in New York, and the Briton had a better conversion rate than both of them, but against Djokovic he made fewer moves into the forecourt.
That might have something to do with quality of the Serb's passing shots, but it was notable that Djokovic was prepared to take the initiative and serve-volley on break point at one stage.
"In such a close match, you're not going to win it by staying back and getting balls back in the court," added Djokovic.
"You are going to win it by pressuring your opponent, by hitting angles, by coming to the net."
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To play attacking tennis for any length of time requires the kind of athleticism that seemingly comes naturally to Roger Federer, but is a fragile possession for most athletes.
Murray's work ethic is beyond doubt and he was among the first in tennis to create a team of specialist support staff, with whom he commits to regular punishing training blocks in Florida.
But at the age of 27, and after what former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek describes as "really bad surgery", fitness could well be a constant factor for the rest of his career.
"Ideally you should be able to go longer than this without feeling the effects," said John McEnroe on ESPN as Wednesday night's match unfolded.
"I'm disappointed because I'm seeing a guy who has had to battle a lot of different things the last 15 months.
"This is a problem he thought he had solved and now it will be in his head. It might affect him going forward."
For a tantalising half hour or so, Murray managed what few others have as he bullied Djokovic.
However, he went into the match having spent three-and-a-half hours longer on court than the Serb.
To outmuscle the world number one over three or four hours might be unrealistic, but had Murray managed something similar against lesser opponents in the early rounds there might have been more in the tank as he tried to stay with Djokovic.
As the contest headed into the early hours, Murray's service speed dipped, the trips to the net dried up and the number of shorter points he was able to win decreased.
"You need to be patient, you need to practise, you need to stick with pain in those kind of matches," said former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic.
"You could see after two sets he could not cope any more with Djokovic, he was just slower and slower, and Djokovic was just a better player.
"He needs to practise, work hard and for sure he's going to come back and be the same Andy like last year, two years ago."
Murray has always put his faith in the practice court after significant defeats, and there are likely to be more hard sessions ahead than ever if he is to get back to Grand Slam winning ways.
"You have to go with the evolution of your personality, what you want to do on the tennis court," said Wilander.
"I think for Andy Murray it's probably being more aggressive, but day in and day out."
Proposals for Royal Elm Park at the Madejski Stadium include 600 homes, a park and an ice rink.
It will also use 2,000 sq m for shops, leisure facilities and restaurants, and could create about 1,000 jobs.
The club said the land used includes parking space currently used on match days but that a new multi-storey parking lot would replace this.
The 600 homes will have a mix of one, two and three bedrooms and will "create a new community with Madejski Stadium at its heart".
A convention centre called The International with a capacity for 6,000 delegates is also planned to host live entertainment.
Reading FC chief executive Nigel Howe said the development would "benefit the football club" and was "important for Reading's future growth".
He added the complex would improve fans' "match-day experience".
Part of the land to be built on is currently an overflow car park for spectators.
This will be replaced by a similar capacity multi-storey car park with spaces for 616 cars and about 300 bicycles.
There will also be improved transport links to the stadium.
It is not yet known when the council will consider the plans.
Nicholas Reeves said on Egyptian TV that two extra rooms had been found hidden in the walls of the tomb.
Egyptian officials say they hope to give the go-ahead to use radar scans to test Mr Reeves' theory that Nefertiti's remains are hidden in one of them.
She was queen of Egypt during the 14th Century BC.
Mr Reeves believes the remains of Tutankhamun, who died 3,000 years ago aged 19, may have been rushed into an outer chamber of what was originally Nefertiti's tomb.
The remains of Tutankhamun, who may have been Nefertiti's son, were found in 1922.
Dr Reeves developed his theory after a Spanish company of artistic and preservation specialists, Factum Arte, were commissioned to produce detailed scans of Tutankhamun's tomb.
The scans were then used to produce a facsimile of the 3,300-year-old tomb near the site of the original Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
While assessing the scans last February, Dr Reeves spotted what he believed were marks indicating where two doorways used to be. The archaeologist from the University of Arizona says he believes Nefertiti may lie inside.
Tutankhamun's tomb was the most intact ever discovered in Egypt. Close to 2,000 objects were found inside.
But its layout has been a puzzle for some time - in particular, why it was smaller than those of other kings' tombs.
Dr Reeves believes there are clues in the design of the tomb that indicate it was designed to store the remains of a queen, not a king. His theory has yet to be peer-reviewed and leading Egyptologists have urged caution over the conclusion.
Phytophthora ramorum was first discovered in the UK in 2002 and identified in the South West two years ago.
About 11,000 infected Japanese larch trees will be felled to try to prevent the virus spreading from the foliage to other tree and plant species.
The infected trees are at Cardinham Woods, Dunmere Wood and East Wood.
The Forestry Commission has already felled affected larches in the Glyn Valley and at Idless Woods near Truro.
John Ebsary, area forester for Cornwall, said it was disappointing to have to fell trees which had not yet reached full maturity.
"But the trees are dying from this highly destructive disease, and we have to try to contain it and prevent any further spread," he said.
Some areas of Cardinham will be closed to the public for safety reasons when felling takes place, but Mr Ebsary said disruption would be kept "to an absolute minimum".
Visitors to the woods have been asked to help minimise the spread of the disease by following signed bio-security instructions, which include washing footwear before leaving the area.
Because the pathogen can remain in the soil for several years, Mr Ebsary said most areas would either be left to regenerate naturally or replanted with different tree species not susceptible to phytophthora ramorum.
The felling should be completed by the end of March.
In Devon, work began earlier this month to cut down larch trees affected by the disease beside the A38 in Devon between Exeter and Plymouth.
The Leicester winger scored both his side's goals - the second an 82nd-minute equaliser that prevented a shock loss to the rank outsiders.
"We knew the first match was going to be difficult," Mahrez said.
"We didn't perform in the first half but played very well in the second half and should have scored more goals."
He added: "We only have ourselves to blame. We need to keep working and play well in the second match against Tunisia."
Zimbabwe's performance was a surprise to many, with few predicting they would be anything other than makeweights in Group B, which also contains Senegal.
Coach Callisto Pasuwa feels his pre-tournament optimism has been justified.
"When I was asked who was the favourite and said Zimbabwe, everyone laughed at me. But in this group there is no small team," he said.
"I hope the point obtained here will motivate my players to do even better in our next match against Senegal."
Senegal lead the group after beating Tunisia 2-0.
The second round of Group B matches takes place on Thursday.
Speaking at an IMF meeting in Washington she said: "It's obvious what's happening in the UK has worked."
Ms Lagarde played down differences between the IMF calculation of the future deficit and the more optimistic one provided by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
She said the figures were virtually the same, but just calculated differently.
George Osborne was sharing a panel with Ms Lagarde and German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble when she made the remarks.
"Generally in any election year, the teams that provide the hypotheticals on which future deficits are forecast, err on the side of caution and assume that whatever is announced is not necessarily or inevitably going to happen," she said.
Ms Lagarde added that the UK authorities had managed to provide the right balance of spending cuts and revenue raising.
"It's clearly also delivering results, because when we look at the comparative growth rates delivered by various countries in Europe, it's obvious that what's happening in the UK has actually worked," she said.
The IMF had predicted that the UK will have a deficit of £7bn in 2019-20, while the OBR expects there to be a surplus of £7bn.
Despite the large figures, the difference is just 0.6% of GDP.
Ms Lagarde said that this week's talks aimed to devise a plan to "prevent this new mediocre from becoming the new reality", adding: "The good news is that the global recovery continues. The not-so-good news is that growth remains moderate and uneven."
The IMF is forecasting only modest overall growth for the global economy and has downgraded the prospects for some countries.
The prediction for the US - the world's largest economy - has been cut from 3.6% to 3.1% for 2015 as IMF economists believe the sharp rise in the value of the dollar will make American exports less competitive.
The Fund is also concerned that new volatility in financial markets could result if the US Federal Reserve finally raises interest rates later this year.
Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor, has told the BBC it was "not the IMF's job to arbitrate" between the parties' positions on the UK economy.
Speaking on a visit to a printing company in Cambridge, he said it was up to voters to decide "who's going to balance the books in a fair way".
Liz Truss said the priority was to make jails "stable and safe" while the government went ahead with reforms.
She told MPs 380 inmates had been moved from HMP Birmingham after the riot.
Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon said there was "a crisis in our prisons which was a symptom of a failing government which had lost control".
There were incidents at Cardiff Prison and Hull Prison on Sunday involving Birmingham prisoners, it has emerged.
The Birmingham riot followed trouble at Bedford and Lewes prisons in recent weeks.
Ms Truss said she had ordered "a full investigation" to be led by National Offender Management Service director Sarah Payne and she did not "want to prejudge the outcome of this".
She said the disorder at Birmingham represented a "serious disturbance" which took more than 12 hours to bring under control.
Stairwells were set on fire and paper records destroyed during trouble in four wings of the category B prison, run by private firm G4S.
At Cardiff, four prisoners who were transferred from Birmingham after the riot were believed to have barricaded themselves into a cell in protest at the move, according to BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw.
After two hours the matter was resolved when the prisoners surrendered and were taken to the segregation unit. Nobody was injured.
As well as the incident at Hull Prison, there were minor outbreaks of trouble at several other jails over the weekend.
09:15 Six prisoners in N wing climbed on to netting. When staff intervened, one of them had their keys snatched. Staff withdraw for own safety. Prisoners then gained control of that wing and subsequently of P wing. G4S immediately deploy two Tornado teams
11:20 Gold Command is opened and a further seven Tornado teams dispatched to prison
13:30 Prisoners get access to two more wings. Gold Command needs more reinforcements and despatch four more Tornado teams to prison
14:35 Police and Prison Service secure perimeters of all four wings which remain secure throughout day
15:00 Reports of an injured prisoner. Paramedics and staff tried to intervene, but were prevented from doing so by prisoners
During afternoon plan prepared to take back control of wings minimising risk to staff and prisoners.
20:35 Ten Tornado teams swept through the wings. Shortly after 22:00 all four wings are secured.
Injured prisoner treated by paramedics and taken to hospital with two more prisoners.
Riots have followed repeated warnings about low staffing levels across prisons, watchdog the National Council of Independent Monitoring Boards said.
Ms Truss said staffing levels were being increased by 2,500 officers and she repeated plans to hire more staff through apprenticeship schemes and invest more than £1bn in prison buildings.
She said: "The issues in our prisons are long-standing and they are not going to be completely solved in weeks or even months."
Ms Truss said levels of violence were "too high in our prisons" and she said there were "very concerning" levels of self-harm and deaths in custody. Action was being taken against "drugs, drones and phones", she said.
Of the 2,500 figure, a Prison Officers Association spokesman said: "The issue we have is that while we welcome that announcement, the question we ask of Liz Truss and the Ministry of Justice is that how do we intend to recruit and retain staff when last year we had more leavers than people recruited?"
Mr Burgon asked whether Ms Truss "regretted" previous cuts of prison staff made by the government.
"This is a failure to protect society," he said.
"Privatisation of the probation service, savage cuts to prison staffing, overcrowding in our prisons, cuts to through-the-gate services, all stop prison working and put the public at avoidable and increased risk."
Sascha Collins, 36, is charged with two counts of battery for last Sunday's alleged assault in Greenfield, 25 miles (40km) east of Indianapolis.
Her seven- and nine-year-old sons told police they had opened presents found hidden in their mother's closet.
She beat them with a belt buckle and threw them against the wall, they said.
The boys' teenage sister alerted authorities after finding them injured and upset.
Derek Towle, acting chief for Greenfield Police, told WISH-TV: "When we see these types of things happen it breaks our hearts knowing that this is going on.
"We try to see that it was just a kid's excitement and that is what we want for them to have, excitement around Christmas time."
The local TV station reports that Ms Collins faces charges of domestic battery against a disabled person and domestic battery with bodily injury against a person under 14.
She is in custody and could face up to 12 years behind bars if convicted.
The boys' injuries reportedly did not require medical attention.
Queen of the South striker Stephen Dobbie and Greenock Morton midfielder Ross Forbes are their rivals for the PFA Scotland accolade.
Livingston forwards Liam Buchanan and and Danny Mullen are in the running for the League One award.
Elgin City's Thomas Reilly and Shane Sutherland compete in League Two.
Alloa Athletic midfielder Jordan Kirkpatrick and Airdrieonians forward Andy Ryan are competing with the goalscoring duo from League One champions Livingston for their division's player award.
Arbroath forward Bobby Linn and Forfar Athletic defender Thomas O'Brien will vie with midfielder Reilly and striker Sutherland in League Two.
Players from across the Scottish Professional Football League had their say, with the overall winner announced on Sunday 7 May at the PFA Scotland's awards dinner at the Hilton Hotel, Glasgow.
Rangers left-back Lee Wallace was Championship player of the year in 2016, with Dunfermline Athletic striker Faissal El Bakhtaoui taking the League One award and East Fife forward Nathan Austin winning the League Two vote.
Jason Cummings, 21, forward (Hibernian): The striker who came through the Edinburgh club's youth ranks has scored 21 goals in 37 appearances this season to help them win the title and promotion. He is the joint top scorer in the Championship with Queen of the South's Dobbie.
Stephen Dobbie, 34, forward (Queen of the South): Veteran of many clubs, he is in his second spell at Palmerston after leaving Bolton Wanderers last summer. He has notched 24 goals in 40 games this season despite the Doonhamers' mid-table position.
Ross Forbes, 28, midfielder (Greenock Morton): Now in his second full season at Cappielow having initially arrived on loan form Dunfermline Athletic, he has contributed 12 goals from midfield in 43 appearances this season as Morton chase promotion.
John McGinn, 22, midfielder (Hibernian): The former St Mirren midfielder has not only played his part in his side's title win, scoring five times in 35 games, but has earned himself three caps and become established in the Scotland squad.
Liam Buchanan, 32, forward (Livingston): The much-travelled striker, who joined Livi from Alloa Athletic in 2015, has been on fire this season to help Livingston win the title and promotion, finding the net 26 times in 43 appearances and is top scorer in League One.
Jordan Kirkpatrick, 25, midfielder (Alloa Athletic): The winger signed from Dumbarton last summer after a loan spell with Clyde and has struck 17 goals in 44 games to help his side emerge as the main challengers to champions Livingston and challenge for promotion.
Danny Mullen, 22, forward (Livingston): The product of Livi's youth ranks has formed a lethal partnership with Liam Buchanan and contributed 16 goals in 40 appearances for the champions.
Andy Ryan, 22, forward (Airdrieonians): Has been prolific for Airdrie this season since arriving last summer from Forfar Athletic, finding the net 21 times in 37 games to keep his side in the hunt for a promotion play-off place.
Bobby Linn, 31, forward (Arbroath): The Red Lichties stalwart - he signed from East Fife in 2013 - has only scored six times in 42 appearances this season but has been a big influence as they have chased Forfar for the title and automatic promotion.
Thomas O'Brien, 25, defender (Forfar Athletic): Has become an influential part of the Loons defence since arriving from Cowdenbeath in 2015 and has also weighed in with seven goals in his 38 outings this season.
Thomas Reilly, 22, midfielder (Elgin City): The former St Mirren man, who signed for Elgin in 2015, has impressed his opponents this season and has scored twice in 40 appearances as the Black and Whites chase a promotion play-off place.
Shane Sutherland, 26, forward (Elgin City): The former Inverness Caledonian Thistle striker has settled in superbly since his return to Elgin from Peterhead last summer and has found the net 24 times in 33 games, making him League Two's top scorer this season.
The McAfee-backed cyberdefence survey deemed China, Brazil and Mexico as being among the least able to defend themselves against emerging attacks.
The rank is based on leading experts' perception of a nation's defences.
The report concluded that greater sharing of information globally is necessary to keep ahead of threats.
It also suggests giving more power to law enforcement to fight cross-border crime.
The UK, with a grading of four out of five, ranks favourably in the survey - along with the USA, Germany, Spain and France.
The study was carried out by the Security and Defence Agenda think tank and its rankings are based on the perceived quality of a country's cyber-readiness - the ability to cope with a range of threats and attacks.
"The subjectiveness of the report is its biggest strength," explained Raj Samani, McAfee's chief technology officer.
"What it does is give the perception of cyber-readiness by those individuals who kind of understand and work in cyber security on a day-in, day-out basis."
A good score depends on having basic measures like adequate firewalls and antivirus protection, and more complex matters including well-informed governance and education.
Sweden, Finland and Israel all impressed the report's experts - despite the fact that the latter receives reportedly over 1,000 cyber attacks every minute.
Isaac Ben-Israel, senior security advisor to Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is quoted in the report as saying: "The hacktivist group Anonymous carries out lots of attacks but they don't cause much damage. The real threat is from states and major crime organisations."
He added that the country has set up a cyber-taskforce responsible for assessing threats to key infrastructure such power production and water supplies.
At the other end of the security scale, Mexico ranked as least prepared to cope with the cyber threat - a situation which is blamed on the country's authorities needing to overwhelmingly focus on the country's gang and drugs problems.
China is regarded by some Western observers as an aggressor in cyberspace.
But one expert Peiran Wang said the country was itself vulnerable because it lacked a joined up strategy.
"The Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of State Security and even the military are involved and they don't communicate well," said Peiran Wang, a visiting scholar at Brussels' Free University.
In the UK, the report praised a £650m investment programme in cyber security.
However, the Home Office's plans were criticised by information security expert Peter Sommer.
"A great deal depends on co-operation from the private sector, which controls about 80% of the critical national infrastructure.
"Over half of the new funding will go to the 'secret vote', the intelligence agencies, where value for money will be difficult to investigate. I would have preferred more emphasis on public education - helping potential victims help themselves."
Among the report's conclusions is the recommendation that greater efforts be made to improve cross-border law enforcement.
"Cybercriminals route their connection through multiple different countries," said Mr Samani.
"If criminals are particularly clever, they go through countries where they know there isn't any co-operation."
"The bad guys share information - we need to do the same as well."
Dr Joss Wright from the Oxford Internet Institute welcomed the report's findings. However, he had serious doubts over the feasibility of its suggestions.
"They're recommendations that people have been saying for maybe 10 years," he told the BBC.
"I would love to see good information sharing - but when you're talking about national security, there's a culture of not sharing.
"They're not suddenly going to change 70, 100, 1000 years of military thinking."
Gareth Bennett has linked immigration in Cardiff to rubbish in City Road.
But UKIP's spokesman on migration Steven Woolfe MEP said there is no room in the party for xenophobic comments.
UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill said Mr Bennett's comments are not the views of the party.
Mr Bennett was quoted in WalesOnline saying: "I think in Cardiff the starkest area which has changed completely is City Road.
"That's probably where we have a multiplicity, a melting pot of different races all getting on each other's nerves, I think, and certainly causing lots of problems because of different cultural attitudes, very visible problems of rubbish which is being left on the street uncollected all the time."
Mr Bennett was asked on BBC's Daily Politics what evidence he had for his claim. He said: "I haven't got any firm evidence to give you now."
He said he had sent a draft legal letter to UKIP, saying "if they try to deselect me without due process they will face a legal action from me for lost earnings of £300,000".
Mr Woolfe told BBC's Daily Politics: "It's not for me to actually make the deselection process.
"That will be the NEC and I understand that they will do so."
The MEP added: "If he has also said that in terms of the language that you blame migrants or those who come to this country for all the ills of this country, if there is a tone of any form of racism in there whatsoever I will be demanding that the NEC takes the strongest terms possible to deal with this man.
"I would ask those who have examined him and approved him that they too should be reprimanded by the NEC because there is no room in this party... for anyone who makes any racist, xenophobic or other types of comments".
Nathan Gill, leader of UKIP Wales, said the NEC have ratified the candidate lists "subject to a final ongoing assessment which we are in the middle of and which takes place right up until the paperwork is presented to the electoral offices".
"The comments that Mr Bennett made, [and] also his performance in the media, will play a major part in that assessment," he said.
Mr Gill said he didn't share "any of the views that Mr Bennett has expressed about immigration in Cardiff. We as a party are not anti-immigration, we are anti uncontrolled immigration and uncontrolled immigration only. We want an Australian-style points based system."
"Mr Bennett has expressed his own views and they are clearly not the views of the party," he added.
A UKIP Wales source called for his deselection. He said it was "absolutely crazy" to blame immigration for rubbish, and said a lot of candidates wanted the issue "dealt with properly", although he had a right to a "fair trial".
The source also criticised the fact that Mr Bennett had spoken about immigration "when it isn't a devolved issue".
UKIP's central office has told BBC Wales that it "will not make any comment about the matter until they have spoken with Mr Bennett".
The 33-year-old batsman missed the tour because he "needed a bit of time away from the game".
The Proteas unsuccessfully tried three different batsmen at number four in their 3-1 loss to England.
De Villiers' agent told BBC Sport nothing has been decided, but South Africa captain Faf du Plessis said he does not expect him to return.
Du Plessis, who had De Villiers as his best man at his wedding, said: "We spend too much time talking about if he is going to come back.
"We have to move past the hope of him coming back and find someone who is going to fulfil that role. If he comes back it's a huge bonus, but I don't expect it."
De Villiers, who has more than 8,000 Test runs at an average of 50.46, has not played a Test since January 2016.
South Africa's next assignment is a home series against Bangladesh, starting on 28 September.
Simon Clark, 58, from Kinloss, undertook the challenge in aid of the Ecologia Youth Trust charity.
So far his run has raised more than £21,000 for the cause.
Mr Clark usually managed about 17 miles per day, depending on the demands of his architectural work which he did from a laptop.
He returned to Kinloss on 5 July - the date of his 58th birthday.
Mr Clark is to give details of his run, the people who offered him shelter and others he met in two public talks he is to give in the Findhorn Foundation's community centre later on Friday and in Kinloss Church on Saturday evening.
Cyril Donovan Brown, 44, of Lyndhurst Road, Luton, was told by Judge Barbara Mensah at Luton Crown Court that he was a "dangerous predator".
Brown raped two women in Luton in August months after finishing a six-year sentence for another rape.
Judge Mensah said he would serve a minimum of 24 years in prison.
Prosecutor Isabel Delamere said Brown was violent towards women who he formed controlling relationships with.
He raped them when they did not want to have sex with him, she said.
He also had a previous conviction for assaulting another woman who refused to have sex with him.
Brown, who claimed he was having affairs with 15 women at the same time, was convicted of eight rapes and three assaults.
Judge Mensah said she was passing a life sentence to ensure he would be on licence for the rest of his life.
"You are obsessed with sex and delusional about your relationships with women," she added.
She said the earliest he would be able to apply for parole would be after serving 12 years of his sentence.
He told the BBC: "If you are connected to the internet, you are vulnerable to determined nation-state attackers."
He said nations would need to identify red lines that should not be crossed.
He also said agency targets, numbered in "the high hundreds", had discussed leaks by contractor Edward Snowden, with some changing their behaviour.
Richard Ledgett's office on the eighth floor of NSA headquarters at Fort Meade is filled with exhibits on the history of code-making and breaking, ranging from American Civil War systems through a German Enigma machine adapted for use with Japan.
There is even an encryption device recovered from the wreckage of the Challenger Space Shuttle.
But it is modern challenges in cyberspace which are now at the heart of the NSA's dual mission of protecting sensitive government communications and collecting intelligence on America's adversaries.
In cyberspace, Mr Ledgett said the agency was seeing a shift to more destructive attacks - such as those that hit Sony last year or Saudi Aramco in 2012 - as well as more aggressive postures by nation states.
"The barrier to entry is going down… and as everybody in the world becomes more connected with computers and information systems, the vulnerabilities are going up," he told the BBC.
Improving defences and identifying the most sensitive data is one important way of dealing with threats. But nations also need to do more to identify clear red lines that, if crossed, will lead to consequences, he said.
Those consequences could take the form of actions within cyberspace itself, where the NSA's number two said that the US military's cyber-command was prepared to conduct offensive cyber operations in other peoples networks.
Or the consequences could be diplomatic or economic - for instance in the form of sanctions and the threat of sanctions.
The US, Mr Ledgett said, would look at how to respond to attacks on corporations by other states - as occurred with an alleged attack by Sony - on a case-by-case basis.
Washington has itself been accused of employing destructive cyber attacks - and doing so before others - when it allegedly used the so-called stuxnet virus to damage Iran's nuclear programme.
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The US has publicly criticised China for espionage against US companies and signed a deal to stop such activity during the recent summit between the two country's leaders.
Some reports suggested this had already been breached but Mr Ledgett said it was too soon to tell.
"The jury is still out," he said. "In any big organisation when guidance is sent down then sometimes it takes a while to… get to the working level."
The UK government signed a similar deal but has been less vocal about Chinese cyber-espionage, something which the NSA Deputy Director said he was not "over-concerned by".
"I think the UK needs to do what is in the UK's best interest and if they are comfortable with a level of Chinese cyber-activity directly against them, then ok, they may be handling that a different way, they may be handling that privately," he said.
"I think that we need to do what we need to do."
The NSA was once so secret it was known as "No Such Agency" but its former contractor Edward Snowden changed all of that. He revealed the extent of intelligence collection - including America's own cyber-espionage and controversial programmes that retained data on Americans.
Mr Ledgett led the team responding to the Snowden revelations, and he maintains that real damage was done. The NSA has kept track of what their "targets" have said about the disclosures, and he asserts that their behaviour has changed as a direct result.
"We've seen in the high hundreds of targets who have said, 'hey we are vulnerable to these sorts of detection techniques and we need to change the way that we do that,' and a number of them have."
He said this included "several terrorist organisations and one in particular that had a mature operational plot directed against western Europe and the US".
Supporters of Mr Snowden argue that he performed a valuable public service in beginning a much-needed public debate about the extent of the state's surveillance powers.
"I think that's a good discussion to have. I think that the way the discussion came about was wrong," argues Mr Ledgett.
"You hear claims that he was a whistle-blower and that he tried to raise things. Those are just not true. He didn't try."
When asked about any prospect of a deal for Snowden - who is currently living in Moscow - to return to the US, Mr Ledgett said he was not aware of one and suggested Snowden should not expect to escape prosecution.
"If he truly believes in what he said - that this was a principled stand - if he truly believes that, I think part of taking a principled stand is taking (the) consequences."
The Leverhulme Trust funding is being used for DNA research into the giant panda diet in a bid to improve conservation of the endangered species.
The UK's only two giant pandas based at Edinburgh Zoo will be a part of the study.
It is also hoped the study will help improve the chances of reproduction in captivity.
The panda droppings (scats) will be compared to those of wild pandas in China.
Previous research suggests pandas may eat up to 60 different species of bamboo and could possibly even consume other plant species, fungi and animals.
Dr Linda Neaves, molecular ecologist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, said: "For pandas, getting their diet and their health right plays a major part in whether or not they reproduce.
"There is a lot of variation of panda diet in the wild.
"By better understanding which species of bamboo, and when they are eating them in the wild, we can start to match that better in captivity."
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Scientists at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh have been awarded £250,000 to study panda faeces.
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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.
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Marks and Spencer has named six stores which will close as part of chief executive Steve Rowe's plans to improve the business.
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The Twitter activist Shami Witness played an important role in amplifying the message of IS and had over 17,000 followers before he disappeared - more than some of the key jihadist media groups.
But he was just one of an army of online supporters the group relies on to spread its message in a range of languages - none of whom operate officially on behalf of the group.
IS was forced to abandon its official presence on Twitter in July due to a sustained clampdown by the site administration following the group's rapid expansion across Iraq and Syria.
It then experimented with a string of other platforms like the privacy-focused Diaspora and the popular Russian VKontakte, where accounts were also soon shut down due to their involvement in the distribution of high profile beheading videos.
Since then, IS appears to have resorted to underground channels to surface its material, which is then disseminated by loosely affiliated media groups who are capable of mobilising a vast network of individual supporters on social media to target specific audiences.
Trending hashtags - particularly those popular in the West - are hijacked to reach unsuspecting audiences, and videos removed from YouTube and other platforms are swiftly made available again.
Shami Witness, who Channel 4 News has revealed to be a Bangalore-based company executive, was one of the most popular voices among the English-speaking jihadist community - an audience IS has targeted with slick propaganda from its multilingual media outfit Al-Hayat Media.
He would repeatedly promote new IS propaganda to help widen its reach.
A study by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ISCR) earlier this year showed him to be the top disseminator of jihadist propaganda followed by foreign fighters in Syria.
After being outed, Shami Witness appears to have deactivated his account. But his disappearance is unlikely to have much impact on the spread of IS's message.
IS supporters and media support groups are regularly suspended from Twitter and many have developed a series of tactics to maintain their presence there, regularly changing their user names and handles or setting up a string of back-up accounts.
The group's ability to keep getting its message out in the face of intensive counter-measures is due to the agility, resilience and adaptability of this largely decentralised force - many of whom, like Shami Witness, may be operating from the comfort of their homes or offices, far from any front line.
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The unmasking of an English-speaking online jihad supporter based in India, who was popular among foreign fighters in Syria, casts light on the decentralised nature of the media operations of the group known as Islamic State (IS).
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The Beverley Gate was where King Charles I was refused entry to Hull in 1642, sparking the English Civil War.
Last year, the authority wanted to cover up the site for its City of Culture 2017 plans but ruled it out after a campaign against the idea.
It said the stainless steel statue would be "an engaging piece of art".
Entitled Shadow Gate, the artwork would be positioned to the south west of Beverley Gate, between Whitefriargate and King Edward Street.
Architects Tonkin Liu said: "Shadow Gate invokes the imagery of the trading ships masts and sails in the urban realm at Beverley Gate.
"Careful consideration has been made to position the sculpture to minimise any harmful impact to surrounding historical buildings."
The council said it was "unable to supply costs" of the project as it was part of the City of Culture 2017 public realm works.
Last month the authority approved revised plans to revamp Beverley Gate, after people voted for the site to be left open and redeveloped with amphitheatre-style seating and glass fencing to replace the existing rails.
The remains were granted protection by the government in January because of the "national importance of Hull's 14th Century town walls".
Final decision for approving the revamp scheme will be given by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
It is the latest in a long-running feud between the university and John Wayne Enterprises over commercial products featuring the Duke name.
Lawyers for the university argue using the name could "diminish, dilute and tarnish" its own brand.
However, Wayne family lawyers say the claims are "ludicrous".
"Duke University does not own the word 'Duke' in all contexts for all purposes," Wayne's heirs wrote in a federal complaint filed in California.
"'Duke' is a common word that has been used for centuries in a wide array of commercial and other applications wholly independent of Duke University. Yet by the actions alleged herein, Duke University seems to think it owns the word 'Duke' for all purposes and applications.''
An exhibit attached to the legal complaint shows a bottle of bourbon bearing the Duke name, along with an image of Wayne holding a rifle and featuring his signature.
The Wayne family has asked the court to intervene, to avoid being sued by the private university - named after a wealthy family of tobacco barons - for trademark infringement in future.
'Protecting integrity'
The school previously challenged John Wayne Enterprises' plans to use the Duke name for a restaurant in 2005. When the actor's family applied to use the name last year to market alcoholic beverages, the university objected again.
Duke University licenses its own merchandise featuring the Duke moniker and its Blue Devil's mascot.
University spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said the school would continue its fight to protect its trademarks.
"While we admire and respect John Wayne's contributions to American culture, we are also committed to protecting the integrity of Duke University's trademarks," Schoenfeld said.
"As Mr Wayne himself said: 'Words are what men live by... words they say and mean.'"
The United States Patent and Trademark Office lists more than 250 active trademarks which include the word Duke, including jazz legend Duke Ellington and a brand of mayonnaise.
Born Marion Robert Morrison, Wayne used the Duke moniker from childhood when he adopted the name of the family dog.
He appeared in more than 175 films including Western classic Stagecoach and 1969's True Grit - for which he won a best actor Oscar. He died in 1979 aged 72.
The 19-year-old man is understood to have "fallen a number of floors" in a communal stairway at around 02:30 GMT on Sunday.
Police officers confirmed the man was from south Wales and next of kin have been informed.
Police said the man's death is not being treated as suspicious.
Both countries are blaming the other for the incident.
Vietnam's coast guard said the boat was encircled by 40 Chinese vessels before it was rammed, reports said.
But Chinese state media outlet Xinhua said Vietnam's boat collided with its vessel after "engaging in harassment".
The BBC's Martin Patience says that whatever the truth, the sinking is likely to further escalate tensions between the two countries, given that for the past few weeks they have engaged in skirmishes at sea.
The two are locked in an intensifying dispute over South China Sea territory.
Vietnam has protested against China moving its Haiyang Shiyou 981 rig to waters also claimed by Hanoi, at a spot near the disputed Paracel Islands.
Monday's incident happened just 17 nautical miles from the rig, Vietnamese reports said.
Xinhua on Tuesday claimed that Vietnam had "on many occasions dispatched various boats with the sole intention of harassing Chinese-linked companies drilling in that part of the ocean".
It said China had made serious representations to Vietnam to request that it "halt its harassing and destructive activities".
Vietnamese media meanwhile reported that China deployed "a fast attack missile boat and a minesweeper" around the rig on Monday.
China's refusal to move the rig sparked anti-China protests in Vietnam earlier in May, which left at least two people dead and several factories burnt.
Vietnamese legislators are preparing to sue China in an international court over the rig and other attacks on Vietnamese ships, according to local media.
China in recent days has upped its rhetoric on the South China Sea.
On Monday, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry addressed a recent attempt by Vietnam to list its historical claims to the Paracel Islands, saying it was "absurd and laughable".
On the same day, Xinhua published a commentary in English which accused Vietnam of wanting to "disturb and play up the normal drilling of Haiyang Shiyou 981".
Written by Chinese law professor Yang Zewei, the commentary states: "Hanoi should know that such drilling in the said area is China's sovereign right endowed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea."
"Vietnam should immediately stop any interruptive activities and undertake corresponding consequences and international responsibilities for its provocations.".
Japan has urged calm. Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said it was important that "relevant countries abstain from unilateral actions that raise tensions".
Meanwhile, Vietnam is preparing to prosecute "hundreds of suspects" involved in the anti-China protests earlier in May, and has already jailed two participants, according to local media.
China has for decades claimed a U-shaped swathe of the South China Sea.
But tensions have flared up in the region recently as China seeks to assert its claims in a more muscular fashion with a beefed-up maritime presence.
Its actions have upset several neighbouring countries, including the Philippines - which is taking China to a United Nations tribunal.
Midfielder Dack, 22, has scored 13 goals for the League One side this season, including 11 in the league.
The former Charlton youth player is under contract until 2018.
City were told their bids were short of Gillingham's valuation, but the Championship club have secured the signing of a midfielder - QPR's Ben Gladwin on a three-month loan deal.
The 33-year-old Pakistan international's last appearance in English football was for the Bantams in November 2010.
He has since had spells in Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia, most recently with Super League side Pahang FA.
"I've spent six years and clocked up over 200 games overseas, so it's good to be back in England," he said.
Centre-back Rehman becomes the League One side's second signing of the week, following the arrival of midfielder Ollie Muldoon on Tuesday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The bicycles were taken from a caravan park on Rosetta Road in Peebles overnight between Sunday and Monday.
They had been chained to a tree near to the owners' camper van.
In the morning they discovered that both the bikes - worth about £9,000 in total - had been taken along with the chains which had been used to secure them to the tree.
The first bike is a 2015 model Scott Genius adult male mountain bike worth about £6,000 while the second is a 2016 model Specialised ladies bike worth £3,000.
Insp Carol Wood said: "The owners of the bikes are tourists, who were undertaking a cycling holiday in Scotland, and they have been left extremely distressed by this theft.
"We are eager to recover the bikes and trace those responsible as soon as possible.
"Anyone with information regarding this theft is asked to contact us immediately."
Revelations of a second affair at the top of Northumbria Police also emerged, as more claims about the relationships between senior officers were aired.
The allegations were made at a tribunal brought by the force's former head of legal services, Denise Aubrey.
She is claiming unfair dismissal after being sacked for gross misconduct.
The 54-year-old is also claiming sexual and disability discrimination at the hearing in North Shields.
Former chief constable Mike Craik was accused of lying to Ms Aubrey about his relationship with his assistant chief constable, Carolyn Peacock.
Mrs Peacock's chief superintendent husband, Jim, is then said to have punched Mr Craik at a barbecue after learning of the affair.
Details of a second affair involving sexual touching at work, sexualised emails and texts with references to "nipples with tassels" and "hula hoops" were also revealed, which allegedly involved assistant chief constable Greg Vant and Mr Craik's secretary, Juliet Bains.
Mr Vant was accused of sexually harassing Ms Bains by Mr Craik, but the tribunal heard she did not make a complaint.
Ms Aubrey allegedly disclosed information about the affairs.
She denies this and has accused her former bosses of "unfair dismissal following a protected disclosure, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, victimisation and harassment".
Ms Aubrey said she had been asked by Mr Craik to advise him on libel and trying to keep accusations of the affair out of the media.
"I don't know if he lied to me, but from what I have found out since I think he did," she said.
"At the time he told me it had not happened and I acted on those instructions. But something did happen because of what was revealed to me.
"If we used public money to cover it up then we do have an issue here and a potential criminal investigation."
The tribunal was told on Wednesday rumours of Mr Craik's affair with Mrs Peacock began "circulating" in 2007. Ms Aubrey's witness statement also claimed she had been told by a former inspector that the incident log relating to the barbecue scuffle had been "removed".
Mr Craik and the Peacocks, who are not attending the hearing, are said to deny there was an affair or a punch-up.
The case continues.
Global trade is now expected to grow by 3.3% this year, the WTO says, down from its earlier forecast of 4.5%.
Next year, however, growth should rebound to about 5%, said WTO director general Pascal Lamy.
Countries might turn to protectionism as other attempts to boost growth have been "found wanting", he said.
"There is a need for more rules-based trade in order to reduce unemployment and to stimulate growth," he said.
The WTO also warned that the weakness in Europe's economies would continue to weigh on trade.
It said that "improved economic prospects for the United States in 2013 should only partly offset the continued weakness in the European Union, whose economy is expected to remain flat or even contract slightly this year according to consensus estimates".
"China's growth should continue to outpace other leading economies, cushioning the slowdown, but exports will still be constrained by weak demand in Europe," it added.
The WTO said that trade had grown by just 2% in 2012, the second-worst figure since records began in 1981. The worst performance had come in 2009 when trade shrank.
Average growth over the past two decades has been 5.3%, it said.
In dollar terms, the value of the goods traded last year remained stagnant at $18.3 trillion (£11.9 trillion). The value was unchanged because prices for coffee, cotton, coal and iron ore fell.
"The events of 2012 should serve as a reminder that the structural flaws in economies that were revealed by the economic crisis have not been fully addressed, despite important progress in some areas," Mr Lamy said.
"Repairing these fissures needs to be the priority for 2013."
Mr Moore was 21 at the time, back in 1986, and after a number of years working at some insalubrious hotel restaurants in his hometown of Blackpool, in the north of England, he was trying to go to a different world.
He had applied to join Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons, the two Michelin star restaurant in leafy Oxfordshire, an hour's drive north west of London. Owned by celebrity chef Raymond Blanc, it remains today one of the UK's most respected eateries, with a focus on refined - and undeniably expensive - French cuisine.
Instead of just turning up for his 3pm interview, Mr Moore decided to book himself and a friend in for lunch as well.
So after driving down from Blackpool, the pair enjoyed a relaxing three course meal. Then only after they had finished, did Mr Moore announce that he was there for an interview.
Now a 51-year-old, he picks up the story: "At ten to 3 I called over a waiter and said 'I have an appointment with Alain Descenclos [the then restaurant manager], would you like to ask him to join me?'.
"I'm pretty sure that no-one has tried the same tactic at Le Manoir before or since, but I basically told him that I saw myself fitting in very nicely, that I loved the service, and we needed to sort out a start date."
Mr Moore admits that Mr Descenclos was somewhat taken aback, but he got the job.
Today, 30 years later, Mr Moore is one of the UK's best-known restaurateurs.
In addition to owning two fine dining restaurants in London - Pied a Terre and L'Autre Pied - he remains much in demand as a restaurant consultant and investor, advising others on how to run and set up their own establishments.
And he has appeared on a number of food and dining TV shows, such the BBC's The Restaurant and Masterchef: The Professionals.
He says: "I always say that the only thing harder than opening a restaurant is keeping it open."
Mr Moore says that working at Le Manoir, and a six month work placement immediately beforehand at another high quality UK restaurant - the Box Tree in West Yorkshire - opened his eyes to how restaurants should be run.
"In Blackpool the customer was often seen as an inconvenience," he says. "If I ever had to take food back to the kitchen, I'd think 'I'm not going to go to chef Stu or so and so because he will try to hit me'.
"But at the Box Tree and then Le Manoir, everything was no problem, it was about really caring about the customer. To begin with I was like 'wow, this is so alien', but I just loved it."
Mr Moore eventually spent five years working at Le Manoir, rising to the position of deputy restaurant manager.
Then in 1991 he and one of the chefs - Richard Neat - left to set up their own restaurant in London, Pied a Terre.
They didn't have much money of their own, but Mr Moore persuaded a number of Le Manoir's wealthy regulars to invest a total of £187,000.
Pied a Terre opened its doors on Charlotte Street in London's Fitzrovia area in December 1991, and they had to brace themselves for the initial reviews of the newspaper critics, which still today can make or break a restaurant.
Mr Moore says: "The Evening Standard's Fay Maschler said that we'd be closed within six months."
Thankfully the Daily Telegraph gave Pied a Terre a glowing review, and within days it was fully booked.
"For the next three or four years we lived above the restaurant," he says. "I was first in, last out, and always tired, but very lucky."
In 1993 the restaurant was awarded a Michelin star - the holy grail for fine dining restaurants - with a second following in 1996.
Pied a Terre is now coming up to 25-years-old, and while head chefs have come and gone, Mr Moore remains at the helm.
He says the restaurant, which enjoys revenues of £2m a year, is now working hard to regain the second Michelin star it lost in 2011.
Meanwhile, the sister restaurant opened in 2007, and Mr Moore's other investments include a chain of cocktail bars, and two barbeque restaurants.
Mr Moore says he is regularly approached for advice by people wishing to set up their own restaurants. His reply is more often that they need to have deep pockets, and look outside central London.
"Everyone wants to open in Soho [central London], but these days you don't have a chance if you haven't got £1m," he says.
"[Outside of that area] you need a minimum of £550,000, but I would advise nearer £750,000, and have another £100,000 in case you open at the same time as a 7/7 [the terrorist attacks in London in 2005]."
For new restaurants to be successful, Mr Moore says they have to do a number of things correctly, including food that stands out, and good customer service - "it's simple, hire nice people".
And while it is far more expensive to open a restaurant today compared with the 1980s, he says that one advantage establishments have today is that social media makes the vital promotional work far easier.
He says: "Back in the very early days of Pied a Terre, we had to knock on doors to drum up business, literally walking up and down the streets near the restaurant."
Although Mr Moore says he is now looking at opening a chain of restaurants aimed at mums and dads with young children, Tracey MacLeod, restaurant critic for The Independent newspaper, says she likes the fact he has never over-extended himself.
"I admire the fact that he has never gone for quick expansion," she says. "Instead he has gone down the route of perfecting what he does rather than going for the quick buck."
For people thinking of getting a job in the restaurant industry, Mr Moore's advice is don't send a letter, instead turn up in person. Whether you wish to eat lunch before introducing yourself is up to you.
The Clarets led when Sam Vokes headed home a corner but Ross McCormack levelled with a powerful shot.
Moussa Dembele converted a Luke Garbutt centre to put the hosts in front.
The visitors equalised when Vokes slotted home from the penalty spot after Joey Barton had been clipped in the area, before Andre Gray rifled home a great finish to give Burnley the win.
Burnley, who had not won at Fulham since 1980, stretched their lead at the top thanks to Middlesbrough's surprise defeat at Rotherham.
The game pitted the Championship's two highest-scoring teams against one another and it took less than 10 minutes for Vokes to break the deadlock with his 11th goal of the season.
Struggling Fulham turned the match on its head with two goals in five minutes from their front two but defensive frailties ultimately cost them once again.
Gray, signed for a fee of around £9m from Brentford in August, has now scored 20 Championship goals in 31 appearances for Sean Dyche's side.
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Fulham head coach Slavisa Jokanovic:
"We played a very good game but in this game the result is more important. It's very difficult when you need to score four to win. We need to be more solid to compete in this division.
"It's very complicated for us to score so many goals to win games, that's our problem. These goals do not give us enough points. They score goals always but it is true we are not enough solid to compete.
"It is the fifth penalty in nine games, it is too many penalties. It is so very easy to score a goal. We don't find many more benefits to make chances. This is our moment, we need to be more solid."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche:
"Andre has a marvellous habit of not being disappointed to miss. He has so much power but [Sam] Vokes was tremendous as well.
"We can't worry about the other results, that's an anomaly, we can't control that. Tonight gives me belief in how we operate. You can't guarantee the outcome of every game.
"Consistency is difficult to find. I expected a lot of my players but they are human. To deliver constant high-level performances is difficult."
Match ends, Fulham 2, Burnley 3.
Second Half ends, Fulham 2, Burnley 3.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Ryan Fredericks.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Ben Mee.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Michael Keane.
Matt Smith (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Attempt saved. Matt Smith (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Luke Garbutt with a cross.
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Tom Heaton.
Attempt blocked. Luke Garbutt (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Tunnicliffe.
Scott Arfield (Burnley) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Michael Madl.
Attempt blocked. Joey Barton (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Michael Madl (Fulham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Madl (Fulham).
Andre Gray (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Fulham. Matt Smith replaces Scott Parker.
Substitution, Fulham. Rohan Ince replaces Dan Burn.
Fernando Amorebieta (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Matthew Lowton (Burnley).
Offside, Burnley. Sam Vokes tries a through ball, but Andre Gray is caught offside.
Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Scott Arfield (Burnley).
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Ryan Fredericks.
Offside, Burnley. Ben Mee tries a through ball, but Andre Gray is caught offside.
Foul by Dan Burn (Fulham).
Ben Mee (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George Boyd (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Scott Parker (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Boyd (Burnley).
Attempt missed. Andre Gray (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Dean Marney with a cross.
Ross McCormack (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dean Marney (Burnley).
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Scott Parker.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Michael Madl.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Scott Arfield (Burnley).
Goal! Fulham 2, Burnley 3. Andre Gray (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Dan Burn (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Vokes (Burnley).
Bee-eaters, which are rare visitors to the UK, have been spotted at the Cemex quarry, in East Leake, Nottinghamshire.
The RSPB said the birds, which feast on bees and wasps, have been seen mating and it is likely they will nest at the site.
The birds may have headed north due to climate change, the charity added.
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About a hundred birdwatchers have been to the site since Sunday, but that number is expected to increase significantly by the weekend.
A viewing area and car park, with a £5 charge, has been set up at Lings Farm, near Loughborough, for birders seeking the best views of the bee-eaters.
The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, which works in partnership with minerals firm Cemex, said it was the first record of the species in the county since 1970.
Tim Sexton, from the trust, said bee-eaters prefer to nest in sandy banks and the quarry simulates those conditions.
"It creates quite a nice safe haven for the birds, but certainly over the past 20 years we've seen species you would typically associate with the Mediterranean, the south of France and even North Africa," he added.
"Perhaps [in the future] we'll see bee-eaters become a common sight across Nottinghamshire and further north as well."
Mark Thomas, from the RSPB, said: "Bee-eater sightings have been on the increase. Pushed northwards by climate change, these exotic birds will likely become established visitors to our shores."
The last time the birds nested in the UK was in Cumbria in 2015, and they have also nested on the Isle of Wight in 2014, Herefordshire in 2005 and Country Durham in 2002.
Bee-eaters
Source: RSPB
A typically energetic start to the game brought an excellent early breakthrough from Callum McGregor on three minutes.
But Ajax drew level as carelessness led to Arkadiusz Milik converting acrobatically from close range.
As Celtic pressed hard in the closing stages, Leigh Griffiths and Charlie Mulgrew spurned chances and Vaclav Cerny broke away to score.
Celtic's third group defeat leaves them out of Europe and bottom of Group A with just two points.
Manager Ronny Deila has continually spoken of encouraging signs, despite the lack of positive results in Europe.
And although they matched the Dutch league leaders for spells on Thursday, the bare facts are that Celtic are regressing in European terms.
In 25 European matches with Celtic, Deila has managed just eight wins, with four of those coming against part-time Icelandic sides.
Supporters seeking solace can point to an impressive cameo from Scott Allan and another solid display by Kieran Tierney against Ajax, but the normally reliable Leigh Griffiths misfired and he was not the only under-performer.
Nonetheless, spurred on by a noisy support, Celtic came out of the traps sharply and gave the bulk of the crowd reason to get to their feet.
Despite an unfamiliar midfield set-up, with just Tom Rogic acting as the pivot between defence and the attacking players, Celtic immediately looked comfortable.
A confident flick by Stuart Armstrong found Rogic, who in turn fed Gary Mackay-Steven. He threaded a beautiful pass for McGregor, who belied his recent lack of first-team action as he strode confidently forward before curling a perfectly-placed shot beyond the diving Jasper Cillessen.
Just as they had in previous European ties this season against Malmo, Fenerbahce and Molde, they had made the ideal start.
Unfortunately, another recurring theme was soon to emerge.
Ajax served notice of their own desperation for the points as Viktor Fischer slammed the ball into the net, only for Amin Younes to be wrongly flagged offside.
The equaliser was not delayed much longer, though, and this time a lack of match sharpness may have hampered McGregor as his heavy touch ceded possession.
The Dutch got the break of the ball as Schone's shot was deflected into the path of Fischer, who was able to head the rebound from his own effort across goal where Milik hitch-kicked the ball into the net.
As the game wore on, the reality of the situation seemed to spur Celtic on as they pressed for a winning goal and McGregor struck the bar while Griffiths was foiled on more than one occasion.
And with time running out, Allan, who had made such a positive impression as a substitute, was caught in possession and the Dutch broke, culminating in a clinical finish by Cerny.
The full-time whistle was greeted with boos as the Celtic support came to terms with an early European exit.
Ajax retain hopes of progressing, but they need to beat group leaders Molde, who have already qualified for the last 32, and hope Celtic can beat Fenerbahce in Istanbul, though on current form that appears a forlorn hope.
Match ends, Celtic 1, Ajax 2.
Second Half ends, Celtic 1, Ajax 2.
Attempt missed. Yaya Sanogo (Ajax) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Vaclav Cerny.
Attempt saved. Vaclav Cerny (Ajax) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Yaya Sanogo (Ajax) left footed shot from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Arkadiusz Milik.
Offside, Ajax. Nemanja Gudelj tries a through ball, but Yaya Sanogo is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Offside, Ajax. Arkadiusz Milik tries a through ball, but Yaya Sanogo is caught offside.
Foul by Arkadiusz Milik (Ajax).
Mikael Lustig (Celtic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Celtic 1, Ajax 2. Vaclav Cerny (Ajax) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Arkadiusz Milik following a fast break.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Kenny Tete.
Attempt blocked. Amin Younes (Ajax) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nemanja Gudelj.
Attempt blocked. Nemanja Gudelj (Ajax) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Donny van de Beek.
Amin Younes (Ajax) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Vaclav Cerny.
Attempt blocked. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Scott Allan with a cross.
Attempt missed. Amin Younes (Ajax) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Arkadiusz Milik.
Donny van de Beek (Ajax) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Scott Allan (Celtic).
Foul by Nemanja Gudelj (Ajax).
Scott Allan (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Ajax. Yaya Sanogo replaces Mike van der Hoorn.
Scott Allan (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Vaclav Cerny (Ajax) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Davy Klaassen.
Foul by Davy Klaassen (Ajax).
Callum McGregor (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic) header from very close range is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong with a cross following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Celtic. Emilio Izaguirre replaces Kieran Tierney.
Kenny Tete (Ajax) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kenny Tete (Ajax).
James Forrest (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by James Forrest.
Attempt missed. Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Assisted by Callum McGregor with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Celtic. Conceded by Jasper Cillessen.
Attempt saved. Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott Allan.
Substitution, Ajax. Donny van de Beek replaces Lasse Schöne.
Substitution, Celtic. Scott Allan replaces Gary Mackay-Steven.
Foul by Vaclav Cerny (Ajax).
Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jairo Riedewald (Ajax).
Rob Wainwright, who heads the European Union's law enforcement agency, made the comments to Newyddion 9.
It comes after the US State Department warned of possible militant attacks in France.
But Mr Wainwright, originally of Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire, said he was "impressed" by French security.
He said French authorities were "putting in a great deal of effort to secure the tournament" and fans should "really celebrate" Wales making their first major finals in almost 60 years.
"But it's true - we have a terrorist threat in Europe at the moment," he added.
"We've seen the devastating effects of that also in France as we know in the last few months.
"I think the Euros will be a potential target of Islamic State and so we shouldn't close our eyes to that."
Mr Wainwright, who was first appointed Europol director in 2009, added: "Europol is helping French authorities to really protect these championships from a possible threat. I'm concerned about the possible threat but impressed by the security safeguards that the French authorities have put in place."
On Tuesday, the US State Department said "the large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists" in a travel alert for US citizens.
Euro 2016 is being hosted from 10 June to 10 July at various venues, with up to a million foreign fans expected in France for the tournament.
France is already under a state of emergency following Islamist-claimed attacks in Paris in 2015.
The contest was due to be the 29-year-old Briton's first since his thrilling win over Dereck Chisora in December.
Meeting Poland's Wach, a former world-title challenger, was also key as Whyte bids for his own shot at a world title.
"We expect to see him return in July before challenging for the world heavyweight title towards the end of the year," promoter Eddie Hearn said.
"Dillian is on the verge of a world title shot and we can't afford to enter a fight at this stage not being 100%."
Whyte took IBF and WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to seven rounds in December 2015 before being knocked out in what is the only defeat of his 21-fight career.
Fe gafodd dyn 47 oed ei arestio wedi i fan daro grŵp o Fwslemiaid ar Seven Sisters Road yn ngogledd y ddinas.
Bu farw un dyn ac fe gafodd wyth arall eu cludo i'r ysbyty.
Mae'n debyg bod y fan gafodd ei defnyddio yn yr ymosodiad yn eiddo i gwmni Pontyclun Van Hire yn Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Fe yrrodd y fan dros balmant yn ardal Finsbury Park toc ar ôl hanner nos wrth i Fwslemiaid adael mosgiau lleol.
Cafodd dyn ei ddal gan aelodau o'r cyhoedd yn y fan a'r lle, cyn i'r heddlu ei arestio.
Mae wedi ei arestio ar amheuaeth o geisio llofruddio, ynghyd â pharatoi terfysgaeth gan gynnwys llofruddiaeth a cheisio llofruddio.
Fore Llun, daeth swyddogion yr heddlu i swyddfeydd Pontyclun Van Hire. Dywedodd y cwmni mewn datganiad eu bod yn cydweithio gydag ymchwiliad Heddlu Llundain.
Y llu hwnnw sy'n arwain yr ymchwiliad, gyda Heddlu De Cymru yn dweud eu bod yn "cefnogi" eu hymdrechion.
Dywedodd Heddlu'r De hefyd y bydd swyddogion yn cynnal mwy o batrolau i roi sicrwydd i gymunedau, yn enwedig yn ystod cyfnod Ramadan.
Mewn datganiad, dywedodd Cyngor Mwslemaidd Cymru eu bod wedi eu "brawychu" gan yr ymosodiad, a'u bod nhw'n gweddïo dros y rheiny a gafodd eu taro.
"Mae hi hyd yn oed yn fwy brawychus bod cysylltiad Cymreig posib gyda'r ymosodwr", meddai.
"Rydym ni'n ymddiried yn yr awdurdodau ac ymchwiliad yr heddlu, ac yn disgwyl am fwy o wybodaeth."
Ar raglen Post Cyntaf BBC Radio Cymru dywedodd Sian Eleri Jones, sy'n byw gerllaw Finsbury Park, ei bod wedi cael braw wrth glywed beth ddigwyddodd.
"Nes i glywed sŵn hofrennydd neu ddau yn yr awyr neithiwr.
"Dwi'n mynd i Finsbury Park bob dydd ar y ffordd i gwaith. Fedra i ddim dychmygu be' mae'r bobl welodd beth ddigwyddodd neithiwr yn ei deimlo.
"Mae'n bechod bod hyn wedi digwydd".
Deaths involving cocaine rose by 16% to 371, while overall there were 3,744 deaths from legal and illegal drugs.
The Office for National Statistics said it was the highest number of deaths since comparable records began in 1993.
The data showed that those in their 40s have overtaken people in their 30s as being the age group with the highest mortality rate from drug misuse.
Of the deaths, more than two-thirds were due to misuse of drugs, and two-thirds of the deaths were men - in line with previous years.
The majority of fatalities linked to cocaine use occurred in men aged 30 to 49, the figures show.
Rising levels in the purity of cocaine could be one explanation for the increase, statisticians said.
The ONS report said: "The National Crime Agency reports that there was a significant increase in both crack and powder cocaine purity at all levels in 2016, including user-level, which may partly explain the increase in deaths relating to cocaine."
There were also rises in deaths involving the powerful painkiller fentanyl - from 34 in 2015 to 58 in 2016, paracetamol - from 197 to 219, and new psychoactive substances (NPS) from 114 to 123.
NPS typically mimic "traditional" drugs such as cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy, and were widely known as "legal highs" before laws criminalising their production, distribution, sale and supply were introduced last year.
While deaths linked to heroin and/or morphine remained stable last year - with 1,209 compared with 1,201 registered in 2015.
Martin Powell, of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation, said the government should accept responsibility for record numbers of people dying from overdoses year after year.
He said: "Other countries value the lives of vulnerable people who use drugs enough to implement and fund many measures proven to save lives, like decriminalising drug users, safer drug consumption rooms and prescribing heroin."
Rosanna O'Connor, of Public Health England, said: "It is tragic that we are still seeing an increase in people dying from drug misuse, particularly among older heroin users.
"Many of these deaths can be explained as the 'Trainspotting' generation, often with poor physical and mental health, sadly losing their battle with long-term addiction to drugs."
She said a large number of heroin deaths are among people not in treatment and called on services to increase their efforts to reach those most at risk.
Within England, the North East had the highest mortality rate from drug misuse in 2016 for the fourth year running (77.4 deaths per million), while the East Midlands had the lowest (29.1 deaths per million).
The mortality rate from drug misuse in Wales rose from 58.3 deaths per million population in 2015 to 66.9 in 2016.
Deaths in England have remained comparable between 2015 and 2016.
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The Italian led the Foxes to the Premier League title last season but was dismissed in February.
"I can't believe my players killed me. No, no, no," he told Sky Sports.
"Maybe it was someone behind me. I had a little problem the year before and we won the title. Maybe this year, when we lose, these people push a little more."
When Ranieri was sacked, Leicester were one point above the Premier League relegation zone.
Assistant manager Craig Shakespeare was placed in charge and presided over five successive league victories and a Champions League last-16 win against Sevilla.
"I listen to a lot of stories," added 65-year-old Ranieri, who refused to identify who he was referring to.
"I don't want to say who it is. I am a loyal man. What I had to say, I said face to face."
In the aftermath of Ranieri's exit, some reports suggested players had been instrumental in his dismissal, with striker Jamie Vardy and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel among those to publicly deny the squad were involved.
Ranieri's final game in charge was a 2-1 defeat at Sevilla, with the Foxes winning the return leg under Shakespeare 2-0 to earn a Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid.
"I thought the Sevilla match was a turning point," said the former Chelsea manager. "Everyone was fighting together, Jamie Vardy scored a goal.
"But I found out on the way home that I would be sacked. It was a shock for me and for a lot of other people."
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Ranieri's dismissal sparked a wave of support from fellow managers, pundits and supporters, with former Leicester and England striker Gary Lineker saying he "shed a tear".
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho wore Ranieri's initials on his shirt and said the Leicester players were "selfish".
The Italian said he received support from all across the world.
"It was amazing," he said. "When we won the title I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.
"In case I don't have the time to reply to all of them, I want to thank all the fans.
"I have won trophies around Europe, but never the title. Three times I was runner-up. Leicester and the fans will be in my heart for all of my life."
In the latest incident, which took place on Wednesday in the US state of Tennessee, a fire broke out in a car after it hit debris on the road.
Tesla said the fire did not start spontaneously but was the result of the accident. The previous two fires have also been related to accidents.
The firm's shares fell more than 7% on Thursday, after a 14% fall on Wednesday triggered by weak earnings.
The company reported that it made a net loss of $38m in the July-to-September period.
In the latest incident, the front of a Tesla vehicle burst into flames after it ran over a tow bar near the town of Smyrna, Tennessee.
Analysts said that while the fires had been the result of accidents, investors had been worried about any potential impact on the firm.
"For a company with a stock price based as much or more on image than financials, those recurring headlines are highly damaging," said Karl Brauer, a senior analyst with Kelley Blue Book.
Adam Jonas, an analyst with Morgan Stanley, added that the risk of a formal investigation by US safety regulators "could raise near-term concerns to a higher level in terms of cost, image and production disruption".
Tesla's shares fell 7.5% to close at $139.7 on Thursday.
In October, a Model S caught fire after the driver ran over what Tesla said was "an extremely large object" near Seattle, Washington state.
After the fire, officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had said they found no evidence to indicate that it resulted from defects or violations of US safety standards.
The second incident took place in Mexico later in the month. According to reports a car caught fire after it drove through a roundabout, crashed through a concrete wall and hit a tree.
Tesla said it is investigating the latest incident in Tennessee to find out what had caused the fire.
"Our team is on its way to Tennessee to learn more about what happened in the accident," Tesla spokeswoman Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean said in a statement.
"We will provide more information when we're able to do so."
The firm's chief executive, Elon Musk, has previously said that electric cars are safer than conventional cars.
Ricky Hill walked out of Royal Derby Hospital where he was being treated for an overdose and hanged himself on site.
Coroner Dr Robert Hunter concluded there was no plan at the hospital to prevent him killing himself.
He told an inquest he would also write to Derbyshire police for a second time criticising its search procedures.
Dr Hunter returned a narrative conclusion at the inquest in Derby which found Mr Hill, 30, took his own life while an inpatient partly because "no effective measures were put in place to prevent him doing so".
Speaking after the hearing, his widow, Dawn Hill said: "I'm just glad that it's all over and we've got justice for Ricky because that's why we're all here."
The court heard Mr Hill walked out of hospital in September 2014 for a cigarette but never came back.
Security were alerted but took down an incorrect description which was then passed to police.
The first officer on the scene searched the site from a police car using the incorrect description.
Another officer later used an out of date satellite image from Google Earth to check the site, which still showed the hospital under construction.
Mr Hill's body was found by a local resident in a wooded area on hospital grounds in January 2015.
Although the coroner concluded he was dead before the police were called Dr Hunter still had "serious concerns" about the search and said he would write to the force's chief constable.
The court also heard nurses lacked training in dealing with mental health patients at the hospital and they had not been told about hospital guidelines.
Dr Hunter said he would write to the Department of Health raising concerns that changes should be made at all hospitals.
Following the conclusion of the hearing Deputy Ch Con Peter Goodman said: "We want to apologise to the family of Ricky Hill.
"We recognise we made mistakes at the time he went missing and subsequent in our search for him there were areas we could have done better."
He added the force would work with the coroner to address further concerns.
Cathy Winfield, chief nurse at the Royal Derby Hospital, also apologised to the family during the hearing and offered her condolences.
Speaking afterwards, she said: "We've run a robust teaching programme for doctors and nurses to help them identify [mental health needs] but also assess the level of risk patients might be facing."
The New Zealand international, 25, picked up the honour at the Pro12's awards night in Dublin.
Leinster fly-half Joey Carbery was named young player of the year while Ruan Pienaar's score for Ulster against Glasgow was voted try of the season.
Ospreys' Sam Davies picked up the golden boot award after having an 88% success rate with his kicks.
Scarlets wing Steff Evans won the top try-scorer award in recognition of his 11 touchdowns during the season.
Evans' team-mate Ken Owens was named captain of the Pro12's dream team.
Owens, Piutau and Pienaar were all included in the Pro12's team of the season announced on Friday.
Connacht picked up a £10,000 cheque after winning the fair play award while referee Nigel Owens was presented with the chairman's award for his contribution to the competition over the last 15 seasons.
2016-17 Guinness Pro12 Dream Team
T O'Halloran (Connacht); T Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), J Taute (Munster), R Scannell (Munster), C Piutau (Ulster); T Bleyendaal (Munster), R Pienaar (Ulster); D Kilcoyne (Munster), K Owens (Scarlets), J Ryan (Munster); B Toolis (Edinburgh), B Holland (Munster); D Leavy (Leinster), J Davies (Scarlets), J Conan (Leinster)
The 34-year-old Irishman replaces Jack Ross who last week was unveiled as the St Mirren boss.
The Wasps are third in the table and in their next two matches they are away to league leaders Brechin and second-place Livingston.
Goodwin has made more than 400 league appearances in England and Scotland, including at Hamilton and St Mirren.
The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, follow research carried out by an American university.
Some 1,000 women, who purchased abortion drugs online, were questioned in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The anti-abortion group, Precious Life, criticised the University of Texas survey, saying it has "no credibility".
The survey indicated that almost 95% of the medical interventions or abortions were "successful".
However, almost a tenth of the women who responded said they had to seek some form of medical attention, including blood transfusions and being prescribed antibiotics.
No deaths were reported.
The survey concludes that the results support growing calls in some countries for reform of restrictive abortion laws.
Researchers analysed self-reported data provided by the women four weeks after they used mifepristone and misoprostol to end an early pregnancy. There were no face-to-face interviews.
The data was gathered by an online organisation that issues abortion pills to women.
Taking abortion pills without medical approval is illegal throughout the UK, but doctors can legally prescribe the pills to patients in Great Britain.
In Northern Ireland, the abortion law is much stricter, and it is a crime to terminate a pregnancy unless a woman's life or health is at serious risk.
Abortion is only legal in the Republic of Ireland if the mother's life is at risk.
The use of any abortion medication - without medical supervision - can endanger women, with risks including heavy bleeding, blood clots and infection.
Woman travel to England or further afield to access termination services.
According to the academics, the results of the survey provide "the best world evidence to date" about the effectiveness of using an online service.
The findings also reveal that women were able to identify potentially serious complications and seek medical attention when advised to do so.
According to the researchers, the results highlight for the first time that rates of adverse effects after using drugs to induce terminations were low.
But Precious Life's director Bernadette Smyth said there is "no such thing as a safe abortion".
She added that the group that provided the date on which the study was based was "putting the lives and health of pregnant women in Ireland at risk by promoting self-use of abortion pills".
Another anti-abortion group said it was concerned that the study was based on "self-reported outcomes of self-sourced and self-managed medical abortions".
"Nobody should be taking medical pills of this kind without first contacting their registered GP or health provider," said Marion Woods of Life NI.
In Northern Ireland there has been recent controversy over the availability of abortion tablets, and a number of people have been charged in connection with buying and using the pills.
It is understood that one of those women was reported to police after she requested medical help.
Ex-Ross County player Carey won six under-21 caps for his country, but is yet to feature for the senior side.
"I don't think it'll be long before he's in a Republic of Ireland full squad," Adams told BBC Radio Devon.
"I think that he's a similar player to Wes Hoolahan, who's now 34 - Graham's only 27."
Adams continued: "He's the next one probably that Martin O'Neill will look to in the future, over the next period of time."
O'Neill named his latest squad, ahead of their World Cup Qualifier with Wales, on Monday.
Carey, who started his career at Celtic, joined Plymouth in July 2015 and has scored 22 goals in 75 League Two appearances.
"I think that he deserves an opportunity," said Adams. "We've seen players from Dundalk this season get into the (Republic) side, and Graham Carey is doing it week in, week out at a different level, but a difficult level as it is."
Before joining Plymouth, Carey's only spell outside Scotland was a loan stint at Huddersfield in the 2010-11 season.
He said: "It's always great when the manager and staff back you, and hopefully we can repay them.
"That's one of the main reasons why I came to the club - I've played with him [Adams] before and he really lets me play with a lot of freedom."
Developers claim the 100MW project at Glenmuckloch, near Kirckconnel, could generate power for more than a century.
It is the latest in a series of renewable energy schemes planned for the site, which is owned by Buccleuch Estates.
They are part of a project to redevelop the opencast mine as Glenmuckloch Energy Park.
The details have emerged in a scoping report for the pumped storage hydro scheme submitted to Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Buccleuch Estates has joined with mining company Hargreaves and 2020 Renewables to draw up the plans.
It will involve creating two reservoirs - one higher than the other - which will be connected by a tunnel with a pump-turbine.
The report states: "When excess electricity exists within the grid the pump-turbines go into pumping mode lifting water to the upper pond and when demand within the network exceeds available supply the pump-turbines reverse and change to generating mode with water released from the upper pond."
If the project goes ahead, the lower reservoir will be created from the existing opencast void, while a second, upper pond will be excavated at the head of Halfmerk Hill.
The higher reservoir will have a water depth of 22m (72 feet), creating 3.3million cubic metres of water storage.
The redevelopment of Glenmuckloch follows the collapse of surface mining firm Aardvark TMC in 2013, leaving a shortfall in the money needed to restore the site to its pre-opencast condition.
However since then Buccleuch Estates and Hargreaves have worked to implement a rolling programme of restoration in parallel with coaling operations.
Later this summer two community wind turbines will be built to the west of the hydro site.
Earlier this year plans for an eight turbine wind farm next to the mine were submitted to Dumfries and Galloway Council.
James McCann, of Suffield Court, Swaffham, Norfolk, worked at St Francis Boys Home in Shefford, Bedfordshire, during the 1960s and 1970s.
He was taken ill ahead of a trial at the Old Bailey.
The trial was adjourned until Wednesday to allow the court to await an assessment from doctors.
Speaking at a summit in Brussels, she said she felt it could be achieved, despite the continuing deadlock over a landmark EU-Canada trade deal .
Mrs May said she had played an active role in discussions and was not "backwards in coming forwards".
It is her first EU summit since she became PM following the Brexit vote.
At a news conference before meeting European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker for a working lunch, Mrs May said Britain would be "a confident, outward-looking country".
She said she aimed to "cement Britain as a close partner of the EU once we have left", with the country able to control its immigration but trade freely with the EU. She said she would seek a "mature co-operative relationship" with the EU.
Analysis by Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
Theresa May is certainly no stranger to getting things done in Brussels.
And she is rarely, if ever, underprepared, arriving into each meeting clutching her folder with carefully colour-coded and prepared sections.
But can anything have really prepared the prime minister for this summit? She came here promising a "smooth Brexit" but it has been a bumpy affair.
There's been anger in some quarters at her insistence that the UK must still be fully included despite the fact we're leaving. And blunt warnings from other leaders that the negotiations will be very hard going.
The prime minister will hardly be surprised, and she is hardly a delicate flower. As she made clear in the last 24 hours she has "not been backwards at coming forwards". And this was never going to be the summit where any details were discussed or any real progress was made.
But it's abundantly clear now that not only will the process of leaving be difficult, but also that Britain's wishes are simply not a priority in the long drab corridors of the EU Council. Read Laura's full blog
"I recognise the scale of the challenge ahead. I am sure there will be difficult moments - it will require some give and take.
"But I firmly believe that if we approach this in a constructive spirit, as I am, then we can deliver a smooth departure and build a powerful new relationship that works both for the UK and for the countries of the EU, looking for opportunities, not problems."
Asked whether the difficulties over Ceta - an EU-Canada trade deal that has stalled because one Belgian region has objected - might affect a UK post-Brexit deal, Mrs May said she was "not looking to adopt a model that another country has" but was seeking a new relationship with the European Union.
"Obviously we have got negotiations ahead... those negotiations will take time, as I say, there will be some difficult moments, it will need some give and take but I'm optimistic that we can achieve a deal that is right for the UK because I actually think the deal that is right for the UK will also be right for the European Union."
But the TUC said the deadlock over Ceta should be a "wake-up call" to ministers.
"Britain will need a trade deal with the EU after Brexit, and it mustn't follow the failed Canadian model," said the union body's general secretary Frances O'Grady.
"We need a new approach to trade that creates good jobs and protects public services and workers' rights. Not one that just prioritises the needs of big business."
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron accused the prime minister of a "haphazard" approach to Brexit in her own cabinet.
"Instead of putting the views of a minority of hardline Tory Brexiteers first, our prime minister should be doing what's right for the British people," he said.
"This means remaining in the single market, maintaining cross-border security and ensuring that Brexit leaves nobody worse off."
Meanwhile the man seen as front-runner to replace French President Francois Hollande, Alain Juppe, has said he would revoke a treaty that allows UK border officials to check passports in Calais - known as Le Touquet - should he be elected president next year.
The former French PM blamed the 2003 agreement for the creation of the "Jungle" encampment and said: "We cannot accept making the selection on French territory of people that Britain does or doesn't want. It's up to Britain to do that job."
He added: "A debate must be opened and a new accord obtained with Britain."
And one of the EU's three main Brexit negotiators, Michel Barnier, has been forced to deny claims that he wanted the talks to be conducted largely in French, saying the "linguistic regime" would be decided at the start of official negotiations.
"Never expressed myself on negotiation language," he tweeted. "Work as often in English as French."
Formal exit negotiations will not begin until Mrs May triggers Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, something she has said will be done by the end of March 2017.
This means Brexit, backed in a UK-wide referendum in June, is likely to take effect by the summer of 2019.
North Devon Council said people were breaking rules by spreading photographs, messages, lights and other items down the length of graves.
The authority, which runs Bear Street cemetery in Barnstaple, said it made it difficult to cut the grass and to reopen graves to bury relatives.
People laying tributes have described the council as "dictators".
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Relatives have been given a 90-day deadline to remove the items.
Some people have already made the changes. However, 27 families have not yet cleared the graves.
Peter Hull has been told to remove the flowers from his brother-in-law's grave.
"For my wife it's very upsetting, for me it is more annoying that a council do not want to listen," he said.
"We live in a world of democracy but they're making me feel like they're dictators."
North Devon Council said it had tried to deal "sympathetically and tactfully" with the families.
Mark Drummond, from the authority, said most of the graves were for two burials.
With the tributes, he said it was "almost impossible to be able to get a digger in to actually reopen the grave."
SATS results for all Year 6 students at Wentworth Primary Church of England School were annulled following an investigation by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA).
The chair of governors maintained pupils' education was unaffected.
The STA said "maladministration" of the tests was "completely unacceptable".
In a letter to parents Jane Collier, chair of governors, said: "Allegations were made to the STA that children had been over-aided during the test and the findings from the review of test papers showed amendments to answers had been made which were in line with the allegations.
"This means your child will not receive any results for the examinations taken this term."
Ms Collier stated the school's management and governing body were "very disappointed by this and share your frustrations in this matter".
She reassured parents all pupils would transfer to secondary school "without any prejudice".
"We have been assured by Rotherham Council that the secondary schools this school feeds into do their own assessments for children anyway when they enter year seven in September."
An investigator will be appointed "from outside of the borough" to lead a joint independent review with the council and Diocese of Sheffield.
One parent, who did not wish to be named, said she had "lost faith" in the school's management team.
"I'm absolutely appalled and disgusted," she said.
"Our children have worked really hard all year and have got nothing to show for it."
A STA spokesperson said: "Following an investigation into the administration of the 2016 Key Stage 2 tests at Wentworth Church of England Junior and Infant School, ‎all results have been annulled."
All Year 2 and Year 6 pupils sit national curriculum tests, known as Sats, in a range of subjects.
The competition held by the Scottish Surf Federation finishes on Sunday and involves the national championships for surfing and bodyboarding.
The sea off Thurso offers some of the best surfing in Europe and some of the conditions have even been described as "world-class".
In recent years, a stage of the international O'Neill Cold Water Classic has also been at Thurso.
The study, published in The Lancet Oncology, suggests proton beam therapy is as effective as other treatments.
Researchers looked at 59 patients aged between three and 21 from 2003 to 2009.
In 2014 the parents of Ashya King took him out of hospital in Hampshire to get the treatment abroad.
Their actions led to a police operation to find them.
Ashya, who was five at the time of his treatment, is now cancer free, his family said last year.
All the patients who took part in the study, led by Dr Torunn Yock from the Massachusetts General Hospital in the US, had the most common kind of malignant brain tumour in children, known as medulloblastoma.
After five years, their survival rate was similar to that of patients treated with conventional X-ray radiotherapy, but there were fewer side effects to the heart and lungs, the study found.
Dr Yock told BBC Radio 5 live: "The major finding is that proton therapy is as effective as photon therapy [conventional X-ray radiotherapy] in curing these patients and what is also very exciting is that it is maintaining these high rates of cure but doing so with less late toxicity, which has dramatic quality of life improvements."
The paper said: "Proton radiotherapy resulted in acceptable toxicity and had similar survival outcomes to those noted with conventional radiotherapy, suggesting that the use of the treatment may be an alternative to photon-based treatments."
It uses charged particles instead of X-rays to deliver radiotherapy for cancer patients.
The treatment allows high-energy protons to be targeted directly at a tumour, reducing the dose to surrounding tissues and organs.
In general, it gives fewer side effects compared with high-energy X-ray treatments.
It can be used to treat spinal cord tumours, sarcomas near the spine or brain, prostate cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer and some children's cancers.
Sources: NHS England, Cancer Research UK
Independent expert Prof Gillies McKenna, who is the head of the department of oncology at the University of Oxford, said the research suggested that the "side effects are indeed dramatically reduced" with proton beam therapy.
"There were no side effects seen in the heart and lungs and gastrointestinal tract, which are almost always seen with X-rays, and no secondary cancers were seen at a time when we would have expected to see them in X-ray treated patients," he added.
But Dr Kieran Breen, from Brain Tumour Research, said there was still more research needed into the treatment.
"In the longer term, we need to try and understand what effects it will have on people and there are many other forms of tumour both in the brain and in other parts of the body," he said.
Proton beam therapy is currently only available in the UK to treat eye cancers, but patients with other forms of cancer can apply for NHS funding for the therapy abroad.
The first proton beam facility in the UK is due to be made available in Newport by the end of 2016, as a "result of direct investment by the Welsh government," according to a Welsh Assembly spokesman.
The Department of Health has said that from April 2018 the treatment will be offered to up to 1,500 cancer patients at hospitals in London and Manchester, following investment worth £250m.
Two years ago a dispute about the use of the treatment prompted Brett and Naghemeh King, of Southsea, Hampshire, to remove their son Ashya from a hospital in Southampton against his doctors' advice.
The parents wanted their five-year-old to undergo proton beam therapy in Prague, which had not been recommended by his care team in Southampton.
Their actions sparked an international police manhunt, and the couple were later arrested and held in a prison in Madrid.
They were eventually released and Ashya's therapy took place, with the NHS later agreeing to pay for it.
A spokesman for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, said that medulloblastoma was not currently on the list of tumours approved for this treatment on the NHS.
"However, we welcome any update to the existing clinical evidence on cancer treatments and will follow any expansion of the current national criteria," a spokesman added.
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The former prime minister told US news channel CNN it was "hard to apologise" for removing Saddam Hussein, and Iraq might have become like Syria otherwise.
His comments came just before Sir John Chilcot announces a timetable for completion of his inquiry into the war.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the interview as the start of the "Blair spin operation".
Mr Blair said even if his policy in Iraq did not work subsequent policies had worked no better.
He believed it was better that Saddam Hussein was no longer in power and suggested that if the Iraq invasion had not taken place there was the danger the country would have degenerated into civil war, as Syria did.
The former Labour leader apologised for the inaccuracy of intelligence reports in the run-up to war and for poor post-conflict planning.
However, he has made both of these points before, to Parliament and to the Iraq Inquiry.
He said: "I apologise for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong.
"I also apologise for some of the mistakes in planning and, certainly, our mistake in our understanding of what would happen once you removed the regime."
Asked if the war was the "principle cause" of the rise of the Islamic State militant group, he replied: "I think there are elements of truth in that.
"Of course you can't say those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015."
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said any apologies from Mr Blair were strictly limited.
Sir John Chilcot's long-awaited report into the Iraq War is now reaching a conclusion, although no date has yet been given for its release - more than six years after the inquiry was set up by then prime minister Gordon Brown with an assurance it would take a year.
Our correspondent said it was clear that while Mr Blair will not attempt to defend every aspect of the invasion there will be no apology for going to war itself.
Ms Sturgeon tweeted: "The Blair spin operation begins but the country still awaits the truth. The delay to Chilcot report is a scandal."
Mr Blair's office denied the interview was an attempt to set out his version of events before facing probable criticism.
Mr Blair's spokesman said: "Tony Blair has always apologised for the intelligence being wrong and for mistakes in planning. He has always also said and says again here that he does not however think it was wrong to remove Saddam.
"He did not say the decision to remove Saddam in 2003 'caused Isis' and pointed out that Isis was barely heard of at the end of 2008, when al Qaeda was basically beaten.
"He went on to say in 2009, Iraq was relatively more stable. What then happened was a combination of two things: there was a sectarian policy pursued by the government of Iraq, which were mistaken policies.
"But also when the Arab Spring began, Isis moved from Iraq into Syria, built themselves from Syria and then came back into Iraq. All of this he has said before."
Joshua Bonehill, of Hudson Road, Yeovil, was arrested in Somerset on Thursday in an operation with Avon and Somerset Police, the Met said.
It came as part of an operation ahead of a planned march in the Golders Green area of the capital on 4 July.
Mr Bonehill, 22, is due at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: "Officers continue to assess all information and intelligence available in relation to the proposed demonstration and speak with the organisers to ensure an appropriate policing response is in place.
"We are aware of concerns in the local community about the negative impact this proposed demonstration may have on them.
"We are working with residents to ensure that people can exercise their rights in a way that is lawful, while minimising this impact."
David Crompton was suspended after the Hillsborough Inquests due to "eroding trust and confidence" in the force.
Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Dr Alan Billings said Mr Crompton would be required to either retire or resign.
But Liberal Democrat peer Lord Scriven said he should be sacked and accused the PCC of lacking "backbone".
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He said: "I was saying 18 months ago that David Crompton was not part of the solution he was part of the problem and he should have been sacked.
"I'm still of the view that the door should not be opened for him to walk through and get his pension.
"I believe he should be sacked for poor management, for not dealing with the problems of South Yorkshire Police and for bringing it in to disrepute.
"It's clear that [Dr] Billings does not have the backbone to take the strong action that's needed."
Mr Crompton, who is due to retire in November, was suspended in April, the day after of a jury concluded 96 football fans were unlawfully killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and there were police failings.
Following his suspension, a legal process began to decide on whether Mr Crompton will be made to retire or resign.
Asked on Wednesday why Mr Crompton cannot be sacked, Dr Billings told BBC Radio Sheffield: "Because that's not what we're doing. We are in a suspension process and that is a legal construct and we have to follow through what the law lays down. There is no way around that.
"This is not a misconduct issue this is about public trust and confidence draining away in my view."
He said he did not know the possible financial implications of allowing Mr Crompton to retire or resign as opposed to being sacked.
In response to Lord Scriven's comments, he said: "We are now engaged in a legal process, which requires me to seek and have regard to the views of others, and then to decide if I wish to continue with my proposal.
"Whilst this process is ongoing I am unable to comment further."
He was quick to express fury at Turkey for downing a Russian bomber on 24 November - the latest escalation in the Syria crisis.
But sometimes he bides his time and reacts to difficult situations in quite unexpected ways.
Just hours after the Su-24 bomber was downed Mr Putin said at a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah that it had been a "stab in the back", delivered by the "accomplices of terrorists". He also warned of "serious consequences" for Moscow's relations with Ankara.
Mr Putin's rhetoric was explosive, but delivered with what seemed at times to be conscious restraint.
He is not usually so quick to react to attacks on Russia and its people.
In the wake of bombings that claimed more than 30 lives in the southern city of Volgograd in December 2013, he waited two days before breaking his silence to vow that the "terrorists will be destroyed".
There was a similar delayed reaction to the downing of the Russian Metrojet airliner in Egypt, in which 224 people died.
The tragedy occurred on 31 October, but it was not until 2 November that Mr Putin appeared on TV to express his condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
Many social media users were appalled by the delay. "The Russian president's minute's silence has already lasted over a day," one wrote on Twitter.
The official announcement that the Metrojet airliner had been destroyed by a terrorist bomb was subject to very careful media management by Mr Putin and his spin-doctors.
At the G20 summit in Turkey on 16 November reporters asked him to comment on the investigation - and Mr Putin said it was too early to draw conclusions. He appeared calm, relaxed and matter-of-fact.
Hours later though, at a late-night meeting with security officials in the Kremlin at which the cause of the disaster was confirmed, his demeanour had changed completely.
Looking intently into the camera and pausing and sighing between phrases, Mr Putin said that the "criminals" who had carried out the attack on the Metrojet would be hunted down and punished wherever they were. They should understand that "retribution is inevitable", he added with an icy stare.
As the Kremlin website says, the meeting was filmed late at night on 16 November, but it did not make it onto state news channel Rossiya 24 until after 11:00 the next morning.
Contrast that with a statement Mr Putin made a few days after the downing of the Malaysian airliner MH17 over east Ukraine in July 2014. There were already suggestions that Russian weaponry and the Russian-backed separatists were to blame.
Mr Putin appeared out of the blue on Rossiya 24 at 01:30 in the morning to say that no-one had the right to use the "tragedy" for their own "selfish political ends" and that it should not "divide, but unite people".
Uncharacteristically, the Russian president appeared to be feeling the burdens of office. He had dark circles under his eyes and his skin had a waxen pallor. He looked as if he had "not slept for several days, and was clearly nervous and floundering", political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky said.
One would certainly not say that about his performance after Turkey's downing of the Russian Su-24.
Commentators attributed the unusual timing of the late-night MH17 broadcast to its being aimed at an international audience. It went out just ahead of prime-time in the United States.
Belkovsky proved to be a very shrewd reader of Mr Putin's psychology over MH17. The president may be in a corner, he said at the time, but this does not mean he will back down.
Mr Putin's demeanour and language in the Su-24 case suggest he is unlikely to back down this time, either.
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About 20 academics from Europe, Australia and US are to attend.
Faber's book The Crimson Petal and the White was adapted for a BBC TV drama, while Under the Skin was made into a film starring Scarlett Johansson.
He won the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year award for A Book of Strange New Things.
Earlier this year, he published his first collection of poetry.
Faber will give a reading at the event, Defying Genre: Michel Faber, which is to be held on 21 and 22 July at Inverness College UHI.
Born in Holland and raised in Australia, the writer has lived and worked in the Highlands for more than 20 years.
His first published book was a collection of short stories, Some Rain Must Fall, in 1998.
The title piece won the Ian St James Award in 1996 while another of the stories, Fish, won the Macallan Prize in the same year.
Half a Million Pounds and a Miracle, also a story in the collection, won the Neil Gunn Award in 1997.
Under the Skin, published in 2000, was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Set on the A9 road between Perth and Thurso, it was adapted for director Jonathan Glazer's film starring Johansson.
The actress described filming scenes in Glencoe in November 2011 as "brutal, cold and wet".
Glasgow was also used as a location for the movie.
Dagenham and Redbridge, who also lost their Football League status last term, will play Southport at home.
National League South winners Sutton United host North division champions Solihull Moors, while Promotion Final winners North Ferriby host Braintree.
Forest Green, beaten in the play-offs in the last two seasons, travel to Boreham Wood on Saturday, 6 August.
Dover, who lost to Forest Green in the semi-finals of the 2015-16 play-offs, travel to Welsh side Wrexham.
In National League North, relegated Altrincham play phoenix club Darlington 1883, who were only formed in 2012 following the collapse of Darlington FC.
Welling are handed an away fixture at Oxford City in National League South after being relegated last season, while Hungerford play East Thurrock in a meeting of two newly-promoted clubs.
The game at home to Motherwell brings the curtain down on their era in charge, securing five titles in a row.
A 2-1 defeat to St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park was their fourth in the Premiership this season.
"I'm looking forward very much to trophy day on Sunday," Collins told BBC Scotland.
"These are special days but it will be mixed emotions for me as it will be the last game for the manager and me.
"It will be sad walking out for the last time but we have had a good couple of years there so it's someone else's opportunity now.
"But if the right opportunity comes up I will go back into football. I love football."
Leigh Griffiths scored his 40th goal of the season but the sort of defensive blunders that have plagued Celtic all season cost them the points.
Mistakes by Stefan Johansen and a collision between regular culprit Efe Ambrose and stand-in keeper Logan Bailly allowed Steven MacLean and Graham Cummins to pounce.
Collins added: "The two goals we lost were disappointing but that's football. We made a lot of changes with the league won and we needed to give players game time.
"It is tough to get going under those circumstances but the second half was a lot better and we scored a wonderful goal through Leigh Griffiths again.
"He is an absolute goal machine who is a constant threat and he has had a wonderful season for the club so let's hope he goes on from strength to strength next season for Celtic.
"We were controlling things but all credit to St Johnstone as they defended very well and they fought for everything."
St Johnstone's first win in eight against Celtic clinched a fourth place finish for the second successive season, after a strong end to a campaign that started in early July.
The financial boost that will give the squad is important for Tommy Wright's plans going forward, but making it four wins post split was equally pleasing for the Perth club's manager
Wright said: "It's very important that we clinched fourth place because it helps with budgets and helps the chairman plan for the future.
"That should help us get in more quality which we'll need because the league will be tougher again next season.
"We did well after the split last year but we have done even better this time with four wins on the spin against very good sides.
"To beat Aberdeen, Motherwell, Ross County and now the champions then it is job done from that respect.
"We have secured fourth place and if we can win at Tynecastle then it would give us the most top flight away wins we have ever had.
"I think we have done all right in terms of performances against Celtic but it was good to get the win this time.
"The players showed how much they wanted to win the game and there was no tiredness despite this being a long season for the players."
The men were sentenced to two years in jail last week for beating a handcuffed protester during the 2014 pro-democracy demonstrations.
The sentence angered many officers, who believe it was unjust and too harsh.
About 33,000 people attended Wednesday night's gathering at a police recreation ground, according to police associations which organised the event.
Organisers said they would help the jailed officers appeal against their convictions and clear their names, reported RTHK.
Many were heard yelling "Fight for justice" at the two-hour rally, one of the largest of its kind and a rare sign of police dissent.
The seven officers were sentenced to jail last week for assaulting social worker and activist Ken Tsang in 2014.
TV cameras had caught the officers removing Mr Tsang from the protest area to a nearby park and kicking and punching him as he lay on the ground.
It came at the height of the massive street protests calling for greater political freedom, which shut down central areas of the territory for weeks.
The incident shocked Hong Kong, where police are generally well regarded.
Mr Tsang was himself found guilty of assaulting and resisting officers on the same evening.
In sentencing the policemen, Judge David Dufton noted they had been working under "immense stress" but that there was "no justification" for their actions.
The officers' defence lawyer, as well as some in the police force, have argued that policemen at the time had to endure physical and verbal abuse from protesters.
One participant at Wednesday's rally told the South China Morning Post that the event was "a deep and heartfelt expression of genuine support for our colleagues and their families, who we feel have been unfairly treated and whose actions came out of a time of highly charged political emotion and stress".
Chan Cho Kwong, chairman of the Hong Kong Junior Police Officers Association, told Reuters: "Many people think that the police are professional and should tolerate these deliberate insults. But we have different views, we think that some deliberate insult should not be tolerated, which undermines law and order."
Several police associations plan to lobby the city's government to ban insulting acts against public officers on duty, reported the Post.
They say that adults should be aware of this when communicating with children with autism.
In a presentation at the British Science Association, the team said it could be one of the reasons they struggle with social interaction.
The work is published in the journal Developmental Science.
Researchers from Durham and Northumbria Universities found that people tend to look at others when talking to them, but look away when thinking.
The team studied children with autism, and those with Williams syndrome, as well as healthy children at a similar level of development and intelligence.
Williams syndrome is a genetic disorder, and much rarer than autism, with about one in 20,000 children suffering from it.
It is often considered to be the polar opposite of autism, with sufferers being hyper-social, seeking out interactions with known adults and strangers. They are also often very empathetic and outgoing children.
Although children with both these disorders behave very differently in terms of eye contact with people they're talking to, they and the healthy children assessed all tended to break eye contact and look away when they were thinking or remembering.
To investigate why this might be, the researchers asked children to perform maths problems, either without instruction, or while being told to maintain eye contact with the experimenter.
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All children, whether they were autistic, had Williams syndrome, or were healthy controls, made more errors when they were forced to look at the person asking the questions while they answered them.
The researchers concluded that holding eye contact is mentally demanding, so looking away while thinking is therefore beneficial when doing difficult tasks such as solving maths problems.
Debbie Riby, the lead author on the paper, thought this was an important message to present to teachers and other people who work with children.
She said: "One of the really important things for teachers to be aware of is that we shouldn't expect children to keep looking at us, when they're trying to think. And that goes for a teacher of a typically developing child, a child with autism or a child with Williams syndrome.
"If teachers work with pupils with autism, they also need to be aware that these children might be missing important non-verbal cues. We could encourage them to look at us when they're listening, but we shouldn't get that mixed up with when they're thinking."
The researchers were surprised that children with Williams syndrome looked away when they were thinking, as they often stare at people when talking to them, so researchers had wondered whether they wouldn't avert gaze when thinking.
"Eye-tracking studies have shown that they stare or use prolonged fixations towards people, and faces. We thought they would show what we term 'sticky fixation' on faces, and struggle to disengage from them, but actually the children we studied in these tasks need to look away when they're thinking as well.
"We expected that they wouldn't have as much of a drop in performance when they were forced to maintain eye contact, but actually they still needed to look away when they think."
When talking and listening, people get cues from areas other than speech, that autistic children might be missing. But Dr Riby was keen to point out that children with Williams syndrome, despite paying a great deal of attention to faces, aren't expert communicators.
"Looking for too long is as dysfunctional as not looking for long enough. Children with Williams syndrome are not expert face processors. It means they're not naturally allocating their attention to everything around them," she explained.
But how easy is it to tell whether a pupil in class is daydreaming, or trying to work something out?
"If the pupil seems to be on-task and they do seem to be processing information, you can tell they're working it out. If they have lost attention, they might still look at you, but through you," Dr Riby told the BBC.
In their interactive session at the science festival, Dr Riby asked an adult volunteer in the audience to answer some maths problems.
"As soon as we asked him a hard question he averted his gaze, it's easy to show," he said.
Anne Marie Waters, one of several hopefuls who face vetting ahead of the election, has described Islam as evil.
AM David Rowlands said Ms Waters was "not the image" he wanted UKIP to have but Ms Waters claimed the party was trying to "ostracise" her.
Ms Waters said she was "not a racist" at a hustings in Newport on Thursday.
About 20 people attended the leadership event.
South Wales East AM Mr Rowlands, who chaired the hustings, blamed a general public weariness with politics rather than the state of the party for the low turnout.
As well as Ms Waters, other leadership hopefuls at the meeting included London assembly member David Kurten, David Allen and former UKIP councillor Ben Walker.
Nathan Gill, UKIP's MEP for Wales and an independent AM who has said the party should not become anti-Islam, is understood to be unhappy about the prospect of Ms Waters being a leadership candidate.
It has been suggested several of the party's MEPs will resign if she wins.
Ahead of the hustings Mr Rowlands told BBC Wales: "I don't even believe she will be selected [to be a candidate]."
Asked why, he said: "Because her views are too extreme. It's not the image I would want my party to have.
"I don't want us to be politically correct but I also don't think that we are there to be provocative or to offend people in what we say or in what we do.
"It would seem to me from the comments being made [by other people in UKIP] that she wouldn't get through the vetting."
Ms Waters said Mr Rowlands was "entitled to his opinion" but added: "It is only because we have been lying for so long that the truth sounds extreme, and the fact that so many of us are terrified of telling the truth, proves me right about the censorship that we now observe in the UK surrounding this issue."
She opened her statement at the hustings saying she was "not an extremist" and had never been one.
"I am not a racist or a neo-fascist," she said. She told BBC Wales she believed she would be vetted out of the candidate list.
On the BBC Sunday Politics programme earlier this year Ms Waters said she "did not like" Islam.
"The thing is a lot of people get confused on Islam and all Muslims," she said. "A lot of people think Islam equals all Muslims. It does not.
"The religion, the scriptures and how it's practiced in most of the world I find quite frankly abhorrent."
The deadline for leadership candidates to submit nominations has passed but there will be no official candidates until the vetting is complete - which is expected mid-August.
Others who have announced their intention to run but are not at the hustings in Newport include direct democracy activist John Rees Evans, London AM Peter Whittle and Scottish MEP David Coburn.
UKIP MEP Bill Etheridge withdrew his leadership bid in July, calling for "libertarian" candidates to unite against hard-liners using the party "as a vehicle for the views of the EDL (English Defence League) and the BNP (British National Party)".
The strike affected education, public transport and administration.
It was taken in protest against public service cuts and Stormont's budget.
Jackie Pollock of Unite said the "scale of today's response took us by surprise, as did the overwhelming support shown by members of the public".
The strike caused disruption across many areas.
Health trusts said 1,900 out-patient appointments and 200 in-patient and day case procedures had been postponed.
The Department of Health said arrangements had been put in place to ensure "critical services" would be maintained.
It is understood that most nurses did not take part in the strike.
One patient at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast told the BBC: "We've been told we're not going to get any hot meals.
"Patients are uncomfortable, they're looking for food and wanting to know what's going on - at lunchtime, we got a tiny cup of soup and we were told that's all they could give us because of the strike."
The Belfast Health Trust said there was a more limited choice of food, and if patients were unhappy with what they were offered, "they should speak to a member of staff who will try to arrange an alternative".
An estimated 60% of accident and emergency crews and 80% of rapid response paramedics had planned to strike, but a major incident declared by the Ambulance Service "to maintain a safe level of cover" on Thursday night meant staff were required turn up for duty.
Public transport company Translink did not operate any scheduled bus or train services, except the Ulsterbus express Belfast to Dublin service at 23:00 GMT.
Why are the unions on strike?
The unions have put the Stormont House Agreement and the budget which followed it at the heart of this industrial action.
They believe Stormont House was a bad deal: bad for public services, bad for their members and ideologically right wing.
They say that cutting 20,000 posts from the public sector will hit services and put workers under pressure.
They also dislike the plan to sell publicly owned assets and are deeply sceptical about what was agreed on welfare reform and the devolution of corporation tax.
The veteran socialist campaigner Eamonn McCann points out that this is the first time trade unions have opposed a Stormont deal.
Sinn Féin and the SDLP are supporting the strike but some politicians might be inclined to ask the unions how they think a better deal could have been achieved.
Thousands of school children were affected by the strike, particularly in the Catholic primary sector as members of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, which represents mainly Catholic teachers were out on strike.
It was the only teaching union that voted for strike action. The Department of Education said it was the responsibility of school principals to decide if their school would remain open.
In the controlled sector, most primary schools opened but some closed early because non-teaching staff such as canteen workers and supervisors are on strike. Some schools told pupils to bring packed lunches instead.
While some post-primary schools closed because of the shortage of staff and pupil transport, it appeared that the majority remained open, particularly for exam classes.
The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions organised a series of rallies and events to mark what it said was "the largest single day of industrial action in several years".
Rallies took place in Belfast, Londonderry, Newry, Strabane, Omagh, Enniskillen, Coleraine, Magherafelt, Cookstown, Dungannon and Craigavon.
In Derry, trade unionist Liam Gallagher described the cutting of 20,000 public sector jobs while "claiming it won't have an impact on society" as the "economics of madhouse".
"The rich will be rewarded with corporation tax, while workers will suffer," he said.
The strike comes as efforts continue to resolve Stormont's welfare reform crisis.
Earlier this week, Sinn Féin withdrew support for the welfare reform bill.
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has warned that without agreement on welfare, a budget at Stormont was unsustainable.
The first and deputy first ministers, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, said on Friday afternoon that they have been "making progress" in talks on resolving the impasse.
The president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, said worshipping Santa Muerte was a "degeneration of religion".
Cardinal Ravasi spoke at a series of events for believers and non-believers in Mexico City.
The cult, which reveres death, has been growing rapidly in Mexico.
It is represented by a cloaked female skeleton clutching a scythe.
It is particularly popular in areas of Mexico that have suffered from extreme violence carried out by the country's drug cartels.
The cult is believed to date back to colonial times.
It merges indigenous beliefs with the tradition of venerating saints introduced by Christian missionaries after the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Devotees pray to the saint at home-made altars and often offer votive candles, fruit and tequila in the hope Santa Muerte will grant their wishes.
Cardinal Ravasi said the practice was "anti-religious". "Religion celebrates life, but here you have death," he said.
"It's not religion just because it's dressed up like religion; it's a blasphemy against religion", he said.
The cardinal also referred to the fact that the cult is particularly popular among members of Mexico's drug cartels and accused "criminals" of invoking it.
Cardinal Ravasi said a country like Mexico, where more than 70,000 people are estimated to have been killed in drug-related violence over the past six years, had to send out a clear message to its young generation.
"The mafia, drug trafficking and organised crime don't have a religious aspect and have nothing to do with religion, even if they use the image of Santa Muerte," he said.
There are no reliable figures showing how many people worship Santa Muerte, but academics studying the subject say more and more Santa Muerte shrines have been popping up in Mexico and the US, where the cult is popular with Mexican immigrants.
Last year, police in northern Mexico arrested eight people in connection with the killing of two boys and a woman in ritual sacrifices which prosecutors said were linked to the cult of Santa Muerte.
UN envoy Maman Sidikou said threats to the 18,000-strong peacekeeping mission there outstripped its capabilities.
Violent protests have broken out over the postponement of presidential polls.
The opposition accuses President Joseph Kabila of trying to cling to power beyond the end of his term, which is due to expire in December.
Dozens of people died in anti-government violence in the capital Kinshasa last month after the electoral commission said it could not hold polls in November.
The headquarters of three opposition parties were also attacked and burned down.
"Actors on all sides appear more and more willing to resort to violence to achieve their ends," Mr Sidikou, head of the UN peacekeeping mission known as Monusco, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
"While Monusco will do everything it can within its mandate to protect civilians, the scope of the threats dramatically outstrip the mission's capabilities."
He added: "The Democratic Republic of Congo has entered a period of extreme risk to its stability. The coming period will certainly be extremely difficult, the tipping point in the serious violence could be reached very quickly."
DR Congo has never had a smooth transfer of power since independence more than 55 years ago.
Mr Kabila took power in 2001 following the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila, and the constitution bars him from running for office again.
Last month, the US imposed sanctions on two senior security officials allied to President Kabila.
It accused army Gen Gabriel Amisi Kumba and John Numbi, a former police chief, of threatening the country's stability by suppressing the opposition.
A government-backed effort to work out a solution to the political crisis, called a "national dialogue", has been boycotted by most opposition parties.
Speaking to the BBC, Michael Spencer said: "Yes we can thrive. The UK is the fifth largest economy in the world, it's absolutely an economic leader in many aspects."
However, Mr Spencer said there were "pros" to Britain staying in Europe.
Prime Minister David Cameron has promised an in-out referendum on the UK's EU membership by the end of 2017.
Mr Cameron has said he will campaign for Britain to remain in the EU if he gets the reforms he wants.
Mr Spencer - who was treasurer for the Conservative party up until 2010 and remains a donor - said he had not yet made his mind up on how to vote.
The decision, he said, would depend on the terms offered by the EU for Britain to stay.
"Europe should be prepared to make proper concessions to us," he said.
Many business leaders have said they are in favour of staying within Europe.
In November, Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao told the BBC that it was important for its business that Britain remained part of the EU, saying it's "good for our customers, it's good for our shareholders, and it's good for the company itself".
In September, a survey of 2,000 businesses by the British Chambers of Commerce found that 63% would vote to stay in the EU, with 27% voting "no".
However, half said their final view depended on the outcome of Mr Cameron's negotiations over EU reform.
Earlier this year, the chairman of construction equipment firm JCB said the UK should not fear an exit from the European Union.
"We are the fifth or sixth largest economy in the world. We could exist on our own - peacefully and sensibly," Lord Bamford told the BBC.
The scheme would see the town hall converted to house "nationally significant" collections.
The Kirkcudbright Common Good Fund is being asked to agree to support the project with up to £200,000.
The money would allow the creation of a second floor gallery to host a hoard of Viking treasure found in the region.
Mohammed Kozbar said the mosque had experienced "a rise of hate letters, threatening letters... and something needs to be done about it".
It comes four weeks after worshipers were attacked as they left Finsbury Park Mosque.
The Metropolitan Police's own figures show a 13% rise in Islamaphobic crimes in the past year.
Mr Kozbar told BBC London the past month had been the "most difficult and challenging month since we came here 12 years ago".
He added: "After the all terror attacks... we've seen a rise of hate letters, threatening letters. They are very nasty letters and we reported them to the police.
"It is worrying for us and for the community and something needs to be done about it.
Mr Kozbar said some letters the mosque had received suggested last month's attack was "just the beginning" and warned of a "river of blood". He added that others threatened to bomb the local Muslim community.
"They are nasty, and some of them are life threatening," he added.
"All these sort of things, which is very nasty and very worrying, something that makes us feel like we need protection and this is why we are in contact with the police and the authorities to make sure how we can protect our community... we need to make sure that all are protected and safe and this is what we are trying to do with the police."
Local resident Merium Bhuiyan told BBC London women in the local community were frightened to wear their headscarves for fear of attack.
"It's a really frightening time for all of us... With a headscarf I do feel slightly more exposed. You do feel more vulnerable," she said.
"I have many Muslim women friends and they're afraid to wear their headscarves. Some have even taken them off. I have women friends who are fully covered and they really feel frightened at the moment. It's definitely a scary time."
She said women were "having their headscarves taken off" or were being shouted at in the street.
"It would be good to have a stronger and more visible police presence and possibly stronger deterrents to stop people from ruining people's lives," she added.
Mr Kozbar said he would like to see tougher penalties for the perpetrators of hate crimes and more vigorous investigations by the police.
He added: "We are not asking to catch every perpetrator who sends a letter or something like that because we know it is impossible but we expect something to be done about some of these letters and to get to the bottom of it and find out who is behind it."
Ch Supt Dave Stringer, head of community engagement for the Metropolitan Police, said the force took "Islamaphobic hate crime and all kinds of hate crime very seriously".
"We allocate cases to experienced detectives and they do whatever they can in terms of their investigative abilities to support the victims, to chase the suspect and to bring that suspect to justice."
A Home Office spokesperson said: "All forms of hate crime are unacceptable and those who commit these awful crimes should be prosecuted.
"We have some of the strongest laws in the world to tackle hate crime."
Artur Samarin enrolled at Harrisburg High School under the name "Asher Potts" after his visa expired in 2012.
He faces deportation next week on separate charges including having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
Samarin, who pretended to be 18, was an active member of the school community.
Police in February said he was in possession of a driver's license using the Potts name at the time of his arrest, as well as a social security card obtained using a false birth date.
He faces further jail time when he is sentenced next week after pleading guilty to six counts including statutory sexual assault, tampering with public records, identity theft, theft by unlawful taking and conspiracy.
He was seen in May 2014 posing with state lawmaker Patty Kim, who tweeted a photo after presenting "Asher Potts" with a certificate introducing him as "a new member of the National Honor Society".
Samarin, 24, was involved in food banks and cadet programmes, according to one report, and was even on the panel of a forum discussing youth violence in the greater Harrisburg area at the start of the year.
He previously chaired the jury in 1983 when Jean-Luc Godard's First Name: Carmen was awarded the Golden Lion.
"At the time what I wanted from films was surprise and enjoyment. I haven't changed much since then," Bertolucci said, in a statement.
The 73-year-old's 1987 film The Last Emperor won nine Oscars.
The biopic, starring Peter O'Toole, which followed the life of Pu Yi- the last of the Emperors of China - was the first and only Italian film to win the Academy Award for best director.
"Few directors can bring together, like Bertolucci, a long experience with the fact of living in the present of cinematography," Venice festival director Alberto Barbera said, in a statement.
Bertolucci is also known for his steamy 1972 film Last Tango in Paris, with Marlon Brando.
He has premiered numerous films at Venice, including his debut film The Grim Reaper, in 1962, and more recently, The Dreamers, in 2003.
He said presiding over this year's jury would give him the opportunity to discover "the most mysterious niches of filmmaking in the most mysterious countries of the world".
The line-up for this year's festival, which runs between 28 August and 7 September, will be announced in July.
Cardiff Crown Court heard nearly 4kg of the Class A drug was found in a Newport taxi driven by Wasim Ali after it was stopped.
Jurors also heard more than £220,000 cash was found in Zawed Malik's car when he was stopped near Monmouth.
Both men along with four others deny conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
Shazia Ahmad and Mr Ali, both from Newport, Umar Arif, Umar Butt and Khalid Yassen, all from Cardiff, and Mr Malik, from Dukinfield, Tameside, Greater Manchester, were watched by officers from Gwent and South Wales Police forces.
Cardiff Crown Court has been told how money was handed over at locations across Newport, including a Lidl car park.
After his arrest at a service station near Monmouth, the court heard a police dog then searched Mr Malik's vehicle and loose banknotes worth "a couple of hundred pounds" were found in the glove compartment, and a small black suitcase with a "large quantity of bank notes" was discovered in the boot.
The jury has heard the cash amounted to £223,555.
The jury also heard details of surveillance carried out on other defendants.
A Newport taxi driven by Mr Ali was stopped near Tredegar Park by an unmarked police car, and was found to contain a blue bag with in the passenger footwell with 3.8kg (8.4lb) of heroin inside, the court was told.
The trial also heard how Shazia Ahmad transferred a "heavily laden carrier bag" from one car to her Mercedes vehicle parked in a disabled bay at a supermarket car park in the city. Police later discover the carrier bag contained £38,240 in bundles of notes.
Three other men from Cardiff - Umar Arif, Umar Butt and Khalid Yassen - are also on trial for the drugs offences.
The trial continues.
The British number one lost eight consecutive games to drop the second and then the third sets to the inspired 22-year-old Grand Slam debutant.
But Murray, 29, used all his experience to seal a 6-2 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-3 win over the world number 164 from France.
Fellow Briton Kyle Edmund lost 6-4 6-4 6-4 to American 15th seed John Isner.
Aljaz Bedene, who plays on Thursday, is the only other British player left in the singles tournaments in Paris.
Murray was also taken to five sets in the first round by veteran Czech Radek Stepanek.
The Scot's inconsistent form has been perplexing considering he beat Novak Djokovic in the Italian Open final in his last match on clay.
He now goes on to face 27th seed Ivo Karlovic from Croatia in the third round on Friday.
"Mathias was excellent and made me run a lot. He's got a fantastic future for sure.
"I led 6-2 2-0 then he started playing unbelievably and I was finding it hard to win points, let alone games. I've played matches like this before and just tried to fight through to the end.
"You can't play too many matches like this if you want to go far in this tournament. I hope to win the next one a little bit faster."
Murray told BBC Sport he could not explain his inconsistent form, adding: "I just lost my way".
He has already been on court for more than seven hours with back-to-back five-set matches across three consecutive days.
Murray looked in complete control at 2-0 up in the second set, but his game collapsed in spectacular fashion.
Bourgue, who had never played a Tour-level match before this week, broke Murray three times and won six games in a row, including 16 unanswered points, to take the set and level the match.
The pattern continued as Murray double-faulted twice and made further unforced errors in the opening game of the next set.
Murray finally broke Bourgue's eight-game winning run by taking the third game of the set.
Bourgue was also dominant on his own serve, holding to love six times out of seven, as a subdued Murray, having now lost 28 out of the last 32 points, continued to make mistakes.
The Frenchman had three break points in the next game but Murray - yet to show any of the passion evident during his tussle with Stepanek - battled back to hold serve.
Bourgue continued to produce an array of winners, including the deftest of drop shots, and secured the set with a stunning backhand down the line to leave Murray facing an almighty battle to stay in the tournament.
The Frenchman had three chances to break Murray in the opening game of the fourth but crucially the Scot held on, and celebrated with his trademark roar and a fist-pump.
At last Murray broke Bourgue's serve and followed that by holding his own to love, as confidence slowly returned to his game.
With Bourgue perhaps struggling with his fitness, Murray started to make his opponent work harder and clinched the set with a break to love to level the match.
Murray sensed his opportunity and took advantage of some rare errors to break the Frenchman in the fourth game of the decider.
The Briton served for the match at 5-1 but failed to close it out before finally sealing victory after three hours and 34 minutes on court.
Bourgue hit more winners (55 to Murray's 46), produced fewer unforced errors (44 to Murray's 45) and won 138 points compared to Murray's tally of 137.
"I'd been waiting for this for a long time, that's what I play tennis for. I'm happy even if I lost," Bourgue said. "It will remain a great memory."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
"The tennis played by Mathias Bourgue, who had never even contested a match on the ATP Tour before making his Grand Slam debut in Paris, was remarkable and uplifting. Yet Andy Murray knows he is currently a poor imitation of the man who won the Rome Masters just 10 days ago.
"At one stage, Bourgue won 16 points in a row in his run of eight consecutive games. Murray was flat, missing regularly and perplexed at his poor ball striking, but able again to work his way into a position in which he could make his experience and physical superiority tell.
"His fighting spirit burns as brightly as ever, but the seven and a quarter hours he has already spent on court could well take its toll. Murray says he is hitting the ball well in practice, but not yet for long enough periods on the match court to justify his pre-tournament billing."
Defending champion Stan Wawrinka, the third-seeded Swiss, went through with a 7-6 (9-7) 6-3 6-4 win over Japan's Taro Daniel.
Wawrinka, 31, found himself in trouble in the first set when he had to save two set points.
He dominated the second set but was a break down in the third before finishing with a flourish to secure a third-round meeting with French 30th seed Jeremy Chardy.
Fifth seed Kei Nishikori of Japan coasted into the third round with a 6-3 6-3 6-3 victory over Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov.
Ivo Karlovic, 37, beat Australia's Jordan Thompson 12-10 in the final set to become the oldest man to make the third round since Jimmy Connors in 1991.
The 27th seed from Croatia fired 41 aces and 102 winners in a marathon match.
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Calls to the NHS 111 helpline have been a lot higher than the same time last year. Yet the weather has not been unusual for winter and norovirus and flu numbers are nothing out of the ordinary.
So what's going on? Nobody, it seems, has a very clear answer.
The weekly NHS England figures (ending 24 January) reveal an 8% year-on-year increase in attendances at major A&E units.
Calls to 111 were 20% higher than the same week last year.
A Welsh government spokesman said there had been a sharp rise in the number of people seeking treatment in emergency departments.
It seems to have been a similar picture in Scotland, though with some improvement on last winter according to its government.
This week the pressures don't seem to have eased, though we don't yet have the detailed data. There were reports of an "extremely serious situation" at one hospital which had to cancel all routine operations and appointments, apart from cancer surgery, for two days.
GPs in north London were told that two local hospitals were experiencing "very high pressure on beds" which created a "significant challenge to safe operating". Practices were asked to consider using alternative options for their patients including walk-in centres.
It adds up to a service under even greater pressure than most had expected. NHS England noted there had been bad weather last week, which might have accounted for some of the increase in patient numbers.
But while paying tribute to the "remarkable" job done by staff in providing high quality services, NHS chiefs acknowledged the "very real" pressures which were not expected to ease in the run-up to spring.
Heads of emergency departments point out there has not been a sudden new spike in numbers of people coming through their doors. They argue that there has been a steadily increasing trend going back a couple of years.
Familiar factors are quoted, including numbers of frail, elderly patients with multiple conditions needing an increasing range of care and treatment.
One specialist in geriatric medicine told me more older patients were coming into A&E because of problems with care in their home. This could be because social care was lacking in some way, or because a spouse had become unable to cope.
But the surge in hospital attendances was by no means dominated by the over-65s.
One theory being put forward is that A&E is a well-regarded "brand" amongst the public and is trusted to deliver high quality care even with a wait.
This could tie in with people feeling that their local GP practice is overburdened and a perception that appointments are not easy to get. In a 24/7 culture people increasingly expect instant service, including from the NHS.
Winters are always busy in the NHS and there are always difficult weeks. This one is unusual because of the scale of the increase in demand.
If one thing is clear, it is that people are not getting the message to avoid A&E and go elsewhere unless it's a genuine emergency.
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Ms Wood was told a broad Welsh accent "leaves Welsh people open to ridicule".
The Rhondda AM and Plaid Cymru leader said if people do not like the way she speaks "they can stick it".
It comes as ITV political editor Robert Peston told BBC Radio Wales anti-Welsh remarks were "getting worse".
Ms Wood posted the email to her Facebook page. It read: "When speaking English with a Welsh accent it can be delightful to listen to someone speaking.
"However, a broad Welsh accent as often used by Leanne Wood leaves Welsh people open to ridicule," the email continued.
"A sentence such as 'we in Waales eat caake before it becomes staale.' (SIC)
"If only Leanne Wood would moderate her accent to: "We in Wailes eat Caike before it becomes staile."
"We proud Welsh people would then need not squirm when we are listening to BBC Question Time when Leanne is on the panel."
It is not clear who sent the message.
Ms Wood, who posted the email to a Facebook page, told followers: "I'm not prepared to pretend to be something I'm not.
"If people don't like it, they can stick it."
She told BBC Wales that the email was an "example of the various prejudices and discriminatory attitudes that we face - a mixture of sexism, racism and class prejudice".
"I get abusive messages all the time," she said. "I decided to share this specific message as I saw it as a direct attack on my Welshness as well as my working class background.
"The positive reactions I have received show that this has struck a chord with many people and has encouraged me to continue to challenge this kind of discriminatory attitude," Ms Wood added.
It came as Mr Peston sparked a debate on Twitter on Thursday about anti-Welsh comments.
He said: "Why do many who would hate to be called racist think it's OK to make casually nasty anti-Welsh remarks? Happens all the time. I hate it."
Asked on BBC Radio Wales' Dot Davies programme what sparked the tweet, Mr Peston said he had been at a dinner the previous night where a "very senior businessman made some remarks" about the wife of French presidential candidate Francois Fillon, Penelope, "that he thought was funny".
He said he couldn't remember exactly what was said.
"But it was really unpleasant, it was something to do with her Welshness or something," he added.
"I just sort of snapped because i just think that sort of stereotyping is hateful.
"I think it is getting worse."
Mr Peston said there were "so many people making really unpleasant remarks which are so offensive... not only offensive but straight forwardly wrong".
"It comes from ignorance as well as being unpleasant".
Mr Jones told the Senedd it was "utterly wrong" to use EU citizens living in the UK as "bargaining chips".
He said: "It makes them sound like hostages. They are not hostages. They are welcome in Wales."
He replied to a question from Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood who called on him to give reassurances to people from other parts of the EU living in Wales.
The comments come amid a debate in the Conservative leadership on guaranteeing the rights of EU citizens already in this country after Brexit.
Mr Jones told First Minister's Questions that he has written to Home Secretary Theresa May over the issue.
Ms May had suggested last weekend that the status of existing EU residents in the UK could be part of Brexit negotiations.
But Tory leadership contender Andrea Leadsom has said citizens of other EU countries living in the UK cannot be "bargaining chips" in Brexit negotiations.
Rival leadership contender, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Stephen Crabb, echoed Ms Leadsom's pledge.
During an urgent question session in the Senedd on EU citizens, Simon Thomas of Plaid Cymru said: "There are 67,000 people from European Union nations living in Wales, and 500 of them are doctors in our health service. We can't afford to lose these people.
"They are part of our families, part of our communities and part of contemporary Wales. It is disgraceful that these people are treated in the way that they have been in the past week."
Jenny Rathbone, Cardiff Central Labour AM, said she spent part of Monday morning "trying to remove a racist slogan from somebody's front door".
"Unfortunately these sort of incidents are not isolated."
Patrick Lynch, 64, has been the sole carer of Kallum, nine, and seven-year-old Jack in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, since their mother Joanne died from cancer last year.
His other daughter, Sam, is prepared to adopt them in Los Angeles.
The family said it could not afford the costs of the adoption process.
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Mr Lynch, who has had heart surgery and two strokes, said he was unlikely to be able to "cope much longer".
The money is being raised via a Crowdfunder appeal and other fundraising activities co-ordinated by the boys' school, Edward Worlledge Primary.
He said: "I've experienced more grief than anyone should ever have to go through.
"If we can't raise this money and I die, the boys will have to go into care and then the family could be torn apart."
Joanne Lynch, a single mother, died aged 29 from the genetic disorder Li Faumeni Syndrome which led to an aggressive form of cancer.
It had already claimed the lives of her mother, another sister and grandmother. Kallum has also been diagnosed as carrying the gene.
Joanne's sister Sam Wells, 37, has lived in California for 10 years with her husband Shaun and three children, aged 15, 13 and 11 months.
"When Joanne knew she had about two weeks to live she asked me to take care of the boys and I said 'absolutely'," said Mrs Wells.
"We've started the process of working with a recognised adoption agency and have to jump through so many hoops - and there's a fee with every hoop."
Mrs Wells said if the application failed she would consider moving back to the UK as a "last resort".
The family has already applied for a temporary visa for the boys, which she said cost $10,000 and would allow them to stay for two years - during which time they would be able to enrol in school this summer and the adoption agency could assess the family.
Mrs Wells hoped the adoption process could be completed within four months.
A US Department of State spokesman said it charged $720 for filing the initial immigration application and $325 for a visa application, but any other fees would be charged by the adoption agency and would vary in each case.
He said the US and UK were both signed up to the Hague Convention on inter-country adoption which aimed to prevent illegal trafficking of children.
The Howard League for Penal Reform said it knew of 102 suicides, the highest since its records began in 1978.
The charity said cuts to staffing and budgets had "created a toxic mix of violence, death and human misery".
The government has pledged 2,500 extra officers and special measures for vulnerable or mentally ill inmates.
The previous highest toll recorded by the charity was 94 suicides in 2004.
However, the overall prison population has increased by about 10% since then, meaning the suicide rate was actually slightly higher in 2004.
Then, there was approximately one suicide for every 830 prisoners. So far in 2016, there has been one death for roughly every 840 prisoners.
The Howard League released the figures as it published a joint report alongside Centre for Mental Health, another charity.
The report said there had been a rise in violence in prisons at a time when inmates were spending up to 23 hours a day locked in their cells.
Howard League chief executive Frances Crook said: "The number of people dying by suicide in prison has reached epidemic proportions.
"No one should be so desperate while in the care of the state that they take their own life, and yet every three days a family is told that a loved one has died behind bars.
"Cutting staff and prison budgets while allowing the number of people behind bars to grow unchecked has created a toxic mix of violence, death and human misery."
The report called for the incentives and earned privileges scheme in prisons to be scrapped, saying it was having a "detrimental impact" on inmates' wellbeing.
The scheme allows prisoners to earn benefits in exchange for behaving responsibly.
But the report said it was leading to some prisoners having limits placed on family contact, physical activity and access to money and possessions.
The prison service has come under the spotlight recently, with thousands of officers protesting over concerns about safety earlier this month.
It came after a string of high-profile incidents including the escape of two inmates, who were later recaptured.
This month former Justice Secretary Michael Gove warned that too many people were being sent to prison, while the Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd suggested more criminals could be punished without being jailed.
Earlier this month, Justice Secretary Liz Truss unveiled a White Paper detailing a £1.3bn investment in new prisons over the next five years, including plans for more prison officers, drug tests for inmates on entry and exit from prisons, and more autonomy for governors.
A government spokeswoman said mental health in custody was taken "extremely seriously" and there were "a range of measures already in place to help support prisoners".
She added: "But we recognise that more can be done. That is why have invested in specialist mental health training for prison officers, allocated more funding for prison safety and have launched a suicide and self-harm reduction project to address the increase in self-inflicted deaths and self-harm in our prisons."
The Conservative MP has been a minister without portfolio since September 2012, and before that he was Lord Chancellor and secretary of state for justice from May 2010.
Mr Clarke is reported to have said being part of the coalition government had brought out his "inner liberal" - but his many critics on the Conservative right might argue it was never very well hidden in the first place.
Ardently pro-European in an increasingly Eurosceptic parliamentary party, an opponent of simply "banging up" criminals and an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, he has often seemed a man apart in recent years.
With a blunt-speaking, "blokeish" style, and a penchant for wearing brown suede shoes, he has always enjoyed popularity - and recognition - among the public.
But his troubles with fellow Tories meant Mr Clarke - who has also served as chancellor, home secretary, health secretary and education secretary - never fulfilled his ultimate ambition to be party leader and prime minister.
He ran and failed to become Tory leader three times: in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
Yet, despite spending 12 years on the back benches during the long period of Tory opposition, and being one of the most rebellious Conservatives in the Commons, he came back.
With power again on the radar, David Cameron appointed Mr Clarke as shadow business secretary in 2009.
And he returned to high office, as justice secretary, as soon as the Tories formed the coalition government with the Lib Dems in 2010.
It is in this role that the Cambridge-educated former barrister attracted controversy.
He warned against "banging up more and more people for longer", arguing this merely hardens criminals and advocating a "more constructive" approach, involving greater rehabilitation.
In 2011, he warned MPs not to oppose plans to give some serving prisoners the vote, following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights - a hugely unpopular development at Westminster.
One high-profile controversy came when Mr Clarke appeared on BBC 5 live to outline the government's policy on rape sentencing.
He appeared to suggest some rapes were more "serious" than others, saying this was reflected in the sentences handed out by judges.
Labour leader Ed Miliband called for his resignation.
But Mr Clarke later sought to clarify his remarks, saying that "all rape is a serious crime" and that he did not think he had suggested otherwise.
If a quieter life was to befall Mr Clarke, even his greatest critics would acknowledge that this would make Westminster a duller place.
Famed for his love of cigars, bird-watching, football, cricket, jazz and classic cars, he is seen as a man with a "hinterland".
Speaking after Mr Clarke's departure from the cabinet was announced, BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the MP had told friends that at the age of 74 he had had enough of red boxes and "enjoyed three days at last week's test match in anticipation of today's announcement".
Mr Clarke, a grammar school boy from Nottinghamshire, had previously been in continuous ministerial office in every Conservative (or Conservative-Lib Dem) government since Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979.
When he stood for the party leadership in 2001, opinion polls suggested he was most popular Conservative politician with the British people, but still he lost.
After becoming an MP in 1970, Mr Clarke, a keen supporter of the pro-European, "one-nation" Prime Minister Edward Heath, rose gradually.
Within two years of his election he was an assistant whip, rising to whip and then becoming a junior spokesman on the opposition benches.
When Mrs Thatcher entered Downing Street she appointed Mr Clarke as a junior transport minister.
Over the next nine years, he served as a minister in the departments of health, employment and trade and industry.
In 1988 he entered the cabinet as health secretary, with the job of driving through controversial and far-reaching reforms of the NHS, including the internal market.
When John Major became leader in 1990 he moved Mr Clarke to education and later the Home Office.
After the disastrous events of Black Wednesday, the resignation of Norman Lamont and the decision to leave the European exchange rate mechanism, Mr Clarke was made chancellor.
His period in charge of the Treasury saw interest rates, inflation and unemployment all falling, described by many Conservatives as the Major government's "golden legacy" to Tony Blair's Labour.
However, Mr Clarke was always a supporter of closer European integration, which became more of an issue when the Conservatives became deeply divided over the issue in the mid-1990s.
The "Maastricht rebels" - the MPs who lost the Tory whip over their objection to the government signing up to the Maastricht Treaty, aimed at greater European union - came to regard Mr Clarke as a key enemy.
This feeling has never gone away.
Having lost the Tory 1997 leadership election, Mr Clarke headed to the back benches, taking on some company directorships and the deputy chairmanship of British American Tobacco.
He continued to antagonise many anti-European Tories with his enthusiasm for the UK to join the single currency.
In a scene regarded as a betrayal, he shared a platform with Tony Blair to proclaim the merits of the euro.
Mr Clarke was also one of the strongest advocates of not invading Iraq, in direct contravention of the Tory leadership.
He has always been his own man and has, arguably, stayed the same in his views while those of most in his party have changed.
The former world champions are facing their worst ever season after failing to register a single point so far in 2017 after a series of engine failures.
Brown said engine upgrades promised for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix were not ready and the team is "near our limit".
"Honda's working very hard but they seem a bit lost," he told Reuters.
"We were eagerly awaiting this upgrade as were our drivers and it's a big disappointment that it's not coming.
"It's not lack of effort, but they are struggling to get it to come together."
Brown, who replaced Ron Dennis at the McLaren helm last year, added: "Our preference is to win the world championship with Honda.
"But at some point you need to make a decision as to whether that's achievable. And we have serious concerns.
"Missing upgrades, and upgrades not delivering to the level we were told they were going to, you can only take that so long. And we're near our limit.
"We're not going to go into another year like this, in hope.
"There's lots of things that go into the decision and we're entering that window now of 'which way do you go when you come to the fork in the road'."
McLaren's renewed partnership with Honda in 2015 was billed as a return to the glory days of their collaboration in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna dominated.
Yet McLaren remain without a race win since 2012 and their best finish this season was when Fernando Alonso, who started seventh on the grid, came 12th in last month's Spanish Grand Prix.
In March it was revealed McLaren had made an exploratory approach to Mercedes about engine supply in the wake of problems with Honda.
And Brown again raised the prospect of McLaren paying for engines in future.
"Do I think you can win with a customer engine? I think you can," he said.
Those attending the Muslims Against Terror rally heard speeches denouncing the recent attacks in Manchester and London.
A representative of the Muslim Council of Scotland told crowds that Muslims had a "duty to protect this country" and had worked with Police Scotland.
"We cannot let a handful of people radicalised by social media divide us."
Organiser Omair Manzoor, said he wanted to give ordinary muslims, appalled by the recent terror attacks on London and Manchester an opportunity to show their sympathy for all those affected.
The attacks were condemned by a succession of speakers who emphasised the importance of all communities standing together against terrorism.
Lawyer Aamer Anwar asked: "Muslims reported those who went on to be terrorists, what were secret services doing?"
MSP Anas Sarwar added: "Real Muslims were at home with their families... or working in hospitals."
Another speaker, the Rev Stuart MacQuarrie, told the crowd: "We stand together appalled by the attacks in London, Manchester, Kabul and elsewhere."
Danny Lee set the clubhouse target earlier on at seven under par, a total matched by England's Eddie Pepperell.
Padraig Harrington and Graeme McDowell are three shots off the lead after rounds of 69.
Scotland's Richie Ramsay posted the best score of the home talent, his 68 leaving him on four under par.
That puts him two ahead of compatriots Russell Knox and Marc Warren, who both remain in contention.
It was a different challenge to the opening round with winds easing significantly to present more birdie opportunities for the field.
Lee took advantage with three birdies in his first four holes in a strong early showing.
"A lot of the into the wind holes were a lot easier," said Lee. "It was probably a five club difference from yesterday."
He looked destined to hold a lead before Noren's fabulous finish finally overhauled him with Pepperell also finishing strongly with two birdies from his last two holes.
Branden Grace, the 2013 Scottish Open runner-up, leads a group of four players on six under par after his 67, with the Republic of Ireland's Harrington and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell a further shot back.
Home interest this week has focussed on Russell Knox, who finished two under for the tournament alongside compatriot Marc Warren, who responded well with a round of 69.
However, it was Ramsay, who thrust himself into contention for the title and a place at next week's Open Championship.
Asked what a win in Scotland would mean, Ramsay told the BBC: "Career-defining really.
"Anybody that plays the British events, those are like majors to the home guys. You could retire a happy man on Monday morning if you won on Sunday."
Phil Mickelson, Henrik Stenson and Patrick Reed all recovered from disappointing opening rounds to reach one over par and make the cut.
American Mickelson is hopeful he can capitalise on predicted calm early weather tomorrow to post a good early score.
"If I go out and shoot a score of six, seven under par, which is out there when the conditions are benign, you never know what might happen to the later groups," he said.
"That might be enough to get back in it on Sunday."
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Jaiyesimi, 19, joined Norwich from non-league side Dulwich Hamlet in January 2016 and spent last season playing for the Canaries' Under-23 team.
He scored eight goals in 33 appearances last term and now joins Grimsby having been on Norwich's pre-season tour.
Jaiyesimi, who can play as a winger, midfielder or striker, could make his debut against Coventry on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Given the short turnaround, memories of the last tournament in Vancouver, Canada remain fresh in the memory.
Lifting the trophy and claiming our second win of this World Rugby Sevens Series was the perfect end to an outstanding second day of rugby for us. However, it was a day that took a lot out of us.
Still bruised and battered from the Las Vegas tournament the previous weekend, we took the field in Vancouver physically and emotionally drained.
As we went through the six games the boys displayed various coping mechanisms, but sometimes humour is what gets you through.
What really took us to the top spot that weekend was the collective trust in each other to give everything we had. That proved to be enough that day to beat New Zealand, Fiji and South Africa - the other three teams in the top four.
In front of an enthusiastic crowd who created a superb atmosphere under the roof in BC Place, I had an astounding sense of pride in the squad as I lifted the plant pot/lampshade-style trophy.
Tuesday this week marked the start of the one-year countdown to the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
For most of us in this current England team, the 21st edition of the games is one we are targeting. And the experience I gained from competing in Glasgow in 2014 was of huge benefit when I was at the Rio Olympics last year with Team GB.
The multi-sport environment is a very different one to the regular sevens series and one I find extremely exciting. Staying in the athletes' village in Glasgow meant I got to meet world-class athletes from other sports, some of whom are also celebrities.
A sit-down chat with [Britain's five-time Olympic champion] Sir Bradley Wiggins and having our shirts presented by [double Olympic champion] Dame Kelly Holmes were definitely memorable highlights.
Alongside that I remember sitting on a bench after the official village welcome ceremony which happened to fall on my birthday. My team-mates prompted the whole of Team England to join them in singing happy birthday to me.
Despite the embarrassment it was a nice moment which also summed up what it meant to be part of a team that was bigger than just our squad of 12.
While results were not what we wanted [and my personal experience was soured by a broken foot], the Commonwealth Games was a highlight of my career so far and I look forward to the opportunity to try and add to that next year in Australia.
This weekend in Hong Kong is a record-breaking one for Dan Norton who is now top of the World Series' all-time sevens try scorers.
His tally now stands at 245, one more than Kenya's Collins Injera, who previously held the record. However, his ability to score lots of tries is only a small part of why we like Norton so much. He is not big-headed about his try record. I mean that figuratively and literally - he has a small head.
Although he has never been asked to, Norts assumes the role of the class clown in our group. His ability to conjure witty comebacks to players and coaches alike are amusing, if sometimes inappropriate, at times.
His knack for team banter must have been learned in the pubs of Gloucester where he spent his youth, picking up pins in the bowling alley for his dad and his mates. Perhaps dodging the balls coming down the lane was how he developed his ability to beat defenders.
As with all tournaments, a large portion of any success is down to the preparation.
In order to prepare for the heat and humidity of Hong Kong and Singapore [which follows next weekend], we have been tagging on 20-minute sauna sessions at the end of training and fitness. Sometimes these little innovations make the difference.
However, a staple of our training schedule, which is as old school as it gets, is hard work. And more specifically, the hardest session of our week, 'death zone'.
The title is borrowed from a term climbers use to describe the altitude at which you are most challenged, the point at which it becomes near-impossible to perform simple tasks.
During our time at the 'death zone' we try to make decisions and perform our skills in game situations while under extreme fatigue. During these sessions our heart rates will be about 85% of maximum for approximately 85% of the session.
For us that means operating at about 165bpm for periods of up to two-three minutes which can reflect some of the longest passages of ball in play during a world series match.
In a game this might be punctuated by only 30 seconds of rest time before play restarts. This hard work and attention to detail is essential to compete at the top of world sevens.
The same rules apply this weekend at the 42nd Hong Kong 7s and with the city almost shutting down for three days as it goes sevens crazy, the tournament promises to be as extraordinary and as gripping as ever before. After only two weeks sleeping in our own beds, we are on the road again and this week find ourselves in the most famous sevens city in the world, Hong Kong.
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It was responding to a request from the First Minister Arlene Foster.
She had asked the Secretary of State for extra funding for the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland).
Mrs Foster believes more financial support is needed by police for legacy investigations.
These include cases such as the activities of the Army agent known as Stakeknife. That case alone could cost £35m.
The inquiry, which is expected to be the largest ever in Northern Ireland into the activities of a single individual, is re-examining about 50 Troubles related murders.
Chief Constable George Hamilton told the BBC's The View that it is likely to cost in the region of £7m per annum "when it gets up and running at full tilt."
He said it will take time to "put some infrastructure in place" and to "populate the investigative teams so that they can be deployed".
On Friday, Mrs Foster said she has "a lot of sympathy for the chief constable in relation to legacy issues".
"He is trying to fund these investigations which he has been directed to become involved in by other agencies," said Mrs Foster.
"I have already told the Secretary of State that she should look at releasing some of the funds, which were set aside during the negotiations, to allow [George Hamilton] to continue to fund the other very important work that he continues to do."
However, in a statement, an NIO spokesperson made clear no extra funding would be provided.
It said that any such investigation "is a matter for the PSNI", adding: "It is the Department of Justice and the wider Northern Ireland Executive who have the responsibility for funding the PSNI."
The statement stressed a need for political consensus to deal with all aspects of Northern Ireland's past.
"We believe we are closer to this than ever before," it said.
"The Government has made it clear that there is an additional £150m available over five years to support new bodies to be set up to investigate the past."
Mr Hamilton told the BBC that "policing resources" were a matter for politicians.
"I actually don't mind whether the secretary of state or minister for justice provide the underwriting," he said.
"The politicians can work out between themselves who is going to underwrite this," he said.
"If I get to a point where I'm unable to staff this investigation because of budgetary pressure there is responsibility for the politicians to meet that gap and that's what I'm asking for - I'm asking for an underwriting rather than a cheque upfront," he said.
He said it was "not my job to referee" a political disagreement about where the funding for the inquiry would come from.
On Friday, Justice Minister David Ford reiterated his department's budget is already under significant pressure and the investigation must be funded by Westminster.
"The issues of the past were clearly stated to be the responsibility of the UK government, with Treasury funding to be provided, and that is an obligation the secretary of state needs to live up to," Mr Ford added.
The Pause project, which began in London in 2013, is to receive £6.8m from the government.
It works with women at risk of repeated pregnancies, offering practical and emotional support and asking them to use a contraceptive implant or coil.
One of the women on the scheme said it gave her time to "sort herself out".
In 2015, almost 13,000 children were taken into care across England, at a cost to the taxpayer of hundreds of millions of pounds.
Sophie Humphreys, the chief executive of Pause, says the project is about giving women "a really clear space which doesn't get sabotaged by another pregnancy".
"This is pause, not stop. It's about breaking a destructive cycle that causes deep trauma for both the women and their children."
Pause now plans to work with up to 3,000 women over the six years of the programme.
The Pause programme began in Hackney in 2013 and has been trialled in other parts of London as well as Doncaster, Hull and Newcastle.
Pause has been awarded £6.8m by the Department for Education and will be launching new practices in 2017 in Barking & Dagenham, Bristol, Cumbria, Derby, North East Lincolnshire, Slough, St Helens, West Sussex and Wiltshire.
It will also pilot a preventative programme for care leavers aged 18 to 25.
Joanne (not her real name) had already had two sons taken into care when she became pregnant for a third time.
She had been in a violent relationship with a drug addict, and became hooked herself.
Midway through her third pregnancy, by a different man who was already off the scene, Joanne was told that social services would take her new baby into care as soon as he was born.
"To carry a baby around for nine months, to lay there knowing that he's getting taken away the next day, is pretty goddam hard," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
But she does not blame the authorities: "I had nowhere to live, I was using drugs. Basically it was unstable for a baby to be around me."
She then became pregnant again the following year. Joanne has borne four sons - all of whom have been taken into care.
But then came a knock on the door from Lesley Redpath, a Pause case worker tasked with finding women who might be eligible and interested in the scheme.
Lesley says Joanne signed up on the spot, describing it as a "light-bulb moment".
"I'm not quite sure she quite understood everything around the project," Lesley said, "but she felt she needed some support in her life at that time."
That was 15 months ago, and Lesley says Joanne has made huge progress.
"She's attending college, her housing is sorted, and she's paying off her arrears. I feel very positive about her future."
Lesley says very few women are put off by the contraceptive, and it wasn't an issue for Joanne.
She says: "Eventually I would like to have another kid, but having the implant gives me another three years to sort myself out, find a job and better myself. That's what I'm trying to do.
"Everyone deserves a second chance. I've just got to be positive and stay strong."
Lesley says she is working with several other women, some of whose cases are even more challenging.
"I'm talking about women who don't know how to get up and have a wash because they've never been shown how to look after themselves.
"They've never been shown how to cut their own toenails. I'm talking about very basic self-care. And these are people who've had children.
"The women that we've worked with have slipped through all the netting."
You can hear more about the Pause programme on BBC 5 live Daily from 10:00 on Monday, 7 November.
Several sharks arriving in Scottish waters during summer in 2012, 2013 and 2014 were tagged in an effort to track their movements.
A new report analysing the information gathered has identified a key "migratory corridor" for the fish.
Some sharks were also found to remain close to Scotland and did not migrate.
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) working with University of Exeter tagged and tracked the animals.
Basking sharks are the world's second biggest fish - the whale shark is the largest - and can grow to 11m (36ft) and weigh up to seven tonnes.
They have no teeth and feed on microscopic plankton by opening wide their huge mouths.
Every summer the sharks gather in large numbers around small islands between Skye and Mull off Scotland's west coast.
The tagging project involved sharks found off Coll, Tiree and Hyskeir.
According to the SNH report, the Irish and Celtic Seas represent an important migration corridor for basking sharks moving between the Sea of the Hebrides, the Isle of Man and southwest England.
In autumn, tagged sharks were found to move away from the Scottish islands and towards the west of Ireland, the Bay of Biscay, Iberian Peninsula and North Africa.
Some of the sharks spent winter off Madeira and the Canary Islands off west Africa, but others remained "relatively close" to Scotland throughout the winter.
The report added that new research was planned into the microscopic creatures that the giant fish feed on.
Other organisations have an interest in the sharks.
Three years ago, the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) reported an increase in encounters with basking sharks.
Fifty sharks were counted over just nine days.
Up until 19 years ago, basking sharks were hunted in the seas off Scotland for their liver oil.
These problems can range from not liking certain foods (which happens to most people), to serious eating problems which may come from medical or emotional troubles.
Scientists think eating problems can start in a lot of ways. Some think that you are born with them.
Others believe they're learned from people around you and people who are famous, for example, very thin fashion models.
Also people who don't feel in control of their lives may turn to eating, as it's one thing they do have power over.
Eating problems can also start because of other issues, such as unhappiness at home or school, someone you know dying, or a mixture of these and other things.
But thankfully, a lot of help is available from doctors and from charities.
Anorexia is a medical condition and its proper name is anorexia nervosa.
People with anorexia nervosa avoid eating and lose a lot of weight. They often feel fat, even when they are very thin.
They may use other ways of staying thin, such as taking tablets which make them go to the toilet more often, or by doing too much exercise.
They can become very weak and without special help, some people with anorexia can even die.
Bulimia is also a medical condition and its proper name is bulimia nervosa.
People with bulimia eat lots of food (called binge eating) and then make themselves sick to get rid of what they've eaten.
People with bulimia may not look underweight and so can find it easy to hide their eating problems.
Binge eating and vomiting can eventually do serious damage to the teeth, heart, kidneys and muscles.
You can get help from talking to friends and family or a trained helper, called a counsellor.
You can find counsellors by calling ChildLine for free on 0800 1111.
Also you can talk to Beat, a charity helping people with eating disorders, on their youth line 0845 634 7650.
Learning Pool, which was founded in 2006, employs 80 people and its customers include the NHS and Capita.
The investor is Carlyle Cardinal Ireland (CCI) which is focused on small and medium Irish firms with strong growth potential, including Lily O'Brien's chocolates and Payzone.
The Learning Pool deal is CCI's first in Northern Ireland.
The investment will help the firm to grow its team and develop new products.
The size of the deal has not been revealed but is understood to be a seven-figure sum..
Fast track
The fund usually makes investments of between 5m euros (£4m) and 50m euros (£40m).
Learning Pool's existing management team, including the chief executive Paul McElvaney, will continue in their current roles and are investing further as shareholders in the business.
Mr McElvaney, who founded the business and was the majority shareholder, said the investment will allow the firm to "fast track" its growth and deliver products more quickly.
Jonathan Cosgrave, managing director, at the Carlyle Group said Learning Pool is well positioned to grow its share of the estimated £675m UK e-learning market.
He added that the fund had been impressed by Learning Pool's "entrepreneurial leadership team."
John Dolan, managing director, Cardinal Capital Group said the e-learning market is growing at over 10% per year and Learning Pool is "ideally placed to meet this demand".
The conclusions are from a new report into the case of the murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan, killed in 1987 in Sydenham, London.
It said boxes of potential evidence were not disclosed to the defence.
Six investigations have failed to find Mr Morgan's killer.
The report was conducted jointly by the Crown Prosecution Service and Metropolitan Police and said four boxes were left in storage, instead of being disclosed to the defence, three of which were relevant to the trial proceedings.
This resulted in the collapse of a trial at the old Bailey last year.
The report also said several "supergrass" witnesses were not properly handled.
Mr Morgan, who was originally from Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran, and ran a small private detection agency, was found in the car park of a pub with an axe in his head.
Until his death Mr Morgan was in partnership with Jonathan Rees, whose company Southern Investigations has been linked to alleged email hacking.
The BBC's Tom Symonds said it has been claimed Mr Morgan was killed because he had uncovered evidence of police corruption in south London.
Initial investigations failed to get to the bottom of the case, because, it was alleged, of police corruption.
But in 2006 a new inquiry, codenamed Operation Abelarde 2, began and Mr Rees and two other men, Garry and Glenn Vian, were charged with Mr Morgan's murder.
Then in March 2011 the case against them was thrown out because of the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence.
The fresh review of the case concluded the three crates of documents not disclosed to the defence, which related to an earlier money laundering case, were relevant to the proceedings.
The report said: "It became apparent that there had been a clear oversight in respect of these three crates.
"Whilst they were already within the police… they had not been entered in to the police records, nor ever assessed. This was clearly an error.
"These three crates had gone unnoticed and were overlooked, whilst stored amongst many other crates."
The report also blamed the handling of three so called "assisting offenders", often known as "supergrasses".
One, known as Witness B, claimed to have seen the murder take place. However, the report found he was allowed to contact the senior investigating officer on the Morgan murder team, in breach of rules preventing this.
Assisting offenders are only supposed to talk to those responsible for debriefing them.
The report also said the judge in the case found Witness B was "probably prompted by a senior police officer to implicate Glenn and Gary Vian".
He had also been tipped off that he had been caught lying about his father's death and given the chance to think of an explanation.
Background details about another key witness, Witness A, were not discovered, and a third witness, C, gave police details of other murders which he had got from a missing persons website.
The report added: "This was a truly exceptional case in terms of a combination of factors, namely its age; the size and the number of linked operations; the enormous volume of material generated, particularly unused, and the fact that all three of the... witnesses were undermined, post charge, by factors that adversely affected their credibility.
"In addition there was a lack of scientific evidence."
Cressida Dick, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and Alison Saunders, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, issued a joint statement following the report's publication.
It said: "This case, as the trial judge said, was of an exceptional scale and complexity, with over three quarters of a million documents gathered over 20 years being examined.
"The issues around the disclosure exercise were such that we could not guarantee that all relevant material had been identified, considered and disclosed so as to ensure a fair trial. A further factor related to the unreliability of critical witnesses.
"To this end, the purpose of the review was to identify potential good practice and learning for both police and prosecutors for future cases.
"What the review was not was an investigation into allegations of corruption; nor was it intended to serve the purpose of an investigation for police disciplinary purposes."
The statement added that the recommendations identified within the review would now be implemented by both agencies. This includes new guidance for using supergrasses.
The murder of Mr Morgan was raised at the Leveson inquiry into media standards and ethics in February in evidence from former Metropolitan Police detective and BBC Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames.
She told the inquiry that she and her husband, Det Ch Supt Dave Cook, were placed under surveillance by the News of the World after he appeared on Crimewatch seeking information about Mr Morgan's murder.
Ms Hames told the inquiry that Southern Investigations had "close links" to Alex Marunchak, the newspaper's crime editor in the late 1980s.
In a statement, she said: "I believe that the real reason for the News of the World placing us under surveillance was that suspects in the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry were using their association with a powerful and well-resourced newspaper to try to intimidate us and so attempt to subvert the investigation."
Alastair Morgan, Daniel Morgan's brother, said his family believed they too had been placed under surveillance following a critical development in the case in 1998.
News International said it had "no comment" to make on Ms Hames's statement to the Leveson inquiry.
EBTs allowed Rangers to make tax-free loans to players and other staff from 2001 until 2010.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have now succeeded in their claim that these payments should have been taxed.
The case has unfolded against a backdrop of financial meltdown for Rangers. It may still not be finished.
Rangers were owned by Sir David Murray when the club began using EBTs.
In 2010, it emerged that the taxman had claimed the scheme amounted to rule-breaking tax avoidance and HMRC judged that the club owed tens of millions of pounds in unpaid tax, fines and interest.
Murray's firm, Murray International Holdings (MIH), defended claims for payment totalling about £49m, meaning the scheme was set to go before a tax tribunal.
While this process was unfolding, Murray sold Rangers to Craig Whyte for £1 in 2011.
Under Mr Whyte's stewardship, the club went into administration in February 2012 amid a cash crisis over unpaid tax - unrelated to the big tax case.
Liquidation followed months later after an agreement could not be reached with creditors.
A consortium led by Charles Green later purchased Rangers' assets and the team began season 2012/2013 in the Scottish Third Division.
In November 2012, a first tier tax tribunal ruled that Rangers' use of EBTs under David Murray was legal.
The following February HMRC lodged an appeal against this decision and in July 2014 upper tier tax tribunal judge Lord Doherty dismissed the appeal but referred several issues back to the original panel.
HMRC refused to concede and launched another appeal which has now been upheld by three senior judges at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
The issue, however, may not be settled.
David Murray may choose to appeal against the ruling to the Supreme Court. If he does, a final ruling in the case may still be years away.
In the meantime, the judgement will have no financial impact on Rangers because the tax liability remains with the 'oldco' which went into liquidation.
In 2012, the then Scottish Premier League (SPL) announced that judge Lord Nimmo Smith would chair an independent commission to investigate alleged non-disclosed player payments at Rangers relating to EBTs.
The commission concluded that 'oldco' Rangers did not disclose payments to the football authorities and fined the club £250,000.
It also ruled out any sporting penalty, saying the non-disclosure did not affect the eligibility of players.
It remains to be seen whether the determinations of that commission will be subject to further scrutiny or challenge.
The 26-year-old, from Bray, County Wicklow, beat Russia's Sofya Ochigava in the lightweight boxing final.
She was cheered on by thousands of excited Irish fans at the ExCeL Arena.
London 2012 is the first Olympic Games in which women have competed in the boxing ring.
President Higgins said: "She truly deserves this historic and hard earned victory; it is a just reward for her dedication and commitment over the years," he said.
The Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, said Taylor was ''a force of nature whose pioneering spirit and boxing brilliance have seen her realise her personal dream of winning Olympic gold".
Speaking after the fight, Taylor said that when the bell rang she did not know whether or not she had won.
"I didn't know what way the scoreline went," she told the Irish state broadcaster, RTE. "It was such as close contest really, it could have went either way."
She also paid tribute to the crowd in the arena who she said had been "amazing".
Many more of her fans gathered in her home town to watch the bout on big screens.
The four-time world champion, who took up the sport at the age of 12, had been a strong favourite to take gold.
She was taught to box by her father Peter, who was 1986 Irish senior light heavyweight champion.
At the age of 15, Taylor made boxing history when she fought in Ireland's first ever officially sanctioned women's bout.
After her Olympic victory, the former world champion boxer Barry McGuigan hugged Taylor as she came out of the ring and called her "a legend".
McGuigan also said the thousands of Irish supporters inside the arena had been "incredible" and joked that there was no one left back in Ireland.
Her Olympic teammate, the Belfast boxer Paddy Barnes, tweeted: "Katie Taylor!!! Unreal!!! That is all."
Sports stars from outside the world of boxing also took to Twitter to pay tribute to Taylor.
The Republic of Ireland's international goalkeeper, Shay Given, described her as "a true Irish hero", while Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba tweeted: "Laying down in my hospital bed, watching Katie Taylor, She is got the best supporter. The Irish fans are unreal."
Famous faces in the ExCeL Arena audience during the fight included the Duchess of Cambridge - the former Kate Middleton - and the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
Back in her homeland, Pastor Sean Mullarkey, from St Mark's Pentecostal church on Dublin's Pearse Street, joined a congregation of fans and churchgoers to cheer on their most famous member.
She is a devout Christian and her family have been part of the church community for about eight years.
The Olympian is well known for pointing to the heavens after her bouts and always praises God for being her "shield and her strength" in post-match interviews.
"Katie normally says 'thank you Jesus' as that's the focus of her life and that's where her heart is at," the pastor said.
One man who knows the boxer well is Glenn Jordan of the East Belfast Mission's Skainos Project, and he said he was thrilled for her.
"I know this has been the target for years for Katie and her parents Pete and Bridget," he said.
"She has shaped much of the last 10 years of her life around the Olympics - it is the culmination of so much for her."
The gold is the fifth medal for Team Ireland at London 2012.
Showjumper Cian O'Connor collected Ireland's first medal of the games on Wednesday.
The other three have all been won by boxers.
John Joe Nevin from Mulligan in County Westmeath, and Belfast fighters Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan - are guaranteed at least a bronze medal each.
All three men fight for the chance to win a place in their respective finals on Friday.
The last Irish boxer to win a gold medal was Michael Carruth in the men's welterweight boxing in Barcelona in 1992.
The site said the clips violated its terms of service regarding videos that threatened violence.
A spokeswoman said the videos were "against YouTube's guidelines" and were removed when flagged.
But experts warned that removing them might accelerate their spread around the internet.
Before killing three of his housemates, and then going on to shoot at random from his BMW, Rodger posted videos on the video-sharing site describing his plans.
In one, filmed in his car, he said: "Tomorrow is the day of retribution. The day in which I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you."
The incident has led some to question whether technology can be used to flag disturbing content online as a way of stopping similar events.
Google, like other companies that offer media-sharing services, has developed sophisticated methods to detect and deal with videos that contain copyrighted content, such as music.
But to apply the same techniques to disturbing human behaviour was a challenge both enormous and complex, said experimental psychologist Andrew Przybylski, from the Oxford Internet Institute.
"If there was an algorithm to identify people who were not functioning well, that would at first be interesting to the mental health community," he said.
"People are asking Google for a technical solution for a social issue."
By trying to monitor and act on videos that caused concern there will be a lot of false alarms, he added.
"A lot of kids, when they're developing their identity, will say extreme things, but that doesn't mean that's a threat."
Despite Google's actions to remove the content, the videos have been reposted around the internet - an unavoidable outcome, Dr Przybylski said.
"The act of actually trying to hide the material actually will lead people to invest more value in it," he said.
Videos that are removed in this way suffer from the so-called "Streisand effect" - the theory that by trying to block something, the actual result is a far wider dissemination.
Elsewhere online, a page on Facebook that sought to "pay tribute" to Rodger was taken down after pressure from users.
The social network had initially said it did not consider the site to be a breach of its terms of service, but went on to remove the page on Monday evening.
The Guardian newspaper speculated that the page may have been intentionally set up as an act of provocation, rather than a genuine tribute.
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Another three police officers were injured in the attack several hundred metres from the church entrance.
So-called Islamic State group said its fighters carried out the attack.
Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, St Catherine's is one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world and a Unesco world heritage site.
It is part of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Tuesday's attack comes just days after bombings at two Coptic Christian churches left 45 people dead.
The attacks have raised security fears ahead of a visit to Cairo by Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Egypt's Christian minority makes up about 10% of the pre-dominantly Muslim country of 92 million people.
Roger Smith claims he had the substances for lawful purposes, such as cleaning and science experiments.
His barrister said he was "a bit eccentric" and hoarded items such as these at his Nottingham home.
Mr Smith, 46, denies having explosive substances and having a document or record for terrorist purposes.
In the defence closing speech, Serena Gates said: "The reality is that Roger Smith has a genuine interest in playing around with gunpowder and making fires and flames and things, and there's nothing wrong with that."
Mr Smith's trial has heard that police first became aware of him in June 2014, because of a dispute with his neighbours in Summerwood Lane, Clifton.
In his evidence, a police community support officer (PCSO) said Mr Smith had openly told him he had a compound bow and a set of three knives.
PCSO Matthew Holden said Mr Smith was concerned about "a terrorist attack or Islamic attack similar to the Lee Rigby attack", said "Islam was at war with the West" and "believed a citizen should have the right to bear arms".
However, Ms Gates pointed out a Muslim police officer who refers people to de-radicalisation programmes later spoke to Mr Smith, and did not feel it necessary to refer him.
The officer, PC Atlas Iqbal, told the court they had discussed the Muslim faith.
"He was very interested in what PC Iqbal said," Ms Gates told jurors.
"Hardly the actions of an Islamophobic madman."
Police searched Mr Smith's home on 21 October 2015 and found gunpowder and large amounts of chemicals that could be used to make explosives, along with a copy of a bomb-making guide called the Anarchy Cookbook Version 2000, the court heard.
In interview, the court heard Mr Smith told police he had downloaded the book from a website and printed it off, but in his evidence to jurors he said the book was a gift from a friend.
Ms Gates explained he did not tell police the truth as he did not "want to drop anyone else in it".
She accepted Mr Smith made comments about "immigrants coming into this country", but said his views did not make him a criminal.
"Not everyone shares Donald Trump's views in America but that doesn't make him a criminal," she said.
Mr Smith bought a second copy of the Anarchy Cookbook from Amazon while awaiting trial, which he said was to use as evidence for his defence, the jury was told.
However, he was charged with an extra offence for doing this, the court heard.
In the prosecution closing speech, Michelle Heeley said Mr Smith had no lawful excuse to have the gunpowder, no innocent excuse to have the chemicals, and no reasonable excuse to have the Anarchy Cookbook.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are not at war," she told jurors.
"We are not under attack. This is not America. We do not have the right to bear arms."
The jury is considering its verdicts.
The change comes with the incorporation of income-based jobseeker's allowance into the new universal credit system.
People claiming jobseeker's allowance had been able to refuse to accept such jobs without facing penalties.
But under universal credit, which is being rolled out gradually, people will have to accept the casual contracts.
Zero-hours contracts, which allow employers to hire staff with no guarantee of work, are popular with many companies because they offer flexibility.
But critics say they can leave workers with little financial stability or security, few employment rights and not enough work.
The government says such contracts offer an average 25 hours work a week and can be a good means of gaining experience.
A spokesman said that when workers did not get the hours they needed, their universal credit payments would adjust automatically to ensure they were financially supported.
Labour said the government should focus on stopping abuse of workers through zero-hours contracts rather than on forcing claimants to accept such working arrangements.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said: "The growth of zero-hours contracts and the exploitative use of them has got to be cracked down on."
She said jobseekers should be able to choose whether to accept zero-hours contracts and "shouldn't be forced into taking a job" that was unsuitable.
She said the government had questions to answer about "who exactly is at risk of losing benefits for refusing to take a zero-hours contract job".
Under the new scheme, claimants who turn down such a contract when it is thought to be suitable could lose payments for more than three months.
Employment Minister Esther McVey outlined the change in a letter to Labour MP Sheila Gilmore about benefits sanctions, the Guardian has reported.
The newspaper said Jobcentre "coaches" would be able to "mandate" zero-hours contracts if they thought the role was suitable for the claimant.
A spokesman from the Department for Work and Pensions said claimants needed to do everything they could to get work.
He said jobseekers would be expected to take "reasonable" zero-hours contracts and carry on looking for permanent full-time work in the meantime.
They would not be required to sign up to "exclusive" contracts, which tie a worker to a single employer with no guarantee of work.
He said: "As now, if there's a good reason someone can't just take a particular job they won't be sanctioned.
"But it is right that people do everything they can to find work and that we support them to build up their working hours and earnings."
He said the average zero-hours contract provided workers with 25 hours of work a week and could "lead to long-term opportunities".
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"Universal credit payments will adjust automatically depending on the hours a person works to ensure that people whose hours may change are financially supported and do not face the hassle and bureaucracy of switching their benefit claims," the spokesman added.
Ms Gilmore said while she did not object to the principle of either universal credit or zero-hours contracts, she was "concerned" by the policy change.
"I also fear that if people are required to take jobs with zero-hours contracts, they could be prevented from taking training courses or applying for other jobs that might lead to more stable and sustainable employment in the long term," she told the Guardian.
Unions last week called for action against zero-hours working.
This followed a study that showed around 1.4 million jobs involved contracts that did not guarantee a minimum number of hours.
The Office for National Statistics said most of the contracts were zero hours.
Under these contracts, people are not guaranteed work from one week to the next. But officials have pointed out that some workers could have more than one contract at a time.
Crowds decked in green, shamrocks and the Irish tricolour packed Trafalgar Square for the annual festivities, including live music, on Sunday.
A parade featuring marching bands, pipers, a 17ft high puppet, stilt walkers and dancers made its way from Piccadilly to the square earlier.
An official St Patrick's Day event has been held in the capital since 2002.
The Mayor of London's office organises the festival to bring the "best of Irish culture and a packed programme of great entertainment to Trafalgar Square".
There are 220,488 Irish people living in London according to the last census.
Carl Sargeant said UK government plans to change the arrangements for selling power to the National Grid would "undermine investor confidence".
He said it would threaten schemes like the one he was visiting in Gwynedd.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change said support had to be balanced with protection for bill payers.
Mr Sargeant was visiting the £1.25m Anafon hydro-electric project being built at Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd, on Tuesday.
He said he and his Scottish counterpart Fergus Ewing had written to the department (DECC) urging support for renewable energy.
The Welsh and Scottish ministers claim proposals to change the feed-in tariff accreditation would leave project developers not knowing what rate they would be paid.
"We both see that the future direction for energy is one of local generation and supply, based on renewable sources, and smart storage and local grid management, with significant local benefit," said Mr Sargeant.
"The current proposals will significantly damage the prospects for this future if the local ownership and benefits of projects are not considered within the support regime."
The Anafon Hydro Scheme is due to be switched on in December, generating enough power to supply at least 200 homes.
The DECC said it would look at how it supported community energy projects as part of a wider review of feed-in tariffs.
A spokesperson said: "Our priority is to keep bills as low as possible for hardworking families and businesses while reducing our emissions.
"The amount of renewable energy projects being built means we are on track to meet our ambitions for 2020 and we have to balance that with the need to protect bill payers."
Officers believe a man driving a campervan may be responsible for damaging the prints at Staffin on Wednesday.
Palaeontologists estimate the prints at An Corran date back 165 million years.
In a series of tweets, local police officers appealed for help from people who were in the area.
Lochaber and Skye police said: "Unfortunately we can confirm we are investigating reported damage to the dinosaur footprints at Staffin yesterday. Were you in the area?
"It would appear a male driving a campervan was possibly responsible for pouring plaster into two of the prints. Any info please call 101."
The prints at Staffin are believed to have been left by a family Ornithopods, herbivorous creatures which walked on two legs.
The estimated temperature was about 5C (41F) as people of all ages dived into the waves.
Dave Cocks from the RNLI Redcar team photographed many of those taking part.
Platini and ex-head of world football's governing body Sepp Blatter were barred from the sport after being found guilty of ethics breaches over a $2m (£1.3m) "disloyal payment" between the pair.
Both men, who deny wrongdoing, had the bans upheld but cut from eight years.
Former France captain Platini, leader of European football's governing body since 2007, wants the verdict annulled.
The network's parent company, 21st Century Fox, announced his resignation.
The announcement does not mention the sexual harassment allegations, which have now come from multiple Fox presenters.
Executive chairman Rupert Murdoch wrote that Mr Ailes has made a "remarkable contribution" to Fox News.
"We continue our commitment to maintaining a work environment based on trust and respect," Fox executives Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch said in the statement. "We take seriously our responsibility to uphold these traditional, long-standing values of our company."
Roger Ailes has long been viewed one of America's most powerful conservatives. The one-time media consultant to Richard Nixon was the key figure in building the Fox News channel into a ratings, profits and, most important perhaps, political powerhouse.
Prior to his dramatic and embarrassing downfall, Mr Ailes was said to be one of the few employees that Rupert Murdoch actually feared. But it was the media mogul's admiration for his long-time lieutenant and ideological soul-mate that came through in the warm statement released by Fox News Channel's parent company, 21st Century Fox.
"His grasp of policy and his ability to make profoundly important issues accessible to a broader audience stand in stark contrast to the self-serving elitism that characterises far too much of the media," said Rupert Murdoch, in a tribute that did not touch upon the allegations of sexual harassment against the former news chief. Noticeably, it was left to Mr Murdoch's sons, Lachlan and James, to point out that the company is committed "to maintaining a work environment based on trust and respect."
I'm told by a source close to the company that the Murdochs wanted to move quickly, a lesson learnt from the handling of the phone hacking scandal.
It's also measure of the importance that Mr Murdoch attaches to the Fox News channel that he is personally taking over as chairman and acting CEO after losing one of the central figures in his global media empire. What makes Mr Ailes' departure all the more dramatic is that it should happen on the final day of the Republican convention at a time when a deeply divided conservative movement was already in such a state of flux.
Mr Ailes, 76, said he was stepping down because he had become a "distraction".
"I will not allow my presence to become a distraction from the work that must be done every day," Mr Ailes wrote in a letter to Rupert Murdoch.
He has run Fox News since it launched in 1996 and is credited with reshaping the American media and political landscape.
A veteran of Republican political campaigns, he turned the cable news network into a ratings leader and an influential force in the Republican Party.
"Rupert Murdoch is a conservative, but the Republican intensity, the conservative passion including the viciousness toward the Democrats that we now see against Hillary Clinton and has been going on against Obama all these years, all that is Roger Ailes,'' Paul Levinson, communications professor at Fordham University, told the AP news agency.
Less than two weeks ago former presenter Gretchen Carlson sued Mr Ailes for sexual harassment and wrongful termination, claims he denies.
Ms Carlson, who worked for the network for 11 years, alleges that he proposed having a sexual relationship with her and he instructed her to turn around in his office so he could look at her backside.
Mr Ailes also allegedly called her a "man hater" and that she needed to "get along with the boys".
A report in New York magazine, citing anonymous sources, said lawyers for 21st Century Fox gave Mr Ailes a deadline of 1 August to resign or face being fired.
Further allegations surfaced in US media that Mr Ailes sexually harassed another Fox News presenter, Megyn Kelly, about 10 years ago, claims he has also denied.
The victim received two pictures of an unknown man's penis on her phone via Apple's Airdrop sharing function.
Lorraine Crighton-Smith, 34, said she felt "violated" and reported it to the British Transport Police (BTP).
Supt Gill Murray said this particular crime was new to her force and urged people to report any other incidents.
Ms Crighton-Smith, who was travelling on a train in south London, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: "I had Airdrop switched on because I had been using it previously to send photos to another iPhone user - and a picture appeared on the screen of a man's penis, which I was quite shocked by.
"So, I declined the image, instinctively, and another image appeared, at which [point] I realised someone nearby must be sending them, and that concerned me. I felt violated, it was a very unpleasant thing to have forced upon my screen.`
"I was also worried about who else might have been a recipient, it might have been a child, someone more vulnerable than me.
"My name on Airdrop says Lorraine so they knew they were sending it to a woman. The images were of a sexual nature and it was distressing."
Ms Crighton-Smith called the British Transport Police as she said she was worried about the motives of the perpetrator.
"What's the next stage from sending a naked photograph to a stranger, what happens next, was he getting any sort of gratification from it?"
The BTP has investigated the incident, but said because Ms Crighton-Smith did not "accept" the photograph there was no technological evidence for them to work with and recorded it as intelligence.
Supt Gill Murray said the force had dealt with cases involving Bluetooth but an incident via Airdrop was "new to us".
"Receiving an indecent image from someone you don't know must be very distressing and something we would take very seriously. If it happens to you, our advice would be to remain calm, retain the image and report the matter to police as soon as possible," she said.
"We have a dedicated Cyber Crime Unit who can analyse mobile phones and track data transfers back to suspects' devices. By linking this to physical evidence, such as CCTV footage or witness statements, we can catch offenders and bring them to justice through the courts."
Airdrop is specific to iOS device and Apple Macs. It uses wi-fi and Bluetooth to talk over a short range to other devices, like other iPhones.
Its default setting is for "contacts only", which means only people you know can see you.
But if you want to share your information or your contacts with other people, you may make a change to the settings and change it to "everyone".
"This means that typically in a train carriage, or tube carriage, you can see other devices," commented Ken Munro, a cybersecurity consultant at Pentest Partners.
"That's what's happened in this particular case, someone has enabled everyone and then hasn't then set it back. As a result anyone within wi-fi or Bluetooth range can send something to you that's quite horrible."
He added that Apple could tackle the issue by making Airdrop return to its default setting if it had not been used for 10 minutes or so.
A spokesman for Apple declined to comment.
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The BBC survey suggests the average spend in the county is expected to be £433.16 - £30 less than the average across the areas surveyed.
The figures suggest 52% of people in Lincolnshire are worried about Christmas spending, the joint highest.
However, only 7% of people said they may resort to borrowing.
People in North Yorkshire are expected to spend the most at £508.82 while the average spend across Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and Lincolnshire is expected to be £463.83.
Across Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and Lincolnshire 50% of people surveyed for the BBC said they were concerned about their festive spending.
Concern is highest amongst those aged 18-34 and those with children under 18.
Jane Symonds, money expert at the Money Advice Service, said: "Christmas can be an expensive time of year, but it's important to know that you don't have to live beyond your means to make it a fun time. A big financial hangover is the last thing anyone wants to start the new year with.
"Planning ahead by looking carefully at costs will help you to take control of your spending and reduce some of the pressure. It's best to avoid credit if you can, but if you need to borrow there are more options if you think ahead."
Across the areas surveyed those planning to borrow 68% said they would use their credit card, 18% plan to ask friends and family for help, 18% will use their overdraft, six percent will go to a pay day lender, six percent will take out a loan, and two percent say they will go to a credit union.
On average people said they expected to borrow about £180.
Men said they were likely to borrow on average £214.76, while women said they expected to borrow about £146.36.
More than half of all borrowers said it would take them between a few weeks to a year to repay their debt.
Kevin Peachey, personal finance reporter, BBC News
Financial advisers say it is never too late to draw up a budget for your Christmas spending.
Those who get into trouble often forget to factor in those little extras that add to the festive bill.
So, as well as presents, food and travel, advisers urge families not to ignore the cost of replacing decorations, calling relatives and even taking the children to Santa's grotto.
They suggest shopping around on the internet for all these things to get the best deal.
Those who turn to credit may be deferring the pain, but missing repayments in the new year could start or continue a debt spiral that may be difficult to pull out of.
Instead, advisers say, keep things under control this year, and start saving now to bring some Christmas 2015 cheer to your family and your finances.
Market research agency ComRes interviewed 1,270 people across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, of which 501 were in West Yorkshire, 305 were in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire, 335 in North Yorkshire, 179 in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire and 189 in Lincolnshire.
The online survey was carried out for BBC Radio Lincolnshire between 27 November and 1 December.
James Hood, 52, told Jedburgh Sheriff Court that while it was illegal to deliberately hunt a wild mammal with a dog there were some exceptions.
He was giving evidence at the trial of John Clive Richardson, 66, and Johnny Riley, 24, of the Jedforest Hunt.
The father and son deny deliberately hunting a fox with hounds last year.
The offence is alleged to have taken place near Jedburgh in February 2016.
The court had previously seen footage filmed by investigators from the League Against Cruel Sports.
Commenting on the video, Mr Hood said: "A fox can be flushed by dogs from cover to guns.
"My opinion from the footage of the two incidents is that the fox is pursued by a number of hounds across open ground with one or two horsemen and other persons present.
"The pursuit is beyond what is allowed in the exception."
The footage showed the fox disappearing into a "blind spot" or "dead ground" with the dogs in hot pursuit so what happened to the fox was not captured on film.
The court was told that lawyers acting for two huntsmen intend to lead evidence during the trial saying that the dogs were flushing the fox towards a gunman who was in the dead ground area where he shot the fox.
However, Mr Hood - who has since retired from the police force - said he could not hear any gunshots on the videos during the incidents or see any sign of gunmen.
He also visited the scene at Townfoothill near Jedburgh in March 2016 - three weeks after the alleged offence - and discovered the carcass of a fox in the dead ground area.
All that was remaining was a vertebrae and three legs intact and round the paws there was some red fur.
Mr Hood said a post-mortem examination was carried out on the carcass and there was no evidence that the fox had been shot.
He agreed under cross-examination from defence lawyer David McKie that he could not say for certain that it was the same fox which the video had shown being pursued by the dogs.
The trial of the two men, both from Abbotrule, Bonchester Bridge, has been adjourned until next month.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does this one tell us?
Keeping in mind that the image presented is the one the White House wants to convey, the photograph still invites a number of observations and, perhaps, conclusions.
Here are five of them.
Let's get to the most obvious question first. What is the president watching so intently?
According to Spicer's tweet, the people present are looking at a screen showing Vice-President Mike Pence, Defence Secretary James Mattis and Joseph Dunford, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The trio are part of the national security team at the White House tasked with explaining the results of the strike devised to punish the Syrian government for using chemical weapons on its own population.
That's Spicer, by the way, tucked into the back left corner of the room.
A quick glance at the Trump team photo instantly recalls what was perhaps the most memorable modern "war room" image, from 2011, when President Barack Obama and his national security team clustered around a monitor to watch the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden unfold.
A key difference, of course, is that the Obama photo was taken in the White House Situation Room. Trump and his team gathered in a nondescript location at his Mar-a-Lago private club that has been converted into a Scif - a "sensitive compartmented information facility" - where the president and his aides can conduct secure communications.
Trump and his team are seated in gold-painted chairs and the hint of an ornamental rug can be seen beneath their feet.
Given that Mr Trump has spent most of his weekends at his Mar-a-Lago estate, this room - or one like it - will likely be the scene of more than a few dramatic events during his presidency.
One of the more noteworthy stories earlier in the week, before the Syrian strike blew the news cycle out of the water, was the ongoing feud between presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump nationalist consigliere Steve Bannon. It seemed Kushner was gaining the upper hand, rapidly expanding his policy portfolio, while Bannon was on the outs - booted from his permanent seat on the National Security Council.
Both men were in the room Thursday night, although the seating arrangement was telling. Kushner was front and centre at the table, casting what seems to be a cold gaze in the general direction of Bannon, who was a lamp away from being pushed up against a wall. (Stephen Miller, one of Bannon's closest White House allies, is also barely visible, seated to Bannon's left.)
There's something else interesting about the seating arrangement in this photograph. On the president's left is his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. On his right? Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin - not the kind of Cabinet officials one would expect to see prominently featured in a national security briefing.
Part of the explanation could be that Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago travel team was heavily stacked with economic advisers for his meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, is seated along the wall on the right. Perhaps they felt comfortable tagging along with the president to learn the results of the missile strike.
It's probably safe to say, however, that a commerce secretary, usually a low man on the cabinet totem pole, has never before had such prominent real estate during a key national security meeting.
During that fateful 2011 raid on Bin Laden's compound, one woman - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - was prominently featured, her hand to her mouth in apparent concern (or, she has since said, a result of seasonal allergies). Another woman, director of counterterrorism Audrey Tomason, is also visible.
There's only one woman among the 15 in the Trump photograph, US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell.
Ms Powell was an adviser to Ivanka Trump during the presidential transition and originally served as the president's senior adviser for entrepreneurship, economic growth and the empowerment of women. Like Gary Cohn, she also is a former high-ranking officer in the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
All told, the photograph contains six men who can best be described as White House political/staff advisers, four national security or foreign affairs officials, three members of the president's economics team and a military attache.
Oh, and the president. He's there, too.
The Welsh Labour leader has been speaking in Chicago on his US business tour.
He said it was crucial for the party to "get its act together" once the contest between Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn was over.
Mr Jones said UK Labour was currently failing to provide "effective opposition" to the UK government.
He said he did not want to see "weeks and months of animosity" when the new UK Labour leader is announced later this month.
The Pontypridd MP and Labour leadership contender, Owen Smith, said if he wins he would campaign for a new referendum on EU membership, while his opponent Jeremy Corbyn is against this.
Carwyn Jones told the audience in Chicago he also opposed a new EU referendum.
Another vote, he said, would been seen as "an attempt by the establishment to overturn democracy".
Mr Jones has previously said he will not publicly back either of the leadership candidates.
The Manchester United forward earned 37% of the votes cast by members of the England Supporters Club and has now won it four times.
England captain Rooney, 30, scored five goals last year, overtaking Sir Bobby Charlton as England's record goalscorer during Euro 2016 qualification.
Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland was voted Under-21 Player of the Year.
In the vote for the senior player of the year, Spurs striker Harry Kane was runner-up with 30% and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart in third place with 19%.
Butland took 54% of the Under-21 vote, with Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard and Southampton's James Ward-Prowse both picking up 15%.
His calculation is that China's economy will slow in a relatively contained way to a more sustainable rate - perhaps 4% or 5% a year compared with the official target of 7% - without a devastating crash that would damage a large number of client economies and engender social unrest in China itself (in employing the great Goldman bull of China Jim O'Neill as his commercial minister, Osborne could hardly wager otherwise).
Today's manifestation of the China bet is confirmation of a long-trailed loan guarantee - initially worth £2bn but likely to rise substantially - to bind in Chinese and French nuclear giants to their promised massive £24.5bn investment in the Hinkley Point C new nuclear plant.
This is certainly long-term strategic planning for more power security by Osborne and the government (well they would say). With oil fluctuating at between $40 and $50 a barrel, Hinkley's prospective electricity looks scarily expensive.
And there is a paradox about how pricey the nuclear megawatts look right now - because one of the big causes of the oil price collapse is the Chinese slowdown that has savaged demand for energy.
But Osborne views Hinkley as a bloated sprat to catch a ginormous mackerel: a Chinese-designed nuclear power plant in Essex is hoped to be in the offing (according to the energy secretary Amber Rudd in today's FT); a wagonload of construction investment in the chancellor's cherished "Northern Powerhouse" is chuntering down the track, according to leaders of north-of-England city council leaders out here with him.
China represents perhaps the purest expression of Osborne's realpolitik approach to promoting prosperity in Britain.
He is blowing a raspberry at human rights campaigners by going to Urumqi, where the indigenous Uighur population complain of economic and cultural discrimination by Han Chinese, to win business for British companies in President Xi's "One Belt, One Road" global transport-infrastructure "grand projet" (a Silk Road for a globalised age).
And Osborne is also politely ignoring Washington, which is increasingly uneasy about what it sees as the Treasury's disloyal Beijing tilt (the White House was unamused, Beijing smug, when the UK became the first western member of the Chinese-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank).
The chancellor's calculation is that the Chinese will remember who stuck by them when the going got tougher.
And he is also presuming that as the returns from investing in China itself diminish, Chinese institutions - many of them still loaded - will increasingly think owning a bit of Britain isn't such a crazy idea after all.
Southern Health failed to adopt safe bathing guidelines for two-and-a-half years after Connor Sparrowhawk died following an epileptic seizure in 2013.
His unsupervised death led to a report into hundreds of unexplained deaths.
Fareham MP Suella Fernandes said after "two damning reports, serious changes in the leadership are now needed".
In response to an urgent question in the House of Commons, Health Minister Alistair Burt MP said "a balance between continuity and stability" was needed to "ensure that what the Trust has promised is actually delivered".
He acknowledged that since last year nine changes had been made to the Board.
Trust chairman Mike Petter resigned on Thursday ahead of the publication of the CQC's report.
He said he was stepping down "to allow new board leadership to take forward the improvements".
Mr Burt told MPs: "NHS Improvement has the powers to alter governance, and I know from speaking to them they take that power and responsibility extremely seriously."
The trust provides mental health services to patients in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
A fuller Parliamentary debate is due to be held in the coming weeks to discuss the trust's governance and failures in care.
Senator Delcidio Amaral said the president knew of wrongdoings and tried to block investigations.
Ms Rousseff has denied any involvement.
Meanwhile, the new justice minister has threatened to remove teams from the Petrobras inquiry if any more material is leaked to the press.
In a statement, Brazil's presidency said Ms Rousseff will sue Senator Amaral for defamation over his interview with a magazine.
He was the leader of her Workers' Party in the Senate and had agreed a plea bargain with prosecutors after being arrested as a result of the Petrobras scandal.
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The inquiry has led to the arrest or investigation of dozens of executives and politicians, suspected of overcharging for contracts with Petrobras and using part of the money to pay for bribes and electoral campaigns.
There is widespread public support for the investigation, known as Operation Car Wash, but Ms Rousseff and her allies have criticised its leading judge, Sergio Moro.
They argue the inquiry has become politicised and some of his actions have been illegal.
Last week, Mr Moro released phone recordings suggesting Ms Rousseff had appointed her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as her chief of staff to spare him arrest over money-laundering charges he denies.
Even though Ms Rousseff vehemently denies it, Supreme Court judge Gilmar Mendes has suspended Lula's nomination, and a final decision is yet to be announced.
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If Lula is a minister, any charges against him can only be dealt with by the Supreme Court, which operates more slowly, and not by Mr Moro.
Earlier this month, Lula was briefly detained and questioned at Mr Moro's request.
Ms Rousseff's supporters have also criticised leaks of questioning and details of the investigation to the media.
New Justice Minister Eugenio Aragao questioned the publication of the unverified phone tap conversations between Ms Rousseff and Lula and said the Car Wash investigation was losing its objectivity.
The release of the recordings has also been criticised by Supreme Court judge Marco Aurelio Mello, who has questioned its legality.
However, the content of the phone calls has increased pressure on Ms Rousseff, who is facing growing calls for her removal.
Additionally, there has been a resurgence in allegations of media bias against Ms Rousseff and her Workers' Party.
Much of the criticism has been against Globo, the country's largest media group and one of the biggest in the world, allegations it denies.
In 2013, the network issued an announcement about its support of the 1964 military coup, which led to a two-decade military dictatorship, and admitted it had made a "mistake".
Simon Chaplin, 62, of Hebron, rigged a bucket of diesel, a pump and pipes in his Peugeot 309.
He activated it after a police officer tried to pull him over for speeding near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Chaplin must do 100 hours unpaid work and was given six points on his licence at Swansea Crown Court on Tuesday.
PC Dafydd Burge of Dyfed-Powys Police said Chaplin filled the road with fumes as he followed him along country lanes.
He finally pulled over after about five miles and PC Burge, who was forced to keep a distance from him, was able to follow the trail of smoke to find him.
Chaplin was convicted of causing a danger to other road users by deliberately causing smoke to be emitted and admitted driving without insurance and threatening behaviour.
He said he "sort of panicked" when he saw the policeman's flashing blue lights and told the court the device, which he borrowed from another man, was used to kill moles.
Judge Elwen Evans QC, said: "It is in very unusual circumstances that you find yourself before the court. I do not want to see you here again."
The Division One leaders added 128 runs in just 19.4 overs as Toby Roland-Jones smashed 66 and James Franklin made 56 not out before declaring on 536-9.
Facing a first-innings deficit of 332, Durham then slipped to 252 all out.
Spinner Ollie Rayner impressed once again, claiming 5-85 to finish with match figures of 9-102.
Middlesex are now 35 points clear of second-placed Somerset, who have a game in hand, and are almost certain to extend their advantage over Yorkshire in third, whose Roses match against Lancashire is heading for a draw.
It was another day of complete dominance for the hosts at Lord's as they reached their highest score against Durham, surpassing the 511 made at the same ground in 1994.
Roland-Jones and skipper Franklin put on exactly 100 for the eighth wicket in just over an hour in the morning - Roland-Jones hitting six fours and four maximums in his 47-ball knock.
Durham opener Keaton Jennings top scored in their second innings with 45 to become the first batsman in the country to pass 1,000 Championship runs, but the visitors never looked close to making Middlesex bat again.
Durham's own hopes of winning the title now look to be fading as they sit 40 points behind Middlesex with five matches remaining, but with a game in hand on the leaders.
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The blaze at Hines Cottage in East Hendred near Wantage started about 09:00 BST on Sunday. Nobody was hurt.
The main part of the house was destroyed and left unstable after some walls had collapsed, fire crews said.
About 60 firefighters from Oxfordshire and Berkshire were sent to the village but were unable to stop the fire from spreading.
The cause of the fire is being investigated by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Incident commander, group manager Paul Bremble, said crews had worked hard to reduce the damage, with firefighters moving some of the owner's belongings to safety in a garage.
Julie Sayles, 59, is alleged to have persuaded Edith Negus, who was in her care, to leave her estate to her.
Ms Sayles, of Sewerby Road, Bridlington, also bought two houses with money she allegedly took from a joint bank account she shared with Ms Negus, Hull Crown Court heard.
Ms Sayles, who worked for an elderly-care charity, denies fraud.
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Ms Negus's neighbour Jennifer Booth told the court she heard Ms Sayles shouting "I want you to make a new will leaving everything to me and I'll make sure the people you want to give anything to, I'll give them it".
Defence barrister Peter Byrne put it to Mrs Booth she had actually overheard Ms Sayles saying to Ms Negus "if she wanted to leave her her estate".
Mrs Booth replied: "She didn't say that. She said I want you to leave your estate to me".
The court also heard from Brenda Towers, who used to volunteer at the charity.
Mrs Towers said she was asked by the defendant to sign the new will as a witness, despite having recently had a cataract operation and being unable to see properly.
She claimed that she could not remember the contents of the will and did not know that Ms Sayles was to be the main beneficiary.
Ms Sayles was arrested following Ms Negus's death in October 2014.
She told police the centenarian had offered her money for her care and to invest in property and that the wills were created on Ms Negus's instructions.
Sayles is accused of fraud by abuse of position, buying properties with the proceeds of crime, making a fraudulent will and presenting it to a solicitor.
The trial continues.
1498 - Christopher Columbus sights the coast of Suriname.
1593 - Spanish explorers visit the area and name it Suriname, after the country's earliest inhabitants, the Surinen.
1600-c.1650 - Settlements attempted by Spanish, Dutch, British, and French during the first half of the 17th century. They all fail, in part because of resistance by the native inhabitants.
1651 - First permanent European settlement in Suriname, established by the British at Paramaribo by Lord Francis Willoughby.
1667 - British cede their part of Suriname to the Netherlands in exchange for New Amsterdam (later called New York City).
1682 - Coffee and sugar cane plantations established and worked by African slaves.
1799-1802, 1804-16 - British rule reimposed.
1863 - Slavery abolished; indentured labourers brought in from India, Java and China to work on plantations.
1916 - Aluminium Company of America (Alcoa) begins mining bauxite - the principal ore of aluminium - which gradually becomes Suriname's main export.
1954 - Suriname given full autonomy, with the Netherlands retaining control over its defence and foreign affairs.
1975 - Suriname becomes independent with Johan Ferrier as president and Henk Arron, of the Suriname National Party (NPS), as prime minister; more than a third of the population emigrate to the Netherlands.
1980 - Arron's government ousted in military coup, but President Ferrier refuses to recognise the military regime and appoints Henk Chin A Sen of the Nationalist Republican Party (PNR) to lead a civilian administration; army replaces Ferrier with Chin A Sen.
1982- Armed forces seize power in a coup led by Lieutenant-Colonel Desire (Desi) Bouterse and set up a Revolutionary People's Front; 15 opposition leaders charged with plotting a coup and executed; Netherlands and US respond by cutting off economic aid.
1985 - Ban on political parties lifted.
1986 - Surinamese Liberation Army (SLA), composed mostly of descendants of escaped African slaves, begins guerrilla war with the aim of restoring constitutional order; within months principal bauxite mines and refineries forced to shut down.
1987 - Some 97% of electorate approve new civilian constitution.
1988 - Ramsewak Shankar, a former agriculture minister, elected president.
1989 - Bouterse rejects accord reached by President Shankar with SLA and pledges to continue fighting.
1990 - Shankar ousted in military coup masterminded by Bouterse.
1991 - Johan Kraag (NPS) becomes interim president; alliance of opposition parties - the New Front for Democracy and Development - wins majority of seats in parliamentary elections; Ronald Venetiaan elected president.
1992 - Peace accord reached with SLA.
1996 - Jules Wijdenbosch, an ally of Bouterse, elected president.
1997 - Dutch government issues international arrest warrant for Bouterse, claiming that he had smuggled more than two tonnes of cocaine into the Netherlands during 1989-97, but Suriname refuses to extradite him.
1999 - Dutch court convicts Bouterse for drug smuggling after trying him in absentia.
2000 - Ronald Venetiaan becomes president, replacing Wijdenbosch, after winning early elections that followed protests against the former government's handling of the economy.
2002 April - State-owned banana company closes, its financial woes compounded by low market prices. A smaller, restructured company opens in March 2004.
2004 January - Suriname dollar replaces guilder. Government says move aims to restore confidence in economy.
2004 June - UN sets up tribunal to try to resolve long-running maritime border dispute between Suriname and neighbouring Guyana.
2005 August - President Venetiaan is re-elected after months of deadlock. His New Front coalition won a narrow majority in parliamentary elections in May.
2006 May - Flooding, caused by torrential rain, leaves more than 20,000 people homeless. President Venetiaan says lowland areas are in "total chaos".
2006 July - Government makes official apology to relatives of at least 39 people killed in 1986 massacre during military dictatorship.
2007 September - A UN tribunal rules in the Guyana-Suriname dispute over maritime territory, giving both a share of a potentially oil-rich offshore basin.
2008 July - Trial begins of former military ruler Desi Bouterse and 24 others accused of involvement in 1982 killings of opponents of military regime. Frequent delays in proceedings follow for the next two years. Bouterse accepts "political responsibility" but denies direct responsibility.
2008 October - Following a dispute with the government over the development of a new bauxite mine in the west of the country, the mining giant BHP Billiton announces it is to cease operations in Suriname by 2010.
2009 December - Troops are called in to suppress anti-Brazilian and anti-Chinese riots in a gold-mining area in the northeastern city of Albina.
2010 May - The Mega Combination coalition, led by former military ruler Desi Bouterse, wins 23 out of 51 seats in parliamentary elections to emerge as the largest group.
2010 August - Desi Bouterse becomes president.
2012 April - Parliament passes amnesty law for President Bouterse and 24 other defendants on trial for the alleged execution of political opponent during Mr Bouterse's military rule in 1982.
Former colonial power the Netherlands recalls ambassador and suspends some of its aid payments in protest.
2014 August - Dino Bouterse, ex-head of the Suriname Anti-Terrorist Unit, and son of President Desi Bouterse, pleads guilty to charges in United States of drug smuggling and aiding the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. Jailed for 16 years.
2015 May - Desi Bouterse's National Democratic Party wins absolute majority in parliamentary election, setting the scene for the country's first non-coalition government.
The collision was reported at just after 06:45 BST on the coastbound carriageway close to the slip road at junction eight for Leeds Castle
The coastbound carriageway was closed between junctions eight and nine and reopened at 14:00.
The London-bound carriageway was also closed briefly following the death. Any witnesses are asked to contact police.
It will be the first comprehensive archaeological investigation at Reading Abbey for more than 150 years.
The Hidden Abbey Project aims to discover the significance of the site, founded by Henry in 1121.
The scheme will run alongside an ongoing conservation project that will see the abbey reopened to the public.
The first phase of the investigations will focus on the abbey church, land around St James' Church, Forbury Gardens and Reading Gaol car park.
The area will also be surveyed to locate possible sites for future investigation, including the high altar where the king was buried.
Reading mayor Sarah Hacker, who is on the project steering group, said: "We hope to show the lavish scale of what in the Middle Ages was one of the major Benedictine Abbeys in western Europe, and a regular place for royal visits and events."
Reading Abbey closed in the summer of 2009 after a survey highlighted the "poor and rapidly deteriorating condition of the walls".
Heritage Lottery Fund money is supporting Reading Borough Council's Reading Abbey Revealed conservation and education project.
Buildings in the quarter include Jane Austen's former school and Reading Gaol, where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated.
Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees have fled violence and hunger in their home country for the safety of camps in northern Uganda. More than 50,000 of them now live in Rhino camp, a sprawling expanse of huts and tents scattered across dusty scrubland near the town of Arua.
Life in the camp is tough, but everyone seems to agree that one of the main challenges is water. There are no boreholes, and the few streams that flow through the area are often completely dry. When they're not, the water runs a deep chocolate brown.
In response to the shortage, the International Federation of the Red Cross has resorted to trucking in water from the River Nile, which must be tested, treated, and re-tested before being offloaded into a fleet of tankers. It is then driven through the bush to the camp, where it is deposited in hundreds of smaller tanks, which must be refilled twice or three times a day.
Using a system of pipes and pumps, water is drawn from the river into floatation tanks, where aluminium sulphate is added to remove the sediment. The plant, which started producing water earlier this month, now employs more than 40 local and international staff.
Noor Pwani, a member of IFRC's staff, said: "This is the only way we're going to stave off infectious diseases - a major concern given unsanitary conditions at crowded settlements and the coming rainy season when vector and water-borne diseases flourish."
Volunteer Agaba Derrick's job is to constantly monitor the river water, which varies in quality hour by hour. His findings dictate how much aluminium sulphate must be added. Chlorine is also added to kill off remaining bacteria.
When the water flows out the other side, it is crystal clear. The plant is scaling up to pump out a million litres of clean water each day. The recommended amount of water per person, per day, in the camps is between 15 and 20 litres, which is used for washing and cooking as well as drinking.
A fleet of around 30 tankers ferries the clean water to distribution points in the camp, which need to be refilled up to three times a day. In some areas roads had to be specially built to handle the volume of traffic.
Monica Achan, who spent two weeks walking through the bush to Uganda after her brother-in-law was killed by soldiers, takes a sip of Nile water in her new home in the camp.
"Life is hard here," she said. "But with water, we will survive. Water is life."
The cabinet had hoped to hold the meeting behind closed doors - but was forced by a court order to admit the press and public at 18:30 BST.
The council adjourned the meeting soon after, claiming it would "prejudice" the forthcoming public inquiry.
Earlier the council's leader apologised to the survivors of Grenfell Tower.
But Nicholas Paget-Brown, a Conservative councillor, told BBC London he would not resign in the foreseeable future.
He also rejected claims the tragedy showed the authority had failed the community.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the entire leadership of the council to resign after the tragedy.
The mayor also said the disaster was the result of "years of neglect".
But so far the only person to resign has been the chief executive of Kensington and Chelsea council, Nicholas Holgate.
Mr Paget-Brown said the Grenfell Tower fire was "the biggest tragedy to hit London since the end of the Second World War".
He said he had not apologised directly to a survivor but said he needed "to apologise if the response on the ground to the tragedy has not been quick enough or not appropriate enough or on the scale that is needed".
"I do apologise here and to you and if anybody feels that Kensington and Chelsea should have been doing more, we've been trying to do all that we possibly can."
It's been a catastrophe and a challenge which no council leader would ever want to face.
For Nicholas Paget-Brown, the task has become harder given the original perception.
Not just that the authority couldn't cope, but that it didn't know how to muster quickly the support which would have helped.
He's been on the back-foot since.
There will be lessons, which he says he is as keen as anyone should emerge from the public enquiry.
He says it's not the right time to be talking about issues like whether he should resign, nor answer in detail the criticisms that his policies failed, nor that a community was neglected.
He gives the impression he will want to, in time.
For the moment, the prime task is to restore confidence and reputation.
Asked why the council did not ask for help from outside the borough or from the government more quickly, the Mr Paget-Brown said: "We did do that quite quickly.
"We had gold meetings, which is the sort of centralised command meetings, twice on the Wednesday so we could see what we had locally and what me might need [from] elsewhere .
"Then the London gold command came in shortly after that and we've had to work both with the borough and the London gold command.
"We let it known that we needed help quite early in the proceedings. I can't tell you exactly at what time of the day but it became quite clear that we would not be able to cope on our own.
"On the morning of Wednesday I believe the Cabinet Office met in Cobra and we had a gold session in the council here and I think we worked quite closely to make sure that all the different parties, all the different partners that you need were able to help as quickly as possible."
In a statement released after the cabinet meeting was adjourned, Mr Paget-Brown said: "We are under sustained media criticism for a slow reaction to the fire, non-visibility and for failing to invest in North Kensington.
"I believe that many of these criticisms need to be challenged and over time they will be, but I can think of nothing more demeaning to the memory of those lost and missing in the fire than seeking the resolution of political scores."
To find out, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has organised a series of election blind dates for the general election campaign.
Businessman Peter Stringfellow, who runs a gentleman's club in London, is a Conservative Party supporter, while historian, feminist and TV presenter Mary Beard says she is left-wing and proud.
They went into the meal without knowing who they would be meeting.
But did they get on?
Describe yourself: I'm Mary Beard and I am a professor of classics at the University of Cambridge. My day-job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history. A few years ago now, I started doing Roman documentaries on both BBC Two and BBC One. It's got my face out there - for better or worse.
Political beliefs: I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.
How was your date?: I had a good time. He's an engaging old rogue. He listens. I wish I'd landed a few more killer blows against some of the things on which we disagreed. And I do suspect that some of my friends will think that I didn't give him a hard enough time on the feminism.
First impression: I was so expecting it to be [businessman] James Dyson for some reason. I had to do a triple take and I thought "Oh, it's Peter Stringfellow, isn't it?"
What did you talk about?: We talked about Tories, Jeremy Corbyn, aspiration and taxes.
What did you agree on?: We were both very strong Remainers and think that the EU referendum result is seriously worrying. Both of us want to live in a global world.
Biggest row: Peter thinks that high taxation somehow stamps on aspiration. He does seem to be quite committed to the idea that there is a financial incentive to what a lot of people do. The current social exclusion in this country is so unfair that if higher taxation could solve that, surely that's a good thing?
Did you convince him on anything?: I thought the place I made the best hit actually was on taxation because I didn't think that Peter had a very good answer to the absolute blatant unfairness of social division. I think I did rather better on taxation than I did on the feminist issues. I think he's rather more practised at dealing with that actually.
What about feminism?: We had a long head-to-head without much engagement about feminism, about what women want to do, and how that fits with having them take their clothes off. I think when I meet those arguments I tend to become a bit donnish, perhaps slightly finger-wagging.
Will you go to his club?: I haven't ever been to a club where women take their clothes off. I've quite strong views about that but I've never seen it. If Peter follows up the invitation I shall go. I shall attend with some trepidation but I owe it to him to go and see what I criticised.
Best thing: The best thing is that he was prepared to listen and engage and take the argument seriously.
Worst thing: I don't think his justification about women's aspirations and [his club] Stringfellows adds up for me.
Describe him in three words: Elegant, intelligent rogue.
Marks out of 10: Oh, I can't answer that in a simple number because it depends on the criteria, right?
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 BST on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
Friday's election blind date will be Conservative John Whittingdale and Labour's Jess Phillips.
Describe yourself: My name's Peter Stringfellow. Actually I'm Peter James Stringfellow. Peter J Stringfellow is how I sign my name. Not Pete. Never Pete. I suppose I'm best known as probably the night club guy. "Hey aren't you in night clubs or something?" Yeah, that's me.
Political beliefs: I'm now a Conservative, providing the Conservatives are good for Great Britain and continue to be aspirational.
How was your date?: She was very pleasant, very sweet and very warm, and right from the off I knew we were all right. I enjoyed her company.
First impression: The minute I saw Mary, I was very pleased, because I'm a bit of history buff myself. The first thing I wanted to ask her about was the books on Rome.
What did you disagree on?: Mary got a bit hung up about exploitation [of women]. She didn't use that word, but that's basically what she was trying to say. It's an old-fashioned attitude, we all exploit each other. Not in a nasty way. We all rely on each other to make our world spin around. Footballers earn £250,000-a-week. Are they being exploited, because some owners are making billions out of the actual football? No, not really. Everyone's happy, everybody's working and that's the same as my world.
Did she convince you on anything?: Mary convinced me of nothing - except I like her, but I knew I would like her the minute I walked in the cafe and saw her. Did she change my views? Give her a break, we were only there for 40 minutes or something. But that's OK, I still liked her for herself.
Did anything surprise you?: Close-up she's a very attractive woman. I would say, she doesn't really care that much about her cosmetic appearance. Of course, she cares, but not cosmetically. And I think she carries that as a banner. Look at my eyes, I don't care about the way I look. Having said all that, she can't help it. She's a very nice, soft, warm, [woman] and I find it attractive.
Three words to describe her: Soft, smart and clever.
Marks out of 10: Nine out of 10. I thought it was great. She was lovely.
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The hurlers are based on trebuchets, weapons used to fling projectiles in the Middle Ages.
Inventor John Ward made a pair for the World Cabbage Hurling Championships, being held in Lincolnshire.
It is part of the two-day Holbeach Town and Country Fayre, which started on Saturday.
The hurlers, named Spotted Hen and Spotted Dick, threw cabbages over a distance of 230ft (70m) in tests.
Mr Ward then adapted them so they are less dangerous and only hurl the cabbages about 98ft (30m).
The aim of the game is to hurl the cabbages into tractor tyres laid out on a field.
Inventor John Ward said: "The idea was to have three members in a team because of having one member to load the cabbage, another to aim or line the cabbage up in the sling, with the third member to fire the trigger on the command of the controller, this being me!"
Points are awarded for each cabbage which lands in a tyre. More points are awarded for the tyres which are further away.
'Quite lethal'
He said: "It's basically a glorified catapult but you've got a counterbalance on one end. Think of a see-saw with a big weight on one end.
"They are based loosely on the trebuchet design but I have detuned them as with a full weight, they would be quite lethal."
Cabbages are typically grown in Lincolnshire, where the fertile soil is ideal for brassica crops.
The county also hosted a bowling competition played with cabbages, as part of celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Mr Ward said the hurling championships promoted Lincolnshire products, with more than 200 cabbages being supplied free of charge by a local farmer.
"Most fresh vegetables found in shops and supermarkets will have come from Lincolnshire, plus those to the frozen food industry as well," said Mr Ward.
"We've got cabbages in Lincolnshire and what better way to get them to your customer than using a trebuchet."
He made the hurlers, which are about 11ft (3.4m) tall, from recycled "bits and pieces" that would otherwise have gone in a skip.
Mr Ward now hopes the event will be held either annually or every other year.
"Nobody is doing cabbage chucking and hurling in other places with a trebuchet," he said.
The Cov City Police team has been on burglary patrol in the city, testing front doors then advising homeowners to lock their properties.
The photos, one retweeted by West Midlands Police's chief constable, showed officers inside hallways pointing out the home is insecure.
The force said it had had good feedback but would take other comments on board.
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Dozens of people on Twitter questioned the officers' actions.
User @craigwalder said: "If you enter my home like this, don't be surprised if I use reasonable force when I hear you."
While @quendergeer tweeted: "Pretty sure "wandering in to make a point" would receive a very dim view from the IPCC."
And @just_raymie asked: "And if they forget to lock their door again, everyone now knows where they live?!?"
Occasions when officers do not need a warrant to enter homes include to arrest an individual for a sufficiently serious crime, to recapture someone unlawfully at large and saving an individual's life or preventing serious damage to a person or property.
The team tweeted a response on Sunday following criticism of their tactics: "Thanks all for the feedback on one of the burglary prevention tactics. We'll review based on feedback #socialmediasuccess?"
In a statement, Coventry Police Ch Insp Helen Kirkman, said: "A significant proportion all burglaries in this area − in excess of 25% − are 'walk-in' offences committed by opportunists taking advantage of properties left unsecure.
"Neighbourhood police teams have been on patrol to deter such offences, look for suspects, and to offer crime prevention advice to residents.
"If they find a door or window left open I think people would want officers to check everything is OK at that address and not to just walk on by."
She said she had not received any complaints from residents, saying they were "grateful" for the advice.
"We encourage our police teams to be proactive and creative in their use of social media to engage with the public and get messages across.
"We haven't received any complaints from residents, but obviously we will take on board social media comments."
The rail network wants to pilot a ticketing system that scans people's phones to detect when they get on and off a train.
Each journey's fare is calculated and deducted from the user's bank account.
The tests are scheduled for 2017 and the technology could be available nationwide by 2018.
But one analyst claims the tech would result in only a modest improvement in convenience for passengers.
Using a smartphone's Bluetooth signal, the app allows passengers to open ticket barriers automatically, as well as get on and off trains, all without needing to hold a ticket.
Bluetooth sensors at the gates will detect when passengers enter and leave stations, and from this, calculate the journey each passenger has taken. The app will be connected to each user's bank account and charge for train fares in a manner similar to Uber does with taxis.
A design brief, written by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and seen by the BBC, suggests that the tech could eliminate consumers' problems in choosing the most affordable ticket.
It could also eliminate long queues at ticket machines, as well as provide a "seamless customer journey", the RSSB said.
A further benefit of the tech would be to track each train's performance, potentially leading to real-time journey and delay info, as well as simplifying the compensation process for delays.
For rail firms, each customer's smartphone could provide rich data on which journeys are most popular, potentially allowing them to reallocate trains to suit demand.
However, one analyst is not convinced that the tech is much of a breakthrough in terms of convenience.
"It's not too different from tapping an Oyster card on a ticket gate and tapping out the other end," said Ian Fogg, principal analyst at IHS Technology.
"All this is really saving is the trouble of taking a smartcard out and tapping it at the gate. That's a fairly small improvement."
But he said that simpler ways of proving a train has been delayed, as well as congestion tracking, would be a distinct advantage.
If Chiltern Railways doesn't provide phone charging services on the trains that will pilot the scheme, then it is overlooking a key drawback, Mr Fogg added.
This technology "has the potential to revolutionise ticketing on the railway in Britain through the use of an app", the RSSB said.
Chiltern said it would test the technology next year on journeys between five stations - Oxford Parkway, Islip, Bicester Village, Bicester North, and London Marylebone.
The two primary goals of the pilot are to see whether the technology works on a practical level, and if it is adopted by the public.
Dave Penney, managing director at Chiltern Railways, said the tech "could be the next evolution of rail ticketing".
He said: "We know passengers want to purchase tickets easily and travel for the best price; this app-based concept eliminates the need to pre-purchase a ticket. Bluetooth sensors and geolocation tracking are used to open ticket gates and determine journeys taken, then the customer is billed at the end of the day with a best value guarantee ensuring they are charged the appropriate fare for their journeys."
It remains to be seen whether the UK's other 27 train operators adopt the technology.
In a statement sent to the BBC, Virgin Trains said: "We always want to be on the side of passengers and make their experience with us the best it can be." It didn't specify whether it would adopt the RSSB's Bluetooth tech.
The 10-part series is called The Lodge and will be shown on the channel in September.
Almost 100 cast and crew are employed on the show which is being filmed at locations in County Down.
David Levine, the Disney Channel's UK and Ireland head, said it was the first time it had brought a production of its scale to Northern Ireland.
"So far Northern Ireland's been mostly known for swords and dragons - Disney Channel is bringing songs and dancing," he said.
"We're investing quite a bit, and you have production, post-production, builders, sets and filming in multiple locations here."
Most of the filming is taking place at Montalto Lodge just outside Ballynahinch, but scenes are also being shot in Castlewellan and Tollymore Forest near Newcastle.
The Lodge has a cast of 22 and 67 crew, of whom 46 are from Northern Ireland, including local producer Raymond Lau.
The series tells the story of a 15-year-old girl called Skye who, along with her father, swaps life in the city to take over the running of the family's country lodge.
Skye finds out her father is planning to sell the business, so she has the summer to convince him to change his mind.
Sophie Simnett, who most recently appeared in the BBC series Dickensian, plays Skye.
"There are a lot of sub-plots, all of which involve a lot of activity," she said.
"So as well as the singing and dancing, I had to learn to rock climb as there is one scene where I go on a date and go rock-climbing.
"We also had to learn how to kayak as there is a scene where the whole group go kayaking."
Thomas Doherty, who has appeared in the TV series Dracula and the film Hercules, plays Sean.
"He is fun-loving, he's very sporty, and he has a love interest in Skye," he said.
"I originally trained to do musical theatre, so it was amazing to get this.
"We've had choreography, we've had singing coaches, so we've had the best training and it's good fun."
The Lodge will complete filming before the summer, and will be shown first on the Disney Channel in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
It is then expected to be screened on the channel elsewhere in Europe.
Ships from an EU task force and Italy's coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles (65km) off the coast as survivors clung to the hull or swam.
The Italian navy rescued 562 migrants from a capsized boat on Wednesday.
It has now emerged that the death toll from that shipwreck may have been as great as 100.
Five deaths were reported by the Italian coast guard at the time but the International Organization of Migration (IOM) believes others were trapped in the upturned hull.
Some 6,000 migrants trying to reach Europe have been rescued from flimsy craft in the Mediterranean this week alone.
Aid agencies say the crossing between Libya and Italy is the main route for migrants since an EU deal with Turkey curbed the number sailing across the Aegean to Greece.
In other developments:
A Luxembourg reconnaissance plane spotted the capsized boat on Thursday and raised the alert.
"We estimate the dead to be between 20 and 30 people," Captain Antonello de Renzis Sonnino, spokesman for the EU's Sophia military operation to combat people smugglers in the region, told AFP news agency, as the rescue continued.
The Spanish frigate Reina Sofia, backed by the Italian coastguard, threw life floats and jackets to those in the water.
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A second, Spanish plane was also involved in the rescue operation, Italy's Ansa news agency reports (in Italian).
In all, the Italian coast guard rescued 2,600 migrants on Thursday alone, it said in a tweet (in Italian).
Survivors of Wednesday's incident were brought ashore in Porto Empedocle, on the Italian island of Sicily, where IOM teams interviewed them.
"The survivors who talked to our teams when they landed at Porto Empedocle spoke of 100 missing people who were stuck in the hull," IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo told AFP news agency.
Horrific scenes of people clinging desperately to the upturned boat or dropping into the sea were caught on camera.
Mr Di Giacomo added that most of the 562 survivors were Moroccans but there were also "many Tunisians and two Syrian families".
Speaking to BBC News, he said: "According to stories gathered by IOM staff, those are people who were living in Libya and who are fleeing the country which is now too dangerous."
In January, Germany unveiled plans to add Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria to its list of safe countries, making it unlikely for them to qualify for asylum in the EU's main destination for asylum seekers.
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 claim was made by a lawyer for the department on the inquiry's first day.
The airport wants the removal of a two million cap on the number of departure seats it can sell each year so it can pursue more direct European routes.
The lawyer said suggested replacement noise controls would be more effective.
The inquiry is being heard at the Planning Appeals Commission in Belfast.
After further days of evidence, the commission will make a recommendation to Stormont Environment Minister Mark H Durkan, who will make a final decision.
However, the hearing was told the minister is "not bound" by the recommendation.
The airport's plan is being objected to by residents' groups and Belfast International Airport.
A lawyer for Belfast International Airport claimed the "seats for sale" restriction influenced the size of aircraft that used George Best Belfast City Airport, and that there was a "correlation between size and noise".
He said there was "something very odd" that the department, as decision-maker, "was actively engaging in the debate" at the inquiry.
Residents' groups are concerned that if the restriction is lifted, it will mean a busier and noisier airport.
They are due to give evidence on Wednesday.
About 2.5 million passengers use the airport annually - a figure representing both departing and incoming travellers.
George Best Belfast City Airport is the only airport in the UK that has a limit on the number of departure seats it can sell, and it disputes claims that it would become noisier.
In 2008-2010, it was in breach of the restriction, but is now back under the cap.
Its lawyer said even if the cap was removed, the airport would continue to operate below the 48,000 aircraft movements permitted each year.
The inquiry is scheduled to run until Thursday.
The first trick happened at the Portrack Lane branch, Stockton, and the second took place at Wolviston Services, Billingham, both on Monday at about 18:00 GMT.
The RSPCA said a man has admitted his involvement and will be spoken to.
The bird from the Wolviston branch has been given a home by an RSPCA inspector and named Nugget.
A group of youths are believed to have ordered and paid for food but instead of collecting it threw the chicken through the serving hatch
Helen Laville was with her seven-year-old daughter at the Portrack restaurant.
She told BBC Tees: "I was stood at the counter when staff opened the hatch to serve some food and a fully grown live chicken was thrown through.
"It settled on the floor of the kitchen. Staff started shouting, 'there's a chicken in the restaurant'.
"It was a bit distressed. It was making a mess and bleeding a little from its foot.
"My daughter wouldn't eat her meal. It led to some interesting conversations about the food chain. I think she will be ordering a burger next time instead of nuggets."
Ron Crawford, of the RSPCA, has given it a new home with his flock of chicken.
A spokesman from the charity said it "would like to discourage people from repeating such pranks".
"Chickens are protected animals under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and subjecting them to pranks such as this could be an offence," she said.
A McDonald's spokesman confirmed the two pranks took place on Monday evening and said the RSPCA was investigating.
Ever since that golden 12-month period from August 2008 to August 2009 - four major finals, four gold medals, four astonishing world records - Bolt has been a man out on his own, just as he was in carving up 100 metres in 9.58 seconds and 200m in 19.19.
Different league, different rules. Wherever Bolt goes, normal goes out of the window.
There is the big stuff: a million requests for the 80,000 tickets for 2012's Olympic 100m final, an appearance fee 10 times that of his fellow sprinters, a sportswear sponsorship deal that reportedly pays him more than £2m a year in retirement, let alone the £6m each year while he is still running.
Then there is the day-to-day weirdness: being paraded round tracks before competitions astride a giant rocket, a world championships being halted so the entire stadium could sing him Happy Birthday, being asked about the Gaza crisis and Scottish independence in news conferences while posing alongside a giant anthropomorphic thistle.
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What else sets him apart is how much he enjoys being the centre of such relentless attention.
One of the saddest aspects of Tiger Woods's comparative fame is how miserable he makes being Tiger Woods appear. Bolt utilises that same weight of public pressure to drag out his best.
In the weeks before London 2012, he had been beaten by rivals and doubted by critics. By his own admission, he was only 95% fit. Then, at the centrepiece of the biggest sporting occasion on the planet, he ran the second fastest 100m of all time to retain his Olympic title in unprecedented style.
Just as in overcoming a naturally sluggish start and coping with an abnormal curvature of the spine which once made him injury-prone, Bolt has had to work on that ability to flourish in the spotlight.
As a precocious 15-year-old, it was almost too much for him. Going to the World Juniors in 2002 as the home-grown darling of the Kingston crowd, he was so intimidated by the expectations of his fellow Jamaicans that he broke down in tears and told his parents he wanted to pull out.
The footage of his victory, over rivals three years older and in physical maturity, is the moment the kid became the clowning man: crowd going crazy, Bolt - initially stunned - suddenly deciding to salute them, watching the delighted reaction and metamorphosing as he does so.
"That was, and will always be, my greatest moment," he has said.
In the decade that has followed, Bolt has become a must-see show, a one-off marvel to catch before it is too late.
No matter that each performance may last less than 10 seconds. Unlike any other superstar sprinter, unlike Carl Lewis or Michael Johnson, he stretches a short into an epic - play-acting in his warm-up, talking to the TV cameras, posing on the blocks, dragging the stadium's attention with him on laps of honour, borrowing phones to set up selfies and signing everything offered.
Because it is an experience to tell the grandchildren about, because there are a finite number of opportunities to witness the greatest athlete that has ever lived do what no athlete has ever done before, everyone wants to be involved.
How does he cope? On the road, as he is for most of an injury-free summer, he is shielded by long-time agent Ricky Simms, the 37-year-old Irishman who first met him just after those World Juniors.
It is close to Simms' office in south-west London that Bolt usually bases himself in summer, training at Brunel University in Uxbridge and St Mary's in Twickenham and using Heathrow airport for the short hops to big-money meets around Europe.
London being indifferent London, he can run without attention and pop into the Chinese takeaways of Teddington without being asked to sign more than the bill.
At home in Kingston he shares his five-bedroom house with his half-brother Sadiki and childhood best friend NJ. His PlayStation and Call of Duty provide an escape, the two men a comfort blanket of normality.
When even that gets too much, he goes back to the rural north-west of Jamaica and the tiny town of Sherwood Content, where he grew up and where parents Jennifer and Wellesley still live.
Out come the dominoes, out comes the Guinness. For a man who has made a living from doing the impossible, it is both mundane and understandable.
Being the fastest human being who ever lived can still be onerous. In the athletes' village at big events, even surrounded by other world-class sportsmen, he is almost a prisoner of his room.
Here in Glasgow, as in London, he has not even been able to go to the canteen for food. "That's nothing new," admits Jamaican press attache Laurel Smith.
"He doesn't want to create disturbance. So what the management team is basically instructed is that he has what they call in Jamaican terminology, a bagman.
"He will go first, check out what is on the menu, report back to Usain, he makes the selection and then the bagman goes down and gets it and brings it back to his room.
"Because if he goes in at particular times, the canteen would have a couple of hundred people and it would create a disturbance. They have to be very mindful of that so the best method is to get his bagman to bring his meal to his room."
Bolt changed his sport. Without Usain there would be no Mobot, no Yohan Blake growing his nails and inserting plastic fangs as 'the Beast', no prime-time slots for a sport that had been on the decline.
Because Bolt, probably, saved his sport too. He came in after almost every record-breaking sprinter - Justin Gatlin, Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery - had been busted for doping. He stands clean as his rivals - Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell - go the same way.
When he runs, promoters sell out stadiums. When he doesn't, the fans stay away. The attendance at the Diamond League meet in Rome this year was 35,000 down on the year before. The reason? In 2013 Bolt was there; in 2014, he stayed at home.
The Bolt effect can be felt everywhere. It has made his rivals faster, according to a study that analysed every international 100m race since 1888. It changed the UK tax system, when Chancellor George Osborne granted a one-off amnesty to bring the Jamaican to last summer's London Grand Prix. It has even boosted tourism to his home country.
"The impact of Bolt's performance at the London Olympics will have an effect on the island for many years," Jamaican tourism minister Wykeham McNeill has said.
It should be too much for a 27-year-old to take. But only once has he cracked, when he false-started at the 2011 World Championships under intense pressure from training-partner Blake.
There have been no sex scandals a la Woods, no gambling exposes of the sort that hit Michael Jordan.
Bolt is not Muhammad Ali. He has not taken the same radical political stance nor gambled his sporting career on a point of principle. Sport is different now. Few have.
But he has shared Ali's ability to transcend his sport, and he has sucked in the world's willing attention in just the same way. And he has done so with remarkably few problems.
The 22-year-old began his career at Arsenal but left the Gunners last summer after making only one appearance and subsequently joined Hull.
Henderson also featured just once for the Tigers and had a brief spell on loan at Stevenage in April.
The Republic of Ireland Under-21 international has signed a one-year deal with the West Sussex club.
Henderson becomes Crawley's eighth signing of the summer.
"He was highly regarded at Arsenal but then suffered a bad knee injury which affected his progress," Crawley boss John Gregory told the club website.
"I have spoken to Hull manager Steve Bruce at length about him and he speaks very highly of Conor.
"He is coming down a level to play for us but he sees it as a move which will progress his career in the right direction. He's very skilful, passes it and keeps possession well and is a threat in the box too."
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Tony Blair's former chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, is also understood to have been involved in the talks.
It is believed a statement is planned for next Tuesday, on the 21st anniversary of the loyalist ceasefire.
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Mr McNarry is understood to have been talking to the leadership of loyalist groups for a long time.
The BBC has so far been unable to contact the UKIP MLA to discuss the initiative.
On Tuesday, the News Letter reported comments attributed to a section of the UDA, stating that it still exists and suggesting that it has no intention of disappearing.
It quoted The Loyalist magazine as saying: "We will wait and see which way it pans out, but rest assured the UDA are still in existence and won't be leaving any stage whilst republicans of any faction still exist."
The magazine is said to represent the views of the South Belfast UDA and its political advisory body the Ulster Political Research Group.
Newport West MP Paul Flynn, who has not replaced Jeremy Corbyn, was captioned 'Leader, U.K. Labor Party' by WNBC.
It happened during its coverage of the debate on whether Donald Trump should be banned from the UK.
The error was spotted by writer and journalist Rosa Prince who tweeted it with the comment "Wait, what?".
These bomb tests changed the level of carbon in the atmosphere, which can be traced to date elephant tusks.
Trafficking poached ivory is increasingly being used to fund civil wars, groups warn.
Scientists say the findings, published in PNAS, could make it easier to enforce the ivory ban.
The number of elephants being poached is now at the highest it has been for two decades, according to a UN backed report.
This was highlighted in January when a family of 11 elephants was slaughtered in Kenya, their tusks hacked off with machetes.
In the 1980s, more than half of Africa's elephants are thought to have been wiped out by poachers. This led to an international ban on trading ivory in 1989. As public awareness of the threat of extinction increased, the global demand for ivory dwindled.
But today conservationists believe that a growing demand for ivory in China and other Asian countries is responsible for a huge increase in the number of animals being poached.
Many governments have huge stockpiles of ivory, and it is often unclear when this ivory was acquired and whether or not some of it is leaking into the illegal market.
Now scientists have found that radioactive carbon in the atmosphere emitted during the Cold War bomb tests will make it easier to distinguish between illegal ivory to that which was acquired before the trade ban.
The amount of radiocarbon in the atmosphere nearly doubled during nuclear weapons tests from 1952 to 1962, which steadily dropped after tests were restricted to underground. This has been dubbed "the bomb-curve".
The levels have declined since but as they are still absorbed by plant, they enter the food chain and are measurable in plant and animal tissues.
The concentration of radiocarbon found in tiny samples of animal tissue can accurately determine the year of an animals death, from 1955 until today, explained lead author Kevin Uno from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, US.
"This is different to the traditional dating technique which takes advantage of the loss of radiocarbon through time."
Traditional radiocarbon dating would only be able to pick up an "imperceptible amount of decay" added Dr Uno, but because the bomb spike doubled the concentration or carbon, they were able to find huge variations over the last 60 years, which enabled accurate dating.
Dr Uno said this technique "would dovetail very nicely with DNA testing which tells you the region of origin, but not the date".
As anti-poaching funding is extremely limited, understanding where the poaching hotspots are, as well as how old the tusks are, could help the international community to direct funding to the places most at risk, he added.
"The year an elephant died plays a big role in whether or not the trade [of ivory] is legal. Poached ivory makes it to market relatively quickly, so by measuring the age of a tusk we can say what year it's from. This will help us pinpoint the source of the ivory and how it's getting to market."
Big government organisations like the UN and Interpol have also recently increased efforts looking into the problem.
"Saving elephants - majestic and wonderful species - is priceless. These wildlife forensics are ready to roll, now we need to speak to the organisations who can set up a programme to make it happen."
Poaching is a problem closely linked to poverty, politics and conflict. Poachers include poor opportunistic individuals and increasingly heavily armed militia groups who use ivory to fund conflicts.
WWF's regional East Africa manager Drew McVey welcomed the new research, and said any help in securing convictions could reduce ivory trafficking.
"The key thing to note is that ivory has been smuggled so far and wide, we've got to cut down the loopholes as much as we can. Though the amount of seizures [of illegal ivory] is increasing each year, we don't know how much we're catching, it's realistic to think we're not catching all the big ones."
He added that poaching is not easy to prevent as "one thing Africa isn't short of is poor people" which is why it's important to cut down the ways people are moving ivory around.
"Rather than targeting people on the ground, we need to reduce the demand from middle men and the consumers," Mr McVey told BBC News.
As for the scientific process involved, Paula Raimer from Queen's University Belfast, said the study removes doubt that the C14 emitted from bombs can be used to date ivory.
"The work is of particular importance for forensics use in endangered species because the authors show that C14 can be used to determine the age of death or collection of ivory as well as establishing growth rates, so that other data from the teeth can also be put on a calendar time scale."
The study has wider implications for crime forensics, she added, as bomb carbon could be used to date human bones as well as to detect art forgeries.
Officials have ordered an investigation into the incident, which happened on Monday night.
The arrival of security guards prevented the poachers from carrying away the mutilated animal.
The poaching and smuggling of tiger body parts is common across India.
The animals are prized throughout East Asia in general and China in particular for the supposed medicinal value of their body parts.
Tiger numbers have shrunk alarmingly in India in recent decades.
A 2011 census counted about 1,700 tigers in the wild. A century ago there were estimated to be 100,000 tigers in India.
The poachers tranquilised the six-year-old tigress before entering its enclosure and cutting it into six pieces, officials at the zoo say. A post-mortem of the animal has now been carried out.
Zoo chief Zoram Dopum said that the poachers fled when three security guards who had gone for dinner returned to the area.
There have been attempts at poaching animals in the zoo before, officials say.
In February 2006, three tigers and a leopard were poisoned by unknown people. One tiger died, while the other two other animals survived.
In June 2006, 30kg (66lb) of tiger parts - mainly bones and nails - were seized from a vehicle belonging to a police officer in Assam state.
Officers in a marked patrol car spotted the dark vehicle driving erratically along Philip Lane in Haringey at about 21:45 BST on Thursday.
When they followed and tried to stop the car it sped off, striking the man. He remains in hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
It is the second crash involving a Met police pursuit in a week.
Police are still hunting the driver of the vehicle involved in the incident in Haringey. One witness said the injured man was a local bus driver.
The Met said the Directorate of Professional Standards had been informed and that officers from its Serious Collision Investigation Unit were dealing with the incident.
Officers appealed for information and said efforts continue to trace the driver.
In a separate incident on Wednesday, aspiring 10-year-old actor Makayah McDermott and Rozanne Cooper died after a car pursued by police crashed into them in Penge, south-east London.
The pair were run over as they walked along Lennard Road, along with Makayah's twin older sisters Niyah and Yahla, who were trapped under the car and managed to crawl out when bystanders lifted it off them.
Another eight-year-old family member was also injured, but she and the twin girls have since been released from hospital.
Peter Craig, 49, sustained a head injury following the incident at about 09:00 on Saturday on the Loan Footpath, at its junction with Fergus Avenue.
He was taken to the Western General but later died.
Police Scotland are trying to trace the cyclist, who did not swap details with the jogger at the time.
Apple has now revealed what DJ Zane Lowe left BBC Radio 1 to do - he will be one of three launch presenters on the station broadcasting from Los Angeles.
Joining him on the roster are Ebro Darden broadcasting from New York and Rinse FM's Julie Adenuga from London.
Industry insiders have spoken to the BBC to give their thoughts on the new kid on the radio block.
Beats 1 is a global radio station and it has said it will launch with three very specialist music programmes - a hip hop DJ from New York, a grime DJ from London and Zane - that's a very specialist offering at the moment.
I'm not scared of what they've got, I'm very intrigued by it and it would be a fool that ignores them, because they're something like a $109bn company, so of course you're going to look at what they're doing.
"A rising tide lifts all boats" is the expression, and I think it's good for the radio industry that a tech company so used to changing the way we operate as human beings - with iPads and smart phones - wants to do radio. Having a presenter tell you "this is the next big tune that you need in your life" is so much more engaging and exciting than a streaming device.
Hopefully the UK radio industry can work with Apple. They've got a 24/7 global radio station and at the moment they've only announced three presenters. There's a lot of content they'll need to fill those hours, and who makes the best music radio content in the world? The BBC - so I'm looking forward to that call from Zane soon.
Beats 1 isn't about radio, it's about music. Most radio stations offer local news, travel, information and entertainment so Apple's new single radio station won't have much of an impact on most of them.
People who listen to local radio generally don't listen for the music. However, specialist music stations such as 1Xtra, Kiss, 6 Music (and to an extent, Capital and Radio 1) will be more at risk than the likes of Radio Plymouth, The Bee and Clyde 1.
Apple is targeting new music lovers and fans. I'm not sure we can categorise the intended audience by age or gender, but they will generally be the younger end of the market. Apple will put lots of marketing behind Beats 1 and pay large amounts to attract star guest presenters, which will be good news for radio in general.
There are thousands of services already but it takes a company the size of Apple for it to be noticed and used widely.
The great American radio programmer Rick Sklar of '60s New York superstation WABC invented the concept of Top 40 radio - playing listeners' favourite songs and future hits which his team had picked and playing them on heavy rotation. This gave birth to UK music pirate radio and eventually Radio 1.
Sklar said that great music radio is "where art meets science" - I've always believed this to be true and Apple Music is to my mind one manifestation of this theory.
Apple Music is by it own admission a music service for music people and I'd contend great music stations like BBC Radio 6 Music, Australia's Triple J and LA's KCRW already do this.
So why are they bothering? I think it's a case of creating another gateway into the Apple walled garden and a proposed free-to-the-listener radio service makes a lot of sense in the US where they face opposition such as XM Sirius and Pandora. This gateway will also allow the massive Apple iTunes inbuilt consumer base to give a leg up to the still niche streaming music industry.
Whilst competing with the likes of Spotify it could also be a fillip to them. My question is what about the mainstream, regular people who just like music but don't need a reason or credibility for every song they hear?
This lack of appeal to mainstream listeners is I think the reason I found Apple Music - as it stands - a bit underwhelming; it's a version of Spotify with its music streaming service, a bit of BBC Introducing with Connect and a bit of 6 Music with Beats 1. So perhaps Beats 2 will be more like Radio 2 and target a mainstream music audience?
The impact on UK music radio will be to make us all better at our jobs - we'll have to rely even more on our own ears, tear up the research, ditch the music consultants and let great music programmers come to the fore again.
There was a lot of hot talk last night about Beats 1 being an ecosystem for music, which implies it is not going to be part of a bigger, pre-existing ecosystem. It also suggests discrete services which always made sense in their own environments - audio streaming, music video, social media and so on - will be brought together in one place, Jurassic Park-style.
That kind of flannel is troubling, because if Apple were truly revolutionising the way everyone accesses and experiences music, they would not need to talk it up in those terms. The innovation and therefore the value to consumers would be palpable.
Certainly curated content is great, and that is why there are radio stations, but radio stations build up trust with their listeners over a long time, and the relationship feels personal, and often local.
That's not to say Apple can't develop that trust - it's just going to take a while (and a few more additions to the ecosystem) before the true value becomes apparent.
Apple is launching a radio station as it's the best way to market Apple Music - its new subscription streaming product. If consumers have access to all the world's music at their fingertips, they'll need a guide: Someone to suggest things to listen to. Apple's answer is providing a linear radio station, some automated channels, playlists and a new social media platform for artists.
Their linear radio station - Beats 1 - will be about new music using famous DJs like Zane Lowe. They'll do a good job at this with a hefty content and marketing budget, but with limited distribution (online only) and a "new music" format it's unlikely to be a devastating challenge to existing UK radio stations.
The big question is whether this is just the beginning of their content ambitions and whether we'll see them launch more linear, presenter-led radio stations. Could Ken Bruce take Popmaster worldwide? If they did, it definitely would be a worry, but I think this is unlikely.
Beats 1 and Apple Music isn't about taking on radio - it's about providing an environment to encourage people to pay a tenner a month to subscribe to Apple Music.
Spotify has much more to worry about than Capital FM.
Adrian Bayford, who netted £148m with his then-wife in 2012, has volunteered to hold this year's Cambridge Rock Festival on his estate in Horseheath.
Festival director Dave Roberts said he had been "unsure" whether to go ahead with the event, which is usually held at a farm near Barton, this year.
The festival attracts about 3,000 music fans on each of its four days.
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Since 2009, it has been held at Haggis Farm Polo Club in Barton.
However, before Mr Bayford approached organisers two weeks ago, its director said he was "a little unsure about whether to go ahead" with this year's event.
Mr Bayford, who owns Black Barn Records in Cambridge, approached him and offered the venue for free, in return for publicity for his company, Mr Roberts said.
"I know Adrian would like to do lots of things with his estate and [that's] great, he's a lovely fellow, and absolutely into his music," he said.
"He has come to us with his love of music so the two knitted together."
The acts for this year's festival - from 3 to 6 August - have not yet been announced, but Mr Roberts said "Eddie and the Hot Rods will be back".
Headliners in the past have included The Stranglers, Hazel O'Connor, Australian Pink Floyd and Dr Feelgood.
When Mr Bayford and his wife won their millions, The Sunday Times Rich List said their fortune rivalled that of Jamie and Jools Oliver (£150m), Sir Tom Jones (£140m) and Eric Clapton (£130m).
Their win placed them 516th in Britain's Rich List.
He faces charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and having an offensive weapon.
A 24-year-old man was found with slash marks to his face in an entry off Glencairn Way.
He was treated for his injuries in hospital but they were not believed to be life-threatening.
He warned Russia that all parties to the cessation of hostilities needed to stop attacks, including air strikes.
If successful, he said, the truce could be a first step towards ending the chaos and violence in Syria.
And he vowed to defeat the so-called Islamic State (IS), which he said was "not a caliphate but a crime ring".
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Mr Obama said the success of the cessation of hostilities would depend on whether parties including the Syrian government, Russia and their allies lived up to their commitments.
Attacks needed to end and humanitarian aid had to be allowed through to desperate civilians, he said.
"The coming days will be critical and the world will be watching," he said.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he hoped the US would respect the truce.
Mr Obama said that factional rivalry among the rebels, as well as the campaign against IS, meant there would be no immediate end to violence.
He also insisted that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had to step down from power as part of any solution to Syria's civil war, but acknowledged there was "significant dispute" with Russia and its allies over this point.
"It is clear that after years of barbarity against his people, many will not stop fighting until Assad is out of power," he said.
Mr Obama also said progress was being made in the fight against IS, but added that the only way to inflict a lasting defeat on the group was to bring an end to the Syrian conflict.
He said:
"More people are realising that IS is not a caliphate, it's a crime ring. They are not winning over hearts and minds, they are under pressure," he said.
"In the end the brutality of IS is no match for the yearning of millions who want to live in safety and dignity."
Syria's main opposition umbrella group said that it was ready for a two-week truce to test the government's commitment to the plan.
But the High Negotiations Committee expressed concern that Moscow and Damascus would continue targeting rebels allied to the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group that, along with IS, will be excluded from the cessation of hostilities.
The Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG), a militia that controls territory in northern Syria near the Turkish border, said on Thursday that it would respect the truce, but reserve the right to retaliate if attacked.
The UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, meanwhile said he would be announcing the date for the next round of peace talks in Geneva on Friday.
He is one of seven Milton Keynes drivers found to have criminal convictions in a council investigation.
The inquiry came after a convicted rapist had both his private hire and Hackney Carriage licences revoked last week.
Council leader Peter Marland said the authority would take action when it had the "full facts".
A council spokesman said the issue was its "highest priority" and it was preparing to interview all drivers it had concerns about.
The driver convicted of four sexual assaults, including rape, had been issued with a private hire vehicle licence in September 2011, despite councillors knowing of his convictions.
He was granted a Hackney Carriage licence last March.
Both licences were revoked last week after a member of the public raised concerns about him.
The council said it had begun a detailed review of licence holders, which found seven other drivers gave "cause for concern".
Labour leader Mr Marland told BBC Three Counties Radio: "At the moment we are doing all the background checks.
"One of those [seven] drivers has handed in his plates and we will take immediate action against the other six as we find out more detail."
Mr Marland could not give a time scale but said it would be "as soon as we possibly can".
"I think our cabs are safe, the vast majority of taxi drivers in Milton Keynes are good, law abiding people," he said.
Liberal Democrat mayor Subhan Shafiq stepped down after he was found to have personally vouched for the convicted rapist, describing the man as being of "good current character".
The chairman and vice-chairman of the licensing committee, Gladstone McKenzie and Stuart Burke, have also resigned.
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They featured on a shortlist of three nominees including Hallé Orchestra music director Sir Mark Elder.
In a ballot of university staff and former students, Mr Sissay received 7,131 votes while Sir Mark polled 5,483 and Lord Mandelson gained 5,269 votes.
Mr Sissay said: "My primary aim is to inspire and be inspired."
He added: "Reach for the top of the tree and you may get to the first branch but reach for the stars and you'll get to the top of the tree."
The writer, who has authored plays and books of poetry, is also an associate artist at London's Southbank Centre.
He will start the seven-year role on 1 August, replacing current chancellor, property developer Tom Bloxham MBE, the founder of Manchester-based company Urban Splash.
"I am proud to be Chancellor of this fantastic University and extremely grateful to everyone who voted for me," he added.
Mr Sissay recently campaigned successfully for a police investigation after complaints of historical physical and sexual abuse at a former children's home in Wigan.
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, who is president at the university, congratulated Mr Sissay on his role, adding it was a ceremonial office, which involved "significant ambassadorial responsibilities in helping to promote the university's achievements worldwide".
"Each one of the nominees had excellent credentials and would have made a fine ambassador for the University."
A university spokesman said there could be "other ways" that Sir Mark and former Labour cabinet minister Lord Mandelson could support the institution, which has nearly 38,000 students.
Lord Mandelson, who was a key figure in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, recently said he wanted the post "because the city of Manchester is becoming the most exciting, edgy place to be around in England".
An installation ceremony will be held at the university in October.
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Gemma Rees, of Stowford Road, Barton, appeared at Oxford Crown Court and denied the offence.
Police found a man in his 50s had been stabbed in his home in Henry Taunt Close, Barton, on 2 July. Ms Rees, 26, was arrested the next day.
She will go on trial at the same court on 11 January next year.
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The boy named in court only as "Baby Imran" was found by his mother lifeless in their Luton home on 17 January 2014.
The baby's mother, Jessica Price, 23, and grandmother Angela Price, 62, both of Morris Close, deny causing or allowing the death of Baby Imran.
Angela Price denies a charge of causing or allowing a child to suffer severe physical harm, Luton Crown Court heard.
The mother and daughter also denied cruelty to a person by failing to provide the baby with adequate food and drink.
They also pleaded not guilty to a second charge of cruelty to a child by failing to obtain medical aid for the infant when he failed to thrive.
At the start of the trial the court was told Jessica Price had pleaded guilty to cruelty to a person by failing to seek medical assistance for the severe nappy rash her son was suffering from in the weeks leading up to his death.
Prosecutor Christopher Donnellan QC said Baby Imran had been born 10 weeks prematurely in June of 2013 and weighed 1.5kg or a little over 3lb.
Mr Donnellan said the child's mother ignored advice to regularly take her son to a local clinic so he could be weighed.
The jury then heard how, at 17:30 GMT on 17 January 2014, the mother made a 999 call after finding her son lifeless and cold on a bed.
Paramedics arrived and the baby was pronounced dead at 17:48 GMT.
Mr Donnellan said experts concluded Baby Imran had died due to dehydration and not getting enough food and liquid.
The trial continues.
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Livingston delivered the latest blow with a 1-0 win thanks to former Rangers defender Craig Halkett's headed goal against the Championship champions.
"We all have to look at ourselves, because that was not Rangers," said Warburton.
"We have 24 days to get it right, which we will do."
Since their Scottish Cup semi-final win over Glasgow neighbours Celtic, Rangers have lost to Hibernian, who they will face in the final on 21 May, drawn at home to relegated Alloa Athletic and now suffered a defeat by second-bottom Livi.
Warburton's side conclude their league campaign with a trip to Paisley to face St Mirren on Sunday and the manager dismissed the suggestion that it would be difficult to regain momentum ahead of their trip to Hampden Park.
"After the Celtic game against Hibernian, you can say it was the draining nature of the game at Hampden, but that was not really us," he said.
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"But, no excuses. We started brightly, but for the vast majority of the game we were way below.
"I am not going to sit here and defend that. We didn't deserve to get anything out of the game."
Warburton, on the shortlist for PFA Scotland's manager of the year, did not think Rangers were feeling the pressure of completing a trophy treble - having also won the Petrofac Training Cup.
"Pressure is fighting relegation, fighting for your contract, you might get a pay-cut as a player, pressure is going out of business," he said.
"That is not pressure. Everyone is tired, we all have had long seasons, do you feel more tired when winning the league or more tired when fighting relegation?"
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The campaign, which included an online poll, was run in a bid to find the country's top sporting destination.
The city has several famous sportsmen and women associated with it, including Brian Clough and figure skaters Torvill and Dean.
The others shortlisted for the title were Gloucestershire, London, Manchester, Rugby and Yorkshire.
Jennifer Spencer, chief executive of Experience Nottinghamshire, said the accolade has the potential to bring more visitors and help the city bid for major sporting events.
Brian Clough, the former Nottingham Forest manager, had a huge impact on the city and was honoured with a statue in the city centre.
Earlier this year, one Forest fan paid homage to Clough's European Cup winning team by recreating them in Lego.
A film, I Believe in Miracles, about the players was also premiered at the City Ground, with director Johnny Owen describing them as "gods".
The filmmaker tweeted about his delight at the honour and so did his partner, the Nottingham-born This is England star Vicky McClure.
Nottingham's other football club, Notts County, is the oldest professional football league club in the world while the nearby Trent Bridge cricket ground was the scene for a number of victories over Australia.
In August, Stuart Broad, who grew up in Nottingham, took eight wickets for just 15 runs at the Nottinghamshire stadium.
In 2016, Nottingham will host the European championships in archery, a sport closely associated with the city's most famous legendary resident Robin Hood.
The Cerebral Palsy World Games was also held in Nottingham, in August.
James Berresford, VisitEngland's chief executive, said: "Live sporting events are great drivers for tourism, worth £3.2bn to the sector.
"[Nottingham was the] site of our glorious Ashes win this summer, the setting for the critically acclaimed I Believe in Miracles film and the home to the National Water Sports Centre. "
The 2013 US Open champion was joint leader with four to play but missed two short putts to fall out of contention.
Hahn, who had missed his previous eight cuts, beat fellow American Roberto Castro in a play-off after both finished on nine-under par.
Defending champion Rory McIlroy fired a 66 to be tied fourth on seven-under.
McIlroy shared fourth with American Phil Mickelson, who also posted a final-round 66.
Overnight leader Rickie Fowler also finished on seven-under after carding an error-strewn two-over 74, including a double-bogey seven at the seventh.
It was a frustrating closing round at Quail Hollow for Rose who was well placed for his first PGA Tour win since the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in April 2015.
He missed a four-foot putt for birdie at 15 and a putt of similar length at the next, which cost him a bogey.
Hahn, who carded a 70, earned the second PGA Tour win of his career but only after Castro (71) failed to record a par at the last to claim his first title.
Castro found water with his drive at the first play-off hole, handing the initiative to Hahn, who found the fairway and then set up victory with a solid second to the heart of the green.
Hahn told Sky Sports: "It feels incredible. Rory has won this tournament twice and Rickie has won it, too, so to be considered among those top golfers makes me smile."
On winning after missing eight straight cuts, he added: "You have just got to believe, tell yourself you are good enough and surround yourself with great people who encourage you."
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David Cameron outlined his case in the Commons for allowing the RAF to bomb the Islamic State terror group in Syria as well as in Iraq.
But the SNP's Angus Robertson said there was no effective ground support in place to take and hold territory.
And he said there was no fully-costed reconstruction plan in place for Syria.
Mr Cameron had said that there were about 70,000 "moderate" Free Syrian Army (FSA) troops as well Kurdish fighters who could work with the UK to "help eliminate" IS.
But Mr Robertson, the SNP's leader at Westminster, questioned how many of those FSA fighters were on the frontline against Daesh - another name for IS - in the north east of Syria as opposed to countering Syrian regime forces elsewhere in the country.
He also asked Mr Cameron what the UK was doing to plan and secure long-term stability and reconstruction in Syria.
Mr Robertson said: "The UK spent 13 times more bombing Libya than on its post-conflict stability and reconstruction. So how much does the prime minister estimate the total cost of reconstruction will be, and does he think that the amount in his statement today will be sufficient?
"Two years ago the prime minister urged us to bomb the opponents of Daesh in Syria. That would probably have strengthened this terrorist organisation. Today, the prime minister wants us to launch a bombing campaign without effective ground support in place or a fully-costed reconstruction and stability plan.
"The prime minister has asked us to consider his plan. We have listened closely. However, key questions posed by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee remain unanswered.
"And unless the prime minister answers these questions satisfactorily, the Scottish National Party will not vote for airstrikes in Syria."
Mr Robertson said the SNP shared concerns about the "terrorist threat" from IS, and that the party strongly supported a ceasefire in Syria and a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who is also the SNP leader, has previously said that the party would listen to what the prime minister had to say before making a decision on whether or not to support airstrikes.
Her predecessor, Alex Salmond, has said that the party believes a United Nations resolution would be required before it was able to back Mr Cameron on airstrikes.
Last month, the SNP conference unanimously backed a motion which was opposed to airstrikes in Syria.
A Commons vote is expected within weeks on whether to authorise a bombing campaign, with the SNP's 54 MPs having the potential to play a crucial role.
Speaking in the Commons after publishing his response to a recent Foreign Affairs committee report on air strikes, Mr Cameron said that there was a "clear legal basis" for military action against IS in Syria.
He said this was because the UN Security Council had passed a resolution stating that IS "constitutes a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security", and calling upon member states to take "all necessary measures to prevent and suppress terrorist acts committed" by the group and to "eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria".
The prime minister argued that it was in the national interest of the UK to carry out air strikes against IS militants in Syria.
He said that military action should be part of a "comprehensive strategy" to tackle IS, which would also require a "full political settlement".
The prime minister dismissed fears that that UK would become a bigger target for terror attacks if it was to bomb in Syria by saying that the UK was already a major target for IS - and that the only way to deal with that was to "take action" now.
The display at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, will celebrate "the life, work and legacy" of Hedd Wyn and Edward Thomas.
Both poets died in 1917.
Linda Tomos, the National Library of Wales' national librarian, said: "It is very important that we keep the memory alive."
Hedd Wyn was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele on 31 July 1917.
Some weeks later, his poem won the prestigious chair prize at the National Eisteddfod held in Birkenhead, Wirral.
The exhibition will include original manuscripts of his famous ode "Yr Arwr/The Hero" and memories of his friend and fellow soldier, JB Thomas, about their time in the Army.
Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras on 9 April 1917 - Easter Monday - just a few months after arriving in France.
The exhibition will feature letters he sent to his wife, Helen, where he describes life on the front, as well as drafts of his poems and the last diary he kept which was still in his pocket when he died.
The 33ft (10m) deep hole opened up on 1 October in St Albans.
Security was put in place straight afterwards, to monitor empty properties and power outages in Fontmell Close. The road remains closed and several homes are still empty.
St Albans District Council said it was hoping to recover some of the costs from the government.
About £10,000 per month has also been spent on a 4x4 shuttle service to transport residents to a temporary car park.
The shuttle service across muddy fields, covering a distance of 335 metres (1,099ft) each way, operates between 07:00 and 22:30 every day.
Rosemary Broom, who moved back into her house after 47 days in a hotel, praised the service and added "everyone is pulling together".
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But Frank Kaloczi, 80, who is blind, said he can only leave the house if accompanied by his children.
He said: "It's not easy being blind, but being a prisoner in my home makes it even worse."
A council spokesman said it was in the early stages of contact with the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) over recovering costs.
A DCLG spokesman said: "The council were given advice on how to apply for emergency funding and the circumstances where that might be granted. The council has not followed up on that."
It added local authorities have reserves to "pay for unexpected incidents" and expects them to "deal with a reasonable amount of emergency costs from their own resources".
Hertfordshire County Council, which is responsible for highways, said it hoped to build a temporary access road before Christmas and drill for possible voids identified in its earlier survey "soon".
A gravity survey of the road and footpaths for the council revealed a "significant anomaly" underneath some of the houses.
The council said it plans to follow this up with "inclined drilling" to "validate the results" of the survey.
A spokesman said progress was slow because the authority needed to make "the right decision" and not put "people's safety in jeopardy".
Mr Zewail won the Nobel chemistry prize in 1999 for his pioneering work in femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions in ultra-short time scales.
A professor at the California Institute of Technology, he was a science advisor to President Obama and the first Arab scientist to win the Nobel Prize.
Mr Zewail became a naturalised American in 1982 after studying there.
No immediate cause of death was given.
In 40 years working at the the California Institute of Technology , he experimented with lasers to monitor chemical reactions at a scale of a femtosecond, which is a millionth of a billionth of a second.
He is also credited with developing a new research field dubbed four-dimensional electron microscopy, which helps capture fleeting processes and turn them into a kind of digital film.
Mr Zewail was appointed US science envoy to the Middle East, and became outspoken on political issues in his native country.
In 2014, he wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times that urged the US to avoid cutting aid to Egypt after a military coup that ousted the elected president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He argued that constructive engagement was important in keeping Egypt as a partner in the war on terrorism.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi expressed his condolences over the death, saying the country had lost a son and role model.
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Wales are third in Group D, four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland with five games left.
Despite that gap, Williams does not believe Wales' qualifying hopes will be over if they fail to beat Serbia.
"I don't think so. We're still in a good position halfway through," said the Everton defender.
"I live for them [games like these]. As a team, we live for these nights.
"It doesn't always come off. I think we've seen that before in the past. But of late, this is the kind of game we love, when you're up against it in a different country, you're working hard and you're backing your mates up. Once you get in that groove, it's difficult to beat.
"We're very resilient and we're a gritty team. This is another opportunity for us to go out there and show our togetherness, put in a big shift and hopefully get the result we want."
The odds are stacked against Wales, who have travelled to Belgrade without a raft of first-team players.
Their talismanic forward Gareth Bale is the most notable absentee, suspended after a yellow card against the Republic of Ireland in March.
Left-back Neil Taylor is also banned, while forwards Hal Robson-Kanu and Ben Woodburn, midfielder Andy King and defender James Collins are injured.
Despite starting their campaign with victory over Moldova, Wales' bid to reach the 2018 World Cup has stalled following four successive draws against Austria, Georgia, Serbia and the Republic of Ireland.
Defeat in Belgrade in Sunday - coupled with an Irish win over Austria - would effectively end Welsh hopes of reaching next year's tournament in Russia.
Williams, however, is not entertaining such thoughts.
"It is a big game against a tough team, it's one we're preparing to win but, if we don't, we carry on because there are still games to go," the 33-year-old added.
"While there are points available, we'll try our best to go and get them.
"It will be tough. We're not planning for that [defeat]. We're playing to win but we do understand it will be a difficult game. For the last nine days, we've been working to win."
Ah You was dismissed after he was adjudged to have made an illegal shoulder charge on Dragons full-back Carl Meyer at Rodney Parade.
The tight-head is automatically banned for Ulster's game against Cardiff Blues in Belfast on 7 April.
Ah You could face further punishment after the hearing in Edinburgh.
The 28-year-old, who joined Ulster from Connacht last summer, won the Junior World Championship with New Zealand in 2008.
Ah You signed for Connacht two years later, qualified to play for Ireland in 2013 and made his Irish debut the following year in Argentina.
The European bronze medallist from Portaferry clocked 4:11.51 to come in behind Ethiopia's world record holder Genzebe Dibaba (4:10.61).
Mageean, 24, stayed close to the lead throughout the race and moved into second place as Dibaba sprinted clear.
The Irish athlete was able to ease up close to the line in a confident run.
Those behind Mageean in the remaining four qualifying places included highly-rated America Brenda Martinez and Poland's Angelika Cichocka, who won gold at this year's European Championships when the Irishwoman took the bronze.
Non-qualifiers from the heat included Dutchwoman Maureen Koster, Morocco's Siham Hilali and Kenya's Nancy Chepkwemoi who all have faster personal bests than Mageean.
"If I didn't think I'd qualify, I wouldn't be here," said the county Down woman.
Mageean said that she had drawn inspiration from Ireland's silver medal-winning rowing brothers Paul and Gary O'Donovan.
"It was great to see them medal and gives more motivation to perform at this level. I ran my own race and I just need to stay focused for the semi-finals."
Earlier in the day Alex Wright (Leevale) battled to a 46th place finish in the 20km race walk in 1:25:25.
"I was slightly disappointed with that but my training is geared towards the 50km and there were positives," said Wright, who will also compete in the 50km event on Friday.
At present, 2,875 children are in the system, the highest figure since current records began in 1995.
It can take at least three and a half years for a child in care to be placed with a new family, and many argue that's just too long.
As part of National Adoption week, BBC Northern Ireland is showing a two part documentary looking at the intricacies of the child care system here.
Over two nights filmmakers follow 11 young people, aged between 18 months and 18-years-old, on their individual journeys through the care system.
The documentary hears from social workers dealing directly with each case, and from the families and individuals who have a child going into care as well as those hoping to provide them with a new home.
One social worker who features in the documentary, Patrick O'Connor, works in Antrim.
He has helped hundreds of children over the years and says adopting a child can be difficult but extremely rewarding.
"You're constantly dealing with issues that shouldn't happen, and that is coming from sexual abuse and physical abuse, abandonment and all those things, and one child could suffer all those things.
"The emotional impact on the child is so devastating for them, what can you do to resolve it for that child? That's the task.
"You have to build a relationship with that child that carries them through the worst of times and the best of times," he said.
A lot of people consider adoption to be an option just for couples who cannot have their own children.
However foster parent, Jackie Bradley, says that is just not the case.
She says fulfilling the role of mum and dad is just one small part of it.
"Primarily it's all about that child having permanence and finding security and stability in their life for maybe the first time ever."
Producer Rachel Hooper said the resilience of the children she spoke with was "just remarkable".
"They are carrying an enormous amount of complex need - the result of neglect and abuse that they have suffered, and they need amazing people who can take them on.
"I knew it was a big thing to do, but I had no idea just how important it was to have these carers there," she said.
"There is such a need for carers, such a need for people to say 'how can I help?'"
Rachel said one of her motivations was to help document a part of each child's life story for them to see when they are older so that they know a bit more about where they came from.
"You don't walk out when you've walked in - so it's inevitable that we'll stay in touch with them.
"I can't wait to hear about the changes in their lives and the different journeys they embark on."
Find Me A Family can be seen on BBC One NI on Monday, October 19 at 21:00 BST, with the second programme scheduled for broadcast on Monday, October 26 at 21:00 BST.
Jason McGovern, 19, died after being attacked on a night out in Omagh, County Tyrone, on New Year's Eve, 2012.
No-one has been convicted of the killing, although several people have been sentenced over a fight involving Jason and his friends that night.
Jason's brother Niall said the family feel they will never get justice.
A County Tyrone man acquitted of the "one-punch killing" was on Friday given a four-month suspended sentence for affray on the night of Mr McGovern's death.
Mark Donnelly, 23, from Greencastle was acquitted of his manslaughter in June.
"It's just someone to take responsibility is what would mean a lot to us - I don't think we'll ever get that sense of justice," Mr McGovern said.
"I think that's what makes it even harder, not only losing Jason, but no-one's taken responsibility, and that's hard to deal with."
He added: "We thought we had a strong case at the start of proceedings and look how it went.
"Nobody's been held accountable."
There were two incidents involving Jason and his friends on the night.
In the first, outside a bar, a friend of Jason's jaw was fractured in an attack. A number of people - including Mark Donnelly, 23, from Greencastle, who was cleared of Jason's manslaughter - were convicted for their roles in that attack.
Jason, who was studying performing arts at college, was injured after being punched in a second incident in the car park of a different pub.
He died at a friend's home hours after the incident.
Niall McGovern said the family's lives had been in limbo for the last four years.
"We're just glad we can put an end to that legal process and get on with our lives," he said.
"It's not the outcome that we would have liked, but we're just glad we can start moving on with our lives and start grieving.
"Every time something happened in the case, Jason's face was in the paper and it brings it all back home."
Niall McGovern said his brother had done nothing to provoke either incident that night.
"Jason definitely wasn't a provoker of any situation," he said.
"Looking back it was just a pointless argument that he didn't play any part in - he was just the victim.
"Whenever we saw the CCTV footage and you could see Jason, that was his role, the peacekeeper, the friend, he was the person who looked after people on a night out."
Jason was one of three brothers, from the village of Tydavnet, whose mother has MS.
Niall McGovern said his brother loved to help his mother and his death and been particularly difficult for her.
"He's a big loss in her life," he said.
"My mother's MS, she can't go through her own grieving process. She's very much immobile and she's doing everything in front of everyone, she can't close the door or go to a different room."
Niall McGovern was at his girlfriend's house in Galway when he received the news that his brother was dead.
"I went into the house and the phone rang, it was Dad broke the news to me," he said.
"It's unexplainable just the feeling that comes over you, I've never felt anything like that before."
"Even now, looking back, it's still hard to take in and hard to believe, the type of person Jason was, that something like that could happen to him."
He said the only consolation he could take was that his brother had lived his life to the full.
"He was friends with everyone, there was no-one he wouldn't get on with, he'd chat with everyone, young and old," said Niall McGovern.
"I suppose that's the only positive thing that you can take out of it - even though his life was short he made the most of it, he lived it to the full."
Employees of Innospection at Kirkhill Industrial Estate in Dyce were said to be "shocked" at the discovery of the potentially deadly spider.
The Scottish SPCA was contacted, and an exotic animal rescue charity in Inverness offered the spider a home.
Animal Rescue Officer Karen Hogg said: "The callers waited until I arrived. Black widows are highly venomous."
She explained: "A bite would leave you feeling very unwell and, if suffering from an underlying medical condition, it could even prove fatal."
An Innospection spokesman told the BBC Scotland news website that staff had done the right thing.
Hamilton dropped to seventh on lap one following a slow start and a clash with Valtteri Bottas' Williams at Turn One.
His Mercedes bodywork damaged, Hamilton recovered well but was unable to catch Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in second.
Rosberg's fifth win in a row, going back to Mexico last year, gives him a 17-point title lead over Hamilton.
The world champion may be concerned about his second poor start in as many races this season and Raikkonen's pace was further evidence Ferrari are strong enough to at least put pressure on Mercedes this year.
But the race effectively fell into Rosberg's lap by the second corner as problems afflicted all three of his main rivals.
In addition to Hamilton's collision, the lead Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel did not even get that far.
Vettel's engine failed in spectacular fashion on the formation lap before the race had even started, so it will never be known how much of a stiffer challenge he might have mounted to the Mercedes.
That was one Ferrari out of the running and Raikkonen's chances took a major hit shortly afterwards as he dropped to fifth after a poor start of his own.
Raikkonen fought past Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and the two Williams cars of Felipe Massa and Bottas to be second by lap seven - but by that stage he was already 12 seconds adrift of Rosberg, a gap that proved too big to bridge.
By the time the leaders' three pit stops were finished, Raikkonen was only 4.6secs behind Rosberg but the Mercedes driver was comfortably able to hold him off and finished 10 seconds clear.
Hamilton drove impressively to move back through the field with bodywork damage that will have cost him aerodynamic downforce, but ended up 19 seconds adrift of Raikkonen.
The champion's two poor starts in the first two races have effectively handed title rival Rosberg two victories, but it's coming back from adversity where Hamilton excels, and how he won his second championship in 2014 so beguilingly.
"[The reason for the bad starts were] two separate incidents," said Hamilton. "Both equally painful - perhaps this one more - but we managed to recover, again damage limitation.
"The team was hoping that potentially there would be a safety car. I had so much damage to the car, I couldn't fight with Kimi."
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo took a solid fourth from fifth on the grid, and there was another impressive showing from the new US-based, Ferrari-affiliated Haas team - Romain Grosjean taking a fighting fifth after an aggressive strategy focused on running three sets of super-soft tyres and then a final set of softs.
Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen, last year's stellar rookie, was a strong sixth ahead of the second Red Bull of Daniil Kvyat, who recovered from a poor qualifying performance that left him 15th on the grid to pass Massa for seventh on the penultimate lap.
It was a disappointing end to a difficult race for Williams, with Bottas hit with a what some may consider a harsh drive-through penalty for the Hamilton collision, taking ninth.
Stoffel Vandoorne was a solid 10th on his grand prix debut for McLaren, substituting for Fernando Alonso who was ruled out of this race by official FIA doctors because of a cracked rib sustained in his huge accident at the Australian Grand Prix two weeks ago.
Vandoorne, who out-qualified team-mate Jenson Button, dropped behind the Englishman on the first lap but Button retired on the seventh lap, prompting a shake of the head in the pits at another reliability problem for the team from Alonso, who stayed on in Bahrain to help Vandoorne through the weekend.
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The pair put on a record 192 for the second wicket, with Hales the more aggressive of the two and Root happy to play the anchor role.
West Indies were never in contention and meekly surrendered with the bat - being bowled out for just 142.
Liam Plunkett and Chris Woakes took three wickets apiece with the ball.
If the West Indies showed glimpses of ability in the first two matches of the series, there was very little of it on show at the Kensington Oval.
The gulf in class between the two teams was striking.
While England's batting order is rich in both talent and depth, the Windies' top order gifted their wickets with a succession of dolly catches offered up to close fielders.
It was a similar story from a bowling perspective as England's pacemen bullied and harassed. The hosts' options lacked penetration in the absence of the injured Shannon Gabriel and proved to be cannon fodder for the likes of Root, Hales and Ben Stokes.
England's morale will be boosted by such victories, but it should be tempered with the realisation their opponents have failed to qualify for this summer's Champions Trophy and now face an uphill challenge to earn automatic entry to the 2019 World Cup.
Both opener Hales and number three Root can lay genuine claim to being among the world's leading top order batsman in this format of the game.
Their respective innings were poles apart in style, but almost identical in terms of both runs scored and balls faced by the time they returned to the pavilion.
Hales - back in the team after injury - began how he so often does, in a circumspect manner. He nudged the ball into gaps before exploding into life once the spinners were introduced to the attack.
Four of his five sixes came off the slow bowlers, who went for a combined 60 runs in 48 painful deliveries.
The Notts right-hander, who successfully overturned an lbw decision when he was on 93, was particularly strong on the leg side where he scored 73 of his runs.
Root was his usual busy self at the crease and almost paid with his wicket early on, only to be dropped when he had made both 1 and 12.
Once set, however, he dropped anchor and finally registered three figures after eight half-centuries in his previous 11 ODI innings.
Platform laid, England were pushed beyond 300 by Stokes. The Durham all-rounder was reminiscent of former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener as he time and again cleared his front leg and muscled the ball to the boundary in his 20-ball 34.
Faced with a strip much quicker than the one which the two teams duelled on in Antigua, England's quicker bowlers relished the extra pace and bounce.
Pitching the ball just back of a length, they induced some horrible dismissals from the West Indies top order.
Only Jonathan Carter (46) offered any real resistance and backbone as the England quicks left their opponents battered and bruised - both in a mental and physical sense.
Plunkett finished the three-match series with 10 wickets at less than 10 runs each, ensuring his name will remain prominent in the selectors' minds when Mark Wood, Jake Ball and David Willey regain full fitness.
Speaking on BBC Test Match Special, former West Indies fast bowler Tino Best said the collapse to 45-6 had been "embarrassing", adding: "It's quite disappointing the way the guys have been dismissed. We call it primary school dismissals.
"Guys have to go back to their hotel room and reflect. Do you want to be an average player or do you want to be a superstar?"
England have just two ODIs against Ireland before opening their Champions Trophy campaign against Bangladesh at The Oval on 1 June.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "I'm extremely satisfied. Over the course of the series we have displayed different skills. Root and Hales put on an outstanding partnership and our bowling performance was outstanding.
"It's a great position to be in. We had guys coming into the side who maybe didn't expect to play and made big contributions, match-winning ones.
"It was an outstanding effort from Alex Hales. A bit of time off has done him the world of good."
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England all-rounder Chris Woakes - the man of the series - is asked which part of his game he is most pleased with: "Ball, I suppose. It's always nice to contribute with the bat when required but bowling is my primary skill.
"The more you play and gain experience in international cricket, the more you feel at home. We've got some great players in the team and there are always players pushing for places."
West Indies captain Jason Holder: "Our performance wasn't up to scratch, we gifted a lot of free runs - although the bowlers were decent - and then we didn't put up a good fight with the bat at all.
"I'm frustrated, I thought we were moving in the right direction. We've got to be lot sharper in the field and take our chances, we didn't do that throughout the series.
"This group of players is what we have, I'm comfortable with what we have, we have a lot of talented players in the squad but it's about making the most of it."
The draft document outlines a string of strengths the region already has but also the challenges it faces.
Among the potential improvements is an off-road route between Galashiels and Edinburgh via Peebles.
Councillors are being asked to agree sending the document out for consultation before its final version is completed.
The Scottish Borders Cycle Tourism Strategy said the region had a "long-established" reputation for leisure cycling gained thanks to the 7Stanes mountain biking routes and other trails.
It said that in the first nine months of 2015 alone, cycling tourism had been worth about £155m across Scotland.
However, it highlighted the lack of specific economic impact figures for the Scottish Borders as an issue which needed to be addressed in order to measure progress.
The report also recognised the competition the region faced from other areas which are keen to promote cycling including Perthshire, Dumfries and Galloway and the Highlands.
Among the developments which it said could "enhance the product offering" in the Borders are:
"It is crucial for the Scottish Borders not to fall behind and continued product development is a priority in order to maintain a competitive position," the report concluded.
"Development of infrastructure and product development of the tourism offer are key.
"The Scottish Borders must have a structured strategy and action plan with the appropriate investment in order to maintain and expand its position as Scotland's leading cycling destination."
Mark Asay is the first white man in state history to be executed for killing a black victim, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The 53-year-old had been found guilty of two 1987 murders in Jacksonville. The execution took place at 22:22 GMT.
It was the first time a new drug cocktail was used.
A jury found that Asay shot his victims - Robert Lee Booker, a black man, and Robert McDowell, 26, a white-Hispanic man - on the same night after making racist comments.
Prosecutors said that Asay had hired McDowell, who was dressed as a woman, for sex, and shot him after discovering his gender.
Since the state reinstated death sentences in 1976, 20 black men have been executed for killing white victims, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
He was executed with etomidate, an anaesthetic never before used for a US execution, which will replace midazolam, a drug abandoned over fears that it was causing unnecessary suffering.
Concerns were raised after a number of prisoners appeared to suffer agonising deaths, eventually leading Florida to abandon the drug in January.
The etomidate was combined with two other drugs - rocuronium bromide and potassium acetate - before it was administered to Asay.
However, one dissenting judge warned the allowance of an unproven cocktail "jeopardised Asay's fundamental constitutional rights and treated him as the proverbial guinea pig".
In an interview with a local television station, Asay had said he did not want to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The inmate - who had white supremacist tattoos - admitted killing Mr McDowell, but denied the other murder.
"Because I pray, and I say, 'I've had all of the prison I want.' So I want out of prison, through the front door or the back," he told News4Jax.
The US has seen several sloppily handled executions in recent years, with lawyers arguing the drugs failed to properly prevent pain during the process.
Not only was this the first execution in Florida in more than 18 months, but it was also the first since the US Supreme Court found the state's method of sentencing to be unconstitutional.
The high court ruled that judges held too much sway over the decision to hand down the death penalty.
Since then, the state legislature has changed the rules so that a jury must reach a unanimous verdict in order for a death sentence to be recommended to the court.
But the new law does not affect older cases, such as Asay's.
Local newspapers say the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has asked England to pay for their own travel costs because of a court order preventing the execution of contracts.
England trained as scheduled in Mumbai on Friday and a team spokesman said "there is no change to any plans".
The first Test of a five-match series is due to begin in Rajkot on Wednesday.
The court order is reported to have been imposed by the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee, which is proposing reforms to the BCCI.
A letter from Ajay Shirke, secretary of the BCCI, to England team manager Phil Neale apologised that India cannot pay the tourists' accommodation costs.
The letter stated: "The BCCI is at present not in a position to execute the memorandum of understanding between the Indian Cricket Board and the ECB. This is due to restrictions on execution of contracts imposed on the BCCI by a court order.
"The BCCI will inform you as and when further instructions are received by the BCCI from the Lodha Committee
When asked about the situation, England batsman Joe Root said: "My biggest challenge in the morning is making sure I make the team bus.
"For whoever it concerns, I think it's very important that they worry about it and we just get on with the cricket."
There were reports that New Zealand's tour of India in September and October could be cut short because of BCCI financial issues but it continued as planned.
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More than 60 members of the GMB union had voted for a series of 24-hour walkouts from the beginning of July in a row over pay grades.
But both sides in the dispute have now agreed to further talks on Thursday.
The union says its members have been carrying out work above their grades for which they have not been paid.
The Sellafield site employs more than 10,000 people and is in the process of being decommissioned.
Chris Jukes, GMB senior organiser, said: "The bottom line is management have made an offer which has already been rejected by our members and it will take an improved offer to settle this matter, which has been unresolved for several years.
"We have agreed to Sellafield's request for more time so management can reflect on their offer."
Sellafield Ltd, which operates the site, said it was "carefully considering" its position.
A spokesman added: "In the meantime the Sellafield site continues to operate safely and securely, as normal."
It comes after community group Energise Galashiels claimed the move would have "significant advantages".
Scottish Borders Council had initially selected the Tweedbank terminus of the Borders Railway but an alternative site in Galashiels has since emerged.
Mr Kerr, an SNP MP, said the newer option could have a greater impact.
"It's clear that the presence of such a remarkable attraction in the heart of Galashiels could be transformative for the town centre, which is still struggling to recover from long term economic challenges in the retail sector," he said.
"Although the greenfield site at Tweedbank may appear to be the more straight-forward option, I don't think it offers comparable economic benefits.
"On the other hand, a site in the heart of Galashiels could kick off a new phase of town centre regeneration."
The MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk has written to Scotland's Culture Secretary, Fiona Hyslop, to express his support for the move.
Energise Galashiels said it could provide a "major boost" for the town but also offer "greater benefits" to the region as a whole.
It said the potential visitor market on both sites was exactly the same.
The group said Galashiels had a wide choice of retail offerings and was the "prime hub" for transport in the region.
It added that putting the tapestry in the town would help its overall commercial viability.
"In the absence of a major intervention, it is doubtful that 'retail trading' will ever resolve the current level of vacancies," it said.
"Having the Great Tapestry of Scotland's home in Galashiels town centre will be an investment which will provide a massive boost to the existing efforts being made to regenerate the 'old town centre'."
The organisation said there were already a number of other projects ongoing in the town which could also boost visitor numbers to the tapestry.
"Energise Galashiels believe that securing the Great Tapestry of Scotland in a town centre location will act as a catalyst for other projects and initiatives which offer the opportunity of transforming Galashiels and regenerating an area that is key to the overall prosperity of the town," it added.
Scottish Borders Council is currently assessing the Galashiels option ahead of deciding whether to proceed with Tweedbank or change the location.
A spokesman said: "The Great Tapestry of Scotland project will now be considered by councillors on Thursday 29 September.
"This is to allow time for all elected members to be fully consulted before they make a decision on the future of this important project.
"Work will continue over the coming weeks, with very good progress having been made on both options for the Great Tapestry of Scotland."
Wenger, 67, was appointed as Arsenal manager in September 1996.
Wright told BBC Radio 5 live on Friday: "He looks tired. I feel he will go at the end of the season."
But Wenger said: "We had a little dinner, not the two of us. I appreciate you want me to rest but I'm not ready."
He added he could look tired because "I get up early in the morning".
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Wright, who played under Wenger for two seasons between 1996 and 1998, reiterated during his analysis on Saturday's Match of the Day that he believes Wenger will go.
"We were at a question and answer session and the way he was speaking and his demeanour... it's my opinion. I could be wrong," said the 53-year-old.
"I still think he has some massive decisions to make and think it could be his last season."
Wenger is the Premier League's longest-serving manager and his contract expires at the end of the season.
The Frenchman last won the Premier League title in 2004 and has been under pressure at the Emirates following league defeats by Watford and Chelsea.
However, after his side's 2-0 win against Hull, he added: "I focus on what is important: winning football games and getting the team to perform. The rest, I cannot influence.
"I have big respect for this country and this club, and I am grateful because I have worked here for 20 years. My job is to make these people happy and when I don't do that I feel guilty - that's why it's important for us to win."
The enamel "two quails" vase, is thought to have been made at Beijing's Imperial Palace at least 220 years ago.
Auctioneers Woolley & Wallis said the owner only realised its true value after he put it on eBay.
It had been estimated as being worth up to £30,000, but sold at auction in Salisbury for £61,000, including the buyer's premium.
The seller, who did not wish to be identified, picked up the vase at a car boot sale near Lymington.
When eBay bidding reached £10,000 he withdrew it and took it for a valuation.
Woolley & Wallis Asian art expert John Axford confirmed the vase bore the four-character Qianlong mark - the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty - and would have been made by Imperial command in the palace workshop between 1736 and 1795.
He said it had turned out to be an "excellent investment".
John Dixon Hart was prosecuted by East Riding of Yorkshire Council after a trading standards investigation.
Guests at Beverley Guest House complained of rooms with "dust and muck all over", mouldy showers and blood-stained walls.
One guest found mud inside a fridge and another found mouse droppings on a bed.
Hart called the rating an "innocent mistake" and said rooms were clean.
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The 53-year-old of Keldgate in Beverley appeared at the town's magistrates' court on Wednesday.
He pleaded guilty to advertising and running a guest house below the minimum standards expected.
The court heard a number of witness statements, one which read: "I could probably say, with one exception, this is the worst B&B I have ever stayed in."
Guests also complained they were given either a very basic breakfast or no breakfast at all - despite it being advertised.
Out of 277 reviews on Trip Advisor, 69 per cent rated the guest house as terrible.
One reviewer said "wouldn't recommend to an enemy" and another described the guest house as "filthy".
Another said the owner double-booked his room and he came back to find "another dude in my bed".
Beverley Guest House, formerly known as Minster Garth, had been given a four-star rating by Visit England in 2008.
However, when Hart took over the business a few years later he failed to renew the contract with Quality in Tourism/Visit England and continued to use the four-star rating without permission.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council had given him numerous warnings about misleading customers and had also offered him advice.
Solicitor Dave Robson, representing Hart, told magistrates his client accepted his "poor temperament" towards guests wasn't acceptable.
He said when he took over he had tried to do everything himself, and this combined with other pressures, led him to drink, which was reflected in the poor service.
Speaking to BBC Look North, Hart said: "I apologised to Visit England, but it was a completely innocent mistake as we were so busy keeping the guest house running we didn't take the sign down.
"People use outlandish statements that are ridiculously over-exaggerated, and this is probably one of the nicest guest houses in Beverley."
Sussex Police said two people had been arrested over two of the deaths and all three were linked to heroin.
Brighton's deputy director of public health said those who died did not appear to be habitual heroin users.
Dr Peter Wilkinson said all three were in their 20s and 30s and they may have used it on the club or party scene.
He said officials were concerned they were unaware of the dangers of using heroin, or may not have realised they were taking heroin.
He added it was also possible they had chosen to snort heroin rather than inject it in the belief it reduced risks, but warned taking heroin by any route was dangerous.
Det Insp Julie Wakeford said Sussex Police investigated all heroin-related deaths, but added: "This can be difficult at times because it is often the case that the only person who knows the source of the heroin is deceased."
Rick Bradley, operations manager for Addaction, which helps young people, said the safe option was not to take a substance.
But he said if people were intent on using a substance they should minimise the risks by taking small amounts, not "redosing", researching the substance and its effects, and obtaining it from a "trusted source".
"There is no such thing as a reputable drug dealer but there will be people who, if they're friends, are less likely to give you something that is potentially very dangerous," he added.
Police said a 26-year-old man was found dead on 21 November, a 32-year-old man died on 11 December and a 20-year-old woman died from a heroin overdose on 13 January.
A 48-year-old man has been arrested over the death of the man aged 32, and a 22-year-old man has been arrested over the death of the woman. Both men have been bailed.
The Brits played a medley of hits but Beyonce was judged to have stolen the show, premiering new song Formation.
Bruno Mars also thrilled the crowd with a performance of 2015's biggest selling song Uptown Funk.
Advertisers pay a premium for a slice of the huge audience, shelling out up to $5m (£3.4m) for a 30-second slot.
According to marketing technology company Amobee Brand Intelligence, an advert for tortilla chip makers Doritos accounted for more than 140,000 tweets associated with the brand.
The game began with a performance of the US national anthem by Lady Gaga, dressed in a sparkly red trouser suit and red, white and blue striped platform heels.
The half-time show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, opened with Coldplay's Chris Martin kneeling on the field singing the first lines of their song Yellow before transitioning into Viva La Vida.
They also performed their single Paradise, accompanied by a youth marching band.
Beyonce performed her new track accompanied by backing dancers kitted out in black berets, reminiscent of the 1970s revolutionary political party The Black Panthers.
The artists all joined up to sing Coldplay's ballad Fix You, accompanied by a montage of performances clips from previous Super Bowl half-time shows, including by Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and U2.
According to Nielsen, which measures audiences - this year's game was the third most-watched programme in US television history.
The company estimates an average audience of 111.9 million were watching throughout the game, peaking at 115.5 million for the half-time show.
In its review of the show, Variety said Coldplay were "not a popular band in certain cred-obsessed corners of the internet. They are, however, arguably the only mass-appeal pop-rock act not yet eligible for Social Security that could make a reasonable claim to the sort of universality that has become the gig's primary pre-requisite, so their booking certainly made sense".
However, it added performing with "the far flashier Bey and Mars... Coldplay seemed resigned to politely allowing themselves to be played right off their own stage".
The Guardian agreed, saying Beyonce's "charged affirmation of black female pride... could hardly have been more diametrically opposed to Coldplay's soppy indie".
"As soon as Beyonce marched onto the football field, clad in skintight leather and Michael Jackson-style military gold sashes, with a posse of impeccably choreographed female dancers dressed like '70s Black Panthers, it was time for an early bath for Chris Martin's band," it added.
Celebrities David Beckham, Michael Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and singer Justin Bieber attended the game which saw the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10.
The A4232 was shut after a car overturned on the northbound carriageway at the junction for Culverhouse Cross just before 09:00 GMT.
South Wales Police said the driver had been taken to hospital but was "conscious and breathing".
Traffic was queuing in both directions, but congestion began to ease after the road reopened at about 11:40.
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The Irish back was withdrawn from last week's match against Hurricanes after complaining of headaches.
He has stayed in Wellington for further tests while the Lions squad has moved to Queenstown before Saturday's third and final Test against the All Blacks.
Fellow Lion Robbie Henshaw faces a 16-week lay-off with a shoulder injury and could miss Ireland's autumn series.
Lions medical chief Dr Eanna Falvey said there is no clear return date for Payne, despite the 31-year-old progressing through a raft of tests.
"He's actually suffering from migraine," Dr Falvey said.
"He had a bang in the Chiefs game (on 20 June), but he was fully cleared from concussion.
"But he's been struggling with migraines and that's an independent process since then."
Payne missed the Lions' 31-31 draw against Hurricanes draw, and was then not involved in Saturday's 24-21 victory in the second Test.
It was the tourists' first win over the All Blacks since 1993 and set up Saturday's decider at Auckland's Eden Park.
"Jared's slightly more difficult," Dr Falvey said of the Ulster player's recovery situation.
"Thankfully all his tests have been good. He's suffering from migraine symptoms at the moment.
"The specialist is quite happy with him. He'll have a couple more minor tests, and that will give us more idea. But while he still has a headache, he won't be training."
Ireland and Leinster centre Robbie Henshaw could face a four-month lay-off after tearing his pectoral muscle off the bone.
"The muscle needs to be reattached, and that's usually about a 16-week recovery," Dr Falvey said.
"He may do slightly better, but that's probably what we're looking at."
Mr Morales, who campaigned against corruption, has taken about 24% of the 97% votes so far counted.
Centre-right businessman Manuel Baldizon and ex-first lady Sandra Torres are tied with about 19.5%.
Sunday's vote came days after the resignation of President Otto Perez Molina over corruption allegations.
With no candidate taking 50% of the vote, a second round of voting has been scheduled for 25 October.
The race for a place in the run-off is close, with Ms Torres - the ex-wife of former president Alvaro Colom - ahead of Mr Baldizon by fewer than 1,000 votes.
Electoral officials said about 70% turned out to vote on Sunday. A recount is under way for several hundred ballots before a final result will be announced, they added.
As well as a new president, Guatemalans were voting for a vice-president, a new congress and local authorities.
Many had called for the polls to be postponed in the wake of the allegations.
"The people are tired of more of the same," Mr Morales, 46, told reporters after hearing of his lead.
"Guatemala wants change and to not be governed by people with dark pasts," he said, after voting near Guatemala City.
Mr Baldizon was previously a favourite to win before Mr Morales saw a late surge of support in opinion polls off the back of the unfolding corruption scandal. Several of Mr Baldizon's allies had been linked to the scandal.
Ex-President Otto Perez Molina denies involvement in a scheme in which businessmen paid bribes to evade customs charges.
There had been calls for Guatemalans to wear black clothes of mourning as they cast their vote, amid scepticism that the poll could achieve political change.
But voters queued from the early hours to cast their ballots. Some 7.5 million people were eligible to vote.
A judge will decide on Tuesday whether to indict former President Molina.
Atkin will referee games in National League North and South this season - the sixth tier of English football.
The 32-year-old will also act as fourth official in Football League matches.
"It's significant personally but more for the game itself, where we are in football and what is happening in the world," Atkin told BBC Radio 5 live.
A report published by the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee in February said sport is not doing enough to tackle homophobic abuse.
In October, a BBC Radio 5 live survey found 8% of football fans would stop watching their team if a gay player was signed by the club.
"I was slightly concerned regarding the fans and the general public but it's been extremely positive so far and probably better than I predicted," said Atkin.
"There will always be some negative or homophobic comments - especially on social media.
"But that just goes to strengthen the need for positive messages and show lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are involved in the sport, whether they are out or not."
There are no openly gay professional male players in British football.
Football Association chairman Greg Clarke was criticised last year for saying he "wouldn't recommend" a player coming out yet as they would still suffer "significant abuse".
"Within any sport, there will be gay people, but it is a choice for them to decide to come out and in the LGBT community we do not pressure people to come out," added Atkin.
"If those people do choose to, then they have our full support."
The FA's head of senior referee development, ex-Premier League referee Neale Barry, said the organisation was offering its "full backing" to Atkin.
"Our role is to support all referees, aid their development, maximise their potential and, above all, help ensure their experiences are positive," said Barry.
"Ryan's declaration marks an important moment in the game and reinforces the fact that refereeing really is open to everyone.
"He's stated that people who are happy in their own skin perform better and I couldn't agree more."
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It will be used to launch Russian Fedor Konyukhov into the stratosphere.
Cameron Balloons will build the balloon for the adventurer, who recently broke the round-the-world record.
Glynis Bensley, 47, was killed outside the Seven Stars pub in Smethwick, West Midlands, on 3 September.
The judge lifted restrictions on her killer Petri Kurti, being named.
A second defendant, Zoheb Majid, 20, of Cheshire Road, Smethwick, was jailed for ten years at Wolverhampton Crown Court, for her manslaughter.
He was found not guilty of her murder.
Judge John Warner said Kurti had been described afterwards as "boastful and not caring less" but also later "crying, saying [he] had not meant to do it".
He told the pair it had been Ms Bensley's "enormous misfortune to cross paths with you" at 00:20 GMT that night, resulting in her death.
Michael Turner QC, representing Kurti, said in mitigation he was "susceptible to the influence of older people" and his criminality should not be mistaken for maturity, adding he had some "learning difficulties".
Joe Sidhu QC, who represented Majid, said his client had played a limited role in the assault, but expressed "genuine remorse" for his part - despite going to buy a bag of croissants at a local shop after the attack.
Both defendants were also found guilty of robbery after they stole her phone, cash, cigarettes and jewellery before leaving her for dead.
A post-mortem examination found Ms Bensley suffered a fatal head injury.
Glynis' sister Dawn, said: "We are a very close and supportive family and always look out for each other - to try and explain how Glynis' murder has affected us is very hard to put into words.
"Glynis was my only sister and best friend - I would describe her as my right arm and I thought we would grow old together."
Ms Bensley was on her way home from the Seven Stars when she was attacked, West Midlands Police said.
Police said Kurti had been joined by Majid on a bicycle.
After he had robbed her, Kurti stamped on her face with such force his footprint was left on her cheek, a spokesman said.
Det Ch Insp Sam Ridding said: "Ms Bensley was tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time and was randomly picked out by the pair believing that she was a man and that she was wearing a gold bracelet.
"It was clearly the joint intention of the pair to use violence on anyone they targeted."
Martin Lindop, from West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service, said: "These two defendants had targeted Ms Bensley because she was a vulnerable female who was walking home on her own at night.
"Our thoughts are today with the family and friends of Ms Bensley."
Officers were called to Northampton Lane at about 11:15 GMT on Sunday.
South Wales Police said a woman's body was found in a white car and the death was being treated as unexplained.
Anyone with information has been asked to call 101.
The London School of Economics rose from 71st in the 2014 QS World University rankings to 35th this year.
University College London was rated seventh, Imperial eighth and Kings College London 19th.
"London is unequivocally the education capital of the world," said the city's Mayor, Boris Johnson.
Other top university cities include Boston and New York, with three universities each in the top 50, and Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong and Beijing, each with two.
QS says it has changed its methodology slightly this year to counteract a bias in favour of universities specialising in life sciences and to better reflect the qualities of institutions focusing on other areas.
This has helped London School of Economics improve its position and "to be counted, rightfully, amongst the world's top 40", according to QS head of research Ben Sowter.
LSE director Prof Craig Calhoun described the ranking as "an outstanding result for the school, its staff and our students".
"It reflects both LSE's longstanding global leadership in social science and its continued creativity," he said.
The change also benefited Warwick and Durham universities, in 48th and 61st places this year, up from 61st and 92nd last year.
Durham's vice-chancellor Prof Stuart Corbridge said he was "proud and pleased" the university had scored so well, "demonstrating the impact and influence of our research amongst the global academic community".
Massachusetts Institute of Technology was rated the world's top university, followed by Harvard in second place, with Stanford and the University of Cambridge in joint third place.
The University of Oxford was in sixth place, behind California Institute of Technology in fifth.
Of the 34 nations in the top 200, the US is dominant with 49 institutions, ahead of the UK with 30, the Netherlands with 12, Germany 11, Canada, Australia and Japan with eight each, China with seven and France, Sweden and Hong Kong with five each.
In a tweet, the president also seemed to accuse the US deputy attorney general of pursuing a "Witch Hunt".
He said: "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!"
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote a memo the White House used to justify the firing of the ex-FBI chief.
Mr Rosenstein took over the investigation into whether Russia tried to tip the US election in favour of Mr Trump after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself in March.
The deputy attorney general later appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to lead the inquiry.
The FBI and Congress are both looking at whether Trump campaign officials colluded with the alleged Kremlin plot. The inquiries have yet to show evidence of collusion.
Mr Trump also tweeted on Friday morning: "After 7 months of investigations & committee hearings about my 'collusion with the Russians,' nobody has been able to show any proof. Sad!"
His tweets come as Mr Trump marks two years since announcing his plan to run for president.
When it was first announced a month ago that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate the Trump campaign's links to Russia, the White House issued a restrained statement from the president expressing the hope that the inquiry would be conducted swiftly.
But the more a furious president has taken his defence into his own hands, the deeper the waters swirling around him have become.
He contradicted the Justice Department over the reasons for sacking the FBI Director, James Comey, telling a TV interviewer that he was fired because of "this Russia thing".
That in turn led to reports this week that Donald Trump himself was now under investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, for possible obstruction of justice.
Mr Trump's latest tweet on Friday morning represented a none-too-veiled attack on the deputy attorney general Rob Rosenstein, who appointed the special counsel.
The advice from Mr Trump's family, his legal team and his closest confidantes has been to say nothing and let the special counsel do his work.
It's advice that has been spectacularly rejected.
In other developments:
Why is Mr Trump being investigated?
Mr Trump was not under investigation before Mr Comey's firing, but reportedly is now facing scrutiny for obstruction of justice over the circumstances surrounding the ex-FBI chief's sacking, according to US media.
Special Counsel Mueller was reportedly planning to interview intelligence officials on whether Mr Trump got rid of the FBI director, James Comey, in May to hamper an inquiry into his sacked national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Mr Comey, who had been leading one of several Russia inquiries, testified to Congress last week that the president had pressured him to drop an inquiry into links between Mr Flynn and Russia.
Mr Flynn was forced out in February after he misled the vice-president about his conversations with Russia's ambassador before Mr Trump took office.
The White House has said the president "has never asked Mr Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn".
Friday's tweet marked the first time Mr Trump has publicly acknowledged he is under investigation.
Mr Comey said he was "sure" Mr Mueller was looking at whether Mr Trump had obstructed justice, but added that to his knowledge, the president had not tried to impede the Russia inquiry.
Mr Trump is unlikely to face criminal prosecution as a sitting president, but obstruction of justice could be grounds for impeachment.
Though the president did not name Mr Rosenstein in his morning tweet, he appeared to refer to a memo the US deputy attorney general wrote.
The memo, which the White House claimed was the impetus for Mr Comey's dismissal, criticised the FBI chief's failure to follow rules and procedures in his handling of an investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email use while Secretary of State.
Mr Rosenstein appointed Mr Mueller following growing demands from Democrats to appoint an independent special prosecutor to examine the Russia allegations.
It is unlikely the president is referring to Mr Mueller in his tweet because Mr Mueller would not have been in a position to fire Mr Comey.
The Cardiff Capital Region City Deal will see £734m invested in the Metro transport scheme and £495m in other projects.
Vale of Glamorgan council became the final authority to back the deal on Thursday.
Ten councils will formally sign up to the deal on 1 March.
Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Torfaen, had already backed the deal.
The local authorities - which have committed to contribute a total of £120m - will be "locked in" to the deal for five years before any can quit.
Vale of Glamorgan council leader Neil Moore said the city deal would bring economic and social benefits to the area.
"I now look forward to working with colleagues across the region to deliver the objectives of the compact between the ten councils, Welsh Government and the UK government."
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Det Con Elaine McIver was among 22 people who died in the explosion at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.
The 43-year-old, who worked for Cheshire Police, was off duty when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device in the venue's foyer.
Some of Ms McIver's colleagues formed a guard of honour outside Chester Cathedral as the coffin arrived.
The private service opened with words from the Very Reverend Prof Gordon McPhate, Dean of Chester.
Ms McIver's sister Lynda and Det Insp Karen Jaundrill read tributes and the service included Peace Poem and Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream by John Denver.
In a statement, Ms McIver's family said it had been their "worst nightmare" but they have been "overwhelmed and humbled" by the support they have received.
Ms McIver's partner Paul, who was seriously hurt in the blast, "continues to improve physically but it is a long road ahead", they said.
"We will sing her to sleep one last time and say night, night sleep tight beautiful little sister."
By all accounts, Det Con Elaine McIver was a dedicated, passionate and diligent police officer, who rose quickly through the ranks at Cheshire Constabulary and was lauded for her work in bringing down complex organised crime networks.
Away from work, her family and friends described her as "bubbly" and "positive", while Cheshire's chief constable said she was "full of life".
Her funeral was a very private affair, with tributes from speakers including two police chaplains and a detective inspector.
Land of Hope and Glory and Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer were sung among the hymns.
As uniformed officers filed into Chester Cathedral in sombre silence, the service was another reminder of how the emergency services themselves have suffered throughout this atrocity.
Not only in the way they responded to such horrors on the night of the bombing - for which they were universally praised - but by losing one of their own.
Speaking after the service, Cheshire's chief constable Simon Byrne said it had been "a difficult hour, but a fitting tribute".
"She was clearly a person who meant so much, both to her family and the force. She was full of life, always seeing the bright side of life."
In work, Chief Con Byrne said Det Con McIver had worked on very complex and "specialist" cases as part of the force's economic crime unit.
Her work using complex legislation to bring criminals to justice earned her praise in a letter from the prime minister, he said.
"She always went the extra mile for victims to have people brought to book."
The chief constable said he had been "very moved" by the spontaneous applause that broke out as the coffin was carried into the service.
"I thought it was a lovely touch and a mark of appreciation for the wider police force," he added.
He said Cheshire Police has been inundated with tributes from forces around the world, with a flag from New York Police Department present at the service. The Metropolitan Police also offered to send officers to the region to cover for colleagues attending the funeral.
GMP had also shown their support "not withstanding the awful events they have had to deal with and come to terms with".
UK citizens must prove an annual income of £18,600 or have £62,500 in savings to bring a spouse into the country.
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP Liz Saville Roberts will raise the question of Hailey Aldirmaz of Pwllheli, whose Turkish husband was refused a visa.
A Home Office spokesman said she did not satisfy financial requirements.
Mrs Aldirmaz, 26, married Turkish national Hasan four years ago and the couple have two children together.
But the trainee teaching assistant will not pass the minimum financial threshold needed to bring him to the UK when she starts work.
Ms Saville Roberts said the rules discriminate against low-pay earners, with more than half of full-time workers in her constituency taking home a wage below the threshold.
She told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme: "We are looking at people who are working not on benefits and it is a loving marriage."
The MP will raise the matter in the House of Commons, saying the ruling "prejudices against" low-earners and people in rural areas, where wages are usually lower.
She added Mrs Aldirmaz' situation was affecting the couple's children and that other means must be used to establish if a marriage is genuine.
A Home Office spokesman said it welcomes those who want to make a life in the UK, but said: "Family life must not be established here at the taxpayer's expense".
"Mr Aldirmaz's application was refused because it did not meet the financial requirements of the immigration rules," the spokesman added.
The city council withdrew the childcare subsidy grants on 31 March as part of £50m of budget savings.
Lawyers acting for parents of children at the nurseries claim the consultation was flawed and have served papers to the High Court in Manchester.
The authority said it did not "consider it appropriate to comment in detail on legal cases".
Sheffield City Council's consultation on the redesign of its early years services ended in February.
A report put to the authority's cabinet on 27 February said out of more than 200 childcare organisations in the city, 20 nurseries received a childcare subsidy grant, but this would be withdrawn "as a result of the severe government cuts to funding and changes in government strategies for early years".
Douglas Johnson, from Sheffield Law Centre, said: "We're acting on behalf of four parents, but of course there are parents all over the city, in the areas where these centres are, that are going to be affected by loss of service."
Genine Nuttall, deputy manager at Tinsley Green Nursery, said: "The revenue that's brought in from the children was used to keep the building going, but the local authority paid the service charge which meant that we could stay afloat.
"That money's now been withdrawn which means that we can't be sustainable anymore.
"We've all been issued with our redundancy letters, but it looks as though we'll be okay until July."
The blasts happened within minutes of each other in the central Shia district of Karrada in the middle of the afternoon rush hour.
The first bomb exploded outside a restaurant and a bakery in al-Andalus Square, and the second outside a court opposite a major police headquarters.
More than 240 people have been killed this month in militant attacks in Iraq.
By Rami RuhayemBBC News, Baghdad
Many of the cars at the scene of the blast were almost completely burnt out. A small Iranian-made yellow taxi burned so intensely that the seats, dashboard and steering wheel had all melted, and its interior was reduced to a thin metal skeleton.
In-between the heaps of mangled steel on the floor lay a dust-coated teddy bear, probably from the building that was hit by the blast. A fragile, horizontal structure at the intersection of al-Andalus Square, it now seemed on the verge of collapse. All the glass was shattered, and the restaurant and bakery on the ground floor were badly damaged.
Higher up, residents stood on their balconies sweeping away the broken glass, and staring down at the destruction with peculiar apathy.
Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda appear to have been behind most of the violence, including a wave of bombings and shootings in Baghdad and towns to the north on 23 July which left at least 107 dead.
Clouds of black smoke rose above the centre of the capital on Tuesday after the latest bombings, which also injured more than 50 people.
"We were in a patrol when we heard the first explosion. The second explosion hit another square, and we went to help," Ahmed Hassan, a policeman, told the Reuters news agency.
"There was a minibus with six dead passengers inside it."
At least five policemen were also among those killed, officials said.
An interior ministry official told the AFP news agency that the first attack had been carried out by a suicide bomber, while the local TV news channel al-Sharqiya said they had both been suicide bombings.
Florence Cassez had denied the charges and many irregularities were found in the case, including a staged televised police raid.
Three judges on a panel of five voted to have Ms Cassez released immediately.
The case provoked tensions between Mexico and France, where news of her release was widely welcomed.
Ms Cassez, 38, was driven to Mexico City's international airport and landed in Paris on Thursday after an overnight Air France flight.
"I have suffered as a victim for the last seven years," she told reporters at Charles de Gaulle airport, where she was met by family, members of her support group and dignitaries including French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
"This is also a great victory for Mexicans in the sense that justice has been done," she said.
Mr Fabius said the decision to free her showed that Mexico was a "great democracy".
Ms Cassez's mother, Charlotte, told French television earlier the case had been full of suspense right to the end. "It's an explosion of joy. I can't quite believe it," she said.
In a statement, President Francois Hollande said the decision marked the end of a "particularly painful period".
"France thanks all those who, in Mexico as well as here at home, have fought so that truth and justice prevail," he said.
Mr Hollande spoke to Ms Cassez by phone on Wednesday evening. Details of the conversation have not been revealed.
"This is a historic day for Mexican justice," said her lawyer Frank Berton.
Florence Cassez was arrested on 8 December 2005 at a ranch near Mexico City where several hostages were found.
She denied knowledge of the kidnappings, carried out by a gang - the Zodiacs - led by her Mexican then-boyfriend Israel Vallarta, who confessed.
The next day, Mexican TV showed what it described as live footage of a police raid, which it later transpired had been a reconstruction performed at the request of the media.
The Supreme Court judges ruled that the reconstruction had violated Ms Cassez's rights.
The decision to release her has been sharply criticised by one of the hostages, Ezequiel Elizalde, BBC Mexico correspondent Will Grant says.
Mr Elizalde testified against Ms Cassez and has condemned the Supreme Court's decision as "disgusting", describing Mexico's institutions as "filth".
This was the second time that the Supreme Court had taken a vote on freeing Ms Cassez.
Last March, however, the judges decided against her release, despite acknowledging serious irregularities in the process.
When first convicted, she was jailed for 96 years, But, in 2009, a court of appeal reduced the term to 60 years.
French authorities tried to extradite her, but the move was blocked by the Mexican government.
Mr Hollande's predecessor in the Elysee Palace, Nicolas Sarkozy, championed the case and repeatedly clashed with the Mexican government of then-President Felipe Calderon.
Diplomatic tensions reached a peak two years ago when Mexican authorities cancelled a high-profile cultural event in Paris.
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The wider S&P 500 index fell 3.73 points to 2,139.43, while the Nasdaq index fell 33.13 points to 5,250.27.
Shares in aerospace giant Boeing rose 4.7% after it reported better-than-expected third-quarter profits.
The company earned $2.28bn in the quarter, compared with $1.70bn a year earlier, although revenues fell to $23.90bn from $25.85bn.
Coca-Cola shares fell 0.24% after third-quarter revenues fell for the sixth quarter in a row, down 7% from a year earlier to $10.63bn.
The 27-year-old was not offered a new deal by Oxford this summer after two years at the club.
He joined the U's from Histon in 2009 and helped them to promotion from the Blue Square Premier.
Last season he had loan spells at the Dons' League Two rivals Southend and Barnet, as well as scoring a hat-trick for Oxford in the 4-3 win over Torquay.
Midson had also been linked to Cheltenham and Hereford.
A green Ford Focus hit the pair on Captain's Road just before 15:00.
A woman with serious injuries and a man with "not so serious" injuries have been taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Police Scotland said the road would remain closed for "the foreseeable future".
The Scots lost 1-0 to a wasteful Italian side in Malta on Sunday as they failed to muster even a shot on target.
However, Naismith argues these lessons and warnings are better heeded in friendly matches than when the World Cup qualifiers commence in September.
"We'll need to be at a better standard," said the 29-year-old.
"A mixture of having a lot of newer guys being involved from the start and not knowing how we've been set up for the last couple of years as well as some of the boys didn't help and also coming up against a team who played a back three.
"We've not really played that much against that and we're better coming up against that now in these friendly games than coming up against it on a difficult night in the campaign.
"We'll learn from the tough test that it was [in Malta] against a world class team and going into the next campaign. I'm sure if we come up against that, we'll fare better in the match.
"We've worked hard this week and will definitely be ready for it. It's a fantastic game for us all in the squad to be involved in and test ourselves against some of the best."
In recent times, manager Gordon Strachan has gone on record with his admission that he hopes at some point during his tenure that he will be able to unearth a so-called superstar who can change the course of matches because of his brilliance.
Wales have Gareth Bale to turn to for magic. Poland have Robert Lewandowski to turn to for goals. Sweden have Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Portugal boast Cristiano Ronaldo. Even Republic of Ireland could rely on Robbie Keane in his pomp.
But are there any superstars graduating from the Scottish youth system imminently?
Naismith is optimistic that may not be too far off, with Rangers youngster Barrie McKay coming in for particular praise.
"There definitely is," Naismith told BBC Scotland.
"Oliver Burke, Baz McKay has come in too and been great. He's probably the one who is the most 'not Scottish' type of player.
"He's the one who can make a difference. He's got a lot to learn but I'm sure we'll see him feature in the next campaign.
"If they work hard I'm sure they can be, but it's the hard work in every team that overrides the individual and that's what will be driven into them by the manager.
"I've been impressed with a lot of the youngsters who are going to be trying to make the next step. It's been good to meet them."
While some nations can be over-reliant on that one talisman, the France team that Naismith and his team-mates will come up against is littered with players who can change the course of a match.
"With the tournament being in France, they'll all be eager to impress against us," he said.
"Their squad is full of young players, guys who are hungry and this is probably the first tournament a lot of them have gone to, so it'll be tough.
"But, we want to be playing against these teams and match ourselves against them.
"We've got a different approach in that we've not got the superstars and guys who are going to win us a game themselves, we need to work as a team.
"And that's what our good form in the last campaign was based on and that is what we will move forward in the future with as well."
Naismith has had an up and down season personally, sacrificing a comfortable life and lengthy contract at Everton for regular play time at Norwich City, with relegation the ultimate cost.
"It's been a strange one," he added. "There were some individual highs; the hat-trick against Chelsea [for Everton in September].
"But it's also been disappointing, finishing off with the relegation, which as a team is something you don't like."
Mr Burnham told the Guardian the role was "a cabinet-level job, which needs cabinet-level experience".
The Leigh MP said Westminster had "become a bit of an irrelevance for some people" adding that "we really need to change the way politics works".
The first elections for the role, currently filled by interim mayor Tony Lloyd, will be held in 2017.
Mr Lloyd and another former Labour minister, Ivan Lewis, are also seeking Labour's nomination.
Mr Burnham, the former health secretary, had been expected to announce his candidacy on Thursday but his intentions became clear when one of his Twitter profiles was rebranded as "Andy4Manchester".
As a national political figure over many years, Andy Burnham will be seen as the first genuine big hitter to throw his name in the hat to become Greater Manchester mayor.
The Leigh MP's move will be read by many as him giving up on a Labour return to government in 2020, but it's also a sign of the shift in power from Westminster to the North West.
Mr Burnham wasn't part of any negotiation for devolution to Greater Manchester and he was completely taken by surprise by the deal to merge health and social care, claiming the area was taking responsibility for an "NHS funding crisis" rather than anything else.
But time passes quickly in politics and Mr Burnham now sees opportunity where he once predicted disaster.
He'll be up against two well-established candidates for Labour who have spent months visiting local party groups to garner support.
He may find that being a big player in the national game doesn't particularly endear you to those who've stayed home to hold the fort but he's a formidable addition to the panel Labour members will eventually choose from.
The race to be the mayor of Greater Manchester has just got a bit more interesting.
Powerful regional mayors are a key part of the government's drive to devolve more responsibility to local authorities for Whitehall.
About 2.7 million people live in Greater Manchester, which has been at the forefront of the devolution project under the "Northern Powerhouse" banner.
Among the new powers transferred to the new mayor - who will also hold the office of police and crime commissioner - are responsibility for a £300m housing investment fund and control of transport budgets.
The leaders of the 10 councils that make up the Greater Manchester Combined Authority will form part of the new mayor's cabinet.
Another shadow cabinet minister Luciana Berger, recently said she was considering running for the new "metro mayor" role in the Liverpool area.
Speaking to The Guardian, Mr Burnham rejected the suggestion his decision showed he did not think Labour could win the 2020 general election, saying the party could "gain strength" from the powers being given to cities.
The 10-11 shot, second in the Derby at Epsom behind stablemate Golden Horn, scored by five lengths from Storm The Stars, with Giovanni Canaletto third.
Jack Hobbs is the first British-trained winner of the race since Commander In Chief, for Henry Cecil, in 1993.
Storm The Stars (10-1), who was third at Epsom, made the running but Jack Hobbs powered past for victory.
"It was genuine good to firm ground and it's nice to see the form from Epsom working out so solidly," said Newmarket trainer Gosden.
"He travelled really well and William just waited after he came at the head of the straight and I loved the way he finished off his race.
"The second horse has run a blinder and he was third at Epsom."
He said the horse would be rested before contesting the Prix Niel in September and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe the following month.
Bookmakers reacted by cutting Jack Hobbs' odds for the Arc to around 7-1 (from 14s) behind 3-1 favourite Treve and 4-1 chance Golden Horn.
Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin racing team bought a majority share in the colt after he was runner-up to Golden Horn in the Dante Stakes at York in May.
"I had a lot of belief in him before Epsom and he was even better today. He's a horse that's improving all the time," said Buick.
Writing during filming of the 1977 film Star Wars: A New Hope, Sir Alec said: "Can't say I'm enjoying the film."
The letter from the late actor, who played Obi Wan Kenobi, talks about the film's "rubbish dialogue".
Isaac, who plays Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was at Letters Live at Freemasons' Hall in London.
Sir Alec wrote to his friend Anne Kauffman: "New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper, and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable."
He said he was working with "Mark Hamill and Tennyson (that can't be right) Ford. Ellison? No! Well a rangy, languid man who is probably intelligent and amusing."
Letters Live sees actors and performers reading out literary correspondence to a live audience.
Sherlock actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brearley also took part, along with theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter.
Cumberbatch read out a letter by American author Mark Twain to the American poet Walt Whitman, which paid tribute to all the changes he had witnessed in the world over the course of his lifetime.
Cumberbatch and Brearley then performed letters between Bessie Moore and Chris Barker, two sweethearts separated by World War Two.
Hunter read out a letter from deaf and blind woman Helen Keller to the New York Symphony Orchestra, thanking them for the music which she had experienced through the radio by feeling the vibrations.
It says it will change the Treasury's Barnett formula in favour of Welsh and English taxpayers "disadvantaged" in favour of Scotland "for so long".
UKIP also proposes making St David's Day a public holiday.
The party will also call for the abolition of the Severn Bridge tolls by 2018 at an event in Merthyr Tydfil.
UKIP is standing in all 40 seats in Wales as it seeks to get its first Welsh MP elected.
The Welsh Conservatives will also launch their manifesto on Friday.
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The former Sunderland player is expected to sign the new contract this week, ending months of talks.
The England international joined Liverpool from the Black Cats in 2011 in a deal worth around £20m.
With Steven Gerrard leaving at the end of the season for Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy, the 24-year-old is among the favourites for the captaincy.
Vice-captain Henderson, whose current contract expires at the end of next season, has scored seven times in 55 games for club and country this campaign.
The leaders also told the M23 group to leave the eastern city of Goma, which they captured on Tuesday.
Later the rebels said they had met DR Congo President Joseph Kabila, and would hold talks with him.
The summit was held in Uganda which, alongside Rwanda, has been accused of backing the rebels.
Both countries deny the charges.
The UN has warned of a humanitarian crisis, with food and medicines running short.
Armed groups have battled over mineral-rich eastern DR Congo for two decades.
President Kabila and the presidents of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania attended the Uganda talks but the Rwandan leader, Paul Kagame, stayed away. He was represented by his foreign minister.
M23 leader Jean-Marie Runiga was also in Kampala.
The four presidents issued a statement calling on M23 to "stop all war activities and withdraw from Goma" and "stop talk of overthrowing an elected government". Mr Kabila was also urged to listen to the rebels' grievances.
Rebels have rejected previous calls to leave Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and the main city in eastern DR Congo.
However, Mr Runiga said a withdrawal was possible, but could only come about from talks with Mr Kabila.
He said he held a meeting with Mr Kabila to arrange the talks, and that despite some tensions the meeting had gone "very well".
"Direct negotiations are scheduled between us and Kabila tomorrow," he said, quoted by AFP news agency.
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About 500,000 people have been displaced by the rebellion since it began in April, with the formation of M23 after a mutiny in the army.
The rebels said they were not given army posts promised in a 2009 deal to end a previous uprising.
Their exact aims are unclear but they have also advanced beyond Goma, taking the town of Sake despite a loyalist fight-back.
They had threatened to attack the capital, Kinshasa, if President Kabila did not open negotiations with them.
The UN has accused Rwanda and Uganda of backing the M23, saying the chain of command culminates with Rwandan Defence Minister James Kabarebe.
The M23's gains have raised fears of renewed war in DR Congo, where some five million people died in a conflict from 1997-2003.
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution condemning the rebel seizure of Goma and calling for sanctions against M23 leaders.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled as the rebel forces have advanced, scattering from villages and refugee camps.
The United Nations' children's fund Unicef says hundreds of children have been separated from their parents. It warns that many of them risk being recruited by armed groups.
Officers were called to the property in the Slateford area on Tuesday after concern for the man, understood to be 42-year-old Kenny Tytler.
It is understood his body may have been in the house since December.
A police spokesman said: "Police in Edinburgh were called to an address in Hutchison Avenue on Tuesday following a report of concern for a man."
He added: "Sadly, a 42-year-old man was found dead within the property.
"Inquiries are ongoing but the death is not believed to be suspicious."
Best friends Letisha Shakespeare, 17, and Charlene Ellis, 18, were the innocent victims of a drive-by shooting in the early hours of 2 January 2003.
Charlene's twin sister Sophie, their cousin Cheryl Shaw and friend Leon Harris were also injured.
The teenagers died in a hail of machine gun fire as they stood outside a new year party in Aston, Birmingham.
Mothers Marcia Shakespeare and Beverley Thomas have campaigned tirelessly over the past decade to try to rid the city of guns and gangs.
"My message to youngsters is to think about the impact it has on the families," Ms Thomas said.
"Think about the community and how it affects people closest to the victims."
Charlene's mother clearly remembers the day 10 years ago when she sat in City Hospital waiting for news.
"I'd got two girls and the first thing I was thinking was that two of them were going to die," she said. "And you get down there and you find that one of them has passed and the other is fighting for her life... it was hard, really hard."
Time has not healed the mothers' pain as they recalled the loss of their daughters.
Ms Shakespeare is still scathing of the young men who had armed themselves with a machine gun and planned to exact a revenge killing on a rival gang member - but instead fired into the crowd of new year party revellers.
"Knowing that someone can be that hyped up... to go out and buy a Mac-10 machine gun and plan to use it on the streets of Birmingham, that's just evil," she said.
Both mothers have helped create a peace garden in the city and have worked with successive governments to raise awareness about the dangers of gang culture.
Ms Shakespeare has been into schools and taken part in a programme highlighting issues surrounding violent crime.
She said: "We have made young people realise, and will continue to make them realise, that there are choices, alternatives to violent crime.
"Young people need to know how being with the wrong people can affect them."
The Aston shootings were a pivotal moment in Britain's recent history.
In 2003 Birmingham had one of the most hardened gang cultures in the UK with up to six shootings a day.
The year the two girls died, City Hospital dealt with 142 gun crime victims.
But December 2011 saw the lowest number of recorded gun offences - 15 - since the monthly number peaked in October 2002 at more than 80.
The shock of two innocent young girls killed on Britain's streets by gangsters armed with a machine gun galvanised the politicians, the police and the justice system.
Det Ch Insp Simon Wallis from West Midlands Police's gangs taskforce described the two mothers as inspirational.
He said: "I think the event has never gone away from the Birmingham memory.
"I think this is obviously a key moment to actually stop and remember what happened on that very dark day.
"But for the police it is still a very big event and we are blessed to have Marcia and Bev work with us and doing all we can to try to set about avoiding any further such tragedy."
The deal is now expected to complete on 31 March, following consent from the Financial Conduct Authority.
The sale of SWIP does not include the banking group's life, pensions and investment business, Scottish Widows.
Aberdeen is paying mostly shares for the deal.
It will hand Lloyds a 9.9% stake, worth about £560m, and manage assets on behalf of Lloyds as part of the deal.
Aberdeen will also pay Lloyds up to £100m in five years' time, depending on the performance of these assets.
Aberdeen chief executive Martin Gilbert said: "We will continue to work closely with SWIP and Lloyds Banking Group to ensure a smooth completion process.
"The way we have already worked together to develop a structured integration plan is very encouraging and means that the migration process will begin very shortly after completion.
"This co-operation confirms my belief that the combination of the two businesses and our strategic relationship with Lloyds will be of great long-term benefit to our shareholders and clients, whom I would like to thank for their continued support throughout this process."
Aberdeen will add £136bn in assets to its books in the deal, making it the biggest listed fund manager in Europe with assets under management of about £340bn.
Official results give the opposition coalition, the LDS, fifteen seats in the new National Assembly, five more than the People's Party of President James Michel.
Before the result was announced, Mr Michel promised to work with the new assembly.
The opposition had been expected to win the election.
"My hope is that this spirit of consultation continues in the new National Assembly, where we all work together for the common good of our nation," he said.
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The LDS (Seychelles Democratic Alliance) consists of the main opposition party, the liberal SNP (Seychelles National Party) and four smaller opposition parties.
The SNP had refused to take part in the 2011 elections claiming they would not be fair.
Mr Michel's People's Party has been in power ever since the return of multi-party democracy in 1991, and before that during almost 16 years of one-party rule.
Turnout: 213,506 valid votes (41.6%)
Second preference votes are only used if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote. The top two candidates then receive the second preference votes from their eliminated opponents.
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North Wales Police covers the whole of what most would regard as north Wales, including the counties of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham. It covers a population of 675,000.
The area is largely rural and includes the Snowdonia National Park, the home of Wales' highest mountain, Snowdon.
The major A55 road links the area to cities like Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham and the port of Holyhead on Anglesey for ferries to Ireland.
The current chief constable is Mark Polin, who has served the area since 2009.
There are 1,454 officers, 888 staff and 232 community support officers.
The total force budget for 2016/17 is £141m. Currently the force is projecting to save £4.54m between 2017/18 and 2019/20.
The police precept for Band D properties is £240.12.
It is the highest in Wales, compared to £220.06 in Gwent, £207.85 in South Wales and £200.07 in Dyfed-Powys Police force areas.
There were 36,800 recorded crimes in north Wales during the year up to September 2015.
That was a slight increase of 1% the previous year, the lowest increase in recorded crime in Wales for that period.
Incidents of violence against the person rose by 17%, although all but one police forces saw increases in that category.
Sexual offences increased by 11% and criminal damage and arson rose by 3% while robbery fell by 12% and burglary dropped by 10%.
A recent report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) found the force performing well in preventing crime and anti-social behaviour, and tackling serious and organised crime. However other aspects of the force's effectiveness needed to improve, it said.
Its approach to investigating crime has some shortcomings, HMIC said, with the policy for allocating crime to investigators not clearly understood by the workforce.
Examples of frontline officers undertaking investigations that were beyond their level of training and experience, including high-risk domestic abuse cases, were found.
Daw Mill Colliery, near Nuneaton, closed in March 2013 with the loss of 650 jobs following an underground fire. Site demolition began in November.
Owners Harworth Estates have sent plans for warehouses and office units to North Warwickshire Borough Council. It claims 1,400 jobs could be created.
People living nearby have said they are worried about increased traffic.
Ross Jones, who lives a mile away in Over Whitacre, is opposed to the plans.
He said: "We have a road network here made up of all countryside B-roads which are just incapable of dealing with the amount of heavy goods vehicles that will be generated by this operation."
Iain Thomson from Harworth Estates said it had held an "extensive consultation" into the future of the site which included a traffic study.
"We will work with Warwickshire County Council, as the highways authority, on any required junction improvements...but this site is also rail connected and we are encouraging use of that."
The firm said some existing colliery buildings would be retained and a memorial garden would be built to remember miners who had died.
UK Coal announced a full restructuring of its mining operations in July, four months after Daw Mill closed.
Midfielder Jamie Lindsay gave the home side the lead with a close-range effort just before the break.
Ross Forbes made it two at the start of the second half after Falkirk, one place behind Morton in the league, failed to clear inside the box.
Victory stretched the hosts' unbeaten run at home to 17 matches.
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In a tightly contested first 45 minutes, the home side broke the deadlock just before the break and it came from a mix-up in the Bairns' defence.
David McCracken tried to clear a Forbes header just outside the six-yard box but as he swivelled to clear the ball, his effort fell at the feet of the onrushing Lindsay, who blasted in at the back post.
Falkirk's failure to clear cost them again directly after the break.
Forbes passed up a gilt-edged opportunity when the ball fell to him six yards out, but he was gifted a second chance and this time fired home from close range with the Falikrk defence looking on.
The visitors should probably have taken the lead after 20 minutes but Derek Gaston saved well at the feet of James Craigen, who found himself through on goal.
Peter Houston's side pushed hard late in the game looking for a lifeline, but in truth it was the host who looked more likely to add to their lead.
Match ends, Morton 2, Falkirk 0.
Second Half ends, Morton 2, Falkirk 0.
Substitution, Morton. Jamie McDonagh replaces Aidan Nesbitt.
Attempt missed. John Baird (Falkirk) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Ricki Lamie.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Ricki Lamie.
Michael Doyle (Morton) is shown the yellow card.
Gary Oliver (Morton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David McCracken (Falkirk).
Attempt missed. Aidan Nesbitt (Morton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Gary Oliver (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Watson (Falkirk).
(Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David McCracken (Falkirk).
Foul by Jamie Lindsay (Morton).
Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ross Forbes (Morton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Danny Rogers.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead.
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gary Oliver (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Sibbald (Falkirk).
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Tony Gallacher.
Substitution, Falkirk. John Baird replaces Myles Hippolyte.
Attempt missed. Lee Miller (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Jamie Lindsay (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk).
Attempt blocked. Mark Russell (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Paul Watson.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Myles Hippolyte.
Ricki Lamie (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fraser Aird (Falkirk).
Foul by Mark Russell (Morton).
Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces James Craigen.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead.
Attempt saved. Ricki Lamie (Morton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Tony Gallacher.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by David McCracken.
Snowdonia Pumped Hydro (SPH) need a licence to discharge water into a lake at Llanberis as part of the plans.
But Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said it had not been provided with enough information about the scheme.
SPH said plans for the power project are continuing, and it was "not concerned" by the permit development.
"As a developer we expect there to be bumps in the road on the way," said the head of SPH, Dave Holmes.
Plans for the 99.9MWe hydro plant at the former Glyn Rhonwy quarries in Llanberis are currently being considered by the UK Planning Inspectorate.
Under the proposals, water would be released from reservoirs above the quarries to generate electricity at peak times, and later pumped back up from quarry ponds.
As part of the plans, there are contingencies for water to be discharged into Llyn Padarn if necessary.
The project sparked controversy earlier this year when opponents voiced disputed claims that the site may have been contaminated by chemicals used in World War Two bombs stored nearby.
"Llyn Padarn is a vitally important natural asset for the area," said Dylan Williams, operations manager for NRW.
"We only issue an environmental permit if we are wholly satisfied that a company's plans prove it will operate safely, without harming the environment or local communities.
"However, the applicant has not provided us with enough information to be able to make that decision and has withdrawn its applications."
But developer SPH said it understood the key concern had been the fact a main contractor to construct the power plant had not yet been agreed.
"But we are not concerned by this development," said Mr Holmes.
"We will resubmit the permit application when we have appointed the principal constructor."
The company said it remained in discussions with NRW, and had already been issued with other environmental permits, including for water abstraction and for dealing with bats in the area.
Naveen Rabelli had his passport and wallet stolen from his parked tuk-tuk in Sarcelles while using a bathroom.
He is waiting for a new passport to cross the English Channel and finish his journey at Buckingham Palace.
Mr Rabelli is trying to draw attention to renewable energy.
"I have been on road for seven months now, and have been dreaming to get to [the] UK. For four years I have been preparing for this," he told the BBC.
"It really sucks to have lost my passport and 1,000 euros" while en route to Calais to take a ferry to the UK, he said
Mr Rabelli has been helped by strangers along his journey, which took him through Iran, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
He sleeps in his auto-rickshaw when not offered accommodation and managed to save up money along the way.
"People donated. I sold olive oil in [a] market, I sold my postcards, I sold Greek liquor," he said.
The 35-year-old, an Australian national and Indian resident, has worked for Mahindra Reva, an Indian electric car company.
He bought the diesel tuk-tuk for $1,500 (£1,120) and spent $11,500 customising it. It has a top speed of 60km/h (37 mph) and is powered by both electricity and solar power.
The vehicle has a bed and a solar cooker.
Retired Captain William Swenson, 34, received the Medal of Honor for repeatedly risking his life to save fellow soldiers and recover the dead.
Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the same deadly firefight in the Ganjgal Valley in 2009.
Capt Swenson is now the sixth living recipient of the military honour.
The Pentagon has said it took two years after Sgt Meyer's medal to honour Capt Swenson because the initial paperwork nominating him for the medal was "lost".
But some have suggested Capt Swenson's application was delayed after he openly criticised superior officers for rejecting many of his calls for air support.
Two Army officers were eventually reprimanded for being "inadequate and ineffective" and for "contributing directly to the loss of life", following an investigation into the battle.
Capt Swenson was serving in Afghanistan as a trainer and mentor embedded with the Afghan National Security Forces in Kunar province when he was among US and Afghan soldiers walking through the valley on the way to meeting with village elders.
After being trapped by an attack as they approached the village, he ran across 50m (164ft) of open space to a wounded Sgt Kenneth Westbrook, pressing a bandage against the wounded man's chest wound with one hand and throwing a grenade with another before bringing him to a medical helicopter.
In video taken from the helmet camera of a medic recently released by the military, Capt Swenson is seen kissing the forehead of Sgt Westbrook, 41, as he is brought into a medical helicopter.
"A simple act of compassion and loyalty to a brother in arms," Mr Obama said. "He's without his helmet, standing in the open, exposing himself to enemy fire, standing watch over a severely wounded soldier."
Sgt Westbrook died after returning the US of complications from a blood transfusion.
Mr Obama said while the Medal of Honor had been awarded nearly 3,500 times for actions above and beyond the call of duty "this may be the first time that we can actually bear witness to a small fraction of those actions for ourselves".
After Capt Swenson put Sgt Westbrook on the airlift, he returned to the battle, driving vehicles multiple times across the firefight to recover soldiers.
"Will Swenson was there for his brothers," during the six-hour battle, Mr Obama said.
Four other Americans, 10 Afghan army troops and an interpreter were killed during the battle in September 2009.
The former army captain had invited family members of those who died in the firefight to the ceremony on Tuesday.
Capt Swenson has been unemployed since leaving the military in 2011 and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
He has requested to return to active duty, rare for a Medal of Honor recipient, and his request is being reviewed, Army spokesman George Wright said.
In a brief statement after the ceremony Capt Swenson said: "This award was earned with a team, a team of our finest. This medal represents them. It represents us."
He was first nominated on 18 December 2009, but the US commander in Afghanistan had to resubmit Capt Swenson's application in July 2011, according to McClatchy newspapers.
California Representative Duncan Hunter had asked the defence department to explain the further delay in January.
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"Basketball is accepted as having the most well-rounded athletes in the world. It's a quick game, and you can be fooled into thinking it's easy to score, but I can tell you it isn't. For Team GB, Luol Deng is the man to watch, but it is going to be a real struggle for the women. For the US men's team, Kevin Durant could emerge as someone to watch as if it is just the 'Kobe Bryant and LeBron James Show', they will fail."
Star players in the American National Basketball Association (NBA) such as LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant are now some of the most recognisable and highly-paid athletes on the planet.
Men's basketball was introduced to the Olympics in 1936, with women given their own competition in 1976. In 1989, basketball's governing body Fiba voted to allow NBA stars to compete in the Olympics.
Great Britain will field men's and women's teams at London 2012 - the first time they have competed at the Olympics since London last hosted the Games in 1948. Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng is expected to be the star British performer.
Basketball is a fast-moving game, where an hour's play can burn between 630-750 calories.
The sport's mixture of running, jumping, pivoting and twisting helps improve balance and build endurance.
It is also an excellent way to boost coordination and balance through dribbling, passing and shooting the basketball.
As it is a team game, basketball is 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 playing the sport.
More than 300,000 people are estimated to play basketball each month in the United Kingdom.
It is a cheap game to set-up, with only a hoop and basketball required for a rudimentary match. Thousands of outdoor courts can be found across the country in parks and recreation areas where you can play for free.
For people looking to receive coaching, play as part of a team and compete in a league, there are approximately 1,000 clubs in the UK which can be found in sport centres, schools, colleges, universities and gyms.
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Find your local club by using the England Basketball,Basketball Northern Ireland,basketballscotland and Basketball Wales club finders. The 'Try Basketball' scheme by England Basketball is giving people of all ages throughout the country the chance to play the sport, with many sessions costing nothing to take part in.
England Basketball's 'Ball Again' campaign is looking to help people aged 25+ who previously played the sport and want to get back to playing again, with 'IM Basketball' designed to help universities, colleges, schools and clubs set-up inter-mural leagues.
Basketball Wales run a number of leagues and coaching courses for both children and adults, while basketballscotland provide detailed training for under-14 players through their 'Future Starz' programme.
Basketball Northern Ireland run a number of training camps for boys and girls aged 8-18 who are looking to improve their skills.
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'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers.
More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved.
As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out.
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Two teams of five (with seven substitutes) compete on a court that is 15m wide and 28m long, with baskets that are 3.05m above the ground at either end. A game is 40 minutes long, consisting of four 10-minute quarters.
The 1972 final saw the USSR beat the previously undefeated USA 51-50 amid huge controversy. The US had celebrated victory only for three seconds to be added to the clock, allowing Sasha Belov to score a dramatic winning basket. Coaches and officials debated the result on court afterwards (above).
The team with the most points at the end wins. If the score is tied at the end of playing time for the fourth period, the game shall continue with as many extra periods of five minutes as is necessary to break the tie.
There are unlimited substitutions and teams can call time-outs, where play is stopped for up to one minute. Two timeouts can be called per team in the first half of the game, three in the second half, and a further one timeout each extra time period.
Points are scored by shooting the ball into the basket from either inside the three-point line (two points), outside the line (three points) or, in the case of fouls and penalties, from a specified spot straight in front of the basket (one point per shot).
Once a team is in possession of the ball, they have 24 seconds to shoot or they lose possession to their opponents.
Players are not allowed to hold the ball or use two hands while running, and must 'dribble' it by bouncing it from one hand to the floor and back again. If they hold the ball for more than two stops while moving, it is called 'travelling', and possession is conceded.
If a player commits five fouls they must be substituted and cannot return to the game.
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Team GB's men have been strengthened by the addition of NBA All-Star Luol Deng, but they finished 13th at the European Championships and have little chance of winning a medal.
The women made an encouraging debut at EuroBasket last year but the players themselves say they are not going to medal.
The USA's men, with NBA stars like LeBron James, will be red-hot favourites to win gold but expect Spain and Argentina to push them close.
USA's women's team are as dominant as their male counterparts - they top the world rankings and are reigning world champions. Australia and Russia will challenge.
The popularity of basketball spread quickly following Dr Naismith's invention of the sport in 1891, with students from abroad who had studied in Springfield taking the game far and wide.
The silver medals won by the USA's men at the 1972 Olympics remain in a vault at the IOC as the team refused to accept them following the highly-controversial defeat by Russia in the final (which ended their 63-match unbeaten run at the Games). US captain Ken Davis has a clause in his will stating that a member of his family will never be allowed to go and collect his medal.
The first game involved a football and two baskets normally used to carry peaches as the target. Someone would retrieve the ball after every basket, with the bottom only removed in 1906 to create the hoop now used today.
An Olympic demonstration sport as early as 1904, the first international games were played in the 1920s and men's basketball was introduced to the Olympics in 1936
By 1950, the first World Championship for men was held in Argentina. Three years later, the first World Championship for women took place in Chile, with the opening Olympic competition following in 1976.
Over 450 million people now play basketball at a competition and grassroots level, and the sport claims to be closing on football as the world's most popular.
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The 31-year-old left-hander retired from international duty last summer after 225 appearances over 13 years.
"I'm delighted to take on the new role as I make the transition from player to coach," Greenway, 31, said.
"We will be working hard to defend the double in 2017 as the competition gets tougher every year."
More than 100 cases have been reported in the South Bronx, one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.
Officials have traced the legionella bacteria to cooling towers in more than a dozen buildings.
The elderly are especially at risk from this form of pneumonia.
All but one of the 12 victims were older than 40 years old and all of them had underlying health problems.
Cleaning crews have been dispatched across the Bronx to kill the bacteria. The disease is not transmitted person to person. It is primarily spread via air conditioning and similar systems.
"We are dealing with a new set of realities we have never experienced that we have never encountered before in this city,'' New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday.
The disease has a 10-day incubation period, which has caused a lag in the reporting of cases. But Mr de Blasio and New York health officials believe that there has not been a new case since 3 August.
The response has been muddled by a lack of coordination between city and state health officials.
On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mr de Blasio held duelling news conferences, at times offering conflicting information.
The response to the outbreak is the latest in a series of incidents where the men - Democrats who claimed to be friends - have been at odds.
The 2013 attack did no damage but revealed information about how computers running the flood control system worked, said the paper.
Hackers working for nation states regularly hit national infrastructure targets, said a separate AP report.
About 12 times in the last decade hackers have won high-level access to power networks, it said.
Extensive information about the Bowman Avenue dam in Rye, New York state was taken by the hackers, experts familiar with the incident told the newspaper.
An investigation pointed to Iran as the likely source of the attack and alerted US authorities to the significant cyber warfare capabilities of that nation, said the report The same group of hackers that attacked Bowman Avenue was also implicated in separate attacks on three US financial firms, it added.
The US power network has also come under regular attack by "sophisticated foreign hackers" said AP in an extensive investigation.
Many times security researchers had found evidence that hackers had won access to these sensitive systems. So far, all the attacks seemed intent on gathering detailed information, including engineering drawings, about networks and facilities.
One extensive campaign gave hackers access to 82 separate plants spread across the US and Canada. Comments in the code found when the attacks were detected suggested Iranian hackers were behind this attack. Information about this series of attacks led the FBI to issue a warning to power industry that it was being targeted.
The knowledge accumulated by the attackers has not been used to shut down the power plants or change the way they work, wrote AP reporters Garance Burke and Jonathan Fahey.
However, the knowledge could be used to cause damage if diplomatic relations between Iran and the US changed for the worse, former US Air Force cyber security expert Robert Lee told the agency.
Hackers could get at the power plants and other parts of national infrastructure because many of the systems were set up long before the need to protect them against remote attacks became apparent.
Greg Dyke, the FA chairman, said recently that English players in the top flight are an "endangered species".
Just 33.2% of the players who started games on the opening weekend were English, down from 35% last season.
"The 35% is not a bad number per se, just lower than Germany," said Glenn.
Almost 50% of starters in the Bundesliga last season were German, with the top divisions in Spain, France and Italy boasting figures of 58%, 56% and 43% respectively.
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Only 73 of the 220 players who started the opening Premier League weekend were English, a figure that Glenn accepts is a concern.
"The clubs, the Premier League, the Football League and the FA all agree it would be desirable to get a higher percentage of England-eligible players playing, we are just not totally aligned yet on the means," said Glenn, who was speaking at the launch of the National Game Strategy for Participation and Development.
"It is an opportunity for all of us and I am confident through sensible dialogue and a few tough arguments we will get to a better place.
"I am a big believer in collaboration rather than antagonism".
In 2013, Dyke created a commission with the aim of increasing the number of English players in the Premier League to 45% by 2022.
Dyke made a number of proposals to help achieve this goal, including increasing the minimum number of home-grown players in a club's first-team squad of 25 from eight to 12, phased over four years from 2016.
The Premier League agreed to a consultation over the proposed changes in March this year.
Glenn agrees with former Manchester United, Everton and England player Phil Neville, who said in March that a generation of English talent is disappearing "down a black hole" because of a lack of opportunities.
The FA chief executive suggested one way of "unblocking" the "logjam" would be to follow the example of other European countries who "produce talented kids who go across the world to play football".
The FA wants to increase the number of home-grown players in Premier League squads in order to improve the quality of the pool of players available for the England team.
Roy Hodgson's side exited the 2014 World Cup at the group stage, but have won all six of their games in qualifying for Euro 2016.
Glenn has said England's aim is to win the 2022 World Cup, but sees no reason why success cannot come earlier than that.
"We are investing a lot more in coaching to give us a great chance and it takes time, but tournaments do not come around very often," he added.
"I look at every tournament as massively precious. For the Euros and the World Cup in Russia we have strong ambitions to absolutely win those tournaments. Why would you not go in to give it your best shot?"
Hodgson's deal as England boss runs to the end of Euro 2016 in France.
New contract talks are not expected to take place until after that tournament, and Glenn suggested it is a situation Hodgson is happy with.
"I think it is right in the sense that, more than anything in life, football is a results game," he said.
"Roy is a great manager, we are lucky to have him. He has fantastic international experience, the qualification we are enjoying with the Euros has been great.
"Think about the disappointment of the World Cup, we stuck with him and that has been repaid handsomely.
"Roy is a proud man and, if he doesn't do well in the Euros, he would be the last person to say 'give me a contract extension'."
England's women's team enjoyed great success in 2015, finishing third at the World Cup.
Their performance in Canada saw an increase in interest in the domestic game. Record crowds have watched Women's Super League matches, while just over 30,000 people attended the Women's FA Cup final between Chelsea Ladies and Notts County Ladies, more than double the previous record.
"We know leagues and clubs are being inundated with girls who want to play and teams who want to set up girls' teams," said FA director of participation and development Kelly Simmons.
"It is a key moment - utilising that support and getting more girls playing."
There still remains a notable absentee from the WSL, with Manchester United without a women's team.
United run junior female sides but disbanded their senior team in 2005.
"The landscape has changed in those 10 years," said former Everton and England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis.
"It was probably a decision made at executive level at the time - that the women's game was not something they wanted to brand up. Now it is very different. It is a very commercial product, something Manchester United could use to their advantage.
"It seems a win-win situation and I'd like to think it is only a short amount of time before they do decide to take the plunge and back a women's team."
Last season there was just one black manager working in the Premier League - Chris Ramsey at QPR. Now there are none.
"The numbers don't lie," said Brendon Batson, FA consultant on equality. "The season started last weekend and we have not got a black manager in the Premier League.
"When you look at the integration of black players from the mid-'70s you would have thought they would have graduated to the elite end in terms of coaching and management. That hasn't happened.
"We need things to be done. We want to see that, for those who have the qualifications and apply for jobs, there is a proper process."
Despite the lack of representation at the top level, Batson believes positive steps are being made.
The coach bursary programme, which started last year, offers aspiring coaches from the black minority ethnic (BME) community better opportunities to gain the qualifications required to boost their chances of getting elite-level coaching positions.
"I think this is one of the few times there has been a wind of change and it is starting blow a lot harder," added Batson.
"What the game is doing is providing these coaches with the qualifications and saying to rest of the game that when you have an opportunity to employ, look at these coaches."
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Thousands of people have already pitched up tent at Worthy Farm in the South West of England, where the Glastonbury festival takes place.
This year it runs from 23 -25 June.
It's been happening for more than 40 years and is famous for music, fun and mud!
Here's Leah with all you need to know about this year's Glasto!
The longest-serving American astronaut in space is returning to Earth after living on board the International Space Station for 340 days.
While there, Capt Scott Kelly shared fantastic images of our planet via Twitter and Instagram, as well as videos documenting everyday life in space.
Capt Kelly's mission will help Nasa understand the long-term effects of living in space. His identical twin, Mark, stayed grounded during the year, and Nasa is conducting research on both men to see how a year of weightlessness affects the human body.
The research is critical, as it will take a year of space travel to reach Mars.
In October, Capt Kelly was one of two astronauts on board the International Space Station to make their first spacewalk outside - to do some repairs and maintenance.
Capt Kelly and Dr Kjell Lindgren had to grease the station's big robot arm, reroute some cables and remove some insulation.
The spacewalk had to be delayed after Dr Lindgren switched on the water flow in his suit too soon.
Travelling more than 220 miles above the Earth, at 17,500mph, Capt Kelly orbited the globe more than a dozen times a day.
This image shows the view over Africa.
During his stay on station, he had the opportunity to photograph various geographical locations, including the Bahamas, pictured here.
"Pictures like this make me really regret that my watercolours didn't make it up here," Capt Kelly wrote on 22 November 2015.
On 29 September, Capt Kelly had an Antipodean view.
He wrote: "My favourite colour is blue. But it's green I miss most. #New Zealand, you were everything I expected."
Some images proved puzzling to some of Capt Kelly's followers.
On 11 February, this shot raised some questions.
He wrote: "Posted this pic last week. Many of you asked, 'What is it?'"
Capt Kelly revealed all on Tumbler.
He wrote: "Photo located on the western edge of the Sahara desert at centre Mauritania in north-west Africa. There is a giant quartzite circle called Richat Structure. It is approximately 24 miles across. This volcanic bulge that never erupted and was levelled by erosion makes for interesting Earth art."
On 27 August, Capt Kelly captured one of many amazing shots of the aurora borealis.
He also marked Halloween with another shot of the spectacular light show.
On 27 February and near the end of his time on the space station, Capt Kelly wrote; "Of all the sunrises I've seen on my year in space, this was one of the best! One of the last too. Headed home soon."
Unsurprisingly, Capt Kelly's final post before returning was a picture of Earth; "#Countdown We're down to a wake-up. #Earth. I'm coming for you tomorrow! #GoodNight from @space_station! #YearInSpace."
Stanning, 29, won pairs gold with Helen Glover at London 2012 before returning to active duty with the British Army, including a tour of Afghanistan.
In Stanning's absence, Glover won the 2013 world title with Polly Swann.
Stanning and Glover reunited in their first race together since London 2012.
"We have decided to take the pressure off, knock back her training and we think that will open the opportunity for a swift return to top form," said Sir David Tanner, GB Rowing's performance director.
"We are sure that Heather will be back on song soon. We will now consider our options in terms of the open women's squad before finalising the selections for Belgrade."
Stanning, who lives in Reading, Berkshire, said: "I am clearly disappointed not to be travelling with the team to Belgrade and I wish everyone luck out there.
"I am still training and will focus on the programme I've been set to regain intensity at the very top end of the percentages".
"Drive them out of this earth," he told regional leaders in Riyadh, as part of his first official trip abroad.
Mr Trump blamed Iran, Saudi Arabia's rival, for instability in the region.
His speech is seen as an attempted reset with Muslims after his harsh campaign rhetoric stirred concerns in the Islamic world.
Mr Trump had previously suggested he would be open to creating a database of all the Muslims in the US. And he had also called for Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the US over security concerns.
But, speaking in the Saudi capital to leaders of 55 Muslim-majority countries, Mr Trump called this a "new chapter", saying he was not there to "lecture" them or impose the American way of life.
The fight against extremism, he added, was not a battle between different faiths or civilizations: "This is a battle between good and evil".
"A better future is only possible if your nations drive out the terrorists, and drive out the extremists".
But, he added, the countries could not wait for "American power" to act, and had to "fulfil their part of the burden".
He singled out Iran for criticism, accusing it of fuelling sectarian conflict and supporting "unspeakable crimes" by the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Behind the lavish praise heaped on his hosts, President Trump used this speech to deliver a tough message to Arab and Muslim governments: deal with the ideology that fuels terrorism now or live with it for generations to come.
He went out of his way to avoid the sort of inflammatory language he's more usually known for. His repeated condemnation of Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran will have pleased the Gulf Arab leaders listening.
Unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama, this US president made no mention of human rights or democracy. But he did condemn the oppression of women.
And amongst several cynical reactions to the speech from around the region on social media, some have pointed out that here in Saudi Arabia women are forbidden to drive and there are no parliamentary elections. In Iran, the country accused by Mr Trump of being behind much of the current terrorism across the Middle East, they have just had a free election and women are free to drive.
Analysts said the speech was a change for Mr Trump, who is trying to redefine his relationship with the Muslim world after several controversial remarks, including an interview last year in which he famously said: "I think Islam hates us."
His highly anticipated address did not include the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism", which he had used before and is considered offensive by many Muslims. A transcript of the text published on his Facebook page included a mention of "Islamist extremism" and "Islamist terror groups".
But in his speech Mr Trump said: "That means honestly confronting the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds." It was not immediately clear if he stumbled over the word or decided to change the script.
Meanwhile, the US and six Gulf states announced a deal to co-ordinate their efforts aimed at cutting off sources of money for extremist groups, including so-called Islamic State (IS).
The countries - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain - are involved in the fight against the militants, but have been accused of backing the group and other Sunni militants - most notably in a 2014 email by Hillary Clinton released by Wikileaks.
"The unique piece of it is that every single one of them are signatories on how they're responsible and will actually prosecute the financing of terrorism, including individuals," said Dina Powell, US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy.
Mr Trump's eight-day trip will also take in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Brussels, the Vatican, and Sicily.
The president's visit has been overshadowed by his political difficulties at home, namely the fallout over his sacking of FBI chief James Comey.
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Carla Whitlock was sprayed with drain cleaner containing sulphuric acid in Southampton on 18 September.
Billy Midmore, 23, who was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, was jailed for 15 years with a further five years on licence.
Geoffrey Midmore, 27, had previously pleaded guilty to the same charge and was jailed for nine years.
Southampton Crown Court heard the acid was thrown in the 37-year-old's face after a drug deal went wrong.
Sentencing the pair, Judge Peter Ralls QC said: "Your behaviour displays a level of medieval barbarism that is appalling.
"You used a weapon that was pernicious and evil. You planned for this, which adds to the culpability."
Billy Midmore, who denied any involvement in the attack, admitted sending Ms Whitlock threatening texts after his brother was robbed of drugs and cash worth £2,000.
Brothers jailed for Southampton acid attack - as it happened
Prosecutors said he held the mother-of-six responsible after she helped broker the deal between the brothers and a Southampton drug dealer.
Train CCTV showed him giving a high-five and fist-bumping a friend hours after the attack.
The brothers, from London, were arrested in Gillingham, Kent, on 29 September, following a two-week nationwide manhunt.
During his trial, Billy Midmore admitted coming to Southampton from London to sell crack cocaine and heroin.
The court also heard Geoffrey Midmore had sent a photograph of the drain cleaner on WhatsApp to an acquaintance, with the words: "This is one face melter."
The court heard Ms Whitlock needed surgery after the attack and remained in "significant pain".
A consultant said her right eye was prone to "breakdown and infection" and her eyesight was unlikely to return.
The judge told the brothers: "You bought the drain cleaner because you intended to pour it in her face.
"To describe it as the 'face melter' could only have one interpretation."
After sentencing, Ch Insp Debra Masson, of Hampshire Constabulary, described the brothers as "men of violence" who "made people's lives a misery".
"The evidence shown in court of their behaviour directly after the attack, coupled with their concerted efforts to evade capture, served to expose them as the dangerous criminals they are," she said.
"Although things will never be the same for Carla, we hope that the sentence handed to Geoffrey and Billy Midmore today goes some way to giving her closure and allows her to feel that justice has been delivered."
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Cross-party talks starting later this month are expected to consider plans put forward in an independent review that costs should be capped at £35,000.
But some believe the final cap may have to be higher and have warned it will not cover everything anyway.
Social care chiefs say any future system in England will be a partnership between state and individual.
The revelation that health ministers and their Labour opponents had agreed to hold discussions about overhauling social care has been widely welcomed by charities and councils which are responsible for providing services.
But even with the prospect of political consensus in sight, the public will still be expected to shoulder a significant chunk of the costs.
Richard Humphries, of the King's Fund think-tank, said he believed the final cap might have to be higher than the £35,000 figure mentioned by the government-commissioned review published last summer by the economist Andrew Dilnot.
"My feeling is that in the current climate it may have to be a bit higher to be affordable [for government]."
He added that on top of that, those who ended up in residential care would still be liable for the non-care element - known as the "hotel costs" - which were likely to be between £7,000 and £9,000 a year.
He said because of the sums involved he thought it would be essential for the insurance industry to develop products to cover charges and for the state to allow a deferred payment scheme so that any costs incurred could be taken from an estate after death.
Peter Hay, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, agreed that the public must remember that they had a role to play.
"Social care is not free now and it won't be in the future. What we need is for people to start thinking about care costs. Three-quarters of people end up needing some social care support - so this is an issue that affects most of us.
"We need people to take responsibility for their well-being to lessen the costs for them and the state."
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In a statement, it said Mohamed Kamal died in a gun battle along with another member of the group on Monday.
The ministry said Mr Kamal was in charge of the group's armed wing, although the Brotherhood maintains it is a exclusively peaceful organisation.
He had been sentenced to life in prison on two counts in absentia.
The Muslim Brotherhood said he had disappeared on Monday.
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The supermarket chain reported underlying pre-tax profits of £242m in the year to 31 January, down from £345m.
Chief executive David Potts said: "By improving the shopping trip for customers, we have started the journey to turn around the business and make our supermarkets strong."
Total turnover fell 4.1% to £16.1bn.
Like-for-like sales, excluding fuel and VAT, fell 2% - far better than the 5.9% slide in 2014.
Last week, Morrisons announced it would supply groceries to Amazon customers in the UK, under a new deal with the online giant.
Mr Potts, formerly at Tesco, joined as chief executive last March, with the task of reviving the supermarket's fortunes.
In 2015, he closed unprofitable supermarkets and sold off convenience store outlets.
The industry as a whole is trying to adapt to the growing popularity of the German discounters, Aldi and Lidl.
Morrisons has signalled that more price cuts are on the way.
But Mr Potts warned the "turnaround will take time and will continue to require sustained investment in the proposition".
The firm said that in the medium term, it expected an incremental uplift in underlying profit from the opportunities that it had identified within online, manufacturing, wholesale and popular services, as well as from lower interest costs.
The group surprised the market over Christmas when it reported better-than-expected sales.
Shares in Morrisons, which recently returned to the FTSE 100, fell 3.5% to 195.6p, making the company worth £4.6bn.
However, the shares have risen almost a third since the start of this year.
Steve Clayton, head of equity research at Hargreaves Lansdown said Morrisons appeared to be heading in the right direction.
"David Potts' strategic plans for the group make eminent sense - focus on the consumer, regain price competitiveness and improve the stores' appeal," he said.
"There is, however, no sign of an end to deflation in food pricing. Morrison is firmly in the sights of Aldi and Lidl and if it is to repel their threat, its value focus must be relentless."
Analysts at Jefferies said that the supermarket was "on the mend" under its new management.
Demonstrators chanted slogans against Prime Minister Viktor Orban, accusing him of employing corrupt officials and being too close to Russia.
Similar protests occurred in at least 20 other Hungarian cities as well as London, Berlin and Stockholm.
Last month thousands successfully rallied against a planned internet tax.
Opposition politicians were amongst the protesters, although party symbols were not on show following a request from the organisers, Reuters news agency reports.
Demonstrators called on Mr Orban to resign and demanded the ousting of six public officials, including the head of Hungary's tax authority, who have been accused of corruption.
In October, Washington banned Ildiko Vida and the five other officials from entering the US because of their alleged corruption links.
After announcing the ban, while US charge d'affaires Andre Goodfriend said that "negative trends [had] rapidly taken hold" in Hungary.
Despite this, the six officials deny any wrongdoing and Mr Orban has refused to ask for their resignation.
The demonstrators also accused the prime minister of moving away from the EU towards Russia, and demanded greater government accountability.
Many accuse Mr Orban, who leads the country's centre-right Fidesz Party, of becoming increasingly authoritarian.
Although the protest was peaceful, thousands remained after the demonstration was over.
The crowds dismantled metal barriers by the Hungarian parliament and faced police in riot gear whilst chanting "Orban, go away" and "We do not pay tax to criminals".
Monday's protest was the fourth demonstration within Hungary in the last 30 days.
On 9 November demonstrators marched against Ms Vida calling for her resignation.
But the largest protest came in October when the government suggested an internet tax.
After thousands rallied in protest, Mr Orban surprised many by changing his mind and withdrawing the plans four days later.
Despite the protests, Mr Orban commands broad popularity in Hungary and in April he was re-elected with Fidesz winning two-thirds of the seats in parliament.
Figures also show construction workers killed themselves at a rate three times higher than the male average.
For women, people in culture, media and sport had a rate 69% higher than the female average.
The Samaritans said more understanding would help to target support to those most at risk.
The Office for National Statistics referred to previous studies, which found job security and low pay increased the risk of suicide.
The report was based on 13,232 deaths from suicide registered in England between 2011 and 2015 among people aged 20 to 64, where the deceased's occupation was known.
About four in five (10,688) were men.
Men working in skilled trade occupations had the second-highest risk among the major occupational groups, the ONS said. They accounted for 29% (3,059 out of 10,688) of all male suicides.
The raw numbers showed 1,047 male suicides were of people in the construction or building trade. However, this does not take account of the number of people working in the professions.
Among women, those working in culture, media and sport as well as health professionals had the highest rates.
Women in culture, media and sport occupations had a rate 69% higher than the national average for women while health professionals were 24% higher.
In raw numbers, the most suicides among women were in the caring professional services - 273 between 2011 and 2015.
The figures were compiled by the ONS, which worked with David Gunnell, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Bristol. The study was commissioned by Public Health England.
Ruth Sutherland, chief executive of Samaritans, said: "Suicide is complex. There is never a single reason or circumstance that leads to a person taking their own life, so all additional insight into suicidal thoughts and behaviours is to be welcomed.
"The more we know, the more we can target resources and support to those most at risk."
She said the organisation was now working with the construction industry.
Duncan Selbie, chief executive of Public Health England, said: "Suicide is the leading cause of death for men under 50, and more women are taking their own lives each year. Death by suicide is never inevitable, but for a person who is overwhelmed by feelings and events that appear insurmountable, it can seem like the only answer.
"People who die from suicide are usually not in contact with health services, and often push through in silence as their ability to cope deteriorates. With more than two-thirds of adults in employment, the workplace offers an opportunity to reach people who need extra support.
"I urge all employers, large or small, public or private sector to treat mental health as seriously as physical health. Early action can stop any employees reaching a desperate stage. Simple actions can make a huge difference - talking with a manager or colleague can help people get the support they need, and ultimately save lives."
Nansi Ellis, assistant general secretary for policy at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers said: "It is shocking to see that female primary teachers have a suicide risk that is 42% above the average."
She said teachers were "exhausted from constant stress" and expected to "devote every minute of their lives to their work".
If you are affected by any of the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 or through their website.
Since this full moon occurs in September it is known as the "harvest moon." This is because it is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox of 22 September.
It coincided with a minor, penumbral lunar eclipse for many people in Asia and Africa. That won't happen again until 2024.
Here are a selection of pictures from social media users taken in the last 24 hours.
Compiled by Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News Team
Figures from the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) show only a modest rise in students taking the new computer science GCSE.
Experts are concerned.
The British Computer Society warns the number studying for a computing qualification could halve by 2020.
The organisation - which is the professional body for the IT industry - says that would be a disaster for the economy.
The old ICT course, which was the main way school students learned about computing, is being scrapped, with the last GCSE entrants taking the exam next year. The subject, which was described by critics as teaching little more than how to use Microsoft Office, is being replaced by the more rigorous computer science GCSE.
But figures from Ofqual showing entries for the exam rising to 67,800 this year from 61,220 in 2016 have set alarm bells ringing. With 58,600 still taking the ICT exam, the overall number getting a GCSE computing qualification has fallen slightly.
The British Computing Society says that when ICT disappears, the computer science exam will fail to fill the gap.
"If we don't act now," says Bill Mitchell from the BCS, "by 2020 we are likely to see the number of students studying computing at GCSE halve, when it should be doubling. If that happens, it will be a disaster for our children, and the future of the nation."
The other big concern is that too few girls are taking up the computer science exam - in 2016 they made up just 20% of entrants, while the figure for ICT has been around 40%.
Prof Rose Luckin says the subject has an image problem.
"Computer science is seen as more 'techie' and it is still dominated by men," explains the expert from University College London's Knowledge Lab, who has been researching and writing about the teaching of technology for 20 years.
"Many girls believe computer science and coding is 'for boys' and they do not see desirable career options that appeal to them."
What seems clear is that the computer science exam is far more challenging, both for students and teachers. That was of course the aim, but those who warned that ending ICT risked throwing the baby out with the bathwater may now feel vindicated.
Drew Buddie, who is head of computing at a school near London, has always argued that ICT was unfairly maligned and was far more creative than its critics assumed.
Now, he says, "it is clear that many 14-to-17-year-old students, particularly girls, are not attracted to such a specific and narrow course."
"The current GCSE in computer science has replaced the opportunities for creativity that existed in ICT with set programming tasks that have very few solutions," he adds.
The British Computing Society, which lobbied for the new GCSE, insists that it always argued for a new IT qualification to complement computer science, but that was rejected by ministers.
The organisation says it is unrealistic to expect teachers of ICT to turn into teachers of computer science without significant training and support - and despite initiatives from organisations like Computing At School there has just not been enough funding to usher in this revolution.
I put some of these criticisms to the Department for Education. A spokesman stressed that the new exam had been designed with industry experts to develop the computational skills needed for today's economy.
He pointed out that the numbers taking it had more than doubled since 2015 and said "we expect that number to continue to rise while ICT GCSE is phased out. We are continuing to work to encourage even greater uptake of computer science, especially among girls."
But Prof Luckin says the situation is urgent.
"We need to focus on understanding exactly why students are not attracted to computer science so that we can ensure an appropriately skilled workforce for the future, not least amongst the teaching profession," she says.
And she adds that the advent of artificial intelligence makes this mission even more vital.
Five years ago, it seemed just about everyone, from teachers to business leaders to politicians, was in agreement about the need for radical changes in the way children were taught about computers.
But today it is hard to find many who are happy with the speed and direction of the revolution in computing education.
Wednesday face Brighton at Hillsborough in the first leg on 13 May before the return at the Amex Stadium on 16 May.
Wolves went ahead when Michael Turner put Matt Doherty's ball into his own net while George Saville made it 2-0 from a Doherty cross before the break.
Wednesday's Lewis McGugan scored from the spot when Doherty handled late on.
The result means Wolves finish the season 14th in the table, seven places down on their seventh-placed finish last term.
Wednesday, who face the Seagulls in the play-offs after they drew 1-1 in the automatic promotion place decider against Middlesbrough, suffered just their second defeat in their last 10 games of the season.
Turner's early own goal marked six hours and six minutes since the last goal at Molineux - an injury-time winner scored by Doherty against Bristol City on 8 March - as the hosts avoided the unenviable record of becoming the first team in Football League history to draw five consecutive home games 0-0.
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Wolves head coach Kenny Jackett: "A win is always important whatever situation you are in and we are delighted to get that.
"Now for us it is about the summer, capitalising on the strengths that we have in the side and then addressing the quite obvious weaknesses that we have."
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal: "Brighton will be a strong opponent, like all of the teams in the play-offs, but each of the four teams has a 25% chance.
"We have drawn against them both times this season in balanced games and we understand we are playing a top team but I think we are a better team now than in the past.
"We have a positive environment. We will be underdogs but that can be a positive for us."
Driver Jacob Hocking, 22, Jackson Edwards, 20, and Adam Richards, 21, all from Corwen, were killed in the A5 collision on 21 November last year.
Anthony Steel, 74, from Birkenhead, who was in the other car, also died.
North Wales east and central coroner John Gittins concluded a road traffic collision caused their deaths.
The Ruthin inquest heard the collision involved a Vauxhall Astra the young men were travelling in and a Vauxhall Zafira being driven by Mr Steel.
Witness Brian Mcmulkin said he was driving towards Conwy when he saw the Astra driven by Mr Hocking come towards him around a bend at speed.
He told the hearing he was struck by the "speed of it" and the driver was "fighting with the wheel a little bit".
Mr Mcmulkin said he looked in his rear view mirror and saw the car's "back end" before telling his wife: "He's lost it," but did not see the collision.
A North Wales Police forensic vehicle examiner told the inquest the Astra's rear near-side tyre was found to have a pressure reading of 13 psi - 54% below the standard recommended.
He said it may have "introduced an element of over-steer".
The inquest heard there was no police evidence to suggest Mr Hocking was speeding.
Mr Gittins said he was satisfied the under-inflated tyre was a "significant contributory factor".
The deaths were a "reminder to us all about the importance of vehicle maintenance," he added.
It is a remarkable achievement for the tiny island nation, which is located on an archipelago off the northwest coast of the continent.
The Blue Sharks have replaced giants Ivory Coast at the summit, with the African champions dropping down to second spot.
Cameroon also improved, moving into the top 10 at the expense of Guinea.
Top 10 African sides in Fifa's rankings for March
1. Cape Verde Islands
2. Ivory Coast
3. Algeria
4. Ghana
5. Tunisia
6. Senegal
7. Egypt
8. DR Congo
9. Congo
10. Cameroon
The discovery was made at about 14:00 on Monday at the Seafield end of Portobello beach.
Police are trying to establish the man's identity.
A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
Joy Robson died at the Snowman Rally in Inverness in 2013.
The following year, Iain Provan, Elizabeth Allan and Len Stern lost their lives at the Jim Clark Rally near Coldstream.
The inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court is expected to last several weeks with dozens of people due to give evidence.
Plans to hold the hearing were confirmed late last year.
The decision followed a change in legislation to allow for a single fatal accident inquiry to be held in relation to deaths in different parts of Scotland.
The Crown Office said at the time that the two events held "similar questions in relation to spectator safety at rallies".
It added that the Lord Advocate considered that it was in the public interest that the issues be explored together.
The inquiry will look at the full circumstances surrounding the deaths and "help to avoid such incidents happening in the future".
Andrew Henderson, from Thompsons Solicitors, who is representing Mrs Robson's family said: "Joy's family greatly welcome the beginning of the fatal accident inquiry which is the first to be held since new legislation was brought in to improve the FAI process.
"They want to finally know the full reasons behind Joy losing her life and to make sure that spectator safety at Scottish rallies can be improved to a level where no other family can suffer a bereavement in such an awful and needless way."
Last year The Crown Office confirmed that no criminal proceedings would be brought in relation to either event, although that could be reconsidered if additional evidence comes to light.
The Jim Clark event has been suspended until the completion of the FAI.
The event had been held annually since 1970 to celebrate world champion Clark.
Former murderers, sexual offenders and thieves have all been Uber drivers, allege court papers filed by district attorneys in California.
They started legal action against Uber last year, saying it had misled customers about its screening systems.
Uber said its driver checking system was "more effective" than those used by other taxi firms.
The court papers claim that Uber did not spot the criminal backgrounds of 25 drivers that it employed in San Francisco and Los Angeles - the two cities behind the legal action.
At a press conference, George Gascon, district attorney in San Francisco, said problems with the data that Uber relied on to check drivers meant it could miss some former criminals. For instance, he said, 30,000 registered sex offenders were not in the database Uber used.
An alternative screening system used by other cab firms called Livescan did catch people who were on the sex offenders list, said Mr Gascon.
He added that Uber's screening only covered the last seven years and omitted biometric checks that would uncover people who had falsified their identity to avoid being spotted by screening.
"We are learning increasingly that a lot of the information that Uber has been presenting the consumer has been false and misleading," Mr Gascon told the New York Times.
In response, Uber said it agreed with the two district attorneys that safety was a priority - but took issue with whether Livescan was a better way to check backgrounds.
Neither process was 100% foolproof, it said in a statement, adding that it had put "hundreds" of people registered as taxi drivers through its own checks and found that many who were driving cabs, but were not Uber drivers, had convictions for rape, attempted murder, child abuse and violence.
"We look forward to resolving this issue, just as the DAs settled an almost identical case with [rival cab firm] Lyft last year," it said.
In the UK, Uber said its drivers were subject to the same strict checks that covered those operating black cabs or other licensed vehicles.
John McEnery, 73, was arrested after reports of a man with a gun at the Leading Light pub in Preston Street, Faversham at 08:20 BST on Tuesday.
Armed Kent Police officers were deployed and a man was arrested just before midday in Faversham Creek.
The former husband of Stephanie Beacham, Mr McEnery, of no fixed address, appeared in Girl with a Pearl Earring and Merlin.
Mr McEnery is due to appear before Maidstone Magistrates' Court on 25 August.
He has been charged with possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
Mr McEnery, who was born in Birmingham, joined the National Theatre Company in 1966.
He was nominated for a Bafta for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet.
The actor was married to Dynasty star Ms Beacham and the couple had two children before they divorced in 1978.
Hollyoaks and Ballykissangel actress Kate McEnery is the daughter of his actor brother Peter McEnery and Julie Peasgood.
Plumber David Bowes, 46, drowned after his pick-up truck collided with the parapet on the Kyle of Tongue Bridge in Sutherland and went into the sea.
The local authority involved, Highland Council, disputed liability.
But a judge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled it breached its duty to deal with the railing.
The decision clears the way for Mr Bowes' family to claim an undisclosed sum in damages agreed with the council.
The court heard that Mr Bowes, from Bettyhill, Sutherland, lost control of his vehicle. His truck crossed the carriageway, mounted a pavement and collided with the parapet before going into the water.
Judge Lord Mulholland said Mr Bowes would have suffered minor injuries, or even escaped unharmed, if the railing had been "operating as designed".
He said Highland Council breached its duty to deal with the defective parapet by introducing temporary traffic measures until it was replaced.
The court heard that an engineer carried out an inspection of the bridge on the A838 road in 2005.
He recommended that major repairs to the structure be carried out without delay and that in the case of the parapet it should be carried out in the next financial year.
Defects were identified in welds between posts and bases along with cracked base castings.
The engineer also recommended that interim measures be put in place pending the replacement of the parapet, with a reduction in the speed limit, traffic lights and a temporary barrier.
Monitoring of the structure was introduced but was ceased after January 2008.
Lord Mulholland said: "In my opinion, the decision to discontinue monitoring was wrong, did not make sense, was against previous advice and, in relation to a matter clearly related to safety, meant that the defender had no idea of the containment strength of the parapet, if any, whether it was continuing to deteriorate, to what extent and rate it was deteriorating, and what measures, if any, should be taken to deal with the problem."
He said it was "surprising and alarming that basic health and safety principles of risk assessment were not applied to the critical issue of the safety of the parapet".
The judge said if interim measures were introduced, they would have alerted road users to the risk of the hazard and would have resulted in them taking care by reducing speed and driving on a single carriageway with temporary lights.
Lord Mulholland said: "The temporary barriers together with other interim measures would have reduced speeds such that Mr Bowes would probably not have left the bridge to his death.
"I therefore find it proved that the defender breached its duty to deal with the hazard, namely the defective parapets, by implementing interim measures until the parapets were replaced."
Lancashire Police said a 49-year-old old man had "voluntarily" attended a station by prior appointment.
He was not arrested but interviewed under caution regarding a rape allegation made on 4 January, the force said.
Earlier this month the Labour MP called the rape allegation against him "malicious, untrue and upsetting".
He was suspended by the party last month after he admitted sending lewd texts to a 17-year-old girl.
One scheme will see 10,000 old sodium lamps replaced with LED lights along major routes in the city.
These will generate savings by cutting carbon emissions and using less energy.
Another scheme will see smart LED lights in some areas that will be able to increase in brightness when people approach or noise levels rise.
Glasgow City Council aims to replace about 72,000 old sodium street lights in the city.
The first phase will see 10,000 new LED lights installed at a cost of just under £9m between April this year and March 2017.
The scheme is being backed by the UK government-funded Green Investment Bank.
The resulting savings on energy costs, carbon tax reductions and maintenance, are expected to see the project pay for itself over an 18-year period.
Council leader Gordon Matheson said: "It currently costs around £8.5m a year to power and repair the city's 72,000 street lights.
"The longer life cycle of LED lamps means we can reduce future maintenance and running costs as well as cutting our carbon emissions.
"These lights are another key element of our commitment to make Glasgow one of Europe's most sustainable cities."
WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said the investment was "great news for Glasgow taxpayers as well as the planet".
"Some councils have estimated that street lighting makes up 10% of the their carbon footprint," he said.
"Therefore, a nationwide shift to more energy-efficient lighting such as LEDs would make a significant dent in council-related carbon emissions.
"Pound for pound, improved energy efficiency is the most cost-effective way to cut energy demand and the associated climate pollution."
Another scheme being developed by the council will see the use of sensor-fitted LED street lights trialled on a stretch of cycle route on the Clyde Walkway.
The sensors will be able to detect approaching cyclists and pedestrians and increase in brightness.
They will also count footfall and the number of cyclists, as well as collecting information on air pollution.
The information will be freely available to view on Glasgow's new City Data Hub.
Salvador Sobral, 27, won with his love ballad Amar Pelos Dois, which was written by his sister.
He said on receiving the trophy: "We live in a world of fast food music. This is a victory for music... music isn't fireworks, music is feeling."
Lucie Jones, representing the UK with I'll Never Give Up on You, came 15th. Bulgaria came second and Moldova third.
Jones, a former X Factor contestant, received 111 points for her performance but didn't seem too upset, tweeting: "I wonnnnnnn!!! Oh no wait..."
It is a considerable improvement for the UK, after last year's entrants Joe and Jake came 24th with 62 points.
Jones secured the UK's highest placing since 2011, when boyband Blue came 11th with 100 points.
Sobral, who has a serious heart condition that saw him miss the first week of rehearsals, reprised his song at the end of the show and was joined by his sister Luisa for a duet.
Their song, which translates as For the Both of Us, won top marks from both from the televoters and the countries' professional juries, getting 758 points altogether. This dwarfed Jamala's win last year for Ukraine with 534 points.
Portugal had been one of the favourites to win, along with Italy's entry, which came sixth.
It wasn't all about the singing, though - last year's winner Jamala had her performance briefly interrupted by a man flashing his bottom.
BBC Monitoring reported that Ukrainian TV identified him as "scandalous" Ukrainian prankster Vitaliy Sedyuk. Jamala continued to sing "unfazed", the broadcaster 1+1 TV said.
The stage invader, wrapped in an Australian flag, was swiftly wrestled off the stage by a security guard.
Graham Norton, who was guiding UK viewers through the contest on BBC One, apologised to anyone who was offended by the incident.
The contest this year took place in the Kiev International Exhibition Centre in Ukraine. The host country could only manage 24th place out of 26 this time round.
Portugal will now host the contest next year.
By Neil Smith, entertainment reporter, BBC News
The noise in the press room at Kiev's International Exhibition Centre was deafening as Salvador Sobral from Portugal became his country's first ever Eurovision winner.
To say the 27-year-old is a popular victor is an understatement. Where others brought slick precision sheen and dancing gorillas to the contest, he brought heart, sincerity and a simple, guileless charm.
He also brought something of a sob story - a recent bout of ill health and a serious heart condition. Yet it would be an injustice to him and his songwriting sister Luisa to suggest that sentiment was behind his triumph.
He is, simply put, one of a kind - an antidote of sorts to Eurovision's history of short-lived fads and trashy kitsch, and all the more refreshing for it.
A journalist I know choked up when discussing how he felt when he saw Salvador sing Amar Pelos Dois (Loving for the Both of Us).
Sabral entered the contest with the stated aim of making "people outside of Portugal know and recognise my work."
Job done, sir.
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An object was allegedly thrown at Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland during his side's 2-1 victory over Aston Villa.
QPR players were apparently targeted as they celebrated a goal in their 2-0 win over Birmingham in the Championship.
Police made three arrests; one for racially aggravated assault on a police officer, one for entering the pitch and one for a Public Order offence.
All three men arrested at QPR have been bailed pending further enquiries.
The FA is already looking into an incident in which West Brom's Chris Brunt was struck by a coin at Reading.
Police have made an arrest after the midfielder was hit on the face by the coin, thrown from a section housing West Brom fans, after he went to give his shirt to a supporter at the end of the Baggies' 3-1 FA Cup fifth-round defeat.
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QPR have begun their own investigation into the incident on Saturday, while Birmingham have promised stern action against anyone found responsible.
A QPR statement said: "A coin from the School End stand, in which the visiting supporters were situated, was thrown towards the Rangers players as the Rs celebrated their second goal in our Sky Bet Championship fixture at Loftus Road.
"The club will continue to review video footage and liaise with the Metropolitan and West Midlands police."
A Birmingham spokesman said: "If anybody is found to have thrown a coin, we will take the strongest possible action. As a club, we utterly condemn that sort of behaviour.
"We will be liaising with the relevant bodies, including West Midlands Police, to investigate such allegations."
Pte John Fielding, of Cwmbran, received the Victoria Cross for his part in the 1879 defence of Rorke's Drift.
A band and parade of veterans marched from Abbyfields to St Michael and All Angels church, Llantarnam, where a service marked the battle's 138th anniversary.
Pte Fielding joined the 24th Regiment of Foot at the age of 20 in 1877.
Two years later, he was one of about 140 British troops who fought hand to hand with 4,000 Zulus.
He lived to the age of 75, dying of heart failure in 1932.
Newport Road was closed for a short time for the event which was organised by Cwmbran and District Ex-Service Association.
Adam Rooney's spot-kick was saved, but if the advantage had been played Niall McGinn's netted shot after the foul on Rooney would have opened the scoring.
Dons substitute Jayden Stockley was booked twice for use of his elbows.
And, in added time, Graeme Shinnie's pass-back to Joe Lewis bobbled over the keeper's foot and ran into the net.
The tie was played against a backdrop of mourning, after two players from Maribor's B team - Damjan Marjanovic and Zoran Baljak - died in a car crash earlier in the week.
A minute's silence before kick-off and black armbands were symbols of the sense of grief that had gripped the Slovenian club, and there was empathy from Aberdeen's players and staff, with manager Derek McInnes and captain Ryan Jack laying a wreath earlier in the day.
Aberdeen's task was straightforward - to score after conceding an away goal in the 1-1 draw at Pittodrie last week.
They travelled to Slovenia with a sense of purpose and confidence, though, having created a series of chances in the home leg and played with command and authority.
The loss of first-leg scorer Jonny Hayes to injury was a setback but his replacement Wes Burns brought drive and directness to the team, qualities which contributed to the conservatism that shaped Maribor's play.
The home side could afford to play for a 0-0 draw, but they ought to have found themselves chasing the game by half-time.
A reckless pass-back by Marko Suler was intercepted by Rooney and his ankles were caught by Handanovic's studs.
The referee opted for a yellow rather than a red card for the goalkeeper, but also ruled out McGinn's finish to award the spot-kick instead.
Rooney, normally so fierce with his finishing from the spot, tried to dink the ball down the centre of goal, allowing Handanovic to kick the ball away.
There were other efforts - Burns and Shinnie both shot straight at Handanovic - but Aberdeen were most frustrated by the officials.
Even before Burns' second-half replacement Stockley had received his two bookings, Erik Janza was only shown a yellow card despite appearing to have thrown a punch at Ryan Jack.
The home side had started the second half with more assertive play, and threatened when their scorer in the first leg, Milivoje Novakovic, spun and shot on target only for Lewis to push the ball away.
Aberdeen would still have felt they were the dominant side, but Stockley's dismissal limited their options and it became an agonising assignment for the visitors as time ran out on their European ambitions, Shinnie credited with the own goal that came seconds before the final whistle.
Derek McInnes' men - Scottish Premiership runners-up two years running - bow out of the Europa League at the third qualifying round for the third successive season, with their domestic campaign beginning at St Johnstone's McDiarmid Park on Sunday.
Last week, chief executive Gary Hetherington said Segeyaro would stay at Leeds despite interest from the NRL.
The 26-year-old subsequently told the Australian Sunday Telegraph that he did not want to return to the UK.
"Some of the things he's said are disappointing. We expect him to be back," McDermott told BBC Radio Leeds.
"We made a commitment to James and he made a commitment to us.
"I spoke to him on the phone and he expressed some concerns to me about coming back."
He added: "We've got a contract with him and that's not to be broken lightly. I'm not talking about the legal part of it but if you look someone in the eye and say 'I'll see you whenever' and then say 'I'm not coming now'... I don't think you should do that too often in your life."
Segeyaro joined the Rhinos from NRL side Penrith in June and is contracted to the Super League side until the end of the 2018 season.
McDermott said the club were prepared should Segeyaro not come back to England.
"There's always a plan B. There's always a fluid list of players who are available," McDermott added.
"We hope he comes back and comes back in the right frame of mind but if he doesn't we have plans in place."
Browne lasted 282 balls for his 116 to help Essex reach 291-4 at stumps.
The 25-year-old put on 128 for the second wicket with Tom Westley before he edged Matt Critchley behind for 72.
All-rounder Ravi Bopara also made 44, with Essex captain Ryan ten Doeschate set to resume with Browne on day two unbeaten on 15.
Launching its manifesto, the party again ruled out taking part in any future coalition.
However, it said it would be prepared to support a party whose proposals would be in the best interests of Northern Ireland and the UK in general.
It calls for a budget settlement to enable real increases in health and education spending over five years.
On welfare, the DUP wants the abolition of the spare room subsidy also known as the bedroom tax.
The party wants air passenger duty abolished because it says it has a disproportionate impact on regions farthest from the south-east of England.
It wants guaranteed access from Northern Ireland to London's hub airports and a feasibility study into a tunnel or enclosed bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Party leader Peter Robinson said: "After the election we are prepared to support either the Conservative Party or the Labour Party if the circumstances are right; or for that matter neither if the circumstances are not right.
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"And secondly, the price for DUP support in the new Parliament cannot simply be summarised and dismissed as more money for Northern Ireland.
"I believe that delivery of The Northern Ireland Plan can help redefine our place within the United Kingdom.
"So whilst we could well play a pivotal role in the next Parliament, we have a sense of perspective about our size and our capacity to dictate policy at a national level.
"While our influence in the national context will be limited by our size and the wider post-election arithmetic, we would contend that whatever the final Commons headcount we could be in a key position to bring real and substantial change to Northern Ireland."
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The hearings will look at the extent of radicalisation within the community and the response on that issue of Muslim leaders.
Muslim organisations say they are being unfairly singled out.
The hearings are in response to such events as the Fort Hood shootings and the Times Square car bomb plot.
The BBC's Tom Burridge in Washington says the protesters braved the rain to march on the streets of New York, many carrying banners reading "Today I am a Muslim too".
In the hearings, Peter King - a Republican Congressman and chair of the homeland security committee - has called several witnesses to testify about "the extent of radicalisation within the American Muslim community".
Mr King, who represents New York, claims some Muslim leaders are not doing enough to help the police and the FBI investigate terror plots which originate in the US.
Our correspondent says cases such as that of Pakistan-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad, who tried to blow up a car bomb in New York's Times Square last year, and Virginia-born US army Maj Nidal Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 people on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, have changed political language and thinking in the US.
Politicians, the police and people are talking about a relatively new, homegrown threat, he says.
The protesters in New York and others fear the hearings will only increase Islamaphobia in America.
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who led the campaign to build an Islamic centre near the destroyed World Trade Center site, addressed the Times Square crowd.
"Our real enemy is not Islam or Muslims," said Imam Rauf. "The enemy is extremism and radicalism and radical ideology."
Muslim Democratic Congressman Andre Carson said he wanted to tell "the Peter Kings of the world, we will not take your xenophobic behaviour".
Mr King's language on this subject has often proved inflammatory, our correspondent says, and many believe the witnesses he has called to speak at the hearings do not represent mainstream Muslims.
So when the prospect of a non-contact training session reduced him to a tangle of self-doubt and anxiety, he knew the ball was burst.
Nine months on from the pre-season friendly - Ansbro's London Irish travelling to face Munster - and the characteristically fierce lunging tackle that broke his neck in the summer of 2012, his confidence had been shredded.
"I was just terrified," says ex-centre Ansbro, looking back. "The edge that I'd had was gone.
"I'd lost a lot of confidence, my movement patterns, vision and decision-making.
"I was really dreading it. I felt supremely confident going into that season, in attack and defence, I was so looking forward to it.
"Then it was almost like being in the academy again and getting your first training session.
"I didn't get particularly close to coming back in the end - I didn't even get to controlled contact."
Ultimately, Ansbro skipped the session. He announced his retirement soon after, aged 27.
His was an unerring devotion that endeared him to his peers and coaches.
He relished not just the practicalities of scything down opponents but the strategy and organisation that positioned him to do so.
This would always, however, render him vulnerable to bodily grievance in the line of duty.
The fractured vertebrae at the top of his spine consigned Ansbro to three months in a halo brace - a metal contraption attached via four screws to his skull that immobilised his neck.
"I think that [the injury] was about the fourth time I tackled someone with my head in that game alone," he jokes.
His Test career with Scotland was, by modern standards, fleeting, with 11 caps spread across two years.
He was the first contemporary black player to represent the nation - not that he affords that statistic much more than a shrug - having been born in Glasgow and adopted at 10 weeks old by a white English family who lived in Dumfries.
Erudite and articulate, he attended boarding school in Lancashire, and studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, featuring in varsity matches, and winning a contract with Northampton Saints.
These days, he teaches biology at Harrow School - whose alumni include the meaty frames of Saracens forwards Billy Vunipola and Maro Itoje - and indulges in a spot of coaching, grateful to have left rugby with an able body under the circumstances.
But there are moments, albeit growing briefer with the passage of time, where he longs for the banter and the camaraderie of the hours spent among the lads.
"Ultimately, you become a fan again," he says of the transition.
"There's a perception, particularly with the [Six Nations] Wooden Spoon, that Scotland are not as strong a rugby nation as they should be, and I hate that, because I know it's not true.
"Glasgow don't win the Pro12 unless they've got a lot of good quality players. Edinburgh had a great run in the European Challenge Cup.
"It's the same with coaching; you just want the boys to go out and show the world what they're about and how good they are.
"We've always had very good players but our best players haven't always performed, which can be frustrating.
"Now, everyone seems to be playing well, and it just allows you to build momentum."
Ansbro knows what it's like to castle Australia, the maddening, rage-inducing finale to last Sunday's quarter-final loss in stark contrast to Scotland's 9-6 victory Down Under three years ago.
Of course, that glorious triumph, in a New South Wales deluge, was immortalised online by the immediate aftermath, the Scots' flocking to form a delirious rain-soaked rammy, and Ansbro clashing foreheads with the somewhat beefier Al Strokosch, requiring nearly 50 stitches as a result.
"It was probably the first time I'd ever celebrated, like properly celebrated, a win," he says. "It meant so much.
"I'd been injured that Six Nations, we'd Wooden-Spooned it, and morale, after one lost game is bad, but you play four, five games of rugby, that pressure of letting so many people down, it can be pretty miserable.
"All of a sudden to flip that round in one game was pretty ridiculous.
"Without a shadow of a doubt, they underestimated what we were going to bring to the game. The weather certainly helped, kept the game nice and tight for us, and allowed us to strike in the last play."
Ansbro played with plenty of Scotland's present roster. Alongside the treasured euphoria of sinking the Wallabies, and South Africa, he endured heartbreaks of his own.
Failed Six Nations fixtures and an exasperating World Cup exit in 2011.
But in Vern Cotter's side, he sees a spark, an unruly "fearlessness" and a familiarity fostered by domestic glory.
"Having essentially an entire backline that plays at the same club, Glasgow, a successful club as well - these boys are used to winning," he said.
"I'm so excited about the momentum the Australia game could help build - there's always hope, there's always optimism when you support Scotland, but I do feel like this is a step change.
"I'm tired of people underestimating Scotland and Scottish rugby. Off the back of quite a few disappointing Six Nations campaigns, there's a lack of respect towards Scottish rugby that I think needs to be addressed.
"I think people don't expect Scotland to win games at the moment, which is one of the great things about last Sunday, and also one of the bad things about last Sunday - everyone saw that we could have won the game, but we didn't.
"I think it's time we set the record straight."
The tapes were destroyed by the head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, Jose Rodriguez.
In an exclusive interview for Newsnight, Rodriguez has defended the destruction of the tapes and denied waterboarding and other interrogation techniques amount to torture.
The CIA tapes are likely to become central to the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, at Guantanamo Bay.
When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed appeared before a special military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay last Saturday, he refused to put on the headphones that would enable him to hear the translator.
His civilian attorney, David Nevin, said he could not wear them because of the torture he had suffered during his interrogation.
His "torture" at the hands of his CIA interrogators at a secret "black site" to which he had been rendered, included being deprived of sleep for over a week, standing naked, wearing only a nappy, and being waterboarded 183 times.
The CIA and the US Department of Justice that authorised the secret interrogation programme in the wake of 9/11, euphemistically referred to its content as "enhanced interrogation techniques".
Most people would probably call them "torture", but Jose Rodriguez disputes this term.
He has written a book, "Hard Measures" in which he defends the use of such techniques, and he told me there is no doubt they were effective.
"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was probably the toughest detainee that we ever had and he was going to resist to the end of his strengths," he told me.
Waterboarding is simulated drowning. The detainee is stripped naked and strapped onto a board in a horizontal position with feet higher than his head.
Water is then dripped onto a cloth covering the nose and mouth which makes the detainee choke and temporarily stop breathing.
"It's not a pretty sight when you are waterboarding anybody or using any of these techniques, let's be perfectly honest," Rodriguez admitted.
Only three of the CIA's "high value targets" were waterboarded.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged architect of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in which 17 sailors died, was waterboarded twice, and Abu Zubaydah, Osama Bin Laden's suspected travel agent for jihadis, 83 times.
And it is the waterboarding of Zubaydah that has now become the centre of fresh controversy triggered by Newsnight's investigation.
The CIA recorded Zubaydah's detention and interrogation - and that of other detainees - on 92 video tapes.
Twelve of them covered the application of the "enhanced interrogation techniques", including waterboarding.
On one or more of them, I understand Zubaydah is shown vomiting and screaming.
John Rizzo, the CIA's top legal counsel who oversaw the legalisation of the techniques in an exchange of memoranda with the Department of Justice, wanted to be certain that what was happening at the black site was in accordance with what had been legally agreed.
He had not anticipated that waterboarding would be used as often as it was. And he sent one of his most experienced colleagues to the black site, believed to be in Thailand, to find out.
Rizzo's colleague viewed all the 92 hours of video and concluded that the techniques were being legally applied, but he was uncomfortable about what he saw.
"He did say that portions of the tapes, particularly those of Zubaydah being waterboarded, were extraordinarily hard to watch," Rizzo told me.
"He [Zubaydah] was reacting visibly in a very disturbing way."
So was he being sick?
"He was experiencing some physical difficulties, I'll just leave it at that... 'tough to watch in places' was his term."
I asked Jose Rodriguez if he had seen the tapes. He said he had not. Was he aware that they showed Abu Zubaydah vomiting and screaming? He said he was not. He checked with his interrogators at the black site who said there was no vomiting or screaming.
"I don't know where you got that from", he said. "I don't know about screaming and vomiting but it's not a pretty sight."
Rodriguez knew the tapes were potentially a ticking time bomb and wanted to destroy them. He waited for three years with increasing exasperation at the apparent unwillingness of anybody on high to take responsibility for authorising their destruction.
Then when news of the CIA's secret black sites leaked, Rodriguez's patience ran out.
Believing he had the authority to do so, he ordered the 92 tapes to be minced in an industrial shredder.
"Our lawyers said it was legal," he said.
But Rizzo was not happy.
"I was stunned and angry and honestly a bit hurt. I made it clear to him, as did two CIA directors, that he did not have the authority to make a decision to destroy those tapes."
So I asked, "He disobeyed orders?"
"He did."
But Rodriguez is adamant that he acted legally and says his motive in ordering their destruction was to protect the identities of his CIA interrogators lest they suffer reprisals.
But there was more to it than that. Three days after the tapes had been shredded, a CIA memorandum, since released under America's Freedom of Information Act, reported comments by Jose Rodriguez:
"As Jose said, the heat from destroying [the tapes] is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes got into the public domain - he said that out of context they would make us look terrible - it would be devastating to us. All in the room agreed."
I put this to Rodriguez and he was typically upfront about it.
"I said that, yes. If you're waterboarding somebody and they're naked, of course that was a concern of mine."
Despite all the controversies around the CIA's black sites and its interrogation programme, Jose Rodriguez stands by all that he did.
"I was honoured to serve my country after the 9/11 attacks. I am proud of the decisions that I took including the destruction of the tapes to protect the people who worked for me. I have no regrets."
No doubt defence lawyers at Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial will try and get access to the written records that exist of what was on the tapes and seek to question the CIA lawyer who viewed them.
But under the rules of the military tribunal that restrict any discussion of torture, they are unlikely to succeed.
Watch Peter Taylor's full interview with Jose Rodriguez on Newsnight on Wednesday 9 April 2012 at 22:30 BST on BBC Two.
Taylor dismissed Georgia Elwiss, Sonia Odedra and Thea Brookes in the space of five balls as she claimed 4-5.
Loughborough could only manage 108-9 despite being given a good start by Ellysse Perry (25) and Amy Jones (21).
England skipper Heather Knight (24) was run out for the Storm but Taylor's 34 helped see them home by five wickets.
The match was in the balance with three overs remaining as last year's runners-up, who were beaten by Southern Vipers in their opening match, still needed another 24 for victory.
Three boundaries off Rebecca Grundy eased the pressure and although Taylor was caught at mid-wicket off Georgia Elwiss (2-24), Sophie Luff (18 not out) hit the winning single with five balls to spare.
GBR 1, driven by John Jackson, were fifth, 0.11 seconds off a medal, as Russian pilot Alexander Zubkov, 39, finished 0.09 secs clear of Latvia.
United States won bronze while Lamin Deen and the GBR 2 crew were 19th.
Great Britain finished the Sochi 2014 Games 19th in the medal table, with one gold, one silver and two bronzes.
It has been a great race and to only finish 0.11 seconds off the medals is amazing
That haul of four medals equals the total they won at the inaugural Games in 1924.
Britain surpassed their three-medal Sochi target, thanks to Lizzy Yarnold (skeleton gold), the men's curlers (silver) Jenny Jones (snowboard slopestyle bronze) and the bronze won by the women's curling team on Thursday.
Jackson's four-man team of Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon won a historic World Cup silver medal in December and finished second at last month's European Championships.
However, they were ranked 12th in the world heading into the Olympics and lay in seventh position after the first two runs on Saturday.
They climbed to sixth in the penultimate run on Sunday before finishing in fifth.
An analysis of their times from each run showed that they were twice the second quickest sled and were third once - but their opening run, where they were tenth - cost them.
"It's hard to think we've come so close to a medal," Jackson told BBC Sport. "Hopefully this will be enough to secure backing [from UK Sport] so we can continue to progress."
The 36-year-old pilot, who is also a royal marine sergeant, ruptured his Achilles tendon in July and only reached the Olympics after undergoing pioneering surgery.
"For a split second I thought potentially I may not be here [when it happened] but the support I've had from my team-mates since day one has been amazing," said Jackson.
"I am ashamed to say that I cried at the end but he had a fantastic run and the amount of speed he had proves how well he was driving. There were just a few guys out there who were a bit better.
"I think it's amazing that John's come from where he has been this last year [with the Achilles injury] and to still achieve what he has with fifth in the Olympic Games. I'd be quite afraid of them next year when they're back on the track in the World Cup."
Benson added: "We've always had belief in him and he drove superbly. I hope he stays around for another four years because that will mean I'll be here again."
Jackson told BBC Sport he plans to continue for "another couple of seasons" but is unlikely to compete through to the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea.
GBR 2 pilot Deen, 32, who has been non-committal on his future prior to the Games says he is now determined to carry on in the British programme.
"It's been an amazing experience and although all of the runs didn't go as we would have hoped the guys have been fantastic and I want to come back a better pilot in 2018," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
The British bobsleigh team will now face an anxious wait for UK Sport to announce the amount of funding they will receive for the next four-year period.
Their four-man target was a top-six finish, which they achieved, but the women were 12th when chasing top-eight. A decision is due to be announced in June.
Mr Stuart was born in Toronto where he attended the city's Ontario College of Art and Design.
It was on a trip to Wales in 1953 that he had a chance meeting with Thomas.
The poet agreed to sit for him just a few months before he left for his last trip to America where he died, aged 39, in New York on 9 November 1953.
Mr Stuart described Thomas as "delightful" and he met him for sittings on three days in September 1953 in the poet's Boathouse and writing shed at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire.
While in west Wales in 1953, Mr Stuart met his wife of 60 years, Mair, and she was at his side when he died.
Mr Stuart produced three oil paintings and an oil sketch of Thomas in 1953.
The sketch is in the University of Texas and there is an oil painting in the State University of New York at Buffalo and one in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mr Stuart held on to the final painting of the poet, which hung at his home in the Uplands area of Swansea - just around the corner from Thomas's birthplace.
When Swansea hosted the 1995 Year of Literature, Mr Stuart became artist in residence at Ty Lleyn/ Dylan Thomas Centre - a role he was to hold for 15 years.
The artist's other portraits include US President Jimmy Carter, Sir Kyffin Williams, Cliff Morgan, Aeronwy Thomas, Gwen Watkins and Sir George Martin.
Geoff Haden, chairman of the Dylan Thomas Society, said: "Gordon was a lovely, gentle person with an impish sense of humour, which he maintained until the last."
Labour launched the attack as the mayor previously said all of the Greater London Authority's (GLA) work experience posts should be paid.
Labour said Mr Johnson's failure to even pay some of his own staff showed his support for the low paid was just "empty rhetoric".
City Hall said the post was a "traineeship", not an "apprenticeship".
Mr Johnson told London Assembly Labour member Fiona Twycross in June last year "all formal GLA work experience" should pay the London living wage, currently at £9.15 an hour.
But the following September, in a letter to Ms Twycross, he said because trainees carried out basic work such as admin, it would "not be appropriate" for them to be paid like apprentices.
City Hall's placement offers two weeks' "employability and work readiness training" and 10 weeks' work experience.
It is an administration role including photocopying, filing, maintaining electronic files, updating databases, diary management and event support.
The GLA said it would pay travel expenses and for lunch.
Ms Twycross said: "There are no two ways about it; if you're in work you should be being paid. It's really that simple.
"It is shameless hypocrisy on the mayor's part to publically support the living wage whilst forcing young people to work unpaid for three months at City Hall."
A spokesperson for the mayor said: "Traineeships are a government programme for people who need work experience and are not yet ready to secure apprenticeships or paid work."
They said City Hall's traineeship offered up to two days of training per week plus work experience.
Trainees could then apply for an internship or a paid job, they added.
But City Hall has previously said that last year none of its trainees got an apprenticeship at the end of their work.
After Wednesday's win over Sheffield United, Brown's side are just six points outside the top six.
"If we carry on like this, with seven games to go we might get enough points to get into the play offs," the 56-year-old told BBC Essex.
"It's not rocket science," he continued. "It's simple mathematics."
The victory over the Blades moved Southend, who won promotion from League Two last season, up to eighth in the table and was the perfect response to their defeat at Rochdale on Good Friday.
"It's a landmark victory for me because Sheffield United's a big club," Brown continued. "They have lot of history, a lot of tradition and we've put them to bed.
"I've only thrown this system at the players two days ago and every credit to them, they've grabbed hold of everything we've told them.
"We've a lot to play for and there's a lot of pressure on, but I am not taking my foot off the gas yet."
The film, which has topped the UK box office for the last two weeks, took $115.2m (£74.2m). It was second only to 2007's Shrek the Third, beating the opening of all of the Toy Story movies.
Jurassic World dropped to second in its fifth week with $18.1m (£11.66m).
Disney Pixar's Inside Out took $17.1m in its fourth week in US cinemas.
Minions, which features the voices of Sandra Bullock and Jon Hamm, puts the spotlight on the babbling yellow, pill-shaped servants from the two Despicable Me films as they search for a new master.
Directed by Peter Coffin, who also voices the Minions, it topped the box office in 29 of the other 30 countries where it opened, according to box office tracker Rentrak, including France, Mexico and Russia.
"Given that they seek to work for the most evil people on the planet, they give off this incredible happiness," said Universal's Duncan Clark on the Minions' success.
"I think the quality they're proving to have is a common denominator appeal across all cultures."
Universal is planning to release Despicable Me 3 in the summer of 2017.
Several other new films debuted in the top 10, including ad-libbed high-school horror movie The Gallows, in fifth place with $10m.
Sharing the hand-held camera technique made famous by 1999's The Blair Witch Project, the film comes from the production company behind the Paranormal Activity and Insidious franchises.
Ryan Reynolds' new sci-fi thriller Self/less - about a near-death billionaire who transmits himself into a younger body - was at number eight with $5.4m.
"Let's make sure we get good capital allocation... build a culture of ownership... flexible use of financial assets... productive science... opportunity to domicile... putting together the headcount," were among his phrases as he faced MPs last month, much to the frustration of committee members.
"I asked a simple question," committee chairman Adrian Bailey said at one point.
Use of jargon is not a new phenomenon, but businesses are leaving their customers and even their own staff scratching their heads about where their firms are going and where they themselves stand.
"This jargon is tribal and reinforces belonging," says Alan Stevens, director of Vector Consultants, which advises companies on culture. "It's part of the psyche. But it's not useful."
The current buzzword is "alignment", which Mr Stevens admits he uses too. It describes looking at things from the customer's perspective, which ironically would involve using a lot less jargon, because it is introspective and alienates people, he says.
Another reason for the rise of business-speak is its defensive qualities.
"We sometimes use jargon to avoid dealing with problems head on," says Prof Joe Nellis, director of Cranfield School of Management.
But is it a problem? Yes, says Rory Sutherland, vice-chairman of advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather UK.
"It's become uglier and uglier," he says.
Some technical terms are difficult to replace, he adds. But the danger emerges when a fashionable word becomes an uncontested good.
Sometimes this can work well: "downsizing" made it normal for those with expensive mortgages to move to a smaller home. There was a word for it, so conceiving of it became easier.
But an example of the less useful, says Mr Sutherland, is the proliferation of the words "outsourcing" and "offshoring". That is, sending jobs overseas, where workers are often cheaper.
Its overuse is shown by a trend now for the reverse: "onshoring". Jobs in call centres are returning to the UK because sending them abroad didn't work.
Where businesses wanted to save money, offshoring became the norm, and people were less prone to question it because of its fashionable business jargon status.
What was ignored was the fact that sacking experienced staff and hiring fresh faces with no experience of the company has a cost of its own. So as well as being jarring, these words can be destructive.
"If employees don't get better with time then you are doing something very banal," Mr Sutherland says.
Another problem is a word or phrase without a definition.
"Market advantage," says Davide Sola, associate professor of strategy at ESCP Europe Business School. "Is it having a bigger market share? Having the ability to charge a premium price? Access to more markets across the globe?"
Everyone may use the phrase for their own purpose, he says.
A lot of jargon in economics has been borrowed from the military, says Prof Nellis. Words and phrases like campaign, rally the troops, follow the leader, keep your powder dry, even recruitment.
The problem, though, is military language is not designed to brook dissent or new ideas, but for obedience.
The military itself isn't immune. BBC journalist Alistair Cooke, broadcaster of Letter from America, remembered a choice phrase from World War Two, during a meeting of commanders in General Eisenhower's headquarters in London.
An American colonel said: "How many ICPs have been counted?"
"What," asked Winston Churchill, "are ICPs?"
"Impaired combatant personnel, sir."
"Never let me hear that detestable phrase again. If you're talking about British troops, you will refer to them as wounded soldiers."
Alistair Cooke concluded: "Muddy language proceeds from muddy minds."
But perceptions may have changed over time.
Consider this BBC documentary from 50 years ago, where various leaders were interviewed from the most bumf-ridden business of all, finance.
The narrator complains: "Some of the wizards of finance are suave, consultant gentlemen. Some of them have the air of astrologers. Many of them talk a private language."
But jargon in the programme itself is hard to find.
AG Ellinger, an investment adviser, explains his use of charts to predict stock price performance: "People think stocks and shares go up and down because of obscure reasons about companies. They really go up and down because people buy and sell them."
Nicholas Stacey, chairman of Chesham Amalgamations and Investments, talks about the advice he gives to businesses planning to merge.
"Even after we have put in anything like six, or seven, or nine months' work, sometimes all our efforts and all our diplomacy and all our knowledge has been for nowt," he says, "for the very simple reason that at the final clinch at the negotiation, something, somehow goes wrong."
Would a banker today say something like that?
Part of the backlash from business watchers, including investors and regulators, is due to more study of what this jargon means, says David Larcker, accounting professor at Stanford Business School.
"The linguistic patterns for business communication are fascinating," he says. Nearly every business conference call held with market analysts and investors is now transcribed and is searchable, he says. They can be put in a computer, analysed and tested.
"The media is more brutal than before," adds Richard Hytner, deputy chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi. "People are watching every word spoken."
Business leaders such as Pfizer's Mr Read need to drop jargon quickly or risk making it a permanent fixture, says Steve Jenner, spokesman for the Plain English Campaign.
"If everyone in that company is used to this sort of nonsense being bandied about by management, they soon get the idea that this is the key to advancement within the company.
"And so business jargon becomes self-perpetuating and its use can accelerate alarmingly until some brave person stands up and says: 'This is nonsense. Stop it.'"
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The 27-year-old Australian is on a season-long loan with the Red Devils, having missed the end of last season after being suspended by the Tigers.
The former Sydney Roosters and Canberra Raiders player has scored six tries in 12 outings so far this season.
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Mr Eastwood was speaking at his party's annual conference in Londonderry.
He became leader four months ago.
With the Assembly election only two months away, Colum Eastwood has insisted his party will not lose out as Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness vie for the top job at Stormont.
"No one person has more power than the other so this nonsense that people want to put out there that it's a battle between Martin and Arlene about who is going to be the first minister, it undermines the fact that we want to move politics forward," he said.
"We want politics to be about policy, about ideas and about delivery, not about whose name plate is above which office."
Under Stormont rules, the largest party of the largest designation - unionist or nationalist - provides the first minister.
But the positions of first and deputy first minister are effectively equal.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said a small swing in votes would hand the role to Sinn Féin.
She suggested unionist voters should support the DUP to prevent Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin from becoming first minister.
But the SDLP leader said focusing on that contest cheapens politics.
The SDLP deputy leader Ferghal McKinney used his speech to attack what he called the failure of successive DUP ministers to tackle the problems in the health service, adding that stagnation at Stormont is no longer an option.
Tubelines maintenance staff represented by the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will vote on whether to launch a campaign of industrial action.
On Wednesday, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said it would issue ballot papers to control staff after also rejecting the agreement.
Only one union has agreed to the offer.
RMT Tube staff who are not with Tubelines unanimously backed the pay and conditions deal on Tuesday.
Read more on this and other London stories.
Tubelines was a separate firm but is now part of Transport for London (TfL).
It has about 1,000 RMT members and maintains three of the lines the 24-hour service will run on.
General secretary Mick Cash said RMT members within Tubelines had "unanimously thrown out" the deal and were "furious" LU management had tried to "tie in attacks on pensions" with the pay deal.
LU chief operating officer Steve Griffiths said the offer was "full and final" and more negotiations were planned for next week.
The TSSA's Manuel Cortes accused LU of "continuing to drag out this unnecessary dispute", saying it had "spent four months refusing to negotiate".
TfL said the TSSA had demanded more money than that offered to other unions but "hasn't explained why their members... deserve a higher pay award".
Members of the drivers' union ASLEF are voting on the offer and have been advised to back the deal.
Unite has not agreed to the Night Tube pay offer.
The 24-hour Night Tube service was meant to begin in September last year but has been delayed by the ongoing pay and conditions dispute.
What is the pay deal offered?
The proposed agreement includes a 2% pay rise in year one, Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation or 1% (whichever is greater) in years two and three, and RPI plus 0.25% or 1% (whichever is greater) in year four.
There will also be a £500 bonus for staff on lines where the Night Tube will run.
A £500 bonus will be given to station staff for the "successful implementation of the new staff model".
The Portadown driver retired from race one in his BMW after clashing with Matt Neal as the cars left the grid.
In race two, Turkington carved his way through the field to climb from 32nd to 10th by the chequered flag.
Turkington continued to make progress in race three, starting ninth and moving up the order to finish second.
He barely made it off the line in race one, being eliminated when Neal's Honda clattered into Turkington before reaching turn one.
In race two, Turkington moved his way up the order to 10th, before being promoted to ninth after Rob Austin was excluded for overtaking under yellow flags.
Turkington just lost out to team-mate Andrew Jordan on the final lap in race three after another charging drive.
Carrickfergus man Chris Smiley had a luckless weekend on his return to the championship.
Smiley, 24, missed out on setting a quick time in qualifying as rain spoiled his fastest lap, before a technical issue dropped Smiley out of race two when he was running in the points.
Turkington lies seventh in the championship after the opening round, 22 points behind early leader Gordon Shedden.
Belfast driver Charlie Eastwood picked up two podiums in the BTCC supporting Porsche Carrera Cup, while Daniel Harper grabbed a podium in race two of the Ginetta Junior series.
In Formula E, Portadown's Adam Carroll picked up his first Formula E points as he brought his Jaguar home eighth with an impressive drive in the Mexico City ePrix.
Energy minister Paul Wheelhouse told MSPs that the gas extraction technique "poses numerous and serious environmental risks".
He said it would have "no place in Scotland's energy mix at this time".
Green groups welcomed the news, but the Conservatives said they were "deeply disappointed".
Mr Wheelhouse said separate reports on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, would be published after the parliamentary recess, with a consultation on that technique to follow.
UCG is a method of extracting gas from coal seams that are too deep underground to be mined using traditional techniques.
Energy firm Cluff Natural Resources had planned to build the UK's first deep offshore UCG plant at Kincardine in Fife, which would have extracted gas from coal seams under the Firth of Forth.
But the plans were on hold while the Scottish government waited for an independent examination of the technique from Professor Campbell Gemmell of Glasgow University.
UCG licences in the Firth of Forth and Solway Firth were also held by firm Five Quarter, although the company collapsed earlier this year.
Prof Gemmell's report said it would appear logical "to progress toward a ban" of UCG, due to a history of incidents of pollution elsewhere and risks of impacting on greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr Wheelhouse said: "Having considered the report in detail, it is the Scottish government's view that UCG poses numerous and serious environmental risks and, on that basis, the Scottish government cannot support this technology.
"Accordingly, UCG will have no place in Scotland's energy mix at this time."
The Scottish government said it would continue to use planning powers available to it to ensure UCG applications do not receive planning or environmental permission.
The minister has also written to the UK government to request that it issues no further licences for the technique in Scotland, and asking for existing licences to be revoked.
A moratorium on UCG had been imposed last year alongside a wider one covering fracking techniques, which still remains in force
The UCG process has been around since the 19th Century, but is only now becoming commercially viable thanks largely to technological developments and the rising price of gas.
Its supporters argue it is a new and cleaner way of extracting the estimated 85% of the world's coal reserves that are too deep to mine using traditional techniques.
According to Dr Harry Bradbury, founder and chief executive of UK company Five-Quarter, this process results in 20% of the CO2 produced from traditional coal mining.
But environmental campaigners have claimed UCG is a risky and experimental technique, with a "very chequered history" around the world.
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The move was welcomed by green groups and some political parties.
Friends of the Earth Scotland said the decision was "a victory for people power".
Head of campaigns Mary Church said: "Setting coal seams alight under two of our major Firths was always a reckless idea and today the Government has listened to communities and put an end to this risky industry."
And WWF Scotland said it was "great news for the environment", voicing hopes that ministers would also ban fracking.
For Scottish Labour, Claudia Beamish welcomed the move and also called for all other unconventional extraction techniques to be banned.
Green MSP Mark Ruskell said the government had validated the concerns of communities, calling for amendments to planning policy to make the block legally watertight.
And Lib Dem Liam McArthur said allowing UCG "would have been a backward step as we work to cut emissions".
But the Scottish Conservatives said they were "deeply disappointed" by the move, with energy spokesman Alexander Burnett calling it "yet another missed opportunity".
He said: "These technologies could create thousands of jobs, boost the economy and lower future energy bills.
"The SNP is at great pains to say how different fracking and UCG are - perhaps their biggest similarity is the SNP's dogmatic objection to them both.
"If we don't start embracing these technologies, we risk getting left behind altogether."
And Cluff Natural Resources said it was "obviously disappointing", noting that "we have no doubt that UCG will be developed elsewhere in the world and the opportunity for Scotland to benefit from first mover advantage will have been lost".
The news comes on the same day as the UK government gave the go-ahead for horizontal fracking in Lancashire, in what is seen as a landmark ruling for the shale gas industry.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has approved plans for fracking at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton in Lancashire.
But second site, Roseacre Wood, has not yet been given the green light amid concerns over the impact on the area.
Robin Maughan, a Frankie Valli impersonator, is serving a 12-year sentence for offences including grooming and abusing two teenagers.
The 36-year-old, of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, has since pleaded guilty to further charges, including taking indecent photos of children.
The judge at Leicester Crown Court said he would be sentenced on 23 June.
The new charges faced by Maughan, formerly of Western Avenue, involved a number of boys and girls aged 13 to 16 between 2000 and 2015.
They include sexual touching, indecent assault and taking more than 200 indecent images of children.
Det Con Rob Waddington, who led the investigation, said: "As a result of the publicity surrounding his previous conviction, more victims came forward, and we worked to gather evidence to be able to put these charges to him.
"We know there are more victims out there who were abused by Maughan and who haven't been able to come forward for whatever reason, and I would urge them to make contact with us."
Harry Styles said the band was "very sorry" for cancelling Tuesday's show.
Fans were already inside the city's SSE Arena when the gig was pulled at 21:00 BST after singer Liam Payne fell ill.
Styles told BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans that the band had been "trying to get on and then it was just impossible".
Payne was "just very, very ill", he said.
"We very, very much apologise to everyone."
And Payne tweeted: "I'm so sorry to everybody I disappointed last night. I'm feeling better now.
"I really hope everyone can make the rescheduled date on Friday.
"I really can't wait to perform and make it up to everyone later."
Disappointed fans booed as staff instructed them to leave the venue, and one witness said "hundreds" of girls and women had been left weeping.
Concert promoter Aiken Promotions said: "The show tonight has been cancelled as Liam has taken ill, and whilst not serious, he is unable to perform tonight."
And in another statement on Wednesday, the promoter apologised for the cancellation.
That show has been rescheduled for Friday and original tickets are valid.
"We thank everyone for their understanding and their good wishes to Liam," Aiken Promotions added.
Fans unable to attend Friday's concert have been told they will be refunded.
It was the first time in the band's five-year career that they had been forced to cancel a show.
Previously, members had filled in for each other when illness struck.
"To be honest, we feel kind of lucky that we've got to this point and never cancelled one," said Styles.
But the rescheduled show has come at a cost for ice hockey fans in Belfast.
The Belfast Giants had been due to play a game against the Sheffield Steelers at SSE Arena on Friday night.
That has now had to make way for the One Direction gig.
Neil Walker, the arena's general manager, said "all possible options" had been assessed before the decision was made and he apologised to supporters of both teams.
"We are very grateful to them for their understanding and accommodation of the nearly 10,000 young concert fans who were so devastated by the cancellation last night," he added.
"We are now looking forward to three great nights of concerts."
The 21-year-old has been at Chelsea since she was nine and spent last season on loan with Women's Super League 2 side Bristol City.
"I know a few of the girls already from playing with England and I have met a few of them as well. Everyone has made me feel really welcome," she said.
"I'm buzzing to start pre-season in August and meet the rest of them."
The visitors led 0-9 to 0-3 at half-time and McHugh's double, plus another goal from Patrick McBrearty, saw Donegal take total control of the game.
The Mournemen had Donal O'Hare red-carded in the 65th minute for an off-the-ball incident with Eamon McGee.
McGee was one of five players who received black cards during the match.
Donegal duo Neil McGee and Michael Carroll were also black-carded, along with Down pair Joe Murphy and Conaill McGovern.
Neil McGee was penalised for bringing down Ryan Johnston in the 18th minute, but O'Hare's resulting penalty was saved by young Donegal goalkeeper Peter Boyle.
For Down and new manager Eamon Burns, it was a rude awakening to the realities of life in Division One following their promotion last season.
Early long-range points from Ciaran Thompson and Michael Murphy, the latter from a free, set the tone for the match and Murphy continued to play a pivotal role with a series of frees and an expertly executed point from an acute angle.
Five unanswered scores in the run-up to the break saw Rory Gallagher's side lead by six points at the interval and McHugh found the net with the deftest of touches after 40 minutes.
His Kilcar clubmate McBrearty fired home the second with a clinical finish into the bottom corner two minutes later and Leo McLoone got in on the act with two points in as many minutes to leave the score 2-12 to 0-7.
McHugh's second goal of the evening on 58 minutes extended his side's advantage further and O'Hare's dismissal completed a miserable evening for the hosts.
Donegal, who introduced the returning Rory Kavanagh as a second-half substitute, play Cork at Ballybofey in their next fixture on Sunday 7 February, with Down away to Monaghan in another Ulster derby.
Donegal manager Rory Gallagher: "When we got the first goal, the game kind of ran away from them. We would expect Cork to be stronger next week.
"We want to keep improving, working hard and getting into good habits in the league."
WEEKEND ALLIANZ FOOTBALL LEAGUE FIXTURES
Saturday - Results
Division 1
Down 0-7 3-15 Donegal
Dublin 2-14 0-14 Kerry
Sunday - 14:00 GMT unless stated
Division 1
Cork v Mayo, Pairc Ui Rinn
Roscommon v Monaghan, Kiltoom
Division 2
Derry v Fermanagh, Celtic Park, 14:15
Meath v Armagh, Pairc Tailteann
Tyrone v Cavan, Healy Park
Laois v Galway, Portlaoise
Division 3
Clare v Sligo, Miltown Malbay
Limerick v Tipperary, Kilmallock
Offaly v Longford, Tullamore
Westmeath v Kildare, Mullingar
Division 4
Louth v London, Gaelic Grounds, 13:00
Carlow v Antrim, Dr Cullen Park
Wexford v Leitrim, Bellefield
Wicklow v Waterford, Aughrim
Below is a summary of the seven defendants:
Rebekah Brooks
Andy Coulson
Stuart Kuttner
Clive Goodman
Mark Hanna
Cheryl Carter
Charlie Brooks
Rebekah Brooks, nee Wade, was chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International when the phone-hacking allegations broke in 2010.
A former News of the World editor, she had become one of Mr Murdoch’s trusted lieutenants having risen through the ranks of the family’s newspapers with astonishing speed.
In 2000 she became the youngest editor of a British national newspaper and went on to launch the controversial Sarah's Law campaign in which the paper began naming sex offenders. Three years later, she became the first female editor of the Sun before becoming News International’s chief executive in 2009.
Charges: Phone hacking, misconduct in public office, perverting the course of justice
Verdict: Not guilty of all charges
Andy Coulson stepped down as Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director in 2011, stating the row over phone hacking was stopping him giving the '110%' he needed in the job.
His role at the heart of government was far removed from his beginnings on the Basildon Evening Echo. The local news reporter went on to join the Sun and rose rapidly through the ranks of News International. He became the News of the World’s deputy editor in 2000 and succeeded Rebekah Brooks as editor three years later.
In 2007 he became director of communications for the Conservative Party before taking up the same role for Number 10 in 2010 after the general election.
Charges: Phone hacking, misconduct in a public office
Verdicts: Guilty of phone hacking, jury failed to reach verdicts on misconduct charges
Stuart Kuttner held a number of senior roles at the News of the World before retiring in 2009. He was the newspaper's managing editor for 22 years and had been its deputy editor prior to that.
Alongside Rebekah Brooks, Mr Kuttner was closely involved with the campaign for Sarah's Law, which saw the paper push for parental access to the sex offenders register following the murder of seven-year-old Sarah Payne.
Charge: Phone hacking
Verdict: Not guilty
Clive Goodman was the News of the World’s royal editor until 2007. Mr Goodman had begun his career on the Daily Mail before joining the News of the World. He stayed at the tabloid for almost two decades. Among his many royal exclusives was the breakdown of the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
Charges: Misconduct in a public office
Verdicts: Jury discharged after failing to reach verdicts
Mark Hanna was head of security at News International for more than four years and has had almost two decades of experience in the security industry, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He joined the Murdoch company in 2009 from the Japanese investment bank Nomura International, where he was vice-president (security).
He has a military background and has been on the editorial board of Professional Security magazine, according to SecurityNewsDesk - a website covering security industry news.
Charge: Perverting the course of justice
Verdict: Not guilty
Cheryl Carter, an executive assistant, had worked for Mrs Brooks for almost two decades.
She had been Mrs Brooks's PA when she was editor of the News of the World and the Sun. She continued in the role when Mrs Brooks was promoted to the News International chief executive's role in 2009.
Ms Carter had also worked for ex-News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner and former deputy editor Neil Wallis. She was also beauty editor at the Sun, another News International title.
Charge: Perverting the course of justice
Verdict: Not guilty
Charlie Brooks, along with his wife Rebekah, are regarded as key members of the “Chipping Norton set” - a network of powerful figures in media, politics and entertainment living close to each other in the Oxfordshire countryside. Among them is David Cameron, whom Mr Brooks knows from his schooldays at Eton. The Top Gear presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, first introduced the Brookses to each other at a party.
Mr Brooks married Rebekah Wade, as she then was, in June 2009. In January 2012, Mr and Mrs Brooks became parents by a surrogate mother.
Mr Brooks has been involved in horse racing for most of his life, first as a stable hand and amateur jockey and then as a racehorse trainer. He has also written a novel and a racing column for the Daily Telegraph.
Charge: Perverting the course of justice
Verdict: Not guilty
Thirty-five firefighters were called to the fire which started at 04:30 GMT at Malvern Tyres in Richmond Walk.
The fire is now under control and no-one is reported injured but nearby residents were asked to keep their windows closed to avoid the fumes.
The cause of the fire is being investigated, said Devon and Somerset Fire Service.
Resident Steven Grimshaw, who was woken at 05:30 GMT, said: "There was thick black smoke and lots of popping noises.
"A large fire had started in the tyre warehouse and there was lots of black smoke billowing into the sky."
Devon and Somerset fire spokesman Paul Bray said: "After the fire started it made rapid progress through the building and shortly after, the roof and a wall collapsed.
"Fortunately we were able to stop it spreading to the next-door building which contains bottled gas."
He said that the wind had blown most of the smoke out to sea.
Brenda Hale said her life was turned upside down by a stranger who began harassing her after the 2011 election.
The Lagan Valley MLA said the man started to call and text her, and she felt "incredibly threatened".
"He said we couldn't let this relationship go but I had never met this man," she told the BBC.
She said the man approached her while she was shopping in Marks & Spencer.
"I thought he was a constituent so I was very happy to converse with him and then he said he had been watching me a lot and he had got hold of my telephone number, and then the calls and texts started arriving with increasing regularity," she said.
"I did not know this man from Adam and he was stalking me from his home address in Dublin."
Mrs Hale, whose husband was killed in Afghanistan in 2009, said the whole experience was "terribly frightening".
"I had become a very public person after the death of my husband and so my story was out there - that I was alone with two children," she said.
"To feel vulnerable like that made me question whether a job in the public arena was the right one for me."
She said she "nipped it in the bud very quickly" and the police were "very quick to act".
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK which does not have specific laws to protect victims of stalking.
On Monday, Mrs Hale brought forward a motion about the need for new legislation. Assembly members voted on it and an amendment introduced by the SDLP and both were passed.
Mrs Hale said the debate was a "vital step forward".
"A legal definition will enable us to not only protect victims but also monitor reports of stalking, arrests and consequent prosecutions," she added.
Green Party deputy leader Clare Bailey MLA spoke of her own experience of stalking after the debate.
"I had razor blades stuck in my car tyres, which caused the tyres to blow up after dropping my children to school," she said.
"I decided then to report the stalking to the police, but response was "What do you want us to do about it?". I couldn't answer their question but I didn't report any further incidences."
It was time to make stalking a "recognised crime in its own right", she added.
Justice Minister Claire Sugden said a review of the existing laws around stalking both in Northern Ireland and elsewhere was already under way.
In an interview with Australia's 60 Minutes, John Bilardi described his son as a "loner" who had a "death wish".
An emotional Mr Bilardi also said he blamed himself for his son's actions.
Unconfirmed reports say that Bilardi died earlier this month in Iraq.
Mr Bilardi said his son was a "prize" for IS.
"He was a trophy that they paraded online. They gloated about how they had recruited this young boy who didn't even have a Muslim background.
"They used him for their own, what cause? All I see that they're murdering people, including my son. They murdered him."
The programme described how Bilardi's parents went through a "bitter divorce" when he was a young boy.
Mr Bilardi lost contact with Bilardi and his five siblings following the divorce, but began to see his son again after Bilardi's mother died in 2013.
"He just had this smile on his face, he was softly spoken, you could see the shyness in him," Mr Bilardi said.
"The first thing that came out was 'Dad, I've converted to Muslim' ... I literally fell back in my seat."
Mr Bilardi revealed that his son sent him a message when he arrived in Syria.
Bilardi said he was "happy" to be there and had travelled to the country "with the intention of supporting the people of this land".
Friends of Bilardi told the programme that he was "bullied quite a lot". They said he spoke openly at school about his intention to "sacrifice his life for Islam".
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop called Bilardi's reported suicide attack a "tragic example of a young Australian being lured to a senseless and violent death".
Mr Bilardi said he would create a memorial for his son, who he described as an "intelligent" boy who could have had a "bright career".
"For Jake my son - not the jihadist, not the terrorist," he said.
It is a criminal offence in Australia for citizens to set foot in the IS strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa without a legitimate reason such as a visit to family.
Any Australian who travels to the city could face 10 years in prison.
But Australia estimates that around 90 of its citizens have already travelled to Iraq or Syria to fight with IS and 20 have been killed in the conflict.
The National Audit Office (NAO) said the quality of service at HMRC "collapsed" over an 18-month period between 2014 and 2015.
Call waiting times tripled during that time, as some customers were kept on hold for up to an hour.
In response, HMRC said most calls were now being answered in just six minutes.
As part of its most recent study, the NAO worked out how much money callers would have notionally lost, while waiting for a reply.
Using HMRC's own criteria, it valued people's time at an average of £17 an hour.
As a result it claimed callers would have wasted the following sums:
The NAO blamed HMRC's poor performance on its decision to cut 11,000 staff between 2010 and 2014.
As part of its strategy to persuade people to do their tax returns online, it had anticipated needing fewer employees to answer the phone.
But after call waiting times for self-assessment tax returns peaked at 47 minutes last autumn, HMRC was forced to bring in 2,400 staff to its tax helpline.
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said he accepted that HMRC's overall plan did make sense.
"This does not change the fact that they got their timing badly wrong in 2014, letting significant numbers of call handling staff go before their new approach was working reliably," he said.
Citizens Advice said some people might fall into debt as a result of the problems - if they missed a tax deadline as a result.
"Long waiting times not only cause frustration and increase the cost of the call, but can also mean people miss important deadlines," said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice.
"For example if you don't return your tax form on time you face a fine - which for some households can be an additional cost they can't afford to pay."
HMRC said its service levels had improved since the period in question. Over the last six months it said call waiting times had averaged six minutes.
"We recognise that early in 2015 we didn't provide the standard of service that people are entitled to expect and we apologised at the time," said Ruth Owen, HMRC's director general for customer services.
We have since fully recovered and are now offering our best service levels in years," she said.
However the NAO said it was also concerned that, because many taxpayers never got through to HMRC on the phone, they may have paid the wrong amount of tax.
In March this year there were 3.2m outstanding high priority cases that still required investigation.
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee will take further evidence on the issue on 13 June.
Two statements were read at St Michael's Church in Lamplugh, the village where one of Bird's brothers, his twin, was found dead.
The family also offered condolences to the loved ones of those killed.
Bird's sons Graeme and Jamie said: "We do not know why he committed these horrific crimes and we are both mortified by the sad events."
Later hundreds of people gathered in Seascale, the village where Bird killed three people, for the first of two memorial services.
The second service was held in Whitehaven, where Bird shot dead one of his fellow taxi drivers.
In Lamplugh, in a statement read by Rev Jim Marshall, Bird's sons called the 52-year-old a "loving dad who had recently become a grandfather" and "the nicest man you could ever meet".
Police are still trying to establish a motive for the killings
Beach service honours gun victims
Bird target 'did not answer door'
Interactive map of shootings
'Quiet man' behind the bloodshed
They said: "Dad was a loving, cheerful character, and was well known throughout the whole community and the areas in which he worked.
"He will be missed by us and by his family and by his friends."
Of the victims' families, Bird's sons said: "Our thoughts are with them".
Bird killed 12 people in west Cumbria on Wednesday before driving to the Lake District where he shot himself.
Police believe he deliberately targeted some of his victims and indiscriminately shot at others during his 45-mile rampage.
Detectives are continuing to try to establish a motive for the killings.
Speaking outside the church, Mr Marshall said Bird's mother Susan learnt of her son's gun rampage when she turned on the television.
He said: "She was horrified, she was astounded. She was just stunned and still can't take it in.
"That is the last time she watched the television."
He said Mrs Bird then locked all the doors. When asked if the family had feared for their lives, he replied: "Yes, wouldn't you if you realised (he) had killed his twin brother."
But Mr Marshall said the Derrick Bird his family knew "was not the person they saw on Wednesday".
Bryan Bird, the gunman's surviving brother, also released a statement expressing his "shock and dismay".
He said: "The loss of both of my brothers is devastating. They were both very caring, family people.
"They were well known and respected in their local communities. My family and I are saddened at the loss of life and woundings, and can only offer their condolences to the families concerned.
"We appreciate what they are suffering at this time. We cannot offer any reason why Derrick took it upon himself to commit these crimes."
The President of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Sir Hugh Orde, has praised the response of Cumbria's officers during the shooting spree.
Speaking on the Politics Show on BBC One on Sunday, he said: "It was a completely unexpected and unpredictable event and the response, from a police perspective, was very good."
He said it would not have made any difference if a larger force had been in control.
NGOs on the Mediterranean island underlined the need to dramatically shift the goalposts if the surge in deaths is to be stemmed.
But their proposed solutions are unlikely to resonate with many of Malta's 420,000 inhabitants, who feel European states have ignored the migration problems in the Mediterranean for too long.
The sun-drenched tourist haven of Malta disguises the tragedy unfolding at its doorstep, though many are uneasy about the chaos engulfing Libya just 354km (220 miles) away.
Sensational media claims that radical Islamists could infiltrate boatloads of migrants have served only to inflate irrational fears.
The attitude towards asylum seekers in Malta has shifted dramatically, from the compassion shown when the first boats started landing in 2002, towards indifference, and, in the last few years, outright racism among sectors of society.
In the aftermath of two shipwrecks, that killed at least 1,000 in the last week, one tasteless commentator even uploaded a Facebook post saying he was put off fish because they were now feeding on "Ebola-infected corpses".
Many who posted comments on the Times of Malta website blamed the migrants themselves for taking the trip in the first place.
Maria Pisani, director of Integra Foundation, a Maltese not-for-profit organisation, says the solution should be a concerted effort to strengthen search and rescue operations and provide safer access to asylum.
That way, she says, refugees would not be forced to take this route in the first place.
The policy of containment and strengthening of EU borders has contributed to deaths and prolonged human suffering, Ms Pisani says.
She believes that increased efforts to beef up security will simply serve to redirect smuggling routes elsewhere - possibly to deadlier routes.
Neil Falzon, director of Aditus, a Maltese human rights group, agrees. Creating camps or blockades in a war-torn country like Libya is out of the question, he says, since it is unable to protect its own nationals, let alone anyone else.
If solutions are to be found, he says, politicians need to think of the reasons why people are getting onto boats.
Mr Falzon, a human rights lawyer, says: "While there is some awareness about Syria, nobody knows if and what the EU is doing to improve the situation in places like Eritrea and Somalia, from where people have been fleeing for years as the world looks on with indifference.
"Migrants flee their home for different reasons. If we bundle them all together, nothing will work.
"We need to keep in mind that no proposal or measure will totally eliminate the boat situation. We need to be ready to accept that this issue will persist, even if we have the best solution."
Mr Falzon believes that EU countries can start helping by offering visas from their embassies in non-European states. Ultimately, traffickers need to be stopped or at least curbed.
"If you talk to any migrant in Malta they will all tell you traffickers are not hard to find; it's an open business."
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has dramatically shifted tone and attitude since July 2013, when he threatened to push back a group of migrants to Libya to pile pressure on EU states to act. He now speaks about the need for compassion.
Mr Muscat and his Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi are spearheading the regional response, but many on the island state are determined that Malta, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, cannot take any more migrants.
Malta has one of the highest per capita refugee acceptance rates in the world, and its inhabitants are expecting the European bloc to throw them a lifeline.
For years, Malta has appealed to other EU states to absorb some of its refugees. The response has been abysmal.
"Ultimately, the problem is that nobody wants refugees as neighbours," Mr Falzon said.
Danny Willett is one stroke behind following a round of 64, with another Englishman, Chris Hanson, on 11 under.
Defending champion Rikard Karlberg of Sweden, who went round in 67, is tied for third with Hanson (65) and American Daniel Im (64) at Golf Club Milano.
England's Chris Wood is on 10 under and Scot Jamie McLeary a shot further back.
Rain and the threat of lightning saw play called off at 16:36 BST on Friday.
Karlberg, who led after a weather-delayed first round, faces the prospect of playing 36 holes on Saturday, having failed to start his second round on Friday.
Tournament director David Williams told the European Tour website: "If we had a dry night and some reasonable weather over the weekend, then we could still get four rounds in and finish on time on Sunday night."
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Andronicos Sideras, 54, has been accused of deliberately mixing up the meats before they were sold in 2012.
Mr Sideras was one of the owners of meat company and sausage manufacturer Dinos & Sons.
The businessman, from Southgate, north London, denies conspiracy to defraud between 1 January and 30 November 2012.
Prosecutor Jonathan Polnay said alarm bells were raised after Dinos "messed things up" when assembling an order.
A surprise inspection was triggered when the wrong size of shipment was sent to a company called Rangeland in Newry, Northern Ireland, in 2012, Inner London Crown Court was told.
The 12-pallet load was analysed and four of them contained horse.
Mr Polnay said: "Some of them were found to contain significant amounts of horsemeat; roughly about a third contained horse."
It is alleged Mr Sideras mixed meat in this way before it was sold on to manufacturers making products for "a vast range of well-known companies".
Mr Sideras's fingerprints were found on "fake" labels, the court heard.
Mr Polnay added: "The final piece of the jigsaw is that when the meat was analysed, three horse ID chips were found in some of it."
The chips were roughly the size of a 1cm grain of rice - two of which were Polish and one Irish.
It is alleged Danish-owned company Flexi Foods would buy horsemeat and beef from suppliers across Europe and then deliver to Dinos & Sons in Tottenham, north London.
Mr Polnay said the fraud could not have worked or taken place without the "connivance" of Mr Sideras.
He said: "The meticulous records kept by FlexiFoods caused their undoing. They also provide compelling evidence of the guilt of this defendant."
He told the court that two men, Ulrik Nielsen, 58, the owner of FlexiFoods, and his "right-hand man", Alex Beech, 44, have already pleaded guilty to the same charge.
The trial continues.
The Republic has become the first country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage in a popular vote, just days after the Prince of Wales visited Mullaghmore in County Sligo where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA in 1979.
While in Sligo, Prince Charles also visited the grave of the Irish poet, WB Yeats, under the shadow of Ben Bulben mountain in Drumcliffe cemetery.
The poet was born 150 years ago and many of his verses were quoted during the Royal visit.
Nearly every Irish student learns the lines from the poem September 1913: "Romantic Ireland is dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave."
O'Leary was an old Irish revolutionary who wanted to free Ireland from British rule.
The referendum result speaks volumes about a changed Republic of Ireland and it is tempting to write: "Catholic Ireland is dead and gone."
It was the revelation that Bishop Eamon Casey had fathered a child that first started a process which, for many, undermined the authority of the Catholic Church.
Soon afterwards a tsunami of revelations about child sex abuse involving priests and cover-ups by bishops further and greatly diminished the standing of the church hierarchy in a country that is nominally 85% Catholic, although empty churches and declining Mass attendance tell another story.
It was only in 1993 that homosexual acts were decriminalised; civil partnership was introduced in 2010.
Throughout the campaign, bishops preached against a "Yes" vote for same-sex marriage and indicated their deep unhappiness with the government's proposal.
They were joined by social conservatives and Catholic lay groups in expressing their view that the proposal undermined the traditional family of a husband, a wife and children.
But only three of the 166 members of the Irish parliament publicly supported that view and urged a "No" vote.
Against the hierarchy stood a coalition of all the main political parties, gay rights activists and their families and supporters.
It is noticeable that the "Yes" vote was strongest in more urban areas and among younger voters who study the African-American struggle for civil rights for their state exams.
And it was also noticeable in conversations how many of them were influenced by that struggle for equality in Saturday's result.
Thousands returned from abroad to vote, and thousands more delayed their working holidays after finishing university exams to register their support for the government's proposal.
Social media was abuzz with their stories.
Some "No" campaigners feared the worst from early on; some privately said that even if they won this time they knew they were battling against the tide of history because such was the strength of feeling among young people that there would be another referendum and it would then pass.
Today, though, is not the first recent indication of the diminished standing of the Catholic Church.
Two years ago, the bishops failed to stop the government and politicians from introducing legislation to allow for abortions in cases where there was a credible suicide threat from a woman if she was forced to continue with her pregnancy.
And in many ways the same-sex marriage referendum is just one stage in church-state relations before the main confrontation - the repeal of the eighth amendment to the constitution that gives an equal right to life to the mother and the unborn.
The referendum on this in 1983 was extraordinarily divisive and left a bitter taste in the mouths of many involved.
While another referendum on repealing the amendment is unlikely until after the next election, both sides are already preparing for it.
Those wanting change argue that it currently prevents terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormality, where the foetus cannot survive outside the womb, and where a pregnancy has resulted from rape or incest.
Those seeking the retention of the amendment - and it's not just the Catholic Church and other Christian institutions - argue from a human rights point of view that the foetus or unborn child also has a right to life.
But that's all for another day.
I began with WB Yeats but I'll finish with, perhaps, the best known Irish gay man, Oscar Wilde.
The phrase "the love that dare not speak its name" comes from a poem by his lover Lord Alfred Douglas and was mentioned at Wilde's gross indecency trial that would see him jailed.
After the same-sex referendum result, not any longer, Oscar, not any longer.
She will sample the culinary histories of stately homes and create new recipes inspired by her visits in Mary Berry's Secrets From Britain's Great Houses.
In September, she announced she would not remain as a judge on Bake Off when it moves from BBC One to Channel 4.
In a statement, she said she was "so excited" to be doing the new six-part series with the BBC.
"I have always had an enquiring mind so I know I will be inspired by the great houses we visit," she said.
BBC director of content Charlotte Moore said: "This series will be a real treat for BBC One viewers to go behind the scenes with Mary Berry and explore Britain's great houses through her love of cooking."
Berry will reveal the workings of the houses and visit the kitchens, gardens and private rooms - as well as meeting the current custodians - in each 30-minute episode.
The 81-year-old made her name as a cookery writer and has judged The Great British Bake Off with Paul Hollywood since its launch in 2010.
The most recent series, which finished last week, was the last series to be seen on BBC One.
However Berry, Hollywood and hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc will be seen in two Bake Off Christmas specials, which have already been filmed.
Tanya Shaw, managing director at Shine TV, which is producing Berry's new series, said: "I can't think of anyone more perfect to tell the stories of these great households and to bring us such a unique insight into Britain's rich culinary past."
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Linda Camborne-Paynter's two terriers escaped from her car after the crash at about 18:00 GMT on Thursday outside Sweetshouse near Lostwithiel, Cornwall.
Dexter - who was found yesterday - had joined the search for his brother Snowey this morning.
Mrs Camborne-Paynter is still in hospital having broken both her arms in the crash.
The family had launched a campaign to find Snowey, including issuing a poster which said the dog had "pegged it" because he was nervous.
Tesla will raise the money by selling bonds to professional investors, despite the company having $3bn in cash.
The company says it has 518,000 orders for its new car, whose price starts at $35,000.
Initial production of the Model 3 started in July, with a target of 400,000 to be made next year.
Tesla, which also makes batteries and solar panels, has been burning through its cash at a rapid rate.
The company's founder and boss, Elon Musk, said at the vehicle's formal launch in July that making the Model 3 would lead to "six months of manufacturing hell", as it tries to make 100,000 of the cars this year at its California factory.
Some observers have predicted that the company, which has yet to make a profit, will use up at least $2bn this year, hence the need for more cash.
The Tesla bonds will have to be repaid to investors in eight years but the interest rate on offer to investors has not yet been decided.
Tesla has $3bn in its cash pile, but it is easy to see why it wants more.
The company has already proved that it can build high-performance, long-range electric cars.
The Model S and Model X have an enthusiastic following.
Now it has begun delivering its new, more basic and more affordable Model 3.
But building luxury premium cars for a small, wealthy and enthusiastic market is one thing.
Becoming a viable, mass-market manufacturer is quite another - especially when the mass market for electric cars does not actually exist yet.
Tesla built just under 84,000 cars last year and it hopes to be producing 520,000 annually by 2018.
That is a huge step forward, particularly for a company which saw production in the first half of this year slowed because of a shortage of batteries.
Tesla is throwing money at the problem, and is expected to burn through $2bn this year.
But why is Tesla being so ambitious? Why not build up production more slowly?
Well, the electric car market is about to get a lot more crowded.
Major manufacturers such as VW, Mercedes and Jaguar Land Rover all have high performance electric vehicles in the pipeline, while Renault-Nissan already dominates the more affordable end of the market.
Tesla's brand has a Silicon Valley cachet that other manufacturers cannot match, for the moment.
But if it is to become a high-volume manufacturer, it needs to use that cachet to build its market share - or risk being sidelined when the more established auto giants roll out their new models.
The Old Trafford and Wales legend would also consider managing a Championship club provided it matches his "ambitions and vision".
"Managing your national team is the pinnacle or the club that you played for. For me Manchester United - that's the pinnacle," he said.
"Whether it happens or not, I don't know, but you'd always be open to it."
The 42-year-old former winger has been on what he called a sabbatical since ending a 29-year association with United in June following the appointment of Jose Mourinho as manager.
He had been interim manager at Old Trafford and was assistant to Louis van Gaal before Mourinho replaced the Dutchman.
Giggs added: "As a player I was a winner and I want to be the same as a manager, whether it be dropping down to the Championship, whether it be in the Premier League - I've got no preference," he told BBC Wales.
"It has to be the right club and have the same ambitions and visions as I do."
He was recently linked with the Swansea City job that American Bob Bradley has filled following Francesco Guidolin's sacking, but said "a few things" prevented him taking over at Liberty Stadium.
Under current manager Chris Coleman, Wales reached their first major championships since 1958 and progressed to the semi-finals of Euro 2016.
Coleman signed a fresh deal with the Football Association of Wales in May this year and has said he will move on when their 2018 World Cup campaign concludes.
Giggs believes Coleman could still conceivably stay longer: "That could change [his mind]. He could stay on, we never know.
"Whoever takes over if Chris decides to leave after two years will be inheriting a team that has been the most successful in Wales for the last 50 years."
In a statement on his Twitter account, Mr Carr said he was no longer involved in the K2 tax shelter.
Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday called Mr Carr's use of the scheme "morally wrong".
But the PM refused to comment on Take That star Gary Barlow's tax affairs - saying it was a different case - after Labour called for his OBE to removed.
The K2 tax scheme used by Mr Carr is a way of lowering the amount of tax paid. It is legal and Mr Carr made clear in his statement it was fully disclosed to HMRC.
In a
series of messages on Twitter
Mr Carr said: "I appreciate as a comedian, people will expect me to 'make light' of this situation, but I'm not going to in this statement.
"As this is obviously a serious matter. I met with a financial advisor and he said to me 'Do you want to pay less tax? It's totally legal'. I said 'Yes'."
"I now realise I've made a terrible error of judgement.
"Although I've been advised the K2 Tax scheme is entirely legal, and has been fully disclosed to HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs).
By Kevin PeacheyPersonal finance reporter, BBC News
Do regular taxpayers care whether a comedian pays his tax? Or do they think it a joke that he, and hundreds of others, are given the opportunity to avoid paying it?
The government says it wants to put an end to "contrived" avoidance schemes. It needs the extra tax income after all.
Next year it plans to bring in a new general anti-abuse rule, to stop cunning schemes designed solely to avoid tax.
But accountants are lining up to argue that the line between artificial avoidance and legitimate tax planning is blurred - and the proposals will not end disputes entirely.
Which side of the line is sheltering your family from inheritance tax? And what about tax breaks for investing in small businesses?
Clearly Jimmy Carr's "error of judgement" will not be the punchline to this story.
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"I'm no longer involved in it and will in future conduct my financial affairs much more responsibly. Apologies to everyone. Jimmy Carr."
More than 1,000 people, including Mr Carr, are thought to be using the Jersey-based K2 scheme, which is said to be sheltering £168m a year from the Treasury.
Under the K2 scheme, an individual resigns from their company and any salary they subsequently receive is paid to an offshore trust.
Downing Street welcomed Mr Carr's apology.
A spokeswoman said: "HMRC are working hard to investigate the sort of scheme that Jimmy Carr had been reported to be involved in to ensure that they are not aggressively avoiding tax, and, if they are, they are closed down."
She defended Mr Cameron's decision to speak out about an individual's tax affairs - in contravention of normal government practice.
"The prime minister was expressing what probably lots of people felt after reading the coverage," she said.
Business Secretary Vince Cable also backed the prime minister, telling BBC Radio Sheffield he was not prepared to go "through a hit-list of our celebrities" but adding: "We just want people to pay their dues."
The Lib Dem minister said he did not use tax avoidance schemes himself and that, as far he knows, no members of the cabinet did either, saying: "We observe the law... but also try to set an example."
According to The Times newspaper, which first published details of Mr Carr's tax arrangements, the K2 scheme enables members to pay income tax rates as low as 1%.
The prime minister was asked about Mr Carr's arrangement on Wednesday during a visit to Mexico for the G20 summit.
He told ITV News the comedian's tax affairs were "straightforward tax avoidance" and it was unfair on the people who pay to watch the comic perform that he was not paying his taxes in the same way that they did.
"I think some of these schemes - and I think particularly of the Jimmy Carr scheme - I have had time to read about and I just think this is completely wrong.
"People work hard, they pay their taxes, they save up to go to one of his shows. They buy the tickets. He is taking the money from those tickets and he, as far as I can see, is putting all of that into some very dodgy tax avoiding schemes.
"That is wrong. There is nothing wrong with people planning their tax affairs to invest in their pension and plan for their retirement - that sort of tax management is fine.
"But some of these schemes we have seen are quite frankly morally wrong. The government is acting by looking at a general anti-avoidance law but we do need to make progress on this.
"It is not fair on hard working people who do the right thing and pay their taxes to see these sorts of scams taking place."
Labour leader Ed Miliband opted not to join in with the chorus of criticism of the 8 Out of 10 Cats star's tax affairs.
He said: "I'm not in favour of tax avoidance obviously, but I don't think it is for politicians to lecture people about morality.
"I think what the politicians need to do is - if the wrong thing is happening - change the law to prevent that tax avoidance happening."
Shadow leader of the House of Commons Angela Eagle turned her fire on Take That star Gary Barlow, who with two bandmates, is facing questions about £26m they are alleged to have invested in a scheme that is facing a legal challenge from HMRC.
The Labour MP said: "The prime minister rushed to the TV studios to condemn the tax avoidance scheme used by Jimmy Carr but he did not take the opportunity to condemn as morally repugnant the tax avoidance scheme used by Conservative supporter Gary Barlow, who's given a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Take That'.
"If it's all so morally repugnant, why has he just been given an OBE in the birthday honours list?
"Why is the prime minister's view of what's dodgy in the tax system so partial? Sir Philip Green has interesting tax arrangements but far from being labelled morally repugnant in a Mexico TV studio, he's got a government review to head up."
Retail magnate Sir Philip has firmly denied avoiding hundreds of millions of pounds in tax by transferring ownership of his Arcadia business, saying that Arcadia was bought by his wife, Lady Green, in 2002 and because she has not lived in the UK for 15 years no tax was due on any dividends that were paid to her.
During a joint press conference with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Mr Cameron declined to comment on Mr Barlow's tax affairs.
He said he was not "going to give a running commentary on different people's tax affairs", and said he had made "an exception yesterday... it was a particularly egregious example".
Mr Carr, who has satirised "fat cat" bankers, is reported to protect £3.3m a year from tax by channelling cash through the K2 scheme, which is under investigation by HMRC.
The comedian is thought to be one of more than 1,000 beneficiaries who shelter some £168m from the taxman each year using the company.
Pembrokeshire council said the police vehicle was left "unattended and unoccupied" in a loading bay on Castle Square, Haverfordwest, on Monday.
Rachel Gratton took the photograph, posted it on Facebook where it attracted a big response.
A Dyfed-Powys Police spokeswoman said the fine will be paid.
The 26-year-old Scot's victory at Meadowbank also ensured he stretched his unbeaten record to nine fights.
Joubert, 35, came into the bout having lost only four of his 35 fights and he managed to inflict Taylor's first cut as a professional.
That, however, did nothing to stop the man from Prestonpans sealing the win.
Taylor, who with every triumph is edging closer to a British title fight, had admitted before the bout that he knew very little about his opponent.
That contributed to a cagey first round from both but the Scot undoubtedly held the advantage over the more experienced South African.
And the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist upped his work-rate in the second round, catching Joubert with a sharp left hook early on that had him rocking on his heels.
Taylor picked up a cut in the early rounds but it was unclear whether that was the result of a shot or a clash of heads.
The Scot maintained his offensive intensity in round three with a flurry of punches to the body that sapped the energy from his rival. Joubert could not cope with Taylor's hand-speed and time and again he was forced back into the corner of the ring.
In the fifth round Taylor looked to press home his advantage, having clearly worked out his opponent's style and found holes in his defences. Another trademark left hook shook the South African but the round finished before the Scot could inflict any more punishment.
The bell only delayed the inevitable, though, and after one minute and 27 seconds of the sixth round Taylor unleashed a series of punches that left Joubert on the deck. The South African got to his feet but his corner had thrown in the towel before the referee could count to 10.
It was a well deserved win for Taylor, who has previously expressed a desire to meet countryman and WBA super lightweight champion Ricky Burns in a Scottish super-fight.
Reporter Linton Besser and cameraman Louie Eroglu, from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, said they were not deported but escorted through the airport by police.
The pair approached Prime Minister Najib Razak on Saturday asking about corruption claims, which he denies.
Their detention had raised concerns over press freedom.
It was thought they would be charged with obstructing a public official but the charges were dropped, the ABC said. Mr Besser and Mr Eroglu arrived in Singapore on Tuesday.
Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said Malaysia was not obstructing the media, but that foreign media workers "must perform their duties according to the journalism ethics".
For months, the Malaysian government has discouraged scrutiny over the corruption allegations, including blocking news outlets that have reported extensively on them.
Mr Besser and Mr Eroglu had approached Mr Najib while he was visiting a mosque in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak state.
They attempted to ask Mr Najib about a $681m (£478m) payment from the 1MDB state investment fund to his personal account.
Mr Najib has been cleared of personal wrongdoing by Malaysian prosecutors but a number of international investigations are ongoing.
A statement issued by Malaysian police to news agency Bernama said the two men crossed a "security line and aggressively tried to approach the prime minister".
"Both of them were subsequently arrested for failing to comply with police instructions not to cross the security line," the statement said.
In an email to staff, the ABC's director of news, Gaven Morris, said Mr Besser and Mr Eroglu did not believe they had crossed a police line and had not obstructed officials.
He said they had "fully co-operated with the police" and were receiving consular and legal support.
Gray, 26, previously played club rugby for Newcastle Falcons and London Irish.
Bath-born defensive end Alex Jenkins, 24, will train with the New Orleans Saints, while London-raised Efe Obada, 25, will join the Carolina Panthers.
They will be ineligible to play in the NFL in 2017, but will train full-time.
Their signings come after the NFL opened up an 11th practice squad place for franchises in the NFC South division - which was chosen at random - to be used on an overseas player, who will hope to earn a contract for 2018.
Before converting to American football, Gray signed for English Championship rugby outfit Yorkshire Carnegie for 2016-17, after an injury ruled him out of representing Great Britain in rugby sevens at Rio 2016.
He previously captained an England Under-20s side that included current senior national team stars George Ford, Owen Farrell, Elliot Daly, Jonathan Joseph and Mako Vunipola.
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Jenkins has previously played for Bath City Academy and the Bristol Aztecs before earning a scholarship to play college football at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.
In April, the former supermarket worker revealed to BBC Points West that he took up the sport after watching Adam Sandler's 2005 movie 'The Longest Yard'.
"It feels too good to be true," he told the NFL website. "The fact that the Saints will be playing in London this season [at Wembley Stadium on 1 October] makes it even more exciting for me."
Rap and reggae singer Matisyahu had been due to appear at the Rototom Sunsplash festival this week.
Organisers said they "respect the Jewish community and ask for sincere apologies for what happened".
Matisyahu has not said whether he will accept their offer to perform.
In a post on his Facebook page, Matisyahu said the pressure from the festival organisers to air his views had been "appalling and offensive".
A drive to cancel Matisyahu's appearance was launched by the Valencia branch of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
The pro-Palestinian group calls for a boycott of Israeli goods until it complies with international law - Israel calls the campaign misleading and anti-Semitic.
BDS Valencia said that, because of some of Matisyahu's lyrics and his previous comments on Israeli affairs, his values did not tally with those of the festival, namely "peace, equality, human rights and social justice".
On Wednesday, officials from Rototom Sunsplash said that the decision to cancel his appearance was because of "threats and coercion promoted by Valencia's BDS that could seriously disrupt the normal functioning of the festival".
They originally said they had cancelled his slot after having "repeatedly sought dialogue in the face of the artist's unavailability to give a clear statement against war and on the right of the Palestinian people".
The singer, born in Pennsylvania, said he did not insert politics into his music, and that he wanted it to be accessible to all.
The Spanish Federation of Jewish Communities said the move was "cowardly, unfair and discriminatory".
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said the decision was a "clear instance of anti-Semitism".
Late on Tuesday, the Spanish foreign ministry said the request from the festival was an "act that violates the conscience" and "put into question the principle of non-discrimination".
Israel welcomed the Spanish government's stance.
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Hundreds of millions of people had already been catching the virtual creatures since it was first launched 20 years ago.
Pokémon Go is a new version of the game, that players can use for the first time on their mobile phones and devices.
Players search the real world using satellite location to find Pokémon near them, and use augmented reality to see and capture them.
Hayley has been checking it out.
Emily Gardner, 14, from Gloucester, was on board the boat when it was overturned by a large wave in waters off Brixham, Devon, in May 2015.
Her "ill-fitting" buoyancy aid snagged on a cleat, trapping her underwater.
A jury recorded a narrative conclusion at an inquest in Torquay. The coroner said it was "the most tragic incident".
In a statement, Emily's family said they planned to campaign for new legislation to ensure power boat drivers required a licence or training.
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They said they wanted it to be known as "Emily's Law" to prevent others having "to endure what we have been through".
After the hearing, they also called for all buoyancy aids to be "fitted safely and correctly".
The two-day hearing heard the boat was driven by co-owner Paul Pritchard, who said he did not see the large wave or he would have taken evasive action.
Emily was taken to hospital but pronounced dead after 80 minutes of resuscitation attempts, the hearing was told.
Following the hearing, her father, Clive Gardner, said: "My family and I miss Emily so, so much, and time will never heal. Our lives are ruined. Our hearts are truly broken and will never mend."
In a statement, the family also said that "if we had known that power boat drivers do not have to have a licence or training we would never have let her go".
They added: "We need people to become aware of the absence of legislation to ensure the safety of passengers on leisure craft, and will campaign for laws to be brought in to close this legal loophole."
Former Captain Sagar Thapa and goalkeeper Ritesh Thapa as well as three others were arrested last month.
Police said significant sums of money were found in their bank accounts from suspected match-fixers in South East Asia.
The athletes allegedly deliberately lost a number of qualifiers.
"The government has charged the five footballers arrested last month with treason and has sought a life sentence as punishment," Bhadrakali Pokharel, registrar at the Special Court in Kathmandu, told AFP news agency.
Mr Pokharel said they were charged under a 1989 act that anyone "causing or attempting to cause disorder with the intention of jeopardising Nepal's sovereignty, integrity or national unity, shall be liable for life imprisonment".
The footballers are expected to be presented before a court on Monday.
Football's world governing body Fifa has been embroiled in a series of alleged corruption scandals in recent months.
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The move by Theresa May follows reports that some faced explicit questions and others were asked to hand over video evidence to prove their sexuality.
She asked Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration John Vine to review asylum claims on grounds of sexual orientation - not behaviour.
Gay rights charity Stonewall said the review would lead to a "fairer system".
MPs have raised concerns in the past that the process for gay and lesbian asylum applicants - many of whom are fleeing persecution in their home country because of their sexuality - relied too heavily on anecdotal evidence.
Some have been asked to prove that they are gay, often with "inappropriate" questions from Home Office officials, Mrs May said.
In a letter to Mr Vine, the home secretary said: "We do need to establish that the risk of persecution is real, and this will often depend on whether the sexual orientation of the asylum seeker is as claimed.
"We seek to establish this at interview through questions about sexual orientation, not sexual behaviour."
Ms May said it was "disappointing" to have discovered these guidelines may not have been followed in at least one case in which an asylum applicant was asked inappropriate questions.
"We are committed to treating all asylum claimants with respect and dignity and we want to continue to improve on current practice in this area," she said.
Mr Vine has been tasked with reviewing the adequacy of guidance for staff and claimants and training. He will also look at a sample of case files to establish whether guidance and training is being followed.
Head of policy for the Stonewall campaign group, James Taylor, said: "Sadly lesbian, gay and bisexual people are all too often subject to degrading treatment throughout the asylum process.
"Caseworkers should always seek to establish whether a legitimate fear of persecution exists, not on an applicant's sexual relations or stereotypical views of gay life."
He added that while the Home Office had made some positive progress, the review was a welcome step toward creating a fairer system.
Chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz said it was "unacceptable" that gay and lesbian individuals were being asked to share intimate information.
"Our committee received evidence that applicants were being asked ridiculous questions that were inappropriate, about things they couldn't prove," Mr Vaz said.
"They were being asked to give intimate information about their private lives which put applicants under intolerable pressure."
A leaked Home Office document revealed how one bisexual asylum seeker was asked explicit questions about his sexual practices.
The questions, which were typed up by a Home Office employee and dated last October, were branded an "interrogation".
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Organiser London Marathon Events says Swim Serpentine has grown out of popular demand for an open water event held in the lake that staged the successful London 2012 swimming competitions.
Up to 6,000 people are expected to complete the mile-long (1.6km) competition, which starts at 10:00 BST on Saturday. The 5km (3.1mile) elite invitational British Open Water Swimming Championships will be held on Sunday.
The oil paintings of Joseph Sikes and his wife Jane by Derby-based artist, Joseph Wright, have never been on show.
Now they are to be sold by auctioneers and are expected to fetch at least £50,000.
Joseph Wright was famous for painting factory scenes during the Industrial Revolution.
The portrait of Mr Sikes, who lived in Newark, Nottinghamshire, shows him in a turquoise jacket with a lace ruff. He died in 1798.
Mrs Sikes is wearing a string of pearls and pearls in her hair. The portraits will go on sale on 24 March.
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The deal aims to limit greenhouse gas emissions and keep global temperature increases "well below" 2C.
It was approved with 610 votes in favour, 38 against and with 31 abstentions.
The vote, attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, paves the way for the pact to come into force globally.
The deal on Tuesday means national ministers can now ratify the agreement on behalf of the EU later this week.
To become operational, the treaty needs at least 55 countries representing at least 55% of global emissions to complete all the steps.
"With the action taken by the EU parliament, I am confident that we will be able to cross the 55% threshold very soon, in just a matter of a few days," Mr Ban said.
"I am extremely honoured to be able to witness this historic moment," he added.
The Paris deal has raced through the UN ratification process in double-quick time. It took eight years to get the previous Kyoto Protocol agreed ‒ and that was nowhere near as comprehensive.
That is good news for the climate. Further positive news is that renewable energy is plummeting in cost, so the burden faced by nations turning away from fossil fuels is not so great.
The bad news, however, is that politicians in Paris have admitted that the targets set for curbing emissions are not tough enough.
Coal-fired power stations are still being built at a furious pace in developing countries, even as rich nations turn away from the energy source.
The Paris agreement sets an aim ideally for a maximum rise in global temperatures of 1.5C. But scientists have warned that action has been delayed for so long that there is now a need to develop ways of actually sucking CO2 out of the air.
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The agreement comes after India, one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, became the latest country to ratify the deal on Sunday.
As a so-called "mixed" agreement, the climate deal requires approval at both EU and national level. But on 30 September EU environment ministers agreed to fast-track it, meaning the deal could be ratified at EU level, even without votes in some national parliaments.
Backed by nearly 200 nations nearly one year ago, the agreement aims to shift the world economy away from fossil fuels in an effort to limit floods, droughts and rising sea levels.
CO2 and other greenhouse gases are the driving forces behind manmade climate change and the sharp rise in global temperatures.
Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Asad Rehman welcomed the deal as a "vital step", but said it was no time for world leaders to be complacent and action should be taken sooner rather than later.
"People across the globe are facing killer floods and droughts," he said, adding: "What matters most is action now."
Harden had two years, worth $59m (£45.7m), left on his previous deal.
He has signed a four-year extension worth $169m (£131m) through to the 2022-23 season, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Last week Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry signed a $201m (£154m) deal, according to his agent.
Curry's five-year contract was at that point the richest in NBA history but Harden's contract is worth $27m (£21m) more.
"Houston is home for me," said Harden in a statement released by the Rockets.
Caley Thistle missed out on a top-six Premiership finish this season and the club will prioritise recruiting quality in attacking areas.
"There's not been a decision made," Hughes said of 31-year-old Raven.
"Right at this moment in time, it seems very unlikely it'll be the case that he might get something."
A fairly ominous number of decisions await Hughes regarding personnel, with only Greg Tansey, Josh Meekings, Ross Draper, Gary Warren, Richie Foran, Carl Tremarco and goalkeeping reserve/coach Ryan Esson currently contracted beyond the end of the season.
Raven joined Caley Thistle in 2012 after leaving Tranmere Rovers but might have only five more games to add to his 137 appearances for the Scottish Premiership club.
"The reason being is, when I'm spinning plates, if I've got anything extra, I want to put it in the top end," explained Hughes.
The Caley Thistle boss resolved his striker shortage this season by signing Miles Storey on loan, but the Englishman is likely to return to Swindon Town this summer.
"I want to bring that quality in the top end," said Hughes. "Someone has to sacrifice. Unfortunately, it might have to be David.
"I'm not saying it is. It might have to be one or two others for us to bring in that quality or finishing up the league."
Hughes believes the loss of key players over the last 18 months has significantly hampered his side and midfielders Danny Williams and James Vincent have already agreed pre-contracts to move to Dundee this close season.
"I would like to identify two or three players that the fans can identify with and gets them excited," added Hughes.
"Over the years, if I'm a supporter of Inverness, I've seen Billy Mckay go, Marley Watkins go, Graeme Shinnie go, Ryan Christie go.
"Real good footballers and I think it's affected us, especially in the final third. People that can unlock the door, score a goal.
"All my concentration and any money that's available, that's what I'm scouting. That top end that can win us games.
"We're playing to finish as high up the league as we can to hopefully try and get a little bit more finance."
Burgess, 27, was suspended for one game after pleading guilty to a tripping offence while playing for South Sydney in Australia's NRL last weekend.
He will serve the ban when England play France on 22 October but will be free for their opening Four Nations Series match with New Zealand a week later.
Burgess switched codes to play in last year's union World Cup but returned to league with South Sydney Rabbitohs.
He last played for England's rugby league side in the 2013 World Cup semi-final, when New Zealand scored a last-minute try to win at Wembley.
He has since played union for Bath and England.
The forward is certain to be included in Wayne Bennett's first squad, which will be announced after the Super League Grand Final on 8 October.
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The moves by the Greek authorities came after the European Central Bank decided not to extend emergency funding.
The FTSE 100 fell more than 2% in early trade, and by the close was still down 133.22 points, or 1.97%, at 6,620.48.
Even bigger falls were seen elsewhere in Europe, with Germany's Dax index down 3.56% and France's Cac 40 index dropping 3.74%.
On the currency markets, the euro recovered much of the falls against the dollar that it saw in Asia. At one point, it had fallen below $1.10, but it later came back to $1.1185.
The pound rose 0.05% against the euro to €1.4102 and gained 0.15% against the dollar to $1.5774.
Among individual stocks, shares in travel companies fell after last week's killing of 38 people on a beach near Sousse in Tunisia. Shares in TUI dropped 7.1% and Thomas Cook was 3.7% lower.
Shares in equipment hire company HSS dived 26.6% to 134p after it said its second quarter trading performance had been "marginally below expectations". HSS floated on the market in February, when its shares were priced at 210p.
The FTSE 100 closed down 172.87 points, or 2.8%, to 5,935.84.
Mining shares led the falls after commodity prices continued to weaken. Copper prices hit two-week lows and oil prices dropped after rising on Monday.
Among mining firms, Glencore sank more than 10% while Anglo American was down 6.7%.
Commodity prices have been hit by the slowdown in the Chinese economy, which is a huge importer of raw materials.
Investors are also waiting for a survey, due to be released on Wednesday, that will provide the latest snapshot of the health of China's manufacturing sector.
Oil prices also fell, reversing some of the gains seen on Monday. The price of Brent crude was down 64 cents at $48.28 a barrel, having dropped below $48 earlier.
"Until China demand and emerging market currencies find a floor, it will remain challenging to put an absolute floor on commodity prices," said analysts at Credit Suisse.
Big falls were also seen across other European markets, with Germany's Dax index down 3.8% and France's Cac 40 index dropping 3.4%.
Shares in carmakers saw the biggest falls, as the fallout continued from Volkswagen's rigging of US car emissions tests.
Shares in VW dived another 20%, while rivals BMW and Daimler were both down more than 5%. In France, shares in Renault dropped 7%.
Back in London, shares in the AA fell 13% after it said half-year revenues dipped 1.4% to £485m after income from its insurance business declined.
The AA also warned that the planned rise in insurance premium tax, due in November, was likely to affect trading in both its insurance and roadside assistance businesses.
Also in the FTSE 250, shares in Irn-Bru maker AG Barr fell 5.7% after it reported an 11.3% drop in half-year pre-tax profits to £16.9m, following "an extremely demanding six months".
The company said trading had been hit by increasing competition and by the recent poor weather, although it expects full-year profits to be "broadly" the same as last year.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.95% against the dollar to $1.536, and dropped 0.43% against the euro to €1.3793.
Adams, 46, whose appointment to the post was announced by Cricket Ireland on Wednesday, cited "family reasons" for his change of heart.
"I have children who are at important stages of their life and education and I realised that a move would cause major disruption," he added.
"I am very sorry to Cricket Ireland for the inconvenience."
The former Sussex and Derbyshire player, who has coached Sussex and Surrey and worked with Sri Lanka and the Netherlands, added: "I'd like to thank them for their complete understanding , sympathetic approach and wish them a very successful future."
In 2006, then Sussex skipper Adams agreed to join Yorkshire as captain on a four-year contract - then changed his mind two weeks later.
"Naturally we are disappointed with Chris' decision but understand his concern," said Richard Holdsworth, Cricket Ireland performance director.
"Moving a family to a new city and country is never an easy matter and he's obviously done some soul searching before making a difficult decision."
Kiunga is Kenya's final frontier and Superintendent Samuel Obara has one of the toughest jobs in the police force.
"Even the al-Shabab are now escaping from Somalia and trying to penetrate into Kenya," he says, standing on a strip of no-man's land between the two countries on the Indian Ocean coast.
When Kenya invaded Somalia two years ago, it took the fight to al-Shabab, the Islamist militant group with links to al-Qaeda, which still controls large areas of southern Somalia.
The invasion was supposed to make Kenya safer. And to some extent it has. Mr Obara waves his arm over the acres of coast and scrubland he and his men patrol that in the past, he points out, would come under attack.
But he admits his force is under-equipped and under-staffed.
"Porous the way the border is, I am sure people must be penetrating without our catching [them]."
Indeed, it was somewhere here, security officials believe, the four men believed to be responsible for the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi slipped across the border into Kenya.
Many of the details of the attack remain a mystery. But a picture is beginning to emerge of a bungled security operation and a frustrated Kenyan police force, funded by the West, lashing out at those they see as a threat.
On the day of the attack, there was chaos. It took the security forces 90 minutes to arrive at the scene, by which time many of the 67 people who lost their lives had already been killed.
But by mid-afternoon, teams from the Kenyan Paramilitary police (the GSU), appeared to have the attackers pinned down at the back of the building.
Until the army arrived. That, says former GSU officer George Musamali, is when things started to go wrong.
Westgate siege suspects refused bail
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Victims of attack
"Each unit was coming in with its own command. The operation was bungled," he says.
"The GSU was effectively handling the situation. But when the army came, everybody else was kicked out, and this is where the operation started going badly."
Forensic investigators say they have retrieved the remains of three or four individuals, which they believe belong to the bodies of the attackers. The remains are being tested but have yet to deliver a positive DNA match.
After the New York Police Department (NYPD) sent officers to Nairobi to assist in the investigation, it said it is possible some or all of the gunmen could have escaped.
Mr Musamali, who maintains close links with Kenya's police and intelligence services, says some of his former colleagues agree with the NYPD.
"They also believe the attackers might have left the building. The intelligence services are telling me they slipped out of Westgate and left the country," he says.
At the moment, it is unclear whether the attackers are alive or dead.
In the early hours of 4 October, less than two weeks after the Westgate attack, a radical preacher by the name of Ibrahim "Rogo" Omar was shot dead as he travelled in a car on the outskirts of Mombasa, Kenya's second city.
He has not been officially linked to Westgate but his followers believe he was killed by a branch of the Kenyan police known as the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU).
Officially, the Kenyan police deny any involvement in his killing but, speaking on condition of anonymity, a serving member of the Anti-Terror Police Unit said the ATPU was behind the shooting.
"The justice system in Kenya is not favourable to the work of the police," he said.
"So we opt to eliminate them. We identify you, we gun you down in front of your family, and we begin with the leaders."
Mr Omar's case appears in a report by the Kenyan non-governmental organisation Muslims for Human Rights, detailing dozens of instances of extra-judicial killings, disappearances, torture and rendition allegedly carried out by the ATPU, which receives funding and training from the United States and the UK.
"They want to impress the British, they want to impress the Americans, because they are getting funding," says Francis Auma, who compiled the report.
The ATPU did not respond to BBC requests for an interview. In a statement, the UK Foreign Office said it took allegations of human rights abuse very seriously.
It added: "The UK has significant interests in Kenya. We consider that there is a threat to these interests, as demonstrated by the recent attack on the Westgate shopping centre, and to the UK mainland - primarily from foreign fighters in the East Africa region - a significant number of whom have UK links.
"We are working with the authorities to tackle this threat and to support the rule of law in Kenya."
Mr Musamali says many involved in counter-terrorism in Kenya feel that the country's legal system is hampering their efforts.
"If police are involved in this, I believe it is out of frustration.
"They have specific facts and probably they know this person is involved in terrorism. But you take him to court and tomorrow he is out on bond, doing the same things."
Few doubt that Kenya has a problem with radicalisation.
Muslim cleric Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, who is known more commonly as Makaburi and appears on UN and US sanctions lists accused of recruiting young Kenyan Muslims for violent militant activity in Somalia - a charge he denies, says Kenyan security services are systematically targeting those they perceive as a threat.
"They are pre-empting attacks by killing anybody who has the potential to do an attack or who they think has the potential to instigate an attack."
But are the security services targeting the right people?
"Maybe yes but mostly no," Makaburi thinks.
"I know they are going to kill me. But I do not fear for my safety. I am a true Muslim. I believe that my life and death is in the hands of Allah."
And police efforts to combat radicalisation appear to be having the opposite effect in a run-down part of Nairobi known as Majengo.
"They are killing us," one young man told me, who along with others complained that anyone of Somali origin or of the Muslim faith was suspected of being a member of al-Shabab. All denied knowing anyone who had joined the militant group.
"But there is no problem if they join al-Shabab or al-Qaeda," said Ahmed Abdurahman, a 20-year-old student, adding that it was a way of providing money for their families if they were unemployed.
Coursera, with 17 million registered students and free online courses from 140 universities, wants to be part of India's drive to expand access to higher education.
This Californian company is one of the trailblazers of the so-called Moocs (massive open online courses) which run courses for students studying at home, but usually without accredited degrees.
At present only about 12% of young people in India get university places - and Rick Levin, Coursera's chief executive officer, says there are an "awful lot of talented people" who "don't make the cut".
What makes this an even bigger opportunity for online providers is that the Indian government has a target to increase university enrolment by 30% by 2030.
Dr Levin says this is "hugely ambitious" and then qualifies it further as "frankly almost impossible" if such an expansion were to depend on building new bricks and mortar universities.
It would mean establishing "literally a couple of thousand universities" as well as expanding the existing institutions, he says.
Instead Dr Levin, a former president of Yale University, believes it will be online courses that will fill the gap and widen access to university for India's ambitious youngsters.
Coursera already has 1.3 million students in India, the biggest concentration of online students outside the US and China.
Dr Levin says that the 10 most popular courses for these online students are all related to information technology or data science.
And India's burgeoning software industry will mean a growing demand for skilled workers.
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At the moment he says India's higher education system, with its elite, highly-selective institutions, does not have the capacity to meet the aspirations of a young and talented generation.
"The economic opportunity is great and there are an awful lot of bright people who don't get the benefit of an education their potential deserves," he says.
Coursera offers free online courses from universities including Yale, Stanford, Columbia and Edinburgh.
But they do not lead to an external exam or an accredited degree.
And the long-anticipated next step has been when such universities will use the Mooc model to offer fully-fledged online degrees.
Dr Levin says this is the longer-term direction of travel.
But more immediately, particularly in places such as India, he says the most valuable kind of recognition is from employers, when they accept online Mooc courses as relevant for job applications.
"That's a hurdle that doesn't require accreditation, it's a marketplace recognition. That's going to move faster than any accreditation process, it's market driven not bureaucratic."
When Moocs first appeared a few years ago they were hailed as a revolution in higher education, promising the kind of impact the internet had brought to retail and entertainment.
Dr Levin says that as an economist he recognised the "cycle of hype" surrounding Moocs.
Likening it to the current interest in self-driving cars, he says there were exaggerated expectations that they would "change the world immediately".
But he says it should not have been a surprise to anyone that "500-year-old institutions didn't just roll over and die".
"What's really happening is something socially valuable - we're closing the skills gap, giving people an opportunity."
Coursera will have plenty of competition to attract India's students.
Traditional campus-based universities in the US have been attracting rapidly rising numbers of Indian students, up by almost 30% last year and second only to China.
This is a tough market and figures for UK universities last week showed the fourth consecutive annual fall in students coming from India, with less than half the number of students compared with 2010-11.
But the UK's distance learning university, the Open University, has ambitions to increase its reach in India.
The approach is not to offer courses directly, but to work with local institutions and support courses accredited by Indian universities.
"They will deliver their own local qualifications," but with content and online teaching resources provided by the Open University, says director of external engagement Steve Hill.
"It would be wrong for a foreign university to say we're here to solve your problems, we're going to set up a campus and we're going to offer our qualifications," he adds.
This approach of working with local partners has reached 200,000 students in China, says Mr Hill and the Open University hopes to reach similar numbers in India.
Mr Hill also sees distance learning as a practical way for India to reach its target for another 14 million university places in less than 15 years.
The Indian higher education sector could not realistically expand that quickly in terms of traditional universities, he says.
And even if overseas universities were allowed to open campuses in India, it would be a risky financial model and would be limited in how many students could be reached.
"The only way it is going to reach its target is online. India has to embrace distance learning," says Mr Hill.
At present, India has 3.5 million students on distance learning degrees and the OU chief executive argues that this is going to have to increase significantly.
A recent report from the British Council forecast that by 2025 India will have the biggest student-age population in the world. It means a decade of even more intense competition from international universities for a share of this expanding market.
James Richardson's body was found near Forteviot on 12 July.
The Police Investigation and Review Commissioner (Pirc) has launched an inquiry.
Its investigation will focus on the initial police response following a report of concern made about the 29-year-old's welfare.
Mr Richardson, who was from Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, was last seen getting off a bus which left T in the Park on 11 July.
Police said last week that his death was not suspicious.
Officers have carried out searches on the side of the A9 dual carriageway between Auchterarder and Perth as part of the investigation.
A section of the northbound carriageway on the Cairney Braes, between the Dunning and Forteviot junctions, was shut on Monday night.
Police vehicles were parked at the end of the coned-off section as officers scoured undergrowth at the side of the road.
A Tayside Division spokeswoman said: "Police Scotland acknowledges the Pirc investigation into the initial police response following a report of concern made about James Richardson's welfare in the Forteviot area of Perthshire.
"We will co-operate fully with the investigation and will address any recommendations which may be made."
The FAW 4 Gloster Javelin was built in the county in 1956, and has spent more than two decades at the gates of RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire.
The Jet Age Museum at Staverton bought it from the Ministry of Defence for an undisclosed sum last December.
The aeroplane, which has no engine and is not airworthy, will now be restored.
It spent much of its operational life as a test and trials aircraft at the GAC (Gloster Aircraft Company) in Hucclecote, which built planes using jet engines designed by British engineer Sir Frank Whittle.
More than 250,000 people have visited the museum, one of whose patrons is Sir Frank's son Ian, since it reopened in August 2013.
He leapt out of a car driving on Main Street in Dickens Heath, Solihull, after a group outside The Chalice shouted at the driver to slow down.
The victim, who managed to throw water on his face from a nearby dog bowl, was unhurt. The car drove off.
It comes after a spate of acid attacks in London over the past few weeks.
A separate man, thought to be the driver of the vehicle, has since been arrested and charged with a public order offence, West Midlands Police said. He is due before magistrates on 16 August.
A bottle containing a clear liquid was also recovered.
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Officers are appealing to identify the man captured on CCTV squirting the liquid from the bottle outside the pub on Tuesday.
The victim, whose eyes were protected by glasses, did not suffer any burning sensation.
PC Dave Spencer said: "Given the recent spate of acid attacks in London this was a hugely irresponsible act and very scary for the victim.
"The attacker shouted 'I've got acid' but we believe it was actually an ammonia-based cleaning fluid."
Anyone with information is urged to contact the force.
Working with Denbighshire council, newly-trained lifeguards will patrol Rhyl and Prestatyn beaches daily between 10:00 and 18:00 BST.
RNLI lifeguards assisted more than 900 people on 32 Welsh beaches in 2015, and the charity has extended its safety service to 39 beaches this year.
They include four in Bridgend, as well as working with the National Trust on Three Cliffs Bay in Swansea.
Peter Rooney, north Wales lifeguard manager said: "The RNLI lifeguards have now all completed their training and are looking forward for the start of the new safety service."
Ghaly is not in Egypt coach Hector Cuper's squad for June's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tanzania.
The omission of the Ahly captain follows reports of an argument with assistant coach Osama Nabeh in March.
"The problem between Osama Nabeh and Hossam Ghaly has ended," Taher said.
"I held a meeting with Hany Abo Rida - the general supervisor of the Egyptian National team - and we resolved things.
"The meeting was meant to include Ghaly and Nabeh but the player is preparing for a league match on Wednesday.
"Ghaly is one of the most important players in Egypt now and I'm sure he will back in the national team soon."
The 34-year-old, who played for Tottenham Hotspur in England and also had spells in Belgium and Netherlands, has played more than 70 times for Egypt.
The Pharaohs will face Tanzania in Dar es Salaam on 4 June needing just a draw to seal qualification for next year's Nations Cup finals in Gabon.
Cuper has recalled Zamalek's Mohamed Ibrahim and Al Ahly duo Ahmed Fathy and Hossam Ashour.
The Pharaohs are due to begin their training camp on Thursday and were due to play a friendly against DR Congo on 29 May, but that game has since been cancelled.
Egypt Squad:
Goalkeepers: Essam El-Hadary (Wadi Degla), Sherif Ekrami (Al Ahly), Ahmed El-Shennawy (Zamalek)
Defenders: Ahmed Fathy (Al Ahly), Mohamed Abdel-Shafy (Al Ahly Saudi, Saudi Arabia), Hazem Emam (Zamalek), Ahmed Hegazy (Al Ahly), Rami Rabia (Al Ahly), Sabry Rahil (Al Ahly), Ali Gabr (Zamalek), Ayman Ashraf (Smouha), Hamada Tolba (Zamalek), Karim Hafez (AC Omonia, Cyprus)
Midfielders: Abdullah El-Said (Al Ahly), Hossam Ashour (Al Ahly), Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal, England), Mohamed Salah (Roma, Italy), Mohamed Ibrahim (Zamalek), Tarek Hamed (Zamalek), Mohamed 'Trezeguet' Hassan (Anderlecht, Belgium), Moemen Zakareya (Al Ahly) and Amr Warda (Panetolikos, Greece)
Strikers: Marwan Mohsen (Ismaily), Ahmed 'Koka' Hassan (Sporting Braga, Portugla), Amr Gamal (Al Ahly)
The Directors UK report, which looked at 55,000 episodes across 546 shows in 2013, found that BAME directors were "critically under-represented".
Diversity Chair Menhaj Huda said the report showed working in television "is inaccessible for far too many".
"There is a failure to provide any kind of support for BAME talent," he added.
Directors UK represents more than 6,000 British screen directors. The group campaigns for the rights, working conditions and status of directors in the industry.
Statistics show BAME directors make up 3.5% of the directing community, despite 14% of the UK population coming from BAME backgrounds.
The report - Adjusting the Colour Balance - focused on the number of BAME directors employed in the five key genres of UK television: factual, drama, children's, comedy and multi-camera/entertainment.
'Equal opportunities'
Research was based on a large sample of the most popular and significant programmes made in-house at the BBC and ITV, and by the top nine independent production companies.
Statistics revealed that just 0.18% among the most popular comedy shows broadcast in 2013 were made by BAME directors - where 99.82% of directors were white. The highest figure was in factual, where just 2.46% of programmes were made by BAME directors.
Further analysis at sub-genre level found there were areas such as period drama and game shows where there was no evidence of BAME directors being employed.
"Everyone, at every level across all genres, has a significant role to play to ensure that all directors have equal opportunities," said Andrew Chowns, CEO of Directors UK.
"Our report reaffirms the need for broadcasters, as industry leaders, to work together with us and the wider industry to create new opportunities for progression and change."
Predominantly white
Many BAME directors reported that, in comparison to their white peers, their careers often took significantly longer to progress and that access to employment opportunities were far more limited .
Directors UK carried out a number of in-depth interviews with BAME members of the industry to better understand what lies behind the issues and how to tackle them.
The feedback suggested there was a widely-held perception that television production in Britain was a predominantly white industry.
A high proportion of BAME directors interviewed were given their first break into television through the publicly-funded broadcasters BBC and Channel 4.
"We are talking about British directors from BAME backgrounds whose experiences growing up in this country offer a different take on story-telling, a different perspective, but a voice that is valid which is effectively being shut out," said Menhaj Huda.
"It's great that the industry is talking about the issue of diversity but discussion does not equal action."
Mr Obama said the situation on Mount Sinjar had greatly improved.
Many of those displaced had now left the mountain and further rescue operations were not envisaged, he said.
However, Mr Obama said the US would continue air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) rebel group.
Iraqi and Kurdish forces who were fighting IS would also continue to receive US military assistance, Mr Obama said.
The jihadist militants, formerly known as Isis, seized a large band of territory across northern Iraq and Syria this summer.
The United Nations estimates that 1.2 million Iraqis have been internally displaced by the latest violence.
Speaking in the US, the president re-emphasised the need for Iraqis to find a political solution to the crisis, describing the prospect of a new and inclusive government, led by Haider al-Abadi, as an "enormous opportunity".
"He still has a challenging task in putting a government together, but we are modestly hopeful that the... situation is moving in the right direction," Mr Obama said.
Mr Abadi, a deputy speaker of parliament, has been asked by the Iraqi president to form a new government.
Current Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, whose coalition won the most seats in April's election, had vowed to contest the move in court, describing it as a violation of the constitution.
However, reports coming out of Baghdad on Thursday evening, and attributed to MPs, said Mr Maliki was to address the nation, announcing he would stand aside in favour of Mr Abadi.
Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Mr Maliki had no choice but to "accept the wishes of the majority of Iraqis".
Mr Zebari, who served under the prime minister until last month, also dismissed fears that Iraq could fall apart, saying the Kurdish leadership had "decided to be part of the new government".
Iraq's military response to a rapid advance by IS has been hampered by political chaos in Baghdad.
On 29 June, the militant group said it had created a caliphate, or Islamic state, stretching from Aleppo in Syria to the province of Diyala in Iraq.
It has declared Iraq a "Level 3 Emergency", its highest ranking of a crisis. The move should enable more resources to be directed in support of humanitarian efforts.
The UN had earlier estimated that tens of thousands of people, mostly from the Christian and Yazidi religious minorities, were besieged on the mountain after being forced to flee their homes.
But US forces sent to Mt Sinjar found fewer people than expected - partly because thousands had left the mountain each night over the past days.
Kurdish officials told the BBC's Frank Gardner that some 150,000 refugees had ended up in the northern city of Dohuk, where the local population was struggling to feed them.
Hamad, a Yazidi who managed to escape with his family, told the BBC that his mother had died during the long journey to Dohuk.
"There was no food. We were exhausted after a lot of walking and climbing high, steep roads," he said, adding that his mother eventually said she could go no further.
"We refused to leave without her. After a few hours of thirst, hunger and exhaustion, she fell and passed away."
Naz Shah, a women's rights campaigner, will stand for the party in May's General Election.
The seat is held by the Respect Party's George Galloway, who took it from Labour in a by-election in 2012.
Ms Ali, from London, stood down less than a week after being selected citing "massive disruption" to family life.
Speaking after her resignation, Ms Ali said: "I am the mother of two children and, despite my best efforts to make arrangements to bring them to Bradford for the next 70 days, particularly as one of them is doing her GCSEs, this would have caused massive disruption at a critical time."
Mr Galloway claimed the "real reason" for her withdrawal was the the "war inside Bradford West Labour Party".
In a statement following the announcement of her selection, Ms Shah said: "I'm proud to have been chosen as the Labour Party's candidate for the seat in which I was born and am proud to call home.
"I am someone with a track record of campaigning and working for grass roots change and promise that if elected I will be a visible presence for Bradford West constituents and a stark alternative to divisive figure George Galloway."
According to the Labour Party, Ms Shah is the chair of mental health charity Sharing Voices Bradford.
She previously worked as a carer for children and adults with disabilities and spent time as a NHS Commissioner and director of a regional leadership programme for local government.
During the committee stage of the Referendum Bill, Foreign Office Minister David Lidington said the amendment did "not make sense."
The Conservative politician said it was about the UK's membership so it should be about all of the UK taking a view.
The UK government will hold an in/out referendum before the end of 2017.
The SNP's foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond, moved the amendment on the so-called "quadruple lock" .
He said: "In America, 14 states can block a constitutional amendment, even if they comprise only 5% of the population.
"Even the prime minister, and many of his MPs, would concede Scotland is a nation. The United Kingdom is a multi-national state."
Mr Salmond added that the matter was about more than a "simple majority across the UK" and the outcome needed to be respectful of the results in the "component nations".
However, Mr Lidington rejected Mr Salmond's argument.
Meanwhile, ministers have confirmed that the poll would not be held on 5 May 2016, the same day as elections to devolved parliaments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
They will also amend planned changes to "purdah" rules, which limit government announcements in the run-up to polls.
Ministers said voters must be assured the referendum would be a "fair fight".
David Cameron is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum. Here is some further reading on what it all means:
Q&A: The UK's planned EU referendum
UK and the EU: Better off out or in?
What Britain wants from Europe
Timeline: EU referendum debate
They had been set to walk out in a row over pay with Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board (ABMU).
Unison said the suspended strike would "allow for consideration of the board's latest offer."
The health board has been asked to comment.
About 80 staff staged a 24-hour walk-out on 25 January. Another strike due to take place on 1 February was halted.
Unison have said affected members wanted "pay parity" with colleagues doing the same job in other hospitals in Wales.
Cafodd Heddlu Gogledd Cymru eu galw am 02:30 fore Sadwrn i Ffordd Coetir Orllewinol yn y dref.
Yn dilyn y digwyddiad cafodd un dyn lleol 23 oed ei gludo i Ysbyty Glan Clwyd ag anafiadau difrifol.
Mae bellach wedi ei drosglwyddo i ysbyty yn Stoke, ac mewn cyflwr sefydlog.
Dywedodd yr heddlu fod Cody Allen, 18 oed o Gyffordd Llandudno, a Kyle Mark Rochell, 27 oed o ardal Mochdre, wedi eu cyhuddo o ymgais i lofruddio, a bod ag arf bygythiol mewn man cyhoeddus.
Bydd y ddau yn ymddangos o flaen Llys Ynadon Llandudno ddydd Llun.
"Hoffwn ddiolch i aelodau'r gymuned sydd wedi ein cynorthwyo ni hyd yn hyn, ac rydym yn parhau i apelio ar unrhyw un all fod â gwybodaeth am y digwyddiad i gysylltu â ni ar 101," meddai'r Ditectif Arolygydd Jackie Downes.
Leia McCorrisken, aged three, and her two-year-old brother Seth died in Wednesday's incident at Loch nan Druimnean in Argyll.
Iain MacKinnon, a volunteer with Oban Coastguard, said the car was submerged in deep water.
He said it was the saddest incident in his 30 years as a volunteer.
Following the crash, a 36-year-old woman who had been driving the car was understood to have been helped to shore by passers-by.
Members of the public also went into the loch, north of the village of Kilmelford, in an bid to rescue the children.
One passer-by on the A816 Oban to Lochgilphead road where the incident happened told the Press & Journal newspaper he was one of the first on the scene following the crash.
Painter and decorator Jimmy McMahon, 24, from Lochgilphead, told the newspaper: "We arrived about 10 minutes after the car had hit the water.
"I tried my best to get to the car underwater but the car was far too deep down and the water was too murky."
Firefighters arriving at the scene also tried to reach the car, followed by members of Oban Coastguard who dived down to the vehicle.
Mr MacKinnon told BBC Scotland: "There were already huge efforts to get to the car when we arrived.
"The car was in very deep water. It was submerged and it couldn't be seen from the surface.
"The guys did their best to dive down to it.
"The water is very dark because there is a lot of peat in the area. The loch is also very cold, even in summertime the temperatures are about six or seven degrees.
"Passing motorists had also tried to get to the car as well as and those efforts can only be described as heroic."
Mr MacKinnon said some of the 12-strong coastguard team at the scene were among those who scoured the shore in the hope the children had escaped from the car.
Two coastguard helicopters and an air ambulance were also involved in the searches.
Mr MacKinnon said the thoughts of everyone involved in the rescue attempts were with the children's family.
He said: "I've been a volunteer coastguard for 30 years and this was the saddest incident I've ever been involved with. It is something you hoped never to have to experience."
The team of Amy Tinkler, Ruby Harrold, Ellie Downie, Becky Downie, Claudia Fragapane and Kelly Simm finished third - behind the US and Russia but ahead of China - with eight places at the Rio Olympics in Brazil up for grabs.
"We are incredibly proud," Becky Downie said of their achievement.
"Coming in to this championships all our focus was on producing the best team results we could and to have placed third is very special."
As well as claiming the team final place, several GB gymnasts have booked places in individual finals.
15-year-old Tinkler will go in Thursday's all-around final on her senior World Championships debut along with Harrold, who will also take part in uneven bars.
Ellie Downie will challenge on vault and floor, where she will be joined by Fragapane.
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The two Pixel handsets are the first mobiles to trigger Google Assistant by holding down their home buttons, somewhat like Apple's Siri.
The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones asked the Pixel project manager James Nugent why people would want to talk to their devices.
Somerset resumed day two on 30-3 but lost James Hildreth and Jim Allenby cheaply as they fell in successive balls to seamer Graham Onions.
Having been reduced to 85-7, Peter Trego then hit 45 to help them limp to 179 all out, a deficit of 77.
Jennings' ton came off 163 balls, including 15 fours, as Durham closed on 223-5, with a healthy lead of 300 runs.
The second morning belonged to former England bowler Onions, who made the breakthrough by having Hildreth caught at third slip by Ryan Pringle before Allenby missed a straight ball and fell lbw.
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Roelof van der Merwe became the 33-year-old's fourth victim of the innings when he was caught behind, before a calamitous mix-up in the middle saw new Somerset captain Chris Rogers run out for 23 off the following ball.
Trego's rapid innings included five boundaries but pace bowler Brydon Carse claimed his maiden first-class wickets, including a catch return of wicketkeeper Ryan Davies, to mop up the away side's tail.
In the afternoon sun, the hosts then raced to 50 without loss off just seven overs, as Mark Stoneman hit a run-a-ball 41 before picking out Marcus Trescothick at short midwicket in Van Der Merwe's first over.
Jennings reached his century by dispatching Van der Merwe over the top to the boundary, becoming just the third Durham player (after Dean Jones and Paul Collingwood) to score tons in both innings of a first-class match.
The Bannsiders earned five straight wins in January including Premiership victories over Linfield, Portadown, Ballinamallard United and Ards.
Coleraine have since extended their winning run to seven straight games.
That was a major turnaround in fortunes after a six-game run without a victory prior to the New Year.
"I'm absolutely delighted following a disappointing December to be in this position," said Kearney.
The Bannsiders have reached the last eight of the Irish Cup, where they will face local rivals Ballymena United.
Some passengers were not treated with "dignity and respect" with waits of one to two hours to get off planes, the Civil Aviation Authority said.
Manchester, East Midlands and Exeter airports also received the low rating, but 26 airports were given a good or very good rating.
Heathrow said it was addressing the issues raised in the report.
The CAA highlighted a survey of about 1,200 passengers requiring assistance at Heathrow, where 62% rated the service poor or very poor.
The regulator said: "There have been instances of unacceptable levels of customer service where passengers' needs have not been met and, in some instances, where passengers have not been treated with dignity and respect.
"Substantive issues still exist with the quality of the assistance service provided at Heathrow."
The regulator admitted Heathrow, the UK's largest airport, had "certain challenges" like long walking distances.
But journeys for passengers with mobility issues would often take "significantly longer", and the airport's contractor Omniserv "encouraged passengers to make their own way through the airport because of a lack of staff or equipment".
Waits of up to two hours for help when getting off flights were recorded on a number of occasions, the CAA said.
The report acknowledged that management at Heathrow, alongside Omniserv, are implementing an improvement plan to reduce waiting time and service quality issues.
A spokeswoman for Omniserv said the company is "investing significant sums in staff training" and will "continue evaluating our performance... to provide the best service to all of Heathrow's passengers".
Heathrow said it was "extremely disappointed" by the CAA's findings and apologised to customers affected.
A spokesman added: "[The findings of the report] are not acceptable and fall short of the experience Heathrow aims to provide its passengers.
"Addressing the issues raised in this report is a priority for us. We apologise to those who have been affected and are taking action."
The CAA said the other airports rated poor - East Midlands, Manchester and Exeter - had not consulted disability organisations, or set up focus groups to receive feedback from service users.
East Midlands Airport also experienced "unacceptably long waiting times", according to the report.
Last year a wheelchair user was left stranded at the airport because staff had "forgotten about him".
Paddy Costello, 62, was supposed to be getting a Ryanair flight to Ireland, but his flight left without him.
At the time an airport spokesman said: "As soon as we were made aware of the situation, we reacted quickly by aiding the passengers in re-booking flights and offering an overnight stay in a premium hotel on site."
Although four airports were rated poor, the aviation regulator was encouraged to see a 66% increase in the number of travellers requiring assistance since 2010.
In 2016 three million passengers with mobility issues flew through British airports and CAA consumers director Richard Moriarty said: "UK aviation should be proud that it continues to serve a rapid increase in the number of passengers with a disability."
Birmingham, Glasgow and Glasgow Prestwick, Humberside, Inverness and Norwich airports were all rated very good.
The report said: "Norwich, in particular, has created excellent partnerships with local disability organisations, especially those representing people with 'hidden disabilities'."
The airports rated good were: Aberdeen, Belfast City, Belfast International, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, City of Derry, Doncaster Sheffield, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, London City, Gatwick, Luton, Southend, Stansted, Newcastle, Newquay, Southampton and Sumburgh.
In an exclusive interview with BBC Wales, Vincent Tan says he will spend up to £25m on new players if City makes it to the Premier League, and defended the controversial re-brand which saw the shirt colours change from blue to red.
I travelled to Kuala Lumpur where I was given behind the scenes access to one of the richest men in Malaysia.
Tan made his first break when he introduced McDonald's to Malaysia in the 1980s.
A few years later he bought the country's main lottery, which remains the cash cow of his diverse business empire.
His group, which is called Berjaya, also has interests in insurance, pharmacy and property.
One of its projects is building what it claims will be the world's largest indoor shopping centre on the outskirts of Beijing called the Great Mall of China.
His investments in Cardiff have come from his private wealth.
He first put in £6m at the club after being asked by his friend Dato Chan Tien Ghee, the current chairman of Cardiff City, around three years ago.
Initially he was in the background as an investor but after loaning the club more than £30m, he decided to play a far more active role when he saw Cardiff lose in the Championship play-offs at the end of last season.
His first move was to carry out the controversial re-brand in an attempt to gain popularity in Asia.
He said: "You look at Man United and Liverpool and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.
"In Asia, red is the colour of joy, red is the colour of festivities and of celebration.
"In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.
"Of course it is not easy to compete with Man United or even Liverpool because they have a big fan base and they have been around so long and have won so many trophies. So far it looks tough but not impossible.
"So I would like to tell the fans we are doing a good job so give us all the support and have faith that we will do the right thing.
"Why would I want to do stupid things and put in, maybe by the end of the season, £70m in loans and investments into Cardiff and do stupid things? Do I look stupid? No.
"We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League."
He has not ruled out carrying out further re-brands if the club, which is currently top of the Championship, is promoted to the Premier League, but he says he has not discussed it at any length.
He also spoke openly about the possibility of renaming the Cardiff City Stadium, with the name Malaysia being added or the name of a major Asian sponsor.
But the naming rights of the stadium are wrapped up in an historic debt of £19m owed to a company called Langston which is connected to the former chairman Sam Hammam.
The club's last set of accounts show it has debts of £83m. Much of that is owed to Vincent Tan which he says he will convert to shares but will only do so once the Langston debt is dealt with.
He says he will offer the former chairman a combination of shares and money to pay off the debt and will even offer him a place on the board.
He said: "If Sam Hammam loves Cardiff City like he claims he does, he should come and sit down and convert his debt into equity to show his commitment.
"I think it's too sensitive to talk about the details but the principle is we'd like Sam Hammam to come and resolve this, and this is for the good of Cardiff.
"After all, if I had not come along and put in money, Sam Hammam would have had nothing and the club would have gone into administration.
"If I was Sam Hammam I would be grateful to someone who has put in so much money."
Tan says he has caught the football bug and often travels to the UK in his private jet to watch matches.
He says he has a good relationship with the manager Malky Mackay and enjoys going into the dressing room to speak to the players, particularly Craig Bellamy.
His son Robin and a number of his senior managers told me they all questioned his decision to buy into a football club, but say when he makes investments he usually does so for the long term.
Tan said: "If the fans welcome me and everybody welcomes me, I can stay a long time, but if I find they are not welcoming and are rude then I may find a new buyer and go off.
"But I want to say this, if I have to leave then I will leave it in good shape."
The 13-year-old is the youngest person on this year's list, which gives out special awards to people for achievements like making a difference to their community, being a volunteer for many years or being amazing at what they do for a job.
Jonjo Heuerman, from Dartford, England, has raised more than £235,000 for Cancer Research UK's Bobby Moore Fund.
"It was a big surprise, because I never thought I could get something like this at this age," Jonjo said.
"It made me feel quite proud of myself because I've worked really hard over the last five years."
Jonjo will receive his award, which is special medal, from the Queen or other members of the Royal Family at a ceremony later in 2016.
He added: "In 2009 my Nan died from bowel cancer - she had been fighting it for a very long time.
"My football hero Bobby Moore also died from it about 20 years ago, and I decided to fundraise for the Bobby Moore Fund."
The teenager has walked and cycled thousands of miles across Britain since the death of his grandmother Lyn.
Jonjo said the hardest challenge had been in February when he undertook a 700-mile cycle ride, visiting all of the Premier League football clubs in England.
He then returned to London and walked to all of the capital's Premier League clubs.
"I'm in training for the next one which is in April. I'm going to be cycling and walking from Germany all the way to the UK," Jonjo said.
Jonjo is one of nearly 1,200 people who have been named on the New Year Honours list.
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They are also seeking a 13th straight win since Eddie Jones took charge, and an unbeaten 2016.
In his final column for BBC Sport as he enters the final stages of his rehabilitation after long-term injury, England flanker James Haskell looks at the talking points.
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England have had some of their best games against Australia over the years and some nail-biting wins.
I think back to that last-gasp winner from Dan Luger in 2000, when he got on the end of Iain Balshaw's chip to score the winning try after eight minutes of injury time - it doesn't get much more dramatic than that.
Australia are a highly skilled team but they also bring plenty of physicality, as we experienced on tour this summer.
We may have won all three games but after we had the physical edge in the first Test, they were very abrasive in the next two matches - there were plenty of flare-ups.
They have some great individual players.
Israel Folau is one of the best athletes you will ever see. I look at him and wish I had some of his genes so I could do some of the things he does - he's got great pace, sublime handling skills and is such a graceful runner.
Folau is one of a number of rugby league players who have made an impact with the Wallabies over the past decade.
I like rugby league and when I was playing Super Rugby and living down south I watched Australia's National Rugby League (NRL), and everyone loves State of Origin.
I was always struck by how impressive the skill levels of players like Benji Marshall, Shaun Johnson and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck are.
You get more time and space in rugby league to produce those skills and I think it makes a difference when you grow up playing league, because you get the chance to learn and execute them as you have that little bit more time on the ball.
I talked to Sam Burgess when he was playing union and he explained the work-rate involved, because they're making 30 tackles and 20 to 30 carries, and because there's more time and space it's such a different game to union.
I think he found it frustrating that union defences are so well drilled, and there is so little space. You also just don't get the same number of carries as you do in league.
I would love to have gone over there and played in the NRL - if they decided I was up to it - and I always asked Sam Burgess if [South Sydney Rabbitohs co-owner] Russell Crowe was interested in signing me. I'm still waiting for the call back. I am sure it will be any day now…
Since the game went professional I am kind of surprised so few people have gone over from union to give the NRL a go as it's an attractive game and so big in Australia.
I guess that for the level of player likely to give it a go, it would mean giving up international rugby union, and that's always going to be the biggest stage in the game.
I am sure someone will make the transition at some point. Sadly it's too late for me. I am trying to learn to play union again, let alone learn to play another game.
My Wasps colleague Nathan Hughes gets his first England start on Saturday, in place of the injured Billy Vunipola at number eight.
They are different players in a number of ways, but both are known for their supreme carrying power.
Billy has quickly become a world-class number eight and although Nathan is right up there on his day, it's a lot to expect him to be thrown into Test rugby and immediately hit those heights.
The public and media always clamour for players to get immediate exposure at international level, but they never appreciate that it's such a tough step up, and takes most mortal players time to adjust, although there are exceptions of course.
I love the way Nathan plays, he tramples over opposition defenders seemingly at will and carries the ball in one hand like it's a loaf of bread.
The other change sees Marland Yarde hold off the challenge of Semesa Rokoduguni to replace the suspended Elliot Daly on the wing.
I am told there's been a lot of debate among fans as to which of the two players they want to see starting on Saturday.
Having worked on TV for the past few weeks, I have been able to watch closely how England and other teams have been playing. Sadly fans only see the tries and big hits. They don't see the little details, the mistakes and positives that actually decide whether players get selected or not.
All I can say is I wouldn't like to be defending against either of them, one on one, in a few metres of space…
Equalling England's all-time winning run of 14 games on Saturday would be a huge achievement but it won't have been talked about much by the players.
They will be worrying about their performance and will leave it up to the media to hype it up.
This week, World Cup-winning England captain Martin Johnson was complimentary about the current team and it's great that someone of his stature would come out and say that.
It's very difficult to compare the two sides because they were world champions for a reason.
They had world-class players like Johnno, Jonny Wilkinson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Matt Dawson, they were winning for a long time and they were very consistent - it is something the current team can aspire to and use as motivation.
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The 'mind games' between rival coaches Eddie Jones and Michael Cheika are not something the players take much notice of.
With the media stuff it's something you hear third-hand when you're having a coffee and someone might mention it.
But as for what they've been saying, all professional sportspeople try to steal a march on their opponents.
When it comes to scrums I joke about just putting my head down and pushing but there's a lot that goes into it, and a lot of it is about countering what the other side are doing.
I've been on the side of scrums when the opposition prop hinges from the hips, it looks like my prop's dropped it, and we get penalised.
If the coach can bring the referee's attention to something like that then they'll look at it more closely - they're only human.
It can be counterproductive though, as they might focus on things you'd rather they didn't.
Scrums will always be a contentious area, and as I have said before props like to make it sound more complicated than it is.
It's like they are all part of a secret society like the Magic Circle, where they all meet up and agree to make it really tricky for outsiders to understand, so they can continue to be some of the highest-paid players in the world.
I have tried to get into the club, but I don't have 18in studs or understand what boring in means.
Saturday is going to be a hard-fought game - they always are with Australia.
The set-piece battle - the scrum and the line-out - is going to be closely contested, as is the driving game from the pack, while there will be plenty of physicality in defence.
Last week, England shut down the Argentina attack when they tried to go wide and that is a good sign because in the first Test in the summer, in Brisbane, when Australia went 'wide wide' they found us out on the edges.
That happens for a number of reasons.
Firstly people over-commit to the breakdown, which leaves you men down in the defensive line.
People not filling the space quickly enough is also an issue, as is not getting enough line speed as you come up to defend and close down their space.
Then there's the class of the Wallaby attack. They often pass to a back very deep and that gives them a lot of space to attack, and you a lot of space to defend, so you've got to push up and close them down.
You will also see guys getting off the floor as quickly as they can to get back in the game.
Given the threat of the Australian backs, England will have focused on defending out wide and will have identified the threats, so hopefully we won't see them getting round the outside again.
We won the second Test in the summer because of a massive defensive performance.
Games like that, when you are defending for so much of the time, feel different to regular games.
It's a mixture of confidence, because you are going so well defensively, and nervousness because you can make 50 tackles but if you miss one they can be right back in the game. You feel both calm and anxious at the same time.
It's important when you don't have the ball to celebrate every little win, whether that is a big hit, turnover or smart bit of play. Maro Itoje is the king of that, at one point he whooped so hard he was shaking.
I expect Saturday's game to be more like the third June Test, which was much more open.
It will start with real intensity but then we should see both teams looking to attack.
Australia's back row, with Michael Hooper and David Pocock dovetailing so well, is very dangerous and they can cause opponents lots of problems.
For me, they are still the most dangerous pairing out there. You deal with one, and the other pops up causing trouble.
It is interesting to see Nick Phipps at scrum-half - he is a very fiery character on the pitch.
He has a speedy service and the quality of his delivery to Bernard Foley - who is a very good 10 on his day but produced a mixed bag in the summer - will be a big factor in how Australia perform.
The England boys will want to put pressure on them, because they are heartbeat of the Wallaby team, and make their lives a living hell.
They will need to feel that every time they look up they have a Tom Wood, George Kruis or Nathan Hughes breathing down their necks
England will win, but I'm not one for making score predictions. The BBC Sport users might like to do so below though, or you can let me know your verdict on Twitter.
James Haskell was talking to BBC Sport's James Standley
The words of Martin Narey, chief executive of Barnardo's, which runs a number of projects working with hundreds of sexually abused teenaged girls.
Child sexual exploitation by older men who groom them - not on the internet, but on the street - is finally getting widespread public attention.
The Derby case, which saw the ringleaders of a gang which groomed and abused teenage girls in Derby given indeterminate jail terms, has provided shocking evidence of the persistence of some abusers.
Abid Siddique, 28, and Mohammed Liaqat, 27, led a gang that cruised the streets of Derby - looking for, the judge said "sex at any price" - with young teenagers. He described Siddique in particular as a "sexual predator, with a voracious sexual appetite".
Siddique was given an 11-year sentence, with a requirement he serve all of it before being considered for release.
Liaqat was sentenced to eight years on the same terms.
Their victims were offered drink, drugs and lifts to parties.
Once they seemed friendly with the men, they were raped or sexually assaulted - sometimes kept prisoner, sometimes thrown onto the street after the abuse.
Derby was typical of a pattern of exploitation being tracked by police and experts around Britain.
The girls tended to be 16 or younger. Often they were from challenging backgrounds - homes with inconsistent parenting, or with a history of alcohol or drug problems.
And there is one controversial factor that many of the experts in the field are often not happy to discuss freely. The race of the abusers.
The string of convictions in cities such as Rotherham, Preston, Blackburn, Rochdale and now Derby have more often than not involved Asian men, specifically men of Pakistani origin, and mainly Muslim.
In this case the judge said the race of the victims and their abusers was "coincidental", but there are concerns within Asian communities about the problem.
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim youth organisation, became the first community leader to speak out in a BBC interview two years ago.
He is not afraid of raising the issue.
"Although there have been some cases of white men being involved in this sexual exploitation of young girls, most of the perpetrators are Muslim.
"There are some Muslims who think that as long as these sex gangs aren't targeting their own sisters and daughters the issue doesn't affect them... but the vast majority of Muslims find these actions abhorrent and disgusting," he said.
He stresses these are not religiously-motivated offences but crimes carried out by men for "their own depraved sexual gratification".
"These people think that white girls have fewer morals and are less valuable than our girls."
Another commentator, Manzoor Moghul, chairman of the Muslim Forum, agrees.
"Offenders are under the misapprehension white girls are easy prey. The way they dress, their culture, makes them easy pickings," he said.
But other experts in the field believe it is wrong to suggest that child sexual exploitation is solely perpetrated by Asian men against white girls.
Sheila Taylor runs Safe and Sound Derby, a group that was instrumental in persuading girls to give evidence against Siddique and Liaqat.
"This model of street-grooming is going on in many places. It is just that the recent spate of prosecutions against Asian men in the north of England and Midlands makes it look like it is concentrated in these communities," she said.
She believes some exploitation cases are harder than others to investigate, and is particularly concerned about the sexual abuse of young boys by older gangs of varied races.
Boys are simply less likely to talk about being raped, she says.
Barnardo's workers in London have also told the BBC about girls they have worked with who were abused by street gangs in the capital.
In some cases the grooming involved offering young people the chance to join a gang, in return for their participation in group rapes.
All of those working on the problem say it is important to remember the victims are too young to be able to legally consent to sex. Even if they do not say no to their abuser, it is still rape.
There is a growing feeling this is a problem that needs more vigorous attention from the government.
Derby Safeguarding Children Board has told the BBC it will formally request the Home Office carry out research into the backgrounds of those involved in sexual exploitation.
The Home Office said: "We are working to ensure local police and children's services are well placed to respond to child sexual exploitation, including supporting dedicated child abuse teams and specialist officers in every police (force)."
Mr Lee is facing charges over his alleged role in a bribery scandal which led to the ousting of the ex-President Park Guen-hye.
It is alleged he made a large donation in exchange for government support of a merger of two Samsung subsidiaries.
He has been in prison since February over the scandal, but denies any wrongdoing.
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At the final hearing, prosecutors called Mr Lee the "ultimate beneficiary" of crimes committed in the scandal.
Prosecutors have accused Mr Lee and four other executives of bribing Ms Park's close confidante, Choi Soon-sil, with millions of dollars in exchange for presidential favours.
They are seeking terms ranging from seven to 10 years for his co-accused.
"The defendants were closely tied to power and sought personal gains," the prosecutors said.
The prosecutors alleged the bribes were aimed at winning government support for a major restructuring of Samsung.
They said the restructuring would help to cement the leadership of Mr Lee, who was standing in as chairman for his ill father, Lee Kun-hee.
Mr Lee's lawyers said the allegations were unjustified and the defendants never sought anything in return for the donations.
A court ruling is expected on 25 August.
Dutch national Richard de Wit, 43, denies charges of murder and illegally fleeing the state.
Earlier, the trial was adjourned as the prosecution again failed to provide the murder weapon before the court.
BBC reporter Riyaz Masroor said there was "every chance the case could collapse" if no evidence is produced.
Sarah Groves was found stabbed to death on a houseboat in Srinagar, where she had been living with a local family, on 6 April.
During Mr de Wit's trial, the court heard that there was an issue with the forensic evidence.
The prosecution lawyer said the state authorities did not have the proper facilities to rule if the items seized from the houseboat were actually used in the murder.
The items seized, believed to be several knives and a pair of scissors, have been sent to the neighbouring state of Punjab for analysis, the BBC's reporter said.
Mr de Wit's lawyer said the prosecution had put forward no convincing or substantial evidence and claimed the authorities were "framing" his client, he added.
The trial is due to resume on 16 September.
The 81-year-old is up for singer of the year, while Lodestar, her first record since 1978, is up for best album.
Collins was an immensely important figure in Britain's folk-rock scene in the 1960s, thanks to her pared-down singing style and strong storytelling.
But her career was cut short by the end of her marriage in the late 1970s.
The star's second husband, Ashley Hutchings, left her for a young actress who took to showing up at Collins' performances.
One night, during a performance of Lark Rise at London's National Theatre, she froze on-stage and found herself unable to sing.
"My voice just... my throat locked," she told NPR last year. "I was trying not to weep. Some nights I could manage a few notes, sometimes nothing came out at all when I opened my mouth. And it was in front of an audience, you know, and the band."
Collins developed a form of dysphonia, a condition often associated with psychological trauma.
In the years that followed, she wrote books while working in charity shops and a job centre to support herself. But her music was discovered by a younger generation of fans - including Blur's Graham Coxon and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy.
Eventually, she was coaxed back onto the stage - and released her new album to wide acclaim last year.
Collins is nominated for singer of the year alongside Ireland's Daoiri Farrell, Scottish musician Kris Drever, and five-time Folk Award winner Jim Causley.
Farrell has the most nominations, three in all, while Songs of Separation - a project inspired by the Scottish referendum, featuring Eliza Carthy, Karine Polwart and Jenny Hill - has two.
US folk icon Woody Guthrie will be inducted to the Folk Awards Hall of Fame on the 50th anniversary of his death.
The author of classics such as Do Re Mi, Pretty Boy Floyd and This Train Is Bound For Glory, his songs were a major influence on popular music, and have been covered by the likes of Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Just this week, Lady Gaga sang a portion of his civil rights anthem This Land Is Your Land in a thinly-veiled attack on Donald Trump at the Super Bowl.
Billy Bragg, who made a Grammy award-winning album with Wilco based on unused Woody Guthrie lyrics, will pay tribute to the star with a headline performance at the awards.
Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart, best known for the hit single Year Of The Cat, will also perform, after being honoured with the lifetime achievement award.
Mark Radcliffe and Julie Fowlis will present the awards at London's Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, 5 April. The ceremony will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2.
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On Wednesday, a judge at Belfast Magistrates Court, ruled that they took part in a rendition of the Famine Song, aggravated by hostility, while marching in a circle at St Patrick's Church in north Belfast during a 12 July parade in 2012.
The 13 defendants, all members of the Belfast band, Young Conway Volunteers, denied playing the controversial tune.
They instead claimed to have been performing the Beach Boys hit Sloop John B.
Three of the defendants received five-month suspended prison sentences for their actions.
The other 10 were each bound to keep the peace for the next two years, with a prohibition on engaging in aggressive, provocative or disorderly behaviour.
Fines of £300 were imposed on all of the defendants apart from those tried as youths.
Senior judges in Scotland have previously ruled the controversial Famine Song - which includes the line "The famine's over, why don't you go home?" - to be racist.
The episode outside the church marked the first in a series of incidents at the Donegall Street location.
A judge said it was "outrageous and inflammatory behaviour which could have precipitated serious public disorder."
The defendants had contested a charge of doing a provocative act likely to cause public disorder or a breach of the peace.
'Racial hatred'
During a hearing, defence lawyers played songs by a Swedish folk singer, a Star Trek enthusiast and football fan chants - all to the same tune - in a bid to have their clients cleared.
Paul Shaw, band leader on the day of the parade, was the only one of the accused to give evidence.
He said they had been forced to stop outside the church due to a break in the parade and started up the Beach Boys tune to ward off lethargy among tired members.
He said he had penned a letter to local Catholic parishioners.
"That was to explain the band in no way had any intention to cause any upset to anybody," he said.
"I felt it was my duty as band leader."
However, District Judge Paul Copeland rejected the defence case, finding that the band could have behaved differently as they waited to march on.
"They had choices to make; they didn't stand and wait quietly, they didn't disperse for the short period of time available to them, they didn't march in silence to a drum beat, they didn't sit down, join supporters or family and take a break.
"Instead, I find there was a studied and deliberate piece of conduct which involved their playing and marching not just past this church, but deliberately remaining within feet of the doorstep."
Emphasising the context of the situation at St Patrick's, he said the Famine Song has entered into the "repertoire" of loyalist band music.
It has the potential "as an anthem of sectarian abuse at least, or, at worst, racial hatred", Judge Copeland said.
Prince Charles told BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time that his grandson has helped to dig in "a tree or two" at his Gloucestershire home.
The prince said he has even redesigned some of his gardens to make them more child-friendly.
He also described how his own passion for gardening started in his childhood.
Speaking from Highgrove the prince said: "You never know, do you, what people are going to be interested in.
"The most important thing is I got him planting a tree or two here, so we planted it together and shovelled in the earth.
"That's the way, I think, when you are very small, and then each time they come you say, 'Do you see how much the tree has grown, or whatever?' and you hope that they take an interest."
Prince Charles described his passion for gardening as a "marvellous, therapeutic business... you can get reward from it but you can also be driven mad by it".
He said his interest was sparked by pottering around in the garden at Buckingham Palace, where he tended a little plot near Constitution Hill, and also by spending time with his grandmother, The Queen Mother, at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park.
"I always like gardening - I hate to say this - from a child's point of view. It's a funny thing, because I have such happy memories of bits of garden at my grandmother's house.
"In Scotland and here I have tried to design it with what would appeal to a child; it is the paths and the interests.
"I have tried to do that at Dumfries House as well. We have made a maze now up there which is rather fun, and I adored a maze when I was young. You just put yourself in the child's position and sometimes it works."
Gardener's Question Time will broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 15:00 BST on Friday.
The raid, at Beaverbrooks in Hanley on 17 November, saw jewellery and watches stolen.
A 25-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman have already been charged in connection with the raid.
A 36-year-old man was arrested in the Oldham area of Greater Manchester on Friday and a number of homes in the area were searched by officers.
Det Ch Insp Ricky Fields, from Staffordshire Police, said there was a "substantial reward" for information that led to the recovery of stolen items.
Amber Rudd told the BBC the work permit proposal "certainly has value" but nothing was being ruled out.
She accepted EU nations could choose to impose new restrictions, including requiring Britons to apply for permission before travelling.
Ms Rudd said it was a "given" people voted Leave to reduce immigration.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, she reiterated the prime minister's dismissal of a points-based system to control EU migration championed by Brexit campaigners in the build-up to the referendum, saying it "simply doesn't work".
She said her department was considering the alternative of requiring EU migrants to have work permits.
"Whether we look at a work permit system or another system is something that my department is looking at closely at the moment," she said.
Asked about a possible trade-off between curbing the free movement of people and being allowed access to the EU's single market, Ms Rudd said the UK will have "complete control" over numbers once it leaves the EU, "with one or two provisos".
The new model "has got to be reciprocal", she said.
"We are going to have to work out what's in the UK's interests as well going to the European Union and what works for our economy and making sure that we get the right balance."
Asked about the Conservatives' long-standing target to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands - latest figures had it at 327,000 - she said the government was "completely committed" to reducing immigration, and "yes tens of thousands, although it will take some time".
She also confirmed the government was looking at ways of reducing the number of people using student visas to come to the UK, but said there would be "no blanket ban".
The home secretary said reports that Britons may have to pay for permission to visit the EU after Brexit were "a reminder that this is a two-way negotiation" adding: "I don't think it is particularly desirable but we do not rule it out because we have to be given a free hand."
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham said such a proposal could cost a British family visiting the EU £50.
"This is yet another example of the drift and confusion as a result of the government's failure to plan for Brexit," he added.
Ms Rudd, one of the leading voices in the Remain campaign ahead of the referendum, played down her attacks on Leave campaigner Boris Johnson, who is now foreign secretary.
Asked about her comment in a TV debate that Mr Johnson was "the life and soul of the party" but "not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening", she said: "Boris is not the the driver, Theresa May is the driver.
"She is very clear that we are all focused in the same direction and we are all going to deliver on what she has asked us to do."
It said the action had been taken on the grounds of national security.
President Tayyip Erdogan accuses Mr Gulen of instigating a failed coup against him last July - a charge the cleric denies.
Earlier, authorities detained more than 1,000 people in the latest operation against alleged Gulen supporters.
The nationwide sweep was one of the largest such operations carried out in Turkey in months.
As well as the 1,009 detained on Wednesday, arrest warrants were issued for another 3,224 people, as part of a police operation across Turkey's 81 provinces, reports said.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the raids were targeting a Gulenist network "that infiltrated our police force, called 'secret imams'".
In the aftermath of the 15 July coup attempt, which was led by military officers, 40,000 people were arrested and 120,000 sacked or suspended.
They included soldiers, police, teachers, and public servants - all of whom were accused of having links with militant groups.
The latest purge comes just over a week after President Erdogan narrowly won a controversial referendum on increasing his powers.
Opponents fear the victory, which has bitterly divided Turkey, brings him closer to authoritarian rule.
Two days after the referendum, Turkey's parliament extended a nine-month state of emergency by a further three months.
It was widely expected that the post-coup purge would accelerate once President Erdogan achieved the referendum victory he wanted.
He feels emboldened and there's no longer a risk of jeopardising potential referendum votes.
No matter that the opposition still contests the referendum results, and their claim of widespread fraud is backed by a scathing report from election observers. The president says the result is final.
So on Wednesday the police bore the brunt of the detentions, but other institutions are likely to follow suit.
The governing AKP party was full of Gulen supporters when Mr Erdogan and the cleric were staunch allies.
It hasn't yet been purged and could now be targeted. And even if not, the threat will be dangled over potential opponents like a sword of Damocles: speak out and your Gulen affiliation will be exposed.
The scale of the "anti-Gulen" arrests has raised alarm in Europe, and stalled Turkey's bid to join the EU.
After the latest sweep, Germany's foreign ministry said it had "taken note of the mass detentions with concern".
All-rounder Maxwell was set to join the Australia A squad in India but he will instead remain at Yorkshire.
The 26-year-old was originally signed for the T20 Blast, but will now be available for the One-Day Cup and County Championship as well.
However, New Zealand's Kane Williamson will join the club for the final four games of the Championship season.
Finch's foot injury ended a poor run at Yorkshire, in which he averaged 12.66 in the T20 Blast.
It is the latest in a series of injury problems for the batsman, who bruised a lung during a second XI game, shortly after recovering from a hamstring injury suffered while playing in the Indian Premier League.
"That's the end of the season for Aaron, as far as Yorkshire is concerned," director of cricket Martyn Moxon told the club website:
"It is a great disappointment for Aaron and the club and we wish him a speedy recovery."
At least seven police forces are carrying out investigations linked to abuse claims involving Sir Edward.
Wiltshire Police said having a lead force would ensure a "consistent approach" across the police forces.
The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation said it was confident he would be cleared of any wrongdoing.
Sir Edward lived in Salisbury, Wiltshire, for many years and died at his home there in 2005 aged 89.
Operation Hydrant, a national hub coordinating inquiries into historical abuse, has been liaising with forces which received information concerning Sir Edward.
On 3 August the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said it would look at whether officers at Wiltshire Police failed to pursue allegations made against the former prime minister.
A retired detective has alleged that claims were made in the 1990s but not followed up.
Announcing its lead role on Tuesday, a spokesman for Wiltshire Police said it would be working with the respective forces to establish an "appropriate national investigative strategy and supporting structure".
The spokesman said: "Due to the complexities of this task it is anticipated that this will take a number of weeks to finalise.
"One of the first tasks will be to assess the new information that has been received following the appeals for information made last week."
Wiltshire Police is also being investigated by the IPCC over claims it halted an inquiry into former brothel keeper Myra Forde in the 1990s after she said she would expose Sir Edward as being involved in child sexual abuse.
She recently denied the claims and said she had "no knowledge of any misconduct on his part".
The prosecuting barrister at the time, Judge Nigel Seed QC, has since said claims against Sir Edward played no part in the decision to drop the case.
Following the announcement of the IPCC probe, Wiltshire Police immediately appealed for potential victims and others with information to come forward, and later reported it had received a number of calls.
It has since emerged that police in Kent, Jersey, Hampshire, London, Gloucestershire and Thames Valley are also carrying out investigations linked to allegations against Sir Edward.
The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation said: "We welcome the investigation by Wiltshire Police, which we wholeheartedly believe will clear Sir Edward's name and we will co-operate fully with the police in their inquiries."
Sir Edward led the 1970-1974 Conservative government and took Britain into what was then the European Economic Community.
He lost his leadership of the party to Margaret Thatcher in 1975 - something he never forgave her for and he did not serve in her cabinet.
Prime Minister Edi Rama said the artworks seized - reportedly more than 1,000 - could fill an entire museum.
Among them were paintings, icons and murals thought to have been taken from churches and cultural centres in south-east Albania and Macedonia.
Their value was estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars, Albania's Top TV reported.
Welcoming the police operation, Mr Rama said the artwork had "risked joining the long list of works that have crossed the country's borders".
He said it was one of the largest operations against art trafficking, but that it marked just the beginning of a campaign in which he appealed to Albanians to "redress this lamentable plight of our heritage".
Experts say that Albania's Orthodox churches have been plundered of much of their art work since the fall of communism, and that the trafficking of stolen art is widespread.
"[Albanian society] has forgotten that this might be our temporary house, but it remains the perennial abode of generations to come and we owe it to them to pass on the country we inherited from our ancestors," the prime minister said.
State news agency ATA reported that two men aged 39 and 51 had been arrested, and that two other suspects were wanted.
The Derry Journal published a special edition of the newspaper on Wednesday following his death, and followed it up with extensive coverage of Mr McGuinness' funeral in Friday's edition.
The front page reflected the death and funeral of not just the former Sinn Féin leader but also of Derry City captain Ryan McBride, whose funeral also took place on Thursday.
The headline: "A city in mourning".
On Mr McGuinness, the paper quotes Denis Bradley - a well-know Derry man and former co-chairman of a group set up to deal with the legacy of the Troubles - who said there were always "dove-like aspects to McGuinness".
"I don't think he was as hawkish as people make him out to be at times," he told the Journal.
"He had, to my mind, an over-commitment to the republican movement, I realised he didn't like violence and he didn't like injury and death and destruction for the sake of it. When it could be avoided he did it."
The newspaper also pays tribute to Mr McBride with a special back page.
Instead of the usual sports news, the page is decorated in Derry City's red and white stripes and features the words of a poem read out by manager Kenny Shiels during the funeral of the "gentle giant".
Meanwhile, the Londonderry Sentinel leads on "mixed emotions" over the death of Mr McGuinness.
Inside, on page three, the headline points towards the divisive legacy Mr McGuinness has left behind.
"Many struggle to come to terms with his past", it reads.
On its front page, the city's DUP mayor Hilary McClintock calls him "a towering figure in Northern Ireland in general and in the city of Londonderry in particular".
There would be a "diverse range of opinions" about him, she said, but he had a passion for the city and the North West.
The Impartial Reporter, in Fermanagh, also focuses heavily on the funeral of Mr McGuinness, particularly the reaction of DUP leader Arlene Foster.
Its print edition came out on Thursday morning, before the event, meaning the front page leads with the uncertainty over whether Mrs Foster would be present.
However, its website has full coverage of the event including reaction to Mrs Foster's decision to attend.
In the print edition, Denzil McDaniel, the paper's former editor, offers his own view of Martin McGuinness.
"Man of war or man of peace? Well, both actually, that is the contradiction."
He writes that the hurt and pain caused by the IRA and Mr McGuinness "cannot be dismissed" but adds: "I believe his transformation to peace was a real and genuine one, not a tactical one but a heartfelt desire."
The Ulster Herald is another paper devoting plenty of coverage to the death of Martin McGuinness - it leads with the reveal that he visited a police officer's hospital bed following a bomb attack in 2008.
The officer told the paper: "I remember him visiting and I remember thinking it was something important. I found out later that he had never visited a police officer in hospital before.
"So I think I was the first. I suppose it was his way of saying that his party was supportive of policing."
Elsewhere in the paper, it covers the recent publication of names of firms that benefit from subsidies under the botched RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) scheme.
It has produced an interactive map showing all the claimants across County Tyrone - you can see it online.
The Down Recorder lead story centres on the death of Neil Rooney, 33, from Ballyhornan, following an industrial accident at Belfast's Harbour Estate.
"Father of two dies in tragic work accident," reads the headline and the report carries tributes and sympathy for the Rooney family from politicians and friends who call the loss "devastating and heart breaking".
Inside, the newspaper says there is concern over a decision to close a PSNI enquiry office in Newcastle.
The office will be shut in two weeks, leaving the station in Downpatrick as the only one in the district that has an office for the public.
In an editorial, the Down Recorder accused the PSNI of "trying to dress up the closure as improved policing" and of "strangely claiming social media is making such offices redundant".
The paper's response? "This is complete nonsense."
"Along with other public services, police have been forced to retrench and what has been forced upon them represents a reduction in the service that is offered to the public.
"Please tell it as it is and stop trying to kid the community that all is well."
Over in the Orchard County, the Armagh Observer reports concerns about a bridge over the River Callan leading to a nature reserve at the edge of Milford village.
Parents living close by are worried that it is an "accident waiting to happen," says the paper.
"A hole large enough for a child to fall through has now appeared," the paper reports, adding that an issue about ownership may be the reason why the bridge has fallen into disrepair.
Inside, the paper features world champion Irish dancer Joe McGeown. He may be from London but he has "no scarcity of Granemore blood in his veins", says the paper.
Joe's father, Dessie, hails from there and Joe has dedicated his recent world championship award to his late aunt, Ann O'Neill from Granemore, Tassagh, who died in January.
Meanwhile, an unholy row is brewing in Broughshane over a church hall, the Ballymena Guardian reports.
Under the headline: "Church hall demolition plan left 'in ruins'", it says that the Magill Hall in the village has been made a listed building, thwarting plans to demolish it and replace it with a new modern hall.
The hall is owned by Broughshane First Presbyterian Church and the Guardian reports that churchgoers are not best pleased - they were looking forward to an up-to-date, all mod-cons hall.
DUP MLA Paul Frew, who attends the church, says it was "dirty" of the Department of Communities Historic Environment Division to list it.
"This is an incredibly draconian decision," he told the paper.
Remaining on matters holy, Ballymena is proud of its connection to St Patrick and 17 March is a special day.
"Saint Patrick back on the throne of Slemish," reads the Guardian headline with a host of photographs from the day.
Slemish was where the boy Patrick herded the sheep after he had been kidnapped and served as a slave to local chieftain Milchú.
On St Patrick's Day, the paper reports that a play was performed on the slopes of Slemish, telling the story of the Irish saint.
The paper says there was even a real-life Patrick treading the boards - the role of the saint was taken by a local - Patrick Connor, 17 - who lives on the slopes of Ballymena's holy mountain.
He is pictured flat on his back, taking what looks like a bucket-load of grief from Chieftain Milchú.
Sir Cliff Richard said the singer's legacy of songs with the group, including Tragedy and Jive Talkin' was "stunningly good".
Lyricist Sir Tim Rice said Gibb, who had cancer, was "a charming man".
"I saw him only a couple of weeks ago," he said. "He wasn't at all well but was putting up a marvellous fight. It's a terrible loss for the music industry."
Robin Gibb formed the Bee Gees with brothers Barry and Maurice. They were among the most successful pop groups and songwriting teams of all time, with hits spanning five decades.
They scored nine US number one singles and five chart-toppers in the UK.
Sir Cliff said: "We are a fraternity of people who sing pop and rock and Robin is another one of us who's gone too soon, too early.
"So the legacy will be what the Bee Gees did, which was stunning, stunningly good stuff - right on a par with the Beatles."
Former Beatle Ringo Starr told the BBC: "Robin will be remembered as a musician and as a singer and part of The Bee Gees. The legacy they'll leave behind is Stayin' Alive, the harmonies and the songs that they've written."
Singer Dionne Warwick, whose biggest hit Heartbreaker was written by the Gibb brothers, said of Robin: "He was wonderful. He was a jokester.
"He had an incredibly witty sense of humour and was fun to be around. All three of them were sensational gentlemen first, just fun loving guys."
She touched upon the family members' close bond, adding: "I think what was most attractive to me was how grounded they were.
"I think a lot of it has to do with their sense of family and being together as a family. That is very important, to be connected. They loved each other very strongly and showed it, and it was a joy."
The trio also penned Islands In The Stream for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, a hit which featured on Rogers' 1983 album Eyes That See In The Dark.
"Robin was a part of something unique," said Rogers in a statement. "The sound of the Bee Gees was so specific and dominating, especially in the 70s - unlike anything that had ever happened before or will ever happen again.
"Mostly, Robin was a good guy who didn't deserve to die this young. We will all miss him for what he was as a person and what he brought to music."
John Travolta, who danced to the Bee Gees' distinctive soundtrack in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, also paid tribute to Gibb on Monday.
He said: "I thought Robin was one of the most wonderful people - gifted, generous and a real friend to everyone he knew. And we'll miss him."
The announcement of Robin Gibbs' death was made by his family on Sunday with "great sadness".
Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini described the singer as "one of the major figures in the history of British music".
"Everyone should be aware that the Bee Gees are second only to Lennon and McCartney as the most successful songwriting unit in British popular music," he said.
Robin Gibb had "one of the best white soul voices ever", Gambaccini said, adding that the group's accomplishments had been "monumental".
"Not only have they written their own number one hits, but they wrote huge hit records for Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Celine Dion, Destiny's Child... the list goes on and on."
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bryan Adams, Duran Duran and Justin Timberlake are among a host of musicians that took to Twitter to pay their respects.
Gibb had battled ill health for several years.
In 2010, he cancelled a series of shows after suffering severe stomach pains while performing in Belgium. He went on to have emergency surgery for a blocked intestine.
His twin brother and band partner Maurice died in 2003 aged 53 following complications from a twisted intestine.
Robin Gibb cancelled a series of shows in Brazil in April 2011, after again suffering from abdominal pains.
Later that year, he was found to have cancer of the colon after having surgery on his bowel for an unrelated condition.
He was later also diagnosed with cancer of the liver, and underwent chemotherapy and surgery.
Last month the singer fell into a coma after contracting pneumonia.
Four weeks ago, he regained consciousness and was said to have been making a positive recovery. But his death was announced at 23:30 BST (22:30 GMT) on Sunday.
Dr Eireann Kerr, 32, had argued that she had been "the victim of a crime" because her drink was spiked with a date rape drug.
The judge who found her guilty said he had no doubt that her drink was spiked but added it was not a defence in law.
Dr Kerr's barrister told Londonderry Magistrates Court that the sentence would be "affirmed."
In April, she was found guilty of two charges of assaulting police officers, disorderly behaviour and resisting a police officer after her arrest in December 2013.
She was given a two-month conditional discharge.
Dr Kerr, of Malborough Park South in Belfast, was working as an anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry at the time of the incident and had been to several pubs in the city while on a staff night out.
She was arrested during the early hours of the morning and assaulted officers in Strand Road police station.
The hospital anaesthetist said she woke up in a police cell the next day with none of her belongings and no idea how she had ended up there.
She claims the convictions have put her medical career at risk.
Dr. Kerr was not present in court when her appeal was withdrawn.
Stephen Ackerman targeted West Ham players and staff including then manager Sam Allardyce and England striker Andy Carroll.
The 48-year-old, of Loughton, Essex, was found guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court of 18 counts of fraud totalling more than £61,000 in October.
Judge David Radford said Ackerman was "utterly deceitful and dishonest".
Ackerman visited West Ham's east London training ground to sell the club's players and staff luxury Christmas hampers, using the pseudonym Mark Kingston in December 2014.
He took payment using a hand-held chip-and-pin credit card device.
The luxury items never materialised and a few weeks later some of the victims noticed unauthorised payments running into the thousands charged to their bank accounts.
They matter was reported to the police and Ackerman was arrested.
He was caught after search warrants were carried out at addresses linked to him in Essex and Hertfordshire.
Judge Radford said Ackerman had "consistently, premeditatedly and shamelessly defrauded others".
He said he was a man with "no scruples whatsoever... telling lie after lie to try to deceive others".
"Your endemic dishonestly is plainly unremitting," he said. "You earn no credit for your remorse, nor any credit for any pleas of guilt."
The judge said "many" of his victims were Premier League footballers, adding: "This was not simply a fraud involving undelivered Christmas hampers and wine or even simply the fraudulent use of a card chip-and-pin device.
"You used the bank account details perhaps in conjunction with others that you had obtained when you visited the West Ham training ground and... obtained sizeable amounts of money from bank accounts."
The court also heard Ackerman had "numerous previous convictions for fraud", with the most recent in 2013.
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A manhunt was launched for Jed Allen, 21, who was suspected of killing his half-sister Derrin Jordon, aged six, his mother Janet Jordon, 48, and her partner Philip Howard, 44.
A post mortem examination confirmed they died from multiple stab wounds.
Their bodies were found in Vicarage Road, Didcot on Saturday. Allen's body was found in Oxford on Monday.
The body found in woodland is yet to be formally identified, but police are satisfied it is Allen.
A statement on behalf of Janet and Derrin's family said: "Janet was a beloved daughter, sister and auntie.
"Dezzy was a breath a fresh air and truly one of a kind.
"For a family to lose someone so young cannot be explained in mere words."
Philip's older brother said his family was in "shock and disbelief".
"My beloved bro and Uncle Philip you'll be missed so much," he said.
A statement from Philip's children said: "Take care of our sister Dezzy up there daddy, take care of Jan too.
"We wish you didn't have to go Daddy, it's our worst nightmare come true."
The search for Allen ended on Monday after a body was found off Marston Ferry Road in Oxford around 17:00 BST.
Police confirmed the 21-year-old was their prime suspect after officers discovered the bodies of Ms Jordon, Mr Howard and Derrin at 20:20 BST on Saturday.
More than 100 police were deployed to search Oxford University Parks where Allen worked as a groundsman.
Detectives believed he had arrived in the city by train from Didcot at 17:45 on Saturday.
Police have reopened Vicarage Road, but a cordon remains in place around the crime scene where officers are expected to remain until Thursday.
The event was run over two legs and Gerard Kinghan won the first race from fellow Kawasaki rider Sheils, with Alastair Kirk third.
Sheils took the victory in race two, coming home ahead of Kirk and Crumlin's Stephen Thompson on a BMW, followed by Kinghan in fourth.
William Dunlop was a double Supersport 600cc winner on his CD Racing Yamaha.
Jamie Patterson finished runner-up in race one and Robert Kennedy second in race two.
Former British 125cc champion Christian Elkin took the chequered flag in the two Supertwins outings.
Female competitor Melissa Kennedy took victory in one of the Moto 3 races.
Sheils secured his third Enkalon Trophy success after victories in 2004 and 2013.
The Irish championship shirt circuit action continues at Kirkistown on Easter Monday, with the Mayor's Trophy the feature event.
Raikkonen was angered that Red Bull's Max Verstappen was not criticised for what the Finn saw as unacceptable defence of fifth place during the race.
A questionable interpretation of qualifying rules also annoyed Ferrari.
"It's pointless to have rules if they don't apply all the time, for all the people," the 2007 world champion said.
Raikkonen felt Verstappen had twice contravened a rule that dictates how drivers can defend a position in a race.
This happened first at Turn Two, when Verstappen moved back to defend the outside line after Raikkonen had tried to switch his attack from from the inside to the outside. Raikkonen hit the Red Bull and damaged his front wing.
Raikkonen said: "For me, he moved once right, I decided to go left but once the other guy moves back, I did everything I could to avoid any contact.
"Once I decided to go somewhere, you cannot just come there. It is good that I managed to somehow half-miss him."
The second incident later in the race was at Turn One, when Raikkonen locked his brakes trying to avoid Verstappen as the Dutchman moved to the outside to defend.
"It was a bit of a similar story, that second thing - obviously I made a move and once I decided to go, it's very hard to back off and try to avoid the other car, once the other car started to move after me.
"I tried to miss him and I just managed to miss him but it was two times that, in my feeling, he wasn't correct.
"But obviously, like I said, the stewards - or the people who decide how things go here, the stewards and some other guys - in many ways, it's a joke with the rules, you know?"
Verstappen said he believed he had been "fair".
"He moved right and then back to left when I was going there," the 18-year-old said. "And he took the front wing off.
"If he's not stopping moving then we'll hit each other. Because I moved first, so he moved after that, once I have decided to go outside and he turns after that wasn't fair."
The rule in question, article 27.6 of the sporting regulations, states: "More than one change of direction to defend a position is not permitted. Any driver moving back towards the racing line, having earlier defended his position off-line, should leave at least one car width between his own car and the edge of the track on the approach to the corner."
Raikkonen and the Ferrari team were also critical of a decision by race stewards not to move drivers who had failed to set a time within 107% of the fastest in first qualifying back down the grid, as defined by the rules.
The stewards said they made the decision because it was in the "exceptional circumstances" of a qualifying session hit by heavy rain and four red-flag stoppages.
"You have the 107% rule and the people who didn't go through first qualifying, they [the stewards] apply it for those cars but not for the rest," Raikkonen said.
"How can you suddenly have the same rule in the same qualifying applied two different ways? If somebody can explain how that works...
"But that's F1 these days, and something must change. It just looks bad to people outside, to you guys, and it's not fair. There's a rule, it should apply exactly the same way every time to everybody."
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The Villa defender claimed it was "accidental" and sent from his phone in his pocket while he was driving.
The 33-year-old's tweet attracted ridicule following Sunday's humiliating 6-0 home defeat which leaves Villa eight points from safety at the bottom of the Premier League.
Lescott also apologised for "the team's lack of commitment".
"I'm not one for tweeting after games whether it's a good, bad or indifferent result," added Lescott. "But I would like to apologise for the performance today, personally and collectively", tweeted Lescott.
Here is how some fans responded:
Barca recovered from going behind to an early Javi Guerra goal as they won for the second time in four league games.
Neymar made up for the absence of the injured Lionel Messi as he was twice fouled and scored from the spot.
He then netted twice in two second-half minutes before Luis Suarez tapped in ahead of Jozabed's late reply.
Relive how Neymar inspired Barcelona to victory here.
Neymar, 23, now has eight goals for the season to make him the leading scorer in La Liga.
The Brazil international could have added even more after missing a number of first-half chances and being denied two further strong penalty claims.
That all happened after former Cardiff striker Guerra had side-footed the visitors in front after 14 minutes from a cross from ex-Manchester United forward Bebe.
Rayo created plenty more chances of their own and finished the game having had more possession than the home side - repeating the feat they managed as the last team to do similar in a league fixture against Barca two years ago.
Barcelona were indebted to goalkeeper Claudio Bravo for making a number of crucial saves early in the second half when they led just 2-1.
But Rayo had conceded six goals on their last two visits to the Nou Camp and the Madrid side were swamped again after Neymar followed up a shot from Suarez to drive the ball into the roof of the net and complete his hat-trick with 20 minutes to go.
He quickly added a fourth from Suarez's pass before returning the favour for the former Liverpool striker to side-foot home his seventh goal of the season as the defending champions' attacking power made up for their on-going defensive deficiencies.
Match ends, Barcelona 5, Rayo Vallecano 2.
Second Half ends, Barcelona 5, Rayo Vallecano 2.
Foul by Patrick Ebert (Rayo Vallecano).
Douglas (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Adrián Embarba (Rayo Vallecano) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jozabed.
Corner, Rayo Vallecano. Conceded by Jeremy Mathieu.
Roberto Trashorras (Rayo Vallecano) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Goal! Barcelona 5, Rayo Vallecano 2. Jozabed (Rayo Vallecano) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Lass (Rayo Vallecano) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jozabed.
Corner, Rayo Vallecano. Conceded by Jordi Alba.
Attempt blocked. Javi Guerra (Rayo Vallecano) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Patrick Ebert.
Attempt missed. Patrick Ebert (Rayo Vallecano) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Jozabed (Rayo Vallecano) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Patrick Ebert following a set piece situation.
Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Adrián Embarba (Rayo Vallecano) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gerard Piqué (Barcelona).
Substitution, Barcelona. Douglas replaces Dani Alves.
Goal! Barcelona 5, Rayo Vallecano 1. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Neymar with a cross.
Substitution, Barcelona. Gerard Gumbau replaces Sergio Busquets.
Attempt missed. Jozabed (Rayo Vallecano) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Lass (Rayo Vallecano) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Jordi Alba (Barcelona).
Attempt missed. Patrick Ebert (Rayo Vallecano) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Javi Guerra following a fast break.
Offside, Barcelona. Dani Alves tries a through ball, but Luis Suárez is caught offside.
Diego Llorente (Rayo Vallecano) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Neymar (Barcelona).
Substitution, Rayo Vallecano. Adrián Embarba replaces Bebé.
Goal! Barcelona 4, Rayo Vallecano 1. Neymar (Barcelona) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Luis Suárez.
Goal! Barcelona 3, Rayo Vallecano 1. Neymar (Barcelona) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Luis Suárez (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Neymar.
Foul by Lass (Rayo Vallecano).
Jordi Alba (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Rayo Vallecano. Conceded by Jordi Alba.
Attempt blocked. Lass (Rayo Vallecano) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Patrick Ebert with a through ball.
Offside, Rayo Vallecano. Chechu Dorado tries a through ball, but Zé Castro is caught offside.
Corner, Rayo Vallecano. Conceded by Jeremy Mathieu.
Attempt missed. Lass (Rayo Vallecano) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Offside, Barcelona. Ivan Rakitic tries a through ball, but Luis Suárez is caught offside.
Foul by Sergi Roberto (Barcelona).
Walls, hoardings, shop shutters and camper vans will be painted live by artists from South America and Europe throughout the weekend.
Upfest, which began in 2008, is centred on Bedminster's North Street.
Some murals will remain until the next Upfest, including huge paintings on the Tobacco Factory venue and the Red Point climbing centre.
Visitors to the festival were able to watch 275 artists from 25 countries painting during live shows over the weekend. Among those taking part are Inkie, My Dog Sighs, Gamma, Lonac and Dutch due Telmo Miel.
As well as walls and vehicles, Upfest has its own 14m (45ft) long version of a New York-style subway train, created in 2012, for artists to decorate.
At the Tobacco Factory Argentinian artist Martin Ron - known for huge surreal paintings in Buenos Aires - was painting a 2,025 sq ft (188 sq m) mural of his girlfriend.
Bristol, the birthplace of Banksy, has an international reputation for its street art.
Gallery owner Stephen Hayles founded Upfest in 2008. Initially held indoors, the next year it spilled out onto the streets with artists painting shutters, sides and end gables of shops and other buildings.
Many of the murals are painted on temporary hoardings but some remain year round and become local landmarks.
Mr Hayles said since Upfest began he has only had to remove two murals where artists "overstepped the mark".
"There was one opposite a school which was showing a bit too much cleavage," he said.
"It's just common sense really."
Tens of thousands attended a Mass in St Peter's Square for the start of the Pope's "revolution of tenderness".
It took place place amid tight security with extra police and soldiers deployed, and a no-fly zone imposed.
Under the year's theme of mercy, the Pope has said priests can absolve women who have had abortions.
During the jubilee celebrations, one of the most important events in the Roman Catholic Church, pilgrims travel to Rome and religious sites around the world.
At the end of the Mass, Francis opened the basilica's Holy Door. He said that by passing through it, Catholics should take on the role of the Good Samaritan.
It is the first time the Holy Door has been opened since the Great Jubilee in the 2000 called for by St John Paul II. It has been bricked up since then.
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, 88, attended Tuesday's event.
Jubilee years are rooted in the Old Testament tradition of freeing slaves and prisoners once every 50 years, a concept that died out within Judaism but was taken up by Pope Boniface VIII for the Catholic Church in 1300.
Pilgrimages to Rome were at the heart of the original jubilee years, and attracted hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to the city, many willing to pay for "indulgences" - the eradication by the Church of the spiritual debt arising from sin.
It was a tradition that not only contributed copious cash to the Vatican's coffers, but also contributed to the theological turmoil that led to the establishment of rival Protestant churches across much of northern Europe.
The last Jubilee was called by St John Paul II to mark the millennium, and this Holy Year of Mercy starts on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December 2015 and will end on the Feast of Christ the King on 20 November 2016.
What is the Catholic Year of Mercy? - by Caroline Wyatt, BBC Religious affairs correspondent
Italian security forces are on high alert following recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
Visitors to St Peter's Square had to pass through metal detectors and under go bag and body checks.
Announcing the extraordinary jubilee in March, the Pope said the Holy Door was a "Door of Mercy, through which anyone who enters will experience the love of God who consoles, pardons and instils hope".
For the first time, he has instructed churches and cathedrals to take part in the tradition of the Holy Door, to help Catholics mark the jubilee at home rather than coming to Rome.
Pope Francis has long signalled his wish to change the Church's approach from condemnation of wrongdoing to a Church that is more forgiving and understanding of its flock, our correspondent says.
This extraordinary jubilee year is seen as a practical way of giving expression to that wish.
Pope Francis took many by surprise when he announced in September that, as part of the jubilee, parish priests across the world would be allowed to absolve repentant women who asked for forgiveness for having an abortion, even though Church teaching still terms abortion a grave sin.
Thameslink trains between Farringdon and City Thameslink travel beneath Smithfield market where the museum plans to move to.
Lead curator Alex Werner said the viewing area would allow visitors to see trains run along "some of London's earliest railway tunnels".
The new site is due to open in 2022.
Mr Werner said the museum wanted to use what was already in the area to "uncover the hidden landscape beneath London".
Plans from the 19th Century show the area had a "great Victorian network of railway lines" which was used by workers at the former meat market, he said.
The "lost" River Fleet, which runs beneath Farringdon Road, acted as a water supply for the market as well as a Victorian sewer and the museum hopes to incorporate viewpoints of the water.
"There are lots of stories to tell in relation to just this part of London", Mr Werner said.
Discussions have begun about the proposed move but planning permission for the £250m project has yet to be submitted.
The City of London Corporation and City Hall have pledged £180m towards the project but the museum is looking to raise another £70m to move to its new home.
The 52-year-old Fijian, who is aiming to become the oldest winner in PGA Tour history, shot a seven-under 63.
He is in a five-way tie with Americans Ricky Barnes, Morgan Hoffmann, Kevin Kisner and Brandt Snedeker.
Singh's last tournament win came at the 2008 Deutsche Bank Championship.
Since then, the 34-time PGA Tour winner, who turns 53 next month, has struggled with various health problems which have had an impact on his swing.
But seven birdies and no bogeys at Waialae Country Club gave him hope of reclaiming past glories.
Victory on Sunday would see him beat the record held by Sam Snead, who won the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open at the age of 52 years, 10 months and eight days.
"I feel like I can come out and win any tournament if I play well," he said. "It's been the same way for the past five, six years.
"I just haven't produced the scores I want to produce, but I'm always optimistic about my next day, my next round, my next tournament. Same this year."
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Improvised weapons such as sharpened cutlery had been used during fights at Cookham Wood in Rochester, they found.
An unannounced inspection found an increase in the number of boys needing hospital treatment for head injuries.
Prison officials said they had taken measures to improve safety and behaviour since the inspection.
HM Inspectorate of Prisons said that at the time of the inspection in May, Cookham Wood held 166 boys, most aged 16 and 17.
About 10% of the boys had been convicted of or charged with murder or manslaughter.
The number of violent incidents was very high and in the six months leading up to March 2015 there had been 61 assaults and 92 fights, some of which were very serious.
Assaults on staff had almost doubled since the last inspection with 21 in the preceding six months, some resulting in serious injury.
However, the inspectors found levels of self-harm had fallen and health care had improved.
Chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said Cookham Wood reflected systemic problems across young offenders institutions.
"The welcome fall in the number of children in custody means that those who remain represent a more concentrated mix of very challenging young people, held in a smaller number of establishments that are increasingly unsuitable to meet their needs, and cared for by a staff group beset by shortages and a lack of training for their complex and demanding role," he said.
"A much wider political and policy response is needed if we are to fulfil our responsibilities to care for these, our most damaged children, safely and help them to grow into adults who are valued, not feared."
Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, said: "Cookham Wood manages an increasingly complex group of boys.
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"Tackling violence and providing a safe environment remains the governor's biggest challenge and top priority and work will continue to improve standards even further."
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The 20-year-old, who is yet to play for the Magpies first team, signed his first professional contract with the Premier League club in 2015.
He made his league debut during a two-month loan spell last season with Blackpool, where he played eight times.
Smith will be available for the Alex up to and including their League Two game with Mansfield Town on 7 January.
He is the third player signed by Crewe boss Steve Davis this summer, following experienced strikers Ryan Lowe and Chris Dagnall.
Smith will hope to emulate the success of another Newcastle loanee Brad Inman, who moved to Gresty Road as a 20-year-old in November 2012 before signing permanently the following August.
Inman was the Alex's top scorer in League One last term before leaving for Peterborough this summer.
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The murdered man, found near the banks of the River Trent in Staffordshire in 1971, could be John Henry Jones from Trevor in Wrexham, police have said.
The man's body was found naked with his hands and feet tied. Now his face has been reconstructed using the latest medical and digital techniques.
The name came to light after a dental expert reviewed missing person records.
Mr Jones, 27, went missing in 1970.
He was born on 30 April 1943 and lived in George Avenue in the village that lies between Llangollen and Wrexham.
Police want to speak to anyone who knew knew him.
Officers who investigated at the time, believed the man, who was found wearing nothing but a pair of pink socks and a wedding ring, had been murdered.
The make-shift grave was discovered in Burton-on-Trent by an off-duty police officer. The body had been there for between 12 and 18 months.
Retired Det Ch Insp Peter Hough who was in charge of the investigation said: "I personally hadn't come across anything like it because of the local attention it received.
"The town was a buzz. Still people ask about it."
He said despite "every effort" being made to identify the body, missing persons, dental and fingerprint records failed to reveal who he was and the police were unable to determine how he was killed.
"It's never been out of my mind after all these years but I'm still optimistic," he said.
Now, in a final attempt to identify him, Prof Caroline Wilkinson, from Facelab at Liverpool John Moores University, has created an image of his face.
She said: "This is as accurate as we can get in terms of a depiction."
The method has been tested on living people and about 70% of the reconstructed face should be accurate to less than 2mm.
The facial image was broadcast on BBC's Crimewatch Roadshow in the hope someone will recognise him.
The live televised debate examined what Northern Ireland voters think about EU membership.
The panel included DUP MP Sammy Wilson, SDLP MLA Claire Hanna, Conservative Party MEP Daniel Hannan and political aide and author Alastair Campbell.
The economy and borders were among the issues discussed on the programme which was presented by Stephen Nolan.
There were also questions on immigration and agriculture.
The referendum takes place on Thursday, 23 June.
The 29-year-old, who was was born in DR Congo and has a Congolese mother, is expected to complete a free transfer to the Lubumbashi club this week.
Vanden Borre had announced his retirement from football on 10 January.
His most recent club was French side Montpelier and his career has included spells at Anderlecht, Fiorentina, Genoa and Portsmouth.
The right-back holds dual Belgian and Congolese citizenship and elected to represent the European country at senior national level when aged 16.
He played once for Belgium at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, against South Korea.
Syed Sibtain Kazmi, 57, from Bradford, is accused of being involved in the killing of Maulana Azam Tariq in 2003.
Mr Tariq, the leader of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba group, was shot dead when his vehicle was attacked by gunmen in Islamabad during a spate of violence between Shia and Sunni groups.
Mr Kazmi, was arrested at Islamabad airport, a spokesperson for Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency said.
Mr Kazmi told the BBC in August he was the cleric who granted an Islamic divorce to alleged "honour killing" victim Samia Shahid.
Ms Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died while visiting relatives in Pakistan in July 2016.
Syed Sibtain Kazmi is a Shia cleric from Pakistan who has spent years leading prayers at a number of British mosques - most recently in Bradford.
He was wanted in Pakistan in connection with the 2003 shooting of a leader of a banned Sunni organisation - linked to attacks on Shia Muslims.
Today he was arrested at Islamabad airport on route to the UK.
Kazmi's supporters have, in the past, denied the allegations against him.
Merlin Entertainments Group (MEG), which runs the historical attraction, has filed an application to build lodges and several tree-houses.
But some have described the plans, set to go before Warwick District Council in November, as "wholly inappropriate".
In its application MEG said the site would "benefit the wider economy".
The firm has applied for permission to erect up to 20 permanent lodges, and create room for 41 glamping tents on land known as "Foxes Study".
It was previously granted permission to erect a temporary site during the last two summers.
Owners of neighbouring homes have expressed concerns about the proposals, which they claim will compromise the castle's historic character.
Veronica Hyland submitted an objection which said the move would be the "first step in turning this historic heritage site into a theme park".
"Granting this application would be another nail in the coffin of Warwick as a historic town and of the castle as a place abounding in history," she wrote.
Ms Hyland also said she feared trees surrounding the castle would be under threat if the plans were approved.
Councillor Bob Dhillon said he supported the application, and felt it had been "carefully considered" by MEG.
"I agree it will not affect the key historic features of the area or key views around the site," he said.
The actress's father was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.
Smith had been due to perform songs from Funny Girl, the musical she recently starred in, at the event at the Hammersmith Apollo on 6 December.
A representative for the actress said: "Sheridan's much-loved father sadly passed away this week."
She asked for privacy for Smith and her family "at this difficult time".
Smith pulled out of several performances of Funny Girl in March when she learned of her father's illness.
She later took a break citing stress and exhaustion, but returned in July and is scheduled to go on tour with the musical from February.
Colin Smith was with his daughter at the 2011 Olivier awards when she won best actress in a musical for her appearance in Legally Blonde.
In an interview the previous year, the actress revealed her parents performed as a country and western duo called The Daltons.
"They used to perform seven nights a week, and when I was four I joined them on stage doing little dance routines," she told the Telegraph.
"They don't often have gigs at weekends now, but if they do I'll be there joining in."
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Chelsey Lee, 26, plays in the Women's Korean Basketball League, whose teams are allowed only two foreign players.
But the KEB Hana Bank centre could be permanently banned if prosecutors can prove documents she presented are fake.
Prosecutors were asked to investigate after the Korean Olympic Committee pushed for Lee's naturalisation.
The committee had wanted to include Miami-born Lee in the South Korean team at this summer's Games in Rio after she was voted rookie of the year.
Prosecutors said the man listed as Lee's father did not exist, and the daughter of a dead South Korean woman listed as Lee's grandmother confirmed she did not have other children.
The Women's Korean Basketball League (WKBL) says it will await a court ruling over the documents before issuing any sanctions.
"The league will start discussions on how to potentially penalise Lee and the team, and also strengthen the verification process when teams sign foreign players," spokesman Kim Ilku said.
WKBL teams can each have two foreign players, who face limitations in playing minutes in each game. But foreign-born players with a South Korean parent or grandparent do not count in the quota.
He wants more action on how such groups use social networks.
He is also unhappy about plans to offer greater encryption for online communications.
So can the uneasy relationship between tech firms and the security services be rebuilt?
What exactly is Mr Hannigan worried about?
His concerns appear to be twofold. Firstly the fact that militant organisations such as Islamic State (IS) are using Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp to promote themselves and the increasing sophistication that extremists are showing in their use of such platforms.
And secondly he is not happy about pledges from Microsoft, Google, Apple and Yahoo to make encryption a default option to protect users from government snooping.
Tech firms are keen to put user privacy top of the agenda following allegations from former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden about mass surveillance in the US and the UK.
How are extremist groups using social media?
The internet is a tool for communication so it should come as little surprise that extremists are using it to recruit, plan campaigns and spread their messages.
But they are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of it - recent slick, well-produced videos using hostage British journalist John Cantlie to pass on the IS message provided chilling evidence of how well-versed the modern militant is in using the media.
English-translated bomb-making manuals are freely available online and increasingly terrorists are using chatrooms to openly discuss the best ways to make a bomb.
IS uses popular hashtags to boost the popularity of its material and sends thousands of tweets a day without triggering spam controls.
When social media became a key part of the Arab Spring, one Egyptian activist explained the relationship thus: "We use Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to co-ordinate and YouTube to tell the world."
Now it seems that message has become the rallying call for extremist organisations.
If terrorists are communicating openly on Twitter, doesn't that make the security agencies' job easier?
The fact that terrorist organisations now have multiple ways to get their message across means that the drumbeat of terrorism is getting louder and the phrase "anyone can become a terrorist" has never been so relevant.
The problem is summarised by Joseph Kunkle, who works in the office of security technology for the US Department of Homeland Security in a recent article he wrote on the issue : "No longer do traditional media control the messages that terrorists seek to deliver. Today instant-messaging jihadists can communicate with anyone... and is increasing the potential for recruiting operatives legally living in targeted countries."
But there is a flipside - having a social-media presence offers law enforcement an unprecedented window onto terrorist activity.
It allows intelligence agencies to determine the identities of supporters and potential recruits. Anyone who follows or befriends terrorist organisations is likely to become of interest to the authorities and, using data analysis, governments can potentially trace entire networks of contacts.
What are internet companies doing to prevent extremist groups using their networks to spread propaganda such as videos of hostages being murdered?
Such videos have horrified the public and become a central propaganda tool for IS.
Google says that it has "zero tolerance" for such videos, but with more than 300 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, it is an impossible job to police content.
Neither is it possible to create an algorithm to censor material before it is uploaded.
Instead, Google relies on the community of users to flag inappropriate content. Such content is then taken down "within hours", according to a spokesman.
And information such as the IP address from which the video was posted is handed over to the authorities when asked for.
Meanwhile, Facebook has been criticised for initially refusing to delete images on the site that showed severed heads in a part of Syria controlled by IS.
It said that the material did not contravene its guidelines but later blocked the material after being contacted by the BBC.
What does GCHQ want tech firms to do differently?
One of its key concerns is the promise from firms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo to use greater encryption in its services.
If they follow through on these promises, they would be effectively throwing away the key to unlock communications and GCHQ is very keen to persuade them not to go down this route.
As security expert Alan Woodward, who has advised GCHQ in the past, puts it: "If someone encrypts communications, it is difficult to unscramble without the key. The real concern is that the security services will end up blind."
Yahoo has promised "end-to-end" encryption of its mail service by 2015, while Microsoft has pledged to ensure customer content uploaded to its servers would be encrypted by default.
But it isn't entirely clear whether greater encryption will mean that data becomes unreadable.
When Microsoft was asked by the BBC whether this was the case it said it was unable to provide a detailed answer, saying just "it will respond to lawful government requests".
Why are tech firms threatening to make it harder for law enforcement agencies to read communications?
It comes down the the age-old tussle between security and privacy.
Tech firms are acutely aware that the government has a vital role to play in keeping communities safe but it is also aware that its customers - who pay their bills - want greater anonymity and privacy in the post-Snowden world.
While there has been a breakdown in trust between spy agencies and tech firms, most experts believe that the relationship is salvageable.
Data forensics expert Prof Peter Sommer believes we will see more transparency from GCHQ - indeed they may start producing reports similar to the ones that Google and others already publish, which outline how many data requests are made each year and what they are about.
He also predicts that better oversight mechanisms will be put in place to prevent mass surveillance and ensure that any requests for data from tech firms is proportionate and appropriate.
And he thinks that more frank opinions like the ones Mr Hannigan expressed to the Financial Times are also likely as GCHQ seeks to reassure the public that it has their best interests at heart.
Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has mounted a desperate defence of his hand-picked successor in office, Dilma Rousseff.
Ms Rousseff is fighting moves to impeach her over allegations she manipulated Brazil's account books to hide a growing deficit.
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But it may already be too late as her coalition allies are falling away.
The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), the largest in President Rousseff's governing coalition, will decide on Tuesday whether to break from the administration.
The party holds seven ministerial posts and the vice presidency, and has 69 members in the 513-member lower house of Congress.
The number of deputies in the lower house is key because it could influence President Rousseff's future.
If Ms Rousseff can get a third of all deputies behind her, she can block impeachment proceedings against her.
But if she loses the support of the PMDB and its members vote in favour of her impeachment, the lower house could suspend her and replace her with Vice-President Michel Temer.
The Senate would then have to decide if she should be removed from office.
Lula told members of the foreign press on Monday that such a move would be "undemocratic" and likened it to a coup attempt.
"Impeachment without a legal basis is a coup, there is no other word," he said.
"They want to shorten President Dilma [Rousseff]'s term through a coup," he added.
The former leader spoke for over two hours in a bid to win over members of the international media.
Lula distrusts the Brazilian press and accuses them of helping to construct a narrative against President Rousseff.
"It's not the headlines of a newspaper that can absolve or convict somebody," he said.
"We are seeing exaggeration and people being convicted even before there was a due legal process."
Five years ago, if Lula talked most people would have listened. He left office in January 2011 with an 83% approval rating.
A president who rose from abject poverty promising major reforms to the country's political and economic system, he presided over Brazil's longest period of economic growth in three decades.
But now he may be slowly falling from grace.
Prosecutors are investigating the largest corruption scandal in the country's history at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras, with hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks.
Earlier this month, he was briefly detained and questioned about allegations he took gifts from construction companies involved in this bribery scandal, which he denies.
In an extraordinary move, President Rousseff tried to appoint Lula as her chief of staff despite the ongoing investigation.
Many believed this was to save him from being arrested as those who hold ministerial posts enjoy a certain level of immunity from prosecution.
Thousands of people took to the streets to protest and his appointment was suspended by the Supreme Court, which is due to pass a final ruling on the matter next week.
The move put Brazil and its politics back in the headlines.
Lula believes the way the high-profile investigation is being conducted could tarnish Brazil's international image.
In particular he took issue with the release to the media of taped conversations and witness statements by the federal judge in charge of the investigation, Sergio Moro.
"Yes we should fight corruption and we should find out who's stolen... but is it necessary to make a TV show out of it?," he asked.
"Is it necessary to turn it into some kind of Big Brother show?," he added before asking: "How much is this affecting the Brazilian economy?"
Charismatic and witty, Lula believes he can bring back "joy" to Brazil.
It is certainly much needed when you look at the country's economic woes.
The International Monetary Fund in January projected that the Brazilian economy would shrink by 3.5%, 2.5 percentage points more than its previous estimate.
Unemployment has continued to climb, rising to more than 8% compared to 5.8% a year earlier.
But Lula may be in no position to fight the economic meltdown facing his country.
His fate lies in the hands of others.
Prosecutors have charged him with money laundering but a judge has yet to decide whether to accept those charges.
In the meantime, the Supreme Court will debate whether he should be allowed to take up his post as chief of staff or not.
And if President Rousseff is ousted, Lula loses his main backer and there is unlikely to be a position for him in government.
Lula's Workers' Party believes "elitists" in Brazil are conspiring against him.
His controversial appointment has divided Brazilians, with thousands of people taking to the streets of Sao Paulo and Rio in rival demonstrations to protest for and against the former leader.
On Monday, Lula said he all wanted for Brazil was for "everybody to be Brazilian".
"I don't want to split Brazil, I don't want to split the country between the white elite and the poor, be they black or white."
After the most tumultuous few weeks in politics since democracy was returned to Brazil, Lula's wish may be in vain.
Chris Harris went over as the visitors led 10-7 at half-time, despite David Melee's try for Top 14 side Grenoble.
After being pegged back, Craig Willis converted after Calum Green's try and added a penalty for a 10-point lead.
But a Grenoble penalty try led to Green being sin-binned, with Etienne Fourcade and Fabrice Estebanez scoring either side of Scott Wilson's try for victory.
Newcastle are 10 points behind pool leaders Ospreys, who host Lyon on Sunday, with only the side finishing top guaranteed a place in the knockout stages of the competition.
Harris' try came on his return from an ankle injury as Dean Richards named a completely changed starting XV, while the bonus-point win still leaves Grenoble adrift at the bottom.
Grenoble: Dardet; Heguy, Edwards, Capelli, Hand; Marie, Kornath; Hayes, Mele, Bosch, Dupont, Gelin, Estebanez, Batlle.
Replacements: Fourcade, Jacquot, Rossouw, Jolmes, Kimlin, Saseras, Guillemin, Waqa.
Newcastle: Connon; Marshall, C Harris, Burdon (capt), Kibirige; Willis, Egerton; B Harris, Sowrey, D Wilson, Witty, Botha, Robinson, Orr, Temm.
Replacements: Cooper, Brocklebank, S Wilson, Green, G Young, M Young, Waldouck, Catterick.
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Most of the money would compensate 482,000 owners of two-litre diesel cars programmed to distort emissions tests.
Owners could receive between $1,000 and $7,000, depending on their car's age.
The agreement could still change when it is officially announced by a judge on Tuesday, sources said.
Lawyers representing car owners, Volkswagen and the US Environmental Protection Agency have not yet agreed the steps VW will take to fix the cars.
The company still faces accusations over its three-litre diesel cars, as well as the prospect of hefty fines from US regulators and possible criminal charges.
Earlier this year the German company more than doubled its provisions for the scandal to €16.2bn (£12.6bn).
On Wednesday VW chief executive Mr Mueller issued a fresh apology to shareholders, saying the "misconduct goes against everything that Volkswagen stands for".
However, he has not put a figure on the total cost of the emissions scandal until a final deal was reached with US authorities.
Volkswagen admitted in September it had installed a "defeat device" - or software - in diesel engines in the US that could detect when they were being tested.
The company subsequently revealed that more than 11 million cars worldwide were affected.
Volkswagen said it was unable to comment ahead of the court's decision.
About 3,000 French soldiers will be deployed, along with troops from Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad.
On Monday France ended its military deployment in Mali, set up 18 months ago after an Islamist insurgency there.
French forces helped the Malian government recapture the north from al-Qaeda-linked militants last year.
The new long-term force, named Operation Barkhane, will be based in the Chadian capital N'Djamena, but will have a mandate to operate across borders.
It will target Islamist extremists in Mali, Chad and Niger.
The French troops will be backed by six fighter jets, 20 helicopters and three drones.
The main objective of Operation Barkhane is counter-terrorism, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said.
The new deployment will take place in the coming days.
The Sahel includes some of the world's poorest countries but has rich natural resources in the form of minerals and gas.
France sent troops to Mali in January 2013 after Islamist militants threatened to overrun the capital, Bamako.
But Mr Le Drian said Islamist groups posed a threat to the entire region.
A statement from the bid team said financial reasons and a global fall in oil prices were behind the withdrawal.
The Games, which were held in Glasgow last year, were staged in Edmonton in 1978 and the city has said they will bid again to host the 2026 event.
"This hasn't been an easy decision," said bid chairman Reg Milley.
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"Our team has been working tirelessly these last months to put together an extraordinary bid.
"But at this time it would not be right to move forward with our bid when cuts are being made in our communities to programmes like education and health."
An Edmonton bid for the 2026 Games could be up against a bid from Wales.
Cardiff City Council and the Welsh government are conducting a feasibility study on whether to table a bid for the event.
Australia's Gold Coast will host the Games in 2018, and Durban is set to be named as the 2022 host when the official announcement is made on 2 September, 2015.
David Grevemberg, chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation, said: "We're obviously disappointed to hear Edmonton will not be part of the host city bidding process for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
"We now look forward enthusiastically to working with the Durban 2022 bid team and their partners through the evaluation process so we can realise the ambitions of delivering Africa's first Commonwealth Games.
"I'm confident there will be a great 2022 Commonwealth Games to follow on from the fantastic experience of Glasgow and the dynamic Games currently shaping up in the Gold Coast for 2018."
Jamie Mines was injured at the Kendrick Industrial Estate in Swindon just before Christmas.
A fund to help the semi-professional football player from Frome has already raised £113,000.
Local people have also organised a football tournament at his former club - Frome Town - to raise more funds.
Mr Mines, who also plays for Radstock, Larkhall and Paulton football clubs, is well-known locally where he is described as a "goal machine".
Following the accident, into which the Health and Safety Executive is investigating, the 33-year-old was placed in an induced coma at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.
He also missed his first Christmas with his five-month-old twins Isabella and Savannah.
Family friend Billy Wright said he was "doing really well" and undergoing "intensive rehabilitation" at a specialist centre in Oxford.
"There's no doubt that the support the town of Frome, the entire country and the footballing community have shown James, has really, really helped him," he said.
"He's completely overwhelmed - the support that's come through has really given him the positivity to fight."
He becomes the League Two new boys' seventh signing of the summer by boss Mark Cooper since winning promotion from the National League in May.
James, 22, who began with Hartlepool, has also been on loan at Bradford City and last term at Bristol Rovers, where he failed to net in 30 appearances.
"I can't wait to get going. The style of play here suits the way I play," James told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"There were a couple interested but, when I sat down with the gaffer, it was a no brainer for me.
"There is a buzz around Forest Green. Hopefully we can push on and have an exciting season.
"Bristol last year was good for me and helped me get to know the area. That should help make settling in a lot quicker, as I really like the area."
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During the row at a government meeting, Mr Avakov hurled a water glass at Mr Saakashvili.
Some people jokingly called it the Ukrainian "Watergate." But the ramifications of the fight could be very serious.
In addition to the glassware, the men threw substantial - though uncorroborated - accusations of corruption against each other.
The incident also raised questions of how much longer the country's ruling coalition can feasibly hold together, given the deep antipathy some of its members obviously feel for one another.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk joined Mr Avakov in venting his hostility towards Mr Saakashvili.
And Mr Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, by all appearances more than returned the sentiment.
The cracks now on full display have brought back memories, and fears, of the failure of Ukraine's other post-uprising government, after the Orange Revolution.
Then, infighting between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stymied the government's reform agenda and ultimately delivered their opponent, Viktor Yanukovych, to power.
All has not yet deteriorated completely. But there are also significant differences between today's circumstances and what has come before.
The country is fighting what many see as a war for Ukraine's survival against Russian-supported separatists in the east.
At the same time, concerns are rising that people could again take to the streets, frustrated over a stagnant economy, lack of reform and pervasive corruption.
Many Ukrainians, average citizens as well as politicians, fear a third "Maidan" could immediately turn violent.
No less than US Vice President Joe Biden pointed out the seriousness of the situation, and appealed to Ukrainian political leaders to forget their differences and focus on what was right for the country.
"The stakes couldn't be higher," he told Ukraine's parliament earlier this month in an historic, and emotional, speech.
"This may be your last chance - don't waste it."
The message has yet to take hold, however.
In addition to the altercation at the government meeting, a fight recently broke out in parliament after a legislator tried to physically carry Prime Minister Yatsenyuk from the rostrum.
Deputies also failed to approve a crucial government budget and tax code needed to secure further funding from the International Monetary Fund to keep Ukraine's economy afloat.
So far, President Petro Poroshenko, thrust into the role of peacemaker, has tried to maintain a balance between the warring factions, doling out equal criticism to either side.
However, some feel Mr Poroshenko will ultimately have to make a decisive move - either to carry out some high-profile dismissals, or to reach a grand bargain compromise among his warring subordinates.
Or he could threaten all involved to such a degree that they would think twice before they engage in a potentially destabilising action.
But there are doubts that this too in the end would accomplish anything.
Given the emotions and antagonism exhibited by Mr Saakashvili, Mr Avakov and Mr Yatsenyuk last week, no man seems ready at the moment to back down, short of the destruction of his opponent.
Officers said the radioactive items were seven lightning preventers, contained in a red metal box.
They warned the public that the stolen items should not be touched or approached.
Police said the lightning preventers have the appearance of aluminium or steel but are of no scrap value.
They asked anyone who discovers the stolen items to contact them or the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland in Dublin.
The BBC understands 150 temporary workers in the firm's Belfast office will lose their jobs on Friday.
They had been working on the contract dealing with tax credit payments to low income families.
On Monday, an employee spoke to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme about suicidal callers.
The latest whistleblower, who is based at the Concentrix call centre in the city's Fountain Street, told BBC Good Morning Ulster that despite the looming job losses, workers at the firm continue to take calls from "desperate" people who are in a dire financial state.
Asked why he was speaking out, he said the stress of the situation has affected the health of some employees, who feel that "no one is speaking for them".
"We have people who are still ringing up since July trying to get their case resolved. The worst case scenario is that people are threatening suicide and in some cases there are children involved and their wellbeing is our primary concern."
He suggested that on a number of occasions, the callers have threatened the safety of their own children, adding that in each of these cases, senior members of the team strive to keep the claimant on the line until the police arrive at their home.
"It could be anything from 10 minutes to 45. Usually, you try to take them through the case and you may even talk to them about something else [in order to] calm them down, especially if there are children there.
"There have been cases where children in the background [are] extremely distressed because they're obviously watching mum or dad on the phone, so the whole thing can be really, really upsetting for everybody concerned."
The employee, who asked not to be identified, said dealing with such calls was not part of their training. He claimed a small number of staff deal with the most sensitive cases.
"That's been reduced down to a couple of people that are actually quite good at that, because they have maybe empathy, the right sort of sensitivity and personality to handle them.
"And then there are some people that absolutely you wouldn't let anywhere near them. People just haven't been trained, haven't been prepared for it."
The worker said that staff at Concentrix "have had a really tough deal".
The worker said that a fortnight ago, all temporary staff were summoned to a meeting, in which they were given two weeks notice of an end to their contracts.
"In my experience from the last couple of weeks with the temporary staff, they've been paying lip service in press announcements," he said.
"They've been saying 'Yeah we'll help do the very best', but on the floor, that's not the case.
"There are two members of my team who applied for internal positions and didn't get them.
"They were told they're not skilled enough, yet they're taking these suicide calls in extremely stressful, difficult circumstances, for low pay."
A spokesperson for Concentrix said: "All temporary staff working were recruited on a short term basis and as per the volume forecasts agreed with HMRC ahead of time. These temporary roles were expected to ramp down as per plan at the end of August and we have in fact extended beyond this."
The spokesman added: "We follow the guidelines provided to us by HMRC. All Concentrix staff are trained in the same way as HMRC staff members and we are prepared for situations such as this.
"Our staff conduct themselves professionally at all times. We have sought guidance from HMRC, so that our staff are supported as much as possible where we have encountered this type of scenario."
Neath Port Talbot council wants to spend £13.6m on a new six-lane swimming pool, sports hall and community centre to replace the Afan Lido in Aberavon.
But campaigners want the pool to have eight lanes, a bigger sports hall and room for spectators.
The council said the cost and design would be part of a consultation.
The campaigners claim their ideas could be incorporated for less than what the council plans to spend.
"We just want them to get it right," said Harry Worth, chairman of Aberavon lifeguard club.
"We want the local community to have their say. We called a public meeting this week so the local community could express their concerns.
"About 300 turned up and they were unanimous that they wanted an eight-lane pool and spectator terrace.
"There were some council members there and we wanted the council to understand the level of feeling in the local community."
Phil Robinson, secretary of Afan Lido FC, which is next to the old site, also backs the appeal.
"The thing we are concerned about is the sports hall is not big enough - it's a sports hall with room for one five-a-side court and without spectators," he said.
"We have hundreds of kids. We have children aged three, four, five, six, seven but if you brought your child, you cannot watch them.
"In the old place we had two courts and there was 700 seats. All we are asking is for it to be as it was with the equivalent of two five-a-side courts and have about 100 seats.
"Since the fire, our kids are all over the place. We are hiring a local boys club and school halls."
The Afan Lido was opened in 1965 by the Queen with Graham Jenkins, the brother of Hollywood star Richard Burton, its first manager.
Over the years, the venue was able to host large-scale concerts, and the bands who played there crossed musical eras, from Spencer Davies to Pink Floyd and more recently Coldplay and McFly.
But in December 2009, homes were evacuated and roads closed as more than 100 firefighters tackled a large blaze at the lido.
At the height of the blaze in December 2009, 17 fire vehicles were deployed and crews were unable to enter the the leisure centre once the flames broke through the roof.
The gutted building was flattened at the end of last year after asbestos delayed clearing the site.
A total of 2,628 people took part in a Neath Port Talbot council consultation on replacing the Afan Lido.
Although many people said they would like to see an identical rebuild, the council said it was costing £700,000 a year to keep the old lido going before its demise.
Instead, it is proposing a new 25m six-lane swimming pool to replace the Aquadome water attraction and slides that used to exist.
There will also be a four court indoor sports hall and new community facilities.
Sandfields library and lifelong learning centre will move to the site once it is completed.
Councillors have been told the total project cost had been budgeted at £13.6m and wanted to have it open by 2013.
Since the consultation, Neath Port Talbot has begun negotiations with a private company to move the replacement leisure centre to the neighbouring Hollywood Park complex.
The plan would be to house the six-lane pool in the unopened bowling alley with the rest of the replacement centre built alongside it and linked to a cinema which already exists.
BBC Wales understands another consultation exercise on the new location is likely to happen after the council elections in May.
"I understand the council wants to do something with the Hollywood bowl and we are not opposing that but we wanted to make sure the main function of replacing the Afan Lido is not lost," Mr Worth added.
"We want to make sure the local people have a good facility for many years."
Mr Worth said a new leisure centre with an eight-lane pool in Haverfordwest cost just over £8m and feels a similar project could be done in Aberavon.
A Neath Port Talbot Council spokesperson said: "The cost and design of the new Afan Lido will fall out of the consultation and procurement process that the council is currently proceeding with."
Marouani and his lawyer were held at a bank where they said they hoped to meet the singer, Philipp Kirkorov, to settle a copyright issue out of court.
Instead they were met by police, after Kirkorov filed a complaint alleging Marouani, a founder of the band Space, tried to extort €1m ($1.1m) from him.
Marouani claims that Kirkorov - a huge star in Russia - plagiarised his work.
In a Facebook post on 1 November, the French composer complained that Kirkorov and composer Oleg Popkov had a huge hit with Cruel Love, a 2002 song that he said had partly been copied from his own composition Symphonic Space Dream.
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Marouani's lawyer Igor Trunov said on Monday that Kirkorov had agreed to sign an agreement to pay compensation for use of his song.
But Kirkorov's lawyer Alexandre Dobrovinski denied that there had been any agreement and accused Marouani of extortion and slander.
Russian media reported that Marouani and Mr Trunov were released on Wednesday morning after being held overnight in a police cell.
Tass news agency quoted a law enforcement source as saying that police currently saw no reason to bring charges against the two, though no final decision had been taken.
However, Mr Trunov told Interfax news agency that they would now sue Kirkorov in a US court and that under US law the Russian singer was facing a minimum $10m payout.
Kirkorov, one of Russia's best known pop singers, was once described as Russia's Michael Jackson and is known to be an admirer of US President-elect Donald Trump.
There will be two bands - one for soft drinks with more than 5g of sugar per 100ml and a higher one for drinks with more than 8g per 100ml.
Ministers hope it will help tackle the nation's obesity problem.
Many companies have already begun cutting the amount of sugar in their drinks.
Pure fruit juices will be exempt - but health officials stress people should limit consumption of these beverages to no more than 150ml per day.
Likewise, sugary milkshake and yogurt drinks will also be excluded.
Ministers were concerned that teenagers, particularly girls, were not getting enough calcium and so taxing these drinks might be counterproductive.
The government has said it expects the levy to raise £520m in the first year.
The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates the levy could add 18p to 24p to the price of a litre of fizzy drink if the full cost is passed on to the consumer.
This amounts to an extra 6p on a regular can of Fanta and Sprite, and an extra 8p on a regular can of Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Irn-Bru.
Health campaigners have broadly welcomed the initiative.
Dr Max Davie, of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "We are very pleased to see government moving forward with this draft legislation.
"The sugary drinks that will be affected by this tax have no nutritional benefit and often contain levels of sugar that are above a child's daily recommended limit.
"These drinks are a major contributor to the high sugar intakes of children, particularly teenagers, and we are in no doubt that they are, in part, contributing to this country's obesity crisis."
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
Cancer Research UK estimates a 20% tax on sugary drinks could prevent 3.7 million cases of obesity over the next decade - something the soft drinks industry rejects.
Gavin Partington, of the British Soft Drinks Association, said: "There is no evidence worldwide that taxes of this sort reduce obesity, and it is ironic that soft drinks are being singled out for tax when we've led the way in reducing sugar intake, down over 17% since 2012.
"We're also the only category to have set a 20% calorie reduction target for 2020."
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Adams, 32, beat Poland's Sandra Drabik on a majority points decision to win Britain's 13th gold in Azerbaijan.
Duncan Scott added a 14th with victory in the men's 100m freestyle, lifting Britain up to third in the medal table.
The 18-year-old won in 49.43 seconds, with Italy's Alessandro Miressi second and Russia's Vladislav Kozlov third.
Scott returned for the men's 4x200m final where he, Martyn Walton, Kyle Chisholm and Cameron Kurle finished second to Russia, with bronze going to Germany.
Jarvis Parkinson won silver in the men's 200m individual medley, with Walton in third, while Layla Black also claimed bronze in the women's 200m breaststroke final.
Black then joined Rebecca Sherwin, Amelia Clynes and Georgia Coates to win bronze in the women's 4x100m medley relay behind Russia and the Netherlands.
"I'm bringing back a little piece of history for Great Britain," said Adams, whose fellow British boxer Joe Joyce will compete in the men's super-heavyweight final on Friday.
The 29-year-old from London won his semi-final against Tony Yoko of France by unanimous decision and will fight Russia's Gasan Gimbatov. The win means Joyce has secured a place at the World Championships in October, where he will have the chance to qualify for the Rio Olympics.
Meanwhile, Sandy Ryan took bronze at women's light-welterweight after losing her semi-final to Russia's Anastasia Beliakova.
The European Games conclude on Sunday, 28 June.
German MEP Elmar Brok told the BBC that "reality" had "not arrived" in London and a "realistic plan" was needed.
It was wrong to think the UK could stay in the single market without "minimum" commitment to its funding, he said.
The government is working out its negotiating position before full Brexit talks begin next year.
Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, starting the full process of leaving the EU, by the end of March.
Talks will then last up to two years, with the government saying on Tuesday that it was "very likely" Parliament would get a vote on the final deal reached.
Last week Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, one of the leading voices of the Leave campaign, which won June's referendum on EU membership, predicted that the UK would arrange a trade deal "possibly of greater value" than it currently has as part of the single market.
He told MPs it would also be possible to keep "control of our borders" and save "a fair bit of cash".
Mr Brok, an MEP for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party, told the BBC: "I've met Boris Johnson for two hours' meetings privately. We've known each other for more than 25 years and these are interesting debates on Brexit."
Two other prominent Leave campaigners, Brexit Secretary David Davis and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, have been tasked, along with Mr Johnson, with overseeing the process of exiting the EU.
Speaking in London, Mr Brok added: "I'm astonished what they (pro-Brexit ministers) think about the European Union, what they know about the European Union and which conditions have to be fulfilled to come to a deal.
"I've sometimes a feeling that after all this happiness after Brexit, the reality has not arrived in this city - what are the real conditions for coming to a deal and all the technical implications that have to go through?"
Mr Brok said: "I have no clear idea of their plan because they have no idea of their plan. I have not the impression that they know where they want to go and I have also the feeling that they do not know certain conditions which you have to know in order to make a realistic plan."
He added: "They believe, for example, that you can play a part in the single market without financing structure funds."
That would mean "the minimum of conditions" for staying in the single market were "not fulfilled", Mr Brok added.
Mr Fox has described Brexit as a "golden opportunity", urging UK to "rise to the challenge", while Mr Davis has said he will negotiate for continuing tariff-free access to the single market, arguing that this "is in the interest of the other members of the EU as well as us".
Tuesday's rise in the Russian currency proved short-lived, with early trading seeing the rouble fall to 54.82 against the dollar and 67.82 to the euro.
The rouble then recovered a shade to 53.14 per dollar and 65.41 per euro.
The rouble has lost more than a third of its value against the dollar and euro since the start of the year.
Western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine and the fall in oil prices are hurting the economy.
A decision by the oil producers' group Opec not to rein in production - which would have bolstered crude prices - sparked a big fall in the rouble. The currency dropped by 9% on Monday - its biggest one-day decline since 1998.
Oil and gas revenues are the biggest single source of revenues for Moscow.
On Monday, Russia's central bank spent about $700m to support the currency, according to official data.
There were unconfirmed reports on Wednesday that the bank was again intervening to prop up the rouble.
"Without doubt, the central bank is selling (foreign currency)," according to an unnamed trader cited by the Reuters news agency.
The bank indicated in early November that interventions would be less frequent as part of a plan to let it float freely on the currency markets.
The hostages - from Italy, Britain, Greece and Lebanon - were captured in a raid on a construction site in the northern state of Bauchi.
In an online statement posted on Saturday, the militant group Ansaru said it had killed the captives.
Ansaru is suspected of being an offshoot of the Boko Haram network.
On Sunday, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said a British construction worker, named as Brendan Vaughan, was "likely to have been killed at the hands of his captors, along with six other foreign nationals".
"This is an unforgivable act of pure, cold-blooded murder, for which there can be no excuse or justification," he added.
The Italian government issued a similar statement, while the Greek foreign ministry said: "The information we have shows that the Greek citizen is dead."
Who are Nigeria's Ansaru militants?
Ansaru's online message included grainy pictures purporting to show the bodies of the seven - a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers.
The group said they had been killed because of a rescue attempt by British and Nigerian forces.
But in its statement, the Italian foreign ministry said: "There was never any military attempt to rescue the hostages by any of the governments concerned."
It added that the group's actions "can have no explanation other than blind and barbaric violence".
Britain's military said its warplanes which were recently spotted in Nigeria's capital Abuja had been there to carry soldiers taking part in the French-led operation in Mali - not to rescue hostages.
The seven hostages were seized in a raid from a site belonging to the Setraco construction company. It resulted in the death of a guard.
Ansaru said it had carried out the attack in revenge for what it called atrocities by European nations against Islam.
The group, formed in January 2012, has been listed by the UK government as a "terrorist organisation" aligned with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
It abducted French national Francis Colump in December in an attack on a compound in the northern state of Katsina.
In January Ansaru said it had carried out an attack that killed two Nigerian soldiers as they prepared to deploy to Mali, where French-led troops have been fighting Islamic militants.
But for Justine Greening, Theresa May's education secretary, the first question will be what to do with the bulging out-tray.
Her predecessor Nicky Morgan has already sent out a far-reaching and controversial White Paper for schools, but it's been left in suspended animation during the political upheavals.
Will it be ditched or brought back to life?
The proposals have already been something of a car crash.
After a rebellion by backbench MPs, the plan for all state schools in England to be forced to become academies had to be abandoned only weeks after it had been announced, in one of the biggest U-turns of David Cameron's government.
The flagship might have been sunk, but there were other measures for schools that Ms Greening will have to weigh up.
There was a controversial proposal to allow academy chains to operate without any elected parent governors, which ruffled the feathers of many people who had given up their time to help local schools.
Even if academy status is not compulsory, the proposals presumed a big expansion in academy chains - and there are questions, not least from Ofsted, about the need for more rapid intervention for academy chains that are underperforming.
Another thorny question, which for many years has been kicked into the long grass, has been around the introduction of a national funding formula.
This reallocation of how much money goes to each school has been promised for 2017 and is a response to many years of campaigning over uneven levels of per pupil funding.
But it has always been extremely politically sensitive - with the expectation that there will be losers as well as winners - and the prospect of individual schools facing big funding cuts is going to be difficult to set against promises to protect school spending.
It also touches upon a bigger budgetary question - whether the incoming government will still be bound by David Cameron's promise to protect the education budget.
Also in this political limbo are plans for a major overhaul of teacher training and the abolition of the current "qualified teacher status".
Changes to teacher training mean treading across the thin ice of a shortage of teachers - a problem that head teachers have been noisily warning about as one of their biggest headaches.
There are other reasons head teachers and teachers' unions could be knocking on the door.
There have been angry complaints and calls for resignations over changes to the Sats tests, which this year saw almost half the 11-year-olds in England failing to reach the expected level.
The changes to GCSEs and A-levels - including switching to grades nine to one rather than A* to U - are likely to have their own share of teething difficulties, not least explaining the change to parents and employers.
The prospect of a revival of grammar schools, a big touchstone issue for parts of the Conservative party, has already appeared on the agenda - and Ms Greening will have to decide whether she wants to lift the ban on creating new grammar schools.
Ms Greening is likely to be in place when the next results of international Pisa tests are published later this year.
These rankings are revealed by the OECD every three years - and if England has nudged upwards, the incumbent can take the praise.
If it's another mediocre performance, she will have to say that it's still too early to judge the impact of changes.
But the most pressing problems are likely to be more practical than political.
The population surge continues, and that means an ever tighter squeeze on school places. Figures published by the Department for Education on Thursday showed that 570,000 extra secondary school places need to be created by 2025.
Whoever is education secretary, they will have to work hard to deliver the most basic requirement of guaranteeing a school place for every child.
It will mean a relentless demand for more classrooms, schools, teachers and head teachers - all of which will mean spending more money just to stand still.
Pressure on school budgets is already an issue worrying schools, and that is only likely to grow.
It might also be worthwhile checking the education credentials of the new boss.
Theresa May must have attended more types of school than most ministers. She went to a state primary, an independent school and then a grammar that became a comprehensive.
She served as a councillor in the trenches of local government and was education chair for the London Borough of Merton.
While others entered politics after writing pamphlets for think tanks, she must have had a lot more practical experience of writing letters to parents about school places.
Under William Hague's leadership she was shadow education secretary.
Her plans included "free schools" directly funded but independent from local authority supervision, which could set their own admissions rules and rates of pay for their staff.
The role of local education authorities would have been pared back and new grammar schools opened.
There was a promise from her party leader that teachers would be freed from being tied in knots by "a string of Whitehall diktats, meaningless targets and paperwork".
It might all sound rather familiar.
The maritime intelligence unit, called "JOT (Joint Operational Team) Mare", is based at Europol HQ in The Hague.
The UK and 12 other EU countries are involved. JOT Mare will help the EU border agency Frontex and national police to track and stop the gangs.
Italy and Malta have faced a surge of migrant boats heading for their shores.
The EU says the chaos in war-torn Libya has created fertile ground for the smuggling gangs to send dangerously overladen migrant boats towards Europe.
More than 220,000 migrants entered Europe illegally in 2014, compared to 60,000 in 2013, the European Commission says.
There were more than 3,000 deaths of migrants at sea in 2014, and in 2015 there have already been more than 1,000.
"Doing more and better to counter smuggling is a priority for the European Commission and it will also be one of the main pillars of the European Agenda on Migration that we will adopt in May this year," EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said.
In a statement welcoming the JOT Mare initiative, he said Frontex was currently monitoring several non-EU ports and about a dozen large vessels in the Mediterranean, "which might be used for smuggling migrants".
Besides the UK, the following countries are involved in the new Europol unit: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
The scope of maritime patrols off Italian shores has been cut back since Italy ended its Mare Nostrum operation last November. It had focused on picking up migrants in distress after setting sail from Libya.
The EU now runs a border control operation called Triton, limited to European territorial waters, with fewer ships.
Gerald Hesztera, a Europol spokesman, told the BBC that national police forces would send specialists to work at JOT Mare for a year or more. They would remain on the national payroll while engaged with the EU team.
JOT Mare's main job is to collect and analyse intelligence on people-smugglers, he said. "We can co-ordinate and make the connections", to help national police operations, he said.
Liz McIntyre is currently principal and chief executive of Borders College, the regional college for the Scottish Borders.
She will take over from Rob Wallen, who announced his retirement as principal earlier this year.
North East Scotland College has sites across Aberdeen and also in Aberdeenshire.
The report by the Royal College of Surgeons in England was done in 2014.
However, sections of it have only now been released following a freedom of information request.
NHS Grampian said it "provided a springboard" for "positive progress" made over the past year and a half.
The review team looked at 16 sets of clinical records provided by NHS Grampian and concluded that the standard of care was not outside that which might be expected.
In three cases, the procedures selected were approaches not all surgeons would have chosen, though "they were not inappropriate", the report said.
However, four cases involved what the report said "could in retrospect have been seen as questionable decision-making about pursuing further surgical treatment instead of more conservative or palliative care".
The report said, that with the benefit of hindsight, "the surgical treatment of these patients may not have been in their best interests".
The review also highlighted poor communication between teams, and rota issues which meant four consultants were on-call at the same time.
In November 2014, just the recommendations of the Royal College of Surgeons of England report were made public.
These latest sections have been published after a decision by the Scottish Information Commissioner who said additional details should be made available.
Malcolm Wright, chief Executive of NHS Grampian, said: "We are an open and transparent organisation and are committed to upholding the principles of the Freedom of Information Act, but there are occasions however when the release of information could breach the confidentiality of individual patients and staff.
"We take our responsibilities to patients and staff extremely seriously and felt that we had made the best judgements about what could be released.
"However we accept the Scottish Information Commissioner's findings and have acted on these."
He added: "The Royal College report provided a springboard for a great deal of the positive progress we've made over the last year and a half, including addressing concerns about team working, training and accountability.
"We have now seen a transformational change in the general surgery department and I would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard to achieve this."
Last year, there were 69 allegations of child rape and other sexual offences by peacekeepers from 10 missions.
One advocacy group says it has passed on new reports to the UN that a soldier made four girls have sex with a dog.
The UN said it was looking into the "exact number and nature" of the claims.
Living under a shadow of fear
Road to anarchy
The new reports of abuse were made by the Code Blue campaign run by the advocacy group Aids-free World. The group says the abuse was reported to have happened between 2013 and this week.
It says the bestiality claims, dating back to 2014, involved a commander with French forces. The girls, one of whom later died of an unknown disease, were each paid 5,000 Central African francs ($8.60; £6), the report says.
Other allegations centre on troops from France, Gabon, the CAR and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Forces were deployed in 2014 to help restore order in CAR after the president was overthrown the previous year and sectarian violence gripped the country.
A UN statement on Wednesday said the allegations involved some of its staff, as well as non-UN peacekeepers.
Teams were now on the ground investigating the reports, it said, while alleged victims will receive counselling and medical help.
Earlier this month, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for the repatriation of peacekeeping units whose soldiers face allegations of sexual abuse.
Last August, the UN envoy to Central African Republic (CAR), Babacar Gaye, was sacked amid multiple allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers.
An independent panel called the UN response to the allegations "seriously flawed" and a "gross institutional failure".
It accused senior UN officials of abusing their authority by failing to take action over allegations of abuse by soldiers from France, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.
The Northern Irishman shot a four-under-par 68 at Jumeirah Golf Estates to lie eight under, four shots behind the halfway leader, Andy Sullivan.
The Englishman carded a 66 to lead by one from Argentina's Emiliano Grillo.
McIlroy leads Race to Dubai rivals Justin Rose and Danny Willett by one and two shots respectively.
World number three McIlroy has a lead of only 1,613 points over Englishman Willett, with compatriot Rose more than 600,000 points further back and needing to finish second or better to have any chance of taking the end-of-season crown.
Even victory on Sunday in the £5.2m finale to the season would not be enough for Rose if McIlroy was outright second.
Sullivan, who shared the overnight lead with Ian Poulter, is the only player to win three times on the European Tour this season and could take his earnings for the year to almost £2m with the first prize of £875,000.
"It's absolutely awesome to be leading after halfway in such a massive event," the 28-year-old said.
"I'm just happy I'm doing it in front of my fans to keep them happy for the weekend anyway," said Sullivan, who is being cheered on by 30 supporters from his club in Nuneaton.
"They have followed me about six or seven times this year and every time they have been there, I've done pretty well.
"I think I am going to have to start paying for them to come out every week now."
McIlroy said he was "not quite performing at the highest levels" despite closing in on the European title.
"I still missed a few chances but I scrambled well today," he said.
"All facets of my game are pretty much there. It's just a matter of being a little more efficient, taking advantage of the par fives a bit better.
"I saw first hand how well Emiliano is playing but I just have to try and put another solid round in tomorrow and give myself a chance on Sunday."
Playing alongside McIlroy, Grillo carded eight birdies in his 64 - the lowest round of the week - to maintain the form which saw him win two titles in two weeks in October.
"It gives you a lot of confidence," said the 23-year-old, who almost hit McIlroy with a tee shot on his way to winning the Frys.com Open, his first PGA Tour title.
"Here it's pretty much like a major. You've got the best players in the world and you've got to play really well to keep it up."
Rose is five shots off the lead after adding a 66 to his opening 71 to move to seven under par.
Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel and Thongchai Jaidee are alongside McIlroy on eight under, with American Ryder Cup star Patrick Reed a shot further back.
Demi Clarke, 20, from Ballingry, died in hospital earlier this month.
Her friend Taylor Thomson has set up an online fundraising page to raise awareness of "the effects that drugs can have on people in such a short period of time".
She has suggested ecstasy was to blame for Ms Clarke's death.
The 20-year-old spent three days in hospital before she died.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Police in Fife are continuing to conduct inquiries into the death of a woman aged 20 who sadly passed away in the Victoria Hospital on July 5 after taking unwell in the Dunfermline area on July 2.
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained pending further inquiries and a report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal."
It is believed officers are investigating possible drug-use as one line of inquiry.
Ms Thomson aims to raise £5,000 to donate to her friend's family.
On the fundraising appeal page, she said Ms Clarke's death was "due to the severe and terrifying consequences of the drug ecstasy".
She added: "Demi was an outgoing girl. She loved socialising with her friends and making the most of any night. Her vibrant personality was infectious and she would never fail to make others around her laugh. Her death truly is a tragedy to all who knew her."
The 47-year-old journalist is accused of lying at the trial of Scottish socialist politician Tommy Sheridan at the High Court in Glasgow in 2010.
Mr Coulson, from Kent, has entered a plea of not guilty to the allegation.
He appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday. After hearing legal submissions, judge Lord Burns ordered the trial to begin on Friday.
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I do not want to be too negative but we have had three games at Euro 2016 so far and we were held by Russia, who are the worst team in the tournament, we beat Wales with a last-minute goal and we could not score against Slovakia.
I have not changed my mind about what I said on BBC One after the Slovakia game on Monday - I don't think Roy knows his best XI, or his best system, and that is where we are struggling.
It is not a total disaster finishing second in Group B, because we can still get a favourable tie depending on who is runner-up in Group F out of Portugal, Austria, Iceland and Hungary.
But, whoever we are up against, we are going to have to improve. Roy says we are ready to give someone a hiding, and I hope we do, but we are going to have to click in front of goal pretty soon or the worst will happen.
We are in the same half of the draw as Germany, Spain, Italy and hosts France, who would be our likely opponents if we reach the quarter-finals, but I am not looking that far ahead.
I think this tournament is wide open, which is a big positive for England, but at the moment we should only be thinking about how we will get through the last 16.
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I was very surprised at the number of changes Roy made against Slovakia, because it was a chance to gather some momentum. Particularly after the way we beat Wales, another good performance and win would have set us up for the tournament.
That is gone now, though. Instead we are back to asking a lot of questions about the England team and their tactics.
My concern, especially at this stage of the competition, is we do not have a reliable system to fall back on.
We have not got results playing in a 4-3-3 formation and I think part of the problem is that we do not have the players in our squad to use it effectively.
Other than Raheem Sterling, whose confidence seemed shot to bits in the first two games, we do not have any genuine wingers - our width has to come from our full-backs.
Daniel Sturridge has been out there on the right of our three-man attack but he does not really want to play out there. He wants to play in the middle and be a centre-forward.
Sterling has had his chance and didn't take it. Now we seem to be scrambling around to find a combination that works and it is all a bit confusing.
We need more guile in the final third to open teams up. Like Kyle Walker in our first two games, Nathaniel Clyne got forward well down that flank against Slovakia but they kept forcing us inside where there was no space and, in the end, we just ran out of ideas.
For our next game, in Nice on Monday, I would prefer we played a 4-2-3-1 or with a midfield diamond as it is a better fit for the players we have.
My diamond would have Eric Dier sitting, Dele Alli and Adam Lallana on the left and right, and Wayne Rooney just behind the front duo, who would be any two from Sturridge, Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane.
I called for Vardy and Sturridge to start against Slovakia - which happened, but with Sturridge on the right - and they struggled to make an impact. Whoever plays, they should both stay central.
It is ironic that, like a lot of people before the tournament, I was worried about our defence but it is our forwards who are finding things hard at the moment. It is just not happening for them.
We have seen a lot of teams at this tournament sitting very deep, especially in the final round of group games where they have been looking for a point to get through.
When you get to the knockout stage at a major finals, things are often very different but the standard at this expanded finals is not very high and some of the weaker teams will make it.
A lot of them are defensive-minded and, having seen England play they will probably be thinking they will stay deep, because we will not break them down.
If we can score a goal, that all changes, which is why we have to be more clinical when we do open teams up.
It is all well and good to say we have been dominating games in terms of possession and passing but if you do not score then that means nothing, as was proved by Leicester in the Premier League last season.
There have been some positives - our best three players so far have been Walker, Rooney and Dier, who I thought was superb with his range of passing against Slovakia.
But, in terms of positions, they are a full-back and two midfielders - one of them holding - which sort of sums up where England's problems have been in this tournament - in attack.
Alan Shearer was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan in France.
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Arthur Jones, 73, was missing for more than six weeks before his body was found in a remote area near Chania.
More than 300 people were in St Mary's Church in Denbigh for the service while hundreds more listened outside
A keen biker, his coffin was carried in a hearse mounted on a motorcycle side-car.
His own Army-style motorcycle and side-car were parked at the church,
More than 100 bikers, many of them in their leathers, also attended the funeral.
Mr Jones was last seen on 19 June, two days after he had arrived in Crete.
A Facebook campaign to Find Arthur attracted support from over 3,000 people and Prime Minister David Cameron also pledged to do "everything he can" to help find Mr Jones.
His body was found on 3 August close to the Chania resort where he had been staying.
An inquest was adjourned into his death on Monday.
Mourners heard how former soldier Mr Jones had helped train more than 7,000 Army cadets over the years and played an active role in his local community.
Leading the tributes was his son Jeff, who went out to Crete to look for his father.
The Reverend Jonathan Smith, Rector of Denbigh, said Mr Jones was popular in the community, had many friends and was known for his charity work and was a mainstay of the annual Remembrance Day parade.
He is also survived by his three daughters and eight grandchildren.
Kuntal Patel, 37, is accused of trying to kill her magistrate mother my putting abrin in her Diet Coke drink.
Prosecutors say she was angry that her mother "forbade" her from marrying her boyfriend Niraj Kikad.
But in police interviews she insisted she bought abrin from America on the "dark web" because she was suicidal.
Ms Patel, from Plaistow in east London, arranged for the drug, which was hidden in a candle, to be delivered to a friend's house last December, Southwark Crown Court heard.
But when she picked it up, she said she became "scared", smashed the glass-enclosed candle and decided not to kill herself.
Jurors were told that in a police interview, she said: "I never wanted to hurt my mum. I have hurt her enough.
"There is no way I wanted to live without my mother. I don't have much family, and she is my family.
"Because I was torn in both directions I thought I would take my own life."
Ms Patel said she threw away the poison after she became scared.
Earlier this week, jurors were told that her mother Meena, who sits on the bench at Thames Magistrates' Court, was "manipulative" and tried to break her relationship up.
She also beat her daughter, locked her in their home, and confiscated her passport and credit cards, the court heard. But Ms Patel said she would never harm her mother.
She told officers that if she wanted to kill her mother, "I could have pushed her down the stairs, I could have given her an overdose of her blood pressure tablets", but she had not, the court heard.
She also told police officers that she looked up buying ricin after watching an episode of Breaking Bad.
Asked what effect the poison had in the episode, Ms Patel said: "Just a painless death - that was in the programme."
She denies trying to murder her mother and acquiring a biological agent or toxin but has pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to acquire a biological agent or toxin last December.
The trial continues.
The package was delivered to Mansfield Correctional Institution - a prison about 65 miles (110km)southwest of Cleveland- on 29 July, officials said.
The box contained small amounts of marijuana, heroin and tobacco.
More than 100 inmates were in the prison yard when the fight broke out, but no inmates or staff were hurt.
Nine prisoners who were involved in the fight were placed in solitary confinement.
JoEllen Smith, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said this is the latest in series of attempts to deliver prison contraband via drones.
Ms Smith said the agency is taking steps to stop drones before they enter the grounds of prisons.
It is the second litter born to adults Mimi and Musa at Washington Wetland Centre.
The otter family are on a global register, known as a studbook, aimed at conserving healthy populations of the animals in captivity.
Studbook keeper Jason Palmer said maintaining "genetically healthy populations" was "vitally important".
"With organisations such as WWT and other zoos breeding and transferring responsibly, it will start to make a big difference to the captive well-being of all Asian short-clawed otters," he said.
Washington Wetland Centre manager Gill Pipes said the family of otters were "especially good genetically, which is great news for the species".
"It means they can play a key role in maintaining a healthy population," she said.
Short-clawed otters are the smallest otter species and are threatened by hunting and the deforestation of their natural habitat.
The 24-year-old Guernsey woman was found dead on a houseboat she shared with a local family in Srinagar, Kashmir, in April 2013.
Dutchman Richard de Wit denies her murder in a trial that started in July.
BBC reporter Riyaz Masroor said the judges were "disappointed" nothing conclusive had been presented.
He said: "In all about 26 witnesses have been questioned in the court room.
"The prosecution has never been able to produce the murder weapon or any direct eyewitness."
Questions have also been asked about the relationship between Ms Groves and Saeed Shoda, who describes himself as her boyfriend and whose family lived in the houseboat.
It follows the death of a 91-year-old woman who drowned four years ago and 400 homes were flooded when the river Elwy burst its banks in St Asaph.
The bridge will be higher than the original which became blocked by debris, creating a dam that overflowed.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is part way through the improvement work which is scheduled to last up to 18 months.
City mayor and flood warden councillor Colin Hardie said: "Everyone who suffered then still worries about bad weather.
"That was highlighted last winter when we were inches from the flood banks over-topping again.
"It's quite a worrying time and we realise we still have to go through at least one more winter before the defences are complete."
NRW is raising the flood defences as well as replacing the bridge.
Martin McGartland is suing MI5 for breach of contract and negligence after he was shot by the IRA in 1999.
A High Court judge said because of sensitive evidence in the case, "closed material proceedings" could be used in the interests of national security.
Three appeal judges have agreed that judge was entitled to take that view.
Mr McGartland, 43, was given a new identity after he was shot in Whitley Bay on Tyneside.
A former agent of the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Branch, Mr McGartland claims the security services failed to provide care for post-traumatic stress disorder and access to disability benefits.
Mr McGartland blames "years of neglect" by MI5 for leaving him traumatised and unable to work because of his secret life.
A judge said that "sensitive material" relating to protecting and training security service "handlers" arose in the case.
Upholding the declaration, an appeal judge said he had read the High Court decision as going no further than "opening the gateway" to closed material proceedings being a "possibility".
He added that he expected any application to use them to be "scrutinised with care", and the court must consider serving a summary of the evidence.
The ruling means Mr McGartland and his lawyers will not be able to hear parts of the case or see material deemed to be sensitive.
Special advocates will be appointed to protect his interests at court hearings.
Mr McGartland, from west Belfast, has written a book about his experiences, 50 Dead Men Walking, that was made into a film in 2008.
Medical equipment, medical products and mobile phones were among the items seized, while Austria's anti-doping authority took blood and urine samples.
The International Biathlon Union said Kazakhstan could still compete in Thursday's mixed relay in Hochfilzen.
Manas Ussenov, of the Kazak biathlon federation, said: "We are not worried."
Ussenov added: "They found in the room of our doctor some medicine. But according to our doctor, we have all the documentation for these medicines."
Police said the raid was carried out after a cardboard box containing used medical equipment - and written notes "indicating doping had taken place" - was found at a nearby petrol station last month.
Meanwhile, French biathlete Martin Fourcade walked off the podium in protest as Russian athletes were presented with their flowers for finishing third in the mixed relay.
Fourcade, a two-time Olympic champion, left his three team-mates to walk past the Russian team before eventually rejoining the stage.
The Russian team refused to shake hands with the 29-year-old silver medallist who has been leading calls for the International Biathlon Union (IBU) to crack down on doping.
The event was the first since Russian Alexander Loginov's return to the sport from a doping ban.
Unbeaten Joshua, 26, defended his title for the first time with a seventh-round knockout of American Dominic Breazeale in June, having won the belt against Charles Martin in two rounds in April.
The British boxer's opponent will be named on 26 September.
"I can't wait to get back up north," said Joshua, who beat Konstantin Airich in Manchester in his eighth pro bout.
"I have been inspired over the summer by the fighters in the Olympics. It has given me a new perspective and huge hunger to get back in ring."
The world's first purpose-built motor-racing circuit opened at Brooklands, in Surrey, 110 years ago on 17 June.
The Earl of March officially re-opened the finishing straight, which was followed by a parade of historic cars.
It had been covered by an aircraft hangar since 1940, which was removed, restored and relocated on the site.
The project was carried out with the help of a £4.7m Heritage Lottery Fund grant, a £1m government grant and funds raised by supporters and donors.
The Grade II-listed Wellington Hangar was used for the assembly of Wellington bombers in the 1940s, and later for other industrial purposes.
It is due to be opened in October as the Brooklands Aircraft Factory, housing rare and early aviation displays and telling the story of 80 years of aircraft testing, manufacture and flying at Brooklands.
Wawrinka swept past Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta, the world number 23, 6-3 6-2 in Saturday's opening semi-final.
Federer, the 18-time Grand Slam singles winner, who has won the event four times, had few problems joining him in the decider.
The world number 10 defeated the American world number 18 Jack Sock 6-1 7-6 (7-4).
Federer came into the match after his scheduled quarter-final opponent Nick Kyrgios pulled out because of illness, and he was imperious from the start.
He needed just 21 minutes to wrap up the first set, with Sock requiring treatment from the trainer midway through it.
Sock made more of a match of it in the second set but Federer always held the advantage and capitalised on some unforced errors from Sock in the tie-break to reach his seventh final in the Californian desert.
Wawrinka never faced a break point in his encounter with Carreno Busta, who was playing in his first ATP Masters 1000 semi-final.
Three-time Grand Slam winner Wawrinka, 31, will be playing his first Indian Wells final, having lost in last year's semi-finals.
The Swiss pair have met 22 times over their careers with Wawrinka only winning three times, and never on a hard court.
Officials had previously believed the crash, in which an entire Chinese tour group died, was caused by mechanical failure.
But an investigation has found that the driver, Su Ming-cheng, was drunk and had been planning to kill himself.
He was already being investigated for scuffling with a tour guide and sexually assaulting an unnamed victim.
In both cases, officials alleged he was intoxicated, and prosecutors said the lawsuits had left Mr Su "depressed".
Minutes before the crash, investigators said, the driver poured fuel inside the bus and started a fire with a lighter.
He then swerved into a roadside barrier on a national highway in the city of Taoyuan, killing himself, a local guide and 24 tourists who were headed to the airport.
An emergency exit was also locked, trapping people as they tried to escape.
Text messages from Mr Su's relatives showed they pleaded with him not to take his own life.
"Don't you love the three children in your family? Don't let them be ashamed. If you do this, it will bring shame to us all," a message from his sister read, according to a transcript published by Agence France-Presse.
He had been briefly suspended in May by his employer for fighting with another tour guide, officials added.
The incident led Beijing to demand Taiwan do more to ensure the safety of mainland Chinese tourists.
The group's media arm, al-Malahim, said the ministry complex in Sanaa had been targeted because US unmanned drones were being operated from there.
The attack saw a suicide bomber ram an explosives-filled car into the main gate before gunmen launched an assault.
Among the dead were soldiers and civilians, including seven foreigners.
It was the deadliest attack in Sanaa since May 2012, when a suicide bomber blew himself up during a rehearsal for a military parade.
Thursday's attack in the Bab al-Yaman district, on the edge of Sanaa's old city, began at about 09:00 (06:00 GMT) with a huge car bomb explosion at the entrance to the defence ministry's command complex, one of the government's most important security facilities.
About a dozen militants then stormed the compound, targeting civilians working at a military hospital inside or receiving treatment there.
Two doctors from Germany, two others from Vietnam, as well as two nurses from the Philippines and one nurse from India were among those killed, the official Saba news agency reported.
The Philippine foreign ministry said seven of its nationals had died.
Other civilian victims included a top Yemeni judge and his wife, and one of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi's relatives.
Security forces later retook the complex after killing the attackers.
Later, al-Malahim declared on Twitter that it had launched the assault "after the mujahideen proved that it accommodates rooms for controlling unmanned drones and a number of American experts".
"As part of a policy to target drone control rooms, the mujahedeen have dealt a heavy blow to one," it added.
"Such security headquarters in partnership with the Americans in their war on these Muslim people are a justified target wherever they may be."
President Hadi has publicly praised the US drone campaign in Yemen for helping his government combat AQAP and its allies.
As of October, the US military and CIA were estimated by research groups to have carried out 81 targeted killing operations in Yemen, most of them since 2009. The strikes - by drones, warplanes and cruise missiles - are thought to have killed at least 473 combatants and civilians.
Yemen's Supreme Security Commission, which is chaired by the president, said the incident would "not deter the security forces, the armed forces and the honourable sons of the nation from carrying out their religious and patriotic duty in the face of terrorists".
The attack came as Defence Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed was in Washington as part of a "strategic dialogue" to aid Yemen's political transition and to boost security co-operation.
The US military upped its regional alert status after the incident and was "fully prepared to support our Yemeni partners", a senior US defence official told the Associated Press.
The UN Security Council condemned "in the strongest terms" the attack and underlined the need to bring to justice the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of such "reprehensible" acts.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's special adviser for Yemen, Jamal Benomar, meanwhile stressed that "such criminal acts seeking to terrorise Yemenis will only strengthen their resolve to continue on their path of peaceful change".
Yemen has been plagued by instability since its longtime president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, handed over power after a popular uprising in 2011.
The country has held a National Dialogue Conference, bringing together various political groups and interests, as part of the process to draft a new constitution and pave the way for general elections next year.
It could prevent deadly mitochondrial disease, but has provoked a fierce ethical debate.
DNA for mitochondria - tiny compartments within cells which unlock the energy from food - is passed from mothers to children, so a donor woman's mitochondria might stop the disease.
Prof Doug Turnbull, head of the centre in Newcastle that has pioneered the research, said the disease affects organs that are "heavily dependent on energy metabolism".
"So in the heart you have cardiac failure; progressive weakness in the muscles leading to extreme fatigue and respiratory failure; and in the brain, epilepsy, stroke-like episodes and cognitive decline," he said.
"In the most severe cases I've looked after, the children died in the first 48 hours of life.
"That is unusual; often these conditions are associated with increasing levels of disability.
"I saw a patient on Tuesday that I've looked after for 33 years."
That patient was one of Prof Turnbull's first when he started out in the field as a young neurologist, "fascinated" about understanding, diagnosing and - more recently - preventing the disease.
The centre in Newcastle sees patients from across the UK and is acknowledged as one of the best in the world for caring for people with mitochondrial disease.
Yet even with the best available medicine there are many heartbreaking stories, including those of families who have lost multiple children.
Six of Sharon Bernardi's children died within days of birth.
Her son Edward survived to the age of 21, although he was often ill.
Prof Turnbull said the huge desire of families to have healthy children motivated the team at the Newcastle centre.
"We've been discussing it since 2000," he said.
"It was the stories of the patients the whole team saw over the years that made us go 'Look, we've got to do better'.
"We have very limited treatments, so the most important thing for those families is to have children that are unaffected."
The idea featured in a report by the UK Chief Medical Officer that year, and the Newcastle team's first application for funding was made in 2001.
What emerged at Newcastle was a massive team effort between fertility experts, doctors caring for patients and experts in the genetics of mitochondria.
Their objective was to reach a point where healthy DNA from parents could be combined with healthy mitochondria from a donor.
The proposed therapy - called pronuclear transfer - is controversial.
Last week the Catholic and Anglican churches urged UK politicians to delay their decision to allow more research and debate.
The destruction of embryos as part of the process is among the ethical concerns raised.
Others say it is a first step towards creating so-called "designer babies", where genetic characteristics could be chosen by parents.
In pronuclear transfer, the mother's egg and the donor's egg are both fertilised as part of IVF to create a pair of embryos.
The DNA from mum and dad form two balls of genetic information in the embryo called pronuclei, which will fuse to create the genetic blueprint for a child.
These are transferred to the donor embryo, which is packed with healthy mitochondria and has its pronuclei removed.
The Newcastle research passed a significant barrier in 2010.
The group published a study in the journal Nature showing the technique was possible using eggs that would have been discarded as they were unsuitable for IVF.
"When we published that paper there was a recognition that... if we can make this work with abnormal eggs surely we should be moving forward with this," Prof Turnbull said.
He credits his colleague Prof Alison Murdoch, from the Newcastle Fertility Centre, for having the foresight to begin making the case for starting the process that could lead to a change in the law.
"She was very wise at the time, she said we could get the science finished, but if we don't push forward with trying to get the regulations through Parliament then we could get the science sorted and it could take years to go through," he said.
This is one of many times Prof Turnbull diverts the attention to colleagues - particularly to Prof Mary Herbert, another leader in the field of mitochondrial transfer.
He comes across as a man keenly aware he needs to make the case, but unwilling to be the centre of attention.
"An awful lot of expertise has to go into developing anything like this, this is a massive team effort," he said.
"This has never been about the scientist, it's about the patients."
The 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act left provision for babies to be "created from material provided by two women".
But it required a debate and a vote in both the Commons and the Lords for it to be enacted.
Five years, three scientific reviews and a public consultation later, the UK is about to decide.
"The whole process has been suitably rigorous and the UK should be suitably proud of its ability to regulate in such a sensitive area," Prof Turnbull said.
However, there was a sense of frustration in his voice when I suggested things had progressed quickly since 2010.
"It was first mooted in 2000, discussed extensively prior to the 2008 act, a lot of the ground work was done in 2010," he said.
"Is that quick?"
Any child born through this technique would have about 99.9% of their DNA from their parents.
But mitochondria have their own DNA, so that 0.1% would come from the donor.
It has given rise to the headline that frustrates many in the field: "Three-parent babies".
Prof Turnbull responds: "We know precisely what those genes do.
"Those mitochondria are not going to influence any of the characteristics of these children, they're going to provide healthy mitochondria. But it's a catchy headline.
"Do I think it's accurate? Of course I don't.
"Is there anything I can do about it? Even less," he concludes with a resigned chuckle.
But the headlines point to a deeper issue.
The change to the child's genetic composition will be passed down through the generations.
It is known as germ-line therapy and is illegal in many countries.
Some argue we are sleep-walking into a society that allows these techniques and opening the door to other forms of genetic modification of children.
I put these arguments to Prof Turnbull.
"I think people are perfectly entitled to their view, I've always felt that," he said.
"That the critics say 'I wouldn't have this' is of course reasonable, but I think the thing we all struggle with here at Newcastle is that they are denying other people the right to make those sorts of decisions.
"When you talk to patients with mitochondrial disease they want to make those decisions."
If the vote in the Commons goes through on Tuesday, and the House of Lords agrees in the coming weeks, the UK fertility regulator could grant Newcastle the first license this year.
The first attempt would then be expected this year, with the first baby born in 2016.
Prof Turnbull admits to being a "natural pessimist" and says he is "anxious" ahead of the vote by MPs.
His final argument is: "This is research that has been suggested by the patients, supported by patients and is for the patients, and that's an important message."
Flash Ley School in Stafford was closed in October 2015 when high levels of formaldehyde were discovered.
The colourless gas - found in materials used in plywood, carpeting and foam insulation - has a pungent odour and can cause irritation to the eyes, nose, mouth and throat.
Tests showed the problem occurred after work on the school's floor ducts.
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About 20 pupils at the school reported feeling ill when the smell was first discovered.
Throughout its closure, pupils were based at nearby schools including the Chetwynd Centre, Tillington Manor Primary and Stafford Manor High School.
Staffordshire County Council said remedial work had now finished and continued testing confirmed the air was safe for pupils and staff.
The buildings, on Hawksmoor Road, have undergone a deep clean and the substance believed to be behind the presence of formaldehyde in the air has been removed.
Head teachers Karan Williams and Kerri Fenton said: "This is the news we've all been waiting for.
"Our journey is in its final stages and we are really excited about the new year and continuing our successful future back at Flash Ley.
"We want to express our upmost thanks to everyone; our dedicated staff, the resilient children, loyal parents, the local community and county for supporting us in what has been a unique situation."
The number of Scottish boats carrying cameras - which monitor the fish being caught - has halved since the scheme was introduced.
New species were added to the ban at the start of January.
They include North Sea cod and whiting, which can no longer be thrown back into the sea.
Fishermen have traditionally discarded unwanted fish because they carry a lower financial value but, if landed, would count against their quotas.
The environmental group says the fall in Remote Electronic Monitoring compromises stock management.
Figures from the Scottish government show there are now just 15 boats carrying cameras.
When the scheme was first introduced in 2014, there were 32.
Until this year, skippers were allowed an additional quota for North Sea cod if they agreed to install the camera equipment, but that incentive has ended.
The ban on discards is covered by Landing Obligations which are being phased in over a number of years. They identify which species have to be brought ashore once they are caught.
Helen McLachlan, the fisheries governance programme manager at WWF Scotland, said: "WWF is supportive of the Landing Obligation because, if implemented, effectively it offers clear opportunities, the most obvious of which is healthier fish stocks and a more resilient, profitable industry as a result.
"However, with North Sea cod and whiting coming under the discard ban at the start of 2017, we have significant concerns about the levels of monitoring and control of the ban.
"For this policy to work we need to be confident we know what is happening at sea and how much fish is being removed. Yet, on average, it appears that less than one per cent of fishing trips are being monitored."
The fishing industry has been opposed to the "inflexible" way in which the discard ban has been implemented under the Common Fisheries Policy.
They say the regulations are the problem rather than monitoring.
Bertie Armstron, chief executive of the Scottish Fisherermen's Federation, said: "Everybody's on the same side with reducing discards as far as physically possible. It's just a question of getting the rules right, which is a work in progress.
"Cameras, frankly, are a little sideshow and the presence or absence of them will not solve or fail to solve the problem."
Quota incentives for other species still exist under the scheme, even though the incentive for North Sea cod has ended.
By 2019, the disposal of all fish at sea will be banned.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "No-one wants to see dead fish being thrown back into the sea - least of all our fishermen.
"Our fleet has already made good progress to reduce the level of discarded fish in Scotland and we are working hard to ensure the ban is implemented in a pragmatic, proportionate and phased way.
"If managed sensibly, the landing obligation will be good for Scotland and help the conservation of fish stocks that offer up dependable and sustainable catches for fishermen."
Sadie Hartley, a 60-year-old mother of three, was found with multiple stab wounds at a house in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire on Friday night.
Lancashire Police detectives said they did not believe the motive for the attack was robbery.
A 34-year-old woman from Chester has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.
Police said Ms Hartley was alone at the property in Sunny Bank Road, Helmshore, before she was killed.
The businesswoman spoke to a colleague at about 19:30 GMT on Thursday but there was no further contact before she was found dead in the hallway of the property at 22:40 on Friday.
Det Supt Paul Withers said: "She's a thoroughly decent lady, successful businesswoman who works very, very hard and she certainly didn't deserve to end her life in this manner.
"I don't feel this is a random attack, I think Sadie has been targeted by an individual who clearly had some issues with her for whatever reason and it is imperative we find out why this has happened.
"It was quite a ferocious attack on a lady at home alone. We are absolutely determined to identify who has done it so hopefully they will face the courts and a lengthy, lengthy custodial sentence."
Officers want to trace an "old style" Renault Clio car and three other people seen in CCTV footage of the area at about 20:00 on Thursday.
A man was seen walking out of the cul-de-sac towards the village store on Holcombe Road and passing another person. A jogger is also seen in the footage running in the opposite direction, police said.
Mr Withers said: "We believe that this could be around the time that [Ms Hartley] was murdered and we want to trace these people as soon as possible.
"We also know that this area is regularly used by dog walkers so we are keen to speak to anyone who frequently uses the route along Sunny Bank Road and may have seen anything out of the ordinary in the days and weeks preceding the murder."
He said he did not want to provide "cover" for widespread government corruption.
President Petro Poroshenko brought Mr Abromavicius from Lithuania to help spearhead Ukraine's reform campaign.
But two years after their pro-Western revolution, many Ukrainians say there has been little change and their country remains mired in corruption.
Mr Abromavicius, a 40-year-old ex-banker from Lithuania, was one of several non-Ukrainian experts brought in to help tackle abuses after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was toppled in February 2014 and Mr Poroshenko was elected president.
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Mr Abromavicius complained that officials had actively placed obstacles in his way, even alleging that members of President Poroshenko's administration were blocking him.
He spoke of systematic and concrete actions aimed at paralysing reforms, "ranging from a sudden removal of my security detail to the pressure to appoint questionable individuals to my team or to key positions in state-owned enterprises".
He even named an MP from the president's party, Igor Kononenko, accusing him of trying to obstruct his team's efforts and of seeking to influence key appointments in state companies.
Mr Kononenko reacted by suggesting that some ministers appeared to be trying to "switch personal responsibility away from their own guilt and that of their teams, and on to MPs".
Mr Abromavicius's decision is a stinging condemnation of Ukraine's government, says the BBC's David Stern in Kiev. If his resignation is confirmed by parliament, it would be a heavy blow to a country still mired in corruption, he adds.
After submitting his resignation, the minister met President Poroshenko who urged him to stay.
"He has now left to deliberate," Mr Poroshenko wrote on Facebook, adding that Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau would investigate his complaint. Mr Kononenko had also agreed to co-operate, he said.
"The sooner society has answers to the questions, the better," Mr Poroshenko said.
Ten Western ambassadors in Kiev expressed disappointment at the resignation, in a statement praising the "tough but necessary economic reforms" implemented by his team in the past year.
They called on Ukraine's leaders to "set aside their parochial differences" and press ahead with further changes.
Among the foreign officials brought in to tackle corruption in Ukraine was Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was given the job of governor of the southern region of Odessa.
At the end of last year, President Poroshenko could only look on as a meeting of the National Council for Reforms turned into a slanging match between Mr Saakashvili and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, as they traded accusations of corruption and populism.
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Four-year-old Boston was thought to have been abandoned on the number 158 bus on the evening of 28 April.
He spent the night on the bus as driver Amos Paul Mak launched an appeal on Facebook to get him home.
The Staffordshire bull terrier has now been reunited with "delighted" owner Paulina Rybak.
Ms Rybak, who is mum to Filip, 8, and Zofia, 3, said he went missing during a walk on Francis Road, Leyton, east London.
"It was only a few seconds and he was gone. We didn't see him. I started looking everywhere," she said.
Ms Rybak contacted her vet and Newham Council to report Boston missing - but found him after seeing an Evening Standard story on the appeal.
The pair were reunited after checks were made to make sure Ms Rybak is Boston's owner.
"I was so happy," she said. "When people lose their dogs it can be very difficult to find them.
"I don't know how he got on the bus, he is a bit scared of buses."
"We have had him since he was six weeks old, he and my daughter are best friends."
A Newham Council spokesperson said their animal welfare team took care of Boston over the weekend while they tried to track down his owner.
"This incident should remind all dog owners of the importance of microchipping," the spokesperson said.
"If Boston had been microchipped, which is now a legal requirement, then it would have been much quicker and easier for him to have been returned to his correct owner. "
Boston has now been microchipped.
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Poland's Kubot and Brazil's Melo edged Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic 5-7 7-5 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 13-11.
Russian duo Makarova and Vesnina beat Chinese Taipei's Chan Hao-ching and Romania's Monica Niculescu 6-0 6-0.
The winning pairs will receive £400,000 each in prize money.
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Kubot, 35, and Melo 33, were broken in the 11th game of their match by Austrian Marach and Croat Pavic and lost the first set before bouncing back to claim the next two.
They lost the fourth set before falling 13-11 in the decider after more than four-and-a-half hours of play.
There was no such trouble for Makarova and Vesnina, who raced to victory without dropping a game, sealing the first set in 29 minutes and the second in 26 minutes.
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Malcolm Turnbull said relations would be "very, very close" whatever the outcome of the referendum and it was "absolutely a decision for Brits".
But he echoed other world leaders by saying having a "close" ally in the EU was an "unalloyed plus".
Vote Leave said Britain's ability to control deals with countries such as Australia depended on an Out vote.
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Asked about the 23 June referendum on Sky News in Australia, Mr Turnbull highlighted existing trade and intelligence links between the UK and Australia.
"We welcome Britain's strong role in Europe," he said.
"The EU is an enormous economic and political entity and from our point of view - you might say from our selfish point of view - having a country to whom we have close ties and such strong relationships... is definitely an advantage.
"So if the British people, in their wisdom, decide to stay in the European Union, then we would welcome that."
Mr Turnbull's comments come after a similar backing from New Zealand's premier John Key.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said it was evidence the Leave campaign was wrong to argue the UK must choose between Europe and the Commonwealth.
Mr Hammond said international support for the UK to remain underlined "the simple fact that our Commonwealth partners see Britain as being stronger and more influential as a member of the EU".
He added: "Both leaders are clear that the vote is a matter for the British people but it would be dangerous and arrogant to dismiss out of hand the concerns and feelings of some of our closest and oldest allies, partners with whom we share so much history and heritage, and with whom we work so closely on trade, defence and security."
A spokesman for Vote Leave said: "Malcolm Turnbull said whatever the choice, Britain and Australia will be very close.
"Yet only if we vote Leave will Britain take back control of its ability to strike deals with countries like Australia instead of leaving it in the hands of Brussels bureaucrats."
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Money raised for victims will not be automatically released until verified.
For the first time, the company has taken direct control of a crowd-funding page, which any individual can set up.
Concerns were raised over a fund for the family of Aysha Frade, after a person who set up the page had the same name as a woman convicted of fraud.
A crowd-funding page can be set up for free by any individual person for any personal cause - from a memorial fund to a holiday.
People can donate money to the cause via the website and, when the fund-raising time period is up, JustGiving send the total amount direct to the user, minus a 5% fee.
Following Wednesday's attack a number of crowd-funding pages were created on JustGiving for victims' families.
More than £17,000 has been raised for Ms Frade, who was killed on Westminster Bridge on Wednesday.
But well-wishers who did an internet search of a person listed as creating the page, discovered someone with the same name had been convicted of benefit fraud in 2013.
JustGiving also discovered the account username had been changed a number of times since it was first set up.
In an unprecedented move, JustGiving took the decision to take over the page from the initial user.
They also added a "Verified by JustGiving" label to the page to assure users that money raised would go to Ms Frade's family.
A similar label has appeared on a page for PC Keith Palmer, who was murdered outside Parliament.
On Saturday afternoon, this had raised more than £690,000.
There are a number of other crowd-funding pages for Aysha Frade on JustGiving that remain unverified.
But the site has said all pages relating to the Westminster attack have been placed into "quarantine" as a matter of caution, so that no funds will be automatically released to users without review.
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Roger Lewis was speaking as he marked 100 days in the job, after leaving the Welsh Rugby Union to take up the role.
Air passenger duty is being devolved to Scotland and Northern Ireland but remains a sticking point in discussions over new powers for Wales.
Rival airports such as Bristol say it would hand Cardiff an unfair advantage.
"Devolving that responsibility to Wales as it's been devolved to Northern Ireland, to Scotland, is only right and fair," said Mr Lewis.
"I think it will happen, because I think it will actually create a great opportunity not only for the airport, but also for the MRO - maintenance, repair and overhaul sector in Wales."
He said the UK was the second biggest player in the worldwide MRO business, with Wales sharing a 20% slice of that sector.
It includes the flag-carrying giant British Airways, which has recently confirmed its Boeing fleet would be serviced at its centre next to airport, where it employs about 600 people.
"This is so important for Wales, that we have an international airport that connects with that particular sector and that's why I think air passenger duty is part of the play to create a sustainable airport here that can play a broader role beyond passengers," added Mr Lewis.
He said he had held "generous" and "mature" discussions with UK ministers on the issue, including Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb, and praised the support from First Minister Carwyn Jones.
Looking ahead to the coming year, Mr Lewis said he wanted to target "significant passenger growth in 2016", building on a 13% growth in numbers in 2015, and announced the airport would be putting on four more routes with operator Vueling to Spain for the summer.
"It's about increasing the destinations for our passengers, giving them the best prices possible, at times that suit their needs, wrapped in a fabulous passenger experience here at the airport," he said.
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Mayor Eric Garcetti and LA Police chief Charlie Beck will be at the public event at City Hall, which starts at 21:00 local time, Hollywood Reporter said.
The signal originated in the DC Comics strip as a sign that the caped crusader was needed to save the day.
Animated comedy Family Guy will also honour West this weekend.
He played its eccentric Mayor West for more than 100 episodes on the hit cartoon show. On Sunday, US TV network Fox will show the episode The Dating Game, which features West winning an auction for the Medieval Castle restaurant.
It was originally broadcast in March and the show will air a tribute just before the episode begins.
West was in Family Guy from 2000 until this year, voicing Quahog's mayor - a satirised version of the actor, in the series created by Seth MacFarlane.
MacFarlane paid tribute to the star on Twitter, describing West as "irreplaceable".
"Family Guy has lost its mayor, and I have lost a friend," he said.
West, who also famously donned his black cape for the hit 1960s TV show, died last week after a "short but brave battle" with leukaemia, his family said.
Actor Burt Ward, who played Robin alongside Adam West's Batman in the hit 1960s TV series, also paid tribute to his co-star, telling the BBC that the two had enjoyed "an amazing friendship", describing the actor as "a lot of fun".
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Holyrood's education committee said it had heard "eye-opening" accounts of unclear guidance and mistakes in exam papers.
A survey of teachers carried out by the committee suggested two-thirds had little trust in the SQA.
Its report made a series of recommendations for improvement.
Much of the criticism of the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) stems from perceived problems around the introduction of new exams, including National 4 and 5 and the new Higher.
It has included concerns over last year's Higher geography exam, which was described as "poor, shocking, terrible, worst ever and nothing like the specimen or previous paper" by members of the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers.
The SQA also admitted a series of mistakes in the national 5 computing science exam.
And in 2015, the pass mark for Higher maths was dropped to just 34%, and to 60% for an A grade, with the SQA admitting the exam had been too hard.
The education committee's report said the SQA had produced qualifications that had led to an "onerous workload, a breakdown in trust and threats of industrial action by teachers".
It said it had received clear evidence pointing to a breakdown in the trust of the SQA by teachers.
And it raised concerns about exam scripts that either contained errors or were difficult to understand.
Among its key recommendations were:
The report followed scrutiny of four key public bodies charged with developing and implementing education and skills policy - the SQA, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and Education Scotland.
It also raised concern about the recommended abolition of the SFC as part of moves to put all of the Scottish government's economic agencies under a single national board.
The report questioned the evidence for the change, and called on the Scottish government to carefully consider the impact abolishing the SFC board will have on higher education, including on widening access, before proceeding.
SNP MSP James Dornan, the committee's convenor, said: "The evidence our committee received was nothing less than eye-opening about some of the problems faced by those working so hard on the front line of education.
"We heard first-hand about the time-consuming burden of guidance that has been placed on teachers, something the cabinet secretary has already shown his commitment to deal with.
"However, there continues to be confusing and contradictory messages coming from the very bodies that should be making it easy for our teachers to focus on the needs of our children."
Mr Dornan said the committee had told the organisations concerned "in no uncertain terms" how their actions impact on teachers.
He added: "The committee found it hard to understand how, in particular, the SQA has met the needs of Scotland's learners having designed qualifications that have created a huge workload for teachers and led to a breakdown in trust and threats of industrial action."
The SQA thanked the committee for its recommendations, which it said would now be studied in detail.
A spokesman said: "Our relationship with teachers is critically important to the successful delivery of Scotland's qualifications system and every year 15,000 teachers work with us as appointees.
"We are committed to addressing the committee's findings, especially in this period of change, and are working to continue to improve our communication with the wider community.
"We are already streamlining the documentation associated with the qualifications as new arrangements are rolled out.
"We are keenly aware of our responsibility to establish and maintain the standard and quality of qualifications for the benefit of learners across Scotland."
The famous items, worn by Harrison Ford in the films, will be displayed next year at the National Museum Cardiff.
Fans will be able to see the items as part of the Treasures: Adventure in Archaeology display from 26 January.
The original trilogy, directed by Steven Spielberg, made more than £560m at the box office in the 1980s.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth and most recent film in the franchise, was released in 2008.
Holly Brown was on a school minibus when it collided with a bin lorry on the A38 Kingsbury Road in Birmingham.
The teenager, from Branston and a pupil at John Taylor High School in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 14-year-old was part of a 21-strong party going on an art trip on 7 July when the crash happened.
James Bennett, assistant coroner at Birmingham and Solihull Coroners Court, said: "In light of the circumstances of Holly Brown's death, there does need to be an inquest.
"I've been provided with a report from West Midlands Police which confirms their investigation will take a matter of months rather than weeks."
The case was adjourned for a pre-inquest review on 21 September at Birmingham and Solihull Coroners Court.
Holly's parents said in an earlier tribute: "We are so proud of what you achieved.
"You grasped every opportunity that life presented to you, displaying so much passion, enthusiasm and determination in pursuit of your dreams."
The warrant stems from a case brought against him in 2012 by ex-Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's son.
Michel Gbagbo, who has dual French and Ivorian nationality, alleged Mr Soro's forces kidnapped and tortured him after his father's capture in 2011.
The government says Mr Soro, who denies the accusation, has immunity.
Mr Soro commanded a rebel force which fought the ex-president, who has been charged by the International Criminal Court with war crimes - charges he denies.
Ivory Coast's Foreign Minister Charles Koffi Diby said he had written to the French government to protest that the warrant breached international law, and should be annulled.
Mr Soro was in France on an official mission, and had "absolute immunity", he said.
Michel Gbagbo's lawyer Habiba Toure told the BBC that Mr Soro could have avoided an arrest warrant if he had heeded requests to appear before a French court.
Some 3,000 people were killed in the five-month conflict in Ivory Coast that ended when Mr Gbagbo, who had refused to accept that he lost elections to current President Alassane Ouattara, was captured in April 2011.
Human Rights Watch has said since the end of the crisis, progress toward justice has been largely one-sided.
The BBC's Tamasin Ford in Abidjan says Mr Soro is one of only a handful of people facing investigation from current President Ouattara's side, compared to hundreds in the opposition camp.
His appointment last week to head the jury had outraged women right's groups, who called for a boycott of next month's televised ceremony.
The award-winning director has been wanted in the US for decades after admitting to sex with a minor.
The "controversy... deeply saddened Roman Polanski and affected his family," said his lawyer Herve Temime.
"However, in order not to disturb the Cesars ceremonies, which should focus on the cinema and not on the appointment of the (event's) president, Roman Polanski has decided not accept the invitation... and will not preside over the next Cesars ceremonies," he said.
The row was "stoked by completely false information", Temime added.
The French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, which runs the Cesars, had last week defended their choice, praising the director as an "insatiable aesthete".
France's women's minister Laurence Rossignol had called it a "shocking" decision for the 83-year-old director to preside over the Cesars.
An online petition calling for Polanski to be removed as head of the jury had received more than 42,000 signatures by Friday.
Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles in 1977, but then fled the US.
He spends his time between France, Poland, his ancestral homeland, and Switzerland, which have refused to extradite him.
The 42nd Cesars ceremony will take place in Paris on 24 February.
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The 57-year-old was in a similar position under Jim McIntyre at the Dumfries club, joining last summer.
McCabe had previously been assistant under McIntyre and Jim Jefferies at Dunfermline Athletic.
He had a brief spell managing Dumbarton and has been assistant at Kilmarnock, Hibernian and Plymouth Argyle.
The manager will begin the search for a new assistant immediately
Dundee said on their website: "Paul Hartley is particularly pleased to have secured Gerry's services so early in the close season and has known him most of his footballing career."
While Dundee achieved automatic promotion by winning the Championship title, Queens missed out via the play-offs after finishing fourth.
The Palmerston Park outfit said on their website: "The club can confirm that Gerry McCabe has today decided to leave Queen of the South with immediate effect to take up a new role as Paul Hartley's number two with Dundee FC.
"Manager Jim McIntyre would like to thank Cabey for his help and assistance over the last year.
"The manager will begin the search for a new assistant immediately."
Inspectors found reduced levels of violence and self-harm at HMP Elmley on Isle of Sheppey, Kent.
However, they described overcrowding as "unacceptably poor" and said some staff used excessive force.
There were three self-inflicted deaths since the last inspection but none in 2015, the report said.
An HM Inspectorate of Prisons inspection in June of that year highlighted staff shortages and overcrowding.
The latest report describes inmates in overcrowded cells, with some using toilets screened by a shower curtain.
It also said some "serious" incidents, including the use of batons, had not been investigated and some CCTV footage showed the use of "excessive force".
Inspectors also called for more work to address the behaviour of sex offenders on long sentences.
Positive findings included a "significant reduction" of serious incidents, well-managed security and "very good" mental health services.
Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons Martin Lomas said HMP Elmley had made "impressive progress" against national trends to reduce "violence, self-harm and the availability of legal highs".
The Category B prison held 1,160 men at the time of the latest inspection in October and November 2015.
Bishop Suffragan Heather Cook will be arrested for vehicular manslaughter over the death of Tom Palermo, 41.
Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said Ms Cook's blood-alcohol level was at .22 after the crash, almost triple the state's legal limit for driving.
Ms Cook, who was elected bishop in September, has been put on leave.
The Maryland diocese previously said Ms Cook initially left the scene but returned 20 minutes later "to take responsibility for her actions".
The national Episcopal Church has also opened a separate investigation to determine whether Cook violated church law.
Bishop Cook became an ordained priest in 1987 and served in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania before returning to the state.
In a statement, the Palermo family said they "support the prosecutor's efforts to hold Bishop Heather Cook accountable for her actions to the fullest extent of the law".
A small makeshift memorial was created near the road where Mr Palermo was killed on 27 December. The road had a designated bike lane.
An eyewitness said he found Mr Palermo on the road and while other witnesses called emergency services he went looking for the vehicle and found it at a light.
"The windshield was completely smashed in, with a hole on the passenger side, and from the damage of the car, there was no doubt in my mind that was the car," Moncure Lyon said.
"I asked the lady who was driving 'Are you all right?' Then the light turned green, she said 'Yes,' and she left."
Ms Cook had previously pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in 2010 and was sentenced to a fine and probation, according to court records.
Leicester City loanee Tom Lawrence opened the scoring with a trademark goal, running from deep and smashing home via the underside of the bar.
Jordon Mutch equalised on his Reading debut, finding space in the box to roll home his first goal since March 2014.
Lawrence then slotted past Ali Al-Habsi for his eighth goal in eight games, before Obita's powerful leveller.
After a 3-0 home drubbing by Derby on Tuesday, Mick McCarthy made five changes to his starting line-up, including debuts for Emyr Huws and Steven Taylor.
As a first half edged by Ipswich drew to a close, Lawrence lit up the game with a stunning strike by finishing off a clinical counter-attack.
Liam Kelly almost replied for the promotion-chasing visitors seconds later, but his half-volley rose over the bar, before Taylor headed just wide for Ipswich in a frantic end to the first half.
Mutch, one of three players signed on loan by Jaap Stam on transfer deadline day, restored parity when he slid the ball beyond Bartosz Bialkowski after being given too much space in the Ipswich box.
Ipswich again took the lead through Lawrence's 10th of the season after he was sent free by David McGoldrick, but Obita's low strike ensured a share of the spoils.
Reading stay third, four points from the automatic promotion places, while Ipswich move up two places to 15th.
Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy: "It was certainly a positive reaction from Tuesday night when we were comprehensively beaten. That performance was unacceptable and unpalatable but today was completely different.
"I made a few changes and the new faces have helped liven up the place and gave us all a spark.
"I thought the performance was great and I think we probably deserved to win it."
Reading boss Jaap Stam: "I don't think we were ever in the race for the top two. We are just beginning to build something this season after finishing 17th last year.
"If we have a chance to achieve something we should go for it, but I was never under any illusion that we are in the race for the top two against Newcastle, who have spent 60 to 70 million pounds, and Brighton, who have worked towards this for three years.
"It makes it very hard when you have to equalise twice. I don't think we deserved any more but it was an important point for us."
Match ends, Ipswich Town 2, Reading 2.
Second Half ends, Ipswich Town 2, Reading 2.
Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Yann Kermorgant (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town).
Yann Kermorgant (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonas Knudsen.
George Evans (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by George Evans (Reading).
Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Jordon Mutch (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Yann Kermorgant.
Liam Moore (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town).
Jordon Mutch (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town).
Lewis Grabban (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lewis Grabban (Reading).
Jonas Knudsen (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George Evans (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Grant Ward (Ipswich Town).
Substitution, Reading. George Evans replaces Liam Kelly.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Teddy Bishop replaces Emyr Huws.
Substitution, Ipswich Town. Jordan Spence replaces Toumani Diagouraga.
Attempt blocked. Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Jordon Mutch (Reading).
Grant Ward (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Reading. Chris Gunter tries a through ball, but Lewis Grabban is caught offside.
Goal! Ipswich Town 2, Reading 2. Jordan Obita (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Christophe Berra.
Corner, Ipswich Town. Conceded by Garath McCleary.
Foul by Yann Kermorgant (Reading).
Emyr Huws (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Steven Taylor.
Yann Kermorgant (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Toumani Diagouraga (Ipswich Town).
Attempt blocked. David McGoldrick (Ipswich Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Toumani Diagouraga.
Foul by Tyler Blackett (Reading).
Tom Lawrence (Ipswich Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Tour operators are bringing home UK tourists in Tunisia following a Foreign Office warning that another terror attack is "highly likely".
Thousands of UK tourists booked to travel on summer package deals are being given an alternative or a refund.
The financial impact for independent travellers could be more complex.
So what does the change in Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advice mean for your summer getaway?
The FCO now advises against all but essential travel to Tunisia owing to the risk of a further terrorist attack after a gunman killed 38 holidaymakers, including 30 Britons, in the 26 June beach attack near Sousse.
This has prompted tour operators to start bringing more than 3,000 holidaymakers back to the UK, and about 500 independent travellers have also been advised to return.
Although this travel advice could be changed at any time, many tour operators have cancelled flights and holidays to Tunisia for the summer season.
For the most part, those with package deals can go to another destination, or get their money back.
Most of those who are travelling back early will get a refund for the holiday days lost.
Customers should get in touch with their tour operator, travel agent or possibly their airline.
Those travelling in the next 48 hours are being given priority. Travel association Abta suggests that anyone with bookings beyond the summer should wait until closer to their departure date before getting in touch.
The biggest operators - such as Thomson - are allowing people to choose from any destinations "currently on sale".
Clearly, the biggest operators will have more choice of destination. Holidaymakers should be given a decent choice, rather than a "take it or leave it option".
In the rules of Abta-registered package deals is a right to an alternative holiday or a full refund - the customer can choose between the two.
This is where things get a little more complicated.
Airlines will generally reschedule flights, allowing people to travel at a different time or to a different destination.
Cancellation fees may apply for accommodation or car hire. To get that money back, a claim on travel insurance may be needed. Some travel insurance policies, but not all, will cover the cost of cancellation.
Many of those who only bought flights and are in Tunisia now are being helped by tour operators, but others should contact their airline.
It is in the small print, but the insurer will be able to tell you.
First of all, you would need to have bought the travel insurance before the advice from the FCO changed to advise against all but essential travel.
Some insurers would have required policyholders to pay a bit more for travel disruption cover.
Q&A for holidaymakers from Abta
Foreign Office advice for travel to Tunisia
No, no additional compensation is paid to package holiday customers.
Thomson and First Choice are giving a £50 discount to some customers who take new flights to some alternative destinations.
Those who are there are being strongly advised to return.
Those who want to go should be looking at the FCO advice to find out when it might be safe again to travel.
While the current FCO warning is in place, most travel insurance policies will be invalid for those who plan to travel anyway.
The figures have been released by HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate.
Defendants can be acquitted or see their trials rescheduled in such cases.
But the HMCPSI said too many domestic violence case witnesses were summonsed, which risked "alienating" victims who were willing to give evidence.
In 2014-15, for a various of reasons, more than half of the 195,000 trials listed in magistrates and crown courts did not go ahead as planned, the report said.
Failure to appear could result in a warrant for the witness's arrest.
The inspectorate found a rising number of prosecutions were "cracked" - which is the term used for a case that closes unexpectedly because a witness is absent or has withdrawn evidence.
This happened in nearly 800 crown court trials and in 10,600 hearings in magistrates' courts.
The report said that 2.1% of trials in the crown court and 6.8% of trials in the magistrates' court were "cracked" in 2014-15, compared with 1.8% and 6.3% respectively the previous year.
The inspectorate said a "powerful tool" to persuade someone to testify was a summons which makes attendance a legal requirement.
But it said summonses were being used inappropriately for more than one in 10 witnesses in domestic abuse cases.
Chief inspector of the HMCPSI Kevin McGinty said: "The CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] rightly wants to reduce the number of times that trials have to be rescheduled or defendants walking free, but there's little evidence that use of the summons is making a difference."
An HMCPSI spokesman added: "A witness summons is the last resort for those who disengage from a prosecution and should only be considered when all other avenues have been exhausted."
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesman said that along with police it was conducting a joint review of the provision of support to victims and witnesses.
"This review, which aims to improve levels of service, will be an opportunity to explore the reasons for the drop in witness attendance," he added.
"We will be updating our training on domestic abuse over 2016-17 and will consider including training on witness summonses within this."
Paddy Kearney has lodged a writ at Belfast High Court alleging Mr McKay "unlawfully conspired" with Loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson to damage his reputation.
Mr McKay resigned as an MLA in August after claims he and another Sinn Féin member coached Mr Bryson ahead of an appearance at a Stormont committee hearing.
The committee was investigating the £1.2bn sale of property loans by the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA).
The writ claims Mr McKay, with others, conspired to damage Mr Kearney "by the manipulation of the committee in order that Jamie Bryson's evidence be received in open session."
The papers also accuse Mr McKay of misfeasance in public office.
Mr McKay did not comment on the development.
Mr Kearney's solicitor, Paul Tweed, said in a statement: "We have been instructed to vigorously pursue this litigation and are actively considering further proceedings against other parties."
"Who's there?"
"A politician."
"A politician who?"
"A politician who has turned up on your doorstep."
"You're joking!"
That is not really very funny, but it is not really a joke.
Yet many people do laugh when you ask them if a politician has turned up to talk to them, let alone listen - not laughing at the politician, but laughing at me for asking the question.
You don't have to go far these days in Westminster to encounter deep angst about the shakiness of the main UK parties' connection with voters around the country.
As the SNP scoops up members in Scotland at a rate of knots, UKIP looks like smashing up the Conservative kitchen sink in Rochester next week, and the Greens find a new zeal, Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems wring their hands.
What was a two-party system, that became a three-party system that guaranteed them safe passage through their political careers, threatens to splinter beneath them.
And what are the parties who are making them feel so nervous doing?
Talking to voters. Holding public meetings. Opening offices in high streets. Going out and knocking on doors that haven't been knocked on in a long time.
In the run up to the Scottish referendum, I lost count of the number of times that people told us that "Yes" campaigners had been everywhere, and Better Together was nowhere to be seen.
They weren't ultimately successful of course, but there was no question about which side had the political energy, which is arguably now flooding to the SNP.
That support could fatally undermine Ed Miliband's efforts to make it to Number 10.
Politicians appear to know it is the daring act of actually talking to voters that tends to go down well.
When things go wrong, they make well-meant vows to listen to the public, to emote "I get it" after an embarrassing vote or two.
After a dreadful couple of weeks, on Thursday Ed Miliband again promised that his party would go "door by door" to sell the Labour message.
But perhaps what is really telling is that, six months out from an election, he seems to have had to remind his party, indeed himself, that it is worth doing.
Talking amongst themselves is not enough for any party.
And crucially, it is not just hearing the unvarnished truth - what voters think of them - but asking genuine questions about their constituents' lives and, guess what?, listening to the answers.
Right now, all too often that just does not happen and, more to the point, when it does, those views are sometimes dismissed.
One close, wise observer of Westminster, who knows MPs well from right across the House, tells me: "I was amazed by the readiness of some MPs to refer to their constituents as though they were an irrelevance or, still worse, as though their views were commonly ill-informed and to be disregarded."
Ouch.
There are of course exceptions, across all parties, and it shows:
What do they have in common? They have the argument, for good or ill, with the public, the people they represent. There are others of course.
The truth is, the overall outcome of the general election may not be much altered by the advance of the parties outside the familiar trio.
As the day nears, UKIP flirters may cleave to the Conservatives, or those tempted by the SNP may return to Labour.
But who wants to win by default?
Surely the most basic and vital act of political discourse ought to be part of the fraught search for answers to the worries about the fracturing of the political system.
Do you think most voters really want to be ignored or taken for granted, discuss the vagaries of Westminster, or be interviewed by pollsters with their ever-more sophisticated technology?
Or do they want a politician who hopes to represent them to knock on their door, ask what they want and listen to their response?
As long as they don't tell poor "knock-knock" gags, I think maybe we all know the answer.
If neither the Conservatives, nor Labour, nor the Liberal Democrats are prepared to go out in larger number to make their case and listen to voters' arguments, the joke could be on all of them.
The Glasgow University report says the findings suggest that part of the "core business" of hospitals is people who are nearing the end of their lives.
The research team studied 10,000 people who were in 25 Scottish hospitals on one day - 31 March, 2010.
In total 3,098 patients, almost 31%, died within 12 months.
The study found that 9% died during their admission.
Older patients were more likely to die, and men were more likely to die than women.
Just over half of all male patients over the age of 85 died within the year.
Lead author Professor David Clark said: "I think what this paper really shows us is that what we call 'acute' hospitals really have, as part of their core business, the care of people who are coming to the end of their lives.
"The key message for me is how, as organisations, hospitals start to think more widely about the implications of that."
The likelihood of dying in hospital has been rising, despite the fact that surveys suggest most people would like to die at home.
A recent international comparison of 34 countries by the University of Auckland found that 59% of all Scottish deaths occur in hospital, and a similar number in England and Wales.
It means British hospitals rank among the top 10 countries with the greatest number of deaths in a hospital setting.
Professor Clark, who is based at Glasgow University's Dumfries campus, said the next step was to work out how to identify those who were most likely to be nearing the end of their lives.
"A study like this is looking retrospectively," he said. "The key challenge is how to identify people prospectively; on admission to hospital or when they're first being assessed in the initial ward round. I think that's now where we should focus our energy.
"That's very tricky, of course. Starting those difficult conversations about end of life needs and wants is challenging work for family members and for professionals but I think the study shows there is an opportunity in hospital to start that conversation."
The report was published in the journal Palliative Medicine.
Michael Smith's eighth goal of the season after 57 minutes, from a superb free-kick by Bolton old boy Matt Taylor, threatened to give the Cobblers a fourth successive victory.
Taylor was involved again in Bolton's controversial 75th-minute equaliser when adjudged to have handled David Wheater's header by referee Richard Clark.
Adam Le Fondre, earlier denied an equaliser by Adam Smith's fine save, thumped home his fourth goal in three games to bring the teams level.
Smith came to Town's rescue moments later, tipping over Darren Pratley's header.
Bolton, scorer of eight goals in their previous two outings, were not to be denied a third successive success though.
Andrew Taylor, twice involved in the build-up, provided the assist with a fiercely-driven cross and Morais slid in at the far post to register his first goal for the Trotters eight minutes from time.
There was time for even more controversy when John-Joe O'Toole thought he had equalised in the final minute of stoppage time but his effort was disallowed for offside.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 2, Northampton Town 1.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 2, Northampton Town 1.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Mark Beevers.
Attempt blocked. Filipe Morais (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Zander Diamond (Northampton Town).
Substitution, Northampton Town. Keshi Anderson replaces Michael Smith.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Brendon Moloney replaces Aaron Phillips.
(Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Andrew Taylor.
Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Goal! Bolton Wanderers 2, Northampton Town 1. Filipe Morais (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Andrew Taylor.
Foul by Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers).
Aaron Phillips (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Jay Spearing replaces Derik because of an injury.
Foul by Dorian Dervite (Bolton Wanderers).
Marc Richards (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Adam Smith.
Attempt saved. Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Phillips (Northampton Town).
Substitution, Northampton Town. Paul Anderson replaces Jak McCourt because of an injury.
Goal! Bolton Wanderers 1, Northampton Town 1. Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Penalty conceded by Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Lewin Nyatanga.
Attempt saved. Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Zander Diamond (Northampton Town).
Attempt saved. David Wheater (Bolton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lewin Nyatanga (Northampton Town).
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by David Buchanan.
Attempt blocked. Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers).
Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Adam Smith.
Attempt saved. Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Years of turmoil in Yemen has left more than two million children in urgent need of food, water and medicine.
Much of the country's infrastructure has been destroyed by conflict between a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and the Iran-aligned Houthi group.
The Scottish government said it had donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Yemen Crisis Appeal.
The committee brings together 13 leading UK aid agencies to raise money at times of humanitarian crisis in poorer countries.
International Development Minister Alasdair Allan said the Scottish government would "do all we can to help Yemen's most vulnerable people in their hour of need".
And he said he hoped the £250,000 of funding would reach the worst affected areas of the country.
Sally Foster Fulton, spokeswoman for the Disasters Emergency Committee in Scotland, said the world must not be allowed to turn its back on the humanitarian disaster.
She told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Two thirds of the population, 18.8m people, are in need of humanitarian aid, sanitation health care, emergency food.
"Half the country are suffering from hunger - seven million severely hungry.
"Children under five, breastfeeding mothers, pregnant women are badly affected. So it is a disaster.
"But what we are doing is bringing together 13 of the leading UK charities to say we can make a huge difference to millions of people.
"And with the help of the generosity of the UK people and government, and the Scottish government, we can and are making a huge difference."
More than 10,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since fighting in the Arab country escalated in March of last year.
The conflict has exacerbated the widespread poverty, food shortages and poor health services which have affected Yemen for many years.
In a report published on Monday, the Unicef children's charity said hunger among Yemen's children has reached an "all time high", with nearly 2.2 million in need of urgent care, and at least 462,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
It also said at least one child dies every ten minutes in Yemen - which is the poorest country in the Middle East - because of malnutrition, diarrhoea, and respiratory tract infections.
The line's eastern route, to Leeds from Birmingham, will run east of Sheffield, with some trains going into the city via a new spur and existing lines.
But 16 of 216 homes on a housing estate in Mexborough will be demolished.
The government's preferred routes, from Crewe to Manchester and from the West Midlands to Leeds, were laid out last November.
Earlier the government announced seven contracts worth nearly £7bn for some of the line's civil engineering work between Birmingham and London.
The Department for Transport (DfT) said the full line would connect Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and the East Midlands in a Y-shaped network, with all of them being linked to London by the line.
"Britain's new railway line will bring huge economic benefits across the country and help ensure this government delivers on its promise to spread wealth beyond London and the south-east," said the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling following the announcement.
He dismissed claims that the project will end up costing significantly more than the £55.7bn budgeted.
Speaking in the House of Commons later he said: "There have been some wild rumours, I have to say, in the last 24 hours about the cost of the project, based on, frankly, a finger in the air by people who are not involved in the project.
"I would simply remind the House that it is incredible, inconceivable and simply nonsense to suggest that HS2 will cost five times the amount HS1 cost per mile.
"This project has a cost attached of £55.7 billion for the whole thing, it is currently on time and on budget and I expect it to stay that way."
Residents of the Shimmer housing estate in Mexborough have disputed that only 16 houses will be demolished by the new line.
Karen Schofield, whose family farm is also on the proposed route, told the BBC that the government's decision was "unthinkable".
"It's the worst possible news that anybody wants to hear, that you're going to lose your family home, which my husband and his brothers... they bought, what, 40-odd years ago," she said.
"There's horses, there's stables, we've provided employment for local communities... and it's ok HS2 saying they're going to compensate like-for-like... we've invited them to come down here and have a look what we've built up over the years."
The government admitted that its existing compensation scheme - which offers homeowners the "un-blighted" value of their home plus 10% - would not be enough to allow the Mexborough residents to buy an equivalent house locally.
"The particular circumstance of the Shimmer estate development could mean that the statutory compensation package may not allow homeowners to acquire a similar property in the local area," the Department for Transport said.
The government will now devise a plan with local residents and political representatives, which would "ensure Shimmer homeowners can secure a comparable local home," the DfT said.
The government's final route means that no new stations will be built in South Yorkshire.
Ed Miliband, the Labour MP for Doncaster North whose constituency covers the Shimmer estate, said putting the line through his constituency was "wrong and perverse".
"It flies in the face of evidence, logic, and above all, the economic needs of South Yorkshire," he said.
"The government and HS2 should be ashamed about the way they have gone about this decision. Their arguments do not add up, the consultation was a sham, and the residents have been ignored," he added.
But Philippa Oldham, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, argued that the overall HS2 plan would be of benefit to the country.
"By freeing up the capacity on the East Coast Mainline, West Coast Mainline, through the HS2 route we'll be able to shift some of our freight network onto the rail network from the road network," she said.
"So that will ease congestion on our roads providing that we have an integrated transport strategy."
A section of trackside wall "loaded with concrete and cabins by a third party" fell, blocking all four lines into the station, Network Rail said.
The collapse has strewn rubble across the tracks and also damaged overhead wires.
Passengers are urged to seek alternative routes.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "Early indications suggest train services will not resume for several days while extensive clear up and repairs take place to make the location safe."
More precise forecasts on how long the repairs will take will be made later, he added.
Some have already volunteered the information - with Schroders fund managers taking the plunge as the first FTSE100 company to go public.
The group revealed that fixed pay for its female staff was 33% lower on average than for their male staff, while there was a bonus gap of 66%.
It sounds like a bad start for #GenderPayGap, but Schroders said the figures "may be misleading".
In line with most companies in the financial services sector, there are fewer women in senior roles at the firm.
The company said: "Our analysis of comparable roles shows that we reward men and women fairly for similar work and that the gap reflects the lower representation of women at senior levels within the organisation".
If that's the case, what is the point of these figures? And how should you act on the facts?
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) calls it "unprecedented transparency".
For the first time, more than 9,000 companies employing about 15m people will have to measure, and then report, how they pay men and women.
It will affect nearly half the workforce in the UK.
Unequal pay for men and women doing the same job has been illegal for 40 years but overall the gender gap in the UK still stands at 18%.
Ann Francke, chief executive of the CMI, says: "The answer lies in the fact that the gap, in most cases, is not the result of unequal pay.
"Instead, it reflects the failure to achieve a balance of men and women in senior management roles, or to attract and retain women in some of the better remunerated occupations".
It won't compare your salary with someone else's. You are already entitled to compare your contract to that of another employee of the opposite sex who is doing similar work under the Equal Pay Act.
What it will show you is:
Although it is not obligatory, the government is encouraging companies to publish an "action plan" alongside their figures, demonstrating the steps they will take to close the gender pay gap within their organisation.
Emma Codd, managing partner for talent at Deloitte UK, said: "For the first time people will be able to see the gender pay gap of large employers at one fixed point in time, with this gap measured and reported in a consistent way.
"They will be able to read about the causes of each company's gap and the actions that are being taken to close it; they will also be able to determine for themselves those companies that are serious about this and those that are not."
Any voluntary, private or public sector company with 250 or more workers has to publish its annual gender pay data from April 2017.
Companies must publish the data alongside a written statement on their website, as well as reporting the data to the government.
The government plans to publish a link to a portal with all the data on its campaign page.
Though there is no set date for each company to report the data, they must do so by April 2018.
Any employer that fails to publish its gender pay data would be breaking the law. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the power to enforce employers to comply with the regulations if they fail to do so.
If employees are concerned that their company is not complying or does not have an action plan, they should speak with their HR department.
If they or the HR department need further advice, they can check the guidance on the government's website or contact the conciliation service Acas for further help.
Some industries are expecting the data to show them up.
The industry body for engineering and manufacturing, EEF, says its partners - which include Tata Steel and Rolls-Royce - are bracing themselves.
But they say it's not due to a lack of support for women in the industry.
"Far from it," EEF's skills policy advisor Verity O'Keefe, said.
"Manufacturers offer enhanced and competitive maternity pay and schemes, flexible working and structured career and training plans."
She said the problem was that "just a handful" of engineering apprentices and graduates are female.
"Until we are able to move the dial on female recruitment we are unlikely to see much movement on closing the gender pay gap," she added.
But not every industry will have the same excuse, and the government hopes the new rules will open up a dialogue between employers and employees about pay gaps, and encourage employers should to use the data to make changes.
The Women's Equality Party says women can use the new law to push an action plan or address an unconscious bias within their company.
Hannah Peaker, chief of staff at the campaign group, said it would be an "eye-opener" for women who, once they see that inequality exists in "every sector and at every level", will start to address the issue.
Minister for Women and Equalities, Justine Greening, said helping women reach their full potential "isn't only the right thing to do, it makes good economic sense and is good for British business".
Sam Smethers, chief executive at Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality, says employers should see this as "an opportunity not a threat".
She said: "Through gender pay gap reporting they can address the productivity gap and get the best person for the job at the right level."
If companies don't act, women can use the data to find better opportunities - and vote with their feet.
Robert Smith, 33, is due before Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Saturday accused of prison mutiny.
On Friday, inmate Ross Queen appeared at the same court also charged with prison mutiny and taking a photograph inside the prison.
Police said officers were working with G4S to investigate the trouble.
Lynford Brewster, 29, died from stab wounds in the Llanedeyrn area of the city on 12 June.
Jake Whelan, 24, from Cardiff, Robert Lainsbury, 23, of Worcester, and Dwayne Edgar, 29, from Llanedeyrn, laughed as they were handed life sentences at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday.
The judge called the murder a "callous, cold-blooded killing".
The court heard drugs boss Whelan plotted to kill father-to-be Mr Brewster after "an altercation".
He drove to the Midlands to collect Lainsbury and brought him back to south Wales where they met Edgar.
Armed with knives, including a large combat knife, they went to look for Mr Brewster before stabbing him in the back and once in each leg.
The court heard the three men then ran off and tried to escape by throwing their phones away.
As he was jailed, Lainsbury told the judge "Merry Christmas to you too", before spitting at a police officer as he was taken to cells.
Whelan was jailed for at least 32 years, Lainsbury 30 years and Edgar 28 years.
A family tribute said: "Today would have been Lynford's 30th birthday.
"Lynford was a loving son, partner, brother and would have been a doting father to his unborn daughter.
"He is missed everyday by each and every one of us."
Senior investigating officer, Det Insp Mark O'Shea of South Wales Police, described the attack as "brutal and cowardly".
At Burns Suppers round the world, Scots will bash their neeps, devour a haggis, crack open a bottle of whisky and toast their national bard.
It's a tradition which has lasted more than 200 years but maybe it's time to do something different to mark Robert Burns' birthday?
You could join the 10,000 people who are expected to fill the streets of Dumfries on Sunday to watch the town's annual Burns Night carnival.
Lanterns, samba dancing and about 4,000 children from local schools will feature in the colourful parade.
Part of the Big Burns Supper Festival, the carnival will streamed live on the winter festival's website.
Forget selfies, Monday will see the dawn of the "burnsie".
Photographs of people next to their favourite statue of the poet will form part of a collage that will be unveiled on Burns Night.
It shouldn't be too difficult a task - after Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus, there are more statues of Robert Burns around the world than any other non-religious figure.
Alternatively you could take a picture of yourself celebrating the Bard - maybe tucking into a plate of haggis, neeps and tatties, or dressed in their finest Scottish attire.
Social media users can upload the pictures to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #Burnsie.
Before you sit down to your haggis on Monday, you need to catch it.
And on Sunday hundreds of people are expected to gather in Selkirk to hunt the elusive beast.
Organisers of the Great Selkirk Haggis Hunt said children should be armed with a "baggie" net for their vital supper-catching mission on Selkirk Hill.
Davie Scott told The Southern Reporter: "Although Haggis numbers are good, we are keen for adults to operate a catch-and-release method of hunting so that the youngsters have as much opportunity as possible to develop their haggis-hunting skills."
For the first time in more than 200 years, a Burns Supper will be held at the cottage where Scotland's national bard was born.
Priced at £250, just 30 coveted tickets have gone on sale for the event at Burns Cottage in Alloway.
It is the final event in a series of celebrations held to celebrate his birthday at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum.
Its director, David Hopes, said: "The first Burns' Supper in 1801 was actually held in July to coincide with the death of Burns and was intended to 'offer a tribute to the departed genius'.
"A few years later, the event moved to the Bard's birthday instead, and so started many of the traditions which, 200 years on, are still central to our celebrations - conviviality, the serving of haggis, reciting Burns' works and a few drams."
If the meat feast is not for you, Rabbie's home village will play host to what is billed as the world's first vegan Burn's Supper on Monday.
The meal at the Brig a Doon House Hotel in Alloway will feature a mushroom salad and vegetarian broth as well as a vegetarian haggis, bashed neeps and tatties.
A vegan chocolate and Drambuie mousse will round off the formal dinner.
Meanwhile in Edinburgh a gluten free Burns Supper - which also claims to be a world-first - is planned at the Roamin' Nose Bistro.
Martin Winterkorn quit in September 2015 after VW admitted to using software to lower the emissions from its diesel vehicles during tests.
He has since denied knowing of the violations until late in August 2015, shortly before the board reported them.
But German authorities said they were now investigating him for fraud.
Prosecutors from the German region of Braunschweig said they had searched 28 homes and offices this week in connection with the scandal.
As a result, the number of people accused of misconduct had risen from 21 to 37, including Mr Winterkorn.
"Sufficient indications have resulted from the investigation, particularly the questioning of witnesses and suspects as well as the analysis of seized data, that the accused [Mr Winterkorn] may have known about the manipulating software and its effects sooner than he has said publicly," the prosecutors said in a statement.
Earlier this month, VW admitted to US prosecutors that about 40 employees had deleted thousands of documents in an effort to hide systematic emissions cheating from regulators.
It was also fined $4.3bn by US authorities and agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges.
In addition, the carmaker has agreed to a $15bn civil settlement with environmental authorities and car owners in the US.
It is also facing 8.8bn euros ($9.41bn) in damage claims following the collapse of VW's share price after the scandal broke.
VW shares slumped by a third in the immediate aftermath of the scandal and are still 7% below their September 2015 level.
He doesn't really need to say it. In an hour in his company, the conversation is peppered with numbers: How many shillings make a pound, how old he was when something important happened in his life and the dates of historic occasions. When he can't remember a number, he keeps interrupting himself, returning back to the original topic, until he does.
To a non-maths person it's exhausting, but it's an insight into how Mr Grant's mind works. Dyslexic, he wasn't interested in school at all, but says maths was "easy peasy". He failed his 11-plus exam and hence went to what he calls the "failures' school", which he left at 16 with just one qualification - O-level maths.
Now he looks at spreadsheets and can tell instantly if something's wrong, adds up without using a calculator and to this day, despite having a finance director, checks the weekly cash flow, signs every cheque and approves, or not, all outgoings.
His forensic attention to numbers has paid off. The Entertainer - named so they could switch sector if the toy idea failed - opened its first shop in 1981. It now has 110 UK stores plus four overseas and made a £7.8m pre-tax profit for the year to the end of January, up almost a third on the previous year, on sales just shy of £130m.
Its success comes in spite of what appears to be a determinedly non-commercial approach to running a business. Mr Grant became a Christian in 1991, a decade after he opened his first shop. His faith was so strong he almost quit to become a missionary, but instead decided to make the business compatible with his beliefs.
As a result, the shop never opens on Sunday, doesn't stock Halloween goods or some of the most popular toy ranges including Harry Potter related merchandise and realistic weaponry and gives 10% of the chain's profits to charity. "We just want to be comfortable with what we're selling," he says.
Before his conversion, when a religious customer told him he was "encouraging children to pay with darkness", and that if he stopped "the Lord will repay your business in other ways", he admits he thought she was "a fruitcake". "I just explained that I bought and sold things and made a profit and that's what being in business was all about".
Now, like her, he says the firm's continuing success is no surprise, noting the Bible states: "Those who honour me I will honour".
When the firm faced its toughest time, at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, he called in a vicar and took the unusual approach of inviting head office staff to pray with them. He was astonished by how many people - around 30 - turned up. They met weekly for around four months - praying for the staff of collapsed rival Woolworths, for wisdom for the government and their own economic situation. In the end the firm - which at one point looked like it would lose £1m - ended 2008 no worse off than when it started.
"We didn't make any money, we didn't lose any money but we survived," is how he sums it up.
Surviving is what Mr Grant was good at long before he founded his own business. His parents divorced when he was just three and money was scarce. "If I wanted anything I had to go out and earn it," he says. Whilst still at school, he did paper rounds, collected empty beer bottles and worked on a milk float as well as in a sweet and then a bike shop.
When he left school, he joined the bike shop full time, and it became the local epicentre of the 1970s skateboard boom. When the skateboard market collapsed, he bought the surplus stock to sell privately. Spending all his time on the shop phone talking to prospective customers eventually got him sacked but gave him enough money to start what he planned to be his own bike shop.
Instead, a call from an estate agent mate - who had a toyshop in Amersham on his books - proved fateful. Gary and wife Catherine took it over despite having no knowledge of the sector.
It seemed an ambitious move for the then 23-year-old. But he said life had already taught him that if one job finishes another would come along. "I'm not Del boy but people often call me that," he laughs.
Each week, he added up the shop's income and outgoings on the back of a brown envelope. "Money in, money out that's how you manage cash flow," he says.
Using profit to grow the business was initially slow, but the collapse of then rival Zodiac Toys in 1991 proved a turning point. It enabled The Entertainer to secure its first shopping centre store - normally impossible for such a small retailer - and from thereon expansion increased.
Shops are still its main source of income - providing 80% of sales, with the rest online. It's a split Mr Grant's happy with and he gets angry at the suggestion that some people inevitably use the shops to look at the toys, but then go online to buy them cheaper.
"If you don't value customer service, range, store ambience, advice... then go and buy off Amazon because I'm not going to waste my time," he says. His stance is that the chain offers "outstanding value" but is not necessarily the cheapest. It costs at least £300,000 to open a shop and he says some of that cost has to be factored in.
"It's about getting a balance. We offer value and value isn't just price."
The firm's success - the business is owned wholly between his wife and four children, two of whom work in senior roles alongside him - has bought him plenty of material happiness, but one of the achievements of which he is proudest is that he has given lots of people a chance.
Below board level many senior staff have come up through the company, and not surprisingly you can get a job at the Entertainer without any qualifications at all.
"If I hadn't been given opportunities maybe I wouldn't have had a business this size. I want everybody to have an opportunity," he says.
Residents shout insults from their balconies as the convoy stops at the site of one attack.
The prisoners were taken to Karrada to re-enact on camera the crimes to which they had confessed, as part of a weekly programme called In The Grip Of The Law, which is produced by state-run Iraqiya TV in co-operation with the interior ministry.
Relatives of the victims approach and take turns at scolding the convicts, who remain silent throughout. When they get too close, police gently push them away.
The programme features interviews with prisoners such as Abu Jassem, convicted for involvement in attacks by Islamic State (IS).
He appears nervous and keeps his head down as he details his role. Towards the end, he is asked whether he regrets it.
"Yes, sir," Abu Jassem says quietly. The interviewer is not satisfied. "Yes, sir, I swear you have convinced me," he exclaims.
The interviews are rich in forensic detail, but lacking in insight into the ideology and appeal of IS.
I ask Ahmad Hassan, the presenter of the show, what he makes of his interviewees.
"Those at the forefront are naive, limited in awareness and knowledge," he says. "In prison, they reflect on the innocent blood they shed and feel abandoned by Islamic State. They get a reality shock."
Mr Hassan says no fewer than 10 million people watch his show. It seems especially popular in predominantly Shia areas that are frequently attacked, like Karrada, where the mood is vengeful.
"It's a good programme, but they should either execute the terrorist at the crime scene or hand him over to the family of the martyr," says Ammar, who owns a restaurant that was damaged in one recent attack. "They're the ones whose hearts have been broken."
In Sunni areas, the programme is viewed with suspicion.
"I think it's all fabricated," one man in Baghdad's Adhamiya district tells me, requesting anonymity. "Some guy is in trouble with an officer, gets picked up for terrorism and confesses to killing. It happened to relatives we have."
He believes most of those on the show have nothing to do with attacks and are not IS fighters.
"IS fight face to face and if they catch them they kill them, they don't bring them to court," he says. "The court is for the innocents."
His impression of the Iraqi justice system is widely shared in Adhamiya.
On 2 January, crowds converged on the area to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday.
As fireworks lit the sky above the historic mosque of Abu Hanifa al-Numan, a young woman approached, drawn to the camera.
She told me her brother had been arrested in 2007 by the Adhamiya Awakening, a Sunni militia allied to the US and to Iraq's Shia-led government.
He was accused of murder and membership of al-Qaeda, tortured into confessing and handed a death sentence which was later suspended.
More than two years ago he disappeared within the prison system.
"Knock on almost any door in Adhamiya and you get a story like that," says a human rights researcher who has been documenting abuse in Iraqi prisons.
It is no surprise that the programme elicits conflicting reactions. Iraqis have different experiences of the carnage that followed the US-led invasion in 2003.
Sunnis suffered more from state repression, while Shia took the brunt of attacks on civilian areas.
The programme does not address the gap in perceptions but seems oriented towards the war aims of the government.
Beyond reassuring viewers that security services are doing their jobs, Mr Hassan lists a number of other goals: "To provide guidance to security forces, who can learn tricks used by terrorists; to send a message to the judiciary to expedite the sentencing process in order to serve justice; and to make anyone thinking of committing crimes reconsider."
In one episode, Mr Hassan turns to the camera with grim determination.
"You will see that their destiny is either death or arrest, no matter how long it takes," he asserts.
A message of power and assured victory over IS is repeated throughout the programme, explicitly at times, implicitly at others.
But almost a decade after IS was born in Iraq, events on the ground suggest that nothing is inevitable.
Last week three men, including a famous fortune-teller, were charged with lese majeste, or damaging the monarchy.
One of them, a prominent policeman, died in custody on Friday. The police say he hanged himself using his shirt.
Thai authorities have publicised this case, in contrast to previous trials under the draconian lese majeste laws.
On Wednesday, the national police chief, Chakthip Chaijinda, presented reporters with an assortment of items - including expensive guitars, guns, watches and Buddhist amulets - that were described as evidence against the fortune-teller.
Until his arrest last week, the fortune-teller had been seen frequently with top officials. He recently played a prominent role in promoting the image of Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, heir to the throne.
The police say he exploited that position to demand money from some of Thailand's biggest companies - but details are very sketchy.
Nor could they clearly explain how the arrested police officer ended up dying in custody. They refused an independent autopsy.
This case has striking parallels with a purge of the Crown Prince's estranged wife and her family last year. They too were accused of abusing his name to make money.
The key police officer in that case also died in mysterious circumstances.
The lese majeste law bars journalists from saying anything negative about the royal family.
However, it is no secret that the extremely frail health of King Bhumibol, who has been on the throne for 69 years, is a source of acute anxiety in Thailand.
Over the past five weeks, the finalists have been profiled in a series of television documentaries on RTE.
The results of the public vote were revealed on The Late Late Show last night.
The 73-year-old Nobel laureate beat other historical and contemporary figures such as Michael Collins, James Connolly, Mary Robinson and Bono.
The SDLP MP for Foyle Mark Durkan said he was delighted for both Mr Hume and his wife.
"People can write memoirs that put them at the centre of the peace process, at the centre of agreement and breakthrough, but it was John Hume who drew the map and wrote the plan and led the way," Mr Durkan said.
"He provided the sat-nav that brought everyone from their different and hopeless positions to the place of peace, shared institutions and stability.
"He brought us to a place where we can face up to the urgency of common challenges while respecting the integrity of different allegiances."
Riyad Mahrez's goal secured a 1-0 win over FC Copenhagen on Tuesday to leave the Foxes one victory from qualifying for the Champions League last 16.
But the English champions, unbeaten in Europe with three wins in three, are 13th domestically after four losses.
Ranieri said it is a "psychological" problem and the league is his priority.
Leicester are only the fifth Champions League debutants - after AC Milan, Paris St-Germain, Juventus and Malaga - to win their opening three games.
"I'm very proud of the side from one side but from another, when I think of the Premier League, I am very, very angry," said Ranieri, 64.
"In my career this has happened. When you are in the big competition for the first time you grow and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.
"When you play in the Champions League you are switched on, very, very smart and focused on every situation. You use up a lot of mental energy in the Champions League.
"We want to change this though because the Premier League is our priority."
Leicester have already lost more games in the Premier League this season than they did in their title campaign - and conceded 14 goals.
But in Europe, the Foxes have become only the third team to begin a Champions League campaign with three straight clean sheets, and they can secure a place in the last 16 with a win in Denmark on 2 November, having already guaranteed at least a Europa League spot.
"It is good to go into the Europa League but we are in the Champions League and we go step by step," added Ranieri.
"We have to stay calm now and change our mentality in the Premier League because we have Crystal Palace coming up - a tough, tough match."
Phil McNulty, BBC Sport's chief football writer
When Leicester's thoughts turned to their first Champions League campaign, qualification from Group G would have been regarded as a major success for manager Claudio Ranieri and his players.
But the Foxes may just fancy their chances of taking the dream journey a step further.
Topping the group would make life a lot easier in the last-16 draw as it vastly increases the chances of drawing beatable opponents when all logic - something, admittedly, they defied last season - suggests they would struggle against Europe's elite.
The King Power Stadium is a compact and atmospheric arena, swirling with noise, that is perfectly designed for European nights and making even the most illustrious sides uncomfortable.
If Leicester can keep up this form, and the likes of Riyad Mahrez, Jamie Vardy and Islam Slimani can provide the threat to supplement the defensive resilience that won the Premier League, then there may be plenty of sides they can trouble."
Read Phil McNulty's report from the King Power Stadium
Leicester City will not face Uefa charges after FC Copenhagen fans let off flares before Tuesday's Champions League game at the King Power Stadium.
European football's governing body has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Danish champions for supporters in the away end "setting off fireworks".
Uefa holds host clubs responsible for security inside and around the stadium, "unless they can prove that they have not been negligent".
Uefa's control, ethics and disciplinary body will deal with Copenhagen's case on 17 November.
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The boy was attacked in Wash Brook Nature Park on Tuesday, prompting an appeal to parents not to let their children walk alone in the area.
He was left "deeply distressed" and needed medical treatment.
Leicestershire Police said Ajay Jetha, from Keyham, had been charged with "numerous sexual offences" and was due before magistrates on Monday morning.
Ch Supt David Sandall, who has been leading the investigation, urged people not to speculate about the boy's identity.
"Throughout this investigation, my priority has been to safeguard the interests of the boy in this case.
"He and his family are going through a deeply distressing time and any attempt to identify him will only add to their distress."
The boy, whose age has not been released, was attacked between 15:30 and 16:00 BST on Tuesday.
But what has caused the concerns - and what has the UK government been saying to try to allay them?
David Cameron announced during the Strategic Defence Review last November that eight new Royal Navy Type-26 anti-submarine frigates would be built at the Clyde shipyards - which opponents said was five fewer than had been promised by the UK government ahead of the independence referendum.
Mr Cameron also said that "at least" five new general purpose Type-31 frigates would be built in Scotland in the future, "if the conditions are right".
The prime minister said: "The only way these ships wouldn't be built in Scotland is if Scotland was independent and didn't have the national resources of the Royal Navy."
Mr Cameron also announced that two smaller offshore patrol vessels would be built on the Clyde to tide the Govan and Scotstoun yards over until work on the new frigates began, which had been expected to happen later this year.
But the final contracts for the new frigates have not yet been signed by the Ministry of Defence and BAE Systems, which owns the Clyde yards.
The unions don't seem to think that the Type-26 order is going to be cancelled by the Ministry of Defence - but they are concerned that construction of the new vessels will apparently not now begin until next year.
This seems to have come from briefings given to the unions by BAE Systems last week, following talks between the defence contractor and the MoD which saw the current demonstration phase for the new frigates being extended until June 2017.
Union officials have raised fears that any gap between the completion of the offshore patrol vessels and work beginning on the new frigates could lead to job losses, with some claiming between 800 and 1,000 posts could be at risk.
There has also been speculation that work on the new vessels could be carried out over a longer timeframe - meaning it would need fewer workers.
And unions on the Clyde are also concerned about the possible implications of a review of British shipyards currently being carried out for the Treasury by Sir John Parker, which they fear could lead to at least some of the work on the new frigates being contracted out to other yards elsewhere in the UK.
The Treasury wants to see competition for Royal Navy work to help drive down costs and to help Britain win export orders for naval ships - something it has not been doing well.
When the Clyde yards won the battle with Portsmouth to become the shipyards for building Royal Navy complex warships more than two years ago it had to accept some job losses as the price for protecting most of the jobs, and that deal may not stick if the timetable slips for shipbuilding.
As already mentioned, there were originally to have been 13 of the Type-26 warships built, before that was cut to eight last November during the Strategic Defence Review.
And there was also a plan floated to build a "frigate factory", with £200m of investment in Scotstoun on the north side of the Clyde to ensure more efficient production, which could in turn have helped the Clyde become a centre for exporting, which it has failed to do for many years.
That plan did not come to fruition, and the intention now is to spend only half of that over the next two years, mainly on the Govan yard, to get it ready for the Type-26 contract.
However, the trade unions are concerned that they have not seen much of that investment so far.
David Mundell, the Scottish secretary, told BBC Scotland on Monday morning that there was "no change" to the UK government's plans to build the eight new Type-26 frigates on the Clyde, but that it was up to BAE to deal with operational requirements.
It followed Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson saying she had been told by UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon that nothing had changed, and that the orders for all eight Type-26 frigates, five Type-31 frigates and two offshore patrol vessels would be "coming to the Clyde, as discussed last year, to the same timetable and the same number".
But politicians from other parties remain to be convinced, with both the SNP and Labour calling for clarity and warning against any "betrayal" of the shipyards, while the Scottish Liberal Democrats said the UK government should give an "absolute commitment" to the Clyde yards.
BAE Systems said it was working with the MoD to "agree a revised baseline for the Type-26 ships and a production schedule for the two additional offshore patrol vessels in Glasgow".
There is almost certainly a political element at play here. The lead up to a Holyrood election seems like a good time to put pressure on the UK government to remind it - but also Labour and the Liberal Democrats - of the arguments that were made about the fate of the Clyde yards if Scotland became independent.
And it will not look good for the UK government to be attacked with words such as "betrayal" and "deception" so close to the EU referendum - particularly when it is in connection to promises made before another referendum.
So it won't do BAE any harm in its negotiations with the MoD to have unions raising these issues in public.
Andrew Lane, 61, contracted the infection necrotising fasciitis after an operation to have his prostate gland removed at Southend Hospital, Essex.
He claims his bowel was punctured during the procedure, leading to the infection.
The hospital said it was aware of the case but could not comment further.
Mr Lane, from Thurrock, had so much diseased tissue removed that he lost his penis and was left with a protruding stomach where the outer tissue was "eaten away".
He had to use a catheter and colostomy bag for two years after the operation in 2013.
"It has just been a horrendous experience. I thought I was going to die," Mr Lane said.
"That night I was taken to theatre three times while the surgeons took more and more tissue away.
"I was super-fit before all this. I had a good body, but now I look like I'm nine months pregnant. I can't ever bear to look at myself naked."
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Nick Greaves, from Mr Lane's lawyers Slater and Gordon, said: "Mr Lane believed he was going into hospital for a routine operation and would be home within days.
"Instead, he has been left with permanent and life-changing injuries that have turned his world upside down.
"Although nothing can change that, he wants to know what happened and ensure it is fully investigated and everything possible done to prevent anyone else having to go through the same ordeal."
Pietersen was released by Rising Pune Supergiants in December after injury restricted him to only four games for them in the Twenty20 series last year.
"My winter has been too busy with all my travel and I don't want to spend April/May away too," he tweeted.
This winter, the 36-year-old has played in South Africa's T20 Challenge and Australia's T20 Big Bash League.
He is also to play a second season with Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League in February and March.
This year's IPL auction will take place in Bangalore on Monday, 20 February.
Pietersen played in the IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2009 and 2010, and Delhi Daredevils in 2012 and 2014.
Mewnwhile, Pietersen has been fined 5,000 Australian dollars (£3,000) for his on-air comments criticising an umpiring decision while playing for the Melbourne Stars during a Big Bash League semi-final.
Pietersen was wearing a microphone when he criticised an umpire's decision to turn down a caught behind appeal against Perth Scorchers batsman Sam Whiteman on 24 January.
"That was a shocker, an absolute shocker," Pietersen was heard saying while fielding during the Scorchers' run chase.
After the match, Whiteman admitted he had hit the ball, while umpire Shawn Craig conceded he had made an error.
Pietersen has 48 hours to decide whether to appeal and have the issue heard by a Cricket Australia code of conduct commissioner.
They are charged with abusing boys who were aged between 11 and 16 at the former St Ninian's School in Falkland.
At the High Court in Glasgow John Farrell, 73, Paul Kelly, 63, Edward Egan, 78, Michael Murphy, 76, and William Don, 61, denied the charges.
The court indictment lists 121 charges involving sexual and physical abuse.
The majority of the allegations are against Farrell and Kelly.
The Crown claim that a total of 35 boys were allegedly abused at the school.
Many of them allege they were assaulted with a variety of implements, including shoes, belt and a ruler.
Among other claims is an accusation that Kelly left a 13-year-old boy rolled up in a rug overnight.
He is also said to have stripped another pupil and hung him upside down from a bridge.
Farrell is accused among other charges of indecently assaulting a 12-year-old boy by simulating sex with him and forcing a pair of underpants into his mouth to prevent him screaming.
He also faces a charge that in the early 1980s he indecently assaulted a boy at a monastery on the isle of Iona.
He is said to have attacked the same boy at a Catholic church in Motherwell in 1999.
Farrell, who is represented by QC Edward Targowski, lodged a special defence of alibi and Don, who is represented by advocate Laura Thomson, lodged special defences of alibi and incrimination.
Dozens of witnesses are expected to give evidence during the trial before judge Lord Matthews.
It is likely to last between 12 and 14 weeks.
The trial continues.
Little Ross near Kirkcudbright hit the headlines in 1960 when a lighthouse keeper was killed by a colleague.
The island, which covers 29 acres, is on the market for offers over £325,000.
The listing includes a six-bedroom, B-listed cottage and courtyard which is next to an operational lighthouse tower which is not part of the deal.
The lighthouse tower - which is not included in the sale - was designed and built by Alan Stevenson and first lit in 1843.
It was built at the mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay to close the gap between other lighthouses at the Mull of Galloway and Southerness.
It was manned until 1960, the year of the infamous killing.
Keeper Hugh Clark was found dead on the island and his assistant Robert Dickson was later tried and found guilty of his murder.
The property up for sale is completely off-grid with power drawn from solar panels and a small wind turbine.
The selling agents have described it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a unique property which offers an alternative lifestyle or holiday retreat.
However, prospective buyers will need their own boat or a helicopter to get to and from the island.
David Corrie, senior associate at Galbraith, Castle Douglas, said: "Private islands rarely come up for sale at an affordable price and particularly one with a habitable house and additional properties.
"Given the exciting prospect Little Ross island presents, we expect a lot of interest from all over the UK as well as abroad."
The host team of Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo won the first three frames, before Wales rallied.
But China A then clinched the deciding fifth fame in the best-of-seven match.
Wales had finished top of Group A with four wins and one defeat - including a 4-1 success over defending champions China B.
Wales' other pool wins were over Finland, Norway and Malaysia, while they lost 3-2 to Brazil after already clinching a quarter-final spot.
The World Cup format sees 24 teams competing for the biggest prize in pairs snooker and the top two teams in the four groups advanced to the quarter-finals.
But instead of a thank you, Toronto has blocked off access to the steps and asked Adi Astl, 73, to take them down.
Before the stairs were installed, Mr Astl said a few people had fallen down the steep muddy embankment to the park.
Mr Astl said he took matters into his own hands after his local councillor told him about the city's price tag.
"To me, the safety of people is more important than money," Mr Astl told CTV News. "So if the city is not willing to do it, I have to do it myself."
He said the whole project took him and his neighbours about 14 hours.
Mr Astl's councillor, Justin Di Ciano, said the official estimate, which the city said could go from $65,000 to $150,000, was outlandish.
"With $150,000 you can put up half a house," Mr Di Ciano told GlobalNews.
Toronto Mayor John Tory agreed the price estimate was overblown, but said it just won't do for private citizens to "go out to Home Depot and build a staircase in a park because that is what they would like to have".
City staff say they are re-assessing the estimate, which was based on a staircase built at another park.
Resident Dana Beamon told CTV News she is thankful for Mr Astl's staircase.
"We have far too much bureaucracy," she said.
"We do not have enough self-initiative in our city, so I am impressed."
The former Lancashire, Durham and England batsman thought nothing of it. It was his way of recharging the batteries.
However, the 59-year-old now believes that it was a pre-cursor to his depression diagnosis. Ten years after he retired from playing the signs started to appear again.
"Everything was perfect. I had a wife, children and a job," Fowler told BBC Radio Tees as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. "But in December 2006 my wife told me I needed to go to the doctor."
Fowler, who has previously formed part of the BBC Test Match Special team, was diagnosed with clinical depression.
It was something his daughter Georgina had also picked up on, noticing he repeatedly spent his days in the conservatory reading the same magazine. "I did not realise I had disconnected from everyone," Fowler said.
"There was no trigger, it absolutely floored me. But then you start your journey to get back to normal - whatever that is.
"It shut me down. I'd lie on the sofa and stare out of the window. I couldn't do anything. It was awkward for the children too."
His lightbulb moment came in creating a scale. "One day I came up with this scale from zero to 20," he added. "10 was neutral. If the number was less then I was unwell, if it was higher then I was happy to play with the children. It was an instant way of communication.
The Lancastrian, who now lives in County Durham, also said social media had been an important part of his recovery.
"I used to rant on Twitter. But then people were coming back with messages of support and it has been a massive influence," he said. "If used in the right way it can be very supportive and a lot of fun as well."
The batsman, who scored 1,307 Test runs for England between 1982 and 1985 - including the first-ever double century by an Englishman on Indian soil, says cricket is "way ahead" of other sports when dealing with mental health issues.
"Cricket encourages people to be open, honest and to deal with it," he said. "A lot of other sports don't really acknowledge it, they are frightened and it's easier to shove it in a cupboard. By being honest people come round."
Marcus Trescothick, Michael Yardy and Jonathan Trott have suffered with high-profile cases of mental illness during their careers.
The first two years after retirement is the most difficult time for players, according to the Professional Cricketers Association.
"In sport you get physical injuries, you get the diagnosis, the treatment and the rehabilitation to get you playing again," Fowler added.
"With mental illness it is the same. There should be no stigma attached. Mental illness does not define you.
"Cricket is a mental game, but how much welfare is there? Well, it's pretty good, that's why you hear about it more than any other sport.
He continues to raise awareness for cricketers and sports people by telling them to notice the signs.
"You can tell if their behaviour changes drastically," he said. "Just ask 'are you alright?' It could be anything, but if they say they are not feeling great, there is no shame attached. Deal with it because you'll get back on track."
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Alongside the England and Wales Cricket Board, the PCA ensures it closely monitors the well-being of it's members. This month it released the "Personal Development and Welfare Programme" - an 80-page document that looks more closely at mental health and support available.
Jason Ratcliffe, assistant chief executive at the PCA, says Somerset and former England opener Trescothick was the catalyst for cricket leading the way in mental health issues.
"We've been very fortunate ever since Marcus came out to speak openly about his illness," he said. "His high profile encouraged others to talk about it as soon as possible. Cricket is supportive and most of its initiatives come from Marcus."
Ratcliffe said research into mental health was still progressing.
"We've got a network and helpline. It's an ongoing initiative but if we get it right then it means, even right down to county level, we can get to people quickly," he added.
"We are well armed, we've just got exercise the plans and use this great infrastructure we have."
You can hear the full interview with Graeme Fowler on the BBC Tees website.
Barclays said it wanted to accelerate the pace of change at the bank, and the news sent its shares up more than 3%.
The FTSE 100 rose 16.90 points to 6,449.11.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.4% against the euro to €1.3998 was also 0.4% lower against the dollar at $1.5409.
His wife, Barbara, said he died on Tuesday at their home in Vermont, after suffering from leukaemia.
Kinnell was among the most celebrated poets of his time and wrote more than a dozen books spanning five decades.
He won the Pulitzer for his 1982 book Selected Poems.
The collection also won the National Book Award for Poetry, sharing the honour with contemporary Charles Wright.
His other best-known works include The Book of Nightmares, inspired by the horror of the Vietnam war, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone and Mortal Acts, Mortal Words.
One his most famous poems is The Bear, telling of a hunter who, after consuming animal blood and excrement, comes to identify with his prey.
Other notable poems include After Making Love We Hear Footsteps and When the Towers Fell, about the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York.
'Warm hearted'
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, on 1 February 1927, Kinnell was the son of immigrants from Scotland and Ireland.
The Los Angeles Times reported the poet once told students he was "a very silent child, almost mute".
"I developed a big sense of isolation from others... Gradually I felt that if I was ever going to have a happy life, it was going to have to do with poetry," he said.
He attended Princeton University, where he was roommates with future US poet laureate WS Merwin, who introduced him to the works of WB Yeats.
Merwin told Associated Press he and Kinnell had been "like brothers" and remembered his friend as a "very generous soul".
He praised the poet's work as "warm hearted" and the creations of "someone who was independent but felt sympathy with other people".
Kinnell's breakthrough poem came in 1960, with The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World - a 14-part work about Avenue C in Manhattan and the people that walked the street.
He served as poet laureate for Vermont from 1989 to 1993, and moved there in 2005.
The Academy of American Poets later gave him the Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement in 2010.
He married his first wife, Spanish translator Ines Delgado de Torres, in 1965 and had two children, Fergus and Maud, but divorced 20 years later. He married second wife Barbara in 1997.
The singer died in April 2016 at his Paisley Park studios, from an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl.
He did not leave a will and did not have any children.
Reports place the value of his estate at around $200m (£153m), though taxes will likely absorb around half of that.
In a protracted legal battle, as many as 45 people have staked a claim to the fortune, including a prisoner in Colorado who wrongly claimed to be Prince's son.
Last July, a judge rejected claims by 29 would-be heirs, and ordered genetic tests to be carried out on others.
Prince's assets include properties and the rights to his music, including hits like Let's Go Crazy and When Doves Cry, and previously unreleased material.
District judge Kevin Eide said that those people denied the status of heirs must have time to appeal against the ruling.
As a result, Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, and five half-siblings - Sharon Nelson, Norrine Nelson, John Nelson, Omarr Baker and Alfred Jackson - must wait another year to get their share of the millions.
The music icon's estate has struck deals to make his albums available by streaming, and is planning a series of releases including a remastered Purple Rain album, two albums of unreleased tracks, and two concert films.
Medicines regulator NICE has recommended that Translarna can be used for some children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
However, it will only be given to those who can still walk.
Leo Le Gal, from Ivybridge, lost the use of his legs two years ago - shortly before he began testing the drug.
The uncertainty over his future follows an announcement by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence that Translarna - also known as ataluren - will only be made available to about 50 children in the UK under a "managed access agreement" between the manufacturer, PTC Therapeutics and NHS England.
Those aged five years and over and who can still walk will be given the drug for five years while further data is collected on its efficiency.
Leo, who was diagnosed with DMD five years ago, has been taking part in a three-year international clinical trial at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
For the first year of the trial - when he could still walk - Leo was taking a placebo and was only transferred to Translarna after he lost the use of his legs.
A placebo is an inactive substance with no medicinal benefits used in trials to determine the effectiveness of a medicinal drug.
Leo's mother, Ruth Le Gal, said while it was "fantastic news" that a drug which could help DMD children would be funded by the NHS, her son's future was uncertain.
"It's great for all those children that will be eligible but sadly Leo won't because, unfortunately he lost the ability to walk before he was able to start taking the medicine," she told BBC News.
Despite not been able to help Leo's legs, his mother said Translarna has stabilised his condition and has been very beneficial.
"He's done really, really well and the medication has maintained his core strength, so he's still got good use of his arms" she said.
Leo's clinical trial is due to finish in six weeks.
"We have no idea what will happen after that," she said, adding that her hope is the trial will be extended.
Sarah McClay, 24, was attacked by a Sumatran tiger in an enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park, near Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, on Friday.
Detectives are investigating how Ms McClay and the animal came into contact, "with tragic consequences".
Park owner David Gill said there was "no reason" for Ms McClay to be in the enclosure with the tigers.
Det Supt Andrew Slattery from Cumbria Police said its inquiry was centred on "the management of dangerous animals".
Mr Slattery said "systems and protocols" at the park were being investigated.
"At this stage it is not a criminal investigation," he said.
Police said compartments in the tiger enclosure were connected by lockable doors but systems in place to ensure staff and animals were kept apart had "failed".
Mr Gill said Ms McClay, who is originally from Glasgow, was a "very experienced" staff member who had worked with big cats and was "proficient and passionate" at her job, but staff should have no direct contact with the tigers.
"We have very strict protocols and procedures for working with big cats, but it seems she failed to follow correct procedures," he said.
"For inexplicable reasons she opened a door and walked into the enclosure.
"We will never know why she entered without telling anyone. There was no reason for her to go in there."
Mr Gill described Ms McClay as a "bubbly, happy girl" and described her death as a "tragedy for her family and all the staff".
He said the attack happened at about 16:00 BST on Friday and he believed it was witnessed by one member of the public.
The park was closed early and all visitors evacuated from the area, but following discussions with investigators and staff a decision had been made to reopen as usual on Saturday.
Mr Gill said: "The public were not at risk and we followed all our accident procedures to the letter.
"We had a meeting of all staff at 5.30pm and asked what they wanted. There was a huge consensus of opinion that we carry on.
"It would not do any good to close the park as there is no safety issue."
He said the Sumatran tiger, which has lived at the park for 10 years since it was a cub, would not be destroyed.
"He didn't do anything wrong. He's a tiger and his natural instinct is to kill. We all know that and that's why all the protocols are in place.
"He didn't make a mistake, he was just there. We don't blame him for what happened."
The attack is being investigated by Cumbria Police and Barrow Borough Council.
Ms McClay's family were "very shocked and distressed", officers said.
Lavinia Woodward, 24, attacked the man at Christ Church college, while she was under the influence of drink and drugs.
At Oxford Crown Court, Judge Ian Pringle QC said the "extraordinary" student might avoid a jail sentence as it would affect her career prospects.
But the university said the suggestion Woodward would return to her studies was "the judge's not the college's".
A spokesperson said there was "no guarantee" Woodward would be allowed back.
The BBC understands the medical student had previously been warned about her drug use and told she could be expelled if it continued.
Judge Pringle said he believed the attack was "a complete one-off".
"To prevent this extraordinary, able young lady from following her long-held desire to enter the profession she wishes to, would be a sentence which would be too severe," he said at a hearing on 12 May.
"What you did will never, I know, leave you, but it was pretty awful, and normally it would attract a custodial sentence."
The university spokesperson said: "A decision on continuing study will always take full account of the health, wellbeing and best interests of both the student and the wider student community.
"No-one outside of the college and university can guarantee the right of a return to study. No final decision has been reached or guarantee made."
During the attack on her ex-boyfriend, a Cambridge University student, Woodward thumped him, lunged at him with a bread knife and stabbed him in the leg.
She admitted inflicting grievous body harm and will be sentenced on 25 September.
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The Cranes' head coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic confirmed they will begin their warm-up with a game against hosts Gabon on 29 December before facing Libya on 1 January in Tunis.
Uganda, who qualified for the Nations Cup after a 39 year absence, will then take on Tunisia on 4 January, Slovakia on 8 January and the African champions Ivory Coast in Dubai on 11 January.
"This will be a very good build-up to get my players well prepared for Afcon," said Sredojevic who is currently in Dubai to make arrangements at the Al Wasl club where he will base Uganda's training camp.
The Cranes are grouped alongside Egypt, Ghana and Mali for the 2017 Nations Cup and will be based in Port Gentil during the group phase.
Uganda is the only country that qualified for Gabon 2017 from the Council for East and Central African Football Associations (Cecafa) region and the Cranes are also still in contention for a place at the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia.
Meena Chivers, who worked at Fitzharry's School in Abingdon, was jailed for 16 months last year for causing grievous bodily harm.
A panel ruled the assaults were not in keeping with "the professional conduct of teachers' standards".
The 42-year-old has been banned from teaching indefinitely.
Her trial at Swindon Crown Court heard the attacks on her husband followed years of physical and mental abuse for which she showed no remorse.
The professional hearing, carried out by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), found Chivers's actions, which took place in the presence of a child, "undermined fundamental British values".
The panel also said her behaviours showed "a deep-seated attitude that leads to harmful behaviour".
The prohibition order prevents her from teaching in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children's home in England indefinitely.
She cannot apply for the order to be lifted.
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The Argentina international, 26, is in Manchester and was due to have a medical on Tuesday, after which the move - which will take United's summer spending to £132m - will be confirmed.
He could make his debut away to Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday.
The fee will eclipse the £50m Chelsea paid Liverpool for striker Fernando Torres in 2011.
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United last broke the British transfer record when they paid Leeds £29.1m for Rio Ferdinand in 2002.
The Old Trafford club have already bought left-back Luke Shaw, midfielder Ander Herrera and Di Maria's Argentina team-mate Marcos Rojo for a combined £72m this summer.
"Di Maria has not trained with us today and he came in to say goodbye to the players and people at the club," said Real boss Carlo Ancelotti on Sunday.
"The decision is his and the club has done what it could to keep him here."
Di Maria injured a thigh in Argentina's World Cup quarter-final win over Belgium but was still named on the 10-man shortlist for the Fifa player of the tournament award.
He joined Real from Benfica for £36m in 2010, and won La Liga in 2012 and the Champions League last season.
Former Real president Ramon Calderon said he "does not like" the idea of Di Maria leaving, adding: "Normally a club who owns the very good players don't like to sell them."
The ??88m scheme will make a three-mile section of the A160 between the A180 and Immingham a dual carriageway.
The A180 slip roads at Brocklesby Interchange will close overnight at 20:00 BST on Monday evening.
Previously Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce has said the scheme was vital to the region's economic growth.
Highways England has released a computer-generated flythrough of the full project, which is anticipated to take about 16 months to complete.
Ben Ridgeon, of Highways England, said: "Once this scheme has been completed, traffic congestion will be reduced, journey times will become more reliable, and safety will be improved for road users and the local community.
"There will also be better access to the Port of Immingham and the surrounding area."
The westbound entry and exit slip roads of the A180 will be closed between 20:00 on Monday, 20 July and 06:00 BST on Tuesday, 21 July.
Drivers will be able to follow a signed diversion along the A180 eastbound at Brocklesby Interchange, exit at Stallingborough and return. Drivers should allow an extra 10 minutes for their journey.
Councillor David Watson, who is responsible for the environment and housing, said: "We handle more cargo in our ports than in any other port complex in the UK, and the building of this link road is vital to the work the Port of Immingham.
"The new road will further cement the role the area is playing in establishing the Humber the UK's energy estuary, through the offshore wind industry, biomass power plants and the production of biofuels."
Ozil has just over a year left on his Arsenal contract, with manager Arsene Wenger saying talks with the 28-year-old were on hold until the summer.
Draxler, who said he turned down a move to the Premier League in favour of PSG in January, says Ozil would "enjoy life" in the French capital.
"I would love to play with him every day," Draxler told BBC World Service.
"For me, he's a great player. I enjoy to play with him for every training, every match with the German national team."
Asked if he thought Ozil would come to Paris, Draxler added: "Yes, I think he's a great player. He would help every team in the world and I think he would enjoy the life here and even to play for PSG."
Draxler, 23, said his decision to sign for PSG rather than join a Premier League club in January was not motivated by money.
"You know we have been in talks with some clubs in England as well, but this time I decided to make the decision as to what I feel and what I prefer for myself," he said.
"There were some teams that wanted me from the Premier League but it was not like it was very, very close.
"Football is about making decisions and that's what I did. I decided that PSG is the best club for me at the moment."
Asked whether Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp had declared an interest, the winger added: "It's not about Jurgen Klopp, about Liverpool or about different clubs from England.
"It was just my opinion that I am the best player for PSG at the moment - so that's what I decided.
"I chose a great new step in my career because PSG is a really, really great club . They have big goals, they want to reach big things and that's why I want to be part of it.
"I did not - and will not - decide my club just for the money."
PSG looked to be cruising into the Champions League quarter-finals in March when they led Barcelona 4-0 after the first leg and then 5-3 on aggregate at the Nou Camp with two minutes of normal time remaining.
Cue three goals in seven minutes - Sergi Roberto's winner coming in the 95th - as PSG lost 6-1 on the night to surrender the tie in dramatic fashion.
"We played a wonderful first leg and then we went to the Nou Camp and everything went wrong that was possible to be wrong," said Draxler.
"You know it hurts. It would be a lie if I said it doesn't. Maybe this game [was the worst moment of my career], because it was a great opportunity.
"We were really comfortable after the first leg and you know besides my big injuries it was maybe my worst day."
Frances Cappuccini, 30, suffered a fatal haemorrhage at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent on 9 October 2012.
A doctor and the NHS hospital trust were cleared of manslaughter in January 2016.
Her husband Tom told the inquest she pleaded with medics to save her life.
Mr Cappuccini said she told him: "If anything happens, just make sure you look after the boys."
He said she was "tearful, agitated and anxious" and had been terrified for months because of the difficult birth of their first son.
The inquest at Gravesend Old Town Hall was told Mrs Cappuccini endured a 12-hour labour despite telling hospital staff she had booked a Caesarean section.
The coroner heard that a piece of placenta had been left in her uterus which led to a large loss of blood.
The family's lawyer suggested the error might not have been made if her choice had been followed.
The inquest is expected to last 10 days.
In the past 48 hours, more than 100 PSN members have contacted Sony via one of its UK Twitter accounts - just one of several ways to reach the firm.
Many suspected their logins had been hijacked. Some of those who regained access said funds were now missing.
Sony told the BBC that the PlayStation Network had not been hacked and pointed to other potential causes.
"We routinely monitor for irregular activity, and if such activity is detected, we may sometimes reset passwords of affected accounts to protect users and their account information," Sony said.
"We strongly advise users to keep a close eye on their accounts for unusual activity and avoid entering your username/password into unofficial sites looking to phish credentials based on fake promotions."
On Twitter, the firm has apologised for the delay in reinstating accounts and says that the company helpline is "particularly busy at the moment".
Cybersecurity expert Prof Alan Woodward said if there had been a breach, the leaked data would probably have appeared elsewhere.
"There are two ways this could happen: either someone has got into Sony's central systems, which have been compromised before, or people's individual systems have been compromised," he told the BBC.
"If there had been some kind of central breach, the dark web would have been alight with it and we in the industry would be aware of it by now, I have not seen anything.
He added that if individual accounts had been breached and Sony had reset their passwords then users would expect to be notified by email.
"The fact they haven't suggests that usernames and passwords have been given away unintentionally," he said.
"Clearly if someone is spending money it is criminal activity."
Sony was unable to clarify how many users were affected and the issue only appears to be affecting PlayStation users in the UK.
Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, appeared in court via video link from jail and will be formally charged at a later date.
The roommates are expected to face three counts of first-degree murder and two of shooting with intent to kill.
They were arrested at home near Tulsa on Sunday after a tip-off.
Their next court appearance is scheduled for 16 April.
The three dead have been identified as Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54, and William Allen, 31.
Two men wounded in the attacks, David Hall, 46, and Deon Tucker, 44, have since been released from hospital.
None of the victims are thought to have known each other and all of them were out walking when they were shot within a 3-mile (4.8-km) radius early on Friday.
Although the north Tulsa area where the shootings took place is a predominantly black area, law enforcement officials said it was too early to assume a racial motivation.
However, police spokesman Jason Willingham said that Mr England may have had an "axe to grind" because of his father's death two years ago.
Carl England was shot in the chest in April 2010 during a fight with Pernell Demond Jefferson, a black man who allegedly tried to break into the apartment of Mr England's daughter's boyfriend.
Jefferson is serving six years in jail on a weapons charge.
In January, Jake England also witnessed the death of his fiancee, Sheran Hart Wilde, 24, who according to reports shot herself in front of him.
Police said that on Thursday Mr England had posted a Facebook update, using a racial slur, expressing anger at his father's death.
"Today is two years that my dad has been gone shot by a [expletive] [racial epithet]," Mr England wrote on Thursday. "It's hard not to go off between that and sheran I'm gone in the head."
Shortly after Friday's shootings, Mr England reportedly posted again on Facebook: "People talking [expletive] on me for some [expletive] I didn't do it just mite be the time to call it quits... I hate to say it like that but I'm done if something does happen tonight be ready for another funeral later."
His Facebook page was taken offline as of Sunday.
Alvin Watts' brother, Gene, toldthe Tulsa World newspaperthat Alvin Watts had moved in with Mr England to help him after his father's death.
Susan Sevenstar, a family friend, told the Associated Press that Mr England was "a good kid" who "was not in his right mind" since his father's death and fiancee's suicide.
Police could not confirm whether the suspects were armed when they were taken into custody.
Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan had earlier described the shootings as "vicious and cowardly".
The attacks come at a fraught time for African-Americans, amid continued protests over the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager who was killed by a neighbourhood watch volunteer in Florida in February.
Tulsa City Council's only black member, Jack Henderson, said he believed the two suspects simply had a grudge against black people.
Mr Henderson, who represents the district where the shootings took place, said he hoped prosecutors would pursue hate crime charges if the evidence pointed in that direction.
During weekend memorials for the victims, the city's religious leaders called for the community to come together.
Warren Blakney, a church minister and local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, thanked police and the FBI,according to the Tulsa World.
"I should say to those that may be listening across the country, we are one America," Rev Blakney said.
Prince Charles sampled food and drink including a Duke of Lancaster's Regiment sausage and Hen Harrier golden ale as he toured the Ribble Valley.
Hundreds of people lined Clitheroe town centre to meet the prince who was treated to a preview of produce for this summer's popular food festival.
"There are some very brave people standing out in Clitheroe," he said.
Prince Charles met local food producers and traders who showcased their goods during a promotional event for Clitheroe Food Festival, which attracts thousands of people from across the UK.
The heir to the throne was offered a leek and black pudding sausage and also a marmalade one, which he did not appear keen on, at Cowman's Famous Sausage Shop.
He settled on the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment sausage and said: "I think I will have another of those," quipping: "It's not even lunchtime."
The final engagement of the day in Lancashire was to family-run Dewlay Cheesemakers of Garstang.
As patron of the Specialist Cheesemakers Association, he was given a tour of the dairy and also met the firm's local suppliers, as well as agricultural students from nearby Myerscough College.
Cheesemaker Nick Kenyon said: "Today is an incredible honour. It makes you feel proud and privileged to have had the opportunity to have met him."
The visit was commemorated by Prince Charles unveiling a plaque outside the premises of the firm, which is in its 60th year of business.
The joke was made on the latest edition of the TV satire show by panellist Andy Hamilton in response to a question.
Dan Rogerson, Liberal Democrat MP for North Cornwall, said the comments showed that "Cornish are discriminated against as a group".
The show's producers said the comment was "clearly tongue in cheek".
In the show, guest host William Shatner asked a question about the Olympic torch relay: "What caused confusion in Truro?"
Panellist Andy Hamilton responded: "Well, they're Cornish aren't they? They'll always be confused in Truro."
Mr Rogerson said: "Of course I like a joke as much as the next person, but on this occasion I can't help but feel that these comments wouldn't be tolerated if they were aimed at the Welsh, Scottish or indeed any other nationality or cultural minority.
"I feel that it is comments like this which show that the Cornish are discriminated against as a group, and that they should be recognised as a distinct cultural minority.
"This would give protections to make sure the Cornish are not stopped from maintaining and celebrating our distinct identity."
He added: "I don't want kids in Cornwall to see this kind of thing and and think, 'Is there something about me, maybe I'm not as bright as all the others, maybe I haven't got the chance to be as successful as everybody else.'"
BBC Radio Cornwall listener Steve Dawe, 47, from Callington, said: "It was not offensive, it was very funny.
"People seem to be having a major sense of humour bypass. Everyone was being picked on, MPs, bankers, the Welsh, Scots. The whole programme was having a bash at everyone."
Mr Rogerson's action received a number of responses on the
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including Ray Worden who wrote: "Dan Rogerson is a very good MP, but for goodness sake, what a huge storm in a very tiny teacup."
Pride in London launched its Love Happens Here posters to promote the capital's Pride Festival, which takes place between 24 June and 9 July.
But after a backlash on social media, the organisation admitted some of its content was "misjudged".
It said it had removed four images from the campaign as a result.
The poster campaign used messages from members of the LGBT+ community and "straight" people, which were then made into posters by artists.
On seeing one of the posters, which used gay as a pejorative, Twitter user Ryan James said: "Imagine being a kid at school who dies a little every time they hear something called 'sooooo gay' and then seeing this trash."
A spokesperson for the organisation said: "It is clear we misjudged the content of some of the messages in this poster series, undermining the individuality, importance, and dignity of the LGBT+ community.
"This was never our intention, and we are genuinely sorry to have played any part in something that appears to devalue our own community, and have removed these... images from our campaign."
Some have complained that the campaign concentrates too much on the gay and lesbian members of the LGBT+ community.
Twitter user Pippin Drill said: "Not a single mention of bisexuals, but plenty from straight people. Interesting. #LondonPride #Biphobia."
Another poster which has caused offence read "Befriend a gay person and win a prize. Friendship", while another said "My gay friends make me more attractive by association".
Hundreds of people complained about the campaign on Twitter,
Twitter user Jamie said: "I'm shocked at how @LondonLGBTPride have managed to badly stereotype straight allies and completely alienate and insult the LGBT community."
Pride In London takes in 14-days of events, aiming to raise awareness of issues facing the LGBT+ community, culminating in the London Pride parade on 8 July.
A spokesperson added: "This year has seen our largest ever LGBT+ campaign... We hope the breadth of our campaign, that celebrates the wonderful spectrum of LGBT+ life in London, is a more truthful reflection of our community."
Magistrates heard the German shepherd attacked the 73-year-old outside a shop in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
Aaron Chalkley, who had taken Saunders' dog from the stables where it was kept in Peggs Lane, was fined £1,500.
The WBO world middleweight title holder admitted failing to display a guard dog warning sign and said he was "very very sorry".
He was fined £205 by Stevenage Magistrates' Court.
Prosecutor Roseanne Smith said Chalkley, 24, had tied the dog up while he went into the shop on 13 September.
Shortly after he returned, William Thorlin walked by and the dog lunged, "clamping his left forearm above the wrist."
His injuries required a skin graft from his thigh to his left arm and stitches to his left hand.
Chalkley admitted having a dangerous dog out of control.
Officers subsequently charged Saunders with the offence of not displaying a guard dog warning sign after tracing Chalkley back to the stables.
The boxer said the sign "was in a truck" but he "had not put it up" and that had since been corrected.
He told the court he had not given his friend permission to take the dog away from the site.
Saunders added he "was let down by a friend. I am very very sorry for what happened and want to pay £500 compensation to the victim."
The 199-seat parliament head earlier voted 123 to 38 in favour of the legislation, which places tough restrictions on foreign universities.
The main target is believed to be the Central European University (CEU) and its founder, George Soros.
It is the latest battle declared by the right-wing Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, against liberalism.
But within hours of the legislation being passed, staff, students and supporters had surrounded CEU waving blue signs saying "veto" to show their support for the university.
CEU, meanwhile, has vowed to fight the bill.
The English-speaking university, which is still partly-funded by Hungarian-born Mr Soros, is ranked among the top 200 universities in the world in eight disciplines.
But Zoltan Balog, a government minister, told MPs on Tuesday it went "against Hungary's interests to host experiments, financially supported and evading democratic 'rules of the game' in the background, which aim at undermining the lawfully elected government or leadership".
Hungary's governing Fidesz party - officials from which have repeatedly referred to CEU as "the Soros university" - see it as a bastion of liberalism.
The prime minister is a known critic of liberal NGOs which are partially funded by Mr Soros, 86, with whom he has a strained relationship.
This bill will effectively force CEU from Hungary - where it occupies prime real estate in the centre - as it requires foreign universities to have a campus both in the capital and their home countries.
CEU only has a campus in Budapest.
It also bans universities outside the EU from awarding Hungarian diplomas without an agreement between national governments - in this case, the US.
Despite this, a CEU spokesman has vowed to "maintain the integrity and continuity of its academic programmes... whatever the circumstances", adding : "This fight is not over. We will contest the constitutionality of this legislation and seek all available legal remedies."
CEU Rector Michael Ignatieff has previously said the bill marks "the first time that a member of the European Union dared to legislate an attack on the academic freedom of a university".
Founded to "resuscitate and revive intellectual freedom" in parts of Europe that had endured the "horrific ideologies" of communism and fascism
Occupies a building that began as an aristocrat's palace before becoming state-owned offices for a planned socialist economy
Has 1,440 students - 335 from Hungary and the rest from 107 other countries
Presents itself as a champion of free speech, with links to universities in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Kazakhstan
Mr Emanuel won 56%- 44% against county commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.
The former White House chief of staff had campaigned heavily after failing to gain a majority in the initial election.
But he faces a tough next term, including a pensions fight, continuing gang violence and harsh criticism of his education policy.
On Tuesday, Mr Emanuel thanked supporters, saying the campaign would make him "a better mayor".
Mr Emanuel campaigned on his record as mayor, but was forced into a run-off with Mr Garcia, who was backed by teachers' unions.
The Chicago mayor raised far more money than Mr Garcia and had the support of his former boss, President Barack Obama, and argued his opponent would be too inexperienced to handle the city's financial difficulties.
Mr Garcia, who was born in Mexico and raised in Chicago, is a county commissioner who jumped into the mayor's race in October after another likely candidate, Chicago Teachers' Union President Karen Lewis, was diagnosed with brain cancer.
During the campaign, Mr Garcia and three other challengers criticised Mr Emanuel's push to close dozen of schools and his large fundraising operation.
"We didn't lose today, we tried," Mr Garcia told supporters after the loss. "We fought hard for what we believed in. You don't succeed at this or anything else unless you try."
And now the owner of Rockfield Studios near Monmouth has said he would eventually like to see it become a heritage site.
Kingsley Ward has given a rare interview to BBC Wales as an exhibition about the studios opens in Monmouth Museum.
Rockfield was the brainchild of Mr Ward and his brother Charles, two farmers turned pop impresarios.
Forty years on and Mr Ward remembers how it all began.
"It started in 1960 and 1961 when my brother Charles and myself, we had a band called the Charles Kingsley Combo and we borrowed a tape recorder and a microphone and made a little demo," he said.
"We went up to London, played it to [record producer] George Martin and that was our first insight into the record business."
Within a few years the brothers had "improved equipment" and were making "quite good demos".
Among the artists who have recorded at Rockfield are Paul Weller, Annie Lennox, Robert Plant, the Stone Roses and Oasis.
Now its history has been captured in an exhibition at the museum, curated by local students with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
"We didn't realise we were making history by becoming the world's first residential recording studios," he said.
"Sometimes things happen in your life and you look back, that's what happened to us. We were making history but we didn't really know it."
Among the bands to have recorded there are Hobo, who were in the studio when Queen recorded Bohemian Rhapsody.
"When we first met them [Queen], we didn't have a lot of money really," the band said.
"They were far more successful than us, but then when they came to do the Bohemian Rhapsody you could see the difference.
"They were very wealthy guys, but they were very nice, very approachable.
"We used to play Frisbee with them in the courtyard, and they used to have a cook and used to get all the best food and we'd get the scraps because we were always there. We'd think, 'Queen's having dinners, what's left?'"
Robert Plant and Paolo Nutini are just some of the names who have recorded there in the last few weeks.
"The privilege of being involved in a company like Rockfield is that certain times of your life you're in the presence of people who at that moment in time do great things," Mr Ward said.
"It's very nice to be there, part of it, just as an onlooker."
And with its rich history, he has long-term hopes for the place.
"I would think Rockfield could be around for many, many years to come, even to the stage where it might be classed as a heritage site," he added.
Two people died in the accident on the A711 Dumfries-Dalbeattie road, near Tower Wood, on Sunday 23 April.
They were both travelling in a black Vauxhall Astra when it crashed at around 21:50.
In addition to dashcam footage, Sgt Paul Dodds said he wanted to speak to everyone who was on the A711 that night - whatever their direction of travel.
"Were you on the road prior to the incident taking place? Perhaps you saw the black Vauxhall Astra travelling eastbound?" he said.
"Any information can be significant in an investigation and it's important we gather as much detail as possible so we can establish the full circumstances of what occurred."
He said extensive inquiries were under way to establish the exact circumstances of the crash.
"A full investigation is underway and we have spoken to a number of people as part of our enquiries," he added.
"We previously appealed for the occupants of an estate car to come forward and I would like to thank the occupants of this car for contacting us."
Richard Bernard, 51, was found injured outside his flat in Derby on Tuesday.
Police believe he was attacked in his Trocadero Court property before collapsing outside.
Mohammed Ibrahim, 18, of no fixed address, and Aaron White, 34, of Moss Street, Derby, are due to appear at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Mr Bernard's mother Nita, sister Claire and brother Andrew previously said in a statement: "We are devastated to hear the tragic news about Richard, a very much loved son and brother."
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The country's third-largest bank needs to raise €5bn in fresh capital by the end of the month.
If Monte dei Paschi cannot arrange a private sector bailout, a state rescue may come as early as this week.
It is saddled with bad loans and is deemed to be the weakest major EU bank.
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, whose government has only been in office for a week, is under pressure because private investors would suffer any losses under EU bailout rules.
He described the move as a "precautionary measure", adding: "We believe it is our duty to take this measure to protect savings. I hope all the political movements in parliament share this responsibility."
However, Italy's economy minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, stressed the funds would be used to ensure adequate liquidity in the banking system and support other struggling banks.
Officials have also said they were examining a scheme to compensate retail investors for any losses incurred.
Mr Gentiloni's predecessor, Matteo Renzi, resigned after losing a referendum on constitutional reform and was regularly accused of being too close to the banks.
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The Commons Defence Committee says the MoD should no longer enjoy crown immunity from corporate manslaughter laws in cases of gross negligence.
Since the start of 2000, 135 personnel have died while training.
The MoD said deaths in training were rare, but that "more needs to be done" and it would consider the report.
"The lives of serving personnel are worth no less than those of civilians," said the committee.
"Those responsible for their deaths must be equally liable under the law."
In the last 16 years there have been 89 deaths in the Army, 24 in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, and 22 in the RAF during military training.
In 11 cases, the Health and Safety Executive issued a Crown censure - the highest penalty it can impose on the MoD.
Last year, a coroner concluded that three reservists who died on an SAS selection march in the Brecon Beacons on one of 2013's hottest days died as a result of neglect.
The Army said it accepted it did not carefully manage the risks involved in the exercise.
The committee recommended that the "different circumstances" of reservists compared to full-time regular personnel should be taken into account when devising military training.
It also said the MoD's exemption from corporate manslaughter should continue to apply to military operations.
"While we have found no systemic failings, the MoD has not always got the correct balance between adequate training and reducing risk, resulting in life-changing injuries and deaths in training and selection events," said the committee in its "Beyond Endurance" report.
"We believe the MoD and the armed forces take their 'duty of care' responsibilities seriously. However, some members of the public do not.
"The MoD must take appropriate action to change this perception and reassure the public. Not to do so will continue to undermine confidence in the armed forces."
By Jonathan Beale, defence correspondent, BBC News
The inquest into the deaths of James Dunsby, Edward Maher and Craig Roberts, who all died from the effects of heat-related illness, found serious failings by the Army on that hot July day. But while in theory individuals could be prosecuted for negligence, the Ministry of Defence itself is currently exempt from manslaughter charges. While the MPs accept that this protection might be needed in times of war, they argue when it comes to training it is an anomaly.
Why should the MoD be exempt when nearly every other organisation is not? The MoD has been careful not to dismiss the MPs findings. Not least because the report acknowledges the MoD takes its duty of care seriously, although there is a public perception it does not because of this immunity. Nevertheless it's hard to see the MoD agreeing to this protection being lifted. It might prove to be costly.
Hilary Meredith, chief executive at Hilary Meredith Solicitors Ltd, gave evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry and described the report as a "major leap forward".
"I think many members of the armed forces accept that if they are in a wartime situation and they are either injured or killed then that's part and parcel of their employment.
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An MoD spokesperson said: "The safety of our personnel is an absolute priority and, while each death is tragic, deaths in training are rare.
"We are grateful for the committee's acknowledgement of how seriously we take the risks associated with training and that we are moving in the right direction.
"We acknowledge that more needs to be done, which is why we set up the Defence Safety Authority last year.
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A double from Leigh Griffiths and Nir Bitton's header looked like giving Celtic a foothold in the group stage.
Berget - brought to Celtic by Ronny Deila on loan last summer - had already struck one away goal to make it 2-1.
But his second, with virtually the last kick of the ball deep in stoppage time, gave the Swedes a huge boost.
Celtic will probably have to avoid defeat in Sweden if they are to return to the group stage of European football's elite competition.
A year ago they had slumped out of the Champions League during the play-off stage - and bizarrely did so not once but twice.
They were given a reprieve after defeat by Legia Warsaw, who fielded an ineligible player, but Deila's Celtic could not find a way past Maribor.
Twelve months on they look a different beast altogether, more in tune with their manager's desires and demands.
Certainly they began the match with an intensity that Malmo found impossible to live with, hounding their opponents and driven on by a raucous support that greeted Griffiths's opening goal with a huge roar.
Stuart Armstrong left Malmo defenders in his wake as he drove in from the left to lay the ball off for Stefan Johansen.
The Norwegian's first-time ball picked out the run of Griffiths perfectly and the striker coolly side-footed past the exposed Johan Wiland.
It was the first time Griffiths had been preferred in attack to Nadir Ciftci in the Champions League this season and it looked like the right call by Deila.
The furious tempo continued and when Johansen swung in a pinpoint corner for Bitton to head in from close range, Celtic looked as though they could kill off the tie in the first half.
They might have done so but Johansen fired straight at the keeper, Griffiths found the side-netting and Armstrong arrowed a shot a foot or so away from the top corner.
But scattered among those efforts, occasional lapses in concentration crept in, with Craig Gordon required to make an excellent one-handed stop to deny Vladimir Rodic.
Celtic failed to heed the warning though, and Berget punished a stray Scott Brown header by thundering a shot past Gordon from a tight angle.
The winger had previously been just as peripheral to most of the evening's action as he had during his six months as a Celtic player.
But just as Berget and Malmo grew in confidence, they were sucker-punched by a second from Griffiths.
Anton Tinnerholm failed to deal with a deep cross, knocking it into the air, allowing the stronger and more forceful Griffiths to climb above him to loop a header over Wiland and in off the far post.
That was not the end to the drama, though, as Berget pounced on a loose ball six yards out to hammer high into the net - ensuring the evening ended on a low for Celtic and setting up a tense evening in Malmo on Tuesday.
Match ends, Celtic 3, Malmö FF 2.
Second Half ends, Celtic 3, Malmö FF 2.
Goal! Celtic 3, Malmö FF 2. Jo Inge Berget (Malmö FF) right footed shot from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Felipe Carvalho with a headed pass following a corner.
Stefan Johansen (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Yoshimar Yotún (Malmö FF) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Malmö FF. Conceded by Virgil van Dijk.
Craig Gordon (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kári Arnason (Malmö FF).
Nadir Ciftci (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Nadir Ciftci (Celtic).
Vladimir Rodic (Malmö FF) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Yoshimar Yotún (Malmö FF) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Nir Bitton (Celtic) because of an injury.
James Forrest (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yoshimar Yotún (Malmö FF).
Gary Mackay-Steven (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vladimir Rodic (Malmö FF).
Attempt missed. Nikola Djurdjic (Malmö FF) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Stefan Johansen (Celtic).
Vladimir Rodic (Malmö FF) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Malmö FF. Tobias Sana replaces Erdal Rakip.
Substitution, Celtic. Efe Ambrose replaces Mikael Lustig because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Mikael Lustig (Celtic) because of an injury.
Foul by James Forrest (Celtic).
Felipe Carvalho (Malmö FF) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Virgil van Dijk (Celtic).
Nikola Djurdjic (Malmö FF) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Virgil van Dijk (Celtic).
Felipe Carvalho (Malmö FF) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Erdal Rakip (Malmö FF) is shown the yellow card.
Scott Brown (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Erdal Rakip (Malmö FF).
Nadir Ciftci (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Felipe Carvalho (Malmö FF).
Substitution, Celtic. Nadir Ciftci replaces Leigh Griffiths.
Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nikola Djurdjic (Malmö FF).
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"He has been brought up since a young kid doing this," boxer Saunders told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
"If you take it away from him, he will not look for a daily job in Tesco's."
At a meeting on Wednesday, the British Boxing Board of Control will discuss Fury's admission that he had recently taken a large quantity of cocaine.
Fury told Rolling Stone magazine earlier this month that his use of the drug is a consequence of depression that has been exacerbated by abuse he receives for his cultural and religious background.
WBO middleweight champion Saunders, who, like Fury, is from a Traveller background, says the 28-year-old only knows boxing.
"It is a big mistake, taking his boxing licence away. It is like taking food from a baby," he added. "He needs the licence to pull through."
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In the wake of Fury withdrawing from a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko in October, the World Boxing Organisation set him a 20 October deadline to state his case for keeping their version of the heavyweight crown.
The World Boxing Association president, Gilberto Mendoza, has said Fury could be stripped of their title as well.
Peter Fury, Tyson's uncle and trainer, has said his nephew is prepared to relinquish both belts and could return to training by March 2017.
Fury has not fought since beating Klitschko last November and is facing a UK Anti-Doping hearing next month with reports claiming he tested positive for banned substance nandrolone in February 2015.
He was filmed cheerfully buying drinks for England fans in Nice during Euro 2016, in the wake of pulling out of a previously scheduled rematch with Klitschko with an ankle injury.
But Saunders says Fury is using drink and drugs in an attempt to control a darker part of his personality.
"People say he has done this because he wanted a good time," he said.
"You are not going to walk away from £6m to £10m [Fury's expected purse for a rematch with Klitschko] for something stupid, for one night. It is bad depression."
However, there is a large increase in the risk of depression in women planning to breastfeed who are then unable to do so.
The study, published in the journal Maternal and Child Health, called for more support for women unable to breastfeed.
A parenting charity said mental health was a "huge issue" for many mothers.
The health benefits of breastfeeding to the baby are clear-cut and the World Health Organization recommends feeding a child nothing but breast milk for the first six months.
However, researchers at the University of Cambridge said the impact on the mother was not as clearly understood.
One in 10 women will develop depression after the birth of their child.
The researchers analysed data from 13,998 births in the south-west of England.
It showed that, out of women who were planning to breastfeed, there was a 50% reduction in the risk of post-natal depression if they started breastfeeding.
But the risk of depression more than doubled among women who wanted to, but were not able to, breastfeed.
Dr Maria Iacovou, one of the researchers, told the BBC: "Breastfeeding does appear to have a protective effect, but there's the other side of the coin as well.
"Those who wanted to and didn't end up breastfeeding had the highest risk of all the groups."
The benefit increased for each week of breastfeeding up to one month.
However, any longer term impact on post-natal depression could not be determined due to the small number of women in the study who were still breast feeding several months after the birth.
Dr Iacovou said the health profession needed to pay attention.
She added: "It is right to tell mothers it's right to breastfeed, there's so many benefits, but the thing we need to rethink is giving more support to those who did want to breastfeed and to recognise those who are unable to, are at substantially elevated risk and to make sure health visitors keep an eye on these women."
Possible explanations for the beneficial effect include the release of feel-good hormones when milk is produced.
Dr Iacovou added that social or psychological factors such as feelings of "failing as a mother" were also contributing.
She says the improving the health of the mother will also help the baby.
Rosemary Dodds, a senior policy adviser at parenting charity NCT, said: "Mothers often experience pressures after the birth such as pain, shortage of sleep and anxiety.
"Breastfeeding can help to relax mothers and reduce stress, so it might play a part in preventing mental health issues developing.
"We welcome further research into this subject as perinatal mental health is a huge issue for many mothers. At least one in ten suffer with postnatal depression."
Vinod Khanna, who has died aged 70, belonged to the second wave of Punjabi heroes who ruled Bollywood - known as "Partition Punjabis".
His family hailed from Peshawar in Pakistan and had moved to India in 1947 when the country was divided.
The heroes on screen then were all swashbuckling heroes known for their strapping good looks, cultivated on screen mannerisms and individual styles.
He embodied all that but also brought all the panache of 1970s cinema to his acting.
Khanna graduated from college in Mumbai but had been seduced by the movies since school and soon started concentrating on acting full time.
He made his film debut in 1968 with Man ka Meet.
Film writer Jai Arjun Singh points out that "Khanna's Bollywood path was unusual for his times". He was the first modern Bollywood hero who started out by playing negative characters.
"Khanna's villainy was impressive as it combined his dashing looks with an edgy dangerous menace that made him impressive on screen. He was better at playing villain parts than the conventional Bollywood hero", says Singh.
If Dharmendra was the original "beefcake of Bollywood" in the 1970s, the 1980s was dominated by the figure of Amitabh Bachchan's "angry young man".
But Mr Singh says there was a time when Bollywood watchers "predicted that Khanna was a threat to superstar Bachchan's popularity". The two acted in a number of films together.
In Amar Akbar Anthony, one of Bollywood's biggest hits ever, a scene has Khanna beating Bachchan to a pulp and carting him over his shoulders. It left many fans of the superstar dumbfounded.
"It was inconceivable for me to imagine my hero getting beaten. Even by his elder brother in the film," writes Diptakirti Chaudhuri, in a book on Bollywood.
Khanna was a hunk with dreamy eyes and the combination of his muscularity and good looks helped him race to the top.
He did action, thrillers, and romances and, for a while, ruled the marquee in Bollywood.
His noteworthy films include Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Gaddar, Imtihaan, Muqaddar ka Sikander, Inkaar, Amar Akbar, Antony, Qurbani, Kudrat, Dayavan among others.
But in the 1980s, Khanna, by then a family man and top hero, gave up acting in films to retire to an ashram run by Rajneesh, a maverick spiritual guru, popular with westerners, in the western Indian city of Pune.
The tabloids called him "Sexy Sanyasi", referring to an ascetic follower of Hinduism.
"I am, I guess, a human being who does what feels right to him at the time, does what he really wants to do," he once told an journalist who asked him whether he was a star or a sanyasi.
"Sure, it is easy to latch onto one thing, to be and do that all your life - but within you is a voice saying there must be something more to life. I look for that something more."
After his return from the ashram, his marriage ended and he went missing from popular imagination.
But he went on to remarry and gradually returned to acting at his own pace. Much later, in 1997, he joined politics - subsequently getting elected to parliament four times. He was once made a junior foreign minister.
Khanna is survived by his wife, daughters and sons.
He will be forever remembered as an actor who wrote his own jagged script.
A cattle dealer was tied up at gunpoint near Omagh, County Tyrone, and held captive for five days in 2012. He was targeted over an alleged unpaid debt.
The gang allegedly demanded a £400,000 ransom from his father by threatening to cut off their captive's fingers.
The court heard his father replied "cut away", hung up and called the police.
One of the accused, Scottish businessman Robert Vevers, pleaded guilty to kidnapping, false imprisonment and blackmail.
The 59-year-old, from Crawick in Dumfries, claimed the victim owed him a genuine debt of £227,000 after a livestock deal.
But by contacting criminals in Dublin to try to recover the money, Vevers had "effectively sold his soul to the devil", according to the judge at Dungannon Crown Court, sitting in Antrim.
The judge said Vevers' decision to take the law into his own hands was an "idiotic moment".
The victim, Paul Gogan, originally from Co Meath, travelled from his home in Essex to Northern Ireland in 2012 in the belief that he would be viewing a meat factory near Ballymena, County Antrim.
Vevers accompanied the cattle dealer on his trip, but instead, Mr Gogan was driven to a farmyard near Omagh where an armed gang was waiting to kidnap him.
The victim and his family did not engage with the prosecution and there were no victim impact statements, something which the judge said was "almost unprecedented" in this "unusual, difficult and indeed remarkable case".
Vevers was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison suspended for three years.
The judge said that as Vevers had already served nine months in custody and had been on bail for the past 18 months it would be unfair to send him back in jail.
He said he had paid a very high price, his good name was in tatters and his reputation lost.
The court heard that during his ordeal, Mr Gogan was tied up at gunpoint, hooded and bundled into a van and driven to a remote site used as a motorsport track off the Tullycar Road near Castlederg.
He was held in a shipping container, bound by cable ties, a few miles from the Irish border.
A ransom of £400,000 was then demanded from his father, Robert Gogan.
After they threatened to cut off his son's fingers, Mr Gogan alerted Gardaí (Irish police).
The court was told the gang then discovered the debt they were trying to recover was substantially less than what they had been told.
It was eventually agreed that 100,000 euros (£85,000) would be left at Bellewstown Racecourse and Paul Gogan was released in Drogheda, County Louth.
The court was told that Vevers' business and marriage had collapsed and his health had suffered as a result of the alleged debt owed to him by Mr Gogan.
The prosecution claimed that Vevers contacted criminals in Dublin who, in turn, recruited men in Omagh to assist them in the kidnap and extortion plot.
Four men from County Tyrone admitted taking part in the plot.
Patrick Noel McCaul, 44, from Slieveard Rise in Omagh and Matthew McLean, 27, from Glenpark Road in Omagh pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit blackmail.
They were sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for three years.
Robert McLean, 22, from Deverney Park, Omagh and Martin Arkinson, 21, from Ballycolman Estate, Strabane, entered guilty pleas to assisting offenders by buying food and telephone top-up cards.
McClean received an 18-month sentence and Arkinson a 12-month sentence, both suspended for three years.
McCaul's defence lawyer said the men before the court were not the main instigators and that they thought that an attempt was being made to recover "a genuine debt".
In response the judge pointed out that "they were not being good Samaritans" to which the lawyer agreed "it was unlawful".
A prosecution lawyer said the men from Dublin were the central players but were not before the court.
He said it would be their intention that they would be extradited, but he later confirmed that the men had been arrested and interviewed by gardaí but Irish prosecutors had decided there was not enough evidence to prosecute them in the Republic of Ireland.
High Speed Ferries had originally hoped to have crossings up and running from next month but the date was pushed back after the borough council said the firm needed "further financial backing".
Director Jonathan Packer says the firm now aims to launch the Western Channel Service in January or February.
The company is planning to use the terminal left by Condor Ferries.
Mr Packer said: "Starting in early 2017 will give us time to secure the best fast ferry and to develop the necessary port facilities to meet our scheduling requirements.
"This includes the facilities needed to meet the new immigration and customs requirements at Weymouth. It also meets our investors' wish for a slower start-up than originally envisaged.
"Recent, positive meetings with the Port of Cherbourg and senior officers from Weymouth & Portland Borough Council have demonstrated their continued support. We are working together on preparations for the service."
Condor relocated its cross-channel services to Poole in 2015 following the introduction of its larger high-speed vessels.
Weymouth and Portland Borough Council had already spent £4.5m repairing the ferry port after the harbour wall collapsed in 2012.
The authority had considered closing the unused terminal but agreed to keep it open in readiness for the new service.
High Speed Ferries said the crossing, which would be its first, would take less than two hours and create 90 jobs in Weymouth and Portland.
The firm previously considered starting a service to France from Portland in 2010.
Bangor University, which is leading the research project, is looking at a way to allow more people to die at home.
It is hoped relatives will be able to carry out injections of medicine normally done by district nurses.
Dr Marlise Poolman, co-investigator of the study, said this was legal and would help cut waiting times for the patient.
Shortly before people die, many struggle to swallow - at which point medicine is given under the skin via an injection over a period of 24 hours.
People usually call the nurse to do this, but often have to wait more than an hour before they arrive.
Bangor University is working with Cardiff University and Gloucester NHS Trust to find out whether this role can be taken on by family members.
Dr Poolman said it would involve over-the-counter medicine already in people's homes and there would be vigilance to prevent any potential abuse.
Prof Clare Wilkinson from Bangor University said: "In some countries, like Australia, carers are trained to give symptom-relieving medicine to their dying relatives at home.
"We cannot be sure that this approach would be welcomed in the UK, so we need to test it out."
As part of the study, half of the people will get the usual care with the other half trying the new system. Depending on the results, a large trial may follow.
Those trying the new system will be trained to recognise symptoms and give injections whereas the other group will continue to rely on a nurse.
Diaries will be kept by all those taking part, detailing symptoms and treatments.
Baroness Ilora Finlay, chairwoman of the National Council for Palliative Care, said: "To have to wait for someone to arrive to give an extra dose of medication can be very distressing.
"This is very important project to assess the benefits and highlight any problems that need to be addressed for this to be rolled out widely."
There were 22 confirmed cases in 2009, 117 last year and experts predict even more cases in the future.
Meningitis W also has a higher-than-usual death rate.
The government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation called for 14 to 18-year-olds to be vaccinated "as soon as possible".
There are six different kinds of meningococcal infection which lead to meningitis known as A, B, C, W, X and Y.
MenW was rare but a new strain of the bacterium is causing severe disease in teenagers and young adults.
Prof Andrew Pollard, chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said: "We have seen an increase in MenW cases this winter caused by a highly aggressive strain of the bug.
"We reviewed the outbreak in detail at JCVI and concluded that this increase was likely to continue in future years unless action is taken.
"We have therefore advised the Department of Health to implement a vaccination programme for teenagers as soon as possible which we believe will have a substantial impact on the disease and protect the public's health."
The recommendations have been accepted by the government.
Dr Shamez Ladhani, from Public Health England, said: "We will now work with the government and NHS England to roll out a vaccination programme.
"It's crucial that we all remain alert to the signs and symptoms of the disease and seek urgent medical attention if there is any concern."
He said doctors were also being urged to keep an eye out for symptoms in all age groups.
Chris Head, the chief executive of the Meningitis Research Foundation, said: "We applaud the quick action by the government to protect 14 to 18 year-olds.
"However, it will take more than a year for this protection to filter through to toddlers and infants, and in the meantime under-fives will still be dying and disabled as a result of MenW.
"But the Bexsero vaccine, mainly regarded as a meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine, also provides protection against MenW and would provide more immediate protection for babies and toddlers.
"This weighs even further in favour of Bexsero being introduced into the routine schedule as quickly as possible."
The JCVI has also recommended introducing a MenB vaccine, but this has not yet come into force.
The figures show a sharp decline in those applying to study nursing courses - down 19% - and a continued fall in the number of mature students, notably in England and Northern Ireland.
The number of EU students planning to study in the UK has fallen by 5%.
It is the first decline since fees were last increased in England, in 2012.
Fees in England will increase to £9,250 this year, and student loans are subject to an increase in interest rates - rising from 4.6% to 6.1% from this autumn.
University leaders said a number of factors could be fuelling the fall in applicants, including Brexit, higher fees and funding changes for trainee nurses and midwives.
From 1 August, new nursing, midwifery and most allied health students will no longer receive NHS bursaries - instead, they will have access to the same student loans system as other students.
The latest Ucas figures show the number of people who had applied to UK universities for the coming academic year by the 30 June deadline was 649,700 - compared with 674,890 in 2016.
There have been reductions in applicants from all four countries in the UK. There were:
Applications from EU students fell from 51,850 in 2016 to 49,250 this year.
However, applicants from overseas countries outside of the European Union are up 2%, from 69,300 in 2016 to 70,830 this year.
There has been a significant drop in mature students (those aged 25 and over) in England and Northern Ireland - down 18% (11,190) and 13% (220) respectively.
Dr Mark Corver, Ucas director of analysis and research, said: "Within the figures, there are contrasting trends.
"How these trends translate into students at university and colleges will become clear over the next six weeks, as applicants get their results and secure their places and new applicants apply direct to Ucas's clearing process."
Prof Les Ebdon, director of Fair Access to Higher Education, said: "The downward trend in mature student numbers is now one of the most pressing issues in fair access to higher education.
"Undoubtedly, the reasons behind the fall are complex and multiple, but universities and colleges should look to do what they can to reverse the decline in mature student applications, as a matter of urgency."
Dame Julia Goodfellow, president of Universities UK, said universities recognised that there were a number of issues to address.
"Continuing to communicate to European applicants that they are welcome and enrich our education system is important," she said.
"The decline in part-time and mature student entrants must also be addressed.
"We recognise also the concern about the total cost of going to university.
"Any analysis needs to cover the cost of maintenance and the interest rate on the loans."
Sarah Stevens, head of policy at the Russell Group, said it would be a concern if EU students were being put off by the uncertainties of Brexit.
"It's positive that applications from overseas students outside the EU have risen slightly," he said.
"International students bring social and cultural diversity to our campuses and this benefits all students, and they contribute £25.8bn to the UK economy."
The Department for Education pointed out that the number of 18-year-olds applying for university was at record levels despite the fall in the overall number of applicants.
A spokeswoman said: "Higher education reforms will give people more choice and universities will be expected to continue improving access and participation in higher education.
"The government is committed to supporting all young people to reach their full potential - whether that is going to university, starting an apprenticeship or taking up a technical qualification."
Pam Tatlow, chief executive of MillionPlus, said the application data from Ucas was "not good news".
"As predicted, the abolition of bursaries has depressed rather than increased applications for nursing and there will be no additional nurses trained in spite of ministers' assurances," she said.
"There is no doubt that the government's approach to Brexit is damaging and is creating huge uncertainties, both for EU students and UK universities."
Ms Morgan, a former education secretary, told the BBC she wants to look "at the wider Treasury remit".
She said: "We want to look at the management of the economy, public spending decisions.
"We've got a Budget coming up, with issues like household debt, tax policy, investment in infrastructure.
"These are all the things that actually our constituents put us in the House of Commons for, the things that make a difference to household budgets and to their economic security."
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Ms Morgan, the first female chair of the Treasury Committee, saw off competition from five other Tory MPs to land the role heading the committee of MPs that scrutinises the Treasury.
In the past few years, its members have grilled chancellors of the exchequer and governors of the Bank of England, as well as numerous chief executives.
From the Co-op Bank chairman Paul Flowers floundering over his numbers, to the chief executive of Barclays, Bob Diamond (pictured above), apologising for his bank's behaviour - the Treasury Committee has seen some great drama acted out in its chamber.
And all of this under the arched eyebrow of the influential chair Andrew Tyrie, in a position that's often compared to one in the Cabinet.
Nicky Morgan's announcement that she wants to focus more on consumer issues is perhaps no surprise.
Following a period of political turbulence, MPs from all sides are concerned about growing inequality and why people feel they haven't shared in the wealth creation generated by the City.
So levels of consumer debt and the impact of low interest rates are firmly in her sights.
As well, of course, as overseeing the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority.
It's a big job, at a big time with, no doubt, more dramatic moments to come.
The former chair, Andrew Tyrie, stepped down as an MP at the last election.
Ms Morgan said that under him the committee had focused on financial services and the City of London.
She told the BBC's Today programme: "When Andrew Tyrie, who was a fantastic chairman, took up the role, obviously very fresh in everyone's minds was the financial crash, the bailing out of the banks and then the rebuilding of confidence in our institutions.
"But I am very keen that the committee should reflect that the Treasury has a very broad remit.
"There are concerns about levels of household debt. Interest rates have been low for a very long time. If there were to be a change in that, how would households cope? What spending decisions would they make - or not be able to make?"
Ms Morgan was a prominent Remain campaigner and said that the committee would be looking at issues around Brexit and the single market.
She said: "As a constituency Member of Parliament, I receive a barrage of views on both sides of the EU debate all the time, so I am very conscious, even if it may not be my own personal position, of what other people in the country and my constituency are thinking."
Marian Smith, 74, was found dead at a property on Aberdare Close in Blackburn, Lancashire at 09:10 BST on 9 April.
Lancashire Police said a post-mortem examination established that she had died from stab wounds.
John Smith, from Aberdare Close, is due to appear before Preston Magistrates' Court later.
The Reform Alliance was formed last year by five former Fine Gael TDs (members of parliament) and two former Fine Gael senators.
The group has denied speculation that the public meeting in Dublin was about the formation of a new political party.
They said it was a "listening exercise" about the future of the Republic.
The group of seven includes Lucinda Creighton, who lost her ministerial post after defying the party leadership over the abortion bill.
She was expelled from the Fine Gael parliamentary party last July, after voting against the government as the Irish parliament passed legislation allowing abortion in limited circumstances.
Speaking at the meeting in Dublin, Ms Creighton said the work of the Reform Alliance was not about party politics or replicating what already exists in Irish politics.
She said its purpose was to get those in power to embrace reforms in politics, the economy and the Irish health sector.
Ms Creighton was given a standing ovation when she mentioned the stand she and her Reform Alliance colleagues took against abortion legislation.
The group now plans to hold further meeting around the Republic.
The Home Office is considering a funding request for the families, and they will meet Home Secretary Amber Rudd on 5 September.
Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine died in the 1974 attacks, said she was "hopeful" it could mean financial help.
Twenty-one people were killed when bombs exploded in two pubs in the city.
In June, Birmingham's senior coroner ruled there was evidence that still needed to be heard and gave the go-ahead for fresh inquests.
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Relatives have said public money is needed to pursue the case.
Lawyers for the families have been working free of charge so far, but say that cannot continue to do so due to the complex nature of the work needed for the inquests, particularly when all other parties' lawyers, including the police, will be funded by the taxpayer.
A pre-inquest review into the bombings is due to be held in October, and a full hearing is not expected until next year.
Mrs Hambleton said she did not know what would be discussed at the Home Office meeting in the House of Commons.
"We don't know what the agenda will be, but we're hopeful, obviously, it will be for her to tell us what decision she has made about our funding," she said.
Jason Liversidge, 41, originally from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was diagnosed with MND in 2013 and knows one day he will not be able to talk.
The condition affects cells that control muscle activity including for walking, swallowing and talking.
About 30 Yorkshiremen were needed to program a voice for Mr Liversidge.
As the condition progresses, he can use a voice synthesiser similar to the one famously used by physicist Prof Stephen Hawking - but Mr Liversidge wanted to make sure it sounded more like his own voice.
Mr Liversidge, who now lives in Rise near Hornsea, East Yorkshire, said: "One of the worst things is my brain knows exactly what I want to say and I go to say it, because the muscles don't work as well as they used to I'm like, stuttering."
He added: "I would like to keep a form of identity. I don't just want to be a programmed voice on a computer. Also, for the kids and Liz, I want the voice not to be a computer one."
He is being helped by a Edinburgh research centre the Anne Rowling Clinic, which specialises in degenerative diseases.
The centre, set up by Harry Potter author JK Rowling whose mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, is running a project which is trying to create personal synthetic voices, called Speak:Unique.
Mr Liversidge's speech is already starting to slur, but scientists aimed to "repair" the flaws in it with the aid of donors.
The process involved finding people with a similar accent to read 400 phrases on to a computer, which were then banked and broken down into sounds to recreate any word.
Dr Phillipa Rewaj, who is working on the project, said: "Rather than trying to record every single word in the dictionary, we capture all those sounds so that we can use them in any other word in which they occur.
"Your voice is as identifiable to other people as your face is, it is very unique to you, so being able to preserve that I think is very important to people."
She used a video of a speech Mr Liversidge made at his sister's wedding as a benchmark, and needed 20 to 30 "donors" to fill in the gaps.
His wife, Liz Liversidge, said they were trying as a family to ensure they do as much together now as possible, as she knows the condition is life-limiting.
"It's really important for us that we try and get out and about with the girls and make as many memories as possible," she said.
"We're trying to compile as many videos and photographs as possible, so later on when Jason is no longer here they have something to remember him by."
The "new" voice created by the clinic is controlled by Mr Liversidge using eye movements, focusing on letters to type out what he wants to say.
The couple are trying to keep family life as "normal" as possible - Mr Liversidge is still able to drive so he can do the school run and join his family on days out.
Despite this, Mrs Liversidge said it was the "constant progression" of the condition that they have found hard. "He's not even able to pick the girls up and give them a cuddle," she said.
Nearly all the voices the clinic has worked on since it opened in 2011 have been Scottish, and Mr Liversidge's is the first Yorkshire accent.
Watch the full report on Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on BBC One at 19:30 on Monday 6 February or via the BBC iPlayer for seven days after the initial broadcast.
Firefighters found Quyen Ngoc Nguyen, 29, who was from Killingworth, as they tackled the blaze on Success Road, Shiney Row, early on Tuesday morning.
Stephen Unwin, 39 of St Oswald's Terrace, Houghton, and William McFall, 50, of Waterloo Road, Blackpool, will appear at Newcastle Crown Court on Saturday.
Officers are appealing for witnesses.
The cause of death has not been confirmed.
Cavendish will ride for Team Dimension Data at the Tour before racing on the track, where he has spent much of the year training, for Team GB in Rio.
"I really don't know how it will be," said the 31-year-old, who has won 26 Tour stages but is yet to win an Olympic medal.
"It could be the best thing I've done, it could be the worst thing I've done."
The Isle of Man rider is third on the all-time Tour stage wins list, two behind France's Bernard Hinault and Belgium's Eddy Merckx, who has 34 stage victories.
Cavendish has never worn the race leader's yellow jersey, something he would achieve if he won Saturday's opening stage, however he insists it has never been "a career target, it is just something I haven't done".
However, he played down talk of leaving the race early to focus on his Olympic ambitions.
"I'm not coming to the Tour de France planning to stop," he said. "This is my 10th Tour de France. Every time I stopped, it's been for different circumstances.
"I was in bed for a week after the Tour de France last year. I got sick. I know I can't afford to do that this year.
"The biggest stage in the world is the Champs-Elysees for a sprinter. I know that my eight team-mates are going to do their best to get to Paris and I'm going to try to do my best to get to Paris."
Meanwhile, defending champion Chris Froome, who is also in the Great Britain cycling squad for Rio, but will compete in the road and time trial race races, is aiming for his third Tour de France win in four years.
He changed his early season schedule in an effort to peak for the Tour and hold his form for Rio.
"In previous seasons I'd been in that shape and then basically tried to hang on to it whereas now I feel as if I've only just got there," the Team Sky rider said.
"Hopefully it means that because we've delayed everything I'll be able to hang on to it a bit longer, and hopefully into Rio too."
The three-week 21-stage race begins in Normandy on Saturday with a race from Mont Saint-Michel to Utah Beach. The race visits the Pyrenees mountains before heading across to the Alps and finishing in Paris on Sunday, 24 July.
Northern Ireland's McIlroy, twice a winner in seven US PGA starts, bogeyed the last for a one-under 69 to finish three over and miss the cut by one.
American Walker also bogeyed the 18th for a 66 and nine-under total, matched by Streb who birdied his last for 63.
Defending champion Jason Day had eight birdies in a 65 to get to seven under.
The Australian world number one is tied third with Argentina's Emiliano Grillo (67), while Open winner Henrik Stenson of Sweden is one shot back after carding a second three-under 67 to move to six under.
Germany's Martin Kaymer (69), who won this tournament in 2010, and Americans Patrick Reed (65) and Brooks Koepka (67) are four adrift on five under.
Wales' Jamie Donaldson (67) is the highest-placed Briton at the final major of the season on four under, one ahead of world number three Jordan Spieth, who also shot 67.
With the cut mark hovering between one and two over par, McIlroy, who holed a 30-foot putt on the 17th to get to two over, thought he needed another birdie on the last.
The four-time major winner hit his second on the par-five 18th into greenside rough and took three more shots to get on the green before holing out for a bogey.
"I thought I needed to make four, so that's what I was trying to do," said the 2012 and 2014 US PGA champion.
"It was a tough lie. I hit the first one as hard as I really could considering how close the pin was to the edge of the green."
The world number four went straight to the practice green after taking 35 putts in round one but he said his efforts on Friday, when he took 30, were "pathetic".
"Putting let me down at [the US Open in June at] Oakmont and then putting let me down here again," he said.
"My tee to green game - there's not much wrong with that. It's pretty solid. If you had given anyone else in this field my tee shots this week, they would have been up near the top of the leaderboard.
"It just shows you how bad I was around the greens."
The Swede was grouped with the year's other two major winners - Masters champion Danny Willett and US Open victor Dustin Johnson - and he outscored them on both days.
He dropped to one under par after three-putt bogeys on the 12th and 13th holes but a three-foot eagle putt on the par-five 18th, his ninth, followed by three birdies on the front nine, moved him one clear of the field.
"I got off to a bit of a wobbly start and stood over a six-foot putt on the 14th to avoid going three over, so I'm quite happy that went in and I turned it on from 18," said the 40-year-old, who won his first major at Royal Troon two weeks ago.
"That could easily have gone the wrong way but I was hanging in there and got the good stuff coming in."
Willett birdied the ninth to card a 70 and make the cut on one over, but pre-tournament favourite Johnson is going home after adding a 72 to his opening 77 for a nine-over total.
Neither American has never won a major and while Walker has five victories on the PGA Tour, Streb has just one and has missed nine cuts in 23 events in 2016.
Walker, 37, made a solid start to round two with two birdies and seven pars in his opening nine holes before moving clear of the field with a run of three successive birdies from the 12th.
He pulled his tee shot on the 17th into a hospitality area and escaped with a free drop and par five but an almost identical shot on the last was not so lucky, ending up in a lake and resulting in a dropped shot.
"The finish wasn't what I was looking for, but it's fine," said Walker. "I think you take 66 at any tournament all day every day. So it's good.
"I will watch the leaderboard on Saturday. I don't think that's a big deal. I enjoy watching it. I think you need to know where you are at."
Streb started on the 10th and had four birdies and a bogey in his opening nine holes and closed with three in four holes to become the 30th player to card a 63 in a major - no player has ever shot a 62.
The 29-year-old, who missed the cut at each of the first three majors of 2016, said he turned up this week "just to see if I could play some good golf and have fun".
He added: "Obviously it's going pretty well, but my expectations are pretty low, which maybe is a good thing."
Day was Friday's other big mover, knocking in seven birdies in eight holes from the eighth to sit two off the lead.
"I kind of gave myself a little bit of a kick up the bum with the double bogey on seven," he said.
"It was a bit of a mess but to come back and birdie eight and nine made things a lot better for me on the back nine."
Former world number one and two-time major winner Spieth had five birdies in his opening nine holes to get to four under par but missed several opportunities to better his score on his back nine, while a bogey saw him close on three under.
"It was a really solid round and I'm back in contention," said the American. "I'm hitting the ball fantastic. I just can't get a putt to go in from beyond 10 feet."
Kaymer, who started at four under, began the front and back nines with bogeys but three birdies in his last four holes lifted him to five under.
"I made a few putts here and there. I enjoyed the last few holes," he said. "It was important for me to finish the way I did."
Andrew Johnston continued to impress in the majors, after finishing tied for eighth at The Open, with a one-under-par 69 to reach halfway at one under.
The Englishman, better known by his nickname 'Beef', started on the 10th and was two under after nine holes. He dropped back to level with bogeys on the fifth and seventh holes, but he then birdied the eighth.
"Every hole, man, I get so many nice comments," said the 27-year-old. "Even after the fifth hole, when I three-putted, they are like, 'Don't worry, Beef, come on, bounce back, you've got this one'. And it's just nice, man. It's a nice atmosphere."
Lee Westwood (70) hit 92% of greens in regulation as he also finished on one under, alongside fellow Englishmen Ross Fisher (73) and Tyrrell Hatton (68).
Andy Sullivan, who reached five under, dropped away with six bogeys in nine holes through the middle of his round before finishing birdie-eagle on the two par-five finishing holes to post a 71 and a two-under total that matched Paul Casey (69).
Scotland's Russell Knox is also playing the weekend after a second 70 left him level par, along with Wales' Bradley Dredge.
English pair Matthew Fitzpatrick (70) and Justin Rose (72) beat the cut by one shot.
Seventy firefighters tackled flames off Rufford Street, close to Lye railway station, Stourbridge, from 12:00 BST.
Black smoke could be seen for miles around and people living nearby were advised to keep windows closed.
West Midlands Fire Service said the fire was under control and crews had been scaled back while damping down continued.
The number of children with televisions in their bedroom is falling - almost matched now by those with their own personal internet access, says the annual Childwise monitoring survey.
Among seven to 16 year olds, 61% have a mobile phone with internet access.
Children use their mobiles for an average of 1.6 hours a day, the survey of 2,770 five to 16 year olds says.
The biggest trend in children's use of gadgets, according to the report from the market research company, is the growth in internet use through mobile phones.
The survey was based on interviews carried out in autumn 2011.
The report presents a picture of a typical young person's home life which increasingly revolves around the mobile phone.
Talking, texting and accessing the internet are now reached through the mobile - with more than three-quarters of secondary-age pupils now using mobiles to get online.
The way children use media through the day is also changing, says the research, suggesting a push-button, on-demand culture, which is moving away from scheduled television programmes.
Before school, children are now more likely to play with their mobiles than watch television.
When children get home from school, instead of rushing to switch on the television, they are more likely to reach for the internet.
When children are reading at home, it is more likely to be through a screen rather than a book or a magazine.
Even in bed at night, the mobile phone is being used by 32% of children across the five to 16 age range.
It also seems to be approaching game over for old-style PCs in children's bedrooms - which have been replaced by laptops and tablet-style computers.
Land-line telephones are also looking like yesterday's world for many of these youngsters - with the research claiming that more children know how to send a text message than find a telephone number.
Facebook remains the most popular website - used by 51% of children in the week before the survey - but the researchers suggest that it is showing signs of having "fallen back".
Research director Rosemary Duff says that the growth of mobile internet is the most significant change in how children use technology.
The decline in television use is continuing - and she says it appears that the portables once bought for children's bedrooms are not being replaced.
But she says that television should not be written off prematurely - as it still plays a very important role in the media lives of children.
Even though children might be using the internet more than ever, she says, the content can be often be related to television programmes.
Mobile phones and the internet each occupy about an hour and a half on average per day - but television viewing on average still accounts for two and half hours.
And the "multi-tasking" talents of teenagers mean that many youngsters using the internet, or playing on a games console, are also watching television.
The prime minister said groups in disadvantaged areas would be able to bid for the grants, for projects such as sports, drama and voluntary work.
Mrs May said the investment was the latest stage of her drive to create what she calls a "great meritocracy".
Labour said it welcomed the move but claimed it followed years of cuts to such services.
The initiative will be funded by the government and the National Lottery with grants to be distributed via the Youth Investment Fund and the Step Up To Serve #iwill social action campaign.
It is part of the prime minister's so-called social reform agenda which launched last week with her plans to revolutionise the education system and bring back grammar schools.
Mrs May has pledged to ensure young people are selected based on their abilities and talents rather than their social background.
"I want Britain to be the great meritocracy of the world and a fundamental part of this is ensuring all young people get the best possible start in life," she said.
"This new funding demonstrates our commitment, and will be a huge boost for youth groups across the country - giving young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, the opportunity to gain the experiences and skills they need to succeed in life.
"This is all part of our determination to build a country that works for everyone and ensure that young people can go as far as their talents allow, regardless of their backgrounds."
The announcement comes after a report by Unison claimed youth services across the UK were heading for collapse.
The report, published last month, said since 2012 some 600 youth centres have shut, 3,650 youth staff lost their jobs, and 139,000 youth places been axed because of council cutbacks.
It said an estimated £387m had been cut from youth service budgets since 2010, adding there was "more of the same for youth services in the years to come" with those most in need being left without support.
Big Lottery Fund chief executive Dawn Austwick said the £80m would "help build a stronger, more sustainable and more responsive youth sector across England, centred on the ambitions of those it benefits most".
But Labour said while it welcomed any new money, Mrs May had been part a government that implemented "savage cuts" to local authorities, closed hundreds of Sure Start Centres and devastated youth services.
Bournemouth lost a three-goal lead to draw 3-3 with Arsenal in the Premier League on Tuesday.
Hitchin Town player Alfie Barker, 19, posted: "Big hype just for a disappointment like the nine months leading up to your child's birth."
Barker issued an apology on Wednesday for his "disgraceful comments".
He initially claimed his account, which has now been deleted, had been hacked, before apologising.
Barker, who takes mediation to combat the symptoms of ADHD and a mild form of autism, told Stevenage-based newspaper The Comet he was "distraught" at upsetting Arter and his own family, including his aunt who had suffered two miscarriages in the last five years.
"I was watching Arsenal at home and I was hyper. At 3-0 down they weren't playing well and I was annoyed," he said.
"I'd had a couple of beers and was frustrated at the way the team was playing and I just lashed out. I have no idea why I focused on Harry Arter and his family and I am so, so sorry for what I have done.
"It was a moment of madness. It's the worst thing I've ever done in my life, but it is so out of character. I honestly don't know why I did it.
"I also completely understand why Hitchin Town took the action they did and I completely agree they did the right thing."
Seventh-tier Hitchin issued a statement saying: "In the light of the player's irresponsible and anti-social behaviour, we are terminating Alfie Barker's registration and relationship with the club with immediate effect."
Speaking to BBC Sport before the statement was released, Hitchin boss Mark Burke said: "I've seen the tweets and I'm disgusted with them. They're vile and I can't condone them in any way."
Bournemouth have referred the matter to the Football Association, who have contacted Barker for observations in relation to postings on social media.
Barker has seven days from Thursday, 5 January to respond to the FA's request.
Outcomes of previous FA investigations into inappropriate comments on social media have ranged from warnings and fines to bans.
Codicote FC, where Barker is on loan, said: "We have no choice but to terminate our relationship with him.
"We would like to make it clear that Codicote FC cannot and will not tolerate this behaviour; we have a responsibility to our community, supporters and the football family to stamp this behaviour out."
Arter has a tattoo dedicated to the memory of his daughter Renee, who was stillborn in December 2015.
Barker was also subject to an approach by Stotfold with a view to him signing for the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division side.
But Stotfold chairman Phil Pateman told the Press Association: "This was prior to grotesque comments made by Barker in regard to the tragic loss of Harry Arter's daughter Renee.
"As a result of those comments Stotfold FC have, with immediate effect, withdrawn our interest in the player."
This was no man's land. It was 27 April 1916, close to the village of Hulluch in northern France.
A slow moving gas attack would soon leave hundreds of entrenched Irishmen dead.
The Battle of Hulluch was an early example of the devastating effect of chemical warfare, then still in its infancy.
Yet the events at Hulluch are comparatively unknown and its significance is often overlooked.
Another reason the details of the gas attacks at Hulluch have been partially lost over time is that it took place at the same time as the Easter Rising in Dublin.
The rising would radically alter the history of Ireland, from where many of Hulluch's victims hailed.
While Dublin was in turmoil, Irish regiments such as the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Royal Irish Fusiliers were holed up across a vast network of trenches over 400 miles away on the plains of northern France.
Richard Bennett, Trustee at the Inniskillings Museum in Enniskillen, remarked that, when researching the history of the Inniskillings, "we came across information on the Battle of Hulluch which was fought at the same time as the events in Dublin. The battle was comparatively unknown and yet was of huge significance".
The Irishmen of the Inniskillings and other regiments, like many others across the United Kingdom, had signed up to fight against the Germans.
Unlike most others, they were overwhelmingly Catholic and nationalist, encouraged to sign up by Irish Parliamentary Party leader John Redmond.
Redmond urged his supporters to go, "wherever the firing line extends in defence of right, of freedom and religion in this war".
World War One saw the emergence of chemical warfare and it terrified soldiers more than any other weapon.
Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, called the use of poison gas "a cynical and barbarous disregard of the well-known usages of civilised war".
It was used to kill, injure and demoralise soldiers and the gas attacks at Hulluch offered a terrible example of its ruthless efficiency.
Allied lines knew a gas attack was imminent. A deserter revealed plans of a German attack in advance and aerial reconnaissance had shown gas cylinders being readied.
After the Battle of Loos in 1915, where British forces had carried out gas attacks for the first time, they were well aware of the indiscriminate slaughter caused by chemical weapons.
As dawn broke on the morning of the 27 April 1916, the Royal Bavarian Corps of the Imperial German Army attacked the British trenches with a barrage of machine gun fire followed by heavy artillery bombardment.
Simultaneously, the German forces released 3,800 cylinders of chlorine and phosgene gas which drifted across no man's land.
The diary of Lt Colonel Edward Bellingham from County Louth describes how, by 5:30 BST on April 27, "a dense cloud of black gas and smoke" settled over the Irish lines followed by a heavy bombardment of the frontline trenches.
The effects were so intense, gas masks had to be worn as far as three miles behind the frontline.
Taking advantage of their opponents' reduced visibility, German troops stormed several Irish trenches where hand-to-hand combat ensued.
Although most of the casualties were caused by the subsequent German bombardment that destroyed the Irish trenches, it was the gas attack that created the conditions to make the artillery attack more deadly.
The attack was devastating, particularly for the Irish.
Father William Doyle, a regiment chaplain, described what he saw in a letter home: "There they lay in the bottom of the trench, in every conceivable posture of human agony; the clothes torn off their bodies in a vain effort to breathe, while from end to end of that valley of death came one long unceasing moan from the lips of brave men fighting and struggling for life."
The conduct of the 7th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was commended by a war correspondent from The Times, who paid the tribute that "never was a job more quickly or more cleanly done."
Despite their bravery, the 7th Inniskillings suffered heavy losses.
Their commanding officer, Lt Colonel Young, said: "I desire to express to all ranks my high appreciation of their conduct and bearing, when they displayed a high standard of courage and endurance."
By January 1916, all British soldiers had been given anti-gas PH helmets to help protect them against the threat of poison gas.
The helmets consisted of layers of flannel cloth which had been dipped in a phenate-hexamine solution which, in theory, would protect the wearer from lethal chemicals.
The large number of deaths caused by gas attacks were commonly blamed on the soldiers for supposedly displaying poor discipline with their anti-gas uniform.
In fact, it was the poor manufacture of their helmets, along with the gas being of sufficient concentration to penetrate the masks, that led to such high levels of casualties.
When this was realised, production of the Small Box Respirator was accelerated as this had proven much more effective in combating gas poisoning.
Two days after the initial attack, the day the Easter Rising came to an end in Dublin, the Germans attempted another gas attack in Hulluch.
Bellingham remarked in his diary that "the casualties from gas poisoning were more severe than on the 27th, owing presumably to the gas clouds meeting and remaining stationary and concentrated over the trenches".
This also resulted in many Germans troops being poisoned by their own gas as it lingered in the air.
Events in Ireland did not go unnoticed by the German troops.
They held up makeshift placards for their Irish adversaries: "Irishmen! Heavy uproar in Ireland. English guns are firing at your wifes and children." It was a vain attempt to get the Irishmen to turn on their fellow soldiers.
As the centenary of the Easter Rising is marked by various commemorative events across Ireland, the attack at Hulluch remains relatively obscure, despite the higher number of fatalities.
In a matter of days, 570 were killed and many of the other casualties were to die later from respiratory diseases.
Like many battles during World War One, heavy losses were suffered for little military gain.
Mae'n debyg bod tua 2,700 yn y ralïau yng Nghaerdydd, Abertawe, Aberystwyth a Bangor.
Daw'r gwrthdystiadau wedi i'r arlywydd wahardd carfannau o bobl o saith gwlad sy'n bennaf Fwslemaidd rhag mynd i'r UDA am gyfnod.
Mae Prif Weinidog Cymru, Carwyn Jones, wedi dweud y dylid oedi cyn gwahodd yr Arlywydd Trump ar ymweliad swyddogol i'r DU.
Ond mae Ysgrifennydd Cymru, Alun Cairns, yn dweud y byddai'n croesawu'r arlywydd i Gymru.
Cafodd gwahoddiad am ymweliad ei ymestyn gan Theresa May i arlywydd yr UDA pan roedd hi yn Washington yr wythnos ddiwethaf.
Mae deiseb yn galw ar y Frenhines i beidio â'i wahodd ar ymweliad swyddogol bellach wedi denu dros 1.25 miliwn o lofnodion.
Ymysg y rheiny sydd wedi beirniadu polisi diweddaraf Mr Trump mae'r Prif Weinidog, Carwyn Jones.
Yn dilyn cyfarfod o'r Cyd-bwyllgor Gweinidogion ddydd Llun dywedodd Mr Jones y byddai ymweliad gan Mr Trump "yn anodd dan yr amgylchiadau presennol", a'i fod wedi codi pryderon am ymateb Llywodraeth y DU.
Mae Downing Street wedi dweud bod penderfyniad ar fewnfudo i'r UDA yn "fater i Lywodraeth yr Unol Daleithiau", ond nad ydyn nhw'n cytuno â'r polisi.
Cafodd y ddeiseb yn galw am israddio ymweliad Mr Trump, sydd wedi denu dros 47,000 llofnod o Gymru, ei lansio ddydd Sul.
Ond pan ofynnwyd i Mr Cairns ar raglen y Post Cyntaf BBC Radio Cymru a fyddai'n croesawu'r arlywydd i Gymru ar ymweliad, dywedodd: "Yn sicr. Dim ond drwy weithio gyda'r Arlywydd Trump y gwnawn ni ddylanwadu.
"Roedd ymweliad y prif weinidog i Washington yr wythnos diwethaf yn llwyddiannus ofnadwy achos roedd pryderon y gorllewin am beth oedd agwedd yr Arlywydd Trump tuag at NATO.
"Gan bod ein perthynas yn adeiladol gyda Trump mi wnaeth Theresa May gadarnhau yn union beth oedd ei agwedd tuag at NATO, ac mae hynny'n ofnadwy o bwysig i ni ar gyfer sicrwydd tymor hir."
Five-year-old Charlie Couper and his sister Zoe, three, had transplants to treat the same rare genetic disorder.
But while Charlie's treatment was a success, his sister may need a second operation after her condition returned.
Minou Couper said: "I'm incredibly worried treatment that could save my daughter's life may not be available."
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It was announced in July the NHS would no longer fund stem cell transplants for those patients whose initial treatment had not been successful.
A campaign has been launched to reverse the decision, with thousands signing a petition calling for a U-turn.
Mrs Couper and her husband Jeremy, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, discovered Charlie had the condition familial monosomy 7 when he had a routine blood test aged two.
The condition results in bone marrow failure, as well as leading to acute myeloid leukaemia. Only stem cell treatment will save the life of sufferers.
It is so rare there are only 15 confirmed cases in the world, said Mrs Couper, 31.
The boy underwent treatment in 2013 after a stem cell match was found and, after many months, made a full recovery.
However, when their second child Zoe was just a few months old, they discovered she had the same condition.
"Geneticists are studying why it's happened to us. It's so rare it's like a needle in a haystack," said Mrs Couper.
Zoe had a transplant aged one, but despite initial hopes the operation had worked, tests in September 2015 showed the condition was still present.
Medics are now deciding if she requires a second transplant, but Mrs Couper fears the NHS will not fund it.
"Even if [doctors] are confident, it has to go to the NHS for a decision to be made.
"It's very worrying that they have the power to say no," she said.
Despite their difficult start in life, Mrs Couper says people would "never know" her children have been seriously ill.
"Zoe is happy, excitable and adventurous and thoroughly enjoys pre-school," she said.
"Charlie is absolutely fine - you'd never think that two years ago he was bald from chemotherapy and unable to walk.
On their transplant anniversaries, Mrs Couper said the children buy a box of chocolates and give it to a stranger with a card explaining they were given the gift of life.
"It's our way of giving back," she said.
Mrs Couper said she hoped by highlighting her family's story, more people would join the stem cell register.
She also hopes it will encourage the government to review its decision regarding funding for a second round of treatment.
"We hope by people joining the campaign we will get the NHS to do a U-turn," she said.
An NHS England spokesperson said: "We have every sympathy for patients in these extremely difficult circumstances.
"These tough funding decisions are made carefully through a rigorous and transparent process involving clinicians, experts and patient representatives, which the majority of respondents to a recent public consultation supported."
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The company that owns the harbour-side road at Porthleven in Cornwall said it had to paint the lines on a 197ft (60m) stretch of road to "calm" congestion.
Cornwall Council says the lines are "not legal", and "no enforcement can take place" by "anyone".
Several local business owners said it had caused drivers to park on the other side of the road, blocking entrances.
The Harbour and Dock Company admitted it had not been through any official process to paint the lines in the fishing village and they were unenforceable.
Phil Ward from the firm admitted the markings were "pointless in a sense", but insisted they had been successfully deterring many people from parking there.
"I don't see why there's an argument over it - there's no other harbour in Cornwall that you can park next to the harbour wall," he said.
A spokesperson for Cornwall Council said: "The newly painted yellow lines on Commercial Road in Porthleven are not legal, and have no legal standing and no enforcement can take place by official civil enforcement officers, the police, or anyone else."
Suzy Williams from Four Crows Gallery said the lines had just caused a new problem: "Everyone's now parking on the other side of the road and blocking the entrances to all the shops which is causing absolute chaos and obviously losing us business."
Other business owners on the road said the process had been "handled badly" and had "pushed the problem from one side of the road to the other".
Cornwall Council declined to say whether the company would be forced to remove the yellow lines.
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Kevin McIndoe, 34, was arrested after police targeting an organised crime gang raided a flat and garage in East Kilbride in May last year.
McIndoe admitted being concerned in the supply of both drugs.
His co-accused, 31-year-old Ross McMillan, was jailed for three years after he admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard how both men were caught as part of an investigation by the former Strathclyde Police into the large-scale importation and distribution of cocaine and cannabis.
McIndoe came under surveillance as part of the operation and on 13 April last year was seen driving from East Kilbride to the car park of the Malletsheugh Inn at Newton Mearns for a drugs handover.
A private hire taxi pulled up beside him and he was seen leaning into the vehicle as he delivered a carrier bag.
The taxi was followed and stopped at Housewoodhill Road, in Glasgow, and almost a kilo of cocaine, with an estimated street value of £40,000, was found.
McIndoe was then seen on 19 May at a block of flats in Gullion Park, East Kilbride.
Another man who drove off from the flats was later stopped by the former Grampian Police force on the A90, near Stonehaven, and found to have cocaine worth about £29,000.
Officers later raided the flat in East Kilbride which had been let to McIndoe, where they found him with a bin bag containing more than three kilos of cocaine, worth about £130,000.
Inside the flat, they discovered two pneumatic presses for compressing cocaine into blocks, along with equipment for cutting the drug.
Almost £7,000 in cash was also found hidden in a cooker hood.
Officers later found 40 kilos of cannabis resin, with a street value of about £327,000, at a lock-up garage McIndoe used nearby.
The 34-year-old, who is currently serving a prison sentence for another drugs offence, admitted being concerned in the supply of the drugs, with the offence aggravated by a connection with serious organised crime.
Jailing him, judge Lord Turnbull told McIndoe: "You have pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of very large quantities of two different forms of controlled drugs."
The judge said he had played "a prominent role", including making arrangements for the pressing and packaging of drugs and having responsibility for delivering valuable amounts to lower-level dealers.
Lord Turnbull told him it was clear a "substantial" prison sentence was required and said he would have been jailed for eight years, but for his guilty pleas.
Yousaf Khan, the owner of Autumn Grange in Nottingham, was jailed for gross negligence manslaughter over the death of Ivy Atkin in 2012.
Mrs Atkin, who was 86 and had dementia, weighed just 25kg (3st 13lbs).
An inspector told an inquest into her death there were "widespread" problems at the home.
Linda Hirst, from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), said Mrs Atkin was not the only resident being neglected.
"The care of people, including Ivy Atkin, who I witnessed directly, they were receiving very poor care," she said.
"I was so concerned I just didn't feel people would be safe over the weekend."
Khan, 47, of Nelson Road, Nottingham, was sentenced to three years and two months at Nottingham Crown Court in February.
His firm Sherwood Rise Ltd was fined £300,000 for corporate manslaughter - the first case of its kind in England.
The inquest heard Mrs Atkin died from pneumonia as a result of debilitation and low body mass index (BMI), contributed to by dementia.
Her BMI was just 10.7, while the healthy weight range is between 18.5 and 24.9.
Miss Hirst and her colleagues carried out their unannounced inspection on 2 November 2012, in response to whistle-blowing information.
The CQC inspectors found that the care home did not meet any of their required standards - including safeguarding service users from abuse, meeting nutritional needs, and cleanliness and infection control.
"There was systematic neglectful care, discrimination and further abuse taking place," said Miss Hirst.
"The kitchen was dirty and equipment was broken. People were getting malnutrition.
"The providers were not maintaining the premises appropriately."
Mrs Atkin and the other residents were moved out on 4 November, but she died on 22 November.
The inquest continues.
Asked to explain whether the government has quietly abandoned its pledge, the Treasury said the UK would probably have to accept the status quo on EU migration as the price of continued access to European markets. "No country has been able to agree significant access to the single market without having to accept EU regulations, financial contributions to the EU and the free movement of people" it said.
Critics have suggested the Treasury's "Brexit" calculation demonstrates that the department has no real ambition to see radical reductions in net migration. In the year to September 2014, net migration to the UK was 323,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Last month the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said that "net international migration to the UK is an important driver of the economy's underlying growth potential" and leads to a higher employment rate and lower dependency ratio (the number of children and elderly compared to the total population).
The OBR's central budget projection assumes net migration of 185,000 by 2021 (they clearly think it unlikely the government will be able to get net migration down to the levels they promised), and it is this modelling that was included in the Treasury report on the costs of leaving the EU.
The OBR also looked at higher and lower migration scenarios. A "zero net migration" model, it suggests, would lead to GDP 1.9% lower than currently projected and a fall in house prices of 3%, while a higher net figure of 265,000 by 2012 would see GDP 0.8% higher and house prices up an additional 1.3%.
While the OBR assumes that net migration has a positive impact on the economy in the medium-term, those wanting to leave the EU argue that controlling our borders and reducing immigration would be in Britain's long-term interests.
"At the moment any EU citizen can come to the UK to settle, work, claim benefits and use the NHS," leave supporter Michael Gove said at a Leave campaign event today. "We have no proper control over whether that individual's presence here is economically beneficial, conducive to the public good or in our national interest."
The pressure group Migration Watch argues that the effect of immigration on the UK economy is "essentially negligible" and claims there is broad agreement that it harms the earnings of the most poorly paid UK-born members of the labour force.
The OBR also makes the point that looking ahead 50 years, immigrants arriving now would add to age-related spending pressures. "Higher migration could be seen as delaying some of the fiscal challenges of an ageing population rather than a way of resolving them permanently", it argues.
Nevertheless, it is surprising that the Treasury's calculations don't engage with the immigration debate, given its centrality in the leave campaign's argument. Many economists argue that Vote Leave's aim to reduce net migration from the EU following "Brexit" would have a negative impact on economic growth, at least in the short term.
It is likely those making the pro-EU case would rather the referendum debate was focused on household incomes rather than immigration and that may be why the impact of changes to net migration was curiously lacking from yesterday's Treasury report.
The trust hopes its £320,000, four-year project on Devon's Killerton estate will make the case for vaccination as an alternative to culling.
Cattle (or bovine) tuberculosis costs the UK about £100m each year.
The government is set to approve badger culling in England soon, and the Welsh Assembly Government also plans a cull.
Research published last year showed the vaccine lowers infection in badgers.
Some cattle herds contract TB through contact with badgers, which carry the bacterium, although infection from other cattle is more significant.
Badger culling is a controversial option and although the trust is not opposed to it in principle, it is troubled by research showing it could do more harm than good - hence the vaccination scheme.
"This is a pilot project - it's not research, not a trial - we know the vaccine works, and we're going for it," said David Bullock, the trust's head of nature conservation.
"The driver is that we want to reduce the risk of bovine TB breakdowns in cattle herds belonging to our tenant farmers, 18 of whom are involved in this project - and we also want to see that the vaccine is considered nationwide."
Last December, scientists with the government-owned Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) published the results of a four-year field trial using an injectable TB vaccine.
It showed that vaccination reduced the incidence of TB in badgers by 74%, but did not look for any impact on infection levels in cattle.
The Labour government had planned five subsequent pilot vaccination projects, but the coalition reduced that to one, and Killerton was among the sites axed.
So at a cost of £80,000 per year, the National Trust is picking up the project, making use of the fact that some of the preliminary research (such as mapping out badger setts) has already been done.
Across about 20 sq km (8 sq miles) of the site, badgers will be lured into cages with bait and trapped.
Trained and licensed Fera staff will then deliver a dose of vaccine and release the badger, first marking it so it does not subsequently receive a second shot.
Dozens of setts have been identified, and the trust believes many hundreds of badgers will be vaccinated.
Promises made
The Conservative Party made badger culling a plank of their general election campaign last year.
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) has demanded it for a long time and after the election Agriculture Minister Jim Paice - a farmer himself - announced a public consultation into how it should be implemented in England.
While supporting the trust's decision to carry out the pilot programme, the NFU said vaccines formed part of the long-term solution but did not address the "desperate plight" that many farmers currently found themselves in.
"Current vaccination methods of injecting badgers is costly, and practically challenging with the benefits remaining unclear, and unproven," Melanie Hall, the NFU's regional director for South-West England told BBC News.
"As the vaccine is preventative, [it is] unlikely to impact positively on infected badgers."
Nationwide, nearly 35,000 cattle were slaughtered last year and there is no vaccine yet that can be used in cattle.
The government believes a cull would reduce disease incidence in cattle by 16% over nine years.
A spokesman for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affair (Defra) welcomed the National Trust's plans to run a vaccine pilot project.
He added: "There's no one solution to tackling TB, and the badger vaccine we developed is one of the tools we have available.
"We will be announcing a comprehensive and balanced TB Eradication Programme for England as soon as possible."
Ministers were expected to publish their plans to deal with bovine TB in the national herd in February; but amid turmoil over the disposal of nationally-owned forests, the announcement was postponed, and is now expected next month.
Meanwhile, the Welsh Assembly Government has announced new plans for a pilot cull in Pembrokeshire this year, after a legal ruling derailed similar plans last year.
Animal rights campaigners are to challenge the new plans in the courts.
Scientific cloud
Behind the issue lie conflicting interpretations of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of culling.
The Westminster and Cardiff governments and the NFU argue that culling can markedly reduce bovine TB incidence in cattle.
But the major UK investigation, the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (also called the Krebs trial), showed culling only produced a benefit if conducted rigorously and systematically over large areas, ideally with hard boundaries that badgers could not cross.
Otherwise, the social structure of badger groups broke down when some were killed, and the animals ranged further afield - infecting more cattle and leading to increased TB incidence.
"We're not against culling badgers if it's going to be effective in curbing bovine TB, but you can't apply the criteria everywhere that would make it effective," Mr Bullock told BBC News.
"Unless you have boundaries, you may have this effect where badgers move around and spread TB - we know from the science that this does happen."
Scientists who ran the Krebs trial have warned the government that its plan to allow shooting of badgers as they roam was likely to be less effective than the trap-and-shoot method deployed during the trial.
On that basis, they said, culling "risks increasing rather than reducing the incidence of cattle TB".
In the Irish Republic, culling has been practised for many years and does appear to have curbed bovine TB; but scientists involved with that programme say the disease will not be eradicated without vaccination.
The National Trust argues that vaccination could prove to be a more effective option than culling, in conjunction with tightened regulations designed to prevent cattle-to-cattle transmission.
This would also, of course, avoid killing badgers, which are a protected species under UK and EU laws.
Eventually, the aim is to have an oral vaccine that badgers would simply eat, avoiding any need for trapping; but that is thought to be five years away.
Neil McEvoy is accused of breaching the authority's code of conduct after he attended court to support a council tenant facing eviction in 2015.
Deborah Carter said there was an "angry situation" when Mr McEvoy said: "I can't wait until May 2017 when the restructure of the council happens."
Mr McEvoy, an AM since 2016, claims the complaint is politically motivated.
The assembly member is leader of Cardiff's Plaid Cymru council group and a former deputy leader of the council.
It is alleged he made a comment in a threatening manner after a court hearing at Cardiff civil justice centre in July 2015.
Mr McEvoy had been assisting a council tenant in an application to suspend a warrant of eviction.
Finance team manager Ms Carter told the tribunal that the comment was made as they left the hearing, in which the tenant's application had been dismissed.
She said it was "quite an angry situation".
Ms Carter said that as they were leaving, Mr McEvoy was walking ahead of her with the tenant and that he turned and made the comment about council restructuring.
"I believe that he said that to me," she said.
"I was quite shocked to be spoken to like that by what I consider to be my employer.
"I didn't expect to be spoken to by my employer like that when actually I was doing my job."
Asked by counsel for the Public Services Ombudsman how she interpreted the comments, Ms Carter said: "I took it to mean there might be some threat to the work I do in the council in the future should he get into power.
"I was quite shocked and I did consider that to be a threat to me."
In his evidence, Mr McEvoy denied that his behaviour amounted to bullying or harassment.
He confirmed making a comment about restructuring the council, but said he was referring to Plaid policy to save £1m from cuts to senior managers, not staff at Ms Carter's level.
Mr McEvoy added that he made the comment while talking to the tenant - a constituent of his - in an effort to reassure her about the future.
Asked whether he thought his behaviour brought the role of councillor into disrepute, Mr McEvoy said believed that day he had "enhanced my role as councillor because I stood up for someone who was very vulnerable" in the eviction hearing.
He claimed that the tribunal was "a means of doing politics by complaint".
Earlier, Mr McEvoy's lawyer, Jonathan Mendus Edwards, asked Ms Carter how Labour councillor Paul Mitchell - who made the complaint to the ombudsman - came to be involved.
Ms Carter said she had not spoken to Mr Mitchell, who Mr Edwards described as being "daggers drawn" with Mr McEvoy.
Mr Edwards suggested to Ms Carter: "You weren't that bothered, but someone else seized the opportunity."
She replied that she was "bothered" about it, although it had not been her idea to complain.
Ms Carter also denied the lawyer's suggestion that a report of the incident was a "sexed-up dossier" and a "fiction".
If the panel rules that Mr McEvoy did breach the council's code of conduct he could face suspension as a councillor for up to a year, or disqualification for up to five years.
In his view the announcement that the FBI was reviewing new material in the Hillary Clinton emails inquiry "changes everything". He called on his supporters to "prevent her taking her criminal scheme into the White House".
The mere fact that the FBI is looking at new material justifies, in Donald Trump's mind, his frequent references to "crooked" Hillary. It doesn't matter that so far there is more innuendo than fact.
The FBI has not even looked at the material, let alone been able to judge whether it is significant or produces new evidence that she was "careless" with classified information.
Trump believes it bolsters his narrative that Mrs Clinton is guilty of "criminal and illegal conduct" and is at the epicentre of a "rigged" system.
It means that if Mrs Clinton becomes president many will doubt her legitimacy. She will be tainted. Already some Republicans are promising further investigations even if she wins the presidency.
It should be noted that quite a few Democrats shake their heads in bewilderment that after all this time Mrs Clinton has not been able to put the email controversy to rest.
A few days ago I walked down a line waiting to access a Trump event. A surprising number of people thought there would be fraud, even though the elections are conducted on a state basis, many of which are controlled by Republicans.
What was more disturbing was the number who said they would not accept the result if Mrs Clinton won. It was not a majority but neither was it only one or two.
Among the Trump crowd she is not just disliked; it runs deeper, it borders on hatred.
The Republican candidate tells them she should be in prison and the crowd roars back "lock her up". If she is, as Mr Trump alleges, a "crook" then some ask if there is a duty to resist. Some of his supporters wear T-shirts with the slogan "trump that bitch".
What they will do with their anger if they do not get the result they want is difficult to gauge. On the fringes there is talk of resistance, of revolution. Some report people joining militias.
If Mr Trump loses, a heavy responsibility will fall on his shoulders. Will he accept defeat or encourage the view that the election was stolen and so shake the foundations of American democracy?
There are sometimes legitimate questions after a vote. In 2004, John Kerry waited until the day after the election to concede, having wanted more detail on voting in Ohio. In 2000 there were long legal battles over the vote in Florida but, in the end, Al Gore accepted the court's decision.
But Mr Trump speaks of a wider conspiracy involving the media, international finance and corrupt politicians.
Mr Trump will be under huge pressure to accept the result. His problem is that his tone and language have been so harsh towards Mrs Clinton that congratulating a woman he had denounced as "crooked" and a "liar" would be very difficult.
The election has exposed a badly divided country with many voters uncomfortable with both candidates. Some talk of a need for healing but, for the moment, the virtues of bipartisanship and collegiality have been replaced by a dog-eats-dog, winner-takes-all politics.
When Mr Trump heard of the new FBI enquiry he opined that "maybe the system is not as rigged as I thought".
His critique changes if events move in his favour, but if he loses he has encouraged his supporters to doubt American democracy.
"Rigged" is a word loosely used but potentially dangerous.
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Gateshead turned down three bids during the transfer window from Grimsby for Jones before eventually agreeing a deal to secure a move to Blundell Park.
Dyson, 20, has agreed a loan until the end of the season.
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The US authorities say Ryan Collins has agreed to plead guilty to the offence.
Prosecutors have recommended that he face a jail term of 18 months, although a judge could extend that to five years.
The 36-year-old is alleged to have stolen usernames and passwords via a phishing scam.
The Department of Justice said that Pennsylvania-based Collins had admitted to breaking into more than 100 accounts between November 2012 and September 2014.
He is said to have achieved this by sending emails to the victims that pretended to be from Google or Apple requesting their login details.
"[The] defendant used numerous fraudulent email addresses designed to look like legitimate security accounts from various internet service providers, including, for example, [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]," said court filings.
Collins is accused of accessing at least 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts.
Once he had fooled their owners into handing over their details, prosecutors say, he searched through the victims' online data.
"Through his phishing scheme [the] defendant was also able to access full Apple iCloud back-ups belonging to numerous victims, including at least 18 celebrities, many of whom reside in the Los Angeles area," the court papers state.
"Many of these back-ups contained nude photographs and videos."
The celebrities are not named, but the attacks coincide with stolen photos of the actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and others being posted to the internet in 2014, which was blamed on an iCloud breach at the time.
Collins has not been accused of uploading the images for others to see.
"By illegally accessing intimate details of his victims' personal lives, Mr Collins violated their privacy and left many to contend with lasting emotional distress, embarrassment and feelings of insecurity," said David Bowdich, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office.
"We continue to see both celebrities and victims from all walks of life suffer the consequences of this crime and strongly encourage users of internet-connected devices to strengthen passwords and to be sceptical when replying to emails asking for personal information."
The FBI added that the case against Collins was part of an "ongoing investigation", indicating that there may be further arrests.
He had tickets for an Ed Sheeran concert, and was worried about being late.
He also spoke to Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock on the phone too, which was also against the rules.
We're looking at other personalities from the world of sport who have picked up suspensions for bizarre reasons - real or otherwise.
Tevez was told he was "finished" at Manchester City by then boss Roberto Martinez after he refused to warm up in a Champions League match against Bayern Munich in 2011.
The Argentine was fined a record £792,000. He was suspended, so decided to fly to Argentina without permission for a few months.
Despite the fall out, Mancini performed an impressive about-turn by picking Tevez once he did return to Manchester.
The Frenchman was handed a 12-month ban for drug abuse after he tested positive for cocaine in 2009.
After serving some of that ban, it was overturned on appeal after his explanation that he had tested positive after kissing a girl in a nightclub and had inadvertently let cocaine into his bloodstream as a result.
A university sports team has been suspended from playing for the rest of the academic year after calling female students "slags" and "mingers" in a leaflet handed out at a Freshers' Fair.
The men's rugby club apologised for the leaflet admitting it contained "inexcusably offensive and stigmatising language". The leaflets were withdrawn on the second day of LSE's Freshers' Fair.
Ireland missed an international match back in 2007 by falsely claiming his gran had died.
The midfielder hasn't played for the Republic of Ireland since it was discovered he had lied about the death in the family.
Earlier this year it was reported that the same grandmother bumped into Roy Keane on an aeroplane and pleaded with him to end her grandson's international exile.
The Uruguayan had already used his teeth as an offensive weapon when he decided to take another nibble out of a player at this year's World Cup.
Having missed the start of the tournament because of injury, Suarez had stormed back by scoring against England in the group stages.
But it was against Italy that Suarez really left his mark, literally. He took a bite out of Giorgio Chiellini, picking up a four-month ban in the process.
It is the longest ever ban in World Cup history.
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However, the tradition of the April Fool newspaper spoof is a long, if not especially honourable, one.
This year the prospect of an independent Scotland has got the papers in impish mood. Here are five examples.......
The Daily Telegraph claims there are plans for First Minister Alex Salmond's head to feature on Scottish pound coins, replacing the Queen in an independent Scotland.
For lovers of the anagram, the story is bylined Flora Poli.
Over at the Guardian, there is a story saying that Scotland is to switch to driving on the right if independence is given the green light.
The paper's elaborate hoax claims there are ambitious plans to scrap the current - English inspired - road signage system.
"M for motorway will be replaced with a new S - for Scotland and the A trunk roads will become N roads - for Nationalist in honour of the new country," it says.
The new font to be used on the signs will be a specially-developed typeface named Proclaimer, it says.
The Independent has a story claiming "Peacekeeping plans are being drawn up by United Nations in the event of a Scottish Yes vote".
Senior UN officials in New York and Geneva are understood to have begun exploring a "last resort" intervention following the refusal of the main Westminster parties to share the pound with an independent Scotland.
The paper claims one scenario being taken seriously is pre-arranged "face-offs", modelled on the film Braveheart, between rival militias who it is feared could travel to towns such as Gretna Green and Berwick-upon-Tweed for weekend showdowns.
The Daily Mail says it has snapped a ministerial aide accidentally revealing the design for a "Scot-free Union Jack", minus the blue of the saltire. It quotes "Avril McTickle" complaining that there's "no constitutional need to change the flag".
The Times suggests that the Duke of Saxony - a German descended from the Stuart kings - sees the prospect of Scottish independence as a chance to claim the throne of Scotland.
The clue, however, lies in quotes attributed to an academic Amadan Giblean, whose name is a Gaelic translation of April Fool.
Asked about April fool's jokes on Scottish independence, a UK government source said newspapers were "just having a bit of fun."
A SNP spokesperson said: "Every day is April Fools day for the No campaign, people in Scotland have seen through their daft claims most recently on the pound."
A bronze statue of Roma Jones and her sister Emma, with their sons Kyan Ishann Jones and Shaye-Jones Amin, will be put up in Centenary Square.
It is part of a three-year project by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing and the Ikon gallery to find out what it means to be a family.
A campaign to raise £100,000 to build the statue has started.
The family said: "We feel truly amazed and honoured to be chosen to represent what it means to be a family in Birmingham.
"We feel it highlights that family is an indestructible bond between people that is universal and it doesn't matter how it is made up or what it looks like."
They were chosen from a shortlist of four families by a panel of nine judges.
Stuart Tulloch from the Ikon gallery said it was a "unanimous decision" to select them.
"Their story is compelling and says much about contemporary Birmingham: two mixed-race sisters, both single-parents with happy, lively young boys, who identify themselves strongly with the city of their birth.
"The bronze sculpture will take its place in Centenary Square near statues of kings and industrial pioneers.
"In-so-doing, we draw attention to the everyday and the unsung, a lasting memorial to the people of Birmingham who are the life-blood of our city."
But if this happened, would it enable migrants in Calais to come to the UK?
"If you leave the European Union, you don't have any relationship with France - you must separate and take your border back," Hasan Amin says from the Calais "Jungle", with tents on the rocky, sandy ground behind him.
He is one of approximately 5,000 refugees and migrants living in the makeshift camp, all of whom hope to make their way across the Channel and enter the UK. Most are from war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea.
They have few possessions and depend on food handouts from charities to survive, but some - like Hasan - have still been able to follow the UK's referendum and the fallout that has followed.
He is aware, in particular, of claims from some French politicians that UK border police - who work to prevent migrants from illegally travelling to the UK - should no longer operate in Calais.
"It would be a good thing, because we will [be able to travel to] the UK - we will go to London, Leeds, Birmingham easily," Hasan says.
Others in the camp agree with Hasan - although they are very used to changes in immigration rules, so with hope comes scepticism.
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Whether these changes should - or will - be implemented is the subject of heated debate among French politicians.
It centres on the 2003 Touquet treaty between the UK and France, which allows UK immigration checks to be used on passengers before they embark on cross-Channel services.
It has effectively moved Britain's border to northern France and has led - in part - to the establishment of the Jungle.
The treaty is not actually linked to the UK's EU membership, but since the referendum result there have been calls from some French politicians to reject the deal.
If either nation did wish to end the agreement, they could do so at any time simply by informing the other party in writing - with a two-year delay before the change could come into effect.
Hasan hopes that, were this to happen, he would be able to successfully apply for asylum in the UK.
His story is different to most in the Jungle - he fled Afghanistan to escape his father, who wanted to kill him because he had a Christian girlfriend. The scars down the left side of his torso are evidence of previous beatings.
Following the UK's decision to leave the EU, however, David Cameron has told Parliament that the UK government "supports continuing the treaty... and we'll do everything we can to persuade the French to keep to their side of the bargain and continue as we are".
In the short term, France is unlikely to end the agreement as the governing Socialist Party wishes to maintain it.
Its interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, has said scrapping the deal would act as a magnet to people smugglers and migrants, whose numbers he predicts would swell "to 20,000".
Future French governments, however, may have a different viewpoint - with the next presidential election set to take place in the spring of 2017. The front runner, Alain Juppe, has said he would be in favour of ending the treaty.
Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts-de-France region where Calais is located, first warned the UK about changes to the treaty before the referendum. He says there is support "across the centre and right" of the political spectrum to end the agreement.
It is not just politicians, however, that think the border should return to Dover.
Clare Moseley started her own charity in the Jungle, and has been there a year. She believes that ending the treaty would be one way of ensuring the UK takes in more migrants - something she favours.
"Over half of them [living in the Jungle] have family connections to the UK. Other people have other reasons [for coming to the UK] - like the soldiers who worked in Afghanistan for the British Army.
"There are millions of refugees in Europe and lots of other countries have taken lots of them in. I don't see any reason why we shouldn't."
The government has consistently rejected claims it is not doing enough to take in migrants. In September 2015, it said the UK would accept up to 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years.
Ms Moseley does worry, however, that if the treaty were to end, migrants could lose their lives trying to cross the Channel.
Mr Bertrand has said that, in the event of the treaty being ended, he does not envisage boats being laid on to take migrants to the UK.
Asked if this would risk the deaths of migrants trying to cross the Channel, he replies: "Let's be serious, they have journeyed thousands of miles, crossed the Mediterranean - the Channel is 20 kilometres."
This is a discussion point for the future. But the fact that the end of the treaty is being talked about so seriously may be a matter of concern to some Leave voters who hoped to see a fall in immigration.
The Indomitable Lions are aiming for a fifth title when they play seven-time winners Egypt on Sunday in Libreville.
Oyongo says the squad is united without the absentees from Gabon.
"If the guys were here, we wouldn't be how we are now," the Montreal Impact player told BBC Sport.
If the guys were here, we wouldn't be how we are now
"We have made an effort in every game. If they were here, I don't think they would put in the same effort so it's good for us to forget the other players so we focus on the team [that is here]."
Liverpool defender Joel Matip was among the players to stay away and Oyongo believes their absence will come into sharper focus when World Cup qualifying resumes later this year.
"For the next competition and the next international game, the coach will have to take the decision about them," added the 25-year-old.
Cameroon coach Hugo Broos has previously said the missing players will have to prove themselves if they want to be recalled in the future.
Former Cameroon international Patrick Mboma, meanwhile, is impressed with the way the 2017 squad has coped without the absentees, who he thinks should now be kept out of the side.
"I'm very proud because they have brought a good atmosphere and a good energy," he told BBC Sport.
"That means that players are happy to be here playing for one another. They have no tension on or off the pitch and are just fighting for the flag - that is very, very important."
"Some players, who are healthy, want to think about themselves. That can be understood but I think that choice should be their choice forever."
"I don't know if (their absence) has had a positive impact, but we have to focus on the 23 who accepted to play."
It is a group of 23 friends and I never saw this in a football team
The Cameroon coach, former Belgian international Hugo Broos, is impressed with the team spirit in his squad and thinks those missing are now having second thoughts.
"There were some players who didn't come - I think maybe now they regret that they are not here with us.
They still have a future, but the decision is now with them.
"I will not phone them and ask them if they will come. They have to phone me to say "I'm ready to play for Cameroon". And not only one game. Because when they come, they stay. It's not today I come and the next they go. So it's all they come or they are definitely not coming.
"I have been a coach for 29 years and I have never had a group of players like this.
"It is a group of 23 friends and I never saw this in a football team - there are normally arguments.
"Here they are 23 friends who like to play football and do everything to win the game. So for me it's very easy as a coach."
The hosts opened the scoring through Liam Enver-Marum's strike in the 20th minute but were pegged back six minutes later when Omari Sterling slammed home a powerful half-volley.
Moors took the lead when Asante got his first from the penalty spot and shortly after netted his second to double the visitors' lead, but Dan Sweeney managed to pull one back for Solihull before the break.
But Asante latched on to a through-ball by Ryan Beswick to seal the league's first hat-trick of the season and all three points.
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Match ends, Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 4.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 4.
Bobby-Joe Taylor (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Jamie Coyle (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Jack Paxman (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Darryl Knights replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Akwasi Asante.
Yemi Odubade (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jay May replaces Ben Greenhalgh.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Nathan Mavila replaces Jack Evans.
Dan Sweeney (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 4. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
Second Half begins Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 3.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jack Paxman replaces James Rogers.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 3.
Goal! Maidstone United 2, Solihull Moors 3. Dan Sweeney (Maidstone United).
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Solihull Moors 3. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors).
James Rogers (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Solihull Moors 2. Akwasi Asante (Solihull Moors) converts the penalty with a.
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Solihull Moors 1. Omari Sterling-James (Solihull Moors).
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Solihull Moors 0. Liam Enver-Marum (Maidstone United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
BBC Worldwide said "a small number" of fans had been sent pre-ordered DVDs three weeks early.
It asked those with the DVD not to reveal plot details which would ruin the "viewing pleasure" of others.
It promised footage of current Doctor Matt Smith with predecessor David Tennant "if everyone keeps the secret".
"A small number of US Doctor Who fans have received their series seven part two DVD three weeks early," BBC Worldwide said in a statement.
"We are asking fans who may have the discs not to divulge plot details so that fellow fans who have yet to see the episodes do not have their viewing pleasure ruined."
It said BBC Worldwide was "currently investigating how this has happened".
It added executive producer and lead writer Steven Moffat had promised the special video featuring Smith and Tennant if the secret was kept.
Saturday's episode of the BBC One show, The Name of the Doctor - written by Moffat - comes ahead of a 50th anniversary 3D special, due to air on 23 November.
Tennant and Billie Piper, who played his on-screen companion Rose Tyler, are among those who will guest star.
Tennant starred in Doctor Who from 2005 to 2010, while Piper first appeared in 2005 opposite Christopher Eccleston, who played the ninth Doctor.
In May 2011, Moffat criticised those "who call themselves fans" who revealed crucial plot lines ahead of transmission.
"You can imagine how much I hate them," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I wish they could go and be fans of something else."
He said it was "heartbreaking" when a fan, who had been invited to a press screening but asked not to give away spoilers, had posted the entire plot of two episodes on an internet forum "because you're trying to tell stories and stories depend on surprise".
"So to have some twit who came to a press launch, write up a story in the worst, most ham-fisted English you can imagine, and put it on the internet [is heartbreaking]."
The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who was marked at Sunday night's TV Baftas with a video montage while Jenna-Louise Coleman, who plays current assistant Clara Oswald, presented an award.
Sherborne Community Arts Centre Trust hopes to create the venue on a site behind the town's Paddock Gardens on Newland.
The plans also include three gallery spaces, a coffee shop and a sensory or memory garden.
The town council wants a public consultation to be held over the plans.
An anonymous benefactor has agreed to fund the project which is expected to cost more than £4m, the trust said.
The group wants the main entrance to the venue to be created through Paddock Gardens, which is currently owned by the town council, and would involve removing one of its stone walls.
Up to five small "pod" galleries have also been proposed for the gardens.
The trust estimates the gallery could attract between 50,000 and 80,000 visitors a year.
The town council will discuss the plans at a meeting later in a bid to set up a public consultation at Digby Hall on Hound Street.
The town's current tourist information centre is based on Digby Road.
Bloomfield owed a debt to Ross Etheridge for both goals after a pair of mistakes from the Doncaster goalkeeper.
Etheridge dropped a cross under pressure which allowed Bloomfield to hook home an over-head kick and give Wycombe a 19th-minute lead.
Doncaster responded well and were level 10 minutes later. James Coppinger - who missed an open goal from two yards before Wycombe's opener - was played in on the right and curled a wonderful low cross which Tommy Rowe met to score.
The home side were in the ascendancy and took a deserved lead on 40 minutes through John Marquis, who weaved his way into the box and confidently finished.
But Doncaster became increasingly sloppy after the break and an equaliser looked inevitable. It came on 78 minutes as Paris Cowan-Hall drilled a low shot from 20 yards which Etheridge fumbled, allowing Bloomfield to tap home the equaliser.
Wycombe almost snatched an injury-time winner but the unmarked Cowan-Hall could only flick a header narrowly wide.
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Match ends, Doncaster Rovers 2, Wycombe Wanderers 2.
Second Half ends, Doncaster Rovers 2, Wycombe Wanderers 2.
Attempt missed. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Garry Thompson replaces Matt Bloomfield.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Will De Havilland.
Foul by Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Sam Wood replaces Luke O'Nien.
Attempt saved. Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers).
Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Niall Mason (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Goal! Doncaster Rovers 2, Wycombe Wanderers 2. Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Will De Havilland (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Will De Havilland (Wycombe Wanderers).
Foul by Mathieu Baudry (Doncaster Rovers).
Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers).
Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Luke O'Nien (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Houghton (Doncaster Rovers).
Attempt saved. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Aaron Pierre.
Alfie Beestin (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers).
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Andy Butler.
Attempt blocked. Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
The Dons are seven points behind Rangers in second, with a game in hand, after a 2-1 defeat at Ross County.
McInnes has led Aberdeen to runners-up finishes behind Celtic - who they trail by 18 points - for the last two years.
"There is always pressure at Pittodrie and the pressure is on Derek to finish second, absolutely," said Miller.
"When I was Aberdeen manager it wasn't good enough to be second.
"But Derek has put himself in a position and only has himself to blame because he has done very well since going there and has already finished second.
"Now the pressure will go on and you will get fans grumbling about it. It is how you react to that, take it on board and start turning things around.
"You have got to win games, it is about results now and the pressure will be on him a bit. It is how he handles that."
Saturday's defeat in Dingwall was Aberdeen's fourth defeat in their last eight league games, while Rangers have won eight and drawn two of their last 11 Premiership matches to move clear in second.
Miller, who played more than 550 games for the club in a trophy-laden 18-year career before a three-year spell as manager from 1992 to 1995, believes the Dons have suffered from inconsistent selection this season.
But he believes they still have a squad capable of overhauling Rangers and delivering a third straight runners-up spot.
"I thought [at the outset] that Aberdeen would have finished second this season, if you look at the strength in depth they have," he told BBC Scotland's Sunday Sportsound.
"That brings its own issues and can put it in the manager's mind that he might want to change his personnel, and Aberdeen haven't had a consistent selection this season.
"Although they are still playing well, losing at Ibrox - where they played well but were beaten - has had an adverse effect. That puts pressure on the players and the manager and how do they handle that pressure?
"They had an opportunity in midweek [against Motherwell] to close the gap but the floodlights went out.
"Then they go to Ross County - never an easy place to go - but when they lose like that after they have played well, when County are down to 10 men, it is a huge blow to confidence.
"It is going to take a big effort from everyone at Pittodrie to get back on track again. But I still think the squad they have got is capable of finishing second."
Tube services were halted on Wednesday evening after a walkout by Underground staff over pay and conditions. They will not resume until Friday morning.
The Tube dispute centres on night services, set to begin in September.
A walkout by First Great Western staff has halved high-speed services between London, the west of England and Wales.
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An extra 200 buses are being laid on, as well as additional river services, to help cope with demand in the capital, TfL said.
London Overground, DLR, TfL Rail and tram services are unaffected by the industrial action.
Those able to travel outside peak times are being urged to do so.
On Thursday morning Mike Brown, managing director of London Underground, said: "I am very sorry your journey has been disrupted. This strike is unnecessary."
The strike began at 18:30 BST on Wednesday when members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Unite walked out in a 24-hour action.
At 21:30, members of the train drivers' union Aslef began their own 24-hour stoppage.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "The strike action on London Underground is rock solid across all lines.
"That means an end to the attempt to bulldoze through new working patterns."
This Tube strike is as much about personalities as it is about the deal they are trying to hammer out.
The team negotiating for London Underground is new to this. The chief operating officer Steve Griffiths joined from Virgin Atlantic earlier this year, and my understanding is that no-one on the management side of the table has experience with rail deals.
Not that long ago, bosses on both sides would have got together, informally, away from the negotiating table - maybe over a beer - to see if they could smooth the path for an agreement.
That has not happened this time.
So we have got a group of frustrated unions, led it seems by Aslef, who feel they are being pushed around, a frustrated London Underground who say the unions refuse to talk about the main issues and four million tube passengers in the middle.
London mayor Boris Johnson has refused to rule out a delay to the opening of night Tube services, which are at the centre of the dispute between unions and London Underground.
Asked whether he expected the 24-hour service to launch on 12 September as planned, Mr Johnson said: "We will get it done this autumn."
The Tube strike coincides with a separate, 48-hour walkout by First Great Western staff, which began at 18:30 on Wednesday, causing disruption to rail services between London, the west of England and Wales.
Wimbledon spectator attendance is lower than last year and officials have not ruled out whether the travel disruption is a contributing factor.
A Wimbledon spokesman said: "There will be a reduction in the queue today because tickets are not available to buy for the show courts.
"We can't tell if it is down to the Tube strike."
Just over 37,000 spectators were at the All England Club on Wednesday, compared with a record attendance of 40,477 in 2014.
TfL warned that rush hour was likely to start earlier on Thursday as people made alternative arrangements to get home. It said buses, Overground services, river and Emirates Air Line services, as well as the cycle hire scheme were all likely to be in high demand when people headed home.
LU chief operating officer Steve Griffiths thanked Londoners for their patience and said: "We are, as we always have been, ready to talk at any time to sort out this dispute."
On Monday, members of all four unions rejected a "final" pay offer from LU which included a 2% rise this year and £2,000 for drivers on the weekend night Tube service.
The typical salary for a Tube driver is £50,000 a year, the RMT said, but the unions maintain the new plans would be disruptive to their members' lives.
They claim some employees are concerned they will have to work more overnight shifts and may have to work on their own at some stations.
The disputed weekend night services are set to begin on 12 September on sections of the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the strike was of benefit to no-one.
"We stand shoulder to shoulder with workers, families and commuters who want to go about their lives without disruption. I urge the strikers to accept the good offer that employers have made and get back to work," he said.
Aslef organiser Finn Brennan said the responsibility of the strikes "rests squarely with London Underground management" who "squandered the window of opportunity" to resolve it.
About 20,000 Tube workers are expected to walk out during the course of the strike.
Talks are set to resume on Friday.
Broady had two chances to win the first set but lost 7-6 (8-6) 6-3 in Auckland.
The world number 122 led 6-5 in the opener, but fifth seed Stephens held her serve to force a tie-break and saved a set point before taking it 8-6.
Broady, who won a controversial match to reach the last eight, broke to lead 2-1 in the next set, but Stephens won five of the next six games to progress.
"It was a tough one, Naomi's a great player," said Stephens. "She has had such a great week here."
His defence QC, Donald Findlay, told jurors at the High Court in Glasgow that the businessman had been made to look like a "pantomime villain".
He made the comments during his closing speech at the trial of Mr Whyte, who is accused of acquiring Rangers football club by fraud.
Mr Whyte denies the charge and another under the Companies Act.
The defence QC said 46-year-old Craig Whyte was "manifestly" not guilty of a crime in his May 2011 Ibrox takeover.
The advocate added: "The Crown are asking you to be selective in the most selective way imaginable - that is just wrong."
Jurors were previously told how Mr Whyte struck a £1 deal to purchase Sir David Murray's controlling stake at Ibrox.
Prosecutors claim Mr Whyte pretended to Sir David and others that funds were immediately available to meet all stipulated payments.
These obligations included an £18m bank debt for the club and a further £5m to go towards funds for the playing squad.
It is claimed Mr Whyte helped fund the takeover of Rangers through an agreement with the ticketing firm Ticketus against three years of season ticket receipts from the club.
Mr Findlay said: "You have seen witness after witness come into court not wanting to take responsibility and sought to absolve themselves for anything that happened.
"It is the playground mentality - it wasn't me. That is the attitude of so many witnesses in this case."
The QC claimed it appeared that both Sir David and Mr Whyte had been "ill served" by their advisers at the time.
Mr Findlay said it was clear that Mr Whyte had bought the shares to takeover Rangers.
However, he added: "Was there a crime? The defence say that manifestly there was not."
The advocate then criticised the prosecution's case.
Mr Findlay said: "A recurrent theme of what I will say to you is that the Crown approach is wrong, unfair, unjustified and unjustifiable.
"They are asking you to take 10 words from the indictment and that, if you look at those words, Mr Whyte is guilty.
"The Crown are asking you to be selective in the most selective way imaginable.
"That is just wrong, that is just unfair."
Mr Findlay claimed there had been "buck passing, back protecting and blind eye turning" seen during the trial.
He added: "What we have to do is sweep all that away and look at it in its context and in the real world."
Jurors were told Mr Whyte had come along with a "business plan" prior to his takeover.
Referring to Mr Whyte, the QC said: "There have been attempts to portray Craig Whyte as a pantomime villain...that everything was fine until he came along.
"But, that is far from the truth. He is being made to be the fall guy.
"Before you do that, you have to look at the whole evidence in this case."
During his closing argument, Mr Findlay also referred to Rangers' early Champions League exit against Swedish side Malmo after Mr Whyte took the helm at Ibrox in 2011.
He told the court: "If Rangers had made the league section of the Champions League, do we actually think we would be here today?
"The probability is no."
The court heard claims that the defeat cost the club up to £20m in lost income.
The QC also pointed out that there had been "no loss" to Sir David Murray in the buyout.
Mr Findlay spoke of the share purchase agreement, signed as part of the takeover.
The document makes reference to "third party resources".
The QC went on: "What did Murray's advisers do about it? Absolutely nothing. Why not? It is because what mattered was getting the deal over the finishing line."
The trial has previously heard claims "nothing" was spent on "due diligence" into Mr Whyte's background before the buyout.
Mr Findlay said it seemed the Murray team had been "more focused" on securing a sale.
The QC later pointed to an email from Michael McGill which included reference to Whyte's "other investors".
Mr Findlay added: "What is the only question if you are really concerned about the source of the money?
"It is "who are they...what other investors?'."
But, Mr Findlay said the Murray side did "absolutely nothing" in that regard.
He told jurors: "Only one conclusion can be drawn from that - it did not matter that there were other investors. It was the deal that mattered."
The court further heard the Murray team "ought to have known" about any role Ticketus had.
Mr Findlay claimed a "massive organisation" like the Murray Group could have made enquiries to "explain what this is all about".
The advocate is due to complete his speech on Monday before Judge Lady Stacey gives her legal directions to the jury.
The trial continues.
Lynne Owens will replace the NCA's first director general, Keith Bristow, who leaves the post in January.
The NCA took over from the Serious Organised Crime Agency in 2013.
Home Secretary Theresa May said Ms Owens was the best candidate to continue its work to tackle the full range of serious and organised crime.
Ms Owens, who was previously the Met Police assistant commissioner in charge of public order, moved to Surrey in 2012.
She said the NCA would need to continue to build its capabilities in the face of changing threats to the UK.
"Whether it be stemming the availability of illegal firearms, the fight against organised immigration crime, the threat presented by those who abuse children or the growth in cyber and economic crime, the work required is significant," she said.
She said it had been an "absolute privilege" to be chief constable of Surrey.
Mrs May said under Mr Bristow's leadership the NCA had re-shaped the UK's response to serious and organised crime.
"He has been at the forefront of the law enforcement community, leading and co-ordinating the UK's effort to tackle the most dangerous individuals and criminal groups," she said.
Jameel Muhktar had to be placed in an induced coma after he and his cousin, Resham Khan, suffered severe burns in the attack on 21 June in east London.
Mr Muhktar, 37, who has since moved from London to Greater Manchester said his "confidence is rock bottom".
"It's like a split second changed everything... It's ruined me", he said.
The cousins had been celebrating Ms Khan's 21st birthday before the attack in which a corrosive substance was thrown on to them through their car windows while they were at traffic lights in Beckton.
Mr Muhktar had burns across his body arms, legs, back, neck and the right side of his face as well as damage to his right eye and ear.
Ms Khan, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, had damage to her left eye and required two skin grafts.
Mr Muhktar said he is now "stuck" in his bedsit "24/7".
"Since this has happened, I'm cautious about everything.
"Even my bedroom door - I'll think three or four times before I open it because that pain that I suffered that day was disgusting.
"Imagine, your skin's dropping off, you can't see, and you're burning - it was like a horror movie", he said.
"I can't sleep, I can't really eat. My confidence is rock bottom.
"I was a proper outdoor person and now I feel like a bit of a recluse. I don't want to see anybody", he said.
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Describing the moment of the attack, Mr Muhktar said: "This guy just walked over to my car... and then I just felt a load of water come in the car and that was it, just started burning.
"I managed to put the window up but I couldn't see anything because of the burning".
He said he then tried to drive away but crashed the car into a railing before taking his cousin out of the car.
"But our clothes started melting... I started kicking on people's doors who started bringing water out.
"I was using all the water on her face. I was letting myself burn - I was bad, I was dying. And then when I came round two days later, I was on a life-support machine".
"I'm deaf in one ear. The acid has gone through and made a hole in my eardrum", he said.
There has been a sharp rise in attacks involving corrosive fluids in London in the past four years.
In 2016-2017, there were 398 victims of crimes involving "noxious or corrosive" substances in the capital city.
China's National Health and Family Planning Commission said the man was from Ganxian county in the eastern province of Jiangxi, Xinhua said.
The virus is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to birth defects.
But Chinese authorities have downplayed the risk of it spreading there, because of the winter cold.
The man had travelled through Hong Kong and Shenzhen on his way back from Venezuela, where he originally displayed symptoms, including a fever and dizziness.
He is now being quarantined at a hospital in his hometown and is recovering normally, the report said.
An international health emergency has been declared by the World Health Organization over the virus, which has spread rapidly in South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean.
Brazil has been particularly badly affected, prompting concern about its hosting of this summer's Olympics.
Zika has been linked to a condition called microcephaly, in which babies are born with underdeveloped brains.
While the disease is a concern for women who are, or may become, pregnant, most other sufferers experience only mild symptoms, such as fevers and skin rashes.
The Scottish government said that by the end of this school year, 21 out of 32 councils would have taught P1 pupils an additional language to English.
By 2020, it hoped every pupil would learn an additional language in P1, a second by P5, with the policy continuing until the end of S3.
All councils are expected to achieve the government's 1+2 languages policy.
On a visit to Edinbarnet Primary School in West Dunbartonshire, Minister for Learning, Dr Alasdair Allan, said: "In today's global, multi-cultural world it is more important than ever that young people have the opportunity to learn languages from an early age, to equip them with skills and competencies for the globalised economy.
"We want to ensure the enthusiasm for languages starts at an early stage in a child's education.
"Here at Edinbarnet, it's great to see that happening in P1, at a time when a majority of councils are now meeting the commitment."
Last year, the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey (SSA) showed 89% of people in Scotland believed learning an additional language from the age of five was important.
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Thousands of spectators lined the route through Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to view the locomotive on its way to York.
Earlier this year, spectators went on to the tracks at Biggleswade causing more than eight hours of delays on the East Coast mainline.
British Transport Police said this time they dealt with 10 to 20 incidents. Officers said the message to fans of the locomotive was to stay off the tracks and "stay safe".
The home of Swiss club FC Basel will become the second smallest venue to host the competition's final when Liverpool face Sevilla there on 18 May.
The executive committee of European football's governing body made its decision in September 2014.
"Of course, it is impossible to predict in advance which clubs will reach the final," Uefa said on its website.
"Europe's largest stadiums are usually selected to host the Champions League final, and Uefa tends to select slightly smaller, top-quality venues for the Europa League final.
"This means Uefa can give more of its national associations an opportunity to host a club final, and gives fans across Europe the chance to experience a major final in their home nation."
Liverpool have been allocated 10,236 tickets for the final, with Sevilla given a similar amount.
An additional 8,000 went on general sale, with the remainder taken by the local organising committee, national associations, commercial partners, broadcasters and the corporate hospitality programme.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, whose side overturned a first-leg deficit to beat Villarreal in the semi-finals, said he could find "30 million people who want to see the game".
"It is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to play this final but we cannot change the stadium so we cannot think about this," he said.
"I have been to Basel one or two times, it is a wonderful stadium and a wonderful city.
"It is even worth going there without having a ticket for the game to be around the stadium and enjoy yourself and enjoy life as a Liverpool supporter."
However, the club has urged supporters who do not have a ticket not to travel to the Swiss city for the final.
He went on to express his support for Mr Trump's America-first policy, saying "America for Americans" and "Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans".
It is unusual for the veteran head of state to publicly back any US president.
The US imposed sanctions such as travel bans and an assets freeze on Mr Mugabe and his allies in 2001.
The sanctions were imposed over allegations of human rights abuses and election rigging.
Zimbabwe's government says they caused the country's economic collapse.
Most experts however blame Mr Mugabe's seizure of white-owned farms, which used to be Zimbabwe's economic backbone.
With Mr Trump's reputation for being unconventional, Mr Mugabe is hoping his administration might decide to lift the sanctions.
"Give him time," Zimbabwe's leader said of Mr Trump in an interview aired ahead of his 93rd birthday on Tuesday.
"Mr Trump might even re-look [at] the sanctions on Zimbabwe."
President Trump has caused global uproar over his policies, including his ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering the US, although this has been overturned by the courts, and his pledge to rebuild the US economy on "America-first" principles.
Mr Mugabe is unfazed by such policies as he seems to identify with Mr Trump's brand of nationalism.
"When it comes to Donald Trump... talking of American nationalism, well America for America, America for Americans - on that we agree. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans," Mr Mugabe said.
As far as the nonagenarian president is concerned, there is more hope with Mr Trump in the White House than if it had been Hilary Clinton.
"I was surprised by his election, but I did not like Madam Clinton to win either," he said.
"I knew she could slap sanctions on us as a legacy."
President Mugabe, Africa's oldest head of state, also repeated that he is not ready to step down from power.
"The majority of the people feel that there is no replacement, successor who to them is acceptable, as acceptable as I am," he told state media.
His Zanu-PF party has endorsed Mr Mugabe as its candidate in elections due next year.
Last week, first lady Grace Mugabe said if the party were to field his corpse, he would still win.
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The Dow Jones climbed 254.55 points, or 1.57%, to 16,450.96.
The S&P 500 rose 30.99, or 1.63%, to 1,926.57, while the Nasdaq gained 98.11, or 2.21%, to 4,534.06.
Oil stock rose after Iran met with other crude-producing nations to discuss possibly limiting output to combat falling prices.
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela agreed to maintain output at January levels if other oil-producing countries did the same.
Chevron shares rose 4.1% and ConocoPhillips rose 3.5%.
Copper producer Freeport McMoRan's shares surged 12.4%, while aluminium producer Alcoa climbed 5%.
Priceline was one of the big winners on the Nasdaq. Its shares surged 11.2% after the company announced that fourth-quarter profits rose to $504.3m.
Minutes released by the US Federal Reserve suggested that the bank is unlikely to raise interest rates when it meets in March.
A stream of data released on Wednesday showed a mixed view of the US economy.
Construction of new homes fell to an eight-month low in January. Industrial output rose 0.9% in January, after falling 0.7% in December because of unseasonably warm weather and a strong dollar.
The US producer price index edged up in January after falling in December. Excluding energy and food prices - which are highly volatile - the index rose 0.2% compared to December. The increase supports earlier assertions by the Federal Reserve that inflation will slowly increase.
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The Radio 4 Today programme presenter was the BBC's economics editor for six and a half years and previously worked for Newsnight from 1997 to 2001.
The news was revealed on the day the BBC's annual report was published. It also stated that audiences spent 18.5 hours with the BBC each week.
That is an hour less than 2012/2013. The figure includes radio, TV and online use.
But 96% of UK adults still use the BBC each week.
Speaking about his Newsnight appointment, Davis said: "I can't deny that I feel terribly sad to be leaving the Today programme.
"But at the same time, how could I turn down the offer of this role on Newsnight, treading in the footsteps of some of the best television presenters in the business? While it is a scary prospect, it will be an adventure and a challenge, and I hope the viewers will be happy with the result."
BBC director general Tony Hall described Davis as an "outstanding journalist", and "an extraordinary, clever and intelligent interviewer".
Lord Hall added: "It's been a fantastic year for the BBC with 96% of the UK choosing to watch, listen or use BBC services.
"But I think we can do better and this year we've announced how we are going to change the BBC to produce more distinctive programmes, ensure the BBC truly reflects all of our audiences and provide even better value for money."
The total spend on the BBC's on-air talent, earning more than £500,000, totalled £11.6m - a £700,000 reduction on the £12.3m spent on star salaries in 2012/2013.
The overall talent spend was £194.2m, down £6.08m from last year and down 15% since 2008.
The total number of senior managers at the corporation is down by 34 to 403 from last year.
The BBC said it is on track to achieve the £700m savings per year it must make as part of its Delivering Quality First programme by 2016/17, having saved £374m in 2013/14 so far.
Some audiences fell during the last year for channels and stations.
Lord Hall said the drop in the total time audiences spent with the BBC each week was, in part, due to bumper viewing for major events including the London 2012 Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee during the previous accounting period.
BBC One was down 21 minutes a week per average listener, to seven and a half hours.
BBC One channel controller Danny Cohen said it had been challenging to meet audience expectations following funding cuts, resulting in an overall reduction in spend across television and radio.
"There's no doubt if you take 26% of your spending out you are also going to have an impact on how people feel about [the services]," he said.
Radio One went down 51 minutes to six hours and 23 minutes while Radio 4's audience figures reduced by 28 minutes to 11 hours and 26 minutes.
Radio 5 Live also lost 21 minutes a week per average listener, down to six hours and 47 minutes.
But some saw an increase, such as Radio 4 Extra, which went up 26 minutes to six hours and 11 minutes) and Radio 5 live sports extra (an increase of 41 minutes to 3 hours and 59 minutes).
Gautam Rangarajan, the BBC's director of strategy, said that falling figures was an issue occurring across the industry.
"If you look at comparative channels on TV and radio, they've all seen a similar structural shift - audiences are using channels in different ways," he said.
"But 18.5 hours spent with the BBC is an astonishingly large amount of time."
On diversity, the BBC also said it needed a co-ordinated a plan to address a continuing gender imbalance at the corporation, having already made a commitment for 50% of local radio stations to have a female breakfast presenter by the end of 2014.
The BBC also has a target of 12.5% for black, Asian and minority ethnic staff (BAME) and there was a 0.2% increase from last year in both leadership grades and other staff. Last year's annual report stated that the number of BAME staff was at 12.4%.
The executive has now established a mentoring scheme, Rise, for BAME staff.
But the BBC Trust also said it was concerned by "the lack of progress" in the employment of disabled staff.
The BBC continues to fall short of its target of 5.5%. By March 2014, 3.8% of staff were registered as disabled and the number of disabled staff in senior grades has "disappointingly dropped" this year.
Audience appreciation also fell slightly for radio and TV over the past year but online appreciation increased.
Overall spend on TV, radio and online is down, mainly because the previous year's expenditure had included coverage of the London Olympics.
The report also touched on the BBC licence fee quoting an Ipsos survey, which showed 53% of the public support the licence fee. compared with 26% who want advertising and 17% who would prefer a subscription.
The BBC is due to negotiate the renewal of its Royal Charter and the future of the licence fee with the government in 2016.
Diane Coyle, acting chair of the BBC Trust, said: "The BBC has faced a number of well-documented historic issues where it fell significantly short of what licence fee payers expect.
"The Trust and the executive have been working together to improve how the BBC is run and improve how we work together to make sure nothing like that can happen again."
It was hoped the track could bring thousands of bike fans for motor sport events like the MotoGP.
Insurance giant Aviva is the financial backer with the Welsh Government asked for about £30m in loans.
The Welsh Government said no decision had been taken.
A spokesman added: "We have provided £2m of grant towards the development of the Circuit of Wales project in Blaenau Gwent to date.
"Any further Welsh Government support is conditional on the company securing an appropriate and viable funding package for the project."
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, Cardiff and Vale, and Hywel Dda will have their 2016-17 accounts finalised in June.
In First Minister's Questions, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies called their finances "chronic."
One board - Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - is already controlled by ministers under special measures.
Three other boards were placed under an increased level of scrutiny from ministers in September 2016, due to doubts about their ability to tackle the financial challenges they face.
The combined overspend of the three boards and Betsi Cadwaladr is forecast to reach £146m in the current financial year, three times their combined deficit in 2015-16.
Mr Jones told AMs: "We will look very carefully at what they are doing.
"If they do not come in 'in-budget' without harming services then we will have to look carefully at the governance of those boards.
"We will not shy away from that in the same way as we did not shy away in dealing with Betsi Cadwaladr when that situation arose."
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething told the Senedd that bills would get paid and there would be no interruption to treatment for patients.
He also warned that pumping more money into the NHS was not a "consequence-free game", in relation to the impact on the funds available for other public services.
Mr Gething told BBC Radio Wales on Monday that the health boards in the red would not be bailed out by the Welsh Government.
Mils Muliaina, 35, was alleged to have touched a woman "on the bottom over her trousers" in a busy Cardiff nightclub.
But on Monday, Cardiff Crown Court heard there was not enough evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and the case was dropped.
His defence said it was a case of mistaken identity.
He was arrested in April moments after a European Challenge Cup quarter-final match in Gloucester. TV cameras showed him being led away by police.
Outside court, an emotional Mr Muliaina said it had been a difficult time for him and his family.
"It's been incredibly frustrating not to be able to publicly comment about it," he said.
"While I understand the police have a job to do, the manner in which I was arrested I find difficult to understand.
"I can still hold my head up high and as the judge said this is no stain on my character. I have always known that I did not do anything wrong."
The 100-cap international, who has now signed for Italian Pro12 side Zebre, said he was looking forward to getting on with his life and plans to return home to New Zealand to see his son next week.
He added: "When I first found out the charges were going to be withdrawn I instantly thought of my son - he should have never have had to go through this.
"I'm looking forward to going back home and spending some time with him and wishing him a happy birthday."
Mr Muliaina retired from international duty in 2011.
The alleged incident was said to have taken place on 7 March while Mr Muliaina was in Cardiff for a league match against Cardiff Blues while playing for Irish side Connacht
Speaking on Monday, defending counsel John Charles Rees QC told the court the prosecution's case against his client had been "outrageous" and "wholly defective".
He said: "He is a professional athlete whose reputation has been reduced while the complainant remains anonymous.
"The allegation was that her bottom had been fleetingly touched on a busy nightclub dance floor.
"He has denied doing anything wrong from beginning to end."
His legal team said the mistaken identity case should never have come to court and that the defence would be applying for costs in the case.
Chair Paul Thomas and vice-chair Adele Baumgardt have been suspended after a review found a "significant breakdown" in relations at senior level.
Mr Thomas lost a vote of no confidence from the Sport Wales board after he reported members were paid too much.
Mr Thorburn, a former board member, said the organisation should be run by people who understand sport.
Sport Wales is given around £20m of public funds every year to promote sport in Wales from elite level to grassroots activity.
The activities of its board were suspended in November amid concerns that the organisation had become dysfunctional under the chairmanship of business expert Mr Thomas.
A critical review he commissioned - not published but seen by the BBC - had called for an overhaul of Sport Wales, saying it "lacks transparency", was "obsolete in its thinking" and "weak in vision".
On Tuesday, Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans told the Senedd that the board was being reinstated under an interim chairman while Mr Thomas and Ms Baumgardt were suspended pending further inquiries.
Mr Thorburn, who served on the Sport Wales board under its previous chair Laura McAllister, denied suggestions that the organisation had not been transparent and gave too much priority to elite sport.
He told BBC Radio Wales: "A degree of frustration from my perspective is that our Welsh ministers don't seem to value sport in society.
"We were trying to get sport and physical literacy on the curriculum, driving that hard and trying to get that forced through but we seem to be stumbling at every hurdle.
"So I think politicians need to be very careful."
Mr Thorburn welcomed the appointment of an interim chairman and re-instatement of the board, allowing Sport Wales officials to fully resume their activities.
But he urged ministers not to take too much control over the organisation.
"You need people who understand sport, understand the value of sport in society and, unfortunately, in my opinion some of the ministers we've had in place clearly don't," he said.
The Welsh Government declined to respond to Mr Thorburn's comments.
Meanwhile Alun Ffred Jones, a former Plaid Cymru AM and minister responsible for sport, said the situation was "a bit of a mess".
He criticised Ms Evans for refusing to reveal full details of the government review on grounds of data protection and confidentiality.
"You either have a report or you don't," he told BBC Radio Cymru.
"If the review has highlighted weaknesses you would expect to see those, and the reasons for the suspensions of the chairman and his deputy."
Mr Jones added that he was not aware of any problems within Sport Wales and that it was doing good work.
The rate of personnel planning to leave, or who have given their notice, increased from 16% in 2011 to 25% now.
Those planning to stay in the service for as long as they could also fell from 41% in 2011 to 34% now.
However, the survey of 11,877 personnel also found there had been an increase in morale, with 45% rating their morale as high, compared with 41% in 2014.
The 2015 Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey was responded to between October 2014 and February 2015.
The number of those who expressed dissatisfaction with service life rose five percentage points since last year to 32%.
However, the attitudes survey indicated only 5% of respondents had actually handed in their notice.
The findings come as research by The Royal United Services Institute suggested the armed forces might face £35bn of budget cuts in the next decade.
Shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker said: "The situation has gone from bad to worse over the past five years and is unlikely to get any better with the Tories' current plans.
"The morale of our armed forces is of the utmost importance and the government needs to urgently address the issues that are making so many want to leave the forces."
An MoD spokeswoman said: "We continually strive to ensure our people feel valued and that their contribution and sacrifice is recognised.
"That is why we invest in a range of measures to improve service life, from welfare support to accommodation, while prioritising the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.
"We have been seeing results; total outflow of personnel has been falling for the last three years.
"We remain on course to meet Future Force 2020 targets as we move towards the agile and flexible force needed to keep us safe at home and abroad."
The prime minister and his wife attended the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend on Saturday.
He took part in the nagar kirtan (procession) and was given a tour of the Gurdwara, which is thought to be one of the largest outside India.
It was Mr Cameron's first visit to Kent during the general election campaign.
Vaisakhi is the Sikh New Year festival and is one of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar.
It also commemorates 1699, the year Sikhism was born as a collective faith.
Up to 10,000 people were expected to take part in the festivities, which saw a procession set off from the temple at about 11.30 BST and then make its way through the town before returning to the Gurdwara.
Gurjit Bains, of the Gudwara's executive committee, said: "This will be our biggest ever. Every year we've grown, we've got people from the Medway towns and some of our stallholders are from Birmingham as well so it's a big mix of people.
"There are not only people from the Sikh community here, they're from all walks of life.
"We have so many people who are not Sikh coming [to the celebrations] and it's really, really nice to see that."
Anne-Marie Bunting (Liberal Democrat)
Tan Dhesi (Labour)
Adam Holloway (Conservative)
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The 43-year-old, believed to be from St Helens, collided with a Yamaha on Rivington Road, near Belmont, on Sunday afternoon.
He was taken to the Royal Preston Hospital, but died from his injuries.
The motorcyclist suffered facial injuries and was taken to Salford Royal for treatment. The road was closed for three hours following the crash.
Lancashire Constabulary's Sgt Claire Pearson said officers were "trying to establish how this collision occurred" and appealed to anyone who witnessed it to get in touch.
Crown Prince Naruhito could then ascend the throne on 1 January 2019, according to the reports.
Akihito, 83, hinted in August that he wanted to stand down, saying his age could interfere with his duties.
No Japanese emperor has abdicated for two centuries and the law currently does not allow it.
The abdication itself could take place on 31 December 2018, with Akihito's 56-year-old son taking over the next day, the reports said.
Rather than permanently changing the law to allow emperors to quit, the change being considered would be a one-off exception.
That would sidestep controversy amongst conservatives about changing succession laws, including whether to allow women to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne - something the Japanese public is thought to support but which has long been opposed by ultra-conservative politicians.
A six-member advisory panel to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been discussing the issue since October, and is expected to issue its report as early as May.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denied knowledge of any consensus over how to proceed, telling reporters things were "still at a stage where no direction has emerged".
Akihito, who has had heart surgery and was treated for prostate cancer, has been on the throne since the death of his father, Hirohito, in 1989.
He has not explicitly said he wants to abdicate, as he is barred from making political statements.
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Joe Baugh, who serves the green algae at the Savoy Hotel restaurant in Jersey, believes in its health benefits.
States officials in Jersey have previously raised concerns that the smell of sea lettuce at St Aubin's Bay puts off tourists, while the sandy shores of France and Rhode Island have also been plagued by the green stuff.
But in China, Japan and Korea people have been eating different types of seaweed for centuries.
"Sea lettuce is the new kale" and is "great for digestion, great for speeding up metabolism", Mr Baugh said.
He suggested a breakfast smoothie and makes it a regular part of his diet.
Tommy Ward was found badly beaten at his home in Salisbury Road, Maltby, on 1 October 2015. Around £30,000 was thought to have been stolen.
He died from his injuries in hospital on 23 February.
A 35-year-old man from Sheffield and a 30-year-old man from Rotherham were arrested on suspicion of murder.
Police later made a further arrest, with a 23-year-old man from Sheffield also questioned.
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The force said the arrests followed several raids in the Aston, Ulley, and Wales areas of Rotherham and in Hackenthorpe and Stradbroke in Sheffield as part of the continuing investigation into Mr Ward's murder.
At least 35 people were also injured at the camp, which is housing about 650 people mostly from Niger and Mali, in Ouargla, 800km (500 miles) south-east of the capital, Algiers.
The cause of the fire, that began at about 02:00 GMT, is being investigated.
A Red Crescent official told the AFP news agency that it was believed an electrical fault was to blame.
"A short circuit triggered the explosion of a heater and the fire," Saida Benhabiles said.
Twenty-seven people were still receiving treatment in hospital, she added.
The nationalities of those who died is not yet known.
Many African migrants head to Algeria, using it as transit stop as they attempt to reach Europe.
Numbers have increased since Libya plunged into chaos following the 2011 uprising that toppled long-term leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Williams suffered the injury in a pre-season game against Farnborough.
The 22-year-old will also miss the games against Austria and Georgia in October and is expected to be out for up to 10 weeks.
He was part of the Wales squad for Euro 2016, starting the opening game against Slovakia.
"It's another injury for Jonny and we hope it's not too long," Wales assistant manager Osian Roberts said.
"It's really disappointing for Jonny because we thought this would be the season he would make a breakthrough in his career."
Van Vuuren, 24, signed a short-term deal with the Tigers this season and has since made three appearances.
The former Stade Francais front-rower also has Super Rugby experience with the Cheetahs and Kings.
"This is a great opportunity for me to compete for a place in a team that is really going places," Van Vuuren said.
"I've had a taste of English rugby recently and I'm looking forward to playing in one of the toughest leagues in rugby."
Bath head coach Mike Ford added: "He is a robust, talented player, with a lot of potential to continue improving as a player, and we're looking forward to helping him do that."
The firm, which produces cigarette brands including JPS and Gauloises, said the "structural changes" were part of a "new phase of cost optimisation".
About 500 people are employed at the firm's head office on Winterstoke Road.
A company spokesman said the steps were "difficult but necessary" to strengthen its "competitiveness and sustainability".
Along with restructuring its head office, the firm is also looking at getting rid of a factory and research laboratory in France and closing a factory in Russia.
The spokesman said: "Potential job losses are always extremely regrettable and we will ensure that anybody affected is treated fairly.
"These are difficult but necessary steps for us to take to strengthen our competitiveness and sustainability.
"Consultations with unions and works councils are ongoing and we are therefore unable to make any further comment."
The announcement follows the closure of Imperial Tobacco's Horizon factory in Nottingham in May, with a loss of over 500 jobs.
Bosses at the factory previously blamed falling sales and an increase in the illegal tobacco trade for their decision to move out of the UK.
The user data from the popular mobile game's discussion forum were allegedly targeted by a hacker on 14 July.
Tech site ZDNet has reported the leaked data includes email addresses, IP addresses and usernames.
However, users' passwords have been protected by hashes and salts - well-known cryptographic techniques.
Elex, the Chinese firm behind Clash of Kings and the official forums, confirmed that an "unauthorised party" had gained access to forum data.
"Elex apologise for this unwarranted criminal intrusion into its fans' confidential information," it said, adding that it was possible that hackers could decode users' passwords.
"Elex recommend anyone with a Clash of Kings Forum account, to change their password immediately as a security precaution."
The firm added that the site's software had now been updated to prevent similar attacks and that there was no impact on Clash of Kings game account or payment information.
There has been a string of forum breaches in recent months, including Darkode - a forum used by hackers.
Those who manage to steal user data often plan to sell it on, according to Ryan Wilk, director at cyber security firm NuData Security.
"Hackers are making a living by selling this data on the Dark Web, they do it because they can pay the bills doing it," he said.
This counter-intuitive contrast is all about the parties' own perceptions of their respective weaknesses - that the public finances would return in short order to chaos under Labour, and that the NHS would collapse under the Tories.
There is of course a risk in Labour's promise to be hairshirted in a fiscal sense, and the Tories' pledge to splash the cash in hospitals - that Labour will reinforce the anti-austerity vote of the SNP and the Greens, and that the Tories will sacrifice their fiscal credibility and drive waverers into the arms of Ed Miliband.
But what is perhaps slightly odd about both Labour and Tories is that neither side are having an argument today about which side is best to promote growth.
Labour, if it wanted to, could make the case that although it is trying to be austere, it is less austere than the Tories - and that therefore the lesser spending cuts or lower tax increases that its fiscal rules require would be less of a brake on economic growth than Tory plans require.
Just to remind you, the Tories are committed to achieving a surplus on the overall budget, including investment, and Labour's pledge is simply for a surplus on the current budget, excluding investment.
So if the Tories stuck to plans set out in the last budget, Labour could spend £39bn more per annum than the Tories in 2020 (more or less equivalent to the entire defence budget) and still meet the fiscal rules set out in its manifesto today.
And a good number of economists would argue that Labour's approach would not only protect funding of important public services but would also reinforce the momentum of growth in the economy.
So why isn't Labour making that case?
It is for two reasons.
First, they fear that most voters don't agree with economists that public spending delivers economic growth.
And second, the Tory approach would accelerate the reduction of the national debt as a share of national income or GDP, and Labour does not want its commitment to reduce the national debt slower than the Tories up in lights - since they know that many voters are concerned about the doubling of the national debt to a record 80% of GDP since the Crash.
That said, this silence on growth cuts both ways.
There is also a credible argument to be made that Labour's determination to force private equity partners and hedge funds pay more tax will damage the growth prospects of the City of London - and therefore kill off what some see as a British golden goose.
To be clear, it is what the Treasury of Gordon Brown passionately believed a decade ago.
But a Tory Party that receives millions of pounds in donations from hedge funds and investment bankers presumably feels nervous about making the case that the tax privileges of its super-rich chums in the City should be protected - even if failure to do so leads to a successful British industry being driven offshore.
Luca Ceriscioli said quakes and snow had caused landslides and thousands of families were suffering power cuts, with some villages left isolated.
A man was killed and another reported missing in the nearby Abruzzo region.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker vowed EU solidarity with Italy after the tremors.
Marche was one of the regions worst hit by the earthquake of 24 August, with 46 of its 298 victims losing their lives in a single mountain village there, Pescara del Tronto.
The Lazio region was also affected on Wednesday and the tremors were felt in the capital, Rome.
Amatrice, the Lazio town where 236 of the August deaths were recorded, is close to the epicentre of the new quakes.
The tremors came after some 36 hours of steady snowfall in mountainous areas around Amatrice and Norcia.
In Teramo, Abruzzo, a man of 83 was found dead in the rubble of his barn which had collapsed, while in Ortolano, also in Abruzzo, a man was swept away by an avalanche, Italy's Ansa news agency reports.
The Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said it had recorded "some 200" tremors above magnitude 2 on Wednesday in Abruzzo and Lazio.
The first big quake struck at 10:25 (09:25 GMT) with a magnitude of around 5.3, followed at 11:14 with one of 5.4, followed some 11 minutes later by another of 5.3, the institute said (in Italian).
At 14:33, a fourth quake measuring 5.1 occurred, the institute says.
The first three were around 9km (5.6 miles) in depth, meaning they were dangerously close to the surface, while the fourth was even shallower, at 6.9km deep, according to the US Geological Survey.
"It's a catastrophe," Mr Ceriscioli said, as civil defence leaders met to discuss the response in Marche.
"Today's tremors and the snow of the last days add huge problems, especially on the roads, to the dramatic situation caused by the [August] earthquake.
"The lack of electricity causes serious problems to thousands of families who don't know where to go or to stay."
The priority, he said, was "taking people to safe and warm places".
He appealed for "maximum mobilisation", saying the army was already lending assistance, and called on other parts of Italy to send help to clear the roads and restore power.
In the Abruzzo village of Montereale, south of Amatrice, farmer Nello Patrizi, 63, told AFP News agency: "It was an apocalyptic shock. We were petrified.
"The first [quake] was bad enough, the others seemed even stronger. You had the impression everything was collapsing, people were screaming. It was a terrible thing.
"With all the snow there was this morning, people could not get out of their houses. I thought 'all we need now is an earthquake' and here it is."
People were given shelter in a large tent erected on a sports ground in Montereale.
Saying the rest of Europe shared Italy's pain, Jean-Claude Juncker said he was sending his commissioner in charge of humanitarian affairs to Italy.
"We will provide all kinds of efforts, instruments, helps at our disposal because I think that in that matter, as in the migration matter, Italy cannot be left alone," he said.
"An earthquake in Italy is an earthquake in Europe - that's the way I'm considering this sad event."
Schools have been evacuated in the areas worst affected while in Rome, the underground system was shut as a safety precaution.
The community of Amona accepted a government relocation proposal with 45 votes in favour and 29 against.
Sunday's decision comes after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Supreme Court earlier ruled that the homes were built on private Palestinian land.
Families living at the unauthorised site, or outpost, were ordered to leave the area in the northern West Bank by 25 December.
Messages posted on Twitter by representatives of the Amona community said the decision to accept the government proposal was "not an easy one".
"We can definitely say that this decision was the most difficult one we ever took," one tweet reads, while another adds: "All who voted FOR did that with a heavy heart."
PM Netanyahu said the government had "done the maximum" to find a solution for the residents of Amona after an earlier proposal was rejected last week.
"Until dawn this morning we made very great efforts to reach an agreed solution on Amona," he told ministers at a cabinet meeting.
Anyone who remained at the site after the 25 December deadline faced a forced eviction.
The latest proposal involves moving 24 of the 40 families living in Amona to new adjacent plots not covered by the Supreme Court ruling, local media report.
Mr Netanyahu needs to ask the court for a stay of execution before the new plan is implemented.
The issue of how to deal with the Amona site has caused tension within Israel's right-wing coalition government, with some members opposed to its removal.
According to the anti-settlement movement Peace Now, there are 97 outposts in the occupied West Bank, and over 130 settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Unlike officially recognised settlements, the government regards outposts as illegal.
With six children and a Syrian refugee under her roof this Christmas, Heather Alston admits her house is "chaotic" and "not exactly stress-free".
Abdullah, 35, from Damascus, has been living with Heather and her husband Dominic, both architects, in Hammersmith, London since February.
"At first my teenagers said, 'whoah Mum, are you really doing this?'" says Heather, who has five daughters and a son between the ages of 14 and 22.
"I partly said yes so it would open their eyes a little."
Reports from the city of Aleppo have prompted people across the world to express their solidarity on social media, with many joining demonstrations and donating money to relief efforts.
For her part, Heather says the crisis in Syria had been "lingering in the back of my mind for a long while" before she decided to hand Abdullah a front door key.
They met through Housing Justice, a London charity that has matched 26 refugees and hosts.
They usually meet at a local coffee shop first, after which either one can say yes or no.
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"I'll never forget that meeting," Abdullah says. "I was so surprised that this stranger wanted to let me in."
Heather recalls he was "quiet and nervous" when they met. "I was probably chatty and nervous," she remembers.
"It was history that made me think," she says. "In the Second World War children were evacuated to the countryside and they lived with hosts.
"It is now these refugees who need homes. I needed to do something."
A trained electrical engineer, Abdullah has been unable to legally work since he arrived in the UK in 2012 and gets £56 a week for living expenses.
He is one of an estimated 4.8 million people to have fled abroad since civil war broke out in 2011, according to the UN.
"I have brothers, sisters, close friends back home," he says. "I text them to make sure they are alive and when they get a connection they reply."
Abdullah says he "carries on with life" but feels trapped in a "prison-like" existence because he cannot work.
He spends his time cooking with the Alstons and learning English, in which he is now fluent.
Living with the Alstons has "given me some hope", he says.
"Abdullah is really part of the family," adds Heather. "We are all looking forward to our first Christmas together, he's already mastered cooking a roast."
Julian Prior, who set up a similar charity in Newcastle, says it is important that hosts "go in with their eyes open and are aware".
Action Foundation, which houses 14 refugees - including two people from Syria - sends hosts on a course and criminal record-checks the refugees.
"People who volunteer are compassionate, but may also be naive," says Mr Prior. "We make sure hosts set house rules and are aware of cultural sensitivities."
Other efforts to help have included a cyclist pedalling to Aleppo, a couple who bought a house for refugees, and a seven-year-old schoolboy who asked Santa for peace in Syria as his only Christmas present.
Caz and David Charles, from London, are cycling to the Syria-Turkey border this summer.
They hope to raise money and tell the stories of those living in migrant camps.
"I'll see how far I get before it becomes too sketchy," David says.
"Caz hasn't fully committed but will definitely come along for some of it."
They have already completed the first leg - a 2,200km ride to Vienna that Caz, 25, a translator, and writer David, 34, began in their home city this year.
"We stopped off in towns in France, Belgium and Germany, talking to residents and refugees alike about migration," David says.
The pair have raised £1,000 for the Bike Project, a charity in Denmark Hill which repairs and donates second hand bicycles to refugees living in London.
"I've been helping them for a couple of years, fixing up bikes," David says.
"Asylum seekers often have lots of appointments around London but no money to travel."
"These people can't work but they desperately want to be part of society," he says.
"That said, there is tremendous optimism for the future."
England forward Eniola Aluko capitalised on a defensive error to slot in shortly before half-time.
Chelsea almost had a second but Karen Carney's crisp strike hit the woodwork.
Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir's sweet finish ensured Wolfsburg progressed, as they beat Chelsea 4-1 on aggregate for the second consecutive season.
Chelsea were much improved from the side lost 3-0 at Stamford Bridge last Wednesday.
Aluko's low finish gave Emma Hayes' side hope of what had seemed an unlikely comeback, as she raced onto a short backpass from Isabel Kerchowski for a deserved lead.
Wolfsburg - last season's finalists and two-time champions - saw more of the ball after half-time.
But England winger Carney almost set up a nervy finish when her superb effort from outside the area struck the angle of the upright, before the hosts sealed it through Gunnarsdottir with 10 minutes to play.
Wolfsburg: Schult, Jakabfi, Fischer, Gunnarsdottir, Peter, Blasse, Popp, Dickenmann, Hansen (Mittag 73), Kerschowski, Goessling (Bernauer 90+1).
Subs not used: Frohms, Van Egmond, Wullaert, Maritz, Bussaglia.
Goals: Gunnarsdottir (80)
Chelsea: Lindahl, Blundell, Bright, Flaherty, Fahey, Davison, Carney, Aluko (C Rafferty 89), Ji, Borges, Chapman (c).
Subs not used: Spencer, England, Spence, Bailey, L Rafferty, Taylor.
Goals: Aluko (23)
Referee: Carina Vitalano (ITA)
Attendance: TBC
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The club aims to have the rail seats fitted and in use, in a section of one stand, before the end of 2017-18.
Shrewsbury's Greenhous Meadow is 10 years old so is not governed by the all-seater stadiums legislation which permits clubs in Leagues One and Two to keep terraces that existed before 1994.
Standing has been banned in England's top two divisions since then.
That law change followed recommendations made in the Taylor Report into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans.
Last November, Hillsborough Support Group secretary Sue Roberts told BBC Sport it would be a "backwards step" to bring back standing.
Earlier this month, West Bromwich Albion said they were willing to use The Hawthorns as part of the pilot scheme for safe standing - though a change in the law would be needed before that could come to fruition.
Celtic opened a 2,900-capacity section last year after the Scottish champions were granted a safe-standing licence by Glasgow City Council.
Brian Caldwell, Shrewsbury Town's chief executive, says the move at Celtic has improved the atmosphere and he expects the same for his club.
"More people are encouraged to sing and get behind the team but also it's a safer environment as well," he told BBC Sport.
"Our safety officer has been up to Celtic to see it in action and was very, very pleased with how safe and secure it was."
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The club, which finished 20th in League One in the 2016-17 season, hopes to raise the £50-75,000 required to finance the project through a crowdfunding campaign.
The campaign will be run jointly by the Shrewsbury Town Supporters' Parliament, who first approached the club with the proposal, and the Football Supporters' Federation.
They will invite donations from fans and the public in return for 'rewards' from the club.
Mike Davis, from the Supporters' Parliament, says it will help Shrewsbury Town compete with other sides in League One.
"The issue we tend to have is when we come up against the big clubs - the Sheffield Uniteds, the Boltons - who bring huge away crowds, we get drowned out a little bit," he said.
"So the hope is that bringing our vocal support behind the stand will improve that.
"Some of our fans already stand but they want an area where they can do that safely and also we want to be able to improve the atmosphere within the ground."
The application has been put to the Sports Ground Safety Authority and Shrewsbury say they hope to find out the outcome in a matter of weeks, rather than months.
The club's initial aim is to raise sufficient funds to purchase and install around 400 rail seats but if the target is missed, a smaller safe standing area will be created.
Spokesman Peter Cook said it was one of several incidents of Iranian vessels harassing US ships in the past week.
Mr Cook said the intention of the Iranian ships was unclear but their behaviour was unacceptable, as the boats were in international waters.
But Iran's Defence Minister, General Hosein Dehghan, said the US ships were in Iranian waters.
He said his forces would warn or confront any foreign ship that entered his country's waters.
American patrol ship the USS Squall fired three warning shots after an Iranian craft approached it head on, coming within 200 yards (180m) before turning away, the Pentagon says.
The shots, fired from a 50-calibre gun, caused the Iranian vessel to turn away, the spokesman added.
In a separate incident, video footage from on board the USS Nitze warship shows several small boats approaching the destroyer at high speed. Flares were fired after two of the boats ignored warnings to change course.
Some 40% of the world's seaborne oil exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance to the Gulf.
In January, Iran detained 10 US sailors at gunpoint after they ended up in Iranian waters. A naval inquiry later found that they had navigated incorrectly.
In the same month, Western powers lifted sanctions on Iran as it restricted its nuclear activities. The move heralded a change in relations between the US and Iran.
Barney Crockett was one of nine Labour councillors suspended by the party after agreeing a coalition to run the council alongside the Conservatives.
Mr Crockett insisted the councillors were still "Labour through and through" despite the suspension.
And he said he was "sure everything is going to be rectified".
The Labour group signed a deal with the Conservative and independent groups on Wednesday, allowing them to out-vote the SNP - who finished as the largest party on the council in the recent election.
Scottish Labour's executive committee ordered its councillors to stand down from the coalition before 17:00.
The councillors were suspended after the deadline passed - meaning there are currently no councillors in Aberdeen representing Labour.
A possible deal between Labour and the Conservatives to run West Lothian Council has also been thrown out by Labour's Scottish Executive Committee.
And Labour councillors also hope to form a minority administration in North Lanarkshire with the support of the Conservatives - although there will not be a formal coalition agreement between the two parties.
Meanwhile, an agreement has been struck between the SNP and Labour groups on Fife Council.
The two parties said they would equally share the leadership of the council in a "spirit of collaboration and co-operation".
On Wednesday, Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale said Labour "cannot do any deal with another party if it would result in further austerity being imposed on local communities".
She added: "Tory austerity risks hurting so many families in Aberdeen, and the Labour Party simply will not stand for that."
Mr Crocket told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that he was confident of showing that the coalition deal would "certainly not" lead to more austerity, and that he was sure that would be accepted by the national party.
He added: "I think that we'll work through it and I'm confident we will be back in Labour very soon.
"We are still Labour councillors through and through and I am sure everything is going to be rectified and we will be in good order very soon."
The council had been run by a Labour-Conservative coalition since 2012, which Mr Crockett said had "done very well for the city".
The provost also said that he was a "great supporter" of Kezia Dugdale, who he said was "very much the right leader for Labour in Scotland", and insisted: "I don't think we have fallen out."
Scottish Labour deputy leader Alex Rowley told Good Morning Scotland: "I was not involved back in 2012.
"We have had a new election. The rules of the Labour Party are quite clear. These councillors are in breach of the rules."
Labour's Jenny Laing was chosen as council leader on Wednesday, with Mr Crockett elected Lord Provost and Conservative councillor Tom Mason as deputy provost.
The Conservatives have criticised Labour for suspending the councillors, with leader Ruth Davidson saying Ms Dugdale had made a "terrible error of judgement".
Ms Davidson said: "Kezia Dugdale is putting her own petty politics ahead of what's good for Aberdeen, and would rather see an independence-obsessed SNP at the reigns than her own councillors."
Discussions among all of the political groups on the local authority had been ongoing since the election results were declared on 5 May.
The election saw the SNP become the biggest party after returning 19 councillors, with the Conservatives on 11 and Labour on nine.
Four Liberal Democrats were also returned, and two independents.
Lib Dem councillor Jennifer Stewart has now left the party group to become an independent.
Meanwhile, a coalition of Conservative, Liberal Democrats and independent councillors will run Aberdeenshire Council.
In Shetland, independent Cecil Smith - who has served on the council since 2007 - is the council's new leader.
Shetland Islands Councils remained in the control of independents.
The Welsh region's hopes of winning a fifth Pro12 title suffered a blow as Treviso won 13-5 to seal just their third victory of the entire campaign.
Ospreys' Wales Six Nations stars, including Dan Biggar and Rhys Webb, were rested for the trip to Italy.
"Ultimately when you come away you should produce better performance," Tandy told BBC Radio Wales.
He continued: "The only good thing is that the only people who can put it right is us. It's a disaster for us and we've got a working week, now."
The defeat leaves Ospreys in third place in the Pro12 table, two points behind second-placed Munster and six points behind leaders Leinster, who narrowly beat Cardiff Blues earlier on Saturday.
"We want to be in the top two but at the end of the day the league doesn't lie. The performance [against Treviso] was not us which was really disappointing," Tandy added.
"We're not in the top two for a reason, because we weren't good enough."
Ospreys face Stade Francais at the Principality Stadium in the European Rugby Challenge Cup quarter-final on 2 April and Tandy will rearrange his starting XV.
"There will definitely be changes and we'll have a look at ourselves as a group but it is a different competition," he said.
"It would be nice going in with some momentum and a real positive vibe but ultimately it's a real kick in the guts for us."
The deaths occurred during bull-running in the streets, not in bullrings. It is an unusually high number of fatalities for such a short period.
Among them was a 36-year-old town councillor gored in Penafiel, a town near Valladolid, north of Madrid.
Further north an 18-year-old man gored in the stomach died in Lerin, Navarra.
The other deaths occurred during bull festivals in the regions of Valencia, Murcia, Toledo, Castellon and Alicante.
Last year more than 7,200 bulls and steers (castrated bull calves) were killed by bullfighters across Spain, the news website El Diario reports.
Nearly 2,000 bullfights - or "corridas" - are still held in the country every year, but the numbers are falling. In 2010, Catalonia became the second Spanish region after the Canary Islands to ban the tradition.
Opponents condemn bullfighting as barbaric, but it still has many fans in Spain, including Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
A Spanish law passed in 2013 defends bullfighting as part of the nation's cultural heritage, saying it is the state's duty to "preserve it and promote it", El Pais website reports.
According to Spanish economics lecturer Juan Medina at the University of Extremadura, bullfighting generated €282.4m (£200m; $313m) in 2013, of which €59m was income from sales tax (VAT).
Both strikers scored in the first half to secure a vital win at Windsor Park.
"They both give you that energy at the top end of the pitch. Conor likes to fight for the ball and Jamie is the same," said O'Neill.
"Jamie set the tone from the off and the rest of the team followed suit."
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"He won his first header, then there was some great link-up play and it's a superb finish for the goal."
The victory sees Northern Ireland lie second in the group on 10 points, two points ahead of the Czech Republic, with a game away to Azerbaijan on 10 June next on the agenda.
"This was a great result for us and we can now look forward to a difficult game in Azerbaijan but we know a win there would put us six points clear of them and we are now seven ahead of Norway. We are looking at the Czech Republic and they will be looking at us.
"There is still a lot of football to be played but when you get to this point, we just want to maintain the form we are in and ensure that when the Czech Republic and the Germans come here they are special nights to look forward to.
"We've played five games, have kept four clean sheets and the only team to score against us are the world champions.
"We've scored 10 goals at home so there are a lot of positives in this campaign."
O'Neill pronounced himself pleased with every aspect of his side's play against Norway, hailing it as "a fantastic performance".
"Every player we used, the 11 that started and the three that came on, I couldn't have asked any more. To a man, they were fantastic," he said.
"It was a very competitive game and Norway played very directly so we had to deal with that.
"We have three top-class centre-halves of real Premier League quality and we just looked very strong.
"Conor McLaughlin and Stuart Dallas gave us a great shift down the sides and Chris Brunt showed his quality in midfield, while Steven Davis led from the front as captain, as he always does."
Northern Ireland suffered a scare in the first half when Gareth McAuley sustained an injury but the West Bromwich defender was able to stay on the pitch.
"Gareth got a bad knock but if he had come off, it would probably have meant us changing our system, which ideally we didn't want to do," added the NI boss.
"We had one or two other bumps and bruises but we competed fantastically and played some very good football as well."
Explosions have been heard coming from the Remondis site on Carr Lane, Prescot, Merseyside, since the fire started at about 06:00 GMT.
Fire crews have not yet confirmed what materials are handled at the site but have advised residents nearby to keep doors and windows closed.
Forty business premises at Prescot Business Park have been evacuated.
Half of the building is alight and part of the building is beginning to collapse, the fire service said. No injuries have been reported.
The fire service said up to 80 firefighters were tackling the blaze at its height.
It said the site which was built in 2012 could "burn for days".
"We have made good progress. The smoke has reduced and we are receiving advice from the Environment Agency on any risks to health," said the fire service.
It added any residents with pre-existing medical issues or residents with concerns about the smoke's impact on their health should contact the NHS 111 service or their GP surgery.
Earlier, police tweeted pictures showing a plume of dark-coloured smoke arching over the M57 near junction 2.
Twitter user Ubik said: "Audible explosions still being heard in surrounding area".
North West Motorway Police said visibility on the motorway was not affected but was being monitored.
Some roads close to the site have been closed.
The site holds an environmental permit for the treatment, storage, transfer and disposal of hazardous waste.
The Environment Agency said in a statement: "We are working with partner agencies including Merseyside Police, Public Health England and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service to ensure the risk to people and the environment is minimised."
Remondis UK was unavailable for comment.
The measures are among five recommendations put forward by Food Standards Scotland (FSS) to tackle the growing obesity crisis.
About 61% of Scots admit they need to eat more healthily, up 10% in a year.
FSS said the issue was costing the Scottish economy £2.37bn a year and that tougher regulation was needed.
They want to see curbs on the promotion of unhealthy foods and drinks sold outside the home in a bid to improve Scotland's diet.
However, the FSS also said it recognised the need for support and assistance for smaller food businesses.
FSS chairman Ross Finnie said: "There has been some concrete progress over the past year from Food Standards Scotland, government and industry to address the deep-seated problems with Scotland's diet, and there have been some positive steps in the right direction.
"However, given we've been missing our dietary goals in Scotland since these were first set more than 20 years ago, it's clear that moves towards improving Scotland's diet need to be more rapid, more robust and more effective."
Mr Finnie said food consumed outside the home had a "vital role to play" in helping Scots be healthier.
He added: "In our view, regulation would create a level playing field for industry, and without it, we face the very real prospect of increasing diet-related ill health and unsustainable burdens on the NHS and our economy."
The finds in the Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, and Kents Cavern, Devon, have been confirmed as the earliest known remains of Homo sapiens in Europe.
Careful dating suggests they are more than 41,000 years old, and perhaps as much as 45,000 years old in the case of the Italian "baby teeth".
The details are in the journal Nature.
The results fit with stone tool discoveries that had suggested modern people were in Europe more than 40,000 years ago. Now, scientists have the direct physical remains of Homo sapiens to prove it.
It confirms also that modern people overlapped in Europe with their evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, for an extended period.
These humans went extinct shortly afterwards, and the latest discoveries will raise once again the questions over Homo sapiens' possible role in their relatives' demise.
"What's significant about this work is that it increases the overlap and contemporaneity with Neanderthals," explained Dr Tom Higham, from Oxford University, who led the study on the British specimen found at Kents Cavern, Torquay.
"We estimate that probably three to five thousand years of time is the amount of the overlap between moderns and Neanderthals in this part of the world," he told the BBC Science in Action programme.
The new results indicate, too, that modern humans swept across Europe via a number of different routes, as they populated the world after leaving Africa some 60,000 years ago.
Both the teeth and the jaw fragment have been known about for decades.
In the case of the jaw from Kents Cavern, this was first identified in 1927.
The two Italian baby teeth were found in the Grotta del Cavallo in southern Italy in 1964.
Scientists have long pondered the specimens' age and origin. Many thought they were more likely to be Neanderthal remains.
It is only with the application of the very latest analytical techniques that the specimens' true status can be established.
Because of their concerns about modern contamination in the jaw, Higham and colleagues went back to animal fossils found above and below the object in the Torquay cave and re-dated those with greater precision.
This produced a likely age for the human remains of between 41,500 and 44,200 years ago.
The team also re-examined the shape of the jaw's three teeth, including their internal structure, to remove doubts that the jaw could be Neanderthal.
"We've done a new reconstruction, and we've actually found that one of the teeth was in the wrong place. That's for starters," said co-author Prof Chris Stringer, from London's Natural History Museum.
"But we've also done a really detailed comparison, right down to the shape of the roots and internal pulp cavities. We've gone to microscopic details to show this really is a modern human. You would never find a Neanderthal fossil that had this many modern human features."
Likewise for the Italian baby teeth, Dr Stefano Benazzi and colleagues performed a morphological analysis, comparing the features of their specimens with a wide database of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal remains. Again, this approach indicated the Grotta del Cavallo specimens were from a modern person.
The Benazzi team also resorted to advanced radio-carbon dating technology to reassess the age. This was applied to ornamental shell beads found in the same layer as the teeth.
"The new dating shows that the teeth must be between 43,000 and 45,000 years ago," said Dr Benazzi from the University of Vienna, Austria.
"That makes them the oldest European modern-human currently known," he told BBC News.
The re-assessments have further importance because palaeoanthropologists can now put modern humans in the caves at the same time as the stone and bone tool technologies discovered there.
There has been some doubt over who created the so-called Aurignacian artefacts at Kents Cavern and the slightly older Uluzzian technologies at Grotta del Cavallo. It could have been Neanderthals, but there is now an obvious association in time with Homo sapiens.
No-one really knows why Neanderthals went extinct or what part - if any - modern humans played in their disappearance. Scientists say it is not necessarily the case that there was conflict between the two groups; it could just have been that Homo sapiens was better equipped to deal with the harsh challenges of the time.
"I think it's still very much an open question because climate is also a part of the story," commented Prof Stringer.
"The fact is that while these populations were overlapping, the climate of Europe was very unstable. Populations were expanding and shrinking and being pushed around by very rapid changes in environment.
"I think it's going to be a combination of factors, with both Neanderthals and modern humans being stressed but the moderns being perhaps a bit better adapted to the changes and being able to get through them. The Neanderthals on the other hand weren't, and they went extinct."
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Catherine Bonner, 55, died and her partner, Jim McColl, 55, was badly hurt in the crash in Fairlie in 2013.
A Fatal Accident Inquiry heard from a doctor who said driver George Marshall had an underlying medical condition.
A charge of death by dangerous driving was dropped by the Crown after it had looked into his medical background.
The two-storey house on the A78 coast road was struck at its corner, demolishing the gable end and exposing an upstairs bedroom, the hearing at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court was told.
The lorry had been heading south when it crossed into the opposite carriageway without taking the bend and hit Ms Bonner's home.
Dr Peter Bloomfield, 64, a retired consultant cardiologist examined Mr Marshall, 53, after the crash.
He described how he had rubbed on Mr Marshall's left carotid sinus at the base of his carotid artery in his neck, and his heart had stopped for six seconds.
The doctor said Mr Marshall's blood pressure recorded a "significant fall" after this.
He concluded that the driver had a condition known as carotid sinus hypersensitivity and had suffered an episode "following an explosive fit of coughing", stopping blood getting to his heart.
Dr Bloomfield explained: "That can result in someone passing out, which is what Mr Marshall described.
"In my opinion, the episode of coughing was clearly linked to loss of control of the vehicle."
Mr Marshall said he had not experienced anything like it before and was shocked that his truck had gone into the building.
William McCrindle, 77, who was driving two cars behind the lorry and was first at the scene of the crash said the scene was "almost like a disaster movie".
He said: "There was a colossal bang and bricks were flying everywhere.
"The truck was embedded so far in I thought the driver would be killed.
"I waited long enough to see the driver being helped out of the cab and he didn't seem to be seriously injured."
It had earlier been reported that Ms Bonner and Mr McColl had been watching TV at the time of the accident.
They were both taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital where Ms Bonner died of her injuries.
The court heard that Mr McColl would not be giving evidence.
The inquiry before Sheriff Iona McDonald continues.
City councillors have started gathering views on the idea following guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
NICE and Public Health England said "no idling" zones should be set up outside schools to help improve air quality.
The consultation also asks if other locations should be considered, including care homes and hospitals.
A similar ban outside schools has already been introduced in London where Westminster Council hands out £80 fines to "car idlers".
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Jack Scott, Sheffield City Council's cabinet member for transport, said polluted air was a "major public health hazard".
He added: "There's no reason for drivers to leave engines idling at any time, but especially near schools, care homes and hospitals."
To introduce fines the council would have to establish no idling zones using a local by-law.
Becky Webb, head teacher at Tinsley Meadows school in Sheffield, welcomed the consultation.
She said: "Air quality remains a major issue for many schools in the country and idling cars are a big part of the problem.
"I hope lots of parents and schools across the city let their views be known."
The consultation in Sheffield closes on 31 August.
French President Francois Hollande, co-chair of the Brussels conference, said rich country pledges had exceeded the $2.5bn anticipated.
Mali's president said the world had "unanimously moved in the direction of Mali".
The conference is the first since France sent troops to oust Islamist rebels from northern Mali in January.
Mali's government has a 4.3bn-euro plan for "a total relaunch of the country".
It includes rebuilding government institutions and the military, repairing damaged infrastructure, organising presidential elections, holding dialogue with rebel groups in the north and stimulating the economy.
"We need water, health, justice, jobs, fairness," said Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore.
Mr Hollande said: "Mali is on the road to recovery."
"It is recovering its territorial integrity, is actively preparing for the presidential elections in July and, with the international donor conference in Brussels, is making progress in its development."
By Mark DoyleBBC International Development Correspondent
Mali had its unfortunate place in the limelight with the Islamist occupation of the north and the equally dramatic French military action.
Now it is just another broken state among many. And in places the West sees as marginal, donors usually want quick - and preferably cheap - results.
For example, France has pressed Mali to hold national elections before the end of July. But many Malians see this as completely unrealistic in a country where basic institutions, like the army and schools, need rebuilding.
The aid agency Oxfam said donors would have to commit to development funding in Mali for at least 15 years for results to be sustainable. "Crises such as Afghanistan and Somalia," Oxfam said, "have shown that a narrow approach to winning a military conflict is never enough to achieve long-term peace and security."
The BBC's International development correspondent, Mark Doyle, says that not all of the pledges may actually be delivered.
He points out that all sorts of techniques will have been used to massage the figures. For example, donor countries often "double count" their aid, pledging it several times under different headings and at different meetings.
On Tuesday the European Union pledged 520m euros (£442m; $673m) to help the country. Mr Traore had described the donation as "a good start".
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the money would help the West African state become "stable, democratic and prosperous".
Mr Barroso said the aid would benefit Europe as well as Africa.
"The support of the international community is essential to establish a Mali that is stable, democratic and prosperous," he added. "But the principal actors in this transition are the Malians themselves and their government."
He said the EU welcomed the Transition Roadmap, aimed at establishing a full return to democracy and stability in the country, and the Plan for the Sustainable Recovery of Mali, which Malian officials presented at the conference on Wednesday.
Officials had said 103 international delegations, including 10 heads of state and government, would attend the meeting, which was organised by Mr Barroso, Mr Traore and Mr Hollande.
Since the French-led military intervention at the start of the year, the Islamist rebels have been pushed back from the main urban centres of northern Mali. However, some fighters have retreated to hideouts in the mountains and desert, from where they launch isolated attacks.
Tens of thousands of refugees also remain in neighbouring Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger.
France nevertheless began withdrawing the first of its 4,500 troops in the country last month. It hopes to have only 1,000 remaining by the end of the year.
They are due to work alongside peacekeepers from the United Nations' Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (Minusma).
Mr Traore told a news conference on Tuesday that Mali's presidential elections would take place on 28 July, after months of speculation about the date. He said neither he nor any member of the transitional government would stand in the poll.
The BBC's Mark Doyle says the Islamists were only able to occupy large parts of Mali in the first place because of because of a weak and corrupt central government.
Rebuilding state institutions is therefore a priority, but it is also an enormous task, our correspondent says.
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The 30-year-old Venezuelan clocked up 29 retirements, endless on-track incidents and that memorable 2012 Spanish Grand Prix win in five seasons. So why will we miss him?
He was nicknamed 'Crashtor' by his critics and became a cult figure for, well, just crashing.
In a sport that can sometimes lack drama and excitement, Maldonado was on a one-man mission to reverse F1's image.
Out of 96 grands prix, there were 29 retirements, and he incurred 39 penalties in his colourful F1 career, that's one every 2.4 races and 12 were for causing a collision.
"Woah, what was what?" asked Sauber's Mexican driver Esteban Gutierrez after Maldonado smashed into his car sending it into a barrel-roll at the Bahrain Grand Prix in 2014.
Maldonado was given a warning and handed a five-place grid penalty for the next race in China.
Maldonado won the Spanish Grand Prix in 2012 in an unfancied Williams car - beating Ferrari's two-time world champion Fernando Alonso.
Maldonado won a career high 45 points that season, but his maiden win remains the only time he reached the podium.
BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson recalls "that one amazing afternoon in 2012, when the stars aligned and Maldonado won a grand prix.
"How that happened, no-one has ever satisfactorily been able to explain. Some thought it might mark a breakthrough - only for Maldonado to spend the rest of that season routinely bouncing off things as usual."
You're driving a 200mph car, you keep your eyes on the road right? Not if you're Maldonado.
In 2014 during the first practice for the Chinese Grand Prix he veered off the road and nearly crashed after getting distracted making adjustments on his steering wheel.
Mark Webber won't.
Asked in a recent interview who was the worst F1 racer, the Australian former Red Bull driver replied: "Probably Maldonado, he's out of his depth and just shouldn't be there."
The Venezuelan earned his seat with the size of his chequebook, rather than his talent and Andrew Benson says that's a strong reason why his departure "will not be widely mourned".
"He was quite quick. Unpredictable only in so far as you were never quite sure when the next embarrassing cock-up would happen. So wild he became a laughing stock. And, fundamentally, not really good enough."
"They can say whatever they want. I'm here to do my best, and to work," Maldonado told the Telegraph last year.
"When Pastor crashes, it's big news, When the other people crash, there is no news. It's like this.
"To find the limit, you need to cross the limit. I think I have the big balls to cross the limit every time."
So adios Pastor, make sure you come back soon.
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The transport minister resigned in the wake of the crash near Manfalut, 350km (230 miles) south of Cairo.
The provincial governor said the man in charge of the crossing was asleep and had been arrested.
Egyptian roads and railways have a poor safety record.
An estimated 8,000 people die in car accidents each year in the country.
The head of the railway authority has also resigned.
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi ordered his ministers to offer support to the families of those killed, the state news agency reported.
"They told us the barriers were open when the bus crossed the tracks and the train collided with it," doctor Mohamed Samir told the Reuters news agency, citing witness accounts.
An eyewitness said the train pushed the bus about 1km (half a mile) along the track.
More than a dozen people were also injured.
Distraught families searched for the remains of their loved ones along the tracks, the Associated Press reported.
A total of 264,521 people visited between November 2014 and last month, Historic Scotland said. The figure was an 11% increase on the previous record.
Several of the organisation's other attractions also had at least one record-breaking month during winter.
These included Orkney's Skara Brae, Urquhart Castle, Doune Castle, St Andrews Castle and Linlithgow Palace.
Stirling Castle saw record-breaking figures last month when it played host to the Great Tapestry of Scotland exhibition as part of its tour of Scotland, with visitor numbers increasing by 63% on the previous year.
In total, 439,229 people visited Historic Scotland's top ten sites during the winter period.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "These figures illustrate the year-round appeal of Scotland's diverse heritage sites which form a central part of our tourism offering, attracting people in their many millions each year.
"Edinburgh Castle has had a fantastic winter, welcoming more visitors than ever before whilst also providing the backdrop to a number of key events over the winter as we celebrated Scotland's winter festivals from St. Andrew's Day to Burns Night."
Stephen Duncan, Historic Scotland director of commercial and tourism, said: "As we look ahead to the upcoming summer season, this year marks another important one for us, with the completion of the Stirling Castle Tapestry project, a 15-year project to recreate the Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestries, whilst our main events programme will begin at Easter and run until Christmas across a number of our sites, helping to bring history to life."
Over the weekend Turkey shelled the Kurdish YPG militia as it made advances in the area.
Syria said the Turkish shelling was a violation of its sovereignty and called on the UN to act.
Turkey views the YPG militia in Syria as allied to the outlawed PKK, which has carried out a decades-long campaign for autonomy in Turkey.
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters on his plane as he headed to Ukraine that the weekend shelling had managed to force the YPG from Azaz.
"If they approach again, they will see the harshest reaction. We will not allow Azaz to fall," he said.
Mr Davutoglu also pledged to make the Syrian Menagh air base "unusable" if the militia did not withdraw from the area, and that the YPG would not be allowed to move east of its Afrin region or west of the Euphrates.
The Kurds have been capturing areas from Syrian rebel forces who are also fighting President Bashar al-Assad.
The YPG has rejected Turkey's demand to leave areas it has seized, saying Islamist rebels would return if it left.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Istanbul says Turkey's action against the Kurds has opened a new front in Syria - the stage for several proxy wars already.
Turkey had earlier denied reports that some of its soldiers had entered Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz also told a parliamentary commission it was not considering deploying troops there.
In his comments to the parliamentary commission, Mr Yilmaz also denied that Saudi Arabian aircraft had arrived in Turkey to help with operations against so-called Islamic State (IS), but said a decision had been taken for Saudi Arabia to send four F-16s.
The Syrian government had earlier said in letters to the UN Secretary General and the Security Council's chairman that Turkey had allowed about 100 gunmen - believed to be either "Turkish soldiers or Turkish mercenaries" - to cross into Syria.
Syria believes the gunmen are trying to supply insurgents fighting in Damascus.
The letters to the UN said that "Turkish artillery shelling of Syrian territory constitutes direct support to the armed terrorist organisations".
"[Syria] will maintain its legitimate right to respond to the Turkish crimes and attacks and to claim compensation for the damage caused," they said.
The United States and others back the Kurdish militia in Syria, the YPG, in its fight against so-called Islamic State.
Last Thursday in Munich, world leaders pledged to work towards a cessation of hostilities in Syria within a week,
But Russia argues that the "cessation" does not apply to its air strikes, which have tilted the balance of the war in favour of the Syrian government.
Russia has been carrying out air strikes since September in support of Mr Assad and against what it terms "terrorists".
Almost five years of civil war in Syria have led to the deaths of more than 250,000 people. More than 11 million people have been displaced.
Danielle McDermott, who has an address in Belfast, admitted taking almost £11,000 from two pensioners between August 2013 and May 2014.
She used the money for shopping, hotels and a trip to the Isle of Man.
The judge described the offences as "very serious, mean and nasty".
McDermott had pleaded guilty to all three charges of stealing money, converting criminal property and fraud by false representation.
One of her victims is a 75-year-old woman who suffers from dementia.
The court was told that in August 2013 she had £11,000 in her bank account but by April 2014 she had £474.
Another victim, 89-year-old Dinah Porter told BBC Radio Foyle that she was able to forgive McDermott but her daughter could not.
Her family set up a secret recording after becoming suspicious and caught McDermott stealing on camera.
McDermott denied stealing the money and said she had taken it to collect some precooked meals for Mrs Porter.
The court heard the money was used for a variety of purposes such as shopping, car insurance, heating oil, hotels and the paying off of at least one loan.
The defendant also used it to fly to the Isle of Man where her boyfriend was working.
The entire sum was spent on the defendant and her boyfriend, who knew nothing of its source.
The judge said that McDermott had persisted in her actions even after being questioned by police about the missing money.
''It is clear that both injured parties were taken advantage of because they were vulnerable and the defendant was in a relationship of trust with them.
"The sort of offending that has to be deterred by the imposition of an immediate custodial sentence," said the judge.
It is the first time the guild has declared a tie for best film in its 25-year history, another indicator that this year's Oscars race is wide open.
The PGA has correctly picked the film that has gone on to win best picture at the Oscars for the last six years.
Disney's Frozen won best animation and Behind the Candelabra won best TV film.
ABC's Modern Family picked up the best episodic comedy award, while Breaking Bad won for best episodic TV drama.
James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were among those given special honours for their contribution to film.
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, scooped best documentary, while The Voice won best competitive TV series.
Other winners included Sesame Street, which won outstanding children's programme.
The PGA awards followed hot on the tails of the Screen Actors Guild awards, which also took place this weekend - SAG voters eschewed both Gravity and 12 Years a Slave, choosing instead 1970s crime caper American Hustle for its top honour.
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The two clashed before one of three restarts in a chaotic race, Vettel hitting the back of Hamilton's Mercedes and then swerving sideways into him.
Vettel said Hamilton had deliberately slowed - or "brake-tested" - him.
Hamilton denied that and added that it was "disgusting driving" and "not sportsman's conduct".
Vettel was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty in the race - won by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo - after being adjudged guilty of dangerous driving but still finished a place ahead of Hamilton in fourth, extending his championship lead to 14 points.
The 29-year-old was also given three penalty points on his licence, taking him up to nine. If a driver receives 12 in a 12-month period, it triggers an automatic race ban.
If he wants to prove he's a man, we should do it out of the car face-to-face.
If Vettel receives three penalty points at the next race in Austria on 9 July, he would face a race ban. However, two points will drop off after the British Grand Prix on 16 July as he was punished for forcing Felipe Massa off the track at Silverstone last year.
Hamilton was not penalised. The stewards examined data from his car and found that he had maintained a more or less constant speed, had not lifted off the throttle or braked, and had behaved no differently at that restart at that point on the track than at the other two restarts.
Hamilton appeared not to accelerate out of Turn 15, the penultimate corner, and Vettel hit him up the back, damaging the Ferrari's front wing and part of the Mercedes' floor.
Vettel then pulled alongside Hamilton and swerved into him, banging wheels.
Asked if he drove into Hamilton deliberately, Vettel said: "It was very clear. We are racing with men. I don't have a radio to him. If we get a penalty, we should both get a penalty."
He added: "I wasn't happy with the brake-testing. I drove alongside him and raised my hand to say that is not the way to do it and we had a little contact."
Vettel added that it was "quite obvious" Hamilton had brake-tested him.
"I don't run into the back of him on purpose," he said. "I damaged my wing; he had a little damage as well.
"His restart was really good; I didn't think it was necessary. The problem is me right behind getting ready and all the other cars.
"He did something similar a couple of years ago in China at the restart. It is not the way to do it.
"The leader dictates the pace, but we were exiting the corner, he was accelerating and then he braked so much that I was braking as soon as I saw and I could not stop in time and ran into the back of him. That was just not necessary."
Vettel was unaware immediately after the race that his penalty was for swerving into Hamilton. He said that he thought the penalty must have been for hitting Hamilton from behind.
Hamilton, who lost victory in the race because he had to pit to have a loose head restraint fixed, responded: "I didn't (brake-test him). I controlled the pace. All the restarts I slowed down in the same spot.
"He was obviously sleeping and driving alongside and deliberately driving into a driver and coming away scot-free is is a disgrace. He disgraced himself.
"If he wants to prove he's a man, we should do it out of the car face-to-face. Driving dangerously in any way can put another driver at risk.
"Luckily we were going slow. If we were going fast it could have been a lot worse. Imagine all the kids watching Formula 1 today and see that kind of behaviour from a four-time world champion. It says it all."
Asked if things had got dirty in the title fight, Hamilton said: "Not for me. I am going keep to going.
"We had the upper hand this weekend. We can continue to move forwards in the future. Through difficult times true colours show, so it is a good day for me."
Vettel said the fight was "still respectful", adding: "I don't have a problem with him. It is just one action today that was wrong.
"I am willing to sort it out with him. I don't think there is much to sort out. I will talk to him when you (the media) are not there and then we move on."
Asked if he expected Vettel to apologise, Hamilton said: "I don't fancy seeing him. It might turn into something else."
Frazer Shaw: Whether Hamilton brake-checked Vettel or not does not excuse using your vehicle as a weapon for the second hit. Outrageous behaviour.
Alex Rose: So Vettel drives into Hamilton, gets a penalty and still manages to finish in front. That's not right.
Alex Withington: The repercussions will go on for a while after this one. Both Vettel and Hamilton will feel they were wronged. F1 2017 looking tasty
Steven Coy: The Vettel/Hamilton doesn't need penalties, the fierce competitiveness between these two is what this sport needs!
Andrew Ogley: Well, frankly that was all a bit bonkers today.
Disagreements, insults, a flurry of hype on social media - and then a lucrative fight.
But how far should the bad blood go? And can pay-per-view boxing exist without it?
Before Tony Bellew and David Haye meet at London's O2 Arena on Saturday, the British fighters speak to BBC Sport to address controversial comments, glamorous Miami training camps and whether animosity works for boxing fans.
The pair have sparred together but it seemed any bond they shared disappeared when Bellew, 34, called his rival "Spongebob Squarepants" after beating BJ Flores in October. However, that insult, a dig at Haye's hairstyle that Bellew admits referred to the wrong character (he meant Sideshow Bob), was a relatively gentle precursor to the nastiness that has followed.
Bellew: "He was saying that he's going to leave me in hospital and I'm going to leave the ring on a stretcher. I thought that was absolutely disgusting. All I care about is going home to provide for my three kids and my missus - that's all I need to make me happy.
"We have to remember there are fighters lying in hospital at the moment in comas because of boxing. You've had the whole thing with Nick Blackwell, the tragic death of Mike Towell, and it's becoming more frequent of late, which is worrying for my sport. This clown David Haye thinks it's a joke."
Haye: "When a boxer gets knocked unconscious in a ring, it's standard procedure to take that boxer to hospital for a brain scan to make sure there is no serious damage. I've knocked out 26 of my 28 opponents. They've all been taken to hospital.
"I told him the truth by saying he will go the same way. I don't want anything serious to happen - but that is a fact."
Haye is no stranger to confrontation. The 36-year-old from London brawled with Dereck Chisora at a news conference in 2012. This time around he threw a punch at Bellew at a media gathering in November. Liverpool's Bellew, meanwhile, built a reputation as one of British boxing's biggest talkers from early in his career. His camp have claimed Haye needs this fight for the money.
Haye: "People who aren't boxing fans are interested in this fight because it makes so much noise when you have two men trading insults and shoving each other.
"We broke ticket records at the O2 and it's a non-title fight with me beating the hell out of some guy. So the fans will always be there to see those types of fights."
Bellew: "Nobody will pay good pay-per-view money to see two good guys shaking hands and saying how good the other one is. It's not a good thing though - it's a bad thing. But it sells and it works.
"Boxing should not be about all the talk beforehand but that's what gets people going. People want to see two men who really don't like each other, who have a bit of bad blood and history, and they want to see a good scrap."
Bellew steps up to heavyweight after becoming the WBC cruiserweight champion - a title he still holds. Haye, a former WBA heavyweight champion, will fight for the third time since returning from over three years out, knowing a win could see him return to a position where he could compete for a title.
Bellew: "David Haye is making a mockery of boxing. The last two fights he had were exhibitions - they weren't fights. He has been conning the public for a very long time and it has to stop because it's a joke.
"I'm a prizefighter and the prize in this fight is massive. So what was I supposed to do? Fight my mandatory WBC title challenger for absolute buttons or face David Haye for 10 times the pot? It's a no-brainer. I beat this clown and I will become a pay-per-view star on my own."
Haye: "He tried to attack me when he jumped out of the ring. But when I tell him home truths it really upsets him. He's going to get a reality check."
Haye's Instagram page shows a series of posts in the Miami sunshine during his preparation camp, with trainer Shane McGuigan sometimes in attendance. Bellew, who works under Dave Coldwell, prefers a more traditional camp.
Haye: "I wanted to show fans a glimpse of a better training style - because how much fun can you have in London? It's always raining and it's very depressing. You can't go on beaches, you can't ride jet skis or play basketball on a yacht.
"It was the best training camp I've ever had."
Bellew: "Haye is a pretender. He keeps trying to portray this fake celebrity lifestyle on social media to keep his name out there. I don't do that.
"I use social media to talk to fans because they help pay my wages. Without the fans, I wouldn't be where I am in boxing."
Both men are heavy hitters and have losses on their records. On paper, defeat for Bellew would still leave him in a position to return to cruiserweight as a champion, albeit one carrying a stinging setback. Haye's two wins since returning to the sport have not lasted long enough to convince some punters of his ability to contest a tough fight after shoulder surgery in 2013.
Bellew: "David Haye is a quality fighter. He was brilliant at cruiserweight but that was 10 years ago.
"I've had 13 hard fights over three and a half years when this clown has been sunbathing in Miami or Dubai or wherever he likes to hide. How does he think I'm going to be an easy touch?"
Haye: "He has seen my success and he will never be considered as good a cruiserweight as I was. He won a vacant title in his own stadium; I beat the long-reigning champion Jean Marc Mormeck on his home turf and knocked him out to take all the titles.
"I've done things he'll never be able to do and he doesn't like the fact I draw a bigger crowd from the masses."
When the punches fly from two 6ft 3in fighters, any telling blow could change the trajectory of the other man's career. Both have two defeats on their record, with one loss apiece by knockout - but who will have been beaten for a third time by the end of Saturday?
Haye: "Bellew got knocked out by Adonis Stevenson at light-heavyweight. I weigh 50 pounds heavier than that guy so how does he think he's not getting knocked out against me?
"This will be a proper destruction job. This is the last you will hear of Tony Bellew."
Bellew: "Make no mistake, I'm labelled as the underdog and everyone's saying what David Haye will do to me - but they don't know what I can do to him.
"If he loses this fight, he's finished and he's got nowhere to go."
Burge, 24, made 39 appearances in all competitions for the Sky Blues last season as the club were relegated from League One.
The academy graduate competed with Reice Charles-Cook in goal, but secured the number one spot after the arrival of manager Mark Robins on 6 March.
He is the third City player to commit his future to the club following Chris Stokes and Dion Kelly-Evans.
The 18-year-old had a year left on his contract at Craven Cottage but handed in a transfer request on Saturday.
Roberts made his Fulham debut at the Etihad Stadium in 2014 and amassed 22 first-team appearances.
He becomes City's third English summer signing, following Liverpool's Raheem Sterling for £49m and Fabian Delph from Aston Villa for £8m.
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The 19-year-old can play as a centre-forward or on the wing and has been loaned out by the Hornets in order to gain first-team experience.
Lewis has been with Watford since he was a schoolboy and was given a three-year contract at Vicarage Road in 2015.
The deal came after he scored 18 goals for their under-18 side during the 2014-15 campaign and he has since featured at under-21 level.
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The 11 Plus was scrapped in Northern Ireland in 2008.
However, grammar schools started using new tests to select pupils.
Results of the contentious tests are due on Saturday.
The department has told teachers in the past that they they should not coach pupils for the tests.
The figure of 11 schools being sent letters by the department emerged in a reply to a request by Radio Ulster's Nolan Show.
In a statement, the department said: "The department wrote to some primary schools following reports that these schools may have been involved in coaching pupils for the unregulated tests during core teaching hours.
"This was to provide the school principals with an opportunity to confirm that the board of governors had complied with their legal duty to have regard to the department's guidance, and that the school was meeting its statutory obligation to deliver the curriculum to all pupils.
"The fact that the department writes to a school does not indicate that the school has been engaging in preparing children for unregulated tests, or indeed that the school is failing to deliver the statutory curriculum.
"It is intended to enable the schools to provide the department with the assurance that the pupils' educational needs are being appropriately met."
Mark Langhammer, from the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the coaching was acceptable outside school hours.
"Many of the schools, either from their own resources or paid for by parents, do offer coaching sessions outside of school either at weekends or after school," he said.
"Our advice to our teachers - some other unions simply tell their teachers not to do it - we say if the school is going to employ you on a secondary contract and pay you, that's fine outside school."
Ulster Unionist Party education spokesman Danny Kinahan criticised the department over the letters.
"I completely abhor the actions of the Department of Education in naming, through the media, primary schools which they have sent warning letters to over allegedly 'coaching' Year 6 and 7 pupils in repairing for the transfer test," he said.
"It is totally unfair to single out schools in such a manner. The principals of all primary schools have been placed in this invidious situation because the AQE and GL tests have become increasingly popular with parents.
"The simple fact is that as unofficial tests have become embedded, a large proportion of parents want their children to sit them and have an opportunity of gaining a place at a grammar school."
There are two unofficial replacement systems for the 11-plus in operation.
The single, multiple choice GL Assessment is used mostly by Catholic schools and the AQE sets a different exam for other schools.
In what was a pretty dull and lifeless encounter between two mid-table sides who have faced off three times in as many weeks, Lookman's well-taken strike in the first half saw the Addicks secure their first win in seven games.
The hosts started the brighter of the two sides as both Nicky Maynard and Ben Reeves both saw their early chances fly just wide of Charlton goalkeeper Dillon Phillips' right-hand post inside the opening exchanges.
Dean Bowditch then failed to tap into an empty net just minutes later after Reeves' cut-back across the visitors' six-yard box found the Dons forward unmarked at the back post.
But it was the visitors who took a surprise lead through Lookman in the 38th minute after Andrew Crofts' excellent through-ball found the teenager one-on-one with Dons keeper David Martin before slotting home from close range.
Nicky Ajose almost wrapped things up for Charlton with five minutes to go after a mix-up in the Dons defence between Paul Downing and keeper Martin, but the striker's shot was well blocked.
Report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, MK Dons 0, Charlton Athletic 1.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 0, Charlton Athletic 1.
Joe Walsh (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joe Walsh (MK Dons).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Roger Johnson replaces Nicky Ajose.
Foul by Paul Downing (MK Dons).
Joe Aribo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George C Williams (MK Dons).
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ben Reeves (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Adam Chicksen replaces Ademola Lookman.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, MK Dons. Chuks Aneke replaces Kieran Agard.
Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, MK Dons. Conceded by Morgan Fox.
Attempt saved. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ed Upson (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Aribo (Charlton Athletic).
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Samir Carruthers.
Foul by George C Williams (MK Dons).
Jorge Teixeira (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George B Williams (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Aribo (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Ed Upson (MK Dons).
Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Reeves (MK Dons).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George B Williams (MK Dons).
Nicky Ajose (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ed Upson (MK Dons).
Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Samir Carruthers (MK Dons).
Jorge Teixeira (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
The brooch was found at Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire, and is dated to the second half of the 15th Century.
The fortress was being built by nobleman William Hastings when he was executed by Richard just a month before he took the crown.
The heart-shaped brooch, uncovered near the moat, may have been a gift from Hastings to his wife, Katherine.
Bearing the French inscription "honor et joie" (honour and joy), it was unearthed in 2016 by a metal detectorist.
Hastings was a close friend and ally of Edward IV and on the king's death in 1483 had supported Richard of Gloucester in his role as Lord Protector.
But with Richard looking to take the crown, and Hastings a champion of Edward's son's claim to the throne, Richard had him arrested and just hours later, executed.
While it has no names on it, the brooch would have only been worn by a high-status woman.
Charles Hanson, of Hanson's Auctioneers, said: "It's remarkable to think that this brooch this may have been a gift to Katherine from William Hastings.
"It is a true sweetheart brooch. It is likely it fell from her gown while she was strolling through the castle grounds."
It will be auctioned on 23 August with a guide price of £6,000 to £8,000.
David Sterling has done so because of the failure to pass a budget for the new financial year.
Mr Sterling will use emergency powers to release cash and resources to departments until a new budget is in place.
He said that while the procedures can keep cash flowing to public services it is "not a substitute for a budget agreed by an executive".
He has written to all Stormont departments setting out their spending limits for the next four months.
Mr Sterling now controls a sum of money equivalent to 75% of this year's budget.
Section 59 of the Northern Ireland Act allows him to use that money "for such services and purposes" as he directs.
However, he cannot start funding new policies and has limited flexibility to respond to unforeseen events.
If no budget is in place by the end of July, Mr Sterling will then have the right to spend an amount equivalent to 95% of this year's budget across the whole of the financial year.
That will effectively mean in-year cuts of least 5% across the public service.
However, officials think it is improbable that the emergency situation will continue for that length of time.
When a budget is eventually passed, departments will have access to the full level of funding available.
Mr Sterling has also sought to reassure community and voluntary bodies who feared losing funding.
He said departments are writing to groups to "confirm interim funding designed to maintain the ongoing integrity of the key services they provide until an agreed budget is in place".
Meanwhile, it is understood that the Department of Finance has received legal advice that it can spend so-called "accruing resources" as part of emergency budget procedures.
This is money that comes to departments from sources other than the block grant and includes things like planning fees and EU farm subsidies.
There had been doubt about whether officials had the legal authority to spend that money.
Former Scotland centre Sean Lineen will be the English Championship club's director of rugby.
And Roddy Grant, who retired through injury after playing for Edinburgh, joins as a forwards coach.
SRU chief executive Mark Dodson said: "This is an exciting partnership which benefits both organisations."
Their most immediate goal will be to prevent London Scottish, who are third from bottom of the English Championship table, being relegated.
Dodson said the arrangement was the result of months of planning between two organisations that "share the common objective of developing and improving Scottish rugby".
"It provides a new, competitive step on the performance pathway for both players and coaches and we look forward to working with London Scottish CEO Rod Lynch and his team," he said in a statement.
Players sent on loan from Pro12 clubs Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors, along with Scottish rugby academy and national age-grade players, will be based at the Richmond Athletic Ground and will be available to London Scottish for Championship and B&I Cup fixtures.
London Scottish chairman Sir David Reid said: "We will benefit from having experienced players, while we can provide the level of on-field competition that younger Scottish players need to aid their development.
"London Scottish intends to remain a successful and ambitious Championship club. Sean Lineen and Roddy Grant will help us achieve this.
"The relationship between the union and London Scottish has never been stronger. I really appreciate the leadership and vision shown by Scottish Rugby in this exciting initiative and the support they have shown to London Scottish."
Former Glasgow Warriors coach Lineen will work part-time at Richmond to support London Scottish head coach Peter Richards while continuing as Scottish Rugby's head of international age-grade rugby.
The 54-year-old will have responsibility for support staff, facilities, match scheduling, pre-season preparation and player recruitment.
Grant, the 28-year-old who played for Scotland A, joins the coaching team for the remainder of the season.
Scotland back Rory Hughes is currently on loan with London Scottish, while Scottish Rugby Academy players Robbie Fergusson, George Horne and Jack Cosgrove have also been with the Championship club this season.
The win over the Dutch means Kate, 36, and her spouse, 34, are also thought to be the first married couple since 1900 to win medals on the same team.
The pair played their first Olympic Games together at Sydney in 2000.
Fellow members of Reading Hockey Club have described them as an "inspiration".
They became the first British married couple to win gold since Cyril and Dorothy Wright in the sailing in 1920.
Helen, from West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, who scored in the penalty shoot-out, said: "To win a gold medal is a dream come true - to win it standing next to my wife is really special."
Their romance reportedly began after Beijing in 2008 and the couple wed in 2013 after playing in the bronze-winning London 2012 squad.
Ahead of the Rio Games, Manchester-born Kate spoke to the BBC about their relationship.
"It's not that interesting for us, but I can see why it's interesting to everyone else.
"When we're at work, we're Kate and Helen, just two separate players, and the coaches and players are fantastic about treating us in that way.
"And when we're away from the pitch, we're a couple.
"What has changed since I first came in the team is that it's just accepted - some of the team have boyfriends, some have girlfriends - it literally doesn't matter.
"The best thing is the reaction we've had from the public in that we've helped people feel more confident in themselves. People feel it's OK to come out as bisexual or gay or lesbian - that's been the best thing for me," she said.
At Reading Hockey Club, fellow members watched the nail-biting climax to the Olympic final.
Club coach Andy Watts described them as "great role models".
Georgia Bootha said: "They've done so much for this club over the years - everyone looks up to them so much.
"How hard they work and what they do for hockey is amazing. Hopefully it'll really inspire people to come and play."
Testing company Emissions Analytics told the BBC it has measured a significant rise in poisonous gas emissions from a wide range of models as the temperature drops.
It found the problem is worst among the Euro 5 category of cars, which became mandatory in 2011.
The firm tested 213 models across 31 manufacturers.
The finding means millions of vehicles could be driving around much of the time with their pollution controls partly turned off.
But it seems many cars are deliberately designed that way and it is all perfectly legal.
European rules allow manufacturers to cut back on pollution controls as long as it is to protect the engine.
Engineers agree that hot and cold weather can damage components.
But some suggest car companies are taking advantage of the rule to switch things off, even in mild weather, because it improves the miles per gallon of the car.
"I would say from the Euro 5 generation of cars, it's very widespread, from our data. Below that 18 degrees [Celsius], many have higher emissions... the suspicion is, to give the car better fuel economy," Emissions Analytics CEO Nick Molden told the BBC.
"If we were talking about higher emissions below zero, that would be more understandable and there are reasons why the engine needs to be protected. But what we've got is this odd situation where the [temperature] threshold has been set far too high, and that is a surprise".
Carmakers insist it is to stop the vehicles breaking down.
There are currently 5.1 million Euro 5 diesels on Britain's roads and they are likely to be driving around for another 10 to 15 years.
The Emissions Analytics data found the average Euro 5 vehicle was 3.6 times over the legal limit for poisonous Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) when it was above 18C. But that increased to 4.6 times over the limit, when the air temperature dropped.
The latest generation of Euro 6 cars, on sale from September last year, were better, he added.
They averaged 2.9 times the limit above 18C, rising to 4.2 times the limit at lower temperatures, but the figures were skewed by three especially bad performers, Mr Molden said, although he refused to name those cars.
Asked if millions of diesel cars are currently driving around for most of the year, not using their pollution cleaning systems at all Mr Molden replied:
"That is the suspicion, or they're using their emissions system at a reduced level".
Recent testing by the German, French and UK governments uncovered a similar trend.
Many popular models polluted more when it was colder.
In Britain for example, experts checked the same Euro 5 Range Rover Sport early on a cold morning, and then later in the day when it had warmed up. Its pollution (NOx) levels nearly doubled when it was colder.
Jaguar Land Rover said it was a car that was engineered 10 years ago and had the best emissions equipment available at the time. It is not on sale any more.
Professor Ricardo Martinez-Botas from Imperial College London, the independent engineer overseeing the British tests, told the BBC that despite decades designing engines he was "shocked" at the higher pollution levels on the real road compared to the lab.
He is calling for carmakers to be more open about what they do with temperature.
"They need to be clear as to what strategies are employed," he said.
The German government has asked Opel, Mercedes, VW, Porsche and Audi to upgrade the software controlling emissions on around 630,000 European vehicles, including thousands in the UK.
Unlike in Germany though, the UK government hasn't asked car firms to make changes.
A Department for Transport spokesman said: "The regulations are clear that temperature control devices can be justified to prevent engine damage, but we want to see action to ensure that manufacturers are only using these systems in limited circumstances".
Still, some argue that ministers are failing to get tough on powerful carmakers which employ lots of people in Britain.
Carmakers keep engineering details close to their chest, so we don't know for certain how any of their systems work and at what temperatures. They argue that this information is commercially sensitive and stress they haven't broken any rules.
But there is some information available that gives clues.
Vauxhall has been accused by German media of not using one of its diesel cleaning systems for 80% of the time on one model. It is something the company flatly denies.
"Exhaust gas recirculation [the emissions cleaning system] remains active at temperatures below 17C, however, for physical reasons related to engine protection as permitted by the regulations, with differing rates", a spokesperson for the firm said.
In other words it is on, but not at full strength below 17C.
Suzuki said it is changing the software on 3,200 cars in the UK, all of which use Fiat engines, and added it is linked to temperature. Fiat could not provide numbers but did say: "As a voluntary measure, not mandated or requested by any regulatory authorities, FCA will be updating its Euro 6 calibrations with new data sets to improve emission performance in real driving conditions".
Renault is offering anyone with a car bought from September last year to July this year a software upgrade that will double the temperature range of the emissions system.
And Mercedes say they will adjust around 26,000 A class and B class models in the UK, all with Renault engines and it will lower NOx levels.
Ford says its system works normally until it gets to -10C outside.
Mike Hawes, the chief executive of industry body The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, told the BBC: "Any manufacturer that's responded has done so on a voluntary basis, because all the vehicles that have been put on the road are legal. It's a small number".
Mr Hawes also stressed that it was all about protecting engine parts, which is good for customers.
European regulations will begin to get much tighter from 2017 although they will not be fully in place until 2021. Mike Hawes says it will get rid of this temperature issue completely.
What it will not do of course, is deal with the millions of cars driving around for the next 15 years that could be affected.
Pollution is a balancing act.
The down side of cutting NOx gases is that the engine uses more fuel. The more fuel you use, the more carbon dioxide the car puts out and that's a greenhouse gas that harms the planet.
Emissions Analytics found that, in 2015, average mpg dropped for the first time in years. Probably because the car firms are concentrating more on cleaning up NOx.
"That is evidence that the tightening emissions regulations are having a negative effect on mpg," Mr Molden says. Although he thinks vehicle engineers will eventually find a way around the problem.
Pollution has been linked to heart attacks, strokes, breathing problems and premature babies. There is a suggestion that children going to school near busy roads may develop smaller lungs.
Professor Frank Kelly at King's College London has been calling for tighter rules for years, especially with diesel vehicles.
"On average we think pollution is probably taking away about six months of life for the average British citizen," he says.
The Dane crashed at the exit of the 180mph Eau Rouge/Raidillon corner, bringing the race to a halt because of extensive damage to the barriers.
He was taken to hospital with a left ankle injury.
Magnussen, 23, later wrote on Twitter: "On my way home now with a sore ankle but will be ready for Monza."
Former senior aides Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni have been found guilty on nine counts of conspiracy and fraud.
The gridlock lasted several days and the two face up to 20 years in prison.
Mr Christie, now a senior adviser to Donald Trump, has denied any knowledge of the 2013 plot but court testimony cast doubt on that claim.
Prosecutors said the plan to shut down the George Washington Bridge was a way of exacting revenge on a local mayor who refused to back Mr Christie in his re-election bid.
Both Ms Kelly and Mr Baroni testified in court that the governor had known about the lane closures on the country's busiest bridge in advance.
A third aide who has already pleaded guilty, David Wildstein, testified that Mr Christie had laughed about the traffic jam during a 9/11 memorial service two days after the lanes were blocked.
Mr Christie launched an unsuccessful presidential run that came to an end in 2016, and was reportedly considered by Mr Trump as a possible running mate.
He released a statement shortly after the verdict was read saying "Like so many people in New Jersey, I'm saddened by this case and I'm saddened about the choices made by Bill Baroni, Bridget Kelly and David Wildstein.
"But let me be clear once again, I had no knowledge prior to or during these lane realignments, and had no role in authorizing them."
The governor added that he intends to "set the record straight in the coming days regarding the lies that were told by the media and in the courtroom".
Bridget Kelly, the governor's former chief of staff, had claimed in court that he had been a bully to her and that he once threw a water bottle at her.
One of the most damning pieces of evidence was an email that Ms Kelly wrote saying "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee".
Later, as the Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich complained about children being unable to get to school, she texted: "Is it wrong that I am smiling?"
During the trial both aides testified that they believed the lane closures were part of a legitimate traffic study.
They are due to be sentenced in February.
Ms Eagle told Labour's conference she disagreed with leader Jeremy Corbyn's stance of scrapping Trident but was keen to have a full and open debate.
She later predicted "something will have to give" when the party formalises its position.
Labour won't discuss Trident this week.
Delegates decided against choosing the issue of Trident renewal - which divides the party - for a full debate in Brighton. Read our full story here.
In her first speech since accepting the role earlier this month, Ms Eagle said those working in the submarine industry and the defence supply chain had a legitimate right to a voice.
She added: "I recognise and respect the different views in our party on the future of our nuclear deterrent. Jeremy knew that I disagreed with him about this when he appointed me. And he still asked me to do the job.
"At the last election, we were committed to having a much more transparent and public facing debate about our place in the world and how best we should fulfil it.
"Jeremy Corbyn has asked me to facilitate such a debate. And I will do that."
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, Ms Eagle was asked whether she would resign if the party adopted a position of opposing Trident renewal.
She added: "Let's have the debate, let's see what happens, and at the appropriate stage something will probably have to give one way or another."
"Keith just got caught with his head on the wrong side of the tackle," said Schmidt after the Aviva Stadium game.
"He was totally lucid in the changing rooms and remembered his involvements in the game.
"Those are promising signs and he will follow the concussion protocols."
Earls came off the field midway through the second half of the second World Cup warm-up match between the nations during the month of August.
Ireland complete their World Cup preparations against England at Twickenham next Saturday, and there is little doubt that they will require an improved display.
"To be honest, it is a little bit of deja vu," reflected Schmidt after his side's disappointing reverse on home soil.
"We conceded a lot of penalties at the Millennium Stadium during the Six Nations last season, and I think we were six-nil down on penalties on Saturday when we were 10-0 down on the scoreboard.
"You can't give Leigh Halfpenny goal-kicking opportunities, because he is too good at it. You can't give a team the quality of Wales the opportunity to enter into your defensive zone, because they will make you pay for it."
The Ireland coach added: "I said to the players in the changing room 'it's going to be very tough next week'.
"They (England) are going to look to rebound from a slip-up in France, and they are going to bring a really physical performance to Twickenham to lay down a marker prior to the World Cup, and we are going to have to walk in there and man-up and do the best we can."
Meanwhile, Ireland skipper Paul O'Connell was disappointed that his final international appearance on home soil ended on a losing note.
"There are certain things we wanted to improve on from the Scotland game, and we probably didn't do that. From our point of view that is disappointing," said the second row.
"There are some things that we pride ourselves on, and we didn't do a whole lot of those very well, with discipline being one of them."
Thomas Mair, 53, is accused of shooting and stabbing Mrs Cox, 41, in Birstall, near Leeds, on June 16.
He is also charged with grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon.
At the Old Bailey in London, the court heard Mr Mair's health would not be part of the defence.
He was due to appear via video link from Belmarsh jail, but his barrister gave permission for the brief hearing to be held in his absence because the link wasn't working.
Mr Mair, from Birstall, is being held in custody and is due to appear at the same court on 4 October.
This week, Robbie Lyle - the man behind the ever-entertaining ArsenalFanTV - is joined by Sammy, Jack and Ben from the Fulhamish podcast as Lawro's opponents.
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ArsenalFanTV have almost 350,000 subscribers on YouTube and their passionate, opinionated post-match interviews have attracted viewers far beyond the club's fanbase.
Former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville has agreed to appear on the channel after calling some of the opinions aired after the Gunners defeat to Chelsea earlier this month "embarrassing".
Robbie has particularly fond memories of the 2014 final when Arsenal recovered from conceding two goals in the opening eight minutes to beat Hull 3-2 in extra time and win their first trophy in nine years.
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"I looked over at Arsene Wenger and he looked a worried man, he could have been out of a job if we lost that final," he told BBC Sport. "It was typical Arsenal, we did it the hard way, but we did it."
Sammy, Jack and Ben chose a snowy night at Molineux for Fulham's No Guts, No Glory moment, part of a BBC Sport campaign to capture drama from the competition's illustrious past from every fan's perspective.
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* Away team to win at home in the replay
** Home team to win away in the replay
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Robbie and the Fulhamish boys need a big performance to claim top spot on the FA Cup leaderboard after BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ A Dot stormed in at number one with some precise predictions in round four.
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Burnley v Lincoln City (12:30 GMT)
I think that Lincoln, more than fellow National League side Sutton, are the real success story of the FA Cup so far. As well as beating Championship side Brighton at home in the last round, they went and beat Ipswich in the third round.
Burnley away is probably one of the worst draws they can have though. Sean Dyche's side are strong, physical and very well organised - there won't be many in that team that roll over when they are on the wrong end of a heavy tackle.
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Lincoln will have made lots of money, lots of friends and, having won all three games since beating Brighton, their run does not seem to have detracted from the rest of their season.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Robbie: Burnley are very, very strong at home, I think it is going to be the end of the road for Lincoln unfortunately. 2-0
Fulhamish: 1-1
Match preview
Huddersfield Town v Manchester City
Manchester City are playing Monaco in the Champions League last 16 on Tuesday, but Pep Guardiola has picked strong teams in the FA Cup so far this season.
Huddersfield are going great guns under manager David Wagner. They have won six straight games coming into this match which takes some doing in the dog-eat-dog Championship.
But City have hit a good run of form that has coincided with a 4-3-3 formation that they have hit on with Raheem Sterling, Leroy Sane and Gabriel Jesus up front.
Jesus is out, but they have Sergio Aguero - one of the best strikers in the country - to come in. That's not bad.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Robbie: 1-3
Fulhamish: We beat Huddersfield 5-0 earlier this season, but they are going well in the league. With City possibly resting players ahead of the Champions League, you can imagine it will be a tight game, but perhaps not an upset. 1-2
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Middlesbrough v Oxford
This is an absolute free hit for Oxford. Middlesbrough don't score many goals at home, so there is no need to park the bus. They should go and have a real go at Aitor Karanka's lot.
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I would love my old team to get through, but I fear this might be a hurdle too far.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Robbie: 1-0
Fulhamish: 1-0
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Millwall v Leicester
League One Millwall have picked up two Premier League scalps already on their run, with Bournemouth and Watford falling by the wayside. They have not lost in 12 games.
But Leicester are in a serious mess if they can't go away to Millwall and avoid defeat at the very least. It will be interesting to see which team Claudio Ranieri picks. That 2-0 defeat by Swansea at the weekend might have been the last straw for some. Maybe a change of personnel will provide the impetus they need.
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I can't see Millwall winning again though.
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Robbie: 1-0
Fulhamish: I can smell an upset here, big time. Millwall love the FA Cup, they beat Premier League Watford pretty comfortably in the last round and Leicester are not looking great. 2-0
Match preview
Wolves v Chelsea (17:30 GMT)
I was at Wolves' 2-1 win over Liverpool in the last round and they had a real go. Their left-sided attacker Helder Costa looked a real handful that day and two days later Wolves announced that they had bought him for £13m on a permanent deal. One way or another, I think he will end up in the Premier League soon.
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Chelsea looked very good for the first 20 minutes of their draw against Burnley, but were pretty ordinary for the next 70. They didn't get beaten though and that is why they are going to win the league.
They may not be involved in any other competitions, but manager Antonio Conte won't want the bother of a replay.
Lawro's prediction: 0-1
Robbie: 0-2
Fulhamish: You couldn't look further than Wolves on this one could you? Comfortable for the hosts. 3-0
Match preview
Fulham v Tottenham (14:00 GMT - live on BBC One from 13:40 GMT)
Fulham are one of the most attractive teams to watch in the Championship. There is a lot of talk of 16-year-old left-back Ryan Sessegnon, who is an outstanding prospect, but Tom Cairney in midfield is a very good player. In Slavisa Jokanovic, the former Watford boss, they have a manager who really should still be in the Premier League as well.
We are not quite sure what sort of team Tottenham will put out. They included Harry Kane, Dele Alli and other first-choice players from the start against Gent in the Europa League on Thursday night which might be a factor.
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.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Robbie: Come on Fulham! No, I'm trying not to be biased doing this, but this is a game where you could see a shock. Fulham are playing some decent stuff at home, Tottenham will probably rest a few players, you never know. 1-1.
Fulhamish: I think we can pull off an upset, but it is going to be a very, very close game. We are two clubs with strong footballing identities, who love to keep possession, and have great full-backs. 1-1
Match preview
Blackburn v Manchester United (16:15 GMT)
In terms of the depth of quality, Manchester United have as good a squad as any. Even if they make six or seven changes for this, they will field a team that would finish halfway up the Premier League.
Blackburn are down in the Championship relegation zone, but they have had plenty of bad luck with disallowed goals and sendings-off in recent weeks.
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If there is going to be a big protest from the Blackburn fans against the Venky's owners to coincide with United's visit and the television cameras, that won't help the players.
The Ewood Park pitch is a large one which is not good for the hosts.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Robbie: 0-3
Fulhamish: 2-3
Match preview
Sutton United v Arsenal (19:55 GMT - live on BBC One from 19:30 GMT)
On certain days against certain teams, Arsenal are mentally weak. That is not something that you can instil in people and without it there is only so far you can go. We saw that in that 5-1 defeat away to Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Wednesday night.
I'm a massive fan, but I think that Arsene Wenger will leave at the end of the season when his contract is up. I think it has come to a natural conclusion.
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I think Arsenal will win against Sutton. It'll be tough because Sutton are very good at playing on their artificial surface, but they can't win an argument in the National League. Since beating Leeds in the fourth round, they have scored one goal and conceded 10 in four matches. It is understandable if they have switched off mentally.
Lawro's prediction: 0-3
Robbie: It's the big one. You look at it and think it is going to be a standard win for Arsenal. But you know what we are like! I think the plastic pitch might be a bit of an advantage to Arsenal, suiting our passing game more than a mud bath. I can see us winning this, although we'll probably pick up about three injuries on the way. 0-3
Fulhamish: 1-3
Match preview
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Last weekend, Lawro got six correct results, with three perfect scores, from the 10 games for a total of 150 points.
He beat hip-hop star Loyle Carner,who got five correct results, with one perfect score for a tally of 80 points.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week 22 v James McAvoy)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
The 26-year-old man is in a "serious" condition after the assault in Netherton Way, Bootle.
Police were called to Royal Liverpool University Hospital after the man reported driving 20 minutes to casualty.
A number of police cars surrounded the site after the man was admitted.
Witnesses are being sought.
Det Ch Insp Gayle Rooney said: "It appears the victim was specifically targeted by the offenders, who it is believed are known to him, and witnesses have described two Mercedes vehicles being involved."
The government has initialled a draft agreement, but requested a further 15 days before signing in full.
International sanctions had been threatened by mediators if both sides failed to reach an agreement on Monday.
Tens of thousands have died and more than two million have been displaced since fighting broke out in 2013.
Rebel leader Riek Machar, who did sign the deal, said he had expected more concessions from Mr Kiir, and did not know beforehand that the South Sudanese president would fail to sign it.
President Kiir's team had "reservations" over the deal and wanted 15 days for "consultations" before returning to sign it, Seyoum Mesfin, mediator for the regional group Igad, told the media.
Mr Mesfin described it as "a great day in the forward movement of the peace process in South Sudan", despite noting that the signing of the deal was "not complete".
James Copnall, BBC South Sudan analyst
For the past few weeks, President Kiir's camp had complained about the proposed peace deal.
How could they sign a document which would give so much power to Riek Machar and his rebels? Surely the proposed security arrangements were detrimental to South Sudan's sovereignty?
There were several supposedly spontaneous (but probably organised) demonstrations against the foreign imposition of a peace deal. So on one level, President Kiir's decision not to sign the agreement is not a surprise.
Over the next two weeks, he will have to decide whether he can convince the hardliners within his own government and army that this is a deal worth accepting. One thing is clear, though: if he doesn't sign, all the international pressure - the threats of sanctions, arms embargoes and more - would then be concentrated fully on President Kiir and his side.
Tobias Ellwood, a British Foreign Office minister at the talks, said now was not the time to celebrate.
The contents of the deal are not yet clear, but there was disagreement about power-sharing in a transitional government.
Alongside Mr Machar, the deal was also signed by Pagan Amum, a senior South Sudanese politician who is representing other significant political figures accused of involvement in the alleged coup.
Mr Amum was recently reinstated as secretary general of the ruling SPLM.
Several previous ceasefire agreements have failed to hold.
South Sudan is the world's youngest country, having gained independence from neighbouring Sudan four years ago.
The leaders of Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia were also at the summit, as part of an international peace-building effort which includes the US, UK, EU, Norway, China, the African Union and the UN.
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President Kiir had initially decided not to attend the talks, saying that a recent split within the rebel forces made it impossible to sign a lasting deal, because not all parties would be present around the negotiating table:
"A peace that cannot be sustained cannot be signed," Mr Kiir said on Sunday.
In July, a UN report alleged that government troops had gang-raped and burned alive women and girls in the oil-rich Unity State, during an offensive against rebel forces.
The rebels have also been accused of carrying out widespread atrocities, killing civilians in attacks on mosques and hospitals.
The conflict erupted in December 2013 after Mr Kiir accused Mr Machar, his sacked deputy, of plotting a coup.
Mr Machar denied the allegation, but then formed a rebel army.
Much of the fighting has been carried out along ethnic lines, between Mr Machar's Nuer group and Mr Kiir's fellow Dinka, the two dominant ethnic groups in South Sudan.
It was the second of three main risings by supporters of King James VII of Scotland and II of England and his heirs.
UHI, the National Trust for Scotland and Saltire Society will hold events during August, September and October.
They will be held at Culloden Battlefield, the site of the Jacobites' defeat in April 1746.
Orain Nan Seumasach - Sounds of the Rising - will be the first of the events on 15 August.
The concert will explore the music and folklore of 1715.
A new temporary exhibition on the rising will open at the battlefield centre near Inverness on 6 September.
On 26 September, the Saltire Society will host a talk examining the Highland contribution to the rising.
Another talk organised by the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) History Department will be held on 24 October.
The 27-year-old was a free agent after leaving Highlanders prior to the Rugby World Cup.
Hardie, born in New Zealand with a Scottish grandmother, helped the Scots reach the quarter-finals of the tournament.
"It's a privilege to have the opportunity to stay in Scotland and play for a Scottish club," he said of his move to the Pro12 side.
"I see it as an exciting new challenge in my rugby career and I am really looking forward to joining up with the squad and competing for a place in the team.
"Edinburgh have made a strong start to the season and I hope I can help the boys and contribute to continuing that success."
Alan Solomons' side have won all four of their league matches so far this season.
"We are very happy to welcome John to Edinburgh," said the head coach. "He is a quality player who will add real value to our squad."
Hardie played for Southland in New Zealand before joining Super Rugby Highlanders, where he spent five years.
After being included in Vern Cotter's Scotland squad for the World Cup, he played in two of the warm-up matches for the tournament and then scored two tries in Pool B.
He was part of the side that lost 35-34 to Australia on Sunday, as the Scots came close to reaching the semi-finals for the first time since 1991.
Former Scotland back-row forward John Beattie says adding players like Hardie to the national squad "is working".
South Africa-born pair Josh Strauss and WP Nel joined Hardie in the Scots' World Cup squad after qualifying under residency rules while playing for Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh respectively under Scottish Rugby's 'project signings' system.
"Scottish rugby has pretty shaky grassroots foundations but in terms of how the national team is being looked after, we can build on something," said Beattie, who won 25 caps for Scotland between 1980 and 1987.
"There's a good coach in place. You can see that bringing in players from abroad is working - projects signings Strauss and Nel, that's working. Bringing in Hardie, who had already turned Scotland down three times, that worked.
"Whether it's the right or wrong thing to do, it's working.
"In terms of the top team, undoubtedly a good coach and a structure in place to make it work is having an effect. That team played better than any Scottish rugby team I think I've ever seen, even the 1990 Grand Slam team.
Scottish Rugby director of rugby Scott Johnson, who was interim head coach before Cotter took charge, believes it is "vital we continue to recruit well to develop our professional teams".
"John has proved himself to be an excellent professional and his performances during the Rugby World Cup consolidated our belief that we would like him continuing his rugby in Scotland," said the Australian.
"His addition to the Edinburgh Rugby squad will strengthen both his connection to rugby in the country and the team."
Record labels Warner and Universal sued VKontakte (VK) in 2014, demanding the removal of the pirated music and 50 million rubles ($1.4m) in damages.
The court ruling goes one step further by asking it to install preventative technology.
In July, VKontakte reached a settlement with Sony Music.
The Russian social network is something of an anomaly in the market, according to the body which represents the music industry, IFPI .
It told the BBC that VK is one of the few widely used social networks to still make pirated music available.
It had requested that the social network be forced to use fingerprint technology which could match uploaded music against a file of copyright music to filter out all pirated tracks.
It is unclear yet what technology will be used by VK but IFPI said that the ruling was good news for rights holders in Russia.
"This is a very important and positive decision for the Russian music market and for music creators in Russia," said IFPI chief executive Frances Moore.
"VK's infringing music service has been a huge obstacle to the development of a licensed business in Russia, making available hundreds of thousands of copyright-infringing tracks to more than 70 million daily users."
The Uruguayan, who joined Barca from Liverpool for £75m in July, was banned for four months for the incident.
"I found it hard to take in and realise what I had done," Suarez, 27, said.
"I'm only human and sometimes it's hard to face the truth. I didn't want to listen to anybody, or speak to anybody. I didn't want to accept it."
Suarez apologised to Chiellini on 30 June - six days after Uruguay's 1-0 Group D win over Italy - saying the Juventus defender "suffered the physical result of a bite in the collision he suffered with me".
Suarez initially said he lost balance and fell on the Italian face first.
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Chiellini accepted Suarez's apology via Twitter, saying the incident was "forgotten" and expressing hope Fifa would reduce his ban.
Suarez has been training and playing in friendlies, scoring two goals in Uruguay's 3-0 win over Oman on Monday.
The first competitive match he will be available for following his suspension is Barcelona's league match away to fierce rivals Real Madrid on Saturday, 25 October.
His new side are top of La Liga - four points clear of Real - after dropping just two points in their first seven games.
"I'm getting more anxious to play and help the team out," Suarez added.
"I'm the kind of person who believes that things happen for a reason, and out of all 19 teams in the league, it's precisely against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu that I'll make my comeback. There must be a reason."
Suarez's former side Liverpool have made a less assured start to their own league campaign, lying ninth after seven games in the absence of the striker who scored 31 goals last season.
Having led the 2013-14 title race with three games to go, Liverpool finished two points short of Premier League champions Manchester City and, while regretting the Reds' failure to win the title, Suarez is content he did all he could for his former club.
"Liverpool came so close to winning the Premier League, which would have been spectacular," he said.
"I appreciate all the work the team did, but I missed six matches and scored all those goals in the Premier League without being the penalty-taker.
"I really could leave happy because if I hadn't had the attitude and mentality to lead the team, I don't think Liverpool would have done as well as they did."
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They've starred in a David Attenborough documentary, and their affairs frequently make the local news. Facebook groups are dedicated to them, and academics study them.
They're a family of ten smooth-coated otters, and like many celebrities, they exude an aura of mystery, occasionally making an appearance to the delight of their many local fans. Like true stars though, when they do show their faces, they're extremely comfortable in front of the camera.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, these urban otters don't seem to mind the crowds of humans that inevitably gather to watch them frolic around in the water, or chomp their way through an unfortunate fish's head.
(On which subject, Singaporean otters seem to have expensive tastes - local media reported back in February that otters were suspected of having eaten more than $80,000 worth of ornamental koi carp on Sentosa, a resort island just off Singapore.)
It's difficult to imagine that in the 1970s smooth-coated otters were thought to have vanished from Singapore.
Now their resurging numbers are seen as a sign that the island's waterways are becoming cleaner, and last week "Ottie the Otter" became the official mascot of an island-wide conservation movement backed by the government.
"The otter is a particularly pertinent reminder of the need to continue preserving our environment so that we do not lose these beautiful creatures again," said a spokesman at the project launch.
Fittingly, the 13th International Otter Congress is taking place in Singapore this week, with the theme Otters and People.
The otters usually appear at about 17:30 in the evening. They don't always appear in the same place though, as I've found on many a frustrating occasion. I often meet others on the hunt for them, and we share stories about where we saw them last.
When you do find them, you get a proper show. They always seem to follow a similar pattern of behaviour. First they'll catch some fish, and proceed to happily tear them to pieces and devour them, either on the shore or in the water.
After dinner, they start to play, chasing each other around in the water - they remind me of a mixture between a dog, a cat and a seal. I've been reading up, and I know that most of this family is quite young - people think the smallest five were only born in December. Sometimes one of them gets separated from the group and mewing piteously, scrambles to catch up.
After about half an hour of this, and just as twilight begins to settle in, they'll scramble up the bank (cue lots of screaming from walkers taken by surprise), find a bit of bare earth, and start to roll around until they're coated in fine sand. A bit more frolicking, and then suddenly, just like that, it's time to go - they vanish down into the water, or under a bridge, in the space of a minute or two.
Interest in Singapore's otters is growing, according to OtterWatch, an informal Facebook-based community with links to the National University of Singapore, and recently the otter-watching community's vigilance proved vital in a rescue.
In May, a six-week-old pup named Toby nearly drowned when he fell off a ledge - he was rescued by a 60-year-old retiree who dived in to save him.
OtterWatch members noticed the adult otters had not gone back for him and raised the alarm. The pup was rescued again, and the next day was reunited with his family.
Generally though, the National Parks Board of Singapore advises that when encountering otters, it's best to stay at a distance, keep quiet and avoid flash photography.
They also advise people not to feed them, but as these photographs show, they have no problem catching their own fish.
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A gay couple popular in Poland, Jakub and Dawid, mime to George Michael songs, in a YouTube video promoted with the Twitter hashtag #Polandwakeup.
George Michael, who died in December, was "the greatest gay artist of our time", the LGBT activists said.
Poland's nationalist government, close to the Catholic Church, has been accused of restricting gay rights.
Jakub and Dawid plan to get married in June - but same-sex unions are illegal in Poland, so they will go to Portugal for the ceremony.
The campaigners said the video was aimed at an international audience, in the hope that "it might force the government to make at least civil unions legal".
A European Parliament resolution in 2007 condemned homophobia in Europe, including "the emerging climate of racist, xenophobic and homophobic intolerance in Poland".
It spoke of an anti-LGBT agenda in the Polish education system, and urged the Polish authorities to stop "public leaders inciting discrimination and hatred based on sexual orientation".
Among the Polish gay celebrities backing the George Michael video project were: dancer and singer Wiktor Korszla, vloggers Piotr Sokolowski and Pawel Dworak, hairdresser Tomasz Bozek, campaigners Marek and Jedrzej Idziak-Sepkowski and drag queens Charlotte Drag Queer and Aldona Relax.
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The boy, said to be Jack Pullen, was pulled from the River Etherow, in Broadbottom, near Hyde, at 17:45 BST on Tuesday.
Police believe he had been playing with friends in the river before the "tragic accident".
Tuesday was the hottest day of 2016 so far, according to the Met Office, with temperatures reaching 31C (87.8F).
Flowers were left at the riverside as Jack's father, Gary Pullen, from nearby Hattersley, spoke with reporters.
Overcome with emotion and accompanied by a woman, he said: "He just wanted to be a teenager and be out with his mates."
Jack had recently left Longendale High School in Hollingsworth, near Glossop.
A card at the scene read: "To Jack always in our hearts and thoughts, lots of love Family xxx"
Another read: "Jack, Heaven has gained a beautiful angel and we're all left wondering why. Such a beautiful kid. Jack we are all gonna miss you so much. Love you always XXX."
Det Insp Andy Sandiford said: "We have launched an investigation into this tragic incident which appears to have begun with a group of friends playing in the river on a hot summer's day.
"We understand the water appeared calm and shallow but there may have been strong undercurrents and hidden hazards beneath the surface.
"A team of detectives are investigating the incident and have concluded that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the boy's death."
He said the boy's family is being supported by specially trained officers.
A man who lives nearby, who declined to be identified, said: "One of my neighbours was first on the scene.
"They found a distraught 16-year-old wondering where his mate had gone.
"Everybody on the road is upset because we've seen them doing it. It's like a sign of summer seeing kids jump in and having a laugh."
He said he believed the boy had jumped from a rocky area approximately 2ft high.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has issued water safety advice on its website, which includes warnings about the depth of water and hidden dangers such as submerged shopping trolleys, opened tin cans or broken bottles and hidden currents.
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Alex Chalk said Gloucestershire had been given £4m by the government to tackle potholes but wanted to make sure the town gets its fair share.
He said he felt Cheltenham had been the "Cinderella" town of the county when it came to funding for road repairs.
Robin Markwell reports.
Play in Hong Kong was washed out for all four days of match without a ball being bowled.
Hong Kong are currently fourth in the table, seven points above Scotland, who are searching for their first win in the tournament after a draw and a loss.
Scotland drew at home with Afghanistan in rain-hit Stirling last June before losing in the Netherlands in September.
Scotland are scheduled to play one-day internationals on 26 and 28 January, followed by two Twenty20 internationals on 30 and 31 January in the build-up to the ICC World Twenty20 in India, which begins on 8 March.
Meanwhile, spinner Con de Lange has returned home from the tour following the birth of his second child.
Scotland squad: Preston Mommsen (capt), Alasdair Evans, Bradley Wheal, Calum MacLeod, Con de Lange, George Munsey, Josh Davey, Kyle Coetzer, Mark Watt, Matt Machan, Matthew Cross, Michael Leask, Richie Berrington, Rob Taylor, Safyaan Sharif.
In a Freedom of Information request, police confirmed the letters were distributed to members of the public.
The estate houses the Queen's residence and Anmer Hall, home to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
One letter said the estate "would take intrusions into their privacy, and that of their guests, seriously".
Norfolk Police handed out 13 letters during 2014 and 36 up to the end of November 2015.
It is not known if the letters were distributed for trespass or harassment, as Norfolk Police could not specify the exact reasons due to the manpower costs involved.
They have been given to photographers and media crews in the area.
An example of a letter seen by the BBC reminds people that Sandringham is a private estate.
"The understandable interest to film and photograph the Royal Family needs to be balanced with their rights to a private family life.
"Whilst in residence on the estate, members of the Royal Family and their guests have more than a reasonable expectation of privacy," said the letter.
The media are encouraged to speak to royal communications should they wish to broadcast or photograph on the estate, it adds.
Anmer Hall, a Georgian mansion, is about two miles (3km) east of the Queen's residence.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child, Prince George started attending the local Westacre Montessori nursery close to their family home in Anmer this month, generating much media interest.
Notices warning the media not to harass the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were also handed out by Norfolk Police in May, after the birth of Princess Charlotte.
The new centre is run by Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a gay Islamic scholar, married to a gay man, and the founder of Homosexual Muslims of France.
Mr Zahed regularly attends the Grand Mosque in Paris, but says he wants to create a more "inclusive" place for gay, lesbian and transgender Muslims.
He says many of them felt uncomfortable praying in established mosques.
"Many gay men don't go to the mosque because they don't want to be recognised," says Mr Zahed.
"They don't want to be ostracised because they wear earrings or because they're effeminate or they're transgender, something that's pretty obviously rejected in many mosques in France," he says.
Mr Zahed's South African gay husband has encountered similar problems. "The first time he came to the mosque he was wearing earrings. After the prayers somebody came up to him and tried to take them off and told him, 'This isn't right, you shouldn't do that here'. It was a kind of soft but very obvious aggression," says Mr Zahed.
He cites another recent case of what he describes as discrimination. "A transgender from a Muslim background died last summer. It was hard to find an imam to pray for her. Nobody wanted to. In the end, we had to do it. We had to pray for her," says Mr Zahed.
For the moment the place of worship is a room in a Buddhist prayer hall. The room holds more than 20 people and is decorated with calligraphy in Chinese characters.
London Imam Ajmal Masroor says that Mr Zahed's meeting room does not constitute a mosque as it does not fully adhere to Islamic preaching and practice.
Mr Zahed says his "mosque" is not trying to be specifically gay-friendly, but "inclusive". He is also trying to integrate the sexes in Islam. He wants men and women to be able to pray together, not just "gay and straight".
Men and women pray together in Mecca, he says, so why can't they in ordinary mosques?
So far the reaction from the rest of the Muslim community in France has been mixed. France has the largest Muslim community in Europe outside Russia.
The Paris Grand Mosque has issued an unequivocal statement. "The fact that he's opening a mosque or a prayer room is something that's outside the Islamic community. The Koran condemns homosexuality. It is banned," said a Grand Mosque spokesman.
Other Muslims have been intrigued enough to ask Mr Zahed how he justifies his stance. "People are trying to understand who we are, where we come from, what our interpretation of this or that verse of the Koran is, and that's diversity and dialogue and I'm happy with it," says Mr Zahed.
He also says he has received messages of support from ordinary Muslims in France.
He is, however, concerned enough about the safety of his new congregation to be reticent about revealing exactly where it will be meeting.
At the moment Mr Zahed is not getting any special protection from the French police and the French authorities have told him they are not aware of any specific threats from within the Muslim community.
But he is still concerned about violence "or a simple demonstration". Not least because if there are "demonstrations [outside] or threats when you are trying to get in, it's not going to be a peaceful context to be connected to each other and to pray".
Traditionally, Muslim religious authorities have opposed gay sex. They argue that the Koranic authority for this is the story of God's destruction of the city of Sodom because of its citizens' sins.
"Homosexuality is a choice, it's a desire, it's not something that you are born with," says the London imam Ajmal Masroor. Homosexuality is not acceptable for either Sunni or Shia Muslims, he says, because God intends for sex to occur between men and women only, within marriage, and "any sexual relationship outside marriage is a sin".
However, that does not mean that Muslims should discriminate against homosexuals, says Mr Masroor. Mosques are open to everyone.
Rather than trying to separate themselves homosexuals should be attending mosque like other Muslims, argues Mr Masroor. But they should not be trying to change the religion. "If you join Islam, you must conform to Islamic teachings."
Mr Zahed says that "Islam has nothing to do with homosexuality".
"Islam is not a totalitarian fascist identity. You should not use Islam to justify your prejudices and try to control the sexuality and gender of individuals," he says.
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed spoke to Newshour on the BBC World Service.
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The Sunday Times alleges football officials took a total of £3m in return for support of the Qatari bid.
Qatar's 2022 bid committee has issued a statement reiterating that it denies "all allegations of wrongdoing".
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Organisers are due to meet Fifa's ethics investigator Michael Garcia in Oman on Monday.
The New York lawyer is already conducting a long-running inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke also said a new vote should take place if it was shown a "corrupt system" had led to Qatar's win.
UK Sports Minister Helen Grant said it was "essential that major sporting events are awarded in an open, fair and transparent manner".
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme, Boyce said: "I, certainly as a member of the executive committee, would have absolutely no problem whatsoever if the recommendation was for a re-vote.
Bin Hammam was initially banned from football for life in July 2011 after being found guilty of attempted bribery.
The allegations centred around bids to buy votes in the Fifa presidential election of that year.
However, his ban was annulled a year later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport which said there was insufficient evidence to support the punishment.
Bin Hammam then quit football saying he had seen the "very ugly face of football".
Fifa issued him with a second life ban in December 2012 for "conflicts of interest" while he was president of the Asian Football Confederation.
In March 2014, the Daily Telegraph reported a company owned by Bin Hammam had paid former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and his family more than £1m. Payments were claimed to have been made shortly after Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
"If Garcia comes up with concrete evidence and concrete evidence is given to the executive committee and to Fifa, then it has to be looked at very seriously.
"The Fifa executive committee are 100% behind Garcia," he continued. "He will be allowed to go and speak to anyone from around the world to complete his mission."
The allegations of corruption centre on former Fifa official Mohammed bin Hammam, with The Sunday Times claiming to have obtained secret documents that implicate the former Asian Football Confederation president in corrupting members of football's governing body to win the right to stage the 2022 World Cup.
The newspaper alleges the documents, seen by BBC sports editor David Bond, show that Bin Hammam, 65, was lobbying on his country's behalf at least a year before the decision to award the country hosting rights.
They also allegedly show he had also made payments into accounts controlled by the presidents of 30 African football associations and accounts controlled by the Trinidadian Jack Warner, a former vice-president of Fifa.
Qatar's 2022 bid committee and Bin Hammam have always strenuously denied any wrongdoing and that he actively lobbied on their behalf in the run-up to the vote in December 2010.
When approached by The Sunday Times to respond to their fresh claims of obtaining secret documents, Bin Hammam's son Hamad Al Abdulla declined to comment on his behalf.
In a new statement issued on Sunday, the Qatar bid committee said it had "always upheld the highest standard of ethics and integrity in its successful bid to host the 2022 Fifa World Cup".
The committee said it was co-operating with Garcia's inquiry, adding: "We will take whatever steps are necessary to defend the integrity of Qatar's bid and our lawyers are looking into this matter.
"The right to host the tournament was won because it was the best bid and because it is time for the Middle East to host its first Fifa World Cup."
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FA chairman Dyke backed Boyce and said the "serious allegations" had to be investigated, adding: "I think if it is shown it was a corrupt system and that the people who won used bribes and other influences to get the vote, then of course it has got to be done again."
Bin Hammam has previously been at the centre of controversy in the football world. He was initially banned from the sport for life in July 2011 after being found guilty of attempted bribery over votes in that year's Fifa presidential election.
However, his ban was annulled a year later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which said there was insufficient evidence to support the punishment.
Archive: Russia & Qatar to host World Cups
Fifa issued him with a second life ban in December 2012 for "conflicts of interest" while he was president of the Asian Football Confederation.
In March 2014, The Daily Telegraph reported a company owned by Bin Hammam had paid Warner and his family more than £1m. Payments were claimed to have been made shortly after Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
Qatar, which defeated bids from South Korea, Japan, Australia and the United States, has always insisted Bin Hammam never had any official role supporting their bid and always acted independently from the Qatar 2022 campaign.
Meanwhile, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Jim Murphy told the BBC he had recently travelled to Qatar to investigate conditions of migrant employees working on World Cup infrastructure, amid accusations of abuse and deaths on building sites.
Almost 200 Nepalese men are reported to have died last year working on construction projects in Qatar.
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Murphy said: "The revelations in today's Sunday Times, if proven, now call into question whether Qatar should hold the World Cup at all.
"There now needs to be a forensic inquiry into each and every one of those emails and documents to work out who paid what, when, for what, and what was the ebb and flow of votes and voting allegiances as a consequence.
"If that's proven, then the building work in Qatar has to stop, the vote has to be re-run, it has to be free and fair, because football fans deserve that."
Murphy added: "If Fifa doesn't act, it's lost the right to lead the world of football. Let's hope Qatar won fair and square, but there has to be an investigation."
China's Sinoma will build seven plants across the continent and one in Nepal.
The new factories will add around 25 million tonnes to the firm's existing cement capacity of 45 million tonnes.
Mr Dangote's company also produces food, fertiliser and is investing in oil refineries.
He is keeping a close eye on China's economic problems and the ensuing lower oil price.
"Of course we are affected," he said, "but we are not badly affected because we are not 100% in oil.
"We are a fully diversified company. So today if oil is doing [badly] it doesn't mean we are doing [badly] and that's the good thing about diversification."
Africa's economies have been hit hard by the fall in commodity prices but many are seeing a boom in infrastructure, for which cement is vital.
Oliver Burke's sweet finish gave Forest an early lead before Cardiff responded with Aron Gunnarsson's deflected strike.
The Bluebirds dominated for long spells but were frustrated by a Forest side now unbeaten in seven games.
Tenth-placed Cardiff are now six points behind the play-off spots with Forest up to 14th.
Wayward finishing was the cause of Cardiff's demise as they had lost both their previous matches, and they were similarly unable to make their dominance pay against Forest.
Dougie Freedman's side had to withstand heavy pressure and, although they seemed content with a point, it was the visitors who took the lead.
A quick counter-attack culminated in a pass from Dexter Blackstock to Burke, who used the outside of his right foot to deftly guide a swerving shot into the net for his first Forest goal.
Cardiff's response was swift as, three minutes later, Gunnarsson's 20-yard shot took a sharp deflection to leave Forest keeper Dorus de Vries stranded.
The former Swansea stopper had a busy first half, holding on to a Joe Ralls shot before reacting superbly to deny Tony Watt with a one-handed save low to his left.
Despite Cardiff's dominance, the score remained 1-1 at the interval, and Russell Slade's side continued to press in the second half with Gunnarsson heading wide.
The hosts' attacking threat faded as the game wore on, however, and it was Forest who had the final chance as another former Swansea player, substitute Nelson Oliveira, blazed a close-range rebound over the bar.
Cardiff boss Russell Slade: "They parked the bus in the second half, sat very, very deep and made it difficult for us.
"They lived on the counter-attack and we could not unlock the door which is very frustrating, even though we did a lot of very good things in the game.
"They tried to kill the game and see it out from an early stage, but we should have been adding to our tally with the three good first-half chances we had.
"We will just keep working at it, and we played well against a good Forest side who, had they been any deeper, they would have needed snorkels."
Nottingham Forest manager Dougie Freedman: "I think we should have won it at the end, we had the two best chances of the game during that last 15 minutes.
"We tried to slow everything down and quiet their fans down and we felt that was the best way to do it.
"We made a lot of changes and we didn't complain about the number of fixtures. The younger guys we had come in gave us some freshness and allowed us to keep some guys on the bench and bring them on to try and win the game.
"With our transfer embargo I am going to need to be able to call on these players to get us through to the end of the season."
Match ends, Cardiff City 1, Nottingham Forest 1.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 1, Nottingham Forest 1.
Attempt missed. Nélson Oliveira (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nélson Oliveira.
Foul by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City).
Nélson Oliveira (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Joe Ralls.
Fabio (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Fabio (Cardiff City).
Henri Lansbury (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Henri Lansbury replaces Oliver Burke.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Federico Macheda replaces Craig Noone.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Nélson Oliveira replaces Dexter Blackstock.
Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Craig Noone (Cardiff City).
Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City).
Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City).
Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Ben Osborn replaces Jonathan Williams.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Peter Whittingham replaces Aron Gunnarsson because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) because of an injury.
Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest).
Foul by Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City).
Jonathan Williams (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Sammy Ameobi replaces Kenwyne Jones.
Foul by Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City).
Jonathan Williams (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Lee Peltier (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tony Watt.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City) header from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Pilkington with a cross.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Jack Hobbs.
Fabio (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oliver Burke (Nottingham Forest).
Attempt missed. Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross following a set piece situation.
Attempt blocked. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Analysts said investors remained nervous about slowing global growth, uncertainty over US interest rates and further falls in oil prices.
Greece's financial stocks were down more than 20% as the wider Athens Stock Exchange hit its lowest level since 1991.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 296.91 at 15,908.06.
While the Nasdaq Index fell 80.91 to 4282.23.
That followed sharp losses in Europe, as the FTSE 100 fell 2% to 5715.26 and Athens hit a 25-year low.
Brent crude oil futures, a closely watched benchmark, was down 2.3% to $33.28 a barrel at 15:15 (GMT).
On Wall Street, financial stocks were among the worst hit amid concerns that low interest rates in the US, Europe and Japan are hurting bank margins.
Goldman Sachs was the biggest loser in early trading on the Dow, falling almost 4%, while Visa was down 3% and JP Morgan 2.9%.
That followed similar falls for bank stocks in Europe, with HSBC down 3%, Commerzbank slumping more than 7% and BNP Paribas falling 4%.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at traders CMC Markets UK, said investors in bank stocks were nervous about poor recent results "alongside the ugly spectre of negative interest rates".
US tech stocks also continued their falls from Friday, with Amazon and Facebook both down 3%.
Investors see tech stocks as particularly exposed to slowing consumer spend, according to Adam Laird, of Hargreaves Lansdown.
He said: "We are still seeing a concern that the world is slowing and perhaps the good times of the last couple of years might not be persisting."
Police officers carried out arrests on Thursday in connection with alleged sex offences against females which occurred between 2008 and 2015.
Six men were charged with the rape of a girl under 16 as well as other sexual offences, while a seventh man was charged with conspiracy to rape.
Six men - all from Oxford - will appear before Oxford magistrates.
They are: Shabir Dogar, 22; Shabaz Khan, 23; Shohab Dogar, 23; Yasin Hamid, 20; Usman Iddris, 22; and Joseph Suraina, 22.
Waqas Hussain, 24, of no fixed abode, will appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on 4 April.
Mr Hussain has also been charged with the attempted sexual assault of a girl under 13, as have Shabir Dogar and Shohab Dogar.
The raids were part of what the police are calling Operation Nautical.
A further 10 men were also arrested on Wednesday as part of the same operation.
Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the strike hit a training camp where a "large-scale" attack was being planned.
"We know they were going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and [African Union] forces," Captain Davis said.
"Initial assessments are that more than 150 terrorist fighters were eliminated," he added.
Mr Davis said the strike, by both drones and manned aircraft, took place on Saturday and targeted Raso Camp, a training facility about 120 miles (195km) north of the capital, Mogadishu.
The camp had been under surveillance for some time, according to Mr Davis. "There was a sense that the operational phase was about to happen," he said.
He said the group had neared the completion of specialist training to conduct "offensive operations", but did not give any details about the alleged plans.
Al-Shabab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, was pushed out of Mogadishu by African Union peacekeeping forces in 2011 but has continued to launch frequent attacks in its bid to overthrow the Western-backed government.
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The group has said it carried out a string of recent attacks including a twin bombing at a busy restaurant in the Somali city of Baidoa last month.
Also on Monday, the Australian navy said it had seized a huge cache of weapons on a fishing boat off the coast of Oman that was apparently heading for Somalia.
Grenade launchers, machine guns, and 2,000 assault rifles were concealed under fishing nets, a Navy spokesman said.
Crippling al-Shabab is top of a recently-announced US military strategy for Africa, which also includes addressing the situation in Libya and containing Boko Haram in West Africa. With drones from its nearby bases in neighbouring Djibouti, the US has succeeded in striking hard at the heart of al-Shabab operations, including killing Ahmed Godane, the leader of the jihadi group, in 2014.
The jihadis have since learned that they are often watched by surveillance aircraft and so they tend to meet under trees to avoid detection. This method has its limits, as this latest incident shows. They cannot train at will without being seen.
Al-Shabab maintains its determination to establish its rule over Somalia, hence its resilience and increasingly sophisticated attacks. The group is suspected to be behind an explosion at a security checkpoint at the Beledweyne airport which could have been more lethal had the explosives got aboard an airliner.
28 February - on a restaurant and busy junction in Baidoa killing at least 30 people
26 February - on Mogadishu's SYL hotel killing nine people
21 January - on a restaurant at Mogadishu's Lido beach killing 20 people
15 January - on a Kenyan base in el-Ade that Somalia's president said killed at least 180 soldiers
A record-equalling 10 Britons were among the 198 starters in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Saturday, 4 July.
Time trials, crosswinds, cobbles and six-summit finishes, including one atop l'Alpe d'Huez in the penultimate stage, featured in the 102nd edition which climaxed in Paris on 26 July.
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Winner: Rohan Dennis (Aus/BMC)
Report: Dennis in yellow with record speed
The people of Utrecht in the Netherlands poured out in their thousands to watch Australian Rohan Dennis record the quickest average speed ever in a Tour de France stage. The BMC rider was five seconds clear of German Tony Martin in the 13.8km time trial, finishing in a record average speed of 55.446 km/h. Meanwhile, Britain's Chris Froome and the other yellow jersey contenders are within 20 seconds of each other.
Winner: Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto-Soudal)
Report: Froome gains time on rivals
Amid the coastal winds and sporadic rain on the way to Zeeland, there were plenty of talking points. The conditions created a split in the peloton that saw Chris Froome put as much as one minute and 28 seconds between himself and some of his major yellow jersey rivals. Mark Cavendish failed to win a 26th stage, coming up short against Andre Greipel when moving early in the sprint finish. And Fabian Cancellara also beat Cavendish, coming third to claim the yellow jersey.
Winner: Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa/Katusha)
Report: Froome surges into yellow jersey
Another day of drama as two crashes, one involving race leader Fabian Cancellara, forced the race to be neutralised and stopped. When racing resumed, Joaquim Rodriguez proved strongest up the punishing Mur de Huy but the bigger story was Chris Froome gaining more time on his rivals in the race for the overall Tour victory.
Winner: Tony Martin
Report: Martin wins to take yellow off Froome
A stage that promised so much, delivered on excitement, if not on big time gaps between the riders chasing the overall race victory. Chris Froome, Alberto Contador, Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana all finished together, three seconds behind stage winner Tony Martin. For Martin, it was a deserved solo win and the reward of the yellow jersey after narrowly missing out on the opening three days.
Winner: Andre Greipel
Report: Greipel strikes for a second time
Andre Greipel - tipped by Geraint Thomas before the Tour to win this one - held off his rivals in a sprint finish as Mark Cavendish finished third. Chris Froome and all of his rivals finished together in the pack.
Winner: Zdenek Stybar
Report: Tour leader Martin in dramatic crash
Race leader Tony Martin smashes his collarbone in a crash inside the final kilometre and is ruled out of the rest of the race. In the confusion that follows, Martin's Etixx - Quick-Step team-mate Zdenek Stybar rides off for the victory. Martin's withdrawal from the race leaves Britain's Chris Froome as leader.
Winner: Mark Cavendish
Report: Cavendish ends drought to claim 26th Tour win
Mark Cavendish times his sprint to perfection as he comes past Andre Greipel in the final 50m to record his 26th career stage victory at the Tour and take third on his own on the all-time list. The Manx Missile has just legendary five-time Tour winners Bernard Hinault (28) and Eddy Merckx (34) ahead of him.
Winner: Alexis Vuillermoz
Report: Froome retains yellow as Nibali loses time
The 2km slog up the Mur de Bretagne sees defending champion Vincenzo Nibali lose a further 10 seconds on his general classification rivals Chris Froome, Alberto Contador and Nairo Quintana, who all finish together. France's Alexis Vuillermoz races clear to take the stage by five seconds from Ireland's Dan Martin.
Winner: BMC Racing
Report: Team Sky edged out but Froome keeps yellow
American team BMC Racing live up to their world champions billing by winning the team time trial but Team Sky pushed them close. In fact, had they not had to wait for Nicolas Roche on the climb to the finish, they would have won the stage.
Winner: Chris Froome
Report: Froome destroys field to extend lead
In a fortnight's time, will we look back at this as the day Froome won the Tour? He broke away with 6.4km left of the first summit finish of this year's race to win emphatically and increase his overall lead to nearly three minutes.
Winner: Rafal Majka
Report: Froome maintains strong lead
Majka's third stage win at the Tour was never in doubt once he pulled away from a breakaway group during the climb up to the Tourmalet. The Pole finished a minute ahead of Ireland's Dan Martin, with leader Froome finishing safely alongside most of his rivals to retain the yellow jersey.
Winner: Joaquim Rodriguez
Report: Froome digs in as Rodriguez wins
Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez mounted a late surge up the hors categorie climb to Plateau de Beille to claim his second stage victory of the Tour. The 36-year-old had been part of a 22-man breakaway that gradually splintered as the climbs took their toll. Down the road, race leader Chris Froome resisted numerous attacks on the final climb to maintain his strong position in the race.
Winner: Greg van Avermaet
Report: Froome finishes sixth to maintain gap
In temperatures as hot as 38C in the south of France, Belgian Greg van Avermaet held off Peter Sagan in a thrilling sprint to win a stage otherwise short on drama. Team Sky's Chris Froome finished sixth and made sure he kept his solid lead in the general classification.
Winner: Steve Cummings
Report: Cummings takes stage as Froome extends lead
MTN-Qhubeka enjoyed a dream Mandela Day as Steve Cummings got into a 20-man breakaway and then surged past Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot at the end to claim the stage victory - his first in the Tour de France. Further down the road, Chris Froome resisted attacks from his yellow jersey rivals before extending his lead in the general classification.
Winner: Andre Greipel
Report: Greipel wins stage as Froome maintains lead
Mark Cavendish was left behind on the climb out of Mende at the start and was not involved as German Andre Greipel won a bunch sprint to claim his third stage victory of the Tour. It was a quiet day for the yellow jersey contenders, with Chris Froome maintaining his advantage.
Winner: Ruben Plaza
Report: Thomas crashes as Plaza takes stage
Warren Barguil got his line all wrong into a corner on the fast descent into the finish at Gap and ended up colliding with Geraint Thomas, who ended up over the side of the road after smacking a telegraph pole on the way. Thankfully, the Welshman emerged unscathed and was soon on his bike, finishing only a short distance behind the yellow jersey group. The stage was won by Spaniard Ruben Plaza, who slipped off the front of the day's 23-man breakaway to finish 30 seconds ahead of Peter Sagan.
Winner: Simon Geschke
Report:Froome leads as Thomas moves fourth
Simon Geschke sped clear on the ascent up the Col d'Allos to win his first Tour de France stage and make it five won by Germans at this year's event. Further down the road, Chris Froome successfully defended attacks by Nairo Quintana to maintain his overall lead, while Tejay van Garderen was forced to retire through illness.
Winner: Romain Bardet
Report: Bardet earns second French stage win
Frenchman Romain Bardet gave the home crowds something to celebrate with a stage win secured with a break on the arduous Col du Glandon. Britain's yellow jersey holder Chris Froome was once again challenged in the mountains, but continued his staunch defence of his overall lead.
Winner: Vincenzo Nibali
Report: Froome's lead cut by Quintana
Chris Froome received his toughest examination yet as he chased Nairo Quintana up the final climb to surrender 32 seconds to the Colombian, who goes into stage 20 trailing by two minutes 38 seconds. Defending champion Vincenzo Nibali won the stage, but his initial break came when Froome had suffered a mechanical fault, which is frowned upon in Tour tradition.
Winner: Thibaut Pinot
Report: Froome set to win second Tour title
Chris Froome is set to become the first Briton to win two Tours de France after a thrilling finish to the penultimate stage on Alpe d'Huez. The Team Sky rider was attacked by second-placed Nairo Quintana on the final ascent of this year's race but he managed to limit his losses and retain a 72-second advantage that will see him crowned champion on Sunday in Paris.
Winner: Andre Greipel
Report:Froome completes historic Tour win
Chris Froome crossed the finish line in Paris arm-in-arm with his Team Sky team-mates to complete his historic Tour de France win. Andre Greipel won the final stage, sprinting to victory on the Champs-Elysees, with Mark Cavendish sixth.
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But even though these might show huge amounts of detail about exams, they will not reveal much about the levels of happiness among pupils.
Sir Anthony Seldon, a university head, former head teacher and mental health campaigner, says school league tables should include measures of well-being.
He says this could help to tackle an "epidemic of mental health" problems.
"As long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well-being as seriously as they should," said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham.
He says that the Office for National Statistics regularly measures well-being - and that it would be possible to make school-level comparisons.
This could include comparing the resources put into pastoral care, such as staffing and support services, and surveying a sample of pupils to see their views on school life.
Sir Anthony, speaking on World Mental Health Day, has campaigned for well-being to be taken more seriously in schools.
But he says that despite warnings about rising numbers of young people with mental health problems, schools still are not being encouraged enough to prevent "avoidable suffering".
Exam league tables in England are due to be overhauled again to show how much academic progress is made by pupils.
But Sir Anthony says parents want to know more about a school than its exam results.
"It is perfectly clear to me, as a head of schools for 20 years, that parents will pay more heed to the well-being tables than to the exam league tables.
"They know, even if the government doesn't, that schools that prioritise well-being, which includes challenging and stretching students, also build character and help them to perform better than those schools which are just exam factories."
He says that pupils need help while they are still at school.
"By the time students arrive at 18, the damage has been done."
Figures published last month by the Office for National Statistics, showed the highest number of suicides by 15 to 19 year olds since 1998.
And a succession of reports have highlighted concerns about unhappiness, anxiety and depression among young people.
A report from the Higher Education Policy Institute warned that universities were struggling to cope with rising demand for mental health services.
A study published by the Department for Education showed that teenage girls now were more likely to show signs of "psychological distress" than a decade ago.
This blamed pressures from social media and the fact that young people felt less control over their lives.
A report from the Children's Society showed higher levels of anxiety and unhappiness among teenage girls, compared with five years ago.
An online tool kit to help schools identify and monitor mental health problems has been launched by Public Health England and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
The intention is to make staff better informed and better able to evaluate pupils' problems.
"Growing up in today's world can be tough. From negative comments on social media to pressures to look a certain way, the well-being of young people is at risk," said the minister for vulnerable children and families, Edward Timpson
"That's why we want teachers to be able to spot the signs that their pupils are having difficult thoughts or feelings and feel confident about supporting them."
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Bob Bradley was sacked on Tuesday after just 85 days in charge, with the Swans 19th in the Premier League.
Giggs, 43, was interviewed twice before Bradley's appointment in October.
Former Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson, ex-Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew and ex-Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett are also in the frame.
Bradley's permanent successor is not expected to take charge before their Premier League match at home to Bournemouth on New Year's Eve.
First-team coaches Alan Curtis and Paul Williams will take the reins temporarily for that game, but the Swans are keen to make a swift appointment.
Boxing Day's 4-1 home defeat by West Ham was Swansea's seventh in 11 games since Bradley took over and leaves them on 12 points, above bottom side Hull on goal difference.
At the time of Bradley's arrival, Swansea were above the relegation zone on goal difference but have picked up just eight points out of a possible 33 since, conceding 29 goals in the process.
Swansea Chairman Huw Jenkins is known to be a huge admirer of ex-Wales winger Giggs, who has taken some time out after leaving Old Trafford in the summer following two years working as Louis van Gaal's assistant.
However, after being snubbed in favour of Bradley, it is not known whether Giggs retains an interest in the job.
Swansea-born Coleman, 46, spent four years with the club as a player at the start of his career and has experience in the Premier League as a manager, having spent four years at Fulham after taking over from Jean Tigana in 2003.
He signed a two-year contract extension with Wales in May before guiding them to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 this summer.
However, it is understood Swansea could offer him a bigger salary than the one he is currently on and with Wales presently third in their qualifying group, there is a possibility they may miss out on a place at the 2018 World Cup.
Giggs' only managerial experience was a four-game stint as Manchester United's interim player-manager at the end of the 2013-14 season.
He had worked under David Moyes earlier in that campaign and was assistant manager to van Gaal afterwards, but left in July following Jose Mourinho's appointment.
The former Wales captain spoke with Swansea's hierarchy on two occasions before Bradley was appointed, and the club's chairman Huw Jenkins is thought to have been impressed by Giggs.
Rene Meulensteen, Manchester United's former first team coach, believes Giggs would be well suited to Swansea.
"I don't agree with Ryan not having management [experience]. He's got his apprenticeship in his time as an assistant manager at Manchester United," the Dutchman told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"Is it the right time for him? He has to start somewhere. And in many ways when he was linked with Swansea [in October], I thought it would be a really good club for him.
"The club needs to sort itself out now because it's lost its stability and continuity it's had over the last five or six years."
He headed home his first goal for the club after goalkeeper Rob Elliot raced off his line to punch a corner, but sent it straight to the midfielder.
Georginio Wijnaldum went closest for Newcastle, but his powerful header was saved by Tim Howard.
The win moves Everton up to ninth while Newcastle drop into the relegation zone.
Read about how Newcastle's game with Everton unfolded
Results and reaction to all the Boxing Day games
Jamie Vardy's goals may have propelled the Leicester striker into the limelight this season, but in Romelu Lukaku Everton have the division's deadly striker at the moment. As a result, all eyes were on the Belgium international before kick-off.
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Lukaku had scored in each of the Toffees' previous eight games, and needed one more to equal Dixie Dean's record of scoring in nine games in a row for Everton, which has stood for 88 years.
He should have scored when Everton were on top in the opening stages of the first half, but shot straight at Elliot in the Newcastle goal, and had another chance midway through the second half, turning his marker before seeing his powerful drive stopped.
When Lukaku shot over from a rebound after Funes Mori's header was saved, it looked like not being his, or Everton's day.
That was until Cleverley, without a goal in his 10 previous appearances for Everton, kept his composure to head home.
In what has been a miserable season so far for Newcastle, the emergence of Elliot has been of the few positives.
He started the season as Newcastle's third-choice keeper but got his chance to impress when number one Tim Krul was ruled out for the season after injuring himself on international duty in October.
With Krul's deputy, Karl Darlow, out with an ankle injury, Elliot came into the side against Norwich in October and has not looked back.
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He was on course for a man-of-the-match performance against Everton, producing a string of fine saves from Lukaku and Aaron Lennon.
A weak punch ultimately proved costly, but the game could have been out of sight long before Cleverley struck if not for Elliot.
Newcastle boss Steve McClaren: "Last kick of the game, what a huge disappointment. I am disappointed for the players because they gave everything. They did not deserve to lose.
"All we can do is pick ourselves up and go again. We could have won the game, we shouldn't have lost it but we did."
Everton boss Roberto Martinez: "We knew that Newcastle had been very consistent in their last three performances. I was really pleased with the manner in which we played.
"We had a complete performance. We defended well and created a huge amount of chances. To get it in the last minute it feels emotionally a better win."
Newcastle travel to West Brom on Monday while Everton host Stoke on the same day.
Police found 2,489 packages and envelopes in Grant McCrone's property in Balmoral Avenue in Dumfries in May.
Dumfries Sheriff Court heard that the mail dated back to between September and December 2012.
McCrone, 26, who admitted stealing and intentionally delaying the mail, was sentenced to a community payback order and 180 hours of unpaid work.
The court heard that of the packages discovered, 2,388 were not addressed.
The Royal Mail had a contract to deliver them to certain postcode areas. It was likely they contained promotional material.
The remaining 101 packages were addressed to individuals. A total of 60 had been opened.
Sheriff Brian Mohan was told that McCrone was "a hard working, intelligent and, with the exception of this matter, a law abiding man".
He committed the crime when his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
He initially hid the mail at his family home before he moved to Balmoral Avenue after his father's death.
Sheriff Mohan said McCrone had breached the trust of the Royal Mail and its customers and he had narrowly avoided a prison sentence.
The court was told that McCrone was sacked by Royal Mail for gross misconduct on 6 June.
A fuel tank and warehouses were damaged, the Sana news agency said.
But Syrian rebel sources said an arms depot run by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, which is fighting in Syria as an ally of the government, was hit.
Israel said the explosion was "consistent" with its policy to prevent Iran smuggling weapons to Hezbollah.
But it stopped short of confirming it was responsible.
Israel regards Hezbollah, and its key backer Iran, as its biggest threat. It went to war with Hezbollah in 2006 and the group has grown considerably more powerful since then.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that the powerful blast was heard across the capital at dawn on Thursday and that it was believed to have happened near the main road that leads to the airport.
Sana said several missiles had been fired at a military site south-west of the airport, causing explosions that resulted in some material losses.
Pro-government Al-Mayadeen TV cited sources as saying that missiles had been fired by Israeli jets flying inside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Two senior rebel sources based in Damascus told Reuters news agency that the missiles had hit an ammunition depot in a closed military area that was used by Iran-backed militias operating alongside the Syrian army, led by Hezbollah.
Appearing to confirm Israeli involvement, Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told Israeli Army Radio: "I can confirm that the incident in Syria corresponds completely with Israel's policy to act to prevent Iran's smuggling of advanced weapons via Syria to Hezbollah in Iran. Naturally, I don't want to elaborate on this."
"The prime minister has said that whenever we receive intelligence that indicated an intention to transfer advanced weapons to Hezbollah, we will act."
The Israeli military declined to comment on the reports.
In the wake of the US cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base at the start of this month, there was a lot of talk about Russia and Syria strengthening their air defences and the likely implications of this for Israel.
Would it hamper the Israeli Air Force's freedom of action in the skies over Syria, where it has been conducting an intermittent air campaign to prevent sophisticated weapons transfers to the Lebanese Shia militia group Hezbollah?
Well, Thursday's attack near Damascus airport seems to provide an answer. Israel - which is widely seen as being behind the strike - clearly intends to continue its campaign against Hezbollah weapons shipments and one must assume that it has a tacit understanding with Moscow.
Sophisticated Russian air defences cover much of Syrian airspace and have a more than adequate capability to interfere with Israeli attacks if Moscow so wished.
Israel is thought to have bombed arms shipments intended for Hezbollah several times since the Syrian conflict began.
In a rare step last month, the Israeli military confirmed that its jets had struck several targets inside Syria in a raid that prompted the Syrian military to fire a number of ground-to-air missiles, one of which was intercepted over Israeli territory.
On Wednesday, a high-ranking Israeli military officer briefed reporters that approximately 100 missiles intended for Hezbollah had been destroyed in the raid.
23 April 2017: Alleged Israeli attack on a training camp used by militia in Syria's Golan Heights region, kills three members of the Syrian pro-government National Defence Forces, according to the group.
17 March 2017: The Israeli military says its aircraft attacked several targets in Syria and shot down a Syrian missile.
22 February 2017: Israeli aircraft reportedly bomb several Syrian air bases near Damascus, including a Hezbollah convoy travelling with the Syrian army.
12 January 2017: The Syrian government accuses Israel of firing several rockets on the Mezzeh air base from the Sea of Galilee.
30 November 2016: Israeli aircraft fire missiles on the Syrian town of Saboura, west of Damascus, according to Syrian military sources.
18 January 2015: Six Hezbollah fighters and several Iranian soldiers, including a general, die in suspected Israeli air strikes in Syria's Golan Heights region.
19 December 2015: Suspected Israeli missiles hit Jaramana district of Damascus, killing nine Hezbollah fighters, including leading figure Samir Qantar.
So far there are no confirmed reports of casualties, although the interior ministry said they were feared.
The explosion sent black smoke billowing into the sky, with emergency services rushing to the scene.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast, but the Taliban will be the main suspects as they have launched attacks on the city in the past.
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Lizzy Yarnold's skeleton gold, silver for the men's curlers, bronze for the women's curlers and Jenny Jones in snowboard slopestyle equalled the record of four medals Great Britain won at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix 1924.
UK Sport invested £13.4m from lottery and exchequer funding to achieve their goal, but could have earned more podium places.
Elise Christie's three disqualifications in short track were a bitter pill to swallow, highly-rated slopestyle skier James Woods was hampered by a hip injury in training and John Jackson's GBR 1 bobsleigh crew led briefly on a tense final afternoon in the Sochi sun.
Olympic sport is decided by fine margins - there are winners, losers and those in between. Four years of toil is done. The long road to Pyeongchang begins now.
UK Sport funding to Sochi: £0 Medals in Sochi: 0
Soldiers Lee Jackson and Amanda Lightfoot represented Great Britain in biathlon but both finished outside the top 40 in their events.
In cross country, Britain had four athletes competing with a best finish of 29th in the sprint free by Andrew Musgrave, who recently won the Norwegian national championships.
The 23-year-old was 44th in the 15km classic and 53rd in the 50km mass start, but did not finish the team sprint classic after team-mate Andrew Young suffered from a flare up of a pre-existing heart condition.
Others: Jackson (33) - 67th in 10km sprint, 42nd in 20km individual; Lightfoot (27) - 71st in 15km individual, 75th in 7.5km sprint. Young (22) - 42nd sprint free, 37th in 15km classic; Callum Smith (21) - 67th in 15km classic, 62nd 15km + 15km skiathlon, 62nd sprint free; Rosamund Musgrave (27) - 66th in 10km classic, 42nd in sprint free.
BBC commentator Rob Walker said: "Andrew Musgrave will be pretty disappointed. He came last in his sprint free quarter, and he'll be wishing that worked out differently. It was still the best performance ever by a Briton in cross country (Tom Cairney was 28th out of 30 in 1956) so he is making inroads, albeit slowly, in what is a very competitive field.
"Overall, the fact Britain had four cross-country skiers was absolutely tremendous. Vancouver was first time Britain even had any cross-country skiers since 1994. Hopefully people at home have seen the sport a bit and it's perked the interest.
"The biathlon was OK, but they need a bit more financial support. They are heavily reliant on army people at the moment."
Funding to Sochi: £3,304,250
Previous Olympic success: Gold: 1964 (two-man), silver: 1924 (four-man), bronze: 1936 and 1998 (four-man).
Performance target: 0-1 medal (or 1x 4th-6th for men; 1x 4th-8th for women) Medals in Sochi: 0
GBR 1 pilot John Jackson steered his four-man team into the lead at one stage midway through the fourth run but the remaining crews nudged them down to fifth at the Sanki Sliding Centre.
We listen to music, we eat as much as possible and slap each other in the face
Jackson, who defied doctors by fighting back from a serious Achilles injury, drove his crew of Joel Fearon, Stuart Benson and Bruce Tasker to within 0.11s of an Olympic medal. The quartet, who came to Sochi as European silver medallists, achieved their Games target of a top-six finish.
Lamin Deen's GBR2 four-man squad narrowly qualified for the top-20 to contest the final run and ended 19th.
Britain's women's crew of Paula Walker and Rebekah Wilson finished 12th, while Deen and John Baines in the two-man bob came 23rd. The team only came together the week before competition started after a back injury in training ruled out Beijing Olympic sprinter Craig Pickering.
Former Olympic brakeman and BBC commentator Colin Bryce said: "Paula Walker didn't get on with the track initially and struggled in training, but she stepped it up in competition and although she was not in the top eight as she hoped, I still think it was a solid result.
"Lamin Deen is a pilot for the future. He's a big strong man, improved over the season, especially in the four-man, and bodes well for the future.
"John Jackson and his crew pushed exceptional starts. The athletes they brought into the crew, and the technological help from McLaren and BAE Systems, gave him the chance to drive as well as he did, despite the horrific injury.
"You need a good pilot, a good start and good equipment and for GBR 1, all three elements were exceptional. I hope Jackson stays in the sport for another couple of seasons to pick up some more deserved medals."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: 1924 (men) and 2002 (women)
UK Sport funding to Sochi: £2,055,100
Performance target: 1-2 medals Medals in Sochi: 2 (one silver, one bronze)
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Britain's curlers once again captivated the nation with their ancient and absorbing game. And in winning two medals they achieved at the top end of their performance target, proving the British curling machine is working.
David Murdoch's men beat world champions Sweden to reach the final but went down 9-3 to defending champions Canada in the gold-medal match.
"We just never got off to a good start," said Murdoch. "A silver medal is scarily cool."
Eve Muirhead's women lost to Canada in the semi-final but beat Switzerland 6-5 with the last stone of the match to claim bronze.
"It's a dream come true," said Muirhead. "This is the medal we've been missing and to win it with four of my best friends feels so special."
Former Olympic curler and BBC commentator Jackie Lockhart said: "We've hit our targets, won a silver and a bronze and raised the profile of our sport. It's onwards and upwards from here."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (1984), Robin Cousins (1980), John Curry (1976), Jeannette Altwegg (1952), silver: Cecilia Colledge (1936), bronze: Torvill & Dean (1994), Altwegg (1948) and Ethel Muckelt (1924).
UK Sport funding to Sochi: £174,338
Performance target: Top-10 Medals in Sochi: 0
Britain's six skaters competed in the team event first and placed a not wholly unexpected 10th and last, with only the top five going through to the free programme.
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In the ice dance, Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland - the latter skating less than four months after undergoing heart surgery - met their top-10 target with 10th overall.
The GB pair of David King, 29, and Stacey Kemp, 23, finished 19th out of 20 in the short programme and so also fell short of qualification for the free skate.
Jenna McCorkell, 27, fell one place short of qualification for the free skating after finishing 25th in the short programme.
BBC figure skating commentator Sue Barker said: "Penny and Nick had a really traumatic first week when they were penalised by the judge in the short programme twice, mainly for an extended lift which they didn't get right, which was heart breaking for them.
"They bounced back with a fabulous free dance that gives them a lot of confidence going forward. The 2018 Winter Games were always their goal and they have learned some harsh but valuable lessons in Sochi."
Previous Olympic success: Bronze: Nicky Gooch (1994) 500m
Funding to Sochi: £2,953,400
Performance Target: 0-1 medal (or 2x top 8) Medals in Sochi: 0
Short-track speed skating can be cruel at the best of times, but Elise Christie suffered the worst of times. The 23-year-old was tipped to pick up medals in one or all of her disciplines - 500m, 1500m and 1,000m - but in each she was penalised for racing infringements.
In the 500m final, she crossed the line second but was deemed to have caused an earlier collision. In her 1500m heat she came first but was ruled not to have crossed the proper finish line.
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And in the semi-final of the 1000m - her favourite event - Christie was judged to have impeded a Chinese athlete as they both fell over. Christie also had to endure online abuse, mainly from South Korean fans after an incident with one of their athletes in the 500m.
The only other Briton to reach a final was Jack Whelbourne, 22, but he crashed and hurt his ankle to finish last of the seven in the 1500m.
Others: Whelbourne - 27th in 500m, 21st in 1000m; Jon Eley (29) - 7th in 500m, 25th in 1000m; Richard Shoebridge (28) - 27th in 1000m; Charlotte Gilmartin (23) - 16th in 500m; 28th in 1500m.
Former Olympian and BBC short track commentator Wilf O'Reilly said: "The British team can fly home with their heads held high despite missing out on medals. They can feel proud that they've shown what short track is all about and how you cope with this rollercoaster sport.
"The International Skating Union and the technical committee need to start looking at how they can make the sport, from a rules point of view, more understandable. Everybody keeps asking why Elise Christie was disqualified and so few people know.
"If there is a penalty, the referee should announce it so the whole arena knows what it is, the commentators know and people at home know. Then it becomes far more interesting - you understand it.
"What's important now is we not only have funding for the future to support the high-performance programme, but create funding to improve the grassroots development of the sport."
Previous Olympic success: Gold: Amy Williams (2010), silver: Shelley Rudman (2006), bronze: David Carnegie (1928), John Crammond (1948), Alex Coomber (2002)
Funding to Sochi: £3,447,600
Performance Target: 1 medal Medals in Sochi: 1 (one gold)
On the day of my competition, I got my TV licence bill through on email. There is of course reality but there is beauty in reality because I can't wait to get back into the UK
Lizzy Yarnold followed up Amy Williams's success in Vancouver with victory in Sochi to keep the women's skeleton gold medal firmly in British hands.
The 25-year-old went into the Sochi Games as the clear favourite and her commanding performance maintained Britain's great tradition of winning a medal in every Games the skeleton has been contested - six in all.
Team-mate Shelley Rudman, 32, finished 16th in her third Olympics, while partner Kristan Bromley, 41, was eighth in his fourth Games and Dominic Parsons 10th on his Olympic debut.
BBC pundit and 2010 Olympic champion Amy Williams said: "Lizzy is living proof that the British skeleton performance programme works. By getting the right people involved, making the right decisions, working hard, with the best equipment and the right coaching, you can produce an Olympic champion. It's exciting that when we get back there will be another huge talent search to find the next batch.
"I don't have an answer as to why the men have not performed quite as well, historically, as the girls but there are some good young guys coming through and we've got to keep up the development, do the same things we did with Lizzy, and target four years' time."
Previous Olympic success: No medals (Alain Baxter's "bronze" in the 2002 slalom was rescinded for failing a drugs test)
Funding to Sochi: £0 for alpine, £1,509,950 for freestyle skiing and snowboarding.
Performance target: 1-2 medals Medals in Sochi: 1 (one bronze)
Freestyle skiing and snowboarding
The Sochi Games featured the new discipline of slopestyle, which was tipped as a possible source of British medals - and so it proved. Snowboarder Jenny Jones, 33, bagged Britain's first ever medal on snow with a bronze to kick start the GB medal haul.
In the men's event, 20-year-old Jamie Nicholls was sixth with team-mate Billy Morgan, 24, 10th.
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In the skiing equivalent, Britain's big hope James Woods, the 2012-13 World Cup winner, injured his hip in training and came fifth, while 18-year-old Katie Summerhayes was seventh. Zoe Gillings narrowly missed out on the snowboard cross final to place ninth.
Halfpipe skier Rowan Cheshire, 18, a World Cup winner this season, missed the competition after a training accident put her in hospital with concussion.
Others: Dom Harington (29) - 38th snowboard halfpipe; Ben Kilner (25) - 34th snowboard halfpipe; Emma Lonsdale (29) - 18th ski halfpipe; Murray Buchan (22) - 17th ski halfpipe; James Machon (23) - 23rd ski halfpipe.
BBC commentator Ed Leigh said: "In 2006, we had Zoe Gillings and Lesley McKenna representing GB. In two Olympic cycles we've gone to a medal and six top-10 finishes. It's unbelievable really. They have had a bit of funding but it's down the passion and the grassroots of the sport in the UK.
Hopefully I'll be in a few pub quizzes now
"On a personal level for Jenny it has been a really important achievement, but for British freestyle skiing and snowboarding it could be the starting block of some huge investment both from UK Sport and other sponsorship and the sport could explode in the UK.
"I'm very excited about the future. Woodsy is pretty disappointed, and is beating himself up, but the way he skied and what he managed to achieve with his hip injury was unbelievable."
Alpine skiing
With no lottery funding for alpine skiing in the wake of Vancouver, only two skiers were able to satisfy performance criteria and make it to Sochi.
1924: Men (curling)
1936: Men (ice hockey)
1952: Jeannette Altwegg (figure skating)
1964: Tony Nash & Robin Dixon (two-man bobsleigh)
1976: John Curry (figure skating)
1980: Robin Cousins (figure skating)
1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (figure skating)
2002: Women (curling)
2010: Amy Williams (skeleton)
2014: Lizzy Yarnold (skeleton)
* Madge Syers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
Chemmy Alcott fought back from career-threatening double leg fracture in 2010 and a further break in 2013 to compete in her fourth Games. The 31-year-old finished 19th in downhill and 23rd in super-G. Dave Ryding, 27, fell foul of a devilish gate that caught out some of the world's best but recovered to finish 17th in the men's slalom.
Five-time Olympic skier and BBC commentator Graham Bell said: "We had two top-20 performances, but there should have been more skiers here. I don't think the selection policy reflected the ability we have in alpine skiing and we should have seen the likes of Dougie Crawford and TJ Baldwin representing us in men's downhill.
"They would certainly have been in the top half of the field which I thought was the BOA's rule of thumb for performance.
"In my opinion, alpine selection criteria needs to be looked at, and also the funding needs to be looked at because alpine is the feeder into a lot of the other sports and participation-wise it dwarfs freestyle skiing and snowboarding amongst junior athletes.
"So a good performance from Chemmy and Dave - but there should have been more of them."
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